Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - Timcast IRL - Biden Flailing As Over 100k Migrants Spark Border CRISIS w-Col Allen West

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00:00:50.000 right now joe biden is getting slammed by cnn He's getting slammed by the left and the right over his handling of an escalating border crisis.

00:01:05.000 They're saying that encounters have now surpassed over 100,000.

00:01:08.000 He's reopened some of these facilities for detaining children that even Donald Trump closed.

00:01:14.000 So he's getting flack from the progressives.

00:01:16.000 He's getting flack from the conservatives.

00:01:18.000 He's not doing enough.

00:01:19.000 He's getting flack from many of these people on these border states.

00:01:22.000 So we're going to get into this.

00:01:23.000 We're going to talk about a bit of what's going on with the culture and a bit of the cultural crisis we have here in the U.S., where the hyperpolarization is resulting in talk of things like secession.

00:01:33.000 And it seems like Joe Biden, when it comes to the COVID response, when it comes to his leadership, he's not actually speaking to red states.

00:01:40.000 He's only really speaking about blue states, leaving many conservative Republicans kind of upset with the job he's doing.

00:01:45.000 But this was I'd imagine predictable.

00:01:47.000 Hyperpolarization has been expanding in this country for quite some time.

00:01:51.000 It's been getting worse.

00:01:52.000 It was particularly bad under Donald Trump.

00:01:54.000 And I think we can be very critical of the media for a lot of this.

00:01:57.000 And now it's probably only going to get worse because it seems Joe Biden simply got elected just because a lot of people didn't like Trump.

00:02:05.000 We now have a poll coming out that suggests less than half of voters think Joe Biden is capable of even handling the job of president.

00:02:11.000 So we'll have a good discussion about it.

00:02:13.000 And we have a really great guest tonight.

00:02:14.000 We're being joined by Ellen West.

00:02:16.000 I'll just let you describe yourself and introduce yourself however you'd like.

00:02:19.000 Well, it's good to be here with each and every one of you.

00:02:21.000 Ian, Tim, and Lydia.

00:02:23.000 You know, former retired Army Lieutenant Colonel, former member of the United States House of Representatives.

00:02:29.000 As a matter of fact, it was ten years ago that I was serving up here in the House of Representatives, and now also the Chairman of the Republican Party of Texas.

00:02:36.000 So it's a pleasure to be here with each and every one of you.

00:02:39.000 And I kind of get this feeling like this is Logan's Run, and I'm Peter Ustinov, and I'm being brought back into the city with all the young people.

00:02:47.000 I mean, this is kind of cool.

00:02:49.000 Well, I'm 35.

00:02:50.000 Well, I got you by 25 years.

00:02:52.000 But I'm still dead in Logan's Run universe.

00:02:54.000 Yeah, you're dead, but you're a runner.

00:02:56.000 Right. 0.84

00:02:57.000 So you came out and you found me in Sanctuary, and you brought me back to the city.

00:03:00.000 What's the premise?

00:03:01.000 I never saw it.

00:03:02.000 Oh my God. 1.00

00:03:03.000 When they turn 30, they get killed. 0.85

00:03:08.000 But they tell them you're being renewed, but you're not being renewed, you're being killed.

00:03:13.000 So they bring people back?

00:03:14.000 No, there was one person that was the oldest person and there was this place called Sanctuary and that's where the runners went to so that they can live a full life.

00:03:23.000 And they found this person out in Sanctuary and they brought him back to show to the people that you can't grow old.

00:03:29.000 So it's kind of interesting being here, you know, with my salt and pepper flat top with you all.

00:03:34.000 I think you're still pretty significant in the political landscape.

00:03:38.000 You're chairman of the Texas Republican Party.

00:03:40.000 Recently you had a quote and all of a sudden the media was in uproar saying you were calling for a secession of Texas from the United States.

00:03:48.000 But you made a really good point.

00:03:50.000 You kind of had this wink moment at the press where you kind of baited him into it.

00:03:53.000 Well, absolutely.

00:03:53.000 That's one of the things that the military teaches you, is that you always think about, before you do anything, before you take an action, you, you know, think of how would your opposition, you know, look at this?

00:04:03.000 How would they respond to and react to it?

00:04:05.000 And so, basically what I said is that, you know, here in the United States of America, there should be a union of constitutional, law-abiding states that form together.

00:04:15.000 And now, of course, the left went crazy about that, but if you look at the preamble of the Constitution, what does it say?

00:04:20.000 We the people of the United States of America, in order to form a more perfect union, first thing, establish justice.

00:04:26.000 So if you're going to, you know, get into an argument with me about constitutional, law-abiding states coming together, abiding by the rule of law, then you're going to lose that argument.

00:04:38.000 They're basically saying they're the ones who aren't abiding by the rules.

00:04:40.000 Yeah, absolutely.

00:04:42.000 And so yesterday, I don't know if you can pull it up, but every Monday I put out what is called a Chairman's Monday Message, and it goes out.

00:04:50.000 And so yesterday the title was Constitutionists vs. Secessionists.

00:04:55.000 Because really the people that are seceding in the United States of America are the people that are breaking away from the Constitution.

00:05:01.000 You look at the legislation that they're passing, H.R.

00:05:04.000 1, which is trying to nationalize federal elections.

00:05:07.000 Show me where in the Constitution that the federal government has the enumerated power to run elections.

00:05:12.000 That's the state's right.

00:05:13.000 That's the state's responsibility.

00:05:14.000 We're going to get into all this.

00:05:16.000 We'll just keep this as a shorter introduction.

00:05:18.000 But I do think it's interesting considering you're in Texas, you're a border state, you've got serious issues with the migrant crisis that Joe Biden— Illegal immigrant crisis.

00:05:26.000 Absolutely.

00:05:26.000 Illegal immigrant crisis.

00:05:28.000 Biden's being heavily criticized for his inability to handle it.

00:05:31.000 And, I mean, you're also, you know, everything we just talked about with the Constitution and these states and the hyperpolarization, so it's going to be interesting.

00:05:38.000 We got Ian hanging out.

00:05:38.000 What's up, everybody?

00:05:39.000 Ian Crosland in the house.

00:05:41.000 See, Ian was trying to interview, you know, from Westview.

00:05:44.000 And I'm like, Ian, you've got a military background, your time in Congress, what does the chairman of the Republican Party do?

00:05:50.000 We'll get into it.

00:05:53.000 We got Lydia pressing all the buttons. 1.00

00:05:53.000 Yeah, trying to sneak more interviews in with our guests before they get on air. 1.00

00:05:56.000 That's Miss Producer. 1.00

00:05:57.000 That's correct.

00:05:58.000 I mean, you know, Mark Levin has Mr. Producer.

00:06:00.000 You got Miss Producer.

00:06:01.000 Yeah, that's right.

00:06:02.000 Thank you.

00:06:02.000 I value that.

00:06:03.000 I like that title.

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00:07:05.000 Let's read this first story.

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00:07:09.000 CNN, of all outlets right now, surprising.

00:07:12.000 They report Southwest border crisis leaves Biden vulnerable on all sides.

00:07:18.000 They say the White House may be loath to call the situation on the Southwestern border, which hundreds of migrant children are crossing alone, a crisis, but it's fast becoming a political emergency for the president.

00:07:29.000 We have Fox News reporting that encounters have topped 100,000 in just February, as the migrant crisis is spiraling.

00:07:37.000 So here it comes.

00:07:39.000 So, Alan, you're in Texas.

00:07:42.000 You're the chairman of the Republican Party.

00:07:43.000 I mean, this is an issue that's very seriously affecting you.

00:07:45.000 It's incredibly affecting us.

00:07:47.000 And one of the things you have to understand is that Texas is the number one state in the United States of America for human and sex trafficking.

00:07:53.000 Dallas and Houston are the top two cities.

00:07:55.000 So that's an important part when you start to have all of these unaccompanied minors that are being brought in.

00:08:01.000 What happens to them when they're just released into the society?

00:08:04.000 As a matter of fact, they're looking at bringing 3,000 of these illegal immigrants into Dallas to put them at the Katie Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center.

00:08:13.000 Then where do they go from there?

00:08:14.000 These are minors.

00:08:15.000 These are minors.

00:08:16.000 And so when you understand that atmosphere, when you understand the illegality of drugs to the cross and the drug cartels and how they're getting richer, it comes back to a very simple premise.

00:08:28.000 Why do you break something that is working?

00:08:31.000 If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

00:08:32.000 And so you had an immigration situation that the Biden administration took over.

00:08:38.000 It was fine.

00:08:39.000 No one's talking about it.

00:08:40.000 Everything is okay.

00:08:41.000 But because you are so owing to the progressive socialist left, and they have this open borders agenda, Then you make the faux pas of going in and creating a catastrophic situation by executive order, and now you don't have a means by which you're going to take care of it.

00:08:58.000 And the important thing that the Biden administration needs to understand right now, there's no orange man bad.

00:09:05.000 Yeah.

00:09:05.000 There's no Donald Trump boogeyman out there for people to look at and have that distraction.

00:09:11.000 Now all that they're doing is saying, we got an issue, we got a crisis.

00:09:15.000 And no, Jen Psaki, you can't circle back to it.

00:09:18.000 You can't say that this is just a challenge.

00:09:20.000 This is affecting people, black, white, Hispanic, Republican, Democrat, independent, libertarian, whatever you want to call it, because you are destabilizing one of the largest states in the United States of America.

00:09:31.000 Well, something interesting you just mentioned, it was working, right?

00:09:35.000 Yeah.

00:09:35.000 The system was working.

00:09:36.000 Well, Pelosi says the Biden administration inherited, quote, a broken system at the border.

00:09:40.000 This is from The Hill on March 14th.

00:09:43.000 So they're already deflecting.

00:09:44.000 And I think, you know, I've covered the migrant crisis throughout the past several years extensively.

00:09:49.000 The number of encounters and migrant children had dropped dramatically.

00:09:55.000 Incredibly so.

00:09:56.000 Under Donald Trump.

00:09:56.000 Yeah, I mean, what we're talking about in the entire last year is what we've already seen in the last six weeks.

00:10:03.000 And so this is a crisis situation.

00:10:06.000 And, you know, again, they can try this deflection, but the hypocrisy becomes absolutely laughable if it weren't so serious. 0.83

00:10:13.000 It's kind of like, you know, the Cuomo-Kavanaugh, you know, hypocrisy. 0.57

00:10:17.000 But they can't fall back and say, well, this is Trump's fault.

00:10:20.000 I'm sorry.

00:10:21.000 Orange man is gone.

00:10:22.000 Literally, Pelosi's trying to do that.

00:10:24.000 They're trying to resurrect the boogeyman, but it's just not gonna work.

00:10:28.000 You know, banning him from Twitter sure did backfire on the left because Trump would be tweeting right now.

00:10:32.000 He's silent.

00:10:33.000 Yep, nothing to say.

00:10:34.000 And you know what?

00:10:36.000 I would say, President Trump, if you're watching me, remember me?

00:10:38.000 I used to be your congressman because Mar-a-Lago was in my district.

00:10:42.000 Stay silent.

00:10:44.000 Allow them as Napoleon would say never interfere with your enemy when they are destroying themselves

00:10:49.000 What um, what was this executive order that Biden signed that's screwing with the border right now

00:10:56.000 Well, he basically has said one of the things was that there will be no deportations

00:11:02.000 And our Attorney General sued him on that.

00:11:04.000 But he is also, you know... You guys won, right?

00:11:07.000 Yeah, we won that.

00:11:08.000 We have a stay on that so we can continue to deport. 0.96

00:11:11.000 But one of the things that he did was he said that this whole thing about you must stay on the southern side of the border in order to be processed for your asylum, that's over now.

00:11:20.000 And so now they understand that they can do the asylum processing in the United States of America and that's why they're flooding in.

00:11:26.000 And we have gone back to the catch-and-release system where, you know, everything about this COVID, but yet you had 108 illegal immigrants that tested positive for COVID in Brownsville, Texas, and they were taken to a bus station and they were released.

00:11:42.000 So is the Biden administration serious about COVID?

00:11:46.000 I would think that you would not allow 108 illegal immigrants to just flow right into the state. 0.99

00:11:51.000 There's a lot of hypocrisy. 0.96

00:11:52.000 Tons.

00:11:53.000 And it's kind of crazy how often we can all bring it up and it doesn't seem to change.

00:11:58.000 But what I do notice is that one of the areas of hypocrisy is the woke, critical race theory type people, the progressives.

00:12:05.000 They use the phrase Latinx, something that most Latinos don't recognize or even use.

00:12:10.000 And what's fascinating is the shift in the southern counties in Texas, mainly Latino, went for Trump.

00:12:17.000 Yes.

00:12:19.000 That was a huge story of the November 2020 election in Texas.

00:12:24.000 And my theory was that, kind of like the mentality of paratroopers, paratroopers jump in behind enemy lines.

00:12:31.000 And so why didn't we just go and take our message into the areas where they thought they were strong, into the Rio Grande Valley, and talk about our principles and values, talk about the open borders, talk about the legal immigration, Talk about strong families, strong small business entrepreneurship, better education opportunities, not defunding the police.

00:12:48.000 Talk about the threats from the drug cartels.

00:12:50.000 And guess what?

00:12:51.000 They're like, yeah.

00:12:53.000 And when you look at the policies of President Trump, where you had record unemployment in the Hispanic community, when you look at the oil and gas industry that was thriving, which meant good paying jobs, black, white, Hispanic, it doesn't matter. 0.61

00:13:05.000 Then they said, yeah, we like this direction.

00:13:08.000 Now, all of a sudden, this Joe Biden comes in and their communities are being threatened.

00:13:15.000 The drug cartels are being empowered.

00:13:17.000 The illegal immigrants are coming back in, which means a taxing on them and their tax base to provide additional services. 1.00

00:13:24.000 It means a lack of safety and security.

00:13:26.000 So they are alienating further this area that they once thought they completely control.

00:13:33.000 This is a big, big story of the November election.

00:13:37.000 As you mentioned, Trump winning over more votes from minority communities across the board.

00:13:42.000 Most in 60 years.

00:13:43.000 Yeah.

00:13:44.000 That's something to stress.

00:13:45.000 I mean, when they talk about Donald Trump as a racist, then explain to me how he had the most minority electoral support of any Republican in 60 years running for president.

00:13:55.000 And who did he lose?

00:13:57.000 He lost white voters.

00:13:58.000 Yeah.

00:13:59.000 And so I wonder, who is really buying into this message about immigration?

00:14:05.000 You know, Trump is racist for wanting to deport illegal immigrants and things like that.

00:14:10.000 Certainly isn't the minority communities that are literally on the borders who are experiencing what happens with unfettered immigrants. 1.00

00:14:15.000 Or the black communities are going to see their wages being depressed, their job opportunities going to be gone as well.

00:14:21.000 And they saw that they were thriving in the Trump administration.

00:14:24.000 But look at it and think about it this way. 1.00

00:14:26.000 The suburban white woman that was told again, orange man bad, he's a nasty person, doesn't like women, his tweets are horrible. 0.97

00:14:34.000 Now all of a sudden the suburban soccer mom Has to ask herself, why is this six foot two gender dysphoric biological male going to be on the soccer field with my daughter? 0.98

00:14:46.000 That's not what they voted for.

00:14:47.000 Well, they should have paid attention to what they were voting for.

00:14:50.000 But again, now that's why it comes back to that poll that you just talked about, how a lot of people don't see Joe Biden as being capable of being the president and all of these things that he is implementing by way of the leftist agenda.

00:15:04.000 And it's going to be the same thing for young people.

00:15:07.000 I mean, I think that with President Trump, you had a cultural president connected with young people.

00:15:12.000 He's a little rough and whatever.

00:15:14.000 That's something that you get with a New Yorker.

00:15:17.000 But now you have someone that, you know, if you think that free equals freedom, you're horribly wrong.

00:15:24.000 Yeah.

00:15:24.000 One of the main issues that seems to have been lost on the left is the economics of mass migration and illegal immigration that even Bernie Sanders was criticizing back in 2015.

00:15:35.000 Here's this guy, he's the champion of the left and the progressives, and in 2015 he said, open borders is a Koch brothers proposal.

00:15:41.000 He was basically saying these big billionaire industrialists want cheap labor with no rights, that they can get in there for below minimum wage and they need these policies in order to do it.

00:15:53.000 And there were big scandals.

00:15:53.000 I remember I watched a documentary where some of these companies would bring in illegal immigrant labor promised them a bunch of money, and at the end of the month just call immigration and have them all deported, and they were exploiting these loopholes.

00:16:04.000 They wanted that porous border for this purpose, but that means these factories were actually taking away good-paying jobs for low-skilled labor in these areas for working-class Americans.

00:16:15.000 You're absolutely right, and that's why you see the U.S.

00:16:17.000 Chamber of Commerce, that it's all about, you know, the open borders and the illegal immigration.

00:16:21.000 That's why you see a lot of these big businesses and corporations don't want E-Verify.

00:16:26.000 What does he verify?

00:16:26.000 He verifies the system by which people are registered and you can track individuals.

00:16:30.000 They don't want that.

00:16:33.000 You have some partisanship on either side with this issue.

00:16:39.000 One people want to bring in a new victim class. 1.00

00:16:41.000 They want a new voter base.

00:16:43.000 The other side wants to have a cheap labor base.

00:16:46.000 But in the end, who is getting squeezed and who's going to be the most affected?

00:16:50.000 Your middle to lower income levels, blacks and Hispanics, are going to be the ones to suffer with the scourge of illegal immigration. 0.99

00:16:57.000 And I liked what you said about free does not mean freedom because we built a system of law and rule that has enabled us to be free, to experience freedom in our system.

00:17:06.000 Like you have to abide by a strict rule of law so that you don't get jumped when you're walking down the street and you can feel free outside.

00:17:13.000 Just dispensing with the rules and this Antarctic free society does not lead to freedom as we understand it.

00:17:19.000 No, it doesn't.

00:17:20.000 And when you think about what was going on, I mean, you grew up in Chicago, and I remember seeing the riots that were happening in Chicago with these Black Lives Matter social justice warriors, and they were going in and busting up all of those stores on the Million Mile.

00:17:33.000 Magnificent Mile.

00:17:34.000 Magnificent Mile.

00:17:35.000 And what were they saying?

00:17:36.000 This is how we're going to get our reparations.

00:17:37.000 A woman is actually quoted as saying that she didn't care when asked about the ride.

00:17:42.000 She said, this is reparations as far as she's concerned.

00:17:45.000 There's a video of a guy firing a gun into the window of one of these shops trying to steal luxury merchandise.

00:17:52.000 Look, I'm not a big fan of like luxury brands.

00:17:56.000 I think it's, you know, it can be a bit pompous, but I think it's fine.

00:18:00.000 People have that stuff.

00:18:01.000 I don't think someone should go and shoot guns and steal it because they think they're owed something.

00:18:05.000 No.

00:18:05.000 But it was defended in the media.

00:18:07.000 And that's the sad thing, and that's the breakdown of the rule of law and order.

00:18:12.000 Remember that, you know, when John Locke wrote his Second Treatise of Government, and he talked about this thing, you know, that was completely different.

00:18:22.000 It was natural rights theory that was different from divine rights theory.

00:18:26.000 And John Locke came out and said that there are three inalienable rights that we have from our Creator.

00:18:30.000 It's life, liberty, and property.

00:18:33.000 And what do you see happening with the left?

00:18:35.000 All you got to do is go to the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx.

00:18:38.000 It is about taking away that individual right to property.

00:18:42.000 And that is what you see happening in America now.

00:18:44.000 It's a wealth redistribution scheme that says, I don't care how much you work hard, Tim.

00:18:49.000 I don't care how successful your podcast is.

00:18:52.000 I don't care how well you're doing here, Ian.

00:18:54.000 It is our right as the government to come in and take it away from you and redistribute it to someone else.

00:18:59.000 That ain't freedom.

00:19:00.000 I had a good conversation with a socialist.

00:19:03.000 I think it was the Socialist Party of Great Britain or something.

00:19:05.000 And they basically said, when I brought up that point about property, they said, no, no, no, you don't understand.

00:19:11.000 In socialism, you're allowed personal property.

00:19:13.000 It's very different from private property.

00:19:15.000 Like a watch?

00:19:16.000 Right.

00:19:16.000 So when they said they're banning private property, I'm like, so what, I can't have clothes?

00:19:20.000 And they're like, no, no, no, no, that's personal property.

00:19:22.000 Private property is like a building.

00:19:24.000 And I'm like, okay, so let's try and find that line of where you split personal property from private property.

00:19:31.000 They were trying to explain that private property in their system means the means of production.

00:19:36.000 The factory for producing things.

00:19:38.000 Ah, nationalizing production.

00:19:39.000 Well, so here's the question I had.

00:19:40.000 Okay, well, I do my work by filming myself with a camera.

00:19:44.000 The camera is my means of production, my factory, essentially.

00:19:47.000 Should that camera be owned by someone else, or should it be my personal property?

00:19:50.000 Didn't really have a good answer for it, because it's a weasel-word excuse for some justification for seizing people's private property.

00:19:59.000 Absolutely.

00:20:00.000 Personal property is meaningless, your shoes.

00:20:01.000 Okay, but what about my car?

00:20:03.000 What about my bike?

00:20:04.000 What about my food, my refrigerator, my home?

00:20:07.000 Where do you draw the line?

00:20:09.000 And they said, ultimately, well, we don't necessarily know.

00:20:11.000 Of course you don't know.

00:20:12.000 Your system is magic.

00:20:13.000 It doesn't make sense.

00:20:14.000 And it's broke.

00:20:14.000 It has never been successful.

00:20:16.000 And so, let's take that philosophy and let's over-plant it to the last year dealing with this COVID issue.

00:20:26.000 Show me in the Constitution where any elected official has the enumerated power to decide who or what is essential in the United States of America.

00:20:35.000 Show me in the Constitution, coming back to your statement about the rule of law and freedom.

00:20:40.000 Show me in the Constitution where it says that any elected official, politician, can come to you and say shut down your business.

00:20:49.000 Shut down your livelihood.

00:20:52.000 But yet, I will continue to be paid.

00:20:55.000 Isn't the 14th Amendment barring them from doing that?

00:20:59.000 That people must be treated equally under the law?

00:21:00.000 Equal protection under the law.

00:21:01.000 Yeah.

00:21:01.000 Absolutely.

00:21:02.000 But see, when you have the ability to redefine the law or fundamentally transform the law and say that, well, you know, we don't really know what it is, but we're kind of deciding as we go along.

00:21:13.000 And if we continue to have, and let me say this correctly, when we morph from being people to being sheeple, We are allowing ourselves to be fear-mongered and intimidated into surrendering our everyday liberties and rights.

00:21:29.000 Remember what Benjamin Franklin said, those who would surrender essential liberty for temporary security will in the end deserve neither liberty nor security.

00:21:37.000 And lose both.

00:21:38.000 And lose both.

00:21:39.000 They won't deserve either.

00:21:40.000 So that's what we're talking about when we say freedom does not equal freedom.

00:21:43.000 If you want someone to give you something for free, you're surrendering your freedom to that person.

00:21:48.000 Let me ask you, you bring up the Constitution and elected officials have a right to tell you you have to close your business.

00:21:54.000 My response is, I think the 14th Amendment says equal protection under the law.

00:21:58.000 Do you think that's fair to say that these politicians, these states, are by chance violating the Constitution of the United States?

00:22:04.000 Absolutely they are.

00:22:06.000 And as a matter of fact, you have had several state Supreme Courts that have come back and said, hey, what our governors did with these mandates, edicts, orders and decrees were unconstitutional.

00:22:16.000 We are a constitutional republic.

00:22:19.000 That means we are governed by a rule of law.

00:22:21.000 We are not a constitutional monarchy where someone sits up like Ramses Farrow and says, so let it be written, so let it be done.

00:22:28.000 And we're supposed to all fall down like subjects.

00:22:30.000 We're citizens.

00:22:31.000 And I think that's what's so important.

00:22:33.000 If there's one message I can get to the young people.

00:22:37.000 You've got to understand the structure of this government.

00:22:40.000 You've got to understand the roles and responsibilities of the respective branches.

00:22:45.000 You've got to understand your rights, because if you don't, they're going to be just absolutely confiscated.

00:22:52.000 I want to read for you a quote.

00:22:54.000 It's a very important quote from a very smart man who said, Perhaps law-abiding states should bond together and form a union of states that will abide by the Constitution, Texas GOP Chairman Allen West said in a statement Friday night.

00:23:06.000 The Texas GOP will always stand for the Constitution and for the rule of law, even while others don't.

00:23:11.000 Very funny joke, I know.

00:23:13.000 It's your quote.

00:23:13.000 But you said that, and just in the context of what has been happening, not just, and this was in the context of the election and the Supreme Court's ruling.

00:23:21.000 Yeah, against the state of Texas and the other states coming together about their unconstitutional actions.

00:23:26.000 Right, right.

00:23:27.000 Looking at that, looking at the bigger picture, I think it's fair to say we are seeing the Constitution be used... Well, I won't be too disrespectful myself, but let's just say they're absolutely disrespecting, violating, and turning the Constitution into Swiss cheese.

00:23:41.000 Completely.

00:23:42.000 So you had this statement that many said you were essentially calling for secession, and it actually sounds like you were accusing them of secession, you know.

00:23:50.000 You know who this is, right?

00:23:51.000 You got the Declaration of Independence right there.

00:23:52.000 And the Constitution.

00:23:53.000 See, it's falling apart because you know I take it everywhere I go.

00:23:57.000 Let me see, let me go to, where's that whole preamble thing?

00:24:00.000 Oh, there it is!

00:24:02.000 So, the preamble, we the people of the United States, in order to what?

00:24:07.000 Form a more perfect union.

00:24:09.000 And in order to form a more perfect union, what's the first thing we do?

00:24:11.000 Establish justice.

00:24:13.000 So, again, coming back to that piece I wrote yesterday, constitutionalists versus secessionists.

00:24:18.000 The people that are seceding are the people that are violating this document.

00:24:22.000 The people that are constitutional and law-abiding, like we saw in this past election cycle, you have several states where governors, secretaries of states, and courts did unconstitutional actions.

00:24:34.000 The only people that can change election law is the legislative branch.

00:24:38.000 Yes.

00:24:39.000 But yet, that's not what we saw happen.

00:24:40.000 So, that's not a debatable thing.

00:24:42.000 I mean, YouTube is not going to cancel you out unless YouTube doesn't understand the Constitution.

00:24:47.000 But yet, we had people that allowed that to happen.

00:24:49.000 Absolutely.

00:24:51.000 We had numerous instances, I think 24 states, where outside of a legislature, election rules were changed.

00:24:58.000 And that's wrong.

00:24:59.000 Some of these states didn't challenge it.

00:25:00.000 Many of them did.

00:25:02.000 And somehow, none of them got standing or ruled on the merits.

00:25:07.000 And that's horrible because if you're a state of Texas and you join with 17 other states and you are going to constitutional right petition your government for redress of grievance against another state, there's only one court you can go to.

00:25:20.000 The Court of Original Jurisdiction is the United States Supreme Court.

00:25:24.000 United States Supreme Court cannot say to Texas that we're not going to hear the case.

00:25:27.000 They didn't.

00:25:28.000 But that's your job.

00:25:29.000 Right.

00:25:30.000 And so again, we have this abdication of the rule of law and those constitutional duties and responsibilities.

00:25:37.000 And for those people that want to say that, you know, I'm talking about seceding, well then what was the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact all about?

00:25:44.000 Where these blue states were going to come together and undermine the Electoral College?

00:25:48.000 Okay?

00:25:49.000 Which is in the Constitution.

00:25:50.000 Is in the Constitution.

00:25:51.000 So they're the real secessions, Ian, you had.

00:25:53.000 Yeah, I feel like they're using martial law as like impetus to, you know, bypass rights, and they're acting like COVID is such an emergency that they have to do this.

00:26:06.000 Now you served as lieutenant colonel, and I imagine you understand the The necessity for martial law in certain situations, if we were under attack or something horrible, you know.

00:26:15.000 9-11.

00:26:16.000 Yeah, worst case scenario, power grid goes out, evasion, whatever.

00:26:20.000 Yeah, like lice went out in Texas just recently.

00:26:23.000 People would be, and in the past have been, stripped of their constitutional rights.

00:26:27.000 You know, habeas corpus was suspended.

00:26:28.000 Abraham Lincoln.

00:26:29.000 Yeah.

00:26:30.000 But this ain't it.

00:26:32.000 This ain't it, folks.

00:26:33.000 Okay, let's honestly talk about COVID.

00:26:36.000 We're talking about something that has a 99.96% recovery rate.

00:26:39.000 Okay, even the CDC came out last fall and said that out of all the deaths attributed to COVID, only 6% were because of.

00:26:51.000 94% were basically people that died with COVID.

00:26:54.000 They had other comorbidities.

00:26:55.000 They were obese, high blood pressure, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, all of these things.

00:27:02.000 Well, so I'll push back a little bit and give my standard clarification.

00:27:07.000 I guess the only way I can really break down kind of a middle ground on this assessment is these people would have lived longer had it not been for COVID.

00:27:16.000 So some of these people died of renal failure.

00:27:18.000 And a lot of conservatives have pointed out- But how much longer?

00:27:21.000 I mean, how do we know that?

00:27:22.000 I mean, some of these, I mean, you look at the preponderance of the deaths with COVID were above 70 years of age.

00:27:28.000 Yes, absolutely.

00:27:30.000 I mean, a very strong majority.

00:27:32.000 Is that the reason why you go in and suspend the constitutional rights of an entire country?

00:27:40.000 Well, so here's the point I want to make.

00:27:42.000 Even if it were that COVID was the number one cause outside of any comorbidity, the answer is still no.

00:27:50.000 We have to respect, as a community, when we have emergencies, But even when you look at the grand total, I think it's 97.5% recovery when you include those over 70.

00:28:02.000 I mean, that's still ridiculously high.

00:28:04.000 Granted, that's looking at a lot of deaths.

00:28:07.000 That, you know, 2.5% out of 330 million.

00:28:09.000 Yeah, but every year you average almost 600,000 with heart disease.

00:28:14.000 Right?

00:28:14.000 And obesity.

00:28:15.000 Yes.

00:28:15.000 Every year.

00:28:16.000 And we don't lock down the country.

00:28:17.000 We don't mandate calisthenics programs.

00:28:20.000 No.

00:28:20.000 We do not shut things down because people are doing things that can be arguably socially contagious, like bad habits, bad eating, bad exercise.

00:28:27.000 Think about how stupid it is, okay? 0.96

00:28:29.000 So we know obesity is one of the things that, you know, together with COVID causes death, but yet we're going to shut down gyms. 1.00

00:28:35.000 Right.

00:28:36.000 Keep alcohol stores open.

00:28:37.000 Not only that, but lack of vitamin D. Dr. Fauci himself said, we lock everyone in their houses.

00:28:43.000 Stay inside.

00:28:44.000 And we know that COVID was spreading more inside than outside.

00:28:47.000 We lock everyone in their homes with no sun, with no exercise, and a higher chance of rate of spreading COVID.

00:28:53.000 What did people think was going to happen?

00:28:55.000 So it was... But see, the thing, and again, no emergency is grounds to suspend the rule of law.

00:29:03.000 So what this was, was a grand experiment in control.

00:29:08.000 Well, do you think the Civil War was grounds for suspending the Constitution?

00:29:12.000 Abraham Lincoln did it.

00:29:13.000 I know, but I would not have.

00:29:15.000 I mean, you cannot suspend people's habeas corpus.

00:29:18.000 But the interesting thing is that you had a situation where we were fighting against each other within the same spaces.

00:29:28.000 I mean, here we have West Virginia, and being on one side, Virginia is on another side,

00:29:33.000 and Pennsylvania is on another side.

00:29:35.000 But still, you don't suspend constitutional rights no matter what.

00:29:38.000 And that goes back to what Franklin Delano Roosevelt did with the Japanese Americans with the internment camps.

00:29:44.000 I understand the criticality of the situation, but you do not suspend people's constitutional rights.

00:29:49.000 Agreed.

00:29:50.000 But they have put their toes in the water, and they found that the water was very receiving.

00:29:56.000 Yeah.

00:29:56.000 And so what is the next step?

00:29:58.000 Well, have you heard of this, the Great Reset, the World Economic Forum?

00:30:02.000 I mean, I think that the U.S.

00:30:04.000 has been co-opted by the Federal Reserve and global banking establishments, and they're using our military and our economy.

00:30:09.000 And where do you find the premise of central banking?

00:30:12.000 Switzerland and the Bank of International Settlements.

00:30:14.000 Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.

00:30:16.000 Is that really in there?

00:30:18.000 It is.

00:30:18.000 Centralized control of banks.

00:30:20.000 Just like centralized control of education.

00:30:22.000 Just like progressive tax system. 0.98

00:30:25.000 We have a tax system in the United States of America that's based upon the principles of Karl Marx.

00:30:30.000 A progressive tax system.

00:30:32.000 And so, again, there's so much of this out there that if a dumb old boy from Georgia who used to jump out of airplanes for a living, if I can figure this out, you really smart people can figure this out. 0.89

00:30:44.000 Yeah, I couldn't fly airplanes, I jumped out.

00:30:47.000 So we'll have a conversation on this because there are a lot of things that are more liberal or left-wing policies that I agree with, but my challenge, one of the things that always leaves me more of a moderate in the middle is implementation.

00:30:59.000 So when I look at the progressive tax, I think about people like George Soros, I think about the Koch brothers, I think about that's a basis as a source basis to

00:31:09.000 extremely powerful individuals who have so much wealth they've actually shut out the

00:31:13.000 working class election process of the some examples

00:31:16.000 my bloomberg dumping

00:31:17.000 have five hundred six a million dollars into the election always saw that with mark zuckerberg exit

00:31:22.000 Yeah, into Texas, directly to a county clerk's office.

00:31:29.000 So no, we should not allow that to happen.

00:31:32.000 So, a few years ago, I was very much, I should say for a long, a large portion of my life, I was very much in favor of a progressive tax system where we have a higher percentage of people who make more.

00:31:41.000 Because of, I guess, arguably called the law of power, right?

00:31:45.000 Power attracts power.

00:31:46.000 The more money you make, the easier it is for you to make more money, and this money allows you to invest, reduce risk, live comfortably.

00:31:54.000 If you make $10 million, it's very, very easy for you to make more because you have so much access and things like that.

00:31:59.000 So, the argument— You see, I would disagree with you.

00:32:01.000 Disagree?

00:32:02.000 Yes.

00:32:03.000 How is it that a kid that doesn't even have a college education can grow up and be a multimillionaire in the United States of America?

00:32:10.000 They can.

00:32:11.000 Yeah.

00:32:12.000 And so it's about the equality of opportunity.

00:32:14.000 What you're talking about is the corruption of power.

00:32:18.000 And so what it takes, I mean, much the same as Sir Edmund Burke said, all that's necessary

00:32:24.000 to triumph over evil is for good men to do nothing.

00:32:27.000 So if we continue to have a political elite system, which I think even Anne Rand kind 0.77

00:32:32.000 of wrote about.

00:32:33.000 If we have a political elite system that teams up with the corporate cronies and the elites of corporations, like what we see with big tech right now, then you see a usurpation.

00:32:43.000 So my view of the progressive tax was, in a simplistic kind of way, you can create a system that makes it harder for people with extreme wealth to utilize that wealth as an advantage over the working class in the arena of politics.

00:32:57.000 That's my core reason.

00:32:59.000 And I agree with you.

00:33:00.000 That, like I said, is the corruption of power.

00:33:02.000 Right.

00:33:03.000 Here's the problem.

00:33:04.000 Giving the money to the government doesn't solve the problem because now you have another monopoly that has all of that power.

00:33:10.000 And so you've got permanent bureaucrats that would take that money from the ultra-wealthy and then just maintain their control. 1.00

00:33:17.000 So, you know, ultimately, while I still kind of view that as a better alternative, simply

00:33:22.000 because there's many bureaucrats versus the one billionaire who can flood the zone with

00:33:28.000 money and shut out the working class, I ultimately still see it as a problem that needs to be 1.00

00:33:32.000 solved beyond the present day.

00:33:33.000 We don't allow them to flood the zone.

00:33:35.000 Exactly.

00:33:35.000 So that's the other point I would make, is maybe the solution is more simply some kind of restriction somehow.

00:33:42.000 I honestly don't know how you'd do it on political spending.

00:33:44.000 Well, this is where I think it starts, is one of the things that Mark Levin wrote about in his book, Liberty Amendments, is term limits.

00:33:51.000 On members of Congress, House and Senate.

00:33:54.000 Because the longer people are up here in Washington, D.C., the richer they'll get.

00:33:57.000 I mean, ask yourself, how could a young lady from Brooklyn, New York, that was a bartender, have a posh penthouse apartment in Washington, D.C.? 0.94

00:34:07.000 And you know who I'm talking about.

00:34:08.000 Yeah, isn't it like three grand a month or more?

00:34:10.000 It's a lot.

00:34:12.000 Okay?

00:34:12.000 It's a lot.

00:34:13.000 And so, you know, when I was in Congress ten years ago, I had a, you know, You know, fully furnished little basement little, I call it the Batcave.

00:34:21.000 Didn't even have a window.

00:34:23.000 They're members of Congress sleeping in their offices.

00:34:25.000 Yeah.

00:34:25.000 It's a big problem.

00:34:26.000 So how does it, and I disagree with that, so how is it that, you know, this person that was a former bartender now has a posh penthouse apartment over there by Washington Nationals Park.

00:34:37.000 I'm telling you.

00:34:37.000 It's this.

00:34:38.000 And so it's that marrying of the corporate cronyism to the political elitism.

00:34:44.000 That's what we all should come together.

00:34:46.000 I agree.

00:34:47.000 You know, I hear it from the progressives.

00:34:49.000 I hear it from the Young Turks. 0.91

00:34:50.000 And I completely agree with them.

00:34:52.000 The problem is, you know, like the Citizens United ruling, which I'm sure you're familiar with.

00:34:56.000 You know, you've got these super PACs, these political action committees.

00:34:59.000 How do you tell someone they can't spend their money to buy a commercial?

00:35:01.000 I mean, it's a free speech issue.

00:35:02.000 I don't mind people buying the money for a commercial.

00:35:05.000 I don't want them buying a politician.

00:35:07.000 Well, how do they do that?

00:35:09.000 You make sure that they cannot buy a politician.

00:35:11.000 You pass the laws like what we're doing in Texas right now in our legislative session that says, Mark Zuckerberg, you don't get to come back in here and dump $100,000 in Harris County so that they can go out and, number one, try to do universal mail-in ballots, which is against Texas election law, and they expand curbside voting, which is completely against Texas election law.

00:35:29.000 So that's what you do.

00:35:31.000 Our states have power.

00:35:32.000 That's why you have a Tenth Amendment. 0.97

00:35:34.000 It says all the powers not delegated to the federal government are reserved to the states and to the people.

00:35:39.000 So our states need to assert their powers and make sure that, like I said, coming back to H.R.

00:35:44.000 1 and some of these other things being passed.

00:35:47.000 Constitutional nullification was pretty much so passed in North Dakota.

00:35:50.000 Well, let's talk about H.R.

00:35:51.000 1.

00:35:51.000 Yeah.

00:35:52.000 So it passed the House.

00:35:54.000 Passed the House.

00:35:54.000 It's not yet gone to the Senate, right?

00:35:55.000 Well, it's over to the Senate, but the thing is right now, this is a concern.

00:35:58.000 Right now, the Senate still, you have to have 60 votes to end the cloture, which means that you can go into the final vote.

00:36:05.000 If they change that and get rid of the filibuster, then you got problems.

00:36:09.000 Yeah.

00:36:09.000 Now, what keeps the Democrats right now from going straight to getting rid of the filibuster?

00:36:13.000 Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, West Virginia and Arizona, have said they will not support getting rid of the filibuster.

00:36:19.000 So we'll see what happens.

00:36:20.000 They can just all of a sudden snap their fingers and be like, yeah, no more filibusters allowed.

00:36:24.000 Then it would be 51 votes or 50 votes and a tiebreaker.

00:36:28.000 And the tiebreaker is Kamala Harris. 0.92

00:36:29.000 And see, that's why the Senate was set up to be the upper body of our legislative branch.

00:36:35.000 And it will require 60 votes because what the founding fathers wanted to make sure, sure, you got the representation of the people.

00:36:41.000 That's majority.

00:36:42.000 But over here in the Senate, that's the clearinghouse.

00:36:45.000 So everything can't just get rammed right through.

00:36:47.000 You really have to have a deliberative body.

00:36:50.000 So let's break down for me H.R.

00:36:52.000 1.

00:36:52.000 I've read a bit of it.

00:36:53.000 There are some things I don't actually like, but there are some really alarming things.

00:36:56.000 It's incredibly alarming because H.R.

00:36:58.000 1 nationalizes elections.

00:37:00.000 You talk about nationalizing production and confiscation of property.

00:37:03.000 What H.R.

00:37:04.000 1 does is takes elections away from the states.

00:37:06.000 It says that all across United States of America there will be universal mail-in ballots.

00:37:10.000 It says that there will be no voter registration reviews anywhere in the United States of America.

00:37:14.000 No picture ID for voting in the United States of America.

00:37:16.000 Felons can vote.

00:37:17.000 There will be same-day voter registration and voting.

00:37:21.000 There will be online voter registration.

00:37:23.000 And it sets up an independent commission for redistricting.

00:37:26.000 States right now do their own redistricting.

00:37:28.000 Why do the Democrats want to take over redistricting?

00:37:31.000 Because Republicans control 62 of 99 legislative bodies across the United States of America.

00:37:36.000 So the Republicans are in control of the political reshaping for the next 10 years of the respective states.

00:37:42.000 The Democrats don't like that.

00:37:44.000 So H.R.

00:37:45.000 1 is completely unconstitutional in every way, shape, form, or fashion.

00:37:50.000 Now, of course, the Democrats are going to throw some nice things in there to try to entice you to do it, and they're going to give it a real nice name, For the People's Act.

00:37:58.000 But it is an oxymoronic title with the emphasis on the word moron, because what it does, it takes away the ability of states to run their elections.

00:38:08.000 What good stuff did they put in it? 0.94

00:38:09.000 I haven't seen any, really.

00:38:11.000 Well, I'm in favor of felons being able to have the right to vote.

00:38:15.000 You mentioned that.

00:38:15.000 It sounds like you view it as a negative.

00:38:20.000 I think it was, uh, don't do the crime if you can't do the time.

00:38:23.000 Remember Sammy Davis Jr.

00:38:24.000 saying that for, you know, Serpico?

00:38:27.000 There has to be consequences and ramifications for breaking our rule of law.

00:38:30.000 Well, they go to prison, you know?

00:38:31.000 I mean, the way I see it is, there's two really big things for me when it comes to felons.

00:38:36.000 If you commit a crime, and then you are, you know, you're handed down some kind of punishment, penalty, or something from a judge, You serve your time for the crime, your right should be restored.

00:38:47.000 Your right to own a gun and your right to vote, in my opinion.

00:38:49.000 So should a rapist be able to own a gun and vote?

00:38:52.000 I think the answer is yes.

00:38:53.000 After they've paid their debt to society.

00:38:55.000 I can't go there.

00:38:56.000 I've got two daughters, so I can't go there.

00:38:58.000 So you and I are going to disagree on that one.

00:39:00.000 Because first of all, if you did that to my daughter, you've got to deal with me.

00:39:07.000 There's certain things that stand beyond the courts.

00:39:10.000 And again, I don't like to blanket one-size-fits-all.

00:39:15.000 If you want to look at certain offenses, where if someone does their time, then they're restored.

00:39:21.000 But to make the blanket statement, I can't do that.

00:39:24.000 And it's state by state right now, right?

00:39:25.000 In some states, felons can vote.

00:39:27.000 Yeah, I think that Virginia is one of those states.

00:39:30.000 And there's a reason why.

00:39:32.000 I think that's actually a really good point.

00:39:33.000 I think there's probably some crimes where you do not get your rights restored.

00:39:36.000 So we had a conversation the other day about the Second Amendment.

00:39:40.000 And I said, if the Constitution says your right to keep and bear arms should not be infringed, there's no caveats in that.

00:39:46.000 It doesn't say if you're a felon.

00:39:48.000 So as far as I see it, while you're in prison, or on probation, or on parole, whatever it is, you are serving punishment.

00:39:56.000 You can't have a gun.

00:39:58.000 But I think once you've paid your debt to society, your rights should be restored.

00:40:01.000 Well, again, and I would say that if you're a person that went out and committed aggravated assault, you know, if you committed a gun-related crime, I don't know if I want you to come back and get, or a spouse abuse or something like that.

00:40:14.000 But let's talk, you know, it's a good point that you talked about.

00:40:16.000 I just think it's funny that I might be further right on 2A than you.

00:40:19.000 I don't think so.

00:40:20.000 I'm on the board of the National Rifle Association.

00:40:23.000 But you talk about H.R.

00:40:25.000 8, which is another thing that just passed the United States House of Representatives.

00:40:29.000 And so think about what H.R.

00:40:31.000 8 does.

00:40:32.000 Let's say you've got a friend that, you know, is waiting to get a firearm, but they just had someone break into their house.

00:40:41.000 And you want to, you know, hey, here's my, you know, P365 SIG, or here's my Glock 43.

00:40:48.000 Do you know that you're now a felon?

00:40:50.000 Because of what was just passed?

00:40:52.000 No.

00:40:52.000 Well, so it didn't pass the Senate yet, though, right?

00:40:54.000 No, but it's passed in the House.

00:40:56.000 Right.

00:40:56.000 And so again, you know, we've got to understand, when we say it hadn't passed the Senate, but what we have to start thinking about, what is the mentality?

00:41:05.000 What is the philosophy of governance of the progressive socialist left?

00:41:09.000 Because that's what you see happening in the House of Representatives.

00:41:15.000 H.R.

00:41:15.000 127, H.R.

00:41:16.000 130.

00:41:16.000 I know that you got firearms here, but do you know that Sheila Jackson Lee says that you cannot have any loaded firearms in your house?

00:41:22.000 What?

00:41:23.000 That's H.R.

00:41:23.000 130.

00:41:23.000 What's the point of having it?

00:41:25.000 Well, I'm sorry.

00:41:26.000 I mean, I'm the government.

00:41:29.000 I know better than you.

00:41:30.000 What's, uh, did it pass the House?

00:41:31.000 130?

00:41:31.000 H.R.

00:41:32.000 127 and H.R.

00:41:33.000 130 have not come up.

00:41:34.000 H.R.

00:41:35.000 8 was passed last week.

00:41:36.000 H.R.

00:41:36.000 8.

00:41:36.000 And so this bans, it effectively bans the private sale of firearms because you would need a federal background check no matter what.

00:41:43.000 So there are certain places where... I'm sorry, that makes literally no sense.

00:41:47.000 They like to call it the gun show loophole, but it's literally not a loophole.

00:41:50.000 It's just the private sale.

00:41:51.000 So let's put it this way.

00:41:53.000 There are many states that allow the private transfer because it makes sense.

00:41:56.000 If you live in... West Virginia is a good example.

00:41:58.000 The middle of nowhere in West Virginia, in the mountains, And you got a neighbor who's, you know, maybe two miles down the road and he's like, look man, we're getting really bad, 30 to 50 feral hugs.

00:42:10.000 And you're like, well, why don't I sell you this here, you know, firearm so you can keep your property safe, help keep your kids safe and your crops or whatever.

00:42:16.000 Or even I loan it to you.

00:42:18.000 Oh yeah, you can't do that either.

00:42:19.000 Can't do that either.

00:42:20.000 That's a felon.

00:42:20.000 Right now you can, in West Virginia, so long as you're not giving it to someone who is ineligible.

00:42:26.000 So there is still a responsibility on you.

00:42:28.000 If you're like, here, I'm going to lend you this rifle, and it turns out the guy's a felon, now you're in trouble.

00:42:32.000 I'm going to sell it to you.

00:42:35.000 Now, under H.R.

00:42:36.000 8, you would have to go to an FFL, and then do the NICS background check for the individual, and then go through a standard transfer.

00:42:45.000 Now, me personally, I don't live out in the middle of nowhere, so I don't think If I was going to do a transfer, I'd go to an FFL anyway,

00:42:53.000 just so it's a clean transfer and my name's off of it.

00:42:55.000 But I certainly understand why there might be a guy who's like, for his brother, I'm going to give you this weapon to

00:43:01.000 guard, you know, your property or the five acres in the back I'm letting you use.

00:43:05.000 HRA would make that illegal. 0.63

00:43:06.000 Yeah.

00:43:07.000 So it's...

00:43:08.000 Make you a felon.

00:43:09.000 Yeah.

00:43:10.000 That's messed up.

00:43:13.000 Maybe it could be reasonable if it was like an administrative fine of some sort.

00:43:16.000 But not even that.

00:43:18.000 But think about this, okay?

00:43:19.000 When my oldest daughter was going to Southern Methodist University, she was getting her master's in biochemistry and humma humma because she's really smart, like her mom. 0.93

00:43:28.000 And so she had to stay late at night to do, you know, lab experiments, lab works, whatever.

00:43:32.000 And so SMU is located close to downtown Dallas.

00:43:36.000 And so I loaned her my 9mm.

00:43:38.000 I said, keep it, you know, so that when you're walking out to your car in the parking lot, you just make sure that you're safe.

00:43:45.000 HRA makes me a felon for saying to my daughter, here, take Dad's 9mm so that you can be safe when you're over there late at night.

00:43:54.000 And I think your daughter knows how to use a 9mm. 1.00

00:43:57.000 My daughter has fired a Barrett. 1.00

00:44:00.000 She's daddy's girl.

00:44:01.000 Both of them.

00:44:02.000 50 BMG.

00:44:03.000 Yeah.

00:44:03.000 And so this is my concern.

00:44:06.000 And again, this is why I'm so glad to be here with young people is that you are seeing a slow usurpation, confiscation of your rights by people that have a mentality of a philosophy of governance that has never done anything to promote freedom.

00:44:23.000 You mentioned earlier term limits.

00:44:25.000 I'm a huge advocate for that.

00:44:27.000 Yeah, 12 years.

00:44:28.000 How would you see 12 years?

00:44:29.000 Okay, how would we do this?

00:44:30.000 This is how you do it?

00:44:31.000 Well, I mean, they're not gonna vote for it themselves.

00:44:34.000 Okay.

00:44:34.000 And so that's why the founding fathers were brilliant.

00:44:37.000 It was almost as if when they sat down 200 and some odd years ago, and wrote the Constitution, they said, How can these stupid idiots screw it up? 1.00

00:44:46.000 And so they figured out every single fail-safe backdoor method. 1.00

00:44:50.000 And so therefore, they came up with Article V, which is a convention of states,

00:44:55.000 not a constitutional convention, a convention of states, whereby if you get 34 states and they assign delegates,

00:45:01.000 they can come and they can recommend an amendment to the Constitution, like term limits

00:45:05.000 on federal House of Representatives and senators.

00:45:09.000 But if you get 38 states, states can actually change the Constitution.

00:45:12.000 States can amend the Constitution.

00:45:14.000 That's Article V.

00:45:15.000 So one of the things that you should look at is, why are these guys staying up here forever?

00:45:20.000 You know, there are certain states out there to have term limits on their state House members,

00:45:23.000 state senators, everything's working fine.

00:45:26.000 So if you have 12 years up here.

00:45:28.000 And I base that on two terms as a senator.

00:45:31.000 That's 12 years.

00:45:32.000 Six terms in the House of Representatives.

00:45:34.000 That's 12 years.

00:45:35.000 And it's not transferable.

00:45:37.000 You don't get to say, well, you know, I've been over here for 10 years in the House, and I'm going to run for senator, and I'll get another 12 years.

00:45:44.000 No, it's 12 years total.

00:45:45.000 So we have 36 states.

00:45:49.000 34 states.

00:45:49.000 And you can recommend an amendment to the Constitution.

00:45:52.000 And then the Senate would have to... Yeah, the House and Senate has to vote on it.

00:45:56.000 So we need 38.

00:45:58.000 38.

00:45:58.000 And do we need a majority in each state?

00:46:00.000 Just 51%?

00:46:01.000 No, 38 states to come together and vote to have the participant in an Article 5 Constitution of States.

00:46:10.000 Theoretically, that's just the legislative bodies.

00:46:13.000 That's just the legislative bodies.

00:46:14.000 Right now, I think we're at 16.

00:46:17.000 For Republican states?

00:46:18.000 The Republicans control the majority, the legislatures don't.

00:46:20.000 But right now we're at 16.

00:46:21.000 Wow.

00:46:22.000 Well, so let me, I can loop this back into the gun control thing because you mentioned they could recommend an amendment to the constitution at 38, they can get it.

00:46:31.000 Second amendment says the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

00:46:35.000 But in New Jersey, if you bear arms, you will be arrested and you'll be a felon.

00:46:39.000 Yeah.

00:46:40.000 In New York and in Illinois, in California, your right to keep and bear arms has been infringed quite literally as worse, as bad as it And guess what?

00:46:49.000 That comes back to exactly what I said.

00:46:51.000 Law-abiding constitutional states.

00:46:54.000 That's what I talked about in that article.

00:46:56.000 Constitutionalists versus secessionists.

00:46:59.000 The people that are going against our Constitution, they're the secessionists.

00:47:03.000 So when you look at a state that is telling you that you cannot have your constitutional right, I don't understand why anyone in any state would sit back and say, well, okay.

00:47:12.000 You don't get to give it and take it.

00:47:14.000 Just the same as you cannot tell me, as a private business owner, I must shut down my business.

00:47:19.000 There was a post on the Donald Forum, they changed the name, it's patriots.winnow, where they were talking about the right to keep and bear arms has been infringed.

00:47:28.000 And there was a lot of sentiment saying... Ammunition, magazines, all of this stuff.

00:47:32.000 And so a lot of the sentiment I found to be, I'll just put it this way, I won't comment my opinion, but people were saying, then express your right to bear arms and gain judicial standing to sue in defense of the Second Amendment.

00:47:47.000 Absolutely.

00:47:48.000 That's a bold statement.

00:47:49.000 No, but think about it.

00:47:50.000 But there are two cases, D.C.

00:47:52.000 versus Heller.

00:47:54.000 Richard Heller, and I know him personally, was afraid.

00:47:58.000 He just wanted to be able to have a firearm to defend himself in Washington, D.C.

00:48:02.000 They told him he couldn't do it.

00:48:03.000 He went to the Supreme Court.

00:48:04.000 He won the case.

00:48:05.000 Otis McDonnell, black man, Chicago, took on the city of Chicago, McDonald's versus Chicago.

00:48:11.000 That was relatively recent, wasn't it?

00:48:12.000 That was back in the 80s.

00:48:14.000 Yeah, back in the 80s.

00:48:16.000 But a black man just wanted to be able to defend himself and his home. 0.90

00:48:20.000 And he took the city of Chicago to the Supreme Court.

00:48:22.000 So it's already been done.

00:48:24.000 It's already been taken.

00:48:25.000 So we have proven that it has standing across the United States.

00:48:29.000 It has standing in states and local municipalities.

00:48:31.000 But yet we still allow people to undermine the most important right that you have.

00:48:36.000 Because the founding fathers understood.

00:48:38.000 That your First Amendment rights, the freedom of speech, press, expression, symbol, freedom of religion, petition the government for redress for grievances, those are passive rights.

00:48:48.000 If you don't have a mechanism to defend and secure those rights, they're going to get taken away from you.

00:48:54.000 And that's why they have the Second Amendment. 1.00

00:48:55.000 The great modern thinker, Dave Chappelle, said the Second Amendment is just there in case the first one doesn't work out.

00:49:02.000 And he's absolutely right.

00:49:03.000 That's an amazing statement.

00:49:04.000 Dave Chappelle's amazing.

00:49:05.000 But it's absolutely right.

00:49:06.000 Brilliant.

00:49:06.000 And you think about, there have been only two instances in the United States of America of revolution.

00:49:13.000 Okay.

00:49:15.000 And that was the American Revolution and in Texas.

00:49:19.000 And both of those revolutions started because of what?

00:49:23.000 Gun control.

00:49:25.000 The British were marching toward Concord, Massachusetts to destroy a weapons and armaments factory.

00:49:30.000 On April 19, 1775, they were met at Lexington Green because they understood if you're armed, you're a citizen.

00:49:37.000 If you're disarmed, you're a subject.

00:49:40.000 October 2, 1835, in Gonzales, Texas, the Mexican cavalry shows up.

00:49:45.000 Because they want a cannon back that they had given to the people of Gonzales to protect themselves against the Comanche 1.00

00:49:50.000 Raiders Because they were hearing about this thing called

00:49:52.000 revolution amongst the Texians the Texans replied with that famous response come and take it

00:49:58.000 Wow, those are the only two instances And so this is I'm just all you leftists. They're out there.

00:50:05.000 This is a very bad thing that you all are doing Well, so hold on.

00:50:10.000 The far left, they're super pro-2A.

00:50:13.000 It's the establishment, suburban, liberal types.

00:50:17.000 So the larger portion of the left voter, the Democrat voter, absolutely in favor of gun control.

00:50:23.000 But that element of progressives, the socialist types, I mean, they're armed to the teeth.

00:50:27.000 They might not be as nearly as skilled or well-trained or physically fit, but you can see it on Twitter.

00:50:33.000 They're advocates in two ways.

00:50:34.000 Yeah, that's kind of like the guy that was part of an Antifa Black Lives Matter rally down in Austin, Texas, and he had, I think, an AK-47.

00:50:41.000 He went up to a car and started shaking his AK-47, and inside the car was an army soldier.

00:50:47.000 That's right.

00:50:48.000 Yep.

00:50:49.000 So, look, they absolutely are in favor of guns, but again, they don't seem to be as well-trained.

00:50:56.000 There are some groups that are.

00:50:58.000 There are left-wing socialist and communist militia types, where you can tell these guys have real training, but they are few and far between.

00:51:06.000 But if you go to your average Antifa person, oh, they're all about weapons.

00:51:10.000 I mean, they show up with explosives, they show up with guns in Portland.

00:51:13.000 And lasers.

00:51:14.000 And lasers.

00:51:15.000 But we recently had, there was a story of a woman who was in Portland during the riots.

00:51:18.000 She had a, I think she had a Glock 17.

00:51:21.000 They want guns.

00:51:22.000 You had that guy, um, what was the guy who went to the ICE facility in Tacoma?

00:51:26.000 Oh yeah, Willem, uh, Vince Bronson.

00:51:28.000 Yeah, he had himself a ghost gun that he brought and was using against an ICE facility.

00:51:34.000 These are leftists.

00:51:34.000 This guy was a vowed Antifa.

00:51:36.000 But see, the thing is that, and you delve into another subject, is that what Antifa or Black Lives Matter does is going to be acceptable. 0.52

00:51:45.000 But if you have the constitutionalists, the law-abiding legal gun owner, Those are the people that the other side does not want to have the firearms.

00:51:55.000 And so there's a hypocrisy in that, regardless.

00:51:59.000 And I think that is the danger that we see.

00:52:02.000 The military perspective, if you were looking at this like a combat situation, would you then infiltrate the Black Lives Matter Antifa segment so that you could utilize it to overthrow or propagate your victory? 0.74

00:52:17.000 Well, I mean, that's one of the forms of maneuvers, infiltration, but we already know who they are.

00:52:22.000 We already know what their structure is.

00:52:24.000 I mean, look at the silliness of the fact that, you know, Facebook, Twitter, and all these other guys, they want to kick, you know, conservatives off of these platforms, but yet Antifa, Black Lives Matter, they're still operating on these platforms. 0.76

00:52:37.000 I mean, the Iranian mullah over there, Ayatollah Khamenei, is still operating on Twitter.

00:52:43.000 So, again, we know everything about them.

00:52:46.000 It's so interesting is that all of these folks that were participating in January the 6th, their houses are getting raided.

00:52:53.000 They're being picked up just like that, being arrested.

00:52:55.000 All of these folks that we see over a year or more that have been doing these, you know, attacks, raids, and continue to do so, nobody's arresting them.

00:53:05.000 There was this thing that happened with a journalist at the New York Times named Taylor Lorenz, Tucker Carlson.

00:53:10.000 It became this huge story, and I took the approach of, you know, we shouldn't engage in this kind of, you know, specific name-calling.

00:53:18.000 I understand you want to be critical of a journalist because of what they do, but I was pointing out that you've got to go after the ideas and the institutions, not the individual.

00:53:26.000 Now, a lot of people told me I was wrong.

00:53:27.000 They said, Tim, they started the fight and we're fighting back.

00:53:30.000 And my response to this is, after everything we've seen with the January 6th people, they're getting their house raided, they're getting smeared in the press relentlessly.

00:53:38.000 Some of them can't even get lawyers. 0.89

00:53:39.000 And I'm not talking about the worst of the worst.

00:53:40.000 I'm talking about the bumbling lady. 1.00

00:53:43.000 At what point did you think that you were fighting symmetrical warfare, where you want an equal footing with your opponent?

00:53:48.000 You're not.

00:53:49.000 It's a double standard.

00:53:50.000 You're second class.

00:53:51.000 If you protest, they call it a violent riot.

00:53:54.000 Oh, you're an insurrectionist.

00:53:55.000 And if Antifa shows up with guns and firebombs a federal building for a hundred plus days, they call it a peaceful protest.

00:54:02.000 So at a certain point, you have to realize that the media apparatus will villainize you no matter what you do, and you've got to be very, very strategic about how you approach this, understand the rules by which they play, and exploit them for strategic victory.

00:54:15.000 Totally right.

00:54:15.000 But if you throw mud the same way they do, you're doing what they want, and they're winning because they made the rules.

00:54:21.000 It very much reminds me of The Matrix.

00:54:24.000 You've got the idea of the blue pill, the red pill, people who are in the narrative, people who aren't.

00:54:28.000 And the agents, for some reason, super fast, super strong, but as they explain in the Matrix, they still have to abide by all of the same rules.

00:54:36.000 They explain that Neo, who somehow gains the abilities of these agents, is just understanding their rules and controlling the Matrix in the way that the agents do.

00:54:45.000 Once you realize that, then, what is it, when you say, what does Neo say, you're talking about I can dodge bullets?

00:54:50.000 No, I'm saying that once you realize how the media narrative works, you won't have to.

00:54:54.000 You won't have to.

00:54:55.000 And that's one of the things that Lydia and I were talking about.

00:54:58.000 Read Sun Tzu.

00:55:01.000 Definitely.

00:55:02.000 Because you have to have a strategic mindset to understand exactly what you said.

00:55:07.000 Find the gaps.

00:55:08.000 Find the means by which you can exploit the other side.

00:55:10.000 Find their weaknesses.

00:55:12.000 Because if you continue to have the frontal assault mentality, you're gonna get gunned down.

00:55:17.000 All you gotta do is ask Pickett about that charge he just did, you know, right up there.

00:55:20.000 I'll tell you one of their weaknesses, the Grammys. 1.00

00:55:22.000 If you really want to get through these people, write a hit song and play the Grammys next year.

00:55:27.000 Because that's what they need right now.

00:55:28.000 Well, so, at the Grammys, they did a pro-Black Lives Matter, pro-riot performance.

00:55:32.000 They had Tameka Mallory come out and say, we don't need allies, we need accomplices. 0.99

00:55:36.000 I mean, it's outright advocacy for the violent riots.

00:55:38.000 And so, the interesting thing is, when you hear someone say, Black Lives Matter, and this is something I want to tell everybody out there, the first thing you should respond is say, which Black Lives Matter?

00:55:50.000 That's right.

00:55:51.000 Put them totally on defense.

00:55:53.000 Because... Does Candace Owens matter to these people? 1.00

00:55:55.000 No.

00:55:56.000 I don't think so.

00:55:56.000 I don't matter.

00:55:57.000 You don't matter, that's right. 0.91

00:55:58.000 The 20 million black babies that have been murdered in the womb since Roe v. Wade in 1973 don't matter. 0.99

00:56:04.000 The blacks that are killing themselves in gang violence in Chicago, they don't matter. 1.00

00:56:09.000 The young black kids that are being locked out of schools because of these teachers' unions and they're falling further... they don't matter. 0.99

00:56:16.000 And so again, we have to take that title And find a way to flip it on them and put them on the defense and just say, which black lives matter?

00:56:25.000 I mean, I will say, strategically, for one, I think it's probably obvious to you, the abortion argument never works because it's just the view of what constitutes life to the left and to liberals and conservatives is different.

00:56:37.000 But see, this is what I say.

00:56:39.000 I say, OK, so you guys are so woke and everybody's a white supremacist, everybody's racist and all this kind of stuff.

00:56:46.000 Well, who founded Planned Parenthood?

00:56:49.000 Margaret Sanger? 1.00

00:56:50.000 A white supremacist, a racist, who spoke at Ku Klux Klan rallies, referred to blacks as undesirables and weak. 1.00

00:56:56.000 73% of Planned Parenthood clinics are in black neighborhoods. 0.99

00:56:58.000 So why did she cancel?

00:57:00.000 They did cancel her.

00:57:02.000 Who?

00:57:02.000 They disavowed Margaret Sanger.

00:57:04.000 Who?

00:57:04.000 The Planned Parenthood.

00:57:05.000 Who?

00:57:07.000 The people at Planned Parenthood.

00:57:08.000 Numerous people at Planned Parenthood came out and said, you know, we apologize for this, and denounced their own history.

00:57:13.000 So she shut down.

00:57:14.000 Yeah, but why didn't it shut down?

00:57:16.000 Well, you know, that's not actually, like, cancel culture may be a thing for you.

00:57:22.000 They can disavow it.

00:57:23.000 That's what I'm saying.

00:57:24.000 Yeah.

00:57:24.000 So if you're going to go out and think about, okay, so Black Lives Matter.

00:57:29.000 So why did you allow people to tear down the statue of Frederick Douglass in Rochester, New York?

00:57:35.000 That's one of the few things that really got to me, especially.

00:57:37.000 Well, it got to me too.

00:57:38.000 Frederick Douglass was amazing.

00:57:39.000 He was an incredible man.

00:57:40.000 Why would you allow the monument to the very first black man that wore a uniform for the United States of America, the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, to be desecrated?

00:57:50.000 Who was it?

00:57:51.000 Huh?

00:57:52.000 Do you know the guy's name?

00:57:53.000 No, this council culture, they went and desecrated the... Do you know the name of the guy in the statue that got torn down? 0.96

00:57:59.000 Frederick Douglass.

00:58:00.000 Oh, he was the first black dude?

00:58:02.000 No, the 54th Massachusetts Regiment was the first black unit.

00:58:07.000 I mean, these were slaves and freedmen that fought for the United States in the Civil War.

00:58:12.000 And they desecrated their memorial in Boston.

00:58:15.000 Did you see the video of the two white Antifa women spray painting on property? 0.87

00:58:18.000 And the two young black women are like, what are you doing? 0.98

00:58:21.000 Stop doing that! 0.92

00:58:22.000 Yeah, you ain't helping me.

00:58:23.000 As a matter of fact, there's a great book by Jason Reilly.

00:58:27.000 It's called Please Stop Helping Us.

00:58:31.000 No, seriously.

00:58:32.000 He's a Wall Street Journal... That's a great title.

00:58:34.000 Yeah, please stop him.

00:58:35.000 So, something I often bring up, my experience in Ferguson, and so for those that are, you know, listening, you may have heard me tell the story, but I'd love to tell it to you, Colonel West.

00:58:44.000 I was in Ferguson during the riots, and I witnessed young black men linking arms to protect the convenience store as people were running around and looting.

00:58:53.000 Yeah.

00:58:53.000 and they were begging.

00:58:54.000 They were saying, these people, telling a journalist, Sebastian Walker,

00:58:58.000 at the time Al Jazeera, now for Vice, was there and he said, what are you doing?

00:59:01.000 Tell me what's happening.

00:59:03.000 And this young black man says, we live here.

00:59:06.000 These are our communities, our businesses. 0.96

00:59:08.000 These people who are looting and rioting don't live here.

00:59:11.000 Gets a phone call and he gets all, he's like, oh, it's my mom.

00:59:14.000 Seb Walker, he's like, don't worry, I got this.

00:59:15.000 And he takes the phone, and I'm standing there, it's one of the, like, just most profound, amazing moments I've experienced in a riot.

00:59:21.000 This journalist takes the phone, and he's like, yes, hello.

00:59:24.000 Yeah, I'm with your son.

00:59:25.000 No, he's being very responsible.

00:59:27.000 He's a very good young man.

00:59:29.000 And, like, the dude who was guarding the convenience store from the rioters, his mom, he's getting vouched for by this journalist.

00:59:34.000 It was amazing.

00:59:34.000 But you know what happens next?

00:59:37.000 An article gets written called In Defense of Looting, which said that those people who came to victimize this community were actually just lashing out against white supremacy.

00:59:46.000 This individual then later wrote a book about it.

00:59:48.000 This person, of course, is a white progressive who knows nothing about this community and what they actually wanted and was being exploited and destroyed.

00:59:55.000 I remember during the peak of the Black Lives Matter riots, we had that rapper, I think his name was Big Mike, Basically just exasperated saying, why did you come and burn down black businesses in Atlanta?

01:00:04.000 This is not about Black Lives Matter, but that's exactly what they were doing. 1.00

01:00:07.000 And that's why you should respond, which Black Lives Matter. 0.93

01:00:11.000 You know, I look over there, you got on that piece of art, then I'm afraid you ain't black. 1.00

01:00:15.000 The George, the G Prime one. 0.88

01:00:18.000 Yeah.

01:00:19.000 How utterly condescending and disrespectful that was from Joe Biden to say that if you don't have this mentality, if you're not going to allow yourself to be a victim, you're not black. 1.00

01:00:31.000 It's either like racism or just idiocy. 1.00

01:00:34.000 I think maybe probably both. 1.00

01:00:36.000 It is both. 1.00

01:00:38.000 Racism is idiocy, but I love it when you hear the Democrats talk about systemic racism. 1.00

01:00:44.000 Well, let's just look at their history. 1.00

01:00:48.000 The purveyors of systemic racism in the United States of America has always been the Democrat Party.

01:00:53.000 Okay?

01:00:55.000 In 1961, I mean, I'm, you know, again, going back to the Logan's Run thing, I'm a little bit of a relic.

01:01:00.000 There's not probably too many people that you can find that were born in a blacks-only hospital.

01:01:06.000 I'm one.

01:01:07.000 Which one?

01:01:08.000 Hugh Spalding Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia.

01:01:11.000 I grew up in the old 4th Ward.

01:01:12.000 That's Dr. King's neighborhood.

01:01:14.000 And so, I kind of know a little bit about being black.

01:01:17.000 And I kind of know a little bit about equality of opportunity versus equality of outcomes.

01:01:23.000 But when we have a party that has systemically throughout history done everything they possibly could to destroy a certain community, to now the mechanism of destruction is economic enslavement, not physical enslavement.

01:01:36.000 Now the mechanism is to try to have this soft bigotry of low expectations.

01:01:42.000 But you still get the same result.

01:01:44.000 Victims and enslavement. 0.77

01:01:46.000 And so when people, it's just unconscionable to me, when I hear the Democrats and the people on the left, and they have these modern-day gatekeepers called Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and the Congressional Black Caucus trying to keep people as victims, it just turns my stomach.

01:02:08.000 Have you seen what's going on at these universities?

01:02:13.000 The return of segregation?

01:02:14.000 of segregation. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, why would you want to sit around and say,

01:02:18.000 well, we want the black student union, we want this, we want that, we want to...

01:02:22.000 Separate graduation ceremonies?

01:02:24.000 Separate graduation, separate proms and schools. I mean, why are we going backwards?

01:02:28.000 I think that it's, this is maybe it sounds gonna sound crazy, but the communist Chinese party,

01:02:34.000 Chinese Communist Party, is intentional. They used to go after Han supremacists. 1.00

01:02:38.000 We had James Lindsay on last week, he was telling us about this, and it was all about supremacy, Han supremacy. 0.98

01:02:42.000 You're either a Han supremacist or you're a Han, or not. 0.96

01:02:45.000 And so now it's white. 0.98

01:02:47.000 Now the word is white supremacist. 0.60

01:02:48.000 It's all about dividing.

01:02:50.000 And I mean, they say they play the long game.

01:02:51.000 This is like a 30 year, 60 year psychological trauma.

01:02:55.000 They're establishing trauma on our society.

01:02:57.000 Well, if you go back and listen to Joe Biden's speech, Joe Biden's speech was not about unity.

01:03:05.000 Joe Biden's speech was about conformity.

01:03:07.000 Joe Biden's speech was saying, we can be unified if you conform. 0.93

01:03:11.000 And if you don't conform, now you're a white supremacist. 0.98

01:03:14.000 And oh, by the way, we're declaring war against you. 0.90

01:03:16.000 So Joe Biden, the incoming president of the United States of America, stood there and basically said that they are declaring war on the 74 to 75 million people that didn't vote for them.

01:03:28.000 That's the ideological civil war that we're in.

01:03:31.000 And when you start to look at some of these pieces of legislation being passed out of the House of Representatives, H.R.

01:03:36.000 5, the Equality Act.

01:03:37.000 H.R.

01:03:38.000 5 has nothing to do with equality.

01:03:40.000 It has everything to do with a progressive ideological agenda that takes away your freedom of speech and your freedom of religion.

01:03:46.000 What is it?

01:03:47.000 H.R.

01:03:48.000 5 basically says that the LGBTQ agenda has been codified into law.

01:03:53.000 If you speak out against it, if you are a pastor, you don't.

01:03:57.000 Specifically, it adds gender identity as a protected class in the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and there's a lot of muddy waters.

01:04:07.000 This is very different from when we litigated non-discriminatory actions.

01:04:13.000 It was one thing, and this is an argument we often hear, To say a gay couple wanting to get a cake, it's a different thing to be like, well, you can do whatever you want in the privacy of your own home.

01:04:23.000 It's not our business to interfere with that.

01:04:25.000 So you deserve protection, equal protection under the law and things like that.

01:04:28.000 With the Equality Act, it would actually, it opens up things like high school athletics to biological males. 0.93

01:04:34.000 So, so women's sports will now be opened up. 0.96

01:04:36.000 Title IX is done.

01:04:37.000 Yeah.

01:04:38.000 So, so it's done.

01:04:39.000 It will be done.

01:04:40.000 uh... what it might all nine title nine is women's sports women's athletics 0.98

01:04:44.000 and so scholarships and scholarships uh... as a matter of fact there's a case of these young

01:04:49.000 girls up in connecticut were too 0.99

01:04:51.000 uh... gender dysphoric biological males are competing in the hundred meters of 0.94

01:04:55.000 two hundred meters it is blown away they broke the record can we just make

01:04:59.000 i mean it's a little high in the sky but like new sports like you get a male sports female sports transgender

01:05:04.000 No, no, no, no, no, no, no. 0.96

01:05:06.000 You're, you're, you're, you're Neanderthal. 0.90

01:05:08.000 Is it because there's not enough?

01:05:09.000 I think I am part Neanderthal. 0.98

01:05:10.000 You're just bad. 0.91

01:05:11.000 I didn't do the DNA. 1.00

01:05:12.000 You're bad.

01:05:14.000 Where's your heart?

01:05:15.000 It's right here, baby.

01:05:16.000 But don't you care about them?

01:05:17.000 Yeah.

01:05:18.000 Who cares about women's rights? 1.00

01:05:20.000 I do.

01:05:21.000 I care about human rights.

01:05:22.000 So actually, let's do this.

01:05:23.000 Let's jump into this story about the U.S.

01:05:25.000 Army.

01:05:27.000 Oh yeah, I know where you're going.

01:05:30.000 You may be an expert on the armed forces, having actually been in them, but we have a story from, this is from Ladbible, for some reason I chose Ladbible.

01:05:38.000 U.S.

01:05:39.000 Army could reverse gender-neutral fitness tests as research finds women struggle. 0.98

01:05:44.000 So I've got, well I've had family in, I come from, I actually come from a military family.

01:05:51.000 Everyone but me basically was either married into or served.

01:05:54.000 And I remember hearing stories from, I briefly lived just, just off of base housing in Fort Eustis, Fort, is it Fort Eustis?

01:06:02.000 Eustis, yeah, Virginia.

01:06:03.000 Newport News.

01:06:04.000 And I also briefly lived on Fort Carson in Colorado Springs.

01:06:07.000 I know it very well.

01:06:08.000 Heard a lot of stories from people who had no problem bringing up men or women, that women have a different standard.

01:06:13.000 Now, first of all, you know that in the House of Representatives, you can't say men or women.

01:06:16.000 They got rid of that language.

01:06:17.000 Yeah, that's Nancy Pelosi's rule. 1.00

01:06:19.000 She got rid of gendered language. 1.00

01:06:20.000 What's the situation now?

01:06:21.000 What do you say?

01:06:22.000 Hey, them?

01:06:23.000 You?

01:06:23.000 Yeah, you.

01:06:25.000 How is that woman still? 1.00

01:06:28.000 But anyway, we'll stay on the military thing.

01:06:31.000 So I remember hearing stories from people who went through basic training and they would say, you know, the women would complain and be given special leeway and things like this.

01:06:39.000 There were certain medical issues that women had to be granted special access to facilities that men didn't get. 0.97

01:06:45.000 And so very much were given special treatment.

01:06:47.000 Apparently at some point they wanted to do gender neutral testing.

01:06:51.000 And my understanding, correct me if I'm wrong, they were saying that Disparity.

01:06:54.000 It used to be that women did well in women-specific testing, and that means they would get promotions. 1.00

01:07:00.000 Once they implemented gender-neutral testing, where it was even for both males and females,

01:07:06.000 the women were struggling to score well against the men and not getting the promotions, thus 0.87

01:07:10.000 creating inequity.

01:07:11.000 Disparity.

01:07:12.000 Inequity.

01:07:13.000 Inequal outcome.

01:07:14.000 Yeah.

01:07:14.000 outcome.

01:07:15.000 See, women had the equal opportunity to compete in the same tests, but because the standard was standard, the men just tended to do better on physical tests, meaning the women weren't in the promotions.

01:07:26.000 So now they're apparently gonna reverse this.

01:07:28.000 You told me that you had stories, you knew people.

01:07:30.000 I don't know what your thoughts on this would be.

01:07:32.000 Well, let me put it in this context.

01:07:37.000 Why do we have men's downhill skiing and women's downhill skiing? 1.00

01:07:41.000 Pretty innocuous thing.

01:07:43.000 I mean, why don't we just have men and women competing in downhill skiing? 0.90

01:07:46.000 Something, for some reason, men can spin faster, jump higher. 0.90

01:07:50.000 Yeah, you have men's figure skating and women's. 1.00

01:07:53.000 Why do you have men's hockey and women's hockey? 0.93

01:07:55.000 Men's basketball.

01:07:56.000 Men way more.

01:07:57.000 Bone density.

01:07:57.000 The shape of the hips.

01:07:59.000 Oh, okay.

01:08:00.000 So, why is it when it comes to your national security?

01:08:04.000 That you want to say that there's no difference.

01:08:07.000 I don't get it.

01:08:08.000 We are in serious trouble when it comes to this.

01:08:11.000 Listen, I am absolutely all for trans rights and LGBTQ rights and the respect of the individual and equality under the law.

01:08:19.000 But let me tell you something, Tim.

01:08:21.000 In the United States military, I could put a guy out for being overweight.

01:08:27.000 You cannot join the military if you have flat feet.

01:08:29.000 Yep.

01:08:29.000 So now all of a sudden we're going to say, and this is what the American Psychiatrics Association calls it,

01:08:34.000 gender dysphoria, a mental condition. 1.00

01:08:36.000 So now we're saying that the United States military has to accept people with a mental condition

01:08:40.000 and then provide them hormonal therapies at the taxpayer expense.

01:08:44.000 What does that have to do with our national security?

01:08:46.000 That's another one of these feel-good things.

01:08:48.000 While, as you just talked about, the Chinese Communist Party, they're building their army, they're growing their hegemonic dominance, they're expanding their navy, and we're over here saying, why can't we be fair and have more equity and let everybody play in the sandbox?

01:09:01.000 I have tremendous respect for everybody who serves or wants to serve, but I think that someone who's overweight, we could find a role for them that's a net positive for us.

01:09:11.000 They don't have to be in combat, they don't have to be in maybe one of these standard positions that require the physical fitness, but I certainly think trans people as well as overweight people, we could absolutely find them to be a net positive for our armed forces.

01:09:22.000 But now you're telling me that the United States military has to accept someone with a condition, a mental condition, determined by the American Psychiatric Association, which means they're going to have to provide counseling.

01:09:34.000 They're going to have to provide hormonal therapies and all of this type of stuff at the taxpayer expense. 0.99

01:09:38.000 I don't think that's what the military is in existence for.

01:09:42.000 The United States military is a volunteer organization.

01:09:46.000 We have to have standards.

01:09:47.000 We have to have rules.

01:09:48.000 We have to have, you know, guidelines.

01:09:51.000 Because we are not looking at being a everybody come and join and play.

01:09:56.000 That's not what the United States military is, as a voluntary organization.

01:09:59.000 Now if it was a draft organization, that'd be something different.

01:10:02.000 If it was an organization where we had obligatory service, then that's something different.

01:10:06.000 But let me just put it in these terms.

01:10:08.000 I'm 60 years of age.

01:10:10.000 I'm five foot nine.

01:10:11.000 I'm about 206 pounds.

01:10:13.000 This morning I got up and I knocked out three and a half miles.

01:10:17.000 Did my, you know, push-ups and crunches and everything.

01:10:20.000 If you put me in a ring with Ronda Rousey or any, you know, mixed martial arts, yeah, you know, they probably could get in that kick on me because, you know, I'm 60.

01:10:31.000 Maybe I'm a little slow.

01:10:32.000 But if I get one punch to their head, What's going to happen? 0.93

01:10:37.000 It's my bone density. 0.88

01:10:38.000 It's all of those things.

01:10:39.000 on this one. And you know, he talked about this quite a bit.

01:10:42.000 They got mad at him for it, but he pointed out that men have bigger hands, stronger

01:10:46.000 grit, bigger joints and striking power. It's my bone density. It's all of those things. It's

01:10:52.000 rejecting power. It's twitch, muscle twitch, fiber. I think there is an issue if we are

01:10:58.000 displacing strong, able-bodied individuals with people who are not fit to serve for a 0.96

01:11:03.000 variety of reasons.

01:11:05.000 But I also think that, in my personal opinion, I look at, say, a trans man, someone who was born female, is on therapy, and is now a trans man.

01:11:16.000 I think there's a net positive to anybody who's willing to serve this country, and we can find a way to make that That came because of the Obama administration.

01:11:23.000 Once again, it's about the social engineering of our military.

01:11:25.000 Let me tell you something.

01:11:26.000 A bullet doesn't know male or female. 0.61

01:11:28.000 have women in combat roles, though I think now we do this is right in the 1.00

01:11:31.000 in. That came because of the Obama administration. Once again, it's about

01:11:34.000 the social engineering of our military. Let me tell you something. A bullet

01:11:39.000 doesn't know male or female. There's no doubt about it. But the one thing that my

01:11:43.000 number one standing order when I was a battalion commander and we ended up

01:11:47.000 going to Iraq in 2003, my number one standing order was keep your bayonet

01:11:51.000 Why did I say keep your bayonet sharp?

01:11:53.000 Because you never know when you're going to have to go into close quarter combat with the enemy.

01:11:57.000 That's right.

01:11:58.000 Yo, I got a question along those lines.

01:12:02.000 As a leader, as a commander in the military, now, if a woman were to be in a commander role, do you think you need the biggest, baddest dude, like the tough, strong men to be commanders? 1.00

01:12:12.000 Or could you get small, female commanders that would be as good or better than men? 1.00

01:12:18.000 Do you think there's Well, I will tell you that there is an example of leadership that, without a doubt, is necessary.

01:12:26.000 If you're going to be a commander of combat troops, you got to kind of look like a combat troop.

01:12:32.000 And let me put it in this perspective.

01:12:33.000 If I walked in here with you all today, And I said that I'm a retired Army Lieutenant Colonel.

01:12:40.000 And I had, you know, I'm not picking at you, but I had hair like yours Ian.

01:12:43.000 Oh.

01:12:45.000 No, you see, but if I had hair like yours, Ian, and if I had a little pooch belly and everything like that, when you kind of look and say, scratch your head, say, man, he don't look like a, well, be honest, be honest. 0.83

01:12:56.000 Well, let me, let me just, I'll just make a point.

01:12:57.000 No, I'll be honest.

01:12:58.000 Would I, would you say in the back of your head, man, he don't, You see what just happened with Tucker Carlson and that Marine?

01:13:06.000 I know exactly what just happened.

01:13:08.000 He got accused of being overweight, out of shape.

01:13:10.000 You know, and again, I don't think that we should have United States military senior officers and senior enlisted men attacking a news personality.

01:13:20.000 Yeah, I agree.

01:13:21.000 See, that goes against, you know, we're supposed to be protecting freedom of speech.

01:13:26.000 Let me say something in regards to like this, you know, army testing and stuff.

01:13:29.000 I've been skateboarding my whole life.

01:13:31.000 I'm sorry, but I actually worked with some individuals who are part of an organization.

01:13:38.000 I'll leave their name out.

01:13:38.000 I don't want anyone to get dragged, but I had a good friend who was one of the best female skateboarders in the world at a certain time period.

01:13:45.000 I went to the X Games, VIP access, and we got to hang out.

01:13:48.000 She was a really good friend of mine growing up.

01:13:51.000 And I got to listen to a top female pro tell these young women they will never be as good as the men. 0.62

01:13:57.000 I actually took issue with that back then, saying like, you may believe that, but don't discourage people.

01:14:02.000 Tell them to strive to be the best and to view that as competition to be better.

01:14:07.000 But when you look at, you mentioned skiing, I'm thinking skateboarding, there's no question.

01:14:12.000 You watch men's, you know, X Games skateboarding, and you'll notice a very obvious difference between the male and the female skateboarding.

01:14:20.000 But actually, I actually took some basic first aid training.

01:14:24.000 I've actually done hospital environment training, so I got a bit more extensive.

01:14:27.000 And when I was younger and trying to learn some of the basics of first aid because I'm, you know, I skated all the time.

01:14:33.000 And my mom was like, it's important.

01:14:35.000 You should learn some stuff.

01:14:36.000 Google it.

01:14:36.000 And, you know, I did.

01:14:38.000 I learned some things about sports.

01:14:40.000 Women are more likely to suffer knee and ankle injuries skateboarding than men.

01:14:43.000 Yeah.

01:14:43.000 Because of something called the Q angle, which is the hip, the wide hips of females means that their femurs are at a wider angle than men's, which means they're more prone to joint injury than a man is.

01:14:54.000 And the same thing in the military when you start talking about going for a 12 mile ruck march and you've got 60 pounds on your back and really in combat you're carrying a whole lot more.

01:15:05.000 But, you see the sustainment of those injuries because there is a physiological difference.

01:15:10.000 Now, coming back to what your question said, Ian, I want the best possible person to be out there as a leader.

01:15:15.000 But, the thing is that you've got to be able to lead and accomplish the exact same task that you're asking your troops to be able to do.

01:15:23.000 When I was in combat, I was right up there hooking and jabbing with my guys.

01:15:27.000 If there was an X percentage of my unit that was dedicated to a combat operation, I was out there.

01:15:32.000 Okay?

01:15:33.000 And so that's the thing that has to happen.

01:15:36.000 You know, combat is not about social engineering.

01:15:40.000 Combat is not about equity.

01:15:42.000 Combat is about you against another person. 0.99

01:15:46.000 and killing that person. That's what war is. War is hell. 0.57

01:15:50.000 That's what William Tecumseh Sherman said.

01:15:52.000 And as a matter of fact, it was Nathan Bedford Forrest, and hopefully no one gets upset because

01:15:57.000 I'm quoting a Confederate general, but Nathan Bedford Forrest is, war is about fighting,

01:16:03.000 and fighting is about killing.

01:16:05.000 That's the bottom line.

01:16:07.000 It's not a computer game where you're sitting back and you got a bunch of drones or whatever.

01:16:11.000 The bottom line is someone has to be on the ground and point something at somebody else and eliminate them.

01:16:18.000 And that's what we need to be thinking about because that's what the national security of the United States of America is all about.

01:16:23.000 Now I'll say something that will probably offend a lot of the left where I'm actually trying to make a point in favor of women in the military is that there's that saying, we heard it recently, was it soldiers march on their bellies? 0.98

01:16:33.000 Something to that effect?

01:16:34.000 Yeah.

01:16:34.000 That you need to keep a military well regulated in terms of their equipment, not in terms of law.

01:16:40.000 You need to keep them well fed and like a well-oiled machine.

01:16:44.000 When Tucker Carlson made these comments about, you know, flight suits for pregnant women, I disagree with him.

01:16:49.000 I think that, you know, a lot of these jobs, and this was explained to me by a lot of people, there's a lot of logistics, a lot of administrative work.

01:16:57.000 Hey look, I can't fly a fighter jet.

01:16:59.000 And there are female fighter pilots. 0.98

01:17:00.000 I can't fly a helicopter.

01:17:02.000 And there are a lot of female attack helicopter pilots. 1.00

01:17:05.000 I was just a dumb old paratrooper that jumped out of airplanes, and I was an artillery officer.

01:17:10.000 And what I am saying is that yes, there are positions and duties out there that people can serve in, but there are still standards that say your body and your physiology will only allow you to do X. And so if we want to start having women as Navy SEALs, If we want to have women in the green beret, just pass the same doggone test that everybody else is. 0.97

01:17:37.000 Don't have what we have seen where all of a sudden there's an altering of rules, there's an adding of more chances and opportunities to get out there and try to accomplish something because a lot of guys don't get that.

01:17:50.000 I want to give you my thoughts on the transgenders serving the military issue.

01:17:54.000 You know, you mentioned that the DSM-5, I think, says it's a mental condition, and that's actually been staunchly advocated for by many trans individuals because it grants them access to medication, but I digress.

01:18:06.000 I mean, you know, heart murmurs, sleep apnea.

01:18:07.000 say have diabetes.

01:18:08.000 The legitimate question is would that, would diabetes prohibit you from enlisting or serving?

01:18:13.000 Absolutely.

01:18:14.000 It would.

01:18:15.000 Epilepsy, all these things.

01:18:16.000 I mean, you know, heart murmurs, sleep apnea.

01:18:21.000 I had one of my captains in Iraq, you know, had...

01:18:26.000 Could you run an administrative role?

01:18:28.000 Could you drive a vehicle?

01:18:31.000 Maybe.

01:18:32.000 But again, what are you doing?

01:18:34.000 You're creating two separate classes.

01:18:37.000 Let's be fair, though.

01:18:38.000 The Navy SEALs are the best of the best of the best.

01:18:41.000 Yeah, but you cannot create two separate classes where we say, OK, you can go be in the Fat Boy unit.

01:18:46.000 Yeah.

01:18:47.000 No, I'm serious.

01:18:48.000 You laugh, but let me tell you how brutal it is in the United States military, where the military I grew up in. 0.91

01:18:54.000 You the fat boy that falls out of a run?

01:18:56.000 Oh man, you're going to hear it. 0.99

01:18:58.000 But you become the ripped boy soon, don't you?

01:19:00.000 You better.

01:19:01.000 Yeah.

01:19:02.000 If you want to stay in.

01:19:03.000 So what happened with the captain?

01:19:05.000 They'll throw you out.

01:19:08.000 So if you enlist and you're overweight?

01:19:11.000 Well, if you enlist, you're going to have to meet height and weight standards before you can ship out to basic training.

01:19:19.000 And even when you go to basic training, you're still going to be monitored.

01:19:21.000 You still have to meet those height and weight standards.

01:19:24.000 Okay, and again, you know, on active duty, you got to continue to have your height and weight test and your body fat examination.

01:19:31.000 If you don't make it, then you go.

01:19:33.000 I don't care what level that you rise to.

01:19:35.000 Now what happened to the captain in Iraq?

01:19:37.000 I had to send him back home.

01:19:38.000 Out of the combat zone.

01:19:40.000 Sleep apnea.

01:19:41.000 And you don't know how hurtful it was for me as his battalion commander to look at this kid who had tears in his eyes Begging me not to send him back.

01:19:53.000 Begging me, telling me that he'll make it through even though he can't get sleep and everything.

01:19:57.000 But I was seeing... Was he overweight?

01:19:59.000 No, he wasn't overweight but he had sleep apnea and I was seeing how it was affecting his duties because he couldn't get sleep.

01:20:06.000 Messy work.

01:20:07.000 And I couldn't have him go out there and the next thing you know, he's a detriment, not just to himself, but to someone else.

01:20:14.000 And I had to tell him, I got to send you back home.

01:20:17.000 So you need the best of the best of the best, the cream of the crop, top of the top.

01:20:21.000 Well, I mean, you got, you got tip of the spear, you got seals, Delta Force or whatever.

01:20:25.000 And then you got, you know, your everyday soldier, sailor, airman, Marine, but you've got to still have maintained certain standards throughout that strata.

01:20:34.000 Did the captain get honorably discharged?

01:20:36.000 Of course he got honorably discharged.

01:20:37.000 But he didn't get moved to civilian or like a non-combat role, he was just actually discharged from the military?

01:20:42.000 Yeah, he ended up being discharged from the military because it wasn't treatable.

01:20:47.000 But he couldn't be in the combat zone.

01:20:49.000 And when you talk about what Tucker was bringing up about the pregnant soldiers, in 1995 when I was stationed in Korea, I was up on DMZ and it was called Area 1.

01:21:00.000 And in Area 1, before females got shipped up there, they had to take a pregnancy test. 1.00

01:21:05.000 Because why?

01:21:05.000 You could not be sent into Area 1 with a pregnancy test because we were the tip of the spear.

01:21:10.000 You were in a deployed zone.

01:21:14.000 Now, guess what will happen?

01:21:15.000 Sometimes, you know, little boy soldiers, little girl soldiers, they do little things, you know?

01:21:20.000 And the next thing you know, you get a pregnant female soldier. 1.00

01:21:23.000 But you know what the Army will not allow us to do?

01:21:26.000 We couldn't re-deploy that soldier back.

01:21:28.000 Even though, now that she's pregnant, she's non-deployable.

01:21:31.000 She cannot wear a gas mask, because that can affect her.

01:21:35.000 So she has to stay up in Area 1 for X amount of time, and then I think in the fifth or sixth month, then you could. What would the Chinese do in that situation? 0.92

01:21:45.000 The Chinese I don't think deal with that. 1.00

01:21:47.000 Do they even have female soldiers? I think they do have female soldiers but I don't think they're 0.99

01:21:51.000 in their front line troops. Yeah I think they're much more bigoted I think the left would call

01:21:56.000 them. Well as a matter of fact I read an article recent where the Chinese were talking about they

01:22:00.000 need to have non-feminization training for males. Yeah.

01:22:04.000 Yeah, the masculinity training.

01:22:07.000 I mean, they are looking at what is happening in the West and they're saying, We don't want that.

01:22:12.000 You know, the advantage they have over us is actually the biggest detriment that their people suffer is the 0.94

01:22:18.000 authoritarianism.

01:22:19.000 Absolutely.

01:22:20.000 It's an advantage for...

01:22:21.000 To a point.

01:22:22.000 To a point, right.

01:22:23.000 I had a conversation with an anarchist friend of mine years ago where I said that it is much more efficient in many

01:22:30.000 ways, an authoritarian regime, because they snap their fingers and they impose their will where we deal with

01:22:34.000 bureaucracy.

01:22:35.000 Granted, it's a despicable way to live, full of atrocities.

01:22:39.000 But you know, and you and I were talking about this before we came on air, this is the downfall of an authoritarian regime.

01:22:47.000 It restrains and restricts creativity.

01:22:49.000 Yep.

01:22:50.000 And we saw that, you know, that was one of the things about our military, as opposed to the Soviet model style, is that our young troops could make a decision.

01:22:59.000 Our young troops were trained.

01:23:01.000 When you think about, you know, all of the wars, you know, it's a sergeant here, it's a corporal there that is able to do something, whereby when you have that authoritative system, and that was the big problem we had in Afghanistan, in training their army, was that even if they were in a firefight with the Taliban, they wouldn't take an action.

01:23:20.000 I said, what are you doing?

01:23:21.000 Well, I have to wait for the call from my commander to do something.

01:23:25.000 I was like, they're shooting at you, okay?

01:23:29.000 Take an action.

01:23:30.000 And that was something that they had to learn, but they grew up under that Soviet mentality.

01:23:34.000 So, but that's happening now.

01:23:36.000 It is happening now.

01:23:37.000 So an authoritarian regime, like what you see taking place here,

01:23:40.000 where it's telling you what you can wear, what you can eat, what you can think, what you can drive.

01:23:45.000 It may, again, free does not equal freedom.

01:23:49.000 I've hired people, and I'll tell you the story.

01:23:52.000 I'll give you the story from a buddy of mine.

01:23:54.000 He started a company.

01:23:55.000 He was doing social media management.

01:23:57.000 He made some posts on the internet looking for some people to help me run these social media websites for clients who must have a college degree.

01:24:04.000 Well, the people with college degrees have salary requirements, so he hired them.

01:24:08.000 He said that his phone would be ringing off the hook from people with problems.

01:24:11.000 Hey, I got a problem.

01:24:12.000 They posted this.

01:24:13.000 Hey, I got a problem.

01:24:14.000 The company wants this.

01:24:14.000 What do I do?

01:24:16.000 Eventually he said, if you can't do the job, then I need to find someone else.

01:24:19.000 So he fires him.

01:24:20.000 Puts another post up.

01:24:21.000 Needs somebody who knows social media can run marketing.

01:24:24.000 Must have a college degree.

01:24:26.000 What happens?

01:24:27.000 Same thing.

01:24:28.000 Phone call after phone call after phone call.

01:24:29.000 Well, now he's out of money.

01:24:30.000 He spent a bunch of money training these people.

01:24:32.000 He wasn't getting output.

01:24:33.000 So he just said, looking for people who know social media, 10 bucks an hour.

01:24:38.000 He gets a couple people who had moved from middle America to California to find their dream in acting.

01:24:44.000 And he says, here's the job.

01:24:46.000 Go for it.

01:24:46.000 Not a single phone call.

01:24:48.000 Now he's worried.

01:24:49.000 Uh-oh.

01:24:50.000 Something must be going wrong because they're not telling me anything.

01:24:53.000 He comes back.

01:24:54.000 Everything okay?

01:24:55.000 It's all good, boss.

01:24:56.000 And he was like, no problems, no problems.

01:24:58.000 Well, there was this one thing from one of these restaurants, but we took care of it.

01:25:01.000 And so what he said was, these young people that moved from the middle of the country to California of their own volition, with no college, with no education, took the initiative.

01:25:10.000 It wasn't the college degree.

01:25:12.000 It was that they knew, they were confident in themselves to figure out and solve this problem.

01:25:16.000 Whereas the people who went to college were the people who did what they were told by their parents.

01:25:21.000 And now they're, you know, 24 with no experience in the real world and they're panicking because they don't know how to solve these problems and they're asking you to solve it for them.

01:25:27.000 Why?

01:25:28.000 The kids who went to college would always go to their professor or their teacher and say, what do I do now?

01:25:33.000 Absolutely right.

01:25:36.000 But it's not even the college level.

01:25:41.000 It's happening down in high schools and middle schools, and this is one of the things I don't like about this standardized testing.

01:25:47.000 Because what standardized testing is doing is creating robotic thinking.

01:25:52.000 You know, we have to teach you to be able to pass a test.

01:25:56.000 We're not teaching you to have critical thinking skills, to be an independent thinker.

01:26:00.000 And then, of course, you need to go to college.

01:26:03.000 And if we make college free, then everyone goes to college.

01:26:06.000 And then what happens to the productivity of people?

01:26:08.000 That's exactly what happens.

01:26:10.000 One of the things that I would always talk about when I was in the military, I want a person, I want a soldier that's a fire-and-forget weapon system.

01:26:18.000 That's what you're talking about.

01:26:20.000 It's a fire-and-forget weapon system.

01:26:22.000 So it's the same as when you take that pistol or that rifle and you pull the trigger, as long as you have aimed it in the right place, the bullet's going to hit the target.

01:26:31.000 And so that's the type of people that we should be trying to develop are fire-and-forget weapon system individuals that understand critical thinking, that understand independent thought.

01:26:41.000 And we're rewarding them for being independent thinkers.

01:26:44.000 But what progressivism, socialism, statism, communism, Marxism, whatever you want to call it, What it is creating is a collective groupthink.

01:26:53.000 You know, when I came in here, you had Star Trek The Next Generation.

01:26:56.000 Love it.

01:26:57.000 Star Trek The Next Generation.

01:26:58.000 Remember the Borg?

01:26:59.000 Oh yeah.

01:27:00.000 Okay, what was the Borg?

01:27:01.000 The Borg was a collective body.

01:27:03.000 No individuality whatsoever.

01:27:04.000 What did the Borg say?

01:27:05.000 Resistance is futile.

01:27:07.000 You will What is it?

01:27:11.000 Your technology and your culture will be assimilated. 0.72

01:27:14.000 Resistance is futile.

01:27:15.000 And that's exactly what we see happening, young people, is that you have this collective mentality and mindset that does not want you to be a fire-and-forget weapon system.

01:27:25.000 It wants you to be part of a council culture. 0.97

01:27:27.000 It wants you to be part of a social justice warrior clan or whatever.

01:27:31.000 You know, you've got to be able to go out and think and do and be able to survive on your own.

01:27:37.000 Instead of sitting around for the authoritarians to say that we're going to give you some free health care.

01:27:43.000 We're going to give you some free college education.

01:27:45.000 What's fire and forget?

01:27:46.000 That's like you shoot and you just accept it's done.

01:27:50.000 It's exactly what he said.

01:27:51.000 Hiring someone that you tell here's your task and purpose and they got it.

01:27:55.000 They don't come back and keep bugging you.

01:27:58.000 You ever read the same message to Garcia?

01:28:00.000 It's a little short pamphlet.

01:28:02.000 Read the little message to Garcia.

01:28:04.000 There was a gentleman in the military that was chosen to deliver a message to a Cuban fighter named Garcia.

01:28:14.000 Where's Garcia?

01:28:15.000 You just gotta find him.

01:28:17.000 What does Garcia look like?

01:28:18.000 You will figure it out.

01:28:19.000 And the guy took the message, and he found Garcia.

01:28:22.000 That's what we want.

01:28:23.000 And you know what I've experienced when I hire, I've hired college grads?

01:28:27.000 I've been told, you have to tell me what to do.

01:28:29.000 No joke, no joke!

01:28:30.000 I hired someone once, and they were like, what do I, I hired them for a specific job, administrative role, and then I remember one day they came to me and said, I don't know how to do this, what am I supposed to do?

01:28:40.000 And I was like, if I knew how to do it, I would not have hired you to do it!

01:28:43.000 So listen, You've got all the time in the world, figure it out.

01:28:47.000 Reasonably, I expect you to figure it out quickly, but I understand this, like, you go to school for certain things, I understand you can learn.

01:28:53.000 This specific program was not something you learn in college, but you can spend the day figuring out the software.

01:28:58.000 They couldn't do it.

01:28:59.000 They just said, just tell me how to do it.

01:29:01.000 I don't know how to do it either.

01:29:03.000 And that's why, you know, back when I was growing up, the old folks down south, they used to say, that boy got a whole lot of book learning, but he ain't got no common sense.

01:29:11.000 And that's what they were talking about.

01:29:12.000 The difference between knowledge and wisdom.

01:29:14.000 Absolutely.

01:29:15.000 Absolutely.

01:29:16.000 And so if there is a threat that I see for us as a country is getting back to that sense of rugged individualism and getting back to that sense of I can and not sitting around and waiting for someone to tell me what you know what to do because that collective mentality will always destroy.

01:29:35.000 I feel like we need like an emergency to whip people into that frenzy of do it.

01:29:40.000 Well, that's why y'all are here.

01:29:43.000 That's why y'all are here.

01:29:43.000 That's what y'all are doing.

01:29:44.000 That's what y'all are professing.

01:29:45.000 That's why I was... Look, I am so humbled that you guys would, you know, ask me to come up... We're humbler than you can be.

01:29:52.000 No, no.

01:29:53.000 Look, look.

01:29:53.000 This is awesome because, you know, again, this is that Logan's Run moment.

01:29:59.000 When you find the old guy out there in the sanctuary and you bring him back to the young city, and they impart all of this wisdom.

01:30:06.000 I want to start a new political movement.

01:30:08.000 Party, whatever.

01:30:09.000 I don't care about party politics, but I want to involve the brightest minds, do a popular win, like it's just a popularity contest at this point.

01:30:16.000 Make Tim president, I'll be the vice president.

01:30:18.000 Come help us, advise us.

01:30:20.000 I don't want to do it, but I feel like it has to happen.

01:30:22.000 You guys can make me Secretary of Defense.

01:30:23.000 Let's do it, yes!

01:30:25.000 I know some people we could bring on.

01:30:26.000 I'm never going to be a president or a politician.

01:30:29.000 Maybe we don't need a president, it's just a better system.

01:30:32.000 But this is the movement that you all created, because you are a bright and shining light.

01:30:37.000 Like it says in the Bible, in Matthew chapter 5, you're the shining city that sits upon a hill.

01:30:41.000 You're that light that sits on the lamp stand that you cannot put a cover over.

01:30:46.000 And you guys have got to continue to get this message out here because that's my concern.

01:30:51.000 Remember what I said?

01:30:52.000 There was once upon a time when I could sit down with my parents and watch the Grammys.

01:30:56.000 I can't do that.

01:30:59.000 My daughters are 27 and 24.

01:31:00.000 There's no way I would have sat with my daughters.

01:31:02.000 That would have been really awkward.

01:31:03.000 Totally awkward.

01:31:05.000 Watching this performance from Cardi B. Totally awkward.

01:31:07.000 I can't sit down and watch some of these Super Bowl halftime shows.

01:31:11.000 I don't watch it with them.

01:31:13.000 Yeah, I couldn't watch it alone.

01:31:15.000 The Grammys.

01:31:16.000 That was hard to watch.

01:31:17.000 The Grammys is a really good, I mean, issue to bring up in that our culture is completely fragmented and divided.

01:31:23.000 You know, you're here saying, this is the message, we got the message out.

01:31:27.000 And I think about some of the things that we've talked about in terms of the armed forces and especially in terms of the transgender issue.

01:31:32.000 And I mean, those are extremely divisive topics where you even challenge some of these orthodoxies on the left and they get violent.

01:31:41.000 There are certain things, sure, where we've seen people on the right.

01:31:43.000 But you know why they get violent?

01:31:45.000 No answer.

01:31:45.000 That's right.

01:31:46.000 Yeah.

01:31:47.000 A hit dog, my dad used to say, a hit dog will holler.

01:31:51.000 Yeah.

01:31:52.000 Yeah.

01:31:53.000 I think it's the, when people can't find a logical course of action, they become angry.

01:32:00.000 Right.

01:32:00.000 But if you're giving it the spurs and it has a place to go, it's not gonna scream, it's just gonna go.

01:32:04.000 But my concern is, when you look to the Grammys, when you look to the establishment, the major marketing companies, the social media companies, They're the Borg.

01:32:12.000 They're the ones who are saying, assimilate or else.

01:32:16.000 And many of these people that we used to see on YouTube, we did a members-only segment the other day about this, the anti-SJWs, we called them, some of them have just capitulated and given in.

01:32:26.000 And now they won't necessarily agree with everything from the woke establishment, but they're certainly no longer critical of the establishment.

01:32:31.000 They've like shifted gears.

01:32:33.000 And now they go for soft targets because they're scared.

01:32:35.000 They're scared the machine will come for them, will destroy them.

01:32:40.000 If we don't have people who are willing to stand up and be on the front line.

01:32:43.000 There are more of us than there are of them.

01:32:45.000 And I truly believe that.

01:32:46.000 And one thing that my mom taught me was that a man must stand for something or else he'll fall for anything.

01:32:51.000 And so to those people that are running away from their fundamental principles and values, You know, you can never acquiesce, compromise, appease, or negotiate enough with the far left, with the woke council culture.

01:33:07.000 There's nothing that you can give to them which will ever satiate their appetite for more control and more power.

01:33:14.000 So at some point in time, you're going to have to make a stand.

01:33:17.000 At some point in time, you're going to have to say enough.

01:33:20.000 I mean, Pepe Le Pew?

01:33:23.000 Speedy Gonzales?

01:33:25.000 Dr. Stephon Molyneux?

01:33:27.000 I don't get it.

01:33:27.000 No, no.

01:33:28.000 Joe Biden is a bigger abuser than Pepe Le Pew was. 0.99

01:33:31.000 Like, you can see the videos of Joe Biden grabbing the women and sniffing them. 0.89

01:33:34.000 What's her name?

01:33:36.000 Tara Reid?

01:33:37.000 I mean, that's what's still on the table.

01:33:39.000 And these stories were buried.

01:33:40.000 And Pepe Le Pew is the offensive thing.

01:33:43.000 But Cardi B is not.

01:33:44.000 Listen, listen.

01:33:45.000 Pepe Le Pew was prancing around saying, mon chéri, or whatever.

01:33:48.000 Yeah, I learned a little French from Pepe Le Pew.

01:33:52.000 No, no, but look, if you want to criticize old art or old cultural tropes, I got no problem with that.

01:33:57.000 There are a lot of things from the 20s we don't show these days, 30s, 40s, 50s.

01:34:01.000 That's fine by me.

01:34:02.000 But don't come out with this Cardi B stuff, which again, I also honestly don't care about.

01:34:06.000 I won't watch it.

01:34:07.000 You want to do that, you can do it.

01:34:08.000 I'll be somewhere else.

01:34:09.000 But listen, how are you going to show that and then claim Pepe Le Pew is the more, you know, the bad thing?

01:34:15.000 I don't know.

01:34:15.000 That's a good question.

01:34:17.000 Well, you know what I think is going to come from when you look at comedians out there like Jerry Seinfeld and others that are saying that this has gone too far.

01:34:25.000 I mean, Mel Brooks and the movie Blazing Saddles.

01:34:29.000 You can show Blazing Saddles.

01:34:30.000 That was the first R-rated movie I was allowed to watch.

01:34:32.000 I wasn't allowed to watch any.

01:34:34.000 But my dad let me watch that one because it was so good.

01:34:37.000 It was just hilarious.

01:34:38.000 What a good... I mean, how long until Quentin Tarantino gets banned?

01:34:41.000 I mean, come on.

01:34:42.000 That dude uses racial slurs every chance he gets.

01:34:45.000 It's in his movies, it's in art context.

01:34:47.000 Well, it depends on if he bows down to the gods of the left.

01:34:50.000 He hasn't.

01:34:50.000 I don't think he will.

01:34:52.000 But maybe a lot of them do.

01:34:55.000 But think about it.

01:34:56.000 Sarah Silverman has come out and said this is too much.

01:35:00.000 Bill Maher has come out and you started listening to some of the things that he's saying.

01:35:06.000 I like Bill Maher.

01:35:07.000 I think he's got Trump derangement syndrome and he's too wrapped up in... Let me stop there.

01:35:13.000 It's the blue pill and the red pill.

01:35:15.000 People think red pill means you're a Republican.

01:35:16.000 It doesn't.

01:35:17.000 It means you've recognized the narrative from the media is often complete BS.

01:35:21.000 Bill Maher still believes too much of it.

01:35:23.000 But it's like he's in that blue-pilled room looking out the window and kind of seeing the freedom and recognizing the problem, but he doesn't break through.

01:35:31.000 It takes him a long time.

01:35:33.000 And eventually he will come around because, again, there is no Trump boogeyman out there.

01:35:39.000 And the further and further they get away from the Trump boogeyman, all of a sudden they're going to reach out and see, this ain't working.

01:35:46.000 Well, they're trying to do Tucker now.

01:35:47.000 Brian Stelter.

01:35:48.000 He's like, Tucker is the new Trump.

01:35:50.000 Yeah, yeah.

01:35:51.000 All right, let's go to Super Chats.

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01:36:29.000 But let's read some of these super chats.

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01:36:35.000 We got this from the Civic Nationalist.

01:36:36.000 He says, to Lieutenant Colonel Allen, thank you for your service to your country and continuing to serve your country.

01:36:42.000 From 2ParaPTE to the Yanks, your enemy of your country is never going to stop. 0.97

01:36:48.000 What are you going to do to stop it?

01:36:50.000 Well, you know, without a doubt, we're going to continue to fight them on this ideological battlefield.

01:36:57.000 And I think that being on a show like this and bringing out these thoughts, perspectives and insights, everything that I have in my head, imparting that wisdom so that you can empower people to be able to fight in their own respective spaces and in their communities and what have you.

01:37:09.000 So that's it.

01:37:10.000 It's all about leading by example.

01:37:12.000 And I think if folks can see the courage that I display to stand up to the left, then they will be inspired to be courageous as well.

01:37:19.000 We have one.

01:37:19.000 It's just a general compliment.

01:37:21.000 Raymond Field says, you made my night by having one of my favorite people on.

01:37:24.000 I love Alan West.

01:37:25.000 Thank you very much.

01:37:26.000 There you go.

01:37:27.000 And then we have Tyler Bachman.

01:37:30.000 Thank you, Tim Castellaw crew.

01:37:31.000 Your show helped keep my mind off of a recent breakup.

01:37:34.000 This is my new favorite podcast.

01:37:35.000 Well, if you really do like it, smash the like button, share it, all that good stuff.

01:37:38.000 Really appreciate it.

01:37:40.000 Keegan Devlin says, thank you for this guest.

01:37:42.000 After last night's show, this is the hero we need.

01:37:47.000 Look man, I genuinely respect Rukka for coming on because, for those that don't know, a lot of people weren't thrilled with that show, didn't like it, didn't want to hear what he had to say, but we have to have hard conversations.

01:37:58.000 A lot of people really like you, Alan West, and your ideas and opinions.

01:38:02.000 So they definitely are here for it, but I think it's very important to listen to people you don't like, and I do it often.

01:38:08.000 I pull up progressives and people I disagree with.

01:38:10.000 I follow them on Twitter.

01:38:11.000 I try to make sure I understand what they're thinking, because sometimes they have good ideas, and it's important to find that commonality if we're going to build a better future as Americans.

01:38:19.000 It's also important to understand where we disagree so I understand their arguments accurately.

01:38:24.000 I think a lot of people on the right like me because I'm trying to be honest and honestly represent people of all different stripes.

01:38:30.000 And that means I follow a bunch of progressives, I follow a bunch of conservatives, and I think we gotta have those conversations.

01:38:35.000 Well, I will tell folks, if I could recommend several books to read, you've gotta read Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals. 0.99

01:38:43.000 Definitely.

01:38:43.000 You have got to read Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.

01:38:46.000 You've got to read Frederick Basiat's The Law.

01:38:49.000 And you've got to read Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America.

01:38:53.000 So I would say read those four books because you've got to understand who you are, what you believe in.

01:38:57.000 You've got to understand the other side, who they are and what they believe in.

01:39:00.000 That's right.

01:39:01.000 Joshua Brewer says, could you ask Colonel West in what era he thinks the Democrats were the worst?

01:39:06.000 Civil War, New Deal, Jim Crow and segregation, or this new form of destruction, which is all three 0.70

01:39:12.000 of the others combined? I think it's the new era that has started since Lyndon Baines Johnson and

01:39:17.000 the Great Society programs. Because what you have seen happen when even though I was born in a

01:39:21.000 blacks only hospital, almost 77% of black kids had mommy and daddy in the home.

01:39:26.000 Today it's only 24%.

01:39:28.000 So I think that this modern, post-modern liberalism, progressivism, socialism of the Democrat Party is four words.

01:39:36.000 Is it accurate to refer to you as Colonel or Lieutenant Colonel West?

01:39:40.000 You can call me Colonel as long as there's not a full Colonel around, they'll take offense to that.

01:39:46.000 You can just call me Colonel.

01:39:47.000 Chairman?

01:39:48.000 Does that sound weird?

01:39:49.000 Or Chairman?

01:39:51.000 I'm not.

01:39:53.000 Servant is the best one.

01:39:55.000 Husband is the best one.

01:39:56.000 Father is the best one.

01:39:57.000 And Grandpa, come may.

01:39:59.000 Oh, congratulations!

01:40:03.000 Erica Baum with just a, wow, this is a really amazing compliment.

01:40:07.000 Tim, you filled Rogan's YouTube void.

01:40:09.000 This guest is legit, and I'm so happy to see Mr. West here right now.

01:40:12.000 Clap, clap, much respect.

01:40:14.000 Thank you.

01:40:14.000 I mean, people really love Alan West.

01:40:16.000 Wow.

01:40:18.000 Holy S, it's Colonel West.

01:40:19.000 God bless you, sir.

01:40:20.000 Been on the fence with enlisting in the National Guard as E4 with my degree.

01:40:24.000 However, now Biden.

01:40:25.000 Thoughts, advice?

01:40:27.000 Well, it depends on what state that you're in because first and foremost you're going to be serving that state.

01:40:31.000 And so, you know, regardless of who's in the White House, serving your country is a great thing.

01:40:37.000 You know, when I was in the military, I did eight years under Bill Clinton.

01:40:41.000 Was it easy?

01:40:42.000 Absolutely not!

01:40:43.000 But I was still serving my country and that's the most important thing.

01:40:46.000 And the great thing about our men and women that serve They don't take an oath to a political party.

01:40:50.000 They don't take an oath to a person.

01:40:52.000 They took an oath to the Constitution of the United States of America.

01:40:54.000 And on 31 July 1982, I said, I, Allen Bernard West, will support and defend the Constitution of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I bear true faith and allegiance to the same, that I take this obligation freely, without any purpose of evasion or mental reservation, so help me God.

01:41:13.000 The great thing about that oath, my dad took that oath.

01:41:16.000 As a soldier in World War II.

01:41:18.000 My older brother took that oath as a Marine who served in Vietnam.

01:41:21.000 I took that oath and my nephew took that oath and now he's a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army.

01:41:27.000 So there's nothing greater than saying those words and meaning it and serving this great nation.

01:41:33.000 And that's what I fear because even police have a similar oath to defend the Constitution.

01:41:39.000 Too many people don't really mean it.

01:41:42.000 That worries me.

01:41:43.000 If we ever get to the point as a nation where we're not raising up the next generation of men and women who sincerely want to serve this country, who sincerely, as Abraham Lincoln said, not too far away from here at Gettysburg, are willing to make the last full measure of devotion so that we can give them the increased amount of devotion.

01:42:03.000 If we ever get to the point where we're not raising that next generation, then I'm worried about America.

01:42:07.000 But I still see the young man such as that one right there.

01:42:11.000 What do you think about the Grand Commander, Supreme Commander, Commander-in-Chief being left up to a popularity contest?

01:42:17.000 I am very concerned because once upon a time, you could not be the President of the United States of America if you had not said those words that I said and served in uniform.

01:42:27.000 As a matter of fact, back in the mid to late 1970s, I think it was close to 80%, 75-80% of the people that serve in the House and Senate has served in the uniform.

01:42:40.000 Now that number's like 18%.

01:42:41.000 Wow.

01:42:42.000 And if you think that there's a difference, there is a difference.

01:42:46.000 Because there's something about willing to lay your life down for something and then you get the opportunity, like I did, to go and serve the country and still defend and honor that oath, but you do it in a suit and tie.

01:42:57.000 You do it in one of those institutions that you swore to defend.

01:43:01.000 We got to get back to that.

01:43:02.000 We got to get back to citizen legislatures and servants.

01:43:05.000 Have you ever watched or read Starship Troopers?

01:43:08.000 Of course!

01:43:09.000 Casper Van Dien.

01:43:10.000 There you go.

01:43:10.000 Service guarantees citizenship.

01:43:12.000 Service guarantees citizenship.

01:43:13.000 It's interesting that they call that idea fascistic.

01:43:16.000 This idea that you would earn your right to vote and participate in civics by agreeing to serve your society, I don't think is fascistic at all.

01:43:25.000 I don't think it's fascistic at all, and I don't think it's a far-fetched theme.

01:43:29.000 I think that when you look at, really, you want to talk about the 1%ers? 1.00

01:43:34.000 It's the people that have served this country in uniform.

01:43:38.000 Less than 1%, I think it's like maybe .6%, have done a full 20-year career to the United States of America that are alive today.

01:43:48.000 That's your real one percenters. 0.95

01:43:50.000 And I would just challenge any young man or young woman to be a part of that real elite group of people.

01:43:56.000 I just see these powerful interests manipulating those good people.

01:44:00.000 You know, I have, like I mentioned, I lived just off of Fort Eustis.

01:44:03.000 I had a lot of friends who, you know, my brother obviously, and my sister married in.

01:44:07.000 I was in Fort Carson.

01:44:09.000 I met a lot of really awesome people, brave people.

01:44:12.000 I've met a lot of humble people, you know, particularly in Newport News who tell me they don't consider it like, you know, a lot of people like you're a hero for serving and they're like, oh, come on, you know, it's a job.

01:44:21.000 I'm right.

01:44:21.000 I understand.

01:44:22.000 But they're humble.

01:44:23.000 They're regular people and they are willing to take greater risks.

01:44:25.000 And, you know, especially those who fight in combat.

01:44:28.000 But then I see this big machine, this political elite machine of people who are millionaires, who don't serve, who don't care, and they manipulate the good men and women in uniform for personal gain.

01:44:37.000 And that's the thing, Ian, is that if we want to see a difference in our country, there has to be a difference in us, as the voting electorate, so that we don't see it as a popularity contest.

01:44:46.000 We're looking for servants.

01:44:48.000 We're looking for leaders.

01:44:49.000 We're looking for the person that we believe would lay down their life for this country.

01:44:54.000 All right, let's read some more.

01:44:54.000 We got, um... Urban Lagoon says, Hey Tim, been a fan since forever.

01:44:58.000 Love Allen West.

01:44:59.000 Also, I served four years in the Army.

01:45:01.000 Also from Northeast Ohio, Ian.

01:45:03.000 Rust Belt flyovers for the win.

01:45:05.000 Can I get a shoutout for my first skate edit, Bad Hair Days, and that's D-A-Z-E, on my channel?

01:45:11.000 You got it, buddy.

01:45:12.000 All right, we got this.

01:45:14.000 Joe A says, I wonder how Colonel West views the purge of radicals in the military that was initiated by Pelosi.

01:45:19.000 That is horrible.

01:45:19.000 I am so concerned.

01:45:20.000 I am so concerned about this because we are instituting the policy of political officers in our military.

01:45:26.000 We're putting commissars in our military.

01:45:28.000 And so when we start to have people that are talking about purging and looking through social media accounts of men and women in uniform, but only for conservative sites.

01:45:37.000 That's right.

01:45:39.000 That's cancel culture. 0.99

01:45:40.000 You're politicizing our military.

01:45:42.000 And that is a very dangerous path to go down, because our military serves our Constitution.

01:45:47.000 They serve this country.

01:45:48.000 They don't serve a political party.

01:45:50.000 And I don't want to see us to have some type of Soviet-style military.

01:45:55.000 Well, that's what I worry about.

01:45:57.000 That's what they're trying to implement.

01:45:58.000 In some of these stories, they said that people who had posted images of the Gadsden flag on Facebook were getting pulled from D.C.

01:46:04.000 There is a chaplain At Fort Hood, Texas, who on his own personal Facebook account posted that he did not agree with the gender dysphoria, transgenders, you know, openly serving in the military.

01:46:21.000 He was brought up in an investigation.

01:46:24.000 Wow.

01:46:25.000 On his own personal.

01:46:26.000 Now, he's a chaplain.

01:46:27.000 Now, that's his freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and what have you.

01:46:32.000 And now they're investigating the chaplain?

01:46:35.000 So I'm very concerned about the politicization of our military.

01:46:38.000 I think they want to create a monoculture.

01:46:41.000 Of course they do.

01:46:42.000 They want to get rid of anyone who challenges their orthodoxy.

01:46:45.000 It's the Borg.

01:46:47.000 Right.

01:46:47.000 Resistance is futile.

01:46:49.000 That's what they want you to believe, that resistance is futile and you will assimilate.

01:46:54.000 But we don't have to.

01:46:56.000 So long as we keep having these conversations.

01:46:58.000 And we will.

01:46:58.000 We got a chat here from Christopher McHatton.

01:47:01.000 He says, Texas resident and conservative.

01:47:03.000 Thank you, Lieutenant Colonel West, for your service to the country.

01:47:06.000 How can I get involved in state politics, particularly ousting Clay Jenkins from his Dallas County judge position?

01:47:12.000 Hey, I'm all about that because I live in Dallas County too.

01:47:15.000 He says, I want to get involved in the campaign against him, but don't know how.

01:47:18.000 Okay, I will tell you to please go to the Republican Party of Texas website and one of the things you can immediately do is to go to the drop-down tab for legislative priorities and start getting involved in our legislative priorities but also the Dallas County Republican Party.

01:47:32.000 Let's start looking at our local level elections that will happen on May the 1st.

01:47:36.000 City Council, School Board, County Clerk, County Commission, those are very important.

01:47:40.000 Clay Jenkins is not up in this election cycle but in two years he will be and we need to get rid of Clay Jenkins.

01:47:45.000 You want to talk about a despotic Ruler in Dallas County, Clay Jenkins is an example.

01:47:52.000 Alexander Olsen says, I propose the new name for SJW, social justice or cancel culture, be hate machine cult culture cultist.

01:48:01.000 All it does is deconstruct, demoralize and demonize and destroy.

01:48:05.000 The result is division, deprivation, despair and death.

01:48:08.000 Down with the hate machine cult.

01:48:10.000 I agree.

01:48:11.000 I do.

01:48:11.000 I'm all about individual freedoms, liberty, respect, and that includes people of all different backgrounds.

01:48:16.000 I think people deserve equality under the law, but I just think it's the authoritarianism.

01:48:21.000 Like, I like a lot of true social justice only need be called justice.

01:48:27.000 Just justice.

01:48:29.000 You don't have to qualify justice.

01:48:30.000 Right.

01:48:31.000 And just make sure that it is equally administered all across the board.

01:48:35.000 They say climate justice, social justice, housing justice, and really it's just a manipulation to make you think you're fighting the good fight.

01:48:47.000 The economic crisis of 2008 came because of housing justice.

01:48:51.000 When Jimmy Carter in 1978 created the Commercial Reinvestment Act, which basically said everyone has a right to own a home and government got involved in the private mortgage industry, 30 years later you had that economic meltdown.

01:49:06.000 Subprime mortgages, all of that stuff.

01:49:09.000 In reference to the gun conversation, Nick Sheamus says, make NICs available to the public.

01:49:15.000 That's the NICS background check.

01:49:17.000 Does that make sense to you?

01:49:18.000 What do you think?

01:49:18.000 People could use it and then if they want to do a private transfer, they could access it?

01:49:23.000 As long as there's some second check.

01:49:25.000 you know just the same as when you go to buy a a firearm there's always a second

01:49:29.000 check of that forty four seventy three

01:49:31.000 and one of the problems that i think we have out there is uh... a lack of of review of of that next system

01:49:39.000 the uh... the shooter down in southerland springs texas who went in

01:49:43.000 and shot the church up there first baptist southern springs he should not have been able to purchase a firearm 0.83

01:49:50.000 He was a felon.

01:49:51.000 He was disarmingly discharged from the United States Air Force.

01:49:55.000 But yet he did not properly answer on his 4473 and was not caught.

01:50:01.000 And he was able to purchase a weapon.

01:50:02.000 So it is not us, the legal law-abiding citizens, it's the system out there that we have in place that needs to be corrected and fixed.

01:50:10.000 Yeah.

01:50:12.000 G Perez says, don't always agree but great show.

01:50:15.000 To Lieutenant Colonel West, retired Deep Strike and ABN troop here, God bless.

01:50:20.000 Oh man, Deep Strike.

01:50:21.000 What do you think about the loss of Judeo-Christian ideals in the US?

01:50:24.000 I think that this is a very big concern.

01:50:26.000 That's why H.R.

01:50:27.000 5 is very threatening to that very first liberty that you have.

01:50:32.000 There's a reason why the Founding Fathers put the freedom of religion and the free exercise thereof as your very first right in your Bill of Rights, because they saw what happened in England when the head of state made himself the head of religion, head of church.

01:50:45.000 And that's what Thomas Jefferson talked about in that letter to the Danbury Baptist Convention about separation of church and state.

01:50:51.000 It was not to have so much of that authoritarian power concentrated in one person that said that here are the laws and here is religion as well.

01:50:59.000 He wanted to make sure that they stay separated.

01:51:01.000 So it is so important that the religion of the left does not supersede our Judeo-Christian faith heritage.

01:51:09.000 You know, I grew up Catholic for a few years and then we went to public school, kind of lost a lot of that.

01:51:17.000 I knew enough that when I looked up things like Blackstone's formulation, I understood the root being the story of Sodom and Gomorrah and if there's but one righteous person.

01:51:27.000 It's interesting to me because we talked about this, I think it was with, who did we talk about this?

01:51:32.000 It was one of our Catholic guests.

01:51:33.000 Seamus?

01:51:33.000 No, it might have been Seamus.

01:51:35.000 Or Drew.

01:51:36.000 It may have been both actually.

01:51:37.000 This idea that even though many liberals don't understand this, like I'm talking about 90s and 2000s liberals, They like to say, like, Bill Maher's a good example.

01:51:46.000 Like, religion doesn't make me a moral person.

01:51:49.000 But he was raised in a society that has for a long time held Judeo-Christian values.

01:51:55.000 And while I think it's fair to say you might be secularist, you may be atheist, I think it's important to realize that people, they often don't understand this.

01:52:03.000 I know this because I've actually looked into what are one of the ideals that we hold as a liberal society?

01:52:08.000 Blackstone's formulation, innocent until proven guilty, the right to a trial by jury of your peers, things like that.

01:52:14.000 It is rooted very much so in these values.

01:52:16.000 Ten Commandments.

01:52:18.000 What we've basically done.

01:52:20.000 We've come from an age where we had a bunch of bad ideas, but some good ideas.

01:52:24.000 We kept those good ideas, got rid of some of those bad ideas.

01:52:27.000 And every generation we've been keeping the good ideas.

01:52:30.000 Now it feels like we're entering this period where we're starting to build up bad ideas and get rid of the good ideas.

01:52:35.000 And that to me is worrying.

01:52:37.000 And it even talks about that in the Bible, when you will call bad, good, and you will call good, bad.

01:52:43.000 And I think that we're entering into that phase.

01:52:46.000 And, you know, when you hear people say that there's no objective truth, I kind of disagree with you.

01:52:51.000 I mean, two plus two does equal four.

01:52:53.000 Well, they're saying it's five now.

01:52:54.000 You saw that, right?

01:52:55.000 And math is not racist.

01:52:57.000 You've seen them say two.

01:52:57.000 Oh, I know, I know.

01:52:58.000 That's the most insane thing.

01:52:59.000 But I don't want that person to build a bridge.

01:53:01.000 What they're doing is they've actually argued 2 plus 2 sometimes equals 5, and then they add a bunch of qualifiers that aren't a part of the equation.

01:53:09.000 Well, that's common core math.

01:53:11.000 Well, so one of the things they've said is, what if it's 2.9 plus 2.9?

01:53:15.000 It's like, well, then that's a different equation.

01:53:17.000 That's 5.8.

01:53:18.000 Exactly.

01:53:20.000 And you can round it up to six.

01:53:22.000 I mean, if you want a whole number.

01:53:23.000 They're trying to argue that there could be hidden decimals and that if you're thinking critically, the answer could be different.

01:53:28.000 But the problem is you're giving a straightforward, you know, I would tell this to people.

01:53:33.000 Look, there's a window in front of me.

01:53:35.000 What happens if I take this rock and I throw it at the window?

01:53:38.000 Window's gonna break.

01:53:39.000 Very likely the window's gonna break.

01:53:40.000 We can recognize maybe sometimes it doesn't, but come on.

01:53:43.000 You throw a rock at a window, window breaks.

01:53:44.000 Maybe it's bulletproof, I don't know.

01:53:46.000 Again, that comes back to what the old folks used to say down south.

01:53:49.000 That boy got a lot of book learned, he ain't got no common sense.

01:53:51.000 I make the argument that one plus one equals two, but in base two mathematics and binary, one plus one equals one zero, because there's only two decimals.

01:53:59.000 There's a zero and a one in binary.

01:54:01.000 And that's fine.

01:54:01.000 You would basically say one plus one in binary and then ask them for the answer.

01:54:06.000 Well, if you don't, if you just ask the question, what's one plus one, and you don't tell them what base math they're in, it could be one zero.

01:54:11.000 It could be two, but it's the same quantity.

01:54:15.000 They're looking at it in a different way.

01:54:18.000 The issue is they're literally arguing that you have two apples and two apples, you put them together, and all of a sudden an apple appears out of nowhere.

01:54:23.000 That argument's nonsense.

01:54:24.000 They're arguing that language defines our ideas, and they're trying to deconstruct math.

01:54:30.000 That's true, though.

01:54:31.000 Well, the language does define our ideas, because if you and I are looking at a six from here, I'm gonna say it's a nine, you're gonna say it's a six.

01:54:37.000 Right, right.

01:54:37.000 But the idea is, we can call it one, or we can call it blorb.

01:54:43.000 It represents the same value.

01:54:45.000 Simply because language may be different doesn't change the fact that there's a certain value.

01:54:48.000 And they're trying to argue that there could be hidden values and equations that aren't a part of the equation.

01:54:53.000 But I don't want to rehash the 2 plus 2 is 5.

01:54:54.000 There are four people in this room.

01:54:56.000 That's a good point.

01:54:57.000 There are four lights.

01:54:59.000 You know that reference, yeah?

01:55:00.000 There are four lights.

01:55:01.000 Next generation.

01:55:03.000 Picard was captured by the Cardassians and they were torturing him.

01:55:06.000 Demanding.

01:55:07.000 He's a Trekkie.

01:55:08.000 He's all the way.

01:55:10.000 So they were demanding.

01:55:11.000 He's torturing him.

01:55:12.000 There are four lights.

01:55:12.000 And he goes, how many lights are there?

01:55:14.000 And he says, there are four.

01:55:15.000 No, there are five.

01:55:15.000 And Picard refuses to say.

01:55:17.000 He's like, there are four lights!

01:55:18.000 It's like 1984.

01:55:19.000 Yeah, they were trying to force him to do it.

01:55:20.000 And we live in 1984.

01:55:21.000 Definitely.

01:55:22.000 All right, we got Student of History says, with all due respect to both of you sizing each other up on 2A, I must ask where do y'all stand scale from 1 to Abrams MBT?

01:55:34.000 Me personally, I read the shall not be infringed part of part and go, yep, seems legit.

01:55:40.000 Although I also recognize the well-regulated militia.

01:55:43.000 I cannot fit an Abrams battle tank in my garage.

01:55:47.000 I would love to, but I cannot fit it.

01:55:49.000 And plus, it's a crew serve, and right now, I have an empty nest, so it's only my wife and myself, and I don't think she could drive it, and she definitely couldn't be the gunner.

01:55:57.000 Can you legally own it?

01:55:58.000 No.

01:55:59.000 You don't think so?

01:56:00.000 No, I don't think so.

01:56:00.000 Now, if you're a museum, and if you have something, now, yes, you could purchase something like a tank or what have you.

01:56:08.000 And then there's some still restrictions on what you could do.

01:56:11.000 Because there's some people here locally, I know, that have a museum that have M60 tanks.

01:56:16.000 There's a guy who drives around not too far from here with a World War II Jeep with a full-auto 50 BMG.

01:56:23.000 on it, and he doesn't keep it armed, doesn't keep ammo with him or anything, but he lets people come up and check it out and stuff like that.

01:56:28.000 And I'm sure he's got a special permit for it.

01:56:31.000 There's an interesting argument here in that during the revolutionary era when they were coming up with these ideas, people owned private warships.

01:56:38.000 Yeah, privateers.

01:56:39.000 Exactly, exactly.

01:56:41.000 So, I mean, they understood that concept.

01:56:43.000 People had these things.

01:56:44.000 What's the difference today?

01:56:46.000 Well, uh, I don't know.

01:56:49.000 I don't know.

01:56:49.000 I don't know if we, you know, you can legally own a tank.

01:56:53.000 I'm trying to think, you know, can, can a person, you know, have a little patrol boat?

01:56:59.000 I guess they probably could.

01:57:00.000 You can legally own a tank.

01:57:02.000 My understanding is you just can't have an operational artillery, but you can have guns mounted on it and things like that.

01:57:07.000 And they're.

01:57:08.000 Yeah, you can't go and load it up with any sabot rounds.

01:57:11.000 You can't have a 120mm sabot round.

01:57:13.000 But yeah, I know.

01:57:16.000 Let me tell you, 30 years ago, 30 years ago right now, Operation Desert Shield, Desert Storm, and let me tell you something, there is nothing prettier than seeing an M1A1 Abrams battle tank take out a T-72 at like a mile away.

01:57:32.000 I mean, it is just a beautiful sight.

01:57:34.000 That's physics, man.

01:57:35.000 Isaac Newton made the British Empire take over the world because of physics.

01:57:39.000 People absolutely love you, man.

01:57:43.000 The Hurricane says, possibly the best episode ever.

01:57:45.000 And yes, I'm considering Alex and Michael in this decision.

01:57:49.000 Oh, Michael.

01:57:49.000 Uh-oh, he's going to be upset now.

01:57:51.000 No, probably not.

01:57:52.000 And then Joey Ward says, Tim, best interview I've ever seen.

01:57:55.000 And I listen every day.

01:57:57.000 Well, you know, we were graced with the presence of Alan Westman.

01:58:00.000 It's an honor to be here.

01:58:01.000 I mean, we're grateful that you're here as well.

01:58:03.000 All right, here we go.

01:58:05.000 DJ Madero says to Lieutenant Colonel West from Bend, Oregon, quote, There are two sides to every issue.

01:58:10.000 One side is right and the other side is wrong.

01:58:12.000 But the middle is always evil.

01:58:14.000 Ayn Rand, quote, P.S.

01:58:16.000 Navy veteran.

01:58:17.000 My grandfather was a U.S.

01:58:18.000 Marine on Wake Island in World War Two.

01:58:20.000 The world wonders.

01:58:22.000 Well, you know, one of the things, and it's funny, I mean, Lydia and I were discussing this.

01:58:26.000 In the Bible, in Revelation, it says you eat the hot or your cold.

01:58:28.000 If you're lukewarm, I'll spew you from my mouth.

01:58:30.000 But also, my dad taught me this.

01:58:32.000 My dad was such an insightful man.

01:58:35.000 He said, son, the only thing in the middle of the road is roadkill.

01:58:40.000 And that's why we're talking to me right now.

01:58:41.000 Cause I'm the guy on the fence.

01:58:42.000 They always complain about you. 0.99

01:58:44.000 You're going to be roadkill.

01:58:45.000 Maybe make a decision, but I think a lot of people want to call.

01:58:49.000 Well, I'll tell you this though.

01:58:50.000 A lot of people are like Tim's on the fence.

01:58:52.000 And the reality is I'm not really on the fence on the issues of freedom, liberty, and if you tell me you're a constitutionalist, you're not in the middle of the road.

01:58:59.000 Right.

01:59:00.000 There are certain issues I am definitely in the middle of, you know what I mean?

01:59:02.000 They call me the milquetoast fence-sitter as a joke.

01:59:04.000 But I think that's more to do with, often I'm trying to explore ideas and not push my own on other people.

01:59:11.000 And I respect you so much for that.

01:59:13.000 And that's one of the things that, you know, I like to come on the shows where we can have that intellectual discourse and exchange.

01:59:20.000 Because, again, you know, you only get stronger if you swim against the current.

01:59:26.000 Right.

01:59:27.000 Otherwise, you're just loafing on an inner tube going down straight.

01:59:29.000 Oh yeah, absolutely.

01:59:30.000 I mean, it's easy to go scuba dive.

01:59:33.000 It's easy to go scuba dive and do drift diving.

01:59:35.000 You don't have to kick.

01:59:36.000 You don't have to do anything.

01:59:37.000 Just carry on.

01:59:37.000 It's fun, though, right?

01:59:38.000 It's fun.

01:59:38.000 Because you don't have to exert any energy, but you don't get any stronger.

01:59:41.000 Yeah.

01:59:42.000 All right.

01:59:42.000 We got LKA Zawarudo says, Alan, I am a native Texan, millennial conservative woman and attorney.

01:59:49.000 How can I get more involved in public policy in Texas and help keep our state from going insane?

01:59:54.000 If I was in the military, I would not want a job I'm not physically ready for.

01:59:58.000 Well, once again, you have some great organizations there.

02:00:01.000 You've got Texas Public Policy Foundation, a conservative, you know, center-right group.

02:00:06.000 And again, follow us at the Republican Party of Texas.

02:00:09.000 Go to our legislative priorities because we are in our 87th legislative session, which will end at the end of May.

02:00:15.000 And drop down the digital playbook that we have created for our eight priorities and look and see how you can contact your state house member, state senator, and get engaged in that process.

02:00:25.000 And, you know, I always tell young millennials in Texas that William Barrett Travis, the man who commanded the Alamo for 13 days, was only 26 years of age.

02:00:35.000 Yeah.

02:00:36.000 People don't realize, you know, Thomas Jefferson, wasn't he like 26 or whatever?

02:00:39.000 Young man.

02:00:39.000 Wrote the Declaration of Independence.

02:00:40.000 Incredible.

02:00:41.000 Yeah.

02:00:42.000 That's what this show is doing.

02:00:44.000 This show is making sure that we have that next generation of Travises and Jeffersons and others.

02:00:49.000 And I'm gonna restate what I said like the other day, but we gotta have that generation of people who are willing to get on a boat for three months, sailing, you know, with the wind, then crashing on the shore of some foreign land just with nothing but trees, and then saying, gotta get started and just build from nothing.

02:01:03.000 Yeah.

02:01:03.000 You better figure it out.

02:01:04.000 Sink or swim, buddy.

02:01:05.000 Also to write a constitution.

02:01:07.000 If it's wrong, it's wrong.

02:01:07.000 and say, what do I do?

02:01:09.000 Who's going to feed me?

02:01:10.000 You better figure it out.

02:01:11.000 Seek or swim, buddy.

02:01:12.000 That's America.

02:01:13.000 That's rugged individualism.

02:01:14.000 Also, to write a constitution.

02:01:16.000 If it's wrong, it's wrong.

02:01:19.000 But think about it.

02:01:20.000 That's it.

02:01:21.000 Yeah.

02:01:22.000 That's the Declaration and the Constitution.

02:01:24.000 There's this thing called the Manila Principles.

02:01:25.000 Have you heard of them?

02:01:26.000 It's a digital constitution for the internet age.

02:01:28.000 It's just six parts of like, you know, shall not be infringed and things.

02:01:33.000 And I don't know.

02:01:33.000 I'm off the top of my head.

02:01:34.000 I probably should.

02:01:36.000 Things like that.

02:01:37.000 Because we need to add to this document for this digital age.

02:01:40.000 People need to realize how brilliant the structure of government in the United States was.

02:01:44.000 Like, I thought, I remember when I was a kid and I was learning about the branches of government and I'm like, so they didn't just want a monarchy and executive.

02:01:51.000 They said, no, we can't do that because here's what the problem with the executive monarchy, you know, autocracy is.

02:01:56.000 Okay.

02:01:56.000 Well, what about like direct representation?

02:01:58.000 Ah, no, it's too slow.

02:01:59.000 It can't.

02:02:00.000 All right.

02:02:00.000 Well, what about like a council of elders of learned?

02:02:02.000 No, because then they, how about all three of them?

02:02:05.000 They all challenge and check each other.

02:02:08.000 Checks and balances, separation of powers, coequal branches. 0.50

02:02:11.000 So they took Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws, they read it, they studied it, they understood it, and they perfected it.

02:02:18.000 But guess what?

02:02:19.000 We don't teach Spirit of the Laws in schools.

02:02:21.000 What's that?

02:02:23.000 Montesquieu.

02:02:23.000 That's how we came up with the three branches of government.

02:02:26.000 Charles Montesquieu.

02:02:27.000 That's brilliant.

02:02:27.000 Have you heard of the National Initiative?

02:02:29.000 Mike Gravel was pushing it.

02:02:31.000 Okay.

02:02:31.000 A senator from Alaska.

02:02:32.000 Okay.

02:02:32.000 And it proposes a fourth branch of government that would be each state would elect someone to represent them.

02:02:38.000 And these 50 people could come together and write laws and pass them into Congress to the Senate.

02:02:42.000 But that's the Senate.

02:02:43.000 But we already have this.

02:02:44.000 Well, we have one.

02:02:45.000 It's the representatives, but they're essentially a monopoly on lawmaking.

02:02:48.000 So it would would give people also another opportunity. But you still

02:02:51.000 already have it. You know what you have it?

02:02:52.000 In the article 5 convention of states. That's right. I'm telling you these guys sat down and

02:02:57.000 they thought of every single thing. And so it is not just we have representation based upon

02:03:04.000 population. We have equal representation based upon a state.

02:03:08.000 So you have that with the Senate.

02:03:10.000 But then also the states have the ability to have impact upon the Constitution by way of Article 5.

02:03:15.000 So it's there.

02:03:16.000 Let's build a website where we could get all these legislations to come together seamlessly like a social network for state legislations.

02:03:24.000 For state legislation or U.S.

02:03:26.000 legislation?

02:03:26.000 I think for state legislation so that we could call a constitutional That might be difficult because you got 50 different states, but I think that each and every show that you all have, you should do just a quick little 10-minute review of some piece of legislation that has come out of Washington, D.C.

02:03:43.000 H.R.

02:03:43.000 1, H.R.

02:03:43.000 5, H.R.

02:03:44.000 8, H.R.

02:03:45.000 127, H.R.

02:03:45.000 130, whatever.

02:03:45.000 Just pick one and just kind of have a little tutorial and how it would affect the states.

02:03:51.000 Yeah, we do.

02:03:52.000 All right, Crackbot says, Tim, I've spent over 10 years deploying in and out of it out of Afghanistan in the

02:03:58.000 military Especially in combat environment even REMFs were being

02:04:01.000 engaged in fighting We had nurses having to pick up rifles and fight you can't 0.98

02:04:05.000 lower the standards. Everyone is there to fight and

02:04:10.000 RIMF stands for rear echelon mofos Okay, that's what it means.

02:04:16.000 And you're right.

02:04:16.000 What Afghanistan and Iraq, what they are, that's asymmetrical warfare.

02:04:22.000 There is no front line.

02:04:24.000 And, you know, then the rear area.

02:04:26.000 I mean, the enemy attacks you everywhere.

02:04:28.000 And so every single person, because you were saying, well, can we just take them out and put them in some different position?

02:04:35.000 Every single person has to be ready to fight.

02:04:36.000 That's one thing that I truly love about the Marine Corps because the Marine will tell you that every Marine is a rifleman.

02:04:44.000 That's the mentality first.

02:04:45.000 I don't care if you're special, there's a lawyer, you're a rifleman.

02:04:48.000 Alright, we got one that is an important question from Dustin Wood.

02:04:52.000 He says, Tim, always admired Colonel West.

02:04:55.000 I'm a member of the Log Cabin Republicans of Texas.

02:04:58.000 We were denied being admitted as a member of the Texas GOP last year.

02:05:01.000 Can Colonel West say why he doesn't support gay conservative groups joining?

02:05:05.000 I didn't say that I don't support gay conservative groups, John, and that happened before I came on as the as the chairman.

02:05:10.000 I came on as the chairman of July 2020.

02:05:13.000 I think the issue is that we have platforms that talk about traditional marriage, and we want to make sure that any group associated with the Republican Party of Texas supports the platforms of the Republican Party of Texas.

02:05:24.000 Because if you don't support the platforms, then you're undermining what the Republican Party of Texas stands for.

02:05:30.000 All right.

02:05:31.000 Diego Rivera says, The Texas State GOP party platform stars that a declaration of war from Congress is required before Texas National Guardsmen can be deployed to overseas combat.

02:05:45.000 I agree, and 31 states have introduced defend-the-guard legislation.

02:05:49.000 Chairman West, do you agree?

02:05:51.000 I agree that we have to defend our guard and one of the things, that's Title 10 if I'm correct, when you activate the guard to go and serve in active duty.

02:06:00.000 As a matter of fact, you had a lot of guardsmen that were serving in Operation Desert Shield, Desert Storm.

02:06:03.000 Now what I'm concerned about is the abuse of our guard and what we see happening in Washington D.C.

02:06:09.000 right now.

02:06:10.000 The fact that we cannot put a border on our southern border with Mexico, but yet we have fence and razor wire around the United States Capitol and the National Guard patrolling and standing and manning that, as well as making them sleep in, you know, parking garages and eat, you know, uncooked food and things of this nature.

02:06:28.000 So I am really concerned about the abuse of our National Guard by this Biden administration.

02:06:32.000 Yeah, me too, man.

02:06:34.000 All right, this one's gonna be hard for me, but I'll try my best.

02:06:36.000 Vince R says, former 13B here.

02:06:39.000 13 Bravo, that's artilleryman.

02:06:40.000 Would like to know if Colonel West and I may have crossed paths.

02:06:43.000 It says A3-11FA, Lewis 87-89, Go Devils Brigade 77FA, CA Knox 89-91, A15FA, KC 91-92, and HSB 320FA Campbell 92-94.

02:06:48.000 Brigade 77 FA CA Knox 89 91 a 15 FA KC 9192 and HSB 320 FA Campbell 9294.

02:06:59.000 Boy, he put a lot of you know different duty assignments out there.

02:07:04.000 Let me just try to encapsulate it.

02:07:06.000 My first duty station was 1984 to 1987 in Vicenza, Italy with the Airborne Battalion there.

02:07:13.000 I came back, went to Fort Sill for Advanced Artillery School.

02:07:16.000 Then I served in the 1st Infantry Division at Fort Raleigh from 88 to 91.

02:07:21.000 Got back from Desert Shield, Desert Storm.

02:07:23.000 Met my wife, married her.

02:07:24.000 She was a professor at Kansas State University, taught Army ROTC.

02:07:27.000 Dang.

02:07:27.000 Hopefully that answered the question.

02:07:28.000 91 to 95 went to Korea, 2nd Infantry Division, 95, 96, 97, the Army Command and General Staff

02:07:35.000 College, 97 to 99, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, 99 to 2002, 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force,

02:07:42.000 2002 to 2004, 4th Infantry Division, Fort Hood, Texas.

02:07:47.000 Dang.

02:07:48.000 Hopefully that answered the question.

02:07:50.000 So you gotta triangulate and figure out if we ever served together.

02:07:53.000 All right, let's see.

02:07:55.000 Leor Engelstein says, as an individual with an FFL-07 and an SOT-02, manufacturer of NFA items, my ATF agent's biggest complaint are NFA items.

02:08:06.000 They want to get rid of the category because it's too much of a headache for something that should be an NISCS check.

02:08:13.000 All right.

02:08:15.000 Johnny Smoke says, did you guy catch the video of Tim C from Rage Against the Machine?

02:08:19.000 His belief, the U.S.

02:08:20.000 is a military coup and Mark Milley and the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff hold a higher power than the president.

02:08:27.000 Is that?

02:08:28.000 No.

02:08:28.000 I don't know anything about that.

02:08:29.000 No.

02:08:30.000 That seems a bit, yeah, a bit out of there.

02:08:33.000 But if they did, would they admit it?

02:08:35.000 No.

02:08:35.000 You're never going to have a military coup in the United States of America.

02:08:38.000 The United States is a military coup.

02:08:40.000 Yeah, sure.

02:08:41.000 Wheels says, Colonel West for President.

02:08:45.000 1979 Army, 82 AB reporting for duty, sir.

02:08:49.000 Well, God bless you.

02:08:50.000 Army strong.

02:08:51.000 PJ says, Lieutenant Colonel West, Desert Storm M1A1 tanker here.

02:08:55.000 You're welcome.

02:08:57.000 Thank you, man.

02:08:57.000 You guys on the way.

02:08:59.000 Right on.

02:09:01.000 Jerome Morrow says, Dude, you better record the hell out of tonight's episode, because I want to re-listen to it.

02:09:05.000 Colonel West is talking about a lot of things I want to actively pursue.

02:09:08.000 Well, we do record it, and it'll be up on iTunes, Spotify, and all those other podcast platforms, as well as YouTube.

02:09:14.000 Plus, we're gonna put up segments from the show tomorrow, and we're gonna have a members-only exclusive segment coming up at TimCast.com about an hour from now or so.

02:09:21.000 So we'll just read a few more Super Chats, and we'll move on there.

02:09:25.000 Sonny James says, Colonel, I need your opinion.

02:09:27.000 Recently, Orthodox Jews protested a law that would remove their exemption from the draft in Israel.

02:09:32.000 Many Western countries doing this.

02:09:34.000 What's your opinion?

02:09:35.000 We are in the early InfoWars stage of World War III as a decorated military man.

02:09:40.000 Let me tell you, I know that that's one of the things I think the Hasidic and Haredi Jews over there don't have to serve, but who would not want to serve their country, especially in a country like Israel that's surrounded by enemies that want to destroy you?

02:09:58.000 One of the most emotional things I got to do on my trips to Israel was to go up to Masada.

02:10:04.000 And Masada was incredible because those Jewish rebels, instead of surrendering to the Romans and being taken captive and returned back to slavery, they took their lives.

02:10:15.000 Wow.

02:10:16.000 What a powerful statement to say that we would rather live free or die.

02:10:22.000 Rather die on my feet than live on my knees.

02:10:24.000 Absolutely.

02:10:25.000 And so I would say that to everyone that is there in Israel, when you look at what is happening in Iran, when you look at Syria, when you look at Lebanon, I would think that every single able-bodied person would want to be able to stand on the ramparts of freedom and honor the memory of the people of Masada.

02:10:44.000 Because that's what freedom really means.

02:10:47.000 I think we need more courage from a lot of people.

02:10:50.000 We do.

02:10:51.000 We do.

02:10:52.000 And again, when you talked about the people that instead of continuing to fight against the social justice warriors, they want to acquiesce and appease it.

02:11:02.000 All you're doing is you're just surrendering.

02:11:03.000 You're going to be on your knees.

02:11:05.000 And you don't want to live that life.

02:11:09.000 I had a general by the name of Rick Lynch.

02:11:12.000 He was our assistant division commander when I was in the 4th Infantry Division.

02:11:16.000 And he said, life is all about how you live your dash.

02:11:20.000 And the thing that you have to come to understand is that when you pass away from this life, on your final resting spot, you've got a start date and you've got an end date.

02:11:29.000 And in between is a simple little line, a dash.

02:11:32.000 And everything about your life has to speak in that little thing called a dash.

02:11:37.000 And so I would just say, what do you want to be remembered as?

02:11:41.000 A person that got on their knees and surrendered?

02:11:45.000 Or a person that stood and fought?

02:11:47.000 Right on.

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02:12:20.000 And before we go, Colonel West, is there anything you want to promote or shout out?

02:12:24.000 You got a social media account or anything?

02:12:26.000 Well, I do.

02:12:27.000 You can follow us at the Republican Party of Texas.

02:12:29.000 You can follow the website, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and everything.

02:12:32.000 And then also, my personal page, which is AllenWestTexas, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, the whole nine yards, Twitter.

02:12:39.000 So, again, it's just a pleasure and honor to be here with you all.

02:12:42.000 Thanks so much, Ian.

02:12:43.000 Thanks so much, Tim.

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02:12:51.000 Alan, I love you, man.

02:12:52.000 Thanks for coming, dude.

02:12:52.000 You're too cool.

02:12:53.000 And you know what?

02:12:54.000 The funny thing was I walked in here in the beginning, he's like, uh, who are you?

02:13:00.000 Blake Slate.

02:13:02.000 Keep it pure.

02:13:03.000 I will.

02:13:03.000 That's the best, baby.

02:13:04.000 Yeah.

02:13:05.000 Well, but that was, that's kind of it.

02:13:06.000 Like, you know, he immediately had 5,000 questions for you.

02:13:09.000 And I was like, we got to save it.

02:13:11.000 Save it.

02:13:11.000 I want to know you, not your legacy.

02:13:13.000 You tell me.

02:13:14.000 Well, but my legacy is me.

02:13:16.000 It's what I leave.

02:13:19.000 I'm a philosopher.

02:13:20.000 I think we're going to talk a lot about military stuff, too, in the next segment.

02:13:24.000 So don't forget we got Sour Patch Lids.

02:13:25.000 Also me in the corner.

02:13:26.000 And I want to thank Lieutenant Colonel West for joining us.

02:13:30.000 Fantastic conversation.

02:13:31.000 Really fun to drive with him.

02:13:32.000 I love driving my guests from the airport.

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