00:05:00.000Many, many times he'd give me like an elevator pitch, like, here's why this is bad.
00:05:05.000And it would always tie back to fiscal conservative ideology, which many times, I mean, in numerous times, I went and switched the recommendation for my staff.
00:05:16.000I'd go back into my office, like, boss, what happened?
00:05:17.000I'm like, and then my LD and my chief of staff are like, did you talk to Congressman Massey?
00:05:50.000I mean, look, Massey, I really liked him for a long time, but I got, yeah, to your point, increasingly frustrated with some of the decisions he made.
00:05:57.000I mean, the hamstring, the big, beautiful bill was pretty frustrating, but you kind of understand, to your point, I mean, he's a physical conservative, he's a libertarian.
00:06:03.000So, I mean, these sort of things you have to expect.
00:06:05.000He's part of that kind of Ron Paul mafia that Justin Amash, Ron Paul, they're gone.
00:06:11.000So, I think the takeaway from tonight is that that whole crew is being kind of wiped out from GOP politics.
00:06:18.000In addition to that, I mean, look, Massey, I think, made a critical mistake, which he could have stitched together a really interesting coalition with his hitting really hard on AIPAC, hitting really hard on the Israel lobby, and that sort of thing.
00:06:29.000If he would have stayed loyal to President Trump, he could have weaved a really specific line that could have really moved the ball down the field.
00:06:34.000When he came out and he started saying Trump is protecting the Epstein class or whatever, I was like, it's over.
00:07:23.000As far as like, You know, the broader themes there, like I do agree with, but yeah, that's what was so frustrating.
00:07:27.000Is like, I think he made a miscalculation where he thought the anti Trump energy was going to be a lot larger and manifest and much more voters than it actually was.
00:07:35.000I think that constituency is a lot smaller than people realize within the GOP for a variety of reasons.
00:07:39.000One being, people don't realize that Twitter is not reflective of the GOP base, insofar as the GOP base is primarily like boomers, and again, boomers have no tolerance to this kind of stuff.
00:07:49.000I don't know if you guys saw the tweet that just went up.
00:07:51.000Uh, Hassan, you know, Hassan Piker puts out a tweet saying.
00:07:53.000Trump has, you know, sided with the Epstein class to take out Thomas Piker's not a real person.
00:07:59.000I know, but the thing is, the average GOP voter is going when they hear that kind of rhetoric from Massey, they think Tom Piker, they think that type of leftist.
00:08:29.000Was there, and again, I'm not trying to put you in a bad position, but did you think he can overcome the enormous amount of funds?
00:08:37.000And you know how important funds are in politics, right?
00:08:39.000Did you think he can overcome that because of 12 years, six terms being in the House?
00:08:44.000I wasn't sure what was going to happen tonight because I know how protective our beautiful libertarian coalition is of their very small minority in Congress.
00:08:56.000They will do everything to protect them.
00:09:07.000Right here, after Indiana, state senators falling that failed to redistrict, after Bill Cassidy, Donald Trump endorsed, losing third as an incumbent senator in Louisiana.
00:09:20.000And now, tonight, after Thomas Massey losing, any Republican that was going to make the argument that President Trump would be a lame dot, oh, no, that's out the door.
00:09:48.000In a pro or like, are you justifying this?
00:09:51.000Well, just from my rationality of who's voting versus the online space, I think when it comes to Epstein, you have the announcement, the sort of the stealth announcement that the DOJ and the FBI are not going to look at it anymore.
00:10:03.000And that was over July 4th of last year.
00:10:05.000Over the July 4th weekend, nobody paying attention.
00:10:07.000I think nobody paying attention to that is sort of reflective of what the actual voter base is.
00:10:12.000Because what you wind up happening is.
00:10:14.000Essentially, amnesia over that versus the online space where it is top of mind for so many people.
00:10:20.000If you go into a social media post, anything that you see that is coming from an FBI or from the president, something will be the immediate comment section that you see in there is, Yeah, but what about the client list?
00:10:32.000Yeah, but there's been zero arrests with that.
00:10:34.000And that is just the echo chamber versus what the actual people that are getting out the early vote.
00:10:40.000And we just have, if you're in the chronically online space, you will have a A different perspective of what the actual lay of the land, what the battlefield conditions are.
00:10:50.000And that was overhyped as far as what the impact was going to be on the election.
00:10:56.000I've said this many times, and I think Tim has said this many times here from the same perch Twitter is not the real world.
00:11:19.000I mean, look, I believe in wishful thinking and possibility, but I mean, you know, so, you know, Chris, I like you because you always say, I'm an anarchist.
00:12:02.000Because of the space that we live in now, and because of what you were saying, like when you're chronically online, you do gradually lose touch with what's really happening.
00:12:10.000And since President Trump won in 2024, I think voting has become less cool.
00:12:13.000Like a lot of people just want to kick back and let things play out as they are.
00:12:17.000So, do we know at all what the demographics are?
00:13:38.000I think Massey would fall more into the camp of people that got thrown around by the algorithm because I think this is a guy who was stitching together a really impressive congressional career.
00:13:46.000And then again, as soon as the online atmosphere turned on Trump, which was just, again, not really reflected in the populace and the electorate, like, yes, a large chunk of the electorate is frustrated at the Iran war.
00:14:04.000In any polling, but Thomas Massey, I think, was seeing the energy online.
00:14:08.000So if you were purely on Twitter, you would assume that Trump has an 80% disapproval rate in the GOP, but it's just not going to be reflected.
00:14:15.000And unfortunately, when you're running for the House, you got to play politics, you got to play ball, you got to pick your battles.
00:14:21.000Yeah, but here's what's crazy it's like how many millions went into this race?
00:14:27.00060 million or something like that that I read.
00:14:33.000Essentially, getting a candidate in there in a safe Republican seat that is.
00:14:37.000Going to get you somebody who goes with the Donald Trump preferred outcomes.
00:14:41.000Well, it's not about the Donald Trump, it's about the agenda, right?
00:14:44.000So, look, we were sitting in here a couple of minutes ago, and Scott and I, for those of you, this was off camera, we hit the 50% mark, and Massey was down eight points.
00:14:56.000And I'm not gloating, I'm just making an observation.
00:14:57.000And there's a rule in politics once you hit 50% of the votes in, and if you're down eight points, it is mathematically highly improbable to overcome that.
00:16:30.000That means that there's going to be no funding for securing the border, for DHS, for ICE.
00:16:34.000And so I think for a lot of people, if I can speak for them, they came out because they knew this was about winning 2026, codifying into law President Trump's agenda.
00:18:08.000The MAGA interest, and then there was the Israel interest, obviously.
00:18:11.000A lot of this money, as people have pointed out, came from the Israel lobby.
00:18:14.000But I don't think the average voter was going to the ballot boxes if there was a referendum on the Iran war or a referendum on our support for Israel.
00:18:21.000It was a referendum ultimately on the Trump agenda.
00:18:23.000And the Trump agenda is very popular, whether people like it or not.
00:19:39.000You need to vote for the Republicans to hold the Senate so that we can secure elections, even though you voted for the Republicans to take the Senate.
00:19:47.000So that they could secure elections and they didn't.
00:19:49.000And simultaneously, I'm going to fund DHS to slightly codify what the agenda was in the Trump campaign 2024.
00:20:00.000Meanwhile, what he's essentially done is not fund ICE, not fund border protection, and create a giant slush fund for a president, American psycho, Gavin Newsom, to come in and run that for the next.
00:22:37.000He is absolutely all about self aggrandizing when you have AOC, who, believe it or not, I've said this many times, I don't believe she is corrupt.
00:22:48.000I think she is fundamentally insane, but I don't think she's corrupt.
00:23:12.000She's a better actress than Newsom is.
00:23:15.000I mean, Newsom will sit there up in front of a black audience and say, I'm just like you, and I'm functionally retarded and illiterate, and then back off, I guess.
00:23:25.000Whereas she'll actually pull off the Jenny from the block.
00:26:10.000And there's, by the way, after 18 months of a blackout of not letting me on Fox, they finally let me on Fox today, four hours into the election.
00:26:33.000Hey, their slop is selling, so they'll keep selling it.
00:26:38.000But listen, I got to watch Fox also for the first time in 18 months.
00:26:44.000And there was the president talking about, by the way, while gas is almost $5 and diesel's almost $6, they're talking about this big ballroom they're going to build, and it looks like the Roman Empire, architecture from the Roman Empire.
00:29:23.000got a bill to end the ed in the department of education we're good with that too grand paul says he wants to pass a law that you need one day to read 10 pages of every bill I asked Rand, what are you going to do about my bill that's one sentence long to end the Department of Education?
00:30:04.000Every bill that's been called a woman is.
00:30:08.000I never picked a fight with the country that's tried to take me out here because I've never, but I've never voted for foreign aid to any country.
00:31:18.000Look, for years I've been standing up for the Second Amendment, the First Amendment, the Fourth Amendment, the Fifth Amendment, the Tenth Amendment.
00:31:27.000I just realized the Seventh Amendment is under attack.
00:31:31.000It's because I serve on the Judiciary Committee.
00:31:34.000The Seventh Amendment is your right to a jury trial.
00:34:23.000We're worse off to not have just the one voice being there pointing out these things.
00:34:27.000Even if he didn't, if it was a minority of one.
00:34:29.000He's not, that's not, that's not true though, right?
00:34:31.000You still have David Warren's, uh, Warren there, um, who actually was campaigning with him.
00:34:36.000You have, um, other like Dan Schweiker out of Arizona.
00:34:41.000I mean, yeah, only half these guys are dead hawks, but they never actually able to do anything about it.
00:34:45.000They're not, but I will say this if you want a very interesting, like, set of thought process, I encourage you to go to congress.gov and watch a David, no, no, but please listen to this watch a David Schweiker.
00:35:02.000Case on how obese people cost us a fortune on Medicaid and Medicare.
00:36:34.000Bursts, we've had snowstorms, we've had machines go down on election day, and now we have explosives at churches.
00:36:42.000And when it comes to the establishment or people in power trying to keep that power, they will stop at nothing in order to do so.
00:36:49.000But I have to mention it, I just have to say this because I know people are going to see this.
00:36:53.000The values and principles that Massey was talking about are not a departure from what we and Republicans believe.
00:37:01.000We want Doge, we voted for Elon, we support that.
00:37:05.000We support ending the Fed, ending the Department of Education.
00:37:09.000So, a lot of the things that he's talking about, we don't want endless wars.
00:37:12.000But I think it really means that if we're not able to always legislate at the federal level, we need more people to become state representatives.
00:37:23.000We have a state legislature in Kentucky, despite the governor, that they can actually get things done at the state level.
00:37:29.000I think we need a rise of people running at the state level to codify this agenda in the commonwealth across the country.
00:37:38.000In the Commonwealth, what about the other states?
00:41:29.000Like, it's so obvious that even the Democrat Party, because they know that the demographics of the coalition is changing, that like black voters are just becoming increasingly less prioritized in the Democrat coalition.
00:41:38.000Because again, like the Voter Rights Act, that is the erosion of sort of the black power within the Democrat Party.
00:41:44.000The Democrats kind of realize things are moving on.
00:41:49.000This kind of stuff, no one cares anymore.
00:41:51.000So you're just seeing a massive shift in the way American politics works.
00:41:55.000Black voters being able to punch above their weight is really starting to die off now.
00:41:58.000According to Derek Johnson, the president of the NAACP, across the South, black athletes have helped build some of the most profitable college athletes programs in America.
00:42:21.000Yeah, they would have had a little bit more strength to the argument a few years ago before they started paying the athletes an exorbitant amount of money, right?
00:42:28.000When it would just be for school pride or to represent some sort of misguided.
00:42:33.000I feel like that's sour grapes from your alma mater because you know who started that, right?
00:42:38.000Have you noticed nobody in the South has won a national championship since they outwardly started to pay players?
00:42:42.000I think it's heavily in the South, but.
00:42:44.000It is heavily in the South, but it did start in Notre Dame.
00:43:11.000I mean, like to my point, I mean, they're not going to be able to succeed here.
00:43:14.000If they tried to pull another like bully the all star game out of a state, just no one cares anymore.
00:43:18.000And the Democrat Party, like I said, their coalition has changed massively.
00:43:21.000Now they're depending on like newer immigrant arrivals and their diasporas.
00:43:26.000They're just not, the black population in America is just no longer able to punch above its weight politically anymore.
00:43:30.000So the NAACP's relevance is just completely fading away.
00:43:33.000And you're even seeing black voters now defect to the Republican Party in increasing numbers.
00:43:38.000So there's just, they're a cause without a constituency now because there's nothing in it for the Democrats to like work in conjunction with the NAACP.
00:43:47.000I'm very mad at a comment I just saw here.
00:44:27.000I don't necessarily disagree with the.
00:44:29.000Premise It's no different than parents who disagree with public school education pulling their students out and homeschooling them.
00:44:37.000If they choose to align their values with that of California and Illinois over southern states, well, they are welcome to go to other schools.
00:44:55.000And the impact on sports watchers who you would think the crossover, I mean, between Sports Bro and Political nerd is the Venn diagram is something that you know Kamala Harris would be confused by because they don't really intersect.
00:45:10.000Yeah, and this idea that these like college athletes and be like principal to all of a sudden they transfer every season, like none of them are going to be like thinking about this at all.
00:45:18.000They don't have any political consciousness typically, so why what they transfer every year, but now they're going to like dig their heels and be like, actually, I'm going to go to Iowa now.
00:45:25.000It's like, what are you talking about?
00:45:41.000I don't get the appeal of the NAACP thinking that they're going to arbitrate anything.
00:45:46.000Like, any black athlete that listens to this, it's the most self sabotaging advice I've ever seen an organization give their athletes.
00:45:52.000Like, dude, keep politics out of professional sports, out of everything.
00:45:58.000Politics is, for some reason, people now live with this overarching belief that politics runs every industry and everything that they believe in.
00:47:30.000No, neither did I because it was already the second day of early voting.
00:47:34.000Early voting had already begun, and it's funny because yesterday John Cornyn had given comment to Axio saying, Yeah, I don't think quite something along.
00:47:44.000I'm paraphrasing, uh, I don't think Trump's endorsing me.
00:47:56.000Well, I think Paxton pulled off one of the most stunning political maneuvers I think I've ever seen, which was if you guys recall a few months ago, he said, hey, I'll drop out of this race if the Save Act passes.
00:48:05.000I mean, Scott, you could probably break down what specifically happened here.
00:48:10.000So here we have a sitting attorney general running for Senate when we have a Senate not passing the Save America Act, which 84% of Americans want.
00:48:19.000And He goes, I'll drop out if the Senate prioritizes passing the Save America Act.
00:48:26.000Imagine Senator Cornyn could have prevented this endorsement right here and now had he just called Senate Majority Leader Thune.
00:48:36.000And it shows, and I'm going to be nice and respectful because I still want to work with these people, but I really think it shows the bubble, the narcissism, the ego of Washington, D.C., thinking that they know better than the American people.
00:48:51.000And furthermore, That they don't have to act, they don't have to pass legislation, and they'll continue to get elected for 24 years, not be able to run on that record.
00:49:02.000And they know that just the power of the incumbency will get them in every six years over and over again.
00:49:08.000And like to Trump's credit, massive credit, he was not getting enough credit because, you know, the common talking point in conservative media is, oh, Trump is terrible at endorsements.
00:49:14.000And like, yes, he makes some really terrible endorsements.
00:49:16.000I'm not here saying he has like a stunning record.
00:49:28.000There's a few rough ones, but to my point here is that Trump is the first president since FDR in 1938 to endorse challengers to incumbents in Senate races.
00:49:38.000That's completely unprecedented in American politics.
00:49:40.000So there's this talking point again that people say, well, he's just universally bad at endorsements.
00:49:44.000And it's like, Trump actually, this is extremely impressive.
00:49:47.000And he should be getting massive credit for this.
00:49:49.000Is again, he's willing to go to bat in these races to clean house.
00:50:44.000Pushing forward the SAVE Act, him essentially saying there's no difference between a Ken Paxton and a John Korn?
00:50:51.000No, I don't think he's saying that at all.
00:50:53.000No, and I don't mean that in any other way than I watched the presser today of Senate Majority Leader Thune up there with Cotton and Barrasso and Capito, basically his leadership, and they're all, in my opinion, very squishy Republicans.
00:51:08.000And he said he disagrees with the president's endorsement.
00:51:16.000What we have to realize is the Senate only cares about one thing self preservation and protecting the power of the incumbents, whoever the incumbents are.
00:52:03.000Because again, the Save Act, I mean, looks like beating a dead horse, but you even have like Democrats that are like, yeah, that does make sense.
00:52:11.000What I would actually be curious what you think.
00:52:12.000What I suspect part of the reason why I think a lot of these, you know, I can be a bit more pejorative here, obviously, because I don't need to maintain relations with these people, these swamp creatures.
00:52:20.000I think part of the reason, Why they're so opposed to the Save Act is because they probably fudge numbers during primaries.
00:52:26.000I genuinely believe that that could very well be the case.
00:52:29.000And they understand that it's going to be a lot more difficult for some of these people that seem to be hated by the base by and large, but they still win these primaries by dictatorial numbers.
00:52:37.000Again, I think that that could potentially be what's going on here it eliminates a lot of their institutional power.
00:52:41.000To your credit, look at what happened when we closed the primaries in Louisiana.
00:52:49.000Cassidy comes in third, he gets locked out, he loses.
00:52:53.000In the primary, not the runoff, when we changed it and made it a closed primary.
00:52:59.000So you couldn't just join the Republican Party and have people infiltrate us and choose the squishy Republican.
00:53:05.000And so we can learn from this in Alaska.
00:53:08.000Murkowski is not supporting the Save America Act.
00:53:10.000So this November, I need every Alaskan to vote yes to Alaska ballot measure two to repeal ranked choice voting.
00:53:28.000If we use these ballot measures, repeal these awful, destructive, anti election integrity measures, then we can finally, as you said, clean house and revamp the Republican Party.
00:54:43.000Like, I can't, I can't, you know what I'm talking about, right?
00:54:45.000Like, dragon sickness has taken over me.
00:54:47.000I'm not giving Republican Senate leadership a penny.
00:54:50.000That's why I got to ask you guys, I mean, as insiders, I mean, I've seen a lot of people speculate that the direction these things are moving, these elections are moving to, is like PACs really becoming pressure groups, really punching above their weight.
00:54:59.000Again, to your point, how does John Thune seriously make the case that he's going to spend your money wisely?
00:55:04.000I mean, I could see money pouring into these PACs.
00:55:10.000They spent nearly $100 million in the primary, and a 24 year incumbent, John Cornyn, only won first place with Paxton right behind him by 29,000 votes.
00:55:28.000For $100 million, we could have done voter registration operations in Georgia, Arizona, New Hampshire, Maine, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Alaska.
00:55:39.000We could have literally Hired staff registering voters around the clock in every single swing state with the money that was blown on John Cornyn.
00:55:48.000Meanwhile, they wouldn't give a penny to the Commonwealth of Virginia for the referendum, which we only were victorious because the court decided to do the right thing.
00:55:59.000So, and by the way, just to the audience who doesn't know SLF and some other acronyms, it means the Senate Leadership Fund, which is the personal slush fund of none other than Senate Majority Leader Thune.
00:56:11.000From an insider's perspective, it's just frustrating.
00:56:14.000I've been in the high profile rooms many times, like at the Metropolitan Club in New York or in the Union League Club in New York, when like big billionaires in New York City are doing fundraisers for him.
00:56:24.000Actually, I have an awful story with John Thune.
00:56:28.000Me and a donor, this lady named Joanne, last name doesn't matter.
00:57:21.000Can you believe that John Thune, when she questioned him on a specific bill and why are you not fighting and not fighting for Trump, he turned around and said, Lady, you need to either shut up or put your name on the ballot.
00:58:23.000I can even see Susan Collins going, Yeah, Thune, you got to go because she's going to survive that race in Maine because Maine's just weird.
00:58:30.000And I don't know if you guys saw on the news today the dude that's challenging her in Maine was talking about jacking off in porter potties.
00:58:38.000How every time he goes into the blue box, that smell just triggers him, man, and he needs to rub one out.
00:58:44.000Like, I'm like, dude, are you serious?
00:58:46.000Relating to voters, that's voter outreach.
00:58:49.000A lot of people were like, whoa, friendly fire.
00:58:53.000I try to say all these things in the most non controversial words, and I now feel absolutely awful for saying it.
00:59:01.000I'm just like, I don't think I should have said that.
00:59:03.000The people need to know what's really going on with the Epstein class, how they behave, and how they think of money, and how they think of.
01:02:45.000I mean, look, we can connect a very unserious person to probably a more serious proposition when you're talking about the protection racket that is like the Senate leadership fund, right?
01:02:57.000Or how much money gets thrown into these primaries, millions and millions of dollars, and the way that it's allocated as essentially a protection scheme for the incumbents who are not on board for what the American people want for this populist movement we have.
01:03:08.000Isn't this the greatest overall argument for we should just have state conventions where they're going to be most responsive to the grassroots activists who are actually plugged in and not the people who are to the left side of the bell curve on the intelligence scale who are primed to be convinced by a person who's twerking on TV to vote for that person just because it's.
01:03:28.000Have Democrats learned that twerking does not win elections?
01:03:31.000Didn't Kamala spend a bunch of money on some random rapper to go twerk on her Megan Thee Stallion?
01:09:47.000Mike Wall signed the nation's first law banning prediction market sites from operating in the state.
01:09:53.000And in response, the Trump administration has sued, teeing up a legal battle over the most far reaching crackdown on popular services like Cauchy and Polymarket.
01:10:04.000I don't know why President Trump would go, the admin would go to war.
01:10:43.000This is this is one of my like, I'm a very pro Trump guy, I've been known as a Trump shill, and I happily accept that, but like, one of the big.
01:10:50.000Departures I have of the Trump administration is again these embraces of things like gambling, the weed declassification.
01:10:57.000There's a myriad of other ways where this has happened.
01:10:59.000And from my perspective, if you are to believe a lot of the reporting, it does seem like again, this is lobbying weighing in.
01:11:05.000I don't think Trump really cares about these things.
01:11:59.000And because they couldn't open a bank account, this was a highly cash driven industry and very hard to keep accountable on taxation purposes.
01:12:08.000I believe there's going to be a four to eight X growth in tax revenue because of this, because now they can't open bank accounts with Schedule 3.
01:12:16.000That's kind of like that's my two qualms with it is if it's Schedule 3 is one giving them banking access, now they're able to ride off losses.
01:12:21.000And this is what held back the tide from basically Wall Street dumping money into the weed industries because they had this looming.
01:12:27.000Fear of like, okay, well, we can't write off any of our losses.
01:12:29.000So let's say they make $9 million, $10 million, lose $9 million.
01:12:34.000And then, in addition to that, I mean, we've seen the studies.
01:12:37.000The studies are, and you know, everyone says, oh, they can study it now.
01:12:39.000Dude, like, more Zoomers smoke weed than drink now.
01:12:42.000Like, we can study this perfectly fine.
01:12:44.000We saw in Colorado when they legalized weed that for every dollar of tax revenue generated, they had to spend $3.5 on costs related to weed.
01:13:24.000You can roll your eyes, but this was a pretty solid article back in December where Susie Wiles was hosting a motley crew of.
01:13:33.000Weed CEOs and the CEO of TrueLeaf, the largest weed company in America, the CEO, Kim, I forget her surname, Kim, she worked with Susie Wiles at Ballard Partners.
01:13:44.000So it was like very obvious what happened here.
01:13:45.000So, Trump, according to this article, is on the phone with Mike Johnson.
01:13:48.000Mike Johnson's pushing back, saying, Hey, this is a bad idea.
01:14:25.000So, you know, it's going to be almost like the way that we can do tax credits where you kind of compile them like, okay, you could use $10,000 next year, $10,000 next year.
01:14:34.000It's going to be a forever fund of losses.
01:14:36.000But again, look, nothing's perfect in our government.
01:14:40.000As Massey said earlier, by the way, it was just interesting because he was talking about bills and one pagers.
01:14:47.000Yeah, the smaller the bill, the better the bill.
01:14:52.000You look like you're going to have an infarct.
01:14:54.000No, just America chooses what psychosis it's willing to put up with.
01:15:00.000And I mean, they'll wage a war against one thing, but then allow this to invade the minds of our youth and allow Chinese TikTok influence to cause psychosis of our own.
01:15:13.000So, but notwithstanding, back to the predictive markets for a second, I could understand an argument.
01:15:20.000Trying to stop foreign interference in our elections because a lot of people do put a lot of trust in the predicting markets.
01:15:29.000If there was a way that we could validate it was only lawful American citizens participating in such a thing, but can we just take a moment to notice that Minnesota, the state that has huge Medicaid fraud and is allowing Somali immigrants to defraud the American people, is more concerned about election interference than what's going on in the state.
01:15:51.000I just think it's very inconsistent and very ironic.
01:15:54.000Yeah, I mean, that's why I was making the point initially, and I totally agree, is because I'm sure his reasoning for this is probably really corrosive and gay, quite frankly.
01:16:02.000I mean, the same thing happened in New York City, where New York City accidentally passed a really base law, but they didn't mean for this to happen.
01:16:08.000They passed a law which said all businesses are required to accept cash.
01:16:12.000No matter what, no ands, ifs, or buts, you have to accept cash, which as a conservative, I'm like, that's good because we saw Beto O'Rourke threatening when he was running for Senate, and they were like, how will you ban AR 15 sales in a state that'll never pass any laws on that?
01:16:25.000And he said, Well, I wouldn't instruct Chase to block those purchases.
01:16:49.000But the actual result of it turned out to be a really conservative policy.
01:16:52.000I think this is another example of this, is like where this is probably actually a really, Poor explanation, but the outcome I think would be favorable if you're like truly a social conservative, like all the way.
01:17:02.000I mean, because again, gambling, it's just Pandora's box.
01:17:06.000It's like I understand like the impulse to maybe open it up a little more.
01:17:09.000It seems fair, but the problem is all Wall Street needs is a foot in the door and it'll blow wide open.
01:17:13.000And the accuracy of those futures markets.
01:17:16.000I mean, I understand intellectually why it would make sense because instead of people just answering some random pollster or because the polls are coming in to people who only have landline phones, ergo, it's going to trend towards an older demographic.
01:17:26.000It's not going to be as accurate as people who are willing to put their money on the line.
01:17:39.000They're doing better on this than they are at sports bets.
01:17:42.000So, they just are superior at identifying value rather than actually saying what's more likely to happen.
01:17:47.000So, really putting weight into it as a predictive market isn't really as accurate as I think they were hoping it would be.
01:17:53.000I think it just goes back to functionally the same issue I would have a sports gambling, which is this is effectively a poverty tax.
01:17:59.000Because, again, like people with a lot of capital that are good with money are not putting their financial future on the line for predictive betting.
01:18:06.000They're playing the stock market or various other avenues to build wealth.
01:18:10.000This primarily is going to hit people that probably can't afford to lose the money that they're going to lose on these predictive marketing.
01:18:16.000So that's always been my primary issue.
01:18:36.000Look, in Minnesota, the problem with the bill is it literally turns lawful operators and participants in prediction markets into felons overnight.
01:18:43.000And those are the exact words of CFTC Chairman Michael Selig.
01:19:53.000I mean, the one thing here why Minnesota might be an outlier is because.
01:19:56.000Sports betting is still legal in Minnesota.
01:19:58.000So at least they can say they're being fairly consistent here.
01:20:02.000Even if, again, Tim Waltz is just going to have a completely different perspective on this from me.
01:20:06.000But in states where sports betting is legal, but then they go after these prediction markets, that indicates it's entirely political and should be dismissed out of hand.
01:20:15.000That's the lobby from the sports betting places that they're going to the politicians saying, well, we got to get rid of these predictive markets because they're essentially functioning in our territory.
01:20:29.000That's the problem of access when you have the ability to, you know, like Ms. Adelson, you know, like Congressman or former, soon to be former Congressman Thomas Massey was pointing out.
01:20:40.000When you have access for the power that's attached to it, and then you're subverting what the populace, what the constituency is actually in favor of.
01:22:06.000I tried to do that thing because me and my girlfriend live in a different city, so I tried to do that thing where you can, like, ask the airport if you can, like, Check in a guest to walk with you to the gate.
01:22:14.000And they were like, What are you talking about?
01:23:11.000Well, and it's okay to talk about minutiae or diminutive.
01:23:16.000Topics, as long as you tie it back to the broad topic at hand.
01:23:20.000So, for example, we're talking Minnesota.
01:23:22.000Well, anyone that knows Minnesota knows that they have vouching in the state where one registered voter can vouch for up to eight people without proof of citizenship or voter ID or any ID whatsoever.
01:23:32.000And then when you note that in 2008, Al Franken was elected by 312 votes and was the 60th vote for the Affordable Care Act, which we still have today, I think as long as we do a good job of always tying it back to this is why this issue is important, and the way that we defeat it is by passing.
01:23:51.000Election security and the Save America Act, which helps everything.
01:23:54.000So, no, if we want to win this November, pass the Save America Act into law and secure our elections.
01:24:00.000I think Save Act is your break glass in case of emergency option because I think it's going to be too late to do one of the other two primary things.
01:24:07.000One would be bringing down inflation radically and just the lag on that.
01:24:12.000Inflation doesn't come down radically overnight, though.
01:24:19.000That's a great message, but I agree with you that it is not enough to.
01:24:25.000I think we need more than just pass the SAVE Act.
01:24:28.000You need to return to what originally happened last year with illegal alien deportations.
01:24:34.000Now, what's gone on in the last since February, since you had the crackdown pullback, the Dunkirk that went on in Minneapolis because you had the two shootings that went on there and then they've gone soft.
01:25:42.000The other one bringing a gun to, uh, like they both put themselves in that position.
01:25:46.000But you're in law enforcement when something like this happens, like you have to take a step back and, like, all right, we got to figure out a way.
01:25:54.000Like, you can't just let me ask you this, uh, Steve, tell me this in the FBI.
01:25:59.000If casualties like that happen, right, in your time you were there, you guys just continue business as usual, or do you try to figure out, hey, how do we?
01:26:07.000Well, I mean, you could look to no other example than what they did with January 6th that no casualties would have been enough for them there.
01:26:20.000So, with when it comes to deportations, though, you're dealing with not American citizens.
01:26:26.000So, the expectation of protection of civil rights and all those things that they're not afforded because they're not part of the social compact, you have more latitude to be far more aggressive in that context.
01:26:37.000When you have pulled back and you've declared victory by doing the Dunkirk and saying, well, we're going to withdraw from Minneapolis and then just say we won.
01:26:44.000The only reason that Dunkirk is historically considered any sort of victory is because they won the overall war.
01:26:48.000If you're deporting less than a thousand illegal aliens nationwide a day, that's hardly going to give you the success rate.
01:26:55.000And to the metaphor I like to use with this Mean Girls, go back to the movie.
01:27:00.000You have the it kid leaves the ex girlfriend, Democrat Party, voters being the it kid.
01:27:05.000They leave the ex girlfriend, they go to the new girl.
01:27:08.000The new girl being the Republicans who were swept into the presidency, both houses of Congress, because they liked what the new girl was about, and that was mass deportations.
01:27:17.000And then the new girl says, You know, I kind of want the friends of the mean girls New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, Axios.
01:27:30.000Well, there's no difference between the girls now.
01:27:33.000I'm just going to go back to the other one because she was hotter and she gave me better bennies.
01:27:36.000Well, I think there's like two things going on that makes it really difficult for the Trump administration is one, They're dealing with Congress, which we've discussed ad nauseum, that they're just not going to play ball.
01:28:20.000But also, like, part of the problem that the Trump administration is running into is that this, the function of our government apparatus has been to import as many people as possible for like decades now.
01:28:31.000So reorienting that entire apparatus towards deportations is extremely difficult to do, as we've seen.
01:28:40.000I'm still sort of like, I still have, I'm still pretty white pilled on this because I mean, there's a lot of different.
01:28:46.000Things that we're seeing out of the State Department specifically that would indicate this is still a focus in a lot of different departments in the administration.
01:28:54.000I mean, the white South African thing alone just tells you that they're like locked in, they're dialed in on this issue.
01:28:58.000They're just running into extreme resistance in the courts because we see that over one guy, the Abrego Garcia guy, the Democrats turned that into a wedge issue and made it a two month thing.
01:29:05.000So I think two things can be true here.
01:29:08.000So I think like two things can be true here is one, the deportation numbers are way too low.
01:29:14.000Again, it's three, they could bring that back in a month.
01:29:17.000But also, I think the Trump administration, we do have to let them cook a little bit more on this because there's still so much that has to be unraveled here.
01:29:25.000They're coming with new agreements with local jurisdictions every day, which does make it easier to eject illegal immigrants.
01:29:31.000But the secret sauce here is self deportations.
01:29:33.000That's what's going to be the secret sauce in carrying out mass deportations.
01:29:36.000How practical is it for ICE to, you know, take 10,000 people a day?
01:29:39.000It'd be very, very difficult for them to do.
01:29:42.000So, the secret sauce here is what President Trump has been doing is, again, making like cranking up the pressure on the primary way people illegally immigrate into the country is visa overstays.
01:29:52.000So, you have to crank up the pressure specifically 70%.
01:29:55.000So, you have to crank up the pressure in that, you know, all the pressure.
01:30:18.000The only way to close the spigot of economic migrants who are mainly B1, B2 visa holders, which is tourism and leisure, leisure tourism business, is it's the easiest visa to get.
01:30:50.000That's literally the excuses they use when they're talking to the agents, CBP agents and airports, Atlanta, New York, whatever, right?
01:30:59.000So here's the interesting thing Do you want to cut immigration drastically?
01:31:04.000Go unearth the bill that I introduced, amend it a little bit, and essentially say that non Legal residents cannot have any banking privileges in America, meaning they can't Western Union, they can't Vigo money transfer, they can't bank, they can't send money back to wherever they're from.
01:31:37.000And here's a danger that I could see that I haven't seen it discussed anywhere.
01:31:42.000So you're dealing with failure to pass a Save Act.
01:31:44.000Okay, you're seeing a tremendous migration within the country of people fleeing blue states to red states.
01:31:50.000But as it comes to apportionment with congressional representation, with the electoral college, the total population is what counts, and they are including illegal aliens in that, which is why the blue states that have sanctuary policies are incentivized to keep it there.
01:32:03.000There's going to be a push for red states, which are doing a good job, a better job, of deporting illegal aliens, cooperating with the feds to do it, from the Republicans, from the squishy Republicans, from the Lindsey Grahams to say, You have to stop cooperating because we need to keep the population there so that we can elect more Republicans from these red states, which essentially is going to give you an amnesty.
01:32:24.000I think it wouldn't be a problem if we didn't.
01:33:58.000Well, that's why if this birthright citizenship doesn't go our way in the Supreme Court, the path forward is so much more difficult because again.
01:34:04.000They can just pour back in, pop a kid out, and then they're here forever.
01:34:08.000Here's the problem there's something called birth tourism, and it happens predominantly in Miami, Florida.
01:34:17.000I know people don't like to talk about it because it's a great state of Florida, but the majority of birth tourism takes place in Florida.
01:34:25.000South America, Asia, Russia, the amount is if you go to Sunny Isles, it's like, first of all, English optional.
01:34:34.000Like, Sunny Isle in South Florida is legit English optional.
01:34:38.000Between all the Slavic immigrants that live there that literally come here at the middle of their pregnancy, like mid second trimester, pop their babies, bounce back to Russia.
01:34:50.00018 years later, they have an American citizen coming here to start their life or whatever.
01:35:14.000These people come here, they take advantage of our medical system because it's an honor system.
01:35:18.000You will go through prenatal, you'll give birth, you'll dump, you'll dip and jip us on $60,000 to $70,000 birth bill, you know, delivery bill, and never have to pay for it.
01:37:15.000And to the Trump administration's credit, I mean, they've jammed up visas from like 76 countries now.
01:37:20.000But there were some notable exceptions.
01:37:21.000And I think these would be the countries that come to the forefront of people's minds when they do think about the people that are coming here and disrupting their lives.
01:37:30.000I mean, these are the countries that, again, if you just go and talk to people in the street, go to Dallas, you know, go to Houston, go to Atlanta, go to Memphis.
01:37:39.000If you go and ask these people, you know, which countries, which sources of immigration are causing you the most problems, they will cite those countries.
01:37:45.000So it's like, yes, it's fantastic, excellent, because that would have never happened, probably hadn't even been underneath a Republican.
01:37:54.000Because also, like, you can call me like a libtard or something, but to be fair, the countries, and Trump said this himself, you know, he was saying like offhand, he's like, why?
01:38:01.000Can't we get more migrants from like Denmark or Norway?
01:38:04.000It's like, because it's really hard for people that actually follow the law to come here from countries we would like people to come from.
01:38:10.000I mean, Trump, he made this, I don't know if it was a tweet or if he said this offhand like a long time ago, but he's like, Border Patrol treats my wife really poorly.
01:38:16.000You know, they treat her really poorly.
01:38:18.000So it's like, this weird thing happens all across the West, but specifically in the United States, is when like white people are trying to immigrate to the country, we crank up like the immigration pressure as high as possible.
01:38:26.000We make it like impossible for them to come here.
01:38:28.000Just ask anyone that's come from Europe because they typically speak English.
01:38:49.000There's 16 ways you can come to this country with a visa if you're in South America between Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Uruguay, Paraguay.
01:38:56.000And if you're coming from Denmark, you got to wait four years and spend half of.
01:40:38.000And the fears at the time from the people that were opposed to the Hart Seller Act.
01:40:43.000That looks like fantasy land compared to now.
01:40:46.000Like, they were so tame, their expectations.
01:40:48.000Their biggest fear was that when the Hart Seller Act was passed, we would see a wave of Polish people move to the country.
01:40:54.000That is not what's happened whatsoever.
01:40:56.000The sources of migration, no one, even the liberals that were pushing for the Hart Seller Act, were like, yeah, it's not going to change the culture of the country at all.
01:41:05.000We're probably just going to bring in more Czechs and more Slovakians and more Poles.
01:41:37.000I mean, you're probably too young, but I remember being in school for kids who were first generation who were not allowed to speak anything but English when they were home because their parents said, You're an American now.
01:41:50.000So they essentially lost their dialect that could have been brought down through the generations from their parents because the parents absolutely refused.
01:44:22.000Why are we not doing a better job saying, Mexico, see what's happening is these migrants come across the border, we deport them back.
01:44:30.000A day later, they're coming across the border again, trying to get in.
01:44:33.000They're not able to get into the interior, but there is no mechanism from other countries.
01:44:39.000Penalizing the illegal aliens continuously trying to come across the border.
01:44:44.000We need to use our flex monetarily wise and say, you want a good trade deal with us, then you need to penalize the very people that we capture and deport and detain over and over and actually imprison them.
01:44:58.000And then we will give you good trade deals.
01:45:26.000Why is India getting like the soft kid gloves treatment right now?
01:45:30.000I mean, I understand that they're an emerging power and everything, but this is somewhere where you could just get an easy win.
01:45:35.000You would accumulate political capital, by the way.
01:45:37.000Like everyone talks about immigration.
01:45:38.000It's like, well, why do you spend political capital on Iran and not mass deportations?
01:45:41.000You could actually get political capital if you just cut the crap with countries like India, who are just like the people that are coming over, quite frankly, are just not adding much to the United States.
01:47:42.000One side's Indian, the other side's like Little Mexico.
01:47:45.000And then there's like a little enclave of Colombians.
01:47:48.000I don't know why I grew up there, but anyway, the point that I'm trying to make is if you go there right now, like I would love to bring any one of you guys to, like, let's go stroll up Roswell Avenue.
01:48:51.000Then they get full blown health care because that's the Clinton bill from when she was in the Senate.
01:48:58.000It's just so much giving that you eventually stop and think, wait, this family costs the American taxpayer dollars about 40 to 60K a month.
01:50:32.000I'm a flight progress coordinator in Iran.
01:50:35.000Because the UK had to worry about their own security if they were going to go in and support the American initiative on that.
01:50:41.000I mean, they would have their few years down the road ahead of where we're looking, and they have to worry about their own security when it comes in goings dealing with international affairs.
01:50:50.000Yeah, I mean, JD Vance was talking about this.
01:50:53.000I think it was at NatCon where he was saying, like, We can't even depend on the UK as an ally long term.
01:50:56.000Not because we don't trust the British people, but because the British people might be gone.
01:51:00.000So it's like, how do you build an alliance with a people that are getting replaced where it could be an entirely different country in 30, 40 years?
01:51:07.000But to steel man the other side, the same thing's happening in the United States.
01:51:11.000Like, I agree, JD Vance, but also the same thing's happening here.
01:51:14.000Now, granted, Trump has taken the boot off our neck and we're making progress, but still we have the same problem.
01:51:19.000The entire Western hemisphere, or sorry, the entire Western civilization is having the same problem, which is this country that we know and we can look around and observe.
01:51:31.000So you have to stop it now and reverse the replacement migration.
01:51:35.000So, what I'm hearing is if our goal is reverse migration, then and almost having no net migration coming into the country, we need to make it toxic and restrictive of the migrants that we choose to bring into the country.
01:51:53.000And just I have to note this Senator John Cornyn shared a welcome to the Indian century talking about how.
01:52:02.00070% of our H 1B visas are coming from India.
01:52:05.000And here's the most damning part of the article it was talking about how India is so young compared to China that the Indian youth make up such a huge unemployment.
01:52:35.000Incentivize American families having American babies, make migration restrictive, and all these problems that we're talking about, we can solve over time.
01:52:47.000Use the carrot when we have to, use the stick when we have to.
01:52:50.000I mean, because every, yeah, and it's like every, no matter what your issue is in politics, whether it's foreign policy, whether it's abortion, whether, whatever, you name it, these are all downstream from immigration because, again, immigration is what determines the demographics.
01:53:04.000And as we're finding out, again, with, Further, every election cycle that comes along, that elections are becoming more of a census.
01:53:10.000And so, while it is true that you're seeing shifts among like Hispanics in particular, again, immigrants by and large still vote Democrat.
01:53:16.000So, as you increase, and so do the second generation.
01:53:29.000What's the reality on the ground right now?
01:53:30.000So, my point is with immigration, with replacement migration, as this continues, Republicans will be more politically unviable in national elections.
01:53:37.000And that's just the reality of the situation.
01:53:39.000So, it's like this is why I made the initial point.
01:53:40.000Whatever your issue is, and however valid it is, maybe it even takes precedent above immigration in your life, again, If the composition of the country changes, if it ceases to be American, then you're not going to be able to get those politicians in office who will be able to enact those policies.
01:53:57.000This is, case in point, why they're so desperate for amnesty because they know that ensures Democrat rule in states like California, in states like New York, even states like New Jersey.
01:54:06.000They know, they know all these people are sitting there waiting.
01:54:08.000And as soon as they get their citizenship, federal elections, they're in, they can go vote.
01:54:14.000If you reorient to what the actual social compact says, It's a very finite amount of responsibilities that the American people have their demand and expect from their government.
01:54:23.000Where we gave up, agreed to give some of our liberties a limited amount in order so we had protection of the borders, ensuring our sovereignty, coin some money, but don't you know be printing it out of thin air to the point where the dollars in my bank account are worthless, sign some treaties, and protection against fraud and force.
01:54:42.000If you're focusing on that as your prime directive, then that is going to result in a stronger currency.
01:54:48.000Your inflation will not be exorbitant, it'll result in.
01:54:51.000Sovereignty at our borders, and we're not going to have 30, 40, 50 million illegal aliens flooding across.
01:54:56.000They're going to be pushing people out of the workplace, pushing people out of a housing market, pushing people out of their communities because they're not going to be able to accommodate the amount of parking spots or sewage that's going through, or the schools or the hospitals.
01:55:10.000If you had an actual government that was focused on the very finite amount of responsibilities that are actually documented in the pesky, dusty documents, as opposed to what they think is in the invisible ink on the back of the Declaration of Independence in the Good and Plenty clause, as they're asserting to us, then you would actually have.
01:55:27.000This is why Ann Coulter said on my show, she said, Everything in your life becomes easier with mass deportations because of every reason you cited jobs, housing, even little things.
01:55:35.000Where they occupy infrastructure that they shouldn't be here and they're taking up sewage.
01:55:41.000These are things that directly impact you on a daily basis.
01:55:44.000And these things can be solved again with if we just had a serious deportation process, which Trump administration made good strides in.
01:55:54.000But we just need a serious deportation effort and these things will solve themselves.
01:56:30.000Fix it because then Democrats won't have anything to complain about and say Republicans are stealing your debt.
01:56:35.000And Republicans won't be able to go, They're going to open the spigot.
01:56:39.000It takes away election fodder and rhetoric.
01:56:43.000So, like everything in DC, it's not fixed because politicians need it for their political stump speeches, for their re election speeches and campaigns.
02:07:52.000Oh, you're from like the southern Baptist, so I mean, I know these people, and that's that's their values, like that kind of stuff does freak out people.
02:08:00.000And dude, he was a horn dog by all accounts, so I mean, there's nothing wrong with that.
02:08:05.000And I will say, I've lived on this earth a little while now, I have never.
02:08:11.000Heard a men's genitalia be likened to a pine cone.
02:10:41.000My question is regarding this specifically.
02:10:44.000So I'm obviously a little, myself and many others are very singed at the defeat of Thomas Massey, a seven term America First patriot who stands with principles and might not always vote with the establishment quo, you know, toe the line for the GOP.
02:11:05.000But I'm kind of upset because what does this mean for the future of the now visibly fractured right?
02:11:14.000And is MAGA and Trump showing this uniparty establishment bought and paid for willing to sell out?