Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - Stock Market BLOODBATH After China Places 34% Tariff On US, Trump HOLDS FIRM | Timcast IRL

00:01:24.000 $6 trillion wiped out in the stock market.

00:01:28.000 They're calling it a bloodbath!

00:01:29.000 And I ain't crying about it.

00:01:31.000 I'm not.

00:01:32.000 I mean, it's not like it's a good thing.

00:01:34.000 But if you also look at the actual Dow charts going back this year or the past couple of years, it's not the apocalypse.

00:01:43.000 It is bad.

00:01:44.000 We're going to navigate this and we'll see what's going on.

00:01:46.000 I'm going to say this.

00:01:48.000 I am no fan of the people on the right who are just like, this is no big deal and Donald Trump knows what he's doing.

00:01:55.000 Guys, chill, chill, chill.

00:01:56.000 People are going to freak out.

00:01:57.000 People who don't know what's going on are going to freak out.

00:01:59.000 And we're going to say this.

00:02:00.000 We are hoping things improve, but let's acknowledge this is not a good thing.

00:02:04.000 But then you get the liberals screaming and bashing their face on the wall, acting like the apocalypse is happening.

00:02:08.000 It's like, guys, this is like a six month correction.

00:02:12.000 And we knew a correction was coming, so the question is now, what will Trump do?

00:02:16.000 And we want good leadership, so let's make sure we're being critical where critical needs to be applied.

00:02:20.000 We're not going to just defend literally everything, even when it's bad, but we'll see.

00:02:25.000 So again, you know, I want to see how the tariffs play out, but I do think this is going to have a negative impact.

00:02:30.000 The question is, will it have a long-term positive impact?

00:02:32.000 We're going to talk about that, plus we have a bunch of other crazy stories.

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00:02:36.000 Who works in a federal agency, and a judge a month later just fired the person Trump hired, rehired back the other person, and reversed a month of decisions.

00:02:45.000 This is a judicial coup.

00:02:46.000 So we're gonna talk about that.

00:02:47.000 Plus, Gavin Newsom, I guess, it's kind of weird, because I don't...

00:02:53.000 a seditious conspiracy?

00:02:54.000 Gavin Newsom saying he's instructed the state of California to negotiate its own trade agreements, which is violating the Constitution and breaking away from the Union?

00:03:04.000 Weird. Because you can't do that, but, uh, okay.

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00:06:27.000 Hello, everybody.

00:06:28.000 My name is Phil Labonte.

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00:06:33.000 Here's the big news from The Independent.

00:06:35.000 Oh boy, you'll love it.

00:06:36.000 They say stock market closes weak in bloodbath as Trump's tariffs cause historic two-day drop and wipe out six trillion dollars.

00:06:45.000 I love this so much.

00:06:47.000 Because the first thing I'm going to say is there are a lot of people on the right that are saying things like, you know, don't worry.

00:06:53.000 These are luxuries.

00:06:54.000 We can make it through.

00:06:56.000 The country is more important.

00:06:57.000 And it's like, guys, come on.

00:07:00.000 I get it.

00:07:01.000 I get it.

00:07:02.000 But it doesn't sound honest.

00:07:04.000 I'm just saying.

00:07:04.000 It doesn't sound honest.

00:07:05.000 The left is apoplectic.

00:07:06.000 They're screaming, this is the worst thing in the world.

00:07:08.000 But like, these are the people that hate the stock market in the first place and rag on investments.

00:07:12.000 And love to tax you.

00:07:13.000 Yeah, and they call for wealth taxes. 0.67

00:07:15.000 I'm like, you don't actually care about this.

00:07:17.000 To be honest with you, the fact that it's negative headlines for Trump, they love it.

00:07:22.000 I'm watching a lot of the Democrat left-leaning pundits, the Partisans and stuff and they're they're saying oh, this is so bad.

00:07:29.000 It's so terrible, but you they're you know tweeting every 15 minutes This is the best day of their this is the best week of their life because leading up to this Donald Trump had been doing things that the American people wanted he'd had great great Polling and the Democrats have been in disarray.

00:07:47.000 So this is literally what James Carville was saying about a month ago saying wait for the Republicans to mess up, you know, just keep your powder dry.

00:07:54.000 Hold on and and this will this the Republicans will mess up and then you can jump because they have nothing to actually offer.

00:08:01.000 The whole Democrat establishment is going through a restructuring there.

00:08:05.000 They're in a civil war deciding whether they want to be woke or they want to be, you know, try to bring back Blue Dog Democrats. 0.90

00:08:10.000 So this is the best thing that they've had.

00:08:12.000 This year.

00:08:13.000 How old are you?

00:08:15.000 25. You're 25. Do you care about stock portfolios?

00:08:18.000 Listen, I don't have any money in the stock market.

00:08:20.000 So sorry, I just don't.

00:08:22.000 And this is the thing about the these tariffs is, as a young person, I'm looking at it long term, you're saying it's going to bring industry back to America.

00:08:29.000 I'm like, this is great.

00:08:30.000 Like this is more opportunity.

00:08:31.000 Long term for me, it sucks me if you're an older person, you know, you have your savings, you know, but yeah, Well, that's what it was, right?

00:08:38.000 It was a bunch of boomers saying, like, oh my gosh, look at the stock market.

00:08:41.000 And all the millennials are like, what stock market? 0.99

00:08:43.000 I just want to own a home.

00:08:45.000 Millennials, Gen Z, are like, huh? 1.00

00:08:47.000 This is foreign to them.

00:08:48.000 Like, they don't have money in the stock market.

00:08:51.000 Unless it's AMC or GameStop.

00:08:54.000 Yeah, the meme stocks.

00:08:56.000 This is, again, I mentioned this the other day.

00:08:58.000 That was one of the things that the guy from the All In podcast was saying.

00:09:02.000 He's like, this for young people, for the, you know, Gen Z and stuff, they don't have assets, they don't own things, and they're, you know, really kind of struggling right now.

00:09:11.000 So these kind of events, or whatever you want to call it, It doesn't affect most Americans.

00:09:18.000 Only a small, not small, but only a certain percentage of Americans have money in the stock market.

00:09:23.000 And sure, if you're living on a fixed income, then it matters.

00:09:25.000 But young people who are Trump's biggest supporters right now, they kind of don't care, if I understand correctly.

00:09:30.000 It's like the meme that says, like, me being five years old in 2008 rather than buying a house.

00:09:36.000 Yeah. When the market crashed last time.

00:09:39.000 You know, I grew up in a Walmart town.

00:09:40.000 You guys know what a Walmart town is?

00:09:41.000 It's just these little tiny towns where the only thing that's there is Walmart.

00:09:45.000 And you kind of learn about the economics of that.

00:09:49.000 And you think you're buying into your community, but that money just goes straight up to these multinational corporations.

00:09:55.000 All the products are made in China.

00:09:57.000 We know instinctively, young people, that the system's broken.

00:10:00.000 So if there's going to be a little bit of heartbreak, Heartache now and there's gonna be a long-term payoff.

00:10:05.000 I just think it's a no-brainer for somebody who's you know under under 30 Yeah, I feel like all of these young like these these millennial liberals who are on X right now screaming the market Oh Trump's ruining everything.

00:10:15.000 I'm like you guys don't have portfolios.

00:10:16.000 Shut up Also, they do this every time right whenever there's any type of bump in the stock market when it's good It doesn't matter when it's bad They use it as some type of evidence of something that they don't care about to begin with and I think you're right More than anything is that they don't have the the left right now doesn't have a platform That's awesome.

00:10:39.000 What can we do to show you that Trump is bad rather than coming up? 0.89

00:10:44.000 Like right now would be a great time for a really, really solid middle of the road candidate to come out for them.

00:10:50.000 Somebody who can speak well, somebody who can...

00:10:52.000 I know it sounds like a fairytale.

00:10:53.000 That's a good one.

00:10:54.000 I know.

00:10:55.000 But I'm saying that doing something like that right now would be a fantastic idea, but they don't have anyone like that.

00:11:01.000 And there's too much internal friction within the party for letting somebody that moderate come out as a forerunner anyways.

00:11:08.000 It wouldn't work.

00:11:10.000 Yeah. I've seen a lot of personalities.

00:11:14.000 It's interesting, there's financial pro-Trump personalities losing their minds.

00:11:18.000 So there were a lot of these like fin bros who were not pro-Trump until like a couple years ago.

00:11:24.000 Now they're all on board with Trump and they're screaming like, like, my portfolio, Trump, what have you done?

00:11:30.000 And I'm just laughing.

00:11:31.000 I'm like, yeah, well, dude, come on.

00:11:32.000 But like the reality is a lot of these guys are buying right now.

00:11:35.000 They know that it's going to go down, it's going to go back up, especially if Trump is using this as a negotiating tactic or whatever he's doing, it's going to return.

00:11:41.000 And then, but I'm seeing a lot of like these diehard Trump people who are saying things like, who cares about 401k?

00:11:47.000 I don't care about this.

00:11:48.000 And I'm like, the only critique I have is that when people were claiming that when Trump got in, it was going to be to the moon.

00:11:55.000 And are now claiming it doesn't matter at all?

00:11:57.000 I'm like, you don't sound honest.

00:11:59.000 This is bad for trying to win more people over.

00:12:02.000 I have no problem saying to a regular American who's going like, hey, I got a retirement account.

00:12:06.000 And I'm saying like, well, yeah, this is not good.

00:12:08.000 The market should not dip like this.

00:12:10.000 We wiped a year off of the Dow Jones.

00:12:14.000 So I know a lot of people are upset, especially people who bought in six months ago.

00:12:18.000 They're losing.

00:12:19.000 And so what you want to say is, here's what we're hoping is going to happen.

00:12:22.000 I'm skeptical on the global blanket tariffs, but I lean towards being in favor of tariffs in general.

00:12:30.000 So I'm, you know, I'm willing to see where this goes.

00:12:34.000 And I'm also an adult who can recognize that if Trump makes mistakes, we're going to own up to that, because that's the reality of it.

00:12:39.000 The people that are rightly upset are the people that are on fixed incomes, older people that rely on the stock market for their monthly pay their bills and stuff like that. 1.00

00:12:51.000 And those people disproportionately are the massive voting bloc because older people are the ones that are reliable voters.

00:12:58.000 So this really could, if it doesn't get straightened out before, say we do go into a recession that drags into next year or longer.

00:13:08.000 This could really have a bad effect on the midterms.

00:13:11.000 And that means that Trump is likely to get...

00:13:44.000 ever done on this issue and tell you outright, no one cares about the market.

00:13:49.000 And what I mean by no one is obviously there are going to be people in media and influence who do, but there's actually only one poll that really matters, and it's how many people are going to watch this show right now.

00:14:00.000 Now, I'm not saying literally everybody in the world watches the show.

00:14:03.000 I'm saying we can actually track.

00:14:06.000 Having done this show now going on five years, we're entering year five, I know when we choose a lead story for the night, we're trying to figure out what is the most impactful story, what matters most to people.

00:14:19.000 I know when we do stock market stories, nobody clicks on them.

00:14:23.000 And so when the media comes out and they're like, this is the apocalypse, I'll tell you guys this.

00:14:27.000 When we're leading off with the stock market went down on Tim Kast IRL, it means nothing else happened.

00:14:33.000 Because I know that the average person does not care.

00:14:36.000 Don't get me wrong, there are people who care and they're allowed to care because people have retirement funds and all that stuff.

00:14:40.000 But I'm telling you, if Donald Trump drove a Tesla around a racetrack today, That would get way more views from the average person, way more of concern to them than whether or not the stock market moved.

00:14:53.000 I understand it's going to have an effect on pensions, but the average person's not going to see that.

00:14:58.000 And so, especially now, as millennials and Gen Z are becoming the dominant force as the audience in media, because older folks are moving on, they're watching less, they're getting pharmaceutical ads on Fox News instead.

00:15:12.000 We are going to be able to see how much this stuff really matters to them, and I gotta be honest, Trump probably knows this move isn't going to matter as much because he's targeting the younger generation.

00:15:22.000 If he wants his movement to succeed, here's the wild thing that people do not consider, which is surprising.

00:15:28.000 Obviously consultants do, and politicians to a certain extent do, but you're 25. That means when Trump descended the escalator, you were 15 years old.

00:15:38.000 So you probably weren't paying attention at all.

00:15:40.000 I was, because my dad was in politics, but most of my friends know nobody was paying attention.

00:15:44.000 Exactly. And now here you are voting.

00:15:47.000 Yeah. And your friends are voting.

00:15:49.000 And so four years from now, what Trump is looking at is, who's 17 years old right now?

00:15:56.000 What future are they looking at?

00:15:58.000 I want them to vote for me.

00:16:00.000 Not just 17 year olds, but it's also about not when you are legally allowed to vote, but when you become an active voter.

00:16:06.000 So we know that younger 18 to 29 tends not to vote.

00:16:10.000 Yeah. So Trump might be looking at 27 year olds and saying what's bugging them because they're gonna be 30 in the next election cycle and I want their votes for our party or whatever that might be.

00:16:19.000 Stock drop-off?

00:16:20.000 I gotta tell you, like you mentioned, nobody under 30 gives a...

00:16:23.000 Well, yeah, the people who are talking about it on X are having like academic debates about the efficacy of tariffs all over the world, as opposed to the fact that they've been tariffing the United States for years.

00:16:34.000 And it's like, that's not a conversation that the average everyday person is having.

00:16:37.000 That's the type of thing that happens when you're on political X. And that's all you think about.

00:16:41.000 This is what's really cool about what Trump has done with the Republican Party in general.

00:16:45.000 It's like the party lines don't mean anything anymore, especially if you're young.

00:16:48.000 I saw on X, I didn't even know because I was a newborn when it happened, but in 1989 there were these protests in Seattle against the World Trade Organization to bring it in China.

00:17:01.000 I mean, it's incredible just to see, like, oh, now Republicans and Donald Trump are going to be the ones to take the lead on protectionism in this country and actually, you know, promoting American industry.

00:17:11.000 And then against the foreign wars, too, because the economic side of this is totally linked to the same globalist ideology that got us involved in Iraq and Afghanistan and meddling in Syria.

00:17:21.000 And young people are just not here for it. 0.99

00:17:22.000 Like, they don't want that anymore.

00:17:24.000 And it's not a right and left issue.

00:17:26.000 Like, it's really become populism versus globalism.

00:17:30.000 I mean, that's something that we've talked about a lot on this program.

00:17:33.000 The way that the parties have shifted, the way that the Liberals or the progressives, whatever you want to call them, the Democrats, have become the party of the very, very poor, the people that are dependent on the government, and the very, very rich.

00:17:46.000 And the MAGA movement really is made up of the working class, which used to be what you would think of as Democrats.

00:17:52.000 They were people that were working people that would go to the Democrats.

00:17:56.000 It used to be the rich were the people that would be supporting the Republicans.

00:18:01.000 They were backroom deals and all that stuff.

00:18:02.000 Young people have not grown up with that binary.

00:18:04.000 Like, this is what Republicans mean, this is what Democrats mean.

00:18:06.000 I grew up in the Trump era.

00:18:07.000 The unions are very, very happy.

00:18:13.000 For two reasons.

00:18:14.000 On the surface, we assume the unions are happy because for like the auto workers, for instance, this means that we've protected auto factories, and the unions are happy because they need those jobs.

00:18:26.000 There's another reason why the unions are very happy.

00:18:28.000 This is going to force the creation of union jobs.

00:18:32.000 So the guys running these big fat cat unions right now, they're going, so Trump does all these tariffs.

00:18:37.000 You're going to see, even if it isn't as successful as Trump hopes it is, you're going to see people trying to hire in the United States because they're going to need to start manufacturing some of these resources here.

00:18:47.000 Those people got to join our union.

00:18:48.000 Far be it from me to say positive things about a union.

00:18:53.000 But it is true. 0.96

00:18:55.000 The unions are really happy because, again, it's the working class people that are really getting the crap end of the stick. 1.00

00:19:03.000 Let's jump to the story from the AP.

00:19:04.000 China slaps a 34% tax on all U.S. imports in retaliation for Trump's tariffs.

00:19:12.000 Okay, so they're saying this is one of the reasons why the stock took a major drop today.

00:19:17.000 And my attitude on this is just, wow, okay.

00:19:20.000 Thanks, China.

00:19:22.000 Thank you for helping us.

00:19:24.000 You know, our goal is to sever this imbalance and problem that we've had with Chinese-made goods in this country for 40 years.

00:19:31.000 China going, oh yeah?

00:19:33.000 We're gonna make trade even harder.

00:19:34.000 I'm like, thank you.

00:19:35.000 Trump can't take all the brunt of this, can he?

00:19:37.000 The biggest threat that China poses with this kind of context is about intellectual property rights.

00:19:45.000 So China can do a real fast turnaround of any product that gets sold there, whether they be iPhones or software or whatever, they can reverse engineer it and make a new, you know, make a model, a version of their own.

00:19:59.000 And what's possible is China going and saying, well, we're not going to deal with the United States, but they buy products and then they.

00:20:06.000 Reverse engineer them and sell them for cents on the dollar to other countries.

00:20:09.000 So they don't even it doesn't matter what we do to China. 0.97

00:20:13.000 They're just like, oh, well, we'll sell we'll take these products that normally people would buy from the US and we'll reverse engineer them and we'll sell them from out of China to other countries, you know, at 10 cents on the dollar.

00:20:23.000 This is why a lot of the major tech world has stopped having their main like offices where they actually have intellectual property in China that my dad is part of this as well.

00:20:30.000 They removed them because they're kept getting their offices literally invaded with the police.

00:20:33.000 They said, everyone give me all your USBs, all your phones, all your laptops, all your stuff.

00:20:36.000 We need this information now.

00:20:37.000 It's part of the Chinese government.

00:20:38.000 It's due to CCP interests.

00:20:40.000 They would literally just take it.

00:20:41.000 It's within their legal right to do so.

00:20:43.000 And that's why they stopped having their factories there.

00:20:45.000 Or not their factories, their idea centers there.

00:20:47.000 Now all they have is just basic factories where they send it and just do the products, et cetera, they've already thought of because they can't risk losing the IP. Part of the justification for trading with China is we were like, well...

00:21:03.000 And did that happen?

00:21:03.000 Like, no, like they're just it just empowered the CCP regime, which is horrific.

00:21:08.000 So it's like, so this didn't work.

00:21:10.000 We're done with trading with China when it's not fair for our industry.

00:21:15.000 It's actual fascism dressed up like communism.

00:21:17.000 Do you think that the younger generation looks at this, at least maybe for the ones that are paying attention politically, look at something like this as short-term?

00:21:27.000 paying for long-term gains because one of the things that seems to be prevalent whenever an election cycle comes around is things get incrementally worse.

00:21:35.000 Every election cycle, nothing really changes.

00:21:37.000 Maybe the gas fluctuates a little bit up and down, but in general, we become more dependent on other nations, our job market shrinks, wages do not go up with the rate of inflation at the time, and that it's been a slow crawl to a slow death for the country.

00:21:53.000 Does the younger generation see this and think of this as a way out, or are they just not paying attention?

00:21:58.000 I don't know exactly.

00:21:59.000 I mean, it's hard to say how much they're paying attention to this issue right now.

00:22:02.000 But what I will say about young people is they want to burn the system down. 1.00

00:22:05.000 It's going to be right-wing populism or it's going to be left-wing populism.

00:22:09.000 Right now, we're taking a chance on right-wing populism.

00:22:11.000 That's why Gen Z men... 1.00

00:22:13.000 Swung 30 points to the political right in the last four years.

00:22:16.000 And actually there were studies that found that it didn't matter the demographic.

00:22:19.000 It was men, women, black, brown, white.

00:22:21.000 All of them are more right-wing than millennials.

00:22:23.000 So obviously they're taking a chance with right-wing populism and the MAGA right.

00:22:28.000 But if it doesn't play out well for us in the next few years, I could totally see it going to full-on Bernie bro AOC.

00:22:36.000 I think that's the biggest gamble that Donald Trump right now is taking is if this doesn't work out well for the country.

00:22:43.000 We're in trouble.

00:22:44.000 There's a serious chance that the left gets significantly more influential.

00:22:49.000 Yes. I don't think it'll be AOC, though.

00:22:51.000 Why is that?

00:22:52.000 Her brand is sour.

00:22:54.000 Her brand is there's a current flavor of leftist populist right now. 1.00

00:22:58.000 So there's a reason why these young guys went towards right wing populism.

00:23:04.000 They may seek out left wing populism or some type of it.

00:23:08.000 But AOC is...

00:23:10.000 We're in trouble.

00:23:11.000 Let's just be nice.

00:23:12.000 Her brand is not good for attracting these people back to the left.

00:23:16.000 There would have to be a young, new face in populism that would be somewhat more...

00:23:26.000 Let me put it this way.

00:23:27.000 AOC's bounced around too much because the left is incoherent.

00:23:30.000 And so that's going to make it very easy to attack, insult, and it's unattractive.

00:23:34.000 If a new, young face comes in with left-wing populism from a rational standpoint, where the individual's background is logical, they might actually be able to attract some people from the right.

00:23:45.000 And there would have to be, look, there's a tinge of race-based elements to everyone from the squad that precludes that working.

00:23:53.000 Like, it worked for Bernie because a lot of people of all walks of life seemed to resonate with his message.

00:23:58.000 But even then, the left told him, it's too white, it's too male. 0.78

00:24:03.000 The problem with the young, the Gen Z Democrats is that they're insufferable. 1.00

00:24:08.000 I'm not saying it to be mean.

00:24:10.000 Harry Sisson rise to power.

00:24:12.000 The reason why he won't is because he's smarmy.

00:24:16.000 What's that other guy from Florida? 0.95

00:24:18.000 The other guy's horrible too.

00:24:19.000 He's now has like a role.

00:24:20.000 David Hogg.

00:24:21.000 That guy. 0.96

00:24:21.000 He's the worst too. 0.96

00:24:22.000 So what the left would need is...

00:24:26.000 Imagine a young RFK Jr.

00:24:28.000 I mean like 22. Yeah.

00:24:30.000 RFK is fit and he tries to be reasonable.

00:24:35.000 But he is progressive.

00:24:36.000 He called it Indigenous People's Day.

00:24:39.000 I questioned him about this.

00:24:41.000 But he's willing to work with Trump because there are certain things he wants to get done in health.

00:24:45.000 I commend him.

00:24:46.000 If the left actually got a young guy who spoke slowly and calmly and didn't make smarmy face all the time, they would do a lot better.

00:24:54.000 But Dean Withers, Harry Sisson, and whoever that other guy is, they always have this very smug look on their face.

00:25:01.000 And that's attractive to a very certain subset of individuals, which is why young men do not go anywhere near this.

00:25:07.000 Young... Look, there's a reason why the hero's journey is so popular in movies.

00:25:12.000 Young guys want to be the reluctant hero thrust into adventure, not the smarmy, rich...

00:25:17.000 Put it this way.

00:25:18.000 What was the prince in Game of Thrones that everyone hated?

00:25:21.000 Oh, um...

00:25:22.000 Joffrey. Joffrey!

00:25:23.000 There you go.

00:25:24.000 He was in Batman Begins.

00:25:26.000 Let me just tell you.

00:25:28.000 Harry Sisson is Joffrey.

00:25:31.000 Yeah. My husband and I talk about why you don't see any young male podcasters all the time.

00:25:47.000 You'll see somebody your age or even older, and it's because Young men don't want to take advice from other men who haven't done anything in their lives.

00:25:55.000 Like, I'm going to listen to you, and this Harry Sisson guy, it's like, what has he done other than copy and paste DNC talking points?

00:26:02.000 So they have to find somebody who's had some life experience, who maybe has picked up a weight, and then, you know.

00:26:09.000 The Sasan Piker guy is like one person, but... 0.76

00:26:12.000 The internal friction within the party also makes this very, very difficult.

00:26:16.000 Trump was able to steamroll the Republican Party and take over.

00:26:20.000 They don't have anyone that's going to be able to fight the Nancy Pelosi's.

00:26:24.000 There's a reason why the members of the squad fought with the establishment for years.

00:26:29.000 Let me just give an honorable mention to the Krasensteins.

00:26:33.000 They actually work out.

00:26:35.000 I'm going to give them that one, man.

00:26:36.000 When it comes to health and fitness stuff, They're aligned with the right on a lot of these basic things.

00:26:42.000 Like, you'll see a conservative say, get to the gym and work out, and they'll be like, yes, let's go.

00:26:46.000 And I'm like, I appreciate that. 0.98

00:26:47.000 I think they're liars. 1.00

00:26:48.000 Like, I think they're grifters. 1.00

00:26:50.000 But we can agree on that.

00:26:52.000 But they're not young, charismatic, but it is good to fit.

00:26:56.000 Why isn't there? 0.99

00:26:58.000 Like, look, there's got to be some sociopathic CEO type who doesn't care about politics, who wants to rip Democrats off because he thinks they're dumb. 0.99

00:27:06.000 Where is the sociopath on the left to exploit them and take over? 0.99

00:27:10.000 You mean the left doesn't- He's older by definition anyway.

00:27:12.000 Like David Hogg weighs a hundred pounds soaking wet, come on!

00:27:15.000 But the thing is the left has abandoned males and masculinity.

00:27:20.000 By becoming the party of grievance, Right?

00:27:24.000 The party of women that are upset with men, racial grievance, grievance when it comes to class and stuff like that.

00:27:32.000 By becoming the party of grievance, they literally turn off any man, any males that are like, I can do something.

00:27:40.000 If you have any sense of self-confidence, you're not going to be attracted to the Democrats because they're going to tell you, you can't do anything.

00:27:50.000 And if you can, you've done something that has hurt someone else to do it.

00:27:54.000 You've somehow taken advantage of someone.

00:27:57.000 The economic argument is if you make money, you are doing it at someone else's expense, then the... 0.93

00:28:04.000 Other side of the Democrats are all racial arguments, and if you're a man, you're toxic, masculine.

00:28:11.000 There is nothing appealing about the Democrat Party.

00:28:13.000 That's what I think the issue is probably at right now.

00:28:16.000 The Democratic Party is largely female, or it's heavily female-influenced.

00:28:20.000 70% of millennial women are Democrats.

00:28:23.000 College-educated women.

00:28:25.000 That's the whole base.

00:28:26.000 Right, so it is.

00:28:27.000 So the issue, that is, if you are a guy who is rational, reasonable, with leftist talking points, Half of your talking points must adhere to cultural norms of liberal women, which are going to push away any young men. 0.95

00:28:42.000 So I think it's an impossibility.

00:28:43.000 And even if they find one, they're going to tell him to sit down and shut up and the other people are talking.

00:28:48.000 That's why Joe Rogan got pushed out.

00:28:50.000 That's why they say, they're like, oh, we got to find a Joe Rogan for the left.

00:28:54.000 And everyone knows, well, you had him.

00:28:56.000 Someone chatted, David Hogg gained weight?

00:29:01.000 I mean, that's a good one.

00:29:02.000 There's a cultural element to this too.

00:29:04.000 Like, obviously manufacturing jobs, like millions of them have left in the last 20 years.

00:29:08.000 And yes, they're saying masculinity is toxic.

00:29:09.000 But my husband was watching, I didn't watch it on the plane, but he did this like New Gladiator movie.

00:29:14.000 And I guess like in the first few scenes, the like man and his like wife, you know, Don't get me started.

00:29:28.000 Leading the whole operation.

00:29:31.000 It's like this is not – and women don't want this either. 1.00

00:29:33.000 Women don't want to be in charge and charging into battle. 1.00

00:29:37.000 It's just absurd.

00:29:38.000 And obviously there's like a cultural backlash from men as well.

00:29:42.000 That's just – and then Trump declares Warren woke and, of course, they're going to just seize on to that.

00:29:47.000 And Trump's a masculine guy.

00:29:48.000 I mean, what guy in American history has taken a bullet and then got up and, like, thrown his fist in the air and said, fight?

00:29:53.000 Like, Democrats can't compete with that.

00:29:55.000 Well, I think I think we have to repeal the 19th Amendment until women serve in the draft. 1.00

00:30:03.000 So I actually agree with that.

00:30:05.000 Right. So here's the I'll tell you, one of the biggest problems we have as a society is that we've created a special provision for women. 1.00

00:30:11.000 They are allowed to vote for half the population to go die.

00:30:15.000 And so long as that is true, I mean, look, Imagine if we said in this country, if you make more than $100,000 per year, you are exempt from, you know, going to war.

00:30:29.000 Like, poor people would be like, no, no, no, no, what? 1.00

00:30:32.000 It's like, yeah, we're gonna draft all of you, but I make enough money to where I'm exempt from it.

00:30:35.000 That's kind of how it was.

00:30:37.000 And it's unacceptable, right?

00:30:38.000 Anybody would look at that and say, that's not fair, right?

00:30:40.000 Rich people would pay to have someone go in their kid's stead.

00:30:43.000 What we have now is, and what we've had for 100 years, Women got the right to vote without civic responsibility. 1.00

00:30:49.000 That means they can vote for men to die in fires, to die as first responders.

00:30:54.000 They can vote for men to go to foreign wars.

00:30:56.000 That means, overwhelmingly, what we're seeing now with the Democratic Party, which is largely female, heavily female-influenced, voting for war because they're the ones who don't have to fight it. 0.68

00:31:05.000 There's zero risk for them to do it.

00:31:06.000 Tim, I don't know what you're talking about because Hillary Clinton told me that women were the ones most affected when men die in war.

00:31:13.000 It's true, yeah, because they lose their brothers and their husbands and their fathers.

00:31:16.000 How offensive.

00:31:17.000 I say you can't vote unless you sign up for Selective Service.

00:31:22.000 This was the problem with me, too.

00:31:24.000 Women want to be considered a protective class, but then they don't want to act like they are. 1.00

00:31:29.000 They don't want to be protected.

00:31:30.000 So they're like, we want to go. 0.96

00:31:31.000 I'm going to have sex and have a free-for-all like we're in the 70s.

00:31:35.000 But then they also want to have you ask Five times when you're hooking up if this is actually consensual. 0.98

00:31:42.000 It's called Schrodinger's feminism. 1.00

00:31:43.000 You can't have it both ways.

00:31:44.000 Like either we're a protected class, which I think we should be, or we're not.

00:31:48.000 And this is like the tension in policy and in culture constantly between men and women. 0.75

00:31:53.000 Would it be your sense that that is, that the, you know, the go-get-em girl, the boss bitch thing kind of thing, isn't that a minority of women? 0.99

00:32:03.000 And do you get the sense that that is becoming less common?

00:32:08.000 Well, I mean, there's definitely like a trad girl revolt happening right now. 0.99

00:32:12.000 I think the most popular female influencers are all girls who like home school their children and live off the grid. 1.00

00:32:18.000 It's a whole thing.

00:32:19.000 And the left has actually come out and said, this is really dangerous and regressive, and we have to put an end to it.

00:32:24.000 So there's an attraction, I think, that, and this is the other thing I was saying, Gen Z is turning right wing and traditional.

00:32:29.000 They have an attraction to traditional gender norms that's very disturbing to millennial women. 0.93

00:32:34.000 But it makes sense when we've hit rock bottom.

00:32:36.000 It's like, I just, I don't want to, I don't want to be a boss babe and like have my hormones jacked up because I'm working a work schedule for a man.

00:32:43.000 Cause there was still like this lie that you were going to be ultra successful to millennials at that time.

00:32:48.000 Or this lie that you can have it all.

00:32:50.000 Like you can, I can be a mother and I can, I can give everything to my kids and I can also have like the big, you know, professional job.

00:32:57.000 And the reality is you have to make sacrifices in life.

00:33:00.000 Like you can't have it all the time.

00:33:03.000 Let's jump to the story from Politico.

00:33:06.000 Speaker Johnson says Trump backs me on proxy voting for new parents.

00:33:10.000 Speaker Mike Johnson said Friday that President Trump backs him in his effort to block proxy voting for new parents, a day after the president scrambled Johnson's plans and endorsed a move to allow it.

00:33:19.000 Johnson thanked Trump in the X-Post for a recent phone call in which he attributed Trump as saying, Mike, you have my proxy on proxy voting.

00:33:27.000 Johnson is in a serious bind of the matter with the House floor effectively frozen until he could secure an agreement.

00:33:31.000 Trump added a new wrinkle Thursday by telling reporters he didn't see what was so controversial about Florida Rep.

00:33:37.000 Anna Paulina Luna's push to allow new parents to vote by proxy.

00:33:39.000 GOP leaders hope Trump's blessing of Johnson's position will persuade Luna to back off her plans.

00:33:44.000 I'm gonna say this.

00:33:46.000 Anna Paulina Luna, I'm a big fan and you should resign.

00:33:51.000 I like MAGA.

00:33:52.000 I like Anna Paulina Luna.

00:33:53.000 She's done a tremendously great job.

00:33:54.000 She's exposed a lot and I respect a lot of it.

00:33:56.000 If you can't do your job, you should resign.

00:33:58.000 And you are not unique to this, and nor is any other member of Congress.

00:34:03.000 There is a short window in which you are in Congress.

00:34:07.000 You don't need to have your child-rearing overlap with it. 0.98

00:34:10.000 The idea that you would want, or any Democrat would want, special privileges specifically for a class of people is DEI Marxist, communist garbage. 0.93

00:34:24.000 We do not give special privileges to people based on their class. 0.96

00:34:28.000 We do not do that.

00:34:29.000 So if you want to have a kid, you decide when you want to have a kid.

00:34:32.000 If you don't want to have a kid, then go to Congress.

00:34:34.000 The reason why, there's only 13 members of Congress who have ever had a child while serving.

00:34:40.000 Only 13 in this country.

00:34:42.000 In the history of this country.

00:34:43.000 Because even the women who serve, they're older and they're not having kids anymore. 1.00

00:34:48.000 So, I reject this.

00:34:49.000 I think it opens the door to pure corruption. 0.98

00:34:52.000 It destroys the fabric of what is already a garbage institution. 0.98

00:34:56.000 Congress is miserably failing.

00:34:58.000 So, I'm deeply offended by the story, but as you were just pointing out in the previous segment, there are sacrifices people have to make.

00:35:03.000 You can't have it all.

00:35:05.000 I agree, and I'm curious what you think about this one.

00:35:07.000 Yeah, well, it's not just women. 1.00

00:35:08.000 It's men, too.

00:35:10.000 Viewers probably don't know, but my dad was in Congress.

00:35:13.000 He was elected in 2010.

00:35:15.000 And my little sister, who she's five now, she was born with Down syndrome and she had two holes in her heart. 1.00

00:35:20.000 And my dad knew that he needed to come home and be with our family at that time because there was nine kids at that point.

00:35:27.000 She had to have this really risky surgery.

00:35:30.000 And he didn't demand that we have this special privilege that he get to vote from home because he needed to be with my mom while my little sister was in the NICU and having this surgery.

00:35:39.000 He resigned.

00:35:39.000 from office.

00:35:40.000 He said, I can't do this anymore.

00:35:41.000 Somebody else is going to have to take my place.

00:35:43.000 And that's the expectation when you're in Congress is you have to show up and you have to vote in person.

00:35:48.000 I mean, there's serious security concerns if you don't have people voting in person.

00:35:51.000 And also I'll say...

00:35:53.000 Congress is wildly accommodating for a parent.

00:35:57.000 First of all, there's daycare, but second of all, you can bring your child on the house floor as that Pedersen woman is continually proving because she's bringing her baby on the house floor. 1.00

00:36:05.000 While claiming that she's scared to do it because of germs. 0.97

00:36:08.000 It's ridiculous. 0.98

00:36:12.000 It's not anti-woman, too. 1.00

00:36:13.000 It's such a silly line. 0.83

00:36:15.000 Mark from Rasmussen was here two nights ago. 0.96

00:36:19.000 Rasmussen! He corrected us.

00:36:21.000 Rasmussen was here, and he pointed out that there are only 10 legislative days in the whole month of April.

00:36:29.000 You know when the votes are.

00:36:30.000 It is not a problem to get a sitter, someone to watch your child, when you only have to work 10 days out of a month.

00:36:38.000 It's the definition of political theater, and it's really annoying. 0.95

00:36:41.000 It's really ridiculous.

00:36:42.000 People don't know this, but there's actually a little room off the side of the House floor that's just for women, and it's actually partly for staffers and members of Congress to breastfeed their children. 1.00

00:36:53.000 Like, what place of work offers that?

00:36:56.000 You can bring your kid, and there's a special place to breastfeed, and there's also provided daycare.

00:37:01.000 I just don't know.

00:37:02.000 This couldn't be more accommodating.

00:37:03.000 That lady's going to start filibustering next. 1.00

00:37:05.000 It's going to be awful.

00:37:06.000 With the baby.

00:37:07.000 She's going to hold the baby up to the microphone. 1.00

00:37:09.000 This is a little off topic, but I did some research to try and find out what Cory Booker was actually filibustering.

00:37:16.000 Turns out, nothing!

00:37:17.000 It was just like, check it out, I'm going to go talk for 25 hours a day.

00:37:22.000 Because the last guy that the guy that had the record was an actual racist.

00:37:27.000 It was I think it was burn nothing to do.

00:37:30.000 So he's like, look like they're doing something.

00:37:32.000 Yeah, voters are so angry right now.

00:37:34.000 Yeah. I also love no point.

00:37:36.000 It was just I'm gonna get up there and talk and hate on Donald Trump and make the record.

00:37:40.000 I love how I reportedly had 175 million likes on tik tok.

00:37:44.000 And I'm like, Oh, that's real.

00:37:48.000 That story more than most with the lady in office with the baby is probably the most frustrating to me because it's the definition of political theater.

00:37:56.000 These are not serious people.

00:37:58.000 It just so happens that there's very serious consequences to electing them.

00:38:01.000 That's not what we should be doing right now.

00:38:03.000 There's an agenda, we're trying to get things done, and we're wasting our time on this non-issue.

00:38:08.000 Hold on, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

00:38:13.000 We need special provisions for sending new mothers into combat. 1.00

00:38:20.000 So when we send women into combat and they have babies with them... 1.00

00:38:24.000 Give the babies flak jackets, right?

00:38:25.000 The babies need jackets. 0.97

00:38:27.000 The babies are gonna need their own gear, little backpacks, sidearms, a small one the baby can hold because their hands are very tiny.

00:38:33.000 But the point, the joke I'm making is like, where does this end?

00:38:38.000 Listen, as a recent father, Uh, and I know to all the parents out there, the amount of work a mother does for one new child is beyond a full-time job.

00:38:50.000 It is more than a full-time job.

00:38:52.000 Right? The baby cries every two hours, has to be fed.

00:38:56.000 And you're waking up, there's no time off.

00:38:59.000 You know, my wife is doing a tremendous job, and she's very tired, and I can't feed the baby.

00:39:05.000 I'm a guy.

00:39:06.000 Like, I can complain on the internet.

00:39:08.000 And bring money home, so there's food for my wife. 1.00

00:39:11.000 And she's doing the work to breastfeed the baby, and this is the thing the baby needs. 0.99

00:39:15.000 And I'm just thinking, like, where does this end?

00:39:18.000 If we're saying like women with babies who are nursing and trying to raise those babies can work at any job actively wanting special provisions for that. 1.00

00:39:26.000 I'm not saying women shouldn't have jobs. 0.98

00:39:28.000 There are certain things women can do while they are raising children. 1.00

00:39:31.000 Allison's still doing some work.

00:39:32.000 It's just the work she can do remote from her laptop she can still do.

00:39:34.000 But there are some jobs you can't do.

00:39:36.000 A female firefighter is not going to keep working as a firefighter when she's with a newborn baby. 1.00

00:39:41.000 A female in the military is going to have to take time off. 1.00

00:39:44.000 This is why we have maternity leave. 1.00

00:39:45.000 If we're going to give special provisions for this, where does it end?

00:39:48.000 And like at what point do we say, no, no, no, listen.

00:39:50.000 Go home and raise your kid.

00:39:52.000 It's a very important thing.

00:39:53.000 It's more important than this.

00:39:54.000 I'm not Well, I think it was Steve Scalise when he got shot.

00:40:03.000 He was out for a long time.

00:40:05.000 Like, there was a really special reason for him to say, oh, I need to be able to vote remotely or whatever.

00:40:10.000 Like, if you have brain cancer, if you have a health emergency, you don't get an exception.

00:40:15.000 I don't know why we're doing this for people.

00:40:19.000 Yeah. And that's what I think it's going to be used for.

00:40:26.000 That's the real theory right now.

00:40:27.000 It'll be used so that these people who should not be in office, like our elderly and on their deathbed, are able to still vote from the hospital or from their home.

00:40:35.000 Or someone else will vote and claim it was them.

00:40:37.000 The reason why I am so opposed to remote voting Or proxy voting.

00:40:42.000 For one, remote voting leads to proxy voting, and proxy voting, we don't know who's actually voting!

00:40:47.000 So if they say, you know, Brett, you can vote in my stead, and Brett claims, you know, Tim actually voted to ban skateboards in the park, only rollerbladers now.

00:40:55.000 Like, of course I would never do that, it'd be the other way around, but Brett's lying and voting for me.

00:40:59.000 What if they ended up doing something where they're voting about in-person voting for the election, and ironically enough, you're voting With a proxy to vote for in-person elections.

00:41:10.000 It's already hypocritical because Trump sent out that memorandum when he first got in office saying if you're a federal worker you have to come in person now and all these Republicans applauded it now they're like oh yeah it's we're gonna Advocate to vote from home.

00:41:20.000 It's like, well, all these other federal workers got fired when they refused to do that.

00:41:24.000 Well, they also vote to give themselves raises and that's a problem.

00:41:28.000 I'll address this one directly from the Tax Advantage Super Chatted segment.

00:41:31.000 I slipped and said Allison's working remotely.

00:41:33.000 No, I said she was working remotely literally the moment this whole story came up.

00:41:36.000 She's doing the portion of her job that can be done remotely, which is why I said it's fine that women work when they have kids, but you need to vote in person. 1.00

00:41:44.000 You're in Congress.

00:41:45.000 You are not handling sales emails from your couch with your child, which you can do.

00:41:51.000 What Anna Paulina wants is a special privilege for a branch of our government to be able to not show up to the Capitol. 1.00

00:41:58.000 That is unacceptable.

00:41:59.000 As a No, no remote voting.

00:42:16.000 Now, If Rep Luna or any other female member of Congress wants to answer emails from home, nobody's got a problem with that. 1.00

00:42:23.000 That was never in contention.

00:42:25.000 You were always allowed to do that.

00:42:26.000 The question is, should you be allowed to do the core function of your job?

00:42:30.000 And in fact, I would argue, not do 80% of it, which includes debating, negotiating to get these bills signed.

00:42:38.000 Should you be able to forego that and then just check your email and click vote on national legislation?

00:42:43.000 I say no.

00:42:44.000 Imagine if we said, you're a female firefighter. 1.00

00:42:46.000 You can fight the fires from home.

00:42:48.000 You can't.

00:42:49.000 There are some jobs that have to be done in person.

00:42:51.000 Now, by all means, if you're an administrator for a fire department, meaning you handle intake and outtake invoices or output invoices, I don't care.

00:42:59.000 Nobody ever had an issue with that.

00:43:01.000 I do not care.

00:43:02.000 If someone works here and they have a kid and they take maternity leave, we're like, go ahead and do it. 1.00

00:43:07.000 When you're able to work, you can work.

00:43:09.000 And we'll even let you work remote on some things, even though we largely do not do remote work here because we understand special circumstance.

00:43:15.000 Special circumstances, what you can do, you can do from home.

00:43:18.000 But could you imagine if we were like we hired someone to be a camera operator and they said, can I do camera operating at home?

00:43:24.000 I'd be like, no, it requires in-person camera operating.

00:43:26.000 But I'm having a kid.

00:43:28.000 I'm like, well, then quit.

00:43:30.000 I mean, it's also optics-wise, it's horrible, given the fact that we talk basically Parents here in America are told, figure it out.

00:43:38.000 You have kids, you have to figure it out for yourself.

00:43:40.000 And then Congress says, we want special treatment.

00:43:43.000 And that's just another way in which the average everyday person feels disconnected from the people that represent them.

00:43:48.000 Yeah, man.

00:43:50.000 I'm just, you know, half of like, I gotta be honest, part of me is just like, oh, Rep Luna wants to burn Congress down? 0.97

00:43:57.000 Like, well, it's already garbage as it is. 0.92

00:43:59.000 So what do we really expect from these people? 0.97

00:44:01.000 Yeah. I mean, look, there's a Republican majority.

00:44:04.000 And what are we really getting done right now?

00:44:05.000 This is the problem.

00:44:06.000 Right here is why I have such little faith in Congress as it is, and most people don't.

00:44:11.000 So, the one thing I can say is, well, at the very least, Trump will just start doing whatever he wants because a dysfunctional Congress can't do anything about it.

00:44:17.000 Republicans always find a way to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.

00:44:22.000 TextVec goes on to say, read the whole super chat, Tim.

00:44:25.000 I wasn't talking about voting.

00:44:26.000 I was talking about you and Phil calling us remote workers losers and lazy just a couple months ago.

00:44:30.000 You are literally flipping what you said a couple months ago.

00:44:32.000 It's a straight lie.

00:44:33.000 Wrong! You're a liar and you're wrong. 1.00

00:44:35.000 Wrong. Wrong. 1.00

00:44:39.000 Let's talk about remote work.

00:44:41.000 People who work remote don't contribute to the culture of the company.

00:44:44.000 Young people who work remote are less likely to get promotions, less likely to get raises.

00:44:49.000 Uh, work culture is the developments of the project and the products.

00:44:54.000 Do you guys know the legend of Flamin' Hot Cheetos?

00:44:56.000 No. It was the, as the story goes, and it's an urban legend, maybe it's not.

00:45:00.000 The guy who created them?

00:45:01.000 Yeah, the story is that the company said, we want everyone's ideas, no idea is a bad idea.

00:45:06.000 And a guy who was like a janitor used to take the extra Cheetos pops with no cheese on them, And he would put like lime salt and chili powder on it, which is like a Mexican snack.

00:45:18.000 And then his family were all eating it.

00:45:19.000 And he was like, oh, look, we should make these.

00:45:21.000 And then he made a response to the CEO.

00:45:24.000 And people were like, don't send that.

00:45:26.000 Are you kidding?

00:45:27.000 He didn't want to hear from a janitor.

00:45:28.000 And then he submitted it.

00:45:29.000 And then they were like, this is a really great idea.

00:45:32.000 It's their number one product now.

00:45:33.000 And he had a promotion.

00:45:34.000 Some say it's a fake story.

00:45:35.000 And it's all just an urban legend.

00:45:36.000 He made a movie about it a couple of years ago.

00:45:37.000 Right. The point is, when you're working at a place, Even if you're a janitor, when you're hanging out at the lunch table, your ideas contribute to the culture and the environment.

00:45:47.000 That is one of the most important things.

00:45:50.000 My point is, people...

00:45:52.000 You know what I was saying?

00:45:53.000 I was like, I'm gonna...

00:45:54.000 I'm gonna say it now because we're never actually gonna do it, but I was saying...

00:45:58.000 I was talking to Cody, and I was like, you know what I think we'll do?

00:46:00.000 We'll send out a company-wide email asking who wants to work remotely, and everyone who says yes is fired.

00:46:06.000 If you don't want to be here, you should not be here.

00:46:10.000 End of story.

00:46:11.000 So anybody who's like, I should work from home, goodbye.

00:46:15.000 I just want to do...

00:46:15.000 Now, as for TexVet, who says it's hypocrisy, I've literally said since the start of this company, we give unlimited sick time and unlimited parental leave for men and women.

00:46:24.000 Unlimited. Unlimited.

00:46:26.000 And so that means if you have a baby and you're a guy, have fun.

00:46:31.000 Go take care of your kid. 0.90

00:46:32.000 Let me know when you're available.

00:46:33.000 We will find someone to fill your position as a temporary holdover.

00:46:38.000 In the meantime, If at some point there are some things you can do, feel free to do them.

00:46:44.000 So if you want to work remote, you can.

00:46:46.000 That is not, go and work remote whenever you want.

00:46:48.000 That is, your child takes priority, and I recognize the importance of family, so we will give you a special benefit for the things that can be done.

00:46:57.000 Not, bring your kid into work when, you know, actually, I take that back.

00:47:02.000 We do largely allow people to come bring their kids periodically, as long as it's not disruptive.

00:47:05.000 But if there's a thing you have to do in person, you can't do remote, that's not happening.

00:47:09.000 It's not happening.

00:47:10.000 So Congress is a special provision.

00:47:13.000 It's a special class.

00:47:14.000 You are not opening up our legal system to remote voting and proxy voting because you decided to have a family right now.

00:47:21.000 I reject that.

00:47:21.000 Resign. If we had someone here who, and again, I stress, my company is different, but if somebody was a camera operator, at a certain point we're gonna ask them, hey, you've been gone for a certain amount of time and we gave you that benefit.

00:47:33.000 So I would say this.

00:47:35.000 They can't operate the camera, right?

00:47:37.000 We have a camera operator who has a kid.

00:47:39.000 He's a guy.

00:47:39.000 He has a kid.

00:47:40.000 He says, I want to be there for my wife and my kid, so I'm going to take off two months.

00:47:42.000 I say, go for it.

00:47:43.000 We'll find someone to fill in for you.

00:47:45.000 Come back when you can.

00:47:46.000 At a certain point, we're going to ask him, are you coming back or not?

00:47:49.000 Because if you're not, maybe, you know, this isn't right for you.

00:47:52.000 But the point is, there's no position where he's going to be simultaneously doing parental leave and then coming in and filming and doing his job.

00:48:01.000 He cannot film from home, so it just does not happen.

00:48:04.000 You cannot vote from home.

00:48:06.000 We are not going to create a special provision for you to do so.

00:48:09.000 It is not a job that can be done from home.

00:48:11.000 That being said, I have tremendous disdain for people who work remote.

00:48:15.000 I'll just be completely honest with you guys.

00:48:16.000 And it's not intentionally disrespectful, but let me just say, as a person who runs a business and who works 16 plus hours every single day, the people who are like, I don't want to be here, I'm like, then please quit because we don't want you here if you don't want to be here.

00:48:29.000 That's just it.

00:48:30.000 And also you're saying it's a specific part of her job that requires her to physically be there.

00:48:36.000 Like you said, all the other aspects of it could probably be done from home or at least in the office.

00:48:41.000 I'll put it this way very simply.

00:48:43.000 Remote work is a bad thing.

00:48:45.000 If you are having a child or you are sick, there is a special, okay, we're gonna let you work from home.

00:48:50.000 If the job can't be done from home, we will not create a special provision so that you can do it from home.

00:48:56.000 Such as, if you are a professional skateboarder, And we're supposed to be filming you skateboarding, and you're like, I'm gonna film at home.

00:49:02.000 I'm like, film what?

00:49:04.000 Do you have a big park?

00:49:05.000 Do we have the camera crew there?

00:49:06.000 We don't have anything there.

00:49:07.000 What are you gonna do?

00:49:08.000 We can't do that.

00:49:09.000 We're not gonna go build a ramp at your house and film there.

00:49:11.000 So no, you can't do it.

00:49:13.000 More importantly than anything else is the type of work matters.

00:49:17.000 Congress is a sacred constitutional institution.

00:49:20.000 It is outlined in Article 1 of the Constitution, the job that they do.

00:49:25.000 And because people have decided to simultaneously have family and do a public service job, they want special provisions that will erode the structure of our government more than it's already been eroded.

00:49:35.000 I say no.

00:49:36.000 You know, one of the other things that Congress does most of the time, or spends most of their time doing, is raising money.

00:49:41.000 And I don't imagine that they can do that nearly as effectively remotely as they do, you know, by going in and shaking hands with people and doing functions and going to dinners or having dinners or whatever.

00:49:53.000 So they'll always show up if there's money that can be made.

00:49:57.000 That's what I imagine.

00:49:58.000 But a little vote and suddenly somebody else has to go do it for me.

00:50:00.000 This might be controversial, but my dad, when he was in office, I mean, he had the 7th District of Wisconsin, which is the biggest one in the state.

00:50:09.000 And he had to drive a ton to campaign and to raise money.

00:50:12.000 And then you were in D.C.

00:50:13.000 every other week, right?

00:50:15.000 My mom, who is a working woman, who is who is like a superstar, would not have done that job with the little children that she has. 1.00

00:50:22.000 Like there is something to be said about evaluating your situation in life as a young mother and saying this job is not for me because this is one of the most demanding jobs you can have being a member of Congress.

00:50:33.000 A lot of it is that due to modern feminism and the way people have been raised, they don't believe in the idea that just because there's barriers in front of them that they should be told to quit.

00:50:41.000 They should be told I should be accommodated because I want to do this job.

00:50:45.000 And this is the thing.

00:50:45.000 Like life is sacrifice.

00:50:46.000 Like there are just there are just things you decisions you have to make in their heart.

00:50:50.000 And you can't always have the world.

00:50:52.000 This is a lie that we've been told.

00:50:53.000 Also, this lie that you should always be happy and content.

00:50:57.000 And like I think so many times we're just like chasing dopamine hits.

00:51:01.000 They would phrase what you're talking about as oppression.

00:51:04.000 Like your inability to accommodate me for these things is some form of oppression because you don't like women.

00:51:10.000 Can I just say, Tim, that what you what you said about giving time off like unlimited for people who have children is like such a beautiful thing.

00:51:17.000 And you will not have that.

00:51:19.000 Not to derail this conversation.

00:51:20.000 But like Walmart and Amazon are not going to tell their workers that you can have unlimited time off when you have a baby.

00:51:25.000 Like it's it's very corporate.

00:51:27.000 And this is what's lost when we say we're going to just become consumers and there's going to be no industry here in America.

00:51:33.000 It's that people work for these giant international companies.

00:51:40.000 And our government doesn't view us as people either.

00:51:42.000 It's all about GDP growth over individuals and how are people actually doing.

00:51:46.000 And that's like the question of like, America First, too.

00:51:48.000 Like, what does America First even mean?

00:51:50.000 And I think it means, how are people, real people, in this country doing?

00:51:55.000 Are they thriving or are they struggling?

00:51:57.000 Well, what those corporations which you're talking about, the ones who wouldn't give you unlimited time off, no, but they'll fly you to another state to have an abortion.

00:52:04.000 That's right.

00:52:05.000 Yeah. Because it's cheaper.

00:52:06.000 Yep. That's sick.

00:52:08.000 Yeah, it is.

00:52:09.000 That is messed up.

00:52:11.000 You know, building...

00:52:14.000 You know what I would say?

00:52:16.000 I think that even among conservatives, there's a lot of economic leftism that people don't seem to realize.

00:52:26.000 And that is, it's rooted in people want for themselves.

00:52:31.000 And that's understandable.

00:52:32.000 So, I was explaining...

00:52:34.000 I did a segment on this the other day.

00:52:38.000 If someone comes to me and says, I want X amount of money for a thing, right?

00:52:43.000 What you need to understand is, what you're saying is, okay, you want me to go into my wallet and take money out and hand it to you so you can do this thing.

00:52:51.000 And they're like, right.

00:52:52.000 It's like, okay, why should I give you money to do what that thing is?

00:52:57.000 I know it might sound rudimentary and kind of vague and like, what do you mean?

00:53:00.000 This is basically how work is, and it may be surprising to a lot of people.

00:53:05.000 A lot of people don't understand this.

00:53:06.000 Most people, and this includes a lot of conservatives, not all, they act as though companies have infinite money.

00:53:12.000 They don't question whether or not the work they do produces anything.

00:53:16.000 Is it bringing money into the company?

00:53:18.000 Why are you getting paid?

00:53:20.000 So you see this quite a bit, even at conservative media outlets.

00:53:24.000 People get paid exorbitant amounts of money.

00:53:26.000 Even though the company doesn't make money.

00:53:28.000 It does tend to be a leftist thing, but conservatives do this too, because people who don't run businesses don't get it.

00:53:35.000 Now, I do think on the right, you're going to find more entrepreneurs, more small business owners, and you're going to find people who've done more proprietorships, so they really understand this.

00:53:43.000 I can't pay you if what you do doesn't make money.

00:53:46.000 The left is offended by that idea.

00:53:48.000 There is actually a viral meme I think it was a Reddit post.

00:53:52.000 It's shared frequently by the left, where they say, Capitalism means you must make more money for your boss, and your boss will pay you, otherwise capitalism doesn't work.

00:54:03.000 And they go, they're so shocked and offended by this.

00:54:07.000 You mean that when I'm working at a coffee shop, I'm gonna make $100 in the hour, and he's only gonna pay me $20?

00:54:15.000 That's wrong!

00:54:17.000 And then the business owner tries explaining to them, we gotta pay for the coffee, We gotta pay for the electricity.

00:54:22.000 We have to pay the repairman.

00:54:23.000 We have to pay the heat and the gas.

00:54:26.000 We have to pay the permitting fees.

00:54:28.000 So that money you're making ain't going in my pocket.

00:54:30.000 But these people don't understand that.

00:54:31.000 They literally think businesses have infinite money and should just pay that stuff out.

00:54:37.000 Intentionally misunderstand it or say they don't understand it just because they don't think that it's fair.

00:54:42.000 They're like, well, you know, you have all of these things and it's so easy to open a business and it's so easy to become successful in business, which is obviously totally not true.

00:54:52.000 But that's the implication is it's your, your existence is super easy and you have all of this.

00:54:58.000 They don't pay any attention to what actually got you there and how, how much time you had to work and how long you reported to get to that position.

00:55:06.000 They just see they're in almost in a constant state of now and they never want to Understand the idea that they're not the ones taking the risk if the company fails Yes, and that's a huge part of it There's a difference between like what we're talking about with bringing industry back to America and Ken Ken You know families afford to buy a home and to send their kids to college and that kind of thing And then there's people who I would describe them as like on humans like the it's like a moral It's like a moral code of theirs to want to write inequities all the time

00:55:34.000 I don't know.

00:55:40.000 Destroy all these systemic barriers or whatever they want to call it I mean you see it throughout history like communist China the Spanish Civil War like it what happened in Cuba There's there's something that's very nefarious about just assuming that when somebody has something you don't have That you can justify doing anything to take what they have because it must have been stolen from you and that's not always the case Well,

00:55:58.000 that's one of the reasons why that I think that the right needs to be careful if popular if right-wing populism doesn't work is that sentiment is exactly what they will fall into on the left, especially if they find a charismatic leader Let's

00:56:33.000 jump to this next story from CNBC!

00:56:35.000 Trump extends the TikTok deadline for the second time.

00:56:38.000 He extended the deadline requiring China-based ByteDance to sell the U.S. TikTok operations, making the second time he's done this.

00:56:45.000 He announced the extension on his Truth Social platform, saying the TikTok deal requires more work to ensure all necessary approvals are signed.

00:56:51.000 Trump said he is signing an executive order to keep TikTok up and running for an additional 75 days.

00:56:55.000 Now, the deal was supposed to go through, but after the tariffs, China says, nope.

00:56:58.000 So it's likely there won't be a deal.

00:57:01.000 Trump is wrong on this.

00:57:02.000 TikTok should be banned, and Trump doesn't understand the platform.

00:57:07.000 He's likely being lobbied by individuals of financial interest in this, and he doesn't understand how damaging TikTok is for this country.

00:57:12.000 That being said, if it doesn't get sold off to U.S. interests, I'm totally fine with it.

00:57:17.000 I did see that there was TikTok dances to fight tariffs, so maybe that's the problem here.

00:57:22.000 Thank God!

00:57:23.000 Yeah. Thank goodness.

00:57:25.000 I'm relieved.

00:57:27.000 Do you have TikTok?

00:57:28.000 I have a TikTok.

00:57:29.000 Well, I have been censored.

00:57:30.000 We talked about this before the show started that I've been censored on TikTok that it's obviously not a free speech platform.

00:57:36.000 But I guess my question to you guys is, like, do you view the role of the government to decide what information is appropriate for people to consume?

00:57:44.000 Yes. You do?

00:57:45.000 Yeah, like, I think the government should arrest people who give porn to kids.

00:57:49.000 Right, but I would say there's information and there's pornography. 1.00

00:57:55.000 Because I think one of the main critiques of TikTok, frankly, was that there was all this pro-Palestine content on TikTok, and members of Congress actually cited that as a reason why it should be banned.

00:58:05.000 And to me, that's not a good reason.

00:58:07.000 Sure. That's not my reason.

00:58:08.000 Do you think that the book Genderqueer should be given to children?

00:58:12.000 I don't know.

00:58:13.000 I'm not familiar with the book, but I assume no.

00:58:18.000 Amazon listed it at 18 +, but it was put in school curriculums.

00:58:21.000 It is from a genderqueer individual who explains how she has a sexual fetish where she fantasizes about being a man and she engages in... 0.79

00:58:30.000 They actually have graphic depictions of the activities she's engaging in with other women and they gave that to children.

00:58:36.000 So this is a book explaining the life experiences of this person and the graphic sexual nature with images and explanations of what those things are.

00:58:44.000 If a teacher gives it to a child, Should they be arrested?

00:58:50.000 Or maybe not arrested, but like, should there be a governmental enforced penalty for giving that information to a child?

00:58:57.000 I don't know about governmental.

00:58:58.000 I mean, I would say like, a school board could say this, this person needs to be fired or something.

00:59:02.000 But, but, um...

00:59:03.000 What if a guy like walked up to a playground and had the book to a kid and started showing the pictures to him?

00:59:07.000 Yeah, I mean, that seems really inappropriate.

00:59:09.000 But what if, what if he goes on TikTok and DMs them the pictures?

00:59:13.000 I think that...

00:59:14.000 That you're getting, like, trapped in this, like, pornography question.

00:59:18.000 And I don't think that the reason why people want to censor TikTok has anything to do with whether the content on TikTok is explicit.

00:59:24.000 It's more informational.

00:59:25.000 And, like, so for instance, there's the pro-Palestine argument.

00:59:28.000 But just in general, the problem with TikTok is that American, the U.S. government has real control over American companies because they don't have the same rights as, say, like a news organization does, a constitutional and, like, carved out right to say and do what they want.

00:59:43.000 So the big tech companies are very beholden to our government.

00:59:47.000 When you can't control a tech company because it's not American, that's a threat to our government who wants to control the information we consume. 0.66

00:59:53.000 And so you might say, well, I think it's appropriate for the government to control that, and we might like the way that the government controls information under Donald Trump, but I didn't like it under Biden.

01:00:00.000 I mean, Biden was censoring right-wing content left and right and directly censoring it via just the White House, but also these left-wing NGOs that were staffed with former intelligence officials.

01:00:10.000 Who does China want to win? 0.99

01:00:12.000 In the United States.

01:00:14.000 Who would they prefer have power?

01:00:16.000 I mean, probably Joe Biden because he's compromised.

01:00:18.000 Indeed. And TikTok is heavily promoting Democrats, Biden and the bureaucratic state and their interests.

01:00:23.000 I just don't think it sets a precedent that's really negative, that the government has a role in controlling information.

01:00:30.000 We have a First Amendment that says...

01:00:31.000 When was the First Amendment ever enforced?

01:00:34.000 What do you mean?

01:00:35.000 Swearing was illegal on TV until the 2000s.

01:00:40.000 Blasphemy was illegal until probably the 70s.

01:00:43.000 Swearing in public was illegal in the 70s.

01:00:45.000 The Founding Fathers found blasphemy to be a punishable crime by government.

01:00:50.000 So the First Amendment was never actually enforced the way that people today are claiming it was.

01:00:54.000 It was always an issue of the moral majority dictated.

01:00:58.000 And that's still true to this date.

01:00:59.000 We don't have a moral majority.

01:01:00.000 I mean, if you look at what the Biden administration was interested in doing back in So, um...

01:01:34.000 Because I just don't want the government doing it.

01:01:35.000 Are the Democrats stopping their effort?

01:01:38.000 Stopping what effort?

01:01:39.000 Their effort to give kids access to adult content and transitions.

01:01:43.000 So your argument is the right should not engage in the conflict at all while the left actively indoctrinates children?

01:01:50.000 No, I mean, I just don't think that this is like an issue that we should be engaging in.

01:01:55.000 I think freedom of information in the digital public square is important, and whether it's— Right, so let's write that down.

01:02:01.000 The right should say, we shouldn't engage in this kind of behavior, while the left actively does.

01:02:08.000 But the left is like—do you mean like because the left is censoring information?

01:02:11.000 So the left actively censors the right while spreading leftist Marxist ideas to right-wing families and their kids and enforcing laws against them.

01:02:21.000 Yeah, I mean, I understand the point you're making, that, like, we're just leaving ourselves vulnerable to, like, the left controlling information.

01:02:34.000 I just don't believe in banning TikTok.

01:02:36.000 I just don't think.

01:02:37.000 What was it, was your initial, remember when we had the discussion, I don't remember the guest name, we had this, you guys had this long debate about this, was about the way that the government can't actually, we can't sue TikTok because they're not a US company.

01:02:50.000 We can't do anything to TikTok.

01:02:51.000 I thought that was the bigger point that you were making, that it was less cultural anymore.

01:02:54.000 That's why if TikTok is sold to a US company, I don't care.

01:02:58.000 Then it's fine.

01:02:59.000 And if they engage in what we see with Facebook and AXA and all that stuff, the issue is that when Facebook and Twitter and YouTube were engaging in these practices, Rumble got launched, specifically to counteract those things in the United States.

01:03:15.000 And that was a collective, communal, moral action to counter what we were seeing in that space.

01:03:22.000 At the same time, we voted for Donald Trump, and Uh, filed lawsuits in various states using the power of the judicial branch to crush the Marxists.

01:03:32.000 And we won!

01:03:33.000 We had the Alex Berenson lawsuit where he exposed the Biden administration was violating the Constitution.

01:03:38.000 Tremendous. TikTok?

01:03:39.000 We can do nothing.

01:03:40.000 So TikTok is actively sending to minor children adult content and mind-destroying, like mind-altering content.

01:03:47.000 We have no means to track how or why they're doing it, and we have no means of controlling and stopping it from happening.

01:03:53.000 But Instagram isn't doing that?

01:03:55.000 Instagram certainly is, but under meta, Mark Zuckerberg just met with Trump begging Donald Trump to lay off and to pull back his lawsuit on their antitrust.

01:04:05.000 So Zuckerberg is panicking right now and said they actually just dropped their fact-checking program officially as of yesterday.

01:04:13.000 So, for instance, I put up a video about Donald Trump in 2020 and the election.

01:04:18.000 And the Republicans sent in an alternate slate of electors, not a fraudulent one, the left is lying about that.

01:04:24.000 In it, I explained.

01:04:25.000 The official certified electors were sent in and Donald Trump sent in his own electors.

01:04:31.000 A fact-checking company got my Facebook demonetized and we lost all revenue from it because Zuckerberg gave leftist institutions sponsored by the Poynter Institute the decision-making power to crush conservatives and anybody who dare oppose the liberal economic order and their institutions.

01:04:48.000 We vote for Donald Trump.

01:04:49.000 We vote for Republicans and now Zuckerberg has dropped to the floor on his knees begging for forgiveness.

01:04:54.000 He's doing his podcast circuit saying, you know, I was so wrong, please, please spare me.

01:04:58.000 And we laugh now.

01:04:59.000 We won.

01:05:01.000 And that's why Trump has to win.

01:05:04.000 So my argument is, if Trump goes your route and says, I'm not going to do anything, Four years from now, they'll come back with a vengeance and they'll get us all banned.

01:05:14.000 If Donald Trump says we are going to erase their twisted, sick ideologies the same way they tried to do to us, then so be it.

01:05:21.000 Let's talk about why they feel beholden to the federal government, whether it's Joe Biden or whether it's Donald Trump.

01:05:27.000 They don't have the same protections that journalists have.

01:05:31.000 There's no carve-out in the Constitution for them.

01:05:33.000 You don't think there's any ideological alignment with them?

01:05:36.000 Say that again?

01:05:37.000 You don't think that they're like, say, for instance, Google, right?

01:05:39.000 Yeah. There's a lot of people that work at Google.

01:05:41.000 And it's my understanding that most of the culture at Google is ideologically aligned with the Democrats.

01:05:46.000 You look at the donations from companies like Google and stuff, and it tends to be 95% Democrat donations.

01:05:53.000 You don't think there's an ideological alignment there?

01:05:55.000 With Democrats?

01:05:56.000 Yeah, of course there is.

01:05:57.000 And Google started as a DARPA grant, too.

01:05:59.000 Like, a lot of these companies were created to influence The masses from our intelligence officials.

01:06:05.000 I think what we need is freedom for these companies to I don't So

01:06:40.000 the system right now is Democrats don't agree with you.

01:06:44.000 They will destroy us as soon as they take back the reins, if they do.

01:06:48.000 If we do nothing in this space, if Donald Trump said, no, no, Facebook, keep banning conservatives, he would lose the midterms in two seconds.

01:06:56.000 Democrats would get back in power and then they would tidal wave and crush every single person.

01:07:01.000 There is no reality, there's no mathematical equation, where we as either libertarian, post-liberal, liberal, disaffected liberal, conservative, or otherwise, who have sided with Trump, survive unless we actively use the powers of government to protect our moral worldview and stop the people from destroying us.

01:07:20.000 Generally, I agree with that.

01:07:21.000 So that means if we sit back and say, we're not going to engage in this way, and we're going to allow the Chinese Communist Party to push Dylan Mulvaney on children, Trump will lose in 2028, the Democrats will come back and they will have you banned and me banned, and probably a lot of people in jail. 0.78

01:07:38.000 So I was where you are probably 10 years ago, and this is liberalism, not in the derogatory American semantic sense.

01:07:47.000 This is classical liberalism.

01:07:49.000 No, no, we can't do this because powers could be exploited in you. 0.71

01:07:54.000 So we're going to stay on principle and not engage.

01:07:57.000 Well, the bad news is, I realized over the past several years, they're not stopping.

01:08:03.000 They're not stopping.

01:08:04.000 TikTok is not stopping.

01:08:06.000 Conservatives have started.

01:08:08.000 Okay, so you've got a guy who's a conservative guy, or he's not really a conservative, but he's along with the right, who has got a stake in TikTok, and he's hired lobbyists, people like Kellyanne Conway.

01:08:17.000 All of a sudden, Trump Flips 180.

01:08:20.000 TikTok is overwhelmingly woke and pushing trans and far-leftism on children.

01:08:25.000 These kids are having serious issues because of it, and we've been actively fighting against it to try and save the moral foundation of this country.

01:08:33.000 If we have no means of stopping TikTok from doing this, and we just allow our children to be washed over by this, then conservatives lose. 0.73

01:08:42.000 Completely. If TikTok is sold off to an American company, And we then have the ability to file lawsuits against them, get access to their data through legal means and constitutional means, then we can shut them down as they're trying to push these things.

01:08:55.000 Just like we're seeing with Facebook dropping their censorship program.

01:08:59.000 We've not completely won.

01:09:00.000 We are in an active culture war.

01:09:03.000 So what we had in the 2010s with Gamergate into the expanded culture war was famously Carl Benjamin, the original classical liberal of the internet, saying, I disagree with what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.

01:09:19.000 And then every step of the way, they used every opportunity to destroy him and get him banned, despite the fact he kept protecting them.

01:09:25.000 And then at a certain point, he was like, well, I certainly can't do that anymore.

01:09:27.000 They banned me every time I did.

01:09:29.000 The only opportunity I have is to defend myself.

01:09:32.000 So this idea that we are going to let TikTok operate under the Chinese Communist Party, because, look, There's not even a reality where this TikTok is free from influence.

01:09:44.000 Right now, it's the Chinese Communist Party telling TikTok to destroy the American younger generation. 0.96

01:09:50.000 So you have your pick of, let China destroy us, let Democrats destroy us and sit here and do nothing, or fight back. 0.52

01:09:56.000 So why do you think Democrats wanted to ban TikTok?

01:09:58.000 This is a bipartisan issue and Joe Biden wanted to do it too.

01:10:00.000 Democrats and Republicans wanted to ban TikTok because TikTok allows people to be anti-Israel.

01:10:06.000 That's your answer?

01:10:08.000 Do you think that's a good reason?

01:10:17.000 But my reason is not related to Israel.

01:10:19.000 My reason is related to they are trying to completely destroy this country and young people. 1.00

01:10:23.000 But you got so many people who have Israel shoved up their ass that they're saying TikTok should be allowed because the one issue I care about, which is probably half bots, by the way, is saying that we should allow the Chinese Communist Party to tell our kids to cut their balls off. 0.99

01:10:36.000 I just don't believe in outsourcing online morality to the government. 0.99

01:10:40.000 Then maybe TikTok should be...

01:10:41.000 The Chinese government's okay though, right? 1.00

01:10:43.000 But I think it's bad, so here's an example of why I don't like TikTok being banned.

01:10:48.000 I had, there was a video that Lila Rose posted that was banned on, well it wasn't banned, it had a fact check and then a little like censor on it on Instagram.

01:10:57.000 And I went on TikTok, I found the same video and it was allowed.

01:11:00.000 And I'm not saying that TikTok is great for free speech, but some content that's not allowed on Instagram is allowed on TikTok and vice versa.

01:11:08.000 I would rather have more tech companies with lots of information where we can sometimes find something on TikTok that I can't find on Snapchat and find on Snapchat that I can't find on Facebook than say, I'm going to outsource all of online morality to the government so they can decide what everybody's allowed to see and think and hear.

01:11:25.000 And I especially don't believe in that because I know that in four years we can get another Joe Biden, and I don't want that.

01:11:31.000 And that will happen if we stay on this course.

01:11:32.000 I think what he's saying is it's not just about morality but about accountability.

01:11:36.000 That if Lila Rose wanted to file suit over the fact that her video is being unfairly censored in some way, that there's a legal recourse on Instagram to do so because of meta. 0.60

01:11:46.000 But to do that, if it was somehow banned on TikTok, there would be no legal recourse whatsoever.

01:11:51.000 That's currently the case.

01:11:51.000 I'm thinking more long term.

01:11:52.000 I don't just want to control information online because I want to win in four years.

01:11:56.000 I want there to be just lots of information.

01:12:01.000 Everybody's allowed to access anything on the internet.

01:12:03.000 And I think that there's a line for obviously child pornography.

01:12:08.000 Can you explain to me, you were saying that you want to extend the same legal protections that we give journalists to tech companies?

01:12:15.000 Yeah. I think that they have, for instance, section 230.

01:12:22.000 Yes. I was already saying the idea, because they're already playing fast in.

01:12:26.000 loose with what it means to be a platform and what it means to be a publisher.

01:12:29.000 So their protection for being a publisher can go away drop of a hat.

01:12:34.000 And a Trump admin or a Biden admin, if they don't like what a tech company is doing, can threaten to take that away from tech companies.

01:12:42.000 So I think they need more protection to say you're a platform, you're allowed to be free speech, and we want you to be free speech instead of there being just a situation where they are beholden to the whims of whatever political ideology is in the executive.

01:12:56.000 So this is liberalism.

01:12:58.000 And I used to consider myself liberal.

01:13:00.000 I don't.

01:13:01.000 I would say either post-liberal or something else.

01:13:04.000 You know, Michael Malice was telling me that post-liberal is often associated with fascism, and I was like, I don't know what that means, nor do I care about what people would insinuate that.

01:13:14.000 Liberalism is the ideology of live and let live.

01:13:18.000 We shouldn't exert these powers because these powers can be used against us.

01:13:21.000 And that's what gives birth to post-liberalism.

01:13:25.000 The idea that at a certain point your enemies crush you because you keep letting them do it.

01:13:30.000 So there's no reality in which Donald Trump allows Democrats to continue their course of action and we survive this.

01:13:38.000 It's just not reality.

01:13:40.000 The idea that we're going to say we should not use the powers granted by the government to stop Democrats from giving children this leftist queer ideology stuff in schools? 0.91

01:13:51.000 We absolutely should.

01:13:54.000 Christian liberals in this country are the reason why we are in this place right now. 0.99

01:14:00.000 That is, this country was founded on Christian moral traditions with classical liberal politics.

01:14:07.000 So you ended up with a 1950s of 99% of this country Christian, and whenever a problem arose the Christians said, Just let them do it, and we'll mind our own business. 0.98

01:14:19.000 And where's that gotten us?

01:14:20.000 Mass immigration, escalating crime, a weakened economy, the outsourcing of our manufacturing base, leftist indoctrination for four generations. 0.99

01:14:28.000 Now we have grade schools giving children graphic imagery, and not even that, we have racist imagery and things like this.

01:14:36.000 It is absolutely within the purview of any moral society to say, you can't do that.

01:14:40.000 Now, what I often hear from people is, but the First Amendment.

01:14:43.000 Except the First Amendment was never enforced, and, given the opportunity, the Democrats have already stated they believe that hate speech is not free speech and is not protected.

01:14:51.000 So if we sit here and just say, let them do and say whatever they want and we'll mind our own business, it's the continued erosion of our moral tradition.

01:14:59.000 Tim, I totally agree.

01:15:02.000 using the powers that be and trying to create a moral society.

01:15:05.000 And I think we were founded as a Christian nation.

01:15:08.000 The reason that I take a pause with this TikTok thing is because of what you said, that the reason that they wanted to get rid of the platform is because there was pro-Palestine, anti-Israel content on there.

01:15:18.000 It's a fact.

01:15:19.000 So I look at the reasoning here and I'm like, are we getting rid of TikTok because we want to promote morality and we want to allow there to be free speech for conservatives and the digital public?

01:15:28.000 So we're like, I just don't buy that because you already stated the reason that we were getting rid of TikTok The reason why.

01:15:36.000 Republicans wanted to ban TikTok in the first place was because TikTok favors the Democratic Party and leftist ideology.

01:15:43.000 The Democrats changed their mind after October 7th, when TikTok, it appears, artificially inflated ProPal's done content.

01:15:51.000 Not naturally.

01:15:52.000 I just think, I think it's just like the Uniparty.

01:15:54.000 Like, the intelligence officials want to be able to control what information we see, and they can't control what's on TikTok, obviously.

01:16:02.000 This is what you want, for our government to be able to control the information we have, for allegedly good reasons.

01:16:07.000 And I just know where this started.

01:16:09.000 And it wasn't because we The Biden admin wants to promote morality.

01:16:12.000 We know that that started for, I don't know, they wanted there to not be any pro-Palestine content thriving on the app or, I don't know, but it's just not a good, it's not a good, it didn't start from a good reason.

01:16:23.000 So I have a lot of trouble buying that this is going to be really wonderful.

01:16:27.000 But again, like, when it comes to adults giving trans and queer ideological pamphlets to children, you're okay with that?

01:16:36.000 No. Well, how do you stop it?

01:16:38.000 Yeah, I mean, I think you have to stop it.

01:16:40.000 But like, I guess I don't, I want there to be digital freedom in the digital public square.

01:16:46.000 So can Jeffrey Marsh send messages to children on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, or TikTok, telling them, run away from your parents, be queer, go on these websites and look at this materials? 0.84

01:17:01.000 Should that be allowed?

01:17:03.000 I look at the content moderation.

01:17:05.000 And I know that I was censored by it during the Biden admin.

01:17:08.000 I had articles that were de-boosted.

01:17:10.000 I asked you a question about Geoffrey March.

01:17:13.000 That I, what, that I don't.

01:17:14.000 Okay, let's just, we'll keep it in generals, in generality.

01:17:18.000 Should an adult gay man be allowed to send sexually suggestive materials to a child? 0.99

01:17:23.000 No. Who stops him? 0.90

01:17:25.000 The FBI?

01:17:26.000 Perhaps. Now, when TikTok is pushing these materials to children, who stops them?

01:17:33.000 Nobody. We can't do anything about it.

01:17:35.000 And they're doing it.

01:17:36.000 Every day.

01:17:37.000 Non-stop. 0.98

01:17:39.000 Dylan Mulvaney has 13 million followers and is advocating that children remove their genitals by surgical intervention.

01:17:48.000 And this does happen on American social media platforms.

01:17:51.000 Now what ends up happening is, when the Democrats were in power and were actively censoring anyone who opposed them, we voted We filed lawsuits.

01:18:01.000 We got access to the information.

01:18:02.000 There was public backlash.

01:18:03.000 Bud Light lost 30% of their stock.

01:18:06.000 Target is still in freefall.

01:18:07.000 Their stock is...

01:18:08.000 I don't know what their stock is or if they're public, but Target's announced that their revenue is collapsing because of this.

01:18:13.000 TikTok is completely insulated. 0.96

01:18:15.000 There is no negative repercussion for everything that they're doing in telling children to surgically remove their testicles.

01:18:23.000 So, my view is, the ban Which is actually force TikTok to sell to a U.S. company so that we have remedies is a good thing.

01:18:32.000 Now, the Democrats only got on board because TikTok appears to have artificially inflated pro-Palestine content.

01:18:38.000 That's when the U.S. was like, whoa, TikTok's actively trying to subvert our foreign policy.

01:18:43.000 Not that I'm a fan of America's foreign policy.

01:18:45.000 I think it's awful.

01:18:46.000 But that shocked Democrats, and they got a bunch of calls from their donors, and then they were like, looks like we're gonna have to ban this one now.

01:18:53.000 The Democrats didn't want to do it.

01:18:55.000 Because TikTok promotes their ideology, because their ideology is destructive to America.

01:19:00.000 Republicans wanted it banned because of the like, I use Dylan Mulvaney as the example, because Dylan Mulvaney has 13 million followers, and Riley Gaines has 600,000.

01:19:08.000 Clearly, what they do is called a pressure system manipulation.

01:19:12.000 So when you mentioned Lila Rose getting a video on TikTok, They'll make sure that conservatives get just enough views to where they feel like the platform works for them, but they'll always make sure Democrats are two-to-one.

01:19:22.000 So conservatives feel satisfied because on Instagram I'm banned, but on TikTok I'm not.

01:19:27.000 And then you turn the page and Dylan Mulvaney's got seven times more followers than Riley Gaines. 0.99

01:19:32.000 So the message is completely inverted and the pressure on young people is, cut off your balls, be woke, do bad things, burn the country down. 0.99

01:19:40.000 That is an influence there's no accountability to stop. 0.99

01:19:42.000 We can't do anything about it.

01:19:44.000 Now, I get it.

01:19:44.000 TikTok does have servers and does operate in the United States.

01:19:46.000 There are some remedies to that, but we need to know what they're doing, how they're doing, and I think having them sell to you as a company is a good idea.

01:19:53.000 Well, the Biden administration was obviously really involved in content moderation.

01:19:55.000 They were sued and it went to the Supreme Court.

01:19:57.000 Do you think that if it was the Trump administration who was doing it instead and for values and ideas that we like, that it's okay?

01:20:05.000 So, what the Trump administration does is nowhere near what the Biden administration was doing.

01:20:10.000 And so, I'm pretty okay with it.

01:20:12.000 Where's the line?

01:20:13.000 Like, you keep bringing up, like, child pornography and, you know, influence.

01:20:17.000 Like, where is the line for you?

01:20:19.000 Right, the line is, I, as an individual, can file a lawsuit against Facebook.

01:20:24.000 I file a lawsuit against TikTok, it stops at the border.

01:20:28.000 And then we have no idea what China's doing, where they stored the data, what their algorithm says, and why they're going after these kids.

01:20:34.000 I just worry about, like, if the only information that we get is approved by our government, then we're, like, I think you're conflating accountability through lawsuits with Donald Trump

01:21:04.000 issuing an edict on what people can and can't say.

01:21:06.000 But it is, but it's not just about lawsuits, because it is about the content, right?

01:21:09.000 You said it was because of them purposely inflating content that is radical leftist and Dylan Mulvaney.

01:21:16.000 So it's also about the kind of content that's being promoted on TikTok.

01:21:21.000 So, I don't know, I just...

01:21:23.000 So some parents in Illinois called the police on a teacher who gave the kids a book called This Book is Gay.

01:21:30.000 I think the police should arrest that teacher, yes.

01:21:33.000 Yeah, I just I just want to be I just want to be able to have information like read things from France and read things from Britain and or be able to see content and videos from China and know what's happening and I don't want the only information I get to be pre-approved by the United States government.

01:21:46.000 I would I would take issue with the idea that you get to see legitimate content from China.

01:21:51.000 China is really really strict about what they allow out and I'm Application TikTok,

01:22:16.000 the app itself, is algorithmically sending videos to people.

01:22:23.000 That doesn't mean that you can't find similar information about, say, for instance, just because of the context here with TikTok, you can find plenty of critical stories about Israel and about the Gaza The war in Gaza or whatever.

01:22:40.000 You can find those in multiple places.

01:22:42.000 The information itself isn't being limited by the government.

01:22:45.000 It's just the algorithms that TikTok uses.

01:22:48.000 And I think that TikTok itself has been weaponized by the CCP, by the Chinese. 1.00

01:22:54.000 I guess I wouldn't deny that.

01:22:55.000 So that's my, that's my, that's my, that would be my concern.

01:22:59.000 It's like the information you're, you keep talking about You keep mentioning, I want there to be able to be information.

01:23:04.000 I don't think the U.S. has a significant censorship regime or significant enough censorship regime to say, OK, we have we're in the dark about what's going on in Israel and Gaza.

01:23:15.000 I think that's what it's pretty well established.

01:23:17.000 One important thing is the argument that they're spying on us is a lie.

01:23:22.000 It is true that TikTok collects our data and we don't know what they're doing with it.

01:23:27.000 And it is true that there's an argument where a 17-year-old kid today on TikTok who signs up, all of his information will be held by the CCP.

01:23:35.000 And then 10 years from now, when he's working in industry, they're going to have all his private information and be able to access everything.

01:23:40.000 That's true.

01:23:40.000 That is nowhere close to the reason why the U.S.

01:23:43.000 wants to ban TikTok.

01:23:44.000 They do not care about that.

01:23:46.000 That is the PR reason they gave because the real issue is that after October 7th,

01:23:59.000 Over the course of a single weekend, it completely inverted and pro-Palestine content skyrocketed, despite the fact the amount of posts didn't change, indicating that this was an algorithmic prioritization by the Chinese Communist Party, by the owners of TikTok, to intentionally put anti-Israel content in front of people.

01:24:17.000 That is an artificial manipulation.

01:24:20.000 We should not allow For whatever reason, be it Israel or otherwise, China, to dictate what our young people think and hear.

01:24:27.000 That being said, the anti-Israel people absolutely loved that TikTok did that.

01:24:32.000 And so they went full bore in, we must protect TikTok.

01:24:37.000 Anyone who's being honest on the issue is going to tell you, the Democrats only changed their tune because of Israel.

01:24:43.000 However, having the Chinese Communist Party able to dictate what our young people see is the death of this country. 0.93

01:24:50.000 So what do you think happens with this, with Trump kicking the can down the road 75 days?

01:24:54.000 Well, China doesn't want to sell it anymore.

01:24:56.000 Yeah. China said that...

01:24:57.000 Because of the tariffs.

01:24:58.000 Yeah, the deal's off.

01:24:59.000 Yeah. So Trump kicks the can down the road, and he arguably can't do that.

01:25:04.000 Yeah. So it'll be interesting to see if anyone really wants to take this up with the Supreme Court.

01:25:08.000 Considering that prominent conservatives did 180s with that explanation, like Charlie Kirk and Donald Trump, I imagine that there's not going to be any significant effort to go after TikTok.

01:25:17.000 I just didn't see the same fanfare around this topic this time around that I did.

01:25:23.000 Maybe it's just because it was election season when it was going on, but my algorithm, like my ex-feed, was all about this topic when the election was going on.

01:25:32.000 This time it's like nobody seems to be talking.

01:25:34.000 Because it actually went dark.

01:25:35.000 Like TikTok actually was like gone on people.

01:25:38.000 That was fake.

01:25:38.000 They faked it.

01:25:39.000 It was fake, but you couldn't access it for a time, so people got freaked out.

01:25:43.000 TikTok faked that whole thing.

01:25:44.000 Yeah. So, uh, TikTok claimed they got shut down when they didn't, which was a manipulation tech technique on young people to get, uh, who was, who's that make that guy make up our, uh, influencer?

01:25:55.000 Jeffree Star?

01:25:56.000 Charles something.

01:25:57.000 Oh, James Charles.

01:25:59.000 He made a video saying, Oh my God, I can't believe.

01:26:01.000 Thank you, Donald Trump.

01:26:02.000 I can't believe it.

01:26:03.000 This, this is the problem I have with TikTok.

01:26:06.000 They did not get taken down.

01:26:08.000 They faked it.

01:26:08.000 And then they came back a day later saying Trump brought it back, which he did not do.

01:26:13.000 Yeah. So.

01:26:14.000 All of these young people are being influenced by the CCP to do and think what they want to think, and I'm like, that's the death of this country.

01:26:22.000 Now, maybe the argument is Donald Trump's conversation with TikTok is...

01:26:27.000 They are going to make sure that young people are fed some kind of anti-establishment narrative, and that's what he thinks.

01:26:32.000 Honestly, I don't think so.

01:26:34.000 I think what we see is an ultra-wealthy individual who has a financial interest in TikTok, who has hired lobbyists, and now Trump's inner circle is telling him, no, no, keep this.

01:26:43.000 As much as I like Charlie Kirk and respect him tremendously, he's never given a reason why he did a 180 overnight.

01:26:50.000 Just one day he was like, ban TikTok, the next day he was like, TikTok's great.

01:26:53.000 I'm so happy that Trump saved it.

01:26:54.000 Trump hasn't explained either.

01:26:56.000 He's just simply like, no, we like TikTok now.

01:26:58.000 Yeah, he's like, young people use it, so now we like it.

01:27:00.000 I mean, is that part of it?

01:27:01.000 Is part of it because, like you said, that he's planning elections five, ten years out, and he's trying to get the vote of the next generation, and he sees that young people like the app, so therefore he changes his mind on it.

01:27:11.000 His data's bad.

01:27:12.000 The app is like, it's like two to one, liberal to conservative.

01:27:16.000 And what young people are being fed is overwhelmingly leftist talking points and leftist ideology.

01:27:21.000 And I don't care for the...

01:27:24.000 I don't think the U.S. should be funding Israel, but overwhelmingly anti-U.S.

01:27:28.000 foreign policy.

01:27:29.000 So Trump is overwhelmingly pro-Israel.

01:27:33.000 So that's going to come to a head at some point.

01:27:36.000 But the reality is, this is really simple.

01:27:39.000 TikTok divests from China.

01:27:42.000 Then we're done.

01:27:43.000 That's all the bill does.

01:27:44.000 They don't got to be banned.

01:27:44.000 They just got to divest.

01:27:46.000 What's the problem?

01:27:46.000 Why won't they divest?

01:27:47.000 Remember for like one week they had like every kid on the internet saying like, oh, Osama bin Laden wasn't such a bad guy. 0.91

01:27:54.000 Remember that?

01:27:55.000 It was a viral trend where they were reading the bin Laden letter.

01:27:58.000 And they didn't know or understand what it was actually about.

01:28:02.000 So this is the issue that ultimately freaks out the Uniparty establishment.

01:28:08.000 They're like, But I'll tell you this, I would rather have Joe Biden trying to lie to me, where I can file lawsuits against him and take it to the courts, or then vote for Donald Trump, than the CCP in control of youth media messaging to this country.

01:28:22.000 It's bad enough that Facebook was sending all of this far-left stuff to kids, but we ultimately won that battle.

01:28:29.000 Or I should say, we've won the battlefield, the conflict is still ongoing, but Donald Trump recently had Mark Zuckerberg in the Oval Office, and Zuckerberg's begging Trump to drop the antitrust suits.

01:28:38.000 Zuckerberg, Facebook, I think it was yesterday, officially ended their fact-checking program. 0.96

01:28:44.000 Elon Musk bought X and shut down the weird woke garbage. 0.98

01:28:48.000 TikTok has taken a major foothold in this country among the younger generation, and we have no means of rectifying that.

01:28:54.000 Other than, actually, we passed a bill in the House, in the Senate, the President signed it, it's upheld by the Supreme Court.

01:29:02.000 Done. TikTok is banned unless they sell.

01:29:05.000 The only thing Trump can do is instruct the executive branch not to enforce the law, which is what he's doing.

01:29:12.000 However, I'm really curious as to why Google servers and Apple servers restored TikTok, because after the initial stay by executive order from Trump, they didn't do it.

01:29:21.000 The obvious reason being they're still liable for all those fines, which I think is like $100 billion per day or some ridiculous number.

01:29:30.000 They're just hoping Trump doesn't actually enforce it against them, so long as he's president.

01:29:35.000 I'm also wondering how the insurance companies are allowing them to do this.

01:29:39.000 Because the liability doesn't leave, their insurance companies are also extremely confident it will never be enforced.

01:29:44.000 So I suppose the issue is, if Trump says, I won't enforce it, they're confident that if any Democrat ends up winning, the Democrats certainly won't enforce it either.

01:29:52.000 So the liability is zero to disobey a federal law that was passed.

01:29:55.000 But there is actually one simple argument, one simple question on the whole issue.

01:30:01.000 What grounds do we currently have as a nation to accept that our legislative branch in both houses passed a law, the executive branch signed it, and the judicial branch at the highest court upheld it, and it's not being enforced?

01:30:14.000 That's because of Donald Trump.

01:30:15.000 But what is the mechanism by which we accept that?

01:30:19.000 We shouldn't.

01:30:20.000 It's unconstitutional.

01:30:22.000 He should be enforcing the law.

01:30:24.000 I agree.

01:30:25.000 I don't know what the method...

01:30:28.000 It's like DACA. 0.53

01:30:29.000 I mean, yeah, I don't know what the method would be to, you know, make him, but I mean, look, the Congress has decided, just like you said, it went through the entire government, and he's just like, nah.

01:30:40.000 So. Right.

01:30:42.000 That's a better argument to me than like, should we, shouldn't we?

01:30:45.000 It's like, well, it passed, and so.

01:30:49.000 It passed, he signed it, the SCOTUS looked at it, and, you know.

01:30:55.000 SCOTUS said, yes, done.

01:30:57.000 To me, that's a much better argument.

01:30:59.000 Like, it doesn't really matter what we think about it.

01:31:01.000 Because it was upheld.

01:31:03.000 Yeah. Yeah.

01:31:04.000 I think Donald Trump right now...

01:31:07.000 Here's the other issue, too, which is surprising why Trump is not enforcing this.

01:31:12.000 Donald Trump is going after all of the college students who are anti-Israel.

01:31:16.000 So he's pulling student visas.

01:31:18.000 There was that...

01:31:19.000 What was her name?

01:31:20.000 Romesa? She was what was actually here illegally. 1.00

01:31:24.000 She was here illegally?

01:31:25.000 No, she had a student visa.

01:31:27.000 So one of them was here actually illegally and like had overstayed her visa and she was deported.

01:31:33.000 I don't think that was, is it Romesa?

01:31:36.000 I bet it might have been a different girl. 0.96

01:31:38.000 Was this, was Romesa or whatever her name is the girl who was arrested on the street?

01:31:42.000 Romesa. If I understand correctly, they're all activists on some level, right?

01:31:46.000 Yeah. And so the unifying factor for these students is that they're all anti-Israel.

01:31:52.000 And like Mahmoud Khalil, for instance, they accused of fraud for not disclosing, what did he have, like a security clearance in Syria or something?

01:31:58.000 Or Britain, British security clearance.

01:32:00.000 Is he being charged with that?

01:32:01.000 Nope. They cited the INA section, I think it might have been 237, saying that he's a threat to U.S. national security.

01:32:10.000 So that's why he's had his visa revoked, and that's why he's being deported.

01:32:14.000 And it was funny because we had a liberal lawyer on The Culture War, and I asked him, is it within the interests, is it within U.S. national security and foreign policy interests to support Israel?

01:32:25.000 And he was like, yes.

01:32:26.000 And I'm like, I'm not saying you agree with it, but you agree the government views supporting Israel as within their national security interests.

01:32:33.000 Yes. And I said, would protesting Israel be a create a risk to that interest that the U.S.

01:32:42.000 has in Israel?

01:32:42.000 He said, yes.

01:32:43.000 I said, OK, by that logic, the INA says the secretary of state can pull this guy's visa and deport him.

01:32:48.000 And he was like, wait, wait, wait, wait, no, no, no.

01:32:50.000 I'm like, that's why they're deporting him.

01:32:52.000 Yeah. So it is it is interesting.

01:32:54.000 Donald Trump is is is in two worlds on this one.

01:32:57.000 He's defending tick tock despite the principal reason being Israel. 0.99

01:33:01.000 That's why Republicans and Democrats got on board while at the same time going after anybody who's critical of Israel, who's here on a visa and having their.

01:33:07.000 I hate the fact that they're using the criticism of Israel as a reason to get these people out of here because they're Like, they're all leftists that hate the West in general, and I think that should be plenty of reason.

01:33:19.000 You hate the West?

01:33:21.000 You want to see the destruction of the United States?

01:33:22.000 You shouldn't get a green card.

01:33:24.000 You shouldn't be welcome in our country.

01:33:25.000 I don't care what you think about Israel. 0.81

01:33:27.000 GTFO, man!

01:33:28.000 I think first and foremost, we should have gotten rid of the people who protested in 2020 and were like toppling down statues of the founding fathers, like attacks on this country, and then we can go to attacks on Israel.

01:33:38.000 And the other thing that bothers me about, well, I actually agree that there's a lot in federal law that says you can be taken out of this country if you're not a citizen, more than people really realize.

01:33:49.000 The problem is that the Trump admin has Like, essentially said, we're not going to give this, like, millions in research funding to these institutions if they don't adopt, like, this certain definition of anti-Semitism.

01:34:00.000 And that impacts the citizen students who are on campus.

01:34:03.000 And that's what bothers me most.

01:34:04.000 Like, I don't really care necessarily what happens to these students who are not actually American citizens, who are here, you know, as a privilege studying in this country, working in this country.

01:34:14.000 There are students who are now citizens being impacted by these admin-imposed anti-Semitism hate speech rules.

01:34:20.000 Yeah, I mean, look, if people...

01:34:23.000 People don't understand that Donald Trump, it's the IHRA's non-legally binding working definition of anti-Semitism was adopted by Trump first, in his first term.

01:34:34.000 You can't say, like, one of them, like...

01:34:37.000 Quoting the Bible.

01:34:38.000 The Bible, yes, St. Paul says that the Jews killed Jesus.

01:34:41.000 That's not, that's against the rules now.

01:34:43.000 And it's a biblical quote, unfortunately, for fortunately, you know, it's... 1.00

01:34:47.000 Protecting? There should be no hate speech laws.

01:34:51.000 There should be no rules about what you're allowed to say.

01:34:54.000 Especially on a college campus.

01:34:55.000 Yeah, when it comes to that kind of stuff.

01:34:57.000 But if you are here on a green card or some kind of visa like that and you are anti-American, beat it, man.

01:35:04.000 Get out.

01:35:05.000 Get them out.

01:35:06.000 Send them back.

01:35:07.000 Send them home.

01:35:08.000 If you are here looking to advance causes that want to destroy the United States or the West's way of life, send them home.

01:35:18.000 They're guests.

01:35:18.000 They are not entitled to be here.

01:35:21.000 Beat it.

01:35:22.000 Yeah, I agree.

01:35:24.000 But I believe Trump is currently pushing this through again, isn't he?

01:35:29.000 I don't know.

01:35:30.000 The IHRA rule?

01:35:32.000 He's trying to mandate that the schools adopt it.

01:35:34.000 I don't know exactly.

01:35:35.000 I don't know for sure if Columbia did adopt it.

01:35:37.000 They might have agreed to it.

01:35:39.000 Is that under threat of removing funding?

01:35:41.000 Yeah. So they said, well, we want you to restore our funding, so we will adopt these rules.

01:35:47.000 But yeah, they're pretty expansive to what you can and can't say.

01:35:53.000 And my fear really is like, I do think Absolutely.

01:36:10.000 It adds credibility to the idea that You can't criticize the Jews.

01:36:17.000 You can't say the Jews control the government and the media.

01:36:19.000 That's in this IHRA guideline.

01:36:22.000 And this forces the idea that the Jews must control the government if they're making this against the rules.

01:36:28.000 So it has the complete opposite effect.

01:36:31.000 And because that kind of stuff is a conspiracy theory domain, they ignore the fact that there are massive podcasts that are super critical of Israel or super critical of...

01:36:44.000 To use the phrase blatantly anti-semitic, there are tons of places where you can say all that stuff all you want, but as soon as there's one issue where they're suppressed or there's censorship, then it's like, see, look, you can't say this stuff, even though you've been saying it forever on multiple platforms.

01:37:03.000 I mean, America's been fantastic at creating new enemies for themselves for decades.

01:37:07.000 Dozens and dozens of years right with every war that we've gotten involved in and you bomb some local village and a bunch of people who are not enemy what they declare enemy combatants die and they create a whole new generation of people that hate America.

01:37:21.000 I mean, yeah there that's true, but I think that like I'm not super against like we mentioned someone mentioned Afghanistan earlier and and whereas Afghanistan was a You created numerous

01:37:54.000 enemies to this country at a time when you shouldn't have been there.

01:37:59.000 But you know, it's it's it's a problem that That there are people in Congress that are saying, you know, you shouldn't be allowed to say this We have to have anti-semitism laws and those same people have like, you know Israeli flags in their office and it's like look man,

01:38:14.000 I get it You got a decent decent amount of your constituents are Jewish, but that's not helping the the image that you're No, And then you hear that stuff and people are like, he's not beating those fascist claims when stuff like this happens because, you know, the left will declare him a fascist and they have been doing that for 15 years now.

01:38:42.000 It's been that long.

01:38:42.000 And these types of things don't help.

01:38:45.000 not at all.

01:38:47.000 And those anti-Semitism rules are not just imposed on the universities, but I think state legislatures have imposed similar definitions of anti-Semitism, and then it was introduced into federal law and it actually passed the House, and it may go to the Senate.

01:39:02.000 I don't know if that's on the agenda, but that was like last year.

01:39:06.000 This was called fake news, but I just want to show you guys, I have pulled up the Holocaust Remembrance website, which says, it's their definition of anti-Semitism, which I believe Trump does want universities to adopt.

01:39:17.000 One of them says, using symbols and images associated with classic anti-Semitism, e.g.

01:39:22.000 claims of Jews killing Jesus or blood libel, to characterize Israel or Israelis.

01:39:27.000 Specifically, they say, claiming Jews killed Jesus to characterize Israel as Israelis, whatever that means, because they also say that you can't blame Jews for what Israel does, so I don't know how that makes sense.

01:39:37.000 But, uh, Matthew, uh, 27. Or not, not even, not, not, uh, okay, yeah, okay, is it 27?

01:39:43.000 Whatever. That is the, uh, part of the Bible, probably one of the most famous parts, where, uh, Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere.

01:39:50.000 He said, I am innocent of this man's blood.

01:39:52.000 It is your responsibility.

01:39:53.000 And the people answered, his blood is on us and our children.

01:39:56.000 That's in the Bible.

01:39:58.000 So, the point is, if you are someone who believes that, the Bible tells you that when given the choice between a murderer and Jesus, they said, release Barabbas, the murderer.

01:40:09.000 Pilate, flabbergasted, says, then his blood is not on my hands, it's on yours, and they agreed with him.

01:40:14.000 So, I suppose that's anti-Semitic, then?

01:40:18.000 I guess they want them to blame the Romans, even though Pilate was like, no, man, blame the Romans!

01:40:23.000 The Italians, man! 1.00

01:40:25.000 It was the Italians! 0.71

01:40:26.000 College campus is a place for like, just radical, free, open inquiry.

01:40:30.000 Like you should be able to debate everything and talk about everything.

01:40:32.000 And like, that's what a campus, like a college campus is for, like to seek the truth and to learn.

01:40:37.000 And you can't be having restrictions on adults having conversation.

01:40:41.000 Yeah, again, for Americans.

01:40:43.000 A government imposed, I guess it's not imposed, but like a government essentially enforced at the risk of losing funding, handouts.

01:40:51.000 I would agree if we lived in a morally cohesive society full of a bunch of people who existed within the Christian moral tradition, but we don't. 0.93

01:41:02.000 And so what you end up with is Antifa bashing people over the head with bike locks while the rest of us beg for free speech.

01:41:09.000 Well, and I wouldn't classify that as free speech.

01:41:11.000 That's obviously just violence.

01:41:13.000 Of course.

01:41:13.000 But that's a response to your free speech if they don't like what you're saying.

01:41:16.000 It's called the heckler's veto.

01:41:18.000 So we don't get free speech because the left is allowed to be violent.

01:41:21.000 The Biden administration allowed them to be violent.

01:41:24.000 To be completely honest, even in the Trump administration, they did little to stop it.

01:41:27.000 He didn't do anything to stop it when the riots were going on.

01:41:30.000 He offered the National Guard and they said no.

01:41:33.000 But I'm not even talking about George Floyd riots, I'm talking about the Berkeley riots.

01:41:36.000 Yeah. When the liberals were beating the crap... 0.99

01:41:39.000 Milo came in 2017. 0.99

01:41:41.000 Right, and Ann Coulter.

01:41:43.000 And we had our events in, was it Pitman, New Jersey shut down by the far left?

01:41:48.000 They threatened to burn down a theater.

01:41:50.000 There's no federal support from the Trump administration.

01:41:51.000 I guess it's just like when you when you talk about like a campus should be a place for free speech and the free exchange of ideas and learning all this stuff.

01:41:57.000 And just the last 10 years has taught me that college campuses don't generally actually believe in that these days.

01:42:03.000 And there's an insane amount, not necessarily of censorship, but strong pushback and threats.

01:42:11.000 I'd argue they never did.

01:42:12.000 And I was talking to...

01:42:14.000 More my examples that I can think of in the last...

01:42:17.000 So I was talking to Cody, and he was asking me why it was that people have gone so insane on Tesla vehicles and they're smashing them up.

01:42:25.000 And I was like, look, 30 years ago, if a guy walked in a town square with like a Nazi flag and full like white supremacist gear, what do you think's gonna happen to him?

01:42:34.000 And he's like, oh, someone's gonna clock him.

01:42:36.000 It's like, right.

01:42:37.000 That's 30 years ago.

01:42:39.000 Because we had a morally cohesive society for the most part back then.

01:42:43.000 We all basically agreed on what was and what should be.

01:42:47.000 Today it's 50-50.

01:42:48.000 If that.

01:42:49.000 Not even a 50-50, it's bifurcated and then decentralized within those two factions.

01:42:54.000 So the people who are attacking Tesla's imagine it the same way as, you know, it's 30 years ago and they see a Tesla and in their brain they think neo-Nazi white supremacist. 0.99

01:43:04.000 Not most of them, but the people on the ground who are morons do. 0.98

01:43:08.000 That they live in the CNN, MSNBC world. 0.98

01:43:12.000 So we never existed in a society where free speech was tolerated in the way that people are arguing today.

01:43:19.000 If you went back to the universities in the 50s, yeah, you're not going to get free speech. 1.00

01:43:25.000 You'd get your ass kicked. 0.99

01:43:26.000 Like the Civil Rights Movement was notoriously violent. 1.00

01:43:29.000 And so there's that famous photo of the people dumping the milkshakes on, I think it was on the black people trying to eat food at a restaurant or whatever. 0.71

01:43:36.000 And they're like, you can't do that.

01:43:38.000 You're not allowed to do that.

01:43:39.000 And there were people who advocated for that.

01:43:40.000 And there's cops, you know, releasing the dogs and the fire hoses.

01:43:43.000 So this free speech didn't exist.

01:43:45.000 The moral majority always enforced speech laws against those that were deemed outside of the Overton window to a large degree.

01:43:56.000 Certain ideas people didn't care about.

01:43:58.000 What's happened now is there is no Overton window.

01:44:01.000 There's two.

01:44:01.000 You have the conservative worldview, which is accepting of certain ideas and liberal worldview.

01:44:05.000 And then you have the – over the past 10 years, the Overton window was largely controlled by the left, by the establishment, Democrat forces, liberals, etc.

01:44:14.000 So that meant that Twitter at the time would ban you from misgendering somebody.

01:44:20.000 Despite the fact that conservatives' view of misgendering was an inversion of what the liberals' view was.

01:44:24.000 To a conservative, if you call a man a woman, you're misgendering him.

01:44:26.000 To liberals, it's whatever they want.

01:44:29.000 We're starting to see the right now gain its own Overton window institutionalized power.

01:44:34.000 That actually means the Hollywood institutions, the big box stores, and all of these things have lost a substantial amount of power.

01:44:42.000 The right has built up things like Rumble, for instance, or ElonBotX, and now there are two distinct Overton windows.

01:44:49.000 If you are on the left, and you step out of line with gender ideology, you're outside the Overton window.

01:44:55.000 You're gone.

01:44:56.000 Jimmy Dore, for instance.

01:44:57.000 He's an economic leftist.

01:44:59.000 And we talk about him quite a bit.

01:45:00.000 He's a great example.

01:45:00.000 Shout out to Jimmy Dore, because we love him.

01:45:02.000 He's a socialist.

01:45:03.000 He's for universal health care.

01:45:05.000 But he's anti-establishment.

01:45:07.000 He calls out the war machine.

01:45:08.000 He calls out the Democrats.

01:45:08.000 He's consistent.

01:45:09.000 He knows what he believes.

01:45:10.000 We know some of the truth.

01:45:12.000 The left has excised him from their Overton window.

01:45:14.000 He's outside of it.

01:45:15.000 On the right, you have something similar.

01:45:17.000 If you are for some of the things the left has, or if it turns out like, you know, transgender, IVF, surrogacy, you can be excised.

01:45:25.000 But the right has a substantially wider Overton window and more tolerance to it, but they are now distinct.

01:45:31.000 Considering we call Donald Trump's victory the podcast presidency, it shows that the decentralized media powers has become its own Overton window.

01:45:39.000 So now nobody knows what is acceptable.

01:45:43.000 To put it simply, if you go back 40 years, You go outside the Overton window, you're getting cracked over the skull.

01:45:49.000 There was no reality where you could go to a university and advocate for things outside the Overton window and get away with it.

01:45:54.000 What changed was that the left shifted the Overton window dramatically through big tech and media, so when Ann Coulter and Milo showed up, the left freaked out and attacked them, as if it was any other time.

01:46:08.000 Now the right has resisted, emerged with its own force, And now the question is, which side will use the powers bestowed upon them to win and claim the cultural mountaintop?

01:46:23.000 We'll see, I guess.

01:46:26.000 Let's go to your chats!

01:46:29.000 Even though we're pretty late, but it's okay, it's Friday, we're chillin'.

01:46:31.000 We'll grab some Rumble Rants.

01:46:34.000 What do we got?

01:46:36.000 Melendi says, Tim, they did turn out.

01:46:38.000 You should have Seth on a Culture War episode.

01:46:41.000 Uh, who's that?

01:46:43.000 I don't know.

01:46:44.000 Skyline says, this is the time to buy stocks and retirement funds.

01:46:48.000 While big firms who don't believe in MAGA panic sell, any American can buy funds using Vanguard, etc.

01:46:53.000 and apps.

01:46:54.000 Indeed, you can.

01:46:56.000 Happy Garan says, I have a problem.

01:46:58.000 My sister just got some chickens, but she's also a diehard communist. 0.97

01:47:01.000 I need guidance on how to proceed with this.

01:47:03.000 Tell them they're...

01:47:04.000 No, you just say, our chickens.

01:47:05.000 Yeah. Go over and go to her house, start taking her eggs. 1.00

01:47:08.000 Don't you like, what are you doing?

01:47:09.000 Say, what do you mean?

01:47:10.000 They're our eggs.

01:47:11.000 Our eggs, comrade.

01:47:13.000 Your chickens?

01:47:15.000 What do you mean?

01:47:15.000 Name them, like, have a chicken named Stalin, a chicken named Lenin.

01:47:19.000 It'll be great.

01:47:20.000 Yeah. I was just gonna say.

01:47:23.000 Do you really want- Uh, Khrushchev.

01:47:24.000 Who else do we got?

01:47:25.000 You can do a Mao one. 0.93

01:47:27.000 Gorbachev. Uh, alright, what do we got?

01:47:30.000 Bot says, just turned 24. My 401k just went from 43k to 41k.

01:47:36.000 The destructionist elites lost 10% of their powers over me today.

01:47:39.000 I look at it as a plus 8. I look at it as net a plus 8. I have 10 to 40 years to cash my 401k.

01:47:47.000 If you are 24 years old and you have $40,000 in a 401k or 41, you're doing okay.

01:47:54.000 I will say, full disclosure, I lost $111,000 this year.

01:47:59.000 From January till today, the stocks that I have, they're down $111,000.

01:48:07.000 A lot of money!

01:48:08.000 But I'm not an idiot, so I'm not selling them. 0.77

01:48:10.000 Crypto didn't take a hit.

01:48:12.000 I noticed that Bitcoin didn't go down.

01:48:14.000 No. Grandpa's Place says, I retire at the end of the month.

01:48:17.000 My investments are down over a million dollars.

01:48:19.000 I still support Trump.

01:48:21.000 It is better in the long run.

01:48:22.000 Not just that, your retirements are down over a million dollars, but Are they comparable to a year ago?

01:48:29.000 Is the question, so...

01:48:31.000 A million bucks ain't no, you know, ain't nothing to scoff at.

01:48:34.000 Especially if people are budgeting.

01:48:35.000 Yeah, I mean, if you're down a million, you've got multiple millions, so you've got some time to build that nest egg back up.

01:48:44.000 Greg Duvier says, Tim, tell Brett he will get a pay raise if he watches Star Trek The Next Generation.

01:48:49.000 You can't make me, okay?

01:48:51.000 Fight me.

01:48:52.000 You can't make me.

01:48:53.000 I won't watch any of it.

01:48:54.000 I won't watch Star Trek, I won't watch The Next Generation, I won't watch Deep Space Nine.

01:48:57.000 You can't make me.

01:48:58.000 Have you ever tried to get him to watch Star Trek?

01:49:00.000 Well, actually...

01:49:03.000 I don't know, this wasn't supposed to come up, but we were actually doing a, on Pop Culture Crisis, we decided as a company to do a Next Generation watch party all next week, live streaming our reaction.

01:49:15.000 You can do it at the end of the month, because I'm going to be out of town.

01:49:18.000 So you can do it on those days.

01:49:21.000 Brett, how long can your principles hold up?

01:49:22.000 Forever. Literally forever.

01:49:28.000 What we'll do is, We'll have a guy, we'll have him stand next to the TV, and for every episode you finish, he will hand you a crisp $100 bill.

01:49:39.000 That's pretty good!

01:49:41.000 $100 for 42 minutes?

01:49:45.000 Okay, maybe!

01:49:49.000 We'll put real 20s in the Muddy Guns while you watch Live on Pop Culture Crisis.

01:49:55.000 That's a good idea.

01:49:56.000 I get to keep all the money that comes out of the Muddy Guns. 0.99

01:49:59.000 What is a stack like that?

01:50:01.000 If you move that much, it jams.

01:50:05.000 That many 20s is probably a couple grand.

01:50:08.000 Hey, I'm coming around to this idea now.

01:50:11.000 Let's do this.

01:50:13.000 All right.

01:50:14.000 Andrea Viola says, as somebody in their late 50s, What I learned is that a diverse portfolio is the key.

01:50:20.000 You cannot have all your assets in one place.

01:50:22.000 Indeed, of the money I lost, I actually made a ton of money on my Bitcoin futures.

01:50:27.000 Nice. Yeah, my Bitcoin futures through the roof.

01:50:30.000 So, you know, there's always that.

01:50:32.000 I sold Bitcoin this year for the first time.

01:50:34.000 So just doing the taxes on selling crypto, it makes you not want to ever sell it again.

01:50:39.000 Yeah, just don't do it.

01:50:40.000 It's awful.

01:50:41.000 Willis Manning says, Tim, you're getting it wrong that we don't care.

01:50:43.000 I'm 27. This is my opportunity to buy.

01:50:45.000 I'm so excited about this.

01:50:47.000 Been doing 1k a month for six months and plan to keep going.

01:50:50.000 Thanks for all you do.

01:50:51.000 Based! Awesome.

01:50:52.000 There you go.

01:50:53.000 See, Trump is creating a buying opportunity for young people.

01:50:57.000 Sovereign Fish says Tim's literal claim to fame was Occupy Wall Street and now he's saying that market crashes don't matter.

01:51:04.000 Are you serious, LOL?

01:51:05.000 How much do you want to bet old Tim Castellaro is going to be covering the Wall Street crash non-stop for six months straight?

01:51:12.000 That is contradictory.

01:51:15.000 Just because we don't think...

01:51:16.000 First of all, it's not a crash.

01:51:18.000 It was...

01:51:19.000 I mean, they usually call these corrections.

01:51:22.000 Yeah. Crash would've been way worse.

01:51:24.000 Yeah. It's a drop-off.

01:51:26.000 I mean, I don't know.

01:51:27.000 But call it a crash, whatever.

01:51:28.000 Say whatever you want.

01:51:29.000 I don't know.

01:51:30.000 Just because we don't think it's the apocalypse for this country, considering it happens a bit, doesn't mean we won't cover it.

01:51:36.000 It's unwinding a bubble in the stock market.

01:51:38.000 I mean, this is something we talked about last night.

01:51:40.000 the stocks have been trading on average 26 times earnings, and that's a lot.

01:51:45.000 And normally they're about 15, 16 times earnings.

01:51:48.000 So there's too much money in the stock market because of all the printing that the government has done.

01:51:54.000 And it's got to get unwound.

01:51:55.000 Isn't it weird how the government took none of the blame for printing?

01:52:00.000 Bailing the banks out in 2008, like everybody blamed the banks and then nobody held the government accountable.

01:52:06.000 Kind of in the same way when they talk about how we need student loan debt forgiveness, but they never asked the colleges why they're charging as much as they are.

01:52:12.000 Not only that, not only did the government never get held accountable for actually doing the bailouts, but they never got held accountable for the incentivizing of the process that actually caused all the problems.

01:52:26.000 They had the credit Companies lowered?

01:52:30.000 Requirements rates.

01:52:31.000 Yeah, they know nothing not interest rates the home interest rates were No, they they they had the credit companies lower the requirements so they could get anyone basically anyone at all Into a mortgage whether you had a job or not this the idea the Bush administration Had was if you own a home, it will make people responsible and that is exactly opposite of reality You need to be responsible to own a home.

01:52:53.000 There are certain people that never should own a home They should rent their whole life just because they're not Y'all should listen to Mikey Taylor's podcast.

01:53:18.000 He's a real estate guy and former pro skater.

01:53:22.000 But now he does a bunch of finance stuff.

01:53:24.000 And I am just I am I am shocked at how good his show is.

01:53:28.000 It's amazing.

01:53:29.000 So I've been, I of course follow him because he became a Republican city councilman or something like that, I don't know, but he makes really great videos breaking down finance stuff and he talked about why renting, you know, there's this idea that you should be an owner, you have to own, and then he actually did this video where he broke down the math of renting versus owning and why renting was actually better in certain circumstances depending on where you are in your life and not to get caught up by all these people saying you have to own, you have to own. Like what circumstances would it be better to rent?

01:53:57.000 I don't wanna put words in his mouth.

01:53:59.000 So what I'll say is, when I was first starting my company, when I was first making these YouTube videos, owning a house is expensive.

01:54:10.000 People think it's like, you own the house, then you rent it out, then you're done.

01:54:13.000 It's like, okay.

01:54:14.000 The argument then, as I think Mikey points this out, is then buy a house and rent it out, and then you rent, and you live where you rent.

01:54:20.000 Because the renter gets away with so much.

01:54:23.000 You don't gotta pay to fix anything, you don't gotta pay depending on...

01:54:27.000 there's certain utilities you tend not to have to pay, and your upfront costs are substantially lower, your upfront risks are lower.

01:54:33.000 With a house, you're there.

01:54:36.000 You sell.

01:54:37.000 So first of all, there's fees.

01:54:38.000 If you're gonna buy a house, you're gonna be in that house for a long time, whether you rent it out or otherwise.

01:54:43.000 So the idea would be, you should live somewhere you rent.

01:54:47.000 If you're buying, you're renting it out, but you're not living there.

01:54:50.000 But then, Let me put it this way.

01:54:53.000 I rented a house and the fridge broke.

01:54:56.000 So I had to pay to fix the fridge.

01:54:58.000 My net income was zero.

01:55:00.000 Then the air conditioning broke.

01:55:01.000 I had to fix the air conditioning.

01:55:02.000 My net income was zero.

01:55:03.000 I was getting a couple hundred bucks a month renting and I had to deal with all of these problems.

01:55:08.000 So I said, I am selling this house.

01:55:10.000 I don't want it.

01:55:11.000 I only want to own what I live in and have some investment properties or something like this.

01:55:15.000 So I would just say for young people, if you're trying to If you don't know exactly where you're going to be, if you don't know exactly what you're going to do, owning isn't necessarily a solution to everything.

01:55:26.000 People think that you should, and sometimes you shouldn't.

01:55:29.000 To put it simply, when you buy a house, you're going to pay a lot of fees.

01:55:32.000 That's going to put you underwater instantly.

01:55:34.000 Let's say you take out a $200,000 loan.

01:55:36.000 Your costs for closing, it's like you're going to be spending more than the value of the house.

01:55:41.000 That means you can't sell it.

01:55:43.000 If you put a down payment down on a $200,000 house, let's say you save up $40,000. 0.57

01:55:46.000 Good luck, Gen Z. Holy crap, I don't even know how they're going to do that. 1.00

01:55:49.000 Right. Let's say you did that. 0.82

01:55:51.000 You're going to pay closing fees on that house and it's going to be probably like, what, 10 grand or something?

01:55:55.000 Out of your pocket, gone.

01:55:57.000 If you then want to sell that house, you ain't never getting that money back.

01:56:01.000 So you're underwater instantly.

01:56:02.000 You better live in that house or rent it out.

01:56:04.000 And then if you rent it out, you're either going to be running a business where you're dealing with it, or if you're going to start a family and you want to live in a house and you expect to be there for 10 years, you're good.

01:56:13.000 Bye. For a lot of young people that are moving into a city, renting makes way more sense.

01:56:17.000 There's this stigma where they're like, don't rent, you're getting ripped off by the landlord, and it's like, oh yeah.

01:56:21.000 Then, when you're a landlord, you gotta deal with, you know, uh, radon in the basement, and then you gotta call an inspector, and then you gotta pay for radon mitigation, or the water breaks and there's a big stain in the ceiling.

01:56:33.000 Yo, guys, it's not so easy all the time.

01:56:36.000 Before I came here, I was working for an apartment complex for the management company.

01:56:42.000 That was right when COVID happened, and people just weren't paying their rent.

01:56:46.000 It was a hell of a time for a lot of people, and they don't understand the amount of paperwork, the amount of expenses and costs.

01:56:54.000 This was just a small building that was – Thank you so much for having me.

01:57:06.000 Liveable was insane.

01:57:08.000 All right.

01:57:09.000 I had one pulled up.

01:57:10.000 It's moved now.

01:57:12.000 Let me see if I can find it.

01:57:13.000 They'll do that.

01:57:14.000 Now people are sending me messages on X about how I have to watch Star Trek.

01:57:17.000 You can't make me!

01:57:18.000 I'm not doing it.

01:57:20.000 Keep those messages coming.

01:57:22.000 He's not going to.

01:57:24.000 I'll read your messages before I watch the show.

01:57:29.000 Why is there Star Trek better than Star Wars?

01:57:32.000 Oh, Star Wars is awful.

01:57:34.000 Awful? Even the older ones?

01:57:36.000 I disagree.

01:57:37.000 I like Star Wars, but he's got a vendetta against watching Star Trek.

01:57:42.000 No, just because the more people tell me to watch something, the less I want to watch it.

01:57:46.000 That's what I was getting to.

01:57:50.000 He's put his foot down and he won't be bullied.

01:57:54.000 The Christian Conservative says, Tim, conservatives don't want to ban TikTok because some worship Trump.

01:57:59.000 So I'll tell you guys, I have had so many Prominent people on the right come to me, DM me, and quietly tell me, thank you for calling out TikTok.

01:58:11.000 And I'm just like, why aren't you?

01:58:13.000 Because they're all scared to do it.

01:58:15.000 As soon as Trump turned around and said, we're going to save TikTok, all of these people magically were in favor of TikTok.

01:58:22.000 And I'm like, oh, spare me, dude.

01:58:23.000 Wait, why?

01:58:24.000 Because they're afraid of having an opinion different than Trump?

01:58:27.000 Yep. Yep.

01:58:29.000 And they're sharing this fake meme about Chinese-owned farmland where they're like, How come we're not talking about how China owns all this farmland, which literally says the entire island of Hawaii is owned by China?

01:58:39.000 I'm like, that meme is not real.

01:58:41.000 And two things can be bad at the same time.

01:58:43.000 But I got a bunch of DMs from people and they were like, thank you for being consistent and calling this out.

01:58:47.000 I don't understand why everybody's changing their opinions.

01:58:49.000 And I'm like, I'm not.

01:58:50.000 But isn't that most of what politics online has kind of devolved into is just constant whataboutism?

01:58:56.000 I have a problem with this thing.

01:58:58.000 It's like, well, why do you care about this thing when this other bad thing is also going?

01:59:01.000 It's like, there's time for that conversation too.

01:59:04.000 Let's talk about this thing first.

01:59:06.000 Indeed. I don't really care much for the whataboutism argument.

01:59:09.000 If someone says like, you know, Joe Biden did, like, you're mad about Trump doing a bad thing, but Joe Biden did bad thing.

01:59:14.000 Like, what about when Joe Biden did it?

01:59:16.000 It's like, right. 0.98

01:59:17.000 Because it proves their hypocrisy. 0.93

01:59:18.000 Yeah. They don't care about being hypocrites. 1.00

01:59:20.000 When I was at the Federalist, This is how you know I'm not like a Trump sycophant because I was against this ban during the Biden admin and there was actually a conversation at my publication of whether we were going to run this piece or not.

01:59:32.000 And my argument was just like, I am more afraid of our government than I am the CCP because at the time the Biden admin was putting pro-lifers behind bars and they were investigating Yeah, our government, which I found to be extremely tyrannical and frankly set up to censor and harm conservatives.

02:00:01.000 All that stuff will come back when a Democrat gets back into office.

02:00:06.000 yes, so you do agree that if the Democrats are to win in 2027, Trump's going to be impeached?

02:00:15.000 Trump's going to be...

02:00:16.000 Like if the Democrats win the midterms, they'll impeach Trump?

02:00:18.000 Sure, of course.

02:00:19.000 They won't convict him, though.

02:00:21.000 If a Democrat wins in 2028 and takes the presidency, they're going to start locking up pro-lifers.

02:00:28.000 I mean, yeah, sure.

02:00:30.000 I agree with that, probably.

02:00:32.000 I mean, they've done it.

02:00:33.000 Trump pardoned them.

02:00:34.000 What can we do to make sure?

02:00:36.000 It depends on the kind of Democratic Party that they have.

02:00:37.000 They could really, I hope, limit the craziness of their party because they know they're not going to win with as tyrannical and horrible as the Kamala Biden admin was.

02:00:48.000 What can we do to make sure they don't win?

02:00:53.000 I think we're trending that way.

02:00:55.000 Like, I think even without just, like, controlling the information in this country, I look at the way that Gen Z is swinging 30 points to political riot. 0.71

02:01:02.000 I look at the kind of content that Gen Z is attracted to when it comes to just, like, trad girls and the clean aesthetic. 0.99

02:01:07.000 And there's this brand that it's amazing.

02:01:10.000 It's like a, like it was, it used to be like a clubbing brand.

02:01:14.000 And they, Pretty Little Thing, it was called, they've completely rebranded.

02:01:18.000 Now they're selling trad clothes because that's what Gen Z girls want. 1.00

02:01:20.000 Like, I don't think we need to control information.

02:01:22.000 I think it's already heading that way.

02:01:23.000 So then making sure that Gen Z gets out to vote is the route to victory. 0.96

02:01:27.000 They need a candidate.

02:01:30.000 Like we said, the right doesn't come out for midterms because Trump isn't on the ballot.

02:01:35.000 And that's proof that there is a lot of apathy unless it's about him.

02:01:39.000 So they need to find a candidate, whether it's J.D. Vance or whoever, and they need to get going.

02:01:43.000 There are people that will make the argument that the special election that just happened in Florida and in Wisconsin was evidence, but special elections are worse than the midterms.

02:01:54.000 I'm from Wisconsin.

02:01:56.000 Wisconsin is such a weird state.

02:01:57.000 There are people who voted for Tammy Baldwin, and they voted for President Trump.

02:02:01.000 My family is a very purple family from Wisconsin, and they'll flip like Obama, and now we're voting for Trump, and this is just what that state's like.

02:02:10.000 Indeed. Alright, uh, well, we're gonna start winding up.

02:02:14.000 I'm trying to figure out who we should raid.

02:02:15.000 Who should we raid?

02:02:16.000 There's, uh, this Sather guy.

02:02:19.000 Who's streaming on a Friday night?

02:02:21.000 Uh, Jordan Sather.

02:02:23.000 I don't know, is he big?

02:02:24.000 We're gonna raid him.

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