On today's show, we discuss the reaction to Ron DeSantis' announcement that he's running for President in the upcoming primary election. We also hear from Rep. Wesley Hunt, D-Texas, who joins us to talk about his background in the military and politics.
00:00:41.000We did talk quite a bit the other day about his announcement.
00:00:44.000And we'll go over that just a little bit in reference to the responses that we're seeing, because this really is the big story.
00:00:50.000I mean, this is the aftermath, the day after Ron DeSantis announcing that he is running.
00:00:54.000But we do have a lot of news, a lot of really big and a lot of really great news.
00:00:58.000Target lost $9 billion in their market cap following what people are referring to as the Bud Light effect.
00:01:07.000That companies are scared, people are scared they're going to lose value on their stock when there's boycotts.
00:01:13.000The boycotts seem to be working, Bud Light's not recovering, Target panics, their stock goes down.
00:01:19.000So we're talking about that plus a whole bunch of other crazy news.
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00:02:47.000Joining us tonight to talk about this and so much more is Rep.
00:03:43.000I mean, I don't know, like, Congressman, Apache pilot, I'll take the latter.
00:03:50.000But finished up there, went to grad school at Cornell University, earned three master's degrees and four years at Cornell, then a master's in business, public administration, industrial labor relations, moved back home to Houston, ran for Congress, and here we are.
00:07:32.000Just be loyal to the person that got you here in the first place, and then you could be the heir apparent for the future.
00:07:39.000But my fear is that he is being talked into doing this by a lot of other people that are going to make a lot of money.
00:07:46.000And based on what we saw yesterday, we were kind of talking about it before the show, how he looks like a hostage patient right now.
00:07:53.000He looks like he's being held hostage to do this, and I think there are a lot of people in Florida that simply want him to stay in Florida and be the governor and do the job that they elected him to do.
00:08:03.000Yeah, this is something that was brought up as we're setting everything up.
00:08:06.000He's not going to win Florida for two reasons.
00:08:09.000People love Trump, and a lot of people in Florida who vote for DeSantis probably would choose to vote for Trump, but also the people who really love DeSantis are going to be like, nah, let's keep him here.
00:08:29.000Because I was always looking at it from like a head-to-head standpoint, but if I were literally a citizen that was living in the free state of Florida, and based on the last few years being in basically Florida and Texas where I'm from, I call those the last two free states of our union, and- and the idea of the job that he has done as governor, you mean to tell me Then I get to have President Trump on top of this ticket, and I get to keep DeSantis as my governor?
00:08:52.000Why in God's name would I not want that?
00:09:29.000But what I am saying is this genuinely comes from a place of saying, Alright, there are so few good political leaders in America today, that when there is one doing a really good job in Florida, and he's got a long career ahead of him, maybe it's not the right time for him to run for president.
00:09:45.000He would also be, I think, what, the second youngest president?
00:10:13.000But you know, I was talking about this this morning.
00:10:17.000Dude, if you're gonna sit here and lie to defend DeSantis over his lack of charisma, you'll lose.
00:10:24.000And if you're gonna come out and try and defend that he has no charisma with, but his policies are great, that reminds me of that Futurama bit where the Amazonian women introduce the men to their WNBA and they're like, no can dunk, but good fundamentals.
00:10:37.000It's like, okay, dude, the being the loud, strong voice is dunking.
00:10:59.000And then there's those star players that you just know are commanding the massive salaries.
00:11:04.000This is also an important point for people to consider and something that is really lost on people and this is a mistake I made by the way when I was looking at the 2016 election.
00:11:14.000There were politicians whose policies I liked more than Trump and so I was saying those people should have gotten the nomination at the time.
00:11:21.000Now obviously Trump grew on me over the years and I really like him now.
00:11:25.000But at the time, my thoughts were, well, this political leader has better policies, but the reality is a politician is not just a set of policies.
00:11:35.000They have to be capable of doing certain things.
00:11:37.000And one of the things that whoever gets selected by the Republicans to be the nominee has to be able to do Is be charismatic enough to win a general election.
00:11:46.000Now many people have responded to this by arguing that Joe Biden isn't charismatic.
00:11:52.000Okay, Joe Biden doesn't have good policies either.
00:11:54.000What Joe Biden had was a massive leg up.
00:11:58.000He had massive institutional support that no Republican nominee is going to get.
00:12:04.000So saying Biden, one of the worst candidates of all time, won, so we don't have to be very selective about the level of charisma our candidates have, is not an argument.
00:12:13.000Whoever ends up winning in 2024, if it's a Republican, Time magazine isn't going to come out several months from now with an article about how every major institution in the country coalesced to get him elected.
00:12:26.000The Democrat nominee is chosen, be it Biden.
00:12:29.000Time magazine is going to show a smiling Biden with a light blue background, shaking hands.
00:12:34.000And no matter which Republican it is, they're going to superimpose their face on Hitler's body.
00:12:39.000I think charisma does make a difference.
00:12:42.000I mean, I said this before the show, but every politician, I'm sure you can speak to this, surround themselves with people who are able to come up with strong policy.
00:13:59.000It's hard to do a one-for-one, you can't really do a one-for-one comparison because the total is different numbers.
00:14:03.000I'd be willing to bet the reason I ask though is that in 2015, Trump probably raised a lot of money.
00:14:08.000Relative to what you know to the field.
00:14:10.000Yeah, but then again I mean everyone thought Cruz is gonna win very early on right it bounced around a lot of people are pointing out that at this time in Trump's First campaign his polling was way way way way down.
00:14:22.000Yeah, so we will see but guys look I pulled up Barack Obama's announcement from 2000 I think 2007 It was fire.
00:14:52.000Well, this is another important thing to consider, which is that presidential campaign spending has been one of the number one predictors of who gets elected for decades, and Trump actually broke that mold.
00:15:03.000The Clinton campaign outspent Trump about two to one.
00:15:10.000Jeb raised way more than he did initially, absolutely.
00:15:12.000That makes perfect sense to me, though, right?
00:15:14.000Because no matter how much money people throw at you, even if, you know, I shouldn't say no matter how much money people throw at you, because we know that if you do have massive capital behind you and all of corporate America's got your back, yeah, you're gonna have a higher chance of success.
00:16:21.000Lands the plane, and then taxis around behind the stage where there is a red carpet waiting, where he gets off the plane, walks on the red carpet, onto the stage.
00:18:15.000And even back in November, he was still behind the president.
00:18:18.000And if you look at the polling, if you look at the attraction ever since, it's just been a precipitous fall off ever since November, and he's not getting better.
00:19:05.000I am telling you, when a lot of things that Trump has been doing have been boosting him in the polls, and me personally, I'm like, I like what he's doing.
00:19:23.000And the funny thing is, you want to win the presidency, you need good policies.
00:19:27.000But you are not selling someone, look, let's put it this way.
00:19:31.000If you're selling a refrigerator to somebody, and you knock on their door and say, my refrigerator's got 200 watts of pure power with my refrigerator, if someone else walks up and says, you want the best refrigerator you've ever seen in your life?
00:20:27.000It's not like when Trump was crushing Jeb Bush or these other politicians who I really dislike.
00:20:33.000It's not enjoyable for me because I do like DeSantis.
00:20:35.000I don't think this rivalry is good for the Republican Party.
00:20:38.000I think it's bad for the conservative movement.
00:20:42.000Look, I'd be lying if I sat here and said DeSantis is just as charismatic and Trump and just as capable of exciting people, because it's not true.
00:21:23.000And there's an important point here, which is someone could hear that analogy and still think I would choose the better fridge and not the better salesman.
00:21:40.000Exactly. What are people going to buy? Like, what are people going to buy?
00:21:44.000And I think part of the criticism of Trump is always, oh, he's not dignified, he's not presidential enough.
00:21:48.000But I think that's why people relate to him.
00:21:50.000He doesn't fit a mold, he's exciting, he's funny, he's relatable.
00:21:54.000In the same way that JFK was sort of this young, like, breath of fresh air to his era, and he drew so many people, I think people are drawn to Trump because he represents strength and not having to conform with the kind of stodgy Republican Party of the past.
00:22:09.000I think people like that change of pace, knowing that they can send him to talk to Vladimir Putin, you can send him out into the world, he will make, you know, he's not 100% perfect all the time, but he does come through on a lot of his promises, and that's what people want.
00:22:23.000I'll tell you the most important point.
00:22:25.000Ron DeSantis' accomplishments are bolstered by a Republican legislature that sends him the bills that he can sign.
00:22:33.000And if he goes to the presidency, unless the Republicans win every branch, he won't have that.
00:22:39.000What we need, and what I think we need to be able to rely on, is not policy, but executive action.
00:22:54.000I feel confident that my best path towards that is Donald Trump.
00:22:59.000Ron DeSantis can come out and say, policy, policy, policy, and I'll say, how are you going to get any of those policies done with Democrats?
00:23:11.000If that's the case, then policy matters.
00:23:15.000But if we're talking about the best path forward, it's going to be We hedge our bets.
00:23:20.000We want the best case scenario, and that is, Trump may not have the best policies, because Ron DeSantis really does have a great list of policies.
00:24:33.000And then whoever his vice president is, wherever that person that he picks is going to be, that's going to be a very important person to move on to take his policies for the future to get Republicans reelected then.
00:24:44.000But I cannot imagine a world that we don't want him walking in on day one and signing 167 executive orders overturning the disaster that Biden has been for the previous four years.
00:24:56.000That's exactly what the country wants right now, and that's why he's doing so well in the polling.
00:25:00.000And you were saying that he can't pick DeSantis to be his vice president.
00:25:03.000I know a lot of people have floated a Trump-DeSantis ticket, but they're both from Florida.
00:25:07.000For multiple reasons, they're both from Florida.
00:25:36.000But if you could make a suggestion, who would be your pick for VP?
00:25:39.000Actually, today, I had a few ideas a few months ago, and today, I actually have no idea.
00:25:46.000The issue that we have to take into account, too, is you are absolutely right.
00:25:51.000We were talking earlier about the general election and we're talking about suburban women and how we're going to lose a lot of them, no matter what, for a sundry of different reasons.
00:26:01.000What I like looking at and focusing on is the growth that we have seen in the black community, specifically black men.
00:26:10.000I put a clip up a couple of days ago about Ice Cube, and I'm talking Ice Cube like Mr. NWA, like Cube, literally railing on the Democrat party and saying that Democrats have been in charge for the past 40 years and they have done absolutely nothing for the black community in the last 40 years.
00:26:25.000And then I saw some other polling that had Joe Biden down 40 points amongst black men.
00:26:34.000I want to point to 2020, a couple of years ago, President Trump got the highest vote, the highest percentage of votes for black men in modern history for a Republican at 18.7%.
00:26:43.000If he is able to ascertain 25% or more, those suburban white women that we may not pick up will be supplemented by Black men that do and will vote for President Trump moving forward.
00:26:59.000And when I see Q believing, I'm like, this is getting very interesting.
00:27:04.000And obviously, if black men are choosing Trump, these liberal women, they're racist.
00:29:37.000It's always inflation, it's always the economy.
00:29:39.000When I'm in a barbershop, man, it's absolutely hilarious to listen to people that were before like, I can't stand Trump, I can't stand Trump, and now they're like, actually...
00:29:49.000I kind of really wish I had that back.
00:29:50.000He's kind of saying some interesting stuff now.
00:29:52.000It's really interesting, and it's a change.
00:29:55.000Imagine you have to raise the price of every hair that you, every head that you cut, and then that eats into your gas money, gas money's up, inflation is up, and then fewer people come get their hair cut because it's more expensive, and now they're looking around and they're like, just get me back to the way it was when President Trump was here.
00:30:13.000Well, it's also wild to see how quickly this dropped.
00:30:16.000The figures I'm having here showed that black men voted for Obama at a rate of about 95%.
00:30:23.000By the time it was on Hillary Clinton, it was 82%.
00:30:25.00082% I gotta say the fact that firstly the fact that fewer black men voted for Biden than Hillary
00:30:32.000you're doing like what what appeal I can sort of understand, like, Biden was with the Obama campaign, so there's an identity politics angle there, and black people do tend to vote Democrat, for sure.
00:30:41.000Overwhelmingly, for the past six years.
00:30:43.000Like, who genuinely feels that Hillary Clinton cares about the black community?
00:30:47.000It's shocking me that anyone in America does.
00:30:49.000Well, because she doesn't, and quite frankly, neither does Joe Biden.
00:30:52.000But at the time, a vote for Hillary was a vote against Trump.
00:31:10.000I mean, you could probably speak to this, but there is a disenfranchisement from a lot of different groups, but with black men with the Democratic Party, because it has failed them on so many levels.
00:31:20.000And I was talking to, this is really funny, actually, I was talking to a buddy of mine, he's from Atlanta, and he's absolutely going to vote for President Trump here in 2024.
00:31:28.000And he said, it'll be the first time I vote Republican, but I voted for Trump.
00:31:31.000He started a company, he's doing well.
00:31:53.000And so you're looking at kind of this next generation of people that are like, yeah, this just isn't working out for me like it had been in the past or like I was told it was supposed to work out.
00:32:03.000And again, this is why you don't ever give your allegiance as a body to any one thing or to any one group ever.
00:32:10.000When I talk to a lot of my black friends as well, they don't care about Republican or Democrat.
00:32:19.000What they want is government to work for them and their best interest, and they don't want to feel like they're just being overlooked and thrown to the side.
00:32:28.000And the rising tide raises all boats, and they want to be treated just like everybody else, and to be better off now than they were before.
00:32:38.000You know, being from Chicago, having a hundred years of Democrat rule, and problem after problem after problem, nothing ever getting solved.
00:32:47.000I have to wonder if what's actually happening is that people who grow up in Chicago eventually just give up on the political system or leave.
00:32:55.000And the young people who are there are like, it'll change when I'm old enough and I can vote.
00:33:00.000They keep voting for the same policies, the same people.
00:33:03.000I'm wondering at what point in the United States does the black community say, hey, wait a minute, the Democrats actually haven't done anything for us.
00:33:11.000So they've also gotten away with painting the Republican Party as being racist.
00:34:28.000I'm all these things and I like the idea of our party not playing identity politics anymore and then realizing that you see people like me, you see people like Byron Donalds, you see people like Senator Scott.
00:34:40.000We are all winning in white majority areas, by the way, people.
00:35:34.000They look at somebody like me, they automatically assume that I'm a Democrat and they don't ask any questions about my background or anything like that.
00:35:40.000And then if you actually heard my background, you knew where I came from, you come from a military family, grew up in a church, you find out very quickly Why would this guy be a Democrat?
00:35:57.000I've lived in Georgia about the past eight years now.
00:36:00.000The area that I'm in has a high black population.
00:36:03.000And this could just be because most of the friends I make are through my social circle at church.
00:36:07.000But they're not socially liberal people by any means.
00:36:10.000And if you look at the polling data, especially on gay and trans issues, black people are far The black community oftentimes has allowed the benevolent white liberal to convince them that they have more in common than they think, when in actuality they have nothing in common.
00:36:32.000Now, what they'll tell the black community is, Black Lives Matter, and we're here for you, and we're here to give people handouts and give you stuff.
00:37:28.000He famously said, when talking about the only ways to get out the hood, he goes, either you're slinging crack rock or you got a wicked jump shot.
00:37:38.000But he be slaying crack rock, if you know what I mean.
00:37:43.000And so Joe Biden is responsible for that legislation that disproportionately locked up black people, and yet he is now the president for the group of people that black people overwhelmingly vote for.
00:38:19.000And I feel like what ends up happening often with the Republicans versus the Democrats is the Democrats will offer you the ice cream with extra fudge and the Republicans will offer you- Reparations!
00:38:28.000Exactly, but they never actually do it.
00:38:31.000And the Republicans say something like, we are going to give you the ability to work hard so you can fulfill your dreams.
00:38:36.000And then all of these voters, I'm not singling out any race, I mean, all of the people who vote Democrat are just like, I don't want to work.
00:38:42.000We're seeing polls now, Gen Z doesn't want to work.
00:38:51.000You said that what Republicans say, you know, the Democrats say, we're going to give you free stuff and the Republicans say, we're going to give you good policy so you can work hard and live out your dreams.
00:39:00.000It tends to be more like the Democrats going, we're going to give you free stuff!
00:39:03.000And the Republicans going, We're going to pass good policy.
00:39:06.000That's the argument you were just making.
00:44:16.000I think it's crazy that, uh, I Don't Want You To Have To Murder Your Child is hating women.
00:44:21.000Well, also, and Republicans retreated, right?
00:44:23.000Because they just assumed people weren't gonna be willing to side with them on the pro-life message, so instead of hitting the messaging as hard as they possibly could to be persuasive, They tried to hide from the fact that Roe was overturned.
00:44:33.000It's like, you guys just did the one effective thing I've seen Republicans do in 20 years, and you're not going to bring that up when you're running for office?
00:44:42.000We have had a massive victory, and you're not going to talk about that because you're scared some people won't like it?
00:44:46.000That was a massive blunder in my eyes.
00:44:47.000Well, I thought it was where Donald Trump struggled a little bit in the town hall with CNN because they were trying to push him, would you federally ban abortion or whatever?
00:44:56.000He should have just said, it's a state's issue.
00:46:19.000Republicans are like, let's have a conversation about the legal precedent that allowed for this to occur and why you should be okay with it.
00:46:26.000Come on, the average person doesn't care.
00:46:28.000There's an effective way for Republicans to argue this issue emotionally.
00:46:32.000I feel like so often Republicans get shut down.
00:46:52.000I told this story before, but, you know, it bears repeating for our congressman friend here, a friend of mine who's a liberal in New York City, not very politically active, but just kind of a normie.
00:47:01.000When Democrats were voting on the restrictionless abortion, I think it was Colorado, but there was also a Democrat bill federally that would allow abortion at any stage of pregnancy if there was a medical issue.
00:47:15.000And when I brought this up and said, There's a whole lot we can get into pertaining to the medical issue point, but it does allow for terminating the life of a baby that can survive on its own.
00:47:38.000And I said, well look, whether you think I'm right or wrong, let me ask you.
00:47:41.000Do you think that a woman, let's say she can't have the baby, should they Like, find a way to deliver that baby and remove it, let it live, or should they just kill it?
00:47:50.000He's like, well, yeah, they should find any way they can have the baby live.
00:47:53.000He's like, but I think they're saying that, like, if the woman can't carry the baby anymore, she can have an abortion because of a medical issue.
00:48:00.000And I said, so in the circumstance where the baby can survive and the pregnancy can be terminated and the mother saved, why kill the baby?
00:48:09.000And then he was just like, I don't believe that.
00:48:54.000So, and I'll add this, obviously everyone here knows my stance on abortion, the audience does, completely against it.
00:49:00.000I think the Republican Party needs to be completely against it.
00:49:02.000That said, when you look at the way the parties operate as they currently stand, the Republican position is anywhere ranging from no abortion should ever be allowed, which based, that's the correct take, to there should be some restrictions on abortion.
00:49:15.000The Democratic position is there should be zero restrictions on abortion.
00:49:18.000That is the actual Democratic Party platform.
00:49:35.000And we've had a couple different leftists on this show.
00:49:38.000And the funny thing about the conversation is that they know they can't answer it without looking bad.
00:49:44.000So they try to wiggle around the answer, but I say, do you think a woman should be able to terminate a viable baby, to kill it, to abort it, at nine months, and they go, well, I mean, you gotta understand, we're talking about, no, no, no, no, no, no, simple question, and they go, yes, she said, it's her body, and I'm like, there it is.
00:50:10.000If it wasn't a human, they wouldn't be killing it.
00:50:11.000And that is the problem I have, because I come from a libertarian perspective on this, pertaining to government rights and limitations, and recognize we've got two human lives we're dealing with.
00:50:24.000The left seems to just say whatever they want to say, so they can get the right to kill the baby.
00:50:28.000With no accountability for the other life.
00:50:31.000I'm reminded of Governor Bill Inslee of Washington.
00:50:35.000He sent this letter to Idaho's Governor Brad Little saying, I'm asking you to veto your abortion trafficking law, and this was Little's, the law on like if you transport a minor out of state for an abortion without telling your parents, you are in trouble.
00:50:49.000He was like, because if the women of Washington travel to your state and have to get an abortion, you will persecute them.
00:50:55.000It's like, yes, why would they travel across the border to do that when Washington is a pro-abortion state?
00:51:01.000But instead, it's like, because you might affect my government, your government must change to fit my rules.
00:51:07.000I don't see any Republican states doing that.
00:51:09.000Instead, they're locking down their states saying, we do not allow abortion.
00:51:50.000Now, Target is scared, saying, uh oh, we don't want to end up like Bud Light.
00:51:54.000The fear now is this social effect where The people who held onto their Anheuser-Busch stock because they were assured by the media, don't worry these things will fizzle out, they've lost a lot of money.
00:52:27.000It's become a sell, not a hold, not a buy.
00:52:30.000Target then becomes the subject of controversy.
00:52:33.000If you just lost a ton of money on Anheuser-Busch stock, and you're sitting there seeing the news, I'm assuming a lot of these people say, nope, I am selling right now, I don't need to hold onto Target, I can hold onto any other stock, I'll buy Apple, I'll buy Tesla, I'm moving my money, boom, stock starts dropping.
00:52:50.000Then it creates a cascade effect where other people go, they call up their broker or they call up their wealth management manager or whatever and say, why is my portfolio going down?
00:53:01.000And say, oh well Target just suffered a major drop off.
00:53:07.000How many people are now, it's not even an impact of the boycott, it's an impact of If there is fear in the public that a stock will drop due to boycott, that will be a self-fulfilling prophecy, the Bud Light effect.
00:53:23.000If you go woke, your stock will drop, people are going to start selling off, and if you don't, you will be the one holding the empty bag.
00:53:30.000And that's the sentiment where people go, not going to be me with the hot potato.
00:53:35.000There's a billion other stocks to buy.
00:53:39.000So while it's not so easy to boycott a big box store like Target if it's the only one in your neighborhood, it's really easy to buy a different stock to put your money in.
00:54:14.000Yeah, he says he's not, he just makes some fun Satanist merchandise.
00:54:19.000But the gay trans-identifying designer, who in turn... So I wrote this story about Target a couple days ago.
00:54:27.000I was checking out some of this person's merchandising, and I noticed that Eric Carnell's stuff today has been moved off the Target website.
00:54:35.000This person has also closed his Etsy and his storefront and has pulled posts from social media that were basically anti-cis.
00:54:44.000They had lighters that said, burn the cis down, CIS.
00:54:49.000A homophobic headrest, and it's a guillotine, and in the... You can find this stuff on Twitter, so people grab the screenshots.
00:54:56.000All of these comments that are basically like, we need to destroy this system, it's not enough to just ask to be accepted, we have to dismantle what's there.
00:55:03.000Very radical kind of semi-calls for violence, and it's a really interesting time where Target panicked, and so this person panicked, and you can see the effect.
00:55:17.000Well, and then Reuters ran this article that was like, uh, this UK designer that collaborated with Target is seeing a rise in sales, and that's why he closed his website.
00:55:31.000I think he is scrubbing his stuff to make sure anything that is deemed controversial or radical is off, now that you might be able to capitalize on sympathetic leftist dollars.
00:56:36.000It wasn't as dramatic as the Bud Light issue, but right now, this has really hit a nerve, and to follow so quickly after that, you can see people feeling more motivated.
00:56:45.000They saw their decision to boycott having a financial impact.
00:56:50.000They can really feel like they're making a difference.
00:56:52.000So I have a four-year-old daughter, I have a two-year-old daughter, and I have a four-month-old little boy, and my wife, was religiously shopping at Target.
00:57:01.000And if you're telling me that we're selling bathing suits that allow you to tuck, tuckable bathing suits to children... They weren't for kids.
00:57:09.000No, the children's ones say, uh, thoughtfully made for any type of body and gender expression.
00:58:34.000Well, the first time I heard about this was on an Instagram Reels of, you know, a leftist, you know, influencer saying basically like, why are they pandering to us with this weird pride stuff?
00:58:45.000They're making fun of the fact that there's like a queer all year calendar, like, Yes.
00:59:14.000Target is just, they're falling in line with the ESG stuff.
00:59:18.000If you want funding and financing, ESG is the way to go.
00:59:21.000And then they're thinking, this is what people like.
00:59:24.000The reason these companies do it is because they think, if this is what's popular socially, this is what's in Hollywood, now that there is a negative impact and people saw Bud Light, the Bud Light thing is a major shift in the culture war.
00:59:37.000Because now these companies are going, no, that's controversial and you'll lose money, don't do it.
00:59:41.000Exactly, like it used to be the case that- Just what it should be, just drink beer.
00:59:45.000Yeah, I mean it used to be the case that getting political was controversial and now it's been the case that getting political isn't controversial as long as it's a left-wing opinion, but the left has gone so far that they're getting back to the point where leftism is once again beginning to be seen as controversial.
01:00:16.000Millions of subscribers, something like that.
01:00:18.000And we don't know exactly why, but a lot of people think it may be because of the Cuties thing, because of Big Mouth and these other shows, that they're like, we don't want to pay for this.
01:00:27.000I think Disney is now experiencing a major user drop-off.
01:00:32.000And yeah, I think get woke, go broke is starting to become more and more pronounced.
01:00:44.000Because when you lose that many subscribers, they all aren't conservatives that are subscribed.
01:00:50.000It's actually people that are parents that are looking at something and they think to themselves, you know, I can't explain to you what perverted is, but I know it when I see it.
01:01:14.000I think it's much, much simpler than that.
01:01:17.000I think the parent turns on Netflix and is clicking through and goes, I don't think we should have this on the TV, honey, because we don't want the kids watching it.
01:01:56.000This is so good to hear, because I'm constantly surrounded by, I think, highly informed people.
01:02:03.000We always get into these, you know, these pragmatic conversations, and we go down these rabbit holes, and I think sometimes it can take a step back in here.
01:02:14.000When I heard about Target losing all this money, I'm like, there's no way conservatives organized a boycott this effective this quickly.
01:02:25.000When they said that there were confrontations, I was like, if there were confrontations, it was not because Matt Walsh got on his show and said, we're going to boycott Bud Light.
01:02:35.000It's because a regular person with his Four-year-old daughter walked in and went, oh my god, I don't... Daddy, what's a lesbian?
01:02:54.000I don't know what year a lot of these kids are learning to read, but they probably, I don't know if they can read the word lesbian or even notice it, but the parents probably see these things right when they walk in and say, I don't want my kid, I'm not going to explain to my four-year-old what these things are.
01:03:22.000And then they added T to it, which is transgender, which doesn't necessarily relate to the others.
01:03:27.000That's why there's been a controversy there.
01:03:28.000But if you're putting something up right in the front display being like, celebrate who you have sex with, You are now having to explain to children what this means and why.
01:03:38.000And you're like, my kids aren't ready for the birds and the bees talk, let alone LGBT birds and the bees talk.
01:03:44.000You walk into Target normally, what do you see?
01:04:54.000Look, earmuffs for your kids, but I just gotta say this.
01:04:58.000When we make fun of people who go to the hospital with foreign objects lodged in their rectums, it's because you can't do that.
01:05:06.000But people develop paraphilias and fetishes where they do things to their bodies that are damaging.
01:05:12.000We don't want to make people develop behaviors that are harmful to them, and we want to protect children from these things.
01:05:20.000Why would a school teach a child about putting foreign objects into their anus is beyond me, but I'm glad Ron DeSantis said F that and got rid of it.
01:06:49.000This is not a news article, it's an official government source saying, New York City Banking Commission votes to approve 26 depository banks for two years, limits new deposits at Capital One and KeyBank.
01:07:00.000Now, why is it that they're restricting deposits at Capital One Bank?
01:07:06.000They say, Following the first ever public hearing held by the New York City Banking Commission today, all three members voted to limit deposits at Capital One and KeyBank after the banks failed to submit required plans demonstrating their efforts to root out discrimination.
01:08:11.000It's not enough to be not racist, you have to be on board with our leftist programs that we label anti-racism.
01:08:15.000Like, I just don't know how you could trust a bank that isn't doing that.
01:08:18.000How if they demonstrated competence if they're not talking about social justice?
01:08:21.000Maybe they could give out copies of Anti-Racist Baby to all new customers.
01:08:25.000See, now that, I think I'd be, if they're not, to be honest, if they're not giving genderqueer out to every customer, I just don't know how they could be a reliable bank.
01:08:35.000Anti-racist baby's a better book to give.
01:08:41.000So the press release is saying that they heard testimony from Muslim New Yorkers who've experienced discrimination in the process of open air closing accounts, and then also climate advocates condemned the banks that have continued to lend billions of dollars to the fossil fuel expansion.
01:08:55.000What is the bank supposed to say, like, well, you're a fossil fuel company and you need a lot of money?
01:08:59.000Despite having made net-zero commitments.
01:09:01.000This is a 12-year plan by Occupy Wall Street to finally get their revenge, and it's working.
01:09:07.000Also, I want to mention, so these bank loans are all predatory, and you have to pay a high interest rate, and we're, like, sad that they're not doing that to the big oil companies.
01:09:18.000So we need to have a serious conversation with our culture, and we need to really talk about how far this country has come in terms of discrimination.
01:09:26.000We are behaving, and these institutions are behaving, as if this country, in just a handful of generations, has not made leaps and bounds.
01:09:35.000And I'm sitting here a product of that.
01:09:37.000So when people talk about discrimination, I will tell you about my great-great-grandfather that was born on a plantation.
01:10:05.000But as a product of the American dream, over generations and generations of those that have fought for us to be here, I am now looking at us regressing and being more discriminatory against people just because they're white.
01:10:19.000Well, what's different than discriminating against somebody just because they're black?
01:10:24.000Well, I will say, I do kind of understand what the left is saying about white privilege and white people, because it is mostly white liberals pushing their racist policies.
01:10:36.000When they come out and they're like, well, white people are like this, and I'm like, you're projecting, aren't you?
01:10:41.000Like, you're telling me you are racist.
01:10:43.000They are projecting, and then I feel, and I say a lot of liberals straight, because they look at me like I have a horn growing out of my head.
01:10:49.000And I'm like, so you do understand that when you do say things like that to someone like me, you're marginalizing my hard work and my family that we took to get here.
01:10:57.000You're saying that because I'm black, I can't do these things, as if I'm inherently stupid.
01:11:02.000You're the part of the data set that they exclude.
01:15:18.000This is another one of these AstroTurf things where I never ever heard a black person complain about not being able to get an ID, and then white liberals started jumping in and saying black people can't get IDs.
01:15:26.000This is something that we never heard from the black community once.
01:15:29.000Yeah, I think it's part of the idea that you rise to the expectations that are given to you, right?
01:16:07.000This is what I ask my lefty friends in Chicago.
01:16:10.000I say, when they tell me that they're in favor of reparations or affirmative action stuff, I said, okay.
01:16:16.000So, you know, in my neighborhood where it's fairly mixed, what do you think would happen if one day the government handed out ten grand to only the black people?
01:16:26.000I mean, you are creating racial tensions.
01:16:28.000Now all the slack-jawed white trash people, salt-of-the-earth working class people who struggle every day, they're looking at all this brand new stuff and listen, Crime is not an issue of race, it's an issue of poverty.
01:16:40.000I've witnessed it, at least in my neighborhood firsthand.
01:16:56.000But I ask my friends, I say, why does it make sense that the white family that lives in the exact same neighborhood, in the exact same circumstances, should be left behind?
01:17:06.000Shouldn't we just say, those of you who are impoverished, we will seek to help?
01:17:11.000Oh, and that's what we've been doing, though, right?
01:17:13.000I mean, the war on poverty's been an unmitigated failure.
01:17:15.000We already had the federal government try to give money disproportionately to the African-American community from the taxpayer base, right?
01:17:22.000We saw that happen, and it hasn't lifted them out of poverty.
01:17:48.000They want every kid in every school to explore every disgusting, bizarre sexual lifestyle choice and perversion, but they're unwilling to have a conversation with them about finding the right person to marry, ensuring that you have the same values, not having sex with that person so you don't become blinded by the hormones and end up marrying the wrong person, and then bringing children into the world with someone you're not going to stay with.
01:18:09.000That's never the conversation when we're talking about educating children to be adults who have to operate in the world and contend with the sexual nature of reality.
01:18:17.000It's always, let's show them disgusting, perverted fetish porn.
01:18:20.000Not, let's show them how they can build strong families.
01:18:24.000Have you met Seamus, our resident cat?
01:19:12.000And I think to your point, so much of what we teach kids is to divorce responsibility from the action, right?
01:19:19.000So with the rise of birth control and with widespread abortion, it's When you choose to have sex, it's completely for pleasure and you should always believe that there is no risk of pregnancy and therefore linking yourself to another human being, not just the baby, but this person who has fathered it or the mother of it for the rest of your lives.
01:19:37.000We want to teach people they live in a society without consequences, but if you are not willing to accept responsibility, you can never turn your life into anything.
01:20:41.000I think the easiest way to explain why it's grooming is the excuse of like, well, you know, this is a part of life, so the kids need to be educated on it.
01:20:46.000It's like, dude, there are a billion things that happen in the real world we do not have in schools.
01:21:06.000What if, like, for every dollar you spend on this bizarre sex education, you have to spend a thousand dollars on shop classes, or welding, or some kind of trade school?
01:21:51.000It was great at my high school because it was like extra food during the day.
01:21:55.000We had an intro to accounting course that actually the teacher on his own elected to say like, here's how you do your taxes, here's how you balance a checkbook.
01:22:05.000He himself decided this was part of it.
01:22:11.000Why could you not teach a freshman to do that?
01:22:13.000Well, it's so weird too, right, because when they try to force these things onto kids, what their response is usually when you point out that this is a disgusting, horrible thing that we should not be showing to young eyes, and that ideally no one would ever have to see, their response is, well, I know you don't want people to do this, And I don't either, I promise.
01:22:30.000But this is gonna happen so we should instruct them in it so they know how to do it safely.
01:22:34.000We don't do that with any other thing that we don't want people doing.
01:22:37.000We don't go like, well we should show them how to commit crime safely, we should show them how to be racist safely, we should show them how to be sexist in a way where they won't lose their career or something like that because they're gonna do it anyway.
01:22:46.000We can't educate people to not do things, but there's one final thing I want to mention here, which is, for all the beloviating they engage in about how real world realities need to be imparted to children in a way that completely destroys their innocence, okay, you know what happens in the real world?
01:23:02.000People who have more sexual partners before they're married are more likely to get divorced.
01:23:07.000Virgins rate, in all surveys, as having the highest level of satisfaction in their marriages.
01:23:12.000People who choose to stay married instead of getting divorced after five years, in the majority of cases, say they're glad they stayed married.
01:23:18.000But those aren't realities we can educate kids on.
01:23:21.000We can only show them non-binary fetish points.
01:23:26.000You guys see the story from the Dodgers, they're having the drag queen nuns come?
01:23:32.000You know, I saw that and I thought, how is that actually allowed?
01:23:35.000How are they allowed to have drag queen nuns?
01:23:39.000Because I'm pretty sure the LA Dodgers would not legally be allowed to have a minstrel show on the field because it violates civil rights laws and discrimination laws.
01:23:49.000And the response on the left was, you're a Karen, ha ha ha, we can do whatever you want.
01:23:52.000I thought you cared about free speech.
01:23:53.000And I'm like, oh, I'm for free speech.
01:24:21.000It may be funny to those who hate Christians, but how are they allowed to do it with discrimination?
01:24:25.000I think Christians should file a discrimination lawsuit.
01:24:28.000Well, I think every player on the LA Dodgers who has some sort of Bible quote on his social media profile should immediately ask to be transferred off the team.
01:24:37.000I mean, I think there's a lot of people who take action here.
01:24:39.000In this country, hate speech laws are questionable anyways, but they are meant to protect certain people.
01:25:08.000So I absolutely think if they want to have these non-discriminatory... Look, I like the idea that public accommodations don't discriminate against people based on their religion.
01:25:17.000Yeah, well also, and this is so sickening, and the reason this kind of thing happens is because When somebody is so debauched and porn-addled that they have to engage in the most perverse possible sexual behaviors to get any kind of thrill, and they can't resist those urges and temptations, the fact that there are human beings out there who are so in control of themselves that they're celibate and pure is completely intolerable to them.
01:25:52.000Of displaying self-control, and especially when you're a grown man in the world has no shortage of women with more emotional and sexual restraint than you, when you're naturally supposed to be an authority, doesn't feel so good to think about, right?
01:26:09.000They can't, they literally cannot tolerate the existence of good women, so they need to mock them, and that is why nuns are being insulted here.
01:26:49.000Right, so let them argue in court why it's not mocking, and then if they win, congratulations, now anyone can do any public display mocking any group of people.
01:26:58.000So I kind of laugh at this kind of stuff too, because being from Texas, this just would never happen.
01:27:04.000But this would not happen at a Dallas game.
01:27:06.000This would not happen at an Astros game.
01:27:08.000This would never happen, because the people in the stands would be apoplectic.
01:27:13.000And so my issue is now, what's happened with the degradation of California that this is even a conversation?
01:27:21.000And it's also good for me to hear these kinds of things, because it makes me really very thankful that I live in Texas, because this is absolute insanity.
01:27:30.000But it's always the Vox Populi, it's always the voice of the people, and you are absolutely correct.
01:27:35.000If you are so dissatisfied with seeing something like this, we can't talk about it on the podcast, the people there have to show their disapproval, and then vote with their wallet, and then vote with their pocketbook to make sure that this just stops.
01:27:48.000Or they sue them, because they should be offended by something like this.
01:27:51.000And by the way, when the left, you are so right, when the left gets offended, they go for the juggler.
01:27:58.000But they also know that the laws work in their favor.
01:28:00.000Like, I'd be interested to see if the lawsuit plays out.
01:28:02.000So a group of Christians say, this is discriminatory, this is hate speech, can't believe they did this.
01:28:06.000If a judge would be like, I don't really think that there's enough weight to your claim.
01:28:11.000I think that there are some people who really feel like Christians, because they're the majority religion in this country, don't feel the same discrimination.
01:28:43.000The reason they're mocking them is because they're weak men.
01:28:47.000And they're so effeminate that they can't handle the fact that there are women in the world stronger than them, which is why they mock them, right?
01:28:57.000These nuns, they're stronger than all of these gross little perverts.
01:29:01.000If it is legal to dress up like a nun in this way, mocking the religion, And a court says it's fine, then anybody could dress up like a trans person.
01:30:03.000And this is something that... But no, seriously, all joking aside, you know, it's amazing how they would pervert that to make it a biblical thing in order to make it more acceptable in their own eyes.
01:30:17.000Yeah, well, also, I mean, I think it's actually kind of fitting they call it pride, because one thing that Thomas Aquinas wrote was that when a person becomes too prideful, God will withhold the graces from them not to fall into perverse sexual appetites so that they will be humbled.
01:30:32.000I think we should, uh... Sound of interest?
01:30:50.000Well, to be honest, they would probably get mad at that, not just because it's God's covenant, but because I wouldn't have, like, the little trans arrow and BLM arrow and then, like, Ukraine logo inside of it.
01:31:00.000They'd be like, this is way out of date.
01:31:02.000We'll make a very beautiful depiction of the Ark with a rainbow saying God's Covenant on it that you can put up.
01:31:33.000I think it used to have a stripe in it for magic, representing witchcraft or something.
01:31:36.000One thing that cracked me up, this was pointed out by some Anon account on Twitter, which most
01:31:41.000brilliant observations are to be honest, and they showed all of the different iterations that the
01:31:47.000flag had gone under, this pride flag had undergone in the last several months. They're like,
01:31:50.000isn't it so fitting that it's having an identity crisis?
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01:35:49.000West Virginia originally joined the growing number of states that legalized cannabis for medical use.
01:35:52.000The state's medical cannabis program became operational in 2021, while the recreational use of cannabis by adults is set to become legal in July 2023.
01:36:14.000Legalizing cannabis in West Virginia has, whoa, thing popped up, has been a contagious issue, proponents arguing blah, blah, blah, under the laws, yadda, yadda, currently, and then with the legalization of cannabis for recreational use in 2023, West Virginia is poised to become one of the latest states to embrace the growing trend of legalizing cannabis for medical and recreational use.
01:37:25.000Ron DeSantis' message was very internet esoteric.
01:37:28.000It was very understandable to us, the hyper-online.
01:37:32.000Then when the Twitter space crashed at about 700,000, I mean it was crashing at 300,000, for them to say it's possibly the biggest room ever online is just like, dude, you can't come in and talk to the internet and then be wrong about the internet.
01:39:31.000But the strategy here is, if everybody, if people who like Trump do like DeSantis too, and people who like DeSantis do like Trump, DeSantis isn't winning by attacking Trump.
01:40:08.000We were thinking about doing a Twitter space, where we would just launch the space, and then it would just be the IRL account, or the TimCast account, just making the sound, and no one can chime in or do anything, just listen.
01:42:42.000I think, here's the thing, I don't know, you can't, you probably can't cultivate Trump-level charisma, and if you can, it takes years and years, but the level of charisma where you don't sound the way DeSantis did when he was reading off that announcement, yeah, I think you can probably practice and get better from where he is, I do.
01:43:48.000I love his statements when I read them.
01:43:52.000I think he hits all the right points, but the guy really has to put some more emphasis on his words.
01:43:57.000Seven minute announcement where he announces first, in as low energy as possible, and then gets into a very esoteric conversation about the narrative.
01:44:13.000McLean says, Tim, when Seamus gets cycled out, you need to replace him with a hard liberal that would disagree with you on almost everything.
01:45:11.000But, you made a good point earlier about wanting to win another state, getting that advantage, so you get a VP, say, Kristi Noem, then he gets South Dakota, or something like that.
01:45:20.000He gets an advantage based on who his VP is, so.
01:45:23.000But maybe Carrie Lake pulls in a lot of Arizona support.
01:45:28.000Manifested Destiny says the idea of what is presidential is a recent media-created narrative.
01:45:33.000Teddy Roosevelt threw people out of windows.
01:45:39.000Jackson invited the locals to eat a giant cheese wheel on the White House lawn.
01:46:15.000So, I guess what happened with Hamilton and Burr was that Hamilton intentionally fires off to the side, like, I'm a man of honor, I am not afraid, but then Burr was like, nah!
01:47:34.000It says, Rep Hunt, what more can DJT do to attract young black men?
01:47:36.000That's why it's an established fact. But I mean, part of it too, was that he was then able to continue to ride the I am
01:47:44.000the young vibrant personality. That's right. We got a good one here from CJ says rep hunt. What more can DJT do to
01:47:50.000attract young black men? I'm fearful Biden will draw a huge Gen Z turnout just because Trump is on the ballot.
01:47:56.000I mean, he's continuing to do exactly what he's doing right now and talk about his record and talk about the economy,
01:48:03.000talk about what we can do to get this country back to the way it was before covid.
01:48:08.000And if he stays focused on those topics, stays focused on those issues, literally like black people, like American voters, they want to hear about, are we going to secure the border or not?
01:48:17.000Are we going to have a sovereign nation?
01:48:19.000What are we going to do about inflation?
01:48:21.000Are we going to stop waging war against our energy and oil and gas companies?
01:48:25.000And talking about what are we going to do to get back to those things and staying focused on that?
01:48:31.000I think those kind of just pragmatic terms with his already popular vigor, I think that will fair out very well.
01:49:31.000bash on Biden for being old and basically lying about his health all the time, but Trump is 76 year olds, he's great, he's full of vigor, but he doesn't have decades and decades ahead of him the way that, you know, DeSantis or people of his age group do.
01:49:45.000I mean, you're an example of this, right?
01:49:47.000Like, we want to have lots of people coming up the pike, we don't want to be tearing them down.
01:50:06.000I will say, as far, you know, there's a lot I disagree with him on, especially like the pro-life issue, all the things I would disagree with a Democrat on, but RFK, as far as Democrats go, I do find him quite interesting and I like a good amount of it.
01:51:48.000If he had launched it on YouTube, he would have had four million live viewers.
01:51:52.000There would have been no crash and he could have done it with Elon Musk or anybody else.
01:51:55.000They could have simulcast it, but Elon wanted the exclusive and in their inexperience, they don't... It's like the DeSantis campaign His charisma and his policy exemplify their level of understanding of the culture war very, very well.
01:52:09.000They have a surface understanding of these things, and they don't have any core player advising them.
01:52:16.000They don't have a high-level person to be like, Ron, you're dry.
01:52:43.000And he's like, these windows are perfect!
01:52:45.000Maybe they're not, but we'll fix it later!
01:52:49.000Because that's actually how he thinks.
01:52:51.000I actually got to meet him at a retreat a couple of years ago, and it was really kind of funny because I walked up to him and I said, hey man, I just want to let you know it's really nice to be one of the only two African Americans.
01:53:04.000But he's the kind of guy that thinks in a different way.
01:53:08.000He'll blow up a rocket to figure out how to make a better rocket.
01:53:32.000Tony J. Sagastizzato, from a fellow minority West Pointer and combat veteran, thank you, sir, for your continued service to our great nation.
01:54:42.000The leprechaun bites the guy and he turns Irish.
01:54:45.000And so he starts eating a bunch of potatoes.
01:54:46.000He's like, I have to charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge a charge So much, I just, but I cannot tell you.
01:56:07.000Inspector Tasty says, went to a drive-thru liquor store last weekend, ordered a tall can of Miller Lite, the guy hands me a brown bag, got home to find out he snuck me a Bud Light.
01:56:16.000They're literally trying to unload their stock any way possible.
01:57:20.000Imagine if, like, Seamus came on this show and he was like, it's a disaster, and we're like, wow, really?
01:57:24.000And then people start selling off stock, and they're moving their money, and then Seamus goes, oh, wait, I forgot the exclamation mark.
01:57:34.000What do we got here with Matthew Murphy?
01:57:35.000He says, please, as the congressman, ask the congressman, about the non-scientific racial quotas for enrollment and clinical research per FDA guidance, omnibus budget bill, January 23.
01:57:45.000This will delay life-extending and saving oncology drugs from reaching the market, just to satisfy some D.E.I., D.I.E.
02:00:51.000I actually did two about polyamory recently.
02:00:53.000One is called, uh, Polyamory Explained in 15 Seconds, which was kind of mean, but pretty funny.
02:00:58.000And then one called Polyamorous Grandma.
02:01:00.000So, uh, I'd advise you all to check those out.
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