In this episode, we discuss the border crisis, hyper-polarization in the media, and the call for secession from the United States. We are joined by the Texas Republican Party Chairman, Ellen West, to discuss all of this and much more.
00:00:50.000right 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.
00:01:05.000They're saying that encounters have now surpassed over 100,000.
00:01:08.000He's reopened some of these facilities for detaining children that even Donald Trump closed.
00:01:14.000So he's getting flack from the progressives.
00:01:16.000He's getting flack from the conservatives.
00:01:23.000We'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.
00:01:33.000And 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.
00:01:40.000He's only really speaking about blue states, leaving many conservative Republicans kind of upset with the job he's doing.
00:01:52.000It was particularly bad under Donald Trump.
00:01:54.000And I think we can be very critical of the media for a lot of this.
00:01:57.000And 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.
00:02:05.000We 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.
00:02:11.000So we'll have a good discussion about it.
00:02:13.000And we have a really great guest tonight.
00:02:23.000You know, former retired Army Lieutenant Colonel, former member of the United States House of Representatives.
00:02:29.000As 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.
00:02:36.000So it's a pleasure to be here with each and every one of you.
00:02:39.000And 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.
00:03:14.000No, 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.
00:03:23.000And they found this person out in Sanctuary and they brought him back to show to the people that you can't grow old.
00:03:29.000So it's kind of interesting being here, you know, with my salt and pepper flat top with you all.
00:03:34.000I think you're still pretty significant in the political landscape.
00:03:38.000You're chairman of the Texas Republican Party.
00:03:40.000Recently 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.
00:03:53.000That'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?
00:04:03.000How would they respond to and react to it?
00:04:05.000And 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.
00:04:15.000And now, of course, the left went crazy about that, but if you look at the preamble of the Constitution, what does it say?
00:04:20.000We the people of the United States of America, in order to form a more perfect union, first thing, establish justice.
00:04:26.000So 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.
00:04:38.000They're basically saying they're the ones who aren't abiding by the rules.
00:04:42.000And 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.
00:04:50.000And so yesterday the title was Constitutionists vs. Secessionists.
00:04:55.000Because really the people that are seceding in the United States of America are the people that are breaking away from the Constitution.
00:05:01.000You look at the legislation that they're passing, H.R.
00:05:04.0001, which is trying to nationalize federal elections.
00:05:07.000Show me where in the Constitution that the federal government has the enumerated power to run elections.
00:05:16.000We'll just keep this as a shorter introduction.
00:05:18.000But 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.
00:05:28.000Biden's being heavily criticized for his inability to handle it.
00:05:31.000And, 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.
00:06:05.000Now, before we get started with this very serious conversation, or maybe not so serious conversation, head over to TimCast.com and become a member to get access to exclusive members-only segments of the TimCast IRL podcast.
00:06:16.000Yesterday, there were a lot of people who weren't big fans of Rucka, but we did do an
00:06:21.000exclusive segment where we went through the collapse of the anti-SJW YouTubers, or this
00:07:06.000And I'll just highlight a couple little snippets.
00:07:07.000And then we'll just dive into this conversation.
00:07:09.000CNN, of all outlets right now, surprising.
00:07:12.000They report Southwest border crisis leaves Biden vulnerable on all sides.
00:07:18.000They 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.
00:07:29.000We have Fox News reporting that encounters have topped 100,000 in just February, as the migrant crisis is spiraling.
00:07:47.000And 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.
00:07:53.000Dallas and Houston are the top two cities.
00:07:55.000So that's an important part when you start to have all of these unaccompanied minors that are being brought in.
00:08:01.000What happens to them when they're just released into the society?
00:08:04.000As 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.
00:08:16.000And 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.
00:08:28.000Why do you break something that is working?
00:08:41.000But 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.
00:08:58.000And the important thing that the Biden administration needs to understand right now, there's no orange man bad.
00:09:05.000There's no Donald Trump boogeyman out there for people to look at and have that distraction.
00:09:11.000Now all that they're doing is saying, we got an issue, we got a crisis.
00:09:15.000And no, Jen Psaki, you can't circle back to it.
00:09:18.000You can't say that this is just a challenge.
00:09:20.000This 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.
00:09:31.000Well, something interesting you just mentioned, it was working, right?
00:11:08.000We have a stay on that so we can continue to deport.
00:11:11.000But 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.
00:11:20.000And 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.
00:11:26.000And 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.
00:11:42.000So is the Biden administration serious about COVID?
00:11:46.000I would think that you would not allow 108 illegal immigrants to just flow right into the state.
00:12:19.000That was a huge story of the November 2020 election in Texas.
00:12:24.000And my theory was that, kind of like the mentality of paratroopers, paratroopers jump in behind enemy lines.
00:12:31.000And 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.
00:12:48.000Talk about the threats from the drug cartels.
00:12:53.000And 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.
00:13:05.000Then they said, yeah, we like this direction.
00:13:08.000Now, all of a sudden, this Joe Biden comes in and their communities are being threatened.
00:13:45.000I 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.
00:13:59.000And so I wonder, who is really buying into this message about immigration?
00:14:05.000You know, Trump is racist for wanting to deport illegal immigrants and things like that.
00:14:10.000Certainly isn't the minority communities that are literally on the borders who are experiencing what happens with unfettered immigrants.
00:14:15.000Or the black communities are going to see their wages being depressed, their job opportunities going to be gone as well.
00:14:21.000And they saw that they were thriving in the Trump administration.
00:14:24.000But look at it and think about it this way.
00:14:26.000The suburban white woman that was told again, orange man bad, he's a nasty person, doesn't like women, his tweets are horrible.
00:14:34.000Now 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?
00:14:47.000Well, they should have paid attention to what they were voting for.
00:14:50.000But 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.
00:15:04.000And it's going to be the same thing for young people.
00:15:07.000I mean, I think that with President Trump, you had a cultural president connected with young people.
00:15:24.000One 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.
00:15:35.000Here'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.
00:15:41.000He 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.
00:15:53.000I 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.
00:16:04.000They 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.
00:16:15.000You're absolutely right, and that's why you see the U.S.
00:16:17.000Chamber of Commerce, that it's all about, you know, the open borders and the illegal immigration.
00:16:21.000That's why you see a lot of these big businesses and corporations don't want E-Verify.
00:16:43.000The other side wants to have a cheap labor base.
00:16:46.000But in the end, who is getting squeezed and who's going to be the most affected?
00:16:50.000Your middle to lower income levels, blacks and Hispanics, are going to be the ones to suffer with the scourge of illegal immigration.
00:16:57.000And 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.
00:17:06.000Like 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.
00:17:13.000Just dispensing with the rules and this Antarctic free society does not lead to freedom as we understand it.
00:17:20.000And 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.
00:18:07.000And that's the sad thing, and that's the breakdown of the rule of law and order.
00:18:12.000Remember that, you know, when John Locke wrote his Second Treatise of Government, and he talked about this thing, you know, that was completely different.
00:18:22.000It was natural rights theory that was different from divine rights theory.
00:18:26.000And John Locke came out and said that there are three inalienable rights that we have from our Creator.
00:20:16.000And so, let's take that philosophy and let's over-plant it to the last year dealing with this COVID issue.
00:20:26.000Show 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.
00:20:35.000Show me in the Constitution, coming back to your statement about the rule of law and freedom.
00:20:40.000Show me in the Constitution where it says that any elected official, politician, can come to you and say shut down your business.
00:21:02.000But 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.
00:21:13.000And 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.
00:21:29.000Remember what Benjamin Franklin said, those who would surrender essential liberty for temporary security will in the end deserve neither liberty nor security.
00:22:06.000And 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.
00:22:54.000It'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.
00:23:06.000The Texas GOP will always stand for the Constitution and for the rule of law, even while others don't.
00:23:13.000But 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.
00:23:21.000Yeah, against the state of Texas and the other states coming together about their unconstitutional actions.
00:23:27.000Looking 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.
00:23:42.000So 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.
00:24:13.000So, again, coming back to that piece I wrote yesterday, constitutionalists versus secessionists.
00:24:18.000The people that are seceding are the people that are violating this document.
00:24:22.000The 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.
00:24:34.000The only people that can change election law is the legislative branch.
00:25:02.000And somehow, none of them got standing or ruled on the merits.
00:25:07.000And 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.
00:25:20.000The Court of Original Jurisdiction is the United States Supreme Court.
00:25:24.000United States Supreme Court cannot say to Texas that we're not going to hear the case.
00:25:30.000And so again, we have this abdication of the rule of law and those constitutional duties and responsibilities.
00:25:37.000And 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?
00:25:44.000Where these blue states were going to come together and undermine the Electoral College?
00:25:51.000So they're the real secessions, Ian, you had.
00:25:53.000Yeah, 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.
00:26:06.000Now 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.
00:26:55.000They were obese, high blood pressure, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, all of these things.
00:27:02.000Well, so I'll push back a little bit and give my standard clarification.
00:27:07.000I 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.
00:27:16.000So some of these people died of renal failure.
00:27:18.000And a lot of conservatives have pointed out- But how much longer?
00:27:32.000Is that the reason why you go in and suspend the constitutional rights of an entire country?
00:27:40.000Well, so here's the point I want to make.
00:27:42.000Even if it were that COVID was the number one cause outside of any comorbidity, the answer is still no.
00:27:50.000We 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.
00:28:02.000I mean, that's still ridiculously high.
00:28:04.000Granted, that's looking at a lot of deaths.
00:28:07.000That, you know, 2.5% out of 330 million.
00:28:09.000Yeah, but every year you average almost 600,000 with heart disease.
00:28:20.000We do not shut things down because people are doing things that can be arguably socially contagious, like bad habits, bad eating, bad exercise.
00:30:32.000And 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.
00:30:44.000Yeah, I couldn't fly airplanes, I jumped out.
00:30:47.000So 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.
00:30:59.000So 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
00:31:09.000extremely powerful individuals who have so much wealth they've actually shut out the
00:31:13.000working class election process of the some examples
00:31:17.000have five hundred six a million dollars into the election always saw that with mark zuckerberg exit
00:31:22.000Yeah, into Texas, directly to a county clerk's office.
00:31:29.000So no, we should not allow that to happen.
00:31:32.000So, 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.
00:31:41.000Because of, I guess, arguably called the law of power, right?
00:32:33.000If 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.
00:32:43.000So 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.
00:33:35.000So that's the other point I would make, is maybe the solution is more simply some kind of restriction somehow.
00:33:42.000I honestly don't know how you'd do it on political spending.
00:33:44.000Well, 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.
00:33:51.000On members of Congress, House and Senate.
00:33:54.000Because the longer people are up here in Washington, D.C., the richer they'll get.
00:33:57.000I 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.?
00:34:13.000And 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.
00:34:26.000So 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.
00:35:09.000You make sure that they cannot buy a politician.
00:35:11.000You 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.
00:37:45.0001 is completely unconstitutional in every way, shape, form, or fashion.
00:37:50.000Now, 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.
00:37:58.000But 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.
00:38:31.000I mean, the way I see it is, there's two really big things for me when it comes to felons.
00:38:36.000If 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.
00:38:47.000Your right to own a gun and your right to vote, in my opinion.
00:38:49.000So should a rapist be able to own a gun and vote?
00:39:58.000But I think once you've paid your debt to society, your rights should be restored.
00:40:01.000Well, 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.
00:40:14.000But let's talk, you know, it's a good point that you talked about.
00:40:16.000I just think it's funny that I might be further right on 2A than you.
00:40:56.000And 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?
00:41:05.000What is the philosophy of governance of the progressive socialist left?
00:41:09.000Because that's what you see happening in the House of Representatives.
00:41:53.000There are many states that allow the private transfer because it makes sense.
00:41:56.000If you live in... West Virginia is a good example.
00:41:58.000The 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.
00:42:10.000And 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.
00:43:19.000When 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.
00:43:28.000And so she had to stay late at night to do, you know, lab experiments, lab works, whatever.
00:43:32.000And so SMU is located close to downtown Dallas.
00:44:06.000And 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.
00:44:34.000And so that's why the founding fathers were brilliant.
00:44:37.000It 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?
00:44:46.000And so they figured out every single fail-safe backdoor method.
00:44:50.000And so therefore, they came up with Article V, which is a convention of states,
00:44:55.000not a constitutional convention, a convention of states, whereby if you get 34 states and they assign delegates,
00:45:01.000they can come and they can recommend an amendment to the Constitution, like term limits
00:45:05.000on federal House of Representatives and senators.
00:45:09.000But if you get 38 states, states can actually change the Constitution.
00:45:37.000You 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.
00:46:22.000Well, 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.
00:46:31.000Second amendment says the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
00:46:35.000But in New Jersey, if you bear arms, you will be arrested and you'll be a felon.
00:46:40.000In 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?
00:46:49.000That comes back to exactly what I said.
00:46:54.000That's what I talked about in that article.
00:46:56.000Constitutionalists versus secessionists.
00:46:59.000The people that are going against our Constitution, they're the secessionists.
00:47:03.000So 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.
00:47:14.000Just the same as you cannot tell me, as a private business owner, I must shut down my business.
00:47:19.000There 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.
00:47:28.000And there was a lot of sentiment saying... Ammunition, magazines, all of this stuff.
00:47:32.000And 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.
00:48:25.000So we have proven that it has standing across the United States.
00:48:29.000It has standing in states and local municipalities.
00:48:31.000But yet we still allow people to undermine the most important right that you have.
00:48:36.000Because the founding fathers understood.
00:48:38.000That 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.
00:48:48.000If you don't have a mechanism to defend and secure those rights, they're going to get taken away from you.
00:48:54.000And that's why they have the Second Amendment.
00:48:55.000The great modern thinker, Dave Chappelle, said the Second Amendment is just there in case the first one doesn't work out.
00:50:34.000Yeah, 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.
00:50:41.000He went up to a car and started shaking his AK-47, and inside the car was an army soldier.
00:50:58.000There are left-wing socialist and communist militia types, where you can tell these guys have real training, but they are few and far between.
00:51:06.000But if you go to your average Antifa person, oh, they're all about weapons.
00:51:10.000I mean, they show up with explosives, they show up with guns in Portland.
00:51:36.000But 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.
00:51:45.000But 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.
00:51:55.000And so there's a hypocrisy in that, regardless.
00:51:59.000And I think that is the danger that we see.
00:52:02.000The 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?
00:52:17.000Well, I mean, that's one of the forms of maneuvers, infiltration, but we already know who they are.
00:52:22.000We already know what their structure is.
00:52:24.000I 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.
00:52:37.000I mean, the Iranian mullah over there, Ayatollah Khamenei, is still operating on Twitter.
00:52:43.000So, again, we know everything about them.
00:52:46.000It's so interesting is that all of these folks that were participating in January the 6th, their houses are getting raided.
00:52:53.000They're being picked up just like that, being arrested.
00:52:55.000All 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.
00:53:05.000There was this thing that happened with a journalist at the New York Times named Taylor Lorenz, Tucker Carlson.
00:53:10.000It 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.
00:53:18.000I 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.
00:53:26.000Now, a lot of people told me I was wrong.
00:53:27.000They said, Tim, they started the fight and we're fighting back.
00:53:30.000And 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.
00:53:55.000And if Antifa shows up with guns and firebombs a federal building for a hundred plus days, they call it a peaceful protest.
00:54:02.000So 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.
00:54:15.000But if you throw mud the same way they do, you're doing what they want, and they're winning because they made the rules.
00:54:21.000It very much reminds me of The Matrix.
00:54:24.000You've got the idea of the blue pill, the red pill, people who are in the narrative, people who aren't.
00:54:28.000And 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.
00:54:36.000They 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.
00:54:45.000Once you realize that, then, what is it, when you say, what does Neo say, you're talking about I can dodge bullets?
00:54:50.000No, I'm saying that once you realize how the media narrative works, you won't have to.
00:55:12.000Because if you continue to have the frontal assault mentality, you're gonna get gunned down.
00:55:17.000All you gotta do is ask Pickett about that charge he just did, you know, right up there.
00:55:20.000I'll tell you one of their weaknesses, the Grammys.
00:55:22.000If you really want to get through these people, write a hit song and play the Grammys next year.
00:55:27.000Because that's what they need right now.
00:55:28.000Well, so, at the Grammys, they did a pro-Black Lives Matter, pro-riot performance.
00:55:32.000They had Tameka Mallory come out and say, we don't need allies, we need accomplices.
00:55:36.000I mean, it's outright advocacy for the violent riots.
00:55:38.000And 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?
00:55:58.000The 20 million black babies that have been murdered in the womb since Roe v. Wade in 1973 don't matter.
00:56:04.000The blacks that are killing themselves in gang violence in Chicago, they don't matter.
00:56:09.000The young black kids that are being locked out of schools because of these teachers' unions and they're falling further... they don't matter.
00:56:16.000And 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?
00:56:25.000I 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.
00:57:40.000Why 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?
00:58:35.000So, 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.
00:58:44.000I 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.
00:59:37.000An 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.
00:59:46.000This individual then later wrote a book about it.
00:59:48.000This person, of course, is a white progressive who knows nothing about this community and what they actually wanted and was being exploited and destroyed.
00:59:55.000I 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?
01:00:04.000This is not about Black Lives Matter, but that's exactly what they were doing.
01:00:07.000And that's why you should respond, which Black Lives Matter.
01:00:11.000You know, I look over there, you got on that piece of art, then I'm afraid you ain't black.
01:00:19.000How 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.
01:00:31.000It's either like racism or just idiocy.
01:01:14.000And so, I kind of know a little bit about being black.
01:01:17.000And I kind of know a little bit about equality of opportunity versus equality of outcomes.
01:01:23.000But 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.
01:01:36.000Now the mechanism is to try to have this soft bigotry of low expectations.
01:01:46.000And 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.
01:02:08.000Have you seen what's going on at these universities?
01:02:50.000And I mean, they say they play the long game.
01:02:51.000This is like a 30 year, 60 year psychological trauma.
01:02:55.000They're establishing trauma on our society.
01:02:57.000Well, if you go back and listen to Joe Biden's speech, Joe Biden's speech was not about unity.
01:03:05.000Joe Biden's speech was about conformity.
01:03:07.000Joe Biden's speech was saying, we can be unified if you conform.
01:03:11.000And if you don't conform, now you're a white supremacist.
01:03:14.000And oh, by the way, we're declaring war against you.
01:03:16.000So 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.
01:03:28.000That's the ideological civil war that we're in.
01:03:31.000And when you start to look at some of these pieces of legislation being passed out of the House of Representatives, H.R.
01:03:48.0005 basically says that the LGBTQ agenda has been codified into law.
01:03:53.000If you speak out against it, if you are a pastor, you don't.
01:03:57.000Specifically, it adds gender identity as a protected class in the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and there's a lot of muddy waters.
01:04:07.000This is very different from when we litigated non-discriminatory actions.
01:04:13.000It 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.
01:04:23.000It's not our business to interfere with that.
01:04:25.000So you deserve protection, equal protection under the law and things like that.
01:04:28.000With the Equality Act, it would actually, it opens up things like high school athletics to biological males.
01:04:34.000So, so women's sports will now be opened up.
01:05:30.000You 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.
01:06:28.000But anyway, we'll stay on the military thing.
01:06:31.000So 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.
01:06:39.000There were certain medical issues that women had to be granted special access to facilities that men didn't get.
01:06:45.000And so very much were given special treatment.
01:06:47.000Apparently at some point they wanted to do gender neutral testing.
01:06:51.000And my understanding, correct me if I'm wrong, they were saying that Disparity.
01:06:54.000It used to be that women did well in women-specific testing, and that means they would get promotions.
01:07:00.000Once they implemented gender-neutral testing, where it was even for both males and females,
01:07:06.000the women were struggling to score well against the men and not getting the promotions, thus
01:07:15.000See, 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.
01:07:26.000So now they're apparently gonna reverse this.
01:07:28.000You told me that you had stories, you knew people.
01:07:30.000I don't know what your thoughts on this would be.
01:08:36.000So now we're saying that the United States military has to accept people with a mental condition
01:08:40.000and then provide them hormonal therapies at the taxpayer expense.
01:08:44.000What does that have to do with our national security?
01:08:46.000That's another one of these feel-good things.
01:08:48.000While, 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?
01:09:01.000I 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.
01:09:11.000They 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.
01:09:22.000But 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.
01:09:34.000They're going to have to provide hormonal therapies and all of this type of stuff at the taxpayer expense.
01:09:38.000I don't think that's what the military is in existence for.
01:09:42.000The United States military is a volunteer organization.
01:10:13.000This morning I got up and I knocked out three and a half miles.
01:10:17.000Did my, you know, push-ups and crunches and everything.
01:10:20.000If 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.
01:11:05.000But 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.
01:11:16.000I 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.
01:11:23.000Once again, it's about the social engineering of our military.
01:11:58.000Yo, I got a question along those lines.
01:12:02.000As 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?
01:12:12.000Or could you get small, female commanders that would be as good or better than men?
01:12:18.000Do you think there's Well, I will tell you that there is an example of leadership that, without a doubt, is necessary.
01:12:26.000If you're going to be a commander of combat troops, you got to kind of look like a combat troop.
01:12:32.000And let me put it in this perspective.
01:12:33.000If I walked in here with you all today, And I said that I'm a retired Army Lieutenant Colonel.
01:12:40.000And I had, you know, I'm not picking at you, but I had hair like yours Ian.
01:12:45.000No, 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.
01:12:56.000Well, let me, let me just, I'll just make a point.
01:13:08.000He got accused of being overweight, out of shape.
01:13:10.000You know, and again, I don't think that we should have United States military senior officers and senior enlisted men attacking a news personality.
01:13:38.000I 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.
01:13:45.000I went to the X Games, VIP access, and we got to hang out.
01:13:48.000She was a really good friend of mine growing up.
01:13:51.000And I got to listen to a top female pro tell these young women they will never be as good as the men.
01:13:57.000I actually took issue with that back then, saying like, you may believe that, but don't discourage people.
01:14:02.000Tell them to strive to be the best and to view that as competition to be better.
01:14:07.000But when you look at, you mentioned skiing, I'm thinking skateboarding, there's no question.
01:14:12.000You watch men's, you know, X Games skateboarding, and you'll notice a very obvious difference between the male and the female skateboarding.
01:14:20.000But actually, I actually took some basic first aid training.
01:14:24.000I've actually done hospital environment training, so I got a bit more extensive.
01:14:27.000And 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.
01:14:43.000Because 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.
01:14:54.000And 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.
01:15:05.000But, you see the sustainment of those injuries because there is a physiological difference.
01:15:10.000Now, coming back to what your question said, Ian, I want the best possible person to be out there as a leader.
01:15:15.000But, 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.
01:15:23.000When I was in combat, I was right up there hooking and jabbing with my guys.
01:15:27.000If there was an X percentage of my unit that was dedicated to a combat operation, I was out there.
01:16:07.000It's not a computer game where you're sitting back and you got a bunch of drones or whatever.
01:16:11.000The bottom line is someone has to be on the ground and point something at somebody else and eliminate them.
01:16:18.000And 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.
01:16:23.000Now 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?
01:16:34.000That you need to keep a military well regulated in terms of their equipment, not in terms of law.
01:16:40.000You need to keep them well fed and like a well-oiled machine.
01:16:44.000When Tucker Carlson made these comments about, you know, flight suits for pregnant women, I disagree with him.
01:16:49.000I 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.
01:17:02.000And there are a lot of female attack helicopter pilots.
01:17:05.000I was just a dumb old paratrooper that jumped out of airplanes, and I was an artillery officer.
01:17:10.000And 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.
01:17:37.000Don'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.
01:17:50.000I want to give you my thoughts on the transgenders serving the military issue.
01:17:54.000You 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.
01:18:06.000I mean, you know, heart murmurs, sleep apnea.
01:19:41.000And 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.
01:19:53.000Begging me, telling me that he'll make it through even though he can't get sleep and everything.
01:19:57.000But I was seeing... Was he overweight?
01:19:59.000No, 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.
01:20:07.000And 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.
01:20:14.000And I had to tell him, I got to send you back home.
01:20:17.000So you need the best of the best of the best, the cream of the crop, top of the top.
01:20:21.000Well, I mean, you got, you got tip of the spear, you got seals, Delta Force or whatever.
01:20:25.000And then you got, you know, your everyday soldier, sailor, airman, Marine, but you've got to still have maintained certain standards throughout that strata.
01:20:34.000Did the captain get honorably discharged?
01:20:36.000Of course he got honorably discharged.
01:20:37.000But he didn't get moved to civilian or like a non-combat role, he was just actually discharged from the military?
01:20:42.000Yeah, he ended up being discharged from the military because it wasn't treatable.
01:20:47.000But he couldn't be in the combat zone.
01:20:49.000And 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.
01:21:00.000And in Area 1, before females got shipped up there, they had to take a pregnancy test.
01:21:15.000Sometimes, you know, little boy soldiers, little girl soldiers, they do little things, you know?
01:21:20.000And the next thing you know, you get a pregnant female soldier.
01:21:23.000But you know what the Army will not allow us to do?
01:21:26.000We couldn't re-deploy that soldier back.
01:21:28.000Even though, now that she's pregnant, she's non-deployable.
01:21:31.000She cannot wear a gas mask, because that can affect her.
01:21:35.000So 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?
01:21:45.000The Chinese I don't think deal with that.
01:21:47.000Do they even have female soldiers? I think they do have female soldiers but I don't think they're
01:21:51.000in their front line troops. Yeah I think they're much more bigoted I think the left would call
01:21:56.000them. Well as a matter of fact I read an article recent where the Chinese were talking about they
01:22:00.000need to have non-feminization training for males. Yeah.
01:22:50.000And 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.
01:23:01.000When 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.
01:23:57.000He 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.
01:24:04.000Well, the people with college degrees have salary requirements, so he hired them.
01:24:08.000He said that his phone would be ringing off the hook from people with problems.
01:24:56.000And he was like, no problems, no problems.
01:24:58.000Well, there was this one thing from one of these restaurants, but we took care of it.
01:25:01.000And 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.
01:25:12.000It was that they knew, they were confident in themselves to figure out and solve this problem.
01:25:16.000Whereas the people who went to college were the people who did what they were told by their parents.
01:25:21.000And 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.
01:26:10.000One 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.
01:26:22.000So 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.
01:26:31.000And 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.
01:26:41.000And we're rewarding them for being independent thinkers.
01:26:44.000But what progressivism, socialism, statism, communism, Marxism, whatever you want to call it, What it is creating is a collective groupthink.
01:26:53.000You know, when I came in here, you had Star Trek The Next Generation.
01:27:15.000And 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.
01:27:25.000It wants you to be part of a council culture.
01:27:27.000It wants you to be part of a social justice warrior clan or whatever.
01:27:31.000You know, you've got to be able to go out and think and do and be able to survive on your own.
01:27:37.000Instead of sitting around for the authoritarians to say that we're going to give you some free health care.
01:27:43.000We're going to give you some free college education.
01:28:30.000I 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?
01:28:40.000And I was like, if I knew how to do it, I would not have hired you to do it!
01:28:43.000So listen, You've got all the time in the world, figure it out.
01:28:47.000Reasonably, 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.
01:28:53.000This specific program was not something you learn in college, but you can spend the day figuring out the software.
01:29:03.000And 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.
01:29:11.000And that's what they were talking about.
01:29:12.000The difference between knowledge and wisdom.
01:29:16.000And 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.
01:29:35.000I feel like we need like an emergency to whip people into that frenzy of do it.
01:30:09.000I 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.
01:30:16.000Make Tim president, I'll be the vice president.
01:31:17.000The Grammys is a really good, I mean, issue to bring up in that our culture is completely fragmented and divided.
01:31:23.000You know, you're here saying, this is the message, we got the message out.
01:31:27.000And 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.
01:31:32.000And I mean, those are extremely divisive topics where you even challenge some of these orthodoxies on the left and they get violent.
01:31:41.000There are certain things, sure, where we've seen people on the right.
01:32:00.000But if you're giving it the spurs and it has a place to go, it's not gonna scream, it's just gonna go.
01:32:04.000But 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.
01:32:12.000They're the ones who are saying, assimilate or else.
01:32:16.000And 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.
01:32:26.000And now they won't necessarily agree with everything from the woke establishment, but they're certainly no longer critical of the establishment.
01:32:46.000And one thing that my mom taught me was that a man must stand for something or else he'll fall for anything.
01:32:51.000And 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.
01:33:07.000There's nothing that you can give to them which will ever satiate their appetite for more control and more power.
01:33:14.000So at some point in time, you're going to have to make a stand.
01:33:17.000At some point in time, you're going to have to say enough.
01:34:17.000Well, 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.
01:34:25.000I mean, Mel Brooks and the movie Blazing Saddles.
01:35:17.000It means you've recognized the narrative from the media is often complete BS.
01:35:21.000Bill Maher still believes too much of it.
01:35:23.000But 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.
01:35:33.000And eventually he will come around because, again, there is no Trump boogeyman out there.
01:35:39.000And 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.
01:35:46.000Well, they're trying to do Tucker now.
01:36:50.000Well, you know, without a doubt, we're going to continue to fight them on this ideological battlefield.
01:36:57.000And 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.
01:37:40.000Keegan Devlin says, thank you for this guest.
01:37:42.000After last night's show, this is the hero we need.
01:37:47.000Look 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.
01:37:58.000A lot of people really like you, Alan West, and your ideas and opinions.
01:38:02.000So 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.
01:38:08.000I pull up progressives and people I disagree with.
01:38:11.000I 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.
01:38:19.000It's also important to understand where we disagree so I understand their arguments accurately.
01:38:24.000I 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.
01:38:30.000And that means I follow a bunch of progressives, I follow a bunch of conservatives, and I think we gotta have those conversations.
01:38:35.000Well, I will tell folks, if I could recommend several books to read, you've gotta read Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals.
01:40:52.000They took an oath to the Constitution of the United States of America.
01:40:54.000And 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.
01:41:13.000The great thing about that oath, my dad took that oath.
01:41:43.000If 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.
01:42:03.000If we ever get to the point where we're not raising that next generation, then I'm worried about America.
01:42:07.000But I still see the young man such as that one right there.
01:42:11.000What do you think about the Grand Commander, Supreme Commander, Commander-in-Chief being left up to a popularity contest?
01:42:17.000I 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.
01:42:27.000As 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.
01:42:42.000And if you think that there's a difference, there is a difference.
01:42:46.000Because 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.
01:42:57.000You do it in one of those institutions that you swore to defend.
01:43:13.000It's interesting that they call that idea fascistic.
01:43:16.000This 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.
01:43:25.000I don't think it's fascistic at all, and I don't think it's a far-fetched theme.
01:43:29.000I think that when you look at, really, you want to talk about the 1%ers?
01:43:34.000It's the people that have served this country in uniform.
01:43:38.000Less 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.
01:44:09.000I met a lot of really awesome people, brave people.
01:44:12.000I'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.
01:44:23.000They're regular people and they are willing to take greater risks.
01:44:25.000And, you know, especially those who fight in combat.
01:44:28.000But 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.
01:44:37.000And 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.
01:45:20.000I am so concerned about this because we are instituting the policy of political officers in our military.
01:45:26.000We're putting commissars in our military.
01:45:28.000And 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.
01:45:57.000That's what they're trying to implement.
01:45:58.000In some of these stories, they said that people who had posted images of the Gadsden flag on Facebook were getting pulled from D.C.
01:46:04.000There 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.
01:46:21.000He was brought up in an investigation.
01:46:58.000We got a chat here from Christopher McHatton.
01:47:01.000He says, Texas resident and conservative.
01:47:03.000Thank you, Lieutenant Colonel West, for your service to the country.
01:47:06.000How can I get involved in state politics, particularly ousting Clay Jenkins from his Dallas County judge position?
01:47:12.000Hey, I'm all about that because I live in Dallas County too.
01:47:15.000He says, I want to get involved in the campaign against him, but don't know how.
01:47:18.000Okay, 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.
01:47:32.000Let's start looking at our local level elections that will happen on May the 1st.
01:47:36.000City Council, School Board, County Clerk, County Commission, those are very important.
01:47:40.000Clay Jenkins is not up in this election cycle but in two years he will be and we need to get rid of Clay Jenkins.
01:47:45.000You want to talk about a despotic Ruler in Dallas County, Clay Jenkins is an example.
01:47:52.000Alexander Olsen says, I propose the new name for SJW, social justice or cancel culture, be hate machine cult culture cultist.
01:48:01.000All it does is deconstruct, demoralize and demonize and destroy.
01:48:05.000The result is division, deprivation, despair and death.
01:48:31.000And just make sure that it is equally administered all across the board.
01:48:35.000They say climate justice, social justice, housing justice, and really it's just a manipulation to make you think you're fighting the good fight.
01:48:47.000The economic crisis of 2008 came because of housing justice.
01:48:51.000When 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.
01:49:06.000Subprime mortgages, all of that stuff.
01:49:09.000In reference to the gun conversation, Nick Sheamus says, make NICs available to the public.
01:50:27.0005 is very threatening to that very first liberty that you have.
01:50:32.000There'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.
01:50:45.000And that's what Thomas Jefferson talked about in that letter to the Danbury Baptist Convention about separation of church and state.
01:50:51.000It 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.
01:50:59.000He wanted to make sure that they stay separated.
01:51:01.000So it is so important that the religion of the left does not supersede our Judeo-Christian faith heritage.
01:51:09.000You know, I grew up Catholic for a few years and then we went to public school, kind of lost a lot of that.
01:51:17.000I 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.
01:51:27.000It's interesting to me because we talked about this, I think it was with, who did we talk about this?
01:51:37.000This 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.
01:51:46.000Like, religion doesn't make me a moral person.
01:51:49.000But he was raised in a society that has for a long time held Judeo-Christian values.
01:51:55.000And 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.
01:52:03.000I know this because I've actually looked into what are one of the ideals that we hold as a liberal society?
01:52:08.000Blackstone's formulation, innocent until proven guilty, the right to a trial by jury of your peers, things like that.
01:52:14.000It is rooted very much so in these values.
01:52:59.000But I don't want that person to build a bridge.
01:53:01.000What 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.
01:53:46.000Again, that comes back to what the old folks used to say down south.
01:53:49.000That boy got a lot of book learned, he ain't got no common sense.
01:53:51.000I 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.
01:54:01.000You would basically say one plus one in binary and then ask them for the answer.
01:54:06.000Well, 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.
01:54:11.000It could be two, but it's the same quantity.
01:54:15.000They're looking at it in a different way.
01:54:18.000The 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.
01:54:31.000Well, 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.
01:55:22.000All 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?
01:55:34.000Me personally, I read the shall not be infringed part of part and go, yep, seems legit.
01:55:40.000Although I also recognize the well-regulated militia.
01:55:43.000I cannot fit an Abrams battle tank in my garage.
01:55:49.000And 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.
01:56:00.000Now, if you're a museum, and if you have something, now, yes, you could purchase something like a tank or what have you.
01:56:08.000And then there's some still restrictions on what you could do.
01:56:11.000Because there's some people here locally, I know, that have a museum that have M60 tanks.
01:56:16.000There's a guy who drives around not too far from here with a World War II Jeep with a full-auto 50 BMG.
01:56:23.000on 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.
01:56:28.000And I'm sure he's got a special permit for it.
01:56:31.000There's an interesting argument here in that during the revolutionary era when they were coming up with these ideas, people owned private warships.
01:57:16.000Let 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.
01:58:50.000A lot of people are like Tim's on the fence.
01:58:52.000And 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.
01:59:42.000We got LKA Zawarudo says, Alan, I am a native Texan, millennial conservative woman and attorney.
01:59:49.000How can I get more involved in public policy in Texas and help keep our state from going insane?
01:59:54.000If I was in the military, I would not want a job I'm not physically ready for.
01:59:58.000Well, once again, you have some great organizations there.
02:00:01.000You've got Texas Public Policy Foundation, a conservative, you know, center-right group.
02:00:06.000And again, follow us at the Republican Party of Texas.
02:00:09.000Go to our legislative priorities because we are in our 87th legislative session, which will end at the end of May.
02:00:15.000And 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.
02:00:25.000And, 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.
02:00:44.000This show is making sure that we have that next generation of Travises and Jeffersons and others.
02:00:49.000And 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.
02:01:37.000Because we need to add to this document for this digital age.
02:01:40.000People need to realize how brilliant the structure of government in the United States was.
02:01:44.000Like, 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.
02:01:51.000They said, no, we can't do that because here's what the problem with the executive monarchy, you know, autocracy is.
02:03:26.000I 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.
02:04:55.000I'm a member of the Log Cabin Republicans of Texas.
02:04:58.000We were denied being admitted as a member of the Texas GOP last year.
02:05:01.000Can Colonel West say why he doesn't support gay conservative groups joining?
02:05:05.000I didn't say that I don't support gay conservative groups, John, and that happened before I came on as the as the chairman.
02:05:10.000I came on as the chairman of July 2020.
02:05:13.000I 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.
02:05:24.000Because if you don't support the platforms, then you're undermining what the Republican Party of Texas stands for.
02:05:31.000Diego 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.
02:05:45.000I agree, and 31 states have introduced defend-the-guard legislation.
02:05:51.000I 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.
02:06:00.000As a matter of fact, you had a lot of guardsmen that were serving in Operation Desert Shield, Desert Storm.
02:06:03.000Now what I'm concerned about is the abuse of our guard and what we see happening in Washington D.C.
02:06:10.000The 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.
02:06:28.000So I am really concerned about the abuse of our National Guard by this Biden administration.
02:07:55.000Leor 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.
02:08:06.000They want to get rid of the category because it's too much of a headache for something that should be an NISCS check.
02:09:01.000Jerome Morrow says, Dude, you better record the hell out of tonight's episode, because I want to re-listen to it.
02:09:05.000Colonel West is talking about a lot of things I want to actively pursue.
02:09:08.000Well, we do record it, and it'll be up on iTunes, Spotify, and all those other podcast platforms, as well as YouTube.
02:09:14.000Plus, 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.
02:09:21.000So we'll just read a few more Super Chats, and we'll move on there.
02:09:25.000Sonny James says, Colonel, I need your opinion.
02:09:27.000Recently, Orthodox Jews protested a law that would remove their exemption from the draft in Israel.
02:09:35.000We are in the early InfoWars stage of World War III as a decorated military man.
02:09:40.000Let 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?
02:09:58.000One of the most emotional things I got to do on my trips to Israel was to go up to Masada.
02:10:04.000And 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.
02:10:25.000And 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.
02:10:44.000Because that's what freedom really means.
02:10:47.000I think we need more courage from a lot of people.
02:10:52.000And 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.
02:11:02.000All you're doing is you're just surrendering.
02:11:09.000I had a general by the name of Rick Lynch.
02:11:12.000He was our assistant division commander when I was in the 4th Infantry Division.
02:11:16.000And he said, life is all about how you live your dash.
02:11:20.000And 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.
02:11:29.000And in between is a simple little line, a dash.
02:11:32.000And everything about your life has to speak in that little thing called a dash.
02:11:37.000And so I would just say, what do you want to be remembered as?
02:11:41.000A person that got on their knees and surrendered?
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