Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - Timcast IRL - Armed Civilians Deploy To Protect Property From BLM, R-Candidate Sean Parnell Joins

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00:00:44.000 you demanding they salute them with their revolution fist.

00:00:51.000 And I find that particularly creepy because the people who don't do it get hounded and berated.

00:00:55.000 So you literally now have zealous groups of cult-like, you know, cult-like groups of individuals marching around demanding allegiance to some idea that most people probably don't even know.

00:01:07.000 But I do think, you know, while that may be creepy and worrisome in the long term, you know, when we look to the future, it's also partly disturbing that they're burning down buildings, they're destroying property, and one of the things that's really interesting that we're seeing now are these armed groups coming out.

00:01:23.000 They're standing guard in front of property.

00:01:25.000 They're telling people, look, we're not against you.

00:01:28.000 We just don't want you destroying innocent people's property.

00:01:30.000 There's some really horrifying videos.

00:01:32.000 But there's a lot we've got to talk about because there's one politician I saw.

00:01:36.000 Well, I shouldn't call him a politician.

00:01:37.000 He's probably mad at me already.

00:01:38.000 Don't do it!

00:01:39.000 So there was a video I saw from somebody who's a leader talking about the problems of Antifa.

00:01:44.000 Better, better, better.

00:01:45.000 And yeah, Sean Parnell is joining us.

00:01:48.000 Do you want to just introduce yourself, let people know who you are?

00:01:51.000 Yes, well, I'm Sean Parnell.

00:01:53.000 I am not a politician.

00:01:54.000 I like to consider myself a leader.

00:01:57.000 I led an infantry platoon at the height of the hunt for Bin Laden back in 2006.

00:02:00.000 Our mission was just to find him.

00:02:04.000 We didn't.

00:02:05.000 We found a lot of bad guys instead.

00:02:06.000 My platoon took an 85% casualty rate.

00:02:09.000 Some of my men were wounded twice.

00:02:10.000 I was wounded myself.

00:02:12.000 Uh, and I was medically retired before my time.

00:02:14.000 I intended to join the military to make a career of it, go into the special forces, try out for Delta.

00:02:19.000 I mean, that was at least, as a young kid, that was my goal.

00:02:22.000 Um, I didn't get that opportunity.

00:02:24.000 I got blown up by a rocket-propelled grenade and was put out of the military, medically retired.

00:02:28.000 And ten years ago, I left the military really broken, broken.

00:02:33.000 I didn't really know what I was going to do with my life.

00:02:34.000 In fact, I came driving back from Fort Drum, which is where I was stationed.

00:02:38.000 You know where Fort Drum is?

00:02:39.000 No.

00:02:40.000 You said you were looking at upstate New York, so I thought you might.

00:02:43.000 So there's two seasons up there, July and winter.

00:02:45.000 It's like up on the border with Canada.

00:02:48.000 And driving home from there, I'm like, I have no idea what I'm going to do with my life.

00:02:53.000 I came back to Pittsburgh, which is where I was born and raised.

00:02:58.000 I went to grad school, came back, went to grad school, and started trying to tell the story of my troops, because by and large, most of my soldiers felt like they were completely forgotten in Afghanistan.

00:03:08.000 In fact, they'd go home when their R&R leave, their rest and relaxation leave.

00:03:12.000 And and Americans would see them in their uniform and they thank them for their service.

00:03:16.000 And they say, Wow, where are you stationed?

00:03:18.000 Oh, you were in Afghanistan?

00:03:19.000 Oh, thank God.

00:03:21.000 Thank God you're in Afghanistan, because Iraq is just so dangerous.

00:03:23.000 And my guys would be like, What the hell?

00:03:26.000 I just got shot in the head last week.

00:03:28.000 What?

00:03:29.000 So they'd come back to the battlefield to the front and talk to me and say, sir, they don't know.

00:03:34.000 American people don't know what's going on over here.

00:03:35.000 And so when I was medically retired, we all sort of went our separate ways.

00:03:39.000 Some left the army, some moved to different duty assignments.

00:03:43.000 And I went back to grad school and I said, you know, I have to figure out a way to tell their story.

00:03:49.000 To make sure that they had a legacy.

00:03:51.000 To make sure that their sacrifice was not forgotten.

00:03:54.000 So that they never found themselves in a situation with their kids or their wife someday where maybe their own family didn't know what they had been through for this country.

00:04:04.000 And so that story became Outlaw Platoon, and Outlaw Platoon became a bestseller, and that gave me an opportunity to give back to my country in greater ways.

00:04:12.000 I've been doing charity work.

00:04:14.000 I've got a non-profit that I'm a small part of that gives service dogs to vets, first responders, and their families.

00:04:20.000 Yeah, and so I feel like you don't need a uniform rank or a title to serve your community.

00:04:26.000 And so I've been doing that for, boy, eight years now, and then All that changed when the president came to the district and name-dropped me.

00:04:37.000 So yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:04:38.000 Why did Trump came to your district?

00:04:39.000 Why did he name-drop you?

00:04:40.000 Yeah, so at that time, I had never talked to him, and I still never met the man.

00:04:48.000 He came to the district, gave a big speech at the Marcellus Shale Coalition there, and he sort of name-dropped me to run for Congress.

00:04:56.000 And I was like, I wasn't even there.

00:04:59.000 I was down in South Carolina at a charity event and I walk off the stage, you know, have you ever, you're like, phone's just like this, like notifications nonstop just blowing up.

00:05:08.000 I'm like, what the hell is going on?

00:05:10.000 And I look at him, my mom's just like, ding, ding.

00:05:13.000 I'm like.

00:05:14.000 Damn, there must be a death in the family.

00:05:17.000 I was afraid.

00:05:18.000 My mom is a very strong Italian woman and there's no drama with her.

00:05:25.000 You know what I mean?

00:05:25.000 She doesn't do that stuff unless something big is going on.

00:05:28.000 And so I find a place to hide and I call her after this event.

00:05:32.000 And they're like public events.

00:05:33.000 So there's like a stage and people and there's a move that bus moment with the service dog.

00:05:37.000 It's real cool.

00:05:38.000 And I'm like, Ma, what's going on?

00:05:41.000 And she goes, Sean!

00:05:42.000 I'm like, oh, I did something wrong.

00:05:45.000 I'm like, Ma, what's wrong?

00:05:46.000 And she goes, are you running for Congress?

00:05:50.000 And I said, Ma, no, I'm not running for Congress.

00:05:53.000 And she goes, there was just silence.

00:05:56.000 And then she goes, well, the president of the United States says you're running for Congress.

00:06:00.000 And I said, Ma, put, Put the wine down!

00:06:04.000 It's like too early in the day for this!

00:06:07.000 And so she sends me this video, and you can probably find the damn thing on one of these Star Trek computers that you got here.

00:06:14.000 Oh yeah, we do.

00:06:16.000 And it's the president calling me out to run, and so I said, okay, let's do this.

00:06:21.000 I turned my private sector life upside down, got in the race, and declared a couple weeks later, and we've been doing this ever since.

00:06:29.000 And I feel like it's You know, running for political office is a grind in so many ways, but really, you know, one of the things, I'm a noob at this, you know, but, you know, politicians tend to think elections are about them, right?

00:06:43.000 Yeah.

00:06:43.000 But it ain't true.

00:06:45.000 Elections are about the people.

00:06:46.000 And so I try to keep my focus on the people.

00:06:51.000 Everyone.

00:06:51.000 Not just, I mean, I'm a Republican.

00:06:53.000 I'm a conservative.

00:06:55.000 You and I are probably very different in a lot of ways.

00:06:57.000 Yeah.

00:06:57.000 But I'm a leader.

00:07:00.000 Like, when I was in Afghanistan, I had Democrats and Republicans in the same foxhole.

00:07:04.000 Black next to white.

00:07:06.000 Rich next to poor.

00:07:08.000 Northerners next to Southerners.

00:07:09.000 Christians next to atheists.

00:07:11.000 And we were placed on some remote hilltop in Afghanistan and told to figure it out.

00:07:16.000 And I learned very quickly that if we did not learn to look past our many differences as Americans, we would have probably perished on some remote hilltop in Afghanistan somewhere.

00:07:27.000 And so that's sort of become the bedrock of my leadership philosophy is trying to bring people together regardless of what they believe or what they look like or what God they worship.

00:07:37.000 Because I know that when Americans are united, we really can accomplish anything.

00:07:42.000 I mean, for God's sake, we went to the moon with less technology than you got in this room here, you know?

00:07:47.000 That's actually true.

00:07:48.000 Your cell phone's got more computing power than that rocket.

00:07:50.000 Exactly.

00:07:51.000 But we figured it out, right?

00:07:52.000 Definitely.

00:07:52.000 And so united, you know, with a free exchange of ideas, you know, meeting in the middle, coming to consensus, challenging each other, this country can do anything.

00:08:03.000 In fact, that's why this country is where we are today.

00:08:07.000 So you're running against a Democrat.

00:08:10.000 Yes.

00:08:10.000 What's his name?

00:08:11.000 Connor Lamb.

00:08:12.000 Connor Lamb.

00:08:13.000 And you're actually in a Republican district.

00:08:14.000 Yeah.

00:08:15.000 Yes.

00:08:15.000 It's a. So four years ago, if the district had existed, it's a new district.

00:08:19.000 It was gerrymandered.

00:08:20.000 So it was.

00:08:22.000 I don't know what the stats work.

00:08:23.000 It was like an R plus 20 district where he won his first race in a special election.

00:08:29.000 It was the only game in town.

00:08:31.000 A couple of years later, it was drawn to like an R plus four.

00:08:34.000 Maybe an R plus three, R plus four.

00:08:35.000 So it's more competitive.

00:08:37.000 It's a swing district in every in every sense of the word.

00:08:39.000 It's really the district is the quintessential swing district divided right down the middle.

00:08:45.000 And he's, you know, it's a district that President Trump had existed four years ago.

00:08:49.000 He would have won the district by, oh boy, 10,000 or so votes.

00:08:53.000 And Senator Pat Toomey, who was also on the ballot that year, a very, very different Republican from President Trump.

00:09:00.000 Also won the district by a larger margin.

00:09:01.000 So, two very different Republicans have demonstrated the ability to carry the district in the last four years, and there's a Democrat in there now.

00:09:09.000 And he's on defense.

00:09:10.000 So, for those that are just tuning in, it's particularly convenient that you were able to come by for several reasons.

00:09:17.000 You just did this explosive RNC speech.

00:09:19.000 I thought it was awesome.

00:09:21.000 Oh, thanks, man.

00:09:21.000 Thank you.

00:09:22.000 I saw the ad you did where you talked about antifa and the violence in the far left, and I'm not seeing a lot of that.

00:09:28.000 It often feels like Republicans aren't paying attention.

00:09:31.000 How long has the censorship issue been a big issue, a big problem for a lot of people online, and we ended up only seeing a couple Republicans actually tackle it?

00:09:40.000 Not that I think every single Republican should, but there's a handful of people I can name.

00:09:43.000 There's Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, Matt Gaetz, who have been focused on issues that people have been... At least what I'm seeing.

00:09:49.000 I don't, you know, think that literally everybody sees the same problems.

00:09:52.000 Particularly online.

00:09:54.000 People who are watching these videos are seeing Antifa writers go around smashing stuff.

00:09:59.000 And it feels like, for one, the Democrats are lying about it.

00:10:01.000 They're saying it's a myth.

00:10:02.000 Nothing's going on.

00:10:03.000 Peaceful protests.

00:10:04.000 Nothing but peaceful protests.

00:10:05.000 They're just peaceful.

00:10:06.000 So I actually hit you up recently saying, like, yo, would you be down to come on the show?

00:10:14.000 And then, several days later, when Kenosha lit up, and so now we have this next night, and the lead story that we're gonna start with, these guys are showing up to protect businesses, so we'll talk a bit about this, but for those that are just tuning in, make sure you hit the like button, hit the subscribe button, we're live every Monday through Friday at 8 p.m., and that's the general introduction for Sean, but let's just jump right into it.

00:10:39.000 What are your thoughts on all the riots?

00:10:42.000 You made this powerful ad.

00:10:43.000 You had two really powerful ads, actually.

00:10:45.000 You had that one viral ad where you're walking through a warehouse.

00:10:49.000 Yeah, you want the full story on that?

00:10:50.000 Go for it.

00:10:51.000 Let's roll.

00:10:51.000 You want to know how it went down?

00:10:53.000 Well, actually, we'll start with the Antifa stuff, just because I promised.

00:10:57.000 I'm like, hey, we're going to talk about Antifa.

00:10:58.000 Oh, we're leading in with it.

00:10:59.000 Yeah, let's do it.

00:11:01.000 Yeah, the second ad I did was an ad that was condemning the mob violence.

00:11:04.000 And the thesis, the point of the ad was that if you don't condemn the mob, you support it.

00:11:12.000 We've been told silence is violence, right?

00:11:15.000 Or silence is consent.

00:11:16.000 Or silence is consent.

00:11:17.000 Whatever the new phrase is.

00:11:19.000 But the point is, I feel like the looting, the rioting, the burning, you know, we talked

00:11:28.000 about this. What happened to George Floyd was horrible. It should not happen in this country. In fact,

00:11:34.000 I came out before my Democrat opponent and said, we need to seek justice for this. This

00:11:39.000 isn't right. And Democrats and Republicans were remarkably unified in that.

00:11:46.000 Every police officer that I talked to was like, whoa, this ain't right.

00:11:51.000 So we had this unprecedented moment of unity.

00:11:55.000 that could have been seized upon to really seek justice for that family and do what was right.

00:12:03.000 Instead, the rioting and looting, what it does is, you know, it doesn't serve George Floyd's memory well, right?

00:12:14.000 I think all of us can honestly say that these rioting and the looting is not about George Floyd anymore, right?

00:12:21.000 Absolutely not.

00:12:23.000 What's happening is they're burning down people's homes, their businesses, their businesses.

00:12:30.000 I mean, my goodness, you started your own podcast.

00:12:33.000 How much of your blood, sweat, and tears did you put into this, man?

00:12:35.000 Starting your own business, podcast, venture in this country is not easy to do.

00:12:41.000 Any business, to be honest.

00:12:42.000 Any business.

00:12:43.000 Most businesses fail.

00:12:44.000 And so when I see innocent people whose businesses and homes and And American dreams are being burned to the ground.

00:12:53.000 It upsets me.

00:12:53.000 It hurts my soul.

00:12:55.000 And, you know, the tragic irony of a lot of this is, is most of these riots, I mean, they're happening in Democrat run cities.

00:13:03.000 They just are.

00:13:04.000 It's just a fact.

00:13:06.000 And they're disproportionately affecting minority communities.

00:13:10.000 Absolutely.

00:13:11.000 And minority business owners.

00:13:12.000 There's a viral tweet going around right now that shows the increase in shooting violence in New York following defunding the police.

00:13:21.000 And guess which demographic is predominantly victimized in the shootings?

00:13:25.000 It's the black community.

00:13:26.000 And the black community, if you look at the polling, they want more police.

00:13:31.000 They want a stronger police presence.

00:13:34.000 All I did with the ad was just say, if you don't condemn the mob, you endorse the mob.

00:13:39.000 It was a call to action, a shot across the bow for both political parties to say, look, look, this is, this is our history, right?

00:13:46.000 And, you know, here's, here's the way I explain it to people on the stump in Pittsburgh, right?

00:13:51.000 While Democrats and Republicans on the Hill quibble about who's worse, you know, Teddy Roosevelt or Grant or Christopher Columbus or St.

00:13:59.000 Michael, and which statue should, you know, Yeah, the these the Antifa right in these these self

00:14:07.000 proclaimed Marxist these trained Marxist and this isn't just me saying this is on their

00:14:11.000 website.

00:14:12.000 They've said it themselves.

00:14:14.000 So if we just said in the city of Pittsburgh all the 70s Super Bowls the four Super Bowls

00:14:19.000 that the Steelers won they didn't happen and you know what we're going to do we're going

00:14:23.000 to take all those Super Bowl trophies out of Heinz Field.

00:14:26.000 All the players that made it into the Hall of Fame during the 70s, taking them out.

00:14:30.000 All the blood, sweat, and tears that the fans, the coaching staff, and the players invested in those Super Bowls didn't happen.

00:14:37.000 Well, everybody that grew up in the city of Pittsburgh, cheering for the Steelers, would still love the Steelers.

00:14:43.000 Do you want to know why?

00:14:44.000 Because it's woven into the fabric of our DNA.

00:14:46.000 We love the Steelers.

00:14:47.000 We wear our jerseys to church on Sunday, for God's sake.

00:14:51.000 So we would still love the Steelers.

00:14:53.000 But you know what, my kids, the next generation, a little bit less.

00:14:56.000 The generation after that, probably not at all.

00:15:01.000 You know, the Washington football team.

00:15:05.000 I got some Redskins Ziploc bags.

00:15:10.000 I had to make sure I could buy something off Amazon because they were getting rid of it.

00:15:13.000 And I don't like censorship.

00:15:14.000 I don't like destruction of history.

00:15:16.000 I like preserving art.

00:15:18.000 And so I went on Amazon and I bought a box of Redskins Ziploc bags.

00:15:22.000 You can't buy them on Amazon anymore.

00:15:24.000 Are you sponsored by Ziploc?

00:15:25.000 Is that why you're doing that?

00:15:26.000 No, I just thought it was kind of funny.

00:15:27.000 Like of all the things I could get, I got Ziploc bags.

00:15:30.000 It's hilarious.

00:15:31.000 I could actually use them.

00:15:32.000 Well, so the point is, is that this is, this is about making America easier to change generations from now.

00:15:38.000 Okay.

00:15:38.000 They're playing the long game and I cut that ad to help wake people up.

00:15:42.000 And you know, I, I had people in the media, you know, in, in local Pittsburgh papers saying that, you know, Oh, you know, Sean, you can do better than that.

00:15:53.000 The rhetoric.

00:15:53.000 I'm like, So, wait a second.

00:15:56.000 You're not okay with me calling out mob violence, but you're okay with the mob violence.

00:16:02.000 Right?

00:16:02.000 Like, it's not okay for me to condemn it, but it's okay to burn people's buildings down.

00:16:08.000 And you're going to condemn me for calling it out, but not my opponent who is posing with defund the police stuff.

00:16:18.000 Did he really pose with defund the police?

00:16:20.000 Yes.

00:16:21.000 Wow.

00:16:22.000 Yes.

00:16:22.000 He'll tell you.

00:16:23.000 because every every he'll tell you well of course I'm not for defunding the

00:16:27.000 police it's like yeah okay okay well I mean you're marching around with

00:16:31.000 protesters posing with pictures arm and arm with defund the police signs now

00:16:36.000 imagine I did something like that Would me saying, well, I don't really believe that, would that ever fly?

00:16:43.000 No.

00:16:44.000 They did it with the dude we had on the other day, Billy Prempeh.

00:16:46.000 He's a Republican running in North Jersey.

00:16:48.000 He took a picture of the bunch of people.

00:16:49.000 One guy pulled out a Q flag.

00:16:51.000 All of a sudden, they're all... That's exactly right.

00:16:53.000 He's a supporter.

00:16:54.000 That's a great example.

00:16:55.000 That's a great example.

00:16:59.000 I mean, it wouldn't be excusable for me, so, you know?

00:17:04.000 I wish it was.

00:17:05.000 I'd have no problem saying, look, the guy's probably marching around, some people pulled out to defund the police thing, I'm gonna ask him about it if he denies it, that's okay, same would go for you, but the media won't give you that courtesy.

00:17:15.000 No, they won't.

00:17:17.000 Only one side gets a courtesy.

00:17:19.000 It's beyond courtesy.

00:17:20.000 It is overt campaigning.

00:17:23.000 The mainstream media, they really are in the tank.

00:17:29.000 I used to hear the president talk about fake news and I used to laugh.

00:17:35.000 right And I'm like, yeah, it's true.

00:17:38.000 But, you know, the president being tongue in cheek, he's funny.

00:17:40.000 Right.

00:17:41.000 And the president, he likes to get people riled up.

00:17:43.000 You know, he just does.

00:17:44.000 He's a fighter like that.

00:17:45.000 And that's not it.

00:17:48.000 Incidentally, I like that.

00:17:49.000 I like that about him.

00:17:50.000 I like that he's a fighter.

00:17:51.000 And I think that's why people elected him, because they feel like he's a fighter.

00:17:54.000 And I'll give you my logic on that if you want in a couple of minutes.

00:17:59.000 You know, I don't remember where the hell I was going with that.

00:18:01.000 Fake news.

00:18:02.000 Trump's a fighter.

00:18:02.000 Oh, yeah.

00:18:03.000 There you go.

00:18:04.000 So now.

00:18:05.000 But now that I'm in a race, I'm like, oh, my God.

00:18:09.000 Fake news.

00:18:09.000 It's everywhere.

00:18:10.000 It's real.

00:18:10.000 Yeah.

00:18:11.000 So I'm half joking, but I'm half not.

00:18:14.000 But if you look at some of the headlines out there today, they clearly don't want the president to be reelected.

00:18:19.000 Oh, certainly.

00:18:20.000 In the New York Times, I think it was this morning, peaceful marches give way to... Turn violent!

00:18:26.000 No, no, no.

00:18:26.000 They didn't even say turn violent.

00:18:27.000 They say give way to burning buildings and looting.

00:18:30.000 Or to, like, fires and looting.

00:18:31.000 It's like, give way.

00:18:33.000 What is peaceful marches?

00:18:36.000 Yeah.

00:18:37.000 So I pulled up a bunch of these stories.

00:18:38.000 Protest, protest, protest, protest.

00:18:40.000 They all say protest.

00:18:41.000 They all say demonstration.

00:18:42.000 A bunch of them say peaceful.

00:18:44.000 And it's like what you were saying, you know, how they want to make it easier to change this country.

00:18:48.000 I think what we're seeing with the media is there's two things.

00:18:51.000 For the most part, they're scared of the left.

00:18:54.000 I think most of these big companies that bend the knee to the woke outrage are scared of violence.

00:19:00.000 Like you got this video where, you know, I don't think I can play it, but you got this video where they surround this woman She's leaning back as they're screaming in her face

00:19:10.000 demanding she raise her fist.

00:19:11.000 Yeah.

00:19:12.000 This image, to me, is the perfect example of what's been happening across this country for all these companies,

00:19:17.000 for all these politicians, for the media.

00:19:20.000 If, if, I'll put it this way.

00:19:23.000 If you said, hey, we should fund the police, and they said, no way,

00:19:29.000 would you rally a bunch of people to go and smash windows and start fires and-

00:19:33.000 Absolutely not.

00:19:34.000 I mean, look, this is why there's this poll that came out recently, something like 67%, and don't quote me on the numbers, 67% of Americans I see it play out on the ground in politics while we campaign.

00:19:49.000 Yeah, and in fact, the only people that do feel comfortable are like the far left far

00:19:54.000 left and so that's why you know when we I see it play out on the ground and in politics

00:19:59.000 while we campaign like we work really hard to go everywhere and meet people and build

00:20:04.000 coalitions and be there for the people and you know we'll go to people's doors and be

00:20:08.000 like hey do you want do you want to sign because that's part of like the gig you like hey you

00:20:11.000 want to sign and like yeah we'll take one of your signs that's great what do you want

00:20:15.000 want to assign for the present oh no we don't want our house to get burned out yeah you

00:20:18.000 know I mean but is that not a sad commentary of where we are that was the whole so we talked

00:20:23.000 about my my speech at the convention that was part of it like yeah the

00:20:26.000 Like, the Republican Party, we're the big tent party.

00:20:30.000 We're the party of diversity of thought.

00:20:32.000 In our tent, you will be free.

00:20:34.000 In our tents, you will not be canceled.

00:20:36.000 In our tents, you are free.

00:20:38.000 And so, I feel like we want to cultivate that in America, but that's part of what made America such an exceptional country.

00:20:43.000 So obviously, you wouldn't lead a march with torches, but obviously the left would, right?

00:20:50.000 I mean, look at this video.

00:20:53.000 This video is scary.

00:20:54.000 This video is scary. It's horrifying. Surrounding this woman, she's being pushed back and they're

00:20:59.000 screaming at her, raise your fist. She's saying no. This is not the only video. They went around

00:21:03.000 to a bunch of restaurants. But so think about what that means.

00:21:07.000 You work for, you know, CNN.

00:21:08.000 They smashed up the front of the CNN building.

00:21:10.000 And they tried breaking in the lobby.

00:21:12.000 I think they got in.

00:21:12.000 They got shoved out.

00:21:14.000 They've gone to other companies.

00:21:15.000 They will threaten violence.

00:21:17.000 And it works.

00:21:18.000 It works.

00:21:18.000 These companies bend the knee as fast as they can.

00:21:21.000 And so what ends up happening, going back to the point I was making about these companies, these news outlets that say protesters instead of rioters.

00:21:29.000 One big reason is that they're scared they'll be attacked.

00:21:33.000 They go on the ground.

00:21:34.000 They do get attacked.

00:21:35.000 True.

00:21:36.000 We had this, uh, uh, uh, Elijah Schaefer is a reporter for The Blaze.

00:21:39.000 Do you see his video that came out where the guy flipped a gun in his face?

00:21:41.000 Mm-mm.

00:21:42.000 You hear a click.

00:21:42.000 I don't know if he actually dry-fired it, because I don't, it doesn't look like his finger's on the trigger, but there's a, there's a click.

00:21:47.000 Elijah's saying, you know, he's, he's, they're, they're in the middle of a conversation.

00:21:50.000 What do you do, you know, what would you do to the cops?

00:21:51.000 And the guy pulls out a gun and points it at him, and then puts it away.

00:21:54.000 And it sounds like, you know, there's a click of some sort.

00:21:57.000 I don't know what it is, but...

00:21:58.000 They're willing to get violent and they're willing to target journalists.

00:22:02.000 So a lot of these journalists are scared and would say, hey, I would rather not challenge them.

00:22:07.000 Yeah.

00:22:08.000 You know, because I don't want to have any violence directed at me.

00:22:10.000 But I think the more nefarious thing that needs to be brought up is that these journalists, many of them write peaceful marches because they're on their side and they're covering for them on purpose.

00:22:20.000 And I know because I've worked at these companies and they straight up are like, no, no, no, don't, don't, you know, don't say it like that because it'll make them look bad.

00:22:27.000 Oh, believe me, I mean, you know, if, look, I mean, you talked about, not a single, I don't want to say not a single, most Democrats would never win elections if the media didn't constantly fly cover for them.

00:22:43.000 You know, most people in my district do not know about Conor Lamb's radical voting record, okay?

00:22:49.000 And look, I'm sure that he's a nice guy, right?

00:22:53.000 I'm campaigning on his record, on his policy votes.

00:22:56.000 He's making it personal, making up lies about me and stuff like that, but that's what they do when they're losing.

00:23:00.000 That's what the left does.

00:23:01.000 It's character assassination.

00:23:02.000 The politics of personal destruction.

00:23:04.000 That's why I was loath about getting into politics in the first place, right?

00:23:09.000 But if we allow the left to do that, Then good people don't rise up and run out of fear.

00:23:16.000 We can't allow it to happen.

00:23:17.000 So, I felt that this country was important enough and the next generation for my children, we want to make sure that our kids, all of our kids, inherit a country that is rich with opportunity and is just as vibrant as the one that you and I... I want my kids to have the same opportunity that you did, if not more.

00:23:33.000 That's our job.

00:23:34.000 That's what my parents thought.

00:23:35.000 That's what my grandparents thought.

00:23:37.000 And it was hard fought.

00:23:38.000 And so, If the media were playing fair, you know, Democrats would likely never win because their agenda in this day and age, and I say Democrats, I really am drawing a distinction.

00:23:52.000 I knew Democrats, okay?

00:23:54.000 You know, old, you know, the Union Democrats that built this country, that really, they really did build this country from the ground up, are not the same people as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, you know, and I'm not trying to impugn her either.

00:24:07.000 I'm just simply saying That my grandfather was a lifelong Union Democrat, and he would not recognize the Democrat Party today.

00:24:14.000 In fact, most Democrats that I talked to cannot believe the Democrat Party platform in 2020.

00:24:22.000 And they're looking for other options.

00:24:25.000 And I think as a leader, you know, yeah, I'm a Republican, and I'm a conservative, and I don't shy away from that.

00:24:30.000 But I consider myself a leader and a representative of the people first, last, and always.

00:24:35.000 And leaders, we've got to step up and give those people an option.

00:24:38.000 You did a popular speech at the RNC, to put it one way.

00:24:42.000 But one of the things you said was, you know, Democrats shouldn't be afraid that they should, you know, come in and... Yeah, absolutely.

00:24:48.000 100%.

00:24:49.000 Yeah, do you want to just go for it?

00:24:51.000 What was that?

00:24:52.000 What did you say?

00:24:52.000 What was it about?

00:24:53.000 Yeah, so I wrote a speech that was sort of an unconventional convention speech in that it was largely based in my platoon story in Afghanistan on a fight where we were almost overwhelmed.

00:25:06.000 And I talked about how diverse we were and how we needed to look past those, our many differences in order to succeed on the battlefield.

00:25:12.000 I said this, I said this earlier in the, in the podcast, but, but what I pivot to is, is, is trying to give Democrats who feel like their party has left them another option.

00:25:23.000 Not saying that they've got to compromise their values.

00:25:26.000 Not saying that we have to agree on everything.

00:25:28.000 Why should we have to agree?

00:25:30.000 Things are so polarized.

00:25:32.000 Everyone expects you to be in lockstep with the Democratic Party and the same is true for the Republican Party.

00:25:36.000 No, that is not true.

00:25:38.000 I don't even agree with everything my own family says.

00:25:40.000 I mean, we sit around the dinner table and it's like one big argument.

00:25:43.000 That's what it means to be an American.

00:25:45.000 Well, the point I was trying to make is that the modern day Democratic Party is, they're the, somewhere along the way, you know, there's been a paradigm shift where the Democratic Party, the new Democratic Party is the party of hedge fund managers, Hollywood celebrities, university professors, tech moguls, and they don't represent the modern American working man or woman.

00:26:09.000 And I feel like I feel like those Democrats, I feel like it's our job.

00:26:15.000 It is our job as leaders in this country to give them another option and saying, look, we don't have to agree on everything, but you're always going to get a fair shake from me.

00:26:23.000 You're always going to know exactly where I stand and I'm going to represent you well and show up for you and make sure that you can put food on the table for your family, you know?

00:26:29.000 Not that the political hit piece writers will care, but I'm going to back up what you just said.

00:26:35.000 I immediately just pulled this up.

00:26:36.000 It's from 2016.

00:26:38.000 Democrats are replacing Republicans as the preferred party of the very wealthy with a smiling Hillary Clinton.

00:26:44.000 This is Vox.com that wrote this, showing the presidential vote share among top 4% of income earners.

00:26:51.000 Democrats took over.

00:26:52.000 They became the party of the rich.

00:26:54.000 You're absolutely right, and it's the truth.

00:26:55.000 Well, you're right.

00:26:57.000 I'm just showing you the source.

00:26:58.000 Well, yeah, thank you for doing that.

00:27:02.000 Because I feel like there's somebody out there researching this, you know, to refute what I'm saying.

00:27:07.000 They'll pull out of the context anyway and say, you know.

00:27:09.000 Oh my gosh, yeah.

00:27:11.000 But this way, the people who are watching are going to be like, oh wow, even Vox?

00:27:16.000 Vox is progressive.

00:27:17.000 And they straight up said the Democrats are the party of the rich.

00:27:19.000 And look, here's the deal.

00:27:20.000 In Pennsylvania, people remember what it's like to have the rug pulled out from under them.

00:27:26.000 You know, Barack Obama and Joe Biden cost Pennsylvania over 50 plus thousand manufacturing jobs, steel jobs, oil and gas jobs, right?

00:27:35.000 The president has brought those jobs back.

00:27:38.000 And if you talk to those companies and these are companies that are owned by Democrats and Republicans, they'll tell you Life was tough under eight years under President Barack Obama, but what President Trump has been able to do for our company is nothing short of miraculous.

00:27:52.000 He's rolled back the regulations, and guess what?

00:27:54.000 That allows us to take more of our own money and invest it in our company, whether it be new pieces of equipment, better benefits for their employees, hiring new people, you know?

00:28:06.000 What President Trump has done for the state of Pennsylvania has been miraculous, and that's why I think you see this, the Pennsylvania Democrat Party is fractured right now between hard leftist socialists, progressives, I call them regressives because nothing about their ideology is progressive, and more moderate Democrats.

00:28:26.000 What makes Conor Lamb now, now we talk about my opponent, Now, the media were like, oh, he's moderate.

00:28:34.000 You're saying that he's moderate because he says so.

00:28:37.000 Look at his voting record.

00:28:39.000 I'll ask your audience this too.

00:28:42.000 Is someone who votes with Ilhan Omar and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, two of the most radical members of the Democratic Party over 90% of the time, is that moderate?

00:28:50.000 Is that a moderate vote?

00:28:52.000 No, it's not.

00:28:53.000 It's not.

00:28:54.000 And so, um, that is, you know, that's not what he said he was going to do.

00:28:59.000 And the job is to be a representative buying for the people.

00:29:02.000 If you lie to the people, it's disqualifying.

00:29:04.000 You know, like I said, like I said, Tim, we might not always agree.

00:29:07.000 In fact, guess what?

00:29:08.000 I, in fact, I can guarantee we won't always agree, but at least, you know, probably in this show at some point in the show.

00:29:14.000 Yeah.

00:29:14.000 Later, later on.

00:29:16.000 There was, you know, there was a protest erupting.

00:29:19.000 A lot of these districts that were congressional, Republican, they voted for Trump 2016, and Republicans switched to Democrat for Congress in 2018.

00:29:27.000 And then, with impeachment, there was protests erupting, people were yelling, saying, this is not what you said you were going to do.

00:29:34.000 You had Democrats saying, we're going to bring everything back.

00:29:37.000 We're going to take the focus off of Trump and focus on kitchen table issues.

00:29:41.000 And then what did they do as soon as they got the House?

00:29:44.000 Impeach.

00:29:44.000 They were trying to impeach the president three months before he was elected.

00:29:49.000 Ever since he took his hand off the Bible, they tried to impeach that man.

00:29:54.000 And then look at what they did to Brett Kavanaugh.

00:29:57.000 It was horrifying.

00:30:00.000 Straight up unsubstantiated lies about the guy in front of his wife was horrifying.

00:30:06.000 His kids.

00:30:06.000 His wife and his kids.

00:30:07.000 And then they trotted out this Russia hoax.

00:30:09.000 And look, I don't care.

00:30:11.000 Half of your viewers are probably liberal, but it was a hoax.

00:30:14.000 It was a hoax.

00:30:15.000 There was nothing true about it.

00:30:17.000 And then they trot out this Ukraine nonsense.

00:30:20.000 They have tried everything in their power to undermine this president.

00:30:25.000 And so the point in my speech last night Was that, you know, people ask me, well, do you agree with the president?

00:30:31.000 But it's like, no, I don't agree with the president on every issue.

00:30:33.000 Why should I be expected to agree with someone on every issue?

00:30:36.000 But imagine what we can accomplish in this country.

00:30:39.000 Look at all the amazing things that this president has done already, right?

00:30:42.000 He unshackled our economy.

00:30:44.000 Like no other president in our history.

00:30:45.000 He made us energy independent.

00:30:47.000 I never thought I'd see that in my lifetime.

00:30:49.000 Now, half of your viewers probably don't understand.

00:30:51.000 Listeners, I mean, they're probably big into climate change.

00:30:55.000 Well, I think Republicans need to own the climate change issue, right?

00:30:58.000 Because it's precisely the transition from coal you know, a, you know, coal to a cleaner burning natural

00:31:05.000 gas that has allowed us to decrease our carbon emissions every year for the last 20 years to a standard that is

00:31:10.000 better than what's set forth in the Paris Climate Agreement.

00:31:12.000 Right. And there's also a moral component to this argument as well, Tim, you know, the pursuit, we should have an all

00:31:20.000 of the above energy strategy.

00:31:20.000 Where we can reuse, where we can use renewables, let's do it.

00:31:24.000 But just saying we're going to go wholesale into the Green New Deal, you know who is affected by energy costs that will rise by four or five times?

00:31:30.000 Lower income families.

00:31:32.000 We have a moral obligation to those people to make sure that their energy costs are cheap so they can direct those resources elsewhere in their lives and invest in their children, in their future, in their school.

00:31:42.000 So, you know, this president has done Really unbelievable things for this country in just three short years.

00:31:48.000 And my whole point was like, maybe we could imagine what we could do if we just actually work with the guy.

00:31:54.000 So the area we're in is like the Philadelphia suburbs, but we're across the river over on the Jersey side.

00:32:00.000 And there's a couple of things that I find interesting with what you're saying.

00:32:03.000 One thing is that in the past year, before COVID, I kept hearing from people around here that 2019 was the best year they've ever had in their lives in terms of making money, the success, the expansion of their business.

00:32:16.000 I saw nothing but smiles on faces when I'd go to these stores, and people would tell me, you know, I went to go buy furniture, and they were just jumping up and down happy, like, it's been great.

00:32:25.000 Sales through the roof, the economy is booming.

00:32:27.000 I talked to some, you know, landscaping guys.

00:32:30.000 They said the same thing.

00:32:32.000 Best year of their lives.

00:32:33.000 It's wonderful.

00:32:34.000 And then I was talking to this one young guy, you know, about politics, and he said that it was a great year for him.

00:32:42.000 He doesn't know much about Trump.

00:32:44.000 I said, you know, would you give him credit for the economy?

00:32:46.000 He's like, I don't know, man, but I'll tell you what.

00:32:48.000 I'm going to vote for him because I'm sick and tired of the media.

00:32:50.000 Just won't leave the guy alone.

00:32:52.000 And I started laughing.

00:32:53.000 He's like, dude, it's like every time I turn the TV on, it's like Trump sucks.

00:32:56.000 And I'm just like, I don't care anymore.

00:32:57.000 You're touching it for the guy.

00:32:58.000 You're touching on something that is really, really important.

00:33:01.000 The media right now, one of their narratives is people who supported Trump in 2016 and are not supporting him now.

00:33:09.000 I'm telling you right now, I'm out there every day.

00:33:10.000 I'm sure they exist, I haven't met one.

00:33:14.000 But you know who I have met?

00:33:16.000 A lot of Republicans.

00:33:17.000 who did not vote for him in 2016 for whatever reason.

00:33:20.000 They thought, oh, well, he's not sufficiently pro-life, right?

00:33:23.000 I don't know.

00:33:23.000 Yeah.

00:33:24.000 Now they're all on board.

00:33:26.000 Even Democrats who didn't vote for him in 2016 to set.

00:33:29.000 Now they're all on board, all of them.

00:33:31.000 And this, this is the, this is the feeling that I get out there on the ground.

00:33:35.000 Um, now it's not played out in the, in the, in the national media, but it's, it's a reality.

00:33:41.000 Yeah.

00:33:41.000 We're seeing that as well, for sure.

00:33:43.000 I was going to try and pull up this poll, but there was something interesting I saw.

00:33:46.000 It's a CBS poll snippet that found in this election cycle, 5% of Republicans are going to be voting for Joe Biden.

00:33:55.000 But the last time it was, I think, seven.

00:33:57.000 Before that, it was like seven.

00:33:59.000 So there's actually less Republicans now planning to vote Democrat than we've had in the past, like, four presidential elections.

00:34:07.000 So, yeah, I agree.

00:34:08.000 It sounds like what you're saying is even backed up by a lot of this data.

00:34:11.000 The other thing I wanted to bring up about the Pennsylvania area, the Philadelphia area, you're talking about Union Democrats who built this country and all that stuff.

00:34:19.000 Did you see the video footage from Philly when the guys came out to protect Christopher Columbus?

00:34:24.000 So you've got Antifa on the far left going around smashing up statues, ripping them down.

00:34:29.000 So a bunch of regular guys show up, a lot of them, I think over a hundred or more, surrounding it.

00:34:34.000 I think I did see this.

00:34:35.000 And they're like, get out!

00:34:37.000 You know, I'm being more polite in the words I'm using, but they were not as polite.

00:34:41.000 And the city came in the middle of the night, ripped the statue down.

00:34:45.000 Even though you had locals saying, we want it, get out of our neighborhood.

00:34:49.000 Philadelphia is Democrat.

00:34:50.000 It's like, it's like some ridiculous numbers, like 80% or something.

00:34:53.000 These guys who are showing up, I can't imagine these union Philly Democrat guys have decided Joe Biden's their man.

00:35:01.000 I, I, I, after seeing everything at the city came in when they, when they stood to defend their statue from a violent mob, the city came in and said, now you don't get, you don't get to stay in this.

00:35:09.000 How could these people maintain that political party?

00:35:13.000 I think that the Democrat Party consistently votes against, you know, unions and, well, you know, hardworking, building trades unions guys, they vote against their interests.

00:35:23.000 I think that the union leadership is, by and large, supporting Joe Biden.

00:35:28.000 But their union members, their rank and file, are not.

00:35:32.000 Because they see the truth.

00:35:35.000 You know, I'm going to do everything I can to show up for those people.

00:35:38.000 I'm going to do everything I can to make sure that I, as their representative leader, protects their ability to put food on the table for their family.

00:35:48.000 Because I'll tell you right now, in Joe Biden and Conor Lamb and Kamala Harris, They are talking right now, and this is the unbelievable economic crisis that we're in.

00:35:58.000 We're facing a once-in-a-hundred-year pandemic, you know, and still dealing from the fallout from the lockdowns.

00:36:04.000 You have a presidential candidate that's talking about raising taxes by $4 trillion when people were having trouble putting food on the table for their family.

00:36:09.000 Guess what?

00:36:10.000 That ain't right, okay?

00:36:11.000 While simultaneously repealing the Trump tax cuts, that helped the middle class.

00:36:16.000 Even the Washington Times, the Democrats say, Well, it's a tax cut for the richest.

00:36:21.000 That's not true.

00:36:21.000 It's not a tax cut for the richest 1%.

00:36:23.000 That is fundamentally not true.

00:36:25.000 Look up in the Washington Times.

00:36:26.000 They talk about how the Trump tax cuts helped the middle class.

00:36:29.000 Everybody that you talk to says that the Trump tax cuts helped me, you know?

00:36:34.000 And so, here you have a presidential candidate saying, I'm going to repeal the Trump tax cuts, okay?

00:36:40.000 And now, I'm going to raise your taxes.

00:36:42.000 Okay.

00:36:43.000 And oh, by the way, we've got AOC and Bernie Sanders in charge of our environmental and energy task force.

00:36:48.000 And we're gonna like, on fracking day one, it's gone or no new fracking.

00:36:52.000 And in Western Pennsylvania, that's 117,000 jobs that are supported by the oil and gas industry.

00:36:59.000 People don't want that.

00:37:00.000 That's crazy to me.

00:37:01.000 Oh, would you look at this title?

00:37:03.000 Vox writer praises progressive for misleading Americans on tax cuts.

00:37:08.000 I love it.

00:37:09.000 I'm pulling up these stories you're saying and I'm like, you're right.

00:37:11.000 Let me pull up the source that backs up to prove it.

00:37:14.000 So yeah, they lied.

00:37:16.000 The Trump tax cuts helped everybody.

00:37:19.000 Look, I am going to protect people's social security and Medicare.

00:37:24.000 People paid into that their whole life, okay?

00:37:27.000 I've said this a thousand times.

00:37:29.000 There's a fundraising email out there that my opponent put out that said, my extreme opponent is going to take your social security.

00:37:36.000 I was like, I've never said this.

00:37:39.000 This is just a straight up lie.

00:37:40.000 That's what they do.

00:37:42.000 That's what they do.

00:37:43.000 That's why I don't like this.

00:37:44.000 Look at this story.

00:37:45.000 So this is from last year.

00:37:47.000 Vox's Matthew Iglesias, he's a progressive, praised progressives for misleading Americans on tax cuts.

00:37:53.000 I think he might have actually deleted the tweet.

00:37:57.000 Here's what he said.

00:37:58.000 Nobody likes to give themselves credit for this kind of messaging success, but progressive groups did a really good job of convincing people that Trump raised their taxes when the facts say a clear majority got a tax cut.

00:38:12.000 It's amazing, isn't it?

00:38:14.000 It is!

00:38:15.000 Man, the media, huh?

00:38:17.000 Well, look, this is why fundraising is so important.

00:38:24.000 Not all the media, but the lion's share of the media flies cover for Democrat candidates.

00:38:32.000 I told you this before, and I'll say it again, Democrats would not win If they did not have the media flying cover for them almost at every turn.

00:38:40.000 Yeah.

00:38:41.000 So that's why fundraising is so important for candidates.

00:38:43.000 It's not just about being a dynamic, charismatic candidate.

00:38:46.000 You've got to work your butt off fundraising.

00:38:48.000 And why?

00:38:50.000 Because that's how we run ads.

00:38:52.000 That's how we get our message out.

00:38:54.000 When we sit, when you get those mailers that you probably look at and throw in the trash, you look at and throw in the trash.

00:38:58.000 Maybe, maybe you actually read them.

00:38:59.000 I don't know.

00:39:00.000 Or you see commercials on TV.

00:39:02.000 That's.

00:39:03.000 Fundraising money.

00:39:04.000 The candidate raised that money to put that commercial on TV.

00:39:07.000 That's why fundraising is so important.

00:39:10.000 And that's why censorship is so important to a lot of these big tech companies and a lot of these leftists.

00:39:14.000 Why they advocate for banning hate speech or things that go against their orthodoxy so that you can't challenge them.

00:39:21.000 Yeah, I mean, I think we should let the American people decide for themselves what they think is abhorrent speech.

00:39:27.000 Well, these big tech companies are using a loophole to get away with shutting down their opponents through Section 230.

00:39:33.000 Are you familiar?

00:39:35.000 So look, I say we.

00:39:37.000 I mean, I was like 10 years old when this bill was passed or whatever.

00:39:41.000 But the idea was, we're not going to sue you because a user posted something.

00:39:46.000 Now, we get it.

00:39:46.000 You might have to remove some stuff, but so long as it's in good faith and it's objectionable, we're okay with that.

00:39:51.000 That was the general idea.

00:39:52.000 What do they do?

00:39:53.000 They say, you know, conservative opinions.

00:39:55.000 Those are objectionable.

00:39:57.000 Banned.

00:39:57.000 So there was a big fiasco over pro-life advertisements on Facebook.

00:40:02.000 I remember, yeah.

00:40:02.000 Yeah, so I don't know where we ended up with that.

00:40:04.000 I think Facebook may have given in and said, okay, you know, they pushed it too far.

00:40:08.000 But already, some of Trump's biggest supporters have been banned from social media and they're never coming back.

00:40:13.000 The ability to put ads up.

00:40:15.000 I mean, YouTube has a rule right now, and a lot of these rules are arbitrary, but you can't criticize someone for being an immigrant or like immigration status.

00:40:25.000 If you are disparaging to someone or disparaging to immigrants, YouTube will shut the stream down in two seconds.

00:40:29.000 They'll ban it outright.

00:40:31.000 If you can't have a conversation about these things because someone might get offended by it, then only the left will dominate this space.

00:40:39.000 They'll start gaining ground.

00:40:40.000 Well, they already do.

00:40:41.000 I mean, they already dominate this space.

00:40:42.000 They own it.

00:40:43.000 They own it.

00:40:43.000 But this is interesting.

00:40:44.000 I was talking about this earlier.

00:40:45.000 I think Donald Trump is the Internet's politician.

00:40:48.000 Right?

00:40:48.000 So, when you have regular people who just watch mainstream media, they have no idea the truth.

00:40:54.000 I mean, look at what this Vox writer, this is one of the co-founders of Vox who wrote this.

00:40:58.000 Matthew Iglesias is not some random Vox dude.

00:41:00.000 Praising progressives for misleading Americans on the tax break Trump gave them.

00:41:04.000 Trump helped them.

00:41:06.000 And these progressive groups convinced everyone he hurt them.

00:41:09.000 That's the mainstream media.

00:41:10.000 That's big venture capital-funded digital outlets funded by NBC, for instance, like Vox.

00:41:14.000 I believe Vox was.

00:41:16.000 And CBS, ABC, NBC, MSNBC, etc.

00:41:19.000 But if you go online, you start digging, you'll find they're lying to you.

00:41:24.000 Like, we could pull this up, this is the Washington Free Beacon, and they even admit it.

00:41:28.000 This guy admits it on Twitter.

00:41:30.000 I hear all these stories about people walking away from the Democratic Party.

00:41:33.000 They become Republicans, they vote for Trump, and there's one thing that I find is uniting to all of them is that, at some point, they didn't understand how Trump could always be bad, or how Trump won in the first place.

00:41:46.000 They do a Google search.

00:41:48.000 What did they find?

00:41:49.000 Hey, that wasn't true.

00:41:50.000 And I hear a lot of similar stories where they say something like, they claimed Trump did a thing.

00:41:56.000 I watched the video and he clearly did not do the thing.

00:41:59.000 And then I thought to myself, if he didn't do that, what else didn't he do?

00:42:01.000 Like the good, like the, oh, there are good people on both sides.

00:42:04.000 That's the most recent example where Biden's out there saying that in his convention speech.

00:42:08.000 And it's just a straight up lie.

00:42:11.000 Well, actually, Joe Biden improved his technique.

00:42:14.000 You see, at first he lied.

00:42:15.000 When he was like, Trump said there were very fine people on both sides, cutting the context out was a lie, a direct lie, as if Trump was actually saying that.

00:42:22.000 What he did this time was clever.

00:42:24.000 He said, I want you to remember what those people looked like, what they were yelling.

00:42:28.000 Now I want you to remember what Trump said.

00:42:31.000 Very fine people on both sides.

00:42:33.000 It's a clever game, right?

00:42:34.000 Yeah.

00:42:35.000 He makes you envision that image of the people with the torches, but Trump wasn't talking about the night with torches.

00:42:41.000 Trump was talking about the next day when the clashes ensued.

00:42:45.000 Trump did not say that anything having to do with the previous night.

00:42:48.000 So he says, I want you to remember.

00:42:50.000 It would be like saying, I want you to remember what it was like when you were getting your, you know, your, your root canal, the pain, the suffering.

00:42:59.000 And now I want you to remember what Donald Trump said when he ate chocolate ice cream.

00:43:02.000 This is awesome.

00:43:03.000 Like they have nothing to do with each other, but you're trying to make, you're trying to apply one quote To a different circumstance.

00:43:09.000 It was a smart way of doing it.

00:43:10.000 It was manipulating people.

00:43:13.000 And I noticed this because when I said, you know, I think it was The Daily Caller commented on the video saying Joe Biden lied.

00:43:20.000 And then someone said The Daily Caller is lying.

00:43:23.000 So then I responded with the actual image.

00:43:26.000 And then someone responded to me saying Joe Biden didn't lie at all.

00:43:29.000 What he said was factually true.

00:43:31.000 And so I roll my eyes.

00:43:35.000 That's technically correct.

00:43:36.000 What Joe Biden said was literally true.

00:43:38.000 Donald Trump did say very fine people on both sides, and there were a group of people with tiki torches.

00:43:43.000 But context matters.

00:43:44.000 Exactly.

00:43:45.000 That's the manipulation.

00:43:47.000 Yeah, it's a manipulation, but it still doesn't make it true.

00:43:51.000 What his intent was, Joe Biden was saying, is that Donald Trump said they're very fine.

00:44:00.000 Right, right, right.

00:44:00.000 That's what he meant.

00:44:02.000 So what Biden was trying to do was avoid getting fact-checked because he knows the media is going to be like, well, literally Trump did say these words and literally this thing did happen.

00:44:11.000 Therefore, it's true.

00:44:13.000 When you know what Biden was trying to do, he was trying to connect two unrelated things.

00:44:18.000 Donald Trump said explicitly, I'm not talking about the neo-Nazis, the white nationalists.

00:44:22.000 They should be condemned totally.

00:44:23.000 That's the part he removed.

00:44:25.000 Of course.

00:44:26.000 That's what they do.

00:44:28.000 They use clever ways to manipulate.

00:44:30.000 One thing I often bring up is how they do this fact-checking game, where they'll say something, and they're probably going to get you on this, they'll say something like, there'll be a story about you running into a burning building to rescue a box of puppies.

00:44:41.000 And then everyone will be talking about him, they'll be like, did you hear?

00:44:43.000 He like, he risked his life, he was like, all these puppies and he saved them all, and then he got a photo op.

00:44:48.000 And then Snopes or some fact-checking site will say, did Sean Parnell run into a burning building to save puppies, dot dot dot, and then stop to tie his shoe?

00:44:56.000 False.

00:44:56.000 Yeah.

00:44:57.000 And at the bottom it'll say, while he did save the puppies, he didn't tie his shoe.

00:45:01.000 I mean, I feel like there's talk about Joe Biden eulogizing Robert Byrd, who is a member of the KKK, right?

00:45:09.000 And literally Kamala Harris called him basically a segregationist, a borderline racist for the last three months of the primary, which is neither here nor there.

00:45:17.000 That's not what I'm trying to say right now.

00:45:18.000 What I'm trying to say is that if, and you might be able to pull this up right now, I don't know, you're pretty good at this stuff, but if you fact-check, was Robert Byrd a Grand Wizard of the KKK?

00:45:28.000 And you fact-check it, it'd be like, no, this is false.

00:45:30.000 He was not a Grand Wizard of the KKK.

00:45:32.000 And down below, it's like, who's like a Universal Cyclops of the KKK?

00:45:36.000 He was a Supreme Grand Wizard.

00:45:37.000 Or whatever, I don't know what any of these things are, but to your point, that's what they do.

00:45:41.000 My favorite was the Kamala Harris fact-check.

00:45:44.000 Because it turns out she's got like a great-grandfather, you know, whatever, who was a slave owner.

00:45:49.000 So she's a child of a Jamaican and an Indian immigrant, and people brought up that she has an ancestor, slave owner.

00:45:57.000 And so there's a fact check saying, was Kamala Harris's—it was something like, was Kamala Harris's ancestor a slave owner, and was it a dark part of her past?

00:46:06.000 False.

00:46:07.000 And at the bottom it says, while it is true that she did- Did own slaves.

00:46:11.000 It's not a dark part of her past.

00:46:13.000 It was something like that that was just like, wait, that's an opinion.

00:46:15.000 That's nothing to do with- What this one website did to me was I said, I tweeted, Bill Clinton- I didn't say Clinton.

00:46:23.000 Specifically, I said a former president is in flight logs and now a victim has ID'd him as having been on that awful island, if you know what I'm talking about.

00:46:32.000 And I said, journalism is dead.

00:46:33.000 It's just political advocacy.

00:46:34.000 They label it false by adding fake context, claiming that the flight logs I referenced were specifically to the island.

00:46:41.000 I never said that.

00:46:42.000 But this is what they do.

00:46:44.000 They will add, sprinkle in some things that have nothing to do with anything so they can claim it's false.

00:46:49.000 Actually, I don't know if you know this one, the best fact check ever done on Trump was when, in the 2016 debates, he said Hillary Clinton acid-washed her server.

00:46:57.000 Have you heard this one?

00:46:58.000 Yes.

00:46:59.000 And then NBC ran a fact check saying, false.

00:47:01.000 Hillary Clinton did not use a corrosive chemical on her computer.

00:47:05.000 As if any sane American thought Trump was literally imagining Hillary pouring acid out of a glass jar onto a machine.

00:47:13.000 He was saying she erased her hard drives.

00:47:17.000 They have to be doing on purpose. I hope.

00:47:19.000 I think they are. I mean, of course they are. And what I don't understand is what what what

00:47:24.000 has consistently baffled me is what's the end game. It's certainly not truth. It's certainly

00:47:29.000 not being a guard dog of speaking truth to power. It's certainly not being a watchdog

00:47:34.000 for the people. Right. It's certainly not to defend freedom.

00:47:38.000 If they ever got the the authoritarian I mean, the one authoritarian state that they

00:47:44.000 that they want. I mean, my goodness, I can't imagine it would be. I think I don't know if you

00:47:48.000 mentioned this on the show or when we were talking earlier about projecting.

00:47:52.000 I think it was before.

00:47:53.000 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:47:54.000 What the Democrats project.

00:47:56.000 They project everything that they do onto the Republicans.

00:48:00.000 It's a strategy, though.

00:48:01.000 And just accuse us, the Republicans, of everything that they themselves do, yes.

00:48:05.000 There's an article in Politico that says the GOP has no goal anymore.

00:48:08.000 It's got no agenda, they put out no party platform.

00:48:11.000 But it says, there's a quote from someone saying, all they want to do is, I don't know, post memes and own the libs or something like that.

00:48:18.000 They want to win and own the libs.

00:48:19.000 And I'm like, that's a projection.

00:48:21.000 I can't look at Democrats and see what they want to do.

00:48:24.000 Like, are they for universal healthcare or opposed to it?

00:48:27.000 Well, it's a mixed bag.

00:48:28.000 Right?

00:48:29.000 And it's okay if they disagree, but what does everything they do lead to?

00:48:34.000 Just winning.

00:48:35.000 That's it.

00:48:36.000 What is burning a building?

00:48:38.000 Like you mentioned this earlier, we were unified.

00:48:40.000 Rush Limbaugh, Tucker Cross and Hannity all came out saying, like these conservative guys, what happened to George Floyd was awful.

00:48:47.000 It was not okay.

00:48:48.000 So everyone's unified.

00:48:49.000 You think that would have been a great moment for this country.

00:48:51.000 What do they do?

00:48:52.000 They go burn down buildings.

00:48:54.000 Why?

00:48:54.000 Because they're not trying to do anything other than get you.

00:48:59.000 It's the Joker, right?

00:49:01.000 You've watched the movie The Dark Knight.

00:49:03.000 Some men just want to see the world burn.

00:49:05.000 Even better when he says, I'm like a dog chasing a car.

00:49:08.000 I wouldn't know what to do if I ever caught one.

00:49:10.000 And that's exactly what's happening.

00:49:11.000 So it's like, there it is.

00:49:13.000 I think it was Andrew Cuomo.

00:49:15.000 He was like, you did it.

00:49:16.000 You won.

00:49:16.000 What do you want?

00:49:18.000 I don't want anything.

00:49:19.000 I want to be mad.

00:49:19.000 They just want to exert power over other people.

00:49:23.000 Yeah, and so this to me is, I think, why it's so important for Republicans to take back control of the House.

00:49:30.000 Because, you know, President Trump in two years, I mean, it wasn't perfect.

00:49:36.000 Republicans didn't get to pass all the agenda items that they wanted.

00:49:41.000 But they were doing a lot of great stuff.

00:49:43.000 And then 2018 came along.

00:49:44.000 This is right around the time where the Russia hoax and the Mueller probe was kicking off.

00:49:49.000 And, you know, Democrats took back control of the House and progress in this country.

00:49:56.000 And that's a loaded word and I don't mean it in the way that, you know, but.

00:50:01.000 The work on behalf of the people in this country ground to a halt.

00:50:05.000 In two years, it was just nothing but impeaching the president.

00:50:08.000 That was all.

00:50:10.000 It's true, but I mean, in 2016, Republicans had everything.

00:50:13.000 I know.

00:50:13.000 And a lot of them were giving in to the Russiagate stuff.

00:50:16.000 It was disappointing.

00:50:17.000 Yeah.

00:50:18.000 It was disappointing.

00:50:20.000 It was.

00:50:20.000 It was disappointing to me that the Republicans seemed to, not on everything, but they seemed to squander the majority.

00:50:28.000 That's why, you know, when I talk about the establishment Republican and Democrats, I'm not fans of either.

00:50:34.000 You know, Donald Trump wanted to pull our troops out of Afghanistan, and it was eight Republicans and three Democrats who supported him in that.

00:50:40.000 And I'm not surprised that you have still unity among both parties in opposition to things Trump is trying to do.

00:50:48.000 But I think, unsurprisingly, it was Matt Gaetz who joined in supporting the president in his efforts to withdraw our forces.

00:50:56.000 But I think There's very few Republicans, there's like a new wave, you know, that are coming in that are different from the way I remember Republicans, the way the Republican Party used to be.

00:51:06.000 I think a lot of this has to do with Trump.

00:51:08.000 And whatever it is, it's a bigger tent, like you mentioned.

00:51:11.000 100%.

00:51:12.000 It's more welcoming to traditional liberals.

00:51:16.000 I mean, I am more worried You know, I'm talking to a friend of mine.

00:51:22.000 She made a post saying, you know, hey everybody, she's a good friend of mine, known her for a really, really, really long time, like one of my best friends.

00:51:28.000 Everybody vote, you know, everybody donate to Joe Biden.

00:51:31.000 And I commented, Joe Biden was part of the Obama administration, and they carried out a whole bunch of, you know, foreign policy decisions I do not like.

00:51:40.000 There were extrajudicial assassinations, there was indefinite detention provision, all of

00:51:44.000 these things I think are horrible for this country.

00:51:46.000 The Espionage Act used against whistleblowers and journalists.

00:51:48.000 I'm not going to vote for someone from the Obama administration.

00:51:51.000 And then people started making jokes about swapping out Biden for Cuomo or whatever and

00:51:55.000 I was like, no, I'm probably going to vote for Trump.

00:51:56.000 And they were like, they gasped.

00:51:59.000 No, you know.

00:52:00.000 So she was asked, like, how could that possibly be?

00:52:03.000 And I said, because they just voted to repeal the civil rights law in California.

00:52:06.000 Because they're marching around and they're screaming in people's faces, salute us or else.

00:52:13.000 You had Democrats lining up for miles You know, three years before President Trump ran on the Republican ticket just to get into the guy's parties, right?

00:52:24.000 You had guys like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton celebrated President Trump and what he did for the African-American community in this country.

00:52:32.000 And now, all of a sudden, President Trump is demonized.

00:52:35.000 Oh, he's a racist.

00:52:36.000 Of course, that's what they do.

00:52:38.000 That's what the left does.

00:52:39.000 Again, we talked about this.

00:52:39.000 The politics of personal destruction.

00:52:41.000 They have nothing else.

00:52:43.000 But President Trump Just because he runs as a Republican, he's demonized, he's hated, he's the enemy.

00:52:49.000 And he's moderate.

00:52:51.000 Oh my god, that is the truth.

00:52:54.000 That is the truth.

00:52:54.000 And I will tell you that President Trump, he wants the best for everyone.

00:52:59.000 He does not get a fair shake in the media.

00:53:02.000 This is a guy that truly does believe of diversity of thought in the Republican Party.

00:53:07.000 He will listen to every perspective that's out there, yet he's demonized as some sort of draconian knuckle-dragger.

00:53:16.000 People talk, well, I don't like the way that he comports himself.

00:53:21.000 How many conversations with a construction worker have you had in your life?

00:53:24.000 President Trump came up in the New York City construction trade.

00:53:28.000 That's a tough business.

00:53:30.000 You know, it's tough as nails.

00:53:31.000 You know, sometimes people in that business lack tact.

00:53:36.000 It's just how it is.

00:53:36.000 I was in the infantry.

00:53:37.000 Believe me.

00:53:38.000 I know that's how it goes.

00:53:40.000 And so just I asked people like, Understand that when you're looking at how President Trump interacts with people.

00:53:50.000 Does he always say the perfect thing?

00:53:52.000 No.

00:53:52.000 But the guy loves this country.

00:53:56.000 He loves and appreciates all of America's people.

00:54:00.000 He does.

00:54:00.000 I know it.

00:54:01.000 I've seen it.

00:54:05.000 I've never seen somebody resist groupthink like President Trump, and I appreciate that.

00:54:11.000 I think it might have something to do with ego.

00:54:13.000 Maybe a little.

00:54:14.000 Yeah, absolutely.

00:54:16.000 He's always struck me as the kind of guy who's sitting there thinking, like, I know what needs to be done.

00:54:22.000 You have no idea what you're talking about.

00:54:23.000 And that's why his name's in big gold letters on buildings around the planet, all over the world.

00:54:29.000 He's... and I can understand this.

00:54:33.000 I've been in situations where I've worked a bunch of companies.

00:54:35.000 I'll tell you what, I've worked at these media companies and I have told them... I worked for basically just two different companies.

00:54:41.000 I worked for Vice, I worked for Fusion, which is ABC News and Univision.

00:54:44.000 And every time there's just countless stories of the meetings I'd have where I'd say, here's what you need to do to make it work.

00:54:50.000 And they'd be like, I don't know.

00:54:51.000 I don't want to do that.

00:54:52.000 And so ultimately I said, I'm going to do my own thing because I'm tired of dealing with other people who don't understand what I'm trying to tell them and can't make it work, but I can.

00:55:01.000 And I feel like Trump probably does that.

00:55:04.000 And so what happens is when someone comes to him and says, hey, I got this idea, he goes, no.

00:55:08.000 He's very, very full of himself.

00:55:10.000 Now, I think he did make some mistakes early on with some of the people he hired and that backfired on him.

00:55:14.000 Now they're all writing books about him and things like that.

00:55:17.000 Well, that's, you know, what bureaucracies do best is preserve themselves.

00:55:22.000 Yeah.

00:55:22.000 And so, you know, people that have worked in President Trump's administration that that have been in Washington for a long time, Tim, you know, they preserve their usefulness by saying, oh, you know, I didn't support President Trump and in the hopes that maybe they'll be able to get a job down the line.

00:55:40.000 I never, I never, I never, I never supported him in the first place.

00:55:42.000 See, here's my book.

00:55:43.000 Let me make a couple bucks until the next administration comes along and maybe I'll get hired again.

00:55:48.000 And this, this is what bureaucracies do.

00:55:50.000 Bureaucracies protect themselves first.

00:55:53.000 But you know, it's, it's, it's not even bureaucracy.

00:55:55.000 Look at, look at Scaramucci, Cohen.

00:55:58.000 These people are like, I'm going to write a book and I'm going to sell it.

00:56:00.000 Bolton, I'm going to write a book.

00:56:01.000 So it scares me that we have a political faction in this country that not, not all of them.

00:56:07.000 I think a lot of them maybe just aren't paying attention.

00:56:10.000 But a lot of the thought leaders are trying to score a buck.

00:56:13.000 Quick buck.

00:56:14.000 What do I gotta say to get elected?

00:56:17.000 I'll say whatever I gotta say.

00:56:18.000 Just give me the keys to the castle.

00:56:19.000 I mean, have you realized that that's like the polar opposite of how I am?

00:56:23.000 Well, that's why I want to talk to you, because I think that's true.

00:56:26.000 I mean, you talk about taking things out of context.

00:56:29.000 I mean, I've gone on comedy shows in the past making tongue-in-cheek jokes with stand-up comedians, and they're being taken out of context, and, oh, I hate women, and that's not the case.

00:56:39.000 It's like, listen, watch the whole clip, decide for yourself, you know?

00:56:43.000 Don't listen to what, you know, some of the journalists, and I certainly use that term loosely, don't listen to what the journalists say.

00:56:51.000 Watch the clips.

00:56:52.000 Yeah, well this is the left in a nutshell.

00:56:56.000 Are you familiar with the story of Count Dankula?

00:56:58.000 No.

00:56:58.000 So he's a comedian in the UK.

00:57:00.000 And they got it way worse than we do.

00:57:02.000 They don't have free speech the same way.

00:57:04.000 He made a joke video.

00:57:05.000 He was a nobody.

00:57:05.000 He was a regular dude.

00:57:07.000 Working class guy.

00:57:08.000 Actually used to be a commie.

00:57:10.000 And he made a joke video where he taught his girlfriend's pug to do the Nazi salute.

00:57:16.000 The joke was the dog was the cutest thing in the world, so he wanted to make it the most disgusting thing imaginable by teaching it to react to horrible things.

00:57:25.000 He had like eight subscribers.

00:57:26.000 He was not a personality.

00:57:28.000 He made a joke video.

00:57:29.000 They arrested him for it.

00:57:31.000 He went to jail.

00:57:33.000 He got convicted, and he had to pay a fine.

00:57:35.000 That's ultimately how it turned out.

00:57:36.000 They ended up taking the money from him.

00:57:38.000 But this is an extreme example.

00:57:41.000 We see this kind of stuff in the UK.

00:57:43.000 Over here, it's similar, but we do have free speech.

00:57:46.000 It's all about power.

00:57:48.000 Stomping on people, destroying them, owning them, gaining power by any means necessary.

00:57:53.000 They will take anything you say and they will lie about it.

00:57:55.000 They will manipulate it.

00:57:57.000 I guess it gives them attention?

00:57:59.000 I honestly don't understand.

00:57:59.000 I don't know, but I'll tell you that's why I was afraid to get in this.

00:58:04.000 I really was.

00:58:06.000 I've been in life and death situations hundreds of times in Afghanistan, but I was afraid to get in this because I've got I've got three small kids, you know, and I don't want them to have to go to school every day and deal with the BS lies that are thrown around.

00:58:19.000 I don't want them to have to deal with the politics of personal destruction.

00:58:22.000 I don't want my kids to... I mean, I keep coming back to this, but look what they did to Brett Kavanaugh.

00:58:27.000 They tried to ruin that man's life, and nothing of what they said was true.

00:58:31.000 It was all a lie.

00:58:33.000 Every bit of it was a lie.

00:58:35.000 But at the same time, this country is worth it.

00:58:39.000 You know, the people that live in this country are worth it, and it's worth fighting for.

00:58:43.000 And if good people don't rise up to fight for this country to ensure the next generation has a country that's rich with opportunity, we won't survive.

00:58:54.000 So let's, uh, you want to talk about Afghanistan?

00:58:56.000 I can talk about Afghanistan.

00:58:58.000 Donald Trump, in his second term agenda, said he wants to put an end to these endless wars.

00:59:03.000 And he's already tried to bring our troops back.

00:59:04.000 And for me, that's why I supported Tulsi Gabbard earlier.

00:59:07.000 Now I think the Democrats, they've got nothing to offer.

00:59:09.000 I'm not convinced Joe Biden would do anything in this capacity.

00:59:12.000 I'm curious what your thoughts on that is.

00:59:13.000 Do you support the president in terms of getting our troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan?

00:59:17.000 That's a complicated question.

00:59:19.000 I think right now I'm at the point where we need to bring our people home.

00:59:22.000 But allow me to answer with context.

00:59:26.000 It's a tough decision.

00:59:27.000 It's a conundrum for a litany of reasons.

00:59:30.000 We went over there to Afghanistan.

00:59:32.000 Our mission was to find Bin Laden, close with and destroy the enemy.

00:59:34.000 But part of what we did was take care of the people.

00:59:37.000 We made them a promise.

00:59:38.000 And we saw the Afghan people come out of the woodwork to fight for their freedom.

00:59:43.000 I mean, little kids, little boys come on the base, work on our base during the day with their dads.

00:59:48.000 Little kids go to school, girl schools that we built.

00:59:50.000 We built wells in villages and we brought food and water and taught little girls how to read and little boys how to we talk to trades.

00:59:58.000 I mean, a lot of what we did was humanitarian work over there.

01:00:02.000 And, you know, Afghan patriots came out of the woodwork to fight for the freedom of their country.

01:00:06.000 And I and I realize and I know and you need to trust me on this.

01:00:11.000 We pull out of that country in three months.

01:00:13.000 Every one of them people are hanging by hanging by a light post.

01:00:17.000 I guarantee it.

01:00:18.000 Every man, woman and child that supported Americans in that country is dead in three months.

01:00:22.000 Wow.

01:00:22.000 And that scares the crap out of me.

01:00:26.000 Look, it's complicated, right?

01:00:33.000 As Americans, our promise should mean something to our allies.

01:00:37.000 So I recognize that.

01:00:39.000 A humanitarian crisis could ensue in Afghanistan if we pull out, right?

01:00:45.000 On the other side, is that as a commander in chief, we have a duty and obligation to America's sons and daughters who suit up and go over there and go to war and risk their life for everything.

01:00:55.000 And my issue with the Afghan war right now, is that if you asked, you went over there right now, and we picked up this podcast, and we just interviewed, you know, 10 different American privates from different units that have never communicated together, Ever.

01:01:09.000 What's your mission right now?

01:01:11.000 You'd get a different answer from all of them.

01:01:13.000 And that's a real problem.

01:01:14.000 Wow.

01:01:15.000 Because when you don't know and understand what the mission is, when you're out there beyond the wire, you're hesitant.

01:01:23.000 And a second's hesitation can be the difference between life and death.

01:01:28.000 We have a duty and obligation to make sure that our people know what the mission is, know what the end state is, you know, end state operations, know what victory looks like if it can be clearly defined, and right now I don't think we have that.

01:01:42.000 So what I would propose in Afghanistan is you can do more in that country with far less.

01:01:50.000 Now in 2006 we had one brigade like roughly eight plus thousand warfighters right now supported by by more but for all of what they call RC East in Afghanistan Regional Command East that's the that's the entire border region and we took the fight to the enemy in a way in 2006 to where in 2007 we were getting intelligence from the front that the Pakistani Taliban were broken.

01:02:15.000 Al Qaeda was decimated.

01:02:16.000 Hekmatiyar, Haqqani network groups, terrorist Islamic factions on the border, they were broken.

01:02:21.000 Their will to fight was done.

01:02:22.000 We were just killing too many of their sons.

01:02:24.000 They just didn't want to commit their sons to the fight.

01:02:25.000 That was it.

01:02:26.000 And look, this might sound harsh but You kill the enemy, you secure the people.

01:02:33.000 The people of Afghanistan were starting to enjoy a level of peace and prosperity that they never thought possible in their country, and then President Obama was elected.

01:02:42.000 Well, maybe even truthfully, just before that, when President Bush was still president, we shifted our strategy from counter-terror, which was finding the bad guys and killing them, to counter-insurgency.

01:02:54.000 Which is, let's get U.S.

01:02:55.000 soldiers in every village to make sure that they can build a rapport with the people.

01:02:59.000 And so we started building combat outposts.

01:03:01.000 And you see, you know, you've seen the movie The Outpost, and we put them in.

01:03:06.000 We built the very first combat outpost in a place called Combat Outpost Marga, which is right on the border in a horrible location.

01:03:12.000 Horrible tactical location.

01:03:13.000 Hills surrounding it.

01:03:16.000 And at the tail end of our deployment, that base was attacked by over 300 enemy fighters.

01:03:21.000 Now, we knew that they were coming.

01:03:22.000 We caught them and we ended up killing every single one of them.

01:03:25.000 But every year after that, every single year after that, an American combat outpost was attacked and nearly overrun.

01:03:31.000 In some cases, they were overrun.

01:03:33.000 When we shifted our strategy from counter-terror to counter-insurgency, we lost the initiative in Afghanistan because we spread what we call, we spread our combat power out too thinly on the border.

01:03:43.000 So most of these combat outposts, yes, they were among the villagers, but we didn't have the manpower to both occupy the bases and patrol offensively.

01:03:51.000 So we just, what does that mean?

01:03:52.000 We just sat there, right?

01:03:53.000 Occupied the bases and just got attacked.

01:03:56.000 And because of that, the enemy was able to penetrate from Pakistan into the heart of Afghanistan.

01:04:01.000 Now the enemy's all over.

01:04:03.000 And so, Afghanistan's a tough situation now.

01:04:08.000 Where do I fall?

01:04:09.000 So what would I do?

01:04:10.000 I would...

01:04:12.000 Shift our mission set right now from counter-insurgency, which I think this president has already done, to counter-terror, and make sure that we're going after the worst of the worst, right?

01:04:20.000 Let's keep them guessing.

01:04:22.000 Let's keep the enemy guessing.

01:04:22.000 Let's make them never feel comfortable.

01:04:24.000 Make them move from one cave to the next, right?

01:04:27.000 Why?

01:04:27.000 Because the whole reason we went in there was to keep that country from becoming a petri dish for terrorists from which they can launch attacks against the United States or any one of our allies.

01:04:35.000 So you can do that with, you know, a couple of special forces teams, a SEAL team, Delta.

01:04:41.000 You've got a Ranger battalion or maybe a couple infantry battalions for force protection.

01:04:45.000 What that means is like they're just they'll discard the base or they'll do outer cordons for kinetic strikes.

01:04:50.000 And when you do that, you afford the Afghan government the ability to project strength and, you know, safely secure and govern its people.

01:04:59.000 And so, you can do that with a lot less money, and the strategy would be a lot more effective, and it's kind of the middle of the road, right?

01:05:07.000 We pull all our troops out.

01:05:08.000 It'll be a humanitarian crisis.

01:05:10.000 We leave all our troops in.

01:05:12.000 The mission is muddied.

01:05:13.000 We don't really have the initiative.

01:05:15.000 It's a mess.

01:05:16.000 Yeah.

01:05:17.000 We keep a small group there to target the worst of the worst.

01:05:19.000 We allow the Afghan government to extend its reach.

01:05:21.000 And while maybe maybe we help the Afghan National Army a little bit while we're there to help them safely and help them secure their people as well.

01:05:28.000 In Iraq, I think we only have like, what, 500?

01:05:31.000 Yeah, we are.

01:05:32.000 Our footprint in Iraq is far smaller, although I do think we've got a plussed up presence of special forces troops there.

01:05:37.000 Yeah.

01:05:38.000 What do you what do you think about, you know, we've got all these military bases all over the place, particularly in Europe.

01:05:43.000 Donald Trump was threatening to pull our troops out of Germany.

01:05:46.000 I want to hear from somebody who's actually got experience.

01:05:50.000 I was in Germany.

01:05:51.000 It's an amazing duty assignment, and my experience with the German people is they loved the Americans.

01:05:58.000 They liked that we were there.

01:05:59.000 Well, are they paying their fair share for the GDP?

01:06:04.000 Well, yeah.

01:06:05.000 Well, I mean, look, let's be honest.

01:06:07.000 I mean, the American bases in Germany are a tremendous economic boost for that country.

01:06:13.000 But the German people, I think, also appreciate the fact that we're there for them.

01:06:18.000 And, you know, we've had a longstanding relationship with Germany.

01:06:22.000 They're one of our main allies in the region.

01:06:24.000 But as our president would say, they're certainly not paying their fair share.

01:06:28.000 Yeah.

01:06:30.000 I have less of an issue with the US having military bases in allied countries, particularly Germany or whatever, if they're not paying and we're providing security.

01:06:40.000 I do think it's particularly funny when it comes to a lot of these left-wing arguments about socialism.

01:06:46.000 The first thing is they think European countries are socialist when they're not.

01:06:49.000 They're just welfare states with a capitalist economy.

01:06:51.000 But they also don't realize that, for instance, Sweden is, I believe, one of the largest weapons

01:06:56.000 exporters per capita.

01:06:57.000 So they make a ton of money shipping out weapons.

01:07:00.000 They can use that to pay for social benefits.

01:07:02.000 And then you have many of these European nations, which have security provided for, or at least

01:07:06.000 bolstered by, U.S. forces, and they're not paying their targeted GDP into it.

01:07:12.000 So we're fronting that cost.

01:07:13.000 This is why I appreciate President Trump, because he challenges the status quo, and

01:07:17.000 ultimately he challenges us to think differently.

01:07:20.000 You know, President Trump brings a different thought process to issues to where, you know, look, both the Washington establishment, both Republicans and Democrats over the years have become sort of set in their ways.

01:07:32.000 We elected President Trump to disrupt that.

01:07:35.000 And that's what he does.

01:07:37.000 And I think that that's why, you know, God bless a lot of these generals and I thank them for their service.

01:07:40.000 General Mattis is somebody that I admire greatly.

01:07:44.000 But I don't understand why the life of me, why he went after President Trump the way that he did.

01:07:48.000 I don't get it.

01:07:49.000 Because, you know, just because what the president is proposing that we simply think differently.

01:07:56.000 That's all he's asking.

01:07:57.000 And look, I'm on board with let's get our men and women home from Afghanistan.

01:08:02.000 I told you that.

01:08:03.000 I think that there's probably a middle, a safe middle ground.

01:08:05.000 Yeah.

01:08:05.000 Right.

01:08:05.000 And I've articulated that.

01:08:07.000 But I'm on board with it.

01:08:08.000 Why?

01:08:08.000 Because we've done the same thing for generations and I'm willing to try something different.

01:08:14.000 Yeah, I wouldn't go as hard as a lot of people who say, get our troops out immediately.

01:08:19.000 It's not America's place.

01:08:20.000 We shouldn't have been in there in the first place.

01:08:23.000 It's just not the world that we live in, you know?

01:08:25.000 I mean, maybe you can make that argument for someplace like Germany, but not Afghanistan.

01:08:30.000 Yeah, yeah, I think.

01:08:31.000 I mean, look, okay, so here's a good example of this, Tim.

01:08:33.000 Look what happened in Iraq when President Obama pulled our troops out before we were ready.

01:08:37.000 That gave rise to ISIS, that leadership vacuum.

01:08:41.000 We pulled out of that country before strategically we were ready, right, to leave.

01:08:45.000 And that created ISIS.

01:08:46.000 And ISIS rampaged across the Middle East.

01:08:48.000 And look what President Obama did to the Middle East.

01:08:51.000 All they did was depose autocrats, you know, from Libya, It's a powder keg over there, and President Trump, by and large, is dealing with that.

01:09:07.000 Now, the reason why I'm saying all this is look at how President Obama left the Middle East.

01:09:12.000 It was a mess.

01:09:13.000 Slavery.

01:09:13.000 Yeah, ISIS was at its height of power.

01:09:15.000 The Caliphate had thousands of miles of geographic territory.

01:09:20.000 They had physical bases.

01:09:21.000 ISIS is utterly decimated, okay?

01:09:25.000 There's a Middle East peace deal that was just broken.

01:09:28.000 How often have you heard?

01:09:29.000 I mean, I never thought that I'd see that in my life.

01:09:33.000 That's an unbelief.

01:09:34.000 And they still came after him for it.

01:09:37.000 This could be a precursor to peace in the Middle East in our time.

01:09:42.000 And have you heard about it on the news?

01:09:44.000 This should be round-the-clock coverage for a month, but you don't hear.

01:09:47.000 Now, think about it.

01:09:48.000 Think about how the Middle East was when there was a transfer of power from President Obama to President Trump.

01:09:55.000 I mean, in three short years, this president was able to negotiate a Middle East peace deal in which other Arab countries are now jumping on board.

01:10:03.000 Yep.

01:10:04.000 Why?

01:10:05.000 Why?

01:10:05.000 Do you want to know why?

01:10:06.000 I'll give you a guess and I'll answer it for you.

01:10:08.000 Do you know why?

01:10:09.000 Because they all oppose the Iranian nuclear deal!

01:10:11.000 They all opposed empowering our enemy.

01:10:14.000 You could look up op-eds.

01:10:15.000 I wrote about this before I was even running for political office.

01:10:18.000 The Iranian nuclear deal was an absolute disaster.

01:10:21.000 It empowered the number one state sponsor of terror in the world.

01:10:25.000 And every Middle Eastern country hated it.

01:10:28.000 And so President Trump, because he opposed that and sought to broker peace deals between Israel and other Arab countries.

01:10:34.000 Look, we are on We are on the precipice of an historic peace agreement in the Middle East.

01:10:40.000 I'm telling you, I never thought I'd see it in my lifetime, but this president was able to do it.

01:10:44.000 And so this is why I say, let's just work with the guy!

01:10:48.000 I mean, my God, we don't always have to agree, but let's just work with the guy.

01:10:52.000 Could it be that peace is the problem for them?

01:10:56.000 Expand on the question.

01:10:57.000 Money to be made in war.

01:10:59.000 Yeah, I don't know.

01:11:00.000 I mean, that's like, you know, the military-industrial complex is that whole concept of beware the military-industrial complex.

01:11:07.000 There's probably some wisdom to that.

01:11:09.000 I think that we can, you know, with regards to looking at the Pentagon and figuring out ways that we can tighten our belts there and spend more efficiently.

01:11:16.000 There's a lot of fraud, waste, and abuse at the Pentagon, especially with contract procurement processes and stuff like that.

01:11:21.000 We can do better.

01:11:22.000 If you look at the Raptor with the F-35 project, that's a trillion-dollar project.

01:11:26.000 I don't know.

01:11:26.000 I mean, God, don't quote me on the numbers.

01:11:28.000 There's gonna be somebody out there fact-checking me on the numbers after this.

01:11:31.000 But it's a multi-billion-dollar project that could have been a lot cheaper.

01:11:35.000 It could have been done for a lot less money in a more efficient way.

01:11:40.000 I think we can look at that.

01:11:41.000 But personally, I am a big believer in peace through strength.

01:11:46.000 How do you feel about what happened with Libya?

01:11:48.000 No-fly zones, airstrikes?

01:11:51.000 Libya?

01:11:52.000 You're talking about deposing of Qaddafi?

01:11:54.000 Yeah.

01:11:55.000 Oh, I thought that's what happened.

01:11:55.000 We came, we saw he died.

01:11:57.000 I thought that was horrible.

01:11:58.000 And the Libyan people will tell you that as well.

01:12:02.000 I mean, Muammar Qaddafi was a terrible human being, but he was somebody that was willing to work with the United States of America.

01:12:11.000 Look, when you're looking at diplomacy, you know, when I was 24 years old leading an infantry platoon in Afghanistan, I've got a rifle across my lap and I'm talking to somebody who I know is a warlord, who I know a week from now is going to be shooting at me in some ditch, might even kill me.

01:12:26.000 But I gotta work with them anyway.

01:12:27.000 Because guess what?

01:12:28.000 That's the world that we live in.

01:12:29.000 There's that line from the Avengers.

01:12:32.000 We don't see the world as we want it to be.

01:12:34.000 We see the world as it is.

01:12:36.000 Nick Fury said it in a lot sexier way than I did.

01:12:38.000 But it's the truth, right?

01:12:39.000 We deal with the world as it is not as well. There we go we deal with the world as it is not as not as how we'd like

01:12:44.000 it to be, you know, and I

01:12:48.000 Think nobody had faith in president. This is what bothered me. President Trump has consistently defied the odds. He's

01:12:54.000 consistently done things I mean look look

01:12:58.000 There has not been a president in our White House that has been savaged as badly as President Trump, except President Lincoln.

01:13:05.000 I know, he said it too.

01:13:07.000 You know what, did he say that?

01:13:08.000 I don't even know.

01:13:09.000 You're going to have your people, oh, he's just parroting Trump talking points.

01:13:12.000 I don't know what I mean.

01:13:13.000 I'm just saying like it's but it's it's true. He's the most maligned man in the White House. Yep yet

01:13:18.000 He consistently advances. He advances the agenda of freedom and you know I

01:13:23.000 Don't understand you know I don't understand Why people aren't willing to give this man a chance I I?

01:13:31.000 He's a fighter.

01:13:33.000 He cares about the people.

01:13:34.000 It could be social media-induced derangement, that people have formed extremist tribes, they've polarized, there's no middle, and Trump must be bad.

01:13:42.000 That's why the theme of my speech last night was trying to bring people together, trying to say it doesn't matter where you come from.

01:13:49.000 It doesn't matter who you love.

01:13:51.000 It doesn't matter what color your skin is.

01:13:54.000 It doesn't matter your gender.

01:13:57.000 Stand with us.

01:13:58.000 Fight for this country.

01:13:59.000 But they think that's racist.

01:14:01.000 They think you have to.

01:14:02.000 In fact, there's a quote from one of these authors, these, you know... Great.

01:14:06.000 I'm already sexist.

01:14:09.000 The next thing's going to be, Sean's a racist.

01:14:11.000 You watch.

01:14:12.000 There's a guy who straight up says, the only cure for past discrimination is more discrimination.

01:14:17.000 They're absolutely saying they must.

01:14:20.000 You consider yourself a conservative, I'd imagine.

01:14:25.000 Yeah, I'm conservative, yeah.

01:14:28.000 When I was younger, I was far left.

01:14:30.000 I was anarcho, punk, skateboarding, rock.

01:14:33.000 I listened to punk rock growing up.

01:14:35.000 But I didn't turn out a radical leftist.

01:14:38.000 Well, you became a regular guy, I suppose.

01:14:42.000 Look, you get a job, you pay taxes, you have a family, so you have to understand why things are the way they are.

01:14:45.000 More importantly, You know, all these things you're talking about, especially the Afghanistan stuff, because I've always been very much like, I think Trump is right to bring our troops out, but you made a really good point I hadn't considered before, because I haven't heard it straight to my face.

01:15:01.000 I've heard Dan Crenshaw talk about some of this stuff, and so I certainly respect, you know, the people who've actually been there to tell me, here's what happens if we just up and leave, so I respect you're saying there's a middle ground, but what you've experienced is the world as it is, as you were saying, right?

01:15:15.000 Think about all of these stories.

01:15:16.000 I don't know if you've seen these stories where young people are like, I'm gonna go hiking in the hills of Morocco and then yeah, they end up getting kidnapped and Taken hostage of worse than that.

01:15:25.000 Oh, they're gonna go hiking through the Iranian mountains or something.

01:15:28.000 Oh, I know it's yeah, and and so so this Man, I remember this one story these people were riding their bikes through Tajikistan and a nice vehicle pulled over like yelling Isis stuff I guess and just lop their heads off right there and I've been around the world, not to places as dangerous as you've been, but I've been in many places.

01:15:48.000 I was in Egypt when the revolution happened, and I've seen what happens when there's no stability, and it's scary.

01:15:53.000 I agree.

01:15:54.000 I was looking down from the balcony of the Hilton in Egypt, watching people shoot at each other, and I was like, I wonder if I'm gonna be able to get out of this place.

01:16:02.000 Because I was there as a reporter.

01:16:03.000 I'm watching the APCs roll through, people are screaming and cheering, the fighting broke up.

01:16:06.000 We got out immediately, and then they shut all the bridges down.

01:16:09.000 I come back to this country, and as somebody who grew up on the left, who was always complaining about America and these unjust wars and all this stuff, and I'm like, man, America, imperialism, I'm all young.

01:16:19.000 I got older, and so when I was in Egypt and stuff, I wasn't that dumb.

01:16:23.000 But when I was like, you know, 17, writing music and stuff, When I come back from some of these countries, I remember walking up to the immigration checkpoint.

01:16:32.000 I can't remember exactly when it was, but I'd been to a bunch of these different countries, and the guy starts looking through my passport, and he's like, what are all these?

01:16:39.000 He's got a bunch of Arabic stuff, and I started laughing, and I'm like, I am so happy to be back in America, dude.

01:16:44.000 And he laughed, and he's like, all right, all right.

01:16:46.000 And he's like, what do you do?

01:16:47.000 I was like, I'm a journalist.

01:16:48.000 And he's like, I hear you.

01:16:49.000 And then I was just like, there's kids.

01:16:51.000 They grew up in this country.

01:16:52.000 They're in cities.

01:16:53.000 They go to colleges.

01:16:54.000 They're pampered.

01:16:55.000 They're protected.

01:16:55.000 They have no idea.

01:16:57.000 They have no idea that we live in this bubble.

01:17:00.000 It's like a walled city, the United States, where it's just, we've got our crime.

01:17:04.000 We've got an increase in crime.

01:17:05.000 We've got the lockdown.

01:17:06.000 We've got our problems.

01:17:07.000 But man, I'm sure you could say it better than I could.

01:17:11.000 Well, I mean, that's the double-edged sword of living in the best country and the most free society on the face of the planet.

01:17:20.000 If we live in a free society, generations of which have lived in a free society, most of the time when you're a parent and you've got kids, your goal, once you have those kids, if you're a good mother or father, is to say, you know what?

01:17:33.000 I just want to make sure that the country that they inherit It's better than the one I have.

01:17:38.000 And so every generation our country gets a little better, a little better, a little better.

01:17:42.000 And so we've got a lot of people in this country, you know, when you've got only 0.4% of the people who've served who go out and defend freedom on a day-to-day basis, everybody else just sort of enjoys the trappings and blessings of living in a free society.

01:17:56.000 Which can afford them views that are inherently, in some cases, the antithesis of being in a free society, right?

01:18:04.000 And it's a conundrum.

01:18:08.000 You know, it's funny, because I mention this kind of often.

01:18:10.000 I like to offer up to my progressive friends an opportunity to go anywhere in the world.

01:18:15.000 It's a dream come true.

01:18:17.000 Name one of your causes that you're so, you know, enthusiastic about, and I will see to it you get there, and we'll get you a good guide, and they're gone in two seconds.

01:18:26.000 Because when they, you know, I was talking to one guy who was complaining about Gaza and Israel and all that stuff, and I was like, how would you like to go there?

01:18:32.000 Wait, what?

01:18:34.000 How would you like to have a flight?

01:18:35.000 Because we can film it, we can make it a thing, like your experience, you're this activist, you talk about this all the time, how would you like to be there?

01:18:41.000 Gone, two seconds.

01:18:42.000 I got friends talking about- Like, wait, they go in two seconds, or they're like, I don't wanna go?

01:18:45.000 No, no, no, like, they're just, stop talking.

01:18:47.000 Conversation's over, I'm not going there, are you crazy?

01:18:51.000 I have this one friend who I've known for a really long time, preaching up a storm about Black Lives Matter, lives in Chicago.

01:18:58.000 I grew up in Chicago, they know what Chicago's like, and so I'm like, this dude lives in the suburbs, and I said, I'll tell you what, I will hire you to produce a video, I want you to go, I'm not gonna name the neighborhoods in Chicago, so I don't wanna offend anybody, but, I got some neighbors in Chicago, man.

01:19:12.000 Yeah, you're not gonna survive.

01:19:13.000 I'm not even kidding.

01:19:14.000 There's gang initiations where they literally just kill random people.

01:19:17.000 Now, if you're the wrong race walking in a dangerous gang territory, you could find yourself seriously hurt.

01:19:24.000 That's in America.

01:19:26.000 They call it Chi-Rec for a reason.

01:19:28.000 I started talking to some of my friends about all of their preaching, and I said, would you like to go and do interviews?

01:19:32.000 And they shut up immediately, because what bothers me the most about a lot of these activists who preach all this stuff, The people I know in Chicago know exactly what Chicago's like.

01:19:40.000 There's rampant racism across the board between all races.

01:19:43.000 There's gang violence.

01:19:44.000 There's crime.

01:19:45.000 It is not some, you know, it's not an oppressive patriarchy or whatever.

01:19:51.000 The cops aren't going around, you know, going, like, trying to just randomly kill people.

01:19:56.000 All like the Penguin and Batman.

01:19:58.000 Exactly, exactly.

01:19:59.000 I mean, look, Chicago's had its problem with corrupt government officials and police.

01:20:03.000 Sure, yeah.

01:20:03.000 But, you know, this goes for the cops everywhere in the country.

01:20:06.000 They're not going out being like, oh, I hope today I'm going to kill somebody.

01:20:08.000 Like, that's the last thing they want to do.

01:20:10.000 It's scary.

01:20:11.000 I know, it's true.

01:20:12.000 But these people like to preach all this stuff.

01:20:14.000 I see these memes they post, like a tweet from somebody saying, like, the police are a death squad that goes around hunting people down.

01:20:20.000 And I'm like, how would you like to go to a police department, sit down and talk to one of these guys?

01:20:24.000 Go on, they don't want to do it.

01:20:25.000 And I'm like, that's not even dangerous.

01:20:27.000 It's true.

01:20:27.000 Let alone go to any of these neighborhoods.

01:20:29.000 They don't want to do it either.

01:20:31.000 Like, it goes without saying that 99.9% of cops are good.

01:20:34.000 Nobody dislikes bad cops more than good cops.

01:20:38.000 Right.

01:20:39.000 And you go and talk to these people.

01:20:41.000 And I love the police in my community.

01:20:44.000 You know, I support them because I know how tough the job is, man.

01:20:48.000 I mean, you're making split second life and death decisions.

01:20:50.000 These people wake up every day.

01:20:52.000 They put a gun on their hip, a badge on their chest, and they don't know if they're coming home.

01:20:56.000 And I'm sorry, there's something noble in that.

01:20:59.000 And it's an imperfect job.

01:21:01.000 It's really difficult.

01:21:03.000 Do they always make the right decisions?

01:21:04.000 Absolutely not.

01:21:05.000 But, you know, I love and appreciate the police and I talk to them.

01:21:09.000 When I go to their departments and I talk to them, they will tell you that Some of the worst areas of crime in their communities, they like to go to the best because they want those kids to have a shot.

01:21:22.000 They care.

01:21:24.000 And so, when I see this crazy defund the police stuff, It just makes me hurt for the police and for the communities that would be affected by it.

01:21:36.000 It's just not right.

01:21:37.000 And it's all in the service of what?

01:21:39.000 A political agenda being pushed by the Democrats.

01:21:42.000 That's that's that's not.

01:21:43.000 And by the way, well, Joe Biden doesn't want to defund the police.

01:21:46.000 He just wants to redirect their funding.

01:21:47.000 Again, a clever manipulation.

01:21:49.000 I'm like, like, you know, you watch the interview with Chris Wallace and President Trump and Chris Wallace is pressing President Trump as he should.

01:21:57.000 Journalists should should press political officials.

01:21:59.000 Right.

01:22:00.000 But Well, Joe Biden doesn't want to defund the police.

01:22:03.000 And Trump's like, yes, he does.

01:22:05.000 No, he doesn't.

01:22:06.000 He said he just wants to redirect our funds.

01:22:07.000 I'm thinking like, Chris, if I redirected funds from your paycheck and gave it to another anchor, would you feel like you were defunded?

01:22:15.000 This is really funny because Joe Biden's running full speed as far away from that as he can now.

01:22:20.000 Absolutely is, yes.

01:22:21.000 So at the time, the Brookings Institute specifically said, what does defund the police mean?

01:22:27.000 It doesn't mean abolishing the police.

01:22:29.000 It just means reallocating funds to other programs.

01:22:32.000 So when Joe Biden was asked, do you support reallocating funds from police to other programs?

01:22:36.000 He goes, yes, absolutely.

01:22:37.000 I remember.

01:22:38.000 Yes.

01:22:38.000 But now he's like, so here's what's really funny.

01:22:41.000 I think the fact checkers should clarify that he backed off that very, very quickly.

01:22:46.000 And now he's absolutely trying to be like, I'm going to, I'm going to give him funding.

01:22:50.000 It's okay.

01:22:51.000 So let's, the next issue, natural gas fracking.

01:22:55.000 You can pull it up right here.

01:22:56.000 A thousand different quotes of Joe Biden in the primary.

01:23:00.000 Are you willing to sacrifice some of that blue-collar growth if it means putting tens of thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands of blue-collar workers out of a job?

01:23:07.000 What does Joe Biden say?

01:23:07.000 The answer is yes.

01:23:10.000 But if you talk to the media, well, Joe Biden doesn't want to ban fracking.

01:23:14.000 Are you just saying what he's saying because he's saying it now?

01:23:19.000 Or are you actually listening?

01:23:20.000 Just because he's saying it now doesn't mean that it's true!

01:23:23.000 Look at the things that he's said in the past!

01:23:25.000 Here's the important thing about the whole defund the police conversation.

01:23:28.000 I'm looking at these stories and they're doing a fact check.

01:23:31.000 And they say, well, while Joe Biden did say he was talking about reallocating funds, his larger platform, and I don't care about his larger platform, you know why?

01:23:37.000 Because if Joe Biden's going to sit down with an activist and tell them whatever they want to hear, I don't know what he's talking about.

01:23:42.000 I don't know what he wants to do.

01:23:43.000 When Donald Trump's like, I'm gonna build a big beautiful wall

01:23:45.000 from sea to shining sea, 30 feet concrete.

01:23:47.000 And then he actually prototyped it.

01:23:48.000 I'm like, this dude's nuts.

01:23:50.000 And then what happened, but this is actually really funny.

01:23:53.000 So Trump ends up settling for, you know, bollard fencing in select areas, reinforcing key areas,

01:23:59.000 and they mock him for it.

01:24:00.000 And I'm like, but it was because he consulted with the actual immigration experts who said,

01:24:05.000 we need to be able to see through it.

01:24:06.000 And he went, oh, so we can't do concrete.

01:24:07.000 No, we need to see on the other side.

01:24:09.000 Oh, OK.

01:24:10.000 And what did they do?

01:24:11.000 They reinforced the key areas because of budgeting issues.

01:24:14.000 They reduced a lot of the trafficking and smuggling.

01:24:16.000 He got what he wanted done.

01:24:17.000 I believe Trump that he really wanted to do it.

01:24:19.000 I think he really wanted a big concrete wall.

01:24:22.000 When I hear Joe Biden, what did he say?

01:24:24.000 He's like, moratorium on deportations, decriminalize border crossings.

01:24:27.000 He's back and forth 50 million times.

01:24:28.000 Taxpayer subsidies, healthcare for illegal immigrants.

01:24:31.000 And by the way, I just want to put this to rest right now.

01:24:35.000 I want people to come to this country.

01:24:37.000 Legal immigration is great, but You know, what liberals do is they conflate.

01:24:42.000 They try to make Republicans as if we're anti-immigrant.

01:24:44.000 They conflate illegal immigration with legal immigration.

01:24:47.000 It's not true.

01:24:48.000 We want diversity here in this country, right?

01:24:52.000 We want unity through that diversity.

01:24:54.000 We just want a structure that people can use to come here legally and safely because right now There is a tidal wave of human suffering at the southern border.

01:25:03.000 You want to send one of your liberal journalist friends on a trip?

01:25:07.000 Send them down there.

01:25:08.000 They won't do it.

01:25:09.000 Well, I mean, you know... Look, Donald Trump gave a speech years ago where he was like, you see what's going on last night in Sweden?

01:25:18.000 It's crazy, blah, blah, blah.

01:25:19.000 And it became this huge... You do a pretty good Trump impression.

01:25:21.000 You should throw yourself into it completely.

01:25:23.000 I do sometimes.

01:25:24.000 I can do some pretty good impersonations across the board, yeah.

01:25:26.000 Across the board?

01:25:27.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah, totally.

01:25:28.000 I could do a really good Gollum from Lord of the Rings too.

01:25:30.000 Anyway, the point is, he said last night in Sweden.

01:25:34.000 This became a huge news story where they're like, you know, what happened in Sweden?

01:25:39.000 Nothing happened in Sweden.

01:25:40.000 What Trump meant was last night on Fox news, they did this documentary on Sweden.

01:25:44.000 And so he's just speaking off the cuff.

01:25:46.000 He's speaking really quickly and I take everything he says literally.

01:25:49.000 So I decided I'm going to go to Sweden.

01:25:51.000 So me and a friend, my friend, Emily, who is now doing a lot of the SCNR reporting from one of my other companies, we decided let's fly to Sweden and let's go around and film and interview people and see if it's really as bad as many of these people are saying.

01:26:06.000 I ended up getting inundated with a bunch of leftist journalists saying, don't do it, don't go.

01:26:11.000 I ended up raising like eight grand in a day, because a bunch of conservatives were like, go do it, we want to see a journalist actually go and cover it, because I was like, I'll go, I'll totally go.

01:26:20.000 Cover what?

01:26:20.000 Explain, help me out here.

01:26:21.000 Sweden.

01:26:21.000 Just like this idea that, there was this idea that immigration had caused rampant crime in Sweden, and asylums, refugees.

01:26:27.000 Oh, right, right, got it, got it, I understand.

01:26:28.000 So I was like, I'll go check it out, right?

01:26:30.000 I ended up raising a total, like at the end of the whole trip, like 20 grand or something throughout the trip people were donating.

01:26:36.000 But I got all these leftist journalists DMing me, people I used to work with, saying, don't do it, don't go.

01:26:40.000 I used to work for Vice, right?

01:26:42.000 Vice would go on the ground in these countries.

01:26:45.000 Vice published a documentary from ISIS territory.

01:26:48.000 And I got guys from Vice hitting me up saying, Tim, don't go to Sweden.

01:26:51.000 And I'm like, what do you mean?

01:26:52.000 I literally worked with you guys like two years ago.

01:26:56.000 We used to do this all the time.

01:26:57.000 I'm doing literally what we always do.

01:26:58.000 No, don't do it, it's a lie.

01:27:01.000 These journalists not only don't want to go there, they want to stop other people from going there.

01:27:05.000 They don't want you to go there and film the truth and say, here's what's happening on the southern border.

01:27:09.000 They want the narrative that they can use.

01:27:10.000 I don't know why, because I can't imagine they're gaining anything from it.

01:27:14.000 It's like a feel-good tribal thing, I guess.

01:27:17.000 Well, here's the thing.

01:27:18.000 So this is a talk to some of the union leadership.

01:27:21.000 I feel like I was the first Republican to show up to the union AFL-CIO board, got the building trades there.

01:27:29.000 The government union guys and the AFL-CIO board, and that's what I tried to explain to a lot of the building trades guys, is that not only does illegal immigration undercut your wages and make it more difficult for you to find a job, what the PRO Act does, if you look at the PRO Act, which you hear Joe Biden and Conor Lamb talk about it all the time, it's going to be the future of union membership here in this country.

01:27:51.000 Well, the PRO Act affords union protection to illegal immigrants.

01:27:56.000 Wow.

01:27:57.000 So every, you know, the lion's share of economic experts in this country will say that the PRO Act be a wet blanket on the economy, right?

01:28:05.000 While simultaneously flooding union halls with illegal immigrants that are all of a sudden afforded legal protections, legal protections. What do you think

01:28:14.000 is that that's going to do to your your already existing members who are having trouble finding a job is going to

01:28:20.000 undermine their ability to make a living. Yet Democrats push the

01:28:23.000 pro act as if it's pro union, it's not pro union, it's it actually flies in the face of what Davis bacon was created

01:28:29.000 to protect. And so I take this message to the rank and file

01:28:32.000 union guys that it is by and large not good for them.

01:28:35.000 Because part of my job is to protect their ability to earn a living and put food on the table for their family.

01:28:41.000 And I get criticized for it.

01:28:43.000 Because part of me feels like the narrative is king, right?

01:28:47.000 And the idea that the Democrat Party is the party of unions... I don't know that that's... Maybe used to be.

01:28:55.000 The building trades guys?

01:28:58.000 It used to be.

01:28:59.000 Did you see what happened when they proposed the Green New Deal?

01:29:02.000 And I think it was the AFL-CIO came out and threw up in their mouths when they read it.

01:29:06.000 It's going to eliminate the energy sector jobs.

01:29:09.000 I think it was the AFL-CIO, I'm not sure.

01:29:11.000 But a bunch of these unions were like, whoa, whoa, whoa, you're straight up saying you're

01:29:14.000 going to shut our jobs down.

01:29:16.000 Why would we support that?

01:29:18.000 Well, that's what, when I say Pennsylvanians have short memories, this is what they see.

01:29:22.000 They don't want to lose those jobs.

01:29:23.000 The oil and natural gas industry in Pennsylvania is the centerpiece of our economy.

01:29:29.000 Did you see what Hillary Clinton said was one of her biggest regrets in the 2016 campaign?

01:29:33.000 I think it may have been her biggest regret when she said that we were going to shut down all these coal jobs.

01:29:37.000 Oh, yeah.

01:29:38.000 Well, Joe Biden essentially said the same thing.

01:29:39.000 Exactly.

01:29:40.000 He said, if you can go down in a mine shaft, you can learn to code.

01:29:44.000 Wait, he actually said learn to code?

01:29:46.000 I'm pretty sure he said, yeah, if you can go down 3,000 foot in a mine shaft, you can learn to code.

01:29:51.000 Look it up.

01:29:53.000 Look it up.

01:29:55.000 Yeah, there it is.

01:29:55.000 There it is.

01:29:56.000 You're right.

01:29:56.000 Wow.

01:29:57.000 No kidding.

01:29:59.000 Sheesh.

01:30:00.000 Yeah, yeah.

01:30:00.000 Tell us coal miners to learn to code.

01:30:02.000 Wow.

01:30:03.000 Oh, Sean's a propagandist.

01:30:05.000 No, I'm not.

01:30:05.000 He said it.

01:30:07.000 And so, you know, These jobs are legacy jobs to these people.

01:30:12.000 from a my grandfather who's a second father to me for god's sake was a union a lifelong union

01:30:17.000 democrat these jobs are legacy jobs to these people their father was a coal miner their

01:30:22.000 father's father was a coal miner and all of a sudden you have a politician i mean who was supposed

01:30:27.000 to be elected by the people to protect to protect and advocate for them saying you know what yeah

01:30:33.000 this legacy you care just yeah code bro Dude, it's like this, look, I gotta show this video, man.

01:30:40.000 This video, I don't think I'm gonna play it, but...

01:30:44.000 This guy had his family's business.

01:30:46.000 His parents started this business.

01:30:47.000 They burned it to the ground.

01:30:49.000 And these people who are marching around destroying these things, who get this defense from Democrats, who pretend like it's a peaceful march and the media protects them, don't understand.

01:30:57.000 They're not just attacking this guy.

01:30:59.000 It's his legacy.

01:31:00.000 It's more than that.

01:31:01.000 It's his dream for his kids.

01:31:03.000 You know, I was looking at buildings.

01:31:05.000 I'm trying to expand the business.

01:31:06.000 You know, we've got some big plans we're about to do.

01:31:09.000 It's awesome.

01:31:09.000 I'm really excited.

01:31:10.000 A million subscribers?

01:31:11.000 Yeah, I hit a million subscribers.

01:31:13.000 But I do have multiple channels so it's like, you know, it's more.

01:31:16.000 But I went to this one building and there was a guy there who was like in his 80s and he wanted to sell it.

01:31:21.000 And I asked him, I was like, you know, why do you want to sell it?

01:31:23.000 He didn't have any kids.

01:31:24.000 It actually made me feel really sad.

01:31:26.000 He built this building over decades as his building expanded.

01:31:30.000 Like a makeshift jigsaw puzzle just pulling on pieces.

01:31:33.000 And I told him, I was like, I want you to just record a story and tell a story about how you built this and like what the building was, how it came to be.

01:31:39.000 Just like, give me 10 minutes.

01:31:40.000 He didn't want to do it.

01:31:42.000 I don't think he has to.

01:31:43.000 But...

01:31:44.000 To me, I really value the accomplishments of humanity.

01:31:50.000 Where we've come from, where we're going.

01:31:52.000 I think about the idea that we're standing on the shoulders of giants.

01:31:54.000 I say that all the time.

01:31:55.000 I agree completely.

01:31:59.000 Go to New York.

01:32:00.000 You see all these bridges over the Hudson, over the, you know, I think it's, is it?

01:32:05.000 No, it's the East River, not the Hudson.

01:32:06.000 Hudson's the tunnels.

01:32:07.000 Well, they have some bridges, but you see all these bridges.

01:32:09.000 I have no idea how they got there.

01:32:11.000 I woke up one day and walked in, and I can walk across this river, this big bridge.

01:32:14.000 People are skating on it.

01:32:15.000 They have no idea the blood, sweat, and tears that went in to making sure that they would have shade.

01:32:21.000 You know, you know the saying, you plant a tree whose shade you know you'll never sleep, you know, you'll never get to sit under.

01:32:26.000 These, like so many people, millions of people, just woke up one day with the Brooklyn Bridge.

01:32:31.000 They didn't have to build it.

01:32:32.000 No work went into it.

01:32:33.000 They just one day have it.

01:32:35.000 And it's just their form.

01:32:36.000 That's legacy.

01:32:37.000 So when you see these, to go back to the coal miners, to being told, learn to code, it's like Joe Biden may as well have burned down their family business.

01:32:46.000 Everything that was there, I couldn't imagine.

01:32:49.000 I couldn't imagine someone, you know, here's what your family is.

01:32:52.000 Here's what your family's done.

01:32:53.000 Here's the history.

01:32:54.000 Here's what you're proud of.

01:32:56.000 Screw it.

01:32:57.000 Go be a computer programmer in New York.

01:32:58.000 That's exactly what he's saying.

01:33:01.000 That's exactly what he's saying.

01:33:02.000 You know what's really crazy about this Learn to Code thing?

01:33:04.000 It was a meme, and it got conservatives banned on social media.

01:33:07.000 I know!

01:33:08.000 I know!

01:33:09.000 I mean, and there's Joe Biden out there telling... I didn't even know Joe Biden said that, and this was... I know.

01:33:14.000 But what's crazy about this is this story is from... When is this from?

01:33:17.000 The Hill?

01:33:17.000 2019.

01:33:18.000 Yeah, she said it on the campaign trail.

01:33:21.000 December... It's from last December.

01:33:24.000 The learn to code thing, I mean... He also says we're going to phase out all fossil fuels.

01:33:29.000 December 31st, 2019?

01:33:29.000 Yes.

01:33:33.000 The Learn to Code, wasn't the Learn to Code ban fiasco way before that?

01:33:37.000 Yeah, it was.

01:33:38.000 Wow, dude.

01:33:39.000 Talk about nightmarishly out of touch.

01:33:42.000 That creeps me out.

01:33:43.000 I mean, you wouldn't believe the things that he says.

01:33:46.000 I would at this point.

01:33:48.000 People don't believe it, you know?

01:33:49.000 Again, this is why fundraising is so important, because the media should be telling people this, but the media does not.

01:33:59.000 You would think the media in Western Pennsylvania would report on this given that tens of thousands of people work in this industry.

01:34:05.000 They might want to know that these are the positions that Joe Biden espouses.

01:34:11.000 The fact that AOC is now Conor Lamb's boss on this Energy Environmental Task Force is kind of relevant.

01:34:19.000 Kamala Harris, she supports the Green New Deal.

01:34:21.000 I'm pretty sure.

01:34:22.000 She co-wrote it!

01:34:23.000 Oh, there you go.

01:34:24.000 She co-wrote the bill!

01:34:26.000 This is, it's just... Look, when AOC first got elected, the first thing I did was I laughed.

01:34:32.000 These establishment Democrats getting comeuppance, these young upstarts kicking them out.

01:34:35.000 I'm like, good.

01:34:36.000 They sit around, they get elected, they do nothing.

01:34:38.000 So, you know what?

01:34:40.000 Joe Crowley, he was arrogant, and he lost for it.

01:34:45.000 So I laughed.

01:34:46.000 I looked at a lot of her policy positions, and I'm like, that's a decent amount I actually agree with.

01:34:50.000 Prison reform, and some other things.

01:34:53.000 When the Green New Deal was first being talked about, it was framed in such a way that I thought was awesome.

01:34:57.000 Here's what they did.

01:34:58.000 They said, would you support government investment into green technologies to help offset carbon emissions?

01:35:06.000 86% of people were like, yeah, of course.

01:35:08.000 Like, look, if the government's, you know, got money for grants in these programs, it sounds like it's a good idea.

01:35:14.000 So when the Green New Deals first announced, it's like, the idea is to repair our infrastructure and develop new technologies and green technologies to, you know, help make our country more energy independent and efficient.

01:35:22.000 I'm like, that sounds great.

01:35:24.000 And then she released it.

01:35:26.000 And I was like, what is this garbage?

01:35:30.000 Money for people unwilling to work, farting cows, getting rid of planes.

01:35:34.000 Yeah, no planes, no meat.

01:35:35.000 But the whole second page, or at least a large portion of it, was talking about racial equity payments.

01:35:40.000 And I'm like, what does that have to do with developing new technology to improve the lives of Americans?

01:35:47.000 Look, the Green New Deal is obviously insane.

01:35:51.000 It just is.

01:35:52.000 As a standalone policy proposal, it's insane.

01:35:56.000 It's not reality.

01:35:57.000 Again, my position on energy is all of the above.

01:36:01.000 Where we can use renewables, let's do it.

01:36:03.000 Let's invest in it.

01:36:04.000 Nuclear energy is also something that we have to look at.

01:36:07.000 But you want a case study in a country migrating exclusively to renewable energy sources.

01:36:16.000 It's Germany.

01:36:17.000 Look at what happened in Germany.

01:36:19.000 Their energy costs skyrocketed!

01:36:21.000 It was a disaster!

01:36:22.000 Their people said no more!

01:36:24.000 And they've had to sort of transition from renewable energy sources to now natural gas.

01:36:30.000 You see what happened in France?

01:36:32.000 When they said, we're going to impose a tax on gas.

01:36:37.000 Oh, there was a borderline... People were like, there was a borderline revolt.

01:36:39.000 It was riots for like two years!

01:36:40.000 There was a revolt, I know.

01:36:42.000 That kind of bums me out.

01:36:43.000 I don't like the idea that, you know, we as a human civilization need to progress.

01:36:48.000 We need to do better.

01:36:49.000 And, you know, we get stuck and it's... Have you ever been on a hydraulic fracturing rig?

01:36:56.000 I have not.

01:36:56.000 Because I see where you're going with this.

01:36:58.000 It is like...

01:36:59.000 This is like Star Trek Enterprise type stuff.

01:37:02.000 Like, when you talk about, like, getting better, you know, horizontal drilling, the way, you gotta go.

01:37:09.000 Like, come out to Western Pennsylvania, we'll go take a tour of one, it'll blow your mind how precise they are.

01:37:14.000 Some of these companies, like Penn Energy Resources has a zero methane tolerance, right?

01:37:18.000 And methane's like, oh, methane's bad.

01:37:20.000 And it is, right?

01:37:22.000 They're so precise.

01:37:23.000 They tolerate zero methane.

01:37:26.000 emissions, you know, and they're so advanced.

01:37:28.000 And it was precisely that market-based innovation, right, that has allowed us to be a leader in decreasing our carbon emissions, right?

01:37:38.000 And every day, I mean, I say all this to say, it's market-based innovation that will lead the way to more cleaner and more renewable energy sources, not government monopolies.

01:37:50.000 Yeah, that's my point.

01:37:51.000 Well, I co-opted your point.

01:37:52.000 I'm so sorry.

01:37:54.000 No, the general idea is that we develop this technology and then the government wants to make sure that it's easier to just keep everything frozen than it is to actually allow the market to change with new technologies and new development.

01:38:09.000 I think there's obviously extreme ends.

01:38:13.000 We can't just have, you know, archaic jobs because people are like, the job is more important than innovation.

01:38:18.000 And we can't have learn to code.

01:38:20.000 There's got to be, you know, competitive, gradual change to develop new technologies.

01:38:25.000 One of the biggest challenges I see, though, nuclear energy seems very promising.

01:38:29.000 It is one of the highest return on energy investments.

01:38:32.000 It's clean.

01:38:33.000 Zero carbon emission.

01:38:33.000 Boom.

01:38:34.000 And the left opposes it.

01:38:37.000 I think they oppose it just because it gets a bad rap.

01:38:41.000 So my dad works in nuclear energy.

01:38:43.000 He's one of the smartest guys I've ever met.

01:38:44.000 He's amazing.

01:38:47.000 But I watched Chernobyl and I'm like, oh man, this is so great, dad.

01:38:51.000 I love this.

01:38:51.000 And he was offended when he watched it.

01:38:53.000 He's like, this is not how nuclear energy works.

01:38:56.000 This is why nuclear energy gets a bad rap.

01:38:58.000 Because it's sort of, yeah, I mean, Chernobyl was obviously a catastrophe.

01:39:02.000 It was a disaster.

01:39:03.000 I mean, there was human error.

01:39:05.000 I mean, all sorts of bad things happened.

01:39:08.000 You know, and I'm certainly not trying to just brush that off, right?

01:39:12.000 But the nuclear energy, our all-nuclear Navy that we've had in this country for a long time, there's not been one single incident, not a single incident since the inception of our all-nuclear Navy.

01:39:26.000 Because in the United States, we've got a real great system of checks and balances.

01:39:30.000 But when you talk to a lot of the energy executives and say in Western Pennsylvania that are that are in natural gas, it's a simple dollars and cents issues for them.

01:39:37.000 You know, they say like, well, it's I just can't.

01:39:40.000 Why build a nuclear power plant where there are so many government regulations that you have to jump through?

01:39:45.000 It's a multi billion dollar investment when you can just, you know, invest in natural gas, it's exponentially cheaper.

01:39:51.000 Kind of what I was trying to get at, too, is the government is impeding instead of, I guess, appropriate refereeing.

01:40:00.000 Nuclear energy is being demonized.

01:40:03.000 A lot of Democrats, progressives, they say it's bad, it's wrong, but it would be the solution to so many of our problems if we could just do it.

01:40:10.000 And that's why, when I hear about fracking, we see those videos where the fire is shooting out of the faucet and stuff.

01:40:16.000 I don't believe it.

01:40:18.000 Did you see that Michael Moore documentary?

01:40:20.000 Oh, where he said they were all lying?

01:40:21.000 That was crazy!

01:40:22.000 I didn't see it, but I read about it.

01:40:24.000 He got roasted.

01:40:25.000 But yeah, yeah.

01:40:29.000 I worked for Greenpeace a decade ago.

01:40:32.000 Longer than a decade ago.

01:40:33.000 And I learned about their founders.

01:40:36.000 One of their founders... I think his name is Patrick Moore.

01:40:39.000 I might be getting his name wrong.

01:40:40.000 I think he follows me on Twitter now.

01:40:42.000 He left a long time ago because... and I'm probably... I don't want to get his story wrong.

01:40:46.000 One of the reasons is he supports nuclear energy.

01:40:49.000 And Greenpeace doesn't.

01:40:50.000 It makes no sense.

01:40:50.000 If you believe in protecting the environment, nuclear energy is a great way to do it.

01:40:53.000 But I guess they make money off the Boogeyman, the Spectre, of this technology because of things like Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and Fukushima.

01:41:02.000 And Fukushima was really bad.

01:41:04.000 I mean, but that was a tsunami, so, I mean, they definitely need to make sure they have security set up to make sure that doesn't happen again.

01:41:09.000 But I ended up hearing these stories.

01:41:13.000 I read about this guy.

01:41:13.000 I read about nuclear energy and how the left opposes it.

01:41:16.000 And I got really confused because it's a green energy.

01:41:19.000 It's new tech.

01:41:20.000 It's extremely good for our country and the world.

01:41:24.000 But they oppose it.

01:41:25.000 Then they come to me and they come with other stories about fracking and all these other fossil fuel operations.

01:41:32.000 And now I just don't know what to believe.

01:41:34.000 Because I know the nuclear energy stuff is all exaggerated.

01:41:37.000 I mean, sure, it has its problems.

01:41:38.000 But then when they come to me and they claim fracking is the worst thing that ought to be banned, it's to be shut down immediately overnight, ban all fossil fuels, I'm like, I don't know if I believe you, man.

01:41:45.000 I don't know if you're being honest.

01:41:47.000 But I don't know what their endgame is with banning fossil fuels, other than climate change.

01:41:52.000 But if that were the case, would nuclear energy be the solution?

01:41:55.000 Yeah, well, right.

01:41:56.000 Correct.

01:41:57.000 I'll add one more point.

01:41:59.000 The former chief of staff for AOC straight up said the Green New Deal is more about changing the economy.

01:42:04.000 It is not.

01:42:05.000 Yeah, it's not about this.

01:42:06.000 It's not about green energy.

01:42:09.000 It is about control.

01:42:10.000 It's about changing the structure of our country, right?

01:42:14.000 Changing the economy.

01:42:15.000 That's what it's about.

01:42:17.000 And you're right.

01:42:17.000 Our chief of staff said it.

01:42:21.000 I'm going to pull up Super Chats.

01:42:23.000 We'll get to these in a quick second.

01:42:24.000 Super Chats?

01:42:25.000 Is that all people talking?

01:42:27.000 These are all people talking.

01:42:28.000 While we're talking, they're typing in?

01:42:30.000 Yeah, and sending money.

01:42:31.000 Yeah, this is the chat.

01:42:34.000 You notice the chat going off in the background?

01:42:36.000 Sending money to you?

01:42:37.000 Yeah, to the show.

01:42:38.000 Ask questions.

01:42:38.000 Send money to my campaign.

01:42:39.000 What's your campaign website?

01:42:40.000 SeanForCongress.co.

01:42:42.000 What's your Twitter?

01:42:44.000 Sean Parnell, USA.

01:42:46.000 Boom, there it is.

01:42:46.000 Is that like a handle?

01:42:47.000 Yeah, it's Sean Parnell, USA.

01:42:48.000 Yeah.

01:42:49.000 Anything else you want to mention?

01:42:50.000 We'll take questions.

01:42:51.000 Sure.

01:42:51.000 Yeah, just, you know, yeah.

01:42:53.000 Well, I mean, my gosh.

01:42:56.000 Money.

01:42:56.000 Give Sean money.

01:43:00.000 Look, people, we talked about this leading in, but people don't, they fundamentally don't understand how politics work.

01:43:06.000 If you want to change the scope of what this country looks like, you want to preserve the next generation for our children, Find great charismatic candidates that know how to fundraise.

01:43:17.000 People ask me, like, even major political pundits that work for National TV Network, how much has the party given you?

01:43:23.000 The party doesn't give candidates money.

01:43:25.000 Doesn't the DNC?

01:43:26.000 The D-triple-C?

01:43:27.000 Yeah, D-triple-C.

01:43:29.000 Well, no.

01:43:30.000 I mean, theoretically, no.

01:43:31.000 They don't cut checks to candidates.

01:43:32.000 Like, they might cut a $5,000 check here or there from a pack or something like that, but by and large, The way that candidates raise money is by cold calling people and asking, right?

01:43:45.000 So in the second quarter, I had a $720,000 quarter, like we outraced, we crushed my opponent.

01:43:51.000 But that happened by me getting a list, And calling down that list, people that I don't even know, four hours a day, three, four hours a day, every day.

01:44:02.000 And so the point is, you could have the best candidate in the world in this business.

01:44:06.000 You could have a candidate that you believe in, that you think will just rep, that will change the face of what this, you know, represent you well.

01:44:13.000 But if they can't fundraise, they're not going to win.

01:44:15.000 You got to have both.

01:44:16.000 You got to have both.

01:44:17.000 It's marketing, man.

01:44:18.000 And so many people get into this game.

01:44:21.000 I was one of them as well that just fundamentally didn't understand how fun.

01:44:24.000 That's why I made that first ad that went viral.

01:44:28.000 That's why I made it.

01:44:29.000 The Warehouse One.

01:44:30.000 Well, yeah, because I want first of all, you know, the max contribution that anyone that I can get from anybody is twenty eight hundred bucks.

01:44:36.000 Right.

01:44:37.000 And, you know, from a married couple, it's fifty six.

01:44:40.000 Right.

01:44:41.000 Twenty eight from the husband.

01:44:41.000 Twenty eight from the wife.

01:44:42.000 You get it.

01:44:43.000 So I just said, like, well, look, we should be giving people a way to get involved, even if it's a buck, right?

01:44:53.000 How much is the future of this country worth to you?

01:44:56.000 Is it worth a buck?

01:44:56.000 Great.

01:44:57.000 Invest in our movement.

01:44:58.000 The Dollar Shawn Club.

01:44:59.000 Yeah, the Dollar Shawn Club.

01:45:00.000 And so do you want to know the story behind that, man?

01:45:02.000 So we're trying to get creative with fundraising.

01:45:04.000 I thought to myself, OK, so fundraising is a grind.

01:45:08.000 It's an everyday thing.

01:45:09.000 But this job, right?

01:45:10.000 You need the money to win.

01:45:11.000 You know, you just have to, you have to have it.

01:45:13.000 But this job is about being there among the people.

01:45:17.000 It's about advocating for good policy that supports the people.

01:45:20.000 So, trying to think of creative ways to raise money, I started to think, conceptualizing, you know, hey, well, if we did this Dollar Shawn Club, get people, you know, what if we had 100,000 people give a buck?

01:45:31.000 What if we had 100,000 people give a buck every month?

01:45:35.000 All of a sudden, you've changed the game, right?

01:45:38.000 All of a sudden, you have a subscriber-based system where they're $1 recurring, 100,000 people, $1 recurring.

01:45:44.000 You don't even notice it.

01:45:46.000 You're involved in a direction of the country.

01:45:48.000 You're backing a candidate that you believe in.

01:45:51.000 And that gives the candidate the flexibility to go out there and be among the people.

01:45:55.000 That's what the job is, right?

01:45:56.000 And I don't have to spend five hours a day on the phone every day, you know?

01:45:59.000 So it's about—everything that I do is about bringing people together and broadening our tent, you know, because I just believe that, really, we've got to shrink the size of government and give the power back to the people.

01:46:09.000 There's an interesting conundrum in political financing.

01:46:14.000 Do we want a bunch of millionaires in Congress, in the Senate, or do we want regular people?

01:46:18.000 I kind of like the idea of regular people, but at the same time you could argue that for some, wealth is a sign of meritocracy.

01:46:24.000 They've been successful, they've raised money, but it could also be a sign of cronyism.

01:46:27.000 They get into politics, they secure their place, they lock it down, and then they just, you know, use their connections to make cash.

01:46:34.000 I like what you're saying, because if you didn't have to spend so much time fundraising, I think it would solve- if all politicians didn't, it would solve a lot of problems.

01:46:42.000 And we hear from a lot of the progressive left that say, get money out of politics.

01:46:45.000 They think politicians should be spending more time with their constituents, less time focused on fundraising, and fundraising eats up a lot of the time.

01:46:52.000 For especially people in Congress, because every two years for... In the House, you're raising money all the time.

01:46:59.000 All the time.

01:47:00.000 And at least the federal level, right?

01:47:03.000 And all the state regulations are different.

01:47:04.000 So if you're running for a state office in the state of Pennsylvania, you can find some big money donors.

01:47:09.000 They write you one check and you're good, right?

01:47:12.000 um that's that's also a mixed bag right because then you've got the the philosophical underpinnings of like oh this you're owned by this person right so i feel like the rules and regulations at the federal level are are constructed in such a way to prevent that i think that's a good thing but but We've got to be more creative.

01:47:31.000 As Republicans, I feel like the Democrats got it down.

01:47:33.000 They've got ActBlue.

01:47:34.000 Their digital fundraising platform is second to none.

01:47:37.000 We've got WinRed, right?

01:47:39.000 But ActBlue, it's like a data aggregating system.

01:47:42.000 So over time, it builds up the amount of donors that are in it.

01:47:45.000 And over time, the system itself gets more powerful.

01:47:47.000 The same is true of WinRed.

01:47:48.000 We're just four election cycles behind.

01:47:50.000 Although President Trump has done amazing things for WinRed, man.

01:47:54.000 So anyway, we do this ad.

01:47:55.000 We conceptualize this ad.

01:47:57.000 And I call up my finance chair, who's just an incredible guy.

01:48:00.000 He's got manufacturing facilities all around Western Pennsylvania.

01:48:03.000 I say, can we film an ad in one of your factories?

01:48:05.000 And he says, yeah, man.

01:48:06.000 Yeah, of course.

01:48:07.000 And we show up like we got a camera, like a 4k camera with a camera, a cameraman, my campaign manager, who's sitting over there with the lights.

01:48:16.000 I got my girlfriend with the script and those workers in the ad, we're just working, just working there.

01:48:21.000 I'm like, Hey man, you want to be in an ad?

01:48:22.000 They're like, yep.

01:48:23.000 And, And we took from 9 to 1 to film, something like that, right?

01:48:27.000 9 to 1, 9 to 2.

01:48:28.000 And we put the ad out and I was afraid to put it out because it was so different.

01:48:32.000 I thought it was awesome.

01:48:35.000 And it took off.

01:48:35.000 It got like 2 million views in a day.

01:48:37.000 In one day.

01:48:39.000 And so, maybe 1.5 million views in a day.

01:48:43.000 But it's just trying to get creative.

01:48:45.000 This is why I'm saying, I feel like Trump is the internet's politician.

01:48:48.000 But it's not just Trump, it's politicians like you, Kimberly Klasick.

01:48:54.000 You saw her viral ad?

01:48:55.000 Oh yeah, she's amazing.

01:48:56.000 10 million, 12 million?

01:48:58.000 Yes.

01:48:58.000 Yeah, there's people who understand, who are active, and they're doing fun, authentic things.

01:49:05.000 Like when I saw that ad you did in the warehouse, it just seemed like you were a regular dude trying to have fun with it.

01:49:09.000 Dollar Shawn Club, it was kind of an upbeat, fun, Well, you know, I just gotta be able to communicate with people, you know?

01:49:22.000 And I think authenticity is the coin of the realm in politics in this day and age.

01:49:26.000 People don't want career politicians.

01:49:28.000 People want real.

01:49:29.000 If you could, if you could get, I mean, if there was a, I mean, I like the idea of term limits, but if you could.

01:49:35.000 I can break that down as to why I can, I can.

01:49:38.000 You're for term limits?

01:49:39.000 No, I can complicate the issue for you.

01:49:41.000 Go for it.

01:49:41.000 Absolutely.

01:49:42.000 So I'm not going to be a career politician.

01:49:44.000 I'll tell you right here, right now, I have no desire to do it.

01:49:46.000 I love my job in the private sector, writing books for a living, doing speaking engagements.

01:49:50.000 It was great.

01:49:50.000 President Trump called me out.

01:49:51.000 It's an honor to have the opportunity to serve this country again.

01:49:55.000 So term limits.

01:49:56.000 I've told you I'm not going to do it, but also So if I say, you know, well, I'm only going to do two terms, three terms, does that not then give the power in Washington to the bureaucrat staff, right, who now have a permanent presence in Washington and elected representatives of the people do not?

01:50:18.000 Right. It also undermines your seniority.

01:50:20.000 Is it six years in Washington?

01:50:22.000 I mean, how you never be a chairman on a committee.

01:50:24.000 Just six years. You know, so there's that.

01:50:25.000 But also, shouldn't the people determine what what terms are?

01:50:30.000 Yeah, but but at the same time, I don't like career politicians.

01:50:33.000 I don't like career politicians, right?

01:50:35.000 Right. I'm not going to be one.

01:50:35.000 I'm not going to be one.

01:50:36.000 So I've thought about a lot of this.

01:50:37.000 And you know, a lot of people said, what about someone like Ron Paul, who was, you know, I don't know how many he had,

01:50:37.000 And, you know, a lot of people said, what about someone like Ron Paul, who was,

01:50:40.000 you know, I don't know how many he had, like 11 or some ridiculous number.

01:50:42.000 like 11 or some ridiculous number.

01:50:44.000 Yeah. You know, I'll mention this, too, because you mentioned earlier on

01:50:44.000 Yeah.

01:50:44.000 You know, I'll mention this too, because you mentioned earlier on that the big tent of the Republican Party is

01:50:48.000 that the big tent of the Republican Party is freedom, life, liberty, sort of happiness.

01:50:49.000 freedom, life, liberty, pursuit of happiness.

01:50:51.000 I would tell people my me politically, unlike the political compass,

01:50:51.000 I would tell people me politically, unlike the political compass, I'm left libertarian.

01:50:54.000 I'm left libertarian, so I'm more about freedom.

01:50:56.000 So I'm more about freedom.

01:50:57.000 But I'm like, easiest way to understand it is hippies living on a farm,

01:50:57.000 But I'm like, easiest way to understand it is hippies living on a farm, you know, sharing their watermelon.

01:51:02.000 That's about it.

01:51:03.000 So it's more about cooperation, less about competition.

01:51:07.000 But if I had to make a choice about what kind of government I would rather have, it would be a more right libertarian,

01:51:14.000 in the sense that freedom, life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.

01:51:17.000 The reason is, there's something Ron Paul said a long time ago that I thought was, I think it was Ron Paul said

01:51:21.000 this, that if you want socialism, you can go start your own commune.

01:51:26.000 Like, this is America.

01:51:27.000 You can literally go get a plot of land in the middle of nowhere, start your commune, and have your socialist society.

01:51:31.000 You don't need to force it on anyone else.

01:51:32.000 And I'm like, that's a really good point.

01:51:34.000 So I can do my thing, and you can leave me alone.

01:51:37.000 That sounds great.

01:51:39.000 And that's just libertarian in general.

01:51:40.000 So I can have my farm with my hippie friends, you leave me alone, we'll protect ourselves, we'll do our work, we'll do our thing.

01:51:45.000 You do yours.

01:51:46.000 And that's easier to accomplish under a system that's more about, you know, more competitive libertarianism.

01:51:52.000 So I was going to make a different point on that, but anyway, the general idea is... Did I co-opt your point again?

01:51:56.000 Yeah, do it to it.

01:51:57.000 No, I said, did I?

01:51:58.000 Did I just totally... Oh, no, no, no, no, no.

01:52:01.000 No, I was going to make a point when you mentioned the Republican bigger tent.

01:52:04.000 I was going to say something else.

01:52:06.000 I went off on a tangent.

01:52:07.000 But let's talk about Super Chats.

01:52:10.000 People got questions, I guess.

01:52:11.000 Super Chats.

01:52:12.000 Superchat's a YouTube thing where people give money.

01:52:14.000 Okay.

01:52:15.000 And ask questions or make statements.

01:52:18.000 And so, uh, this guy, Uncle Juan, 300 bucks.

01:52:21.000 Oh, dang.

01:52:21.000 Yeah.

01:52:22.000 So that he could, he could say this.

01:52:24.000 Okay.

01:52:24.000 He says, protesters showed up to a rural town near me in Oregon called Wilhelmina, but the locals heard they were coming, so they blocked the entrance to the town and stood armed when they arrived and saw what was waiting for them, then turned and ran.

01:52:36.000 The Oregonian then wrote a piece, shocked, wondering why they were so mean.

01:52:41.000 That's a super chat.

01:52:42.000 Some will be questions.

01:52:43.000 Well, is that not the point of the Second Amendment?

01:52:48.000 Yeah, is that not why it exists?

01:52:50.000 Did you hear about what happened with the Seattle police chief?

01:52:53.000 That's that's a that's powerful.

01:52:54.000 That's that that that's powerful.

01:52:56.000 And did you see I mean, look, you know, having the LA riots and stuff people on the rooftops defending their businesses with rifles and stuff when you know, I'm part Korean, so someone sent me a roof Korean thing.

01:53:07.000 You got it, man!

01:53:08.000 And what that see that man that it so when you hear people talk about, you know, dismantling

01:53:16.000 the Second Amendment, I take it personal because they're saying that you don't I the government

01:53:22.000 is saying, I don't want you to have the ability to protect yourself, your family, your home

01:53:27.000 or your business.

01:53:30.000 And what that question just shows shows ordinary people just wanted to protect their hearth

01:53:35.000 in their home from people who don't care for it.

01:53:38.000 That's why the Second Amendment exists.

01:53:40.000 Have you seen that crazy video from Colorado where the far leftists shut up some random neighborhood?

01:53:45.000 And the guys came out?

01:53:46.000 The veterans kicked them out or something like that?

01:53:47.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:53:48.000 I saw it.

01:53:48.000 I was like, oh geez.

01:53:49.000 In Seattle, they were trying to shut up to the home of the police chief and locals blocked the road with an SUV and came out with guns.

01:53:57.000 And these leftists were yelling things like, we were being peaceful, and they said, they were like, we were being peaceful and you pointed a gun at us, and the lady goes, yeah, that's why you were being peaceful.

01:54:06.000 So I'm not, you know, we've seen a lot of instances where people have come out with weapons and defending, you know, their roads or whatever.

01:54:14.000 I'm worried about it.

01:54:15.000 Because, you know, we just had a story where some Black Lives Matter protesters, I guess, were driving through PA, and a guy came out and fired buckshot at them.

01:54:23.000 Yeah, that ain't good.

01:54:24.000 Right.

01:54:25.000 We don't want escalation.

01:54:26.000 Yeah, I agree completely.

01:54:27.000 I was just thinking the same thing.

01:54:29.000 It's concerning, you know?

01:54:30.000 We don't want that.

01:54:33.000 Yeah, yeah.

01:54:35.000 But how do you know where the line is?

01:54:37.000 What I mean is...

01:54:38.000 We see a video clip on the internet.

01:54:39.000 We don't know what happened.

01:54:40.000 All we know is there's a bunch of people around this guy's house.

01:54:43.000 Then he's coming out, he's armed.

01:54:45.000 For all we know, a situation where they were harassing, they were threatening.

01:54:48.000 The guy got scared.

01:54:49.000 No idea.

01:54:50.000 Either way, I just, I want to figure out how we prevent all of that.

01:54:55.000 I don't want people showing up to my house armed, and I don't want to have to be defending my home.

01:54:59.000 I want to live in peace.

01:55:01.000 That's what the vast majority of Americans want.

01:55:04.000 Liberal, conservative, or otherwise.

01:55:06.000 But I don't think there's an easy answer to just be like, oh, this person was right, this person was wrong.

01:55:10.000 We all think we know the answers, and that's why you— Well, of course there's not an easy answer, but here's a start.

01:55:16.000 Uniting against, you know, politically, our leaders need to come together and say rioting and looting is not permissible.

01:55:22.000 You start there, and then you get around a table and you have a conversation.

01:55:26.000 That's what the First Amendment is all about.

01:55:28.000 Yeah.

01:55:29.000 You know?

01:55:29.000 I think it's funny, you see that viral clip where it was Chris Cuomo, he's on CNN, and he goes, where does it say in the Constitution that protestors have to- Oh my god, yeah, the guy, the TikTok video guy, who's like, Yeah, he's like... Chris Cuomo said, where does it say that protests have to be peaceful?

01:55:44.000 And the guy's eating the ramen, and he goes, it's in the First Amendment.

01:55:47.000 It's literally in the... And it's like, it's like some... It's like circled, he's just like... He's a hero.

01:55:51.000 I think that video got like 40 million views or something.

01:55:55.000 It was amazing.

01:55:56.000 You just gotta look it up, Mr. Cuomo.

01:55:58.000 It's literally in the First Amendment.

01:56:00.000 But now, I think this is one of the things they're gaslighting us on.

01:56:03.000 Peaceful protests, peaceful marches, over and over again.

01:56:05.000 You don't gotta tell me, I know.

01:56:07.000 They are gaslighting us on that.

01:56:08.000 I mean, You pull up the article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette where the editorial board criticized that video saying, you know, we deserve better, Sean.

01:56:17.000 You're a good young man, but we deserve better rhetoric than this.

01:56:19.000 Nah, that's a trick.

01:56:21.000 Well, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, they're good people.

01:56:27.000 And the editorial board, they're good people.

01:56:28.000 It's a good paper, but I think that they were wrong on that.

01:56:34.000 I wrote a response.

01:56:35.000 750 words.

01:56:36.000 Standard response.

01:56:37.000 You know what they said?

01:56:37.000 They didn't publish it.

01:56:39.000 They wrote two pieces on me.

01:56:41.000 And I said, hey, can I please respond?

01:56:42.000 They said, yeah.

01:56:43.000 So I wrote one and said, nah, no.

01:56:45.000 You only get 200 words.

01:56:46.000 I'm like, but you wrote 1700!

01:56:47.000 Yeah.

01:56:47.000 You know?

01:56:48.000 No.

01:56:50.000 So, it's funny how at the DNC they did peaceful, peaceful, peaceful, peaceful.

01:56:56.000 I got an email after the first night, and it was from a progressive organization, and all the subject was was the word lies like 50 times.

01:57:04.000 And I'm like, can you write me an email like that about the Democratic Party?

01:57:09.000 But no, of course not.

01:57:10.000 I got an email from somebody in Europe who said that when they turn on their news, all they hear about is peaceful protests, and that Trump is attacking them.

01:57:17.000 Then they go online and they see all the videos, and they're sick and tired of being lied to.

01:57:22.000 I got friends and family in Chicago.

01:57:25.000 Chicago saw that mass wave of looting.

01:57:27.000 They pulled the bridges up downtown to stop the looters from crossing into the downtown area.

01:57:31.000 These rioters and looters went into residential neighborhoods.

01:57:34.000 Aldermen, local politicians freaked out.

01:57:36.000 I got family and friends down there that all of a sudden flipped for Trump overnight.

01:57:39.000 Did you see Mayor Lightfoot?

01:57:41.000 All of a sudden the protesters are on her street and she's got cops guarding her house?

01:57:44.000 Yep.

01:57:46.000 I mean, people see this, okay?

01:57:50.000 This is going to be an issue in the 2020 election.

01:57:54.000 And people ask, first of all, and I don't like these questions because I don't like breaking down people into brackets.

01:58:00.000 Like, well, how are you going to get the suburban housewife?

01:58:01.000 This is how people talk in politics.

01:58:03.000 I love that.

01:58:04.000 I don't like it.

01:58:05.000 I think that everybody wants freedom, economic prosperity, peace, law and order.

01:58:10.000 I mean, these are things that we all want.

01:58:13.000 His rioting is not acceptable.

01:58:15.000 And you look in Pittsburgh alone, there was some rioting in Pittsburgh.

01:58:18.000 It wasn't as bad as it was in Philadelphia, but several police officers got hurt.

01:58:22.000 A cop got hit in the head with a brick, was in the hospital.

01:58:26.000 My opponents speak up for them?

01:58:28.000 Those are police that operate in and around his district.

01:58:32.000 Did he say a word about it?

01:58:34.000 No.

01:58:34.000 This is why they lose me.

01:58:36.000 This is why the Democrats lose me.

01:58:37.000 This is why they're gonna lose- This is why- That's why I- That's why I said- In my speech last night, I called to Democrats- You're still a Democrat?

01:58:47.000 Are you still a Democrat?

01:58:49.000 I've never really been- Like, I'm not gonna play a game- You like your own thing?

01:58:52.000 I voted for Obama in 08.

01:58:53.000 Then in 2012, I was mad at him.

01:58:54.000 I thought that- He did a lot of things- He did not- I mean, he did a lot of really bad things.

01:58:59.000 And then in 2016, I just laughed when Trump won.

01:59:01.000 I didn't vote for either of them.

01:59:02.000 I said, I don't want to be involved in this.

01:59:03.000 I don't want to be on anyone's team.

01:59:04.000 I don't want to be in any tribe.

01:59:05.000 And I was resistant even to say I'd vote for Trump.

01:59:07.000 Now I'm saying straight up, he released his agenda.

01:59:10.000 I like it.

01:59:11.000 I think he's improved greatly.

01:59:13.000 I'm gonna vote for the guy.

01:59:15.000 But it's mostly about the riots.

01:59:16.000 That was a huge... That's gonna be an issue for a lot of people.

01:59:19.000 It's just... I got family in Chicago.

01:59:23.000 Of course, yeah.

01:59:24.000 I've got friends and family, and when they're running around the city shooting guns into the Gucci store to break the window, guns going off, cars driving, it was insane.

01:59:33.000 It is insane.

01:59:34.000 People don't realize they lift the bridges up around the downtown area to stem the rioting.

01:59:41.000 And that's a big deal for Chicago to cut off downtown because the river goes through.

01:59:47.000 So you've got to go around one bridge to get in.

01:59:50.000 And it blocked people in, it blocked people out.

01:59:52.000 I'm worried about whether or not I've got to find a way for my family to leave the city.

01:59:57.000 Many of them are in the suburbs, but the riots went to the suburbs too.

02:00:00.000 And I feel like the Democrats are spitting in my face when I'm like, when I wake up and I hear, did you hear about the riots last night in Chicago?

02:00:06.000 I'm like, no, no, what happened?

02:00:07.000 I was in bed!

02:00:08.000 When those riots broke out, it happened like really late at night, early in the morning, and I went to sleep.

02:00:13.000 And I wake up looking at all these videos, and the first thing I do is I hit up my mom.

02:00:16.000 What's going on?

02:00:16.000 Is that like, you know, I know she's out in the suburbs, is everybody okay?

02:00:21.000 That's just, that's worrying, it's scary.

02:00:23.000 And then what do I hear from Nadler?

02:00:25.000 It's a myth.

02:00:27.000 They're just peaceful.

02:00:29.000 Let me call my family.

02:00:30.000 Those are peaceful Molotov cocktails.

02:00:31.000 Peaceful marches gave way to fire.

02:00:33.000 No, I'm not happy about that.

02:00:35.000 And then, you know, when I ended up realizing, I said earlier this year I'll never have a gun in my house.

02:00:42.000 And then when I saw everything that was going down.

02:00:44.000 And you went in the opposite direction.

02:00:45.000 I went nuts.

02:00:47.000 And I got a bunch of guns.

02:00:50.000 Yeah, I was just like, that's it.

02:00:52.000 And then I was on, you know, Steven Crowder?

02:00:54.000 Yes.

02:00:55.000 He said to me, he's like, would you, he said something like, would you now accept that any politician is going to try and take your guns away?

02:01:00.000 Or something about not voting for him, supporting him.

02:01:02.000 Like, would you be, I'm like, I'm not going to support any of these laws.

02:01:05.000 No, look, I had faith in the system for a long time, and now I feel like we've got a big political party, the biggest political party, the Democrats, they're pretending like it's not happening, or outright supporting these people.

02:01:18.000 In Portland, there's a story coming out saying Ted Wheeler, the mayor, he wanted the police to stand down.

02:01:24.000 I don't know if they're admitting he actually ordered them to, but the police stood down.

02:01:28.000 That's insane to me.

02:01:30.000 And they don't support the police.

02:01:31.000 So the police in Seattle, the state police in Oregon, not Seattle, retreated.

02:01:36.000 They called in the state cops to deal with the riots.

02:01:38.000 And then the prosecutors kept cutting all these rioters loose.

02:01:40.000 So the state police were like, we're not gonna do this anymore.

02:01:42.000 I don't want to see anybody get hurt.

02:01:43.000 I don't even want the rioters to get hurt.

02:01:46.000 I'm mad about what they're doing.

02:01:47.000 I think they should be arrested and punished for their crimes.

02:01:52.000 But I don't want them to get hurt.

02:01:53.000 I don't want innocent buildings, innocent business owners to suffer.

02:01:56.000 I don't want the cops to get hurt.

02:01:58.000 And all that has to be done is the prosecutors do their job.

02:02:01.000 We already have laws that make it illegal to smash windows and beat people.

02:02:05.000 They're not doing it.

02:02:06.000 And that, I snapped.

02:02:08.000 I went out and bought a bunch of guns, and I'm like, I'm not gonna vote for these people.

02:02:11.000 I need someone who's gonna do something.

02:02:13.000 Donald Trump did not send out all these cops across the country.

02:02:16.000 He sent out investigators.

02:02:17.000 They lied and claimed he was sending secret police to, like, march through the streets.

02:02:21.000 I know.

02:02:21.000 No, you know what?

02:02:21.000 If he did, maybe the rioting wouldn't have happened in my hometown.

02:02:24.000 Maybe the rioting wouldn't be happening in Kenosha and these other cities.

02:02:27.000 Tim, I think there are a lot of people, millions of people out there that feel just like you.

02:02:31.000 Yeah.

02:02:31.000 And I think that this is going to be, and I don't care what the media says, this is going to be an issue for 2020 for sure.

02:02:39.000 I definitely think so.

02:02:41.000 Let's read some more questions.

02:02:43.000 Caleb Warden says, great podcast as always.

02:02:45.000 Question for Sean.

02:02:47.000 Do you think there should be more ex-military leaders in local state seats?

02:02:51.000 FYI, I live in Green Bay and I'd say it's getting upsetting, unsettling, close in our city.

02:02:57.000 Former USMC 2011, plenty of patriots up here Trump 2020.

02:03:01.000 Yeah, that's a great question.

02:03:02.000 I think, so, when people, when men and women raise their right hand to serve this country, they go overseas, they, at some point in time, right, whether they're a Democrat or Republican or Independent or Libertarian, they sign on the dotted line and they say that they're going to put their country before their own self-interests, before making a buck, before having a family, before doing anything else that they wanted to do with their life.

02:03:27.000 I think we need more people that have served this country.

02:03:30.000 You said you travel around the world.

02:03:31.000 You know what it means to be free.

02:03:33.000 You've seen countries that aren't, right?

02:03:37.000 I think we need more people that have served in the military on both sides of the aisle at every level of government.

02:03:45.000 One of the biggest issues for me and who I want to vote for is military service.

02:03:49.000 One of the reasons why I was a big fan of Tulsi is that she's a major in the National Guard.

02:03:53.000 I mean, the Commander-in-Chief is not just the executive.

02:03:57.000 It's the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces.

02:03:59.000 So my opinion on that is I'd much rather every politician have some kind of service.

02:04:04.000 Do you know what the Democrats did to Tulsi?

02:04:06.000 She's a Democrat.

02:04:07.000 She's a Russian asset!

02:04:09.000 Of course she is.

02:04:12.000 She abstained on impeachment, I'm pretty sure, right?

02:04:15.000 I don't remember.

02:04:16.000 But I know my opponent voted for it.

02:04:18.000 That made me really angry.

02:04:19.000 I've got to pivot it back to my opponent.

02:04:23.000 I don't know her.

02:04:24.000 She seems nice.

02:04:25.000 I disagree with most things she says, but she seems nice.

02:04:28.000 Jeff Van Drew is just a couple miles from where we're at.

02:04:32.000 Oh yeah, yeah!

02:04:33.000 Yeah, he switched.

02:04:34.000 He did switch!

02:04:35.000 And his policies didn't change.

02:04:38.000 He was always... Man, it's crazy, because that guy is a Democrat.

02:04:42.000 I looked at his issues, and I'm like, this guy's a Democrat.

02:04:44.000 Because the Republican Party is the party of diversity of thought.

02:04:49.000 There are so many... People act like Republicans are these draconian knuckle-draggers.

02:04:54.000 It is not the truth.

02:04:55.000 There are so many...

02:04:57.000 There are so many different people in the Republican Party that believe so many different things.

02:05:00.000 Suzanne Collins from Maine, she's pro- I believe, I don't want to speak for her, but I believe she's pro-choice.

02:05:06.000 I think Van Drew is pro-choice.

02:05:07.000 So there you go.

02:05:08.000 But guess what?

02:05:09.000 They're in the Republican Party and they ain't shunned or canceled.

02:05:12.000 You know why?

02:05:13.000 Because there's a conversation to be had about it.

02:05:15.000 That is the essence of America, is that we have differing opinions, I know where you stand, you know where I stand, and we come to a consensus.

02:05:25.000 We meet in the middle and we do work on behalf of the American people.

02:05:28.000 You can't do that when one side just wants you, or one side thinks you're evil, or one side wants you cancelled, you know?

02:05:36.000 You can't do that.

02:05:37.000 And so we have to elect leaders that will have that conversation and will push back Against cancel culture because it's dangerous.

02:05:45.000 I don't think anybody I You know I tell people you got to speak up Because to when these people are marching around demanding those sit at the tables raise their fist in compliance We cannot have a society where people are all beaten into submission You know, we're the country of live free or die, give me liberty or give me death.

02:06:04.000 So the people who said no, if you want to support a cause, it's America.

02:06:09.000 You can go around and march, do your thing.

02:06:10.000 You can't force other people to do it.

02:06:11.000 For sure.

02:06:13.000 What do you call this?

02:06:14.000 Superchat.

02:06:15.000 Superchats.

02:06:16.000 Do you have t-shirts that say superchats?

02:06:19.000 How have I not?

02:06:19.000 I don't have any YouTube.

02:06:21.000 I don't have any followers, so it wouldn't work.

02:06:23.000 YouTube calls it that.

02:06:24.000 Oh, that's not like a Tim Cash thing?

02:06:26.000 No, no, no.

02:06:27.000 I thought that was like one of your things.

02:06:28.000 No.

02:06:29.000 I was like, okay.

02:06:30.000 On YouTube, they have a thing called Super Chat where you can give money and then it

02:06:33.000 makes your comment more common.

02:06:34.000 How have I not?

02:06:35.000 I don't have any YouTube.

02:06:36.000 I don't have any followers, so it wouldn't work.

02:06:39.000 But still, that's interesting.

02:06:41.000 Mr. McGraw says, fellow vet, Yinzer, PA14 here.

02:06:44.000 Moved here from H2O.

02:06:46.000 What are your thoughts on DOD allowing Black Lives Matter signs at work, saying it's not a political statement?

02:06:51.000 Not acceptable.

02:06:52.000 What about Wolf wanting to extend mail-in voting to after election day?

02:06:55.000 Split this with Sean.

02:06:57.000 Not acceptable.

02:06:58.000 Look, so it's not just Black Lives Matter.

02:07:00.000 It's any political statement in the military.

02:07:03.000 Our job is to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.

02:07:08.000 And by the way, we take an oath when we raise our right hand to protect and defend the Constitution and people of every race, creed, and religion in this country.

02:07:16.000 So it's not appropriate as a direct answer to your question.

02:07:20.000 They're trying to pretend that it's not a political statement, but it's clearly a political statement.

02:07:24.000 You go to their website and you read their own self-professed goals of the organization.

02:07:29.000 It's right there in black and white.

02:07:30.000 Yeah.

02:07:31.000 So you can read it.

02:07:32.000 Don't take my word for it.

02:07:34.000 Read their website.

02:07:35.000 What was the second part of his question?

02:07:37.000 It was a good one.

02:07:38.000 Oh, Wolf's mail-in voting.

02:07:40.000 OK, so this is a great question.

02:07:41.000 I spoke out about this right away.

02:07:44.000 There's a difference between early voting and absentee voting and mail-in voting.

02:07:51.000 When the president rails against mail-in voting, he's railing against sending a ballot to everybody.

02:07:57.000 When you do that, you lose chain of custody.

02:08:00.000 It can be an absolute nightmare.

02:08:02.000 What are you making?

02:08:04.000 I don't want to show the name, but can you read what that says?

02:08:07.000 Official mail-in ballot.

02:08:08.000 Yeah.

02:08:09.000 This person doesn't live here.

02:08:11.000 Well, there you go.

02:08:12.000 I don't know what I'm supposed to do with it.

02:08:13.000 Is that a ballot or is that a ballot application?

02:08:15.000 It's a ballot.

02:08:16.000 So there you go.

02:08:17.000 So that is my point.

02:08:18.000 When you mail a ballot to everybody, you lose chain of custody.

02:08:22.000 Now, early voting, okay?

02:08:23.000 The early voting and absentee voting system that we have in the state of Pennsylvania, there is a clear chain of custody.

02:08:28.000 You've got to go online.

02:08:29.000 You've got to apply online.

02:08:30.000 It's barcoded.

02:08:31.000 It's sent to you.

02:08:32.000 You send it back.

02:08:33.000 It's scanned into the system.

02:08:35.000 It's a pretty reliable system.

02:08:37.000 Now, What the Democrats are trying to do is conflate early voting and absentee voting with all mail-in voting to muddy the waters, OK?

02:08:45.000 But there is a clear empirical difference between the two.

02:08:49.000 And it is dangerous when you send a ballot to everybody because you don't know.

02:08:54.000 You made the point better than I ever could.

02:08:56.000 I know.

02:08:57.000 So the people who watch know, I often reference, I got this ballot sent here.

02:09:02.000 And so I was like, just have you read it, because you don't know what that is.

02:09:05.000 And just to confirm, I don't have to do with it.

02:09:08.000 What do I do?

02:09:09.000 Now?

02:09:10.000 Do I go give it back to him?

02:09:11.000 Yeah.

02:09:12.000 So in the state of Pennsylvania, show up and vote, right?

02:09:20.000 Because what the Democrats are trying to do is make it confusing.

02:09:24.000 I think the Democrats know, by and large, That Republicans don't trust mail-in voting.

02:09:29.000 We like to show up in person.

02:09:31.000 And this isn't a knock on Democrats.

02:09:32.000 Democrats are more trusting of the mail-in vote.

02:09:35.000 Republicans, by and large.

02:09:36.000 I'm speaking in generalities.

02:09:38.000 But Republicans like to show up and we like to vote.

02:09:41.000 So, yes, Governor Wolf is trying to extend the mail-in voting process.

02:09:47.000 He's trying to compromise the integrity of our elections.

02:09:50.000 I will tell you that we've got it.

02:09:51.000 We've got a plan in place to make sure that our elections in the general here in the state of Pennsylvania, but in Western Pennsylvania as well are safe and secure while allowing all of our polling precincts to remain open now in the primary polling precincts were closed, you know on a moment's notice people were getting in the mail like little postcards saying, you know attention your polling precinct has been changed and so Yeah.

02:10:15.000 Republicans and Democrats, but Republicans, everyone would show up at their polling location.

02:10:19.000 It wouldn't be there.

02:10:20.000 And in some cases where Republicans found out where their new polling location was,

02:10:23.000 they'd show up and no Republican paper ballots would be there.

02:10:26.000 And so, oh, come back later.

02:10:28.000 Well, how many of those people actually come back later?

02:10:30.000 So the point I'm trying to make is that in the primary, I feel like they try to make

02:10:35.000 it as difficult as possible for Republicans to actually show up while simultaneously sending

02:10:40.000 out mail-in ballot applications to everybody.

02:10:42.000 We've got a better system in the general and that's not going to happen.

02:10:46.000 Why are we doing vote-by-mail?

02:10:49.000 Because the Democrats believe it will help them win.

02:10:52.000 And that's just as simple as I can say it.

02:10:56.000 Are they giving an official reason for it?

02:10:58.000 That why we have to have vote-by-mail?

02:11:00.000 They're saying that because of the pandemic, we want to make sure that people can vote, they want to have access to voting, and we want to make sure that they can do it safely without putting their health at risk.

02:11:10.000 Wow.

02:11:11.000 This is great, because Dr. Burks and Fauci both said we can safely vote by mail.

02:11:15.000 A problem solved.

02:11:16.000 Vote in person.

02:11:17.000 Safely vote in person.

02:11:18.000 Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

02:11:19.000 Vote in person.

02:11:20.000 Oh my gosh, don't say that.

02:11:22.000 Everybody, oh my god!

02:11:23.000 Fauci said that if we can go to grocery stores, we can go in person and safely.

02:11:27.000 Dr. Birx said it should be no different from going to Starbucks.

02:11:29.000 Of course.

02:11:30.000 If that's the case, argument's done, right?

02:11:32.000 The reason why this vote by mail is being pushed is because Democrats believe it will help them.

02:11:38.000 Yeah.

02:11:39.000 That's it.

02:11:40.000 The predictions from both sides are that Trump's going to win on election night, but they're not going to call it because they're going to wait for mail-in ballots, which will trickle in and will be found, which will give Biden the numbers he needs.

02:11:50.000 Of course.

02:11:51.000 That's what they... I mean, this is... Let me ask you a question.

02:11:53.000 That's what they did in California.

02:11:55.000 Let me ask you a question.

02:11:56.000 Look, Republican... Look it up.

02:11:58.000 Republican House candidates won in California.

02:12:01.000 A couple of them won.

02:12:02.000 In 2018.

02:12:02.000 Yeah.

02:12:02.000 Ten days later, they lost.

02:12:04.000 Oh, look at all these ballots we found.

02:12:05.000 Oh, looks like the Democrats won.

02:12:07.000 It's a...

02:12:08.000 Let me ask you a question.

02:12:10.000 If I publicly announced, you know, I'm voting for Trump, which I did, and then I show up to your house one day, and actually, we'll put it a better way.

02:12:21.000 If a group of people announced that they were going to all be supporting Joe Biden, and they show up to your house and say, why don't you give us your vote, Sean?

02:12:30.000 Give us your give us your ballot.

02:12:30.000 We'll take care of it for you.

02:12:31.000 We'll make sure it goes to the right place.

02:12:33.000 And they're wearing a Biden hat.

02:12:34.000 Would you give them your ballot?

02:12:35.000 No.

02:12:36.000 The Postal Union endorsed Biden.

02:12:39.000 I know.

02:12:40.000 I mean, let's not pretend.

02:12:43.000 No, I'm not even going to get into it.

02:12:47.000 The Democrats in Washington, again, I want to be clear.

02:12:51.000 I'm not talking about traditional Democrats.

02:12:56.000 I do like to draw the distinction.

02:12:58.000 Right?

02:12:58.000 Because their party in Washington does not represent them.

02:13:00.000 OK?

02:13:02.000 But I'm just going to keep saying this over and over again.

02:13:05.000 The Democrats want all mail-in voting because they believe it will help them win.

02:13:11.000 That's why.

02:13:12.000 That's true.

02:13:12.000 That's it.

02:13:14.000 Yeah.

02:13:14.000 So we got another question here.

02:13:15.000 David Meyerson says, how would we as former military get into politics?

02:13:20.000 Oh boy, yeah, that's a great question.

02:13:22.000 Well, so it depends on what level of politics you want to get into.

02:13:26.000 I would recommend running for a local office first, maybe a state office first.

02:13:31.000 I jumped into Congress because the president called me out to sort of do it.

02:13:38.000 But you don't need a uniform, you don't need a rank, you don't need the title of congressman to get involved in your community.

02:13:45.000 Hey, run for your local school board.

02:13:48.000 One of the things that I think that Republicans are learning, right?

02:13:51.000 I mean, people think, ah, it's just a school board election.

02:13:53.000 Well, do you think it might matter now where you look at what's happening in this pandemic and the greatest public policy debate?

02:14:00.000 I think one of the greatest public policy debates of our time is whether or not our children should go back to school.

02:14:06.000 School boards make that decision.

02:14:08.000 School board elections matter.

02:14:10.000 Get involved in your local community at a level that you think is appropriate for you and make your voice heard.

02:14:16.000 Like you said, Tim, make your voice heard and just get involved.

02:14:20.000 And when you do, don't be afraid to fundraise.

02:14:24.000 I'm telling you, cold calling is not easy.

02:14:27.000 It's challenging.

02:14:28.000 It's scary.

02:14:29.000 It's nerve wracking.

02:14:30.000 You get hung up on.

02:14:31.000 You get a lot of no's.

02:14:33.000 But your goal, every day, should be to get 30 no's.

02:14:37.000 And if you're going to get into politics, don't just do it because, oh, you want to have a soapbox platform to talk about what your belief system is.

02:14:45.000 That's only part of it.

02:14:46.000 You've got to be a rock and roll fundraiser.

02:14:48.000 You've got to be able to do it.

02:14:49.000 So if you get into politics, regardless of the level, local, state, federal, go into it with a commitment to fund it.

02:14:56.000 And that's what the party says, just raise money, raise money.

02:14:58.000 But there's a way to do it.

02:14:59.000 Go into it with a plan, be creative and innovative, and win.

02:15:03.000 Right on.

02:15:05.000 We got one from Mitch.

02:15:05.000 He says, Sean, Tim, Lydia, I was a Democratic voter until I started working in law enforcement and the military and started doing research.

02:15:12.000 Americans live in a safety bubble paid for with the blood of patriots like Sean.

02:15:15.000 Never stop fighting for our country and the truth.

02:15:18.000 Amen.

02:15:18.000 Wow, that's really nice.

02:15:19.000 Thank you, ma'am.

02:15:20.000 I appreciate that.

02:15:21.000 There are a lot of really, really nice comments.

02:15:23.000 I'm not going to be able to read all of them, but I'll read a couple more because we have gone over.

02:15:27.000 Palmer Eldridge says, I think the Republican Party's tent is getting too big.

02:15:31.000 The elitist Communist Party of America needs to go away and have new Libertarian Party take its place.

02:15:37.000 Well, yeah, of course, we don't want people that want to destroy America in our tent.

02:15:44.000 I mean, look, what I said last night in my speech, if you love America, if you believe our nation is exceptional, and by the way, the belief that America is exceptional It also means that you believe that America is not perfect.

02:15:59.000 Because what makes America exceptional is that our country always seeks to right the ship.

02:16:05.000 Of course we're not perfect.

02:16:07.000 Show me a country that is.

02:16:08.000 But we recognize our wrongs and we right the ship.

02:16:13.000 That's what makes us exceptional.

02:16:17.000 Burning down cities is retrogressive.

02:16:19.000 It's not progressive.

02:16:20.000 It's the opposite of progress.

02:16:21.000 It's the opposite of classical liberalism.

02:16:24.000 I've been to a lot of countries.

02:16:25.000 I've been to almost all the Scandinavian countries.

02:16:32.000 I think America is the best country on the planet.

02:16:34.000 So do I. I think we got a lot of problems.

02:16:37.000 I think we made a lot of mistakes.

02:16:38.000 But I look at what my family fought for, what they achieved, what they did for me.

02:16:44.000 And then I got to go explore the world, and then come back and be like, wow, did they do a great job over the past, you know, couple hundred years in improving things, you know, just for everybody.

02:16:55.000 We've continually made sure to expand civil rights.

02:16:58.000 People don't understand that, you know, even a hundred years ago, with our Constitution, we didn't have the same free speech we have today.

02:17:05.000 We fought.

02:17:05.000 We bled for it.

02:17:07.000 Yeah.

02:17:08.000 And we improved so much.

02:17:11.000 That it's only since 1967 that you can have interracial couples.

02:17:15.000 Since 1964, we have civil rights in this country.

02:17:18.000 It's not that long ago.

02:17:19.000 And we fought.

02:17:20.000 My family fought for this.

02:17:22.000 Americans fought for this.

02:17:23.000 And the good guys won.

02:17:25.000 I mean, we're the country that beat the Nazis, man.

02:17:27.000 Absolutely.

02:17:28.000 The twin evils of fascism and communism.

02:17:30.000 Americans of all political affiliations and walks of life stared down those twin evils and we won.

02:17:37.000 Correct.

02:17:39.000 Let's see.

02:17:41.000 Dave Meyerson says, I can do that.

02:17:43.000 My American bloodline traces back to mid-1700s New York.

02:17:46.000 Every generation of my family has fought for American freedom, and everything you're talking about has been argued about before.

02:17:51.000 We fought for it several times, but the Confederates, who then turned Democrats, have always built armies to combat it.

02:17:57.000 Semper Fi.

02:17:57.000 Gosh, jeez.

02:17:59.000 You got some really engaged and smart Viewers.

02:18:06.000 Listeners.

02:18:07.000 Well, these are the ones.

02:18:08.000 That was a big super chat.

02:18:09.000 These are people who are like watching.

02:18:10.000 I'm like watching these comments come through.

02:18:12.000 They're coming through in real time.

02:18:14.000 Yeah.

02:18:14.000 Right now.

02:18:14.000 They're just.

02:18:15.000 Yeah.

02:18:15.000 So here's one for me.

02:18:17.000 Hey, Sean, from your district, from Joe.

02:18:19.000 Hopefully you get out.

02:18:20.000 Hopefully you get out, Lam.

02:18:21.000 What's your opinion on Section 230 reform?

02:18:25.000 Oh, man.

02:18:25.000 Well, that's a really complicated question, but here's what I think.

02:18:29.000 I'm trying to put it as simple terms as possible.

02:18:32.000 If these tech companies are censoring conservatives and not liberals and allowing liberals to promote their political videos, right?

02:18:41.000 Or even post them while simultaneously not allowing conservatives to do it.

02:18:45.000 I mean, it just ain't right.

02:18:48.000 They're violating their Section 230 protection when they do that, right?

02:18:52.000 So, I think they've already been in violation of it.

02:18:54.000 I'm wondering why lawsuits haven't already happened.

02:18:57.000 I'll tell you exactly what my position is on it.

02:19:01.000 There are a lot of people who have said horrible, horrible things.

02:19:04.000 There's very few people I actually hate.

02:19:07.000 Because I try to be pragmatic, calm, and recognize some people are going to be awful people.

02:19:13.000 But there are people who say some things that make me really mad.

02:19:17.000 But if they're Americans, I think they should be allowed on these platforms.

02:19:19.000 Because what I don't like, Twitter is accessible by people in every country on the planet.

02:19:24.000 Yes.

02:19:24.000 So right now, on websites like Reddit, that have this protection that will ban a conservative, they'll ban a conservative for jokingly saying, learn to code, making fun of... But the Ayatollah Khomeini is talking about wiping Israel off the face of the planet.

02:19:36.000 Exactly.

02:19:36.000 And that's totally cool, I know, it's wrong.

02:19:39.000 But more than this, a guy in Australia can make a post on Twitter saying,

02:19:44.000 Orange Man Bad, and then some random people in the U.S. will see that and

02:19:48.000 go, Wow, they think the Orange Man is bad.

02:19:51.000 But Twitter has banned the conservatives.

02:19:53.000 So why is it okay that we have foreign citizens access to this platform that will influence our elections?

02:19:58.000 I saw you make that point the other day on Twitter, and I thought it was a really good one.

02:20:02.000 I'm not saying that, you know, foreign individuals should be able to use the platforms.

02:20:05.000 They should.

02:20:05.000 But I think Americans need to be on this platform where we're having these conversations.

02:20:09.000 So that their voice can be heard, too.

02:20:11.000 Otherwise, the only voices you hear are people who don't have our best interests at heart.

02:20:15.000 That know our politics.

02:20:17.000 I don't think they know what we are fighting for.

02:20:19.000 I think some of them may have visited here, but I don't know their history.

02:20:22.000 I wouldn't begin to start arguing about who they should vote for.

02:20:27.000 But you are very likely going to see, you know, left-wing Europeans, and even people in certain Asian countries, in Australia and New Zealand, influencing our politics because they have unrestricted access based on their political ideology.

02:20:41.000 But you can get a regular... You can get a guy, and he's 34, and he works at a refinery or something, or some manufacturing job.

02:20:49.000 He's on Twitter, horsing around, he sees Trump, and then he tweets at a journalist, learned to code, banned.

02:20:55.000 Regular guy.

02:20:55.000 I know, it's just unbelievable.

02:20:57.000 So I'm with you.

02:21:00.000 I agree with you completely.

02:21:01.000 Yeah, I think one of the issues I'll say is I've had a lot of time to think about Section 230 reform, but I can imagine for you it's much more difficult to just be able to just... I mean, I get confused when I can't upload a video on Twitter.

02:21:13.000 You've got like 8,000 screens and stuff.

02:21:15.000 The camera's everywhere.

02:21:17.000 I think it's just an issue of fairness.

02:21:19.000 I think the open and the free exchange of ideas is something that makes us better.

02:21:24.000 And then look, I mean, part of the reason you've got these kids rampaging all across this country and tearing down our statues is because somewhere along the way they were taught to dislike this country.

02:21:36.000 They were only taught the negative aspects of our history.

02:21:40.000 And when there's not an opposing view, when there's not someone there that's saying, hey, wait a second, look, America has our flaws.

02:21:48.000 But we're a fundamentally good country, and here's why.

02:21:52.000 You don't challenge anybody to grow.

02:21:53.000 And when you do that on social media, when you censor only one side on social media, kind of the same thing happens.

02:21:59.000 And that's why I think people say that Twitter can be a dumpster fire precisely because they're censoring people.

02:22:05.000 And look, it doesn't work!

02:22:07.000 It doesn't work.

02:22:08.000 It doesn't.

02:22:09.000 I mean, Laura Loomer is a perfect example of that.

02:22:11.000 She's the example.

02:22:13.000 It doesn't work.

02:22:14.000 She won her primary.

02:22:15.000 She's got 630,000 followers on Parler.

02:22:17.000 She found a new platform.

02:22:19.000 You know, the only thing they did was, when they banned her, was they made sure they didn't know what she was working on.

02:22:26.000 Oh, yeah, right.

02:22:28.000 So what you're saying is that it allows people to fly under the radar.

02:22:34.000 Yeah, not that she was happy about it, but isn't that one of the biggest intelligence blunders of any organization?

02:22:40.000 Isn't this funny?

02:22:42.000 I always tell these activists this.

02:22:43.000 They think the police are jamming their phones, and I'm like, they don't want to jam your phone.

02:22:46.000 They want to follow you on Twitter so they know what you're doing.

02:22:49.000 I know.

02:22:50.000 They want you to talk.

02:22:51.000 Yeah, so censorship doesn't work, and I also think it's not good for our country.

02:22:57.000 Right on, man.

02:22:58.000 So we have gone over, so I think we'll wrap it up.

02:23:02.000 We went 22 minutes over.

02:23:03.000 It happens.

02:23:03.000 We had a good conversation.

02:23:04.000 Do you want to shout out anything else before we start to wrap up?

02:23:07.000 Well, geez, man, I mean, you're Yeah, well, please listen, like go to seanforcongress.co if you're if you're if you if you want true representation of the people here in Western Pennsylvania or across the state of Pennsylvania, you want a warrior for our state and invest in the movement.

02:23:23.000 It's not about investing in me invest in the movement in a movement of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for everybody, you know, I will always safeguard that, whether you're a Republican, Democrat, or otherwise.

02:23:34.000 Maybe not communists.

02:23:35.000 But everybody else, I will safeguard.

02:23:38.000 You want to be a commie in America?

02:23:40.000 That's fine.

02:23:40.000 That's cool.

02:23:41.000 Just don't try to tear down our system.

02:23:42.000 I got to say, I met a commie.

02:23:45.000 He was wearing a sickle and hammer.

02:23:47.000 I talked to him and I said, how do you feel about anti-fun?

02:23:49.000 He goes, like those guys that are like smashing stuff?

02:23:51.000 He's like, that's awful, dude.

02:23:53.000 And I was like, really?

02:23:53.000 I was like, but you're a communist.

02:23:55.000 Of course I'm just joking.

02:23:56.000 Don't weaponize this against me.

02:23:58.000 I know people are going to...

02:23:59.000 I know, they're gonna chop it up and take it out of context.

02:24:01.000 He hates communists!

02:24:02.000 He says commies are fine in America!

02:24:04.000 I know, let's get whatever, but I'm just saying, contribute to the campaign.

02:24:08.000 I'd love to have you be a small part of our movement.

02:24:11.000 If we have the resources to get the message out, we'll be able to give this district back to the people, and that's my entire mission.

02:24:17.000 Let's give the power back to the people in the district and represent them well.

02:24:20.000 Rad.

02:24:21.000 What's your Twitter or any other social media?

02:24:23.000 Oh yeah, so I'm on Instagram at OfficialSeanParnell.

02:24:25.000 I'm new there.

02:24:26.000 I'm on Twitter at SeanParnellUSA and I'm on Facebook, I think, at OfficialSeanParnell2, I think.

02:24:33.000 I got an official page.

02:24:33.000 They got little blue check marks next to them.

02:24:35.000 I think that means something.

02:24:36.000 Nice.

02:24:36.000 It means you're famous.

02:24:37.000 I don't know.

02:24:38.000 Confirmed.

02:24:38.000 I don't know about that.

02:24:40.000 You run for office, all of a sudden you get the blue checkmark.

02:24:42.000 But hey man, thanks for coming on.

02:24:44.000 Thank you for having me, man.

02:24:45.000 So for everybody else, make sure to tune in.

02:24:47.000 We're live Monday through Friday at 8pm.

02:24:48.000 We'll be back.

02:24:49.000 We'll have clips throughout the day tomorrow.

02:24:51.000 You can follow me on Twitter, Instagram, and Parler at TimCast.

02:24:55.000 And of course, my other channels at youtube.com slash TimCast and TimCastNews.

02:24:59.000 And of course, you can follow at SourPatchLids, who's I've just been absorbing.

02:25:03.000 Just absorbing.

02:25:05.000 I'm here.

02:25:08.000 I am here.

02:25:09.000 We'll be back tomorrow.

02:25:10.000 Tomorrow we have Ryan Long, right?

02:25:12.000 Ryan Long.

02:25:13.000 Do you know who Ryan Long is?

02:25:14.000 No.

02:25:14.000 He's a comedian.

02:25:15.000 He's making these really, really funny videos.

02:25:18.000 And he hasn't been cancelled yet?

02:25:19.000 I think he might.

02:25:21.000 He did the one where it was the woke and the racist guy.

02:25:25.000 Oh my gosh!

02:25:26.000 That is one of the funniest videos ever.

02:25:28.000 You're having him on tomorrow?

02:25:29.000 That's cool.

02:25:30.000 Oh my god, that video is brilliant.

02:25:31.000 Did you see the one he did recently with the left and the right guy?

02:25:33.000 No.

02:25:34.000 The left wing guy's yelling, like taking pictures.

02:25:36.000 They're picking basketball teams.

02:25:38.000 And the left wing guy's like, taking pictures, getting them fired.

02:25:43.000 And the right wing guy, he's like, Just come over here and play with me and the guy walks over and he goes, you see that Trump video?

02:25:48.000 It's pretty reasonable, right?

02:25:49.000 And the guy is like, whatever.

02:25:51.000 But it was like the perfect example of how the right is kind of just like chill.

02:25:55.000 Yeah.

02:25:55.000 Like, you know, I put in that video, that viral video, I put a Bernie Sanders in there.

02:26:00.000 It was, it was, it was, uh, it was, uh, they got mad at you.

02:26:03.000 Yeah.

02:26:03.000 Oh my gosh.

02:26:04.000 I put the guy, what the hell is the guy named?

02:26:06.000 Larry David from Curb Your Enthusiasm.

02:26:09.000 And they're like, This is a representative for Congress?

02:26:12.000 You can't run for Congress if you don't even know who Bernie Sa- I'm like...

02:26:17.000 You know what, man?

02:26:19.000 I'm really excited for what's going to happen in maybe, like, four more years.

02:26:22.000 Because I think the big problem we have is the old elitist kind of, like, political faction.

02:26:29.000 Like the Washington Beltway crony elitists who have this, like, rigid way of doing things.

02:26:35.000 But your ads were fun.

02:26:37.000 Well, I mean, one of your ads, one was very serious, and I think it was important, but you had this really fun ad, and we're seeing, you know, people trying to be more personable, more authentic, and I think it's great.

02:26:45.000 I can only be me.

02:26:47.000 Right on, man.

02:26:47.000 Alright, we're gonna wrap it up.

02:26:49.000 We'll see you all tomorrow at 8pm live.

02:26:51.000 Thanks for hanging out and we'll see you then.

Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - August 25, 2020

Timcast IRL - Armed Civilians Deploy To Protect Property From BLM, R-Candidate Sean Parnell Joins

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