Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - Timcast IRL - FIST FIGHT IN SENATE STOPPED By Bernie, Kevin McCarthy ATTACKS Gop Rep w-Lauren Chen

00:00:00.000 Okay, so a fistfight almost broke out in the Senate in one of the hearings today, and Bernie

00:00:16.000 Sanders ruined all my fun.

00:00:18.000 We had two adult men agreeing to a mutual combat situation, and Bernie Sanders starts

00:00:26.000 I'm like, you are a United States senator!

00:00:28.000 Sit down! And like, you know, he's yelling at him and then, uh, no kidding. This really happened.

00:00:33.000 I definitely want to talk about it. And then we had, um, probably the more important story

00:00:38.000 is Kevin McCarthy physically attacking a rep who voted against him. Uh, this rep, Brachette,

00:00:44.000 says that he was elbowed a straight kidney shot and Kevin McCarthy is trying to back ways.

00:00:49.000 He's like, I was just walking through the hall and I bumped into him.

00:00:51.000 That's all that happened.

00:00:52.000 And these reporters are like, dude, the hallway is massive.

00:00:54.000 How do you accidentally bump into a guy in the hallway?

00:00:57.000 Like no one believes you.

00:00:58.000 Plus a reporter from NPR watched it happen.

00:01:01.000 So we definitely got to talk about this.

00:01:03.000 And, uh, you know, I don't know a bunch of other stories.

00:01:05.000 We got some, some weird and wild ones.

00:01:08.000 And Wokeness, an account on X, posted a picture of a black Santa Claus in a wheelchair ornament that Target is selling.

00:01:15.000 I did not believe it was real, and I pulled it up on the Target website.

00:01:17.000 So, I just gotta say, man, you know, Target, I don't know.

00:01:20.000 They can't seem to learn their lesson about just doing this weird stuff.

00:01:25.000 And I guess it's fine if anybody wants to buy that ornament.

00:01:27.000 I got no beef.

00:01:27.000 It's just Target.

00:01:28.000 I don't know who you're marketing towards.

00:01:30.000 So, we'll talk about that.

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00:02:59.000 Hey, great to be back.

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00:06:23.000 All right, shall we jump to the news?

00:06:24.000 Yep.

00:06:25.000 Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know if this is the most important story, but it's certainly one of the most fun and Bernie Sanders has to go and spoil everything.

00:06:32.000 When you search for the story about the fistfight that nearly occurred in the Senate, in a Senate hearing, most headlines are like, Bernie Sanders stops fistfight, and he did!

00:06:41.000 And I am upset with Bernie, okay?

00:06:43.000 Okay, I'm not really, you know, that you shouldn't fight in the Senate, but here's the story.

00:06:47.000 Senator Mullins challenges Teamsters president to fight during committee hearing.

00:06:52.000 Senator Mark Wayne Mullen, a Republican, challenged Teamsters President Sean O'Brien to a fight during a Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions hearing on Tuesday.

00:07:00.000 I really would love to get Senator Mullen on the show now because this was absolutely epic.

00:07:08.000 Sean M. O'Brien has been making fun of Mullins.

00:07:11.000 He tweeted, Greedy CEO who pretends like he's self-made. 0.99

00:07:14.000 In reality, just a clown and fraud. 0.99

00:07:16.000 Always has been, always will be. 0.98

00:07:18.000 Quit the tough guy act in these Senate hearings.

00:07:20.000 You know where to find me.

00:07:21.000 Anyplace, anytime.

00:07:23.000 Cowboy.

00:07:23.000 Hashtag little man syndrome.

00:07:26.000 And there's a photo of him standing on a box during a debate or something like this.

00:07:31.000 And you know what?

00:07:32.000 I'm just gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna play the video for you guys and you can listen for yourselves.

00:07:38.000 Like he's self-made.

00:07:40.000 Sir, I wish you was in the truck with me when I was building my plumbing company myself and my wife was running the office because I sure remember working pretty hard and long hours.

00:07:50.000 Pretends like he's self-made. 0.98

00:07:52.000 What a clown. 1.00

00:07:54.000 Fraud. 1.00

00:07:55.000 Always has been.

00:07:57.000 Always will be.

00:07:59.000 Quit the tough guy act and these Senate hearings.

00:08:02.000 You know where to find me.

00:08:03.000 Anyplace.

00:08:04.000 Anytime.

00:08:05.000 Cowboy.

00:08:08.000 Sir, this is a time, this is a place.

00:08:09.000 If you want to run your mouth, we can be two consenting adults, we can finish it here.

00:08:14.000 Okay, that's fine.

00:08:14.000 You want to do it now?

00:08:16.000 I'd love to do it right now. 0.98

00:08:17.000 Well, stand your butt up then. 0.99

00:08:18.000 You stand your butt up. 0.99

00:08:19.000 Oh, hold on. 0.98

00:08:20.000 Oh, stop.

00:08:21.000 Is that your solution?

00:08:22.000 He goes for the wedding ring.

00:08:25.000 Sit down.

00:08:25.000 You're a United States senator.

00:08:28.000 Sit down, please.

00:08:29.000 Can I respond?

00:08:30.000 Hold it! 0.98

00:08:33.000 This is what he said.

00:08:34.000 This is what he said.

00:08:34.000 Okay.

00:08:34.000 I'm sorry. This is all that he said you'll have your time.

00:08:37.000 Okay. Can I respond? Oh, no, you can't Hearing oh wow

00:08:43.000 This is in our official government record.

00:08:46.000 My question is, does this happen more or less often now that there are cameras televising this than in the past?

00:08:51.000 Well, there was that Democrat who just announced he's retiring, and one of his big critiques was that Congress is performative, that everyone's just looking to have their viral moment.

00:08:58.000 But what I like about this, and I did confirm this just now, is that Mullins is in fact a former undefeated MMA champion.

00:09:05.000 No, wait, what?

00:09:06.000 On his official bio on the Senate, Mark Wayne Mullins is a former undefeated mixed martial arts MMA fighter with a professional record of 5-0.

00:09:15.000 He was inducted into the Oklahoma Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2016.

00:09:20.000 So I'm telling you, this would have been amazing.

00:09:23.000 Wow, man.

00:09:25.000 I'd like, I would love to get him on maybe a Culture War episode.

00:09:28.000 Yeah, I like his energy.

00:09:29.000 You got to get him and the Teamster though.

00:09:31.000 No, they'll fight!

00:09:33.000 Exactly, it's not really a culture war episode, I'm just saying some sort of Logan Paul boxing match.

00:09:38.000 Yeah, that's who needs to reach out to them.

00:09:39.000 Logan Paul, what are you doing here, team?

00:09:41.000 I gotta say, let's be real.

00:09:44.000 Here's Mr. O'Brien.

00:09:46.000 This dude would get rocked by moments.

00:09:48.000 He'd get pushed, he'd push him, and then he'd get choked.

00:09:51.000 No, this guy probably wouldn't last five seconds.

00:09:54.000 He probably put him in a choke really fast or like an arm bar or something.

00:09:57.000 Who's older?

00:09:58.000 I'm assuming he's older.

00:10:00.000 It looks like him, but I'm not sure.

00:10:01.000 He might have an ill-fitting suit on.

00:10:04.000 Look at this guy's face!

00:10:05.000 Look at this guy!

00:10:05.000 Who's this guy?

00:10:10.000 What is this?

00:10:10.000 I think he's probably Nate O'Brien who was like, let's go.

00:10:14.000 This is what I came here for.

00:10:15.000 I just you know that meme where it's like the two women are like, they cover their mouths and the guy just smiles.

00:10:21.000 Like I imagine a lot of the guys in there watching this haven't started laughing.

00:10:24.000 Like let's go.

00:10:26.000 Bernie, Bernie, like, really came off as a badass, except if he was bigger and stronger than the other dudes, I would've been like, oh, that's my president.

00:10:33.000 He is like the high school teacher coming out into the hallway and being like, everybody go, go to your rooms.

00:10:39.000 And I think, I mean, Mark Wynne Mullins is interesting to me because he's one of the only tradesmen who has a seat in the Senate, right?

00:10:48.000 And actually, theoretically, Bernie Sanders also lists himself as a former carpenter.

00:10:51.000 And so we have tradesman v. tradesman v. teamster, which I find interesting.

00:10:56.000 Do you think that was a planned moment or it's just a moment of passion?

00:10:59.000 I think he went in knowing he would try to fight him.

00:11:02.000 I just don't think he was expecting a response of like, yes, I will fight you right here and now.

00:11:08.000 So here's a tweet from Citizen Free Press Update.

00:11:10.000 Mullin posts a picture with his guns and challenges Teamster boss Sean O'Brien to a fight.

00:11:14.000 Wonderful.

00:11:15.000 Duel?

00:11:17.000 He says, let's do it any place, any time.

00:11:20.000 And then he tagged Comfortably Smug in it.

00:11:23.000 Comfortably Smug said this is an invitation for Senator Mullin to come on Ruthless Podcast.

00:11:27.000 Oh, okay, he's not... He's not threatening to duel him.

00:11:30.000 Right, okay, Citizen Free Press is wrong.

00:11:32.000 He's responding to the podcast saying he's gonna go to... Oh, hey, Senator Mullins, we'd love to have you on.

00:11:36.000 We definitely gotta talk about this.

00:11:38.000 Yeah, let's make some noise about the challenge.

00:11:41.000 Do you think that watching dudes fight makes culture become more combative, or is it like an outlet?

00:11:47.000 Or do you think that we should see people fight because then we know that there are correct times to channel aggression instead of just letting people be weirdly passive aggressors forever until they default into extreme violence?

00:11:57.000 Right, because we're seeing less violence from our at least elected officials than ever.

00:12:01.000 But at the same time, I feel like we're more in terms of rhetoric and division, like we've gone further to the extreme.

00:12:06.000 So maybe it's we're actually lacking the consequences that comes from this rhetoric that would naturally kind of pull people back.

00:12:12.000 Maybe we do need to see that.

00:12:13.000 Oh, yeah.

00:12:14.000 Words have consequences.

00:12:15.000 You can't just mouth off and expect nothing to happen.

00:12:17.000 People eventually will call you out, and some people, like Mullins, they might be willing to go to blows.

00:12:22.000 Yeah, I always heard the big difference between men and women was that women are sort of past aggressive, they hold grudges forever, but also they are not prone to violence, whereas men, if they have a conflict, ultimately it'll always come to hitting each other, but then at that point you've decided who's sort of in charge.

00:12:36.000 So you can almost move past it.

00:12:38.000 Often yelling with the two guys, guy friends will like yell at each other.

00:12:41.000 I don't do it as much anymore, but like growing up it'd be like, you'd scream it out and then you'd be done and then it'd be totally back to normal the next day.

00:12:48.000 Yeah, very different from women. 1.00

00:12:50.000 Yeah, women would hold on to that for the rest of their lives. 0.99

00:12:52.000 They'd see each other, but they'd hate each other.

00:12:55.000 Yeah.

00:12:55.000 He's the only currently serving senator without at least a bachelor's degree.

00:12:58.000 Wow.

00:12:58.000 He's super cool.

00:12:59.000 He also is like an active, I think he, I don't know what term is, but he like He raises cows and stuff.

00:13:06.000 Like a cowboy?

00:13:07.000 He's a real cowboy?

00:13:08.000 He's a real cowboy MMA fighter!

00:13:10.000 Yeah, I was working on this piece for a long time where I was like stalking all the professional backgrounds of everyone in the Senate and he's really unique, right?

00:13:17.000 There are senators that literally own MLB teams and there's this guy who has a big family and is actually a tradesman who built his company and then made T.U.

00:13:25.000 a Senate.

00:13:26.000 Like, why don't we have more people like that?

00:13:27.000 He's super rich, uh, let's see, it says between November 06 and April 20- uh, 07, Mullen fought in three MMA fights, winning all three.

00:13:34.000 His total fight time was less than ten minutes, and he fought a total of less than three full rounds.

00:13:39.000 That's the way to win, that's the way to- Wow!

00:13:41.000 So, I was tell him- Let me see you mess that dude up!

00:13:43.000 Yeah!

00:13:44.000 Also, he should now fight every other American senator.

00:13:46.000 Yeah!

00:13:47.000 Not the women, but like, that would be fascinating, right?

00:13:49.000 Well, why not, you know?

00:13:50.000 What's gender but it's such a construct, right? 0.99

00:13:52.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:13:53.000 Instead of this voting for our Speaker of the House, we just have them fight Mark Wayne Mullen.

00:13:58.000 Like Wakanda, that's how we should decide political leadership.

00:14:00.000 Yeah, what is it?

00:14:02.000 Patriarchal bloodlines in ritual combat.

00:14:06.000 Mark Wayne Mullen, I want to make sure everybody understands, he did not start the fight.

00:14:10.000 That dude threatened him on Twitter and then imagine... I mean, dude, you're like, I'm here to do my job and this guy's posting that he wants to fight me, that he's going to fight me, and then he's going to show up to where I'm working and testify before me.

00:14:25.000 I'm going to call him out for it.

00:14:27.000 I respect it.

00:14:27.000 Yeah.

00:14:28.000 And as much as I think all of the men listening are like, oh, Bernie, what are you doing?

00:14:34.000 Okay, Bernie.

00:14:36.000 The responsible portions of the male brain are saying, I know, you should stop the fight, nobody wants to get hurt.

00:14:41.000 But, you know, the more primate part of the brain is screaming, BERNIE, NO!

00:14:48.000 Yeah, it would have set a precedent that fighting in there is okay if they'd fought.

00:14:54.000 But I think if they both agreed to it, then why wouldn't we allow it?

00:14:59.000 A gentleman's duel.

00:15:00.000 Well, that's the thing.

00:15:01.000 Mutual combat is legal in a lot of places.

00:15:02.000 I don't know if it's legal in D.C.

00:15:03.000 Let me check, actually.

00:15:04.000 I think in Oregon, mutual combat, there's no crime if two people agree to fight.

00:15:08.000 Dude, that guy, that bald dude was gonna get...

00:15:10.000 Rocked.

00:15:11.000 He had no idea. 1.00

00:15:12.000 He was talking crap. 0.98

00:15:14.000 Best people that haven't gotten hit or been in a fight before, they always think they're gonna win a situation like that. 0.99

00:15:17.000 They think a little bit bigger than them.

00:15:19.000 It's not always how it works, man.

00:15:20.000 Well, he knew someone would intervene.

00:15:21.000 I just, you know, could you imagine this guy waking up in the morning and be like, Bernie Sanders is gonna intervene on my behalf.

00:15:28.000 It's not Oregon, it's Washington State and Texas have mutual combat laws.

00:15:33.000 Both parties must agree to the fight.

00:15:34.000 It must be in public and there can be no serious bodily injury to the participants.

00:15:38.000 To the participants.

00:15:40.000 But how do they distinguish between that and something like UFC?

00:15:43.000 Because you could do UFC in Las Vegas.

00:15:45.000 I mean, isn't that technically a mutually agreed upon fight?

00:15:48.000 I think they're called sanctioned fights.

00:15:50.000 Right.

00:15:51.000 Like they get permits for these fights to happen. 0.94

00:15:53.000 And everybody knows that, like, you know, the best MMA fights are after the fight's over.

00:15:59.000 The dudes touch gloves, give a hug, and then go, like, they know that they don't hate each other.

00:16:03.000 They're trying to be the best fighter.

00:16:05.000 That, I love watching that.

00:16:06.000 I can't stand the snooty MMA fighters who are, like, smack-talking, and I'm like, I get it.

00:16:10.000 They're trying to, like, get attention and build ratings or whatever.

00:16:13.000 But I like the fights when a dude loses and the other guy, like, gives him a fist bump, they shake hands or whatever.

00:16:17.000 Well, my husband, he's really into UFC.

00:16:18.000 He watches it, like, basically any Saturday that there's a fight.

00:16:22.000 But he was saying that there's incentive for them to trash talk and try to make it as toxic as possible because then it draws viewers and then, like, their bag's bigger and there's just more attention on them.

00:16:32.000 Exactly.

00:16:34.000 You want people to hope you lose.

00:16:35.000 Yeah.

00:16:36.000 Then more money comes in.

00:16:37.000 Everybody wants to watch because they're looking for the villain.

00:16:39.000 And it's like, yeah, you know, whatever.

00:16:41.000 That happened with that Logan Paul fight recently that some guy was like talking about his ex-girlfriend or his wife.

00:16:47.000 I don't even want to propagate the nonsense, but Logan went in there and decimated the dude.

00:16:51.000 Yeah.

00:16:52.000 And then it didn't get as much attention as I would have.

00:16:54.000 I mean they weren't like top billing or anything.

00:16:56.000 No.

00:16:57.000 Not my friends.

00:16:58.000 Well, uh, many of you may be sad to hear that the fight didn't actually happen.

00:17:02.000 Don't worry, a different fight did.

00:17:04.000 We got this from the New York Post.

00:17:05.000 Rep Tim Burchett accuses bully Kevin McCarthy of attacking him with, quote, clean shot to the kidneys in Capitol Hallway.

00:17:14.000 Yup, this one's hilarious, and as much as they're saying it's a claim and it's alleged, an NPR reporter was standing there, recording, and tweeted out, she saw this happen, that McCarthy came up from behind him and shoved him, and she thought it was a joke, and then a chase ensued, we started yelling at McCarthy, and what Burchette said is that he elbowed him straight in the kidneys.

00:17:37.000 So this, Burchette voted against Kevin McCarthy.

00:17:39.000 McCarthy is, it's a mental breakdown, dude.

00:17:43.000 Matt Gaetz pointed out at our Miami event, this is so amazing, so glorious, that McCarthy gets a billion dollars or whatever in money for the RNC and for his campaign and all this stuff, so he has control, but he owes people now.

00:17:58.000 He's gotta deliver as Speaker of the House.

00:18:00.000 Now that he's removed, he cannot deliver on those promises, and those IOUs are now basically toilet paper.

00:18:06.000 I can't imagine what it must be like to sell your soul out to what is effectively the Mafia, and then only, what, like a month later, Be like, I am no longer in the position to pay you back.

00:18:17.000 I don't think the dudes who gave you that money will take that for an answer.

00:18:21.000 And so Kevin McCarthy's probably freaking out and sweating bullets and not too happy with the people who voted against him.

00:18:27.000 Yeah, but it's also it's just so corrupt.

00:18:29.000 I mean, it's this is exactly why we should have term limits, because you're exactly right.

00:18:32.000 That is how DC works.

00:18:34.000 But it shouldn't be.

00:18:35.000 And that's it's just so toxic.

00:18:37.000 I don't like the idea of, well, lately I thought about maybe evolving our House of Representatives into, like, the entire population so that we all have the opportunity to pass, to set up bills, write them.

00:18:47.000 Like direct democracy?

00:18:48.000 No, we still have the Senate, so, and the republics would still, they'd still be there, and if the power goes out, we would send them all to the Capitol.

00:18:54.000 So they'd still have their job, they would just be part of the population and, like, deciding bills and sending them to the Senate.

00:18:59.000 Because it's too easy to bribe those 450 people.

00:19:03.000 I feel like that would be really hard to get things done.

00:19:06.000 As opposed to the efficiency of DC now.

00:19:09.000 Right, but at least some stuff does happen.

00:19:11.000 But maybe that's exactly why we should do that because it would be really hard to get stuff done.

00:19:15.000 Maybe we want that.

00:19:16.000 It depends on what you want.

00:19:17.000 Like if you want to impeach Mayorkas, and we're not doing that anyways, perhaps that system's the same, right?

00:19:22.000 But if you want any funding for the border or anything that you do want pushed through Congress, Then having a convoluted system might be hard.

00:19:28.000 I don't know.

00:19:29.000 Well, we've got a video from Kevin McCarthy who's responded.

00:19:32.000 And Citizen Free Press says, Kevin McCarthy sounds like a man who was caught red-handed hitting Tim Burchett.

00:19:38.000 I guess our shoulders hit.

00:19:39.000 I did not run and hit the guy.

00:19:41.000 I did not kidney punch him.

00:19:43.000 Reporter immediately grills McCarthy over his claims.

00:19:46.000 Here we go.

00:19:47.000 A reporter was interviewing Birchett or something.

00:19:49.000 I guess our shoulders hit because Birchett runs up to me and I didn't know what he was talking about.

00:19:52.000 So the reporter asked me.

00:19:54.000 I did not run and hit the guy.

00:19:55.000 I did not kidney punch him.

00:19:57.000 I did not shoot anything like that.

00:19:58.000 You didn't shot him?

00:19:59.000 No!

00:19:59.000 We're walking through.

00:20:01.000 You were at HC5, right?

00:20:02.000 You guys line up along the way there.

00:20:05.000 It was Bruce Wester and I walking out.

00:20:07.000 He must have been interviewing somebody.

00:20:09.000 I didn't know it was him or somebody.

00:20:10.000 I guess I almost did as I walked by.

00:20:11.000 I didn't punch anybody.

00:20:13.000 Did he interview you?

00:20:15.000 I guess it happened because when I was walking back further, somebody was interviewing me or talking to me and he comes running up like, Why did you hit me or something like that?

00:20:24.000 I said, I don't know what you're talking about.

00:20:26.000 I didn't even know something transpired.

00:20:27.000 But a reporter's a witness that said it looked like you, there was plenty of room for you to walk, and then you intentionally hit him.

00:20:33.000 Okay, not a place.

00:20:34.000 Show me a reporter who saw that.

00:20:36.000 Yeah, Claudia Grisales.

00:20:38.000 Okay, well ask Bruce Westerman.

00:20:39.000 No, I did not go up... He's in that guilty voice.

00:20:42.000 Right?

00:20:42.000 He's trying to like over-justify it.

00:20:44.000 It's like a little pinch.

00:20:45.000 Too much talking.

00:20:46.000 Come on now.

00:20:49.000 The bigger the story, the bigger the lie.

00:20:51.000 Yeah, he would have been like, no I didn't.

00:20:53.000 He kept walking if he didn't.

00:20:55.000 I didn't threaten him, Kinzinger threatened him.

00:20:57.000 When have I pushed him?

00:20:59.000 Kinzinger said he was in the back railing once and you elbowed him and pushed him.

00:21:03.000 You said Gates.

00:21:05.000 Kinzinger.

00:21:07.000 Whoa, whoa, can you rewind that? He thought that they said Matt Gates.

00:21:09.000 He's got Gates on the brain.

00:21:11.000 Alright, let's play it.

00:21:13.000 He said he was in pain that you hit him so hard on the kidneys.

00:21:17.000 Come on now. That's what he said.

00:21:19.000 Oh, come on now! 1.00

00:21:20.000 That's what he said.

00:21:22.000 That's far from it.

00:21:23.000 Congressman Kinzinger wrote that you pushed him twice while he was in Congress in the chamber.

00:21:28.000 When have I pushed him?

00:21:29.000 You said Gates.

00:21:30.000 The girl behind him said Gates.

00:21:30.000 No, she didn't.

00:21:32.000 Congressman Gates, though, is submitting a complaint to the Ethics Committee over this issue.

00:21:36.000 Do you have anything to say to Congressman Gates?

00:21:38.000 is filing or submitting a complaint to the ethics committee through this issue. Do you have any comments on that?

00:21:47.000 I think ethics is a good place for Gates to be.

00:21:51.000 So I mean, didn't Berchert said that you're the kind of guy that says words like throw a rock and then go hide

00:21:59.000 under his mom's skirt.

00:22:02.000 What's your response?

00:22:03.000 This is Congress.

00:22:04.000 Is there bad blood between you and Birchett?

00:22:07.000 Yes.

00:22:08.000 None at all after he voted to oust you?

00:22:09.000 No.

00:22:10.000 What would you just say about the issue of decorum in Congress?

00:22:14.000 I mean, there was a House oversight hearing where a member was called a smurf.

00:22:18.000 You have over in the Senate... When did that happen?

00:22:19.000 today and i think that's the only thing i can't possibly have senator malin

00:22:26.000 like about that by it i was great i think things are so sorry why i i i i think

00:22:34.000 that i think members of the while you have a really tell you a me in the kidneys

00:22:38.000 got a ton of brain Yeah.

00:22:39.000 And Burchett was at a DC Young Republicans event the night before and called Kevin McCarthy bitter.

00:22:46.000 I mean, they know what's happening.

00:22:47.000 This is all all of their staffers probably talked about all day.

00:22:50.000 When she asked him if he had bad blood with that dude, he looked away and looked back at her and said, no.

00:22:56.000 Like, that's a lying.

00:22:56.000 When you look up to the left, that means that's an indication that you're lying.

00:22:59.000 But I guess to play devil's advocate, apparently there were reporters around when this happened.

00:23:03.000 Why would he do it in front of a reporter?

00:23:05.000 Because he has no self-control? 0.90

00:23:06.000 Yeah, he's having a mental breakdown.

00:23:08.000 Dude, before he was even voted in as Speaker, he was moving into the Speaker's office, and Matt Gaetz called him out for it.

00:23:16.000 This dude was having a temper tantrum the whole time.

00:23:19.000 I have to imagine that when Kevin McCarthy was facing that showdown in the first vote to put him in as Speaker, He was probably scared as hell that he was not going to get it.

00:23:30.000 And when he was like, I'm just going to move my stuff and I'm going to get it.

00:23:33.000 It's going to happen.

00:23:34.000 I'll do what I have to do to get it.

00:23:34.000 And he finally got it.

00:23:36.000 I bet the dude cried.

00:23:37.000 I bet he went home and he was crying.

00:23:41.000 And then sure enough, like what is it like a month or so later, like two months later, he's gone.

00:23:46.000 He's got to act as cool and collected as he can, but clearly the dude is unwound.

00:23:50.000 And he's walking down the hallway, and this dude voted to oust him.

00:23:53.000 It was eight Republicans that did it, and he elbows him in the back.

00:23:58.000 Our reporter watched it happen.

00:24:00.000 Dude is losing his mind.

00:24:01.000 Yeah, I can't imagine the stress that this kind of public, you know, life brings to anyone, but it does seem a little weird that you would be like, there's that guy for the first time, I'll hit him.

00:24:12.000 On the other hand, like, maybe that is a sign that, you know, Congress is as unstable as it looks from the outside.

00:24:19.000 I mean, at least Mark Wayne Mullins, you know, formally challenged him to basically a duel, but with your hands, whereas this seems like a, like, cheap shot.

00:24:26.000 Yeah, like a petty sucker punch type of thing.

00:24:29.000 Yeah, Mullins confronted the guy who called him out and said he wanted to fight.

00:24:32.000 Stands up, and I love when he goes for his wedding ring.

00:24:35.000 He's like, I'm gonna take that ring off.

00:24:36.000 He left it on!

00:24:37.000 Right, because Bernie was like, sit down!

00:24:37.000 He left it on!

00:24:39.000 You're a son-in-law!

00:24:40.000 Think of your wife!

00:24:42.000 This McCarthy guy had me on edge the entire time, and I kind of kept my mouth shut in the first few months that he was Speaker because I wanted the best for the House.

00:24:49.000 But he sounded like Trudeau the whole time.

00:24:52.000 His voice, and he talks like this.

00:24:54.000 And he has the kind of voice and now his voice is going up and down when he's trying.

00:24:58.000 It's just so pandering.

00:25:00.000 And oh, like, where's the authority in his voice?

00:25:03.000 It's such like, I don't know.

00:25:05.000 I don't want to do any- Mine is just they go back to the question of decorum, right?

00:25:10.000 Do we need decorum?

00:25:11.000 This is a criticism that gets levied at Trump all the time, that he doesn't have decorum, that he doesn't act presidential.

00:25:16.000 But maybe people don't want that?

00:25:17.000 I mean, I think of the British Parliament, and they... I don't know that anyone challenged anyone to a fight on the floor of Parliament, but they yelled... Similar in Australia, too.

00:25:25.000 Exactly.

00:25:26.000 I think you need about as much decorum as Bernie Sanders.

00:25:29.000 Like, no, I didn't say that!

00:25:30.000 Like that kind of decorum, like willing to kind of like take off his tie or get his tie undone if he's getting hot, but like not throw cups at people and stuff like that.

00:25:38.000 Like he has a limit to the- There was some senator, I can't remember who it was, who threw a snowball at someone during a debate on global- Was that recently?

00:25:47.000 It was a long time ago because I think I was writing about it.

00:25:49.000 It might have been Tesser from Alaska.

00:25:52.000 I could be wrong on this.

00:25:53.000 I'll check in a second.

00:25:54.000 But they were having a debate on global warming.

00:25:56.000 And so he went out, scooped up snow, and then like threw it across the chamber at him.

00:26:00.000 There have been weird, funny moments.

00:26:02.000 And I guess, you know, we weren't allowed to throw snowballs at my school because they could have pebbles in them and you could hurt someone.

00:26:07.000 Yeah, same there.

00:26:08.000 But I mean there's a difference between decorum and vitriol and you could say like okay we're going downhill in terms of decorum because we should all be polite and things like that but in terms of just I mean we have been accusing each other congressmen have been accusing each other of things like racism and corruption for a long time like that's not new so I mean either way these people are they're going they're backstabbing each other they're trying to ruin each other's careers is it a big deal that they might I mean, now it might just be coming to the surface a little bit more.

00:26:35.000 I don't think so.

00:26:36.000 I mean, I think the lack of professionalism, lack of unity was already there.

00:26:40.000 It's just a little bit more apparent now.

00:26:41.000 The snowball was Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, which is where Mark Wayne Mullins is from.

00:26:45.000 So maybe those Oklahoma boys.

00:26:47.000 Yeah, they're pretty metal. 1.00

00:26:49.000 Trump, when he said, Rosie O'Donnell is a fat pig. 1.00

00:26:52.000 He didn't say that. 0.99

00:26:53.000 Well, how did he say it? 0.99

00:26:53.000 She said, Megyn Kelly asked about how you've insulted women referring to some as, you know, fat pigs or whatever. 0.99

00:26:59.000 And he says, only Rosie O'Donnell. 0.99

00:27:01.000 Okay, and then that means in the past he has called her a fat— or he's acknowledging that he did call her a fat pig in the past? 0.96

00:27:05.000 I don't think he's— I don't think he was implying that he literally said the words fat pig, but that he was implying that he's insulted only Rosie O'Donnell or something like that. 0.98

00:27:13.000 That, I think, is— Unless he meant literally the only person he's called a fat pig was her. 0.99

00:27:16.000 When it goes too far is when you're in public office and you're using your time publicly to insult people, like, with mean— like, you dumb idiot, that thing, because then that just wastes time, wastes taxpayer money. 1.00

00:27:27.000 I don't want that in my office. 1.00

00:27:28.000 I agree, but personally, I don't think calling someone a fat cow is any worse than slandering someone as a white supremacist or a racist or whatever. 0.76

00:27:35.000 You know what I mean? 0.94

00:27:36.000 One might be construed as more street and fighting words, but personally, I would rather be called a fat cow than an anti-Semite that could actually ruin your career in this day and age.

00:27:45.000 And congressmen have been calling people that for a long time.

00:27:48.000 And I gotta tell you, Ian, the more time they spend insulting each other is less time they spend on Giving our money away for BS government projects and war.

00:27:58.000 So, I would much prefer it, you know, we talked about this yesterday with war, that I would take the entire war budget and just give it to some random guy.

00:28:05.000 Because some random American dude can spend it infinitely better than we waste on all these wars like 20 years in Afghanistan.

00:28:11.000 But I would rather every single member of Congress engaged in narcissistic mudslinging on the floor

00:28:20.000 if it meant they weren't all in lockstep with funding war and foreign intervention.

00:28:25.000 That kind of backs up my suggestion that we disperse the House of Representatives. If

00:28:30.000 they're that useless and you'd rather just see them insulting each other, 0.99

00:28:33.000 they really don't have any place in this country. We the people can pass laws and bills into the 0.99

00:28:38.000 Senate. We don't need these 450 stopgap bribery vulnerabilities anymore.

00:28:43.000 I disagree. I think...

00:28:44.000 I think the answer is not to abolish Congress.

00:28:47.000 It's to reform or amend.

00:28:51.000 Like, all these people need to get voted out.

00:28:52.000 We need better rules.

00:28:53.000 Clearly the system is busted.

00:28:54.000 Mike Gravel had the fourth branch of government he wanted to create called the National Initiative.

00:28:58.000 He's a senator from Alaska.

00:29:02.000 And then it would have created a fourth branch of government that's the people. 0.90

00:29:04.000 The people would represent local people to go and act as another form of like a representative of the people themselves instead of... That feels like it just makes the government bigger.

00:29:12.000 Yeah, and more bribery, you know, vulnerabilities.

00:29:15.000 It's quite literally more members of Congress.

00:29:17.000 Either we do it ourselves and there's 330 million of us and you can't bribe us all.

00:29:21.000 No, we need to repeal the 17th Amendment, and we need people to focus on their local politics more.

00:29:25.000 And stop acting like Kevin McCarthy can do anything for you.

00:29:28.000 The dude does not represent any of us in any way, okay?

00:29:32.000 He represents his district to the federal government.

00:29:35.000 He does not represent you as a person.

00:29:38.000 People think that our federal elected representatives are going to do anything for us at home, and I've long complained about this.

00:29:43.000 You see these congressional ads where they're like, I'm gonna clean up this town.

00:29:46.000 No, you're not!

00:29:46.000 You're going to Congress!

00:29:47.000 You're going to D.C.! 1.00

00:29:48.000 You're gonna go vote on war and other garbage. 0.81

00:29:50.000 If you wanna clean up your town, if you wanna fix your crime, you gotta vote for local reps.

00:29:54.000 And so a lot of- and your governors and your state senators and things like that.

00:29:58.000 You want to know why California's all messed up?

00:29:59.000 It's because they vote for these people locally.

00:30:01.000 It's not anything the federal government's doing.

00:30:03.000 Yeah, they can't- also, they can't read these 3,000 page bills.

00:30:06.000 But if we crowdsource it and we let the entire US population have at it, you better believe there's going to be at least 700 people that are going to go read those 3,000 pages.

00:30:15.000 They do.

00:30:15.000 They do this.

00:30:16.000 Yeah, but then these are the people that we need, like, pushing the bills.

00:30:19.000 No, no, these are- this was once called- The issue is that members of Congress should have to read the bills before they vote on them, but they don't do it.

00:30:28.000 What was your idea?

00:30:30.000 You mean make it a felony to vote on a bill that you have not read?

00:30:32.000 Yeah, you have to swear under oath that you've read the bill if you're going to vote on it.

00:30:35.000 Agreed.

00:30:35.000 I would support that.

00:30:36.000 Agreed.

00:30:36.000 I don't know what the argument against that would be.

00:30:39.000 They're corrupt and they want to sell out their positions to lobbyists?

00:30:42.000 Right.

00:30:43.000 I mean, but the position that they could defend publicly for having that be the rule.

00:30:47.000 Like the spin?

00:30:48.000 I'm trying to think of what it would be.

00:30:50.000 I mean, I think what they would say, and I don't believe this, but the counterpoint would probably be, you know, it would be impossible for us to produce effective legislation that wasn't lengthy, and so actually you're making it impossible for us to get to, like, you know, they'd make, like, you're slowing us down argument, but maybe that's the point.

00:31:05.000 That's the point, yeah.

00:31:06.000 And that's why we want to get rid of omnibus bills. 0.68

00:31:09.000 It's like what Matt Gaetz is doing.

00:31:10.000 Yeah, like with spending bills.

00:31:11.000 You used to actually have to have different ones and that was a lot more efficient because you could actually know where the money was going, but they want the big bills so they can all slip their pork in there and lobbyists can be like, haha, like a little nut for me here, a little presents.

00:31:24.000 And then, I don't know if you guys follow Rand Paul, like every year he exposes how much money is spent on useless things like giving birds cocaine and studying that or whatever it is.

00:31:34.000 No, it's crazy and it's literally, I would say, criminal how much they steal from taxpayers on useless things.

00:31:39.000 He calls that the Festivus.

00:31:41.000 His Festivus recount or something like that.

00:31:43.000 Festivus.

00:31:44.000 Yeah.

00:31:44.000 All right, ladies and gentlemen, I want to play this video for you of Nikki Haley and explain to you why it is that you must vote for Donald Trump and why it is this woman should never be allowed anywhere near the seats of power.

00:31:54.000 Reclaim the Net says, Nikki Haley says, if she's made president, every social media user will be verified by their name for national security purposes.

00:32:02.000 And we will play that video for you.

00:32:05.000 When I get into office, the first thing we have to do, social media accounts, social media companies, they have to show America their algorithms.

00:32:13.000 Let us see why they're pushing what they're pushing.

00:32:15.000 Okay, that I like, but carry on.

00:32:17.000 The second thing is every person on social media should be verified by their name.

00:32:23.000 That's, first of all, it's a national security threat.

00:32:25.000 When you do that, All of a sudden, people have to stand by what they say.

00:32:29.000 And it gets rid of the Russian bots, the Iranian bots, and the Chinese bots.

00:32:33.000 And then you're going to get some civility when people know their name is next to what they say.

00:32:38.000 Accountability.

00:32:39.000 And they know their pastor and their family members are going to see it.

00:32:41.000 It's going to help our kids, and it's going to help our country.

00:32:44.000 Okay, so the funny thing about that is she's completely wrong.

00:32:48.000 This country is built on anonymous pamphleting and writing and Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson and many others.

00:32:55.000 So what she's doing is she's taking things that Elon Musk has pointed out, which are good ideas, the option to be verified, and the choice to interact with those who are, and turning it into the government will force you to do it.

00:33:09.000 And then she immediately goes, first of all, she's like, everyone needs to have their name attached to their social security or to their social networking.

00:33:16.000 First of all, it's a national security threat.

00:33:18.000 Like, yeah, that would be a national security threat if you forced everyone to put their name on their social network.

00:33:24.000 But she inverted it.

00:33:25.000 She didn't mean it to sound like that.

00:33:26.000 The reason she's calling it a national security threat that has anonymous accounts is because that is their hard, you-can't-stop-us, we-don't-need-to-vote justification.

00:33:33.000 We are going to send a national security letter to X and force them to do it, to Facebook, etc, etc.

00:33:39.000 They're going to make you do it.

00:33:40.000 The purpose of Mines, one of the main tenets of Mines is that anonymous social networking is a human right, in my opinion.

00:33:46.000 I don't know if Bill's actually come out and literally said that.

00:33:48.000 Social media company founded in 2011 with Bill Altman.

00:33:52.000 You have to be able to.

00:33:53.000 I didn't think about it so deeply before, but it's exactly like you said, man.

00:33:57.000 Silence Duguid was Benjamin Franklin's first pen name.

00:34:01.000 He couldn't get published in his brother's paper when he was like 14, so he made some fake middle-aged lady, and then he started getting published.

00:34:07.000 And of course, Poor Richard's Almanac, he was a guy named Poor Richard, and he would seed like revolutionary content into the populace, because he always, his whole life, he probably wanted to revolt against the king.

00:34:16.000 But he wasn't able, if he said it out loud, they would have cut his head off.

00:34:18.000 So he had to use a pen name.

00:34:20.000 And if the same thing in modern day, if it becomes tyrannical, you have no choice.

00:34:23.000 Well, especially when there are people who feel like their anonymity allows them to operate in society because their views are not permitted.

00:34:30.000 I mean, to confront, you'd have to start really unpacking what hate speech is in America if you really want to take away anonymous speech online and where the boundaries of free speech are.

00:34:40.000 And that's what I think, you know, I'm not totally against her justification of, like, if you had to put your name by everything you said, maybe you would operate differently.

00:34:48.000 Maybe that's good.

00:34:49.000 But there are people who write, you know, under pen names because they fear that they'll be targeted by a progressive attorney general who might go after their job or whatever else because they believe something that's not popular.

00:35:01.000 It starts to be this thing where, like, I just wonder what box we're opening.

00:35:06.000 And I'm not against the idea of accountability online, but at what cost and what are we protecting?

00:35:12.000 It's kind of ironic because Nikki Haley rails against China, just one of the many countries she probably wants to go to war with.

00:35:17.000 But at the same time, I mean, this is the exact same type of police state that China is rightfully criticized for. 1.00

00:35:23.000 So this is something that she wants to introduce.

00:35:25.000 I mean, it's like she is on the wrong side of basically every single issue, which is almost impressive.

00:35:31.000 Impressive batting average for just like the George Bush Republicans who basically killed the party for an entire generation.

00:35:36.000 We should just make it so that in order to pass a bill, the person who is proposing it has to enter legislation by combat.

00:35:44.000 You have to literally force the bill through.

00:35:46.000 Mark Wayne Mullins is getting all this stuff through.

00:35:49.000 You've got to carry the bill passed through the gauntlet of Congress.

00:35:54.000 A bunch of gladiators, yeah. 0.99

00:35:55.000 The congressmen, they'll have paddles and they whack you on the butt. 1.00

00:35:57.000 That would unironically enter a new golden age for America. 0.99

00:36:00.000 Have you guys seen all those studies where they look at how high testosterone and gym attendance correlates with right-wing views?

00:36:07.000 We studied this.

00:36:07.000 Yeah, it's amazing.

00:36:09.000 Within 24 hours, you'll feel the right wing seeping into you.

00:36:12.000 Right.

00:36:13.000 Ian lifted the barbell one time and then dropped it and then started priming.

00:36:17.000 I just, I become happy with myself when I'm physically healthy.

00:36:19.000 And that's part of like, maybe I'd want to conserve my life and my surroundings because I appreciate them more when I'm physically able.

00:36:26.000 I think that's true.

00:36:27.000 I think it does give you, it gives you a sense of value and purpose, which changes your, how you approach the world, which is very interesting.

00:36:34.000 That would also get rid of all the oxygenarians that we have in Congress as well. 0.89

00:36:39.000 They couldn't keep up.

00:36:40.000 They're not the age categories.

00:36:42.000 It's like 72 to 78.

00:36:42.000 They all fight.

00:36:44.000 They all fight Mullins.

00:36:47.000 So funny.

00:36:47.000 The other thing that stood out to me is that she said, this is the first thing I do in office.

00:36:53.000 And I guess my question to you guys would be, what would you want whoever gets elected to do?

00:36:57.000 What should be the first thing they do when they get to office?

00:36:59.000 Firing people?

00:37:00.000 That's a great question.

00:37:01.000 Something secretive that is big and changes a lot of stuff.

00:37:05.000 But what she said about making all these social networks free their code, I don't agree with anymore.

00:37:09.000 I think we start with TikTok because it's a foreign company and proof of concept that they want to operate on U.S.

00:37:13.000 shore.

00:37:14.000 They have to free their software code, their algorithms.

00:37:16.000 And then if that turns out that it's really great for society, then we can use that as a castus belly to cause Meta to open up their code.

00:37:22.000 Yeah, let me tell you.

00:37:23.000 So we have social media people who work here at Timcast, and we have the semi-unwritten rules of various social media platforms when posting, and TikTok is the most insanely restrictive.

00:37:35.000 Absolutely insane.

00:37:37.000 So YouTube, surprisingly, the least.

00:37:40.000 Well, I should pause.

00:37:42.000 Rumble is the least.

00:37:43.000 Axe and Rumble are like, you know, basically anything goes.

00:37:46.000 Just, you're good to go.

00:37:47.000 And we love that.

00:37:49.000 YouTube is actually one of the least restrictive, though they are fairly restrictive.

00:37:53.000 Yeah, and it's it's crazy because I, I mean, I've got the Blaze's YouTube channel suspended for an entire week because I'm, I'm not gonna say what I said about the Elliot page.

00:38:05.000 I'll actually use the the name.

00:38:06.000 So I don't want to get your page suspended either.

00:38:09.000 But um, yeah, that happened on YouTube.

00:38:11.000 But it was for something that, I mean, I feel like YouTube's more Selective.

00:38:16.000 Yeah.

00:38:17.000 Than something like Facebook, which, yeah.

00:38:20.000 YouTube actually does, in some circumstances, look at context, Facebook absolutely does not.

00:38:26.000 And I'm not trying to defend YouTube, I think YouTube censorship is a problem.

00:38:29.000 But Facebook is insanely bad!

00:38:33.000 And TikTok is substantially worse.

00:38:35.000 It feels like Facebook relies a lot more on AI than Alphabet.

00:38:40.000 And there's no legitimate appeals process.

00:38:41.000 It takes forever.

00:38:43.000 Whereas with YouTube, we actually have reps we can contact.

00:38:46.000 At a certain level on YouTube, there's people who will work with you.

00:38:49.000 Facebook doesn't care.

00:38:51.000 They don't want you to appeal because they've made a decision.

00:38:53.000 And it's crazy.

00:38:54.000 My page on Facebook got demonetized once for lies.

00:39:00.000 An organization claimed that one of my videos was fake news, and so it triggered a hard demonetization, and my video that I put up was 100% factually correct.

00:39:12.000 I reached out to the organization and I said, my video is correct, and they said, no it's not, here's your headline.

00:39:17.000 And I said, the headline's a question, and the first sentence of the video is rejecting the claims made by people who are asserting this, and they were like, Oh, we didn't actually watch it.

00:39:28.000 So a third party flagged me to Facebook and got my money turned off.

00:39:31.000 That's insane.

00:39:32.000 That's what Facebook does.

00:39:34.000 It's not even about their internal teams.

00:39:35.000 It's about them letting leftist progressive activists and government agents.

00:39:38.000 And I gotta wonder, with this election integrity partnership stuff going on, I'm wondering if, you know, maybe we should reach out to members of Congress who are working on this and the people we know who are working on it and ask them about what Facebook is doing with the Poynter Institute and the power they give to third parties to remove content they don't like.

00:39:58.000 But see, that's why the left always wins and they're going to keep winning.

00:40:01.000 I work with a ton of right-wing conservative non-profits.

00:40:04.000 I mean, people like TPUSA.

00:40:06.000 We would never think, hang on, there's this huge company that has control of information.

00:40:10.000 I should petition them so that I'm in charge of what people are allowed to post.

00:40:14.000 That would never enter into 99% of conservatives' minds.

00:40:17.000 The left not only think this, but they actually put it into action and they insert themselves into roles of power very effectively.

00:40:23.000 Unless the subject is Israel.

00:40:25.000 Yes, and then all of a sudden it's like everybody is just like, there's... Then it's like the mega-Karens.

00:40:29.000 Yeah, right.

00:40:30.000 Then it's just, I don't know what's going on.

00:40:32.000 That's the fascist bent in people when they're like, we gotta use the private companies to control society.

00:40:38.000 Right.

00:40:38.000 And they'll use it through legislation or through funding through legislation.

00:40:42.000 I don't like when that happens.

00:40:43.000 I kind of want to answer your question about what I would do if I became president.

00:40:47.000 I don't have an answer.

00:40:48.000 Do you guys?

00:40:48.000 What would you do?

00:40:49.000 Well, I like this tweet that Vivek put out the other day.

00:40:53.000 I don't know if he said it would be day one, but I think it should be day one.

00:40:56.000 Immediately fire half of the DC bureaucrats or the civil servants.

00:41:01.000 Just, you know, transfer them. 0.59

00:41:03.000 I'm good with firing them.

00:41:04.000 I think, like, if automatically there's half of that, I mean, obviously we could talk about, like, the economic, I guess, implications of that many people being out of a job, but if it's, like, if the federal government is so huge where we actually need to talk about the economic consequences of that many civil servants losing their jobs, then that's a problem in and of itself.

00:41:20.000 He was saying layoffs because that bypasses the restrictions.

00:41:23.000 You can lay them off for budgetary reasons.

00:41:25.000 Right.

00:41:26.000 Yes, absolutely.

00:41:27.000 And I would hope that Vivek To the extent it is legally, humanly, and economically possible, maximizes those layoffs.

00:41:37.000 You know what it is?

00:41:40.000 So we were talking last night about schools, and I was saying, like, abolish the DOE and get rid of this broken system.

00:41:45.000 We had Aaron Maté on, and he was arguing that, I'm an exception to the rule, I'm successful, not everyone can do that.

00:41:51.000 And my argument is, if you don't think, or if you think that there is no way to replicate my success in other people, then what's the point of school?

00:42:01.000 If school can't create a path toward success for people, then what's the point of doing it?

00:42:07.000 His attitude was basically, there's a lot of good teachers who are in these schools, and this is my point.

00:42:14.000 The government funds a project, hires a bunch of people, and then says, okay, this doesn't work, but we can't stop it now because we're addicted to it.

00:42:21.000 We are economically addicted to this industry.

00:42:24.000 If we stop funding schools, we're gonna have hundreds of thousands of people out of work.

00:42:27.000 We can't have it, the economy would collapse.

00:42:28.000 Also, because we didn't allow for any competition.

00:42:30.000 I mean, there are private schools, there are homeschools, things like that, but obviously, predominantly, most people's money are tied up in their taxes, which then go to their public schools, so they rely on them.

00:42:38.000 I mean, education in America is ultimately a failing business, so it should close.

00:42:42.000 And what, yes.

00:42:43.000 falsely kept alive.

00:42:45.000 And what Ron Paul said, and it was funny because when we had Ron on the show, I mentioned this

00:42:48.000 to him and he was like, did I say that?

00:42:50.000 He said of the war in, I think it was Afghanistan, they're saying we can't just withdraw because

00:42:56.000 it will cause a bunch of problems.

00:42:57.000 But as a doctor, I know if you prescribe the wrong medication, and it is causing problems, you stop the medication.

00:43:04.000 There's no excuse for saying we have to just keep doing it.

00:43:06.000 We are addicted to these government programs, and the fear is, oh, but if we terminate, we're gonna lose all these jobs.

00:43:11.000 Don't know, don't care.

00:43:13.000 That was it.

00:43:13.000 And especially with education, we can see the outcomes, right?

00:43:16.000 Test scores are going down.

00:43:17.000 I mean, some of the places that have the highest per-student funding have the worst results.

00:43:21.000 And I'm someone who's very pro-homeschooling, and the response is always like, oh, your kids aren't going to be able to read.

00:43:27.000 You're not qualified.

00:43:28.000 It's like, I mean, we see what the actual results are from kids who are in public schools, public schools that are failing them.

00:43:34.000 It's really hard for it to be worse.

00:43:36.000 Actual Justice Warrior Sean, he did a video where I think places in Baltimore, like there's a lot of schools where literally zero percent, like, Well, Oregon just did away with their graduation requirements, and they're saying there are learning losses because of COVID, but also that means your system is pretty weak that three years could— I mean, students really suffered during COVID for a lot of reasons, but it also means that, like, there was absolutely no effectiveness in online schooling or anything else.

00:44:00.000 The teachers that were tasked with having to educate kids remotely couldn't do it.

00:44:04.000 This means that our system is not adaptable.

00:44:06.000 This is not proof that you guys are successful.

00:44:09.000 And I think to Tim's medicine metaphor, you know— Ron Paul's.

00:44:13.000 Ron Paul.

00:44:14.000 You know, if they're saying this is the thing you take to fix it, you go to public school, the thing is, doctors will then say, oh, you're having side effects from the medication I gave you.

00:44:21.000 Instead of stopping it, they'll say, take five others.

00:44:23.000 Take this other one.

00:44:24.000 Take this other one.

00:44:24.000 Which is why, you know, we get universal preschool and we get all these other programs that the government is saying, we're not effective, but we're going to continue to fund ourselves until we figure out a way to keep this failing system up.

00:44:34.000 That's a disservice to students and their parents.

00:44:37.000 I mean, this is why I love school choice.

00:44:39.000 If you gave them the opportunity to spend their monies in a way that better suited their children's needs, because there's no way bureaucrats in Washington know children better than their own parents, they would probably be more effective.

00:44:48.000 Well, that's the problem, though.

00:44:49.000 The Department of Education and the public school system, it exists to benefit teachers, to benefit administrators.

00:44:55.000 It's not actually to the benefit of the students and definitely not the benefit of the parents.

00:44:59.000 I think one of the things you said, Hannah-Claire, exactly, that is pretty profound is that the problem with the school, the education system, the Department of Education, is that they have a monopoly.

00:45:10.000 There's no real viable option if it does shut down.

00:45:13.000 There's not another system where people can just go get jobs there and bring their kids over there, and there should be.

00:45:18.000 Because the monopoly, government monopolies, are just as dangerous as private sector monopolies.

00:45:22.000 This is what I saw in Venezuela.

00:45:24.000 When you went to go buy a cell phone, there were like six to eight stations.

00:45:28.000 I go to T-Mobile in the United States, I walk in, there's a guy, and he's like, how can I help you?

00:45:31.000 I said, I want a phone.

00:45:32.000 He's like, okay, he gets his tablet out, and he's like, which phone do you want?

00:45:34.000 He starts typing it all in, here's your number, and okay, it's gonna cost this, so I swipe the card, and it's kind of annoying, and then you're done.

00:45:39.000 In Venezuela, they had to create fake jobs for the sake of propping up their fake economy, which didn't work, obviously.

00:45:46.000 So, they're mandated to have a person who gets the phone, a person who asks you what kind of phone you want, a person who deals with your phone plan, a person who takes the money, a person who writes down the bill.

00:45:55.000 Like, you walk in, you say, they say, how can I help you?

00:45:58.000 I would like to buy a new phone.

00:45:59.000 Okay, let me fill out this form for you, here you go, and go wait in that line.

00:46:02.000 Then you go wait in another one, there's another person there.

00:46:03.000 And which phone would you like to buy?

00:46:05.000 Okay, fill out this form, and then go wait over here.

00:46:07.000 Then a guy takes the form from you.

00:46:09.000 Then he says, okay, now go wait over there.

00:46:11.000 It's insane.

00:46:12.000 That's what we're doing right now in this country.

00:46:14.000 And I think you made a good point.

00:46:15.000 I think you brought this up.

00:46:17.000 That the government created a monopoly on schools by mass funding it.

00:46:20.000 This is what happens when the government guarantees the income.

00:46:22.000 It's almost impossible to compete.

00:46:25.000 But then, you'll see things like FedEx, UPS, and the Postal Service.

00:46:30.000 Clearly, people don't like using the Postal Service.

00:46:32.000 For whatever reason.

00:46:33.000 Right.

00:46:33.000 And you get private schools, you get homeschools, you get co-ops.

00:46:36.000 People do have innovation, especially when they see that the system is broken.

00:46:40.000 But it makes me wonder, you know, you'll have student teachers who are promised if you work in a public school for X number of years, we'll pay off your student loan debt, which we have also given you because we're the government and we're trying to help you.

00:46:52.000 And I would wonder if it would be more interesting to see those people go off and start, you know, Montessori schools in more places or explore, you know, different opportunities with the degree that they have.

00:47:01.000 I think good teachers are really valuable.

00:47:03.000 It's not to shame all of them, but the government just wants you to stay in its broken system and it's willing to take you down with it if you're a teacher.

00:47:09.000 And I think you're right.

00:47:09.000 A good teacher, a competent teacher, is going to flourish even without the public school and the teachers' union safety net.

00:47:15.000 And we see that with charter schools and private schools.

00:47:17.000 And there are even, I guess, industrious teachers who are creating their own homeschool curriculums that could be applied to different homeschool pods.

00:47:25.000 There's a desperate need for teachers who are competent, but I don't think we do those teachers any service by subsidizing the incompetent ones.

00:47:31.000 Yeah, and the government doesn't reward teachers' entrepreneurship.

00:47:34.000 It just beats them back into submission as much as it can until they eventually establish something.

00:47:39.000 Not good.

00:47:39.000 I want to jump to this story.

00:47:42.000 It's a tweet from the account EndWokeness.

00:47:44.000 EndWokeness tweets, Target outdid itself this year for Christmas. 0.95

00:47:49.000 And the first image I've seen before, it is what I would describe as gay nutcrackers. 1.00

00:47:55.000 Okay, I'm not, that is not meant to be derisive. 0.95

00:47:57.000 That is quite literally what it is.

00:47:58.000 It is a nutcracker, which many are familiar with, but it's, uh, blue, holding a pride flag with a rainbow hat, and then there's a very happy, I guess, yeti, and unicorn.

00:48:08.000 And then! 0.95

00:48:10.000 There's this image.

00:48:11.000 Which depicts...

00:48:13.000 A series of white and black Santa Clauses in wheelchairs holding presents.

00:48:18.000 Now, okay, when I saw this, I thought, this is fake, okay?

00:48:24.000 It was like, I think Shoe-On-Head made a video ten years ago!

00:48:29.000 A joke about how diversity is going to result in a trans, non-binary, you know, person of color in a wheelchair.

00:48:36.000 Like, that was a joke she made, and now I'm seeing this image, and so I said, I don't know about this, and so I googled it.

00:48:44.000 Ladies and gentlemen, you can order your Santa in a wheelchair holding gift fabric and they have the options of in black or white.

00:48:51.000 And now look, and it's already on sale.

00:48:53.000 How much is it?

00:48:53.000 I can't see it.

00:48:54.000 $2 with like $7 shipping or something.

00:49:00.000 I almost want to buy a whole bunch of them, but I also kind of don't.

00:49:02.000 Just give them away to people for Christmas.

00:49:04.000 Or company Christmas presents.

00:49:05.000 No, because I don't want to support it, but look, if I was going to buy it, it would be like a novelty gag gift, making fun of wokeness.

00:49:12.000 They're selling them legitimately, and it's kind of, it's, look, If you are a otherly abled person of color, and you would like to purchase the Santa Claus, then I'm glad the option exists for you. 0.83

00:49:26.000 I have no problem with the free market providing.

00:49:29.000 If there are people who have this lived experience, and they would like to be represented on a Christmas tree, then the market shall provide.

00:49:36.000 But Target as a massive, I believe they're multinational, but a massive national corporation.

00:49:43.000 I know Australia's got a fake version that they stole from us. 0.99

00:49:45.000 Yeah.

00:49:47.000 Who are they really selling to?

00:49:49.000 The answer is very obvious.

00:49:51.000 White, liberal women. 0.93

00:49:53.000 That's who wants to buy this.

00:49:55.000 Who want to show their children, look, anyone can be anything at any time.

00:49:59.000 It's what they call impact.

00:50:02.000 It's like impact investment, but this is like the refuse tunnel of the impact investment.

00:50:06.000 It's impact sales.

00:50:07.000 They're putting it out in the open for people to see what they want them to think about.

00:50:11.000 And they don't even care if these things don't sell, probably.

00:50:13.000 This is so wrong.

00:50:16.000 I'm sorry.

00:50:16.000 This is so wrong.

00:50:19.000 People are saying it's black paraplegic Santa. 0.82

00:50:22.000 And I'm like, this is insulting to people, okay? 0.88

00:50:25.000 They have turned them into a joke.

00:50:27.000 And I thought the best question of the night was Lauren, who asked, how's he going to get his wheelchair down the chimney?

00:50:31.000 Right.

00:50:32.000 It doesn't make any sense.

00:50:33.000 I thought I thought somebody was making fun of Target, making fun of openness.

00:50:37.000 And then I was like, it's real.

00:50:38.000 We need to put those those ramps. 1.00

00:50:41.000 But for Christmas, everyone needs to get a ramp on their front door.

00:50:43.000 Otherwise, you're discriminating.

00:50:44.000 It's a fake thing.

00:50:45.000 That's a fake version of a guy.

00:50:46.000 No, you need a ramp up to your roof.

00:50:48.000 Yep.

00:50:49.000 It's your chimney.

00:50:49.000 But I mean the question is like who specifically is the, I mean aside from like white liberal women, but it's like a very specific group of people who celebrate Christmas but also really want to indulge in the wokeness, which I feel like is huge.

00:51:03.000 Also, are we sort of expecting a lot of You know, paraplegic people to suddenly appear on earth? 0.99

00:51:10.000 Like, why do we need so many of them?

00:51:11.000 This could have been one Etsy business that did really well, but instead Target is like, everyone knows someone in a wheelchair, which feels more, like, disturbing to me. 0.94

00:51:19.000 But that's the thing, like, with all this woke stuff, whether it's pandering to women or to black people in wheelchairs who aspire to be Santa, it's not actually about the group they're representing.

00:51:30.000 It's about the activists who see it as a virtue signal.

00:51:34.000 Yeah, I remember as a kid being told that I could be Santa, but it's just a weird thing.

00:51:37.000 Like, oh, he has to be just like me, has to be in a wheelchair, too.

00:51:40.000 It's like, well, he'd be better flying around the world if he didn't have a wheelchair. 1.00

00:51:43.000 It's about that time of year, should we have the Santa debate?

00:51:47.000 The Santa debate?

00:51:48.000 Should Santa retire because he's in a wheelchair now?

00:51:52.000 No, no, no, listen, listen.

00:51:53.000 Okay, Ian, I know where you're going with this.

00:51:55.000 Do we tell kids if Santa's real?

00:51:57.000 That's what I'm talking about.

00:51:58.000 Every year.

00:51:58.000 And I think there's a bigger question now on top of this.

00:52:02.000 I don't know that we can answer that question until we answer the question of how do you explain to children that there is black, paraplegic Santa and white, cis-heteronormative Santa.

00:52:12.000 No, I'm not telling my kids the only Santa is black and in a wheelchair.

00:52:15.000 No, I'm going to take the FDR approach. 0.83

00:52:16.000 We're going to hide the wheelchair. 1.00

00:52:18.000 We're going to just like cover it up constantly.

00:52:20.000 The scandal was that Santa was always in a wheelchair.

00:52:22.000 They're regrowing spines in Rice University.

00:52:24.000 Why do you think he sits when you take photos with people?

00:52:25.000 No, hold on.

00:52:26.000 I'll hold on there.

00:52:29.000 Where's black Santa with a cochlear implant? 0.91

00:52:31.000 Mm-hmm.

00:52:32.000 Good point.

00:52:33.000 He could be wearing him.

00:52:34.000 He's got thick hair.

00:52:35.000 We don't know.

00:52:35.000 We can't say.

00:52:36.000 Perhaps.

00:52:36.000 Where's Trans Santa?

00:52:37.000 He's coming soon.

00:52:39.000 And that's the horror.

00:52:40.000 That's the horror of the season now, which is like, what are they going to do to poor Santa who can't defend himself?

00:52:45.000 Okay, so the Marvels just came out, right?

00:52:47.000 And it bombed.

00:52:48.000 It's the worst MCU opening in the Marvel franchise history.

00:52:51.000 And it's because people just don't care for these woke Bad storylines where they just ham fist in politics.

00:52:59.000 And when people started complaining back in the day about how they like made Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn's played like a black woman. 0.92

00:53:07.000 And people are like, yo, I don't care about black actors getting lead roles.

00:53:11.000 I care that you're taking historical figures and characters and changing their race like the Little Mermaid.

00:53:17.000 South Park made a really great point about this.

00:53:20.000 In the latest show they did, the Panderverse, the special, where PC Principal is yelling at the kids saying, you just don't like black people. 0.54

00:53:25.000 And they're like, no! 0.94

00:53:26.000 We don't like that you take an existing character and turn it into a black woman. 1.00

00:53:29.000 They were like, Miles Morales is awesome.

00:53:30.000 He's his own character and has like an alternate history storyline they gave him, which we understand.

00:53:34.000 Like, people, like, there's a lot of superheroes that have the same superpowers as other superheroes.

00:53:39.000 This is gone one step beyond and they're now taking religious and traditional figures and now race swapping them. 0.94

00:53:51.000 Look, I know we've seen this because 10 years ago there was an argument on Tumblr whether or not Beethoven was black.

00:53:57.000 What?

00:53:57.000 Yes, absolutely.

00:53:59.000 Is he?

00:53:59.000 No.

00:53:59.000 Is he?

00:54:00.000 No.

00:54:00.000 Of course not.

00:54:02.000 This is what they tried doing.

00:54:03.000 They tried claiming that Samus Aran, the game character, was trans.

00:54:06.000 So for those that aren't familiar, Samus Aran is the star of the video game Metroid, the Metroid series.

00:54:11.000 And at the end of the NES game, if you like beat it in the right way or whatever for the credits, it shows the character take the helmet off and it's like super, it's like 8-bit or whatever, but there's long blonde hair like, aha!

00:54:22.000 You played a woman this whole time! 1.00

00:54:24.000 And if you type in Justin Bailey as your password, you can play as the woman.

00:54:24.000 And it was like, aha!

00:54:28.000 Oh, Zero Suit Samus?

00:54:29.000 You get the wave gun automatically, you start with it.

00:54:31.000 In the first one, NES?

00:54:32.000 In Metroid, in the first Metroid.

00:54:33.000 Justin Bailey.

00:54:34.000 NES?

00:54:35.000 Yeah.

00:54:35.000 Really?

00:54:36.000 That's cool.

00:54:36.000 Wow.

00:54:36.000 And so what happens then is a bunch of trans activists are arguing, well, Samus Aran is six foot three and, you know, like a hundred and eighty pounds, therefore that proves Samus was actually trans.

00:54:46.000 And they tried doing these things.

00:54:49.000 All they're trying to do is rewrite cultural history and take it over. 0.88

00:54:52.000 That's part of what is happening right now with Target making Black Paraplegic Santa. 0.80

00:54:56.000 Sorry, go ahead.

00:54:57.000 No, you go first.

00:54:58.000 Well, I was going to say, this is a tangent at this point, but to Ian's question about the whole Santa debate, I'm actually very anti-Santa, because Santa is not a... I mean, Saint Nicholas is a religious figure, but Santa, the modern iteration of Santa, is basically just a way to shove consumerism down our throats by people who are not Christians, who are secularists, and who only want to make money.

00:55:19.000 Do you think the people who had designed that Santa are Christians who celebrate Christmas?

00:55:23.000 Nope.

00:55:24.000 Do you think all the people also vary against Santa movies?

00:55:27.000 Have you noticed that nowadays a Christmas movie, it's all about Santa and gifts and a secular message.

00:55:31.000 It's a way to undermine the Christian. 1.00

00:55:33.000 On the Hallmark Channel, it's about everyone ending up together, getting married.

00:55:36.000 It undermined the family unit for me because it made me distrust my parents.

00:55:40.000 Not only did they lie to me for 10 years.

00:55:42.000 And then I found out, I was like, what else are they lying to me about? It was terrible.

00:55:46.000 They would, I didn't appreciate them every year around Christmas when they would be the ones that

00:55:50.000 would bring me the gifts. It should have been a bonding experience for the family. And that's

00:55:54.000 this Soviet communist consumer crap, splitting up the nuclear family yet again with now your 0.99

00:56:00.000 parent can't be the hero this year. I think there are really interesting 0.99

00:56:03.000 ways to talk about Santa because I like the folklore aspect of it.

00:56:07.000 I think it's fun to have imaginative opportunities for kids.

00:56:10.000 I wouldn't necessarily introduce this to your kids, but David Sedaris is the short story author who has a really funny essay about at dinner parties he'll ask people as an icebreaker, and what does your country tell you about Santa?

00:56:22.000 And it changes, and if you haven't heard it you should definitely look it up.

00:56:24.000 It's really funny.

00:56:26.000 I think it is interesting that I grew up with the Rupert books, which are like a British children's series, and Santa lives on a cloud, and in America we learn he lives in the North Pole.

00:56:35.000 Like, there are ways to talk about this in an interesting way.

00:56:38.000 It's just sad that America's Santa now is like, you know...

00:56:42.000 I care less about the skin color so much as, like, what is he doing?

00:56:42.000 Disabled.

00:56:46.000 How is he getting in his sled?

00:56:47.000 Do we have ADA accommodations at the North Pole?

00:56:49.000 You know what I mean?

00:56:50.000 Like, it introduces a level of bureaucracy to this, like, kind of mystical story that other, like, lots of cultures tell.

00:56:57.000 And it makes us seem lame, I will say.

00:56:59.000 The best is the Tibetan myth of Santa Claus, where they would, every winter, their yurts would get covered up to the chimney, and they'd have to climb out the chimney and go to the pine trees, and they'd find these mushrooms growing, these white and red Amanita muscaria, and the reindeer would be eating them, and they'd go and they'd collect the mushrooms, they'd come back, they'd climb down the chimney and then hang the mushrooms up in socks above the fire to dry overnight, and then the next morning they'd boil them and make tea with them.

00:57:23.000 Every culture has, like, various versions of this.

00:57:25.000 Yeah, check out the myth of psychedelic Santa.

00:57:27.000 It's crazy.

00:57:28.000 It's all the color is the same.

00:57:30.000 It's the red and white myth.

00:57:31.000 Sorry to interrupt.

00:57:31.000 From what I understand, the Orthodox Church, they have, like, the Feast of St.

00:57:35.000 Nicholas that they actually take pretty seriously.

00:57:37.000 So when I say I'm anti-Santa, I'm not anti-that, but I don't support... Lauren Chen personally hates Santa. 0.56

00:57:42.000 Yeah, I don't support modern, consumerist, especially black wheelchair Santa. 1.00

00:57:47.000 Who is St. 0.63

00:57:47.000 Nicholas? 0.63

00:57:47.000 What do you do? 0.63

00:57:48.000 You know what?

00:57:49.000 That is a good- I can't answer that.

00:57:50.000 What is- St.

00:57:50.000 You can't?

00:57:51.000 Nicholas was a- I don't know exactly where it was.

00:57:53.000 Somewhere in Eastern Europe is what they think.

00:57:55.000 Somewhere like Turkey.

00:57:55.000 People have said like the actual story it comes from.

00:57:57.000 You're right about the Emanita Muscaria stuff.

00:57:59.000 I've heard about that as well.

00:58:00.000 Regarding like the- the color.

00:58:02.000 Like the red and white and everything like that.

00:58:04.000 But apparently like it had to do with like he was a dude that went around and helped some girl get a dowry to get married.

00:58:10.000 And then I became- Santa supports marriage!

00:58:10.000 I think initially.

00:58:12.000 He's so trash! 0.99

00:58:13.000 This is the best thing I've ever heard! 1.00

00:58:16.000 I ship this Santa.

00:58:17.000 I'm wondering what the lore is as to how Santa became paraplegic.

00:58:21.000 I don't know.

00:58:22.000 Fell down a chimney?

00:58:23.000 Rudolph's nose didn't go off and he got bucked out of the sled.

00:58:27.000 That's why I say this is insulting to people.

00:58:30.000 The implication is that Santa had some kind of terrible accident.

00:58:33.000 Yeah, it's rough.

00:58:33.000 Or he's faking it.

00:58:34.000 Or he's just getting older.

00:58:35.000 To get tips at the mall.

00:58:37.000 Maybe, maybe.

00:58:37.000 I was gonna go with he's getting older, you know, he's got some some arthritis in his knees from climbing up and down the chimney, so maybe it's time to retire Santa and then they'll introduce Mrs. Claus or just call her Santette or something.

00:58:48.000 It'll be awful, they'll wreck this.

00:58:49.000 I'm gonna go with Santa did a 720 on the mega ramp and then when he was going up for a varial 540 he clipped the coping and flipped forward shattering his ankles and so it's not a permanent thing and he's not a paraplegic it's just that he's got serious leg damage because he was in the X Games last year.

00:59:08.000 He's in Mexico right now.

00:59:08.000 This year he needs a wheelchair.

00:59:10.000 That makes it sound tougher.

00:59:12.000 I like that version of American Santa better.

00:59:13.000 How about Santa got shot down flying over Eastern Europe?

00:59:17.000 I thought you were going to say Santa did 9-11.

00:59:19.000 Are you going to blame Putin for Santa's wheelchair injury?

00:59:23.000 That's rude.

00:59:24.000 I mean, you could like merge all of the current things, right?

00:59:27.000 Black trans Santa is only disabled because of Putin's Ukraine warfare. 0.59

00:59:31.000 Actually, Vladimir Putin ordered Santa be shot down. 0.94

00:59:33.000 Right.

00:59:34.000 And that's why we have to send money to Ukraine.

00:59:36.000 Could be a rally around the flag.

00:59:37.000 That finally makes sense to me.

00:59:40.000 This is what we thought at first, but new intelligence suggests it was Hamas that actually killed Christmas.

00:59:45.000 So now we've got to provide funding for Israel.

00:59:47.000 Did you guys grow up with that Christmas movie, Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer?

00:59:51.000 It's like, you guys need to watch it immediately.

00:59:54.000 I can't wait for the Christmas season.

00:59:55.000 Yeah, like Santa killed the lady, right?

00:59:57.000 What?

00:59:58.000 Well, Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer.

00:59:59.000 She's like in a hospital being taken care of by elves. 1.00

01:00:01.000 Don't spoil it for people.

01:00:02.000 You guys get to watch it.

01:00:03.000 Santa killed a guy.

01:00:04.000 This Christmas season, you should check it out.

01:00:06.000 But it'll be like that, except it'll be like who shot Santa Claus, you know?

01:00:09.000 You never heard the songs Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer?

01:00:11.000 I've heard that song before.

01:00:12.000 And then they made a movie, I guess.

01:00:13.000 I don't know which came first.

01:00:15.000 I only knew the movie first.

01:00:17.000 The song is by Elmo and Patsy from 1979.

01:00:19.000 Yeah, the gag is that you can say there's no such thing as Santa, but as for me and Grandpa, we believe.

01:00:24.000 Yeah.

01:00:24.000 Grandma got run over by a reindeer walking home from my house Christmas Eve.

01:00:28.000 It's a classic Christmas tale.

01:00:29.000 Yeah, I thought everybody knew that one.

01:00:31.000 You know, to put a little Christmas cheer into this conversation, they figured out at Rice University how to weave nanothreads, carbon nanothreads, through broken, severed spine.

01:00:39.000 And then the spine finds itself and regrows back together.

01:00:41.000 And they've got mice with completely severed spines that are able to walk again.

01:00:45.000 So what you're saying is Santa may walk again.

01:00:47.000 Tim, would you rather have a Target insemination kit or a Target paraplegic black Santa for Christmas? 0.63

01:00:53.000 I'm just wondering.

01:00:54.000 I would love to just... Here's the problem.

01:00:57.000 I would love to buy...

01:00:59.000 A thousand of the Black Paraplegic Santas to give as gifts, but to make fun of Target and Wokeness. 0.98

01:01:05.000 And the problem is I don't want to give money to people who are serious.

01:01:07.000 Yeah.

01:01:07.000 You know, if it was like the end Wokeness account announced they were selling these things as jokes, I'd buy a bunch of them and give them out to people.

01:01:13.000 But the fact that Target is legitimately selling these things makes me be like, well, I don't want to give them money now.

01:01:19.000 What if you bought it on Etsy?

01:01:20.000 You pick up some of Lauren's soap and then some Paraplegic Santas.

01:01:23.000 Hold on.

01:01:24.000 I figured it out.

01:01:25.000 Target's trying to play both sides.

01:01:28.000 They know that people who think it's hilarious will buy it to make fun of them and they're gonna make money either way.

01:01:32.000 People who genuinely support it will also buy it.

01:01:34.000 Target is ultimately on its own side with capitalism.

01:01:37.000 Yeah!

01:01:37.000 The market shall provide.

01:01:39.000 There is a market for us to buy Black Paraplegic Santa because it's a mockery of woke ideology and we think it's funny. 0.99

01:01:45.000 I would just really like to see photos from, you know, like probably December 24th, maybe, you know, into January of people and their clearance section at Target and see how much these are selling for then.

01:01:55.000 Is it Costco or Lowe's where they actually have the black blow-up Santas?

01:02:00.000 No.

01:02:01.000 How big?

01:02:01.000 They're like the big ones that you put on the front yard.

01:02:04.000 Oh wow.

01:02:04.000 I saw, I forget where we were last year, but I saw those and I was like, all right.

01:02:09.000 I like the pictures of Japanese Jesus.

01:02:10.000 Are they the ones with the arms?

01:02:11.000 No.

01:02:11.000 The wacky waving inflatable unflailing tube man?

01:02:13.000 Yeah.

01:02:14.000 Wack Jesus you like?

01:02:16.000 No, no.

01:02:17.000 They do have a dancing 58-inch African-American dancing Santa at Lowe's.

01:02:21.000 Dancing Santa?

01:02:22.000 I bet the dancing is good.

01:02:23.000 Oh man, he's $200.

01:02:25.000 I will, I will buy both.

01:02:27.000 He's animatronic, not inflatable.

01:02:28.000 But maybe that's... But maybe they have more!

01:02:30.000 Maybe they got all kinds of stuff.

01:02:33.000 Okay, well, ladies and gentlemen, it's not yet Christmas.

01:02:35.000 Thanksgiving is, uh, in a week?

01:02:37.000 We're excited for this.

01:02:38.000 It sure is.

01:02:39.000 And, uh, I do have a Christmas present for all of you.

01:02:41.000 This is from the Postmillennial.

01:02:42.000 Republican wins Loudoun County Commonwealth Attorney race against Soros-funded incumbent after infamous gender-neutral school bathroom rape scandal.

01:02:51.000 Now that headline is a mouthful! 0.99

01:02:53.000 Holy crap! 0.99

01:02:54.000 Loudoun County is across the street from us. 0.98

01:02:58.000 Technically, it's the river.

01:02:59.000 Yeah, it's across the river from us.

01:03:01.000 I say across street, but you know like he's down the street You know it's down, but I mean technically yeah, it's right over the hill so it's right there But so we know we actually know a lot of people who are involved with what's going on And it's a very mixed left and right County, but seeing this is actually tremendous.

01:03:16.000 It's not the first time we've seen Soros DA's get Get you know basically fired And, uh, it's just, it's all around good news.

01:03:24.000 I think we look at stuff like this, we take a look at the Marvels failing, we take a look at Bud Light failing, we take a look at all these things.

01:03:29.000 Y'all, we are winning.

01:03:31.000 The Marvels collapse?

01:03:33.000 Hilarious.

01:03:34.000 I love that this movie failed.

01:03:35.000 We are winning the culture war.

01:03:37.000 People are waking up to this.

01:03:39.000 I had the honor and privilege of meeting the mother of one of the students at the Loudoun County High School that was protesting males in the girls' bathroom.

01:03:47.000 And so we had a good conversation about it, and I was excited to meet this person.

01:03:53.000 Her family has been pushing back and speaking up, and I'm like, this is exactly what we need.

01:03:57.000 Now we can see Loudoun County maybe paving the way for pushing this stuff out.

01:04:01.000 What's happening is you've got these urban woke people from D.C.

01:04:05.000 Moving westward into the more rural areas and trying to bring their chaos with them.

01:04:10.000 But the people are starting to resist and push it all back.

01:04:13.000 So as we see all these crazy videos, look at this.

01:04:15.000 We got a bunch of these stories.

01:04:16.000 Here's one.

01:04:18.000 A group of brazen thieves loot Amazon delivery truck as helpless delivery driver looks on.

01:04:22.000 You've all seen this.

01:04:23.000 They're just ransacking it.

01:04:25.000 I don't know where this is.

01:04:26.000 What the location is.

01:04:27.000 I don't know if they say.

01:04:29.000 But the point is we have a bunch of examples of this.

01:04:31.000 Here's one.

01:04:31.000 Firefighters attacked by mob after responding to deadly car crash.

01:04:36.000 Crime is out of control.

01:04:37.000 And I don't know if it's that, you know, a lot of people play these stats games, so they're like, crime's actually on the way down.

01:04:42.000 But that doesn't take into consideration what type of crime they're referring to, and could it be that the reason crime is down is because people are too scared to go outside?

01:04:49.000 Or because they made it legal, like in San Francisco, where you can rob 800 bucks and it's not charged.

01:04:55.000 That's exactly it.

01:04:56.000 So in San Francisco, where they're like, we're actually seeing crime on the decline.

01:04:58.000 Or people just stop reporting it because they know it's not going to be taken seriously.

01:05:03.000 Yeah, I think ultimately there is... I like these stories about people winning and doing something because it's so discouraging.

01:05:10.000 When you're in San Francisco and your target has nothing out because people keep shoplifting, I think it's one of the doors that opens up, well, why don't I just take something?

01:05:18.000 You know what I mean?

01:05:19.000 And we like to see the representation of a community saying, no, these are our values and you assimilate to them or you don't come here.

01:05:25.000 That was part of, one of the things I like about Ron DeSantis is he stood up and was like, if there are looters, they will be shot.

01:05:30.000 You will be, do not loot.

01:05:32.000 They will issue shooting on command to anyone trying to loot.

01:05:35.000 And it was like right away after a disaster, what was it?

01:05:37.000 A flood or something?

01:05:38.000 A hurricane, I think?

01:05:39.000 Hurricane.

01:05:39.000 And no looting.

01:05:40.000 This is the most important aspect of this.

01:05:43.000 Biberaj is notorious in Loudoun County, that's the attorney, for having her office stick convictions for disorderly conduct on Scott Smith, the dad who was arrested for confronting a school board in a June 2021 meeting after his daughter was raped in a high school in a female restroom by a biological male in a skirt. 0.63

01:06:00.000 So let me just say, this guy, his daughter is raped and he shows up to school and he's furious.

01:06:06.000 They end up arresting him and this lady has him criminally charged and now she is fired. 0.99

01:06:14.000 Feeling good.

01:06:16.000 I would like to interview the new, who is it?

01:06:18.000 It's a lawyer, the attorney, Commonwealth attorney?

01:06:21.000 Yeah, Bob Anderson.

01:06:22.000 Cool.

01:06:23.000 How long's Bob?

01:06:23.000 Mr. Anderson.

01:06:24.000 How long is Bob's current term?

01:06:25.000 I don't know.

01:06:27.000 Well, that's a good move, Bob.

01:06:28.000 What are you going to do different?

01:06:30.000 Do you think this is the kind of thing though that, and this is a little cynical of me, where people will get excited about this one race and then they'll forget that they have to go out and be active and do it in their communities?

01:06:40.000 And they get complacent.

01:06:41.000 Yeah.

01:06:41.000 Well, the point is, when, you know, there's two factions on a field, when one side starts breaking and faltering, you don't say, okay, pack it in, guys.

01:06:51.000 You say, charge.

01:06:53.000 And now it is time to, as the woke lunatics retreat from the hilltop of culture, abandoning movie franchises, abandoning the stories that we know and love, we storm in and plant our flag and replace what they have tried to destroy.

01:07:07.000 This is a legitimate route, cultural route.

01:07:10.000 Sometimes, when the enemy breaks, you want to let them flee because you don't want to run into a potential trap, but this is not a potential trap.

01:07:15.000 This is legitimate sea change.

01:07:17.000 Right, because Ian's seen The Patriot with Mel Gibson.

01:07:20.000 Good movie.

01:07:20.000 At the end of the fight, when Cornwallis is like, is that militia making their center?

01:07:25.000 And then they're like, they start running away, and then once they go over the hill, that's the Continental Army waiting to trap them, and then unloads on the British.

01:07:32.000 Hannibal did it to the Romans.

01:07:34.000 They call it the hammer and anvil tactic, where you feign a retreat, and then they charge it, and that's your anvil, and then you come around and flank them from behind as your hammer.

01:07:41.000 Well, I think this is, if nothing else, proof that focusing on the cultural issues, they actually can change policy, and they actually have political consequences.

01:07:49.000 Because I don't know about you folks, but I often see, especially establishment conservatives, Republicans, saying, this doesn't matter.

01:07:54.000 Like, this is just too divisive.

01:07:56.000 We don't want to get stuck in the weeds with this.

01:07:57.000 Well, actually, these are winning issues.

01:07:59.000 We see that.

01:07:59.000 Like, parents, go figure, don't want their kids to have to worry about sexual assault in the locker room.

01:08:05.000 They actually care about that.

01:08:06.000 Yeah, that'll get people out to the polls.

01:08:06.000 Can you imagine?

01:08:08.000 And especially like we see how motivated especially suburban moms are when it comes to the issue of like what's happening in schools. 1.00

01:08:14.000 So I think if next year if Republicans are worried about the suburban mom vote, we actually need to keep hitting this issue. 0.65

01:08:20.000 We need to go harder on it and not back away.

01:08:22.000 I actually feel like one of the ways they could do that is by pushing, like there are a lot of states that have these laws, they'll get marketed or they'll get written about as they're anti-gender affirming and whatever else.

01:08:33.000 But really, if you look at it, a lot of times they are people voting against or judges overturning rules that say you can't tell parents about what's going on with their kids in school.

01:08:43.000 And I think even progressive parents would want to know if their children are going by different programs and it starts to be like this unifying issue.

01:08:50.000 If a child makes a choice in school like that, any parent would want to know.

01:08:54.000 You can't decide arbitrarily who is dangerous and who is not and whose kids are secret about this.

01:09:00.000 You know what I mean?

01:09:01.000 There are ways to continue to push this issue.

01:09:03.000 Loudoun County is so unique because they had that specific case, but there are other parents who would get behind, I need to know what's going on with my kids.

01:09:09.000 You know what I think is going to convince a lot of suburban women to vote for the likes of Donald Trump, or at least someone more right-leaning, is in the event that they have male children, explaining to them the late 2010s history of the false accusations, Mattress Girl, all of these stories in the Me Too movement, and When you see this degree of wokeness right now, I think what's worrying for mothers and fathers who have daughters is this story about what happens to this guy.

01:09:39.000 But what's as worrying to a parent who has a male child, right?

01:09:44.000 The destruction of your son's life because woke people can lie about him, a chism of racism, bigotry, assault, or otherwise, and there will be no due process, there will be no innocent until proven guilty, they will destroy this person's life.

01:09:56.000 These are the things we need to stop.

01:10:00.000 Due process is legit.

01:10:02.000 Innocent.

01:10:03.000 And it seems so basic to it doesn't it?

01:10:04.000 Until proven guilty.

01:10:06.000 Well, I definitely support due process, but there's this also interesting tension in a way between due process and freedom of speech.

01:10:14.000 I don't know if you guys are familiar with Tommy Robinson, but one of the many legal issues that he's had in the UK was reporting on, I think it was like a grooming gang, forgive me in the comments if I get this wrong, but reporting on a grooming gang trial.

01:10:27.000 And the UK had it that there was a moratorium in the press because the official reason was that they wanted due process.

01:10:33.000 They didn't want these people's names slandered if they were found innocent.

01:10:37.000 People who are critical of it say actually it's to basically hide the fact that mass

01:10:40.000 migration has led to an increase in sexual assaults.

01:10:43.000 But what do you guys think about kind of that issue?

01:10:46.000 Are we allowed to talk?

01:10:47.000 Does that does due process after a certain point mean that we need to clamp down on freedom

01:10:51.000 of the press if it means publishing these allegations that are unfounded?

01:10:56.000 Well, we have civil tort to deal with defamation and libel and these things.

01:11:00.000 Defamation, libel, slander.

01:11:01.000 The problem is Times v. Sullivan.

01:11:05.000 And in many ways, there's pros and there's cons to what's called anti-SLAPP, Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation.

01:11:11.000 Basically, anyone can say whatever they want about anyone else, so long as they're all famous.

01:11:17.000 And it's impossible to win a defamation case.

01:11:20.000 Impossible.

01:11:20.000 Unless it falls into what's called defamation per se, where what you've said is so shocking and egregious that damages aren't needed and the defamation in and of itself warrants just, you know, pursuit.

01:11:33.000 Like, I guess the issue would be, if I claimed Ian kicked a dog, Well, I don't know.

01:11:40.000 You know, did I know it was false is the question in times of E. Sullivan, and if Ian tried to sue me claiming that, it'd get thrown out.

01:11:46.000 What if you claimed that I was running a puppy mill and, like, slaughtering animals and, like, not paying my taxes?

01:11:51.000 It'd be like... I mean, that's... that's... actually, I don't... I don't even think that would qualify.

01:11:56.000 It'd be like if you said I was a rapist, then that would be definition per se. 0.85

01:11:59.000 Or that you had a contagious disease. 0.99

01:12:01.000 But killing dogs isn't enough? 0.98

01:12:02.000 Nope!

01:12:03.000 Probably not.

01:12:04.000 Oh, contagious disease is one?

01:12:05.000 Is there a list of person?

01:12:07.000 Yes, there's a list.

01:12:08.000 It's criminal activity, contagious disease, and something so morally shocking and reprehensible or whatever, like calling someone a pedo is defamation per se.

01:12:15.000 It's crazy.

01:12:16.000 I tried to do the killing the dogs, but it's just not reprehensible enough, I guess, in this society.

01:12:20.000 Dark. 0.73

01:12:21.000 Yeah, well, because there are act like PETA kills dogs, right?

01:12:24.000 It's true.

01:12:24.000 Yes, they do.

01:12:25.000 Right.

01:12:25.000 And so that's not considered to be so morally outrageous that it would be shocking to people to claim because it's something that happens.

01:12:32.000 There are kill shelters.

01:12:33.000 So if you if you said that Ian was an evil person who was running a puppy mill that kills dogs, they'd say, OK, well, is that an opinion statement about a puppy mill?

01:12:41.000 We don't we don't know if this warrants that, you know, a level of going to law, going to court over it.

01:12:47.000 I think one of the questions with Freedom of the Press is, you know, It is accurate to say this person was accused of, this person is standing trial for this, and I understand the sensitivity of the crimes.

01:12:47.000 Yeah.

01:12:58.000 It's an issue where people are evil.

01:13:00.000 And I think this is what we get from an untrustworthy press, right?

01:13:04.000 The fact that you would present it as like, it's a done deal no matter what, this is definitely, they're not presenting any other sides, they have decided there is a narrative and they're going to follow it through, even if they might throw the word in allegedly a couple times, it's not honest reporting.

01:13:16.000 Nancy Pelosi's husband, Paul, accused of getting into a fight with a male prostitute over a drug deal gone wrong.

01:13:24.000 And of course, people are going to be like, okay, well, hold on.

01:13:26.000 We know that story.

01:13:27.000 That's a big leap.

01:13:28.000 I didn't say it was true, and I didn't say I said it.

01:13:29.000 I said he was accused of it.

01:13:30.000 That's a fact statement. 0.96

01:13:32.000 So if I report that Paul Pelosi was accused of getting into a fight with a gay prostitute, then that is a factual fact statement. 1.00

01:13:40.000 That is a true statement. 0.91

01:13:42.000 He was accused of that by a whole bunch of people on the internet.

01:13:44.000 Doesn't mean it's true.

01:13:45.000 I never said it was true.

01:13:46.000 I said he was accused of it.

01:13:47.000 And what's really tricky with journalists is that they really only need one person to make that accusation to be able to write that headline.

01:13:47.000 That's a fact.

01:13:52.000 Exactly.

01:13:52.000 But realistically, it should be someone in the legal system making a legitimate, like an official accusation.

01:13:58.000 No.

01:13:58.000 Which would be a charge.

01:13:59.000 There are activists, attorney generals everywhere who will levy all kinds of stuff against you.

01:14:03.000 I'm allowed to accuse Joe Biden of taking bribes.

01:14:06.000 And I think everyone's going to agree, like, yeah, he probably did.

01:14:08.000 There's no official government determination so far.

01:14:12.000 Members of the Republican Party have presented evidence that they say asserts this, but it's not been, like, adjudicated.

01:14:17.000 I think we're still allowed to come out and say that he is a corrupt MF-er who is taking bribes.

01:14:21.000 When I look at the word accused, the definitions, all the definitions are to charge with a shortcoming, to charge formally, to make a charge of wrongdoing.

01:14:28.000 So if you're not charging them, literally, that means you don't have the legal authority.

01:14:31.000 It's not technically an accusation.

01:14:33.000 No, it also says to claim that someone has done something wrong.

01:14:37.000 The thing is, if I accuse someone of doing something or if someone is, like, charges are brought against someone, theoretically, if you're being ethical, you present evidence that might contradict the point that seems obvious.

01:14:47.000 Like, if the government says, you know, you burned down a building, I would potentially say there are other people and I would get a statement from you.

01:14:53.000 But if you're trying to present information honestly, you're supposed to represent multiple points of views and possibilities, but that's not really how it works anymore.

01:14:59.000 But that doesn't matter.

01:14:59.000 I mean, the definition of accuse is to claim someone has done something wrong.

01:15:03.000 Yeah.

01:15:03.000 That's it. I guess maybe there could be an official accusation like a capital A and that's like when it's a legitimate

01:15:08.000 Accusation from like someone with authority as opposed to all this nonsense being the issue is people are evil

01:15:14.000 The issue is as a culture We used to have scruples and people were like I can't lie

01:15:19.000 in the newspaper like I feel so bad I'd be scared like well, how could I couldn't get away with that now?

01:15:23.000 Everyone's just like I don't care what happens to you.

01:15:25.000 I'm gonna do whatever I want Yeah, and in our defamation cases the victim has to prove malice that that person acted with the intention of destroying your reputation Which if you were to be like, hey New York Times you printed something false about me and they could be like, oh Whoops, we didn't know, slash, we didn't do it, slash, we don't care, then you can't prove malice, it's extremely difficult.

01:15:40.000 And then what happens is, you go to court, and you say, they defamed me, and they'll file a motion to dismiss under anti-SLAPP legislation, or Times v. Sullivan, whatever, and the judge has to then agree discovery is warranted.

01:15:53.000 So you have to provide some evidence they may have, like, this is the crazy thing, in order to actually sue, you have actual mal-standard, and Times v. Sullivan is that the person doing the libel or slander knew what they were saying was false.

01:16:06.000 Which means, if someone in the press lies, or, here's my favorite, if someone tweets a thing and it was a joke, a news organization can take that, run it as fact, and then say, oh, but we thought it was real.

01:16:20.000 How do you prove that they knew that it wasn't, like, that's a paper trail that will almost never exist?

01:16:25.000 Internal communications where they're like, well, gee, I know this is not true, but run it anyway, which exactly doesn't exist.

01:16:29.000 Yeah, would never exist, almost.

01:16:31.000 Yep.

01:16:32.000 But civil tort, not criminal.

01:16:33.000 So, I guess you get what you get, but, you know, I guess going back to the main story.

01:16:38.000 We gotta jujitsu this because false accusations can bring down nations.

01:16:41.000 If, like, the Soviet Union would go around accusing people, accusing people, accusing people, take them away without a trial or any kind of process.

01:16:49.000 It reminds me of America today.

01:16:51.000 And it's kind of annoying because technically it is you're not allowed to like make a false police report or anything like that but when it comes to like all of these like Me Too cases or even just the run-of-the-mill a sexual assault allegation where that results in a charge where the man is found innocent or not guilty you would think that if there's a person coming saying that this person like, assaulted me, and the man is then found not guilty,

01:17:13.000 then that...

01:17:14.000 shouldn't all of those cases lead to some sort of investigation into a false police report? But that almost

01:17:20.000 never happens.

01:17:21.000 Some people suggest that the accuser serves the sentence that the accused would have served if they find out that it

01:17:27.000 was a false accusation.

01:17:28.000 I think, I mean, I definitely think that there should be some sort of

01:17:31.000 legal punishment for trying to ruin someone's life life vindictively and using, weaponizing the legal system.

01:17:38.000 I think it should be worse.

01:17:40.000 So if somebody's accused, like, if a guy commits sexual assault and the charge is going to be like 10 years or something, then if it's a false accusation, it should be 15.

01:17:50.000 The reason being, it's one thing for someone to commit a crime and then have the government, the law enforcement, and the court system seek to bring some kind of justice and stop this person as an offender.

01:18:04.000 All of that is legitimate practice.

01:18:06.000 If the person is falsely accusing someone, two crimes are being committed.

01:18:10.000 One against law enforcement and the government, and one against the individual who's falsely accused.

01:18:16.000 We seek deterrence.

01:18:17.000 We don't want people to try and use law enforcement as a weapon against people through false accusations, so that's an entirely separate crime.

01:18:24.000 So they should serve the sentence of the person, of what would have been for the person they accused, and they should get an additional charge over the manipulating and falsifying government, you know, blah blah blah blah.

01:18:33.000 The only prominent example I can think of of someone getting their just deserts for trying to weaponize the legal system is Jussie Smollett. 0.98

01:18:40.000 What happened?

01:18:40.000 Barely!

01:18:41.000 I mean, but he at least, there was a trial thing, he ended up like, you know, it was a nothing burger, but still there was at least, I mean, when was the last time you remember someone being charged with, like, lying and leading police on their life?

01:18:53.000 He still, to this day, is maintaining it really happened.

01:18:56.000 He did an interview with, uh, was it Charlemagne?

01:18:58.000 I think it was, and he was like, that's what they said, and he was like, really?

01:18:58.000 Yeah.

01:19:01.000 He's like, yeah.

01:19:01.000 He's like, okay.

01:19:03.000 Yeah.

01:19:03.000 But what else is he gonna do?

01:19:04.000 Honestly, he's gotta go down with that ship because if he admitted it was wrong, it's almost worse for him.

01:19:09.000 If he admitted right away, he'd be back by now.

01:19:12.000 Yeah.

01:19:12.000 If right when it went down, he said, look, we were trying to bring awareness and we were trying to, you know, make people- It's a performance art piece.

01:19:20.000 No, he could have said, me and my friends decided to stage this because we felt like other stories of other victims weren't getting any national attention and only a celebrity could bring to light the injustices that were happening.

01:19:31.000 I regret what we did.

01:19:32.000 I'm sorry I deceived everybody and I accept the punishment.

01:19:35.000 And then he's going to jail or whatever his charges are.

01:19:37.000 I guess that's what he's really scared of.

01:19:38.000 He doesn't want to be a felon.

01:19:41.000 We're years past this now and people would be like, oh, OK.

01:19:44.000 And seriously, his PR team should have said, own it and claim the issue is, like, here's what if I was a PR guy for Smollett, I'd immediately do a Google search for some kind of racist hate crime.

01:19:55.000 And then I would have Justice Smollett be like, when I saw this story and that no one cared, I knew the only way to get the attention of the press was for a high profile celebrity to do it.

01:20:04.000 So that's why I decided to stage this event.

01:20:06.000 And I regret it.

01:20:07.000 Or you could say, like, I stage it to bring attention to this case now that Oh yeah, now that everyone's talking about it.

01:20:14.000 Exactly, I'm coming for it.

01:20:15.000 I'm going ahead and getting in front of it.

01:20:17.000 I want you all to know now, this didn't happen to me, but it did happen to this person.

01:20:20.000 We should have been on his crisis team.

01:20:23.000 It would have been way more based if he came out and said, like, right away, like, yes, I am Justice Millett.

01:20:27.000 I have staged this hate crime.

01:20:28.000 Why?

01:20:29.000 Every year, over 800 false hate crimes are reported and people are lying every single day.

01:20:35.000 Then everyone on the right would have been like, oh wow.

01:20:39.000 He's really checkmated us here.

01:20:41.000 I don't know what to do with that.

01:20:42.000 I mean, one of the complaints that Chicago had was that he wasted resources, right?

01:20:46.000 So that would still follow him, but maybe he would just make a nice donation to cover the cost of his, you know, false allegations.

01:20:52.000 There is a way to spin this.

01:20:54.000 I think part of it is that he liked being, you know, celebrated as his victim.

01:20:57.000 And I think that kind of attention is very hard to give up, especially since I don't think he'll really act again at this point.

01:21:02.000 I wonder where he is now, especially with the Israel-Palestine stuff.

01:21:06.000 So there are a lot of celebrities that hitched their wagons to the woke left, and now they're regretting it.

01:21:12.000 Could you imagine being Justice Smollett and destroying your entire career over this attempt at anti-Trump nonsense, only to find out that you're on the wrong side of whatever this is?

01:21:21.000 In the entertainment industry, a lot of the people who are running it are going to be more pro-Israel, and then all the leftists who would have supported him if his hate crime worked were going to be pro-Palestine.

01:21:32.000 Good luck, buddy!

01:21:33.000 At least for Ethan Klein, he can get up and leave the room.

01:21:36.000 Ryan Long did a great skit about that.

01:21:38.000 The actor who's not knowing whether to post pro-Palestine or pro-Israel.

01:21:42.000 It's incredible.

01:21:42.000 He's always had a stance, you know?

01:21:44.000 I said it before, I'll say it again.

01:21:45.000 It must be a horrible way to live to be on the left.

01:21:47.000 Yeah.

01:21:48.000 Oh my gosh, I almost fell into it, man.

01:21:50.000 In LA, I was an actor until I was like 27 and it was just shredding my soul.

01:21:54.000 And then when I got, when YouTube appeared, I was like, you can, I can actually speak my mind and I can make a career out of it.

01:22:00.000 The modern version of the left, right?

01:22:02.000 It's really simple for people like me and many others who are like, quote unquote,

01:22:06.000 disaffected liberals or post liberal or whatever, where it's just like we maintain our positions

01:22:10.000 and we don't care about what the left wants to do.

01:22:13.000 And so we get excised, we get kicked out.

01:22:15.000 It's like, whatever, I don't care. 0.97

01:22:16.000 Screw you guys.

01:22:17.000 But I have to imagine the people like Ethan Klein who decided I'm just going to agree 0.67

01:22:22.000 with whatever they're saying.

01:22:24.000 That dude must be stressed out for the past month and a half since the Hamas thing happened 1.00

01:22:30.000 and everybody on his show is just screaming in his face and calling him a Zionist pig. 0.97

01:22:34.000 Zionist peg He's probably thinking like, it's the end. 1.00

01:22:38.000 The right will not have him.

01:22:39.000 He's a shill. 0.99

01:22:40.000 He's sold out.

01:22:42.000 And the left hates his guts because he's like...

01:22:46.000 Pro-Israel.

01:22:47.000 And it's not just that he was trying to hitch his wagon to the left.

01:22:50.000 He chose Hasan Piker and to try and leech off, like, that is not just the left.

01:22:54.000 Like, that is some of the most, like, radical, like, literal communists out there that you can get.

01:22:59.000 I gotta pull this clip up.

01:23:00.000 I gotta pull this clip up.

01:23:01.000 Let me see if I can find it.

01:23:02.000 Have you?

01:23:02.000 Just because it's from a little while ago, but I think it just needs to be talked about.

01:23:06.000 I'm endlessly fascinated by these guys.

01:23:08.000 Let's play this.

01:23:08.000 This is a clip.

01:23:10.000 from uh... the leftovers podcast hassan piker and uh...

01:23:14.000 even cline uh... this is a a twitter account

01:23:17.000 uh... it's just at that i don't know what's the county's you know anonymous

01:23:20.000 but uh... on the place but the guys palestinians and is going to sound very radical and

01:23:23.000 possibly very violent but this is a matter of law and maybe if you agree with this a

01:23:27.000 matter of morality palestinians

01:23:29.000 uh... have the the legal ground to violently seize back their own homes

01:23:34.000 from the settlers This is a reality, and that is precisely the reason why they have to exist under endless occupation in the West Bank.

01:23:38.000 You know what?

01:23:39.000 And that's why I say, if it was settlers, that would be a lot more understandable.

01:23:41.000 Yeah.

01:23:41.000 But, let's not obfuscate, okay?

01:23:43.000 I understand what you're saying.

01:23:44.000 But this dude just called babies militants.

01:23:45.000 No, I, I understand.

01:23:46.000 And there are baby settlers as well.

01:23:47.000 There are baby settlers as well.

01:23:48.000 There are babies in the settlements.

01:23:49.000 But the babies that killed weren't, they were not.

01:23:50.000 Okay, so, so, so, so, so, here's the thing.

01:23:50.000 I know.

01:23:51.000 No, no, hold on.

01:23:52.000 Let me, can we just, I'll play that one more time for you?

01:23:55.000 Occupation in the West Bank.

01:23:56.000 And that's why I say, if it was settlers, that would be a lot more understandable.

01:23:56.000 You know what?

01:23:58.000 Yeah.

01:23:59.000 He says, Hassan says, Palestinians have a right to violently seize back the land that was taken by settlers. 0.78

01:24:06.000 Then Ethan Klein says, yes, if it was settlers, but this guy's saying babies, and Hasan goes, but some of the babies are settlers.

01:24:14.000 Basically saying, there is justification for the killing of babies.

01:24:20.000 Hasan Piker is pure audience capture, this is what he represents. 0.93

01:24:23.000 He says whatever is gonna get favor among the people who are chatting to him, and that's all it is.

01:24:30.000 The left is rather insulting, they're rather condescending to him too, but This is abject evil, unquestionably.

01:24:39.000 To play devil's advocate, we don't know what comes after that.

01:24:41.000 Fair point.

01:24:42.000 What I'm hoping Hassan does is explain that that wouldn't be justified.

01:24:49.000 Therefore, the Israeli targeting of Palestinian babies is also not justified in light of the October 7th attacks.

01:24:55.000 That's what I'm hoping came after that.

01:24:57.000 I don't know.

01:25:01.000 Look at the Yale professors that settlers are not civilians.

01:25:06.000 Agreed, agreed, agreed.

01:25:08.000 If, in fact, the longer clip in the full context shows Hassan say there is no excuse ever for killing babies, and I recognize that, then okay. 0.61

01:25:17.000 For the sake of just this, we will be very clear in that regard.

01:25:20.000 Hassan calling babies settlers while justifying Hamas killing settlers is a horrifying thing in and of itself and I hope, I HOPE he's clarified later on that he does not support the killing of babies.

01:25:33.000 I almost never say this, but I feel for Ethan over the past few weeks, the clips I've been seeing, because Ethan is, I would say, very moderate, especially for an Israeli, about the situation. 0.92

01:25:45.000 He's actually donated money to help Palestinians.

01:25:48.000 He acknowledges that he does not support Israeli settlements, so that's not, like, you know, where they're actually, like, getting... You don't think he is?

01:25:55.000 Ethan Klein was an edgy boy on the internet who made crude jokes way back in the day.

01:26:00.000 No, but you don't think he's moderate on the Israel-Palestine issue?

01:26:02.000 No, I don't.

01:26:02.000 I think that he hitched his wagon to the left because many... So he's not a political guy.

01:26:08.000 He knows nothing of politics.

01:26:09.000 He's thrust into this because Donald Trump and the culture wars turned politics into pop culture.

01:26:15.000 So now, if you're somebody, if you look at his original YouTube channel where he did silly jokes, it was in decay.

01:26:21.000 It was falling apart.

01:26:22.000 He launches a podcast channel, and now it's more conversations.

01:26:25.000 He has Jordan Peterson on his show, and they're having a great conversation.

01:26:28.000 Why?

01:26:29.000 It was in, it was in, it was trendy.

01:26:31.000 It was the thing to do.

01:26:33.000 The intellectual dark web.

01:26:34.000 Then, as things start splitting more seriously in the culture war, he decides he's gonna go left.

01:26:39.000 He tweets, Jordan Peterson's not a good guy, so I'm gonna take the episode down.

01:26:39.000 What does he do?

01:26:43.000 The only reason Ethan Klein comes out and acts moderate on Israel is because he's desperately trying not to get cancelled by the left.

01:26:51.000 So do you think he's a Zionist and hiding it? 0.92

01:26:53.000 No, no, no, no, no.

01:26:54.000 But I think he's probably somewhat pro-Israel.

01:26:56.000 He outright said Hamas is lying, the left believes outright Hamas propaganda and historical revisionism.

01:27:03.000 His wife is Israeli and again, I'm pretty sure she was in the IDF.

01:27:07.000 She was, IDF veteran.

01:27:09.000 Confirmed though?

01:27:09.000 Confirmed for sure, 100%.

01:27:10.000 IDF veteran.

01:27:11.000 And so he's thinking, like, sure, I mean, he may not be a Zionist, but he's certainly, like, Israel, like, he's pro-Israel.

01:27:19.000 Yeah, he's been there.

01:27:20.000 So he comes out and says, I'm gonna donate to Palestinians and stuff because his entire audience is this. 0.57

01:27:26.000 But that's why I feel bad for him because he is trying to, I mean, in this one regard, he is trying to, I guess, like, be I don't know, building bridges as much as he can but they're still not accepting it.

01:27:39.000 I can't help but feel for him in that situation.

01:27:42.000 Let me just stress, there have been many times in the show where Ian and I have been mad at each other and we've gone at it.

01:27:47.000 I would not ever sit down next to a person Who says, yeah, but babies are settlers. 0.98

01:27:52.000 I'd be like, are you nuts?! 0.99

01:27:54.000 You're not gonna sit right here and tell me you think killing babies... I'll take it up to the edge of that, but no, because like in Vietnam, seven-year-olds had grenades in baskets and they'd walk up to the American soldier and then they'd blow him up, so they had to start shooting seven-year-olds.

01:28:05.000 But babies, they don't move, they just lay there.

01:28:07.000 You take them captive at the very least.

01:28:09.000 They just lay there!

01:28:10.000 They lay there and they cry!

01:28:11.000 And Ethan Klein is sitting there actually having a discussion with this guy, and the fact that the show didn't stop on the spot when he said that, I would have been like, no, no, no, no, tell me right now you are not saying what you are saying.

01:28:23.000 Ethan's just like, well, I mean, come on, and they go back and forth a little bit.

01:28:27.000 I'm sorry, I think Ethan Klein saw his waning internet presence and decided, I gotta choose a side.

01:28:35.000 I'm gonna go with the left because that's what celebrities are doing and that's what I guess we do because it was not a principle-based decision nor a knowledge-based one.

01:28:42.000 You take a look at when Steven Crowder wanted to have a conversation with Ethan.

01:28:45.000 So what did Ethan do?

01:28:46.000 Brought in Sam Seder and totally pulled a stunt because he is not a political guy and even says it.

01:28:52.000 Then why the is he doing leftovers anyway?

01:28:55.000 Well, congratulations, dude.

01:28:56.000 You had an opportunity to sit with Jordan Peterson and have a conversation with someone who is very moderate, open, and understanding.

01:29:03.000 Jordan Peterson's famous interview with, I think it was Jim Jeffries, where Jeffries says, do you think the government should mandate, you know, that people provide service?

01:29:10.000 It was known.

01:29:11.000 He goes, what about black people like civil rights?

01:29:13.000 And Jordan Peterson goes, you know, maybe I was wrong about that.

01:29:15.000 Because he's a smart, rational guy.

01:29:17.000 And Ethan Klein had that opportunity and could have gone that middle-of-the-road route where he says, y'all are crazy, chill out, I'm gonna talk to who I want to and believe what I want to believe. 0.97

01:29:26.000 Instead, he told people like us, like Jordan Peterson, to F off your bigots and racists and misogynists, and he hitched his wagon to people who are calling him a Zionist pig, celebrating Hamas, I'm not saying Palestine, I'm drawing a distinction, and a dude who quite literally said, but babies are settlers. 0.97

01:29:44.000 That's what Ethan Klein decided to buy into. 0.98

01:29:46.000 Congratulations, buddy.

01:29:48.000 This is what you- this is what you- you- you reap.

01:29:50.000 You reap what you sow.

01:29:50.000 My wonder is, like, Ethan, I- I feel like- What's up, dude?

01:29:53.000 Uh, your intelligence is probably, like, a 12.

01:29:55.000 Like, it's not super high or, like, a little bit- it's, like, above average intelligence, but- It's Ashkenazi. 0.96

01:30:00.000 He's a charismatic dude.

01:30:02.000 He's got charisma, but the intellect isn't top-level genius, so I'm not drawn to connecting with him.

01:30:08.000 I like to talk with scientists.

01:30:09.000 But that doesn't mean that we leave people like that behind.

01:30:12.000 He's so influential in society, I want to help him.

01:30:15.000 I think this is a really interesting internet frenemies moment to have because I think it's actually probably what's going to happen when many progressive families assemble for Thanksgiving, right?

01:30:26.000 They're gonna have to look at each other and instead of it being like conservative uncle yells at, you know, progressive nephew.

01:30:33.000 It's gonna be Israel versus Palestine, baby! 1.00

01:30:35.000 And it's going to be people who think they're on the same side.

01:30:37.000 These generations that look apart and say like, but why are you saying this thing?

01:30:41.000 And I think a lot of people have this moment where they'll have sort of extremist rhetoric brought to them like this, like the justification of how and if and when you should potentially harm children in this conflict, obviously the answer is never, and have to confront these people they think they have everything in common with.

01:30:58.000 I think this is a really interesting moment of reckoning and I think because these are well-known personalities you can see where the bifurcation is, but people are going to experience this in their real lives very soon.

01:31:07.000 Right.

01:31:07.000 And I mean, just this past month alone, I've seen Ethan Klein cry on camera at least twice.

01:31:12.000 Really?

01:31:13.000 Yeah.

01:31:13.000 He had to get up from the stream.

01:31:15.000 I saw that.

01:31:15.000 I didn't know he was crying.

01:31:16.000 Oh, yeah.

01:31:17.000 Well, and that's why I think this is also why I feel bad for him.

01:31:19.000 I don't think he's being as calculated or at least not to this.

01:31:23.000 He actually broke down in tears talking about a video he saw of a Palestinian father clutching his dead child when he was talking to Hassan.

01:31:30.000 That got me.

01:31:31.000 I mean, obviously, it was terrible, and I think he is someone who is ultimately an empathetic person.

01:31:36.000 I don't think he's evil, and I think he is seeing the horrors of this war, but you can't deny that, yeah, this is his bed, and he's been trying to capitalize on these people who are now turning on him, because obviously they would eventually.

01:31:49.000 It's the banality of evil.

01:31:51.000 It's that when he deleted that Jordan Peterson episode and then publicly condemned Jordan Peterson, I'm like... Yeah, that was the weakest.

01:31:58.000 That is... When you see that photo of all the people doing the Roman salute to Hitler, and the one guy's angrily like, no.

01:32:05.000 That's the defiance that we respect.

01:32:07.000 The person who says, I am not going to just do what these people are saying.

01:32:09.000 He was the guy doing the salute.

01:32:11.000 He was just one of those other people who was like, I'm just going to do whatever they tell me to do because I don't want to get into a fight.

01:32:15.000 He's completely reliant on his community for social cues.

01:32:18.000 Surrounded by evil.

01:32:19.000 Surrounded by evil people who would, like, listen.

01:32:23.000 If you are someone who thinks that Israel is taking it too far and they're killing too many civilians, I hear ya. 1.00

01:32:27.000 If you're someone who thinks Hamas went too far and they started this on October 7th, granted the fight's been going on for generations, then I hear ya. 1.00

01:32:34.000 If you're gonna sit there and say, but babies are settlers.

01:32:36.000 Like, dude, you are way past that point.

01:32:38.000 I have no idea.

01:32:40.000 That line itself is insane.

01:32:42.000 Even if after the fact he says, alright, I get it, babies shouldn't die or whatever, but like, the babies are settlers means he intended to get to that point morally.

01:32:51.000 Yeah, for real.

01:32:52.000 I've been kind of black-pilled on Twitter because I've seen people kind of argue also that, well, the Palestinian babies, it's basically just a future terrorist that's being killed. 0.97

01:33:01.000 Oh, it's nuts!

01:33:03.000 I feel just in general the past month I've seen the worst of humanity on social media on both sides.

01:33:07.000 The people calling the individual who said the only reason not to nuke Gaza is that the fallout would impact Israelis?

01:33:14.000 Bethany Mandel, yeah.

01:33:15.000 Insane!

01:33:16.000 That's like derangement.

01:33:18.000 That is a degree of psychotic evil.

01:33:21.000 I just... But look, always, when everyone's just like, Israel this, Palestine that, I'm like, I'm in the United States. 0.82

01:33:27.000 Like, I don't know why we're involved in that.

01:33:29.000 So I'll leave it there.

01:33:29.000 The point is, though, when it comes to left versus right in this country and the fight we're seeing in the breakdown of the left, dude, Ethan could have, a lot of people said like, why did he go into this leftist camp where you can't be funny and you have to be walking on eggshells?

01:33:44.000 He was always like this edgy dude who made offensive jokes.

01:33:48.000 He interviewed Jordan Peterson.

01:33:49.000 He used to say, you can't even say him on YouTube, he used to say several racist and homophobic slurs on his show famously.

01:33:56.000 Oh yeah, there's a fairly long compilation clip out there of all the slurs that he's dropped on his channel over the years.

01:34:02.000 And he decided, I better align with these people who hate my guts.

01:34:06.000 Because they're paying him.

01:34:08.000 I mean that's the thing.

01:34:10.000 He might be empathetic, he might have emotional attachments, but this is like his business now is to be saying the right thing to the right people.

01:34:16.000 And I can't imagine what you're going to do.

01:34:17.000 Audience capture.

01:34:18.000 Exactly.

01:34:18.000 There's nothing he can do to change it.

01:34:20.000 And I think in some ways it would be more interesting to see a version of this where there's principle behind it.

01:34:26.000 Well, you know, I believe this but you guys will have to believe whatever or I have these certain standards but he compromises himself and I don't really follow his stuff that intensely but he repeatedly compromises what you think could be his value and that means that ultimately he is to be bought.

01:34:40.000 Although I can't- this is the most praise I've ever given Ethan Klein.

01:34:43.000 I've done several hit pieces on him in general.

01:34:44.000 In terms of videos on my channel.

01:34:45.000 But I have liked that him and Hassan, they did a debate on capitalism versus communism.

01:34:51.000 Strangely enough, Ethan Klein was, I guess, defending the capitalists.

01:34:54.000 He's not a capitalist, he's more like a social democrat, but at least, you know, some market competition.

01:34:58.000 That was interesting.

01:34:59.000 And he and Hassan did have a sit-down where they both talked about their perspective on Israel-Palestine.

01:35:04.000 And I thought at least that exchange of ideas where they both clearly were trying to remain friends through that, I thought that was useful.

01:35:14.000 Especially when it comes to Israel-Palestine, it's not just the left that's having this internal breakdown.

01:35:17.000 The right is too, right?

01:35:18.000 Because you do have the neocons and the more dissident anti-war populists, right?

01:35:22.000 And we're having our own schism as well.

01:35:24.000 Oh yeah, Ben Shapiro calling Candace Owens a disgrace. 1.00

01:35:27.000 Right.

01:35:27.000 Or saying that the things she said are disgraceful.

01:35:29.000 Right.

01:35:30.000 Even though Candace has been very consistent that she wants to worry about America, and basically all she tweeted out was that governments should not engage in genocide, which if you believe that Hamas is the elected government of Palestine, is also applicable to both sides.

01:35:44.000 Dude, I'm concerned with having American aircraft carriers over there. 0.96

01:35:47.000 I keep being told about the USS Liberty.

01:35:49.000 That's something with the Israeli government.

01:35:52.000 No, you should be careful about that one.

01:35:55.000 Allegedly, the Israeli Air Force jet fighter aircraft.

01:35:59.000 I mean, they did end up paying out the American government.

01:36:01.000 So I'm concerned like false flag operation, like a missile comes out of Gaza and hits one of our aircraft carriers, but it was actually Israeli missile.

01:36:08.000 We should get out of there.

01:36:11.000 Let me stop you there.

01:36:12.000 It doesn't matter where the missile comes from.

01:36:15.000 If a missile comes out of the Middle East in any capacity and hits a U.S.

01:36:18.000 target, everyone will claim it was exactly what they want it to be.

01:36:22.000 The U.S.

01:36:22.000 military will say Iran did it.

01:36:24.000 The pro-Palestinians will say Israel did it. 0.76

01:36:26.000 The pro-Israel will say Hamas did it.

01:36:29.000 Yeah.

01:36:29.000 If it comes out of a foreign country other than Israel, then it'll be, like, hard to deny.

01:36:33.000 Oh, no, no, no.

01:36:34.000 It doesn't matter where it comes from.

01:36:35.000 The U.S.

01:36:36.000 will say Iran did it, right? 0.92

01:36:38.000 Well, if it comes out of Tel Aviv, it's going to be hard to sell that, but I know what you mean.

01:36:42.000 But prove it came out of Tel Aviv.

01:36:43.000 How do you know?

01:36:43.000 You read the news.

01:36:44.000 I mean, exactly.

01:36:45.000 And you are going to get American intelligence agencies going to news organizations saying, tell them it came out of Gaza.

01:36:50.000 I don't think the Americans want their carrier to be hit.

01:36:52.000 It's a false flag.

01:36:53.000 Maybe the USS Liberty thing was an accident, probably.

01:36:57.000 That's the controversy over it, is that the Israeli government claims it was an accident, but Jocko Willink, I think, interviewed some survivors who say that they don't think it was an accident.

01:37:06.000 So was it a false flag?

01:37:07.000 That's why people talk about it.

01:37:09.000 Did America get involved in the 1967 war after that?

01:37:12.000 No, because it ended up being really short.

01:37:14.000 But we're gonna go to Super Chats!

01:37:16.000 So if you haven't already, would you kindly smash that like button, subscribe to this channel, and head over to TimCast.com.

01:37:21.000 Click join us if you'd like to hang out in the uncensored members-only show coming up at 10 p.m.

01:37:26.000 where you can submit questions and actually talk to us and our guest.

01:37:29.000 It's gonna be a lot of fun and also the Infringed documentary is available now.

01:37:33.000 You definitely need to see it and share with your friends.

01:37:35.000 Of course, our first Super Chat comes from Clint Torres, who says, Howdy people!

01:37:40.000 Clint Torres, of course.

01:37:41.000 Sounds like a good nickname to me.

01:37:42.000 Howdy, Clint.

01:37:43.000 I shot for second today, did I get it?

01:37:45.000 You did not, you got first.

01:37:47.000 You overshot.

01:37:47.000 Even when he's trying to be second, he's still first.

01:37:49.000 Wow.

01:37:50.000 No one to fold him.

01:37:51.000 Alpha Turkey says, Ian, the Canaanites were Phoenicians who, like the far left, worshiped Molech. 0.92

01:37:57.000 That's hot data.

01:37:57.000 Is that true?

01:37:58.000 I don't know, I'd have to reference it.

01:38:00.000 Alex Conrad says, you should invite Nerd Roddick on the Culture War.

01:38:03.000 That is a very good suggestion, and we will.

01:38:06.000 Is that Gary?

01:38:06.000 Yeah.

01:38:07.000 He's spectacular.

01:38:09.000 One Evil Chef says, Darmok when the walls fell.

01:38:13.000 Yeah, that's exactly how I feel.

01:38:15.000 Yeah.

01:38:17.000 There were several other key phrases, if you guys remember them.

01:38:19.000 Put them in the chat.

01:38:20.000 What's that in reference to?

01:38:21.000 Star Trek.

01:38:23.000 It was a culture that could only speak in stories.

01:38:30.000 So they would convey all of their ideas by saying a phrase from a story.

01:38:33.000 So like a society of old people? 1.00

01:38:36.000 No, I don't know.

01:38:36.000 I don't know how it would actually function.

01:38:38.000 But the people are shrugging, like, when the walls fell!

01:38:41.000 When the walls fell!

01:38:42.000 And it's like, what are you saying?

01:38:43.000 And they're like, in their mind, it conveys the full idea of what they're trying to explain in the context.

01:38:49.000 What do we got?

01:38:50.000 Raymond G. Stanley Jr.

01:38:50.000 says, Tim, at great risk, I tell you this, I'm fixing a ram on your skateboard when I get an atomic elbow from the top ropes.

01:38:57.000 I wake up to Ian ripping his shirt off, flexes so hot, says, you tell Tim, you do you leftist?

01:39:04.000 I have no idea what you mean, Tim.

01:39:05.000 Is that Raymond G. Stanley?

01:39:06.000 Yes.

01:39:06.000 You tell Tim, you da leftist?

01:39:07.000 Is he typing with his elbows?

01:39:09.000 He might have been, actually. 0.95

01:39:10.000 What the heck? 0.66

01:39:10.000 No, but I will rip my shirt off, dude. 0.66

01:39:12.000 I imagine it must have been with the elbows.

01:39:16.000 All right, let's grab some more super chats.

01:39:20.000 The Aries Knight says, in reference to yesterday's guest, unhoused implies something was taken away.

01:39:24.000 This is leftist manipulation to evoke an emotional response.

01:39:28.000 I think the reason they started saying unhoused is the implication that everyone should have a house.

01:39:33.000 Communism.

01:39:34.000 Yeah, because you could call them stray, stray humans.

01:39:37.000 They've strayed from the path, but that doesn't mean they were supposed to have a house.

01:39:40.000 Homeless could imply like home. 0.99

01:39:43.000 What is the poem?

01:39:46.000 A home is where your family is, a house is, you know, a container or something like this.

01:39:52.000 And so, when you say someone's homeless, you're saying they don't have anywhere to sleep safely.

01:40:00.000 The left is trying to distinguish, or not distinguish, well yes, they're trying to make a distinction between, there could be someone who lives in a shack, It's their home and their family's there, but it's not a house.

01:40:13.000 And so they're unhoused, which means they should have a house.

01:40:15.000 Were you guys talking about the San Francisco cleanup?

01:40:17.000 Yes.

01:40:18.000 Yeah.

01:40:18.000 Yep.

01:40:19.000 And I said, why are you saying unhoused?

01:40:21.000 I find it offensive as someone who's actually done work with homeless shelters and trying to help homeless people.

01:40:27.000 It is offensive to call them unhoused. 0.59

01:40:32.000 It's leftist nonsense.

01:40:33.000 It's also inaccurate because it assumes that if you just give them shelter, then the problem is gone, which is what they're trying to do, but you still have that basically plethora of likely problems, including addiction, maybe mental illness, that will follow them.

01:40:44.000 I think, I genuinely, here's a problem that we face.

01:40:48.000 You know, when I talk to the likes of Stephen Marsh and he says that, you know, you're right or you're biased or whatever, and I'm like, no, dude, you just don't know what you're talking about.

01:40:56.000 And how do I tell you that I'm actually not biased, I just am telling you the truth?

01:41:02.000 And therein lies the issue.

01:41:03.000 So I have my biases, of course, I'm pro 2A.

01:41:05.000 However, my position on 2A is rooted in how do you have a functioning system of governance that has a constitution and constitutional guaranteed rights, and then one faction trying to Vote away those rights.

01:41:16.000 You can't do that.

01:41:17.000 It's not a question of whether I think you should have guns.

01:41:19.000 It's a question of whether or not someone has the right to take them away from you.

01:41:21.000 They don't.

01:41:22.000 The system is here.

01:41:23.000 The rules are in front of us.

01:41:24.000 Play by the rules.

01:41:25.000 That's not bias.

01:41:26.000 That's me saying, oh, okay, maybe there could be good effective gun laws.

01:41:30.000 You can't do it because the Constitution says no.

01:41:32.000 So they lie, cheat, and steal.

01:41:33.000 If I'm talking with someone like Stephen Marsh, and he says there are more seditionists on the right than on the left.

01:41:40.000 I said, what's your metric for this?

01:41:41.000 He goes, court cases.

01:41:43.000 Then I bring up the fact that where are the criminal charges from the Summer of Love riots comparable to January 6th?

01:41:48.000 Where are the criminal charges from 529 in front of the White House, the firebombing of the White House?

01:41:51.000 You don't even know about it.

01:41:53.000 And I'm like, so it's not an issue of me being biased, dude.

01:41:55.000 I'm not saying the right or the left has more or less.

01:41:56.000 I'm saying what's your metric?

01:41:57.000 And you don't have one.

01:41:58.000 This is the problem. 0.98

01:42:00.000 I think when you look at people on the left who believe insane things, it's because they're genuinely ignorant but angry.

01:42:08.000 And then when you look to the right, you do have that, but the tendency on the right is more mature, calm, and rational.

01:42:15.000 That's just it.

01:42:16.000 Plain and simple.

01:42:17.000 That's why there are post-liberals who are now in line with conservatives on the issue of say like Trump and America First because...

01:42:26.000 When I was on the left, I was obsessed with mob, getting a lot of people to believe what I believed.

01:42:30.000 That was my goal.

01:42:31.000 Now, I want the merits to live on their own.

01:42:35.000 When I'm gone, I still want that idea to be present.

01:42:37.000 I don't care.

01:42:39.000 Yeah, you got to get away from the cult and build systems that let people govern themselves.

01:42:42.000 Because it's too easy to become a cult leader with this technology.

01:42:45.000 So the issue is, in reference to this one, Aaron said, we should build houses for the unhoused and give them places to live.

01:42:54.000 And I said, okay, and then who's going to maintain that house?

01:42:56.000 Because many of these people, when I mentioned that probably 80% of homeless people choose to be homeless, he was shocked and didn't believe it.

01:43:03.000 And I'm like, It's actually really simple arithmetic.

01:43:07.000 If I walk up to a person and say, do you enjoy being homeless?

01:43:09.000 They say, no.

01:43:10.000 I say, would you like to not be homeless?

01:43:11.000 They say, yes.

01:43:11.000 Would you like a job?

01:43:12.000 Yes.

01:43:12.000 Congratulations.

01:43:13.000 They were homeless for two days and now they're not homeless anymore.

01:43:16.000 This is why when you see a homeless person, it is almost entirely likely they are choosing to be homeless.

01:43:21.000 Because if they didn't want to be homeless, they would seek these nonprofits and get out of that situation.

01:43:26.000 He was shocked by this.

01:43:27.000 But something that is encouraging is that you're right, and also there's a high percentage of homeless people who are only transiently homeless.

01:43:35.000 Like, they don't remain homeless in the United States, which is very encouraging.

01:43:39.000 Because it is a country where you actually are able to reach that rock bottom and then build your way back up.

01:43:44.000 But my point is, not to specifically focus on homelessness, my point is, the left gives you these surface-level nonsensical positions and then demands them with rage.

01:43:44.000 Right.

01:43:55.000 And they're like, there are more empty houses than homeless people.

01:43:58.000 And I'm like, yes, but the solution to homelessness is not putting people in an empty house.

01:44:02.000 They'll burn the place down.

01:44:04.000 They'll destroy it. 1.00

01:44:05.000 They'll get injured.

01:44:06.000 These are people who are unwell and incapable of maintaining and sustaining a house.

01:44:11.000 Oh man, Libby was on the show and I was like, this is coming from people who never owned houses before, because this is a lot of work.

01:44:17.000 And then Libby was mentioning like, oh yeah, when I have a problem, I'm like, I can't call the soup anymore.

01:44:21.000 Yeah, when you rent, you just call the superintendent and they come and fix your problem for you.

01:44:25.000 It reminds me of that show, Extreme Home Makeover, where they would be like, you're a family, you have some good story and we're going to demolish your house, we're going to build this really fancy house.

01:44:33.000 But often those houses were incredibly, they needed a lot of electricity, they need a lot of water, they need to be maintained.

01:44:40.000 They were the most expensive house in a neighborhood that really didn't sustain that.

01:44:44.000 And so it was ultimately a financial burden in a lot of cases.

01:44:47.000 And I think that is sort of the position we're putting some people into, that they don't They don't want to be a part of the system, so to speak.

01:44:54.000 They don't want to pay rent or deal with any of this stuff.

01:44:56.000 They have their own ways of living, and forcing them into it doesn't always work.

01:45:00.000 And they've done studies about the amount of money per homeless person that places like San Francisco spend, and it's absolutely astronomical.

01:45:07.000 I mean, it's like you're talking about- Like a hundred grand.

01:45:09.000 So you actually got an upper middle class salary being spent on a single homeless person who is still not living well.

01:45:09.000 Exactly.

01:45:16.000 So not only do they not have the solutions to it, but what they're trying to do is actively bad.

01:45:21.000 I get that from a compassionate standpoint they don't want to see homeless people on the street suffering, but I'll again bring up that most people who are homeless do not remain homeless for the entirety of their lives.

01:45:30.000 So, you know, they're treating homelessness like a, I guess, like a disease that someone just has and will have forever.

01:45:36.000 They will never again be, I guess, able to support themselves, which is the wrong way to look at it.

01:45:41.000 Let's read this from AielloFam.

01:45:42.000 He says, Tim, if you love guns, read this.

01:45:45.000 State court ballot measure 114 verdict coming by 1122.

01:45:48.000 I was the sole attorney versus eight from the state.

01:45:51.000 It is the strictest gun law in the country and it's getting very little attention.

01:45:55.000 State, what state?

01:45:56.000 Yeah, I was gonna say what state is it?

01:45:58.000 I don't know where you are, sir.

01:45:59.000 So I'm assuming Illinois maybe or something.

01:46:01.000 I don't know.

01:46:02.000 Yeah.

01:46:04.000 We'll grab some more super chats.

01:46:08.000 Where are we at?

01:46:10.000 Waffle Sense says, how often do advertisements for infringement come up daily for lefties everywhere on the internet?

01:46:16.000 I have found that including Lauren Southern's name in searches forces the ABC algo to show the document first on Google.

01:46:23.000 Uh, I have no idea.

01:46:24.000 I don't know.

01:46:25.000 We've got, uh, I think three ads running right now for infringed?

01:46:29.000 Is that what you meant?

01:46:30.000 Advertisements for infringed?

01:46:31.000 Yeah, they were wondering about the analytics.

01:46:33.000 I have no idea!

01:46:35.000 I don't know.

01:46:35.000 Tim's got people for that.

01:46:36.000 He doesn't need to know about these things.

01:46:37.000 Yeah, but, like, we do not have a massive marketing apparatus like a lot of companies where we're tracking it all.

01:46:41.000 We're just, like, spending the ads promoting the idea of gun rights in and of itself is the victory. 0.98

01:46:48.000 So we're hoping that, in the end, the bottom line, you know, it works out and the documentary gets a lot of views.

01:46:53.000 So, there you go.

01:46:55.000 T-Rex Pet Shop says, Establishment Republican voters really don't know what's happening in this country.

01:47:01.000 I call them Fox News reps who only know what the establishment wants them to know.

01:47:05.000 That's why they're mad at MAGA for firing Kevin McCarthy, but don't know why.

01:47:08.000 Lauren, do you have pets?

01:47:10.000 I do.

01:47:10.000 I have a Leon burger whose name is Jelly Bean, and she is beautiful.

01:47:14.000 Like, it's actually, when I take her out in public, it's almost a nuisance because I get stopped so often by people just in awe.

01:47:20.000 She's about 145 pounds. 1.00

01:47:21.000 Wow, those dogs are amazing.

01:47:23.000 Yeah, she's a great dog. 1.00

01:47:26.000 Jaffo on the Bound says, you think our founding fathers didn't freaking come to blows on the Senate floor or dueling out back?

01:47:32.000 Make dueling great again and back up the bluster?

01:47:35.000 Uh, yeah, dueling was...

01:47:37.000 Like, all the rage.

01:47:39.000 This is like, super vintage.

01:47:41.000 The idea was that you would defend your honor but not try to actually kill the guy.

01:47:48.000 So often what duels would be is they'd say, shut up, I want to duel you, and they would

01:47:51.000 draw pistols and then aim away and fire and then both their honor was intact because they

01:47:56.000 both showed up to a duel risking life but didn't kill each other.

01:47:59.000 And then I think it was it was Alexander Hamilton and Burr.

01:48:04.000 And that's what happened. 0.99

01:48:06.000 Burr did not care, and Hamilton was like, I will aim away, and Burr was like, I'll kill you! 0.98

01:48:12.000 Yeah. 0.98

01:48:13.000 Yep, fired away and then he got hit and he dead.

01:48:15.000 There's not many stories about them fighting on the floor of the Congressional Continental Congress.

01:48:21.000 There was the caning.

01:48:22.000 What happened?

01:48:23.000 The caning between, it was a Democrat who caned, no no, it was a Republican who got caned by a Democrat.

01:48:31.000 Did they hold him down and he was like caning him on the ground?

01:48:33.000 Started bashing him in the face with a cane and caused a traumatic brain injury.

01:48:37.000 Oh my god.

01:48:37.000 Is that what it was?

01:48:38.000 It was a Democrat No, no.

01:48:41.000 Who was it?

01:48:41.000 Who caned Civil War?

01:48:44.000 That's what I'm typing in the search.

01:48:47.000 I think it was a... It was before the Civil War.

01:48:50.000 A Union guy got caned.

01:48:52.000 It was a guy from Massachusetts.

01:48:53.000 They used to go to work carrying pistols and Bowie knives.

01:48:56.000 Yeah.

01:48:57.000 Sometimes use them on colleagues, it says.

01:48:59.000 That's from history.com.

01:49:02.000 Yeah, I don't know.

01:49:02.000 I think people in chat will... It's been a while since I read about it.

01:49:05.000 I think it was a guy from Massachusetts got mercilessly beaten.

01:49:08.000 It was Preston Brooks entered the chamber carrying the cane.

01:49:10.000 I imagine he was the... He walked over to Senator Charles Sumner, the pro-slavery southerner.

01:49:15.000 Oh, no, no, he was a Democrat.

01:49:16.000 The pro-slavery southerner was the guy with the cane.

01:49:18.000 Right, yeah, a Democrat. 0.86

01:49:19.000 And he went over to Charles Sumner and whacked him in the head with the cane.

01:49:22.000 And Sumner was Massachusetts?

01:49:24.000 Uh, I doesn't say.

01:49:25.000 Yep.

01:49:25.000 Beat him unconscious.

01:49:26.000 Abolitionist Republican from Massachusetts. 0.91

01:49:27.000 Right, right, yes.

01:49:28.000 And then he walked out and no one stopped it.

01:49:30.000 Everyone just stood there and watched.

01:49:31.000 And in the South they cheered for it and said the North was lying about the seriousness of the injuries.

01:49:36.000 And in the North they were like they caused him to have serious brain damage for a long time. 0.96

01:49:40.000 Wow.

01:49:41.000 Yeah.

01:49:43.000 Leading up to the Civil War, it says in the three decades there were more than 70 violent incidents between congressmen.

01:49:47.000 Wow, so are you saying that we're leading up to a civil war?

01:49:51.000 Not with Bernie Sanders in charge.

01:49:52.000 That's true, he's gonna break up all those hallway fights.

01:49:58.000 What do we got?

01:49:58.000 Zach Ramer says, love the work you guys are doing building culture and winning the culture war.

01:50:02.000 I'm sending this super chat in celebration of my first born child, Stetson, being born.

01:50:06.000 Congratulations!

01:50:06.000 Keep up the great work you guys are doing.

01:50:08.000 Congratulations!

01:50:10.000 Great, glad to hear it.

01:50:11.000 Happy birthday, Stetson.

01:50:12.000 Yeah.

01:50:12.000 Congrats.

01:50:13.000 Good job having a family.

01:50:14.000 I'm pro that, as is Santa and the Hallmark Channel.

01:50:18.000 All right.

01:50:19.000 OMG Puppy says Senator McCarthy spoke at the Oxford Union.

01:50:23.000 He came across as a neocon war hawk and a narcissist.

01:50:27.000 Unsurprising.

01:50:28.000 His mask is off.

01:50:29.000 The Clapper of Cheeks says play the audio recording from the reporter.

01:50:31.000 I don't think they actually published that.

01:50:34.000 I don't know if that was out at the time.

01:50:35.000 I know that she said she chased after with the microphone, but I don't know if... Also, would you necessarily hear that?

01:50:40.000 Like if someone just comes in like... Right.

01:50:42.000 You'd hear him saying like, why'd you hit me?

01:50:43.000 Yeah, but that's pretty much... you wouldn't see it.

01:50:45.000 Yeah.

01:50:46.000 Alright, Paul Tascalo says, 8 suspects ages 13-17 arrested in the Las Vegas school beating death, all being charged with murder, and will be tried as adults according to report.

01:50:55.000 Interesting, I'd like to see the full details.

01:50:57.000 A lot of people were talking about this story, did you see this one?

01:51:00.000 But a lot of people didn't mention that it was actually the dude who died who swung first.

01:51:04.000 Oof.

01:51:04.000 The full video shows him swinging first.

01:51:06.000 It doesn't mean he was in the wrong.

01:51:08.000 It doesn't mean he wasn't acting in self-defense.

01:51:09.000 I don't know the full details of the story, but a lot of people were like, he got jumped by 15 people.

01:51:13.000 And I'm like, okay, well, I watched the video and there's like five people stomping on him.

01:51:18.000 Two of which were not black.

01:51:20.000 And I think there were like three, maybe four that were black.

01:51:23.000 And if you watch the full video, it's actually the kid who died who swings.

01:51:27.000 He lunges at a guy and swings at him and then they rush in and start beating him.

01:51:30.000 So I don't know exactly what happened or, you know, it is what it is.

01:51:34.000 It's another reason to be afraid to send your kids to school, right?

01:51:37.000 Well, come on, where else are they going to get this type of socialization?

01:51:40.000 Just at Congress, I guess.

01:51:42.000 I guess.

01:51:42.000 I'm open to charging these kids as adults.

01:51:45.000 At this point, I'm like, you know, 16 years old, you know exactly what you're doing.

01:51:49.000 Yeah, you know better.

01:51:49.000 100%.

01:51:49.000 Or you don't, and either way it's a problem and you belong behind bars.

01:51:52.000 I'm like, not you, but the kid would.

01:51:55.000 Yeah, I mean, don't stomp on somebody who's on the ground.

01:51:57.000 Yeah, jeez.

01:51:58.000 I'm curious though, like, just, I don't know enough about the case to sit here and be like, let's charge them as adults with murder.

01:52:04.000 Same with this case, I don't know.

01:52:05.000 And a lot of people are screaming to do so, and I'm just like, bro, I watched a grainy video of people stomping on a guy, I don't know anything about it.

01:52:11.000 If a dude, if you saw, like, here's the problem I have.

01:52:13.000 There could be a video of five guys stomping on a dude.

01:52:16.000 And they're like, oh no, why are they doing that? 0.63

01:52:19.000 And then someone releases a video that's got 10 seconds more, and the dude being stomped on is waving a knife around and screaming, and then throws the knife and starts punching somebody, and I'm like, oh, okay, that guy's clearly crazy.

01:52:29.000 Then someone posts another video of 10 seconds before, and this gang is actively opening fire on a crowd of people, and this guy runs up and starts waving the knife around saying, stop, stop!

01:52:38.000 And it's like, you just don't know what happened.

01:52:41.000 Theoretically, that's why we have trials, right?

01:52:43.000 So both sides can present evidence.

01:52:45.000 Instead, we have, you know, the media and 24-hour news cycles.

01:52:48.000 It's like, we must know exactly right now, based on very little information.

01:52:51.000 With Kyle Rittenhouse, we had, I think, like five people who were there on this show telling us, here's what we saw.

01:52:59.000 And so we were like, okay, wow.

01:53:00.000 With the video we've seen and your testimony, and Richie McGinnis literally standing there behind him and helping the dude who got shot to the hospital, I'm like, pretty sure Kyle Rittenhouse was acting in self-defense.

01:53:11.000 In this instance, all I saw was a video of some guy stomping on a guy, and him swinging at somebody, and I'm like, I don't know.

01:53:17.000 Are you open to charging kids as adults now?

01:53:20.000 It just depends on the circumstances, but sure, yeah.

01:53:23.000 It just, it just depends.

01:53:24.000 Right, see the problem, the reason why we have to, so the answer is yes, is because gangs will go to a 13 year old kid and be like, hey, go do, you know, take this gun and go kill that guy because you'll, you won't go, you'll get out when you're 18.

01:53:35.000 And then you're in the gang for life.

01:53:37.000 Okay, so don't do that.

01:53:37.000 No, be like, nah, you're 13, you committed a murder, we're locking you up, sorry.

01:53:41.000 That's like... The idea is that the kids don't know better and you want to give them a chance.

01:53:47.000 We can't.

01:53:48.000 Maybe the issue is if we need to go after the dude who gave the kid the weapon and ordered it and give that person life or something.

01:53:57.000 I don't think prison solves the problem anyway, to be honest.

01:53:59.000 Like there was that first creator in Virginia who brought a guy to school and shot his teacher in the hand and killed her.

01:54:04.000 She survived, but he's never been charged because he's too young.

01:54:07.000 He's six.

01:54:07.000 They don't think that he would understand, but someone who's 17 and stomping on a classmate, it's different.

01:54:12.000 Yeah, there's a big difference.

01:54:13.000 This is an important one.

01:54:14.000 Hans Gruber says, the world is coming to an end when Ian is against freeing the code.

01:54:21.000 Well, I'm telling you, Ian started working out and everything's changing.

01:54:23.000 I'm an incrementalist.

01:54:24.000 I would love to free the software code, but I'm also a realist.

01:54:28.000 One step at a time.

01:54:28.000 We go for TikTok, ByteDance.

01:54:30.000 Gandalf the Bay says, Fistfight reminds me of the caning of Charles Sumner in 1856.

01:54:34.000 Happened just before the Civil War due to the tensions leading to the war.

01:54:38.000 Say it Tim, you know you want to.

01:54:39.000 I don't think that Kevin McCarthy elbowing a guy in the back is comparable to a dude being mercilessly beaten on the Senate floor.

01:54:46.000 But we're a lower testosterone society now, so maybe we have to adjust.

01:54:49.000 Maybe we're working up to it.

01:54:51.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:54:52.000 It's like inflation, you have to account for it somehow.

01:54:56.000 Amanda says Ben Franklin actually wanted Britain and America to stay together until Parliament humiliated him when he represented Massachusetts after the Boston Tea Party.

01:55:04.000 Then he was all on board for separation.

01:55:06.000 I think that he was playing them, personally.

01:55:09.000 I think that his intention was revolution the entire time, but you might be right.

01:55:15.000 What have we here?

01:55:17.000 Cheese is crisp.

01:55:18.000 Cheese is... crisp?

01:55:20.000 Trisp?

01:55:21.000 To be fair, roofs are like giant wheelchair ramps.

01:55:24.000 My paraplegic buddy just laughed at those Santas. 0.98

01:55:28.000 But does he feel represented?

01:55:29.000 Does he feel like now he can be Santa?

01:55:31.000 Yeah.

01:55:32.000 I like Tim's idea that he got into some sort of cool skateboarding accident, just taken a year off, you know, everyone needs a chance to recover.

01:55:39.000 If it's just, I don't know.

01:55:41.000 Go to Mexico, get the stem cells.

01:55:42.000 Sure, anything.

01:55:43.000 PRP.

01:55:44.000 Stormblood20 says, waiting on a parody of Santa vs. Putin, where Russians go too far north and run into Santa's North Pole.

01:55:51.000 I mean, that's basically like Violent Nights, did you guys see that one?

01:55:53.000 No.

01:55:53.000 Actually, it's a really good movie.

01:55:55.000 Sounds awesome.

01:55:56.000 Yeah, it's... Santa is delivering presents at the same time a group is trying to rob this wealthy family.

01:56:03.000 Oh, I have seen this movie!

01:56:04.000 Yeah, and he uses his bag to, like, fight.

01:56:07.000 It's actually really funny.

01:56:08.000 If they got a good martial artist to play Santa, that would be so awesome.

01:56:11.000 No, it was... what's his face?

01:56:12.000 The guy from Stranger Things?

01:56:14.000 The, like, sheriff guy?

01:56:15.000 Yeah, whatever his name is.

01:56:17.000 He means Mary to Lily Allen.

01:56:19.000 Yes, that guy.

01:56:20.000 David Harbour.

01:56:21.000 David Harbour, that's right.

01:56:22.000 Violent Nights was hilarious.

01:56:23.000 It was good.

01:56:23.000 John Lewis was in it.

01:56:24.000 That guy's kind of insufferable, but he does a good job in the film, so credit where it's due.

01:56:28.000 Beverly D'Angelo?

01:56:29.000 She's great.

01:56:29.000 I recommend Violent Nights.

01:56:30.000 It's funny.

01:56:32.000 Yeah, it's like, I guess they're claiming that Saint Nick was this brutish Nordic barbarian who was mercilessly raping and pillaging until he became Santa.

01:56:42.000 Every culture has their own Santa, and doesn't that make you proud of yours if that's your culture, you know?

01:56:47.000 I forget what kids movie it was, but it was like some kids movie where all the, like, Tooth Fairy, Easter Bunny were all, like, real, and their version of Santa was just, like, this hardcore Russian, like, Russian Santa.

01:57:00.000 I liked Russian Santa.

01:57:01.000 Yeah, okay.

01:57:01.000 Russian Santa.

01:57:02.000 This is the thing.

01:57:02.000 We have to have Santa that represents your cultural values.

01:57:05.000 Yeah, exactly.

01:57:07.000 What have we here?

01:57:08.000 Jeremy Wien says, Santa got mugged by Captain Marvel.

01:57:13.000 Yeah, I mean, that's kind of her arc.

01:57:15.000 She mugged a dude. 1.00

01:57:16.000 That was in the first movie.

01:57:19.000 Okay, this is it.

01:57:21.000 Everybody knows, but I just gotta say it. 0.51

01:57:22.000 Captain America was a dude who was weak and sickly and desperately wanted to get into the military to serve his country.

01:57:28.000 And Captain Marvel was a woman who had the power the whole time, but a man was holding her down. 0.99

01:57:32.000 For real.

01:57:33.000 And then Jude Law keeps telling her to control her emotions.

01:57:36.000 I'm like, oh my god.

01:57:38.000 A little too on the nose!

01:57:39.000 Well, for most female superheroes, that is what it is, or female characters in general. 1.00

01:57:43.000 It's not like they need to grow.

01:57:44.000 What their growth is, is realizing that they were great the whole time.

01:57:47.000 Exactly.

01:57:48.000 They lack the self-esteem to recognize it.

01:57:50.000 That's a line from Gilmore Girls.

01:57:52.000 I just watched this movie, I don't know if anyone knows what it's called, where two women go on vacation to Australia, to this rural town, and they get a job at a pub.

01:58:00.000 And I thought it was a horror movie.

01:58:02.000 It's a horror movie in the sense that these women are the villains the whole time. 1.00

01:58:05.000 Basically what happens is, it's a rowdy pub, Then, like, one of the girls is drinking and wants to hang out with this guy who's not really that good of a dude and was causing fights.

01:58:13.000 So then the main character gets an axe and slashes his tires.

01:58:16.000 And then it ends with them just burning down this pub.

01:58:19.000 And I'm like, what?

01:58:20.000 What is this movie?

01:58:21.000 Like, who is this movie made for?

01:58:23.000 I don't understand.

01:58:25.000 But there's a scene where the two women are, like, crying with each other about the bar being rowdy or something.

01:58:31.000 And I was like, you know, you'll never see a movie where it's guys in this circumstance.

01:58:36.000 They would not make a movie where it's guys scared and angry at a bar.

01:58:39.000 The guys would always be aggressive and confrontational.

01:58:42.000 It's kind of like Office Space is the closest thing to it.

01:58:45.000 I was gonna say, what about Coyote Ugly?

01:58:47.000 That's like a super rowdy bar that a bunch of women deal with. 1.00

01:58:49.000 We already made this movie.

01:58:52.000 This is a very different movie.

01:58:53.000 But that's what I mean!

01:58:54.000 It's supposed to be like a horror, like there's a point where the guys break into the bar and I'm like, oh wow.

01:58:58.000 But then it's just some guys were trying to like invite the woman to the sunset and I'm like, okay, what's going on?

01:59:03.000 So the women are the bad guys the whole time? 1.00

01:59:05.000 It's supposed to be the good guys, but if you watch it, like any rational person is like, yo, these women are nuts. 1.00

01:59:10.000 They're like antiheroes. 0.96

01:59:11.000 No, they're not antiheroes.

01:59:12.000 I was like, I really thought it was going to turn out the woman was going to take an axe 0.99

01:59:16.000 and just go murder everybody. 0.85

01:59:17.000 And that was like, oh, that'd be really cool.

01:59:19.000 Like it turns out the character you thought was the scared victim turns out to be the killer.

01:59:23.000 No, the movie just ends.

01:59:24.000 They burn the bar down and leave.

01:59:25.000 And it's like, why?

01:59:26.000 What?

01:59:27.000 Oh, it sounds awful.

01:59:28.000 It's just a really bad movie.

01:59:29.000 I think they need to remake Captain Marvel as the guy who originally he was, Walter Lawson.

01:59:35.000 I didn't ever read Mar-Vell comics, but his Mar-Vell was his alien name.

01:59:38.000 And he came in, he'd be on earth.

01:59:39.000 He was known as Walter Larson.

01:59:41.000 This whole, or Walter Lawson, this whole retconning and giving it to a woman all for no reason before they even had an opportunity to portray him as he was written.

01:59:50.000 Makes no sense.

01:59:51.000 I think it's part of the hatred of that, that franchise.

01:59:54.000 So bring back Mar-Vell.

01:59:54.000 Well, it's funny because, like, in the first movie, Captain Marvel is not a sympathetic character at all.

01:59:59.000 She, like, mugs the eye. 0.94

02:00:00.000 But in the second, also, she's, like, called the Annihilator.

02:00:03.000 Like, the Kree blamed her.

02:00:04.000 Oh, you went and saw it?

02:00:04.000 Yeah.

02:00:05.000 Oh, yeah.

02:00:05.000 I did a hate review of it.

02:00:06.000 It's bad.

02:00:07.000 The Annihilator?

02:00:10.000 I mean, spoilers.

02:00:11.000 They call her the Annihilator because she basically destroys their entire society and planet by killing their AI leader.

02:00:18.000 And it's like, do you want us to like Captain Marvel?

02:00:20.000 Because how you are writing her, she is not very likable.

02:00:24.000 You know what I think it is?

02:00:25.000 Woke leftists are evil, and they're writing what they think is their power fantasy.

02:00:31.000 So, for the average person, Captain America is like a male power fantasy of, I'm gonna jump on the grenade, that's gonna be me. 0.97

02:00:40.000 If I was ever tested, I would prove that I'm not a coward.

02:00:43.000 And what these people are doing is, their perspective of the strong female power fantasy is, he told me to smile, I'm gonna beat and rob him.

02:00:51.000 It's like, ah, well, you're the villain, so... about that.

02:00:55.000 It just seems like such an overreaction.

02:00:56.000 Like, he tells you to smile and so you beat him up.

02:00:59.000 Calm down, team.

02:01:00.000 Yes, because he needs to be punished for sexism.

02:01:02.000 We'll get one more superintendent here.

02:01:03.000 B says, Bernie is right.

02:01:05.000 Senators don't fight. 1.00

02:01:06.000 Instead, they send your sons and daughters to fight in foreign wars that enrich themselves.

02:01:09.000 Solution.

02:01:11.000 O'Brien and Mullins should nominate some random family's children to fight in their stead, as per the traditions of Congress.

02:01:18.000 Or, to be honorable, send their old children to fight.

02:01:21.000 Bernie should have been, stop it!

02:01:22.000 Take it to Israel! 0.98

02:01:25.000 Take the fight outside! 0.99

02:01:26.000 You're a United States Senator!

02:01:27.000 Get someone else's kids to fight for you! 1.00

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Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - November 15, 2023

Timcast IRL - FIST FIGHT IN SENATE STOPPED By Bernie, Kevin McCarthy ATTACKS Gop Rep w-Lauren Chen

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