Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - SHADOW CAMPAIGN 2024, Voters Register With NO ID Sparking Election Fears w-Nick Freitas |Timcast IRL

00:00:04.000 Shadow campaign 2024 or perhaps nothing, but we don't know.

00:00:08.000 Right now on X, there are a few viral posts highlighting that hundreds of thousands of people in key states like Texas and Arizona have registered to vote without IDs.

00:00:19.000 The argument is that these are likely people who are granted social security numbers for work permitting reasons and then registered to vote because these numbers are massive and strange.

00:00:31.000 Now, nobody knows for sure.

00:00:32.000 Some people are pushing back a little bit, but considering the volatile nature of 2024, it's good to talk about these things early and see what we can come up with and figure out.

00:00:42.000 Donald Trump is campaigning on Biden's border bloodbath, which is brilliant branding and marketing.

00:00:49.000 And I saw one tweet where he said, November 5th will be Christian Day of Visibility, when Christians make themselves visible by voting overwhelmingly.

00:00:57.000 So we'll talk about that.

00:00:58.000 Plus, big news, JK Rowling over in the UK, they passed this hate speech bill where if you post something that is likely to offend a marginalized group, whether intentional or not, They can arrest you.

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00:01:20.000 Rowling, but of course they won't.

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00:03:15.000 Joining us tonight to talk about this and everything else is Nick Freitas.

00:03:19.000 Thank you very much for having me.

00:03:20.000 Who are you, sir?

00:03:21.000 What do you do?

00:03:22.000 Well, husband, father to three.

00:03:25.000 Former Green Beret back when I was in shape.

00:03:27.000 And then I'm currently serving as a member of the Virginia House of Delegates.

00:03:31.000 But other than that, I'm a pretty good person.

00:03:33.000 All right on.

00:03:34.000 Glad to hear it.

00:03:34.000 We can talk about the inner workings of politics for sure, so thanks for coming by.

00:03:38.000 Oh, no, my pleasure.

00:03:39.000 Hannah Clare is hanging out.

00:03:40.000 Hey, I'm Hannah Clare Brimlow.

00:03:41.000 I'm a writer for scnr.com.

00:03:43.000 That's Scanner News.

00:03:44.000 I'm really happy to be a part of that team.

00:03:46.000 Ian's here.

00:03:46.000 Hi, everybody.

00:03:47.000 Ian Crossland.

00:03:48.000 Hello.

00:03:48.000 It's Ian's birthday.

00:03:49.000 Happy birthday, Ian.

00:03:50.000 I don't normally celebrate.

00:03:51.000 We should talk about tradition tonight, because I don't normally celebrate days just for the sake of it.

00:03:54.000 It's like if somebody does something great, I want to celebrate that accomplishment.

00:03:59.000 So I'm kind of low-key about dates.

00:04:00.000 You don't want to celebrate that you've lived another year?

00:04:02.000 Yeah, like I didn't do anything great today.

00:04:03.000 I just slept in.

00:04:05.000 Celebrate me on the days that I come in hard and do some push.

00:04:07.000 We tried to wake him up for personal training.

00:04:10.000 He was like, it is my birthday.

00:04:10.000 I had too much caffeine.

00:04:11.000 I had those Yerba Mates. 0.77

00:04:12.000 I was up until like 5 a.m.

00:04:13.000 I told you not to drink those.

00:04:14.000 Too much caffeine.

00:04:15.000 So I'm going low caffeine from now on.

00:04:16.000 The other night, Ian grabs two Yerbas and I'm like, don't drink the second one. 1.00

00:04:20.000 I love them.

00:04:21.000 They're amazing.

00:04:22.000 They're delicious.

00:04:22.000 That was like four cups of coffee.

00:04:24.000 I was up way too late.

00:04:26.000 So I'm going to lower my caffeine intake.

00:04:27.000 Who's stealing all my Yerba? 0.99

00:04:29.000 Probably.

00:04:29.000 It was me.

00:04:30.000 I drank like four of them from that.

00:04:31.000 No, down here.

00:04:32.000 I have my own thing.

00:04:33.000 You have a secret stash?

00:04:34.000 Yeah, I have my Yerba.

00:04:36.000 It's half gone.

00:04:36.000 I don't know.

00:04:37.000 I know it's good, but I'm gonna have to walk around with a stick and wave it at people when they take my Yerba.

00:04:43.000 Thank you for the happy birthday, everybody.

00:04:45.000 And Nick, it's good to see you again.

00:04:47.000 When we first met, you were running.

00:04:49.000 I believe you were actually in the process of running for Congress when we met.

00:04:51.000 And then the second time I saw you, you were in Congress.

00:04:54.000 So it's really cool.

00:04:54.000 Well, I'm in the state legislature.

00:04:57.000 I think the first time they had me on, it was because we had a huge dust-up with the guy who's now the Speaker of the House.

00:05:02.000 But him and I kind of, yeah, had a bit of a fight on the floor.

00:05:07.000 But you were not in the legislature at that time?

00:05:09.000 I was.

00:05:09.000 Oh, you were already in it?

00:05:10.000 Oh, cool.

00:05:11.000 Let's go deep, man.

00:05:12.000 All right.

00:05:12.000 Hey, Serge.

00:05:13.000 Hey, Ian.

00:05:14.000 Happy birthday.

00:05:14.000 Yeah, let's get to it.

00:05:16.000 Let's go.

00:05:17.000 So let's just start with this story.

00:05:19.000 It was kind of hard.

00:05:20.000 I don't know if we wanted to lead with this because it is a bit of conjecture, but it is incredibly interesting.

00:05:24.000 Take a look at this from EndWokeness.

00:05:26.000 The number of voters registering without a photo ID is skyrocketing in three key swing states, Arizona, Texas, and Pennsylvania.

00:05:34.000 I just really want to point out Texas, a swing state?

00:05:37.000 That's crazy.

00:05:38.000 Since the start of 2024, 1,250,000 people have registered in Texas without an ID.

00:05:46.000 In Arizona, 220,000.

00:05:46.000 In Pennsylvania, 580,000.

00:05:48.000 H-A-V-V, that's Help Assisting Voters Verification or something like that, allows voters to register with a social security number, four digits.

00:05:57.000 Illegal immigrants are not able to get licenses there, but they can get social security cards for work authorization permits.

00:06:03.000 The data is publicly available.

00:06:05.000 We have this tweet from Paul A. Jupila.

00:06:07.000 Probably pronouncing that wrong.

00:06:10.000 He says 227,077 people in Texas registered to vote without a photo ID during the week of March 16th, 2024.

00:06:19.000 Nothing to worry about here whatsoever.

00:06:20.000 Totally legitimate.

00:06:21.000 He says, to clarify, see the explanations of terms and associated columns.

00:06:26.000 Then see the blue highlighted row.

00:06:27.000 That's Texas.

00:06:28.000 The 227,000 are total transactions with 196,000 matches.

00:06:34.000 192,000 single match alive.

00:06:36.000 So it appears as many as 196,000 people registered to vote without a photo ID.

00:06:42.000 There were 30,000 total non-matches.

00:06:46.000 That would imply of the 30,000 non-matches are people who tried to register with fake social security numbers.

00:06:52.000 Or, for whatever reason, submitted a registration form with a Social Security number on it, and it got rejected by the Social Security Administration.

00:06:59.000 So take a look at this.

00:07:01.000 This is the website.

00:07:02.000 I pulled up the week ending March 16th.

00:07:05.000 This is ssa.gov.

00:07:07.000 This is the Help America Vote Verification Transactions by State.

00:07:12.000 And let's just make sure we have this correctly.

00:07:14.000 When it says, um...

00:07:16.000 Well, where is the total non-matches?

00:07:19.000 Total number of verification requests where there is no match in our records on the name, last four digits of the social security number or date of birth.

00:07:28.000 So I'll stress that again.

00:07:30.000 When they highlight 30, actually I can just pull it up right here.

00:07:33.000 Let's jump to Texas and we can see total non-matches for Texas.

00:07:41.000 30,499 in one week.

00:07:43.000 That's like 15 times more than the next greatest.

00:07:46.000 I mean, that's more than any... Tennessee has zero.

00:07:49.000 It's as many as Pennsylvania even just had registered, is the amount of fraudulent attempts in Texas.

00:07:55.000 They may not be fraudulent.

00:07:56.000 Many of them could be someone put their number down wrong and it came back and got rejected. 0.97

00:08:01.000 However, Holy crap! 0.88

00:08:04.000 1.2 million in Texas since the start of this year? 0.97

00:08:06.000 I think this is important because it may be nothing.

00:08:10.000 We don't know.

00:08:12.000 Scott Pressler chimed in.

00:08:14.000 He says, people need to understand that you do not need a photo ID to register to vote.

00:08:18.000 In order to register to vote, you need either a driver's license or the last four of your social security number.

00:08:23.000 If someone does not have a driver's license, they use social security number.

00:08:25.000 For voter registration, there is also a box that voters must check to indicate they're American citizens.

00:08:31.000 As someone who registers voters across the country, I know this information firsthand.

00:08:34.000 Furthermore, we are also registering a lot of Amish to vote.

00:08:37.000 Amish do not have a photo ID. 1.00

00:08:39.000 I'm not saying these numbers reflect Amish voter registration.

00:08:41.000 The information above just serves to point to other ways people may register to vote.

00:08:45.000 I have reached out to two congressmen about the issue.

00:08:48.000 So before anybody jumps the gun, the first thing I want to point out is, There could be a regular, say, 30-year-old dude living in, you know, the outskirts of Austin, Republican, and he's like, I'm gonna register to vote, and they say, you can use your ID or your social security number.

00:09:03.000 He's like, I'll use my social, it's easier.

00:09:04.000 Last word, I gotta pull my ID, I gotta put all those numbers, I'll just do that, right?

00:09:07.000 So this could be totally on the level.

00:09:11.000 Again, that being said, I think, considering the shadow campaign Time Magazine wrote about, and the fact that we're seeing these massive numbers in key swing states, in places like Texas, Arizona, and Pennsylvania, which is clearly here reflected, Missouri, interestingly, has a large number as well.

00:09:27.000 I think we definitely want to pay attention to this.

00:09:30.000 I don't know that anyone actually caught anything, but I certainly think this should be investigated now, Yeah, this social security number.

00:09:38.000 I also don't think it will be.

00:09:39.000 This is what I'm wondering, if I'm in Texas and I'm like, hi, my name is Nick Freitas, and I have your social somehow.

00:09:44.000 And I'm like, and these are the last four digits of my social security number, and I vote this way.

00:09:47.000 Can I do that?

00:09:48.000 Is that what they're letting people do?

00:09:50.000 Well, you gotta understand, like in a place like Virginia, where we now have same-day voter registration, the bottom line is that you're gonna go through this process, and unless they have a way to really check this automatically right off the bat, which, quite frankly, if they show up to a polling location to do this, they're not gonna be able to get that instant verification.

00:10:06.000 And they may give you a provisional ballot, but then you figure all that out, that gets counted in what, three days later when they've already declared the winner, they're going to come back and really scrutinize that?

00:10:15.000 No, they're only going to scrutinize it to the degree that they want to scrutinize it.

00:10:19.000 And that's the problem with all of this.

00:10:21.000 When you make it easy to cheat, it doesn't mean that everyone cheats.

00:10:24.000 But enough people can cheat and enough other people look at that and go, something is wrong with this system.

00:10:29.000 There doesn't seem to be sufficient accountability.

00:10:31.000 There doesn't be sufficient transparency.

00:10:34.000 And so you actually end up undermining the process, even if you haven't done something wrong.

00:10:39.000 And I think it's only going to get worse, especially when you look at a place like Texas.

00:10:43.000 I mean, yeah, it's interesting that we live in a culture and society that says there has to be a nefarious reason that this looks out of whack, right?

00:10:51.000 Like we are aware enough now that there is.

00:10:55.000 There are errors that occur in voter registration and that some people may benefit from that.

00:11:00.000 And I think that that fear is going to, you know, you would hope that it would drive people to the polls.

00:11:05.000 If something's wrong, I've got to act.

00:11:06.000 On the other hand, you know, when you look at a number like 30,000 in Texas, when other states haven't registered anybody, it looks extremely odd, especially given the situation at the border, which Texas has to respond to.

00:11:18.000 It's 190,000.

00:11:18.000 The 30,000 is just the people that came back.

00:11:21.000 Right.

00:11:22.000 So you're saying, Nick, because it's at a polling station, they don't have enough time or equipment to verify, like give them a social and a fake name?

00:11:29.000 So obviously with this, with Texas, we're talking about March, right?

00:11:32.000 So they're going to the DMV or wherever it is in order to register.

00:11:35.000 Each state is a little bit different on how you get to register.

00:11:38.000 But in a place like Virginia, where we have same-day voter registration, and you can walk all the way up to the polling location, register that day, and then vote, you're not going to get the same degree of verification that you would through a regular process where you actually have adequate time.

00:11:54.000 And so sometimes the way they try to do that is they'll give you a provisional ballot, and you're supposed to keep the provisional ballots separate, and then you go through those after the fact, and they're supposed to go through additional scrutiny.

00:12:04.000 Again, where people are losing trust with this, I'll give you a very personal case from 2020, right?

00:12:09.000 This was the year in Virginia, it's COVID, we had a bunch of, we had a special session where Democrats changed the voting laws in Virginia like significantly.

00:12:20.000 It's so bad that a judge came back after the fact and said, yeah, you probably shouldn't have done it this way, but we're not going to change anything because the votes have already been cast.

00:12:29.000 We had a thumb drive in Henrico County show up with 15,000 votes, right?

00:12:34.000 Which they claimed we have all the corresponding voter ID numbers.

00:12:37.000 Okay, fine.

00:12:38.000 But what do you mean you mislabeled a thumb drive with 15,000 votes?

00:12:43.000 Because you can vote up to 45 days before the election in Virginia.

00:12:47.000 And so there's serious questions about chain of custody.

00:12:50.000 There's serious questions about potential data manipulation.

00:12:52.000 And if they would have found the thumb drive had the results been different.

00:12:55.000 Yeah.

00:12:56.000 Well, in the in the issue, I had a reporter come and she was so furious after January 6th. 0.94

00:13:00.000 And oh, my gosh, I'm like, look.

00:13:02.000 She goes, do you really think there was voter fraud all over the place?

00:13:04.000 And that guy said, I have never claimed that voter fraud cost me the election.

00:13:07.000 All right.

00:13:08.000 I said, but can I ask you a question?

00:13:08.000 I've never claimed that.

00:13:11.000 If instead on election night, I had been down and I had been down, right?

00:13:15.000 Cause I was leading and I was leading in the vote counts.

00:13:17.000 If I had been down and then all of a sudden a thumb drive showed up In the reddest county in the district, with just enough votes to get me over so I won, would you have written an article about, wow, we really need to change the whole chain of custody?

00:13:30.000 Well, yeah, that probably would have been... Yeah, but you didn't, right?

00:13:33.000 You never do.

00:13:34.000 This only works in one direction, and that's another reason why people are skeptical.

00:13:38.000 Now, here's something interesting.

00:13:40.000 Single match deceased.

00:13:41.000 What does that mean?

00:13:43.000 Single match found deceased means the total number of verification requests where there is only one match in our records on name, date of birth, and last four digits of social security number, and the number holder is deceased.

00:13:55.000 Why, if we jump over to Texas, 4,571.

00:13:57.000 Now, how is that anything other than fraud?

00:14:01.000 Okay, no, no, no, hold on, hold on. 0.72

00:14:04.000 Somebody registered, put it in the mailbox, Drop dead right there.

00:14:09.000 Medical examiner says deceased.

00:14:10.000 By the time it made it to SSA verification, they were like, ah, that person is listed as dead.

00:14:16.000 Perhaps.

00:14:17.000 I'm sorry, I just don't buy that.

00:14:18.000 No.

00:14:19.000 Occam's razor would suggest that people are filling out forms for dead people.

00:14:22.000 And also, maybe that happens, what, 10 times?

00:14:25.000 Right, right.

00:14:26.000 That seems like maybe too many.

00:14:26.000 4,000?

00:14:28.000 Well, the other thing to keep in mind, too, is that organizations actively go to retirement homes, they actively go to assisted living facilities, and they register people who may not be fully cognizant of what is actually going on.

00:14:44.000 It is strongly possible.

00:14:50.000 In 2020, a bunch of people on the right, who of course were very concerned about the results, were saying dead people voted.

00:14:55.000 And they did.

00:14:55.000 Do you know what happened?

00:14:57.000 People were alive, voted, and then died.

00:15:00.000 And then a month later, they were like, hey, this person voted early.

00:15:03.000 And then it turns out they were actually dead.

00:15:05.000 It's like, well, yeah, they were alive at the time and then died.

00:15:09.000 But these numbers are very strange.

00:15:10.000 If you put Texas and Pennsylvania, because Pennsylvania has the next most voter registration, you've got about six times more people registered in Texas than in Pennsylvania.

00:15:19.000 Six times.

00:15:20.000 But 300 times more dead people.

00:15:23.000 That's interesting.

00:15:24.000 Yeah.

00:15:25.000 In Pennsylvania, only 16 came back from deceased... registrations from deceased people.

00:15:30.000 And what did I say?

00:15:31.000 10 is like what I would expect maybe people who... That's a red flag anomaly.

00:15:35.000 Those aren't supposed to... that amount of deceased voter incomings is not normal.

00:15:39.000 I'll just say right now, we don't know exactly what the data means.

00:15:43.000 It's interesting.

00:15:44.000 However, I would not be surprised if come November, they say taxes went blue.

00:15:50.000 I mean, this is what the people have been warning about for a long time.

00:15:52.000 And I think because we think of Texas as the Wild West, they're always like, no, Texas will never go blue.

00:15:57.000 But Texas has changed a lot.

00:15:57.000 Ha ha ha.

00:15:59.000 Right.

00:15:59.000 Especially since 2016, especially since Covid.

00:16:02.000 I mean, there were a large number.

00:16:04.000 I mean, I lived in Texas for a little while and I can't tell you how many people were like, oh, yeah, I just moved here from California.

00:16:08.000 And that has only increased.

00:16:10.000 I mean, we know that.

00:16:11.000 In the sphere that we work in, people who are not necessarily from Texas saw Texas as a better place to live and went.

00:16:18.000 I think, of course, the voting results will reflect that.

00:16:23.000 But again, these numbers don't necessarily reflect people changing.

00:16:28.000 This represents fraud.

00:16:31.000 Texas only reports every other week.

00:16:33.000 Some people are pointing out that if you go to the later- next week, Texas isn't there.

00:16:36.000 Well, they're not the previous week either, but the week ending March 9th, 224,000 attempts, and there were 4,650 registrations for deceased people.

00:16:42.000 Now, come on!

00:16:42.000 and there were 4,650 registrations for deceased people.

00:16:46.000 Now, come on.

00:16:47.000 Like, so we're saying 2,300 people, dead people per week.

00:16:52.000 per week.

00:16:53.000 You want me to believe- Texas, are you okay?

00:16:57.000 Every week, 2,300 people register and then croak before the Social Security Administration can verify their IDs.

00:17:03.000 It's the strangest thing.

00:17:04.000 And not only do they die, but it gets reported by the coroner and the data uploaded so that the SSA has the updated information already.

00:17:09.000 No, BS.

00:17:11.000 Yeah, it's weird.

00:17:11.000 Someone is registering dead people.

00:17:13.000 I wish that we could pull, like, this week from 2020, you know, and compare the data.

00:17:19.000 Do you have that?

00:17:20.000 Because, again, like... This website from the Social Security Administration has that data.

00:17:24.000 If you could do a side-by-side comparison of this point in 2020 versus this point in 2020.

00:17:30.000 You probably want to choose, like, another, like, presidential year election to get, like, a fair... 2020?

00:17:34.000 March 21st, 2020?

00:17:37.000 Yeah.

00:17:37.000 Let's see if Texas is on this list, because they- Are they also registering 4,000 dead people?

00:17:42.000 64,000.

00:17:43.000 Zero dead people.

00:17:44.000 Zero.

00:17:45.000 What's happening?

00:17:45.000 That's weird.

00:17:49.000 You know what, Tim?

00:17:51.000 Asking that question makes you a threat to democracy.

00:17:53.000 That's the real problem.

00:17:55.000 What's happening is I'm thinking a lot about change of governments and how they want the civilians just keep doing what you do, civilian.

00:18:01.000 You just have a new leader now.

00:18:02.000 Don't even open your eyes.

00:18:04.000 They want to change the databases and the paperwork to change who's in control without alerting.

00:18:08.000 This is not an example of people voting different in my opinion.

00:18:10.000 The whole reporting.

00:18:12.000 Totals, deceased, 244.

00:18:16.000 March, this is the week ending March, let's make sure we have the date right, March 21st, 2020.

00:18:21.000 And for that week, there were 224 deceased registrations that turned out to be from deceased people.

00:18:28.000 So let's go to March 16th, 2024, and the total now is 6,698.

00:18:30.000 And the total now is 6,698.

00:18:35.000 And 4,000, over 4,000 are from Texas alone.

00:18:38.000 Like, I think something is up.

00:18:41.000 I can't say.

00:18:42.000 It sounds like it's almost dangerous to register to vote in Texas.

00:18:45.000 Like, it could cost you your life.

00:18:46.000 It's the leading cause of death in Texas.

00:18:48.000 Maybe the paper they use is just very fine, sturdy, and rigid.

00:18:53.000 And so these poor elderly people are taking the thing and they're filling it out, and then as they pick it up, accidentally, the paper cuts their arm.

00:19:00.000 That's probably more likely.

00:19:01.000 I thought you were going to say they're all laced with something, so when they open them, you know, they all die.

00:19:06.000 Oh, it's the ink.

00:19:07.000 The ink they use, perhaps, or someone is trying to register people off a list and they don't know these people are dead already.

00:19:16.000 There we go.

00:19:16.000 Or there's a really specific serial killer at Hunt in Texas who only wants to go after people who have just registered to vote.

00:19:22.000 This is crazy.

00:19:23.000 This is like, alert the FBI.

00:19:24.000 The FBI will be like, stop talking about it.

00:19:27.000 In a normal society, you're like, we have this horrific anomaly on our border right now of people coming across and voter registrations going off the charts.

00:19:34.000 Send in the FBI.

00:19:34.000 We need to know.

00:19:35.000 We need every aspect of this covered and taken care of.

00:19:38.000 If we were to do the total calculation from 2011 till today, because it allows you to pull that up, we can see that for 55 million registrations, there are 1 million deceased.

00:19:50.000 And that's the entire... for 13 years.

00:19:54.000 Over 13 years.

00:19:55.000 Now I do want to point out this massive number right here of 367,000 in Texas, which is just absolutely fascinating.

00:20:02.000 What the...

00:20:04.000 For 13 years, there have been 367,000 registrations for dead people.

00:20:08.000 Are people just coming across the border and registering as a dead person and then voting?

00:20:13.000 Casting their vote?

00:20:14.000 Well, thank God we don't have any border issues with Texas.

00:20:17.000 Thank God that's not an issue.

00:20:19.000 A state that's incredibly vulnerable to this type of fraud seems to have an issue.

00:20:24.000 Missouri also has several thousand, which is crazy.

00:20:28.000 Yeah, what the heck look at this for the for this doesn't even include it include Texas because they only report every other week, but 7,000 345 but it's like a one.

00:20:36.000 I wonder why somewhere it's not even listing it.

00:20:38.000 That's interesting Texas is not here because that number is bigger What do you say next?

00:20:43.000 No, I'm just wondering why, because most states have exactly what you'd expect with this, but there's a couple states that stand out as anomalies, and that's strange.

00:20:51.000 I mean, I wouldn't have bet on Texas and Missouri.

00:20:53.000 Texas, maybe, because you have the legal immigration issue.

00:20:57.000 Texas, again, this is February 17th.

00:20:58.000 Take a look at this.

00:20:59.000 Missouri had 23,000.

00:20:59.000 Yeah, why Missouri?

00:21:00.000 Hold on, hold on.

00:21:00.000 Here's the date, February 17th.

00:21:02.000 You know, take a look at this, Missouri had 23,000.

00:21:06.000 Yeah, why Missouri?

00:21:07.000 Hold on, hold on, hold on, let's just slow down right now.

00:21:11.000 It isn't...

00:21:12.000 Okay, we gotta be wrong about something.

00:21:14.000 I'll just say this.

00:21:14.000 For Media Matters, matches coming in from deceased people.

00:21:19.000 So these are voter registrations where someone tried to register using a social security number and a name, and when it came back to the SSA, they said that person is dead.

00:21:26.000 In Missouri, in one week, 23,253.

00:21:27.000 Are you still on the 13 years?

00:21:28.000 This is February 17th, 2024.

00:21:29.000 One week.

00:21:29.000 It was like a third of the registrations came back dead people.

00:21:31.000 Yeah.

00:21:31.000 February 17th, 2024, one week.

00:21:34.000 It was like a third of the registrations came back dead people.

00:21:37.000 Yeah.

00:21:38.000 That's like, is this them purging the rolls?

00:21:42.000 No, this is a help America vote verification transactions by state.

00:21:47.000 And so, look, maybe we're completely wrong, but it says this.

00:21:51.000 Single match found alive.

00:21:53.000 The total number of verification requests, where there's only one match in our records of a name, last four digits of the SSN, date of birth, and the number holders alive.

00:22:01.000 They say total matches, total number of verification requests.

00:22:04.000 So someone is registering the vote and asking to verify the social.

00:22:08.000 And the socials and the name, look at this.

00:22:10.000 Single match found deceased.

00:22:12.000 The total number of verification requests, where there's only one match in our records and a name, date of birth, and last for the social and the number holder's deceased.

00:22:21.000 This is strange.

00:22:22.000 How does 23,000 verification requests not strike them as odd in one week?

00:22:29.000 Yeah, what, 76,000 total, 26,000 of them came back dead.

00:22:34.000 I can't see the numbers exactly from here.

00:22:36.000 23,000 came back dead. 0.96

00:22:37.000 That's so ridiculous. 0.85

00:22:38.000 So you think they purge voter rolls from time to time? 0.96

00:22:41.000 Well, I'm trying to make sense of this, right?

00:22:43.000 Because that would make sense for a huge... Yeah, it would make sense for a huge thing if a state came by and they said, okay, we're reevaluating our voter rolls and we've identified all these people are dead and so we're purging them from the list.

00:22:52.000 We want to verify these.

00:22:52.000 Yeah, as opposed to like new voter registration.

00:22:56.000 And I would expect states like Missouri and Texas to actually take that a little bit more seriously.

00:23:02.000 So if I'm trying to come up with a non-nefarious explanation for those numbers, that's all I can think of.

00:23:09.000 Otherwise, it's shady as hell.

00:23:11.000 It's just weird.

00:23:13.000 It doesn't make sense.

00:23:14.000 And again, like I said... I think you have to be right on that.

00:23:16.000 I think it has to be that.

00:23:18.000 It can't... I mean, hopefully.

00:23:20.000 Because otherwise we live in a very corrupt system and I think that's not great.

00:23:23.000 It's a very depressing thing to talk about on Ian's birthday.

00:23:25.000 Can I say another thing that just irritates me about this?

00:23:28.000 This is one of the problems with bureaucracies in general.

00:23:32.000 Is that even when something like this is done, and let's say that the explanation I just offered is the actual explanation, and actually this is something that we would agree with, right?

00:23:39.000 The state did the right thing.

00:23:40.000 They looked at their voter numbers.

00:23:41.000 They said, yeah, hey, we had a whole bunch of people on the voter rolls that need to be removed because of deaths, etc.

00:23:46.000 Then put that on there, right?

00:23:48.000 Like, make that obvious that that's what you're doing.

00:23:51.000 Like, this is why the transparency aspect of all this is so important, is because even when a bureaucracy is doing something that you might approve of, they still don't do it in such a way to where people can actually understand what's going on.

00:24:02.000 But again, we haven't verified that that's what's gone on here.

00:24:06.000 It looks like that may be the case.

00:24:07.000 Okay.

00:24:08.000 And so I just want to point out, we're looking into the high number of deceased and we're shocked to see it in the immediate, but it may very well be the state is saying, let's run these registrations and see if these people are still around and alive.

00:24:20.000 Make sure that their date of birth, name, and everything comes up.

00:24:22.000 Can a state do that legally?

00:24:24.000 Run your data and try and register you to vote?

00:24:29.000 It's supposed to.

00:24:29.000 Legally, what states are supposed to do is look at the voter rolls and evaluate them in order to determine that if people have died, they fall off the voter rolls.

00:24:39.000 Because here's what ends up happening, right?

00:24:41.000 You die, but you're on a permanent absentee list.

00:24:44.000 Well, now that absentee shows up to your home and somebody fills that out and sends it off.

00:24:49.000 Well, that's voter fraud.

00:24:50.000 And so that's why you try to keep those roles updated.

00:24:53.000 It's why there's also supposed to be, you know, you have organizations like EPIC, which I think is a problematic group, but it's also supposed to allow states to communicate better among themselves so that when somebody moves, you don't have absentees going to like two locations.

00:25:06.000 But like I said before, with same day voter registration, now you've got a place, look at a university campus, right?

00:25:12.000 So you don't, you don't live in Virginia, but you go to school at, you know, whatever.

00:25:16.000 I think we're actually wrong.

00:25:17.000 I, let me read this.

00:25:19.000 What is HAVA?

00:25:21.000 The Help America Vote Act requires states to verify the information of newly registered voters.

00:25:26.000 Newly registered voters for federal elections.

00:25:28.000 Each state must establish a computerized statewide voter registration list and verify new voter information.

00:25:34.000 The states are required to verify the driver's license number against a state MVA database.

00:25:38.000 Only in situations where no driver's license exists should the states verify the last four digits of the new voter registrant social security number.

00:25:45.000 The state submits the last digits of the SSN to the MVA for verification with SSA.

00:25:50.000 In addition, SSA is required to report whether its records indicate the registrant is deceased.

00:25:55.000 These are new registrations!

00:25:58.000 Yeah, we gave the benefit of the doubt, right?

00:26:00.000 We didn't rush to a conclusion, but that sounds bad.

00:26:03.000 Okay, I mean, it says states must only submit a request to us for new voters who do not present a valid driver's license during the voter registration process.

00:26:17.000 Straight up, these are new registrations where they're saying someone did not present an ID and Missouri kicked back 23,000 of them as deceased?

00:26:29.000 I wonder if Missouri is a hotbed for illegal immigration.

00:26:32.000 I feel like even though I'm reading this from the SSA website, it has to be wrong.

00:26:35.000 There's no way that's true.

00:26:39.000 23,000 deceased new registrants?

00:26:41.000 Out of 68,000 total?

00:26:42.000 Yeah, that's a third!

00:26:44.000 That's just like throwing it at the wall and seeing what sticks.

00:26:47.000 Yeah.

00:26:48.000 In Missouri though?

00:26:49.000 What is going on?

00:26:50.000 Some random state in the middle of the country, they're trying to keep it subtle.

00:26:53.000 If it was in California, it'd be a red flag.

00:26:55.000 They did it in Texas because it's unstoppable.

00:26:56.000 It does not say this is being used for voter operations.

00:26:59.000 It says they're required for newly registered voters for federal elections.

00:27:03.000 That's nuts.

00:27:04.000 Someone either screwed up their data input on an Excel spreadsheet somewhere, or that's suspicious as hell.

00:27:12.000 Maybe the newly is a typo in it to just say of registered voters?

00:27:15.000 I don't think so.

00:27:16.000 Because the states are required to verify the driver's license against a database.

00:27:21.000 It says already right here, states must only submit a request to us for new voters who do not present a valid driver's license during the voter registration process.

00:27:33.000 That is, all of these that are being sent to the Social Security Administration are purported to be new registrations.

00:27:41.000 That's nuts.

00:27:43.000 Dude, it's the deceased thing.

00:27:45.000 Look, I don't know.

00:27:47.000 We're just sitting here, we're reading a website.

00:27:50.000 Y'all figure it out.

00:27:51.000 Well, how do you get the data of 23,000 dead people to even register them?

00:27:55.000 You've got to find that data somewhere.

00:27:56.000 You can't accidentally write it down and act like, oops, misclicked 23 a third of the time.

00:28:01.000 Probably they all didn't just drop dead that week.

00:28:03.000 Probably would have heard about it, I think.

00:28:05.000 Was there a mass casualty of that in Missouri we missed?

00:28:07.000 I don't think so.

00:28:08.000 I heard about this phenomenon where carbon dioxide can build up at the bottom of the lake and then it bursts and sweeps over the neighboring town, asphyxiating everybody.

00:28:19.000 Could that have happened somewhere and we just didn't know it happened?

00:28:22.000 Well, that's what Media Matters will want us to assume before we make any other conclusions.

00:28:27.000 Or it could be that despite the fact that they say this on their website, it's not true.

00:28:32.000 That's also true.

00:28:34.000 I want to not believe this data, but it's stark.

00:28:37.000 Yeah, I was going to say, is what's true better or worse?

00:28:40.000 Because 23,000 is not great.

00:28:44.000 Again, the reason why it's also confusing is because you would expect if somebody is doing this, and they're actually good at it, you're not going to one state.

00:28:54.000 And doing all of this.

00:28:56.000 But again, I've seen plenty of incompetence in politics, and so nothing really surprises me anymore.

00:29:02.000 Is Missouri like a big swing state?

00:29:04.000 No.

00:29:04.000 My thought is like, I keep saying this, I think, I could be totally wrong, Missouri, I'm not super familiar with you, but I think it's a pretty substantial agricultural state.

00:29:13.000 And often you have undocumented, illegal aliens.

00:29:17.000 People who are there illegally working on farms or whatever else.

00:29:19.000 So theoretically there could be a population that would want to register to vote that doesn't have a social security number.

00:29:25.000 Hypothetically.

00:29:26.000 I'm just running a theory.

00:29:27.000 These are numbers from last week, is that right?

00:29:29.000 Or these earlier in the year?

00:29:30.000 So this 23,000 number is for the week ending February 17th.

00:29:35.000 For one week.

00:29:36.000 For one week.

00:29:37.000 One week.

00:29:39.000 I can jump back to February 10th and take a look at Missouri.

00:29:42.000 If there's any other 20,000 dead people. 251.

00:29:47.000 Which, okay, if a county ran their rolls that week and was purging, a big number would make sense to me.

00:29:53.000 But that's not what the website says.

00:29:55.000 That's not what the website says.

00:29:57.000 Go one week before this one, too, and look at Missouri again.

00:29:59.000 Let's go to February 3rd.

00:30:01.000 This is a fun game.

00:30:02.000 I love it.

00:30:03.000 How many dead?

00:30:05.000 The Missouri anomaly is insane.

00:30:05.000 402.

00:30:07.000 It was 26,000.

00:30:08.000 23,000.

00:30:08.000 And three weeks later, two weeks after this.

00:30:11.000 There's something wrong.

00:30:12.000 Something big is going on.

00:30:13.000 And I mean, Texas only.

00:30:15.000 Let's jump to another week.

00:30:16.000 Let's go to February.

00:30:19.000 Let's go to January 27th.

00:30:21.000 Do we have Texas here on January 27th?

00:30:23.000 Because here we go.

00:30:23.000 4,607.

00:30:23.000 125,000 requests.

00:30:23.000 because here we go, 4,607, 125,000 requests.

00:30:28.000 This website says these are literally new registrations.

00:30:33.000 How is it possible that so many dead people, tens of thousands are submitting new registrations?

00:30:37.000 Well, and if there's, like, if there's a portion of them, let's say, or like, yeah, if you write your social security number wrong and it turns out that the number you got was a dead person, like, it would have happened 4,000 times, right?

00:30:49.000 Because it would have to match their name, too.

00:30:51.000 In 23,000 in one week in Missouri, someone accidentally added a zero or something.

00:30:56.000 Even 2000 is a lot.

00:30:58.000 Yeah.

00:30:58.000 Compared to their other numbers.

00:31:00.000 And it's the same week that it happened in Texas.

00:31:02.000 But guys, the important thing to understand is no one will investigate this, not a single Republican will ask about it, and everyone will forget within one month.

00:31:11.000 What are you talking about?

00:31:12.000 These numbers?

00:31:13.000 Let them not forget.

00:31:14.000 This is insane.

00:31:16.000 And this is just a drop in the bucket of what's to come if we don't start making noise about this kind of thing.

00:31:20.000 Well, Surge just sent me some massive breaking news.

00:31:24.000 Earthquake in Taiwan? 0.98

00:31:25.000 Yeah, 7.5 in Taiwan.

00:31:28.000 So China's basically launched their earthquake weapon. 0.81

00:31:31.000 I'm just kidding.

00:31:32.000 But let's see if we can pull this one up, get the breaking news.

00:31:35.000 Because there's a tsunami warning going on right now.

00:31:37.000 Let's see what... Here we go.

00:31:42.000 Breaking news here on Timcast.

00:31:43.000 What do we have here?

00:31:44.000 We've got 4X live earthquake near Taiwan magnitude 7.5 felt in Taipei.

00:31:49.000 Japan impacted also tsunami alert issued.

00:31:52.000 I hope everybody is okay.

00:31:53.000 I hope there's not going to be a tsunami.

00:31:56.000 Evacuation advisory issued to Okinawa coastal areas in Japan.

00:32:00.000 Okinawa encompasses the island chain south of west west of Japan's main islands.

00:32:04.000 Tsunami alert issued up to three meters high. 0.96

00:32:06.000 Holy crap!

00:32:08.000 Power outages reported in areas of Taipei. 0.90

00:32:12.000 Well, you know, the scary thing is if there was a time to actually storm Taiwan, it would be now.

00:32:19.000 After a natural disaster of some sort.

00:32:20.000 Right away.

00:32:21.000 I mean, yeah, it's going to disable defensive capabilities.

00:32:25.000 Yeah, when Taiwan is vulnerable.

00:32:26.000 China just doesn't have the capability.

00:32:28.000 Take Taiwan? 0.89

00:32:30.000 I don't think so.

00:32:31.000 But why not?

00:32:33.000 When you look at it, if you judge militaries by the Excel spreadsheet, right, like the number of tanks, the number of men, the number of whatever, China's military looks incredibly powerful.

00:32:42.000 The problem is that they run into major logistical issues when you're trying to pull off a major amphibious campaign.

00:32:49.000 Because Taiwan has about 150, 190,000 people in their active duty military.

00:32:54.000 They have 2 million reserves, right?

00:32:56.000 And that terrain is not the easiest to fight.

00:32:58.000 So now you're going to have to cross 100 miles of open ocean Right?

00:33:03.000 Which you're not going to be able to just do that.

00:33:04.000 And now how many troops do you have to actually send over to establish a beachhead?

00:33:08.000 And then you have to supply a logistical train across a hundred miles of open ocean.

00:33:13.000 Yep.

00:33:13.000 I mean, this is a nightmare.

00:33:15.000 And the Chinese military, I'm sorry, 2 million activity personnel.

00:33:18.000 Okay.

00:33:18.000 You think that's all class A divisions?

00:33:20.000 No, there's a lot of like conscript troops in there that aren't very good, that are not capable of conducting a complex amphibious operation.

00:33:28.000 Then in order to pull it all off, you have to maintain complete air superiority.

00:33:32.000 In order to protect your supply lines, unless you're going to be able to move in and do it.

00:33:36.000 And by the way, the Taiwanese are going to fight, right? 0.98

00:33:39.000 They're not rolling over on this.

00:33:41.000 And so with minimal U.S.

00:33:43.000 support, minimal U.S.

00:33:44.000 support, air and naval, no ground troops, China cannot sustain that invasion.

00:33:48.000 I just, I don't buy it.

00:33:50.000 I don't buy it.

00:33:50.000 Not to mention the fact with the currents and everything else, you got to attack at certain times of the year.

00:33:54.000 Otherwise it becomes even more difficult.

00:33:56.000 It is kind of funny that Taiwan is actually China.

00:33:58.000 Yeah.

00:33:59.000 But we call it Taiwan even though it's actually China.

00:34:01.000 Republic of.

00:34:02.000 The actual.

00:34:03.000 Yeah.

00:34:04.000 The OG government.

00:34:05.000 The grand republic of China.

00:34:07.000 Yeah.

00:34:07.000 Let it reign once again.

00:34:09.000 Yeah, I mean, I agree as well from an economic standpoint with China.

00:34:12.000 They're like, they're not in any state to be funding a war, let alone like making the stuff to have a war.

00:34:18.000 It's not really in their best interest.

00:34:19.000 If Taiwan was on the border of China, I'd be a lot more worried about it because the logistical concept here is very, very different.

00:34:26.000 But 100 miles of open ocean to launch an amphibious operation and sustain it is not easy.

00:34:31.000 And I don't even think it would be Chinese if it was on the mainland already. 0.96

00:34:35.000 Yeah.

00:34:35.000 The only reason those islands are not.

00:34:37.000 You know, we got four days until that eclipse that everyone's freaking out about.

00:34:41.000 Oh, really?

00:34:42.000 Half-jokingly freaking out about, I guess.

00:34:44.000 Yeah, that NASA's firing the APEC rockets at.

00:34:46.000 You know what APEC means, right?

00:34:48.000 No.

00:34:48.000 The Egyptian god of chaos that chases the sun, the snake.

00:34:53.000 So they did it on purpose, naming it that.

00:34:55.000 But there's all these wild conspiracy theories.

00:34:57.000 And then we get a 7.5 magnitude earthquake off of Taiwan.

00:35:00.000 They're flipping CERN on.

00:35:02.000 Dude, the conspiracy acts must be lighting up like crazy.

00:35:09.000 I imagine at the level of government you're at, you're not with the cultists, like the crazy, like, esoteric, you know, people that are like blood mad.

00:35:16.000 But do you, are there whiffs of this, this occult in the government or are you kind of at a stage where it's not?

00:35:22.000 One of the beautiful things about being in a citizen legislature is, so most people don't know this, like most of your state legislatures are not full-time legislatures.

00:35:30.000 We go down there like 60 days during even years, 45 days during odd years, we'll hear 2,000 bills within that time frame, and then we go home.

00:35:38.000 We live in our districts.

00:35:39.000 In Virginia, $17,600 a year, roughly, that's your salary.

00:35:44.000 It is not supposed to be your life, your career.

00:35:46.000 You go down there, you do the people's business, you go back to your district, you hand your constituent services, that's it.

00:35:52.000 46 out of 50 state legislatures, that's the reality.

00:35:54.000 When people talk about term limits, I'm like, Not term limits.

00:35:57.000 I want Congress to be a citizen legislature because you don't want to pay politicians full time to do it.

00:36:03.000 But what it means though is we focus on what we're doing for that period of time and then we get back home.

00:36:10.000 This is people that have way too much time, they're just dawdling around for years. 1.00

00:36:13.000 If you're going to pay politicians to do nothing but sit around and dream crap up, they're going to dream up some pretty stupid crap, right? 0.99

00:36:20.000 That's got to be, I think about the kings of old, all the Illuminati, all these ancient, or super... I just saw a video of the most valuable house on earth, it's a billion dollar home, and some, I don't know, guy... Where is it? 0.99

00:36:33.000 I didn't get that.

00:36:34.000 I don't know.

00:36:34.000 It's a two-bedroom apartment in San Francisco.

00:36:36.000 That's true.

00:36:37.000 And during COVID, the guy was so bored, he built this underground grotto.

00:36:41.000 These people with so much money that they can do and build almost anything within reason, then they start to dream up crazy.

00:36:49.000 Then you get into actual God and spirituality and the occult and all that stuff, and you're like, whoa, now I've got enough time to focus on it.

00:36:56.000 I don't know.

00:36:57.000 Do you get into it?

00:37:00.000 That's kind of weird, because I kind of think of religion as a kind of occult.

00:37:04.000 I think of God and spirituality and all that as a form of occultism, but it's just a modern accepted occultism.

00:37:11.000 I think there's a difference.

00:37:12.000 I'm a Christian.

00:37:14.000 And so I think there's a differentiation between that and what is generally associated with the occult.

00:37:18.000 But I don't know.

00:37:21.000 I think that some of the stuff when you look at Gnosticism and some of the mysticism that comes up, and yes, some of it is rich guys with too much money and too much time on their hands.

00:37:31.000 I think a lot of the universe is more magnetic than we realize.

00:37:34.000 And so a lot of these patterns play out, like getting hit by comets that are like magnetically trapped in orbit, our moon eclipsing the sun in just the right proportion where it blocks the entire thing out, held magnetically in position.

00:37:45.000 So behavior, you know, our brains are magnetic.

00:37:48.000 They have these neural pathways and stuff.

00:37:50.000 And I wonder if, like, there is something going on.

00:37:52.000 That's the reason, because like Tim kind of brought up jokingly, like April 8th, they're firing these APAP rockets, CERN's firing on, we got our earthquake.

00:38:01.000 Could be coincidence.

00:38:02.000 I don't really believe in coincidences.

00:38:03.000 I'm just checking videos while you guys are talking, just so you know what I'm doing.

00:38:05.000 I'm looking at all the breaking footage, seeing if there's... It actually is kind of a really interesting phenomenon that we are the only planet, I believe the only planet within our, certainly within our solar system, but I think it's broader than that, that is actually in a position to be able to have a full eclipse.

00:38:22.000 And it's an interesting phenomenon that the one planet that actually has people that can observe an eclipse is the one planet that actually has the sort of lunar eclipses.

00:38:37.000 The moon is the exact right size for its distance to the sun so that it creates the eclipse?

00:38:41.000 Yeah.

00:38:42.000 It's held in the Lagrange point between the earth and the sun probably.

00:38:45.000 Where, like, the sun and the earth are pulling on it at equal magnitudes.

00:38:47.000 And it also, like, that phenomena has also made it possible to recognize other scientific phenomenon when they looked at things, like, again, with respect to the theory of relativity and whatnot.

00:38:57.000 Like, if we weren't in our special position within the solar system, we wouldn't be able to do it.

00:39:03.000 It's an interesting thing.

00:39:04.000 Some people use it from, like, a design concept.

00:39:06.000 Other people think, you know.

00:39:07.000 Someone just mentioned in Super Chat, don't forget the dual emergent cicada is a 221-year occurrence.

00:39:13.000 So is that like the locust plague?

00:39:15.000 We have darkness... What are the plagues?

00:39:18.000 Darkness, locusts, river turns to blood, death of firstborn, measles, frogs... Whoa!

00:39:24.000 We have measles!

00:39:26.000 In Chicago!

00:39:26.000 How many plagues are we having?

00:39:29.000 We had bubonic plague in Oregon.

00:39:33.000 River turns to blood?

00:39:34.000 How much you want to bet we're gonna get some kind of... like something bad's gonna happen on the border?

00:39:41.000 Or like iron, there could be like an iron explosion into the water.

00:39:45.000 We're just going to do all four horsemen at once.

00:39:47.000 The earth will fertilize itself with iron from time to time and it just spurt like iron water into the rivers and turn them red.

00:39:54.000 But the, uh, the killing of the firstborn, I think a lot about sterilizing children when we're talking about that and how people, what they're doing to their children at the children's behest and like, is that meeting some sort of biblical prophecy of destroying your firstborn?

00:40:06.000 I think it is fascinating when people make parallels between – when you look at ancient ball worship and whatnot, it was the idea of child sacrifice for fertility or for agricultural purposes or whatnot.

00:40:22.000 I mean, the Carthaginians were doing this at the same time that they were fighting the Punic Wars.

00:40:29.000 Yeah, it is amazing and absolutely horrific what we are allowing to happen to children in the name of a form of kind of self-worship that is just, you would have thought it unthinkable 20 years ago.

00:40:47.000 Man, the stuff that's been going on.

00:40:50.000 And I saw this tweet.

00:40:52.000 They said the hour is later than you think.

00:40:55.000 Like the Biden administration is actively engaging in communist policies, going after their political rivals.

00:41:03.000 The position that we are in right now in this country, it's just, I believe anything probably.

00:41:09.000 I think the more I read of Antonio Gramsci and the whole concept of the reason why Marx got it wrong is because Marx thought it was economics.

00:41:21.000 Gramsci came to the conclusion sitting in a prison in Italy in the 30s that, well, no, you have to set up a complete counterculture.

00:41:30.000 And that became known as the march through the institutions.

00:41:32.000 He didn't coin that term, but it came.

00:41:34.000 And if you look at it, I think a lot of people want to believe that there was some sort of secret force out there where it was the KGB or whatnot that was manipulated.

00:41:42.000 And yeah, you had things like active measures that, you know, Yuri Bezmenov talks about and whatnot.

00:41:46.000 But more than that, you just have a lot of people that like the explanation Karl Marx gave for everything that ails them.

00:41:54.000 And it got really popular in Hollywood.

00:41:56.000 It got really popular in higher ed.

00:41:57.000 And now we shouldn't be surprised that it's filtered down to the rest of society.

00:42:01.000 I'm going to jump to the story from the New York Post.

00:42:03.000 Trump hits Biden for border bloodbath, says President a loud monster who killed Ruby Garcia back into the United States.

00:42:11.000 What's going on on the border is it's a crime against humanity. 0.99

00:42:16.000 There are atrocities happening where human smugglers are raping small children and delivering them into sex slavery.

00:42:22.000 Customs and Border Protection, with taxpayer dollars, with smiles on their faces, are taking these children, admittedly, saying outright in an interview with Dr. Phil, they know that in most of these instances, or I should say many, that they are delivering children into sex slavery and to sweatshops, and they do it anyway.

00:42:41.000 So we were just talking about the previous segment with there's an earthquake in Taiwan, off Taiwan.

00:42:47.000 Got the eclipse coming.

00:42:49.000 APAP rockets.

00:42:50.000 Now we've got the cicadas coming out.

00:42:51.000 Now I'm just like, how many plagues are we at?

00:42:54.000 And talking about that had me really just think, like, Was the great battle of good and evil going to be something magical, or was it just going to be of this world?

00:43:04.000 I mean, is it supposed to be that demons emerge from the cracks in the ground and agents come down?

00:43:10.000 Or is it going to be that we, as humans, on this earth, witness the most demonic and evil actions you could imagine, and nothing is done about it?

00:43:21.000 I mean, I think that's what's tragic about evil forces in the world, right?

00:43:26.000 Like, they are very often happening in front of your face and it's not that there's going to be some big, you know, Marvel movie-like effect.

00:43:34.000 It's that you see terrible things happen every day and become conditioned to adjust to them.

00:43:39.000 And I think about, you know, some Catholic churches say the prayer to Saint Michael the Archangel, and there's a line in it that talks about, and those who prowl the earth seeking the ruin of souls.

00:43:50.000 And I feel like that is what we have sort of let ourselves drift into being used to, right?

00:43:56.000 And we say, let live and let live, or we just become accustomed to a certain level of instability and violence.

00:44:03.000 And ultimately, we are watching good and evil battle every day, except we're sort of numb and blind to it.

00:44:09.000 I can, I personalize that like hearing someone, a woman getting beaten in the house next to mine.

00:44:16.000 And like, I'm pretty liberal.

00:44:17.000 I'm pretty hands off with like, take care of your, your, your, you and your own.

00:44:20.000 And I'll take care of me and mine.

00:44:21.000 But at some point I had to intervene and call the cops because the guy was probably going to kill the girl.

00:44:25.000 Same thing with like watching genocide happen in a country.

00:44:27.000 Like.

00:44:29.000 It's like look away man and just wait for it to be done.

00:44:31.000 I can't but I mean what can what can we do?

00:44:34.000 What can you really do when when the powers that be are in control of the genocide and they want to do it?

00:44:40.000 I think it's it's I'm not I'm not always so concerned about the powers that be.

00:44:44.000 The issue is we as humans like that we the people of the United States tolerate and allow customs and border protection to traffic children to sex slavery.

00:44:57.000 Donald Trump can hit at Joe Biden for it all day and night, but...

00:45:01.000 Joe Biden's policies, Mayorkas' policies are meaningless without the men and women wearing those badges with smiles on their faces saying the paycheck is worth transporting children into sex slavery. 1.00

00:45:13.000 This I just can't get over.

00:45:14.000 Donald Trump's calling it the border bloodbath.

00:45:16.000 It's brilliant branding.

00:45:19.000 This is what people were saying when they started attacking Trump for bloodbath.

00:45:21.000 Trump adopted it and is pushing it back on Biden.

00:45:25.000 And I can respect that You know, we want to see this through to November because things are looking good despite the fact of whatever those voter registration things we're looking at were.

00:45:35.000 But it is shocking to me that there are human beings in CBP that don't care and they'll just do it.

00:45:40.000 And I suppose, I shouldn't be surprised.

00:45:43.000 I don't know, people like to think that Americans are better and perhaps many of them, you know, Americans per capita are better people when it comes to individual responsibility, personal freedoms.

00:45:53.000 And, uh, our core values.

00:45:55.000 But you look at the history of this planet and you will see every time there is some kind of authoritarian takeover, I don't care if it's Nazi Germany or the Spanish Civil War or Russia or whatever it may be, there are people who are willing to commit acts of evil to protect themselves.

00:46:11.000 Here's what I think.

00:46:11.000 There was a book called Ordinary Men that was talking about various SS groups and ISOTSM groups and whatnot within the Nazis.

00:46:19.000 And that is, of course, everyone's kind of favorite one to reference.

00:46:24.000 But one of the things they talked about is that – and Jordan Peterson talks about this a lot – where it's this idea that we have this idea, well, that was somebody else.

00:46:30.000 That was over there.

00:46:31.000 There was something wrong with them. 1.00

00:46:32.000 They were psychopaths. 1.00

00:46:33.000 No, no, no. 0.97

00:46:34.000 They weren't.

00:46:35.000 They were ordinary people.

00:46:36.000 Like if you were not cognizant of your own individual capacity for evil, then you're not going to actually do the correct things that you need to do in order to combat against that.

00:46:49.000 The other thing that I think is important is the greatest evil is not... People have this idea, and this is kind of a leftist trope, that the greatest evil is perpetrated for the quest for power or the quest for greed or the quest for wealth.

00:46:59.000 No, it isn't.

00:47:00.000 The greatest evils, are always a result of somebody that honestly believes that they're doing something for the greater good.

00:47:09.000 Lewis had this quote once, I'm going to butcher it, I'm not going to get it totally right, but C.S.

00:47:09.000 And C.S.

00:47:13.000 Lewis had this quote where he was basically saying it would be better to be ruled by greedy robber barons than it would by moral busybodies.

00:47:21.000 And his whole idea was that the moral busybodies will torment you without end because they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

00:47:28.000 And there's nothing more dangerous than somebody that honestly believes that I have to do this to you for your own good, or I have to do this to this other person for the greater good.

00:47:38.000 And that's what's really terrifying.

00:47:40.000 The person that's greedy or the person that's just questing for power, they can get a little power, they can get a little money, and they might be okay for a while.

00:47:46.000 But my gosh, be leery of the moral busybody that is doing all this to save the world.

00:47:52.000 There's also another component of it, which we talk about quite a bit, and that is these CBP officers took a deal with the devil.

00:48:01.000 The assumption most people make when they hear about the Faustian deal is, You get offered your greatest desires.

00:48:07.000 You want to be a rock star?

00:48:08.000 You want to be an astronaut?

00:48:10.000 You want to be famous?

00:48:11.000 You want to be rich and successful and everyone will love you?

00:48:13.000 Then cut the deal with the devil.

00:48:15.000 The reality is it's much simpler than that.

00:48:16.000 The devil shows up when your child is hungry and says, serve the army of evil and your child will know nothing but a full belly.

00:48:23.000 But the devil will say, serve the army of good and you'll be fed and you'll be wealthy.

00:48:27.000 And you'll be like, how is any of this wrong?

00:48:27.000 No.

00:48:29.000 All I've got to do is destroy the roaches over there.

00:48:31.000 No, no, that's the scary thing.

00:48:33.000 Is that these CBP agents No.

00:48:36.000 When they take that child, the number on their arm, they are selling a child into sex slavery.

00:48:42.000 And you ask yourself, for what?

00:48:44.000 For what is it worth?

00:48:46.000 Your $1,000 paycheck?

00:48:48.000 Must be.

00:48:49.000 And the guy saying to himself, I got kids, man.

00:48:52.000 These CBP agents would rather transport an innocent child to sex slavers than see their own children go hungry.

00:48:59.000 That is the deal with the devil.

00:49:02.000 I don't understand how we're months into this story being true and we still have people working for CBP.

00:49:08.000 It's insane.

00:49:09.000 I have no idea.

00:49:09.000 Maybe many of them quit.

00:49:11.000 We've heard so many stories about good cops quitting.

00:49:13.000 We had a couple cops on the culture war who talked about how they got pushed out because they were good cops refusing.

00:49:19.000 One guy said they tried to get him to write up a fake warrant and he says no.

00:49:22.000 They boot him out.

00:49:24.000 You don't play the game, you don't do the evil deed, you're out.

00:49:27.000 And it's no surprise we have so many bad cops.

00:49:30.000 One of the cops we had on here, this guy Chris, said that leftists fabricated racist posts.

00:49:35.000 And the mayor just said, you're all fired, don't care.

00:49:38.000 Literally don't care.

00:49:39.000 How is it?

00:49:40.000 That there could be a person right now wearing a CBP badge knowing what they're doing.

00:49:44.000 I have honestly no idea.

00:49:47.000 I think, well, I'll take a crack at that.

00:49:51.000 If you are a CBP agent and you're nowhere near this component, right?

00:49:54.000 Because not everybody in CBP is doing the same job.

00:49:57.000 And you're in a BORTAC unit, right?

00:49:59.000 Or you're doing something like that where you're going out there and you're doing your job and you think you're doing it well.

00:50:02.000 And you may be frustrated with somebody else and what they're doing in the organization or the agency, but you're still going to do your job.

00:50:09.000 And because you could say the same thing about the military, you could say the same thing about, you know, any sort of large metropolitan police department.

00:50:16.000 I get where you're coming from because it's the idea of at what point does it taint you just being associated with the organization?

00:50:23.000 By the same token, you can see someone rationally making the argument that if the good guys aren't doing the job, then the only thing that's left are the bad guys.

00:50:34.000 My dad was LAPD for 20 years.

00:50:37.000 He got out in 2000, I think.

00:50:41.000 He had a massive stroke on the job and had to medically retire.

00:50:45.000 I remember wanting to get out of the military at that point.

00:50:47.000 I'd only been a couple years, like 98 to 2000, and I was getting out because I didn't like being in a peacetime army and it was boring.

00:50:57.000 And I was going to go be LAPD and he goes, don't do it.

00:51:01.000 And he saw some of the changes that were happening in the department.

00:51:03.000 And one of the things he told me goes, Nick, people get the police they ask for.

00:51:07.000 And right now they are asking for a police department that wants to show up and write reports after you're hurt.

00:51:13.000 Because if you try to show up and intervene, you're going to potentially lose your job.

00:51:17.000 You're going to, again, your kids, you know, how are you going to pay your bills?

00:51:22.000 How are you going to pay your mortgage?

00:51:24.000 And there's something to that, right?

00:51:26.000 The institutions, we have this idea, and I really do think that we've grown up in some degree, I hate to use the word privilege because it's been co-opted, but there's a certain degree of complacency that comes with the sort of relative wealth, prosperity, security that we experience within the United States.

00:51:44.000 And you have people that grow up thinking that this is just the way it's supposed to be.

00:51:47.000 This is the natural order of things.

00:51:49.000 This is about as far from the natural order of things in human history as anything.

00:51:54.000 And then you have people that think that they can just throw out the underlying objective morality or the underlying objective philosophies, which made these things, the prosperity and the security possible.

00:52:04.000 And you can just kind of pick and choose like a buffet.

00:52:07.000 And then you end up with something like this, where you've got people celebrating what's going on in the border right now, because they honestly think it's a representation of tolerance.

00:52:16.000 And it's nuts.

00:52:17.000 It's like, this is not just good. 0.70

00:52:18.000 And again, someone sees me saying like, oh yeah, he's a white dude. 0.98

00:52:21.000 Of course he's a bigot.

00:52:24.000 Yeah, I am worried about a bunch of people just flooding into the country because if you don't actually have sovereign borders, that's pretty damn problematic.

00:52:30.000 But I'll tell you what I'm also worried about.

00:52:32.000 I'm worried about some parent in Ecuador that when they saw the DACA regulations go into place, they thought to themselves, oh my gosh, I can give my kids a better future.

00:52:43.000 Well, how do you facilitate that?

00:52:44.000 Do you go to a travel agent and just book a flight for your kid?

00:52:47.000 No!

00:52:47.000 You work with the legal organizations, you work with cartels, because they're the only ones that control border access, and you're trying to do the right thing by your kid, and now your kid's sold into sex slavery, because we had a policy in the United States that really sounded good on paper, but that's what it produces in reality.

00:53:02.000 And then when you show them the reality, it doesn't matter because the ideological train has already left the station and it ain't coming back.

00:53:10.000 You've lured everyone into a dangerous situation, right?

00:53:12.000 You've put American citizens at risk because we're not enforcing border policies and we're potentially exposing their communities to more crime than they actually need to be exposed to.

00:53:20.000 And you're also hurting children who are sent away with no one to advocate for them.

00:53:24.000 In fact, anyone along the journey could say, hey, you're vulnerable and I'm going to take advantage of that.

00:53:28.000 Oh, absolutely.

00:53:29.000 We know they do it.

00:53:30.000 We know they do it.

00:53:31.000 Yeah.

00:53:32.000 Yeah.

00:53:32.000 Oh, what were you saying?

00:53:33.000 I was just gonna say, but they say, oh, but they're fleeing something.

00:53:37.000 This is better for them, right?

00:53:38.000 Like, how can the Biden administration say, knowing that this even happens to one child, that this is a policy worth enforcing?

00:53:45.000 Well, they've incentivized it.

00:53:46.000 Like, they've incentivized this behavior.

00:53:48.000 It's not just that they allow it.

00:53:51.000 They incentivize it.

00:53:52.000 Yeah, when Kamala Harris said, come, uh, or they were like, come, come to the United States.

00:53:56.000 I think they claimed they made a proclamation and she said, don't come.

00:53:59.000 Then later she said, don't come.

00:54:01.000 But first they were saying come.

00:54:03.000 And, uh, that was disappointing.

00:54:05.000 But with this privilege thing you're talking about, I feel it.

00:54:07.000 Like I'm in a land of peace.

00:54:08.000 I'm like, Oh yeah, I want to be nice to everyone.

00:54:10.000 I don't want to hurt anything.

00:54:11.000 I don't want to kill that, that invading species. 0.83

00:54:13.000 I don't want to, I'm talking about animals like, like, Well humans are animals too but like raccoons and shit like I don't want to kill it but like that's my privilege I don't have to I have walls I don't have to go kill the bear because I have walls to protect me right and this is what you got with like saying build the wall 40 feet everyone should have walls access to the walls good fences make good 0.97

00:54:31.000 Good neighbors! 0.95

00:54:31.000 I think that's a good thing. 0.95

00:54:32.000 I mean, but this is what we saw with, especially I think of like East Coast cities that were like, no, no, the border should be open.

00:54:39.000 You should let them in.

00:54:40.000 We should all be sanctuary cities.

00:54:42.000 And then once the brunt of illegal immigration hit them, think about New York City.

00:54:45.000 They were like, federal government, we need support.

00:54:47.000 I mean, the governor, the mayor, they have asked for support and the Biden administration has said no, and they are suffering the consequences.

00:54:53.000 In fact, they're trying to hoist the effects of this onto neighboring counties around them.

00:54:58.000 But when it didn't affect them, it was OK if it happened to border communities in Texas and Arizona.

00:55:03.000 But when it started to affect them, someone had to step in.

00:55:06.000 But you notice even then, right, it wasn't like, oh, gosh, now we're suffering the consequences of our actions.

00:55:10.000 Maybe we should reconsider our policies.

00:55:12.000 No, it was, hey, federal government, give us more stuff.

00:55:15.000 Right?

00:55:16.000 It's never, let's reconsider the policies.

00:55:18.000 And approve work permits faster.

00:55:20.000 Yeah.

00:55:20.000 You know, make it easier for someone to stay here, don't even consider deportation.

00:55:24.000 For the cities taking them in, they were, instead of saying, hey, change the policy so this stops happening, they were like, give us money to facilitate it.

00:55:29.000 Yes.

00:55:30.000 Yeah.

00:55:30.000 Or they were going to their own citizens and saying, sorry, your kids can't show up to school today because we've got to house people that are here illegally.

00:55:35.000 Which is kind of a third amendment violation.

00:55:37.000 Sorry, homeless people who are here.

00:55:39.000 There's no space in the shelter for you anymore.

00:55:40.000 Or your businesses are being shut down to facilitate illegals. 0.98

00:55:43.000 That doesn't make any sense.

00:55:45.000 That seems a constitutional violation.

00:55:46.000 I don't see how there is a country...

00:55:53.000 The polls are looking really great for Donald Trump.

00:55:56.000 With RFK Jr.

00:55:57.000 running, we'll see.

00:55:59.000 But even then, it's going to be a challenge.

00:56:02.000 If Trump wins, and Republicans take the Senate, the Congress, and they do have, to a certain degree, the Supreme Court, there's still going to be massive backlash.

00:56:13.000 Michael Maus pointed this out.

00:56:14.000 He said, don't you think if Donald Trump were to win and try to enact this deportation, that California and New York's governors would mobilize their National Guard and say no?

00:56:23.000 I don't know that they would go that far.

00:56:25.000 I think in more subtle ways they would resist it, and they would do enough to actually make it very, very difficult to do the deportation piece.

00:56:34.000 The biggest thing I'm worried about is the federal bureaucracy, because people think that when the president gets in there, you can fire people in the executive branch, right?

00:56:42.000 You're the chief executive.

00:56:44.000 No, you can't.

00:56:45.000 There's a relatively small number of people that you can actually get rid of, and you're right.

00:56:50.000 You're going to have states that actually resist that, some more subtly, some more overtly.

00:56:56.000 But if we can't do something to tackle the massive federal bureaucracy in the same kind of way that Javier Mele is doing in Argentina right now, if you can't do that, forget it.

00:57:06.000 The bureaucracy will wait.

00:57:07.000 They can last out four years of Trump.

00:57:10.000 They can slow roll stuff.

00:57:12.000 You're saying Millet has, the president in Argentina has way more power over the executive branch.

00:57:17.000 Yeah.

00:57:17.000 So he was able to cut what?

00:57:19.000 13, 14.

00:57:20.000 He just cut 14 government agencies of 23 down to 9.

00:57:25.000 Just got rid of 22 to 9 ministries.

00:57:26.000 Like you're gone now.

00:57:28.000 70,000 government employees were firing you.

00:57:30.000 That's the value of small governments, man.

00:57:32.000 You can move real quick.

00:57:33.000 Big governments become real untenable.

00:57:35.000 It's not decentralization.

00:57:36.000 Argentina had a massive one.

00:57:38.000 The difference was, is that their chief executive has more control over the executive branch than our president has over the executive branch.

00:57:44.000 That's what it comes down to.

00:57:47.000 Let's jump to the story from the Washington Post.

00:57:50.000 RFK Jr.

00:57:50.000 argues Biden is bigger threat to democracy than Trump, drawing criticism.

00:57:55.000 I love this subtitle.

00:57:57.000 Several experts and historians rebuked the independent presidential candidate for his comments in a televised interview.

00:58:02.000 Basically, what he said was, Joe Biden's going after his political opponents with criminal charges and censoring people on social media violating the First Amendment, which is the first.

00:58:13.000 And of course, uniparty establishment corporate press media rushes out to write stories in a way, this is the secret, this story should not be written this way, drawing criticism.

00:58:26.000 We had over on, so timcast.com no longer has news.

00:58:31.000 Uh, now, the, uh, former TimCast team is now working with SCNR.com, a separate company.

00:58:37.000 And when TimCast was being evaluated by NewsGuard, we ran a story that said something like, Donald Trump says X. And then it was, Donald Trump at a rally today said, said the following, and it was like a paragraph, Trump says that when this happens, he will do this.

00:58:51.000 Newsguard asks us why we didn't fact check Donald Trump.

00:58:55.000 And I said, because we're just reporting on a quote.

00:58:58.000 We're not running a fact check.

00:59:00.000 We're just saying Trump at a rally said he would do this thing.

00:59:02.000 And they said, yeah, but the thing he was talking about was wrong.

00:59:04.000 And I'm like, well, I don't know.

00:59:05.000 I'm just telling people it's what he said.

00:59:07.000 So they said, okay, you're fake news.

00:59:09.000 They gave us a strike because we didn't fact check when we were reporting on a quote, but our reporting was 100% accurate.

00:59:16.000 He really did say that, yeah.

00:59:18.000 And so, when you take a look at the Washington Post, look at how they do this.

00:59:22.000 The story should be, RFK Jr.

00:59:23.000 argues Biden is a bigger threat to democracy than Donald Trump.

00:59:26.000 That's it.

00:59:27.000 Drawing criticism.

00:59:29.000 Why Why write a story and publish it and include your own editorial context?

00:59:34.000 Because they're framing the narrative.

00:59:36.000 They want to make sure that people like Ian's mom, for instance, before she actually hears what RFK Jr.

00:59:42.000 had to say, she gets slammed by MSNBC, CNN, and Washington Post saying, yes, he said it, but he's wrong.

00:59:48.000 Here's why he's wrong.

00:59:49.000 Yeah, this will make a reader, your average reader, fire cortisol.

00:59:52.000 They'll be like, okay, I'm getting ready for conflict.

00:59:54.000 Let's find out what this criticism, this bad, bad news is.

00:59:57.000 And then you go into the article reading with that kind of state of mind.

01:00:01.000 R.F.K.

01:00:01.000 Jr., of course, is completely correct, though he did say Trump trying to overthrow the election clearly is a threat to democracy.

01:00:08.000 But the question was, who is a worse threat?

01:00:11.000 And what I would say is, I'm not going to answer that, but I can argue Biden is.

01:00:14.000 So they're saying he said Biden was.

01:00:17.000 Well, he said he could argue that he was, meaning he wasn't sure, but there are certainly arguments to be made.

01:00:22.000 Here you go, and then they bring up a Harvard University political scientist and co-author of How Democracies Die.

01:00:27.000 Instead of Kennedy's comment, it's a preposterous claim!

01:00:29.000 To be a politician committed to democracy, there are two cardinal rules.

01:00:33.000 One must accept election outcomes, win or lose.

01:00:36.000 One must not threaten or use violence to gain power.

01:00:38.000 Donald Trump has clearly violated both rules, while President Biden never has.

01:00:42.000 But he just claimed that he could argue Biden is worse.

01:00:46.000 Well, Biden is using violence to gain power.

01:00:48.000 It's called the federal government going after Trump's lawyers and other Trump supporters.

01:00:54.000 That's violence.

01:00:55.000 This is why I love what was the Thomas Sowell quote?

01:00:58.000 He's like, the single greatest thing about getting a degree from Harvard is no longer being impressed by anybody that has a degree from Harvard.

01:01:03.000 There you go.

01:01:04.000 And it's for stuff like this.

01:01:06.000 And it's always an idea of how they categorize violence.

01:01:10.000 It's like, whenever I get invited to speak to students, I always ask them this first question.

01:01:14.000 I'm like, what is the one thing that is unique about government, truly unique about government?

01:01:19.000 They're like, oh, voting.

01:01:19.000 I'm like, you can vote right now.

01:01:21.000 Oh, well, you guys have committees.

01:01:23.000 You can set up committees all you want.

01:01:25.000 You make laws.

01:01:26.000 I'm like, we get to use aggressive violence in order to achieve our outcomes.

01:01:29.000 We're the only ones that legally can do it.

01:01:31.000 But they don't consider the chief executive, the president of the United States, using the federal government agencies to essentially call up social media companies and we won't say threaten, we'll say strongly encourage them to censor people, to de-platform people, to take down certain information.

01:01:50.000 You don't think that use of coercive power constitutes violence or the threat of violence?

01:01:56.000 No, of course not.

01:01:56.000 Why?

01:01:57.000 Because they agree with it.

01:01:59.000 And that's the part where, to your point, they want to use the title of objective journalism, but then they want to engage in editorialism.

01:02:07.000 And like so many other things where they have just randomly changed the definition of a word, we all lose faith in something that we used to have faith in, because the word meant something.

01:02:15.000 It doesn't anymore.

01:02:17.000 We know when we see a title like this, it's like, oh yeah, it's the Washington Post, and they're going to editorialize it, and I'm not going to get the truth about what was actually said, and I'm certainly not going to get a comprehensive, from multiple perspectives, analysis of what was said.

01:02:29.000 I'm already being told what to think about this, and this is what good people think.

01:02:34.000 And if you don't think this way, then you must not be a good person.

01:02:36.000 It's a cult.

01:02:38.000 Yeah, and it depends on compliance, right?

01:02:40.000 Like, I love what you're saying, you know, if you don't think this way, then you're not a good person.

01:02:46.000 At a certain point, you have to look at this other side and say, do I think I want to be a good person under your definition, right?

01:02:52.000 Like, the people, the values that you think are good, the actions that you think are right, would I also agree with that?

01:02:58.000 And I think when you start to really critically analyze the yardstick with which they use to measure character, you don't want to be a part of it, in my opinion.

01:03:06.000 The word good.

01:03:08.000 Hell thinks they have the power and authority to dictate what that means.

01:03:11.000 It's subjective.

01:03:12.000 Good, the word God, it's like the same word on purpose.

01:03:15.000 Well, I think that we should have a cultural standard.

01:03:18.000 Like, I wish that we had a strong enough cultural identity where we could all at the table be like, these things are good and these things are bad.

01:03:24.000 And maybe in this room we could, and maybe generally across the political spectrum, there

01:03:29.000 are topics where people would say, yes, I agree that's good, and yes, I agree that's

01:03:32.000 bad.

01:03:33.000 But I think really the details of this get lost.

01:03:37.000 And because we don't have a strong collective identity, we don't have a shared sense of,

01:03:42.000 you know, a lot of morality is dictated by religion.

01:03:44.000 You know, we're a very diverse country.

01:03:47.000 And so therefore, we have to really be careful about combing through and saying, well, what

01:03:52.000 do we agree is right, wrong, good, evil?

01:03:54.000 Because ultimately, you know that there are good things and you know there are bad things.

01:03:59.000 But if your neighbor has a completely different definition of these things, then you could

01:04:03.000 advocate for completely different policies, which is where we are now.

01:04:05.000 And it might be the same definition, but the situation means like if you get the best, there's one sandwich and we're both hungry.

01:04:13.000 We both know what it means.

01:04:14.000 Good is if I get that sandwich, it's good for me.

01:04:16.000 And you know, if you get it, it's good for you.

01:04:18.000 So we have to fight about who's good is going to dominate.

01:04:20.000 Unless we agreed that good was if we both weren't hungry anymore and could split the sandwich.

01:04:24.000 Yeah, but that's not fair because Ian has higher caloric requirements than you, so that's true.

01:04:27.000 Or like if it was something you couldn't split up.

01:04:29.000 This is why we need sandwich equity.

01:04:31.000 Yeah, something non-fungible.

01:04:32.000 I'm just saying, if there were ways that we could agree that there were certain outcomes that are good, but if we always see our definitions of good as in conflict with each other, then we're never going to have a conversation.

01:04:41.000 Well, I think there's also a difference between useful and good.

01:04:44.000 When we say good, there's more of a moral connotation to that.

01:04:47.000 So in that situation, what we would do is, there's one sandwich, you're both hungry, and you say, no, you take the sandwich.

01:04:53.000 We would agree that it was useful that she got the sandwich.

01:04:55.000 We would also agree that it was good that you engage in a form of personal sacrifice to help somebody else.

01:05:01.000 And so the term can be used both ways, but we would understand the different moral connotation associated with it.

01:05:07.000 But to your point, we're increasingly getting to a point where this idea of a certain degree of shared values just doesn't exist anymore.

01:05:18.000 We literally have half the country that doesn't believe the same thing about this country, doesn't believe the same thing about how it was founded or the fundamental principles that informed it, doesn't believe that on the whole it's been a force for good.

01:05:30.000 But they don't believe anything.

01:05:33.000 I think the important thing to understand... You think it's just nihilism?

01:05:36.000 No, no, no, no.

01:05:37.000 It's a cult. 1.00

01:05:37.000 It is a brain-dead cult. 1.00

01:05:41.000 And so, you take a look at what happens to somebody when they start rigging. 0.79

01:05:44.000 Yannick Asparian's a really great example.

01:05:46.000 She reads a story about people in Long Island who have cut up two people, or who are accused of.

01:05:52.000 They were found in a home with blood and guts in the drains, body parts strewn across all over the house, and scattered around Long Island.

01:05:59.000 And when the police arrest them, For these crimes, they said they're not bail eligible and let them go.

01:06:04.000 What happens?

01:06:05.000 The left attacks her for it because she's deviating from the cult.

01:06:10.000 So there's a viral video.

01:06:13.000 Among the left right now massively viral where higher right chick of libs of tick tock was at university I believe and some guy in the back laughs at something she says and she goes you have a question he goes yeah how do you define woke and she couldn't do it she said it's like anti-normalcy and it's like didn't have a good answer and I think for a lot of people they can they can sort of understand when they see something that is woke what it is because it's almost it's almost a root word itself But they don't actually break it down.

01:06:40.000 So I typically break it down.

01:06:42.000 There are a lot of conservatives that define it as, like, postmodernist thought and blah blah blah.

01:06:45.000 And it's like, no, no, no, that's not correct.

01:06:47.000 Because when you take a look at the left as a whole, you see masking, forced vaccination, lockdown policies, pro-Ukraine war.

01:06:56.000 You see, and of course, the postmodernist stuff is a component of that.

01:07:01.000 But these things don't have a shared ideological root.

01:07:03.000 The only thing that woke is, is cult-like adherence to leftist social orthodoxy, an orthodoxy of which is amorphous and has no moral framework.

01:07:11.000 That's why they can simultaneously say, war is bad and the military machine is awful because they're funding Israel and go Ukraine! 0.68

01:07:18.000 Fund Ukraine!

01:07:19.000 You're like, okay, I can understand if you're like, no war, but these people who are screaming about Israel have an overlap with people who are screaming about defending Ukraine and they go on their live shows and they preach this stuff.

01:07:31.000 They claim, my body, my choice, but you better get the medical treatment we demand! 0.62

01:07:35.000 There's no moral framework.

01:07:37.000 Nothing makes sense.

01:07:38.000 It is simply a swarm of bees.

01:07:41.000 That's not fair.

01:07:41.000 Bees are nice.

01:07:42.000 Wasps.

01:07:45.000 Many of the people within the hive just feel, in the swarm, if I deviate, I will be obliterated.

01:07:52.000 So I'd rather be in it than out of it.

01:07:54.000 There's no moral framework at all.

01:07:57.000 I think this has a lot to do with the end result of atheism.

01:08:03.000 Without a moral framework.

01:08:05.000 So I'm not saying you have to believe in God to have a moral framework.

01:08:08.000 What I'm saying is this country historically had a Christian moral framework.

01:08:12.000 This is not... I'm not offering an opinion.

01:08:14.000 I am not making a value assessment on the benefits or otherwise of religions.

01:08:19.000 I'm saying a Christian moral framework gave us the Bill of Rights, protected our rights, gave us property rights, and a whole bunch of things.

01:08:29.000 Eventually, over time, you start seeing the rise of secular thought, atheism, and these people, like Bill Maher, who's in his 60s, believe it or not, Bill Maher still has a Christian moral framework.

01:08:41.000 Although you can see it's weakened.

01:08:42.000 Why do I say that?

01:08:43.000 He believes in free speech.

01:08:45.000 He believes in the innocent until proven guilty.

01:08:47.000 He's not a very bright guy, fine, he doesn't read the news.

01:08:50.000 But you can see he has this moral framework where he's like, you know, free speech, we should be allowed to speak.

01:08:54.000 Well, all of these things come from a Christian moral framework.

01:08:57.000 When you get the next generation, who are raised by the likes of Bill Maher, they're postmodernist.

01:09:02.000 Nothing you say matters, there is no truth, there is only power, and I must wield it and you must do as I say.

01:09:08.000 And that's what the left is today.

01:09:09.000 I think that if someone has no moral framework, that they'd be easier to teach morality than if someone has like a misaligned moral framework.

01:09:18.000 That would be challenging to unlearn the code.

01:09:20.000 So it's easier to teach these people that are still, they might be 25, 28 years old, but they don't know what love is.

01:09:25.000 Like, well, you could argue there's default liberals.

01:09:28.000 Who are just saying, I guess, and they're marching along with the news.

01:09:31.000 And now, we are seeing a lot of Gen Z say they're going to vote for Trump.

01:09:35.000 There was a poll that was fascinating.

01:09:37.000 65% of Gen Z, the highest percentage for any demographic, saying Trump was more likely to shake this country up for the good.

01:09:44.000 And that, like, Gen Z, it's remarkable. 0.61

01:09:47.000 So yes, these younger people are growing up realizing what's going on and they're saying, Yeah, I think they were lying to us, and Trump's probably better.

01:09:52.000 So, it's probably true that the people who don't know anything... But, the clarification here is, the woke, these are people with no moral framework.

01:10:03.000 There's no morality.

01:10:04.000 We had Stephen Marsh, who wrote the book The Next Civil War, who repeatedly said, I don't want to hear about morality, I don't care about morality, it's meaningless to me.

01:10:13.000 And he said, children should have books teaching them how to do adult sex acts in their grade schools.

01:10:20.000 Why not?

01:10:21.000 And I'm like, morality comes from a logic of, can we improve society?

01:10:26.000 It's not arbitrary.

01:10:28.000 That's why atheists like Bill Maher like the founding documents, not all of them, but a lot of them, praise things like free speech, but don't understand how that moral framework gets you these good things and how those good things make a great country.

01:10:43.000 So this is real, I find this fascinating.

01:10:47.000 I wrote a paper, I was doing a college course, and it was about ethics in the intelligence community.

01:10:54.000 And one of the papers we had to write was about what is the biggest ethical question facing the intelligence community.

01:11:00.000 And this was at the height of rendition, enhanced interrogation tactics.

01:11:05.000 And so we're writing all this, and I contact my professor and I say, I want to make the argument that it's postmodernism.

01:11:10.000 Wow.

01:11:11.000 And he goes, how are you going to sustain that?

01:11:14.000 I said, if you'll trust me, that's the argument I want to make.

01:11:16.000 He's like, okay, go for it.

01:11:18.000 And to your point, because the point you made about the generational component is very, very important.

01:11:23.000 And the argument I made was, if you have objective truth, and objective morality, that generally, if it's going to be objective, it has to be sourced from the divine, right?

01:11:32.000 In the United States, the religion was Judeo-Christian values.

01:11:36.000 And what they did is that provided an objective moral framework, so it wasn't subjective.

01:11:40.000 It was, no, this is wrong or right because God says so, and we also see the practical benefits from the application.

01:11:47.000 So you have a society where the overwhelming proportion of the population believes this, And applies it.

01:11:56.000 So they believe in it, they believe in the benefits, and they believe in the source.

01:12:00.000 I said, then when you start to get in the 60s and you have the increase of postmodernism, what you have is people that want to separate good morals from the source.

01:12:09.000 Well, now you just lost the objectivity.

01:12:12.000 So they're still living in the benefit of, okay, everyone culturally kind of believes in these good morals, but we don't have the source.

01:12:17.000 But then you start to go into this realm of like Maslow's hierarchy of needs and self-actualization.

01:12:22.000 And if postmodernism is correct, then there is no such thing as a meta-narrative.

01:12:25.000 There is no such thing as a projective truth.

01:12:28.000 And now all of a sudden, you removed the source.

01:12:33.000 Now all of a sudden, the morals get to get redefined.

01:12:35.000 And so the same Bill Maher that will just sit there and be shocked at a kid that shoots up a school because he wanted his internal pain to be felt by somebody else, that was just his self-actualization.

01:12:50.000 And Bill Maher looks at that kid and goes, that's wrong!

01:12:52.000 What do you mean it's wrong?

01:12:54.000 Who are you to tell me what's wrong?

01:12:57.000 Morality is subjective.

01:12:58.000 My morality said it was correct.

01:13:00.000 And the thing is, is Bill Maher knows it's wrong, but he doesn't have an intellectually consistent argument that he can make for why.

01:13:08.000 And this happened fascinatingly with the Gravel Institute, leftist organization.

01:13:14.000 Mike Gravel was the former senator.

01:13:17.000 Some kids started using his account to tweet and generate a lot of attention.

01:13:20.000 They started the Gravel Institute, and after January 6th, they tweeted that it was a good thing it happened, but it was the wrong people who did it.

01:13:26.000 And so naturally, when the narrative came out it was insurrection was bad, they deleted the tweet.

01:13:30.000 But you had leftists outright saying they like it.

01:13:30.000 Yeah.

01:13:33.000 And I can tell you this, you go to any leftist in private, Antifa, and say, what do you think about January 6th?

01:13:39.000 They'll say they wish they did it.

01:13:41.000 They wish it was them, and they wish they succeeded.

01:13:43.000 So that's the only issue.

01:13:46.000 The only thing I question is that I do think they have a moral framework.

01:13:51.000 I just think that there's no intellectual consistency to it outside of two things.

01:13:57.000 Group identity, because to your point about this idea that if they deviate at all, they don't just get ostracized.

01:14:04.000 They don't just get punished for it.

01:14:06.000 They lose their entire identity because in order to be a part of this group, you give up your individual identity.

01:14:12.000 That's not important anymore.

01:14:14.000 The only benefits that you get from identifying whatever you want to, or being trans, or being this, you get all the benefits of being able to do whatever you want, provided that you stay within the group orthodoxy. 0.67

01:14:24.000 That's the cult-like behavior.

01:14:26.000 And then there's this other narrative, and that is the oppressor versus the oppressed.

01:14:29.000 That's that critical theory Marxist version of it.

01:14:32.000 So you've got postmodernism, which doesn't provide any sort of objective moral framework in which to operate, combined with critical theory, which essentially says that the only moral imperative is oppressor bad, Oppressed good, and everything is about how do you consolidate political power?

01:14:49.000 Well, if that's your only imperative, then you can essentially justify anything against somebody that goes into the oppressor category on behalf of somebody on the oppressed category.

01:14:57.000 They can make anybody an oppressor.

01:14:59.000 Yes.

01:14:59.000 They just simply decide.

01:15:01.000 Like that hilarious article that said, straight black men are the white people of black people, or something like that.

01:15:06.000 Do you remember that one?

01:15:08.000 No.

01:15:08.000 Let's see if I can find it.

01:15:09.000 Oh my god.

01:15:11.000 I was skeptical of Christianity growing up, just because I was very logical.

01:15:15.000 And I was like, if you don't show me the data and prove it, the God thing, then don't... You already told me the Easter Bunny was real.

01:15:20.000 I don't believe your lies.

01:15:21.000 I got it!

01:15:22.000 I found it! 0.88

01:15:23.000 Straight black men are the white people of black people. 0.99

01:15:26.000 I kid you not, that was actually the title of this article!

01:15:28.000 They need to justify... So Pete Buttigieg is an oppressor.

01:15:32.000 Why?

01:15:32.000 He says.

01:15:33.000 He's heteronormative.

01:15:35.000 So they said he wasn't actually part of the marginalized community when, yeah, that's right. 1.00

01:15:38.000 Buttigieg, I think he's gay. 1.00

01:15:40.000 He is, doesn't matter. 0.94

01:15:41.000 He's cis.

01:15:41.000 But not enough.

01:15:42.000 Is that not cis?

01:15:43.000 Cis means you're straight, doesn't it?

01:15:44.000 No.

01:15:45.000 On the intersectional pyramid of grievance, he doesn't have enough points.

01:15:49.000 He's not grieved enough. 0.79

01:15:50.000 He's a white male! 0.99

01:15:51.000 But you're a white man!

01:15:54.000 I was talking to a room full of mothers and stuff like that, and they were asking, like, I can't believe what's going on in our schools, and I can't believe that we have all these kids that are now identifying and suffering from gender dysphoria and whatnot.

01:16:04.000 And I said, I'm actually surprised the numbers are as low as they are.

01:16:08.000 And they're like, what do you mean by that?

01:16:10.000 I said, well, imagine something.

01:16:11.000 I want you to imagine you walk into a classroom and you are told by virtue of your skin color, or by virtue of your gender, or by virtue of your sexual attraction, you're an oppressor.

01:16:21.000 Now you can't change your skin color. 0.99

01:16:23.000 There's no change in that.

01:16:23.000 You can't deal with that.

01:16:24.000 So how do you move from the oppressor category to the oppressed category?

01:16:30.000 I'm bi.

01:16:31.000 I'm non-binary.

01:16:31.000 I'm trans.

01:16:32.000 I'm pansexual.

01:16:33.000 You adopt as many oppressed characteristics as possible. 0.96

01:16:37.000 I said this the other day.

01:16:38.000 I'm like, the left has no use for white men unless we put on a dress and then we're the most important people on the planet. 0.79

01:16:48.000 They will bend over backwards to appease us once we do that.

01:16:51.000 Yeah.

01:16:52.000 I mean, this is what I thought about with affirmative action, especially when it came to college applications, right?

01:16:57.000 It was a joke among my friends when they were applying to college, like, well, maybe I should just start ticking every box that I can come up with because it betters my odds, which means that, you know, especially with teenagers, You wonder how often this is a very genuine feeling or how much of it is just a fad to fit in with people around them when if you were to just be like oh yeah I'm straight and white you are suddenly not just like not cool but you are actively a force for harm just by virtue of being you. 0.60

01:17:23.000 It's busted morality.

01:17:25.000 But I would love to talk about Christian morality for a minute, if you guys are into it, because I have some questions about particularly loving your enemy.

01:17:31.000 I think that's a big part of Christian.

01:17:33.000 And I talk a lot about pardoning people in political power, just mass pardons, forgiving those that have wronged you. 1.00

01:17:38.000 And a lot of the feedback is, Ian, you idiot. 1.00

01:17:41.000 If you pardon these people, they're going to continue to destroy you. 1.00

01:17:44.000 So is the Christianity, is that love your enemy thing on purpose to make us slaves to those that do us wrong?

01:17:51.000 Or are we supposed to love our enemy?

01:17:53.000 No, you are supposed to love your enemy.

01:17:54.000 You understand loving your enemy doesn't mean you let them out of jail if they're a mass murderer.

01:17:58.000 You can still have love for the person that that is someone that is created in the image of God and you desperately want them to come to a place of repentance and changing the way that they behave and the way that they treat other people.

01:18:09.000 But it's also appropriate that if somebody decides to engage in that sort of activity that they'd be locked up and separated from society.

01:18:15.000 So there's no contradiction within Christian morality when we say love your enemy, but at the same time that there's a moral obligation to protect society and the innocent.

01:18:22.000 But there's also a really easy way to put it.

01:18:24.000 Do you love your child when you let him eat ice cream all day and stick the fork in the power outlet?

01:18:28.000 That's not love.

01:18:29.000 Tough love.

01:18:30.000 That's not love at all.

01:18:31.000 Love would be saying, I want you to be better, and the best way to go about that is rehabilitation.

01:18:37.000 You are going to prison for the crimes you committed.

01:18:40.000 I love you, so I'm going to punish you.

01:18:42.000 Absolutely. 0.67

01:18:43.000 I understand it.

01:18:43.000 it.

01:18:44.000 That's how I grew up.

01:18:45.000 Wait a second.

01:18:46.000 Wait a second.

01:18:47.000 But let's look at the problem because there's punishment which is harsh and doesn't come

01:18:50.000 from a position of love.

01:18:52.000 And there's punishment that does come from a position of love.

01:18:54.000 So when I discipline my child, I don't do so because I want to cause pain.

01:18:58.000 I don't do so because the punishment is what I'm looking for.

01:19:01.000 I'm doing so because if they've engaged in a behavior that I know is bad for them and

01:19:06.000 bad for society, I have one of two courses of action I can take.

01:19:10.000 I can either explain that to them and then I can explain why what they did is harmful

01:19:14.000 to them and disrespectful or harmful to others.

01:19:17.000 And then I can create an environment to where they understand.

01:19:21.000 And punishment in my house was more built around the whole restitution.

01:19:25.000 Like if you hurt your sister or if you did something like that, well then it's like you have to make amends to the person that you hurt because I wanted them to associate.

01:19:34.000 You're not in trouble because daddy says you're in trouble, right?

01:19:37.000 You're in trouble because you hurt another human being.

01:19:40.000 And you need to make restitution for that.

01:19:42.000 You need to make that right.

01:19:43.000 Now, I can either set that discipline up in an environment which I can control that allows them to learn and fully grasp that lesson out of love, or I can just let them get away with it and one day the state will deal with them and the state is not going to be anywhere near as nice or concerned with learning that lesson as daddy is.

01:20:01.000 And so that's the important component of punishment within a Christian moral framework, is this idea of bringing about repentance and restitution.

01:20:10.000 It's not just punishment for punishment's sake.

01:20:12.000 Yeah, you're not seeking to see someone suffer.

01:20:14.000 No, no.

01:20:15.000 Which is why we got rid of the cruel and unusual.

01:20:17.000 We specifically eradicated that from our governance style.

01:20:21.000 Yeah, technically.

01:20:22.000 Yeah, I mean it was certainly the influence behind it was this idea that there's a certain degree of punishment that is by its very nature in and of itself evil even if it's trying to correct something that might be, you know, inappropriate behavior.

01:20:35.000 Let's lighten the load a little bit.

01:20:37.000 We had a very, very heavy conversation, and now let's talk about bad things that are kind of funny.

01:20:41.000 We have this story from the New York Post.

01:20:43.000 California's $20 fast food minimum wage balloons menu prices, with some chains increasing costs by nearly $2.

01:20:51.000 All these laws do is literally just destroy your economy.

01:20:57.000 So, let's see.

01:20:58.000 Do they have the photos here?

01:21:00.000 There was, uh, there was one photo, I thought they had it, where the prices were, uh, here we go!

01:21:05.000 Okay, so they do, they do have, do they have the double menu?

01:21:07.000 Okay, here we go.

01:21:09.000 So this one's Burger King.

01:21:10.000 A Whopper meal was $11.89.

01:21:12.000 What is it now?

01:21:13.000 $12.49.

01:21:14.000 A Texas Double Whopper was $15.

01:21:15.000 What's it, Texas?

01:21:16.000 $16.89!

01:21:16.000 Whoa!

01:21:16.000 Went up by $1.80?

01:21:16.000 That's crazy!

01:21:22.000 And then you look down at In-N-Out, and it was a double-double, it's a double-meat, double-cheeseburger, $5.65, now it's $5.90.

01:21:31.000 They have just increased the price of all the food because you passed a law saying you gotta pay more.

01:21:37.000 You didn't change anything!

01:21:39.000 In fact, the only thing that changed was they don't have the additional money in their coffers, so they fire people until they can get there.

01:21:46.000 I talked to a guy, an accountant, New Jersey was raising the minimum wage, and it was going up like 50 cents.

01:21:55.000 And he was like, it's gonna go up 50 cents, and then six months, 50 cents more.

01:21:59.000 We're talking about in a year, this is gonna be a 10% increase.

01:22:03.000 Now imagine you're a business and you have thin margins.

01:22:06.000 Your margins could be 10%.

01:22:08.000 And now you're seeing a 10% labor cost increase.

01:22:10.000 So now your margin's 2%.

01:22:12.000 Of course you're gonna raise your prices.

01:22:13.000 But if you raise your prices, then people aren't gonna shop there.

01:22:15.000 They're gonna say your prices are too expensive.

01:22:16.000 He said, when they put in, The increase, I think he said something like 20% of my clients shut their businesses down.

01:22:24.000 And it's because in their bank right now, they have $10,000 and they got to make payroll and the money comes in.

01:22:31.000 And when the money goes out and there's a little bit on top, they set up a rainy day fund.

01:22:36.000 And then when they do this dramatic change, they're like, we don't have the extra thousand dollars to make payroll.

01:22:41.000 What do we do?

01:22:41.000 Shut her down.

01:22:43.000 Take the money that we have left, we'll keep it for ourselves, and we'll try and start something else.

01:22:47.000 Understaffed.

01:22:49.000 So we had a bill, Virginia House of Delegates, raising the minimum wage in Virginia statewide.

01:22:54.000 So keep in mind, Loudoun County is the wealthiest county in America.

01:22:59.000 Oh yeah.

01:22:59.000 Loudoun County is the wealthiest.

01:23:01.000 Lee County, Virginia, the median individual income is $18,000 a year.

01:23:06.000 So they were going to change the minimum wage for all of Virginia to $13.50 an hour.

01:23:11.000 Because right now it's like $11.

01:23:11.000 Drastic increase.

01:23:14.000 Because Loudoun County can afford it.

01:23:15.000 Oh yeah, Loudoun County doesn't care.

01:23:16.000 In fact, all the legislators carrying and cheering this on are all coming from counties that are significantly wealthier than the poorer counties in Virginia.

01:23:26.000 And when you point this out, and this is one of the things I hate, when people get up and you're supposed to explain your bill, they don't explain the bill.

01:23:33.000 They give you their hopes and dreams and aspirations for what they hope their bill will do.

01:23:37.000 And so, this bill is going to lift people out of poverty.

01:23:39.000 I said, you know what this bill does technically?

01:23:41.000 Does anyone want to know what it legally does?

01:23:43.000 You will make it illegal to offer someone a job for $13.49 an hour or less.

01:23:49.000 That's all the bill does.

01:23:51.000 You hope it will do all these other things, but what it actually does is make it illegal.

01:23:55.000 Think about that for a second.

01:23:56.000 You've got a county where the median individual income is $18,000 a year.

01:24:00.000 We're making 12 bucks an hour is a pretty good gig.

01:24:05.000 Illegal.

01:24:05.000 Nope.

01:24:06.000 You can't do it.

01:24:07.000 Why?

01:24:07.000 Because a bunch of representatives who know this much about economics, and who know it's not going to actually affect them, get to go on TV and talk about how much they care about the working poor, when in reality they just cost their jobs, they cost their hours, or they made everything they're going to buy more expensive anyways, which will eat into the supposedly pay increase that they got.

01:24:27.000 Who was the lady who said 50 bucks? 1.00

01:24:30.000 You saw that in California?

01:24:31.000 She's like, we'll make it $50.

01:24:33.000 It's just like, okay, you'll just eradicate every business.

01:24:35.000 Make it a hundred or you hate the poor.

01:24:36.000 Yeah, rest in peace to all the franchisees that could never afford that.

01:24:39.000 It's gonna make the business, the business itself might make money, but every franchisee is just like, well, there goes my business.

01:24:45.000 Bye-bye.

01:24:46.000 Do you guys remember in, uh, it was a 2019, uh, 2019-2020 cycle, Bloomberg, I think it was, it was when Bloomberg was, he put a half a, half a billion.

01:24:57.000 And then that woman was on TV and she was like, he put 500 million into this race, that means he could give every American a million dollars.

01:25:05.000 And then the anchor was like, wow.

01:25:08.000 Let me pull that up.

01:25:10.000 I don't think that's how this works at all.

01:25:12.000 That math doesn't math.

01:25:13.000 Slow down there.

01:25:14.000 No, it is interesting because I think you're right.

01:25:16.000 It's a political talking point for someone who is in a district where their constituents aren't going to feel the difference, right?

01:25:22.000 Like, if you're representing the wealthiest county in America and now we can all say, oh great, so we have raised the minimum wage, you know, it's mostly to pat yourself on the back and pretend like you're doing a good thing.

01:25:33.000 Yeah.

01:25:34.000 And the problem is that because of this narrative, because of the advertising, because of the fact the media doesn't do their job, I had a room full of students come into my office and they were FFA students, right?

01:25:43.000 Future Farmers of America.

01:25:45.000 And they said, what's some of the biggest legislation that's going to affect agriculture?

01:25:49.000 I said, the minimum wage increase.

01:25:51.000 And I asked these students, they said, how many people in the labor force, what percentage of the labor force do you think makes minimum wage?

01:25:59.000 And the average estimate they gave me was 50%.

01:26:01.000 I said, it's less than 3%.

01:26:03.000 And out of those 3% making minimum wage, the vast majority of them will not be making minimum wage six months from now, as long as they can keep the job.

01:26:12.000 Because that's how upward economic mobility works.

01:26:14.000 But if you take them out of the labor market at the very beginning, because now they can't get a job, or they can't get sufficient hours... They're not in the market, they can't go up.

01:26:21.000 They can't go up, right?

01:26:23.000 But that's okay, they got a welfare check for that.

01:26:25.000 So it was Mara Gay from the New York Times talking to Brian Williams.

01:26:28.000 This is the New York Times!

01:26:29.000 Why did they fact check that?

01:26:32.000 I believe the clip has since been deleted by everybody.

01:26:35.000 Yeah, it doesn't exist anymore.

01:26:37.000 But uh, the quote was, let me see if I can pull up the quote.

01:26:40.000 Uh, during her discussion with Williams and former New York City Bloomberg's campaign,

01:26:46.000 blah blah blah, but then she suggested that Bloomberg could have given each of the 327

01:26:50.000 million Americans $1 million and still had money left over, which would have been better.

01:26:54.000 Better use of his cash? Yeah, no. And then uh, oh, what was this?

01:26:59.000 Oh, Brian Williams, I think he brought up someone saying that and said, it's an incredible way of putting it.

01:27:05.000 And Gay for a Part agreed, it's an incredible way of putting it. 0.82

01:27:08.000 It's true, it's disturbing.

01:27:10.000 It does suggest what we're talking about here, which is that there's too much money in politics.

01:27:13.000 These are the people that are at the New York Times and MSNBC. 0.98

01:27:17.000 And so if you wonder why it is they lie and they're dumb, well, it's because of the people they hire. 0.98

01:27:24.000 New York Times editorial board member saying it is true. 0.98

01:27:26.000 He could have given everyone, I think it was like $1.27 or something like that.

01:27:30.000 A dollar.

01:27:31.000 They couldn't even buy anything off the dollar menu now.

01:27:34.000 There is no dollar menu.

01:27:35.000 There's no dollar menu.

01:27:36.000 Well, we always kind of in a dark humor way, these minimum wage increases should be called the no kiosk left behind bills because the more difficult you make it to hire somebody, and it's not just the wage component, it's all the different rules.

01:27:52.000 It's all the different restrictions.

01:27:52.000 Oh, it's all the different rules.

01:27:54.000 Every time you do that, what you're telling small business owners is we're going to make hiring someone a bigger liability for you.

01:28:00.000 So find something else.

01:28:01.000 Let me just play this clip for you.

01:28:02.000 But you see it as a possibility.

01:28:04.000 If he wants to spend a billion bucks beating this guy, he could do it.

01:28:08.000 Absolutely.

01:28:09.000 Somebody tweeted recently that actually with the money he spent, he could have given every American a million dollars.

01:28:15.000 I've got it.

01:28:16.000 Let's put it up on the screen.

01:28:18.000 When I read it tonight on social media, it kind of all became clear.

01:28:23.000 Bloomberg spent $500 million on ads.

01:28:25.000 U.S.

01:28:25.000 population $327 million.

01:28:28.000 Don't tell us if you're ahead of us on the math.

01:28:30.000 He could have given each American $1 million and have had lunch money left over.

01:28:36.000 It's an incredible way of putting it.

01:28:38.000 It's an incredible way of putting it.

01:28:40.000 It's true.

01:28:41.000 It's disturbing.

01:28:42.000 It does suggest, you know, what we're talking about here, which is there's too much money in politics.

01:28:48.000 And it makes it difficult because what we want... These people vote!

01:28:52.000 Wow.

01:28:53.000 Votes!

01:28:53.000 They have TV shows.

01:28:54.000 She's right!

01:28:55.000 She's an editorial board member of the New York Times!

01:28:57.000 It hasn't helped us.

01:28:58.000 Well, and they mention in the first article that I guess afterwards she tweeted, like, buying calculator BRB, which I appreciate the self-deprecating humor.

01:29:04.000 On the other hand, you went on national television and were like, and this is true! 1.00

01:29:08.000 I read it on the social media!

01:29:10.000 And they all, like, the producers didn't catch it?

01:29:13.000 There's like two producers it has to go through before it gets to Brian Williams.

01:29:13.000 Yeah.

01:29:16.000 He reads it on the air and he's like, wow!

01:29:19.000 And she's like, yeah!

01:29:20.000 This really fits into our narrative nicely.

01:29:23.000 It's crazy how that worked out!

01:29:25.000 That's just so crazy that we live in this reality.

01:29:28.000 But these are the people fact-checking, so don't worry.

01:29:30.000 But it's disturbing and true.

01:29:33.000 I want to go to the reality where they live underground and are super high-tech and they have like high-speed magnetic rail trains and stuff. 1.00

01:29:40.000 I'm tired of this junk reality where idiots run the show. 1.00

01:29:42.000 I don't know, not everybody's an idiot that's running the show. 1.00

01:29:44.000 I just see the idiocy. 1.00

01:29:45.000 It was $1.53 per person. 1.00

01:29:48.000 500 million divided by 327 million is 1.53.

01:29:51.000 What could you buy in today's economy for $1.53?

01:29:53.000 Arizona iced tea.

01:29:54.000 Yeah.

01:29:57.000 Can you now?

01:29:57.000 I feel like that went up, too.

01:29:58.000 It's $1.29, I think.

01:29:59.000 Oh, man.

01:29:59.000 Well, you have change left over.

01:30:01.000 Yeah, you could buy a dollar fifty three of Bitcoin It's remarkable

01:30:11.000 I do think, you guys talked about kiosk positions in the bathroom, but this whole raising the minimum wage is just bringing in the age of automation.

01:30:19.000 Employees are going out, minimum wage workers on its way out.

01:30:23.000 Well, we were talking about it before.

01:30:24.000 I think, okay, again, don't quote me on this, but I'm pretty sure I read something where that $20 minimum wage in California, that there was a special thing that was put in there about baking bread, And I think it was like if you bake bread on site, you're not subject to the same minimum wage laws.

01:30:42.000 And oh, by the way, Panera gave a ton of money to Gavin Newsom.

01:30:45.000 The CEO of Panera is a huge Newsom donor.

01:30:48.000 This was the only way out.

01:30:48.000 In fact, the bill got proposed and then got brought back to the table.

01:30:51.000 They were like, except for places that you bake your own bread, you don't have to do this.

01:30:55.000 Keep in mind, Panera once opened up a shop.

01:30:57.000 I think it was in New York City.

01:30:59.000 They opened up a store somewhere where you just paid what you could.

01:31:03.000 Right, and it was going to be this very... Is that store still open?

01:31:07.000 It is not!

01:31:08.000 Interesting!

01:31:10.000 It turns out a lot of the hipsters going in there decided they couldn't pay anything for the sandwich they were getting.

01:31:14.000 Jon Bon Jovi did that, actually had a restaurant where it was a pay-what-you-can thing.

01:31:18.000 It just kept seeing the meme over and over.

01:31:20.000 I don't know if the restaurant's still open.

01:31:21.000 I should look into it.

01:31:22.000 So the latest reporting is that Panera will raise their wages to $20 an hour, but that story from Bloomberg, yeah, how Panera Bread ducked California's new $20 minimum wage law.

01:31:34.000 I love that they will do it, but they don't have to.

01:31:35.000 They don't have to, but who are they going to hire?

01:31:38.000 I mean, if you're an employee that's looking for jobs, are you going to go to Panera where you don't get paid?

01:31:43.000 If you bake the bread and sell it as a standalone item, Oh, I was waiting for, like, McDonald's.

01:31:48.000 Watch, McDonald's Burger King is like, hey, would you like a roll with your meal?

01:31:52.000 They're going to have, like, one little stove in there.

01:31:55.000 But think about it.

01:31:56.000 They cook one, you know, double arch roll every morning.

01:31:59.000 Yeah.

01:32:00.000 And it's ten bucks.

01:32:01.000 And then they're sold out.

01:32:01.000 Yeah.

01:32:03.000 That's all they got to do.

01:32:04.000 It's broken along with the ice cream machine.

01:32:06.000 Right.

01:32:07.000 Bon Jovi's restaurant is still open because of the JBJ Soul Kitchen.

01:32:10.000 It's open.

01:32:10.000 It's a community nonprofit restaurant.

01:32:12.000 Yeah.

01:32:13.000 Pay what you will?

01:32:13.000 Yeah.

01:32:14.000 If people can't pay, they invite them to pay what they can.

01:32:17.000 And what if that is nothing?

01:32:19.000 Yeah.

01:32:19.000 I think then they feed them anyway.

01:32:20.000 It looks like it's a non-profit, so it gets funded.

01:32:23.000 It's a good tax write-off for him.

01:32:24.000 Yeah.

01:32:24.000 It's exactly what that is.

01:32:25.000 It's not a business opportunity.

01:32:27.000 No.

01:32:27.000 Necessarily.

01:32:28.000 Not supposed to be.

01:32:29.000 No, it's just supposed to help you.

01:32:31.000 We know how those go.

01:32:32.000 Non-profits are great business opportunities.

01:32:34.000 Yeah.

01:32:35.000 Not supposed to be profitable, but... Just ask the Clintons! 1.00

01:32:38.000 I mean, it's... this is what these businesses do.

01:32:41.000 You have a company, let's say your profits are gonna be a million bucks.

01:32:44.000 You start a non-profit, and then right before the end of the year, you donate that million dollars to your non-profit, and you pay zero taxes.

01:32:50.000 Your company's net, you know, your total taxable income then is, ah, it's only $70,000 in profits, so we gotta pay, you know, $20,000 or whatever in taxes.

01:33:00.000 That million dollars that we had, that we made, oh, that was donated to charity.

01:33:04.000 It's my charity that I own, that buys yachts!

01:33:06.000 Yeah, it takes people on charter fishing trips.

01:33:10.000 That's right!

01:33:16.000 Depending on the charity, they could just donate that money again.

01:33:21.000 I remember when, like, didn't Zuckerberg give a bunch of his money to an LLC?

01:33:25.000 And the media reported, like, Zuckerberg's giving all his money away.

01:33:28.000 Yeah.

01:33:28.000 He was actually putting in an LLC to protect it from taxes.

01:33:32.000 He's giving it all away to himself.

01:33:33.000 Yeah.

01:33:34.000 That's right.

01:33:34.000 Yeah, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

01:33:36.000 Can a charity give money to a charity?

01:33:38.000 Yes.

01:33:38.000 Yeah.

01:33:39.000 Do you then write that off?

01:33:40.000 Yeah.

01:33:41.000 Well, non-profits don't pay taxes anyway.

01:33:44.000 So you wouldn't get a negative.

01:33:45.000 No, no.

01:33:48.000 There are tax credits where you actually get money back from the government based off of how much you donate to something.

01:33:57.000 But what some companies do is, you got 200k in profits, you give it to a charity, then you, as a consultant for that charity, get paid a portion of that money, which you then donate again.

01:34:12.000 There's a lot of dirty games people play with taxes, and this is why tons of rich people have non-profits.

01:34:18.000 Because non-profits can basically do anything.

01:34:20.000 Look, you taking an Uber?

01:34:23.000 Non-profit pays for it.

01:34:26.000 So if you want operating income that's shielded, then you just have a non-profit that works in a similar space that legitimately will do things.

01:34:33.000 Right?

01:34:33.000 Let's say you have a non-profit that actually donates food to the needy.

01:34:38.000 Well, you, in the process of doing that, be like, oh yeah, I'm having a meeting with someone, we'll put it on the non-profit.

01:34:43.000 And so, some of your operating expenses can be diluted by these people putting it in non-profits instead.

01:34:49.000 Or other businesses and things like that.

01:34:51.000 Dave Chappelle talked about this, where he was talking about the debate with Trump and Hillary, where Trump was like, yeah, of course they took advantage of this stuff, it makes me smart.

01:34:59.000 If you want to change the laws, you can change, but you're not going to because your major donors take advantage of all these things.

01:35:04.000 And they won't let you.

01:35:05.000 And it was like, man, Mike Trump!

01:35:08.000 That was one of the most stark moments of that entire debate season.

01:35:11.000 We're gonna go to Super Chats!

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01:35:29.000 But for now, we will just read your superchats, so smash the like button, let's dive right in.

01:35:34.000 AlphaTurkey, with the first superchat, wow, defeating Clint Torres, saying, 1000th episode, feature Tim in all white.

01:35:42.000 If I owned all white, perhaps, which I don't.

01:35:44.000 There's time, you could buy all white!

01:35:47.000 What is it, next Tuesday?

01:35:49.000 It's coming up, right?

01:35:50.000 Wait.

01:35:51.000 Wait, is it next Tuesday?

01:35:53.000 Hold on.

01:35:54.000 We should just do the 1000th episode.

01:35:56.000 Oh, okay, wait.

01:35:59.000 The Eclipse is Monday.

01:36:00.000 Oh.

01:36:00.000 Okay, good.

01:36:02.000 Where do we fit into the apocalypse?

01:36:03.000 Just throw in an extra episode and make that one your 1000th.

01:36:05.000 Episode 999.

01:36:06.000 Oh, right.

01:36:06.000 Episode 999 will be on the day of the Eclipse.

01:36:10.000 Dude, this is- and it's episode 1000 the next day.

01:36:13.000 Yeah.

01:36:13.000 You gotta put together an all-white outfit, dude.

01:36:15.000 It's a new day.

01:36:15.000 It's gonna blow people's minds.

01:36:16.000 It's a new reality.

01:36:17.000 The Large Hadron Collider is gonna fire up, a particle's gonna burst, doing something to the eclipse and the rockets in the air and then- The Euphrates will dry up.

01:36:26.000 Yeah!

01:36:28.000 Hear about it all on our 1000th episode! 0.84

01:36:30.000 The eclipse just stays for three days and we're like, ah, crap.

01:36:34.000 Clint Torres says, howdy, people! 0.56

01:36:36.000 Howdy, Clint!

01:36:37.000 Jungle Run says, don't call them criminal aliens, call them colonists.

01:36:41.000 It's actually pretty good.

01:36:43.000 I like invaders, personally, but... Sea Cowboy says, Nick, run for governor.

01:36:47.000 No.

01:36:48.000 No, you totally can't make me.

01:36:49.000 Oh my gosh.

01:36:50.000 You can't make me.

01:36:51.000 No.

01:36:52.000 But thank you, I appreciate it.

01:36:53.000 I appreciate the sentiment, unless of course you realize what a horrible job that is.

01:36:58.000 Stephen Says says, rumor is that Ian has a birthday.

01:37:01.000 Happy birthday, Ian.

01:37:02.000 May you have many more.

01:37:03.000 Thank you.

01:37:03.000 I actually got a gift.

01:37:04.000 I'm going to open it at the end of the show.

01:37:06.000 And Allison slaved over a store-bought cake drawing hexagonal lattices. 0.96

01:37:11.000 She did.

01:37:12.000 She made a graphene cake.

01:37:14.000 Out of not graphene, though, I don't think.

01:37:15.000 I told her we should get an Oreo cake to sprinkle the Oreo dust and tell them it's graphene.

01:37:20.000 And then she drew the hexagonal lattices.

01:37:21.000 It was really good.

01:37:24.000 I don't think I'm going to eat it, though.

01:37:25.000 You're just going to stare at it and praise it?

01:37:27.000 You can make that personal sacrifice and give others your birthday cake.

01:37:33.000 Cake equity!

01:37:36.000 Alright, let's grab some more.

01:37:38.000 Matt says, not first, but it is my birthday today.

01:37:41.000 No, it's Ian's birthday today!

01:37:43.000 You get your own birthday!

01:37:47.000 Do you have a twin?

01:37:47.000 It's a good year for birthdays.

01:37:49.000 No, I don't.

01:37:50.000 What year is it?

01:37:52.000 2024.

01:37:53.000 But is that like the year of, uh, why'd you say it was a good year for birthdays?

01:37:56.000 Good year for birthdays.

01:37:57.000 I've been saying that for my whole life.

01:37:59.000 What year were you born?

01:38:01.000 79.

01:38:01.000 Is that a, what is that a rabbit or something?

01:38:04.000 No, that's the, Oh God, I should know this by now.

01:38:07.000 The year of the monkey. 0.97

01:38:08.000 I thought I want to be the monkey, but I think I'm the pig. 0.98

01:38:10.000 I think I'm the goat. 0.98

01:38:11.000 I'm the goat.

01:38:14.000 Yeah.

01:38:15.000 Okay.

01:38:15.000 I remember we talked about this before.

01:38:17.000 Ian takes the Ron Swanson approach that birthdays were made up by Hallmark to sell cards.

01:38:22.000 Birthdays?

01:38:23.000 They're PSYOPs.

01:38:24.000 Gets you thinking about things other than what's important.

01:38:27.000 TheAuthenticHydroPX says, Been waiting to see Nick here again.

01:38:31.000 MTA is such a great podcast.

01:38:33.000 If possible, Nick and Master Heinz would be great for a Culture War episode on the Founding Fathers' vision and how the Feds messed up. 0.92

01:38:40.000 Oh, thank you.

01:38:40.000 Yeah, he's talking about the Making the Argument podcast, me and Christian and my wife Tina on that.

01:38:44.000 That'd be great.

01:38:47.000 That the Founding Fathers messed up?

01:38:49.000 No, no, no, that the federal government messed up the Founding Fathers' intention.

01:38:53.000 We had a whole episode once where we dedicated it to what would we change about the Constitution.

01:38:58.000 And the two things that we would change are the 16th and 17th Amendments.

01:39:01.000 And the 16th Amendment, I think, just destroyed federalism.

01:39:03.000 Everyone focuses on the 17th, which was the popular election of senators, but the federal income tax is what destroyed federalism in this country.

01:39:09.000 I was just reading a lot about that today, actually.

01:39:11.000 Nico Barney says, Nick, at your last Pints and Politics at the Uville Brew, I floated the idea of a national divorce.

01:39:11.000 Yeah.

01:39:17.000 As our country and culture continues to divide, do you still think federalism is possible, even though federalism has grown too far?

01:39:24.000 So yeah, I do.

01:39:26.000 And I'll tell you why.

01:39:27.000 Because if you look at what's actually going on in Texas right now, this is an excellent example of a quasi-constitutional crisis where Texas goes down there, they start to secure the border.

01:39:36.000 Federal government challenges them, they come in, Article 4, Section 4, we got the border, it's our authority.

01:39:41.000 But then they don't do anything about it.

01:39:42.000 And then Texas says, okay, fine, but we're still going to do it.

01:39:46.000 Like, okay, you've got your ruling, but we don't get to submit to an invasion of our state.

01:39:52.000 And you having the authority to secure the border also means you have the responsibility to do it, and you're not doing it, so we're going to do it.

01:39:59.000 Now you force this issue with, is the federal government actually going to come down and expend resources Preventing Texas from securing their own border.

01:40:08.000 And that's where you get these sort of, these crisis moments where you had, I think, I think you had, what was it, an additional 24 states that actually made public statements, like Glenn Youngkin made public statements supporting Texas and their decision sending troops.

01:40:19.000 We sent the Virginia National Guard to Texas.

01:40:21.000 To assist with that.

01:40:22.000 So, I still think that, I still hold out hope for this idea that the federal government, the states, are going to push back against either the federal government refusing to live up to its constitutional responsibilities, or overstepping its constitutional boundaries.

01:40:35.000 What makes it difficult, though, is the 16th Amendment, which essentially gives the federal government the ability to extort the states with their own money.

01:40:41.000 Oof.

01:40:42.000 Unregistered Skeptic says, Nick, thoughts on Youngkin vetoing the gun control?

01:40:45.000 Oh yeah, he's vetoed just about everything.

01:40:48.000 There was one, like it was an auto sear bill that's already federal law that didn't really change anything.

01:40:53.000 And then there was one other bill that he let go through that didn't do much.

01:40:57.000 It basically said that, the problem with it is that if a school says that, hey, we're notifying you that your child might hurt himself or someone else, If you then allow that child to get access to a firearm and they hurt someone, you can be held criminally liable.

01:41:11.000 There's some issues for how that could potentially be abused, but it wasn't a huge deal.

01:41:18.000 Reasonable people could disagree.

01:41:20.000 But the big ones, like the so-called assault weapons ban, which is the dumbest thing, Weapons don't assault people, people assault people, right?

01:41:28.000 And people think that when they hear assault weapon, they're thinking like a belt-fed machine gun.

01:41:31.000 You put a pistol grip on any semi-automatic rifle, you've just made it an assault weapon,

01:41:37.000 right? That's stupid. 1.00

01:41:38.000 You get a Ruger 10-22, but put it in black. 1.00

01:41:42.000 Oh, you got a Ford grip on it?

01:41:43.000 Oh, there you go.

01:41:44.000 Now it's become a salty, right?

01:41:45.000 So he vetoed that. 0.66

01:41:47.000 The other big one that was just ridiculous was this safe storage bill.

01:41:50.000 And again, this is one of these things where if the press actually did its job, people would understand how bad some of these bills are because they think, oh, safe storage.

01:41:58.000 Yeah, you should keep your gun locked off so your kid can't get it.

01:42:01.000 So I asked a question on the floor.

01:42:02.000 I said, okay, if your bill goes into effect, And my 16-year-old daughter, who's been shooting guns since she was 5, like knows how to responsibly handle a firearm.

01:42:12.000 I'm away.

01:42:13.000 Cops, I live out in a rural area.

01:42:15.000 Somebody kicks in my door to hurt my daughter. 0.91

01:42:17.000 She grabs my pistol and defends herself with it. 1.00

01:42:20.000 Am I now a criminal?

01:42:22.000 The answer was yes.

01:42:23.000 That's what it means.

01:42:25.000 So Governor Yunkin has vetoed all of those, all the egregious gun bills he's vetoed.

01:42:30.000 So good job, Governor.

01:42:31.000 So you're happy with his performance as governor?

01:42:34.000 Yeah, yeah. 0.99

01:42:35.000 Look, there's always going to be things we disagree with somebody on, but he's probably going to set a record number of vetoes this year because there's a record number of stupid stuff coming across his desk. 0.74

01:42:43.000 And I think he's been very, very diligent on getting rid of some of the worst stuff. 0.94

01:42:47.000 So I really appreciate it.

01:42:48.000 Do you find that clarifying the bills as they're being discussed helps the governor make a

01:42:51.000 better decision on his veto?

01:42:53.000 Yes.

01:42:54.000 Well, I think it's important.

01:42:55.000 I mean, understand that when you're talking about politics, you're talking about consensus.

01:42:59.000 And so sometimes when people ask me, like, when you debate on the floor, do you actually

01:43:02.000 think you're changing their mind?

01:43:03.000 I'm like, no.

01:43:04.000 Like, very, very few times do we actually change anybody's mind on the floor, but I'm

01:43:08.000 not speaking to them.

01:43:09.000 I'm speaking to everybody that's going to watch that clip that I then push out on social media.

01:43:14.000 It's another reason why people ask me why I don't do press conferences.

01:43:17.000 I'm like, why would I want the Washington Post to lie about what I said when I can go to Instagram and put it on there and get 500,000 views, which is more than the daily circulation of the Washington Post, right?

01:43:28.000 Yes, it adds clarity for constituents, and then it also sends the right signal to the governor and whatnot.

01:43:34.000 Again, I don't think he needed a signal for this.

01:43:36.000 He knew it was the wrong thing and did the right thing, but yeah.

01:43:39.000 Daniel Gagney says, Happy birthday, Ian.

01:43:41.000 It is also my birthday today.

01:43:43.000 Thanks, Gagney.

01:43:43.000 Happy birthday.

01:43:43.000 What did we say?

01:43:44.000 It's only Ian's birthday.

01:43:46.000 Yeah, stop trying to steal Ian's thumbnail, everybody.

01:43:49.000 HBD! 0.94

01:43:49.000 Okay, it's HBC. 0.94

01:43:50.000 Whenever I see your initials, I think, happy birthday, Claire.

01:43:52.000 That's not what it means.

01:43:54.000 Max Reddick says, Tim, according to reports, Governor Whitmer authorized criminal aliens to be sent to Livingston County, where I reside.

01:43:54.000 All right.

01:44:02.000 Really concerned about how the police will handle it since residents won't put up with it.

01:44:06.000 Look into this.

01:44:07.000 Interesting.

01:44:08.000 Well, we saw what happened in Staten Island.

01:44:12.000 Do you guys remember that?

01:44:13.000 When they sent buses of criminal aliens into these neighborhoods and the residents came out, the cops started attacking the residents and arrested them.

01:44:22.000 And so, it's like I bring these things up and people are like, stop breaking up the police!

01:44:26.000 And I'm like, Staten Island cops attacked their own community to defend criminal aliens who are illegally invading this country. 0.51

01:44:35.000 I don't know what you want from me.

01:44:37.000 It's just those bad cops in all of these videos all the time.

01:44:39.000 I get it.

01:44:40.000 Good cops are quitting.

01:44:43.000 Alright, what do we got?

01:44:45.000 Grab some more superchats.

01:44:48.000 Where you going?

01:44:50.000 Oh, Let's Go might actually be a reference to 2nd of the 325 Airborne Infantry Regiment.

01:44:55.000 Oh, right on.

01:44:55.000 That was my first unit in the 82nd Airborne and Let's Go was our motto.

01:44:59.000 Charles G says, Nick, you should move to West Virginia to represent us. We are better than

01:45:03.000 Virginia. Love your YouTube shorts. I appreciate it.

01:45:06.000 But you know, I.

01:45:07.000 Jason Mayeres, the Attorney General of Virginia, he kind of put out a funny tweet reminding West Virginia that them seceding from Virginia is not something that we appreciate, and we're now going to petition the federal government to bring West Virginia back into Virginia, which I think would be an excellent addition.

01:45:26.000 We would love to have you guys back.

01:45:28.000 I don't think we want to be with you guys.

01:45:30.000 You push too hard, you may end up with an East Virginia as well, so watch out.

01:45:33.000 Although the funny thing is, The story of how West Virginia came to be, all of the young men are conscripted and go fight.

01:45:41.000 It's Virginia at the time.

01:45:42.000 And then the people who live there were like, okay, all in favor of voting to leave.

01:45:46.000 And so I couldn't imagine being a young man, being told you have to go fight for your state.

01:45:51.000 You say yes.

01:45:52.000 And then as soon as you leave, like, okay, now let's vote while they're not here.

01:45:54.000 And then they do.

01:45:55.000 And they take your home from you.

01:45:57.000 Then people come back after fighting and they're like, it's a different state now.

01:46:01.000 There is a very good constitutional argument to be made that West Virginia did not legally become a state.

01:46:07.000 It was just convenient for the Union at the time and so they accepted it.

01:46:10.000 And then afterwards Virginia wanted it back and the Supreme Court said, shut your mouth.

01:46:14.000 Well, there are counties in Virginia that still have clauses in their charters that they can go be part of West Virginia if they want to.

01:46:24.000 I would also point out that, yeah, the famous song, West Virginia, is about Western Virginia, not West Virginia.

01:46:31.000 You're just jealous.

01:46:31.000 No, no, no.

01:46:32.000 Country Roads?

01:46:33.000 Country Roads.

01:46:34.000 Everything he talks about in that is in Virginia, not West Virginia.

01:46:37.000 It's actually written about Montgomery County, Maryland.

01:46:42.000 Well, let's all agree to not believe that.

01:46:45.000 Wow, you're trying to start something and you're wrong!

01:46:48.000 The guys who wrote it... Who was it?

01:46:48.000 So, here's what happened.

01:46:50.000 John Denver?

01:46:51.000 John Denver, yeah.

01:46:52.000 So, it was written and sold to him, I believe.

01:46:53.000 It can't just be about Montgomery County, because it mentions things that are not in Montgomery County.

01:46:56.000 They were driving through Montgomery County when the guy came up with Country Roads Take Me Home.

01:47:01.000 Oh.

01:47:01.000 And then they thought, Montgomery County, Maryland doesn't really sound very country, so let's just... They went to a library, pulled out a book on West Virginia, started looking up things in West Virginia, and then putting those things in the song.

01:47:12.000 It was written by Bill Danoff, Taffy Nievert, and John Denver, the three of them.

01:47:17.000 I don't know, I'm just learning about this as we go.

01:47:19.000 They decided... Western Maryland also wants to be part of West Virginia, so I'm just saying, it's a great state.

01:47:24.000 Well, I mean, you've got the panhandle of Maryland, this thin strip that goes along, and it's all MAGA country.

01:47:32.000 They're not like Baltimore.

01:47:34.000 We went to a restaurant and bar.

01:47:36.000 It was really fun during COVID lockdowns.

01:47:39.000 And it's like mask mandate on the door.

01:47:41.000 You walk inside and everyone's just like, nobody's wearing a mask.

01:47:43.000 And they had one of those Trump flags where he's got an Uzi on a tank.

01:47:47.000 There's explosions behind him.

01:47:48.000 He's riding a velociraptor.

01:47:50.000 Yeah, exactly.

01:47:52.000 They had those two.

01:47:54.000 Yeah, and we were like, this is MAGA country, baby.

01:47:56.000 Alright, let's grab some more Super Chats.

01:48:00.000 Michael M says, given the popularity of RFK, if something were to happen to Biden, could the DNC reclaim RFK as their candidate for November?

01:48:06.000 Probably not.

01:48:07.000 They don't want him.

01:48:08.000 Yeah.

01:48:09.000 Could they?

01:48:10.000 He's not in line.

01:48:11.000 He's not in line.

01:48:12.000 And they're probably going to be like, even if he was, we can't trust him. 0.54

01:48:15.000 The CIA is going to be like, we killed his dad and his uncle.

01:48:15.000 Yeah.

01:48:18.000 So he's never going to work with us.

01:48:22.000 Whoops.

01:48:23.000 I think it's funny.

01:48:24.000 That's basically mainstream accepted now.

01:48:26.000 Like all these prominent personalities being like, well, yeah, you know, the CIA did it.

01:48:30.000 Yeah.

01:48:30.000 That's wild.

01:48:32.000 Bill Hughes says dead people are moving to Texas.

01:48:36.000 Yep.

01:48:37.000 Yep.

01:48:37.000 How about that?

01:48:38.000 They love it there.

01:48:39.000 There's demons inhabiting the bodies of other people.

01:48:42.000 They're a very loyal voting demographic.

01:48:45.000 The text vet says just saying record amount of illegal immigrants and now there's a record number of non-ID vote requests seems odd.

01:48:52.000 I don't know what you're implying, sir.

01:48:52.000 Certainly.

01:48:54.000 There would never ever be any corruption in the voting system.

01:48:57.000 That's sarcasm.

01:48:58.000 Voice the People says don't forget about the Rolling Stone article called Biden is building a superstructure to stop Trump from stealing the election.

01:49:05.000 They are telling you what they plan to do to keep Trump from office.

01:49:09.000 Yeah, I love how Time Magazine wrote an article, what was it named, Molly Ball? 0.99

01:49:13.000 The Shadow Campaign to Save the Election.

01:49:16.000 And they literally called what they did a conspiracy.

01:49:19.000 Behind the scenes, a conspiracy was unfolding.

01:49:21.000 That's what they wrote!

01:49:22.000 That seems questionable to me.

01:49:22.000 And Molly Ball?

01:49:24.000 Yeah.

01:49:26.000 Jennifer Reems says, I want to thank Nick for his History of Rome episodes and introducing me to Mike Duncan's History Podcasts.

01:49:34.000 So happy to see Nick on here tonight.

01:49:35.000 Love y'all.

01:49:36.000 No, thank you very much.

01:49:37.000 Yeah, that was an awesome podcast, man.

01:49:38.000 I don't know if you've ever listened to it.

01:49:40.000 I don't know if you guys, you know when that whole trend went around, like why do, how often do men think about the Roman Empire?

01:49:45.000 I actually have a mug that says, yes, actually I am thinking about the Roman Empire.

01:49:49.000 But Mike Duncan did this excellent podcast. 0.91

01:49:51.000 I don't, I mean, his politics, I think, are crap, but 170- The podcast is good.

01:49:56.000 175 episode podcast of the history of Rome is excellent. 0.96

01:50:00.000 Outstanding.

01:50:00.000 It is.

01:50:00.000 It is funny, though, because men were not shocked at all.

01:50:04.000 And it's actually kind of confusing that women are shocked.

01:50:07.000 But it also shows you the general oblivious nature of women. 1.00

01:50:12.000 But what I mean is there's two things. One, they don't know what guys are...

01:50:15.000 They don't ask guys like, what are you currently thinking about?

01:50:17.000 And the guy's probably just saying nothing.

01:50:18.000 And it's because they're thinking about Rome and it's like nothing relevant to say to you.

01:50:21.000 But the big talking point was that...

01:50:24.000 There was that viral clip where it's a guy and his girlfriend walking in a mall.

01:50:29.000 And it was made by a woman. 1.00

01:50:30.000 She's like, here's what I'm thinking.

01:50:32.000 She's like, making my way back there.

01:50:34.000 And the guy's going, okay, two exits to my left, one to my right.

01:50:37.000 There's a guy in front of me looking kind of sketchy.

01:50:38.000 I better make some space.

01:50:40.000 The guy's constantly thinking about safety, security, planning ahead, and the woman's oblivious. 1.00

01:50:45.000 Well, that video is...

01:50:46.000 The original one was, like, what women think about when they're with a man they trust.

01:50:50.000 It wasn't when it was just, like, all the time, right?

01:50:53.000 Like, if you're with someone who's reliable, who is worried about your safety, you have the luxury of not thinking about it.

01:50:58.000 And I think that that is the difference between men and women, which is that their brains are constantly... Well, if you ask a man, what are you thinking about? 1.00

01:51:05.000 And he says nothing.

01:51:06.000 I doubt they're actually thinking about absolutely nothing.

01:51:08.000 It's just such an abstraction.

01:51:09.000 Whereas women are constantly monitoring every situation because their brains are required to do different things than men. 1.00

01:51:15.000 I got in trouble with the man council because I did a reel on that where I said, all right, ladies, I'm going to let you in on something.

01:51:21.000 When men say nothing, it's probably ... I said, that's an option, but it's probably not worth it. 0.98

01:51:25.000 It's probably one of three categories.

01:51:27.000 I said, we're either probably thinking about something like how I would occupy a Costco during a zombie apocalypse.

01:51:33.000 You know, because I'd have everything.

01:51:36.000 Or I'm thinking about maybe the Roman Empire.

01:51:39.000 Or I'm thinking about that thing you wore with the corset and the... I said, so it's one of those things, right?

01:51:44.000 It's, it's, it's like, you know, resistance Rome or rated R, right?

01:51:48.000 Like, those are the three.

01:51:49.000 That's a great way of putting it.

01:51:50.000 That's funny.

01:51:51.000 Yeah.

01:51:51.000 The how to occupy a Costco during a zombie apocalypse.

01:51:54.000 Oh, yeah.

01:51:54.000 Hit the nail on the head.

01:51:55.000 Oh, my God.

01:51:56.000 If only we could get rid of the ABC in Virginia so they could actually have like, you know, whiskey and Costco.

01:52:01.000 And if we could add like a firearms and ammunition section to Costco, it is the perfect zombie apocalypse.

01:52:08.000 Well, there's Costco.

01:52:09.000 Are you listening?

01:52:10.000 This is how you improve your business.

01:52:12.000 There are some states where Walmart has booze and guns.

01:52:14.000 Yeah.

01:52:15.000 Oh yeah, that's true.

01:52:16.000 That's true.

01:52:17.000 Where was I?

01:52:17.000 Yeah.

01:52:18.000 I can't remember.

01:52:19.000 Is it Texas maybe?

01:52:19.000 No, I don't know.

01:52:21.000 That sounds like it would check out.

01:52:22.000 Maybe not though.

01:52:23.000 Texas sounds like they might have like booze laws of some sort. 0.81

01:52:25.000 I can't remember where I was where it was like they had booze and they had guns and I was like, wow.

01:52:29.000 You could build, like, an entire city in a Costco.

01:52:32.000 Like, a small village.

01:52:33.000 Because of the high ceilings.

01:52:34.000 Yeah!

01:52:34.000 Yeah.

01:52:35.000 I mean, not that I'm gonna let a ton of people in there, right?

01:52:38.000 But, like, you know, friends and family, sure.

01:52:39.000 Again, zombie apocalypse!

01:52:41.000 Well, to secure a Costco would require a decent amount of people.

01:52:45.000 You've got rotating, uh, you need patrol, you need, uh, how many exits?

01:52:45.000 Yeah.

01:52:49.000 Well, that's all about your, that's six or seven.

01:52:52.000 I think it's actually fewer.

01:52:53.000 Well, I know it's probably six or seven, because it depends on if they got one of the tire facilities and the whole deal.

01:52:56.000 Like, you gotta think this stuff through.

01:52:57.000 You gotta turn the roof into a chicken farm.

01:53:00.000 How many guys per point of egress do you need? 1.00

01:53:03.000 Well, you want to do shift cycles, right?

01:53:05.000 You don't want to do 12 hours at a time.

01:53:07.000 But then the other thing, too, is if you can properly barricade some of those exits, you can probably get down to, like, two or three, and now you're operating.

01:53:14.000 And you want to hit it at the right time, right?

01:53:16.000 You want to hit it at the time where they, like, have hot tubs and stuff like that.

01:53:18.000 And to be fair, I've thought about this, man.

01:53:23.000 Zombies not being known for their intelligence.

01:53:27.000 You could actually, probably, properly barricade and not have to worry about strategic attacks on your Costco.

01:53:32.000 Whereas if you were dealing with, like, an invasion from extraterrestrials or a foreign force... You gotta guard the roof.

01:53:37.000 Totally different scenario.

01:53:38.000 So, after we go through our mind and we're thinking about zombies, then we go, but if it was aliens, we have to do roof security now.

01:53:44.000 Or do the zombies climb walls.

01:53:46.000 And I'm not going for a Costco when it's aliens, right? 0.99

01:53:48.000 Because they're smart enough to go for population centers, right?

01:53:51.000 They're thinking about this.

01:53:52.000 They've probably been listening to this conversation.

01:53:54.000 When we say nothing, it's one of three things.

01:53:56.000 They're here, they're doing Intel right now.

01:53:58.000 So no, go to the Costco.

01:54:00.000 No to the Costco?

01:54:01.000 Where are we at right now?

01:54:02.000 Yeah, it's funny.

01:54:03.000 Cause like I'm on my phone and my girlfriend's just like wondering what I'm doing. 0.94

01:54:07.000 And then she looks and what was, what was the last one?

01:54:10.000 And the last one I was looking at was like frogs that were squeaking.

01:54:13.000 And I'm like, I don't know.

01:54:14.000 I'm just like, there's nothing secret going on here.

01:54:17.000 It's just like a tiny frog going.

01:54:20.000 And then she enjoyed the frog.

01:54:21.000 So we had a good time.

01:54:23.000 We'll grab a couple more super chats here.

01:54:26.000 Raymond G. Stanley Jr.

01:54:27.000 says, PA recently passed automatic voter registration.

01:54:31.000 Here we go!

01:54:31.000 Automatic?

01:54:32.000 How's that?

01:54:32.000 It's probably like motor voter laws.

01:54:34.000 Yeah.

01:54:35.000 CallMeTag says, Nick, you're an inspiration to countless young men trying to find their way in this crazy world we're living in.

01:54:41.000 Thank you for all you do for this country and your countrymen.

01:54:44.000 Tim and the gang, keep up the great work you guys do.

01:54:46.000 Love you guys.

01:54:46.000 Appreciate it.

01:54:48.000 Yeah.

01:54:48.000 Thank you.

01:54:50.000 Here's a good one.

01:54:51.000 Troy Erickson says, Tim, you always say we must create culture.

01:54:54.000 Would you sponsor a songwriting contest?

01:54:57.000 You could gift the winner a video for their song and exposure.

01:55:01.000 We certainly could!

01:55:02.000 It is a challenge.

01:55:04.000 The Trash House team is basically like Carter, and then Kent is... Carter banks for the music, Kent Welling does all our video stuff, and that's why it's like a song every couple of months.

01:55:15.000 And we've done my songs a bunch, and we obviously want to do more songs and more bands, but it's just... it's really difficult.

01:55:22.000 But this is a pretty good idea.

01:55:23.000 So I don't know.

01:55:24.000 I gotta talk to Carter about it because he's in charge of all that stuff.

01:55:27.000 But that could actually be pretty cool.

01:55:30.000 However, I'll tell you guys right now, I guarantee that we'll get a thousand submissions and 999 will be like razor blades for the ears.

01:55:39.000 That's a lot of time commitment. 0.95

01:55:41.000 I don't mean to be a dick. 0.85

01:55:42.000 It's just like... 0.85

01:55:45.000 Sometimes there's a diamond in the rough and you're like, wow, this person wrote a banger.

01:55:49.000 If they get even like some basic recording and stuff, it'll be huge.

01:55:52.000 And then there are people who have masterful production.

01:55:54.000 You're like, yeah, it's just not good, man.

01:55:55.000 Yeah.

01:55:56.000 It's just not good.

01:55:58.000 I don't know, but different strokes are different folks.

01:55:59.000 Just because we don't like it doesn't mean it's, you know, it's not for other people.

01:56:04.000 Laurel says I'm an immigration lawyer specializing in illegal aliens.

01:56:08.000 99% know they can't vote.

01:56:09.000 They only break the law when there's something in it for them.

01:56:12.000 Someone may be stealing their identities, but they aren't doing it themselves.

01:56:15.000 I think...

01:56:17.000 Nobody is going to submit a deceased person intentionally for verification because they know it'll get kicked back and that number is going to appear somewhere.

01:56:26.000 I think they've got a list of names and they're just sending the forms in.

01:56:29.000 Yeah.

01:56:33.000 And that's a lot easier too to manage, right?

01:56:35.000 Trying to get a bunch of people lined up in order to go in and falsely register vote, that's problematic.

01:56:40.000 Like just sitting there and requesting absentee ballots or registering, you know, that's, yeah.

01:56:48.000 MF Damien says, Eclipse alignments cause gravity anomalies.

01:56:53.000 Where this eclipse crosses paths with the 2017 eclipse is directly over the new Madrid seismic zone.

01:56:58.000 Hope X doesn't mark the spot for that cutting loose.

01:57:02.000 Yeah, it's going right over Eagle Pass, too.

01:57:04.000 Hmm.

01:57:04.000 Yeah.

01:57:05.000 The darkness.

01:57:06.000 Madrid seismic zone, he calls it.

01:57:08.000 Next week's gonna be wild.

01:57:10.000 Man.

01:57:13.000 Let's go!

01:57:14.000 Brian Egan says, Tim, was driving today when I passed what appeared to be an active crime scene, Marshall County, Tennessee.

01:57:21.000 Ton of cops, cameras, three-letter agents, no ambulance.

01:57:23.000 I think they pulled a fill and found all that remains.

01:57:27.000 Well, okay.

01:57:29.000 That was a long joke.

01:57:29.000 I don't know what happened.

01:57:31.000 Yeah.

01:57:32.000 To get to that punchline.

01:57:33.000 That's what that was.

01:57:34.000 That was good.

01:57:36.000 We'll grab a couple more here.

01:57:37.000 A couple more while we're still here.

01:57:40.000 Oh yeah, did you see that?

01:57:41.000 No, I didn't.

01:57:41.000 is thinking the police, BP, etc. are the same old guard.

01:57:44.000 They aren't. See reality. All the good ones quit, were fired, and have been replaced. Look at

01:57:50.000 the girl victim shot and killed by the cops in Cali that went viral today. Oh yeah,

01:57:53.000 No, I didn't.

01:57:53.000 did you see that?

01:57:54.000 This is nuts. A dad murders his wife, kidnaps his daughter. 0.89

01:57:59.000 High speed chase. The cops are on scene and one cop's yelling to her, come to me, come to

01:58:04.000 me, get out, get out, come to me. She runs to her, the other cops shoot and kill her. 1.00

01:58:08.000 Wow. 0.99

01:58:09.000 That's insane. 0.88

01:58:11.000 How do you accidentally shoot a 15 year old girl like that? 0.92

01:58:16.000 And then he goes, stop shooting her, stop shooting her!

01:58:17.000 And he's like, okay, okay. 0.53

01:58:19.000 And then I guess they realized afterwards they shot and killed her. 0.97

01:58:23.000 Jeez. 0.96

01:58:23.000 That's crazy, man. 0.96

01:58:25.000 But that is just, you know, it's important to mention.

01:58:27.000 300 million interactions, that's not all.

01:58:30.000 Yeah, I go with the, yeah, if you look at the total number of interactions between law enforcement and people, I mean, obviously the vast majority of them are not Indian in a situation like this.

01:58:40.000 I do think that you have a significant problem with respect to the recruiting and training of officers.

01:58:44.000 You're seeing the same thing in the military right now.

01:58:46.000 And I think it's intentional.

01:58:48.000 Right, you're watching departments because typically if you look at the military, if you look at law enforcement, you're usually getting people that are a little bit more dedicated to the concepts of law and order.

01:58:56.000 They're usually a little bit more conservative or whatnot.

01:59:00.000 And I think they're actively trying to change the culture within these departments and within the military.

01:59:05.000 And yeah, I think it's definitely causing problems.

01:59:09.000 So I'm not blind to that going on, right?

01:59:12.000 I don't believe in blindly supporting any sort of profession.

01:59:17.000 Uh, without understanding that people are individuals.

01:59:20.000 Um, I can respect that somebody that wants to, you know, enter a profession for the right reasons to try to protect people and they put themselves in harm's way to do so.

01:59:27.000 I can respect that.

01:59:28.000 But yeah, there's going to be, there's going to be bad people and they need to be held accountable because quite frankly, when you do have somebody in law enforcement or in the military that is deliberately corrupt or bad or evil at their job, it's, it's doubly, it's doubly bad because they've not only violated the law, they've also violated the public trust.

01:59:44.000 Yeah.

01:59:45.000 KCB says flipping Texas wipes out 10 deep red state electoral votes.

01:59:50.000 One Rust Belt state is all Biden would need.

01:59:52.000 And that, and so, you know, we're all sitting here thinking like, look at these swing states.

01:59:56.000 Trump needs to win.

01:59:57.000 He's going to win.

01:59:58.000 And their play is Texas.

02:00:00.000 Maybe it is.

02:00:01.000 And then maybe Texas and Missouri somehow end up flipping and they go, wow, this is a surprise to everybody.

02:00:05.000 How could this have happened?

02:00:07.000 Trump won the swing states he needed and Texas went blue.

02:00:11.000 Missouri is interesting.

02:00:13.000 Yeah.

02:00:13.000 Very interesting.

02:00:14.000 We should keep an eye on these numbers every week.

02:00:17.000 These registration numbers, because those are crazy.

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