Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - Timcast IRL - Democrats Try To STRIP Biden Of Sole Nuclear Authority w-Drew Holden

00:00:00.000 you you

00:00:28.000 the other day we were talking on the show and Luke mentioned he saw some

00:00:42.000 report about us diplomats getting swabbed in the bum bum by China.

00:00:49.000 And it turns out it's a real story.

00:00:51.000 U.S.

00:00:51.000 diplomats were going to China and China gave them the infamous COVID-19 butt swab.

00:01:00.000 And the U.S.

00:01:01.000 is extremely angry about it.

00:01:02.000 But come on, what's Joe Biden going to do?

00:01:04.000 He's going to be like, hey, look here, you know, China, I'll do whatever you say. 0.93

00:01:08.000 And that's what's gonna happen.

00:01:09.000 The U.S.

00:01:09.000 is entirely shifting its focus away from China, even after things like this, towards Russia, Syria.

00:01:15.000 Sanctions on Russia are coming.

00:01:16.000 Joe Biden just launched an airstrike on Syria.

00:01:19.000 And all of a sudden, all these Democrats are like, actually, this time it's okay, even though many of them were saying that Donald Trump had no authority to do this.

00:01:27.000 Not Joe Biden, does it?

00:01:28.000 And this is proportional.

00:01:30.000 Great.

00:01:31.000 Well, look, my respect to the progressives who are calling out Joe Biden really angry because they were like, yo, I voted for you to get me a check not to blow up kids in a foreign country.

00:01:41.000 But I'm kind of like, you know, we warned you, man.

00:01:45.000 And all I can really say is welcome to the fight.

00:01:47.000 Thank you for pushing back on this insanity.

00:01:48.000 And I agree with you.

00:01:49.000 Joe Biden's supposed to be giving Americans COVID relief.

00:01:52.000 He's not doing that.

00:01:53.000 So we got those stories.

00:01:54.000 We got this crazy story about a giant golden Trump at CPAC that's making everybody, I don't know, Angry, actually.

00:02:00.000 Like, even conservatives are getting mad at the absurdity of this golden idol of Trump.

00:02:05.000 And then we have some other funny stories.

00:02:06.000 We'll see what we get to.

00:02:06.000 There was one where apparently American Airlines reported a strange cylindrical object floating over it.

00:02:11.000 So, military weapon?

00:02:13.000 Aliens?

00:02:14.000 We'll see.

00:02:14.000 Hanging out with us today, we got Drew Holden.

00:02:16.000 How's it going, man?

00:02:17.000 You want to introduce yourself?

00:02:18.000 Yeah, hey guys, my name's Drew.

00:02:20.000 I'm back on the program, really excited about it.

00:02:22.000 You may know me from Twitter for being the annoying guy with all the lists.

00:02:26.000 If you've seen the list emoji, I use it far too often, the thread emoji, and I'm happy to be here talking about a lot of stuff.

00:02:33.000 Obviously, we've had a lot of hypocrisy afoot lately, and so it's always good talking about liberal hypocrisy, I find.

00:02:39.000 There's usually enough of it to go around.

00:02:40.000 There's just so much.

00:02:41.000 It's like mining, and then it's just there.

00:02:43.000 Yeah.

00:02:43.000 You know, it's like, this one's easy, isn't it?

00:02:44.000 Yeah, it's always like you hit an oil well, in a lot of ways.

00:02:48.000 Because all you gotta do is turn and just look back a little bit, right?

00:02:51.000 Sometimes months.

00:02:52.000 Six weeks, yeah.

00:02:52.000 Yeah, six weeks, couple of months, sometimes a year or two.

00:02:55.000 But as long as you go back far enough, you can always find something that was just patently ridiculous. 0.67

00:03:01.000 And the latest, of course, we have the cereal. 0.80

00:03:03.000 Yeah.

00:03:04.000 Well, thanks so much for joining us.

00:03:05.000 And just to begin off here, I would humbly like to say that I feel like Nostradamus today.

00:03:10.000 We were talking about these, I don't know why people call them swabs.

00:03:15.000 They're really probes.

00:03:16.000 They go inside of you three inches.

00:03:18.000 Important talking point here when describing what just happened to the U.S.

00:03:21.000 diplomats.

00:03:25.000 So yeah, I was talking about it yesterday.

00:03:27.000 We were talking about it weeks ago.

00:03:28.000 I said it was going to be expanded.

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00:03:56.000 Thanks so much for having me.

00:03:58.000 And you know me, everybody.

00:03:58.000 Ian Crosland, what's up?

00:03:59.000 Coming at you.

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00:04:01.000 And Drew, I'm glad you're here.

00:04:02.000 We can rip apart the liberal economic order.

00:04:03.000 I don't know if you're familiar with that.

00:04:05.000 And the derangement of the term liberty.

00:04:06.000 That's been coerced in a bit.

00:04:09.000 Thanks for joining, man.

00:04:10.000 Good to see you guys.

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00:06:07.000 But let's talk about this first story.

00:06:08.000 It's a Friday night, everybody, and we're going to make sure that you're getting only the best of entertainment.

00:06:12.000 Hi, Brad.

00:06:13.000 We were like, should we talk about Joe Biden and the nuclear code?

00:06:17.000 Very serious. 0.97

00:06:19.000 And then Luke was like, we got to talk about the Chinese shoving stuff up US diplomats' butts.

00:06:24.000 And I said, I don't know if it's the most important story in the world, but it's certainly entertaining.

00:06:30.000 Well, we were talking about this story.

00:06:31.000 I mean, I came in here.

00:06:32.000 I was like, do you guys believe this is happening?

00:06:33.000 And I went off on a tangent.

00:06:35.000 I was very elaborative about it.

00:06:37.000 And you thought this was a joke.

00:06:38.000 Yeah.

00:06:39.000 I was like, man, this guy and his metaphors.

00:06:43.000 It's hitting, it's gripping.

00:06:44.000 I'm like, God, I wonder what the diplomats are talking about.

00:06:47.000 What was this?

00:06:48.000 Mainstream media news.

00:06:50.000 U.S.

00:06:50.000 official asks China to not subject their staff to COVID Bum bum.

00:06:57.000 Behind probes that go inside of you.

00:07:00.000 And of course, the Chinese response was very telling at first.

00:07:03.000 They were like, no, no, this never happened.

00:07:04.000 I don't know what you guys are talking about.

00:07:05.000 They denied it.

00:07:07.000 Now they're saying, oh, this was done in error and we promise it won't be ever done again.

00:07:12.000 So here's what happened.

00:07:12.000 The State Department's pissed.

00:07:14.000 All right.

00:07:14.000 We have a story from the Hill.

00:07:15.000 State Department says it never agreed to China giving U.S.

00:07:19.000 diplomats COVID-19 anal tests.

00:07:23.000 They say Chinese officials who forced — they forced American diplomats to undergo bum-bum swabs for COVID-19 did so in error.

00:07:31.000 The State Department told The Hill on Thursday, as Beijing denies it conducted the tests at all.

00:07:36.000 The Washington Post reported last week that U.S.

00:07:38.000 officials had said some American personnel in China complained that they were being subjected to anal swab tests for coronavirus by Chinese authorities.

00:07:46.000 This is so obvious what they're doing.

00:07:48.000 They're doing this to subjugate and humiliate.

00:07:50.000 What they're doing makes no sense.

00:07:53.000 They're going to clone him.

00:07:53.000 Well, it depends.

00:07:55.000 With what?

00:07:56.000 The DNA?

00:07:57.000 No, no, no.

00:07:57.000 The DNA from the body.

00:07:58.000 Yeah, I think it's part of that.

00:08:00.000 I'm kidding.

00:08:00.000 No, no, no, no, no.

00:08:02.000 Ian is onto something.

00:08:03.000 Yeah, you're right.

00:08:03.000 Because there was official US government sources coming ... out just a few days ago talking about how China was ... trying to get the covid test that were used in order to get ... DNA samples from Americans so they could better ... predictively predict the market and dominated in the ... pharma industrial complex game yes I'm not kidding you.

00:08:22.000 China now is on this huge rampage of them trying to get as much information as they can.

00:08:27.000 They understand information is the new oil.

00:08:30.000 They've been on this huge race trying to get as much as they can because they know, hey, if we get everyone's DNA, we're going to know what they're going to get sick of in the future. 0.87

00:08:38.000 That we're going to know what ailments are going to ... have we're going to know what pills to make what medicine to ... make to sell it back to the United States at a cheaper ... profit that we're going to mass-produce and we're going ... to outcompete the other competitors in this larger ... pharma industrial complex so this was a legit thing that ... they're talking about and there's a reason politicians ... bring their own toilets when they visit other countries the ... information you get from your you know what.

00:09:00.000 Toilet? 0.99

00:09:01.000 Bum bum. 0.76

00:09:01.000 Stool. 0.76

00:09:01.000 No. 0.76

00:09:01.000 extremely important and and many politicians literally I mean there's 0.76

00:09:06.000 there's reasons Secret Service literally has a detail probably ones with the bad

00:09:11.000 political opinions but the Secret Service has a detail that that is in

00:09:15.000 charge of collecting the president's poop to make sure a foreign country 0.97

00:09:18.000 doesn't get it because if they do they'll yes yep I'm telling you so this 0.92

00:09:23.000 is this is this is more than just ridicule in my opinion It wouldn't surprise me if these larger butt probes were done in a way to get the DNA of U.S.

00:09:34.000 diplomats in some kind of larger information grab that, of course, the Chinese will use to their advantage in their fifth generational warfare, larger propaganda efforts that they're in charge of. 0.80

00:09:44.000 So yeah, a lot of this stuff is real.

00:09:46.000 I've been talking about this for years.

00:09:47.000 People have been looking at me like you're crazy.

00:09:48.000 I'm like, they're going into your Beehinds!

00:09:51.000 Watch your beehinds! 0.99

00:09:52.000 For years!

00:09:53.000 I'm like, oh, you're kidding.

00:09:54.000 You're just jo- I'm like, I'm not joking! 0.99

00:09:56.000 Like, I'm telling you, this is coming.

00:09:58.000 And this little thing with the diplomats is only going to, of course, be the start of this since they're going to be expanding this and other countries are going to recognize, hey, you can get everyone's DNA.

00:10:08.000 Let's get it.

00:10:08.000 We got a fact check.

00:10:09.000 They don't go around collecting the president's poop because they're scared of people collecting it.

00:10:13.000 They bring secure, portable toilets for the president for security reasons.

00:10:17.000 Yes.

00:10:18.000 Because if the president's, like, in a mall bathroom or whatever, it's like, it's a security risk.

00:10:22.000 Another risk is, of course, people getting information on the president from the inside of the poop.

00:10:27.000 Does make sense.

00:10:29.000 Luke is correct.

00:10:30.000 From NPR, China wants your DNA and may already have it. 0.78

00:10:34.000 I saw that go by.

00:10:35.000 They say, as COVID cases begin to rise a year ago, a Chinese company contacted several U.S.

00:10:39.000 states and offered to set up testing labs.

00:10:40.000 As a byproduct, the Chinese firm Beijing Genomics Institute would likely gain access to the DNA of those tested.

00:10:46.000 The offer was tempting for states struggling to set up their own testing facilities for a new virus

00:10:49.000 in short notice, but US national security officials urged the states to reject the offer,

00:10:54.000 citing concerns about how China might use personal data collected on Americans.

00:10:57.000 Quote, We certainly reached out to our partners and the community to make sure people were aware

00:11:02.000 that the Chinese were pushing out these tests, informing them of what the risks were,

00:11:07.000 and really asking them not to take the tests, said Mike Orlando, the head of the National

00:11:11.000 Counterintelligence and Security Center, which is part of the office of the director of national

00:11:15.000 intelligence.

00:11:16.000 As far as I know, they all turned them down.

00:11:19.000 So there's actually a bunch of stories about this.

00:11:21.000 They've been trying to get access to American DNA.

00:11:25.000 Have you guys ever used those 23andMe tests?

00:11:27.000 Yeah, it's the same idea.

00:11:28.000 I've never taken them.

00:11:29.000 Have you guys, have you taken them before?

00:11:30.000 No, my brother did recently though, so I guess all my DNA is out there.

00:11:34.000 Yep, you're in.

00:11:35.000 I just don't, I don't know if it's a big deal, but I don't want to speed up the process if it might be, so I just haven't.

00:11:41.000 No, it's a huge deal.

00:11:43.000 This is crazy.

00:11:43.000 From Newsweek, China wants your DNA and it's up to no good.

00:11:47.000 From Gordon G Chang, an author, this is from November of 2020, and he says, Why does China want such sensitive data?

00:11:54.000 Beijing is determined to dominate the biotech industry.

00:11:56.000 Beijing may also be developing biological weapons designed to target certain ethnic groups. Yep. I had that I had that 0.99

00:12:02.000 in my list I was waiting to talk about that because again, we have to

00:12:06.000 understand it's not just the pharma industrial complex That's going to be screwed over if China gets all of our 1.00

00:12:11.000 DNA That's going to outbid them and know what people are gonna

00:12:15.000 be sick of and know what the demand is in the big pharma markets

00:12:18.000 But it's also bio weapons that of course could be used could be genetically engineered to specifically go after

00:12:24.000 Individuals with a specific genotype and only affect them So this is larger biological warfare stuff that of course

00:12:31.000 is is being studied being conducted a lot of it The United States is paying for but a lot of it is ending

00:12:36.000 up in the hands of the Chinese which is absolutely perplexing mind-boggling and 1.00

00:12:41.000 and infuriating to find out.

00:12:42.000 I mean, Dr. Fauci was literally responsible and was one of the bigger founders behind that Level 3, Level Wuhan laboratory inside of China.

00:12:52.000 Not many people want to talk about this, but they were doing gain-of-function data studies on the coronaviruses linked to bats, specifically talking about how they can engineer them.

00:13:01.000 Again, not trying to come up with any theories here.

00:13:03.000 I'm just stating some facts that were talked about by the US mainstream media and admitted to them.

00:13:08.000 I'm not jumping to any conclusions.

00:13:09.000 But it's an important fact to understand here that this did happen.

00:13:12.000 I mean, New Yorker had a piece that explored this concept, right?

00:13:15.000 And I think one of the things that we probably don't give China enough credit for is they are evaluating different ways of fighting asymmetric warfare, of thinking about ways that they can get a jump on the United States, and that's everything from building new battleships to exploring the ways that they can use biological weapons and biological tools.

00:13:30.000 And exploring the rectums of these U.S. 1.00

00:13:31.000 diplomats.

00:13:32.000 Speaking of exploring, Tim, I'm also with you, I think, on your earlier point, too, because I think some of this is just a power game, right?

00:13:38.000 I'm reminded of how during the Cold War, the U.S.

00:13:43.000 State Department—this is back when we were tough and good at things, I think, a long, long time ago in U.S.

00:13:47.000 foreign policy—the Russia desk would only hire diplomats from the United States who were men who were over six feet, because they wanted to make sure that There is a better chance that they would be able to physically look down on their Russian counterparts.

00:14:01.000 Wow.

00:14:02.000 Psychological?

00:14:02.000 So much of it is... I mean, think about it.

00:14:05.000 It's just a giant game of chess.

00:14:07.000 At least as far as the State Department sees the world.

00:14:09.000 So much of it is just a big chess game, and so why not have every advantage you can?

00:14:12.000 But think about this too.

00:14:13.000 Like, China has no shame. 0.90

00:14:14.000 They want to win, and they'll do whatever it takes.

00:14:16.000 Exactly.

00:14:16.000 Even looking in the butts of our diplomats.

00:14:19.000 And I know it's funny, but this is serious too, because we wouldn't do that for the most part.

00:14:23.000 The United States probably isn't even thinking about having someone open up, you know, spread their cheeks and then take a sample. 0.98

00:14:28.000 But China knows there's things we'll learn and secrets we'll gain access to by understanding the diets, the gut biomes of these people.

00:14:35.000 And if they can produce some look we know that like gut bacteria is very important

00:14:39.000 What if they're thinking can we craft something that all just it's a detriment to American diet gut bacteria

00:14:45.000 And that causes Americans to become bloated and tired. It's a hypothetical. Well, there's a lot you can learn from this

00:14:52.000 Sickle cell anemia notoriously was harming the African-American population for whatever reason.

00:14:57.000 It's not a fecal, it's not like a bacterial disease.

00:15:00.000 It's a blood disease.

00:15:01.000 It might be.

00:15:01.000 It's formed genetically.

00:15:02.000 So it's part of the, I think it's part of the blood cells, part of the shape of the African-American blood cell.

00:15:06.000 And it is different.

00:15:07.000 It is based on the genome.

00:15:08.000 And I was actually talking, I've talked to people who have advanced scientific degrees This is one of those conversations you can't have, but they did tell me you can design things that only attack certain genomes.

00:15:17.000 They only attack certain races.

00:15:19.000 This is something China has thought about.

00:15:21.000 Americans don't think about it.

00:15:22.000 Chinese think about everything. 0.96

00:15:23.000 They thought about our kids with TikTok.

00:15:26.000 They're thinking about bioweapons, maybe possibly with COVID.

00:15:29.000 I don't know.

00:15:29.000 We're not conspiring here, but...

00:15:31.000 Well, the U.S.

00:15:32.000 has been talking about bioweapons, especially with some classified documentation that came out for a very long time, ever since the Vietnam War.

00:15:40.000 Now, as far as how clandestine and how overt they are, we don't know, because a lot of it is clandestine.

00:15:45.000 A lot of it is something that we don't know.

00:15:46.000 There's no transparency.

00:15:48.000 There's no accountability.

00:15:49.000 Whether on China, they just do everything out in the open, but also with, you know, you have to understand, you could get someone's DNA from a nose swab.

00:15:57.000 You could also get it from a behind swab, not a swab, a probe.

00:16:01.000 You can get it from a butt probe as well.

00:16:03.000 So they most likely, now the Chinese, have a whole bunch of DNA samples on all the U.S. 0.92

00:16:08.000 diplomats that willingly took their pants off when the Chinese government said, take them off!

00:16:12.000 And they did, which is, I mean, just imagine being a U.S.

00:16:15.000 diplomat and just saying, yeah, sure, China, here.

00:16:18.000 Instead of being like, I'll get on a plane and leave right now.

00:16:20.000 Yeah, right. 0.99

00:16:21.000 Instead of having some like dignity and saying, hey, no, no, you're not sticking anything up my butt. 0.97

00:16:28.000 I'm sorry. 0.97

00:16:28.000 Like, like, like have some courage here. 0.97

00:16:31.000 The U.S.

00:16:31.000 State Department had to release.

00:16:33.000 Trust the science.

00:16:34.000 That's what it's all about.

00:16:35.000 You got to trust science.

00:16:36.000 Are you saying you hate science?

00:16:37.000 Canada is your friend.

00:16:40.000 Yeah.

00:16:42.000 So science is a big hammer.

00:16:44.000 And if you use it improperly, you can do a lot of harm with it.

00:16:46.000 Yeah, it's gross.

00:16:48.000 It is stuff.

00:16:50.000 Do you think I want to get an asymmetrical warfare?

00:16:52.000 Yeah, I'm gonna interview with one of these diplomats and just hear it from their own mouths.

00:16:55.000 They'll be like, rocking back and forth.

00:16:58.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:16:59.000 Yeah.

00:17:00.000 And that's the thing, too.

00:17:01.000 Like, his hands are cold.

00:17:03.000 At what point would they just kind of look to their supervisor superior and be like, dude, Do we have to do this?

00:17:08.000 Like, at one point was somebody just like, you know, actually, we're going to call back to the embassy.

00:17:12.000 We're going to check on this one real quick.

00:17:14.000 Give us five minutes.

00:17:15.000 What is it like for US diplomats?

00:17:16.000 Are they like under the finger of the Communist Party when they're over there?

00:17:20.000 That's a good question.

00:17:22.000 Probably not.

00:17:23.000 I would assume not only because they spend so much time on American properties, right, on embassies and consulates.

00:17:28.000 The interesting thing, though, this is something I could have expected from the American media, because they very much live under the thumb of Beijing while they're over there.

00:17:36.000 But you would think that the American diplomatic corps would have a little bit more dignity, a little bit more self-esteem, and a little bit more of an ability to push back and say, no, no, we're not going to do this.

00:17:46.000 But listen, we're living in strange times.

00:17:48.000 America's becoming weak.

00:17:49.000 Yes.

00:17:49.000 There's a big metaphor here.

00:17:51.000 It's easy for Biden to be like, I'm going to bomb Syria.

00:17:53.000 Because what's Syria going to do about it? 0.93

00:17:55.000 And we go up against Russia because Russia could fight back to a certain degree, but ultimately, what are they going to do about it?

00:18:00.000 China? 0.73

00:18:01.000 Oh, yeah.

00:18:02.000 We can't fight China. 0.59

00:18:02.000 They'll win. 0.59

00:18:03.000 And they're winning.

00:18:04.000 That's the scary reality of everything that's going on.

00:18:07.000 And I think so much of it is they want to see, and this to me more than anything else is, they want to see what they can get away with.

00:18:13.000 In so many ways, this is just a microcosm of the sorts of things that they're doing in the South China Sea, the sorts of things they're doing in Tibet, the sorts of things that they're doing investing in Africa and Eastern Europe.

00:18:22.000 This is a power play, right?

00:18:24.000 So much of this is a power play, and it's how far can we push the big guy on the block, the United States, and get away with doing this kind of stuff?

00:18:32.000 And if we can keep doing this, right?

00:18:35.000 If the Belt and Road program can run through traditional U.S.

00:18:38.000 allies across Africa, if we can muscle our way into Tibet, if we can muscle our way into Hong Kong, Why can't we do some rear-end swabs on US diplomats?

00:18:49.000 Why isn't that the next step?

00:18:50.000 It's incremental.

00:18:52.000 It sounds silly to a lot of people.

00:18:53.000 They probably don't think it's that big of a deal, but it's just one more grain of sand making a bigger heap where China says, we can do whatever we want. 0.74

00:18:59.000 We can go to an American and say, take off your pants and bend over right now. 1.00

00:19:02.000 And they'll go, yes, sir.

00:19:03.000 Yes, no problem, sir.

00:19:05.000 When I first heard it, I think yesterday, maybe you brought it up.

00:19:07.000 I was bringing it up yesterday.

00:19:09.000 I heard about it.

00:19:09.000 I was looking at the sources like, we need to confirm this.

00:19:12.000 We were talking about this a few weeks ago. 0.93

00:19:14.000 A few weeks ago, we were saying, hey, China has developed a new way to test for COVID and it's going up your buttocks three inches to swab you. 0.73

00:19:21.000 And I'm like, this is not what you think it is.

00:19:23.000 It's coming.

00:19:24.000 It's going to be expanded.

00:19:26.000 And now here we are today.

00:19:27.000 Sorry, Ian.

00:19:28.000 It almost like washed over me yesterday.

00:19:29.000 I was just like, oh, well, Whatever.

00:19:32.000 Let's go.

00:19:33.000 I'm not surprised.

00:19:34.000 But they lied about it.

00:19:35.000 They lied.

00:19:36.000 They lied about it big time.

00:19:38.000 That's really a big deal, man.

00:19:39.000 This is bad.

00:19:40.000 No?

00:19:41.000 It's a decay.

00:19:42.000 It's just like everything seems to be heading down into the crapper.

00:19:47.000 Pun intended.

00:19:47.000 Yeah, that's right.

00:19:48.000 I was going to say.

00:19:52.000 And so much of this too is, it's China stepping back and not just pushing to see where they can go, forgive the pun, but probing where the weaknesses are.

00:20:01.000 Right?

00:20:01.000 Where are the vulnerabilities?

00:20:03.000 Where are the places where U.S.

00:20:04.000 diplomats don't have a level head about them in terms of the decisions they're going to make, the power that they're going to stand up against, and the things that they're unwilling to do?

00:20:12.000 And I think the more they do that... I want to use this to jump to the next segment.

00:20:15.000 We'll talk about the weakness of the United States.

00:20:18.000 So we have this story that came up a little while ago from Military.com.

00:20:21.000 Dozens of House Democrats call on Biden to give up sole nuclear launch authority.

00:20:26.000 This is crazy, but it shouldn't be unexpected.

00:20:30.000 Joe Biden is He's not all with it.

00:20:32.000 I think that's fair to say.

00:20:34.000 There's been reports that Kamala Harris has been doing his job for him because he's been napping in the sun, as I predicted.

00:20:40.000 Yeah, she's talking to foreign leaders on his behalf or whatever.

00:20:43.000 And now they're saying, we think Joe Biden should give up sole power to launch nuclear weapons.

00:20:47.000 And you know what?

00:20:48.000 I agree.

00:20:50.000 I don't think a senile old crackpot should be holding nuclear football.

00:20:53.000 Give it up to who? 0.53

00:20:54.000 To open it up to other people.

00:20:56.000 Now, that's a problem.

00:20:57.000 Who are these other people?

00:20:59.000 Maybe... You know what?

00:21:01.000 This is the problem of having, you know, a president who's in only because people hated the other guy.

00:21:07.000 Clearly, right now, you've got all the Democrats complaining.

00:21:09.000 Well, not all of them.

00:21:10.000 I'm sorry.

00:21:10.000 All of the progressives complaining about Biden.

00:21:12.000 Some of the Democrats.

00:21:13.000 But many of them just saying, Biden can do no wrong!

00:21:16.000 Right.

00:21:16.000 You get a president who's based on hating the other guy.

00:21:18.000 And he's basically... What's the difference?

00:21:22.000 You know, a lot of people say, like, you know, he's gonna do a lot of the same foreign policy things.

00:21:25.000 He's actually doing worse.

00:21:26.000 People are worried now we're gonna lose this peace we're developing in the Middle East.

00:21:28.000 He's gonna destabilize everything. 0.98

00:21:30.000 But I'm sorry, he is a senile old crackpot. 0.98

00:21:33.000 who was elected without the ability to be president and now democrats are saying he 0.91

00:21:36.000 should give up the sole power of the nuclear launch. He just bombed Syria. Okay, let me just 0.94

00:21:42.000 get this out really quick. I don't know much about this bombing of Syria. I read some mainstream news

00:21:46.000 articles from NBC and some other and they were like, it's in retaliation to Iran.

00:21:51.000 Okay, obviously NBC is going to say that.

00:21:52.000 The other one was, this is actually a perverse way of improving diplomatic relations with Iran because it's going to be forcing them to the, whatever.

00:22:01.000 It's sickening.

00:22:02.000 I'm sorry.

00:22:03.000 Well, so let me read some of this story from military.com.

00:22:05.000 They say nearly three dozen House Democrats are urging President Joe Biden to relinquish his sole authority to order the launch of nuclear weapons, arguing that no single person should wield apocalyptic military power.

00:22:17.000 They say vesting one person with this authority entails real risks.

00:22:20.000 Past presidents have threatened to attack other countries with nuclear weapons or exhibited behavior that causes other officials to express concerns about the president's judgment, according to the letter, which was spearheaded by California reps Jimmy Panetta and Ted Lieu.

00:22:34.000 Now, interestingly, Nancy Pelosi tried doing this with Donald Trump in I believe it was what like it after November Yeah, she went to the Joint Chiefs. 1.00

00:22:43.000 I believe it was the Joint Chiefs and she said Block Trump's ability to order missile strikes and they said ma'am that would be a military coup.

00:22:50.000 We can't do that The commander-in-chief has the ability to fire the nukes.

00:22:55.000 They're taking this away.

00:22:56.000 Who would get it?

00:22:57.000 It sounds to me like Look, it's gonna say as cliche as possible.

00:23:02.000 All of these things are just ripping this country into a million pieces That's it.

00:23:06.000 Well, you know, I never agree with politicians, but these politicians make sense.

00:23:11.000 When they're talking about one person on this earth that has the power to press one button and end the human race, I'm sorry, that's a little bit too much power.

00:23:21.000 When we're going to be engaging in nuclear war, we're engaging in a war that's going to end civilizations as we know it.

00:23:28.000 And I agree with these Democrats.

00:23:29.000 I never thought I would say this, but I agree on the merits here.

00:23:32.000 I don't agree.

00:23:33.000 I do.

00:23:34.000 I think it should be decentralized.

00:23:35.000 I think definitely it shouldn't be one senile old man who doesn't know where he is half the time.

00:23:41.000 Sometimes.

00:23:41.000 So that's a problem of Joe Biden.

00:23:43.000 But then the issue is you're creating exponentially more vulnerabilities with each individual.

00:23:48.000 You'll give the ability to press a button.

00:23:49.000 Let's put it this way. 0.60

00:23:50.000 You got Joe Biden as a senile little crackpot, and that freaks me out, because he might press the button and fire a nuke. 0.78

00:23:54.000 They said Donald Trump was sporadic and erratic, and he might press the button and launch a nuke.

00:23:58.000 That's still only two people.

00:23:59.000 Add ten more people, and now you gotta keep track of each and every one of them who might launch a nuke.

00:24:04.000 It'd be cool if you needed all of them to agree.

00:24:06.000 Well, I think that that's my question, too, is what is the...

00:24:09.000 No, that can't work either.

00:24:10.000 Is the alternative that we have just a bunch of different checks and balances, if you will, before you can fire the nuke?

00:24:15.000 Because really, if that's the case, eh, I guess that makes sense.

00:24:18.000 But if you start truly federalizing the nuclear launch codes and really start having that many hands in the kitchen...

00:24:24.000 Here's what's gonna happen.

00:24:26.000 The Chinese communist dictator, you know, Xi Jinping is going to be like, I can launch all of the nuclear weapons, and they will have no time to retaliate.

00:24:34.000 We win.

00:24:36.000 China will succeed, our cities will be fine, and every nuke will explode over America before they even realize it. 0.96

00:24:42.000 I guess you could automate a defensive response and only, you know, federate the offensive to like six people that need to agree and turn a key at the same time.

00:24:50.000 There's something really convenient about just having one.

00:24:53.000 There's a reason why we have a president who is the commander-in-chief.

00:24:57.000 It's so that we can respond quickly and instantly to serious militaristic threats.

00:25:01.000 Well, maybe just add one more person that's sound mind that's next to him.

00:25:06.000 So this is the problem.

00:25:07.000 So what?

00:25:08.000 They give us a crackpot president and use it as an excuse to disseminate the launch codes to a bunch of other people?

00:25:13.000 When we gave the president the power like that, we didn't have world-ending weapons at the push of a button.

00:25:18.000 No, we did.

00:25:19.000 When we created the nuclear weapons, we were like, Mr. President, they're yours.

00:25:21.000 When we created the Office of the President and gave them all that executive power, we didn't have nuclear weapons that could end the human race.

00:25:26.000 So the problem is, unless you can answer me this, when China and Russia know, as autocrats, they can snap their fingers and bluff the U.S. 0.74

00:25:34.000 and we can't respond, what defense do we have?

00:25:36.000 I don't think Biden could respond anyway.

00:25:38.000 He'd probably be sleeping.

00:25:39.000 I know!

00:25:39.000 I know.

00:25:39.000 You need an automated response.

00:25:40.000 You're not making it better by giving more people the launch codes. 0.99

00:25:43.000 The problem is we are in a very seriously dangerous position because Joe Biden is a pathetic senile old crackpot. 0.99

00:25:50.000 I'm being a little hyperbolic, but let's be real. 1.00

00:25:51.000 No, you're right.

00:25:52.000 It's showing the cracks in the system.

00:25:53.000 So now you've got Vladimir Putin.

00:25:55.000 What is he?

00:25:55.000 He's former KGB, right?

00:25:56.000 Yeah.

00:25:57.000 And he's riding on a horse with no shirt on.

00:25:58.000 Yeah.

00:25:59.000 A bear, I thought.

00:26:00.000 And he's so brutal.

00:26:01.000 I mean, look at the dude who's trying to run against him and gets poisoned all the time.

00:26:04.000 Yeah, Navalny.

00:26:04.000 Mysterious.

00:26:05.000 All the time. 0.68

00:26:06.000 This guy is probably laughing his ass off like Joe Biden. 0.67

00:26:09.000 Yeah.

00:26:10.000 What's he gonna do?

00:26:11.000 It really does beg the question of, if we don't trust him with this, with this responsibility of a president, right?

00:26:15.000 Because that's all, like, we can fight about who, whose it should be, but if this is a duly charged role of the president, and we can't trust him to do this, then what else can't we trust him to do, right?

00:26:26.000 In what other settings does he not, is he not someone we want to be presidential?

00:26:30.000 If we can't trust him to be the only one with his finger on the trigger for the nuclear buttons, do we trust him one-on-one in a room with Xi Jinping or with Putin?

00:26:37.000 Yeah.

00:26:39.000 I mean, again, as he was pointing out, the people who know this want to do us harm.

00:26:45.000 Well, this is the thing.

00:26:46.000 The vulnerability is there, whether it's two people or not, because of Joe Biden.

00:26:50.000 I made the shirt that I'm wearing right now months ago, and it says, I'm Joe Biden and I forgot this message.

00:26:55.000 This sentiment was true months before the election.

00:26:59.000 It was true every time he got on stage.

00:27:01.000 There's a reason they kept him in the basement.

00:27:03.000 There's a reason he didn't do many public speaking events.

00:27:05.000 He does a lot of gaffes.

00:27:06.000 He messes up a lot of the time.

00:27:08.000 Sometimes he messes up the locations where he's actually in.

00:27:11.000 And that's extremely concerning for the man that literally has his finger on the button and could end the world with one click.

00:27:17.000 I want to make an observation.

00:27:18.000 It's not Biden that's the problem.

00:27:20.000 It's the cognitive decline of the human brain that's the problem.

00:27:23.000 And that's going to be no matter what.

00:27:25.000 What's Cyber Biden?

00:27:27.000 We need to get Elon Musk to Neuralink Biden.

00:27:30.000 Just give him a tune up.

00:27:32.000 Could you imagine?

00:27:32.000 And then Elon Musk has the nuclear launch code.

00:27:35.000 I'm sorry.

00:27:35.000 George Alexopoulos has an image of this.

00:27:37.000 So the paintings you guys see on the walls behind everybody is George Alexopoulos.

00:27:41.000 And one of his memes is Biden sitting in this chair with like an electrode helmet attached to his head.

00:27:47.000 And he's like drooling as children are being fed to him.

00:27:51.000 It's a real piece of art.

00:27:52.000 It's hilarious.

00:27:54.000 But I'm kidding.

00:27:54.000 We're not going to make Cyber Biden.

00:27:56.000 But it is a good point.

00:27:57.000 The ultimate problem I see with this is this office is important and powerful for a reason.

00:28:03.000 You have Congress.

00:28:05.000 They legislate.

00:28:06.000 They're slow, and nobody likes them.

00:28:09.000 They're not meant to respond very, very quickly when we're being attacked. 0.93

00:28:12.000 The president can declare a state of emergency and take unilateral action, and that's their excuse for bombing Syria, which is dumb because Syria's not doing anything to us.

00:28:21.000 The problem is, they hated Trump so much that they were like, we would rather have... Listen, I'm gonna stop.

00:28:28.000 They said, when Donald Trump got elected, you know, there's a lot of Republicans saying, you're attacking the pilot of the plane because you don't like the way he talks over the intercom, you're gonna make the plane crash.

00:28:38.000 They hated Trump so much, because as he's flying the plane, he gets in the intercom and he won't shut up, and you're like, just stop, right?

00:28:44.000 So then some... 0.98

00:28:46.000 doting you know some dotard is sitting there drooling all over himself and like I want him to fly the plane and 1.00

00:28:52.000 Now they put it the sleepy creepy Joe who's sitting in the pilot seat drooling on himself sleeping in the planes going 0.98

00:28:57.000 Like falling down and they're like better than the guy yelling at us for you know the entire plane ride and right

00:29:03.000 he had two brain aneurysms my goodness, I mean

00:29:08.000 Yeah Also, the timing of this is very important because this letter came out right before he unilaterally decided to launch airstrikes on Syria.

00:29:23.000 Of course, without constitutional approval, without congressional authorization, And according to many, illegal under international law, but really just continuing the policy that Barack Obama codified in 2014 and just bombed another country without any kind of oversight, transparency, or even accountability.

00:29:40.000 It's for natural gas.

00:29:42.000 Biden says no Keystone Pipeline in America, but Qatar Turkey Pipeline in Syria!

00:29:47.000 See, it's okay when foreign contractors go and build gas pipelines in other countries that we're blowing up.

00:29:53.000 Not okay when American workers do it. 1.00

00:29:55.000 And it's kind of like, you know, I mentioned this before, they love outsourcing jobs, they love outsourcing factories, and then they don't want any of it here.

00:30:02.000 It's almost like a not-in-my-backyard thing.

00:30:04.000 Oh, we want the oil, we want the gas, but not in my backyard.

00:30:06.000 Even from a pipeline?

00:30:07.000 Right?

00:30:08.000 That's the other thing, too, is the richest part.

00:30:10.000 Yeah, no, it's insane.

00:30:11.000 And, like, listen, it's got to hurt of all of the people who it probably stings for, these strikes, it has to hurt the worst for Neera Tanden, who famously said that we are going to attack Libya to take the oil.

00:30:23.000 And now she is seeing us attack Syria for no good reason.

00:30:27.000 And she's probably, like, her eyes are probably lighting up with dollar signs at the very thought of it. 0.99

00:30:31.000 And yet her confirmation is going to get railroaded because she's Because she tweeted a bunch of really dumb things. 0.98

00:30:36.000 Yeah, that, but also she's by all indications a bad person. 0.96

00:30:39.000 She punched a reporter one time, which I don't think you're supposed to do.

00:30:42.000 And perhaps one of the most awful things, even if you just look at it the way that the Dems see the world, but I think the way that we all see the world too, is she, in an all-staff meeting, she outed one of her employees at CAP when she worked there at the think tank.

00:30:56.000 For bringing charges of sexual harassment against their boss.

00:31:00.000 And so as they were, as they were talking about it, she just outed this, this, this private concern and complaint.

00:31:05.000 Um, the people, the people who are, who are look, man, the federal government is just a swamp.

00:31:10.000 Yeah.

00:31:11.000 And, and there's like a tiny handful of people who are stepping through the swamp that are okay.

00:31:15.000 But for the most part, it's a swamp.

00:31:17.000 Trump did not drain the swamp.

00:31:19.000 The swamp is just murkier than ever. 0.99

00:31:21.000 And Joe Biden's back in, he is a swamp monster. 0.97

00:31:23.000 Yeah. 0.99

00:31:23.000 And think about it. 0.99

00:31:25.000 He's got so many people that he's inherited who are former Biden or Obama alums.

00:31:31.000 And they're like, what have they been doing for the last four years since they left the Obama White House?

00:31:36.000 Swamping Trump?

00:31:37.000 Or they've just been making a bunch of money working in Washington.

00:31:42.000 And so they've only gotten more swampy, right?

00:31:44.000 They've only cycled out and now cycled back in.

00:31:45.000 We also have to acknowledge the fact that three last sitting presidents bombed Syria without any congressional authorization.

00:31:53.000 The last time Donald Trump did it, Jen Psaki tweeted, by the way, in 2017, quote, also, what is the legal authority for strikes?

00:32:02.000 Assad is a brutal dictator, but Syria is a sovereign country.

00:32:06.000 Gee, Jen, yes, of course he is.

00:32:09.000 Joe Biden even tweeted that Trump was erratic, impulsive, and it's the last thing a commander-in-chief should do when, of course, Donald Trump bombed Syria because his daughter cried.

00:32:18.000 Ivanka Trump cried to him and told him to do it after the alleged chemical weapons attack, which there have been some very serious questions about and a lot of evidence countering.

00:32:29.000 All the information, but the big thing here we have to understand here is when Donald Trump bombed Syria, there was at least some kind of fake attempt to frame some kind of evidence.

00:32:39.000 They tried.

00:32:40.000 They did it very poorly.

00:32:41.000 It was fact-checked to be wrong, but now there's no evidence.

00:32:46.000 Where's the information?

00:32:47.000 Where's the WMDs?

00:32:49.000 Where's the justification for this that allowed the United States to do this?

00:32:52.000 They usually put on a horse and pony show right before launching another strike.

00:32:56.000 They didn't even do that this time!

00:32:58.000 They didn't say there was a threat.

00:32:59.000 They didn't show any evidence.

00:33:01.000 They didn't highlight anything that could have justified this.

00:33:04.000 We still don't know.

00:33:05.000 Let's jump to this thread from Drew on this Democrat hypocrisy.

00:33:09.000 But I want to start by saying this, ladies and gentlemen.

00:33:12.000 This is the end.

00:33:13.000 What we're seeing, the utter hypocrisy from Democrats and media pundits, cannot survive.

00:33:20.000 Progressives are already tweeting, smack-talking the Democratic establishment and the media establishment.

00:33:26.000 Obviously not every single one, but many of them are saying, we did not vote for this.

00:33:31.000 There's one Twitter account that's getting memed around like crazy because they were like, I'm deactivating my account.

00:33:37.000 I did not realize Biden would do this.

00:33:38.000 This is wrong.

00:33:39.000 We didn't want war.

00:33:40.000 He lied to us.

00:33:41.000 I think about Barack Obama.

00:33:43.000 He did the same thing.

00:33:45.000 But there was no Twitter.

00:33:46.000 Right.

00:33:46.000 So what happens is, we can see the hypocrisy.

00:33:49.000 We can see Jen Psaki, press secretary, saying, under what authority is Donald Trump bombing Syria?

00:33:56.000 What about now?

00:33:57.000 When Joe Biden, 36 days in, does the same thing.

00:33:59.000 We can see all of these Democrats, and it is stamped in our minds.

00:34:04.000 So what happens now is the younger generation, they're going to see these tweets and be like, yeah, these people lied.

00:34:09.000 That's it.

00:34:10.000 War is bad. 0.70

00:34:10.000 We don't want this. 0.70

00:34:11.000 I say this at the end.

00:34:12.000 What I mean is that the establishment's stranglehold and ability to keep lying is weakening.

00:34:17.000 I'm optimistic in this regard.

00:34:19.000 I've asked, how is it that so many people still fall for the mainstream media?

00:34:23.000 They're probably older people watching TV.

00:34:25.000 Younger people aren't. 0.98

00:34:27.000 Now, many of these younger people probably fall for garbage emotional manipulation from a lot of these leftist grifters, but let's pull this thread we have from the man himself, Drew Holden, and your tweet reads, It seems not all pointless foreign wars are created equally. 0.67

00:34:42.000 In the eyes of the Democrats, the media, and the chattering class, when Trump hit Syria was an outrage. 0.90

00:34:46.000 But under Biden?

00:34:47.000 Well, apparently things are different.

00:34:48.000 Do you want to just read through some of the tweets?

00:34:49.000 We'll show them and break it down for what you found.

00:34:52.000 I will.

00:34:53.000 So I was going through it today and I looked and I saw a lot of the... I was reminded very quickly of what happened in 2017 and 2018 where there was enormous criticism of Donald Trump hit Syria.

00:35:02.000 I'm sure I was probably critical of it too.

00:35:04.000 I saw it and I was like, yeah, I'm not sure I'm well about this one.

00:35:06.000 I criticized him.

00:35:07.000 I'm getting these people tweeting at me, and they're like the haters, the tribalists.

00:35:10.000 And they're like, are you gonna, you know, criticize Biden now?

00:35:14.000 You wouldn't criticize Trump.

00:35:15.000 And I was like, I did.

00:35:16.000 I criticized Trump on the Syria thing like every video.

00:35:19.000 People complained about it.

00:35:20.000 We get it, Tim, you're mad at Trump for firing Tomahawk missiles into Syria.

00:35:23.000 And I'm like, yeah, what am I gonna, I'll complain about it.

00:35:26.000 I support Tulsi Gabbard for that reason.

00:35:28.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:35:29.000 But the tribalists are full of it. 1.00

00:35:30.000 I lost so many followers when I went after Trump for doing those moves.

00:35:33.000 He's like, no, Trump's doing the right thing.

00:35:35.000 I'm like, no.

00:35:36.000 And I remember calling him out aggressively and losing a large ton of followers.

00:35:40.000 And I was like, I don't care.

00:35:41.000 Goodbye.

00:35:42.000 And they were like, you're like CNN.

00:35:43.000 You have Trump derangement syndrome.

00:35:46.000 I'm like, no, I have principles.

00:35:48.000 Something a lot of people, you know.

00:35:50.000 So what you discovered?

00:35:51.000 So, what I found very quickly was that, for whatever reason, all of the people who were incredibly critical in 2017 and 2018 were not critical, or the best one, I think, the one I start off with, so usually the way I structure these is, I'll hit the members of Congress first, and then the media, and then whomever, right, Blue Jacks? 0.55

00:36:07.000 But the first one I had to start it with is a phenomenal side-by-side.

00:36:10.000 It's Lawrence O'Donnell of MSNBC fame.

00:36:12.000 Back in 2018, he had tweeted, Dear News Media, If you think Trump has constitutional authority to attack Syria, please say why.

00:36:19.000 If you're not sure, please ask the question.

00:36:21.000 Please stop using the phrase constitutional crisis, as it can only refer to firing people, not missiles.

00:36:26.000 Right?

00:36:27.000 A lot of concerns.

00:36:28.000 Very concerned was Lawrence O'Donnell then.

00:36:30.000 Lo and behold, yesterday, last night, right after all of this goes down, he tweets out a link to his upcoming show that has Ben Rhodes, failed MFA, failed short story writer turned policy wonk, apparently Ben Rhodes, and Lawrence O'Donnell tweets, Ben Rhodes has been in the room when the president orders a proportional response.

00:36:51.000 And he has him on and they talk about why this specific attack made total sense, complete and total sense.

00:36:56.000 Well, look, Drew, you just misunderstand.

00:37:00.000 It has always been the position of the Democrats that bombing Syria is a good thing. 0.99

00:37:07.000 Now, the issue isn't that Donald Trump was bombing Syria.

00:37:10.000 The issue was that the man who ordered them happened to have been orange.

00:37:13.000 It makes sense now.

00:37:14.000 Yes, exactly.

00:37:15.000 It's a night and day difference.

00:37:16.000 And so I think it's interesting because a lot of Democratic politicians very much went with that sort of mentality and thread.

00:37:22.000 My favorite, Nancy Pelosi, she tweeted, this is in 2017, so right after these first strikes, retweet if you agree, which is a horrible thing to put in a tweet.

00:37:33.000 In terms of a little Twitter one-on-one, please, for the love of God, don't do that.

00:37:36.000 Retweet if you agree that Congress has a responsibility to immediately debate President Trump's actions in Syria.

00:37:41.000 Which is hysterical because back then, in 2017, she had no power to bring everyone back in and force everyone to have this conversation. 0.57

00:37:49.000 She is now the Speaker of the House who could call back Congress tomorrow! 1.00

00:37:54.000 She could force them to have this conversation.

00:37:56.000 For whatever reason, no interest.

00:37:57.000 Huh, weird.

00:37:58.000 But perhaps, actually, I take that back.

00:38:00.000 My favorite among elected officials has to be Barbara Lee. 1.00

00:38:02.000 She used a couple of emojis.

00:38:05.000 I think it's questionable.

00:38:06.000 It's dubious.

00:38:07.000 The first was the shouting emoji.

00:38:09.000 All capped.

00:38:09.000 Trump doesn't have the authority to have troops in Syria, much less to protect oil.

00:38:13.000 Apparently Biden does.

00:38:14.000 And then, again, Twitter 101, please don't do this.

00:38:18.000 Producing foreign oil.

00:38:19.000 Clap hands.

00:38:20.000 It is clap hands, not clap hands.

00:38:22.000 A. Clap hands, legitimate.

00:38:23.000 Clap hands, military.

00:38:24.000 Clap hands, mission.

00:38:25.000 Clap hands.

00:38:26.000 Just do the clap.

00:38:27.000 Stop endless war.

00:38:28.000 Protecting foreign oil is not a legitimate military mission.

00:38:33.000 Stop endless war.

00:38:33.000 Thanks, I hate it.

00:38:35.000 What the heck? 0.90

00:38:37.000 No follow-up from her. 0.86

00:38:38.000 For whatever reason.

00:38:38.000 Maybe I shouldn't turn on the news.

00:38:40.000 I don't know.

00:38:40.000 Friday is often not a working day in Congress, so maybe she just hasn't heard.

00:38:43.000 Did you try to contact them?

00:38:44.000 Be like, hey, do you have a point on this?

00:38:46.000 Do you want to say something?

00:38:47.000 Obviously, I always tag these people whenever I tweet at them, and for whatever reason, I haven't heard anything back on those ones.

00:38:51.000 How strange.

00:38:52.000 What is this a proportional response to?

00:38:56.000 There was a rocket strike on an Iraqi military base that killed an American contractor. 0.90

00:39:01.000 So Joe Biden said, I'm gonna blow him up!

00:39:04.000 Allegedly, that's what they say.

00:39:06.000 But again, we have to understand what they say is usually a lot different than what actually happened.

00:39:11.000 And more importantly, there were reports going around as soon as Biden got in that US troop movements in Syria started escalating.

00:39:17.000 The New York Times, I believe, had the best take today.

00:39:19.000 true it's a myth that this is totally normal and then we saw you know

00:39:23.000 Middle Eastern sources saying the US is running troops through Syria yeah and

00:39:27.000 then the New York Times I believe had the best take today they had an article

00:39:32.000 that was titled US airstrike in Syria targets Iran backed militias in that

00:39:39.000 article it literally says and I quote little is known about this group

00:39:44.000 including whether it is backed by Iran What?

00:39:47.000 Literally.

00:39:49.000 Yes, that's literally what they said.

00:39:50.000 So yeah, a lot of information is very sporadic.

00:39:53.000 It's very hard to believe.

00:39:55.000 A lot of anonymous government sources are coming out and they're not putting their name behind this, but they're saying this was defensive.

00:40:00.000 Wow.

00:40:01.000 Anonymous government source.

00:40:02.000 Look at this, New York Times.

00:40:03.000 Little is known about the group, including whether it is backed by Iran or related to organizations that used the facilities for the American airstrikes targeted on Thursday.

00:40:12.000 Let's go right into the title.

00:40:14.000 U.S.

00:40:14.000 airstrikes in Syria target Iran-backed militias.

00:40:17.000 They are lying!

00:40:19.000 Clap, clap, clap!

00:40:23.000 And this is the thing, in a lot of ways the media can speak these sorts of things into existence.

00:40:27.000 The New York Times had another story, with strikes in Syria, Biden confronts Iran's militant network.

00:40:32.000 Yes, I saw that.

00:40:33.000 Right?

00:40:33.000 It's the same thing.

00:40:34.000 If you repeat it, this is WMDs all over again, if you just repeat it over and over and over again, It becomes part of the conversation.

00:40:41.000 But another big thing to realize here, the Iranian forces in Syria are the ones that are partly responsible for crushing ISIS, al-Qaeda, and al-Nusra and other Sunni radical groups.

00:40:54.000 The Iranians are basically Shiite groups that are fighting against the Sunnis And if it wasn't for the Iranians and the Syrians working together, ISIS would still have a huge foothold inside of Syria. 0.75

00:41:05.000 So by Biden and by Donald Trump attacking the Syrian government, they're attacking the people that are stopping ISIS that's spreading radical jihadism and terrorism all over the West.

00:41:15.000 That's another point here.

00:41:16.000 Oddly, that point was forgotten by the mainstream media.

00:41:19.000 They forgot to mention that one for some strange reason.

00:41:21.000 Under Trump, ISIS was crushed.

00:41:22.000 Is that correct?

00:41:23.000 Yeah, I think so. Yeah. Well, they lost a lot of their funding that was given to them by Barack Obama and Hillary

00:41:27.000 Clinton And then he blew up the the main dude. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah

00:41:31.000 Well, Russia also took a large part in that and exposed how a lot of the oil that was being you know

00:41:36.000 Siphoned in by Isis was actually traded to Turkey Russia exposed how they were as caravans working with the Turkish 1.00

00:41:42.000 military along with Isis usually financing

00:41:46.000 Terrorism Saudi Arabia Israel also financed the Sunni larger wahhabi terrorist groups in there Israel by the way

00:41:52.000 was given advance notice of this airstrike.

00:41:54.000 and they released a statement that they're very pleased that this airstrike happened in that particular region.

00:41:59.000 So there's a lot of different geopolitical things happening, but essentially,

00:42:03.000 I boil it down to the larger class of civilizations that's happening in the Middle East between the Sunnis and the Shiites. 0.99

00:42:10.000 The Sunnis, the radical Islamists, are on the side of Israel. 1.00

00:42:13.000 So, they're saying in the media over and over again, Iran.

00:42:16.000 Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran. Deep down they say, Oh, we don't know for sure, but we're going to keep saying

00:42:20.000 their name over and over again.

00:42:20.000 So how long until we have war with Iran?

00:42:22.000 I mean, they've been trying to do this. John Bolton said, what did John Bolton say?

00:42:26.000 By this time next year, we will be celebrating in Tehran.

00:42:28.000 He was wrong on his timeline, but we have to understand what Syria is, it's not about Syria.

00:42:32.000 Syria is a larger proxy war between the United States, Russia and also China in some ways China has actually even sent some support to the Syrians China has a very close relationship with the Iranians so does Russia so there's probably going to be another proxy war just like we're seeing in Yemen just like we're seeing in Syria just like we've seen already play out in in Libya.

00:42:56.000 That's going to take place in Iran but another big thing to really kind of calculate here and understand this larger web that the military industrial complex paints to you is the fact that it was the it was the Gulf War after 2001 in 2003 when the Gulf War was launched that made Iran such a powerhouse in the Middle East region because it got rid of one of their chief competitors Iraq and their sphere of influence Actually grew they became more powerful because of the war ... in Iraq so again these neoconservatives literally ... created the boogeyman and we could even talk about the CIA ... coup in the 50s and and all this other stuff but but the ... fingerprints on the military industrial complex.

00:43:38.000 On the neoconservatives is literally create the boogeyman ... let's finance Isis let's make Iran more popular in the region ... and let's go to war with them next they're literally creating ... their own problems but they're not coming to you and saying ... well we have to you know we can't give you that $2,000 ... check we can't give you $50 minimum wage we got this huge ... threat we got a fight that conveniently we made happen ... and that's the big lie sold to the American people who just ... conveniently keep forgetting American history.

00:44:04.000 I'm doing clapback.

00:44:07.000 But I'm just absolutely flabbergasted and so disappointed in people, especially in the mainstream media, that don't talk about these events in relevant timelines that actually give people a perspective to see what's happening here because we are essentially paying for the destruction of this country by putting us in these quagmires.

00:44:25.000 Meanwhile, China, they're having our lunch.

00:44:27.000 We've got we actually have a breaking news.

00:44:29.000 And they're going to be doing a lot more with their global hegemony which they're going to take over with their

00:44:35.000 policies rather than our Self-destructive hurting policies that put us in debt and

00:44:39.000 send our American troops into harm's way for what we've got we actually have a

00:44:43.000 Breaking news we have exclusive Oh yeah.

00:44:47.000 An exclusive photograph of Joe Biden actually making the switch between giving checks to the American people and dropping a bomb.

00:44:55.000 And as you can see, he's wearing a leather jacket and a, what is it?

00:44:58.000 A fedora.

00:44:59.000 Is that a fedora though?

00:45:00.000 That's cool Joe Biden.

00:45:01.000 Yeah, the fedora.

00:45:02.000 And he's got to swap the $2,000 check for the missile.

00:45:05.000 Is that like an Indiana Jones thing?

00:45:07.000 Yeah, Indiana Jones.

00:45:09.000 That's what happened.

00:45:10.000 You know what?

00:45:11.000 You know what's really sad?

00:45:13.000 I'm not mad.

00:45:14.000 I'm sad.

00:45:14.000 All of these Twitter accounts from these progressives who are like, but we thought Biden was the good guy.

00:45:18.000 Good!

00:45:19.000 But you thought Biden was the good guy?

00:45:20.000 Oh, poor baby! 1.00

00:45:21.000 At least they're waking up.

00:45:22.000 Listen, I'm not, I'm, I'm annoyed.

00:45:24.000 I don't want to be mean.

00:45:26.000 We, I think we're old enough to where we experienced the Obama years.

00:45:29.000 We knew what Obama was going to do, or we knew what Obama did.

00:45:31.000 We knew what Biden was going to do.

00:45:33.000 And we kept saying it over and over again. 0.99

00:45:34.000 And they're like, yeah, but Trump is a fascist. 0.98

00:45:37.000 Okay, well, you know, have more war, I guess. 0.98

00:45:39.000 We're gonna go to war with Russia. 0.96

00:45:41.000 Let's see how that plays out.

00:45:42.000 That's the next big thing. 1.00

00:45:43.000 Trump was a fascist. 0.99

00:45:44.000 Not any more or less than any other president. 1.00

00:45:46.000 Not a fascist. 0.90

00:45:47.000 Well, this country's fascist.

00:45:49.000 It's built on the backs of slaves and corporatocracy. 0.98

00:45:52.000 That's fascism.

00:45:54.000 It's suitable for us, but, you know, it's basically controlling the world through military coercion.

00:45:58.000 It's not fascism.

00:45:59.000 It's attempting to.

00:46:00.000 There's a lot going on in the world.

00:46:01.000 It's not like dictatorial fascism.

00:46:04.000 No, you're using fascism as a general term for like... The corporations have been... Dude, Raytheon's CEO is now our defense secretary?

00:46:10.000 Is that what it is?

00:46:11.000 Yeah, that's crony capitalism.

00:46:12.000 It sure is.

00:46:13.000 But we're allowed to talk about it.

00:46:14.000 It's not fascism.

00:46:14.000 It's not totalitarian fascism.

00:46:17.000 It's just like subversive fascism.

00:46:19.000 The fact that they're not coming in here, kicking our door in and then, you know, probing us shows that we're not.

00:46:23.000 But if we allow these people to keep doing these things, eventually it will be.

00:46:28.000 Especially under Joe Biden.

00:46:30.000 It's an information war.

00:46:31.000 You're right.

00:46:32.000 And it doesn't have to happen in Iran.

00:46:34.000 As long as we keep the communication going and keep people aware that we should not be going into Iran, that these bombings are out of order, then I think we won't go anywhere.

00:46:41.000 Well, another thing to kind of add here, just really quickly, is the fact that China's taking over the world through trade.

00:46:47.000 We're taking it over through military blunders that indebt us forever, and that's not achieving anything.

00:46:51.000 Iraq wants us to leave.

00:46:53.000 Syria wants us to leave.

00:46:54.000 There was an Iraqi parliament that literally voted, please, the United States, leave.

00:46:58.000 The United States decided not to do that, and not to listen to a direct government order by the Iraqi government.

00:47:05.000 And that's when we had these mysterious kind of rocket attacks that somehow are justifying our bigger involvement in there.

00:47:12.000 I'm not putting out any theories out there.

00:47:14.000 I'm just saying it was very convenient of a timeline that did happen.

00:47:17.000 You guys wanna talk about authoritarianism?

00:47:18.000 You wanna talk about fascism?

00:47:19.000 You wanna talk about all that stuff?

00:47:20.000 How about this story from CTV News?

00:47:22.000 Man charged with assault at Montreal quarantine.

00:47:25.000 Woman says she felt helpless.

00:47:27.000 You don't get enough of an understanding from this headline.

00:47:30.000 Let me tell you what happened.

00:47:31.000 A woman heard they were gonna start instituting mandatory quarantines in Canada.

00:47:36.000 She decided, I'll go back to Canada now before they do this.

00:47:39.000 Took a COVID test.

00:47:41.000 When she arrived, they said that was the wrong COVID test.

00:47:43.000 So they took her to an undisclosed location, a hotel.

00:47:47.000 They told her she wasn't allowed to tell anyone where she was, where the hotel was, or what was going on.

00:47:51.000 And while she was there, a man sexually assaulted her.

00:47:54.000 This is authoritarianism.

00:47:56.000 This is what we have to worry about with these passports, with these lockdowns.

00:48:00.000 I watched a video.

00:48:02.000 It was from Rebel News.

00:48:03.000 I don't know don't know a whole lot about it, but I saw this video on Twitter and it's a it's a one of their reporters is walking down the street filming probably my assumption is he was filming like this is what the lockdown looked at looks like you know I'm out here showing the people and the cops gave him a fine and said we don't care they wrote him a ticket curfew for an adult man walking down an empty street now listen I mentioned that that's not the worst of it this story was sent to me and at first I was like what is this a guy's being charged sexual assault at Metro quarantine hotel woman says she felt helpless what is this And she said she felt helpless at a hotel where she didn't expect to end up and where she was told she wasn't allowed to disclose her location.

00:48:40.000 Quote, they didn't tell you where they were taking you, which is unacceptable.

00:48:44.000 They gave a set of rules.

00:48:45.000 Can't post on social media.

00:48:46.000 Can't disclose location.

00:48:48.000 Federal health officials told CTV they're aware of the incident and taking it very seriously.

00:48:53.000 The assault.

00:48:53.000 That's what they care about.

00:48:54.000 To the rest of these people, it's normal that this woman was flying back to her home and was apprehended by the authorities for breaking no crime, told she couldn't tell anyone what was going on, she couldn't report anything on social media, she couldn't give her location out, they brought her to an undisclosed location where she was assaulted.

00:49:08.000 What?

00:49:09.000 This is insane.

00:49:10.000 They're literally taking people who have broken no laws, locking them up.

00:49:16.000 And the problem with all of this too is, it's the case in Canada I'm sure, it's certainly the case in the United States, when you empower government to do things, right?

00:49:25.000 We've seen this with the Patriot Act, we've seen this with lots and lots of things.

00:49:28.000 When you allow governments to have lots and lots of power and lots and lots of authority that is relatively unchecked against everyday life and against everyday civilians, they don't give them back quickly, right?

00:49:38.000 The coronavirus cases are down like 75, 77% I think in the last couple of weeks, right?

00:49:43.000 And despite that, has your life changed?

00:49:46.000 Has anyone's life changed?

00:49:47.000 To be fair, we're in the middle of nowhere.

00:49:48.000 Yeah, that's a good point.

00:49:49.000 You guys, I live in D.C., so it's a whole other universe.

00:49:53.000 Nothing's changed.

00:49:54.000 Everyone's wearing, people are wearing two masks instead of one now.

00:49:56.000 That's the only thing that's changed.

00:49:57.000 You still have all the razor wire and the... Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:50:00.000 I went for a run the other day because I used to run and I'd run up to the camp because I live pretty close there.

00:50:04.000 I mean, it's as if we're living in East West Germany.

00:50:07.000 It's insane.

00:50:08.000 But what happens when government gets these powers is that a bureaucracy that is empowered to make these sorts of decisions is always going to think they are going to make the right decision.

00:50:18.000 They are not going to give you the power and authority back.

00:50:20.000 And it has been, I think, to me, really incredible.

00:50:23.000 Despite the fact that the cases are falling and deaths are falling, life isn't actually returning to normal in all of the places where all of these lockdown restrictions have been put in place.

00:50:31.000 And Canada, obviously, is a nightmarish example of this.

00:50:34.000 But we're not that far from this kind of stuff.

00:50:36.000 No, we're not.

00:50:36.000 And what is Fauci saying?

00:50:37.000 Look, if you go get the vaccine, nothing's going to change.

00:50:40.000 You'll still have to wear two masks.

00:50:42.000 You won't be able to go to the movies or go out to eat.

00:50:45.000 So go get it anyway.

00:50:47.000 And people are actually now questioning why would they do it?

00:50:49.000 Who's going to do that?

00:50:50.000 And here's the thing too, like, listen, if all he would say, it blows my mind because all he would have to do, absent this power conversation, if he's someone who just wants to see people get the vaccine, you know what you do?

00:50:59.000 You tell them how great the vaccine is.

00:51:01.000 We have managed in the span of a very limited amount of time to come up with a revolutionary virus because of the power of American R&D and research.

00:51:10.000 Vaccine.

00:51:10.000 Revolutionary vaccine.

00:51:12.000 That can stop and shut down a pandemic that has brought the world to its knees.

00:51:17.000 Go get it.

00:51:18.000 It's safe.

00:51:18.000 We've tested it a gazillion times.

00:51:20.000 Go get the vaccine.

00:51:21.000 Well, the long-term tests haven't been done.

00:51:23.000 Yeah, it takes a while.

00:51:24.000 Yeah, I don't want to get into that.

00:51:27.000 Another thing I wanted to bring up is before, you know, forcing the strictest lockdowns, the Canadian government also disarmed a large public of the Canadian citizenry.

00:51:36.000 And we had politicians like Justin Trudeau that was in October of 2020 telling its citizenry

00:51:42.000 don't believe the conspiracy theories that there's going to be government quarantine camps. It's a

00:51:48.000 conspiracy theory. Don't believe it. It's not going to happen. And here we are today when you enter

00:51:55.000 Canada. It's not a camp. It's a Sheraton hotel.

00:51:57.000 I I have to imagine.

00:52:01.000 Of course, corrupt security guards that do unspeakable things to you.

00:52:05.000 And I mean, I mean, this is just it's just it's like the frog boiling.

00:52:10.000 Yeah, that's essentially what's happening here.

00:52:12.000 And there's still a lot of legitimate questions surrounding the vaccine that I do believe should be asked for my own personal opinion.

00:52:19.000 Yeah, you would think that with kind of like a propaganda campaign in favor of the vaccine, that people like Dr. Fauci would be super rah-rah about it.

00:52:27.000 I don't understand why he's not.

00:52:28.000 But Trump did it.

00:52:29.000 Trump did it, and they don't like Trump.

00:52:31.000 That's it.

00:52:31.000 That's bottom line.

00:52:32.000 I mean, look, we mentioned this before.

00:52:33.000 All these stories were coming out saying, like, oh, boogeyman vaccine, a doctor took a vaccine, two weeks later was dead.

00:52:39.000 And then I read the stars, like, wow, what happened?

00:52:41.000 And it was like, he had a stroke.

00:52:42.000 And I'm like, oh, two weeks later, he had a stroke?

00:52:44.000 OK, come on.

00:52:45.000 I'm concerned about the speediness with which this vaccine was put out there.

00:52:51.000 But I'm worried that there are the same nasty, unethical journalists who are like, it's Trump's vaccine, though. 0.73

00:53:00.000 You know, let's rag on it.

00:53:03.000 And the politicians certainly like the power.

00:53:05.000 So I wonder why Fauci is saying these things.

00:53:08.000 Maybe he's being honest.

00:53:09.000 Maybe it really isn't that effectual or he doesn't know.

00:53:11.000 Yeah, maybe they did it because they were scared and people needed hope.

00:53:14.000 So the vaccine is worthless?

00:53:15.000 Is that what Fauci is saying?

00:53:16.000 Well, again, this is rushed.

00:53:18.000 This is still experimental.

00:53:19.000 And there have been some findings saying that if you do get the vaccine, you could still spread the sickness.

00:53:24.000 There's been studies saying that.

00:53:25.000 There's been experts saying that.

00:53:28.000 You have to look this up.

00:53:29.000 Correct me if I'm wrong.

00:53:29.000 I think even Fauci said this himself.

00:53:32.000 When we're looking at, you know, I don't think this is Trump's vaccine.

00:53:35.000 This is Pfizer's vaccine.

00:53:36.000 This is Moderna's vaccine. 0.95

00:53:38.000 It was Warp Speed.

00:53:38.000 This is Johnson & Johnson's vaccine.

00:53:40.000 And it was Operation Warp Speed that Trump streamlined the process to ramp everything through really, really quickly and provide massive funding for all this and guaranteed contracts.

00:53:47.000 Sure, sure, sure.

00:53:48.000 But when people look at it now, they don't see Trump.

00:53:50.000 That's the point that I'm making here.

00:53:51.000 Yes, Trump played a key initiative in pushing this vaccine, but the questions about its efficacy and its safety, those still are kind of questions that are being asked, and we'll see.

00:54:04.000 Yeah, and Dr. Fauci is the one who's basically undermining confidence in it, and that to me is insane.

00:54:11.000 Yeah, and to me, again, at the risk of being a little bit black helicopters on this stuff, I think part of it is, if you were to go out and say that it is fully effective and fully safe and everyone should get out and do it, then people would probably stop looking to the CDC for advice.

00:54:26.000 If you look at all of the different things that the CDC recommends you do, most of us ignore them on a day-to-day basis.

00:54:31.000 How many people truly go and they're like, well, you know, I really like the taste of medium rare steak, but the CDC says you have to cook it to at least medium.

00:54:39.000 No one.

00:54:39.000 People don't do that.

00:54:40.000 Do they really say that?

00:54:41.000 Yes, that's one of the recommendations.

00:54:42.000 And I think it's like one or two drinks is the maximum.

00:54:45.000 They have a litany of very, very silly rules that no one actually follows.

00:54:50.000 This is for COVID?

00:54:51.000 No, for anything.

00:54:52.000 They're telling people to ruin their steaks.

00:54:54.000 Yes, exactly.

00:54:56.000 Who do we impeach?

00:54:57.000 Thank you.

00:54:59.000 But here's the thing.

00:55:00.000 Right now, people are, in a lot of ways, it's like the weathermen when they predict storms, right?

00:55:05.000 As long as they keep telling you that a storm is coming, you're gonna be glued.

00:55:08.000 You're gonna pay attention.

00:55:10.000 I'm gonna go to the weather channel and see if we're gonna get six inches or eight inches or 12 inches or is it gonna be worse?

00:55:16.000 Is it gonna be nothing?

00:55:17.000 But if you keep saying, ah, something bad and scary is coming around the corner, people will keep tuning in.

00:55:22.000 And in his case, people will keep empowering him and the rest of the agents of the state to be able to say, oh, sorry, you can't do the things we don't like you doing.

00:55:28.000 It's an addiction.

00:55:29.000 You've got people who have power, and they've found a way to use government to gain more power, be it money, shutting down all our competition, and allowing only us to remain open.

00:55:37.000 We're not gonna oppose that.

00:55:39.000 And so unless there is a principled individual to snap their fingers and say, stop this, which there isn't, why would anyone give this up?

00:55:46.000 Now listen, the people running the big box stores and the big massive online stores who are allowed to stay open and are making all this money and making billions and billions of dollars, They're gonna be like, well, look, it's not us.

00:55:59.000 It's the pandemic.

00:55:59.000 So we're not gonna get involved.

00:56:01.000 I think Elon was pretty good about being like, this thing's ridiculous.

00:56:04.000 I'm not shutting my factory down.

00:56:06.000 I'm leaving California.

00:56:07.000 Come with me if you want.

00:56:08.000 But he needs people driving their cars.

00:56:10.000 So I'm not trying to impugn the honor of Elon.

00:56:12.000 But if people are staying home, they're not buying cars, they're not driving cars.

00:56:15.000 So it's good for Tesla and it's good for their bottom line when people are out and about.

00:56:19.000 You look at Amazon, it's the inverse.

00:56:20.000 They need you in your home waiting for that delivery.

00:56:23.000 So why would they resist in any capacity?

00:56:25.000 These politicians are also thinking, I got a guaranteed salary and everyone is sitting there terrified and will do whatever I say?

00:56:33.000 Sounds good to me!

00:56:34.000 If people lose their livelihoods, who's gonna buy Teslas?

00:56:37.000 So that's another thing to really consider here.

00:56:39.000 As well as, on the other hand, we did had a John Hopkins doctor recently come out in the Wall Street Journal op-ed and write that COVID's going to be over by April.

00:56:49.000 We had the Independent reporting that there has been no influenza cases in the United Kingdom all year.

00:56:54.000 There also has been a huge influenza drop in the United States, and according to English health officials and the Deputy Chief Medical Officer of the United Kingdom, he is even saying, as of two days ago, that face masks may not even be necessary by the summer.

00:57:08.000 So this is also happening as well, at the same time as we're discussing Dr. Fauci's, you know, darker predictions and Dr. Fauci's opposite viewpoint of what all these other medical professionals are saying in other countries.

00:57:20.000 Did you just say there was no influenza in the United Kingdom?

00:57:23.000 Yes.

00:57:23.000 Zero.

00:57:24.000 According to the British, the UK health records, there was zero cases of influenza of flu in the United Kingdom this year, 2021.

00:57:33.000 Let's talk about this.

00:57:37.000 Not a single case of flu detected by Public Health England this year as COVID restrictions suppress virus.

00:57:44.000 Experts say decline in infections could justify continued use of hand sanitizer and masks following coronavirus pandemic.

00:57:50.000 That's really amazing that COVID was skyrocketing while the flu is disappearing.

00:57:54.000 You trying to fact-check me there, Ian?

00:57:56.000 I want to just point this out.

00:57:57.000 Good, I like that.

00:57:58.000 We should be fact-checking things.

00:57:59.000 It's possible that influenza is present, but they're not classifying it as an influenza infection.

00:58:04.000 Instead, they're saying it's a COVID infection.

00:58:05.000 Well, we don't know that.

00:58:06.000 No, we don't.

00:58:07.000 I would like to investigate that.

00:58:08.000 But it does raise an important question.

00:58:11.000 Similar numbers have gone down in the United States.

00:58:13.000 So there's another article that I was just reading a couple days ago about influenza almost totally wiped out in the United States.

00:58:20.000 There still have been some documented cases.

00:58:22.000 Now again, we don't have the evidence.

00:58:24.000 It's a stretch to go there, but some people are going there.

00:58:28.000 But again, this is something to think about.

00:58:31.000 This is something to add to our calculations when we're looking at the sphere of our current modern day.

00:58:36.000 It's simple.

00:58:37.000 The flu, when people were staying home, couldn't spread, but COVID could.

00:58:42.000 But it wouldn't mean that you wouldn't get it.

00:58:44.000 Like, yeah, it would slow the spread, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

00:58:47.000 It's interesting.

00:58:47.000 What I had heard in terms of influenza coming to the United States is that there's essentially, and someone's got to fact check me on this, but I think the argument is that influenza, the annual influenza, tends to come from Central and South America.

00:58:59.000 And it cultivates there for whatever reason, right?

00:59:03.000 And don't forget, the seasonal flu we get now is just a dilapidated version of the 1918 Spanish flu.

00:59:09.000 And it never quite went away, and that's kind of how they assume the coronavirus is going to be too.

00:59:13.000 And it keeps mutating.

00:59:13.000 Right, and so every year we get a slight variance on a new strain, and for whatever reason, my understanding is that, I don't know where it starts, but it tends to come to the United States from Central and South America.

00:59:23.000 Since there's a lot less tourism, there's a lot less immigration.

00:59:26.000 I think the thinking is that it hasn't actually kept to its normal course this year.

00:59:29.000 So you're saying that migrant caravans are putting up headwinds, and we have to lock the borders down? 1.00

00:59:34.000 There's one argument, right?

00:59:35.000 I'm only half kidding.

00:59:36.000 I mean, that's true, too.

00:59:37.000 Like, if the flu is really coming from, you know, a lot of these people, then border security would help prevent a lot of these disputes.

00:59:43.000 I do think it's mostly tourists, though.

00:59:45.000 I think it's how it tends to work.

00:59:47.000 But also, interesting point you made earlier is about this Wall Street Journal op-ed, which I read the other day and I found fascinating.

00:59:52.000 And basically, the crux of his argument is, we're not taking into account how many people already have a natural resistance to the vaccine because there have been so many asymptomatic cases.

01:00:01.000 I think his estimates are that there have been between five and six times as many people who have been infected by coronavirus than our numbers have.

01:00:07.000 Not for any malicious reason, but just because a lot of people were asymptomatic, had it, never got tested, never even thought to get tested, what have you.

01:00:13.000 Never even knew they had it.

01:00:14.000 Yeah, of course, and never knew that they had it.

01:00:16.000 And so when we talk about herd immunity, one of the biggest factors is that, in the case of this op-ed, the argument is that one of the biggest things we're not talking about is how many people have natural immunity.

01:00:28.000 And so if instead of a million or a couple of million, it's a lot higher than that, then you don't actually have to vaccinate as many people until you get to a point where the numbers continue to fall and continue to fall to a point where they're almost vanishing.

01:00:39.000 Most of them, by the way, have healthy immune systems, have good vitamin D levels.

01:00:43.000 Again, something that we should be talking about more.

01:00:45.000 There was also another UK study that talked about how the vaccine won't eliminate the virus risk.

01:00:50.000 I think it was also in the Wall Street Journal that reported this as well, which was kind of interesting.

01:00:54.000 Vaccine won't eliminate virus risk, I think was the title.

01:00:58.000 I don't know if you're able to find it or pull it up there.

01:01:00.000 But again, there's so many different things being thrown at us that we have to understand all of this is extremely complex.

01:01:08.000 A lot of the experts contradict themselves.

01:01:10.000 A lot of the mainstream media reports sensationalize it, make it as hyperbolic, make it as fearful as they can for you.

01:01:16.000 And a lot of the real legitimate things about your health, your immune system, sleep, stress, proper diet, exercise, vitamin D, sun, a lot of that gets missed.

01:01:25.000 Again, not a medical doctor, not a medical professional, not telling you how to live your life, not telling you what to do, but I'm just saying that this whole conversation around this from the very beginning has been toxic, has been polluted, and has been politicized so that people take advantage of it for their own personal benefit.

01:01:40.000 And sadly, our politicians did that to us.

01:01:44.000 Let's talk about solutions.

01:01:45.000 Yeah.

01:01:46.000 What does a regular person do?

01:01:48.000 Well, the next story we have is from Washington Times.

01:01:51.000 Five Oregon counties to vote on leaving the state and escaping to greater Idaho.

01:01:57.000 Understandable.

01:01:57.000 And they actually have two phases.

01:01:59.000 The first phase is to get these five counties, which would turn Idaho into a coastal state.

01:02:04.000 It would give them a port.

01:02:06.000 I love it.

01:02:07.000 Yes.

01:02:07.000 Idaho would reach the Pacific.

01:02:10.000 I love it.

01:02:11.000 They also have phase two, which would rope in Northern California into Greater Idaho.

01:02:18.000 It would not create a new state.

01:02:20.000 And this is their plan.

01:02:21.000 So you have all these counties in Oregon which are conservative.

01:02:25.000 These counties are saying, the politicians in Portland, in Oregon, they're all Democrats.

01:02:31.000 It's all the Democrat areas.

01:02:32.000 They dominate the state politics and they're giving COVID relief to their constituents and ignoring the rural areas.

01:02:38.000 The rural areas say, well, we got more in common with Idaho.

01:02:41.000 How about the Idaho border move and encompass us?

01:02:44.000 I like it.

01:02:45.000 I do too.

01:02:47.000 One of the challenges they say is, have you guys heard of the state of Jefferson?

01:02:50.000 Yes.

01:02:51.000 Northern California, same thing.

01:02:54.000 They think they should break off and form a 51st state called Jefferson because they have nothing in common with the rest of the state and the big cities and they do not get represented.

01:03:03.000 The problem is creating a new state, California is going to have to sign off on giving up this territory.

01:03:08.000 The U.S.

01:03:09.000 will have to have like a Article 5 convention or whatever it's called where like all the states come together and then vote for amendments and that would create the new state.

01:03:16.000 The same thing is true for Greater Idaho but it would not change the amount of senators.

01:03:20.000 So, there should still be the same amount of congressmen and women, and there should be the same amount of senators, and all it would do is move some borders around, which they say does happen. 1.00

01:03:30.000 I'm a fan of it.

01:03:30.000 I'm a fan.

01:03:31.000 And give people sovereignty away from, of course, the big socialist, communistic, very far leftist governments.

01:03:36.000 And super populated, right?

01:03:38.000 I think one of the big problems with Northern California is that it's more sparsely populated, it's more rural, and so Not only are they going to be ignored in terms of their political disposition, like they just don't have the political capital to be able to get the people who are making the decisions to care about them.

01:03:55.000 And with Greater Idaho, obviously that wouldn't be the case.

01:03:58.000 You do have so much, surely so much more shared value and so much more shared interest.

01:04:03.000 I guess it would change the House of Representatives for each of those states, presumably, if enough people shifted and moved, but you're right, it wouldn't change the number of senators, and it probably, like, California will lose, what, maybe one congressional district at most?

01:04:15.000 And so, yeah, I don't know, this sounds wonderful.

01:04:17.000 I think this is such a great idea to give a voice to some of the more rural populations.

01:04:21.000 I'm so, I don't know about you guys, but I'm super tired of the big cities having all of the concentrated power, you know what I'm saying?

01:04:28.000 The rural people need a voice.

01:04:29.000 So the interesting thing is that there was a study that came out recently that said even in red states the cities are blue.

01:04:36.000 The issue is that in these blue states the cities are disproportionate in population size to the rest of the state.

01:04:43.000 In the red states it's inverted.

01:04:46.000 So it'll be interesting to see all of a sudden these counties that have zero representation All of a sudden feel represented.

01:04:53.000 That's great.

01:04:53.000 I think it's a great idea because what's the alternative?

01:04:55.000 Yeah, exactly.

01:04:56.000 If people feel like the government does not represent them, what do they do?

01:05:00.000 This country was founded based on that fact.

01:05:02.000 It's the great thing about being in a democracy like this too, or a representative democracy, is that you can alter your borders peacefully.

01:05:09.000 Here's the weird thing.

01:05:10.000 We've got Weld County, Colorado, right?

01:05:12.000 They want to be a part of Wyoming for the same reason.

01:05:14.000 You've got the state of Jefferson.

01:05:17.000 Even if the people who live there say, we don't want to be a part of this place anymore, and we're the ones who live there, we're the people who run this county, the state still has to vote on whether you're allowed to leave.

01:05:28.000 That makes no sense to me.

01:05:29.000 I don't think that should be the way to do it.

01:05:31.000 Why would a state let you leave?

01:05:32.000 Why would they be like, we willfully give up people who are enslaved to us?

01:05:36.000 These are taxpayers who have no representation, who are funneling money to their salaries, and of course they're not going to let their serfs leave.

01:05:43.000 Exactly.

01:05:43.000 Because that's the problem.

01:05:44.000 What do those people end up doing?

01:05:45.000 They get angry.

01:05:46.000 You'll see protests.

01:05:48.000 We've got to have representation.

01:05:49.000 It would be interesting to see if that just as a phenomena catches on.

01:05:52.000 Forget those individual places for a second.

01:05:55.000 If individual communities can say, hey look, we are 100 feet away from another state that shares our values and we are existing within a state that doesn't.

01:06:05.000 What are the sorts of things we can do and animate to start to move and change those things?

01:06:09.000 I think that could be a really, really fascinating experiment in federalism to see how that plays out all across the country.

01:06:15.000 Look at how the Democrats want to make Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C.

01:06:18.000 states so they can get four more senators and then have a uniparty, a single-party rule controlling the country.

01:06:25.000 Now, to be fair, the Republican Party establishment, Democratic Party establishment, essentially the same thing.

01:06:30.000 But what's happening now is the Democrats don't even want to bother with whatever, you know, pseudo arrangement they had in the first place.

01:06:37.000 And they're like, hey, we'll make two more states and then we'll never lose ever again.

01:06:40.000 Right.

01:06:42.000 They would tell you, oh, Jefferson can't become a state. 0.95

01:06:44.000 That's ridiculous.

01:06:45.000 Why? 0.88

01:06:46.000 It would create two new Republican senators. 0.67

01:06:48.000 Or maybe not.

01:06:50.000 I'm not confident what's going to happen to the Republican Party.

01:06:52.000 I'm seeing all these progressives saying, like, Joe Biden bombed Sea Orient instead of giving us checks.

01:06:57.000 Good luck in the midterms.

01:06:58.000 And I'm like, they don't need it.

01:06:59.000 The Republican Party is split and is fractured.

01:07:02.000 People, they want Trump.

01:07:04.000 They want people who support Trump.

01:07:05.000 They do not want the crony establishment.

01:07:07.000 So, look, we've had people on this show who have mentioned the idea of peaceful divorce.

01:07:13.000 I think Luke's mentioned peaceful divorce.

01:07:15.000 The first time I came on the show, I'm like, hey, don't make fun of me, but I think memes and peaceful divorce are going to be the only solution that are going to cause the least amount of harm on people.

01:07:26.000 So if you want to reduce harm, you're going to have to work out a solution where people peacefully move away from each other and decide to live next to each other and not aggress against each other.

01:07:35.000 Well, without a peaceful divorce, like, how do we get to that point, right?

01:07:39.000 And so I think we're seeing, what, recall efforts?

01:07:42.000 We're seeing a lot of people go after the governors and complain about them.

01:07:45.000 But we always try to vote out incumbents, and it doesn't change things for a lot of people.

01:07:50.000 That's why so many people who never voted before voted for Trump.

01:07:54.000 Because they're thinking, what's the point?

01:07:55.000 It's not going to change anything going back and forth.

01:07:57.000 Well, then someone comes along and says, I've got an idea.

01:07:59.000 How about we move this town to a different state?

01:08:02.000 Hey, that sounds pretty good.

01:08:03.000 So five counties are going to be voting on this in May.

01:08:07.000 Apparently in November, several counties voted to do it already.

01:08:12.000 Not that I think it will really happen, but they're saying, we want this.

01:08:15.000 All right.

01:08:16.000 The states and the federal government say, no, you can't do it.

01:08:19.000 Well, these people are, I mean, what happens?

01:08:21.000 Because I talked about this before when, you know, Joe Biden or Fauci says, here's our new, you know, COVID guidance.

01:08:27.000 And this town says we've had it.

01:08:28.000 Yeah.

01:08:29.000 No.

01:08:30.000 And they set up their own checkpoints.

01:08:31.000 Their police say we won't enforce this.

01:08:33.000 Already we're hearing in many jurisdictions that the sheriffs are saying they're not going to enforce this stuff.

01:08:38.000 What happens then when these people feel like, without representation, I have no confidence in the system anyway?

01:08:43.000 In the state of Jefferson, I'll do air quotes, there are people who have flags for the state of Jefferson.

01:08:50.000 They want it.

01:08:51.000 They demand it.

01:08:53.000 I guess in the end, what we're seeing here is this will start heating up, and then eventually you'll get to the point where when this fails, people say peaceful divorce.

01:09:00.000 I mean, the Mr. Potato Head thing was enough to get Mark Dice to say, time for Republican states to secede from the Union.

01:09:06.000 It's a little hyperbolic.

01:09:08.000 I know, it's hilarious.

01:09:08.000 He must have really loved Mr. Potato Head, truly.

01:09:12.000 What's the plan with Mr. Potato Head now, not to diverge too far away?

01:09:15.000 Are they just going to call him Potato Head?

01:09:16.000 You just made a very big mistake.

01:09:20.000 Potato head comes with eyelashes and big lips. 0.64

01:09:22.000 Seeing your potato head. No, now it is down to just potato head or potato.

01:09:26.000 So before it was Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head.

01:09:28.000 It's genderless. 0.93

01:09:29.000 And now they're just both called potato head.

01:09:31.000 Yeah. Are they both genderless or is it just they're both the same potato? 0.98

01:09:35.000 But Mr. Potato Head comes with like eyelashes and big lips.

01:09:37.000 Yeah. And the Mr. Potato Head comes with a mustache.

01:09:39.000 Oh, but it's just all going to be packaged as potato head now.

01:09:42.000 Yeah.

01:09:43.000 Like, so now you get, I guess, one with everything in it.

01:09:46.000 Sounds like they might, like, now they don't have to make different color boxes with different designs.

01:09:51.000 They'll save some money on design and box production.

01:09:54.000 But then it sounds like they're going to be selling less products.

01:09:56.000 What if you did like Mr. Potato Head, Mrs. Potato Head, Potato Head Kids, and Potato Head?

01:10:02.000 Grandpa Potato Head?

01:10:03.000 Yeah, you can't do it now.

01:10:04.000 You could have, I mean, you could have a non-gendered potato head. 1.00

01:10:08.000 You could do a BLM potato head. 0.76

01:10:10.000 You could do Antifa potato head.

01:10:12.000 Wait, wait, wait, hold on.

01:10:14.000 We're giving away really good ideas. 0.98

01:10:16.000 I'm telling you, I think what this all was, as soon as I saw it, at first I was like, well, this is dumb.

01:10:20.000 And then my second thought was, oh no, there is some really creative intern who said, I can get potato head trending. 0.58

01:10:26.000 And his bosses were like, yeah, okay, yeah, Potato Head, hello.

01:10:29.000 This is Hasbro, we've had Potato Head for a good 10 years.

01:10:31.000 He's like, listen, follow me here.

01:10:35.000 Mr. Potato Head, no gender. 0.83

01:10:37.000 Do away with it, watch what happens.

01:10:39.000 Boom, now we're talking about it.

01:10:40.000 But you know what the worst part was?

01:10:42.000 When he was at pitch meeting where the intern was pointing to his slides, and as he's pitching the no gender Mr. Potato Head, the other intern was walking and holding the iPad with potato dick and potato boobs. 0.99

01:10:54.000 And then he overhears him saying it and he like, you know, he looks down and he mopes away. 0.99

01:11:01.000 I was going to make mature potatoes.

01:11:04.000 Adult potatoes.

01:11:05.000 3D printers are for it.

01:11:06.000 You sell the CAD files.

01:11:08.000 So we were talking about seceding from the states.

01:11:11.000 Which is a great idea.

01:11:12.000 And states leaving the union.

01:11:13.000 I like the idea of making new states.

01:11:18.000 This is all connected if you really squint hard enough.

01:11:20.000 It's a simulation.

01:11:21.000 It's a simulation.

01:11:22.000 That's it.

01:11:22.000 I'm done.

01:11:22.000 We've been making states since 1776, right?

01:11:26.000 And so why don't we just keep making them?

01:11:28.000 Well, making states is hard because the political process around it is tortured, right?

01:11:34.000 Forever there will always be a democratic push to make Washington DC a state the argument will be the argument will narrowly be We should do like the implicit argument is we should do this because we need to enfranchise everyone because they want two senators Republicans will make the opposite point say hey, this doesn't actually make sense in the Constitution, but fundamentally don't get me wrong the whole from a uniparty perspective if it would have been two Republicans who got elected senators I I guarantee you the Republican Party would find a really compelling reason why we've been misreading the Constitution.

01:12:01.000 And the Democrats would be saying the Constitution says.

01:12:03.000 And they would be saying the opposite thing.

01:12:04.000 But it is true. 0.90

01:12:04.000 And so you'll always see that back and forth in that fight about new states. 0.90

01:12:07.000 The important reason we have D.C.

01:12:09.000 as not a state is so that the federal government exists outside of any state's jurisdiction.

01:12:13.000 We have to have that.

01:12:14.000 Puerto Rico actually actually makes sense to be a state.

01:12:16.000 Yeah, me too. But and like if but imagine if you could look at

01:12:18.000 God, I don't know what you would call it between it was a Jefferson State the state of Jefferson

01:12:23.000 if you could have the state of Jefferson and then part of Oregon and say alright here this has like if you could cut

01:12:28.000 out Those areas and make them have approximately the population

01:12:30.000 of Puerto Rico and say, all right guys one for one. We're doing it. Yeah

01:12:32.000 Yeah, I think that'd be great I don't think the Dems would probably not go for it, only because they would lose some little bit of representation and all of that, and California obviously drives so much of the modern Democratic Party. 0.66

01:12:43.000 I don't understand the logic behind, I'm not being represented in this state, so we are going to self-govern, and them saying, but we can say no.

01:12:51.000 How does that make sense?

01:12:52.000 The Constitution is literally a government of, by, and for the people.

01:12:56.000 It is the duty of the people, blah blah blah, all that stuff.

01:12:59.000 So what's the justification now for the U.S.?

01:13:01.000 They're not leaving the country.

01:13:02.000 They're not leaving the Union.

01:13:04.000 Greater Idaho is crafted very politically, in a very smart way, to say it won't change the amount of states.

01:13:11.000 It will give Idaho more congressional representation.

01:13:14.000 Actually, no, I don't think it would actually change the makeup of Congress, because the jurisdictions for Congress are going to be based on the sort of county level, right?

01:13:24.000 Well, so they'll be based on the 20—it's interesting in terms of when it happens.

01:13:27.000 It'll come down to the 2020 census.

01:13:29.000 But no, it's a population question, and so it depends on how much—how many people greater Idaho adds to current Idaho.

01:13:34.000 Well, so the area of Oregon that is going to break off and join Idaho already has a Republican representative.

01:13:41.000 These districts.

01:13:42.000 Oh, good point.

01:13:43.000 So they would join Idaho, it wouldn't change.

01:13:45.000 Yeah.

01:13:45.000 It would just mean that state law would benefit them.

01:13:48.000 They'd be able to have guns, they would get their COVID relief when they need it, they would be respected and represented.

01:13:51.000 It's very smart what they're proposing.

01:13:53.000 Yeah, that's a good point.

01:13:54.000 I think it's a huge problem that Oregon could be like, nah, well you're not representing their people.

01:13:59.000 If they come to the federal government and say, we object and we demand the right to do this, I think the federal government should say, agreed.

01:14:04.000 Yeah, I think so too.

01:14:05.000 If Idaho agrees, Idaho is the only one who has to agree to this.

01:14:09.000 The counties have to agree, and Idaho has to agree.

01:14:12.000 Oregon should have no say in the matter.

01:14:13.000 Look, Tim, there's too much common sense for the government to do this. 0.99

01:14:17.000 So if it was ridiculous, stupid, and counterintuitive, they would have their stamp on it right away. 0.99

01:14:24.000 But this makes a lot of sense. 1.00

01:14:26.000 This makes perfect sense.

01:14:28.000 If we lived in a just society where we had government that actually served its people, it would happen.

01:14:34.000 But again, we have to also understand that the government of California, the government of Oregon, a lot of these bureaucrats view their citizens as tax cattle and tax slaves.

01:14:44.000 So they're not going to want to give up people who they're going to be able to tax and take a huge amount of money for that they don't have to do anything for.

01:14:50.000 So the initiative of the government that's already going bankrupt, especially in California, that can't balance a budget, that has so many wasteful spending bills and initiatives and programs that are just absolutely ridiculous, they're not going to give away their tax slaves.

01:15:04.000 They want them.

01:15:05.000 Just like in ancient days, in the Roman Empire, they saw people as money. And the people were converted into slaves. That's

01:15:14.000 the same thing that's essentially is happening here.

01:15:16.000 Surfdom. This is like a neo-feudalist kind of thing. These people with no representation

01:15:20.000 are paying taxes, and that is money the state will not give up. Now here's the funny thing.

01:15:25.000 When the greater Idaho people said COVID relief went to the Democrat constituents and not

01:15:30.000 us, that's your money.

01:15:33.000 Yeah.

01:15:33.000 That's the money from the conservatives who paid the taxes and then saw that tax revenue from the federal government and from the state level go to their political rivals and was not fairly allocated.

01:15:43.000 So would it have to be that Idaho buys the territory from the other states?

01:15:47.000 No.

01:15:47.000 As like reparation for the loss?

01:15:49.000 No, I think it should literally just be, we live here, we voted, the county says, the council members, whatever represents this county, we are now Idaho.

01:16:00.000 But California can be like, well, we spent a lot of California citizens taxes to make those cities what they are.

01:16:07.000 So you owe us something before you leave.

01:16:09.000 That's something that would need to be adjudicated.

01:16:10.000 That's the problem.

01:16:11.000 What the people in greater Idaho are saying is that they're not getting that.

01:16:14.000 They're not getting the resources.

01:16:16.000 And so the argument from someone in like Portland was like, well, you're gonna have to consider all the taxes you've got to pay.

01:16:22.000 And they're like, the taxes will go down.

01:16:23.000 Yeah.

01:16:24.000 We would pay less in tax dido, and you're not giving us the resources.

01:16:26.000 So the problem is, the grievance they have is, you're not investing in us.

01:16:31.000 You're not fixing our infrastructure or giving us the COVID relief we've asked for.

01:16:35.000 You're giving it to your people who are going to vote for you to maintain their power.

01:16:40.000 That is going to lead to conflict and crisis.

01:16:43.000 When one side is getting too little and one side is getting too much, it's the Hunger Games.

01:16:49.000 So, what makes sense?

01:16:50.000 If I live here, I should be able to be like, we vote.

01:16:53.000 There we go.

01:16:54.000 The land is this county.

01:16:56.000 Idaho, what do you say?

01:16:57.000 Then Idaho would have to vote.

01:16:58.000 Right.

01:16:59.000 And if Idaho says yes, done.

01:17:01.000 Yeah, exactly.

01:17:01.000 And that, I think, in so many ways, too, that would help get around concerns of if you have these places that aren't paying much in taxes, that aren't super valuable, you would at least have to have buy-in from the places they're going to say, yeah, they're not just taking them in as, you know, as the backstraggler or what have you.

01:17:16.000 These are just people who we want to break bread with.

01:17:19.000 And so we are going to do what we need to, to legally empower them to be citizens like us.

01:17:23.000 Do you know what happens if you do not respect the people?

01:17:28.000 You get this story right here from The Independent.

01:17:30.000 Lady Gaga dog napping.

01:17:33.000 FBI investigating political motives.

01:17:36.000 Singer's dog walker was shot and her two French bulldogs were stolen.

01:17:39.000 They're essentially saying, check this out, the FBI is reportedly investigating if there were political motives behind the dog napping of Lady Gaga's bulldogs after she sang at President Joe Biden's inauguration last month.

01:17:49.000 The pop superstar is offering half a million dollars for the return of her French bulldogs, Koji and Gustave, who were stolen at gunpoint.

01:17:55.000 Not at gunpoint, at gunshot!

01:17:57.000 But Luke, you see, a lot of people might say, what political motives?

01:18:00.000 You mentioned something earlier about this.

01:18:02.000 Yeah, I remember seeing some kind of form of entertainment where this was a plot line of going against the bourgeoisie and stealing the rich people's dogs as form of like a cultural warfare.

01:18:11.000 I don't remember exactly what.

01:18:12.000 I couldn't pinpoint it when we were talking before the show.

01:18:14.000 That's why I didn't bring it up now.

01:18:16.000 But, you know, I think there might be a bigger political motive potentially here.

01:18:21.000 I think it also might be motivated by crime that has been spiking in many big cities that is going to go dramatically up as, of course, our economic woes continue.

01:18:30.000 Well, they're saying the FBI thinks there may be a political motive, right?

01:18:33.000 But I wonder, in Los Angeles, is that MAGA country?

01:18:38.000 I do not believe it is.

01:18:40.000 So could it be some fringe leftist saying, eat the rich?

01:18:45.000 I think these people knew who the dogs belonged to.

01:18:48.000 I mean, you gotta assume that they did, right?

01:18:50.000 Like, the other thing, too, is they didn't just take the dogs.

01:18:52.000 They shot the guy who had the dogs, and then they took the dogs.

01:18:55.000 So you gotta assume, I mean, my hunch is it's either for ransom, or, yeah, like, think about where she was.

01:19:00.000 I'm saying this, my initial assumption is this is crazy for the FBI to insinuate political motives.

01:19:04.000 That's nuts, okay? 0.97

01:19:06.000 It was probably some guys who were like, yo, it's Lady Gaga's dogs, shoot that guy, take his dogs. 0.58

01:19:10.000 But if the FBI has reason to believe it was politically motivated, I don't see it as being right-wing.

01:19:14.000 First of all, like, right-wingers going around shooting people and stealing dogs does not make sense to me.

01:19:19.000 No, it would have to be, like, if there's anyone who's going to do that, and I think it fits.

01:19:22.000 The reason we all jumped onto it earlier is it fits the class war narrative, I think, of the Democratic Party.

01:19:28.000 If it's anything, it's probably something from, like, I don't know, a communist revolution that happened in China or in Russia, where that's what they did to the wealthy.

01:19:36.000 And as a form of punishment, they took the items that they had that conveyed some sort of class status, right?

01:19:41.000 Yeah.

01:19:42.000 It's no different than stealing someone's Range Rover today.

01:19:44.000 And so it's like, that to me, if there is any political intonation, it has to be that.

01:19:48.000 Yeah, I'd be curious who in the FBI is saying that they were kind of investigating this.

01:19:52.000 I'd be really curious what they were thinking the motivation was because they're, you're right, there's no chance that this is MAGA country because this is LA.

01:19:58.000 That ain't MAGA country.

01:19:59.000 It's even less so than it was in Chicago when Jussie Smollett was dealing with it.

01:20:04.000 Oh, poor man.

01:20:05.000 But these dogs are very expensive and I feel like everybody knows that and I think that that this is probably just crime Honestly, and I guess this has been kind of increasing.

01:20:13.000 So I don't know.

01:20:14.000 I mean, they're like $2,000.

01:20:14.000 I mean, yeah On average They're holding them for ransom, right?

01:20:22.000 But even, I mean, in this special technological surveillance Big Brother state, I don't think people would do ransom because they would get caught right away with so much metadata.

01:20:33.000 I mean, Facebook knows everything about you.

01:20:35.000 This is why the political thing I'm questioning.

01:20:38.000 Look, I would not entertain this normally, but the FBI is investigating a political motive over this.

01:20:43.000 And they're saying it's because she's saying it at Biden's inauguration.

01:20:45.000 But that's kind of like, The far left was planning on protesting Hillary Clinton's

01:20:49.000 inauguration as well back in 2016, and then it turned into a Trump protest.

01:20:53.000 They don't like Joe Biden, and like Luke said, what ransom are you going to be able to get from stealing Lady Gaga's

01:20:57.000 dogs?

01:20:58.000 Okay, maybe they didn't know it was Lady Gaga's dogs.

01:21:00.000 Maybe they saw a guy with dogs and said, yo, but I don't believe that because these dogs are extremely valuable.

01:21:05.000 Yeah.

01:21:05.000 They likely knew where the dogs came from.

01:21:07.000 They likely knew what kind of dogs they were.

01:21:09.000 They had to have known it was Lady Gaga's.

01:21:11.000 And if that's the case, ransom would never have worked.

01:21:14.000 So were they hoping to then get the reward later from Lady Gaga or sell them because they're worth a couple grand?

01:21:19.000 I don't know.

01:21:20.000 But the FBI says political motive.

01:21:22.000 And I don't, I don't look to a bunch of MAGA guys with some bleach and some rope tracking down this guy.

01:21:29.000 Yeah, and there's more expensive things to steal, right?

01:21:31.000 Like, if you were in downtown LA, you've got to assume there's probably, like, cars, watches, right?

01:21:37.000 Like, things that you don't have to hold for ransom, you can just resell.

01:21:40.000 It's fascinating.

01:21:41.000 I also do think it's, like, absurd to think that some, like, Antifa people were, like, eat the rich, and then they shot this guy and stole the dogs.

01:21:47.000 You know what I mean?

01:21:48.000 Yeah.

01:21:49.000 Is the FBI just reaching here?

01:21:51.000 Imagine being the FBI person.

01:21:54.000 Imagine you're an agent and this comes across your case and you're like, I'm sorry, Lady Gaga's dogs?

01:21:59.000 This is what I have to do today?

01:22:01.000 No, no, there's an FBI agent and he's sitting at his desk and he's like super ripped and his suit's about to rip because his muscles are so big.

01:22:08.000 And then they come and they're like, Agent Johnson, It's Lady Gaga.

01:22:12.000 And he goes, don't tell me, her dogs.

01:22:13.000 And he's like, I'm on it.

01:22:16.000 And then it plays a theme song, The Dog Bounty Hunter. 0.99

01:22:19.000 Or it could be just two dumbasses that just randomly decided to be violent, because there's a bunch of violent dumbasses, mainly in big cities. 0.99

01:22:28.000 And then the FBI is like, I can't fix this. 0.99

01:22:30.000 I can't solve this.

01:22:31.000 Let's just blame politics.

01:22:32.000 Like we do everything else.

01:22:33.000 Because they always do that.

01:22:34.000 It's like, ah, well, might as well be, right?

01:22:37.000 Then they announced that they found a length of rope tied off in the back of Lady Gaga's car.

01:22:43.000 It's interesting, a Subway bag, I think, was also recently discovered nearby.

01:22:47.000 Wow, that's going to be the meme forever for all these hoaxes, having a Subway sandwich.

01:22:51.000 I mean, it has to be. 0.59

01:22:52.000 I am reminded of what happened often because it is just so fundamentally ridiculous, and people ran with it.

01:22:58.000 Remember, I think she deleted the tweet, but Kamala Harris tweeted, she's like, I've never known someone as honest and as brave as Jussie Smollett.

01:23:05.000 These people are, they just, it's like, I imagine Kamala Harris is sitting there and you're like, Miss Harris, what's your first name?

01:23:14.000 And she goes, Harry, Harry, I can't tell the truth.

01:23:19.000 I have to lie.

01:23:21.000 You're like, tell me just something simple fact.

01:23:23.000 And she tries really hard.

01:23:26.000 Interesting.

01:23:26.000 I knew it!

01:23:27.000 I knew it. 0.97

01:23:27.000 Yeah, because it has to be a lie out of her mouth. 0.97

01:23:29.000 I wonder every single one of these people if because Gaga performed at Biden's thing

01:23:34.000 that Joe and Kamala know her and they think that the FBI will get more funding if they

01:23:39.000 say that it might be politically motivated and just solved it.

01:23:41.000 Interesting.

01:23:42.000 Two people who stole the dogs with Joe and Kamala.

01:23:46.000 That's what I'm getting at.

01:23:47.000 And it was Joe and a gun.

01:23:48.000 He's like, yeah, come on, man.

01:23:50.000 Give me the dog! 1.00

01:23:50.000 Will they get more internal funding if it's a political crime? 1.00

01:23:54.000 I think of the Kamala Harris meme where she's like looking on the phone and looking down

01:23:58.000 and everyone's like, everyone's saying she's on the phone with Joe and what she's saying

01:24:02.000 to him.

01:24:03.000 And I think of her going like, Joe, they found the dogs, Joe.

01:24:07.000 They know that it's us, the gig is up.

01:24:08.000 No, but you do bring up a good point in that they just attach white supremacy to everything.

01:24:14.000 You know, so if there's like a problem, so like, you know, a dog got kidnapped and the FBI can't figure it out, white supremacy?

01:24:21.000 And then the left goes, that explains it, and they go, oh, thank goodness.

01:24:24.000 They're two FBI agents for that fake noose.

01:24:26.000 Fake news.

01:24:27.000 Yeah.

01:24:28.000 That's right.

01:24:29.000 Yeah.

01:24:29.000 So we're gonna get to the point where like, you know, someone's car breaks down and then like the person at the shop and the guy looks at it and goes, uh, white supremacy.

01:24:38.000 And then the guy goes, Oh, can you fix it?

01:24:41.000 Well, I'll do my best.

01:24:42.000 Let me see if I can get the ADL on the phone.

01:24:45.000 It'll just be an excuse for like anything that goes wrong.

01:24:47.000 Right?

01:24:48.000 So like the power will go out and then people will be like, we want to know where the power is out.

01:24:51.000 And the mayor will be like, ladies and gentlemen, hate crime. 0.92

01:24:53.000 White supremacy! 0.70

01:24:54.000 Just snow.

01:24:55.000 That's it!

01:24:55.000 And they'll be like, what?

01:24:56.000 I'm like, that's what happened.

01:24:57.000 And they'll go, help us, please!

01:24:59.000 Help us, oh heavens!

01:25:01.000 That's big cities, to be honest.

01:25:02.000 Yeah, I was gonna say, like, I'm pretty sure this is what they're doing in, was it LA or another city?

01:25:05.000 There's been a spike, a purported spike.

01:25:07.000 I don't know if the numbers are actually pretty solid, but there's been a purported strike in anti-Asian American violence.

01:25:13.000 And I saw someone blame, they were like, well, naturally it's white supremacy.

01:25:17.000 They protested for this.

01:25:18.000 In New York City, they did a march against white nationalism and the suspect to attack this Asian guy was black, not white.

01:25:25.000 And then in San Francisco, they did the same thing.

01:25:27.000 The suspect was black and they were like, but it's white supremacy. 0.54

01:25:30.000 Right. 0.94

01:25:30.000 That's what's driving this. 0.94

01:25:31.000 In New York, with the attacks on the Hasidic Jews, all the time, it's the same thing. 0.86

01:25:35.000 It's like, this is white supremacy run rampant again. 1.00

01:25:38.000 Wow, these people are insane. 0.99

01:25:39.000 That's one of the reasons I don't want to be in these cities anymore, but look.

01:25:42.000 I'm not... We mention it periodically throughout the show, but like, this is just... Falling apart.

01:25:49.000 When you have... 0.99

01:25:50.000 Very clearly, a black man attacking Asian men. 0.97

01:25:54.000 My response is, I don't care about the race. 0.98

01:25:56.000 Yeah.

01:25:57.000 It was a guy who committed a crime.

01:25:58.000 But then when all of these people are like, white supremacy was the problem, and they go march, I'm like, yo, it was, it's, it's, listen, it's class, it's poverty, it's education.

01:26:06.000 Like, we need to, to, to help these areas not scream up, like, I'll tell you this, I'll make, I'll simplify this, okay?

01:26:11.000 I'll just slow down.

01:26:13.000 If we see crime, regardless of race, and we say, if we can alleviate poverty by targeting class issues and economic factors and education, then we can help solve that problem of violence.

01:26:26.000 Instead of doing any of that, they go... You know that meme where they're all at the meeting, and it's like the two people give a really bad one, and the third guy gives an insane, and they throw him out the window?

01:26:36.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:26:38.000 There's a guy, he's behind the table.

01:26:39.000 We need to do something about all this violence!

01:26:40.000 And then someone says, you know, like, we can blame white nationalism.

01:26:44.000 We can blame Trump supporters.

01:26:45.000 And the third guy goes, we can just help deal with the poverty that leads to violence.

01:26:48.000 Throw them out the window! 0.99

01:26:51.000 It's easier for everyone to be like, how about we just march against white nationalism and solve no problem!

01:26:56.000 Problems bingo because it's it's far like the other the problem is the alternative is you have to slog through the hard stuff, right?

01:27:02.000 You have to work through the education and like the psychology of criminality and all the other difficult things family.

01:27:08.000 Yeah And all of these other systemic problems that there's not a there's not a silver bullet for and there's not a convenient bad guy for that sounds like hard Exactly.

01:27:16.000 Exactly.

01:27:17.000 And you got a target compound interest, which undercuts the elite class of fiscal giants

01:27:24.000 they're making.

01:27:25.000 What's $100 billion make you a year in just basic 2.3% interest?

01:27:28.000 Just putting in the right investments.

01:27:30.000 Meanwhile, I love that.

01:27:31.000 I can't remember which comedian said this, but he was like, when you're poor, they charge

01:27:34.000 you money.

01:27:35.000 Right.

01:27:36.000 Like you go to the bank and you're negative, so they're like, I got to charge you $35.

01:27:41.000 Now you're negative $50.

01:27:42.000 Meanwhile, when you're rich, they're like, ah, sir, you're wealthy.

01:27:45.000 Let me give you some more money.

01:27:47.000 That's the way the system works.

01:27:48.000 Is it like I understand the idea of interest.

01:27:51.000 The bank uses your money for loans or whatever, to a certain degree.

01:27:54.000 It's fractional reserve. 0.89

01:27:56.000 But like punishing the poor, that's just ridiculous.

01:28:00.000 It was always weird to me when I would get an overdraft fee.

01:28:04.000 At one point when I was 18 or 19, I lost a bank account because it went negative and I couldn't stop the negative continuing to go negative.

01:28:12.000 And I just told them, I was like, you realize I don't have money, right?

01:28:15.000 That's why it's negative.

01:28:16.000 They're like, well, sir, you know, there is a fee.

01:28:19.000 What happened was it was like, if you have less than a certain amount, you get a fee.

01:28:23.000 And that fee put me negative.

01:28:25.000 And then I got like a negative fee.

01:28:29.000 I had like four bucks in the account, but it was a $5 checking fee because I had under a certain amount.

01:28:34.000 So then it went negative.

01:28:35.000 Then they charged me the fee for being negative.

01:28:37.000 And I showed up and said, I don't got $35 to fix this.

01:28:40.000 I was like, I didn't know you were going to charge me right then.

01:28:42.000 And I'm poor.

01:28:43.000 And their response was, well, if you don't pay by next week, you can incur another free.

01:28:46.000 And I was like, then close the account.

01:28:47.000 Congratulations.

01:28:48.000 And what are you going to do?

01:28:49.000 You're going to try and get $35 from me I don't have?

01:28:51.000 I'd have like negative $2 and then I'd buy like you get a pack of gum and then you go get a sandwich and then you go buy like a 99 cent something and they charge you $90, $35, $35, $35.

01:29:00.000 You call them and you're like, hey, I didn't know I was in the negative.

01:29:05.000 I'm going to deposit some money.

01:29:06.000 And they're like, I can get rid of half of your charges.

01:29:09.000 You're like, dude, you can get rid of all of them.

01:29:11.000 You literally can. 1.00

01:29:11.000 But if you act like a jerk, they won't help you at all. 1.00

01:29:13.000 Check this out. 0.99

01:29:14.000 There was this crazy thing that happened in Chicago like 15 years ago with Chase Bank where there was an error in the ATMs and it wasn't subtracting money from people's accounts when they were withdrawing from ATMs.

01:29:26.000 And so it led... So here's what happened though.

01:29:29.000 So I go to the ATM and it was like me and my friends were all going to a show, like a bar venue.

01:29:35.000 And I put in my card, I had a couple hundred bucks, and I was like, I'll take out $20.

01:29:39.000 I see the amount, I take out $20, I look at the receipt, and it says the number didn't change.

01:29:42.000 I'm like, that's gotta be wrong, so I'll take another $20.

01:29:45.000 I take another $20, the number didn't change.

01:29:47.000 And I was like, what is this?

01:29:48.000 So I put my card back in, and then I was like, I'm gonna take out $100.

01:29:51.000 $100 comes out, and I got $140.

01:29:52.000 I look at the receipt, it didn't change.

01:29:54.000 And I went, this is messed up.

01:29:56.000 So I deposited all the money back in.

01:29:58.000 Because I'm like dude, they're gonna get you It was an error and I thought I thought it was gonna give me the correct readout But it wasn't so I just deposit put the money back in here's what happened tons of people started being like oh free money Yeah, and then what happened the next day the system updated Everybody was negative like a hundred two hundred bucks.

01:30:20.000 That's And then all the cheese and everything else.

01:30:22.000 And the bank was like, too bad.

01:30:26.000 I'm like, did they do that on purpose?

01:30:28.000 Because they just like, imagine you do that.

01:30:30.000 All the poor people think now's my chance to get some free money because the system is broken.

01:30:33.000 No, it's not.

01:30:34.000 They don't fix itself.

01:30:36.000 Just because they don't know, because the amount in your account is wrong, doesn't mean they don't know how many times you took money out.

01:30:42.000 Right.

01:30:42.000 So it updated and then said, withdraw 20, 20, 20, 20.

01:30:44.000 And then people were just like, I just lost all that money.

01:30:47.000 Yeah.

01:30:48.000 Dude, you said you went with your friends to a bar venue.

01:30:51.000 I got really nostalgic.

01:30:54.000 I want to go hang out at a bar, man.

01:30:56.000 I mean, we have one nearby you can go hang out at.

01:30:58.000 Yeah, but not with a mask.

01:30:59.000 I don't want to do that stuff.

01:31:00.000 I just want to go chill with like 50 people in a bar, get a IPA, look around at people, relax.

01:31:06.000 So I did that last weekend.

01:31:09.000 I think this is the first time I've said this out loud, at least out of my apartment with my girlfriend.

01:31:14.000 So here's my public confession.

01:31:16.000 I went to Nashville last weekend.

01:31:18.000 I visited my brother, who's down there, and he's thinking about moving down there.

01:31:24.000 So I went down and I was like, listen, I haven't seen the guy in a long time.

01:31:27.000 We're super, super close.

01:31:28.000 And I was like, I want to see him before he leaves.

01:31:30.000 you know, neither of us are getting any younger, whatever.

01:31:32.000 And so I went down there and I remember we went the first night, him and some of his buddies. And I

01:31:37.000 remember just sitting in a bar, listening to a bar band surrounded by people and no one was

01:31:42.000 wearing masks. And I was like, this feels so wonderful.

01:31:46.000 You cherish it.

01:31:47.000 I have people, like for the first time in a year, I had people physically close to me and I was like, great!

01:31:53.000 Step on my shoe, bump into me, like give me a hug, man.

01:31:56.000 This is fine.

01:31:58.000 I don't mind this at all.

01:31:59.000 This is one of the reasons why I was up in New Hampshire during the summer and spring because it was normal life up there.

01:32:05.000 You know, large parties, large gatherings, and, you know, one of the lowest sick rates in the nation.

01:32:11.000 And I was gonna say, and no one told the coronavirus in New Hampshire because for whatever reason, Their rates lagged way behind everyone else in the country.

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01:32:43.000 We got Petty.

01:32:44.000 This one's for you, Ian.

01:32:45.000 He says, Ian, were you aware that JP Morgan sank the Titanic, which was actually the Olympic, not only as an insurance scam, but in order to kill three bankers who were opposed to the Federal Reserve and seized their assets?

01:32:56.000 I don't know if that's actually true.

01:32:57.000 I read that before, but I think it might be a conspiracy theory.

01:32:59.000 Whoa.

01:33:00.000 Yeah.

01:33:00.000 I've never heard anything about that.

01:33:01.000 That's amazing.

01:33:02.000 Ian's given this one to Google as soon as the show's over.

01:33:04.000 I would bet on it.

01:33:05.000 Yeah, I haven't been able to confirm them yet.

01:33:08.000 I haven't looked into it.

01:33:08.000 We have a very important factoid here.

01:33:11.000 Black Lion Grunt says, Tim, fun fact, did you know that Mortal Kombat is the reason the rating system for video games exists?

01:33:19.000 I missed the quarter wars in the arcade.

01:33:21.000 Was it because it was too bloody?

01:33:22.000 They were like, we got to tell people.

01:33:24.000 They're like, we have to allow some way for parents to know that they shouldn't give this to their children.

01:33:28.000 Particularly the spine ripping out of Scorpion, I think is fatality.

01:33:33.000 As the mainstream media was playing that again and again, seeing how bad it was over and over.

01:33:37.000 I remember seeing that as a child being like, oh, why are they showing it then? 0.97

01:33:41.000 We got, uh, Rook says, the Golden Trump is a troll. 0.94

01:33:44.000 We will never stop as long as the media cries. 0.88

01:33:47.000 We are electing Trump again, period.

01:33:48.000 It is Trump or nobody, Trump or no vote, period.

01:33:52.000 I completely believe that.

01:33:54.000 It's gonna be Trump.

01:33:55.000 Listen, say whatever else you want about it.

01:33:57.000 We're gonna do the Golden Trump for the audience.

01:33:59.000 Oh, cool, okay.

01:33:59.000 Yeah, yeah, we gotta talk Golden Trump, but it's gonna be special and we're gonna swear a lot, so.

01:34:03.000 Yeah.

01:34:04.000 375 Shooter says, Eric Weinstein stated on Lex's show, wait until everything is connected.

01:34:10.000 History is producing rhymes and repeats via incest.

01:34:13.000 What does that mean though?

01:34:14.000 He's just, he's a big picture guy.

01:34:16.000 I think once, I don't know when everything, wait until everything is, once we can see the system, what's happening clearly, you know, we have the great reset, we've got COVID, we have The Federal Reserve, the finances, all this stuff, the wars

01:34:27.000 all over the energy systems, fusions on the horizon.

01:34:30.000 Mars is becoming like what we're going to see.

01:34:32.000 We're going to look back on this and everything will start to make sense.

01:34:35.000 The ancestral things are interesting to, you know, humanity is very ancestral as a species.

01:34:39.000 I'm glad you have this spinny thing in front of you.

01:34:41.000 It's been that. Yeah.

01:34:42.000 Turk.

01:34:43.000 Where?

01:34:44.000 Oh, yeah.

01:34:44.000 Yeah.

01:34:45.000 Turk Longwell says, Tim, us folks who have fired weapons understand the damage.

01:34:49.000 Not these politicians.

01:34:50.000 We need more veterans in office.

01:34:52.000 Love the show.

01:34:52.000 Spin that thingy.

01:34:54.000 Can you see it on the camera?

01:34:55.000 I don't think so.

01:34:56.000 Let me give it a little spinny though.

01:34:58.000 Can you pull it back?

01:34:59.000 Nothing in it.

01:34:59.000 No, you can't see it.

01:35:00.000 No, you can't see it no matter how far back you pull it.

01:35:01.000 Alright, here, I'm gonna lift it up.

01:35:03.000 Oh no!

01:35:03.000 You've ruined it!

01:35:04.000 Maybe tomorrow.

01:35:05.000 Maybe Monday.

01:35:06.000 The levitating little flowerpot has now been Decapitated.

01:35:09.000 Yeah, it's over.

01:35:11.000 Disabled.

01:35:11.000 Totally right, though.

01:35:12.000 We absolutely need... There was a really bizarre comment today from Leader McCarthy, or I guess no longer leader, Minority Leader McCarthy, about not having guns on the Capitol premises.

01:35:21.000 And listen, I didn't grow up around guns.

01:35:23.000 I came to guns pretty late in life, and I know I'm not alone among the Republican Party in being that way.

01:35:29.000 But it really read like someone who has always just sort of thought of guns of being very icky.

01:35:33.000 And I think that it's Very difficult for a lot of Republicans to recognize that the vast majority of the conservative movement does not see them that way.

01:35:40.000 But I mean, the interesting thing about guns is that even, there's a ton of support from Democrats for guns.

01:35:46.000 Yeah, yeah.

01:35:47.000 So like, there was that moment where the union working guy, like, questioned Biden on his guns.

01:35:50.000 Yeah.

01:35:51.000 You also have, you know, blue states up in the Northeast, they're very pro-gun.

01:35:54.000 Yeah, Vermont.

01:35:55.000 It's only these, like, ultra-urban coastal elites, specifically, that are anti-gun, and they have a lot of political power and a lot of money to push these things, like Bloomberg, for instance.

01:36:05.000 Yeah, it's far more a conversation, too, about class and about location.

01:36:08.000 And so if you have people who are poor and rural, their feelings on guns, regardless of their politics, are going to be far more supportive than anyone who lives in a city.

01:36:17.000 Yeah.

01:36:18.000 We Got Remy says, Nukes should be centralized.

01:36:20.000 We don't need politicians or bureaucrats handling it. 0.98

01:36:22.000 They can't even give COVID relief without arguing for months.

01:36:26.000 Every major city would be a radioactive wasteland before we could send a response.

01:36:30.000 Interesting.

01:36:31.000 I'm sympathetic to that, honestly.

01:36:34.000 If there's anything the government is good at, it's not making a decision particularly fast.

01:36:37.000 Yep.

01:36:38.000 Josh Mabry says, Tim, you're right on the nuclear side.

01:36:41.000 I was in missile maintenance in the Air Force.

01:36:43.000 The whole point of deterrence is mutually assured destruction.

01:36:46.000 If Xi Jinping says, we fire the nukes, then Biden will fall asleep and then we die.

01:36:51.000 But the idea would be that he'd fire the nukes, you know?

01:36:53.000 Yeah, exactly.

01:36:55.000 In theory.

01:36:55.000 Joshua Sanders says each nuke requires two keys to turn simultaneously to launch.

01:37:00.000 Biden not having access to launch all the nukes, I think, is just a metaphor.

01:37:03.000 Huh.

01:37:04.000 Metaphor for what?

01:37:05.000 Interesting.

01:37:05.000 I don't know.

01:37:06.000 Well, I think that gets to the point about what are the sorts of steps that the people around him take as a result of him not necessarily having the mental capacity that he needs to execute the office of the presidency.

01:37:17.000 And so today it's nukes, and in a few months, that's who knows.

01:37:19.000 And are they saying that it takes two turnkeys so Biden can't wake up in the middle of the night and be like, ugh, and turn the key?

01:37:24.000 He needs a second person to do it with him?

01:37:26.000 I think there has to be an operator there who physically transacts on doing it, but there's one person making the decision.

01:37:33.000 Yeah.

01:37:35.000 All right, let's see.

01:37:36.000 America76 says, people should start saying Obama instead of Biden.

01:37:40.000 The Okami Cabal is in charge of his administration. 0.89

01:37:43.000 Biden is a figurehead puppet and the Republic is toast.

01:37:46.000 Well then.

01:37:48.000 Jesse Padilla says, Tim, I worked with a Syrian refugee that praised Trump for bombing the Syrian government and was happy to be living in America.

01:37:55.000 Interesting.

01:37:55.000 Yeah, I'd buy that.

01:37:57.000 Advent Falling says, Tim, we're mostly in agreement.

01:38:00.000 If not, I respect your point of view.

01:38:02.000 However, GTFO, Ed, Edd, and Eddie represent libertarian capitalism.

01:38:06.000 Ed is freedom, Double D is innovation, and Eddie is ambition.

01:38:09.000 Yes, fail often teaching us to balance the Eds inside us all.

01:38:13.000 I hated that show.

01:38:14.000 Are these the superchats from yesterday?

01:38:20.000 We were talking about that yesterday.

01:38:26.000 I'm not.

01:38:26.000 I know about them.

01:38:27.000 And the United States backed them and then turned their back on them when Turkey attacked them.

01:38:31.000 And now the situation gets more perplexing.

01:38:36.000 Would you guys consider having Tom McDonald on the podcast?

01:38:38.000 Viral rapper against woke mob.

01:38:40.000 P.S.

01:38:40.000 Love the website.

01:38:41.000 I laughed when I heard Tim cuss for the first time.

01:38:43.000 Caught me off guard.

01:38:44.000 Love your work.

01:38:48.000 It's late at night.

01:38:49.000 Sprinkles with the A word tonight.

01:38:51.000 Thanks y'all.

01:38:51.000 It'd be funny to have an episode of the, where we cuss a lot, but it's all beeped out.

01:38:57.000 This is what's on the website.

01:39:00.000 It's like five minutes.

01:39:00.000 We'll film a normal segment and then have someone go in and put strategic beeps randomly to change the context of everything.

01:39:06.000 Unnecessary censorship.

01:39:08.000 We were just talking about Tom McDonald before the show.

01:39:10.000 He's a big hit around here.

01:39:11.000 He just released Clown World.

01:39:13.000 Great music video.

01:39:14.000 We are going to have him on.

01:39:16.000 He's fully invited and he knows this and we're going to make it happen.

01:39:19.000 Nice.

01:39:19.000 Awesome.

01:39:20.000 At some point, right?

01:39:21.000 Yep, it's gonna happen.

01:39:23.000 Full mental alchemist says you should never give government any power.

01:39:26.000 What we need is a real reset, as in a divorce.

01:39:29.000 Very interesting.

01:39:30.000 Yeah.

01:39:30.000 Okay.

01:39:30.000 Saying it for years.

01:39:31.000 Andrew Rontas said, started listening after Michael Malice, who was on Cash Cab, was an amazing Alex Jones whisperer.

01:39:38.000 I love the nightly convos.

01:39:39.000 Plans on a members audio RSS for the bonus content.

01:39:44.000 So to Luke and the best, shout out to Luke and thebestpoliticalshirts.com.

01:39:49.000 Ah, thank you very much.

01:39:50.000 Nice.

01:39:50.000 We're working on a mobile app for the website.

01:39:52.000 And then we're going to have OTT, it's called.

01:39:55.000 So that's like Amazon and Roku and all that stuff.

01:39:58.000 So then members will actually be able to watch the bonus content on their TVs along with the full episode.

01:40:03.000 It just takes time to build.

01:40:04.000 So putting together the first iteration of the website was not super difficult.

01:40:09.000 You get a person to put together the layout.

01:40:11.000 But then getting the actual core coding and development and apps and everything is actually going to be a much longer process, but we needed money to do it.

01:40:19.000 So we had to start a website.

01:40:20.000 And then once we got a bunch of members, I was like, okay, now I'll start improving it.

01:40:23.000 And then we're going to do a lot more.

01:40:24.000 I mean, this app is going to have other kinds of content.

01:40:26.000 We keep saying over and over again, we're going to go to the range, but then, you know, Luke, Luke didn't come to the range.

01:40:31.000 So.

01:40:31.000 How dare you?

01:40:33.000 It's true.

01:40:34.000 We ran drills.

01:40:34.000 I had a family.

01:40:37.000 I ain't going to say nothing.

01:40:40.000 Oh, yeah!

01:40:40.000 Yeah, that'd work.

01:40:41.000 I would love to.

01:40:41.000 Yes, indeed.

01:40:42.000 in the thinking cap from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

01:40:44.000 Oh yeah!

01:40:45.000 I mean, now it helped, definitely.

01:40:46.000 Yeah, that'd work.

01:40:47.000 J. Jav Tondes says, Tim, get Ed Calderon on the show.

01:40:54.000 He is an ex-counter-NARC agent from Mexico.

01:40:56.000 I would love to.

01:40:57.000 He's got great insights about how cartels will become a bigger problem in America in

01:41:00.000 the future.

01:41:01.000 Reach him at edsmanifesto.com.

01:41:02.000 Yes, indeed.

01:41:03.000 Definitely.

01:41:04.000 We will note that down.

01:41:05.000 He's in my mind.

01:41:08.000 Dan tick dantic vs. Says been following y'all for about a year now

01:41:13.000 Thanks for preparing me for 2020.

01:41:15.000 Luke's video with Wesley Clark was shocking.

01:41:17.000 Heard you guys like RPGs.

01:41:19.000 Ever heard of Rifts?

01:41:20.000 Bebop is my second favorite anime.

01:41:22.000 You think that video was shocking when you watched it?

01:41:24.000 Imagine being the interviewer with Wesley Clark and seeing his face and being like, oh boy, I'm probably in trouble too.

01:41:31.000 So yeah, that was pretty, yeah.

01:41:33.000 I've never heard of Rifts, have you?

01:41:35.000 No, I haven't.

01:41:35.000 I haven't heard of it.

01:41:37.000 No.

01:41:37.000 Maybe you have heard of it.

01:41:38.000 I started playing Genshin Impact a little bit.

01:41:40.000 What is it?

01:41:41.000 It's a newish game.

01:41:42.000 It's open world RPG.

01:41:43.000 I think it's online.

01:41:44.000 I haven't played enough to be able to tell you too much about it, but it's like very anime style.

01:41:48.000 Kind of like Breath of the Wild in some ways.

01:41:50.000 We'll see.

01:41:51.000 I don't know if I'm going to be into it and actually end up playing it.

01:41:53.000 Valheim's pretty good.

01:41:54.000 Yeah, yeah.

01:41:55.000 It's a survival Viking game.

01:41:57.000 It's five people.

01:41:58.000 It's got up to four million views in four weeks or something.

01:42:00.000 Four million users.

01:42:01.000 So, Seven Empires says, none of us are virgins.

01:42:03.000 The establishment has funked us all.

01:42:05.000 By Cardano.

01:42:07.000 What's Cardano?

01:42:08.000 I think it's another privacy cryptocurrency.

01:42:10.000 I've been hearing about it from people.

01:42:11.000 It's made by the same guys that did... ooh, jeez, I don't want to mispronounce this.

01:42:15.000 Ada is the company that does it.

01:42:17.000 God, what did they do?

01:42:18.000 They were involved with Ethereum, I think.

01:42:20.000 I don't know, to be honest.

01:42:20.000 I'd love to get their developers in here, though.

01:42:23.000 I mean, I've been seeing people tweet about it.

01:42:25.000 Let's read some more about my friends.

01:42:27.000 Don't forget to smash that like button and subscribe.

01:42:30.000 Fox Kuhn says, Fascism is a form of far-right authoritarian ultranationalism characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.

01:42:44.000 Interesting.

01:42:45.000 Wait, I want to clarify on Cardano.

01:42:46.000 I think ADA is the token, and Cardano is the company.

01:42:48.000 Is that right?

01:42:49.000 Yeah.

01:42:50.000 Tyrell Wilson says, for my steaks, as long as it's still bleeding and moving, then it's perfect.

01:42:54.000 There it is.

01:42:55.000 Oh, could not agree more.

01:42:56.000 Trying to get away.

01:42:57.000 Yeah.

01:42:57.000 Chasing it down and you jump on it.

01:42:59.000 Some people, Steve Rinella, Rogan's buddy.

01:43:01.000 Did you ever see Meat Eater where they all went hunting together?

01:43:03.000 Yeah.

01:43:03.000 He'd like kill an animal, cut out the gullet, and like eat it raw, eat the liver raw.

01:43:08.000 Geez. 0.99

01:43:08.000 All right, that's a little bit too metal to me, I'll be honest. 0.99

01:43:10.000 Aren't there like little parasites in it?

01:43:12.000 I don't know. 0.93

01:43:12.000 Sometimes, yeah. 0.93

01:43:13.000 You gotta ask Steve Rinella.

01:43:14.000 Yeah. 0.97

01:43:14.000 Crazy. 0.97

01:43:15.000 It's very funny.

01:43:15.000 I remember we were talking, my girlfriend and I, about how the human body can no longer process meat because that was just a thing that I thought was true.

01:43:23.000 Totally not true.

01:43:23.000 You can eat raw meat.

01:43:24.000 Yeah, yeah.

01:43:25.000 I eat steak tartare all the time.

01:43:25.000 There's some people that do, yeah.

01:43:27.000 Steak tartare is amazing.

01:43:28.000 I've never had it.

01:43:28.000 It's like the quail egg.

01:43:29.000 It's like steak sushi.

01:43:30.000 Yeah.

01:43:30.000 I always just assumed you had to cook it.

01:43:32.000 As long as it's good quality and parasite free.

01:43:35.000 Well, don't do chicken.

01:43:38.000 I went to a burger place once and I got a grilled chicken sandwich and I was sitting at the bar and the lady was like, what can I get you?

01:43:43.000 And I was like, I'll get the chicken sandwich and I'll have that one medium, medium rare as a joke.

01:43:48.000 It was like, so the guy next to me said he wanted his well done.

01:43:51.000 And I said, I'll get the chicken sandwich, but I'll have mine medium rare.

01:43:53.000 And she goes, okay.

01:43:54.000 And I was like, wait, I was kidding.

01:43:55.000 I can't do that.

01:43:56.000 And she went, oh.

01:43:57.000 And then I was like, OK.

01:43:59.000 I would have left.

01:44:00.000 I would have fled.

01:44:01.000 Well, I imagine she would have gone back and the guy would have been like, I can't make a chicken sandwich medium rare.

01:44:05.000 OK, good point.

01:44:06.000 Because of salmonella.

01:44:07.000 And you can't do cake because of trichinosis.

01:44:09.000 But for some reason, beef is OK and fish is OK.

01:44:13.000 Well, sushi grade fish.

01:44:15.000 Otherwise, you can get sick.

01:44:18.000 Let's see.

01:44:18.000 Coldylocks Productions says, We can push Russia around because we broke their backs financially in the Cold War with the Star Wars project, making them think we were developing extremely advanced tech, and they tried to match us, spending all their money.

01:44:30.000 Ooh.

01:44:30.000 Wow, crazy.

01:44:32.000 They also just kind of ran out.

01:44:34.000 Central planning doesn't work too well, unfortunately, for the Soviets.

01:44:38.000 They learned the hard way that freedom and free enterprise do tend to work pretty effectively.

01:44:42.000 Sammie Joel says, Tim, will you please get Fleckas talks on the show?

01:44:46.000 Also, I think that Biden-Indiana Jones meme was made by his producer, Richard Ratboid.

01:44:51.000 Fleckas is always welcome.

01:44:53.000 He has a standing invite and he knows this.

01:44:55.000 We've never had him on, have we?

01:44:56.000 We haven't, no.

01:44:56.000 Well, Fleckas, come on the show.

01:44:58.000 You should be on the show.

01:45:00.000 Ultimate Bonaire says, so I don't think that Oregon would ever allow those counties to merge into Idaho because then they'd lose all the money from those counties.

01:45:13.000 It's kind of the same up in Washington with Seattle.

01:45:16.000 Everyone in the state hates them.

01:45:18.000 That's the problem.

01:45:19.000 Yeah.

01:45:19.000 You know, look, you've got to have a strong petition.

01:45:23.000 Like, you can't, look, the left knows how to protest.

01:45:27.000 They know how to occupy an office or sit in a street and it works.

01:45:31.000 They put pressure on, they get it done.

01:45:33.000 And to be honest, they have the advantage of being able to be violent because, you know, Republicans or people on the right are second class citizens in that regard.

01:45:39.000 If you do anything in any capacity that's violent, they will, it'll be every headline news outlet, but Antifa can, you know, burn down entire cities and Yeah, you know, it's a peaceful protest.

01:45:47.000 But I'm saying, get organized.

01:45:50.000 You know, you can't just be like, we voted.

01:45:53.000 You've got to be like, we are going to boycott.

01:45:56.000 We are going to general strike.

01:45:58.000 Imagine if they're like, we want these counties because they make us money. 0.99

01:46:01.000 And everyone said, well, we're going to go on a general strike then.

01:46:03.000 Yep.

01:46:04.000 Then what are they going to say?

01:46:05.000 Now you're just being hampered by this.

01:46:07.000 I mean, wasn't there some big thing, like a bunch of tractors came out and like blocked roads or something?

01:46:11.000 Yeah.

01:46:11.000 Where was that in Finland?

01:46:12.000 It was in Finland.

01:46:13.000 Yeah.

01:46:13.000 That's crazy stuff.

01:46:14.000 Yeah.

01:46:16.000 Yeah, I remember.

01:46:17.000 That was the first one, right?

01:46:18.000 That was exciting, yeah.

01:46:19.000 had 45 original cases.

01:46:21.000 Yeah, I remember.

01:46:22.000 That was the first one, right?

01:46:23.000 That's exciting.

01:46:24.000 Yeah, good times.

01:46:25.000 Michael Revell says this team, Luke, Tim, Ian, and Lydia's Mr. Holden is cool too.

01:46:29.000 I look forward to this every night.

01:46:30.000 Keep up the hard work.

01:46:32.000 Well, so long as y'all subscribe and go to the website, become members, smash the like button and super chat, we'll just keep doing it.

01:46:39.000 But the ultimate goal with all of this is to grow the company and hire more people and do more awesome work.

01:46:44.000 I love having you on, Drew.

01:46:45.000 It's really fun.

01:46:46.000 Thank you.

01:46:46.000 As soon as I heard all you guys' names and then Mr. Holden, I was like, oh God, I'm going to get roasted.

01:46:51.000 I was like, someone's absolutely going to take a shot at me right now.

01:46:54.000 I was sitting here the whole time, I was like, no, no, no, quick, quick, quick.

01:46:58.000 We got some interesting super chats.

01:47:00.000 Kevin Bergman says, as a fifth generation Oregonian from the state of Jefferson, I would support greater Idaho.

01:47:06.000 California has invaded Portland, Pacific Northwest, and taken over our politics.

01:47:11.000 Yeah.

01:47:12.000 Mr. Beard says, Wyoming here.

01:47:14.000 I work in IT at a high school.

01:47:16.000 We had a delegation from Weld County come through and check out how our school is like.

01:47:20.000 Wyoming already has voiced support.

01:47:22.000 I want to see that happen.

01:47:23.000 Yes, me too.

01:47:25.000 It would like a pressure release valve for a lot of the hot politics in this country. 0.86

01:47:29.000 Yeah.

01:47:30.000 And that's the other thing, too.

01:47:31.000 There are an enormous number of benefits, but also talk about an excellent way to decrease political strife between the parties.

01:47:37.000 Yes.

01:47:38.000 I actually lived in Weld County for about a year.

01:47:40.000 It's a wonderful county.

01:47:41.000 It's very rural.

01:47:42.000 Super, super low-key.

01:47:44.000 Farmers, everything's cool and chill.

01:47:46.000 Far cry from Denver and Boulder.

01:47:48.000 What's the situation with Weld?

01:47:49.000 What's happening in Weld County?

01:47:50.000 They're thinking about moving up to Wyoming.

01:47:52.000 They're on the board with Wyoming and they want to be a part of Wyoming.

01:47:56.000 Who would, right?

01:47:57.000 Kay Perdue says, I am Canadian.

01:48:00.000 Our isolation camps are horrifying.

01:48:02.000 Please check out Chris Sky.

01:48:04.000 He sends Ubers to the hotels to help us escape.

01:48:06.000 Really?

01:48:07.000 I've never in my life.

01:48:08.000 What is going on?

01:48:10.000 I've never ever considered any ill will towards Canada or concern or I thought it was the most free, awesome country.

01:48:17.000 Like this is terrifying.

01:48:18.000 It's always been pretty bad.

01:48:20.000 Yeah.

01:48:22.000 All right, what do we got?

01:48:23.000 Toby Walker says, curious what Ian or any of you think about Cardano over Ethereum.

01:48:27.000 Solves gas fee and governance issues of Ethereum.

01:48:30.000 I don't know anything about it.

01:48:31.000 I hear it's like the next generation Ethereum.

01:48:33.000 Really?

01:48:34.000 Maybe I will look into it.

01:48:36.000 Maybe I will look into it.

01:48:38.000 Jonathan Westcott says, instead of greater Idaho, they need new states so they have less concentrated power, more electoral seats, can flip, and aren't held hostage by large states.

01:48:47.000 Well, look, if you break up a bunch of rural counties into their own states, then the Republicans just win.

01:48:52.000 Right.

01:48:53.000 And the blue cities are like, eh, it's not fair.

01:48:55.000 Yeah, and no one will agree with it, right?

01:48:57.000 Even writ large.

01:48:58.000 And I think that the beauty of being able to get into other states is that you get around that sort of concern.

01:49:03.000 Alright, The Civic Nationalist says the American Revolution was started by smugglers, the tea tax was paid in Britain, and was propaganda by smugglers because they didn't want to lose on the monopoly.

01:49:12.000 Come back home, you can give up this thing called presidency, sing God Save the Queen.

01:49:17.000 I wonder if there could ever be any circumstance in which the US decides to be a part of the Commonwealth again.

01:49:23.000 No.

01:49:24.000 As an Irish-American, I will say I am strongly against this very idea.

01:49:28.000 Did you guys see that video that went viral of the Irish guy at the checkpoint?

01:49:31.000 Oh my goodness.

01:49:32.000 I love that man.

01:49:33.000 I'm channeling him.

01:49:34.000 It's just audio, but apparently it's an Irish guy, and he pulls up to a checkpoint in Ireland, and then he just starts... They're like, how's it going, sir?

01:49:43.000 Where are you going? 1.00

01:49:44.000 He's like, none of your goddamn business! 1.00

01:49:46.000 He starts yelling at him, and then he starts screaming like... It was really amazing. 1.00

01:49:52.000 He's like, we fought for aid!

01:49:54.000 100 years!

01:49:55.000 And Nyatria's worse than the British army did! 0.91

01:49:57.000 It's just a really- That's amazing.

01:50:00.000 I gotta listen to that.

01:50:01.000 This sounds incredibly up my alley.

01:50:04.000 It's just audio, but someone shows this super ripped farmer guy waving the Irish flag, and then it shows a cop waving a rainbow flag.

01:50:11.000 Like the dogs meme, yeah.

01:50:13.000 Amazing.

01:50:14.000 It's just, it's just crazy audio where, like, it's really interesting to hear someone say, like, we fought for 800 years and now you would treat us worse than the British Army, and I'm like, that is bold!

01:50:23.000 And then the best part, oh man, I don't know a whole lot about politics between Ireland and the UK, just a little bit on the surface.

01:50:30.000 I know about, like, the IRA, I went to Northern Ireland, I went to, um...

01:50:33.000 Belfast.

01:50:34.000 We went there together during the burning of the effigies that they had there.

01:50:38.000 But once a really interesting thing happens is he's like, the Irish guy says, you believe all this stuff?

01:50:44.000 You believe all this stuff?

01:50:45.000 And then he's like, do you watch the news, sir?

01:50:47.000 And he's like, oh, the news.

01:50:49.000 And he's like, do you watch RTE? 1.00

01:50:51.000 And he's like, RTE is shite. 0.99

01:50:52.000 And then he's like, well, what about the BBC? 0.99

01:50:54.000 And he goes, oh, the Crown News Service.

01:50:58.000 And I'm like, this Irish guy is laying into these people.

01:51:00.000 Amazing.

01:51:01.000 No, but it's really interesting for them to recommend the BBC to an Irish guy.

01:51:05.000 I was like, I'd imagine that would piss off a lot of them.

01:51:07.000 Yes.

01:51:07.000 You think that's who I'm going to be listening to for my news?

01:51:09.000 Yeah.

01:51:10.000 But then again, look, you know, we went to Belfast.

01:51:12.000 I don't know a whole lot about the internal politics.

01:51:14.000 There's a lot.

01:51:15.000 Other history.

01:51:16.000 And I think a lot of it probably comes down to there's a certain provisional sensibility that some Irish, I think, have probably in Dublin and the surrounding areas where like, well, why wouldn't you like England and the rest of the Europeans?

01:51:27.000 And I would imagine some of the folks in the rural areas have a A little bit more sensitivity about these sorts of things.

01:51:33.000 Same as America. 0.72

01:51:35.000 In that way.

01:51:36.000 All right, Toby Walker says, please look into having a blockchain expert like Charles Hoskinson on the show.

01:51:42.000 I also hope y'all enjoyed the bush tail coffee.

01:51:45.000 Brush tail coffee.

01:51:46.000 Oh, yeah.

01:51:46.000 Did we have that?

01:51:47.000 No, I haven't had it yet.

01:51:48.000 I've been drinking Krigler coffee these days.

01:51:50.000 Krigler coffee, I highly recommend.

01:51:52.000 It's delicious.

01:51:53.000 But I'll take the brushtail next.

01:51:55.000 Politically Defiant says, Tim, Idaho already has a seaport.

01:51:58.000 It's Lewiston, Idaho, as the Snake River connects to the Columbia River, which connects the Pacific Ocean via Portland, Oregon.

01:52:05.000 Hope everyone has a most wonderful weekend.

01:52:07.000 Stay epically awesome.

01:52:08.000 We will have a very wonderful weekend.

01:52:10.000 It will be fun.

01:52:10.000 The weather's getting really nice.

01:52:12.000 Good point about the Snake River, too.

01:52:13.000 I'd forgotten that.

01:52:16.000 Michael Witten Campbell says, Eastern Washington of Washington state talked about this two years ago or three years ago.

01:52:22.000 They wanted to go to Idaho, which would split the state in half.

01:52:25.000 Could you imagine if Eastern Washington and Oregon joined mega Idaho?

01:52:32.000 Ultra Idaho.

01:52:33.000 Or just became North Idaho.

01:52:35.000 Greater Idaho.

01:52:36.000 And then you had North and South Idaho.

01:52:38.000 I love it.

01:52:39.000 Hey.

01:52:40.000 I hope they just call it Idaho, not greater Idaho.

01:52:42.000 I like greater Idaho.

01:52:43.000 There's so many puns.

01:52:44.000 Well, we got a very, we got a very serious correction on our, on our, on our, uh, thank you chat story about that.

01:52:50.000 Um, what, what kind of vegetable eggplant?

01:52:54.000 No, no, no, no.

01:52:55.000 Is it the potato?

01:52:56.000 See, I was avoiding saying it because he says, excuse me.

01:52:59.000 I think you mean mean potatix.

01:53:03.000 We can't say potato anymore because the O is, you know, we got to get rid of that.

01:53:06.000 It's gendered or something. 0.96

01:53:07.000 All right, Shotty Vice, where he says, quick PSA, completely off topic, make sure to drink water. 0.97

01:53:12.000 I had my first kidney stone, and oh boy, getting a catheter hurts a ton, a crap ton. 0.89

01:53:16.000 The worst. 0.52

01:53:17.000 Amen.

01:53:18.000 Taking another sip, great point.

01:53:19.000 Drink your water.

01:53:19.000 Always a great reminder.

01:53:21.000 74% water.

01:53:22.000 I was told by the doctor to put a little bit of lemon juice in your water, but drink it with a straw because the acid can be bad for your teeth.

01:53:28.000 And your lips, probably.

01:53:30.000 Cassius Cam says, I'm from the state of Jefferson.

01:53:32.000 We already call it that up here.

01:53:33.000 We produce nearly all the beef and water for California.

01:53:36.000 We just want to be left alone.

01:53:38.000 Interesting.

01:53:38.000 Well, then just start acting like you're the state of Jefferson.

01:53:41.000 I mean, it sounds like you are.

01:53:43.000 They fly the flags up there.

01:53:44.000 The agricultural differences are curious too, right?

01:53:46.000 Because, I mean, I think that that's one of the other reasons why these places have so much value, why California would be so unwilling to lose them, but why they'd be so attractive to other places.

01:53:53.000 Yeah.

01:53:54.000 Hellbound Wolf says, you talk about fifth generational warfare and how our colleges have been infiltrated by the Chinese. 1.00

01:53:59.000 Trans ideology started in colleges.

01:54:01.000 It was our youth, uh, willingly.

01:54:03.000 Well, look, I, for the sake of YouTube, this is too spicy and they're going to get me banned if I read the super chat.

01:54:08.000 So I know they're watching, but I'll just say he's talking about a lot of leftist politics and how it's, you know.

01:54:16.000 We're all on campus now.

01:54:17.000 In the words of Andrew Sullivan, everything about American public life starts on college

01:54:21.000 campuses these days and transmutes away off really quickly.

01:54:25.000 Jacob N.M. Clutter says, Tim, Article 5 doesn't apply to new states or land transfers.

01:54:29.000 That falls under Article 4, which requires approval of both states in question and congressional

01:54:33.000 approval.

01:54:34.000 Article 4, Convention of States!

01:54:37.000 There you go.

01:54:38.000 Good fact check, though.

01:54:39.000 Casey Shultz says, Mr. Potato Head is bad now, then how long until they try to cancel and erase that series?

01:54:44.000 Oh boy.

01:54:44.000 Mx?

01:54:45.000 There's a character in Tor Story.

01:54:46.000 Oh yes, Mix. 0.99

01:54:48.000 So if Mr. Potato Head is bad now, then how long until they try to cancel and erase that series?

01:54:52.000 Oh boy. I'm surprised they haven't already.

01:54:54.000 Sparky.

01:54:55.000 Toy Story.

01:54:56.000 Sparky the Byros has just had a thought.

01:54:59.000 If Mr. and Mrs. Potatixhead are now socially illegal, are they going to digitally remove them from all this Toy Story mode? 0.96

01:55:05.000 Oh my god, amazing.

01:55:06.000 No, what they're gonna do is they're gonna digitally alter them to be identical.

01:55:10.000 And then just have them both be called, they'll be referred to as Mix. 0.93

01:55:14.000 Mix Potatixhead and Mix Potatixhead.

01:55:15.000 And then they'll have to go in and they'll have to change the subtitles.

01:55:19.000 So that both of them are MX Potatixhead. 0.85

01:55:21.000 I'm surprised they're not Z and Y. I know, right? 0.99

01:55:24.000 What if we had that?

01:55:25.000 Says Tim the gang y'all got to get a 12.7 millimeter by 99 50 BMG anti-material rifle long live the Republic

01:55:32.000 God bless y'all and stay safe Sounds like that could do some damage

01:55:40.000 Anti-material meant for destroying material is over there.

01:55:43.000 It's for blowing up helicopters and yeah, it's like yeah Somebody somebody commented in the chat before and they

01:55:48.000 were like 50 BMG for when you need to remove when you need to kill a building

01:55:51.000 Yes, please JK says in Newfoundland, they put the province under the

01:55:58.000 province under house arrest and called an election The size of Japan and 600,000 residents, four deaths and months between cases.

01:56:06.000 What did you at by?

01:56:07.000 Our provincial greeting.

01:56:09.000 What did you at by?

01:56:10.000 I don't know.

01:56:11.000 Well, it's beyond me.

01:56:13.000 I don't live there.

01:56:14.000 But that's insane.

01:56:15.000 Like that's, and again, an empowered government.

01:56:17.000 Why wouldn't they?

01:56:18.000 Yeah.

01:56:19.000 Tim says, if greater Idaho idea occur, then precedent set.

01:56:22.000 Counties can vote to do the same. 1.00

01:56:23.000 Dangerous and stupid idea. 1.00

01:56:25.000 Split divide the U.S. 1.00

01:56:26.000 like Israel-Palestine.

01:56:26.000 It already is!

01:56:27.000 It's too late.

01:56:28.000 Look at the past several elections.

01:56:30.000 It's been like 50-50 and struggling.

01:56:32.000 You know what I mean?

01:56:33.000 There's no unified culture anymore.

01:56:34.000 It wouldn't be split like Israel and Palestine though.

01:56:37.000 Those are two different languages and religions.

01:56:39.000 It would just be different states.

01:56:42.000 Nah, that's what's happening.

01:56:43.000 But I also think that if you had different states it would be, like as you mentioned earlier, a really good release valve.

01:56:47.000 Where you wouldn't have people who were resentful and frustrated by the fact that they had been politically disenfranchised.

01:56:53.000 They would just be mad about normal things.

01:56:54.000 But I think that would just redraw lines and get us right for a second.

01:56:57.000 It would do that.

01:56:58.000 A lot of people would have their hand in the honeypot trying to get a bonus with those laundry redraws. 1.00

01:57:03.000 The red states would become 10 times red or the blue states would become 10 times bluer.

01:57:06.000 It would solidify all the political divide.

01:57:09.000 And that's a really dangerous precedent, but it's, it's, it's, I don't see, I don't see a way around what's happening.

01:57:14.000 The, the, the, the divide in this country is so insane that you like, I literally tweeted.

01:57:19.000 So there was a, there was an image of those people in those pods and you know, the kids in the school. 0.94

01:57:24.000 And I said, if you're, if you're, if you're crazy enough to do this, then you deserve what you get, go vote for whatever you want. 1.00

01:57:29.000 And I got a response from a tribal leftist I know who says, you're so dumb. 1.00

01:57:32.000 Why would these kids want to spit on each other? 1.00

01:57:34.000 And I'm like, slow down there, buddy.

01:57:37.000 I didn't say the pods.

01:57:39.000 I didn't say anything.

01:57:40.000 It was a picture of kids in school. 1.00

01:57:42.000 For all he knew, I could have been saying you were stupid enough to go to these schools in the first place when you are advocating for them to be closed. 0.99

01:57:49.000 The point is, how is it that when I say an image of these kids in these pods is insane, A guy who advocates for schools to remain closed is now saying, well they should be in the pods if they don't spit at each other. 1.00

01:58:00.000 No!

01:58:00.000 They shouldn't be in the school according to you!

01:58:02.000 But these people have no principles.

01:58:04.000 The tribalism is everything.

01:58:06.000 I just hate you because you're in the wrong tribe. 1.00

01:58:09.000 And this is going to lead to people fighting each other worse than we've seen in a long time.

01:58:12.000 And nothing's stopping it.

01:58:13.000 No, the Democrats are making it worse.

01:58:15.000 We went over this the other night with the Echelon Insights polls.

01:58:18.000 You see this?

01:58:19.000 Where Republicans were asked to rate their highest, their strongest concerns.

01:58:22.000 Oh, I did see this, I did see this.

01:58:23.000 Illegal immigration, and taxation, and police.

01:58:24.000 And Trump voters were the number one, I think, among Democrats.

01:58:26.000 And then white nationalists, and then white supremacy, because the Democrats are screaming in the face that Republicans are evil, and Republicans are sitting there going, I think illegal immigration is bad for our economy. 0.60

01:58:37.000 You know what someone, I think it was Jesse Kelly.

01:58:39.000 So conservatives lost the culture war because they weren't fighting it.

01:58:42.000 Yeah.

01:58:42.000 Or he said the Democrats won the culture war because they were the only ones fighting it.

01:58:45.000 Yeah.

01:58:46.000 So you've got all of these people who are asked, and they're conservative, they're Republican, what do they care about?

01:58:50.000 And they give you a policy issue.

01:58:53.000 You're sitting here as the left is screaming, threatening to go after you, to kick your representatives out of Congress, to send the feds to go arrest them.

01:59:03.000 to claim that any kind of violence from these Trump supporters is the end of the world.

01:59:06.000 They're calling it 1-6.

01:59:08.000 It was 1-6.

01:59:09.000 We need a 1-6 commission.

01:59:11.000 That's what they're saying.

01:59:12.000 Meanwhile, Antifa burned down all of these cities, $2 billion in damage, and that was the insurance cap, so it was substantially more than that.

01:59:19.000 Nothing.

01:59:21.000 There is a battle happening.

01:59:23.000 There is a conflict going on.

01:59:25.000 And look, the solution to whatever it is, is out of my reach.

01:59:29.000 I can tell you, like I've said over and over again, violence isn't going to solve any of these things because we're in fifth generational warfare.

01:59:35.000 So, maybe people need to assert their rights and say, we want an Article 4 convention to redraw these lines, because at the very least, then we will have a pressure release valve from the people who are- the people right now trapped in these places, like in Jefferson, are probably boiling over, furious.

01:59:52.000 Give them that release.

01:59:53.000 It may be bad in the long run because it just hyperpolarizes states, but it's better to alleviate the tension than let it explode.

01:59:59.000 What happens when they say, no, we won't give you this reprieve?

02:00:02.000 And then the people in Jefferson say, then we're gonna call our buddies and we're gonna set up a barricade, set up our own police force.

02:00:06.000 Yeah, exactly.

02:00:06.000 And then chaos.

02:00:08.000 Yeah.

02:00:09.000 Yeah, I don't know, man.

02:00:11.000 Allison C says, everyone's all worked up about Lady Mockingjay's dogs. 1.00

02:00:14.000 No one gives a damn about the dog walker who was shot four times in the chest.

02:00:17.000 Elites! 0.83

02:00:19.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

02:00:21.000 He's doing well, I guess.

02:00:22.000 Really?

02:00:23.000 Yeah, he's coming back.

02:00:24.000 That's good.

02:00:25.000 Poor guy. 0.97

02:00:26.000 Wow, crazy.

02:00:27.000 We have to pay for that.

02:00:30.000 We were talking about that on the show, and it's even steeper in the United Kingdom.

02:00:36.000 Yeah, it's bad.

02:00:37.000 OMG Puppy says, FBI investigates Lady Gaga's stolen dogs.

02:00:40.000 In Seattle, the John Brown gun club shot two black teenagers joyriding through Chaz.

02:00:44.000 The city doesn't care.

02:00:46.000 Welcome to America in 2022.

02:00:50.000 Why did I say that?

02:00:51.000 Because you're a prophet.

02:00:52.000 That's right.

02:00:53.000 Julius Kamina says, pretty sure Norm Macdonald, Dave Chappelle, and Danny DeVito took the dog. 0.79

02:00:57.000 Man, are they screwed when they get caught.

02:01:00.000 Those guys specifically, huh? 0.96

02:01:03.000 Captain Spanky says, Tim, I'm in Harney County, Oregon.

02:01:07.000 Today was the first I've heard of greater Idaho.

02:01:09.000 Our county voted around 75 to 80 percent Trump.

02:01:12.000 Hopefully it comes to fruition.

02:01:13.000 Yeah, man.

02:01:14.000 Yeah, hopefully.

02:01:15.000 Yeah.

02:01:16.000 All right, let's see.

02:01:17.000 DJ Madero says the State of Jefferson was going to be announced on Monday, December 8th, 1941.

02:01:23.000 Just think if they had done it on Friday, December 5th, 1941.

02:01:26.000 What would the West Coast of the United States look like today?

02:01:29.000 I mean, look, California's too big.

02:01:31.000 I think California, Jefferson should exist.

02:01:33.000 It makes a lot of sense.

02:01:35.000 But, you know, then people will... You know, actually, I'm curious as to what made, like, these cities in Oregon, Seattle, and Portland so blue that turned the whole state under the control of the Democrats.

02:01:46.000 You know what I mean?

02:01:46.000 Yeah, I think it's just a size thing, right?

02:01:48.000 Like, so many of these counties are so sparsely populated that all it takes is a big city or two that's overwhelmingly left-leaning, and it's enough to skew it pretty meaningfully.

02:01:57.000 Yeah.

02:01:58.000 That's my guess.

02:01:58.000 And then, like, even Washington State and in Oregon, even 10 years ago, there were at least a number of Republicans, right?

02:02:04.000 And, like, they've all...

02:02:05.000 All in one case and most in the other have been wiped out.

02:02:09.000 All right, let's see.

02:02:11.000 Jonathan McLee says Charlie LaDuff is now suing Governor Whitmer for covering up the COVID numbers in Michigan, accusing her of all the things Cuomo has done.

02:02:19.000 Ooh, interesting.

02:02:19.000 We should reach out to Charlie.

02:02:20.000 Yeah, and it seems like there's pretty good evidence that they made a lot of the same decisions that Cuomo did.

02:02:25.000 Oh yeah, they did.

02:02:26.000 Tons of them.

02:02:27.000 And are covering up all the numbers.

02:02:28.000 All right, let's just grab, we'll grab one more super chat.

02:02:31.000 Eric Rivera 219 says, this $20 is for Ian.

02:02:35.000 Tim, we tune in for the whole team.

02:02:36.000 You preach freedom of speech, but are always condescending or cutting Ian off.

02:02:39.000 A lot of people think like him.

02:02:41.000 Well then.

02:02:41.000 I will say he's not always condescending.

02:02:46.000 Very rarely, but in those heated moments where we maybe condescend each other, it is not intentional.

02:02:51.000 That is not the goal.

02:02:53.000 Tim and I like to go at each other.

02:02:54.000 We don't.

02:02:54.000 I mean, I don't know.

02:02:55.000 I can't speak for you.

02:02:56.000 I just let myself get heated when I'm talking to you.

02:02:59.000 I find it entertaining, engaging, and I'm a better and more vibrant person afterwards.

02:03:15.000 And I think it'll be another month and a half or so.

02:03:18.000 But it might pick up.

02:03:20.000 You know, the beginning of the year is always kind of crummy in terms of just like engagement.

02:03:23.000 Everyone's kind of worn out, especially after an election.

02:03:26.000 Everybody who works the political and news beat knows that like the few months after

02:03:29.000 any election, everyone's like, stop, enough.

02:03:31.000 I don't want to think about this anymore.

02:03:32.000 And then, you know, it just goes down.

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02:04:53.000 Always awesome having you here, man.

02:04:54.000 Time flies when you're here.

02:04:55.000 I love it.

02:04:55.000 I hope you come back soon.

02:04:56.000 Hey, pleasure's mine.

02:04:58.000 Thank you guys for having me.

02:04:59.000 Seriously, it's fascinating every time I'm on here.

02:05:02.000 I love the conversation.

02:05:03.000 And it does.

02:05:03.000 I mean, I've never had a moment on here, and I'll be honest, I can't always say this about everywhere I've been, but I've never had a moment here where I'm like, what are we going to talk about next?

02:05:12.000 We've always got something to talk about.

02:05:13.000 Five people, you know what I mean?

02:05:15.000 And different worldviews and opinions.

02:05:18.000 If there's ever like a lull in the show, I'll be like, Luke, the government?

02:05:24.000 Ian, free the code?

02:05:25.000 Let's go.

02:05:26.000 The Federal Reserve?

02:05:28.000 DMT?

02:05:28.000 Okay.

02:05:31.000 All the above.

02:05:32.000 I guess that's Monday's show.

02:05:33.000 No, but it'll be like, you'll sense that lull coming in and someone will be like, I just don't agree that Pac-Man was the greatest character.

02:05:41.000 And then as everyone starts to like slow down, I'll go, it's interesting too, but I wonder what the government has to say.

02:05:46.000 What do you think, Luke?

02:05:48.000 Oh, the government!

02:05:50.000 Ron Swanson is my spirit animal.

02:05:53.000 I love him too.

02:05:55.000 Also, I forgot Lydia.

02:05:56.000 I didn't forget.

02:05:57.000 I was just waiting to... I'm here in the corner.

02:05:59.000 I pushed the buttons.

02:06:01.000 I like to talk about the science.

02:06:02.000 I love the science.

02:06:02.000 I really like talking about it because I worked in the hospital.

02:06:04.000 So anytime we have content about COVID and stuff, I'm always interested in that.

02:06:08.000 But you can follow me on Twitter and Mines.

02:06:10.000 I'm Sour Patch Lids on those platforms.

02:06:13.000 And then I'm Real Sour Patch Lids on Instagram and Gab.

02:06:17.000 We will see you all over at TimCast.com as we talk about the large golden Trump.

02:06:21.000 Thanks for hanging out.

02:06:22.000 We'll see you there.

Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - February 27, 2021

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