On today's show, we discuss the recent attack on the police in Oregon, and the call for civil disobedience in Pennsylvania to keep restaurants and small businesses open in the face of government lockdowns. We also have a special guest, Sean Parnell.
00:00:41.000We are a government for, of, and by the people, so if there's going to be a public hearing, you walk in the building and you listen to what they're saying.
00:00:50.000You can go into the Capitol, like the Congress building, the Senate buildings.
00:00:54.000You can walk around and walk into a congressperson's office.
00:00:57.000You just open the door and walk right in.
00:00:59.000Well, these Trump supporters, these conservatives, they show up, and what ends up happening?
00:01:04.000There's a row of police telling them they can't actually come in.
00:01:07.000At some point, I guess chaos ensued, and the most interesting thing about all of it was that the Trump supporting group, someone in this group, bear-maced the cops.
00:01:20.000Now that's something you don't even really see all that often from Antifa.
00:01:24.000And so this story is from a couple days ago, and I just find it absolutely fascinating with everything that's going on, and more importantly, That we have this coronavirus spending bill, $900 billion.
00:01:34.000The total omnibus spending bill was like $2.3 billion, which included this.
00:01:38.000And it's famously providing $10 million to Pakistan for gender programs.
00:01:43.000That's exactly what the American people have been begging for, with where their tax dollars would go in an unprecedented crisis, where their businesses have been completely and totally destroyed.
00:01:51.000And that's why I'm bringing these two stories together and bringing up this protest from the past few days.
00:01:55.000To see right-wing groups attack police in any capacity tells you that the wick or that the line of powder leading to that powder keg has been lit and conservatives aren't going to be taking all that much longer.
00:02:09.000Seeing Trump supporters start criticizing police and mock them instead of defend them when they when you hear defund the police Well, that's interesting.
00:02:18.000The establishment needed at least that level of support from Trump supporters.
00:02:22.000So we're going to talk about all this.
00:02:23.000We'll talk about a lot of stuff going on with the COVID hypocrisy.
00:02:26.000Dr. Birx retiring because she's violating her own lockdowns.
00:02:52.000Yeah, we live in very, very strange times.
00:02:56.000The attacks in Oregon were something that we haven't seen before.
00:02:59.000Tim, we were talking a little bit before the show.
00:03:03.000I feel bad for the police because I feel like they've been put in an impossible situation.
00:03:09.000You know, the police in Pennsylvania, though, one of the things that that I've been advocating for for for quite some time now, and I say it over and over when I'm out, is that government derives its power from the consent of the governed.
00:03:26.000And what I've been saying both publicly and on social media for some time now is that we simply need to disobey these unconstitutional lockdowns.
00:03:36.000In other words, keep your small business open.
00:03:38.000Nonviolent civil disobedience keep your restaurant open and if you're a police officer that finds yourself in a tough
00:03:44.000position And boy anytime they put a gun on their hip and they wear a
00:03:48.000bad day wear that badge on their chest anytime they leave Their family they put themselves out there for us every day
00:03:54.000and they deserve our gratitude for that But if you're if you're a cop and you're putting in a tough
00:03:58.000position to shut down a small business or close a restaurant
00:04:02.000Simply don't obey an unconstitutional order.
00:04:05.000Indeed, when you're in the military, you know, people think that soldiers just obey every command that's given down to them.
00:04:10.000No, you we have a duty and obligation to disobey orders that are not moral, right?
00:04:17.000And so what I've been calling for in Pennsylvania is civil disobedience from small businesses and restaurants and the police, you know, state troopers, sheriffs, local municipal cops.
00:04:28.000Just simply disobey unconstitutional orders and all of this ends tomorrow.
00:05:49.000Did 35 to 50 public events a year all over the country giving away dogs.
00:05:53.000It's kind of an amazing thing to behold because Dogs really do provide tangible healing value to people who have suffered greatly from PTSD, whether it's in the military or in other places.
00:06:03.000Remember that guy you were talking about?
00:06:05.000He was a journalist and he went to a range and he fired the AR-15 and then claimed he got PTSD.
00:06:10.000Maybe we should get him like a pug or a Yorkshire Terrier or something.
00:06:13.000Some little small lap dog, a Pomeranian, make him feel better.
00:06:16.000Yeah, we're gonna put him on the list.
00:06:43.000There are good people in Hollywood, there are.
00:06:46.000There are good producers, there are good writers that sort of believe the same things that we do.
00:06:50.000And before any of that, before I was an infantryman in the army, went to ranger school, went to airborne school, and then went to Afghanistan for 16 months of heavy combat.
00:07:00.000Just the longest combat deployment in global war and terror history, where 85% of my men were wounded, some twice.
00:07:06.000I think one dude was wounded three times.
00:07:09.000Six of my troops weren't even citizens of this country when they served.
00:07:13.000Northerners serving next to Southerners, Black next to White, Christians next to Atheists.
00:07:17.000I mean, we were the most diverse infantry platoon that you could possibly imagine.
00:07:22.000And it was my job as a 24-year-old kid to sort of be the platoon leader, even though As a platoon leader, you're not really in charge of anything.
00:07:29.000I had non-commissioned officers and soldiers who were probably 30 years old, 40 years old, who had a heck of a lot more experience than I did.
00:07:38.000Some of whom had multiple combat deployments.
00:07:42.000What I try to do as a young leader was just, you know, show up at my unit.
00:07:46.000Yeah, I had the cool sexy schools that the army required of a position of platoon leader in light infantry, but just have big eyes, big ears, be humble, self-effacing, and just listen to those experienced non-commissioned officers who are the real door kickers in combat and let them teach, coach, and mentor me on what they thought was a servant leader.
00:08:04.000And so that's sort of been What I've been doing my entire adult life.
00:08:08.000I don't know if you wanted an answer as in-depth as that, but I basically gave you my whole life story.
00:08:14.000One thing I've said often is that probably the biggest factor, if I'm looking at a politician to vote for, is if they served in the military.
00:08:20.000Whatever branch, some kind of service.
00:08:25.000And even as somebody who grew up in Chicago, I think growing up in Chicago actually brought me to that, but I come from a military family for the most part.
00:08:42.000Tim, do you want to know why I think it's important for, you know, I look at, you know, whether you're a Democrat, Republican, independent, if you've served in the military, it means that you at some point in time in your life, you put your country before yourself.
00:08:54.000You put your country before your family.
00:08:56.000You put your country before your own life or making a buck.
00:09:01.000And something about that, the idea of putting your country first.
00:09:11.000And again, whether you're a Democrat or Republican, the hope is that, you know, should you win some political office and you find yourself in Washington, that you can work with the other side.
00:09:20.000You can put your country first and do what's best on behalf of the people.
00:09:24.000Which is why this, you know, this COVID, this COVID relief bill, I think was just, it just did such a disservice.
00:09:49.000There's, there's two important things I think about.
00:09:52.000Uh, well, I'll say there's three things why I think military service is probably the best that... If you had, if I had two people and one person, you know, and they're both running and one at military service, I'd probably vote for them, you know.
00:10:43.000And in fact, in fact, I personally believe one of the main responsibilities of a leader in garrison before you go to war is to be sort of like a filter of the bureaucracy.
00:10:55.000The bureaucracy is going to pour a lot of stuff on you and your job as a leader is to filter out what matters, make sure that your troops can focus on the mission and training on whatever weapon system that they have or whatever duty position that they have.
00:11:07.000It's interesting why I joined the military.
00:11:11.000Is, you know, I don't come from a long line of, you know, military leaders or military members in my family.
00:11:16.000I was a sophomore in college and elementary education at Clarion University, which is a small university in Western Pennsylvania and elementary education major, right?
00:11:26.000But didn't really know what I wanted to do with my life.
00:11:28.000I was like most sophomores in college and that I just You know, I wasn't sure that maybe being in a classroom with kids eight hours a day for the rest of my life was really what I wanted to do, even though I knew I wanted to serve in some way, give back to the community.
00:11:42.000And I remember having a conversation with my roommates thinking like, well, my God, like, are Like, our generation at the time, we didn't really, like, have a moment, right?
00:11:52.000Like, you had, like, the Cold War before us, and you had, you know, contingency operations in Panama, and then you had Desert Storm, but, like, our generation was really a golden age, you know?
00:12:01.000A post-Clinton era of a balanced budget, where Democrats and Republicans worked together, like, we didn't really want for anything growing up from- as a kid, even though I was from a middle-class family and my parents lived paycheck to paycheck, I mean, I had a pretty good, carefree life, and...
00:12:15.000I remember having this discussion with my roommates and then we had this big party over the weekend and I remember waking up on my on this rundown college couch one day surrounded by Iron City beer cans.
00:12:26.000I feel like we had come off the bender of a lifetime and there were like cigarette butts out all around us and stuff and I remember sitting up and the world was spinning.
00:12:32.000I had this hangover of a lifetime and I remember staggering over to the television set.
00:12:39.000And turning it on and watching it flicker to life just in time to see an airplane crash into the World Trade Center.
00:12:45.000And, you know, I feel like in that moment, my life was just I mean, I just remember staggering a few steps back and sitting on that rundown couch, just transfixed.
00:12:57.000To that television set of just images of just raw horror of innocent Americans dying on live television.
00:13:03.000I remember watching people tumble from those towers and land on the sidewalk, or people who were lucky enough to survive that fateful day stagger out of that wreckage, covered in foam.
00:13:11.000Firefighters who ran into the building.
00:13:14.000Tim, that was what did it for me, is watching how the first responders reacted.
00:13:18.000The police officers, firefighters, or just ordinary American citizens with no training whatsoever, run into the flames instead of running away from them.
00:13:25.000And I remember thinking as a college kid, how can I sit here and do nothing when ordinary American citizens are giving everything for people that they didn't know?
00:13:34.000And, you know, anybody that lived through that day knows that most people who ran into those towers that day to save people never came out again with their life.
00:13:44.000I mean, two days later, I was down at the recruiter's office, told him I want to join the infantry and not just that, go to airborne school and not just that, go to ranger school.
00:13:51.000And And then I went home to talk to my parents about the decision.
00:15:03.000And so I took his advice, stayed in as an officer, or stayed in college, came out as an officer, and graduated from college in 2004 at Duquesne University in the heart of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and was immediate active duty, and just got thrown into the fray, you know?
00:15:19.000Two years later, I was in Afghanistan.
00:15:20.000College kid to combat veteran in two years.
00:16:42.000But I relied on my ranger buddies to get me through.
00:16:45.000I mean, they have this thing at the end of every phase.
00:16:49.000At the end of the Georgia phase, which is sort of like where they wrap the ranger assessment phase.
00:16:54.000Similar to Navy Seal, like Hell Week, you know, where they put you through that and like, they put you through all these sorts of assessments like drown proofing, you know, five mile run, PT test, the Malvestee Pit, which is like, just like, it was just miserable.
00:17:06.000And at the end of that, you do a 20 mile, they call it the March of Unknown.
00:17:10.000It's like sort of a March of Unknown distance.
00:17:12.000You just march to Darby, but the reality is they just march you forever.
00:19:23.000Well, I mean, this COVID bill, I tried to jump to this a little bit too early in the intro of your show, but, um, I have a lot of issues with this COVID bill on a number of different levels.
00:19:33.000One of which is a process issue, right?
00:19:38.000A 5,300-page bill is given to Congress with, what, three or four hours to read before they actually vote on the bill.
00:19:45.000I got a huge problem with that, right?
00:19:49.000I would say we should all have more than a problem with it.
00:19:52.000They are telling us, screaming in our faces on every TV channel and every newspaper, the system is broken, we know it's broken, and we don't care.
00:20:01.000Because even AOC and Josh Hawley, I criticized them earlier, and I'll define them in a second, but listen.
00:20:07.000They both tweeted about how this was awful.
00:20:09.000They're doing this 5,543 or whatever pages with only a couple hours to read it, and they voted for it.
00:20:15.000So if you're gonna speak out against it, come on.
00:20:16.000Vote no like Rand Paul did, like Ted Cruz did, like, you know, I think it was like 65 or more Republicans.
00:20:22.000Only two Democrats voted no, and it was Tulsi Gabbard and Rashida Tlaib.
00:20:26.000Now, in their defense, at least they spoke up against it.
00:20:30.000Hundreds of other members of Congress voted for a ridiculous, omnibus, $2.3 trillion garbage bill that includes things like this.
00:20:38.000This is from the Foundation for Economic Education.
00:20:39.000$10 million for gender programs in Pakistan.
00:21:03.000The American people for the better part of a year have gone bankrupt, have seen their small businesses close.
00:21:11.000In western Pennsylvania, in my district, I've seen food lines every single week.
00:21:15.000Thousands of people are struggling to put food on the table for their families.
00:21:19.000The American people are hurting, and optically, this is what you do at a time when the American people are hurting, when they're desperate for relief?
00:21:27.000Not only do you give them 600 bucks, and by the way, like to anybody that's watching right now, If you take just the $900 billion plus COVID relief, right?
00:21:37.000And you just do the quick math, 330 million people, that's $2,700 for every man, woman, and child in America, right?
00:21:45.000Now, instead of doing that, the government took $2,700 from every man, woman, and child in America and gave you $600 back and said, Merry Christmas.
00:22:09.000And so to your point of building schools for Afghan children is amazing.
00:22:13.000Teaching little girls to read in Afghanistan is great because we want to make sure that we shape that next generation, but do it in a different bill.
00:22:21.000Like, you're looking at 700 million dollars for a sedan, 1.4 billion to the Asia Reassurance Initiative Act, which again, the Asia Reassurance Initiative Act, I don't have a problem with.
00:22:30.000Really, what it basically is, it funds counterinsurgency in Asia, basically keeps an eye on China.
00:25:14.000For a working class person, for somebody who's making $10, $15 an hour, that could be another week they have to work.
00:25:20.000Another week to get the tablet so they could do the job.
00:25:22.000And if you can't get access to tools like that, I mean, I'll tell you, if you get a good phone, a good smartphone, you can make good YouTube videos, you can start a career, you can start a podcast.
00:25:31.000If you can get some basic, you know, cheap equipment.
00:25:35.000I started doing everything I was doing with just a cell phone.
00:25:42.000Imagine if, before I was able to buy it, this crisis happened, and then I go into the store and I'm like, I finally saved up the 300 bucks for the phone, and they go, it's $4.50 now.
00:25:51.000I would've been like, eh, I guess no phone for me.
00:25:53.000Then I wouldn't have started livestreaming, then I wouldn't have started building up this company, and then it wouldn't even happen for me.
00:26:11.000I mean, I'm telling you, man, if you bought Amazon stock, if you bought Bitcoin, you're sitting back and you're laughing at all this.
00:26:19.000Well, I mean, what concerns me is that $600 is, I feel like, insulting.
00:26:27.000You know, and what's more is that Nancy Pelosi was given a better deal nine, what, six months ago, but sat on it.
00:26:37.000The Democrats in Congress sat on it, did nothing with it because she wanted to score cheap political points against the president, didn't want to give him an economic win before November 3rd.
00:26:48.000So what the Democrats, and look, But come on, Sean.
00:26:51.000Could you imagine if Donald Trump would have won?
00:26:54.000I mean, the nightmare of this Cheeto fascist winning?
00:26:57.000The American people gladly forewent this $1200 stimulus package in October because they knew it was for the greater good, right?
00:27:23.000I'm you know, like I said, I've tried to lead on this issue and be there for them through this time of crisis.
00:27:28.000And again, not just for Republicans, but for Democrats, too.
00:27:31.000But to be clear, The Democrats and the House of Representatives sat on COVID relief because they didn't want to give President Trump an economic victory before November 3rd.
00:27:43.000The reason why that was important, Tim, is they made the political calculation that yes, the American people are going to have to suffer.
00:27:51.000Even people that are Democrats that will likely vote for us.
00:27:54.000They're going to have to suffer for the next six months so that we can beat Donald Trump.
00:27:59.000I find that- And I was joking, of course.
00:28:16.000I want to try and differentiate between the actual economic left, who do pay attention to politics, and maybe we have disagreements on policy.
00:30:52.000This is one of the areas where I disagree with the president a lot is his spending.
00:30:56.000He spends a lot more than I'm comfortable with and so I disagree with him on a lot on deficit spending and things like that.
00:31:01.000But I would also argue that in the middle of a crisis and a pandemic, once-in-a-hundred-year pandemic, that times like this are precisely meant for deficit spending.
00:31:10.000But my point is The swamp has gone back to being the swamp in record time.
00:31:15.000So I remember talking to some family earlier this year and they were saying,
00:31:22.000you always rag on Democrats. All you do is Democrats this, Democrats that.
00:31:26.000And I'm like, I criticize Republicans. Admittedly, you do much less than I
00:31:30.000criticize Democrats. And I'm going to show everybody listening exactly why I am right.
00:32:39.000And then only two Democrats actually voted against this.
00:32:44.000Of all of Congress, we ended up with 56 Republicans saying no.
00:32:49.000And what was the, let's pull this back up and get the abstaining.
00:32:53.000We had two abstentions, so 19 Republicans abstained from the vote, and only two Democrats.
00:32:59.000And it was Tulsi Gabbard, who I'm a big fan of and have praised, and Rashida Tlaib, who I've been very critical of, but my respect to her for saying no to this.
00:33:07.000I don't know what her reasons were, and each one of these politicians might have a different reason, but ultimately, saying no to this garbage was the right thing.
00:33:33.000I think that was President Trump's number in the past.
00:33:35.000Something that can actually help them pay their bills.
00:33:38.000What I really liked is the Paytech Protection Program.
00:33:42.000In fact, before this bill was voted on, the Democrats in the House of Representatives voted against it at least twice, perhaps a third time.
00:33:51.000extensions of the Paytech protection program, which would simply have extended the program
00:33:56.000through the end of the year, right? Real simple vote, extend the program through the end of the
00:33:58.000year and streamline the forgiveness process, right? The Democrats in the House of Representatives
00:34:03.000voted against that three times. And so I got massive problems with that.
00:34:06.000Lydia pulled up the story from News WKRG5. Let's watch.
00:34:15.000Trump calls on Congress to amend COVID-19 relief bill to increase stimulus checks to 2,000 per person, remove wasteful and unnecessary items.
00:34:23.000But you see what Rand Paul's response to all this was?
00:34:32.000I mean, you could fix this problem tomorrow if you just adopted a more surgical pandemic response.
00:34:39.000And so I will say that I think the political motivations in blue states and governors like Newsom, Pritzker in Illinois, Cuomo in New York, Wolf in my home state of Pennsylvania, I believe that these second lockdowns are not just because of the coronavirus.
00:34:53.000I believe that they're making a political calculation and trying to put pressure on Mitch McConnell to bail out, you know, as I mentioned, poorly run liberal states and liberal cities.
00:35:04.000You know, by locking down the economy more, right?
00:35:08.000It puts more pressure on small businesses, more pressure on Mr. McConnell to bail, to give him what, to give those governors what they want.
00:35:15.000I've thought about, you know, we went through the first lockdown, so let's, we'll use this as a segue into the big story that we want to talk about.
00:35:24.000I remember earlier this year watching videos coming out of China where it's like someone's on a bus and they point the camera out the window and then someone just falls over and it was like watching Shaun of the Dead.
00:35:31.000I don't know if you guys have seen that movie where he's like riding and he sees the person fall over and he's like looking.
00:35:37.000It was freaky and what was happening is that people were having respiratory issues from COVID and then just like Earlier in the year, we had a very serious problem.
00:35:45.000So we all agreed, okay, we're going to lock down for 15 days because we can't stop this thing.
00:36:04.000And so what happened was we did flatten the curve, and then we had this big flat period, and now it's spiking again, proving it's not going to stop, and we can't just stay locked down forever.
00:36:15.000So the appropriate response now, I believe, is protect the vulnerable, social distancing, masks, and reopening everything.
00:36:22.000Let's go back to the very beginning in January.
00:36:28.000What I saw coming out of China was very concerning to me.
00:36:32.000And the truth is, I didn't know, nor did anybody else, to include our intelligence community, what we were dealing with in COVID.
00:36:39.000And I think back then we didn't even have a name for it.
00:36:43.000And so Tom Cotton and I think I think Tom Cotton and I were the first people in the country to say, we need to ban all travel from China until we can figure this out.
00:39:04.000But this public-private partnership, Project Airbridge, was an unprecedented success.
00:39:12.000I mean, he delivered personal protective equipment, PPE, at levels that we never thought possible by simply And Fauci said, we're doing a great job.
00:39:21.000to make them available and he got criticized for not being enough personal protective equipment.
00:39:25.000Democrats were actually praising him. We had Cuomo and Newsom actually go to the
00:39:29.000time. Right, right, right, right. At the time. Yes, they were praising him.
00:39:31.000And Fauci said, we're doing a great job. I don't think anybody could have done anything better.
00:39:36.000We developed so many ventilators in this country in such a short amount of time that we didn't
00:39:40.000even come close to using what we created and what we made.
00:39:50.000And I don't even think it was a COVID patient, right?
00:39:52.000The Javits Center had like 30% capacity.
00:39:55.000Yeah, and Operation Warp Speed was an unprecedented success.
00:39:58.000All of this stuff happened under President Trump's leadership.
00:40:02.000The development of personal protective equipment, which, by the way, our national stockpile of personal protective equipment was completely depleted under Obama and Joe Biden under the H1N1.
00:40:15.000Donald Trump, I remember getting in a Twitter argument with some leftist and I said, Donald Trump did a good job on COVID.
00:40:22.000And their only response was, oh my God, are you serious?
00:40:25.000And I was like, so we had a lefty on the show.
00:40:28.000And the first thing he brought up was, I understand, like when he was addressing it, there's no metric by which to judge a good job or a bad job because It's one leader, it's one president doing this one thing.
00:40:40.000You can try and compare it to historical moments or whatever, and you can't do it, right?
00:40:47.000And he goes, and that being said, here's why Trump did a bad job.
00:40:49.000And I said, well, I think Trump did a good job.
00:40:51.000It's really about whether you like Trump or don't.
00:40:53.000That's what it boils down to, is it's Trump's comportment.
00:40:57.000People, you know, and I will tell you, because we experienced this on the campaign trail, I don't know what it is.
00:41:04.000I mean, I think when you talk about the president's achievements, whether it's Project Airbridge or Operation Warp Speed or or some of these unprecedented public private partnerships or ventilator production, like all of these things, I mean, what happened in record time?
00:41:20.000I mean, the fact that we have two vaccines available to people in under a year is is is close to a miracle.
00:41:27.000It happened under President Trump's leadership.
00:41:29.000But but people don't people didn't like So Trump is saying right now he will not sign the COVID relief bill unless Americans get $2,000 stimulus checks.
00:41:39.000But now I want to address one very important thing though.
00:41:43.000I just don't like I don't I don't think he's doing a good job.
00:41:45.000So Trump is saying right now he will not sign the COVID relief bill unless Americans get $2,000 stimulus checks.
00:41:51.000But now I want to address one very important thing though.
00:41:55.000Here's the bit that I've been doing in the past couple of days.
00:41:58.000Democrats will come into the House or the Senate and say we're proposing a bill to burn down the House.
00:42:13.000Instead of arguing for reopening the economy and getting people back to work and protecting the vulnerable, Donald Trump is just saying, oh yeah, Democrats, well, I'll one up your leftist policy idea and go even further left than you!
00:42:25.000Well, this is what the president represents in the Republican Party today, a massive paradigm shift, right?
00:42:34.000I would argue and contend that over the last 30 years of my life, Republicans have been conditioned to fly the white flag of surrender at any sign of adversity.
00:42:45.000And I think that's because, you know, the Democrats control every single cultural institution in this country.
00:42:50.000They control the media, they control Hollywood, they control our education system, and the Republicans You know, are afraid of media criticism should they take a stand.
00:43:00.000Well, I've never, the president, I have never seen anyone in my life.
00:43:05.000Now, by the way, you know, the president, again, ran as a Republican, and I think he's a proud Republican, but he resists groupthink on both sides of the aisle like no one I have ever seen before.
00:43:18.000And Republicans and Democrats in Washington I don't want to say they don't like him, but he can make enemies on both sides of the aisle, and he does it as a matter of routine.
00:44:21.000Giving it to, you know, art institutions and, you know, prominent universities for, like, academic nonsense, and then tying it into the omnibus stuff, that's when things get out of hand.
00:44:33.000I would say about President Trump, part of being a leader and one of the things that I learned very early on as a young leader in Afghanistan is that as a leader, if you're not upsetting people every now and again, you're not doing your job.
00:44:47.000And part of the problem in Washington is we elect too many lawyers, too many politicians, and not enough leaders.
00:44:56.000I disagree with Tulsi Gabbard on a lot of things, on a lot of issues of substance, but I respect her.
00:45:03.000She came out today, and this is another issue that I have.
00:45:07.000Members of Congress getting the vaccine before people in high-risk categories really upsets me because there's a philosophy in the military of leaders eat last.
00:45:15.000Like when you're in the field with your troops as a commander, as a leader, I don't touch food until every single member of my platoon has eaten.
00:45:23.000And so, you know, Tulsi Gabbard came out today and said, hey, you know, I disagree with elites in our society or
00:45:30.000even people that are that are that are, you know, what do they call high risk folks that are that are working,
00:45:35.000getting the vaccine prior to the elderly?
00:45:41.000And so, you know, that's not, that decision from her is probably not going to earn her any points within her political party.
00:45:47.000But again, part of being a leader is standing up and doing what you believe in your heart is right, regardless of whether or not you're going to get flack.
00:45:53.000She's proposing some bills, you know, with all due respect on her way out.
00:45:59.000I mean, it's fairly moderate what she's proposing, but I wanted to segue this into the bigger story we had about the protesters, the conservative protesters, because what my concern is with extended lockdowns, with or without a stimulus check.
00:46:15.000So Trump comes out and says, we'll do $2,000.
00:46:17.000And that's going to make a whole lot of people happy.
00:46:20.000But it's also going to be, it's essentially paying to keep the lockdowns going.
00:46:26.000Saying, okay, we can lock down because we'll just keep printing money until what, it all becomes worthless?
00:46:32.000So now we're seeing conservative protesters coming up and doing something, you know, we mentioned this earlier in the show, that's, as far as I can tell, rather unprecedented, at least in this culture war that we've seen over the past several years.
00:46:45.000First of all, When I started covering... Actually, let me make sure I give you guys the context before I get into this.
00:46:51.000The Independent reports protesters attack police with pepper spray as they try to storm Oregon Capitol.
00:47:02.000And these were conservatives using bear spray against police while entering the building.
00:47:07.000They say about 300 members of the Proud Boys, Patriot Prayer, and other groups arrived at the re-open Oregon rally, calling on Governor Kate Brown to lift pandemic restrictions as lawmakers met in a special session to discuss stimulus and vaccination distribution measures.
00:47:21.000I've been covering this stuff since 2011.
00:47:24.000I've been on the ground at protests as a teenager, going down in Chicago to these, you know, anti-Iraq war stuff, anti-Afghan war protests, and just really complaining all the time.
00:47:33.000And when I started covering Occupy Wall Street, I never saw a conservative protest.
00:47:54.000And meanwhile, Occupy was very physical, you know, nonviolent, civil disobedience, mixed with what they call the diversity of tactics, which really sullied and soured the whole thing.
00:48:02.000But over the next several years, we started seeing, you know, Proud Boys come out.
00:48:05.000I remember going to Berkeley and seeing Proud Boys, and it was like, I was like, oh, Proud Boys are out here.
00:48:10.000Like, they're just like, you know, drinking with Gavin and doing their videos, and now they're on the ground.
00:48:14.000Now they're actually fighting with Antifa.
00:48:17.000I remember I was in front of Trump Tower and there was a Trump supporter who just regular guy regular clothes and there were protesters and I was talking to him and he said he was a Trump supporter and I said why aren't you protesting?
00:48:27.000Why aren't you coming out and supporting your president?
00:48:30.000And this is years ago and he was like oh no no no I can't do anything like that.
00:48:33.000So I remember the first time I saw it, I think it was in Boston, when I saw a march of Trump supporters chanting, whose streets?
00:49:17.000Now someone there sprays the cops down with bear mace.
00:49:21.000Because these cops were barring them from a hearing they were legally allowed to enter.
00:49:25.000So windows got smashed, cops shoved people back, a couple people got arrested.
00:49:29.000I'll tell you, we do hear in the media a lot fears about what the right will do if they finally feel oppressed and they're going to push back.
00:49:47.000And conservatives are walking around with little American flags.
00:49:50.000Now you have the very serious question of, if conservatives have finally said, these officers who are violating the Constitution and keeping us locked down and barring us from a public hearing, if they're no longer on our side, why would we be on their side?
00:50:05.000But also, it's that conservatives over the last year have suffered, just America has suffered, but also conservatives are banned, conservatives are cancelled.
00:50:17.000For the last four years, they made Conservatives out to be conspiracy theorists.
00:50:22.000They called us names, deplorables, chumps, you name it.
00:50:26.000I mean, every, every conservatives are constantly, I mean, look what, look at
00:50:30.000what Antifa did to elderly conservatives who walked out of the Republican
00:50:38.000national convention and back to their hotels in the last night in Washington,
00:50:41.000DC, this country has been under attack.
00:50:45.000Uh, under attack by the radical left for the better part of a year.
00:50:50.000And conservatives have sat back and done nothing, but take it
00:51:27.000And I think that's part of what we're seeing here today.
00:51:31.000You know, those conservatives in Oregon, when they got in the fight with the cops out there, they were unconstitutionally denied their right to a public hearing.
00:51:45.000But it's very different from if a bunch of like Antifa people show up wearing all black, they typically act a fool and they start threats and you say, take off your mask and hoodie and glasses and you can come in the building, I'm fine with that.
00:51:57.000If someone wants to protest and come out and yell rabble rabble and they want to wear sunglasses, a mask and a hoodie, that's fine too.
00:52:02.000You want to commit a violent act, that's not okay.
00:53:28.000It's the NYPD who stood in front of that bar in Staten Island and basically looked the guy in the face and said, you have no constitutional rights, because we say so, and we'll arrest you if you try and let people into your building.
00:53:41.000The First Amendment says, peaceably assemble.
00:54:28.000The government does not have a right to deny your ability to make a living.
00:54:34.000The government does not have a right to tell you what you have to wear in your own house.
00:54:38.000The government doesn't have a right to tell you how many people you can have in your own house.
00:54:43.000So if you're a police officer and you get a call and maybe a neighbor tells on you, you get a call and you show up to someone's house and they got a couple people in their house, you shouldn't be enforcing unconstitutional orders.
00:56:12.000So this is another reason why I'll always say, the ACAB people are wrong.
00:56:17.000Somebody commented, so I made a music video in November, and it's called Will the People, you can check it out.
00:56:23.000But it's about the cycle of authoritainers and violence.
00:56:26.000And someone commented, it was really funny, they said, you made an entire video showing how the bad guys are the police, and like the people are rising up against them to remove the dictators, and they're always backed by the cops.
00:56:38.000And I'm like, When you have blue areas, when you have Democrats and the police there don't care about the Constitution, yes, you have a problem.
00:56:49.000When you have these places in Southern California where the sheriffs uphold the Constitution, when you have places in smaller towns and local cops who uphold the Constitution, the cops are the good guys.
00:57:00.000The ones protecting you from the despots, from the authoritarians.
00:57:03.000The greatest hedge against authoritarianism is our Constitution.
00:57:07.000Our Constitution protects all Americans, is a shield for all Americans against authoritarian government overreach.
00:57:14.000Listen, this is why... My understanding is most cops swear an oath to uphold the Constitution.
00:57:20.000Absolutely, and they take it seriously.
00:57:22.000And when they do, they are literally the good guys.
00:57:25.000When they don't, they're literally the bad guys.
00:57:40.000Well, it really does come down to cops as the most important group of people.
00:57:45.000And I'm not saying important as a good or bad thing.
00:57:47.000The most consequential group of people in this country right now Are cops who are upholding their constitution or breaking it.
00:57:53.000In New York, we're seeing them break it.
00:57:55.000And that means people's lives are being destroyed.
00:57:57.000In areas like Southern California, we're seeing them uphold it, and they're the heroes stopping the fascists.
00:58:04.000I have no problem calling them, use their own word, against them.
00:58:07.000These Democrats that feel they have a right to give our taxpayer dollars to massive corporations, to shut everything down by edict, they're fascists.
00:58:16.000Well, and when you see some of the reporters talking to Governor Wolf, it really is, it would be hysterical if it weren't tragic for these restaurants who are closing in record numbers in the state of Pennsylvania.
00:58:29.000Reporters asking him, well, why are you closing restaurants?
00:58:35.000He's like, well, I can't think of a more dangerous thing than people sitting with masks.
00:58:42.000But there's no research to support that the spread of COVID-19 is happening in restaurants, especially when restaurants have invested tens of thousands of dollars in taking 50% capacity.
00:59:08.000All of these people are going to have not only trouble putting food on the table for
00:59:11.000their family, but they're going to have issues Christmas for their children, for God's sake.
00:59:17.000It's really, really frustrating to me.
00:59:19.000So, I mean, I've stood up in Pennsylvania and I feel like I'm the only one in Pennsylvania saying, restaurants stay open, cops disobey unconstitutional orders.
00:59:26.000And it's working, except for now, we've got government and health, the health department showing up to restaurants.
00:59:32.000And inside of one restaurant in Western Pennsylvania, Giovanni's, it's an Italian restaurant, health department came in there and said, well, you're not supposed to be open for in-person dining.
00:59:41.000And he said, well, I can't make a living if I don't.
00:59:44.000So they came back the next day, they pulled his health permit and they said, oh, we'll make you a deal.
01:00:06.000But but the point is people are starting to push back.
01:00:11.000And what I said earlier in the program is a government derives power from the consent of
01:00:17.000The moment we no longer consent, the government has no power to impose any unconstitutional lockdowns.
01:00:22.000And again, I'll say this again, because there'll be some radical left group that's going to take this out of context and say that I don't care about COVID.
01:01:34.000Patriot prayer, you know, right-wing groups showed up and they partied.
01:01:38.000I think, you know, people, what the government is doing is risking the loss of their legitimacy.
01:01:45.000When you have police in New York and other big cities violating the Constitution, well, then people feel like the government is illegitimate.
01:01:53.000When you have police officers who defy the elected government, like in Southern California, to defend the Constitution, Then people are gonna start feeling like their elected government is illegitimate.
01:02:04.000If the Constitution is not being protected, or the governors are trying to rip it apart, then people are gonna lose confidence.
01:02:11.000At what point do we start seeing small towns and right-wing groups just set up their own checkpoints or whatever and say, you have no power here, to like the cops?
01:02:52.000Maybe they'll go grocery shopping for you, but there are ways that human beings Well, fine.
01:02:57.000I mean, we'll find a way to be safe and be responsible during all this.
01:03:01.000But the point that I'm making is I don't think a top down draconian government lockdown is the answer, because, you know, there's that old phrase from Ronald Reagan, like, I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
01:04:08.000Who racked the debt up and who benefited from it?
01:04:11.000Because there are individuals, probably in government, who either just didn't care and voted yes, because they're not going to see this, or there are people who had stock in certain companies and were like, I'll vote for war, fine, whatever.
01:04:22.000My fear is not about, you know, the United States potentially invading, you know, another country.
01:04:29.000Although, I mean, I'm always worried about sending our troops into harm's way for a number of different reasons and the potential foreign policy implications that come along with that.
01:04:38.000I am very, very worried about the CCP, the Chinese Communist Party.
01:05:07.000And so but look, the Chinese Communist Party has infiltrated every level of our government.
01:05:15.000And that is not Sean Parnell on Tim Pool and a conspiracy theory.
01:05:19.000This is what a Chinese professor said at a Chinese presentation, said that we've got people at every level of the Chinese Communist Party.
01:05:27.000He even brought up paying Hunter Biden and the Biden family.
01:05:30.000Couple weeks later you have Eric Swalwell come out with with Fang Fang being compromised by a Chinese spy You had a Chinese spy driving around Dianne Feinstein for 20 years now get this and that no one no one's talked about this I'm gonna talk about on your show for the for the first time a high-level Chinese diplomat met with the Allegheny County Executive, Rich Fitzgerald, in August of 2019.
01:05:51.000Why is a high-level Chinese official, Communist Party official, meeting with a county executive?
01:06:00.000And you know how I found that information?
01:06:02.000On the Chinese Communist Party New York City Consulate website, where they said that in this meeting, oh, Rich Fitzgerald, the Allegheny County Executive, welcomed us with open arms.
01:06:13.000We said that Wuhan in Pittsburgh are sister cities, and we stand in August of 2019, three months before a pandemic.
01:06:21.000Wuhan and Pittsburgh are sister cities.
01:06:24.000What gives an Allegheny County executive the authority to make a declaration like that, number one?
01:06:28.000Number two, how is it okay for a county executive and local Democratic officials to meet with a senior, a high-level Chinese diplomat to subvert, and by the way, this is on the CCP's website, To subvert the president's trade policy in China and foreign policy in China and stand steadfast in our friendship.
01:06:48.000Did you see this story that came out just about a week ago?
01:06:52.000Data leak exposes details of 2 million Chinese Communist Party members.
01:06:56.000The US and the UK have been infiltrated by members of the Communist Chinese Party, some of these biggest companies, some working for some of these major pharmaceutical companies.
01:07:06.000So I have to wonder, when I see something like that, when I see Fang Fang, you know, Eric Swalwell allegedly was having relations with this woman, and she helped fundraise for his campaign, my question is why hasn't he resigned already?
01:07:21.000Why isn't he under investigation, having every single communication ripped apart and gone through the fine-tooth comb?
01:07:26.000And then when I see stories about this guy Fitzgerald you're mentioning now in Allegheny County, oh, it's, it's, you notice this because this is your county, right?
01:07:47.000And then I wonder, you say, what, what gives him the authority?
01:07:50.000Man, I wonder if all it takes is some hacker, a Chinese communist party member who, you know, hacks into his account, finds his, uh, naughty folder, and then blackmails him with it.
01:08:55.000This is a problem that deserves the attention of every power broker in this country, in the private sector, and every head of every government agency needs to be focused on this now.
01:09:06.000Too many people are in on the take, man.
01:09:26.000I thought the equity deal fell through, but we had China Uncensored on the show, and they said, no, actually, it did go through, just not the way people think.
01:10:26.000And I would say about, you know, Allegheny County executives, local county executives, it's not uncommon for them to meet with diplomats and welcome them to their cities.
01:10:35.000But I would say, why are you meeting with our number one geopolitical foe, probably the greatest human rights abuser on the planet?
01:10:42.000They put people in concentration camps.
01:10:44.000Their number one goal is to become the lone superpower overtaking the United States of America.
01:10:51.000Does this not deserve questions from maybe somebody in the media?
01:10:55.000I used to always be like, why were they so nice to the Nazis in 1930?
01:11:19.000The saying, peace in our time, was when Neville Chamberlain talked to Hitler, and they were like, he comes back and goes, don't worry, he says he won't attack us.
01:11:26.000Yeah, they gave him a piece of Czechoslovakia or something?
01:11:35.000Yeah, the idea, the idea that China is our friend that is being you're hearing this in the news from many in the Democrat Party is one of the greatest fallacies of our time.
01:12:13.000I think if there was enough of a public outcry, he would resign.
01:12:16.000I don't know if it's that they don't care, or is it that they're just ignorant to the goals, the foreign policy goals of China, or maybe they don't understand.
01:12:49.000If you run a company and you want it to be a woke, progressive, or a conservative company, you don't hire a journalist and then say, I'll give you extra money to lie and make fake news.
01:12:58.000You seek out those who lie and make fake news and say, want a job?
01:14:02.000But either way, he should've resigned the moment the story broke.
01:14:04.000The moment he hit a briefing, and the FBI came in and said, you were propped up by Chinese spies, even if it were me, I'd walk out and be like, I'm out.
01:15:54.000There was a meme where they were like, the Chinese Communist Party is sending beautiful young women to basically get in bed, literally, with up-and-coming stars, politicians, personalities.
01:16:06.000And so now it's like, if you are... What did someone say?
01:16:09.000They say, if you're a 2 and she's a 10, you probably should... You gotta ask some questions there, buddy.
01:16:37.000I read a little bit about it just today.
01:16:39.000This is why I think... I'll tell you another reason why I don't like the Democrats.
01:16:42.000After everything we've just explained about kicking people out of the party and booting them off their committees, You have Ocasio-Cortez and the progressive Democrats in the Democratic Party.
01:16:55.000Because the Republicans gained so many seats, they now have the leverage to force a vote on basically anything they want.
01:17:02.000I think they're within five votes of the majority, right?
01:17:04.000Like, it's like, the House is very, very... Yeah, I think the Democrats have a six or seven seat majority right now.
01:17:09.000Which means, if the progressives went to Nancy Pelosi and said, unless you give us a floor vote on these issues, we will not vote for you for Speaker.
01:17:18.000In which case, the Republicans could gain control, to a certain degree.
01:17:24.000So, you have Jimmy Dore, who is, he's progressive, but he's populist, and I think he's a good dude, and he said, You were elected to do this.
01:17:36.000Nancy Pelosi, in her weakest position yet, wants to be re-elected Speaker, and they have the leverage to say no to her, and they won't do it.
01:18:28.000So the last time I was on the show, we talked about how there were 13,000 mystery mail-in ballots that were infused into my race the day after election day.
01:19:51.000And I said, that's like, first of all, they didn't answer the question.
01:19:54.000That's like the police officer saying to a shoplifter, sir, did you steal those groceries?
01:19:58.000And the shoplifter shrugging his shoulders and saying, well, the cashier was off.
01:20:02.000Like they didn't answer the question. They're just, they're just brazenly laughing in our faces at
01:20:09.000And my gosh, we can't even talk about it without your show getting, we can't even talk about any of this stuff without getting banned or disputed on social media.
01:20:41.000This is about, we talked about the Democrats and the radical left controlling every cultural institution, whether it's the media, entertainment, education, YouTube, social media, big tech.
01:20:51.000And now, Tim, they control the ballot box.
01:21:36.000So this is why I say this is a constitutional crisis because even if, so say you say 2020 is messed up, we're moving forward, like deal with it.
01:21:43.00050% of the people are going to not accept it.
01:21:45.000But then on the flip side of that, you say Act 77 is unconstitutional and every mail-in ballot that's sent in under that unconstitutional system is getting thrown out.
01:21:53.000That's also explosive because those people cast their ballots in good faith.
01:21:57.000We went to the court, Tim, which is precisely how our system of government is designed to help us provide, to help us give a remedy to what we believe is a constitutional crisis.
01:22:08.000Because we got to have some clarity on this election and every election moving forward and what point... You want to know what I think is going to happen next?
01:22:17.000I think Democrats are going to win in Georgia.
01:22:20.000And then Joe Biden's going to become president.
01:22:23.000And then they're going to pack the Supreme Court.
01:22:26.000Maybe, maybe, because you might get like a Manchin Democrat who's like, I refuse to allow this.
01:22:32.000But the reason why I think they're going to win in Georgia is because what I've often said is Trump's not on the ballot and people don't like the Republican Party.
01:22:40.000They like Trump and they like the new wave of Trump Republicans.
01:22:44.000It's a smaller group relative to the political establishment.
01:22:47.000But the runoff in Georgia is on January 5th.
01:22:50.000On January 6th, Alex Jones and many others say they're going to be in D.C.
01:23:42.000Yeah, look, the fact that they've done universal mail-in voting, they've obliterated the chain of custody for our election system, they've ripped security away from it.
01:23:51.000Nancy Pelosi wanted to get rid of voter ID.
01:23:54.000They want no security in their elections while they scream that we had insecure elections for four years.
01:23:59.000And listen, every pundit, at least in the state of Pennsylvania, The general sentiment is, well, Democrat in the White House, Republicans pick up seat in the off year, right?
01:24:09.000That's just always been the historical trend.
01:24:11.000The party that holds the White House, the opposite party picks up seats that year.
01:24:15.000But in the state of Pennsylvania, I don't think that people realize the paradigm shift that happened in 2020.
01:24:19.000There was something called, as part of Act 77, called the automatic opt-in.
01:24:23.000So during the highest presidential voter turnout in our nation's history, The Democrats sent out something like two plus million mail-in ballots.
01:24:31.000If you got a ballot application and you check the automatic opt-in, you get a ballot sent to you for every election until the day that you die.
01:24:39.000And if you're a Democrat, probably after that as well.
01:24:41.000But my point is, You did the idea that all of those people, all of those
01:24:48.000Democrats are going to get ballots in the off cycle, in the off cycle. Right. So they're feasibly,
01:24:53.000feasibly, they could have a presidential voter turnout in a mid cycle in the state of Pennsylvania.
01:24:57.000Which is it. Democrats only get elected with low information voters. And I'm not saying
01:25:03.000that to disparage your average Democrat voter. But the fact that you've had Democrats talking about
01:25:07.000lowering the voting age to 16 is all the proof I need to say Democrats survive off of low
01:25:29.000That's why I don't like, we talked about this quite a bit, getting rid of the Democrat and Republican, getting rid of parties on ballots.
01:25:36.000Imagine you got a flyer in the mail, or imagine you go to vote, and you see Conor Lamb, Sean Parnell, no Democrat, no Republican, just the names.
01:25:44.000The only people who are gonna get the votes are the people who are like, I like Sean Parnell or I like Conor Lamb.
01:25:48.000Now what happens is, you get a ballot in the mail and they go, Democrat.
01:25:50.000They don't know what they're voting for, they don't know why they're voting for it, and that's what Democrats thrive on.
01:25:55.000We can't function if people just are saying, I don't know, party, boop, and they're not really voting for anything other than team.
01:26:02.000Then you end up with people who sell you out to, say, China, and that's what we're headed towards.
01:26:08.000I think the Democrats, this was their reckless abandon, their desperate attempt to get enough votes to beat Trump by waking many people to politics, getting them as active as possible and angry as possible, and now we're all sitting here watching this relief bill, this ridiculous omnibus spending bill, Everybody basically hates it.
01:26:48.000He's already planning to override Trump's veto.
01:26:52.000Trump wants to veto the defense spending bill.
01:26:54.000Well, the Republicans never had his back.
01:26:55.000They were only forced to have his back because they knew that Trump had the support of the people.
01:27:01.000Well, let me tell you, man, I think that's a huge... Look, if that's the case, if what you say is true, You know, it'd be a huge mistake for any Republican in the House or the Senate to run away or distance themselves from the president.
01:27:14.000He is by far the most popular president in our nation's history, period.
01:27:19.000And no, I don't include Joe Biden in that count because I'm sorry, Look, I don't want to get you in trouble on YouTube or whatever, so I don't believe that he got 80 million votes.
01:28:52.000And then they launched universal mail-in voting.
01:28:55.000And so what I was saying was, in the month or two leading up to the election, you're gonna have, this is really funny, I don't know who said this to me, I said, you're gonna have a parent, the mail-in ballots are gonna come into the house, and they're gonna go to their kids who are like, you know, 18, 20, and they're gonna be like, did you vote yet?
01:30:06.000And then you had big tech censoring stories that would have probably made people switch their vote from Joe Biden to Donald Trump.
01:30:15.000The Hunter Biden story is a prime example of that.
01:30:16.000You had the oldest newspaper in the country, right, the New York Post, come out with a story that was perfectly vetted, fact-checked perfectly.
01:30:24.000The media ignored it 100%, like something like 10% of the people who learned about this after the fact said, hey, if they knew about this Hunter Biden story going into November 3rd, they probably would not have Dude, you have secret ballot counting days after the election was done.
01:30:35.000The alternative itself is enough to switch the outcome of the election.
01:30:39.000So the Democrats control the cultural institutions.
01:31:45.000No, they blocked it and they said, we're going to court and we're not going to file the subpoenas.
01:31:49.000They got subpoenaed and said, F you, we won't listen.
01:31:51.000And in Georgia, when Trump said, we want a hard signature audit, they said no.
01:31:55.000And they did like these sample audits.
01:31:58.000So, every single time there's been someone saying, can we look at these machines, it's been a no.
01:32:03.000And the one time we did, in Antrim County, the report came out saying, widespread, they claimed in this report, there were intentional errors in like 68% to force adjudication so an election official could choose where the vote goes.
01:32:21.000I would tell you, I'll tell you what happened very simply in the state of Pennsylvania, right?
01:32:27.000There are all sorts of issues with this election.
01:32:30.000You're looking at changes that were made in the middle of the game, right?
01:32:33.000Unconstitutional changes to our election code and to voting in the middle of the game, right?
01:32:38.000The Secretary of State in the state of Pennsylvania said, we're going to remove the signature verification for ballots.
01:32:43.000We're going to remove any for mail-in ballots.
01:32:44.000We're going to remove The postmark requirement for any mail-in ballot.
01:32:48.000We're going to remove any semblance of a deadline for a mail-in ballot.
01:32:50.000This was just a few weeks before the election.
01:32:53.000So my point is, they used COVID to create chaos at the top.
01:32:58.000They changed the rules at the last minute at the top, right?
01:33:01.000And then add to that, at the next tier down, you had, you know, what I call Zuckerberg money that was invested in heavily Democratic counties like Allegheny County, I think got $2.2 million.
01:33:46.000And then they had, and then, and then beyond that, and you had this issue in a Beaver County nursing homes that I've looked at, like granny harvesting, ballot harvesting in nursing homes.
01:33:56.000You have ballots and issues of ballots of zero chains of custody in PA 17 that were cast, that we had stories and affidavits from people who heard people voting twice, right?
01:34:08.000They mailed in a ballot and then they voted provisional.
01:34:10.000I mean, there are all sorts of issues with this.
01:34:12.000And all I'm saying, right, is that we should look into it.
01:34:16.000This is the first time that we've used an all-mail-in system or no-excuse absentee system in the state of Pennsylvania.
01:34:23.000This is the first time it's ever happened in the middle of a once-in-a-hundred-year pandemic.
01:34:28.000Is it not okay to think critically about this and say, let's look into this a little bit to make sure that everything went as it was supposed to go?
01:34:37.000Because every ballot that was cast illegally Cancels out a ballot of someone who showed up on election day to vote.
01:34:45.000Listen, it's like I was saying, the Democrats will come into Congress and propose a bill to burn down the House and Republicans will say, only burn down the kitchen.
01:34:54.000Instead of arguing, how about we don't burn down the House, they say, well, we'll negotiate with you on what you're asking for.
01:35:00.000What upsets me is that how is it the responsibility of the citizen to prove these things?
01:35:06.000Is it not the responsibility of the government to prove to the people that their elections are free and fair?
01:36:31.000It's just that when Trump came into the Republican Party, some people sided with him and new people have now gotten elected and would have been someone like yourself.
01:36:40.000A lot of the new Republicans that are coming in are good, regular people and supporters of the president and the working class individuals, populists, I suppose.
01:36:48.000But there's too many, I mean the Democratic Party is almost exclusively like crony corporate types and the Republican Party is a lot of them.
01:36:56.000So I don't know, I don't know how you change that.
01:38:00.000Yes, and so the problem right now is you creating a voting system won't change the fact that people don't understand how they are getting ripped off by crony fake representatives.
01:38:10.000I'm not trying to solve the problem of people getting ripped off with the new voting system.
01:38:13.000There are different problems we're talking about right now.
01:38:15.000Because we need something that's transparent when we're talking about voting and how to fix the system so people like Sean can actually run for office and win.
01:38:22.000Right, so instead of you changing the subject, I was talking about the fact that we have universal mail-in voting corrupting the system by putting votes into the hands of people who have not been properly informed and educated because the media class is controlled by the Democratic Party.
01:38:35.000So instead of being told, here's why you should vote for this, if you like this, this is for you, if you like this, this is for you, they're saying, this person's a fascist, you have to vote for this.
01:38:43.000Well, I like your idea of taking R&D off, but I don't think you can ever stop, you know, manipulation, media manipulation.
01:38:46.000for four years about the evil Cheeto dictator get about in their mailbox and go,
01:38:50.000yeah Trump is bad I guess. Well I like your idea of taking R&D off but I don't
01:38:54.000think you can ever stop you know manipulation, media manipulation. We just
01:38:59.000got to roll with that. Well we the problem is we have a corrupt big tech is
01:39:38.000This is not just me, and this is not This is not about me winning an election or Trump winning an election.
01:39:45.000This is about Democrats and Republicans having faith in the system.
01:39:48.000And, you know, Democrats right now, I mean, I find it funny when a lot of like establishment Democrats or, well, everybody basically in the state of Pennsylvania from the governor to the attorney general to the They all attack me now, but they attack me as if I'm a Republican, and what I'm doing is for the benefit of the Republican Party.
01:40:08.000The thing is for me is that I'm actually fighting for Democrats too now, because they might find themselves on the receiving end of unconstitutional mandates from a Republican governor someday that they might not like very much.
01:40:21.000I think we really got to get rid of party lists on ballots.
01:40:24.000I think that would be a big first step to solving this.
01:40:27.000If somebody goes in, if they get a ballot, they might know Trump is bad so they might not vote for him, right?
01:40:32.000But if they get a ballot that says Conor Lamb, Sean Parnell, and they don't know who you are, then what do they vote for?
01:40:38.000Right now people are voting on party lines and that's the problem because you end up, if you do that over a long enough period of time, We just had a transgender Satanist anarchist win the Republican primary in New Hampshire for sheriff because people just saw the Republican and voted for her.
01:40:53.000And once they found out who they voted for, they freaked out.
01:40:56.000Like, I can't believe I voted for this.
01:41:07.000Getting rid of parties will be a good step, because people might just go and... I guess the problem there is, people might just vote for the first name.
01:41:13.000You know, they might... And then, you know, whatever's on the ballot.
01:41:15.000So we have to figure out... It's tough.
01:41:18.000Well... I don't... Look, I'll tell you this.
01:41:19.000I don't know... I don't know if solution's the problem, but, um... I'm... I'm fairly, fairly pessimistic to the point where I'm going to... I can tell you are!
01:41:26.000Going to be... Going to be buying a large... Large property in West Virginia.
01:41:34.000Now, to be completely honest, I don't want to make it sound like we're buying this property in West Virginia because we're freaking out and fleeing or anything.
01:41:40.000We're doing it so that we can have ATVs and film videos and do skateboard jumps and stuff like that.
01:41:45.000But I don't want to live in a city, that's true.
01:41:47.000I don't want to be anywhere near these cities right now because of the riots, because of the potential for unrest, and I don't know what's going to happen come January 6th, but people are going to get angry.
01:41:56.000Look, I don't disagree that we live at a highly divided time.
01:42:02.000I don't disagree that maybe there are some rough times ahead, but I don't think that... I'm still going to fight like hell for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and for this country.
01:42:14.000I'm still going to fight to represent the people, whether you have a rank as a captain in the military or title of congressman or senator or governor, none of that.
01:42:42.000A week away from painting my face blue and riding a horse on Harrisburg to lift
01:42:48.000I'm so sick and tired of it because I'm sick and tired of seeing people struggle.
01:42:52.000I never thought in my whole life that you'd see food lines in my hometown every single week by the thousands before Thanksgiving and Christmas.
01:43:19.000If you're comparing somebody who makes less than $13,000 a year but has a refrigerator and air conditioning, clean running water, to somebody in like 1900 who was poor, it's dramatically different.
01:43:29.000That person would be considered very wealthy by those standards.
01:43:32.000The saying goes that a person living in poverty in the United States today has better dental care than Rockefeller did when he was, you know, the richest guy.
01:43:47.000But I would also say that many of the people that are in these food lines today, We're forced into poverty by their government.
01:43:54.000And then many of these people who are in food lines today, because Governor Wolf never appropriated, took the appropriated funds to invest in our unemployment system, got shunted into the calcified bureaucracy of our unemployment system in the state of Pennsylvania, were never able to access the unemployment funds for them.
01:44:10.000So not only were they forced into poverty, by our government in the state of Pennsylvania.
01:44:16.000They weren't able to access their own benefits because of the government.
01:44:20.000So now many people find themselves in food lines because of the government.
01:44:26.000I'm opposed to government intervention in our lives is a bad thing.
01:44:32.000I think people, if left to their own devices, you know, again, we can protect ourselves from COVID and we can allow people to make a living.
01:44:40.000People need to be responsible for themselves.
01:44:55.000Now, he talked about this gift ahead of time, and he listed all these cool things that he thinks it might be, and it was none of those things.
01:45:01.000And now I'm really worried that you're not going to like any of these things.
01:46:55.000Al Batun is my nonfiction book, but these are all my fiction books.
01:46:58.000And we talk about the left controlling levers of power and cultural institutions.
01:47:02.000Well, these books, like One True Patriot is my latest book, right?
01:47:07.000And these books, I write about the threats that we face today, right?
01:47:13.000So in One True Patriot, this massive cyber attack that penetrated all of our government institutions and the Department of the Army, all five branches of the military, the Office of the President, I wrote about that happening in One True Patriot months ago.
01:47:26.000So I try to look at like the greatest threats that we face and put them in a story, an accessible story that people can like have fun with.
01:48:15.000I was thinking the power of Tim's audience is kind of amazing.
01:48:20.000Can you imagine if One True Patriot becomes a bestseller, and I'm already a bestselling author, so I'm not saying this is a thing that I need, but I think that I would make you Oh, good idea.
01:48:34.000I would. Oh, good idea. I'll make you the bad guy. Yes. I'll make you whatever you want in the next
01:48:40.000book. You could be you could be in the Alpha program. What's the Alpha program? Oh, well,
01:48:45.000the Alpha. So I kind of created the Alpha program. Oh, that's right. That's right. You told me about
01:48:48.000last time. Yeah. So like there was all these times in Afghanistan where we get these missions to go
01:48:51.000after these targets and like we know exactly where the guy was. Hey, I'm just let's just
01:48:56.000take my platoon over there. Let's get this guy right now.
01:48:58.000Like, we can get him, I can see him, he's standing right there, but you have to go through all these layers of bureaucracy before you get clearance.
01:49:03.000By the time you get clearance, he's gone.
01:49:06.000So I said, well, what if we developed a program called the Alpha Program that was not That didn't have to adhere to any sort of bureaucracy that gave the president a third option between diplomacy and war.
01:50:02.000Well, before I started running for political office, that's exactly what I was trying to do out there, working with some of these Hollywood producers to make a Netflix series and do all this cool, sexy stuff.
01:50:14.000Writing stories and fiction is always something I've been passionate about, but I did not do this to hawk this product on your show.
01:53:19.000But I talk about, yeah, Dakota's an amazing guy, but he got awarded the Medal of Honor for disobeying orders.
01:53:24.000And I mean, I, for the, for the most part, I mean, I had great commanders in Afghanistan and in the field, I was the one issuing commands, you know, as the commander.
01:53:34.000And so, um, I mean, there, there, there were, I didn't, I didn't encounter any of those situations.
01:53:41.000Wonder Racing LLC says, Sean Parnell, one of the last great American politicians, and he puts it in quotes, left in Western PA and our great state of PA.
01:54:10.000And the point was that The left will impose things, but the right doesn't argue on a right-wing argument's terms.
01:54:18.000So I'm talking about... A better example is the lockdown.
01:54:21.000The Democratic governors shut everything down, destroy the economy.
01:54:24.000Republican... Then they'll say, okay, now that we've destroyed everything, you're relying on us and we'll give you a check.
01:54:29.000Instead of Republicans saying, open everything back up and stop suppressing people's rights, they say, well, hold on, let's give them less money.
01:54:37.000That's not an argument against what the Democrats have already done.
01:54:40.000I think a better analogy for the gun thing would be like, you know, Barack Obama says you have to buy health care, otherwise you get fined.
01:54:45.000It's basically, you know, criminal in some capacity.
01:54:48.000Then Republicans should have said, okay, if you want that, then you have to pass this bill that says 2A shall not be infringed, period, in any capacity.
01:54:58.000Something to defend the rights of people.
01:54:59.000There's never, there's rarely, I should say, arguments from Republicans saying, here's what we are asking for and we want.
01:55:05.000If what you're saying is true— Until President Trump, right?
01:55:09.000You're saying that people want to be left alone from federal government.
01:55:12.000Okay, where are the Republicans right now putting bills forward saying the federal government, you know, and the government in general shouldn't be locking down and suppressing people's rights?
01:55:31.000Because finally working class people and conservatives are tired of getting politicians who all they would do is wag the finger at Democrats and then give them what they want.
01:56:05.000Jack Bailey says, The Bible says that in the last seven years before the rapture, that one of the nations that come about is represented by a lion with eagle's wings, and the eagle's wings shall be plucked, and the lion will stand as a man with a heart.
01:56:22.000Paige in PA says, Sean, what are your thoughts on a federal single subject rule similar to that in Article 3, Section 3 of the PA Constitution?
01:57:59.000Wandering Mage says, Tim, could you imagine if entire Republican counties decided to become autonomous zones with the declaration that they would not pay federal taxes to protest the nonsense political decisions?
01:58:22.000So if every single person in the country just went about their lives like normal, there would not be a lockdown because you'd have Cuomo being like, why won't anybody do anything?
01:58:59.000I think breaking up this country or civil war or anything like that would result in the U.S.
01:59:03.000becoming extremely weakened, and then China's gonna be laughing all the way to subverting and destroying the country faster than they already are.
01:59:10.000So, we really, you know, I've heard a lot of people say peaceful divorce, and I get it, because they don't want violence and stuff, but that means we're already in deep trouble.
01:59:18.000It's only peaceful if both people want it to.
02:01:54.000And that's the issue I'm saying of, like, if conservatives are now spraying down cops with pepper spray, you don't want... Look, it's a quote from Joe Rogan that goes viral all the time.
02:02:05.000Where he said, the guys who actually know what war is like, and who experienced it, are the ones saying, you don't want this.
02:02:14.000And but in this quote, he says, and it's these, you know, it's like basically Antifa, they're screaming and demanding it.
02:02:20.000And as soon as they open that floodgates, they're going to regret it.
02:02:22.000Well, yeah, those who those who've seen the horrors of war almost never advocate for it openly.
02:02:28.000And by the way, like I've mentioned this before in your podcast, I don't this nation can be saved.
02:02:37.000And I would I would argue that great leadership can pull us out of this thing, you know.
02:02:45.000And so, God, I hate to even I hate to even It bothers me that people feel so distraught and hopeless that that's right where their minds are right now.
02:02:54.000But I'm here on this program saying don't give up hope.
02:03:43.000I mean, like, you know, the problem with fiction, the reason why it's so hard to make the bestseller list in fiction is because you're going up against a guy like Stephen King, who has three books at any given time on the bestseller list.
02:03:52.000Or like, you know, the twelfth Harry Potter one.
02:03:54.000Yeah, like, so, so yeah, you've got to- So which one, One True Patriot, you said?
02:05:18.000And in Afghanistan, you know, what's so fascinating about this topic is that we never would have fired our weapons in Afghanistan unless we were fired, if we weren't fired on first.
02:05:30.000The only time we ever shot our weapons is when we were shot at first in Afghanistan.
02:05:33.000Outside of that, we were driving coloring books to kids and building wells and humanitarian assistance.
02:05:39.000The problem is, we just got ambushed in direct fire attacks every time we left.
02:05:43.000I can easily disprove this comment on anyone advocating for violence.
02:06:58.000And he's like- Well, they walk into your room and they take your TV, they yank it out of the wall, they take all your toys.
02:07:04.000But now you're comparing the governor of Pennsylvania to parents.
02:07:07.000No, no, what I'm saying is, If the lockdowns are, like, if you can't open your business because someone said don't open your business, but you could literally walk into your business and open the door, then there's no lockdown.
02:07:19.000If the kid, if my kids are for some reason watching this, or your daughters are for some reason watching this, If you're grounded, you're grounded.
02:07:58.000If people just said, I'm gonna non-violent civil disobedience.
02:08:01.000And I think the reason why people don't, and specifically in this regard, is because people want to protect They're fellow citizens, right?
02:08:09.000But my point is that we can do both responsibly.
02:08:11.000We can both open up and protect public health.
02:08:15.000Nuke the ice caps, says, and great name by the way, left and right, now disowning the police.
02:08:21.000Everybody is absolutely at their breaking point.
02:08:23.000When we get to this point, we have to ask why.
02:08:26.000When they will not allow us to ask why.
02:08:33.000Don't lose faith in the police I have and I stand with them.
02:08:36.000And again, this is a leadership issue.
02:08:39.000You know, if leaders stood up and said, keep your businesses open, keep your restaurants open, police don't enforce unconstitutional orders, stand with the people, this problem and these lockdowns would be over tomorrow.
02:08:50.000A lot of people mentioning that right when we started the show, Trump said, F the COVID relief bill.
02:09:53.000But here's what I said, when people, you had these Republican electoral candidates, so they're not the electoral candidates for the Republican side, cast procedural votes so it's on record in the event Trump overturns some elections.
02:10:06.000And you have the Democrats saying they're not legitimate votes.
02:10:11.000In terms of the constitutional process with the electoral colleges, the votes from these aren't official.
02:10:16.000And I'm sure When the Founding Fathers signed the Declaration of Independence, sent it to, you know, to the king, the king looked at it and said, by what authority do any of these people have to say their country is independent?
02:10:28.000They're not, because it's our country.
02:10:33.000I'm certainly not saying the Republican electors are, like, declaring independence or anything like that.
02:10:36.000What I'm saying is, if right now everybody woke up and they just said the government has no authority, it would have no authority.
02:10:44.000Now, they could go and try and enforce the law, but if literally, like, I hear a lot of people saying, like, tax strikes, like the left talks about this stuff too.
02:10:52.000Yeah, if nobody was paying taxes, then there would be no authority, but it's an issue of organizational power, and people pay taxes.
02:10:57.000I think the issue is, you'll hear people say, everyone should stop paying taxes or whatever, and it's like, yeah, but most people in this country don't care.
02:11:07.000The problem is these lockdowns are destroying the lives of regular people who are at their breaking point, and now this is where things get, you know, crazy.
02:11:16.000That's when you got to be worried about what people are going to start doing.
02:11:19.000All of it could end if we just lifted these unscientific lockdowns.
02:12:57.000Uh, so it's a big protest plan for the day that the joint session is going to happen.
02:13:01.000And, um, you know, I've had some people hit me up saying they're going to DC that I don't think are particularly politically active in that sense.
02:13:09.000So I wonder if there's going to be, I think there's going to be a really massive protest in, uh, in DC on the 6th when the joint session is supposed to happen.
02:13:19.000Daniel Maxwell says peace requires that all factions involved desire peace.
02:13:23.000Violence results when one faction chooses to use force to get their way, and war results when one or more of the remaining factions decides to defend themselves.
02:13:50.000is federal property is because the federal government operates outside of the states, and the Founding Fathers, or at the time, the Federalists, didn't want one state to have control over the jurisdiction the federal government operated in.
02:14:11.000Green and Washington wouldn't take this stuff, nor are the counties that bear their names.
02:14:16.000If there is a divorce, do it county by county, not state by state.
02:14:19.000We have the food, the energy, and the power plants.
02:14:22.000California actually has a lot of... They also had a team working with them, like Ben Franklin, John Adams, and they were writing documents and new forms of governance so that they could not just destroy the system but create something new.
02:14:38.000And actually a lot of people don't know this, I could be wrong about this, but there was some inspiration from Native American governance because a lot of them were tribal and they had certain voting processes that the Founding Fathers looked at and were like, we could incorporate that somehow, that's interesting.
02:15:04.000Bernard Kim says, like the idea of obfuscating parties of candidates, but people will just look on Google the party without doing much more research past that, but it's still better than nothing.
02:17:23.000So it's like, you know, we got these guys... Oh my god, that would totally work with, with your, with your persona as, like, a vice reporter.
02:17:28.000Yeah, a guy who knows a bunch of people.
02:17:30.000Oh dude, I already got a story arc for you.
02:18:18.000That's an oath to uphold the constitution.
02:18:21.000And many of them are just mindlessly following orders.
02:18:25.000Well, I was just saying that the police have been put in very tough positions because part of their oath is to protect and serve, and they believe in the midst of this pandemic that they really are protecting people's lives by keeping them socially distanced.
02:18:43.000They're in a tough spot, but I say Always fall back on what is constitutional and what is not.
02:18:52.000The government cannot tell you what you have to wear in your own home.
02:18:55.000The government cannot tell you how many people you can have in your own home.
02:18:58.000The government cannot tell you that you're not allowed to make a living for your family.
02:19:02.000So fall back on the Constitution and let it be our guide in times of crisis, because that is our shield.
02:19:10.000The Constitution protects all of us from authoritarian government overreach, Democrat, Republican, or Independent, otherwise.
02:19:16.000Jamie Arzola says Tim Pool is the reincarnation of Hunter S. Thompson.
02:19:20.000I don't think so because he was like crazy on drugs.
02:20:27.000So we were actually thinking about going to DC for the 6th event and doing the show from the production van or whatever, but the internet's gonna be down because there's gonna be too many people.
02:21:13.000Good compliment from Sean Parnell to all you guys watching it.
02:21:15.000I mean, seriously, every time I come on the show, I mean, yeah, I hear from hundreds of people who watch you.
02:21:20.000And I think what's interesting, Tim, is that like, In times of sort of universal deceit, people seek truth and have a craving for truth.
02:21:29.000I think your show is one of the shows that they turn to in this time.
02:21:34.000See, I gotta point out again, when Alex was on the show and he said, I want you to come on my show, and I was like, eh, I'm probably not gonna do it.
02:21:41.000People were like, they expected me to be polite and just lie.
02:23:45.000All right, he says, please add when you live on different time zones, so when you're live on different time zones, so people like me who move a lot could find it easier and would also love to listen live.
02:24:09.000I don't think... I think there's no political willpower.
02:24:13.000Like, you have three Trump appointees who are just like... Can I tell you... Look, I've got to be careful because I've got a case in front of the Supreme Court now.
02:24:20.000And I want to go into this saying that I absolutely respect the justices on that court and whatever verdict they would come to in my case, Tim.
02:24:29.000I do think that the Supreme Court is also an inherently political body, and I do think that part of some of the justices are making the calculation, and again, this is just speculation, I can't stress that enough, that they're saying they want to be able to turn around to a Biden administration and say, look, we didn't rule on this stuff.
02:24:49.000There's no need to pack the institution of the Supreme Court.
02:25:26.000I think what violates the state constitution violates the federal constitution.
02:25:30.000The federal government delegates powers to the states to conduct elections as long as the states run elections in accordance with their state constitution.
02:25:37.000That did not happen on a number of different levels in the state of Pennsylvania.
02:25:45.000There's a constitutional crisis, but also let's not forget that the Supreme Court is an inherently political body and, and bureaucracies in general protect themselves, you know?
02:25:56.000And, and I think the justices are seeking to protect the institution of the Supreme Court.
02:26:00.000I mean, that has to be part of their calculus.
02:26:23.000I, you know, I know people who don't celebrate Christmas who are like, when I was younger, they're like, I don't understand why they even say happy holidays.
02:28:18.000No, man, I really do appreciate, as usual, Tim, you're great to me.
02:28:24.000I love coming on the show, I love talking about your stuff.
02:28:27.000Yeah, I loved the opening conversation about your military service, too, because getting into that's cool.
02:28:31.000That's why I definitely will start reading Outlaw Platoon.
02:28:34.000Cause this to me is like, you know, I've been in civil unrest and civil conflict.
02:28:38.000I don't know, whatever you'd call a revolution in Egypt was like the peak of the craziness.
02:28:44.000But, uh, you know, so reading this and reading more about the actual full blown conflict.
02:28:48.000That book is, is not, it's, it's a studiously nonpartisan book.
02:28:52.000It's just about close infantry combat and a year and a half of it.
02:28:56.000The media really fed us like a, kind of a storybook.
02:29:00.000Not like, hey, no violence really even happened during the war.
02:29:03.000We just went in and made sure everyone was safe.
02:29:05.000It's not, it's, it's funny that you say that because when we went into Afghanistan, I mean, we thought we were going into a stability and support operation and it, we could not have been more wrong.
02:29:13.000It was intense, close infantry combat for 16 months.
02:29:33.000I want to give a special shout out to Jesus Christ, because we were talking a lot about Christmas, named after him, Christ, you know, the Anointed One.
02:29:40.000He may not be the only prophet, but he spoke the truth to power.
02:29:45.000If he'd been a little smarter or maybe had better technology, they might not have found him and cut his head off.
02:29:53.000But let's see if we could live like Jesus and do it right this time.
02:29:56.000And how many, and I'll say this, I'll be controversial, especially with you here, to the police officers who are being told to enforce unconstitutional or even outright illegal edict in exchange for 30 pieces of silver, you must reject it.