Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - Timcast IRL - TRUMP WINS IOWA CAUCUS Live w-Benny Johnson, Alex Bruesewitz, Vivek Ramaswamy & More

00:00:00.000 Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to our Iowa caucus show.

00:00:10.000 We are here in Des Moines, Iowa.

00:00:12.000 It is, I think it's like, what, negative 15 out right now.

00:00:14.000 We've got the Iowa Caucus results trackers pulled up, but we still have, I think, it could be an hour before we know exactly who wins and what's going on, but there's a lot of interesting data that's coming out.

00:00:23.000 So we're gonna talk about this.

00:00:24.000 There is a lot of news that we'll probably get into as we are waiting, but we have a lot of awesome guests.

00:00:28.000 And in the news today, Of course the Iowa caucus is taking center stage.

00:00:33.000 Donald Trump is the huge favorite expected to win.

00:00:35.000 But there is a shocking new poll showing that among first-time caucus goers, Vivek Ramaswamy actually is leading, Nikki Haley's in second, and Trump is in third.

00:00:42.000 I don't know how much that will matter because the core base of voters are not first-time voters, so this should get pretty interesting.

00:00:48.000 We've got massive escalation in the Red Sea, which could lead to serious conflict, crisis, and war.

00:00:53.000 Higher prices, so we'll talk about all that.

00:00:55.000 And a bunch of other stuff.

00:00:56.000 We'll talk about the airlines getting woke and going broke.

00:00:59.000 But I think a big focus of today is going to be on the strategies of these political campaigns, who's going to win, why they're engaging the things they are, and of course, Donald Trump versus Vivek Ramaswamy is big in the news right now.

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00:02:20.000 Joining us tonight to start off the show, we got Benny Johnson and Alex Brusiewicz.

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00:02:42.000 Who are you?

00:02:42.000 What do you do?

00:02:43.000 For those that might not know.

00:02:44.000 News and politics and culture on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitch, Rumble, Kick, other platforms that I'm ex, and so forth.

00:02:58.000 Well, all right.

00:02:58.000 We got Alex.

00:02:59.000 Alex, what are you doing?

00:03:00.000 He's blowing up, by the way.

00:03:01.000 I mean, this guy gains more followers than anybody I know on a daily basis.

00:03:04.000 He's crushing it.

00:03:05.000 But I'm Alex Berzwitz.

00:03:06.000 I am a semi-professional Twitter troll and a professional full-time dissimp crusher online.

00:03:12.000 And, uh, you know, I'm excited for a big Trump victory tonight.

00:03:15.000 Right on.

00:03:16.000 We've got a couple other guests.

00:03:17.000 We've got a bunch of people who may be jumping in and out.

00:03:19.000 I don't know exactly who may be showing up because there are a lot of people who have expressed interests, but, um, we are, uh, we have been under the impression the whole time, and I just want to make sure this is clear.

00:03:28.000 Vivek Ramaswamy should be joining us at some point in the night to discuss strategy, what's happening, and so we're excited for that.

00:03:33.000 Of course, we had him on the show on Wednesday.

00:03:36.000 We did a big town hall with him.

00:03:37.000 But considering how hectic the night may be, we have no idea how it may turn out, especially considering the roads are covered in ice and it's like minus 15, but the plan is to have him around.

00:03:45.000 We also got the crew here, of course.

00:03:47.000 Luke Rikowsky's hanging out.

00:03:48.000 Hey guys, my name's Zubrodowski of TheBestPoliticalShow.com, and because of Bytonomics, I'm also selling on Blank Blank for $7,000 a load there.

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00:04:02.000 We also have Seamus here, who just came out and crawled out of the tunnels in New York City.

00:04:06.000 Good to see you, brother.

00:04:07.000 Hold on a second.

00:04:07.000 So, Luke... Were those Irish tunnels, though?

00:04:13.000 It's deeply Irish, yes.

00:04:15.000 It's unbelievable.

00:04:16.000 By the way, Luke was eating seed oil filled food earlier.

00:04:20.000 How dare you be blasphemous?

00:04:21.000 And Tim can vouch for that.

00:04:23.000 Well, I caught him because I saw Luke sitting on the couch eating a cracker and I recognized instantly it was a Belvita cracker from the shape on it.

00:04:28.000 As he came out of his tunnel.

00:04:29.000 And I was eating a beef stick.

00:04:32.000 And then when Luke got up- With soy.

00:04:33.000 You had a soy- There's no soy in there.

00:04:35.000 You had, what, red 5?

00:04:36.000 Red 2?

00:04:37.000 Red 3.

00:04:37.000 Oh, gross!

00:04:38.000 There was red 3 in it.

00:04:39.000 That stuff's made from coleslaw.

00:04:40.000 That's right.

00:04:41.000 I think.

00:04:41.000 I confess, there were preservatives and coloring and corn syrup in my beef stick, but Luke was eating seed oil.

00:04:47.000 Couldn't preserve Luke's reputation.

00:04:48.000 What do you eat?

00:04:49.000 What about your two-sprite diet?

00:04:51.000 How about that? 0.81

00:04:52.000 No one talks about your horrible diet.

00:04:54.000 You don't want to get into this gear.

00:04:55.000 I do. 0.98

00:04:56.000 You're a poisonous, fluorine drinker. 1.00

00:04:58.000 I only IQ. 0.94

00:04:59.000 What were the tunnels used for?

00:05:02.000 Yeah, answer the question, Sheamus.

00:05:04.000 What were you doing in the tunnels?

00:05:04.000 Guys, we're moving on.

00:05:06.000 I actually legitimately want to go.

00:05:08.000 I am fed up.

00:05:09.000 We're moving on.

00:05:10.000 Seamus did, however, drink two Sprites and a piece of chocolate cake.

00:05:16.000 My name's Seamus Coghlan.

00:05:17.000 I'm a cartoonist, political pundit.

00:05:20.000 I have a podcast on Rumble that's on Hades right now called Shamer.

00:05:23.000 I also have a YouTube channel called Freedom Tunes.

00:05:25.000 We upload a new animated cartoon every single week.

00:05:28.000 And I'm a co-host on ShimCast.

00:05:31.000 That's right.

00:05:31.000 I'm Ian Cross, and I have been eating very healthy while we were in town.

00:05:36.000 I've been drinking a lot of hot tea, chamomile.

00:05:38.000 That was nice.

00:05:39.000 Caffeine, low caffeine.

00:05:40.000 You're a classy gentleman.

00:05:42.000 Hard to eat healthy in Iowa.

00:05:43.000 I've got a bit of a fuzz in my headphones, so hopefully it's not too distracting.

00:05:46.000 We went to the Big Steer.

00:05:48.000 Do people, everyone from Demo know what that is?

00:05:50.000 Luke said apparently like everyone.

00:05:51.000 I found that place.

00:05:52.000 I did a deep dive research into it.

00:05:54.000 You come to Iowa, go to the Big Steer.

00:05:56.000 Absolutely.

00:05:57.000 That place is awesome.

00:05:58.000 Best ribeye in town.

00:05:58.000 Man, the seafood was top notch.

00:06:00.000 Super good.

00:06:01.000 Delicious.

00:06:02.000 That's butter, there's like melted butter sauce.

00:06:03.000 Did that have enough seed oils for you, Luke?

00:06:04.000 No seed oils, just ribeye.

00:06:05.000 No, the dressing they made in house.

00:06:07.000 Ian asked about it.

00:06:08.000 Yeah, that garlic.

00:06:09.000 They were like, nope, it's legit, it's cream, But now that we've talked about a bunch of nonsense, let's talk about the news.

00:06:14.000 Alright, here's the first thing I got pulled up for you.

00:06:15.000 This is actually really funny, the first thing I want to mention.

00:06:18.000 We have the New York Times, Iowa caucus results queued up.

00:06:21.000 For those that are here watching live, you can see what we have on the screen right here.

00:06:24.000 But what do you notice?

00:06:26.000 What do you notice in their default breakout of the candidates?

00:06:29.000 I notice our buddy isn't there.

00:06:31.000 Who wants to say it?

00:06:32.000 No Vivek?

00:06:33.000 Vivek is not included in the New York Times default breakout.

00:06:37.000 You have to then click View All Candidates to bring him up along with Chris Christie, Asa Hutchinson, and Ryan Binkley.

00:06:45.000 Yeah, Christie did drop out, but he's still on the ballot.

00:06:47.000 Deadass, I don't even know who Ryan Brinkley is.

00:06:50.000 He was the first person to do the full Grassley this cycle.

00:06:52.000 He did all 99 counties.

00:06:54.000 Did he really?

00:06:55.000 He did.

00:06:56.000 Oh wow.

00:06:56.000 Is he still running?

00:06:58.000 No, he suspended his campaign, but I think he still has a few folks going to caucus for him.

00:07:03.000 Really?

00:07:04.000 And Hutchison's been out for a while.

00:07:05.000 No, he's still in.

00:07:06.000 He's still in?

00:07:06.000 He's still in, yeah.

00:07:07.000 Wow.

00:07:08.000 That's kind of depressing, but more power to him, I guess.

00:07:11.000 One percent.

00:07:12.000 Oh, is it really?

00:07:13.000 Chris Christie dropped out, but I do love that Vivek is not included in their default breakout of the total reporting.

00:07:20.000 Should be interesting to see what ends up happening because of that.

00:07:24.000 It was the same with CNN and Fox News.

00:07:26.000 Yeah, apparently.

00:07:27.000 So we did a ride-along with Vivek today, and he showed me a screenshot from his Fox News hit this morning.

00:07:34.000 He's like, what's going on, guys?

00:07:35.000 What is this?

00:07:37.000 And he pointed at the screen, and it just showed...

00:07:40.000 It's a poll.

00:07:40.000 It was a poll of who are you caucusing for, and they did not include his name.

00:07:43.000 But the weird thing on CNN is when you clicked the link and went there, the big article was Vivek's face.

00:07:49.000 I don't understand what was going on.

00:07:50.000 I think if you go to CNN right now, it'll probably just show you Vivek.

00:07:53.000 I guess that's it.

00:07:54.000 But I suppose the big news and the big questions we can start talking about right now is Donald Trump versus Vivek Ramaswamy.

00:07:59.000 This is like the big subject.

00:08:01.000 For the longest time, everybody's kind of wondering how it is that Vivek is running against Donald Trump, But there's no fighting.

00:08:08.000 And so we actually got to the point where I think it was Dave Rubin who tweeted that Vivek... I don't want to get him wrong, but Dave said something to the effect that Trump is working with or for... I'm sorry, Vivek is working with or for Trump or something like this.

00:08:21.000 That was a big narrative that was being pushed by the DeSantis camp for quite a while.

00:08:26.000 And, you know, I think Vivek was smart for a long time for not taking shots at President Trump.

00:08:31.000 And he kind of stayed above the fray in that fight.

00:08:36.000 But President Trump certainly doesn't enjoy when people use his face or name for, you know, financial purposes.

00:08:42.000 And those T-shirts that Vivek was pushing with the Save Trump Vote Vivek message, I think that was a little I think that upset a few people, including President Trump, and rightfully so.

00:08:54.000 President Trump is never liked when people use his name.

00:08:56.000 He even sued little Mac Miller over the song Donald Trump.

00:09:00.000 And so, I think that was a rookie mistake made by Vivek, and it happened at an inopportune time for the guy.

00:09:06.000 Yeah, so this is the story.

00:09:07.000 I just Google-searched the image.

00:09:10.000 India West is the source.

00:09:11.000 I don't know what they are, but... This image is real, and it's Vivek with a group of young men, and they're wearing shirts that say, Save Trump, Vote Vivek.

00:09:18.000 Look, man, I like Vivek.

00:09:19.000 He's a good dude, he's a smart guy, he's a hard-working guy, but this is... This was a mistake.

00:09:24.000 This was a big mistake.

00:09:25.000 I understand the message, like, okay, Trump's, his life is at risk if the deep state really wants him to not be president, that they'll stop at nothing.

00:09:34.000 I get that, but like, to rely on that as a campaign message is a little lame.

00:09:38.000 Like, you gotta be the best candidate, not like, oh, that other guy's a problem, so vote for me instead.

00:09:43.000 That just doesn't fly.

00:09:44.000 It doesn't sustain my opinion.

00:09:47.000 Yeah, I mean, look, Vivek has a great thing going as If the deep state does really stop at nothing and go after Trump, and let's not even explain the worst that could happen, we're going to be happy that it's not just Nikki Haley waiting in the bleachers.

00:09:47.000 Show me why you do it.

00:10:04.000 Yep.

00:10:04.000 That was the argument that I overheard as he's doing radio interviews all day with Alex Jones, Bongino.

00:10:12.000 I couldn't hear Alex Jones or Bongino, but you could tell they were like, Trump's going after you, why would you run with this stupid shirt? 0.99

00:10:18.000 And his argument was, Alex Jones, you just did 20 minutes. 0.99

00:10:22.000 We just did 20 minutes together on how they're going to assassinate Trump.

00:10:26.000 So then what happens next?

00:10:27.000 And Bongino, you just did a whole interview where you and Tucker talk about assassination of Trump for 30 straight minutes.

00:10:33.000 So what do you think's going to happen next?

00:10:35.000 Game theory that out for me.

00:10:37.000 I don't think that's smart.

00:10:39.000 I don't think that t-shirt's smart.

00:10:41.000 But that's, I think, the thought process behind it, right?

00:10:44.000 The t-shirt is cringey, sure, but I thought Trump's response could have been better.

00:10:47.000 I think he could have been a lot smarter about this situation.

00:10:50.000 His statement today made more sense, but he could have reached out to Vivek.

00:10:54.000 He could have Send out a message saying hey, I don't need saving.

00:10:58.000 Thank you Without kind of the dividing a lot of people as of course, you know Don jr Was here just a couple days ago and he talked about how we don't have a bench and this kind of infighting I don't think is productive and I think it could have been handled totally different in my opinion Well, it is politics, and Vivek is running for president against Trump, and he has stayed out of, you know, kind of the firing lane the entire cycle so far.

00:11:23.000 And this was really his first hiccup and mistake, I think, of the campaign.

00:11:23.000 That's true.

00:11:29.000 And, you know, President Trump is a fighter by nature, and he typically doesn't hold back saying things that are on his mind.

00:11:35.000 Uh, that was probably the first thing that came to his mind yesterday.

00:11:37.000 And so he put it out and, you know, look, I think a lot of us do like Vivek.

00:11:40.000 A lot of us do think he has a future in the movement and a future in the party.

00:11:43.000 I don't think it's, uh, this year.

00:11:45.000 Uh, but I do think, you know, he's a young guy and, uh, when we're talking, looking at our bench down the future, I think Ron DeSantis stepped on a landmine this cycle and has no future after this.

00:11:55.000 I think a lot of people saw his response and I think some people took offense to it because they kind of saw it as punching down and they saw it as infighting.

00:12:03.000 And to me, that's how just some people reacted to it.

00:12:06.000 But, you know, again, it's a crazy situation and a lot of people want it handled differently.

00:12:13.000 I think the only smart move here, quite frankly, is for Trump to release a Save Vivek shirt.

00:12:20.000 That would have been, yeah, that would have been a meme.

00:12:21.000 For real.

00:12:22.000 That would have been hilarious.

00:12:22.000 That would have been funny.

00:12:23.000 That is good.

00:12:24.000 And be like, I got you, bitch. 1.00

00:12:25.000 Save a vape from himself. 1.00

00:12:27.000 Well, I want to make a point piggybacking off of what you said, Alex, with DeSantis and the fact that he stepped on a landmine here.

00:12:33.000 It's just fascinating to me because, yeah, this is the first time I've ever felt that I liked a politician and hated their campaign.

00:12:40.000 It's a very strange phenomenon.

00:12:41.000 No.

00:12:43.000 I don't even like the guy anymore.

00:12:44.000 You don't like him anymore at all?

00:12:45.000 Sorry, but finish your point.

00:12:46.000 Yeah, no, well, my point was basically just that, and I've said this on the show before, I think that if Trump and DeSantis are both strong, that's great for the United States of America, I want both of those men to be as successful as possible, and then going up against each other in this cycle, and DeSantis deciding to run has turned out to be a complete disaster for him and his campaign, and he ended up basically jumping headfirst into the politician woodchipper that is Donald Trump, I believe, to borrow the phrasing from Aaron McIntyre.

00:13:13.000 And so, there's a lot that DeSantis has done that I think is fantastic.

00:13:17.000 I would like to see him have a strong future in politics, but unfortunately, I think his campaign has been a disaster.

00:13:23.000 And I also say that as someone who's had friends work for him, people who I like.

00:13:26.000 I think the people making decisions for DeSantis are really not trustworthy, and I think they're making bad calls.

00:13:31.000 And this is the moment that I would like to formally apologize to Will Chamberlain and Jordan Chamberlain.

00:13:37.000 They're friends of ours.

00:13:38.000 They're good friends of mine.

00:13:39.000 Sam, Will's great.

00:13:39.000 Will's a good guy.

00:13:40.000 And I want to apologize because on the show last week, I said that they were living in Maryland while working for Ron DeSantis, and that was not true.

00:13:47.000 And so, Will, I'm really sorry about that.

00:13:49.000 I didn't know.

00:13:50.000 I made a mistake.

00:13:51.000 I read these articles.

00:13:52.000 I assumed you were still in the area because you had been on the show earlier, but they were actually living in Florida at the time when they were working for DeSantis.

00:13:58.000 So seriously, sorry about that, guys.

00:13:59.000 I mean it.

00:14:00.000 And Will's one of the people I'm thinking of.

00:14:01.000 Will's the man.

00:14:02.000 Like, I really like that guy.

00:14:03.000 Yeah, I don't know how you get rid of Will, who's actually a smart guy, competent guy, and then keep some of these other dumpster fires around, so... Yep, and this is what I said to Will.

00:14:12.000 If they put him in charge, DeSantis would be pulling way higher.

00:14:15.000 He could have the campaign that Vivek is having.

00:14:17.000 Granted, I think this is a mistake Vivek made, but I still think he's doing really well.

00:14:21.000 But I gotta tell you, when I mentioned to you earlier, I don't even like Ron anymore.

00:14:24.000 I gotta be honest.

00:14:26.000 So, Laura Loomer put out that video where she confronts him and, you know, it is, I don't know how to describe it, but it is shocking to be confronted by Laura Loomer if you're some of these people, right?

00:14:38.000 But a question that someone asked and she also asked was, why are you in Iowa when your state is in a state of emergency?

00:14:47.000 And I was like, whoa, I didn't even realize.

00:14:49.000 I looked it up.

00:14:49.000 Sure enough, there's flooding and a disaster going on in Florida.

00:14:52.000 And not only did he come out here, but correct me if I'm wrong, I'm hearing that he brought out his gubernatorial staff as well.

00:14:59.000 Yes.

00:14:59.000 And I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, dude, dude, this is not okay.

00:15:03.000 Okay.

00:15:04.000 He would have earned way more political points by saying, I'm not going to be able to campaign in Iowa.

00:15:10.000 Understand why.

00:15:11.000 There are people who depend on me.

00:15:13.000 I will never abandon the people who voted for me.

00:15:15.000 People of Iowa, blah, blah, blah.

00:15:16.000 Instead, he was like, I'm out!

00:15:18.000 He flies in, flies out, comes here, and then goes to campaign in a blizzard where all the stores are shut down.

00:15:25.000 We're walking around outside, and it wasn't even snowing very hard, but the snow had come overnight, and the restaurants are closed.

00:15:31.000 Everything's closed.

00:15:32.000 It's barren under snow.

00:15:33.000 For what reason did he decide to come out here when people are canceling events?

00:15:37.000 He actually abandoned his state during a state of emergency flooding in a disaster to campaign in a state that was dealing with its own weather.

00:15:42.000 I was just... That pissed me off.

00:15:44.000 I'm sorry, man.

00:15:44.000 And weather that people from Florida have no idea how the F to deal with.

00:15:48.000 Florida people don't know how to deal with ice and snow and cold.

00:15:51.000 What's the gator guy gonna do up here, huh?

00:15:54.000 As a person... Yeah, that's right.

00:15:56.000 Lift your legs when you walk.

00:15:58.000 So, two things.

00:15:59.000 One...

00:16:01.000 But can you lift your legs that high in boots like that, is the question.

00:16:07.000 It was fun.

00:16:08.000 I have big boots.

00:16:09.000 They're like the big polar boots.

00:16:10.000 The Balenciaga.

00:16:11.000 Baffins.

00:16:12.000 How big's the heel?

00:16:13.000 It's pretty big.

00:16:14.000 Oh, they've got wedges inside that give me about a good four inches, you know.

00:16:18.000 Can I poll the audience real quick?

00:16:20.000 What do you guys make of a man that wears high heels on the campaign trail?

00:16:24.000 And that's okay! It's okay!

00:16:30.000 Don't say that.

00:16:31.000 I got a question for you guys.

00:16:33.000 We were talking in the green room beforehand about basically the liberal economic order, most powerful force on earth, most powerful global government ever created.

00:16:41.000 So if these guys, Vivek and Donald Trump, are saying, like, we're gonna disrupt it.

00:16:46.000 My thought is, okay, well then your life is on the line.

00:16:48.000 So if you do win the presidency, you're gonna have to go into hiding or govern from like some secret location.

00:16:54.000 And they were like, no, that would be like an abandonment.

00:16:56.000 I'm like, but if you stay in contact with the people via internet video, be like, I have no choice but to be in a mountain base.

00:17:02.000 What do you, do you guys think that's a good idea?

00:17:04.000 You think it's unnecessary?

00:17:05.000 What do you think?

00:17:05.000 Going against the liberal world order?

00:17:07.000 Well, I mean, they're talking about dismantling the FBI, which is essentially going against the liberal economic order.

00:17:12.000 Let's preface this a little bit.

00:17:13.000 I know there's a lot of people who are probably more general viewers.

00:17:16.000 We've covered this quite a bit, but the liberal economic order is a system that was built after World War II.

00:17:21.000 Ian brings it up quite a bit.

00:17:22.000 It's a legitimate thing.

00:17:23.000 This is not conspiracy theory.

00:17:24.000 I know the media is going to try and claim it is.

00:17:25.000 What is it, the CFR, the Council on Foreign Relations?

00:17:28.000 They might be involved.

00:17:28.000 It was started in 1949, and they were like, this is going to guarantee we don't have World War III.

00:17:32.000 They built American-led, rules-based economies, is what they call it, and they built all these American military bases.

00:17:38.000 They use American money, and they've been enforcing it. 0.72

00:17:40.000 So these new people are like, we've got to create a new world order.

00:17:43.000 This liberal economic order is no longer effective.

00:17:45.000 We've got to create a new system, is where they've been, like the World Economic Forum is starting to step in.

00:17:49.000 But this liberal economic order is kind of now being siphoned into this new world order

00:17:53.000 that they're trying to, this global banking thing.

00:17:58.000 And Trump has been like a, kind of was kind of a bull, like he kind of, when he canceled

00:18:02.000 the Trans-Pacific Partnership, you could see that he was not playing that game.

00:18:06.000 He was not going to sell out the United States.

00:18:07.000 Well, here's a question I want to ask too, because Ian's bringing up this point.

00:18:10.000 If you're going up against the machine, they will do anything to stop you.

00:18:14.000 And as you were just pointing out, Vivek was mentioning that Alex Jones, Dan Magino are

00:18:18.000 talking about the potential assassination.

00:18:20.000 Tucker Carlson.

00:18:22.000 And the joke everyone else has is that if Trump picked Nikki Haley as VP, he'd have to get a food taster, because they're going to want to get her in as soon as possible.

00:18:29.000 But let's be real, too.

00:18:30.000 When Vivek says, save Trump, vote Vivek, it's like, what makes you think you're immune to the same things?

00:18:35.000 If Vivek's really a threat to the system, like he's campaigning on, Why would the system let him in?

00:18:41.000 He needs to figure out that message before it lands.

00:18:45.000 Because that doesn't make a ton of sense.

00:18:47.000 I just want to add one more point before we move on.

00:18:50.000 For me personally, there's a lot of things that are happening right now that we should be talking about.

00:18:54.000 Specifically, World War 3 that we are probably in right now.

00:18:58.000 The Epstein client list.

00:18:59.000 Americans are fatter, sicker, and more depressed than ever. 0.99

00:19:02.000 But we're talking about calendars and cringy t-shirts.

00:19:05.000 The conversation should really be about the establishment versus the anti-establishment.

00:19:09.000 This is where the conversation needs to be.

00:19:11.000 There's a lot at stake here, and to me, we're arguing over superficial issues when there's so much deeper things that we could be exposing right now, fighting for, and talking about that sadly we're not talking about, which is kind of disappointing for me personally.

00:19:25.000 I want to cover some of these issues.

00:19:27.000 I agree, Luke.

00:19:28.000 The results are going to start coming in, but we do have some big issues, especially Taylor Hanson is reporting on a really crazy issue, which we'll get to later in the show, where you've actually got police officers.

00:19:37.000 They're off duty, but using public equipment to facilitate human smuggling operations on the border.

00:19:42.000 Crazy stuff coming out of it.

00:19:43.000 This is Tenet Media.

00:19:43.000 Shout out to Tenet Media.

00:19:44.000 We have the show The Culture War with them, obviously. 0.97

00:19:46.000 Full disclosure.

00:19:47.000 But Taylor's got some excellent reporting we'll pull up later.

00:19:50.000 As Luke points out, there's a lot of issues.

00:19:52.000 But I want to talk a little bit about the caucus.

00:19:53.000 Two big issues.

00:19:55.000 This is a new report from SCNR.com.

00:19:58.000 Shock poll.

00:19:59.000 Majority of first-time Iowa caucus goers support Vivek Ramaswamy.

00:20:03.000 Trump is in third place among this group with 29%.

00:20:07.000 Surprisingly, I believe it's Nikki Haley who has second place, right?

00:20:11.000 Well, her numbers come from first-time GOP caucus goers, and it's because she has a lot of Democrats caucusing for her. 0.56

00:20:17.000 Exactly.

00:20:18.000 And so these are people that are not actually going to be voting for a Republican in November.

00:20:25.000 This is a crazy thing.

00:20:26.000 I think Mark Cuban tweeted this, calling for crossover voters, Democrats, to come in and vote for Nikki Haley, basically sabotaging the Republican primary process.

00:20:35.000 Why does the state party of Iowa allow that?

00:20:37.000 Why does the Republican state party of Iowa allow that?

00:20:40.000 It makes absolutely no sense.

00:20:41.000 Here's a question.

00:20:42.000 How long have you been in Iowa?

00:20:44.000 Less than a week.

00:20:45.000 You've met some people, you've gotten out, you've went to restaurants?

00:20:48.000 Yeah.

00:20:49.000 Have you met a Nikki Haley supporter?

00:20:50.000 No.

00:20:51.000 Never.

00:20:51.000 Not that I know of.

00:20:53.000 Yeah.

00:20:54.000 It's like meeting a dodo bird.

00:20:56.000 Or a Joe Biden voter.

00:20:58.000 Yeah, like try and capture one for science.

00:21:02.000 Science!

00:21:03.000 What are you?

00:21:04.000 I don't know one.

00:21:06.000 We've never seen one.

00:21:07.000 We've met Joe Biden voters.

00:21:09.000 I've never met a Joe Biden supporter.

00:21:12.000 Yeah, they voted against Trump, essentially.

00:21:14.000 Yeah, and even like the leftists who are like, I voted for Biden.

00:21:16.000 It's like, yeah, I don't like the guy at all. 0.95

00:21:17.000 I just think Trump's a fascist or blah, blah, blah.

00:21:20.000 But when I saw this thing from Mark Cuban, where he's like crossover voters, you're saying, why does Iowa allow it? 0.90

00:21:26.000 It's really simple, man.

00:21:27.000 Democrats probably a long time ago switched their party with the intention of sabotaging the primary.

00:21:32.000 We talked about it even in 2020.

00:21:34.000 This is a strategy of having your people go to open primaries to choose whoever you think is going to lose or just to cause chaos and damage.

00:21:42.000 Well, if it makes any of the folks in attendance or watching feel better, Liz Cheney tried to do this in Wyoming and she lost by 40 points.

00:21:49.000 She tried to get all the Democrats in Wyoming to register and vote for her. 1.00

00:21:52.000 I don't think it's smart that some states do it.

00:21:54.000 That's just the fact of the matter.

00:21:57.000 But it's not about any state doing it.

00:21:58.000 Even if you have a closed primary or caucus process, a Democrat one year ago reach which is party affiliation republican waiting for the

00:22:05.000 moment they can come into this is nothing is there's no way to stop it

00:22:08.000 it just means that democrats are that there are a large percentage of democrat

00:22:11.000 voters who are lying

00:22:13.000 to sabotage the republican well i would like to thank your program and and and what you guys do for sending your

00:22:18.000 reporters to the nikki haley events

00:22:20.000 she has called totally closed the doors to most conservative media

00:22:25.000 She won't allow cameras inside of her stump speeches. 0.97

00:22:27.000 She's terrified that her speeches will get out there. 0.96

00:22:29.000 And so your videos of like talking to the attendees and saying, yeah, I'll vote.

00:22:33.000 They say, I'll vote for Biden before I vote for Trump.

00:22:36.000 Like, those are the first videos that were actually coming out of the Nikki Haley events this entire campaign cycle, so you guys did a great job on that.

00:22:41.000 Well, that's a shout-out to SCNR.com.

00:22:43.000 Ilad Eliyahu doing this ground reporting.

00:22:45.000 Ilad does a great job.

00:22:46.000 He doesn't go in, he's not yelling at people, he just asks them a basic question.

00:22:49.000 Who are you supporting, Nikki Haley?

00:22:50.000 If it's not Nikki Haley, who will you vote for?

00:22:52.000 And they say Biden.

00:22:53.000 And their voters say Ukraine's the number one issue.

00:22:55.000 Yeah.

00:22:56.000 You know, these people are not going to be Trump voters, and that's OK.

00:22:59.000 We don't need them.

00:22:59.000 But the Vivek has been interesting.

00:23:01.000 He's attracting a new demographic, I think, to the party.

00:23:05.000 And I think a lot of when he eventually drops out, I think most of his, if not all of his supporters will come and vote for President Trump.

00:23:10.000 But, you know, he's a young, energetic guy, and he attracts a similar type of person that

00:23:16.000 President Trump does.

00:23:18.000 But Vivek's team has really made an effort to go after the young vote, like the 18, 20-year-olds

00:23:24.000 and the Andrew Tate crowd.

00:23:27.000 It's brilliance going for the younger voter.

00:23:29.000 I think Vivek's whole play is for the future.

00:23:32.000 I do think the Save Trump, Vote Vivek thing was a huge misstep.

00:23:36.000 But I think right now, and I'll say this too, because right now with the Vivek versus Trump thing, people are getting attacked online like crazy.

00:23:43.000 You've got these diehard Trump supporters saying they're all grifters.

00:23:46.000 Yeah, okay.

00:23:47.000 Look, I'm gonna throw some criticism at Ian Miles Chong, because he posted that really deceptive image that was, like, mainstream media-esque, where it's a very tight shot from the third row of a Trump rally, and then behind Vivek at his whole room, when apparently Trump's— Trump had, like, 2,500 people-plus overflow and Vivek had 500 capacity.

00:24:06.000 Like, let's not play those games.

00:24:07.000 We don't need to do that.

00:24:08.000 But there are a lot of people that I think are going hard after anybody who was talking to Vivek or interviewing him, claiming that it's a paid, coordinated thing.

00:24:17.000 Totally not true.

00:24:19.000 Possible.

00:24:19.000 I don't know.

00:24:20.000 Maybe some people are getting paid by Vivek's campaign.

00:24:22.000 We didn't get anything from Vivek, except I will say, full disclosure, the building we are in, Laura Loomer tweeted that we are in his campaign office.

00:24:29.000 Technically correct.

00:24:30.000 Not literally correct.

00:24:31.000 His campaign office is down the hall around the corner.

00:24:33.000 I think that's fair to point out.

00:24:35.000 We are in an unused portion of the building.

00:24:37.000 We actually had to talk with the owner about the use of the space and what it meant.

00:24:40.000 And I'm just going to tell everybody this.

00:24:42.000 We actually, we were like at odds with the Vivek campaign because they're super noisy and we're trying to do a show but I'm like I don't want to disrupt someone else's campaign.

00:24:49.000 Yeah, they've given us full access to that office which is where I got my tea is in Vivek's campaign.

00:24:53.000 They're being really nice to us.

00:24:54.000 Shout out to Vivek's tea.

00:24:55.000 It's being bought off by tea.

00:24:56.000 That's right, that's right.

00:24:57.000 But I want to make sure we're being transparent and clear with that.

00:25:00.000 But I also want to point out that when Laura mentioned about being loyal to Trump, I don't think she articulated that very well.

00:25:08.000 I don't like loyalty in politics.

00:25:09.000 What do you guys think?

00:25:10.000 No, no, hold on.

00:25:11.000 I want to address this.

00:25:11.000 This is the point why I'm bringing it up.

00:25:13.000 There is an issue of being honorable and loyal to Donald Trump, and I agree with it.

00:25:17.000 Now, let all the DeSantis people scream MAGA, cult, BS, whatever.

00:25:20.000 No, I'll tell you what it means.

00:25:21.000 It means I didn't vote for Donald Trump in 2016, and then I saw a president who started no new wars.

00:25:26.000 I saw him set deadlines for ending these foreign wars, which the Democrats told me were all bad during Obama, but made worse.

00:25:31.000 He brings in the Abraham Accords. 1.00

00:25:33.000 He negotiates with North Korea, all of these great foreign policy moves.

00:25:36.000 Some bad ones, don't get me wrong, but an overall net positive.

00:25:39.000 And the whole time, they're destroying his life, they're targeting his children, his net worth is dropping.

00:25:43.000 Now they're trying to take from him his properties in New York City with a fraudulent trial.

00:25:47.000 He's being criminally prosecuted across the board.

00:25:49.000 I'm sorry, man.

00:25:50.000 When it comes to the issue of loyalty, I can ignore policy and say, I'm not going to abandon a guy and vote for Vivek after this guy jumped in the trenches and caused himself personal damage to do good things for me and the United States.

00:26:01.000 That's loyalty.

00:26:02.000 But that being said, Between Vivek and Trump, I understand Vivek's point about they're going to try and stop him.

00:26:07.000 Agreed.

00:26:07.000 However, Donald Trump has experience in his first term.

00:26:11.000 I believe that if Vivek were to win right now, he would not be as effective as Trump in certain areas because he will step on the landmines that they laid out for Trump in the first term that Trump now knows about.

00:26:22.000 So I still think there's a logical path forward for why Donald Trump is the right person to pick.

00:26:26.000 And I also think there's a question of honor and loyalty to a guy who's sacrificing a lot.

00:26:30.000 Well, so Honor, don't turn away from who you believe in because of fear.

00:26:33.000 I agree with that.

00:26:34.000 But I believe that we should be loyal to the process.

00:26:36.000 And it sounds like you're loyal to Trump's process, which I understand.

00:26:40.000 What does that mean?

00:26:41.000 You're loyal to his actions.

00:26:42.000 What he's done is like, I want more of that.

00:26:44.000 I respect humans that do that thing.

00:26:46.000 No, that's not correct.

00:26:47.000 You're saying all the things he did.

00:26:48.000 It's not about like, I love the guy no matter what he does, I'll vote for him.

00:26:53.000 I'm saying you can ignore the good things he's done.

00:26:56.000 That's my point.

00:26:57.000 If we take all of his policies and everything he did for this country and just put a blanket over it and say, the only issue we are addressing is this man ran to be president, ignited a base, and they have been stabbing him in the back relentlessly.

00:27:11.000 That guy made sacrifices for me.

00:27:13.000 I won't abandon him.

00:27:14.000 I don't like that.

00:27:14.000 I think I hear where you're coming from, though.

00:27:17.000 And I think for the voters, I don't think the voters necessarily have to be loyal to a person, right?

00:27:22.000 I think President Trump has earned a lot of respect and a lot of appreciation from the voters, and that's why they're going to vote for him tonight and across the country.

00:27:29.000 But when Laura Loomer, I think when she's talking about the loyalty, I think she's talking about people like a Ron DeSantis, who was a backbench Congress member until he got on his hands and knees and cried in front of Trump, begging him for his endorsement, basically getting the coronation to become governor of Florida.

00:27:44.000 President Trump worked with him, made sure he got in.

00:27:47.000 He had rally after rally after rally.

00:27:49.000 DeSantis was running TV ads, you know, basically saying, you know, I'm President Trump's number one guy and, you know, build the wall, reading Trump books to his kids.

00:27:58.000 Embrace a Trump rant to become who he is today, and then he totally ditched Trump when it became politically convenient for him.

00:28:06.000 And then, when you look at some of these other influencers that Laura Loomer's in the trenches fighting online, simply built their audiences.

00:28:13.000 Like, I look at Tim different than I look at some of these other folks.

00:28:16.000 Look at Jenna Ellis, because Jenna Ellis built her audience off of the back of Trump supporters and President Trump. 1.00

00:28:22.000 Tim built his audience on his own, doing his own thing, and so who he wants to support, he can support who he wants.

00:28:28.000 But when you're Jenna Ellis, or you're a John Cardillo, or you're a Bill Mitchell, and your content is only, I love Trump, for five, six years, and just in the reply section defending him, and all of a sudden you switch?

00:28:41.000 Like, that's where people like... And their followers left them.

00:28:46.000 Bill Mitchell lost 90,000 followers over the last year because he became the biggest DeSantis shill.

00:28:53.000 John Cardildo, similar situation.

00:28:55.000 And so, like, loyalty matters to that extent.

00:29:00.000 I don't think the voters necessarily have to be loyal, but I think President Trump certainly makes a great case.

00:29:05.000 What was his last name again?

00:29:09.000 It took me a second and then it processed.

00:29:10.000 I'm loyal to the U.S.

00:29:12.000 Constitution and the process of the American function.

00:29:14.000 And if someone better comes along than the person I've been supporting for 20 years, I'll vote for the new better person.

00:29:19.000 And if that person that I've been supporting goes crazy, they should step down and get out of the way so the next guy can come.

00:29:25.000 And that's how our system's built.

00:29:26.000 Agreed.

00:29:27.000 And I don't see that playing a role right now.

00:29:29.000 Yeah, but I think the other question, too, is if somebody has been good for 20 years, how do you know that the person who's coming up isn't just good in rhetoric and they're actually going to be decent when they take office?

00:29:37.000 Because that's one of the values, that's one of the benefits of having a political leader who has some experience, is you're able to say, okay, I know what their track record is, whereas this other guy could have great rhetoric, but I don't know what he's going to do.

00:29:48.000 Royalty is in like military and monarchy.

00:29:51.000 I don't think it has a place in republics.

00:29:53.000 We got some numbers coming in.

00:29:54.000 So less than 1% of the votes have come in already.

00:29:57.000 It is 730.

00:29:58.000 Donald Trump is at 67.5% with 243 votes.

00:30:01.000 DeSantis in second.

00:30:02.000 Nikki Haley is in third.

00:30:04.000 Vivek Ramasamy in fourth.

00:30:05.000 Is that good for Trump so far?

00:30:06.000 This is good for Trump.

00:30:08.000 I'm not good at math.

00:30:08.000 Who's the guy that voted for Chris Christie?

00:30:10.000 There's one vote for Chris Christie.

00:30:12.000 Ryan Binkley got a vote.

00:30:14.000 His wife voted for Ryan Binkley.

00:30:18.000 I'm real sorry.

00:30:19.000 Asa Hutchinson still running, you said?

00:30:20.000 He's still running.

00:30:21.000 And he got zero and Christie got one?

00:30:23.000 He's still in the race.

00:30:27.000 If I were caucusing tonight, and I'm from Iowa, and I've caucused before as an Iowan.

00:30:31.000 I no longer live in Iowa, I live in Florida.

00:30:35.000 I would not be caucusing for Ron DeSantis.

00:30:37.000 I'd be caucusing for Donald Trump.

00:30:38.000 I fully expect to vote for Donald Trump in 2024 in a general election.

00:30:42.000 My issue with the whole, my issue with the whole, what Alex is talking about, but then also this whole like loyalty argument is I think at the root of it is we injected money into the influencer world and were able to flip influencers in a very cringey way.

00:30:59.000 Talked a little bit about cringe political campaigns here.

00:31:02.000 And I'm not going to name anyone, but it's fully available for everyone to see online who's getting paid.

00:31:07.000 It's also fully available in FEC reports.

00:31:09.000 You can go check who's on the payroll of which campaigns, right?

00:31:12.000 Big name influencers, you can go find them.

00:31:14.000 All the reports are public.

00:31:16.000 And I don't like that.

00:31:18.000 You getting paid, Luke?

00:31:20.000 I wish.

00:31:21.000 There were some people that shocked me.

00:31:21.000 Where's my money at?

00:31:22.000 DeSantis is paying people that shocked me.

00:31:24.000 I couldn't believe it.

00:31:25.000 Wait, wait.

00:31:25.000 Do we publicly see who he's paying?

00:31:27.000 Riley Gaines is a good example.

00:31:28.000 I didn't know that.

00:31:29.000 Really?

00:31:29.000 The DeSantis campaign is paying Riley Gaines.

00:31:31.000 Wow.

00:31:31.000 For consulting just two weeks before or two weeks after she endorsed him.

00:31:36.000 So, you know, the timing was interesting, but... I find that practice gross.

00:31:39.000 So, wait, wait.

00:31:39.000 Two weeks after she endorsed him, she gets paid by his campaign? $10,000.

00:31:43.000 Interesting.

00:31:43.000 So I find that practice gross.

00:31:45.000 You know what's funny?

00:31:47.000 That was something that I wanted, because I went and spent the day doing a documentary for my Tenet media show called In the Arena, where we go and we show this process.

00:31:56.000 Shout out Tenet.

00:31:57.000 And I was accused of being disloyal because I was going out with Vivek, but I just want to tell an interesting story.

00:32:03.000 And he's the only guy that had a campaign.

00:32:05.000 events today, right? And they were all over the state and it was very interesting.

00:32:09.000 How else can we look?

00:32:11.000 Bunch of Gen Z kids, by the way.

00:32:13.000 That he's paying?

00:32:13.000 Well, no, that were showing up to this and saying that they found him through TikTok.

00:32:17.000 Is he in this?

00:32:19.000 No, Vivek.

00:32:20.000 Oh, Vivek. So Vivek's events were stacked, by and large, with TikTok kids.

00:32:24.000 He's clever.

00:32:24.000 Which was very interesting.

00:32:25.000 Some more results have just come in a little bit. Vivek's still in fourth,

00:32:28.000 but he's within 15 votes of Nikki Haley. I gotta be honest, I'd be really happy if

00:32:33.000 Donald Trump wins resoundingly and Vivek's in second place.

00:32:35.000 Trump's number so far, I just want to say, nice.

00:32:39.000 I just don't like the paid influencer model.

00:32:41.000 Pay you for your endorsement model.

00:32:42.000 We used to call that corruption.

00:32:43.000 That used to be called plain and simple.

00:32:46.000 You do that in politics, you pay someone for an endorsement.

00:32:48.000 You call that corruption.

00:32:48.000 Do you know any other people that he's paying that are prominent influencers?

00:32:51.000 Or do you not want a reward?

00:32:54.000 There are ways that these campaigns are shielding the name of some of these people.

00:32:58.000 Winner is in.

00:32:59.000 With less than 1% of votes, the New York Times has called Donald Trump the winner of the Iowa Public Caucus.

00:33:04.000 I was told by Team DeSantis that DeSantis was going to win.

00:33:09.000 That didn't happen?

00:33:10.000 Wow.

00:33:11.000 Wow.

00:33:11.000 Less than 1% votes in.

00:33:14.000 No way.

00:33:15.000 Are there other 732?

00:33:16.000 I don't understand that logic.

00:33:19.000 Is my mic even on?

00:33:20.000 Yeah, I think you're a little quiet and so is Seamus.

00:33:23.000 Well, that's good for both of them, actually.

00:33:25.000 Maybe they're in that screaming match.

00:33:27.000 Oh, Ryan Binkley's got two votes!

00:33:29.000 Binkley!

00:33:30.000 Please, I just want Vivek to beat Nikki Haley. 0.99

00:33:33.000 He's within 12 votes of beating Nikki Haley.

00:33:35.000 That's incredible.

00:33:36.000 That's a good sign.

00:33:39.000 I gotta be honest.

00:33:40.000 I just hope Nikki Haley fails.

00:33:42.000 The race has been called by the Associated Press.

00:33:45.000 The race was called before most of the votes were reported, which often means the call was based on polls and other data.

00:33:50.000 Okay, so... So we can go home now?

00:33:52.000 This is done?

00:33:53.000 No, I think it's... I think we're all happy to hear that Donald Trump won.

00:33:57.000 Of course he was going to win.

00:33:58.000 He's at 70%.

00:33:59.000 His number is only increasing.

00:34:01.000 But the race that matters is the cultural race.

00:34:04.000 And that is, I would like to see Vivek crush DeSantis and Nikki Haley.

00:34:07.000 Wait, it's really depressing that Nikki... CBS News now calling, CBS News, CNN.

00:34:13.000 The Trump campaign officially shares the AP message that he won.

00:34:17.000 I personally find Vivek to be the superior candidate, but I know that politics is a popularity contest.

00:34:22.000 I can accept that.

00:34:23.000 And Donald Trump is massively popular.

00:34:26.000 What do you think, Alex, particularly you, and anybody that wants to talk about it, as a Vivek Donald Trump ticket, regardless of who's... I mean, I think Donald Trump is the lead.

00:34:34.000 I think Vivek has certainly positioned himself for an incredible future.

00:34:38.000 Is it in 2024 on the ticket?

00:34:40.000 I don't know.

00:34:42.000 But I think we have a lot of great options.

00:34:45.000 I'm a big fan of Dr. Ben Carson.

00:34:46.000 I think he's been a tremendous asset to our movement.

00:34:52.000 He's a really great man.

00:34:53.000 I think Favek certainly should be considered.

00:34:57.000 But I do believe that President Trump has made up his mind and will probably Who is it?

00:35:02.000 We'll probably find out that sooner than later.

00:35:05.000 And this primary should wrap up sooner than later because Joe Biden just posted his financials that he raised this last quarter, $117 million.

00:35:13.000 He gets to save all of his money and prepare for the general election.

00:35:17.000 This primary so far, $250 million has been spent, and look at that margin right now.

00:35:23.000 And so we are just blowing money that we need in November, and so we need some of these jokers to drop out, and so we can take the fight to Joe Biden.

00:35:31.000 Man, you're so right.

00:35:32.000 This was a spectacular waste of money.

00:35:34.000 I mean it's gonna be this if it's good they're gonna call it in like 29 seconds and how much money was 300 votes coming in well how much money was spending right Chris Christie was talking about on the leaked audio right like the money was he didn't know he's live well he was he was telling 200 million dollars right to say this has been ninety nine million dollars in the state of oh ninety nine million he's got 75 votes so far Do you work for Trump's campaign?

00:35:58.000 I do not work for Trump's campaign, but I am close with most of the folks over there.

00:36:04.000 I've been blessed to become friends with the president.

00:36:07.000 I'm excited to see him in a few minutes here.

00:36:09.000 He's going to be in great spirits and in a great mood.

00:36:11.000 Ryan Binkley has two votes now.

00:36:14.000 I just want to mention he's doubled his count. 0.99

00:36:17.000 I do need to point out, while you may be upset that Ron spent all of that money, when Bloomberg was running, and everyone in the country was laughing, and he spent half a billion dollars doing it, just understand, he spent a lot of that money on YouTube channels that hated him, and so congratulations funding the people who spread the message that you suck.

00:36:37.000 So understand, when these people are spending money, it's great for the cultural ecosystem. 0.80

00:36:43.000 What they're trying to do is that campaigns like DeSantis, I don't know if he's buying ads and social media the way Bloomberg was doing, but they're trying to counter the message of people who are saying Bloomberg sucks.

00:36:54.000 It doesn't work.

00:36:55.000 So all he ends up doing is giving money to people who hate him to make more shows about why he's bad.

00:36:59.000 So it doesn't really work the way they want.

00:37:01.000 Congratulations on wasting that money.

00:37:02.000 Is it, is the DeSantis, what's he spending the 99 million on?

00:37:05.000 Is it TV commercials?

00:37:06.000 I bet it's a lot of TV.

00:37:08.000 So he had, for months he was saying, we're going to win.

00:37:12.000 Please find this clip.

00:37:13.000 You gotta show your audience this clip.

00:37:14.000 They say, Ron, how do you pronounce your last name?

00:37:17.000 Is it Dee-san-thus or Duh-san-thus?

00:37:19.000 And he goes, it's pronounced Winner.

00:37:21.000 You gotta find this clip.

00:37:22.000 You gotta find this clip.

00:37:24.000 Got him.

00:37:25.000 Can I ask something?

00:37:27.000 It's pronounced Winner.

00:37:28.000 As someone who's been watching online and chuckling to myself, what was it that... Do you live in Florida?

00:37:34.000 I do.

00:37:35.000 So, what was it that, like, sent you over the edge with the team DeSantis?

00:37:40.000 I think how...

00:37:43.000 Because nobody goes harder than you.

00:37:44.000 Well, they certainly were a lot of fun to spar with early on just because, you know,

00:37:48.000 as a professional Twitter troll, I try to get under people's skin.

00:37:52.000 And the second you like, once somebody shows that their skin is like has been breached, 0.82

00:37:58.000 you just keep pressing it and you press in and so this becomes a lot of fun.

00:38:01.000 And so they reacted to everything.

00:38:03.000 We tried to bait them into fights that weren't important, and then they spend days and days on a news cycle that, uh, was completely irrelevant to the campaign.

00:38:11.000 And they couldn't help themselves.

00:38:12.000 They engaged every single time.

00:38:13.000 They fought on every single issue.

00:38:15.000 You know, I think Tim pointed out a really important one.

00:38:18.000 He said, you know, the AI fight.

00:38:20.000 So, they get caught making a video with Dr. Fauci and Donald Trump hugging in AI, and incredibly shady, and Tim Pool called him out, Senator J.D.

00:38:29.000 Vance called him out, Josh Hawley called it out.

00:38:32.000 They said, and then their response is, well, Donald Trump shared this meme of Ron DeSantis riding a rhinoceros.

00:38:37.000 It's basically the same thing.

00:38:39.000 And like, they would, they die on their hills.

00:38:41.000 They refuse to say I was wrong, and they just push in and push in.

00:38:46.000 We got good news.

00:38:48.000 Vivek is within nine votes of Nikki Haley.

00:38:53.000 I hope Ryan Binkley beats Nikki Haley. 0.99

00:38:56.000 Alex, in your experience trolling, have you gained troll resistance?

00:39:00.000 Are you able to resist?

00:39:01.000 Well, I grew up in video game culture, you know, so you log on, you play Call of Duty, you play, you know, whatever game you play, and you sit with your buddies and you say the meanest things you can say to each other for, you know, all day, every day, and then you get off and you, you know, see each other at school the next day and you're best friends, right?

00:39:17.000 I don't, words don't hurt me, so like, I don't really care if somebody's like, uh, you know, they call me AB35K, or they say I have no upper lip, or whatever it may be, like, I appreciate the attacks, and I find humor in the attacks, and so, I like the game, but you get, these guys take it so personally, and they're so offended by it, And they react emotionally and sociologically, and we just play with them.

00:39:39.000 My conspiracy theory is that the people running DeSantis' campaign are Trump supporters, and they got together and said, what can we do to sabotage Ron DeSantis?

00:39:48.000 Because if you look at what they're doing, it literally makes no sense.

00:39:50.000 No sense.

00:39:51.000 I don't want to call out high-profile individuals who don't want to get involved in fights they don't need to be involved in, but we've had guests on this show who are prominent conservative personalities in a different range of array of spaces.

00:40:00.000 What I mean by that is like, being as vague as possible, is like an entertainer perhaps.

00:40:05.000 And they say things like, when they show up to the studio, they'll be like, hey, I'm getting attacked

00:40:10.000 by these DeSantis people, what's going on?

00:40:12.000 And I'm just like, what did you say?

00:40:14.000 I don't know.

00:40:15.000 And I'm just like, well, there you go.

00:40:16.000 Welcome to Rhonda's campaign. 0.90

00:40:18.000 Attack everybody and insult them and be condescending and mean.

00:40:20.000 And apparently that's what they think is gonna get them the votes.

00:40:22.000 Oh, the Vakes with two votes from Nikki Haley. 1.00

00:40:25.000 Oh, the Vake, you gotta crush Nikki. 1.00

00:40:27.000 Come on, come on. 0.99

00:40:28.000 They did.

00:40:29.000 It's Nimrata. 0.89

00:40:31.000 That's right.

00:40:31.000 We're supposed to use our real names.

00:40:33.000 That's right!

00:40:34.000 Nikki Haley says we must use our real names online.

00:40:38.000 So this is online and you must call her by her real name.

00:40:40.000 Oh no!

00:40:41.000 We're not naming Nikki Haley.

00:40:41.000 No, Nikki Haley just jumped 17 and I think ain't none.

00:40:46.000 What percent are we at now, or is it give you a real-time update?

00:40:49.000 One percent of votes.

00:40:49.000 Oh, it's still one.

00:40:51.000 One percent.

00:40:51.000 I just DM'd you the video on Twitter.

00:40:53.000 Oh, okay.

00:40:54.000 I sent you the article about it, too, on Twitter.

00:40:56.000 Nikki Haley changed her husband's name.

00:40:59.000 Did you know this?

00:40:59.000 Yes.

00:41:00.000 She changed her husband's name to Michael.

00:41:00.000 No, what?

00:41:01.000 Can you back me up on this?

00:41:02.000 Yes.

00:41:02.000 What was it?

00:41:03.000 Nikki Haley.

00:41:04.000 It was Bill or something.

00:41:05.000 Yeah, it was like Bill.

00:41:06.000 She's like, I'm gonna call you Mike.

00:41:07.000 She's like, I'm gonna call you Mike.

00:41:08.000 She said, I'm gonna call you Big Mike.

00:41:09.000 So there's been rumors for years.

00:41:12.000 There's been rumors for years of alleged affairs.

00:41:14.000 There's a staffer that came forward and said they had an affair with Nikki.

00:41:18.000 And I don't think it was an affair.

00:41:19.000 If this guy allowed his wife to change his name, I don't think it's an affair.

00:41:23.000 I think he might be... Well, whatever it is, look, I mean, like, there's levels of this.

00:41:28.000 There's levels of being insulted.

00:41:29.000 There's, like, first, like, your wife hyphenating instead of taking your name.

00:41:32.000 And then there's, like, you taking her name.

00:41:35.000 And then there's, like, her changing your first name.

00:41:38.000 And that's where they are as a couple.

00:41:41.000 It's like, I dub thee Michael!

00:41:43.000 It is getting brutal.

00:41:44.000 Nikki Haley is now well above Vivek.

00:41:48.000 I suspect Nikki Haley pulls ahead of Ron, and Ron finishes in third place with about 15%.

00:41:54.000 You think Vivek will be in fourth?

00:41:55.000 Look, I think Vivek is going to be very close to Ron.

00:41:59.000 He campaigned so hard.

00:42:00.000 But look, money still matters.

00:42:02.000 And, you know, Vivek has probably been the most frugal of the top four candidates.

00:42:08.000 And he's putting up an interesting fight.

00:42:10.000 But Ron wasted almost $100 million and is probably going to be very close to Vivek in the race.

00:42:16.000 So should I play this video?

00:42:17.000 You have to play this video.

00:42:18.000 All right, here we go.

00:42:21.000 European name, Steinhauser.

00:42:22.000 There's been some confusion over your last name and the pronunciation, and I'm just wondering, to correct the record, what is it? 0.99

00:42:27.000 Oh, it's ridiculous, these stupid things. 0.98

00:42:29.000 Listen, the way to pronounce my last name... Winner. 1.00

00:42:35.000 I'm sorry, man.

00:42:37.000 I don't know who's advising this guy.

00:42:38.000 You're picking on a guy that has autism.

00:42:42.000 Stop it, please.

00:42:43.000 Leave him alone.

00:42:44.000 You're a pro at this.

00:42:45.000 Is that clip going viral tonight?

00:42:47.000 Oh, yo, yo.

00:42:48.000 Guys, guys, guys.

00:42:49.000 Nikki Haley is within 16 votes of beating Ron DeSantis.

00:42:52.000 Wow.

00:42:54.000 Ron's going to finish in third place.

00:42:54.000 She's going to.

00:42:57.000 Look, if he was a smart guy, he drops out tomorrow morning, endorses President Trump, tucks his tail between his legs, goes back to Tallahassee.

00:43:05.000 I think you're right, man.

00:43:07.000 I mean, here's a question.

00:43:08.000 So Ron's gone hard in the pain against Trump, right?

00:43:10.000 Like, I haven't missed this on the campaign trail.

00:43:12.000 I can't pay attention to everything everyone says, but Ron's gone real hard.

00:43:15.000 He's ran directly at Trump.

00:43:17.000 How do you take that back?

00:43:18.000 Right?

00:43:18.000 How do you then endorse the guy?

00:43:19.000 Well, I think it's expected in politics.

00:43:22.000 I mean, maybe not.

00:43:22.000 Maybe not.

00:43:23.000 Because trashing your opponent is different than explaining why you're the best.

00:43:26.000 But also, we've seen people get trashed by Trump and then endorse him.

00:43:29.000 It's not exactly the same.

00:43:31.000 But people have very clearly humiliated them.

00:43:34.000 Lying Ted Cruz.

00:43:35.000 Yeah.

00:43:36.000 He knocked Ted Cruz's wife, too. 0.99

00:43:38.000 Like, he did some pretty awful things.

00:43:39.000 Guys.

00:43:39.000 Hold on.

00:43:39.000 Guys.

00:43:40.000 He called Ted Cruz lying Ted?

00:43:44.000 And then after the fight was over, it changed to LION.

00:43:48.000 And then it was like, it was honorable.

00:43:51.000 To be clear, Ted Cruz did not endorse President Trump for this cycle, so Ted still has an amount.

00:43:54.000 Nikki Haley is within two votes of beating Ron DeSantis.

00:43:57.000 I think the best thing Ron can do is support the party, and not support, necessarily, I mean, he could go support Trump, but I mean, you gotta party unity at some point.

00:44:06.000 And maybe they'll make amends, you know, I don't think they dislike each other personally.

00:44:09.000 Is it still 1% of the vote in?

00:44:12.000 1% of votes are in.

00:44:13.000 I think we're gonna start getting big chunks, and it's gonna jump up faster and faster as the night- we're getting closer to 8 o'clock.

00:44:13.000 I mean, hey, it's early.

00:44:20.000 I do think it's funny they already called it for Trump, though.

00:44:22.000 That's weird.

00:44:23.000 Like, instantly, they called it.

00:44:25.000 Yeah, with less than 1% of the vote in, they're like, eh, he won.

00:44:27.000 You know what's funny is because they're saying that it's been called by the AP before most were in, which means it was based on polls.

00:44:33.000 It's probably just some dude at the AP being like, guys, there's no way anyone else is winning.

00:44:36.000 Just say Trump won.

00:44:37.000 It's like, I want to go home.

00:44:39.000 Let's just get out of here.

00:44:40.000 These caucus things, people just go and then they vote, but like anyone can go and vote.

00:44:45.000 You have to be registered.

00:44:46.000 So you can register.

00:44:47.000 Are they paying people to go do it?

00:44:49.000 Like is DeSantis 99 million partly like, We're gonna make sure that you've got a car to the caucus, that you can get there early.

00:44:55.000 They imported the entire cabinet and government agency staffers of the state of Florida to go door-to-door in, you know, this frigid temperature and beg people to go caucus for Ron.

00:45:08.000 You know, it obviously didn't work out too well for them.

00:45:10.000 A lot of out-of-staters showing up at somebody's door in Iowa.

00:45:12.000 The Iowans, you know, don't really appreciate that a whole lot.

00:45:17.000 That was the emergency evacuation plan?

00:45:20.000 I've spent a lot of time with Vivek.

00:45:22.000 I've talked to him multiple times, four or five times, and I've been insulated in his campaign in the last week.

00:45:28.000 I thought there was a shot that maybe he would come up on top.

00:45:31.000 This, to me, is like, I'm done with this Republican political debacle.

00:45:35.000 Trump's got it.

00:45:36.000 Trump's got it.

00:45:37.000 Trump's the nominee.

00:45:39.000 Look, Trump has gone from 70 at less than 1% with the race called for him.

00:45:43.000 He's now at 57.7%.

00:45:44.000 Even if Ron, Nikki, and Viveks were all added up, they're still not beating Donald Trump.

00:45:51.000 He's too famous.

00:45:52.000 He's so famous.

00:45:54.000 What about Ryan Bailey?

00:45:54.000 Can we see what Cruz is at?

00:45:56.000 I'm actually curious.

00:45:57.000 Has he gotten as... No, there's zero for other.

00:45:59.000 Chris Christie, sorry, not Cruz.

00:46:00.000 Hey, four?

00:46:00.000 Chris Christie has four.

00:46:01.000 What if Chris Christie flies up those four people and has dinner with them?

00:46:04.000 He's like, thank you so much for thinking of me.

00:46:08.000 We did the right thing.

00:46:09.000 We had a request in, because we call him Crisp Crispy, on my show, and we had a request in to go to a Krispy Kreme that's right down the street from my studio and to eat... Nikki Haley's beating Ron DeSantis!

00:46:20.000 How sad.

00:46:23.000 The bird brain will be much easier to destroy than Ron, by the way. 0.73

00:46:26.000 We haven't even started on Nikki.

00:46:27.000 Look, Democrats, the rumor is, and I would warn everyone, don't fall for this trap should it be like Rhino Republicans or whatever establishment shills, but the argument right now is that Democrats are crossing party lines to vote for Nikki.

00:46:42.000 If it goes to a general election, they're not going to vote for Nikki.

00:46:44.000 So she might get higher percentages in the primary process, she's not going to get in the general. 1.00

00:46:49.000 That sounds like really, really... Dirty.

00:46:53.000 Yeah, you go in, you register as a Republican, you caucus for the wrong person, and then you can switch back to Democrat afterwards? 0.98

00:47:00.000 Yep.

00:47:00.000 Come on, that's insane!

00:47:01.000 Yeah. 1.00

00:47:02.000 That's so stupid. 1.00

00:47:02.000 That's Cheney's political career. 1.00

00:47:05.000 Right.

00:47:05.000 That can't be allowed going forward.

00:47:07.000 I mean, you register, you register.

00:47:09.000 But what can you do about it?

00:47:10.000 I don't know.

00:47:11.000 So it's 2023.

00:47:12.000 You're like, I don't want Trump to win.

00:47:14.000 Register as a Republican.

00:47:15.000 A year later, you go in caucus for someone else.

00:47:19.000 And then you, in general, can vote for whoever you want.

00:47:22.000 Or you switch parties after the caucus is over.

00:47:24.000 And that's because a Republican can vote for a Democrat in general?

00:47:27.000 No, because you can register for whatever party you want.

00:47:29.000 You can change party affiliation.

00:47:30.000 You're free to do so.

00:47:30.000 It's free speech.

00:47:32.000 It's free association or whatever.

00:47:33.000 Tim, do you think that all the Twitter bots for Ron were able to vote in the Iowa caucus?

00:47:38.000 No.

00:47:39.000 Yeah, I do think, I think Ron decided to campaign.

00:47:41.000 I don't, I don't, I will say this, I don't know for sure.

00:47:44.000 I'm not accusing him of doing anything, but I will say it does, it does seem most people would agree.

00:47:49.000 That a lot of the pro-detainees' accounts online are bots.

00:47:53.000 I don't know if that's the way the campaign or not, but you see they'll have some generic name with a gator in the name, they'll have some kind of cartoon character as the profile picture, and they all respond in the exact same ways.

00:48:03.000 And I'm just like, it is not organic.

00:48:05.000 At least the Trump people say weird things or insult you in different ways.

00:48:09.000 Like who?

00:48:11.000 Like you!

00:48:11.000 MAGA guy 519 or whatever will write bots.

00:48:16.000 Yeah, you're right.

00:48:17.000 I guess I do that.

00:48:20.000 The DeSantis campaign walked right into so much of this, I mean... That's wild.

00:48:24.000 It was just like... Maybe it's a little crass or whatever, but that photo was posted of DeSantis' people and Christina Pasha had her knees made red in Photoshop or whatever.

00:48:35.000 I didn't get that, what did that mean?

00:48:38.000 After that, it was like, that was the moment where I noticed she went from DMing with people I knew, we were talking with her about having her or her detainees come on the show.

00:48:46.000 After that photo came out, it was like just the gates of hell had been unleashed.

00:48:50.000 And I think that broke her.

00:48:53.000 It appeared to me that she was using campaign resources to settle personal scores. 0.99

00:48:58.000 And she had a lot of the campaign assets and folks just went to battle for her instead of actually doing something that was helpful to the candidate. 1.00

00:49:06.000 This is crazy.

00:49:06.000 They keep pulling ahead.

00:49:08.000 Yeah.

00:49:08.000 That's what it looks like, unfortunately.

00:49:10.000 Wow.

00:49:11.000 She's up 23 votes so far on DeSantis.

00:49:16.000 So if Ron drops to 10%, that would be $10 million per percentage point.

00:49:21.000 That's not good.

00:49:22.000 Wow.

00:49:23.000 That's so much money.

00:49:25.000 Who spent more, Nikki or Ron, in Iowa?

00:49:27.000 Ron.

00:49:28.000 Ron put all of the eggs in Iowa.

00:49:31.000 He had his entire ground game here.

00:49:33.000 He bragged about how great their operation was here.

00:49:36.000 Never backed down.

00:49:37.000 His super PAC had their bus here basically the entire campaign.

00:49:40.000 They pulled out of New Hampshire many months ago.

00:49:44.000 And his whole campaign was reliant on Iowa.

00:49:47.000 And that's why he sought the endorsements of Steve Deese and Bob Vander Plaats and these people who were once considered Iowan kingmakers.

00:49:56.000 And I don't think any campaign is going to be seeking their endorsements next go-around.

00:50:01.000 You know, it's kind of wild to have been someone.

00:50:04.000 Look, a year and almost two years ago, I'm hanging out with the Daily Wire crew, a story I've told a million times, and we're talking about why we think Ron DeSantis is the guy.

00:50:12.000 It's well before Trump was back in the race.

00:50:14.000 A lot of things changed since then.

00:50:16.000 And we're like, Ron's young.

00:50:17.000 He's got energy.

00:50:17.000 He's got great policy.

00:50:18.000 He's really working for Florida.

00:50:19.000 Everyone's really excited by him.

00:50:21.000 And then as time went on, we got a little more disenfranchised.

00:50:24.000 It got to the point where I was like, yeah, I'm kind of 50-50.

00:50:26.000 I think Trump's back.

00:50:27.000 His speech was pretty good.

00:50:29.000 I like Ron DeSantis.

00:50:29.000 We'll see what happens.

00:50:30.000 I just got a text from Wesley Hunt's Chief of Staff.

00:50:35.000 A Ron DeSantis supporter just charged Wesley while he was A Trump surrogate at caucus location.

00:50:42.000 Video coming soon.

00:50:43.000 Whoa.

00:50:45.000 These folks aren't handling the loss well.

00:50:46.000 I hope Wesley's okay.

00:50:48.000 They'll never back down.

00:50:50.000 That's right.

00:50:50.000 Here's what I want to say about, like, there was a period where Ron DeSantis... Thank you.

00:50:55.000 Thank you.

00:50:55.000 I'm a father of three.

00:50:56.000 Shout out to my dad jokes.

00:50:57.000 I really appreciate it.

00:50:58.000 Any fathers in the audience, I really appreciate the appreciation of the dad joke.

00:51:01.000 Thank you.

00:51:02.000 Ron was winning in the prediction markets handily, like two to one against Trump.

00:51:05.000 Over time, Ron started doing worse and worse.

00:51:10.000 So someone like me, I start making apt points about how his campaign is being run.

00:51:16.000 His launch was bad.

00:51:17.000 He lacked charisma.

00:51:18.000 And even after all that, I still say, I like the guy.

00:51:20.000 He's got good policy.

00:51:21.000 He's got to turn this around.

00:51:22.000 And what do they respond with?

00:51:23.000 Attacking anyone who would dare criticize his failing campaign.

00:51:26.000 Now we're at the point where we're like, this guy has totally failed.

00:51:29.000 There are a lot of personalities who tied their hitch to the Desantis wagon, and no matter how bad things got, they kept saying, no, he's the best, no, I refuse to back down.

00:51:39.000 A very bad day, Bob.

00:51:41.000 Bad day, Bob.

00:51:41.000 What are they going to do?

00:51:43.000 Are they going to try and come back and be like, MAGA, please take me back into your warm bosom, I'm sorry I supported this guy whose campaign was miserable?

00:51:49.000 Or they do a Lincoln Project type group, and I don't really want some of those folks on our side.

00:51:57.000 become a detriment of Ron. I don't want, I mean, I don't really want a lot of his

00:52:00.000 people being advocates for us out there. Like, normal people look at some

00:52:04.000 of these people like they think they're weird. So I hope they stay far away from

00:52:08.000 Trump world moving forward. I would love to make it less about who and more about

00:52:13.000 what we do moving forward as a union. Like, this making the America great, again,

00:52:18.000 like we do it constantly.

00:52:20.000 We've made this country great.

00:52:21.000 Let's do it again.

00:52:22.000 Let's reinvigorate the country with new technology and give the 21st century a run for its money.

00:52:28.000 To be honest, I don't even care who the president is, if they're willing to do that.

00:52:32.000 I think this is a great message.

00:52:34.000 And I think some of these numbers are going to hold pretty, pretty closely here.

00:52:37.000 And President Trump, I believe we'll get over 50%.

00:52:40.000 And that is a mandate.

00:52:41.000 The voters want President Trump.

00:52:42.000 He's going to go on to win New Hampshire, go on to win South Carolina.

00:52:45.000 This primary should end.

00:52:47.000 We should come together and focus our fight on Joe Biden.

00:52:51.000 This is interesting.

00:52:52.000 Johnson County, Nikki Haley has the lead.

00:52:54.000 If I may, I'm from Johnson County.

00:52:56.000 This is where the University of Iowa is.

00:52:58.000 This is one of the largest centralized liberal populations in Iowa.

00:53:03.000 And this is what the polling showed, that Joe Biden voters support Nikki Haley.

00:53:07.000 And these are Democrats voting in their Republican... This is liberal land, right there.

00:53:09.000 This is the college town, like, communist Marxist professors.

00:53:12.000 Take a look at this.

00:53:13.000 Johnson County, that's... Story County.

00:53:15.000 That is.

00:53:15.000 Nikki Haley is winning in Story County.

00:53:17.000 Also a college county.

00:53:18.000 And Vivek is in second.

00:53:19.000 That's Ames, that's the University of, uh, that's Iowa State.

00:53:23.000 Why do you think it is that the Democrats generally are supporting Nikki Haley?

00:53:28.000 Same policies as Joe Biden?

00:53:29.000 It's Hillary Clinton.

00:53:30.000 She's a war hawk. 1.00

00:53:32.000 But she's not even like... Joe Biden with a wig on? 1.00

00:53:35.000 It's not even a joke to be like, haha, she's like Hillary. 0.99

00:53:37.000 It's like, no, she's literally got the same policies.

00:53:39.000 Joe Biden wears a wig.

00:53:41.000 You know, Nikki Haley gets offended if you call illegal aliens criminals.

00:53:44.000 Yeah.

00:53:45.000 You know, she says climate change is a national security threat.

00:53:48.000 Nikki Haley is straight up on video multiple times saying that Hillary Clinton's her hero!

00:53:53.000 And she worked with Trump.

00:53:55.000 She was his ambassador to the UN, that's what it was.

00:53:57.000 She was appointed by Trump, yeah.

00:53:59.000 She raised her hand one time.

00:54:01.000 And then, was she okay?

00:54:02.000 Was she cool then?

00:54:03.000 Was she the same? 1.00

00:54:04.000 Look, it's kind of a bullshit role. 0.99

00:54:06.000 I think we should... 0.99

00:54:07.000 Defund the U.N.

00:54:08.000 I think we should be out of the U.N.

00:54:09.000 So you just put somebody there that wants the title, but they don't really do a whole lot.

00:54:13.000 It's part of that liberal economic order, world police thing.

00:54:15.000 I think, look, I think President Trump has been pretty open to the idea of getting out of the U.N.

00:54:20.000 and pulling out of, like, it's, it benefits us nothing, zero.

00:54:23.000 So, you know.

00:54:24.000 I want to, I want to jump to a story.

00:54:26.000 We'll keep the results tracking, but this is big news.

00:54:28.000 And as we're talking about Nikki Haley, I think it's important to bring up this video.

00:54:32.000 Now I'm not 100% sure this is the correct video.

00:54:34.000 Not an accurate video.

00:54:35.000 That's from 2021.

00:54:36.000 That's not an accurate video.

00:54:37.000 Okay, good.

00:54:37.000 Thank you for pointing that out.

00:54:38.000 We have this report from ABC News.

00:54:40.000 Houthi fired missile strikes a U.S.-owned vessel off Yemen in the Gulf of Aden, raising tensions.

00:54:48.000 So we're now hearing not only is the U.S.

00:54:50.000 and the U.K.

00:54:51.000 bombing the Houthi rebels, they're firing on U.S.-owned ships, they've fired on U.S.

00:54:57.000 warships.

00:54:58.000 War is escalating in a very, very dangerous fashion.

00:55:02.000 Even if it doesn't get crazier, From this point, and this is the level it's at, trade is going to be heavily affected.

00:55:08.000 The cost of your goods is going to go up.

00:55:09.000 Nikki Haley is the candidate of more war, foreign intervention, and lying about it the whole way through.

00:55:14.000 This is why, as I know we're supposed to be this honorable news program checking the results. 0.80

00:55:19.000 No, Nikki Haley is awful. 1.00

00:55:20.000 Don't vote for her. 0.92

00:55:21.000 I hope she loses.

00:55:22.000 Otherwise, World War III.

00:55:23.000 So, Jason Miller, the Trump campaign ruled out today Uh, Vivek as VP.

00:55:30.000 But did not rule out Nikki when asked.

00:55:32.000 Wait, wait, hold on.

00:55:33.000 But break this down for me.

00:55:33.000 What do you mean?

00:55:34.000 I saw the clip.

00:55:35.000 He was asked, could Nikki Haley presumably be the VP?

00:55:39.000 And he's like, that's in the cards.

00:55:41.000 Or something to that effect, if he didn't rule it out.

00:55:43.000 Why?

00:55:44.000 Well, there could be two things here.

00:55:46.000 And same with Laura Trump or Kimberly Guilfoyle.

00:55:51.000 If you look at all the establishment political analysts, they're going to Trump and they're telling him it makes sense.

00:55:56.000 For Trump not to say yes or no also makes sense for him because he could essentially stop Nikki from attacking him during this election cycle by possibly maybe giving her a possibility and therefore she's going to have to be careful with the criticism that she launches against him.

00:56:11.000 Strategically, when you look at the situation, anything and everything is plausible here, but I think as independent media, we need to send out the message that Nikki Haley is horrible.

00:56:19.000 She is awful.

00:56:20.000 We talked to Tucker Carlson specifically about this, and I asked him, would you support a Trump-Nikki ticket?

00:56:27.000 And Tucker Carlson said, absolutely not.

00:56:31.000 I think we need that message out there more than ever.

00:56:33.000 He said more than that.

00:56:33.000 He said, I'd beat the protest against that.

00:56:36.000 I can say this.

00:56:37.000 Trump has always promised that he will fight who's ever in second place.

00:56:41.000 And for the longest time, Ron DeSantis was in second place.

00:56:44.000 And so Nikki Haley didn't face the ire.

00:56:47.000 But if you're starting to pay attention now, Trump's up, his super PAC's done a couple million dollars

00:56:51.000 in attack ads against Nikki Haley in New Hampshire.

00:56:54.000 And there's a ton of material.

00:56:56.000 Nikki Haley's been public office for over 20 years. 1.00

00:56:59.000 She's 20 years of baggage you're gonna go through, 20 years of stupid statements 1.00

00:57:03.000 and terrible policies that she supported. 1.00

00:57:05.000 And she's about to feel the heat because she's in second now

00:57:09.000 and she's not gonna enjoy being in second.

00:57:12.000 Who knows if she's there for long.

00:57:14.000 Maybe Vivek is the last man standing ultimately after, you know, besides Trump.

00:57:18.000 Has Trump attacked Nikki? 0.59

00:57:20.000 Oh yeah, he calls her birdbrain. 1.00

00:57:22.000 He thinks that she's a stupid person, so he calls her birdbrain. 1.00

00:57:24.000 It's not wrong. 1.00

00:57:27.000 There's great ads up right now showcasing Nikki being more concerned about protecting the feelings of illegal aliens than protecting our borders.

00:57:36.000 She really doesn't want you to call illegal aliens criminals.

00:57:39.000 She's incredibly weak and you're gonna see a lot more of that I'd assume now that she's firmly in second place. 0.95

00:57:45.000 I think Trump is the incumbent.

00:57:46.000 It's like a second term president.

00:57:48.000 So like at this point I hope that he focuses on what and telling us what he wants to do next like it is very Well, you can go to Agenda 47.

00:57:57.000 Go to DonaldJTrump.com and go to Agenda 47.

00:58:01.000 Every policy position for his next term, for next administration, and I can promise you that he's already been doing a great job of looking at staffing for the next administration because that was something that, you know, it could have been a little bit better in his first term, obviously, and he's taking it very seriously for this next term.

00:58:19.000 Way better the first time.

00:58:20.000 But I get it.

00:58:21.000 They were like, I think Don Jr.

00:58:22.000 was on the show being like, you know, you get in there the first time, you're like, whoa, we won.

00:58:26.000 We've got three weeks to staff this.

00:58:27.000 People are telling you, pick this guy, pick this guy, pick this guy.

00:58:29.000 And you're like, I guess I'll go with.

00:58:31.000 So I think we assumed that you have an R in front of your name.

00:58:34.000 You're on our team.

00:58:35.000 That's what we thought.

00:58:36.000 And, you know, he got in there and then early on you learn that that's not the case.

00:58:40.000 And so, um, He found out who his friends were, he found out who he can trust, who he can put in these positions, and he's had four years to think about it.

00:58:47.000 He calls this period that we're in right now a pause period, and you know, he's very excited to get back in there.

00:58:54.000 Yeah, his VP pick is going to be crucial.

00:58:56.000 It's going to be absolutely critically important to see his trajectory, and for my vantage point, an anti-establishment figure makes more sense than an establishment figure, because if Someone in the establishment, they're just gonna take him out.

00:59:09.000 It's quick.

00:59:10.000 It's easy.

00:59:10.000 The CIA has heart attack guns decades and decades ago.

00:59:14.000 It's guaranteed.

00:59:17.000 If it's a very strong anti-establishment person, they're gonna have to think twice.

00:59:20.000 It has to be someone more radical than him.

00:59:22.000 It has to be someone who's willing to speak on the issues a lot more aggressively than he is and also kind of be different than him when it comes to some of the things that also divide his base.

00:59:30.000 You mean Tucker Carlson?

00:59:31.000 Yes.

00:59:33.000 Absolutely.

00:59:34.000 But let's talk about what we got right now.

00:59:36.000 All right.

00:59:37.000 If Ron DeSantis... Michael Malice tweeted, shoutout to Michael Malice, he says he doesn't see how Ron DeSantis can continue if he comes in third behind Nikki Haley.

00:59:43.000 There's a little bit more context there.

00:59:45.000 But it's an interesting question about what happens now in New Hampshire, where, supposedly, she's polling at 30%.

00:59:53.000 In a CNN poll.

00:59:54.000 Yeah, I don't know if I believe that.

00:59:55.000 Anselm has her at 22 and Trump up 26.

00:59:55.000 St.

00:59:58.000 The 530 aggregate is 30.3% of Trump's 43.4.

01:00:00.000 That's shocking.

01:00:01.000 in the CNN poll. The 530 aggregate is 30.3% of Trump's 43.4.

01:00:06.000 Are Democrats allowed to be in New Hampshire? I don't know.

01:00:06.000 That's shocking.

01:00:09.000 Yeah they are. And that may be...

01:00:10.000 And independents.

01:00:13.000 What's going on in New Hampshire?

01:00:14.000 They're factoring an incredibly high turnout.

01:00:16.000 I think the record turnout for Democrats in a Republican primary is like 35%

01:00:20.000 with Democrats and independents.

01:00:21.000 I do want to just point out, man, Free State Project.

01:00:25.000 Guys, what are you doing?

01:00:26.000 What's going on in New Hampshire?

01:00:28.000 Voting for Nikki Haley? 0.99

01:00:29.000 It's a weird state.

01:00:31.000 It's a great state, but they have Governor Sununu currently as governor, and he is a rhino's rhino.

01:00:36.000 He endorsed Nikki Haley too.

01:00:39.000 So with that polling, I don't see Nikki Haley dropping out.

01:00:42.000 I don't see... Ron DeSantis is polling... And Nikki's got money coming in. 0.99

01:00:46.000 Ron's got money running away from him. 0.97

01:00:48.000 What person would be dumb enough to invest in Ron DeSantis after this performance? 0.98

01:00:52.000 I'm just... Man, Rhonda Sanders really just set himself ablaze and ended his career. 0.94

01:00:56.000 I just look forward to reading all the obituaries written about his campaign tomorrow.

01:01:00.000 They're gonna... He's done.

01:01:01.000 Yeah.

01:01:02.000 Now look, he's still within, like, what, 17 votes of Nikki Haley.

01:01:05.000 If he finishes in second, he might be able to limp on.

01:01:08.000 But he's going in the wrong direction.

01:01:10.000 Well, no, I mean, it was actually a little bit worse a moment ago.

01:01:13.000 Okay.

01:01:13.000 So we'll see, but he's down, he's down, he's down.

01:01:17.000 We will see.

01:01:17.000 Trump's already got 12 delegates, they're saying.

01:01:20.000 So, we'll see, man.

01:01:22.000 But it's kind of sad, isn't it?

01:01:24.000 The promise of Ron DeSantis and his governorship.

01:01:27.000 But I do think it's fair to point out two things.

01:01:29.000 The reason why Florida's doing so well, everyone likes to tribute everything to the executive.

01:01:34.000 It's the legislature.

01:01:35.000 Florida's got great representatives and state senators.

01:01:37.000 It's a ruby red state.

01:01:38.000 And that, right, when these people pass bills, Ron DeSantis gets to sign them.

01:01:42.000 Here's one to watch, the governor's race, the gubernatorial race.

01:01:45.000 Oh, Ron DeSantis has taken second place!

01:01:47.000 Okay, wow, yeah.

01:01:48.000 There we go!

01:01:49.000 Look at that.

01:01:50.000 Now he's actually up by, what, 17?

01:01:51.000 Hey, it could turn around for him.

01:01:54.000 Maybe he'll build a limp.

01:01:55.000 But anyway, continue.

01:01:56.000 Oh, it's just, it...

01:01:56.000 Sorry, Benny.

01:01:58.000 So now that Florida is a ruby red state with a ton of power and then projected power, right?

01:02:03.000 So when the census comes, the state will get four new congressional seats and so forth and the governor will be insanely powerful.

01:02:11.000 Ron cannot run constitutionally and that race is already heating up in the state of Florida as a Florida resident for who's going to take that role.

01:02:18.000 You're gonna see some big names throw their hats in.

01:02:21.000 What does Ron do after this?

01:02:23.000 I have no idea.

01:02:24.000 I mean, everyone thought... Well, he started this new college in Florida called New College of Florida, and it's like the new Hillsdale College.

01:02:32.000 Is that for real?

01:02:32.000 He will likely appoint himself to the president of that role.

01:02:36.000 Can you explain to me where Rob came from, calling him Rob?

01:02:39.000 Just to mess with him. 0.99

01:02:42.000 And again, that's something that's so stupid, but they got so upset about it. 1.00

01:02:46.000 Yeah, the trolling from you guys was making them insane. 0.99

01:02:51.000 You got to know the Chinese It's not just the trolling, literally any even slight constructive criticism of Ron was met with his campaign people online diving all over you. 0.53

01:03:04.000 So, this is what's fascinating.

01:03:06.000 I know ALX, my executive producer, comes on the show with regularity.

01:03:11.000 This is something that we would track all the time, obviously.

01:03:15.000 is when we did it, and it's not just trolling, you said slight trolling.

01:03:20.000 Yeah, not even slight trolling, like constructive feedback.

01:03:22.000 So when something, when we didn't say something about like a big news story about Ron DeSantis, we'd get trolled.

01:03:30.000 So when Kim Reynolds endorsed Ron DeSantis, there was a bunch of stuff going on, we didn't mention it in our feed, and the entire DeSantis team came scorched earth for us.

01:03:41.000 Like, tagging us, naming us, because we didn't talk about Ronji.

01:03:45.000 You didn't like my post!

01:03:47.000 Right, it's crazy, man!

01:03:49.000 That's insane.

01:03:50.000 Yeah, so it's not just trolling him, not even if you just didn't talk about him.

01:03:54.000 Not acknowledging him.

01:03:55.000 That's right.

01:03:56.000 Wow.

01:03:56.000 It's very Mean Girls energy.

01:03:58.000 It was very, like, prepudescent, like, high school acne energy.

01:04:04.000 I've never seen a campaign like it in my life.

01:04:06.000 I've never seen anything like it.

01:04:07.000 Yeah, so that's my question, I guess, for the table, is have we seen anything this bad before?

01:04:13.000 Have we ever seen a candidate with such high hopes fall so spectacularly?

01:04:18.000 Jeb Bush?

01:04:19.000 To make matters worse, Jeb Bush's senior advisors were trolling Ron DeSantis two days ago.

01:04:25.000 Wow.

01:04:26.000 Well, look, Ron is now up by 65.

01:04:30.000 This is more spectacular than the Jeb Bush thing.

01:04:32.000 Jeb actually, at least, was running against the first time.

01:04:34.000 They're running against an incumbent, so it's kind of like, what's the point?

01:04:39.000 This guy's got it in the bag.

01:04:41.000 It's his second term.

01:04:42.000 But I think the thing with Jeb's campaign is, you know, the big problem is it was... Jeb?

01:04:48.000 In his campaign like who's gonna you know it's Jeff Bush I love that so many issues with him but when when Ron DeSantis and particularly when he was first running before everyone had this bad taste in their mouth left by his campaign.

01:05:04.000 It was like his to lose in a sense.

01:05:06.000 Yeah, he was a super hero.

01:05:07.000 And it was his campaign came and his people just totally destroyed any momentum.

01:05:12.000 You know, look, look, for the longest time I've, uh, not just I, but many have been talking, talking about where are the young, where, where are the millennials to step up and enter politics?

01:05:20.000 Uh, or even Gen Xers because for the longest time we have, like, what do we have? 0.93

01:05:22.000 Like septic and octogenarians all throughout Congress.

01:05:25.000 Yeah.

01:05:26.000 And the issue is, I've been saying that it seems like, for whatever reason, the Millennial generation doesn't take their role seriously.

01:05:34.000 They don't view themselves as leaders, as people should be in charge.

01:05:38.000 And when you look at the Ron DeSantis campaign, it is the made-for-home movie version of, say, Home Alone.

01:05:44.000 Like, Home Alone 1 and 2.

01:05:45.000 Classics, Ron DeSantis campaign, Home Alone 3.

01:05:47.000 Have you guys seen Home Alone 3?

01:05:48.000 No, what is it?

01:05:50.000 It's kind of a joke.

01:05:52.000 It's kind of a joke, but I mean it as an actual analogy.

01:05:55.000 In the first movie, and you have Donald Trump in the second movie, one reason I bring him up as examples, it is a high quality production with music, acting, it's memorable, it's a classic film.

01:06:04.000 Catherine O'Hara.

01:06:06.000 Right.

01:06:06.000 John Candy, I believe, right?

01:06:07.000 I don't know.

01:06:08.000 That was number one.

01:06:10.000 That was number one, right.

01:06:11.000 Yeah.

01:06:11.000 And then in Home Alone 3, it's some B-list actors.

01:06:15.000 Scarlett Johansson's actually in it in like a very small role, so hey, shout out to her. 0.98

01:06:18.000 Oh, no way.

01:06:19.000 Okay, the first one is, a kid gets left home, shenanigans ensues.

01:06:23.000 That's about it.

01:06:23.000 Burglars try to come in, he's trying to fight them off.

01:06:26.000 Home Alone 3 is, an international band of terrorists are stealing nuclear missile codes from some device of some sort, and he has to stop them, but his mom is home. 0.99

01:06:33.000 And it's just, it's low quality, it's garbage. 0.97

01:06:37.000 So, now that I've made the silly joke... 0.98

01:06:39.000 I've mentioned this, when Barack Obama, watch his announcement speech, when he's announcing that he's running for president, back in, what was it, like end of 07 or 08 or whatever, I don't even remember.

01:06:48.000 He's standing in front of a crowd of 10-20 thousand people, and he does this very charismatic thing, where he goes, and that is why, I, Barack Obama, I'M RUNNING FOR THE UNITED STATES!

01:07:00.000 And then the crowd just goes wild, they're screaming.

01:07:02.000 It's just a historic moment.

01:07:04.000 Ron DeSantis announces his candidacy on a crashing Twitter space going, well I'm here to lead the great American comeback.

01:07:11.000 And that was it.

01:07:12.000 And it cut out.

01:07:13.000 We couldn't hear it.

01:07:15.000 There's no video.

01:07:16.000 There's no crowd.

01:07:17.000 There's no rally.

01:07:18.000 There is no historical moment other than the failure of it.

01:07:21.000 It's so poorly done.

01:07:22.000 Also, Luke, I need that notepad to play out exactly what Ron DeSantis did, because I was listening to it.

01:07:30.000 The first one crashed.

01:07:31.000 Then they restarted the space.

01:07:32.000 Did you join the second space?

01:07:33.000 Did anybody here listen to the second space?

01:07:35.000 So the second space, what you hear is the actual... That space didn't crash, and you hear Ron DeSantis reading, from a notepad, his speech.

01:07:44.000 Which, fine, read a speech.

01:07:47.000 Most politicians do read speeches.

01:07:48.000 But you don't do that on a Twitter space!

01:07:51.000 Yeah. 1.00

01:07:51.000 You're stupid! 1.00

01:07:53.000 Why would you do that on Twitter? 1.00

01:07:54.000 Like, why don't you even understand the medium you're talking on?

01:07:58.000 So I'm going on Tim Pool IRL.

01:08:00.000 That's the show I'm on right now.

01:08:01.000 TimCast IRL.

01:08:02.000 TimCast IRL.

01:08:03.000 And why would I, like, what you don't do on this show is play a xylophone, right?

01:08:09.000 And that's not... I mean... That's a great night on Friday.

01:08:13.000 Ian might actually do that.

01:08:16.000 If you got one, I'm 100%.

01:08:17.000 Why don't you study the medium that you're on?

01:08:20.000 But he just started into a scripted speech.

01:08:22.000 It made no sense.

01:08:23.000 I was like, he's done.

01:08:25.000 He's doomed.

01:08:25.000 I was listening to it in our kitchen with my wife.

01:08:27.000 I was like, he's doomed.

01:08:28.000 He's over.

01:08:29.000 We played it on air.

01:08:30.000 Team DeSantis is claiming the election is rigged.

01:08:33.000 Who?

01:08:33.000 Wait, what?

01:08:34.000 Jeremy Redfern.

01:08:35.000 I'm at a precinct that hasn't even voted yet and the media is trying to call the race for Trump.

01:08:40.000 So they're well, I'm only trying to stop the steal. So it was weird to see Trump at one percent.

01:08:48.000 This is his official press secretary from his official office, and, you know, there's ethics issues, but we're not going to bring that up.

01:08:54.000 Here's the tweet.

01:08:54.000 I'm at a precinct that hasn't even voted yet, and the media are trying to call the race for Trump.

01:08:58.000 It happens all the time.

01:08:59.000 Yeah, it happens all the time.

01:09:00.000 Right.

01:09:01.000 Yeah, it's only 3% reporting.

01:09:02.000 Actually, especially in states with different time zones.

01:09:05.000 So, like, the other half of the state, if the time zone splits in a state, like, you'll call the state, and half the state hasn't even voted yet.

01:09:13.000 That happens.

01:09:15.000 Oh, is this a tweet from Wesley Hunt getting attacked?

01:09:17.000 Yeah.

01:09:18.000 Oh wow, let me, uh... You tweet, or Wesley Hunt tweeted this.

01:09:21.000 Yeah.

01:09:21.000 Is it violent?

01:09:22.000 Uh, I didn't watch it all the way through.

01:09:25.000 Let's, uh, let's pull up this clip.

01:09:29.000 Here we go, ladies and gentlemen.

01:09:29.000 This is a tweet from Wesley Hunt.

01:09:31.000 Let me slow down here.

01:09:32.000 Great dude, by the way.

01:09:33.000 He says, Tonight, at the Timberline Caucus, as I spoke on behalf of President Trump, an enraged man attempted to stop my speech. 0.93

01:09:39.000 He shouted, Trump was racist.

01:09:40.000 You know, the same tired Trump we've heard over and over.

01:09:42.000 But on this day, of all days, Martin Luther King Day, the people of Iowa, just like President Trump, judge me not by the color of my skin, but by the content of my character.

01:09:49.000 The anti-Trump movement is in full-blown meltdown.

01:09:51.000 So, let me, uh, let's play this.

01:09:54.000 Well, it's four minutes.

01:09:58.000 Do we know it?

01:09:59.000 About a minute and a half in.

01:10:01.000 Minute and a half?

01:10:02.000 And this is from someone on the DeSantis team?

01:10:05.000 They say he was a DeSantis supporter.

01:10:06.000 Thank you.

01:10:10.000 Now, I'm a military guy by trade.

01:10:11.000 I come from a military family.

01:10:14.000 My dad's a retired colonel.

01:10:16.000 My brother went to West Point first in my family.

01:10:18.000 I went to West Point.

01:10:19.000 My brother went to West Point.

01:10:21.000 There were 60 years before the families He rushes the court.

01:10:25.000 What?

01:10:25.000 What? What's going on?

01:10:41.000 Wow!

01:10:41.000 What did he say?

01:10:42.000 Wow.

01:10:58.000 What did he say?

01:11:11.000 So how do you know this guy is connected to DeSantis?

01:11:13.000 I'll just say this was a text I got.

01:11:15.000 He said, a DeSantis supporter.

01:11:18.000 He said, how could you do this on Martin Luther King Jr.

01:11:20.000 Day or something like that?

01:11:22.000 Is that a white guy?

01:11:27.000 No, that's not.

01:11:30.000 I mean, me and Seamus had more serious arguments than that.

01:11:36.000 I don't see skin color.

01:11:38.000 Is the guy who's yelling at Wesleyan also a black man?

01:11:41.000 He appears to be.

01:11:42.000 Right, it's hard to tell.

01:11:45.000 But is that his point?

01:11:46.000 That Wesley Hunt is betraying Martin Luther King or whatever or something like this?

01:11:50.000 But how?

01:11:51.000 Who knows?

01:11:53.000 He said something that bothered the audience, but we missed it.

01:11:56.000 It was a little bit before.

01:11:58.000 How dare you? 0.89

01:11:59.000 He's racist or something like that. 0.92

01:12:00.000 Shout out to Martin Luther King. 0.50

01:12:02.000 Let's uphold his vision.

01:12:03.000 Well, I think he's getting a lot of flack right now.

01:12:05.000 I think the important thing to recognize, too, is there's a lot of people in history People need to know the truth about, and if you don't really pay attention, you might just believe the simple things of them.

01:12:18.000 A good example is like Che Guevara.

01:12:20.000 Like, that dude was like a really bad guy, but young people just wear his shirt all the time because they don't pay attention.

01:12:24.000 That being said, Martin Luther King Jr.

01:12:25.000 has had some great points, but I'm not going to sit here and try and adjudicate the whole debate that's been going on.

01:12:31.000 But a big thing happening right now is criticism of MLK over a lot of stuff that he was involved in.

01:12:37.000 I don't know.

01:12:37.000 I don't know enough about it.

01:12:38.000 The FBI knows about it, since they were spying on him and then recording his private conversations with his mistresses and then playing it to his wife when he was in jail, trying to, of course, get them divorced, as, of course, a court in Memphis actually found the U.S.

01:12:54.000 government complicit in the assassination of MLK.

01:12:57.000 Well, take a look at this.

01:12:58.000 It's on Twitter, on X.

01:13:00.000 The FBI tweeted, This MLK Day the FBI honors one of the most prominent

01:13:04.000 leaders of the civil rights movement and reaffirms its commitment to Dr. King's legacy of

01:13:08.000 fairness and equal justice for all.

01:13:09.000 There's a community note that reads, The FBI engaged in surveillance of King, attempted to discredit

01:13:14.000 him, and used manipulation tactics to influence him to stop

01:13:17.000 organizing.

01:13:18.000 King's family believe the FBI was responsible for his death.

01:13:21.000 So, shout out to community notes on X. It's not that they believe.

01:13:23.000 There was an actual court case in Memphis in 1999 that looked at all the evidence and a jury found the U.S.

01:13:30.000 government complicit in the assassination of MLK.

01:13:33.000 They paid a civil fee.

01:13:35.000 They won $100, but the $100 was just for the court proceedings to kind of move forward.

01:13:42.000 I got some bad news for you, Alex.

01:13:44.000 Ron's actually pulled ahead of Nikki by a good amount.

01:13:48.000 Well, we'll see what happens.

01:13:49.000 As long as Nikki loses tonight, I'll be happy.

01:13:52.000 Otherwise, I kind of really don't care.

01:13:54.000 The idea of anyone losing to Nikki Haley is just so depressing.

01:13:57.000 Aw, poor Vivek.

01:13:58.000 I honestly, it even makes me sad to see Chris Christie lose to Nikki.

01:14:01.000 It's just like, so brutal.

01:14:03.000 There's only one winner, and that's whoever gets the most.

01:14:06.000 So that's, there's no, everyone's a loser except for DJT at this rate.

01:14:10.000 First, you're last.

01:14:12.000 Don't want to let this slip.

01:14:13.000 The FBI pre-wrote the suicide note for MLK.

01:14:16.000 Is that correct?

01:14:17.000 Yep.

01:14:17.000 And they were encouraging him to take his own life when he was going through a difficult time.

01:14:23.000 They sent letters saying, you gotta off yourself, you gotta kill yourself, you're a horrible person because of so-and-so. 0.99

01:14:28.000 Signed FBI or what? 0.98

01:14:29.000 No, no, the FBI literally was running PsyOps on MLK.

01:14:33.000 Where do I know this?

01:14:34.000 The FBI is on files.

01:14:35.000 So the FBI has released these files and they have like, they're available on the FBI website.

01:14:40.000 And the agents who did this were never held accountable.

01:14:42.000 So this was the beginning stages of the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover, who also was a person who was probably being extorted as well for the dresses that he was wearing.

01:14:53.000 But that's the start of the FBI.

01:14:55.000 What are they doing?

01:14:56.000 Rfkjr was just asked about the wiretapping recently and he defended JFK and Rfkjr's wiretapping of MLK.

01:15:04.000 Wow!

01:15:05.000 He said he needed to do it.

01:15:08.000 Which is crazy.

01:15:08.000 He's in a tough spot.

01:15:11.000 There's something strange happening to R.F.B.

01:15:13.000 Jr.

01:15:14.000 I don't know what's happening to R.F.B.

01:15:15.000 Jr., but there has been a huge turnaround in his kind of team that is very kind of bewildering.

01:15:22.000 He was on, admittedly, and we found this out through the documents, but before the documents came out, he said he was on the Lolita Express with Jeffrey Epstein and his wife all the way back in the early 1990s.

01:15:37.000 And that's what he admitted to.

01:15:38.000 His father was Attorney General overseeing the FBI's operations and so he's being asked to defend his late father.

01:15:46.000 Right, I suppose.

01:15:47.000 Would be the... Bobby Kennedy?

01:15:48.000 What's actually going on, JFK Jr.

01:15:51.000 R.F.K.

01:15:51.000 Jr.

01:15:52.000 is being asked to defend his father's actions.

01:15:54.000 He must have signed off on this.

01:15:55.000 You'd have to assume.

01:15:56.000 I mean, I don't know.

01:15:58.000 But you'd have to assume in some level his father knew about what they were doing to MLK.

01:16:02.000 And so, R.F.K.

01:16:03.000 Jr.

01:16:03.000 in a tough spot.

01:16:04.000 I mean, it's your dad.

01:16:05.000 Who met his own untimely demise.

01:16:07.000 I mean, obviously, you know, tragically and horrifically.

01:16:09.000 So it's like... Probably at the hands of the intel agencies.

01:16:12.000 Yeah, they said it was Sirhan Sirhan, some wild guy in a kitchen, but...

01:16:16.000 Fellas, I do have to bounce out to celebrate a victory.

01:16:19.000 I appreciate you hanging out.

01:16:22.000 As you can see, it was very close.

01:16:24.000 We are waiting, hopefully Vivek can come by.

01:16:28.000 He's going to be here in a few minutes, according to text that I've been receiving.

01:16:31.000 A few minutes!

01:16:32.000 I don't want to give false hope, but I think 8.15 was the call time, but we'll see.

01:16:37.000 8.15 was the call time?

01:16:38.000 Yeah, so one minute ago.

01:16:40.000 To Vivek's credit, between the three candidates that are behind Trump right now, He significantly spent less money and is probably over-performing that his predictions were early in the cycle.

01:16:52.000 And also, Nikki Haley's voters?

01:16:54.000 A lot of them are probably Democrats.

01:16:55.000 Yep.

01:16:56.000 So, you know, I don't even consider her votes to be actual... She's not convincing anybody but the Democratic Party to vote for Nikki Haley, Hillary.

01:17:03.000 Vivek also worked very hard hitting the ground gate here more than I think anyone else.

01:17:09.000 And it's crazy, you know, when Ron DeSantis has an event and he meets people, the people that he meets typically don't like him.

01:17:14.000 What's this video with the guy in the wheelchair getting thrown out of the DeSantis event?

01:17:17.000 What was that?

01:17:18.000 What's this video where the guy in the wheelchair getting thrown out of the DeSantis event?

01:17:21.000 Yeah.

01:17:22.000 What?

01:17:22.000 What was that?

01:17:23.000 So there's a meme team, it's called the Dilly Meme Team, and this guy in a wheelchair showed up at a DeSantis event 0.98

01:17:28.000 wearing a Dilly Meme Team hat. 0.72

01:17:29.000 And because he didn't like his hat, he got rolled out of the event.

01:17:34.000 And then there's the other guy, Matt Kim, is that his name?

01:17:35.000 Yeah.

01:17:36.000 He got kicked out as well?

01:17:37.000 Yeah, Matt Kim.

01:17:38.000 These guys didn't do anything?

01:17:40.000 They just showed up and obviously they're critical of DeSantis on the interweb.

01:17:44.000 Man, I kind of wish I went to one of those events.

01:17:46.000 I texted you two photos from a caucus event of Nikki Haley voters and so you can give people sort of an image of I have- Do they have blue hair?

01:17:56.000 We have a production team here and they're at- Do you wanna- Can you tweet him?

01:18:00.000 I can't pull him from my phone.

01:18:02.000 Got him.

01:18:03.000 If you tweet him out yourself, I'll pull up your Twitter.

01:18:05.000 God bless you all.

01:18:06.000 Alright man, thanks for hanging out.

01:18:07.000 Thanks for coming out.

01:18:07.000 I suppose if whoever's waiting in the wings wants to jump on while we're waiting for Vivek, unless he's here, you guys wanna rock, paper, scissors for it?

01:18:14.000 Josie's right here.

01:18:15.000 Alex Brusewitz, ladies and gentlemen.

01:18:16.000 Josie the red-headed libertarian is jumping in. 1.00

01:18:18.000 Josie, how's it going?

01:18:20.000 I'm gonna pull up Benny Johnson's Twitter.

01:18:22.000 I'm tweeting it right now.

01:18:23.000 He's tweeting it right now.

01:18:25.000 What's your analysis, Josie, on everything?

01:18:28.000 Yeah, you're sitting there watching.

01:18:29.000 Grab that mic.

01:18:30.000 Talk to us.

01:18:31.000 I just want Nikki to lose tonight.

01:18:34.000 Well, I think we're good.

01:18:34.000 Amen.

01:18:35.000 I think if anything is worth celebrating, it's her defeat.

01:18:40.000 And look, there is a funny thing about watching Ron DeSantis lose to Nikki Haley, but I really want Nikki Haley to come in fourth.

01:18:46.000 I just want everyone to be like, nobody wants her.

01:18:49.000 Is this because people are genuinely concerned that Trump will be taken off the ballot somehow?

01:18:49.000 Get out of here.

01:18:55.000 Like, are people, is that actually like, I mean...

01:18:58.000 It's not a rhetorical question, but, like, is that... Well, is what?

01:19:01.000 What do you mean?

01:19:02.000 The threat that Trump will either be removed legally... No, I know, but what do you think would, like, what would that explain?

01:19:06.000 Then the next runner-up would be the number one candidate, the front-runner for the Republican ticket.

01:19:13.000 Cassandra Fairbanks had another tweet, too.

01:19:15.000 We have these images that we're showing of these Nikki Haley voters.

01:19:18.000 And it was a guy with a peace sign tattoo voting for Nikki Haley and Cassandra McDonald.

01:19:23.000 You know, she works here, she's great. 0.99

01:19:25.000 She was just like, how are you so dumb? 0.99

01:19:26.000 Like, Nikki Haley is the warmonger candidate. 1.00

01:19:30.000 Like, what do you think's gonna happen?

01:19:31.000 It's probably because it's some old boomer Democrat with a peace tattoo from their hippie days.

01:19:34.000 Yeah, now they're in the corporate chill days, I guess.

01:19:37.000 Unfortunately.

01:19:39.000 Yeah, but look, you know, if Nikki loses, which she's going to, there's no way she's winning, then we all have reason to celebrate, I guess, but it is what it is.

01:19:46.000 Just say you're a misogynist, Tim.

01:19:49.000 That's right.

01:19:50.000 Well, I suppose, hoping Vivek pops in any moment, let's talk about this story here.

01:19:55.000 We have this from Taylor Hanson.

01:19:58.000 Uh, Tenet Media shout out.

01:19:59.000 He tweets, I'm on my way home to Salt Lake City, Utah.

01:20:01.000 I noticed six illegal immigrants are also boarding the same American Air flight.

01:20:05.000 Looks like I've got some new neighbors.

01:20:07.000 I want to pull up, uh, I'll pull up the tweet.

01:20:09.000 Maybe they've, maybe they've pinned it.

01:20:10.000 I don't know where, uh, okay, Tenet's covering all the caucus stuff.

01:20:13.000 There's a video.

01:20:15.000 That, oh, holy crap, Iran has allegedly launched an attack on a U.S. 0.93

01:20:18.000 consulate in Iraq, is it? 0.90

01:20:19.000 Well, those were the original reports, but the Iranians are now saying that they're attacking a rebel group that is against Iran inside of Iraq.

01:20:27.000 So far, we have not gotten any confirmations that U.S.

01:20:30.000 targets were picked out here.

01:20:33.000 Oh, and Vivek was hitting another caucus site, so he may be much later.

01:20:37.000 Well, we have this story from Tenet Media.

01:20:40.000 This is crazy.

01:20:41.000 We should definitely talk about this pertaining to the U.S.

01:20:43.000 elections.

01:20:44.000 Last night, Tenet reporter Taylor USA confronted multiple SATX police working a side gig where

01:20:49.000 they're helping facilitate human smuggling at the Migrant Resource Center in San Antonio,

01:20:53.000 Texas.

01:20:54.000 The officers are seen wearing their official SAPD uniforms, driving work vehicles and holstering

01:20:58.000 their service weapons while accepting money from alleged cartel-sponsored NGOs to guard

01:21:02.000 the facility and check illegal migrants wristbands upon entry.

01:21:06.000 We tended to reach out to SATX Police for comment on the situation and received no response.

01:21:11.000 It's got 2.3 million views just on this single tweet alone.

01:21:11.000 This story's massive.

01:21:14.000 And this is what I was talking about.

01:21:16.000 The fear of what happens when law enforcement is committing crimes.

01:21:22.000 What happens?

01:21:23.000 These are, what is it, San Antonio police?

01:21:26.000 Using police and publicly funded vehicles, weapons and equipment to help facilitate cartel, alleged cartel.

01:21:34.000 Human smuggling operations.

01:21:36.000 We got that report just last week.

01:21:38.000 The DOJ is suing Texas because Texas deployed armed soldiers to block CBP access to the river.

01:21:45.000 You now have a bubbling conflict between corrupt law enforcement facilitating human trafficking and smuggling and law enforcement at the state level trying to stop it.

01:21:55.000 Where does that go?

01:21:58.000 I defer to the states.

01:22:00.000 The states have a duty to defend themselves.

01:22:02.000 Right, but what do you think happens if the federal government doesn't back down?

01:22:04.000 And what do you think happens if Nikki Haley wins?

01:22:06.000 It's an interesting conundrum for the federal government.

01:22:09.000 Hopefully, their goal is to support states' rights, ideally, as cohesion, and you don't want to press the states away.

01:22:15.000 And also, they're dealing with a geopolitical nightmare with this, like, you're talking about the Houthis, what's going on in Ukraine and Israel, all these things.

01:22:22.000 Hopefully, the United States does not push the issue on this.

01:22:25.000 I mean, Texas made very clear— What does that mean?

01:22:28.000 The United States.

01:22:31.000 They are actively facilitating human smuggling into this country and have been for several years.

01:22:35.000 The charts show that it is, there's no way it's an accident.

01:22:38.000 The rates are double, triple, or quadruple what they were under Trump and under Obama.

01:22:42.000 So it's on purpose.

01:22:43.000 And the only state doing anything, somewhat, is Texas, while the other states do nothing.

01:22:47.000 Kind of made me think about the American Civil War.

01:22:49.000 I was thinking about the Emancipation Proclamation and how Abraham Lincoln was like, hey, all you slaves in the South, you're free.

01:22:55.000 And kind of like, and by the way, if you want to fight for the North, go for it.

01:22:59.000 All these illegal immigrants, if the federal government were like, hey, all you illegal immigrants, you can have citizenship. 0.96

01:23:05.000 If you want to fight for the federal government, if you know what I mean, kind of thing.

01:23:07.000 Like, if there's a... just to, like, disincentivize people from trying to create some sort of civil war in the United States.

01:23:13.000 We talk about this quite a bit on the show, but we have you here, Benny.

01:23:15.000 I'm curious your thoughts on this border issue, right?

01:23:18.000 You've got state-level fighting with federal officers to the point where there are armed soldiers deployed against federal law enforcement.

01:23:25.000 So all of this goes back to the 1960s, Cloward and Piven and the communists who sort of wrote the neo-Marxist vision for America and how to bring Marxism to America, and one of the number one things you needed to do was Balloon the welfare state large enough so that it actually collapses the federal dollar and the federal government's capacity.

01:23:46.000 That's the number one way to create crisis.

01:23:49.000 America would never be conquered.

01:23:50.000 This was after World War II.

01:23:51.000 So how do you actually bring down a behemoth like America?

01:23:54.000 How do you bring down the beast that is America? 0.74

01:23:56.000 You have to destroy it from within. 0.50

01:23:58.000 You have to give it some type of horrible malady and something that is so insufferable that it can't move forward.

01:24:06.000 And so their idea was, Swell the welfare rolls, which you saw with the Great Society Program, swell the welfare rolls so big that the federal government can never afford it.

01:24:17.000 And then that will create, of course, the millstones of high taxation and inflation that grind the middle class, and you get no middle class.

01:24:23.000 And so the way that you swell the welfare rolls is to bring people here that don't speak the language, that have no skills, that can't get jobs or are having a tough time, you know, or can't work legally, but are accessible, are able to get on welfare programs.

01:24:39.000 And California is leading the way in this.

01:24:42.000 And that's the way that you actually collapse the United States of America.

01:24:45.000 I think that's the ultimate strategy here.

01:24:47.000 A lot of people are like, well, they'll vote Democrat.

01:24:48.000 I think fine.

01:24:49.000 Yes, maybe.

01:24:50.000 Yes.

01:24:51.000 But the real goal is the collapse of the country as we know it.

01:24:54.000 And that was the vision set out by the theorists, the Marxist theorists, neo-Marxist theorists, who Barack Obama is the acolyte of.

01:25:05.000 Do you think that they're making this decision to let these people in on accident?

01:25:09.000 That it's, like, toxically compassionate, or are they actively trying to destroy the country?

01:25:14.000 It's not compassionate.

01:25:15.000 It's child smuggling.

01:25:16.000 It's the most horrific thing that a human being can do to another human being.

01:25:19.000 I mean, it's awful what's happening.

01:25:20.000 I guess, but once they hit the border, they're, like, at this point, they're here.

01:25:24.000 The idea that, like, well, we can't turn them away, that kind of toxic— That is what creates it.

01:25:27.000 Why not?

01:25:27.000 Like, why can't you turn them away?

01:25:29.000 I mean, you can, but— Every other country in the world turns away I mean, go check out the border with Egypt and Gaza. 0.68

01:25:36.000 But it's not just that, and that is true, Egypt and Gaza is a great example.

01:25:40.000 It's not just that, it's why the U.S.

01:25:41.000 doesn't pay ransom to terrorists in the Middle East.

01:25:45.000 It is well known, for the most part, I don't know, Biden may have changed some of this, that if you are traveling around, I don't know, Syria or something, and you get kidnapped, and you're an American citizen, the people who kidnapped you know the U.S.

01:25:56.000 doesn't pay.

01:25:57.000 They send a bunch of heavily armed dudes from a Blackhawk in the middle of the night to kill you and anyone in the building with you. 0.91

01:26:02.000 But European countries will pay the ransoms instantly. 0.93

01:26:05.000 What happens?

01:26:06.000 If you're Spanish or German, you're a huge target. 1.00

01:26:09.000 If you're a journalist from Spain or Germany, a national, and you're traveling around the Middle East, they are looking at you.

01:26:14.000 You cost four million dollars.

01:26:16.000 They know, like, that's the guy to get.

01:26:17.000 Then there's an American next to them, and they go, nah, not that guy. 0.99

01:26:20.000 They'll just kill you. 0.99

01:26:21.000 If the U.S. 0.98

01:26:22.000 is basically saying, borders open, if you're here, I guess you're here, what happens?

01:26:27.000 Some dude in Honduras goes, well, if I go there, they'll let me in. 0.94

01:26:29.000 Might as well go.

01:26:31.000 If the strategy was, we've blocked it off, turn around, good luck, you're on your own, not our problem.

01:26:36.000 Guy in Honduras would be like, there's no point in traveling a thousand miles, they're gonna turn me away. 0.66

01:26:39.000 That's why I call it toxically compassionate.

01:26:40.000 It's not real.

01:26:41.000 It's like compassion to a fault.

01:26:42.000 Like, we can let everyone in.

01:26:44.000 It'll be okay.

01:26:45.000 It's not compassion.

01:26:46.000 It's the opposite of that.

01:26:47.000 And to Tim's point, the CIA usually gives the money up front to the terrorists, and then that's usually how they get their cut.

01:26:53.000 They don't rely on, you know, killing people and kidnapping them.

01:26:58.000 They just get the money up front.

01:27:01.000 But if you look at what's happening here, again, this is a deliberate plot here.

01:27:05.000 This is a deliberate plan to not just create future Democratic voters, but there's a larger,

01:27:11.000 bigger agenda here that has been weaponized against the American people that is causing division, that is causing

01:27:17.000 strife.

01:27:18.000 I think a lot of this is planned.

01:27:19.000 I think they're trying to get as much of it done before this next election cycle because they know this is going to

01:27:26.000 be one of the key issues that they're going to be recalled for.

01:27:28.000 And when they do, they want to make sure they have enough people here for whatever reason.

01:27:32.000 Some people say we need military fighting age males to fight China or Russia.

01:27:36.000 Some people are saying we might need these males to fight the other faction inside of the United States.

01:27:42.000 Maybe a part of Take a Drink Civil War that could potentially happen as well. 0.97

01:27:45.000 There's different theories out there, but the theories are legitimate because it's not for the benefit of the American people in any way.

01:27:51.000 You kind of look at it.

01:27:53.000 There's the possibility that the Biden administration invokes the Insurrection Act against Texas for blocking federal agents at the border.

01:28:02.000 I would defer to the Constitution on this.

01:28:04.000 So it's the federal government's job, Article 4, Section 4, Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S.

01:28:09.000 Constitution to protect the states from invasion.

01:28:12.000 However, when you jump to the 10th Amendment, the 10th Amendment says that if the federal government is failing their own responsibility, and the article doesn't say that the states cannot B, cannot take up the responsibility, then that responsibility can be taken up by the states or by the individuals.

01:28:31.000 And that's really key.

01:28:32.000 I think that we're going to start seeing some really interesting... What if under that argument of Article 4, Section 4, the Biden administration says, we are protecting the border by having our troops, our CBP and our law enforcement at the border, and Texas is blocking us from enforcing our constitutional duties, thus engaging in insurrection?

01:28:52.000 Ken Paxton has an 80% win rate against the Biden administration, so he's probably one of the smartest people in the Constitution that I've ever come across.

01:29:01.000 Yeah, but we're not talking about the legality of it.

01:29:04.000 Norms are breaking down.

01:29:05.000 The idea that the Texas National Guard was deployed armed to block access to federal law enforcement.

01:29:10.000 The concern there is at what point do both sides assert jurisdiction over the same area, and when that happens, who's going to try to arrest the other?

01:29:18.000 Or does this really just come down to Biden administration just backs down instantly and says, we don't want to fight, we lose, you win?

01:29:24.000 This is exactly what happened in Fort Sumter.

01:29:26.000 The Union forces were occupying Fort Sumter.

01:29:28.000 kicked off the Civil War.

01:29:29.000 Like an argument over a military base where like a localized militia

01:29:33.000 like started fighting federal forces.

01:29:35.000 The Union forces were occupying Fort Sumter.

01:29:38.000 After the secession, South Carolina said, you are not welcome to be here, leave.

01:29:42.000 The Union forces were like, it's our base we built and paid for. 0.81

01:29:45.000 You can't secede, it's illegal, we're staying.

01:29:47.000 And I think the only actual death in that conflict was an accidental death on the side of the Union, I could be wrong.

01:29:52.000 I read a bunch of articles saying no one really knows who fired the first shot, but... I'm simply saying territorial dispute over like federal jurisdiction is what kicked off the Civil War, like what it's seen as historically kicking off the Civil War.

01:30:05.000 But here's the best point.

01:30:07.000 After that, we historically look back at that date and say, that was the start of the Civil War.

01:30:12.000 However, the actual first bloody battle was the First Battle of Bull Run, which, even after the battle at Fort Sumter, local residents in the area did not believe Civil War could happen, even though we believe it already started, and were picnicking, watching the first bloody battle, which was chaos.

01:30:28.000 So, we look at this border issue, this jurisdiction issue, and perhaps that's it.

01:30:33.000 Perhaps all we get is a standoff, which is happening now already, with federal law enforcement, Texas National Guard, and we think nothing of it.

01:30:40.000 And even after some CBP guy shoves a National Guard guy, and then they try arresting someone, and we're like, wow, they're fighting, we still don't think we're in it.

01:30:49.000 And then maybe...

01:30:50.000 After this, Texas deploys armed National Guard to the border to block a bunch of Biden vehicles that are trying to come in, resulting in actual shootouts.

01:30:57.000 And then we say 100 years from now, it started when the Texas National Guard deployed armed soldiers to block federal agents from facilitating human smuggling or whatever.

01:31:06.000 So here's what I see.

01:31:07.000 So in the Constitution, the federal government's jurisdiction over the border is literally just the naturalization process.

01:31:16.000 That's all that's written in there for them is the naturalization process.

01:31:16.000 That's it.

01:31:19.000 So it would say, you know, for that instance, that the states would be in charge of everything else, except for

01:31:24.000 when there is an invasion.

01:31:25.000 So I think what they could do is they would have to declare an invasion.

01:31:29.000 The federal government would have to say, well, there's an invasion now. 0.99

01:31:32.000 And then they'd go in there, they'd send their troops in and handle it by just continuing to do all the bullshit 0.99

01:31:37.000 that they're doing. 0.99

01:31:38.000 Yeah. The difference of the Civil War in the 1860s and now is Internet video because we're not passively watching

01:31:46.000 stuff happen.

01:31:47.000 We are crafting it as we go.

01:31:48.000 Like, I don't know, how many people are watching right now?

01:31:50.000 50,000 people?

01:31:51.000 80,000, yeah.

01:31:52.000 Wow.

01:31:53.000 Like, the amount of consciousness that can be tweaked by our conversation literally I disagree.

01:31:59.000 is never in the human history has been.

01:32:01.000 And maybe that's like part of this desperation of this time in human history

01:32:06.000 is that we have this internet video for this purpose, to repurpose, to create mass formation in like a good way.

01:32:12.000 I disagree.

01:32:13.000 We may be reaching our live concurrent audience between like 80 and 83,000 individuals,

01:32:19.000 but shortly, you know, 20 years ago, it was millions for these very limited networks.

01:32:25.000 And the only difference is the geography of the viewers.

01:32:28.000 So if you go back to the 1860s, people would be saying the same thing.

01:32:31.000 Wow, we can reach 100,000 people with the printing press.

01:32:35.000 Instantly.

01:32:35.000 Who would have ever thought we could influence so many people by printing papers rapidly on these machines and distributing, but the issue was geography.

01:32:42.000 So the people in these areas, you could reach 100,000 by circulating papers.

01:32:46.000 We're circulating this show to, you know, it'll probably end up being like a million people, but they're spread out.

01:32:51.000 So the big difference is, Whereas with the Civil War in this country in the 1860s, it's geographic, it's North and South.

01:32:58.000 So yes, ideas are being spread in those isolated areas.

01:33:02.000 Now you're going to have pockets all over the country of different factions, and that's what we see in other countries and have seen in other civil wars.

01:33:07.000 I think though, you know, long distance is free now.

01:33:09.000 You can make phone calls, you can do video chats with your friends out of state.

01:33:13.000 The diaspora is... 0.99

01:33:15.000 It's very clear.

01:33:16.000 And 20, 30 years ago, this show would have been shut down 15 minutes in because of what we were talking about.

01:33:22.000 Like, the ability to, like, go right at the situation and describe it to people is... It was called Golden Handcuffs, and that's a common phrase.

01:33:30.000 What would happen 20 years ago, if you were on, like, a cable network channel, and you had a panel show where they expected you to say, you know, Nikki Haley's the best or something like that, and you went off the rails, they would let the show happen.

01:33:41.000 And then later, they would tell you, hey, you know, we're actually going to move your time slot, but we don't know exactly what we're going to do, so we'll let you know.

01:33:48.000 You're under contract.

01:33:49.000 You can't quit.

01:33:49.000 They're paying you a lot of money, but you can't produce any content.

01:33:53.000 Golden handcuffs.

01:33:55.000 They'll sign you for a few years, then they'll tell you to wait.

01:33:58.000 If you try and produce anything else, they'll sue you.

01:33:59.000 They tried it with Tucker Carlson.

01:34:01.000 Taking a show off the air, but then saying, you're under contract, you can't do any work.

01:34:04.000 And he said, try me.

01:34:05.000 Back in the day, without Twitter, he'd be gone.

01:34:08.000 And here's the issue.

01:34:11.000 Tucker gets the axe from Fox News.

01:34:13.000 If this was 20 years ago, what's he going to do?

01:34:16.000 Go to CBS, they'd say, we can't hire you, we'll get sued by Fox.

01:34:18.000 He goes to MSNBC, we can't hire you, we'll get sued by Fox.

01:34:20.000 Today, he goes, I'll make my own content on Twitter.

01:34:24.000 And then Fox says, we'll sue you.

01:34:25.000 And he goes, go for it.

01:34:27.000 The other networks would have basically just teamed up with Fox in locking him up and preventing his voice from being heard.

01:34:32.000 So in that regard, I agree with you.

01:34:35.000 This is something new and powerful that's breaking that dynamic.

01:34:38.000 That being said, That control that they had back then, that was something to behold.

01:34:43.000 They could snap their fingers and have 100 million people believe the most crazy nonsense instantly, and they've lost that power.

01:34:49.000 Or they're losing it.

01:34:50.000 Yeah.

01:34:51.000 It's really wild to look at the centralized control of the free networks that you would get even if you had a TV, you didn't have to pay for ABC, NBC, or CBS.

01:34:58.000 It just comes standard with the TV in every American household.

01:35:02.000 And PBS, I suppose you could include that.

01:35:05.000 And how every single night they were all on message.

01:35:09.000 It was absolute government programming.

01:35:10.000 Like, my childhood, of course, was in the 80s, and that was just pure government programming.

01:35:15.000 All news.

01:35:16.000 Yeah, this is something new.

01:35:17.000 This ability for the human to tell you what I think?

01:35:20.000 Yeah.

01:35:21.000 It's not to be trifled with.

01:35:23.000 We should respect it and use it to its ultimate.

01:35:27.000 Luke, was that like the zenith of Operation Mockingbird, right?

01:35:30.000 Would be like 1987?

01:35:32.000 Where every anchor was on message, where every outlet was free and broadcast directly into a million households.

01:35:39.000 That wasn't Operation Mockingbird.

01:35:40.000 There was other congressional hearings that actually did find out that there was CIA agents at the top of almost every major news outlet that were pretty much calling the shots and directing people to publish news that the CIA wanted them to publish.

01:35:56.000 Now we're seeing a different kind of version of it with The same kind of intelligence agencies influencing social media and algorithms and what people can and cannot say on those particular platforms.

01:36:06.000 So they changed the way that they do things.

01:36:09.000 And instead of just going to these network heads, I think they're still at the network.

01:36:13.000 I think they're just just expanding where the media and information is expanding and what we're getting now.

01:36:19.000 Other than in a limited way kind of Rumble and Twitter is curated content that I think they centrally control in more ways than one that we even don't understand as of yet just how sophisticated their manipulation of information is as now.

01:36:35.000 So to answer your question they manipulated the CIA manipulated what we saw before and now they're doing it again with the exception of Twitter and rumble which are directly under attack by the establishment right now.

01:36:50.000 So I think this is why there's such a fervent fight to take those institutions down because then when they're down The establishment could pretty much do whatever they want to us.

01:37:01.000 But now that they're up, I think this is one of the big things that is stopping a big kind of event, a big kind of October surprise.

01:37:08.000 And a lot of the same old tactics were changed up.

01:37:10.000 So when we have the next big thing to deal with, when we have the next big PSYOP, It's going to be far more complicated than what we're used to dealing with, and have many layers to it, where even our reaction, being skeptical of it, could be playing along with the larger game against us as well.

01:37:26.000 So I'm trying to think of this as how they're playing all this out.

01:37:29.000 How could they get away with this?

01:37:30.000 Because they are very maniacal.

01:37:32.000 They do think many steps ahead of us, and they do try to control and limit what we can and cannot listen to.

01:37:38.000 Let me pull up this story, speaking of what Luke is talking about.

01:37:42.000 It's a tweet from NBC News.

01:37:44.000 A network of public interest groups and lawmakers nervous about former President Trump's potential return to power is quietly devising plans to foil any effort on his part to pressure the U.S.

01:37:54.000 military to carry out his political agenda.

01:37:57.000 Sounds like a conspiracy?

01:38:00.000 I mean, I guess the only reason we wouldn't call it a conspiracy is that they're publicly admitting they're doing it?

01:38:04.000 Yeah, exactly.

01:38:05.000 I'd said earlier that we've seen this one before.

01:38:07.000 It was the Time Magazine article after 2020 after that election.

01:38:10.000 It was a very similar headline about how they save the election with a shadow government.

01:38:16.000 The shadow campaign to save the election.

01:38:18.000 The cabal of elites.

01:38:19.000 If you click on the article, you could see NBC News trying to justify this by I think it's in the comments of the original tweet, but it's Amuse, which is at Amuse, and he says the person behind it is Mary McCord. 0.77

01:38:30.000 down Trump in order to save our government, which is absolutely ridiculous.

01:38:36.000 I think it's in the comments of the original tweet, but it's Amuse, which is at Amuse,

01:38:41.000 and he says the person behind it is Mary McCord.

01:38:45.000 Yep, this one.

01:38:46.000 He says, reminder, the woman behind the coup planning reported on NBC is Mary B. McCord,

01:38:51.000 who served as the acting assistant AG for national security from October 2016 to 17.

01:38:56.000 You may recall that she reviewed and approved FISA warrants to surveil Carter Page, a former Trump campaign aide.

01:39:01.000 The FISA court, which approved these warrants in 16 and 17, later criticized government officials for providing false and misleading information about Page and the infamous Steele dossier.

01:39:08.000 McCord is mentioned in the Justice Department Inspector General Report, which identified significant errors and omissions in the FBI's applications for warrants to surveil Page.

01:39:15.000 McCord approved the fraudulent FISA applications against Page.

01:39:18.000 Later, McCord was appointed to advise the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court as an amicus curiae.

01:39:25.000 Her role involves providing advice and expertise on matters related to foreign intelligence collection.

01:39:30.000 Today, she is organizing the effort to strip Trump of his power as Commander-in-Chief.

01:39:33.000 So, um, is that a coup?

01:39:35.000 Yeah, that's a coup.

01:39:36.000 She sounds like, I wouldn't call her the queen of the swamp, but maybe like a princess of the deep state, this woman here.

01:39:44.000 And, you know, that's what they have.

01:39:45.000 They kind of dip into, they have their group of deep state and then they just dip into them and put them in different positions all over the government.

01:39:52.000 So she's one of them.

01:39:53.000 So somebody to watch for.

01:39:54.000 Dictatorial ways.

01:39:56.000 Trump will use his military if he returns to the White House.

01:39:59.000 Their fear is, it's not the military.

01:40:02.000 I mean, there's two things.

01:40:03.000 I think their fear of issues of the military is going to be withdrawing forces and not engaging in this liberal economic order stuff.

01:40:08.000 But then I think their big fear also is the criminal prosecution of them.

01:40:12.000 Their corrupt actions they took in 2016.

01:40:15.000 And I gotta say that may mean that Donald Trump has information that may lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton.

01:40:21.000 I don't know if any information will ever lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton. 0.63

01:40:25.000 Yeah, I did like that he walked back the retribution rhetoric a few days ago.

01:40:30.000 I think it was two or three days ago he mentioned that he wants to focus on building something great in the future and coming together.

01:40:36.000 And you know, maybe too little, too late.

01:40:38.000 He's already been pretty plaintive that he wants to go... I don't know what he said exactly, but...

01:40:42.000 harassed, get back at him. I don't know what he wants to do.

01:40:45.000 I don't know what he wants to do.

01:40:46.000 This story is a kind of huge, huge admission here because they're saying we're quietly working to

01:40:51.000 subvert Donald Trump if he becomes the president of the United States. They're not being very quiet

01:40:55.000 about it. They're kind of, you know, publicly declaring that they're doing it. They're arrogant

01:41:01.000 about it. Yeah. So again, this also brings into question who's really in charge if you're the

01:41:05.000 president of the United States.

01:41:07.000 Is it the bureaucracy that's embedded within Washington, D.C.?

01:41:10.000 Is it the deep state?

01:41:11.000 As, of course, they're trying to solidify decisions before Trump is even in office, before he even makes them.

01:41:16.000 And to give Trump some credit here, Yuval Harari, the second-in-command to pretty much Klaus Schwab, a head guy at the World Economic Forum... Yuval Harari, yeah.

01:41:27.000 I'll call him whatever I want to call him.

01:41:28.000 Yoel's the guy at Twitter.

01:41:29.000 I'll call him whatever I want to.

01:41:31.000 Russell Brand could kiss him all he wants. 1.00

01:41:32.000 I'm not going to be kissing his butt here. 0.99

01:41:34.000 Yoel Harari came out and said that if Trump is elected that he will be dealing the death blow to the global order. 0.99

01:41:42.000 Those are major statements made by Yoel.

01:41:44.000 Yuval.

01:41:45.000 It's a statement.

01:41:46.000 Yoel.

01:41:47.000 Yoel.

01:41:47.000 It's Yuval.

01:41:48.000 And they are very indicative to essentially a lot of powerful people.

01:41:51.000 I actually think it's extremely important people know the guy's real name is Yuval Harari.

01:41:55.000 You've all know a Harari.

01:41:56.000 The Time Magazine article actually goes on to list everybody involved because they were, you know, had to celebrate and congratulate each other.

01:42:02.000 It says there was a conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes.

01:42:04.000 Whoa! 0.71

01:42:05.000 Big batch of votes just jumped in right away.

01:42:07.000 Does Chris get more than three?

01:42:08.000 From 4% to 26% in the New York Times.

01:42:11.000 Ron Nessant is still in second place with 5,824.

01:42:12.000 Nikki Haley with 5,450.

01:42:13.000 Vivek Ramasamy with 2,274.

01:42:14.000 Percentages have all remained relatively stable.

01:42:20.000 Chris Christie has 13 now.

01:42:22.000 Wow!

01:42:22.000 He's got 10.

01:42:23.000 I don't know if he can afford to fly all those people out for dinner, but... Yeah, it's a lot.

01:42:26.000 He's got a lot of weeks.

01:42:27.000 He'll just have dinner for 13 people.

01:42:29.000 Josie, I wanted to follow along with what you were saying.

01:42:32.000 Yeah, yeah.

01:42:33.000 Any other Tuesday, you know?

01:42:38.000 There was a conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes, one that both curtailed the protests and coordinated the resistance from CEOs.

01:42:46.000 Both surprises were the result of an informal alliance between left-wing activists and business titans.

01:42:51.000 The pact was formalized in a terse, little noticed joint statement of the U.S. Chamber of

01:42:58.000 Commerce and the AFL-CIO published on Election Day.

01:43:03.000 Both sides would come to see it as some sort of implicit bargain inspired by the summer's

01:43:07.000 massive sometimes destructive racial justice protests in which the forces of labor came

01:43:14.000 together with the forces of capital to keep the peace and oppose Trump's assault on democracy.

01:43:19.000 Wow.

01:43:20.000 Wow.

01:43:21.000 I wonder if they called the race for Trump because all the reporters at the precincts

01:43:24.000 I just saw a bunch of people wearing Trump signs chanting Trump over and over again and

01:43:26.000 they're like, ah, he won, it's, it's, it's...

01:43:28.000 Yeah.

01:43:30.000 So it was a handshake between business and labor is what they're saying.

01:43:32.000 So that's the deep state.

01:43:34.000 When did that happen?

01:43:35.000 That was 2020.

01:43:35.000 It was right after the election.

01:43:37.000 Time Magazine posted.

01:43:38.000 They actually, you know, it says a pact, how I read it was a pact.

01:43:41.000 It actually used to say cabal.

01:43:42.000 Cabal.

01:43:43.000 Cabal.

01:43:43.000 And they went in and fixed that.

01:43:45.000 I think they took that word out.

01:43:46.000 The Yuval Noah Harari said that about Trump, that he's the biggest threat to the new order.

01:43:51.000 Is that how he worded it?

01:43:52.000 He will deal the death blow to the global order.

01:43:55.000 That was Yuval, though.

01:43:57.000 Yeah, this is Yuval Noah Harari.

01:43:58.000 The death blow to the world order.

01:44:00.000 So these world economic forum people are trying to build a new world order out of our liberal economic order.

01:44:05.000 So this is what happens.

01:44:07.000 They create the liberal economic order.

01:44:09.000 You can read it on their own websites, on the CFR website.

01:44:11.000 They talk about the creation of the liberal economic order.

01:44:13.000 It's the financial systems that they have in place.

01:44:14.000 It's SWIFT.

01:44:15.000 It's IMF.

01:44:15.000 It's the World Bank, etc.

01:44:17.000 And then you end up with this viral video of George H.W.

01:44:20.000 Bush saying, we can begin to see a new world order.

01:44:24.000 New world order goes from being just a descriptive, like an adjective on world order, into a specific proper phrase, the new world order, which becomes a conspiracy theory.

01:44:35.000 What I think really happens is, when people started correctly pointing out that these powerful individuals were trying to develop a new type of liberal economic order, What they did was they insert lies.

01:44:46.000 This is one way to control when people are getting too close to the truth, is you take control of the movement, of the theories of the anger, and steer them in the wrong direction.

01:44:55.000 So then, New World Order becomes some weird conspiracy theory.

01:44:59.000 They start injecting fake ideas into it to distract everybody.

01:45:02.000 And then, New World Order turns into a conspiracy theory phrase that becomes rather meaningless to the average person, and they dismiss it outright.

01:45:09.000 Globalist.

01:45:09.000 That was another word.

01:45:10.000 Globalist!

01:45:11.000 They said that was an anti-Semitic slur.

01:45:13.000 And really what it looks like is a bunch of international corporations and the people that run them and the international monetary system and banking system out of Switzerland.

01:45:23.000 I don't know if it's only out of Switzerland, like Davos.

01:45:25.000 They meet at Davos.

01:45:26.000 It's a lot of these people you consider globalists because they don't adhere to any one country's laws.

01:45:33.000 It's definitely concerning.

01:45:34.000 I think that Yuval is not wrong.

01:45:36.000 Donald Trump, I don't know if it would be a death blow, but he would be a twist of fate, and it would create a new type of challenge to this handing over of American wealth.

01:45:45.000 This $35 trillion that we've printed, the $1.6 they just authorized Congress to use next year, $1.6 trillion, that money, I mean, going to the Ukraine, a lot of it went to the Ukraine.

01:45:55.000 It feels like it's being siphoned, that the United States is being siphoned out.

01:45:59.000 They're done with this husk of a country to lead the world order.

01:46:03.000 They want to do some new country or new, probably corporations, run the new world order I think is probably the recipe of the day.

01:46:10.000 You guys ever see those fake viral videos that are super annoying where it's his family and they're walking on piles of hundred dollar bills?

01:46:16.000 There's like, there's a video of them and a big tractor trailer full of, like, just probably $50 million and $100 bills, and it's pouring out and they're throwing it in the air.

01:46:25.000 It's a really annoying thing that's on Instagram because people watch it because they think it's real.

01:46:29.000 It's fake.

01:46:30.000 But someone took one of these videos and the Elon Musk parody account posted, you know, breaking secret insider footage from Zelensky's

01:46:37.000 home and they're walking through just piles and piles of hundred dollar bills and money's

01:46:41.000 just thrown all over the place.

01:46:43.000 Because I think that's how we actually view what's going on with Ukraine,

01:46:46.000 whether it's actually Zelensky or just a money vacuum to steal our cash to fund a waste of time.

01:46:51.000 I don't know if we can stop it, man. This is part of what concerns me. I'm not going to scream no.

01:46:56.000 You know, there's better ways to twist and jujitsu the energy away from the creation of something you hate than to scream no!

01:47:03.000 But like, what, I mean, do you guys, I'd love to hear your thoughts.

01:47:06.000 Well, they did just say that Switzerland's going to broker, or they asked Switzerland and China, was it?

01:47:12.000 To broker a deal with Ukraine? 0.66

01:47:12.000 Is that right? 0.66

01:47:15.000 To broker peace?

01:47:16.000 Well, the specific news article is Zelensky asking Switzerland if they could hold peace talks and involve China in it.

01:47:23.000 That's the specific news report.

01:47:25.000 All right.

01:47:25.000 So that means hopefully this is the end of the Ukraine war and sending them money.

01:47:30.000 I mean, ideally, if I want to be an optimist.

01:47:33.000 But then what will happen is if they use BlackRock to try and rebuild the country, you might end up seeing American money go to the rebuilding of the Ukraine, too.

01:47:33.000 Maybe the end.

01:47:43.000 No, you will regardless.

01:47:44.000 No matter what happens, it's going to be more American money for the rebuilding of Ukraine.

01:47:46.000 And it's not really—you might consider it American money because we, the taxpayers, have to suffer as a result of the siphoning.

01:47:55.000 But, you know, you might also argue that it's global money on loan to us.

01:47:59.000 Like, the Federal Reserve loans us promissory notes.

01:48:02.000 In 1913, man, they took our ability to create our own money away from us and gave it to this quasi-private company called the Federal Reserve that gives us promissory notes.

01:48:11.000 They will promise to pay them their money back.

01:48:13.000 So all this U.S.

01:48:14.000 dollar stuff is just... We've confiscated the gold.

01:48:16.000 Benny Johnson's gotta bounce!

01:48:18.000 I've gotta bounce.

01:48:19.000 He's taken off.

01:48:20.000 We gotta hold team here.

01:48:21.000 Thanks for coming in.

01:48:24.000 I'm sending messages back and forth and Vivek's team just says, give us a few minutes, give us a few minutes.

01:48:29.000 And they're an hour behind, but I can't blame them.

01:48:31.000 They're running a caucus.

01:48:32.000 It is what it is.

01:48:34.000 I will leave you here to fight the new globalist world neocon order.

01:48:37.000 Thanks, man.

01:48:38.000 And of course, I will join you at any time.

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01:48:47.000 Thanks for hanging out, man.

01:48:48.000 Always a pleasure.

01:48:49.000 Awesome to see you.

01:48:51.000 Great to see you guys.

01:48:52.000 That was fun.

01:48:53.000 Phil Labonte is going to jump in.

01:48:55.000 He's been sitting there waiting.

01:48:56.000 Good, because he's got the answers.

01:48:58.000 And in about 10 minutes, we're going to jump to, I will call them the physical super chats of the people who are hanging out who want to ask questions to everybody we've got hanging out.

01:49:07.000 There were several, uh, politicians who were slated to stop by who did not make it, unfortunately.

01:49:12.000 I'm not surprised, though, considering the weather, which kind of sucks, but it is what it is.

01:49:15.000 We came down, and, uh, Vivek, of course, was, uh, supposed to be here at 7.45.

01:49:21.000 And, uh, you know, w-w-what are you gonna do about it?

01:49:24.000 He's out campaigning, trying to get people to caucus for him.

01:49:26.000 It is what it is.

01:49:27.000 It be what it do.

01:49:27.000 And, uh, uh, okay, it sounds like he's not coming.

01:49:32.000 Aww.

01:49:32.000 So, is that- he's not coming?

01:49:34.000 He is not coming!

01:49:35.000 Aww.

01:49:36.000 Well, I'm- I'm not surprised.

01:49:38.000 I'm gonna be completely honest, coming in fourth place with 7.7% after all the work he did, I don't know what he would be doing right now.

01:49:47.000 How many of the votes are in?

01:49:48.000 With 37% of the votes in, Donald Trump with 22,000, Ron with 8,005, Nikki Haley with 81.

01:49:51.000 She's right behind him.

01:49:51.000 in. Donald Trump with 22,000, Ron with 8,005, Nikki Haley with 81. She's right behind him.

01:49:57.000 And Vivek Ramosamy with 3,259. So, I kind of figured this might be... That's unfortunate.

01:50:05.000 Well, I mean... Yeah, I thought it was going to be a victory speech for him.

01:50:07.000 I was hoping he'd be second.

01:50:09.000 Perhaps he was thinking he was going to do better and now his priorities are not in coming on a live show to talk about how he's actually losing.

01:50:15.000 I mean, I agree, and I get it, but at the same time, I mean, I guess maybe this is just looking at the bright side.

01:50:20.000 He beat Chris Christie, and Chris Christie's, you know, a well-known name.

01:50:24.000 He's hard to beat, yeah, no, it's true.

01:50:26.000 His run at, you know, politics and stuff.

01:50:28.000 Could you imagine Christie actually trying to come out here and go to all the districts?

01:50:32.000 The memes.

01:50:34.000 I don't think anybody worked as hard as Vivek did in order to, you know, get the amount of support that he did, so that's admirable.

01:50:43.000 Look, Vivek was trying to convince Trump supporters to vote for him. 0.78

01:50:47.000 That's a ridiculous proposition in the long run.

01:50:49.000 The plan B strategy makes sense. 0.80

01:50:52.000 He's waiting in the wings.

01:50:53.000 He's the bench for 2028 or something like that.

01:50:55.000 I like the idea.

01:50:56.000 But going to Trump supporters and saying, save Trump by voting for me is just like, come on, man, this is not going to work.

01:51:03.000 Especially this early, you know, he's still got a ways until he starts actually having to show up in court and stuff like that.

01:51:09.000 So there's still, you know, it's not set in stone that he's not going to be on the ballot.

01:51:14.000 Although, I mean, personally, I think that it's likely that there'll be a lot of efforts to keep him off the ballot and whatever they can do, they'll do.

01:51:23.000 I don't think that it's compelling to the average voter, because I think the average Trump supporter is currently still thinking he's going to be able to beat the charges.

01:51:32.000 So when we were planning this whole thing out, the original idea was to come just for today.

01:51:38.000 And we ultimately decided, because of the debate with Vivek, we would do this town hall and, you know, have him on.

01:51:45.000 And so it ended up working out really, really well.

01:51:48.000 But I'm genuinely curious as to, I mean, I'll just say it, like, when we were planning this, Vivek said he would come on the show on Monday following the caucus.

01:51:56.000 I'm wondering what changed with the results, what they expected, what happened on the road.

01:52:01.000 Perhaps it's weather, I don't know.

01:52:02.000 But as to why they're like, we're not gonna make it, do the show without him.

01:52:05.000 And I'm like, okay.

01:52:06.000 Probably this 8%.

01:52:08.000 I mean, it's a gut punch to anyone that was supporting that guy and had hope.

01:52:12.000 He worked really, really hard.

01:52:14.000 He did work really hard.

01:52:15.000 He spent every county, I think, more than once.

01:52:17.000 Twice.

01:52:18.000 You were on the road with them two days ago, like 16 hours?

01:52:20.000 17 hours.

01:52:22.000 17 hours on the road!

01:52:23.000 And you guys drove all over the state?

01:52:25.000 What did you do?

01:52:25.000 What did you do wrong, Luke?

01:52:27.000 No, they drove three hours away to six different events and then three hours back, which turned into more like eight hours back because there was a blizzard.

01:52:36.000 So we got this super chat.

01:52:37.000 I think it's interesting.

01:52:38.000 Richard Contini Jr.

01:52:39.000 said, I just left the caucus.

01:52:41.000 Ron showed up.

01:52:42.000 The speaker for Nikki was a Democrat.

01:52:44.000 Trump 2024.

01:52:45.000 Let's go.

01:52:45.000 Hilarious.

01:52:46.000 Yeah.

01:52:48.000 Phil, what's the solution, man?

01:52:49.000 Solution to what?

01:52:51.000 Bypassing the New World Order, creating a global order that represents American values.

01:52:58.000 You're asking the most black-pilled person sitting here. 0.99

01:53:04.000 I'm dubious as to if there is a solution.

01:53:09.000 But I do think that it's not going to be politicians.

01:53:12.000 I think that it's going to be a situation where you have to have people that are not looking to the government to do things for them.

01:53:18.000 And that's something that starts with parents and the way they raise their kids.

01:53:24.000 And it starts with culture.

01:53:27.000 As much as I think it's important to have the right people in positions of power, just because of the fact that if you have the wrong people in positions of power, they're going to impose Things on your life that you're not interested in, uh, you know, things that even, even...

01:53:43.000 The fact that they want to impose things on you is bad.

01:53:47.000 That they want to impose things on anyone is bad.

01:53:48.000 So... Go ahead.

01:53:50.000 No, no, no.

01:53:50.000 I'll wrap up your idea and then I'm going to jump in.

01:53:52.000 It's just that, I mean, you know, that's just... I lost where I was going, so go ahead.

01:53:57.000 Go ahead.

01:53:58.000 I'm going to ask a different question.

01:54:00.000 Finish your point.

01:54:00.000 I don't want to... If you believe voting is going to save you, you're not paying attention.

01:54:04.000 We need something more than just voting.

01:54:05.000 We need to take personal responsibility for our lives, which I think is more important than anything else.

01:54:10.000 And that is, you know, Mike Cernovich had a great tweet a long time ago.

01:54:12.000 He said, You know, like, raise your family, protect your kids, and that's the first step.

01:54:19.000 Something that effect, and he's right.

01:54:21.000 After that, I think culture building, inspiring people, generate, what Vivek is doing, going around and spreading this message to all of these young people is extremely effective for the next generation.

01:54:32.000 So that's absolutely fantastic.

01:54:33.000 I'm wondering, however, if DeSantis, Haley, Ramaswamy, and even Trump, if anyone expected the race to be called Literally, like, 20 minutes in.

01:54:43.000 Yeah.

01:54:43.000 With less than 1% reporting.

01:54:45.000 200 votes come in, they go, eh, he won.

01:54:47.000 It's over.

01:54:48.000 I can't imagine anybody anticipated that.

01:54:50.000 That was shocking at 1%.

01:54:51.000 I know!

01:54:52.000 Maybe that's why Vivek's team is like, look, it's gonna be 7.45.

01:54:54.000 The results haven't come in yet.

01:54:56.000 We'll come and talk about it, cross our fingers.

01:54:58.000 Now it's like, you've lost already.

01:54:59.000 Like, well, let's go to the party, I guess.

01:55:00.000 This is set?

01:55:01.000 Or were you set?

01:55:02.000 I have a question.

01:55:02.000 So, when they called it, they called it at 1%.

01:55:07.000 Less than 1%.

01:55:08.000 Less than 1%.

01:55:09.000 So people hadn't even voted yet.

01:55:11.000 Could that have been like... Oh, they did.

01:55:12.000 They did.

01:55:12.000 Well, no, it was Jeremy Redfern who said that he was in a district that hadn't voted yet.

01:55:16.000 So, could that be a form of election interference to say everybody just go home?

01:55:20.000 No point now, it's called.

01:55:22.000 Oh, that's actually a good point.

01:55:23.000 That's actually a really good point.

01:55:25.000 That's where Redfern said it was rigged.

01:55:27.000 I mean, he's talking about that kind of thing.

01:55:28.000 Yeah, I mean, what's the point?

01:55:29.000 Like, if you're waiting at the caucus and then, you know, you hear that Trump already won, you're like, well, it's cold, I'm done.

01:55:34.000 It pops up on your phone, says Trump won, then everybody goes home.

01:55:37.000 I mean, that just seemed a little sketchy to me, yeah.

01:55:40.000 Wow.

01:55:40.000 Yeah.

01:55:41.000 That's a great point.

01:55:42.000 I don't like that.

01:55:44.000 But I don't think that's why the results are the results.

01:55:47.000 No, no, that's not why.

01:55:49.000 I have a feeling the powers that be or the people, whatever you want to call it, I don't know what it is, this deep state thing, that they know Trump's going to get the votes.

01:55:57.000 They've accepted that.

01:55:59.000 They think Ramaswamy will actually disentangle the system.

01:56:02.000 So they don't want to even give him name recognition.

01:56:05.000 And so they're letting Trump get the numbers and then they're going to try and find some way to Make him stub his own toe, and then we got, I guess, Ron and Nikki to battle it out.

01:56:17.000 I mean, going back to what you were talking about earlier with like a global, a globalist agenda, but with American values, I don't think that that's possible just because The globalist agenda is inherently like socialist, and the socialist agenda goes against our instinct to put ourselves first or our families first.

01:56:35.000 It says you have to share everything, you know, and that's just not a natural instinct.

01:56:39.000 So real quick, I pulled up the polling from Iowa, from FiveThirtyEight, the aggregate polling from FiveThirtyEight, and Haley was actually expected to defeat Ron DeSantis by a couple points.

01:56:48.000 So far at 40%, Ron is winning.

01:56:51.000 I don't know if that means anything.

01:56:53.000 But it does seem to be trending exactly as the polls predicted, which is kind of crazy considering what Vivek was doing, going around and meeting people.

01:57:00.000 And the fact that he was winning first-time voters, it's fascinating the polls are as accurate as they are.

01:57:05.000 He spent, I think, $16 million.

01:57:07.000 I don't want to get the number wrong, but he spent his own money, and I think it was that.

01:57:10.000 But this is just an example of the power of mass media.

01:57:14.000 Hitler rose to power because of radio and TV. 0.94

01:57:16.000 Like the guy, you can drive and spend 15 hours a day, every day, but if you're not using mass media... Yeah, but think about, I mean, think about...

01:57:24.000 It's first of all, it's Donald Trump who had like 100% name recognition before he won the presidency in 2016.

01:57:30.000 Yeah.

01:57:31.000 And then, you know, you've got all of the things that have happened since he won the first one.

01:57:36.000 I mean, it's not a surprise.

01:57:38.000 Obviously, it's not a surprise that he won tonight.

01:57:40.000 And it really If you think about it, it shouldn't come as a shock that he won by such a large margin.

01:57:46.000 His name recognition is almost 100% and the majority of Republicans think that there was at least something unfair about the last election.

01:58:00.000 I assume most Republicans kind of agree that all of the different things, all of the mail-in ballots, all those sending out ballots to people, all that stuff changed the dynamic so much that it wasn't a standard election.

01:58:13.000 And had it been a standard election, it's likely that Donald Trump would have won.

01:58:17.000 So I don't think that this should come as any kind of shock.

01:58:20.000 When Time Magazine explained that there was a shadow campaign to fortify the election against Trump, it became clear to most all of them, actually.

01:58:29.000 Oh, Tim's going to pull it up.

01:58:29.000 Good.

01:58:30.000 I remember when I saw that the first time, I was shocked.

01:58:31.000 And I showed a friend, and his reply was, well, you know, that's politics.

01:58:36.000 And I was flabbergasted that he said that.

01:58:38.000 I was like, that's really how you understand this?

01:58:41.000 That's just politics.

01:58:42.000 They're saying that the government itself was working against the incumbent president.

01:58:48.000 And you're just like, well, that's political.

01:58:49.000 What's interesting is the headline.

01:58:50.000 It was against the voters of the country.

01:58:52.000 Fair enough.

01:58:52.000 Yeah.

01:58:53.000 The headline, the secret history of the shadow campaign.

01:58:56.000 History.

01:58:57.000 That was saved.

01:58:58.000 This was established.

01:58:59.000 I was astounded.

01:59:00.000 I couldn't believe it.

01:59:03.000 I couldn't believe that they had the audacity to print that.

01:59:05.000 And then, like I said, when I told my fairly blue-pilled buddy, I was like, do you see this?

01:59:10.000 And he's like, yeah, well, that's politics. 0.67

01:59:11.000 I'm like, oh my god, I'm going to shoot myself.

01:59:13.000 You know, the reason I think that a global order that embodies American constitutional ideals is possible is because of the way we've built the United States.

01:59:22.000 It's such a vast territory, but we were able to unify 50 different concepts into one kind of gigantic, which would have been thought totally impossible, Before the advent of electricity or discovery of electricity and advent of radio.

01:59:36.000 This article is extremely important for everyone who's never heard of to read.

01:59:40.000 It outright says, a conspiracy was unfolding behind the scenes, one that both curtailed protests and coordinated the resistance from CEOs, They say, quote, That's from Trump.

01:59:59.000 They say he was right. 0.97

02:00:01.000 A conspiracy was unfolding behind the scenes.

02:00:03.000 Handshake between business and labor was one component of a vast cross-partisan campaign to, quote, protect the election.

02:00:11.000 An extraordinary shadow effort, dedicated not to winning the vote, but to ensuring it would be free and fair, credible and uncorrupted.

02:00:19.000 This is the epitome of corruption and evil.

02:00:23.000 It is incredible how dystopian it is.

02:00:28.000 It's so audacious that you kind of feel like no one would write this in a comic book.

02:00:36.000 In a movie, if a villain did that, they would be talking about it in a boardroom, not writing an article and putting it online.

02:00:40.000 ever do that, then write a brag about it.

02:00:44.000 To be fair, I think, didn't Lex Luthor win the presidency legitimately?

02:00:49.000 I could be wrong.

02:00:51.000 In a movie, if a villain did that, they would be talking about it in a boardroom, not writing

02:00:55.000 an article and putting it online.

02:00:57.000 They put that online, that they admitted it.

02:00:59.000 That was their dystopian victory lap.

02:01:02.000 It was like, you know, the evildoers in every single movie, before they lose, they sell their dastardly plan to their victim, and then the animals show up and kill them.

02:01:12.000 That's what happens.

02:01:13.000 But they waited until after their corruption unfolded and then told us all their plan.

02:01:17.000 So, I mean, this is what we can expect.

02:01:19.000 This is what they do.

02:01:20.000 It's literally them saying, do something about it.

02:01:23.000 It's just them being like, this is what we did, and there's nothing you can do about it.

02:01:29.000 We're going to go to our live version of Super Chats.

02:01:31.000 Cool.

02:01:31.000 And we're going to ask audience questions.

02:01:33.000 Clint!

02:01:34.000 Clint Russell.

02:01:34.000 What up?

02:01:35.000 How's it going, buddy?

02:01:37.000 If anybody wants to ask a question, just lightly raise your hand.

02:01:39.000 We don't want to have people queue up.

02:01:41.000 Slip a five in Ian's pants.

02:01:43.000 And I will just say for everyone who's here, We'll try to keep it family-friendly, but ask away.

02:01:48.000 We didn't pre-screen anything.

02:01:49.000 We're just going to let people sort of ask their questions.

02:01:51.000 Don't get us demonetized.

02:01:53.000 Go ahead.

02:01:55.000 I'm more worried about the children, but also, yes, we like money, too.

02:02:01.000 What's your name?

02:02:02.000 My name is Skyler.

02:02:03.000 I just got verified on Twitter.

02:02:05.000 The Tau-me-a-man. 0.97

02:02:08.000 Nice.

02:02:08.000 Congrats, and your question, sir.

02:02:10.000 So this is a question for Luke.

02:02:13.000 As you can see, I'm wearing my trans-vaccinated shirt.

02:02:14.000 I know you're anti-vax.

02:02:16.000 Will you stand up for all the Z's and Zers that are trans-vaxed? 1.00

02:02:21.000 As long as you're not shedding on me, I think we should be fine.

02:02:26.000 And not aggressing against me in any way, we'll be cool.

02:02:30.000 We all just have to follow the non-aggression principle, and everybody can get along, right?

02:02:34.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

02:02:35.000 And if you shed your, you know... Anyway!

02:02:39.000 I'm gonna say some things I can't say on this platform.

02:02:44.000 But yeah, as long as you don't violate my nap, I won't violate your nap.

02:02:48.000 And we should respect everyone for who they are, especially if they are free human beings that do awesome things and don't spread bad things to other people.

02:02:55.000 I'll keep it at that.

02:02:57.000 We also have regular Super Chats as well, but I don't know if there's anyone else.

02:03:00.000 Thank you for your question.

02:03:01.000 I just got a message.

02:03:03.000 Somebody said, Nancy Pelosi biographer wrote that Time article.

02:03:06.000 Molly Ball.

02:03:07.000 Why will no one say this out loud?

02:03:09.000 It was her.

02:03:10.000 Pelosi told the story to her, I'd bet.

02:03:13.000 Oh yeah, yeah.

02:03:14.000 It's Molly Ball on the Time article.

02:03:16.000 That's who it is by.

02:03:17.000 So that's who it is.

02:03:19.000 Your name, sir?

02:03:20.000 Kyle.

02:03:21.000 And your question?

02:03:22.000 How are normal people supposed to consume so much media without becoming black-billed? 1.00

02:03:29.000 You gotta find ways in your day-to-day life that keep you sane.

02:03:32.000 Like working out, sauna, communication with friends and things.

02:03:38.000 about real stuff like where your food and like that, that's one way to do it.

02:03:43.000 I think, I mean, if we're talking about you're consuming legitimate media that is reporting honestly, blackpilling is an individual state of mind, which I would agree with Ian, you've got to improve yourself, center yourself, figure it out.

02:03:57.000 Because I think if you're actually consuming all of the media, we got tons of reasons to be optimistic.

02:04:02.000 I know Phil said he's the most black person, blackpilled, the most blackpilled person here. 0.96

02:04:10.000 We're looking at all these tremendous victories of the last year, and now Nikki Haley's humiliating defeat to Ron DeSantis. 0.82

02:04:18.000 I mean, we've got reasons to be optimistic.

02:04:20.000 Ron's not going to win either.

02:04:21.000 But with Bud Light, Boycott, Target, etc., etc., it's just looking better and better.

02:04:27.000 I mean, look, the fact that Vivek even did as well as he did, and the hard work he's putting in, There is a bright future for us.

02:04:37.000 I think we win this.

02:04:38.000 It's going to be hard, but I think we win.

02:04:41.000 Lift heavy thing, make sad voice stop. 0.89

02:04:44.000 Yeah, I'd go further just to what they were saying is make sure you have purpose.

02:04:50.000 Make sure you love something greater than yourself, and it's easy to not get blackpilled.

02:04:55.000 Celebrate the small victories and understand that corruption is being exposed, which is a good thing that you're finally being made aware of.

02:05:02.000 I'm going to read a super chat real quick, and then we'll jump to this question.

02:05:05.000 Paul Tascalo says, when Vivek called out eminent domain CarbonPipeline, they basically deleted him.

02:05:11.000 I was an... How do I scroll on this thing?

02:05:13.000 I don't know if it's letting me scroll here on YouTube.

02:05:15.000 Let me zoom out so I can get the full thing.

02:05:17.000 I was an E.D.

02:05:18.000 lawyer for three years.

02:05:20.000 It's deeply corrupt.

02:05:21.000 Everyone is paid off.

02:05:22.000 Layered at every level.

02:05:23.000 Local, county, state, and federal, and courts.

02:05:26.000 It's a big issue in Iowa that most people nationally don't know about.

02:05:29.000 Trying to seize land for, I believe, it's to build this pipeline.

02:05:32.000 Is that it?

02:05:32.000 I'm not sure what pipeline, but I agree.

02:05:34.000 Eminent domain is really, really bad in my opinion.

02:05:37.000 And Vivek came out, called it out, said, no, you can't do this.

02:05:40.000 And then he's just, now he doesn't appear on the polls or the charts anymore.

02:05:45.000 What's your name, sir?

02:05:45.000 My name is David.

02:05:47.000 Hey, David.

02:05:48.000 Hey, I live in Arkansas now.

02:05:49.000 I came up here, hopefully, to meet Vivek and a little bigger celebration than we had, but that's all good.

02:05:54.000 I was living in Des Moines in 1988.

02:05:59.000 And I happened to hear Rush Limbaugh the third day he was on the air, picking up a VP from a company down at the airport.

02:06:07.000 And I was a nobody, like I am now still.

02:06:12.000 He spoke to me.

02:06:14.000 He passed away basically when Biden took office, and you came into my life.

02:06:20.000 And I just want to thank you for being kind of a boomer thing, perhaps, but you are the new voice for me that kind of Rush was.

02:06:31.000 And I'm just kind of interested in If he had any influence on you, your thoughts on him?

02:06:37.000 I know it's a little generational, but... Yeah, I never listened to Rush once.

02:06:42.000 The only exposure I've ever had to Rush Limbaugh was when he cameoed on Family Guy.

02:06:47.000 That was about it.

02:06:48.000 But, uh, my understanding is he's basically the progenitor of talk radio.

02:06:53.000 And, uh, so massive respect.

02:06:55.000 I don't know about anyone else here.

02:06:57.000 Oh yeah, when I was a kid, my parents used to blare that.

02:07:00.000 For real?

02:07:04.000 That theme song is burned into my head for all of eternity.

02:07:07.000 You all are doing a pretty good job of channeling his energy, and I want to thank you for that.

02:07:11.000 Thanks for coming.

02:07:12.000 I appreciate it.

02:07:12.000 During impeachment in the late 90s, I remember listening to Rush a lot talking about the impeachment stuff for Bill Clinton.

02:07:19.000 My childhood was like, I thought he was the bad guy, because I was like, oh, he's the hateful, conservative, the Republican guy.

02:07:26.000 And my dad voted for Clinton, so I didn't know any better.

02:07:29.000 But I appreciate what he did big time now.

02:07:33.000 Right on.

02:07:34.000 What's your name, sir?

02:07:35.000 My name's Roy.

02:07:36.000 The question is, so it's pretty much been established that Nikki Haley is the establishment candidate. 0.92

02:07:42.000 You think?

02:07:43.000 What do you suppose is going to happen with her voters?

02:07:46.000 Because I know, personally, a few people that are Haley fans.

02:07:51.000 And they call Trump a felon.

02:07:53.000 And I don't know if they're going to really vote at all this election cycle if Haley isn't the nominee.

02:07:57.000 So what do you all think?

02:07:59.000 Have you asked them, like, why they're fans of Haley?

02:08:02.000 Because they hate Trump.

02:08:03.000 Yeah, but then they could be a fan of Ron DeSantis.

02:08:06.000 He doesn't even come up in their conversations.

02:08:08.000 Nikki Haley.

02:08:09.000 Yeah, the mainstream media pushed her so hard the last four months.

02:08:12.000 That's right.

02:08:13.000 To Clinton voters.

02:08:14.000 All the Hillary Clinton voters.

02:08:15.000 My parents are talking about her and they're like Democrats.

02:08:18.000 It's crazy.

02:08:19.000 I don't think they understood her connection with Boeing and the military-industrial complex.

02:08:23.000 Or Warhawk.

02:08:25.000 Look, I kind of feel like if a Nikki Haley voter is not going to vote, then we dodged a bullet.

02:08:33.000 Let's encourage all the Nikki Haley voters not to vote if it's Donald Trump.

02:08:36.000 Because what?

02:08:37.000 They're going to vote for Biden.

02:08:40.000 Actually, this is what I think Bruce Woods was pointing out.

02:08:42.000 Elad Eliyahu, who does reporting for SCNR.com, produced several videos coming out of the Haley campaign events where he just... These are not gotcha questions.

02:08:53.000 He's not a partisan guy.

02:08:54.000 He's got his political opinions for sure.

02:08:56.000 He calls himself the Bolton bro.

02:08:58.000 But he goes and he asks, you know, why do you support Nikki Haley?

02:09:01.000 If Nikki Haley is not the nominee, it's looking like Trump will be.

02:09:03.000 Who will you vote for?

02:09:04.000 They say Joe Biden.

02:09:06.000 So, and they'll probably vote for Biden, but I think that doesn't matter.

02:09:09.000 If you look at the polls, we're looking right now at the Iowa polls, and they're fairly accurate.

02:09:14.000 I mean, they're hitting the nail on the head, and that's surprising.

02:09:17.000 I thought Vivek actually was going to beat the polls because he was playing this ground game with younger voters.

02:09:23.000 So far, he's tracking, trending with the polls.

02:09:26.000 So, we'll see how that plays out.

02:09:28.000 But I think if we're looking at the polls, and they are as accurate as they've been, younger voters are going for Trump.

02:09:34.000 Joe Biden cannot win.

02:09:36.000 When they put Trump up against Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis, they have some of the latest polls showing what's the percentage going to be Trump v. Biden, DeSantis v. Biden, Haley v. Biden.

02:09:47.000 They all win.

02:09:48.000 Biden loses to every single person.

02:09:50.000 So I think Vivek is right about their play.

02:09:55.000 Nikki Haley is their candidate, not Joe Biden.

02:09:58.000 We're all talking about, oh, you know, Joe Biden's gonna get sick in March.

02:10:00.000 Maybe.

02:10:01.000 And then maybe they do tap Newsom or something.

02:10:04.000 But the question then becomes, how do you get rid of Kamala Harris? 0.95

02:10:07.000 If Biden drops out, Kamala's next in line, right? 0.98

02:10:10.000 It's simple.

02:10:11.000 The Vic's right.

02:10:12.000 Nikki Haley is how you get past Kamala Harris.

02:10:15.000 Have your establishment candidate run as a Republican against Trump, and the real election is the primary.

02:10:21.000 Yeah, she's the uniparty. 0.96

02:10:22.000 Yeah.

02:10:23.000 Thanks, man.

02:10:24.000 So I'm glad to see Trump winning, and I hope that remains the case.

02:10:26.000 But, you know what I think, too?

02:10:29.000 Everybody's gearing up for the shadow campaign of 2024.

02:10:32.000 Yo.

02:10:34.000 Shadow campaign may be happening right now.

02:10:36.000 Yep.

02:10:36.000 The shadow campaign, we're gonna get an article in 2025 and we're all shocked Nikki Haley's the president, and it's gonna be like, the shadow campaign to win 2024 through the GOP primary.

02:10:45.000 Yep.

02:10:47.000 Yep.

02:10:48.000 Naming your question, sir?

02:10:50.000 My name's Jay.

02:10:51.000 It's kind of spelled like the letter, but a little different.

02:10:55.000 So, looking at Trump, you have a 77-year-old who is political poison for some people, with the entire deep state weaponized against him.

02:11:05.000 And the CIA has heart attack guns.

02:11:07.000 I mean, not related, but... Thanks, Luke!

02:11:09.000 That's true.

02:11:10.000 That's old tech.

02:11:11.000 So, if he is taken down, what names are you looking at as people that are up and coming?

02:11:18.000 Who would you attach yourself to?

02:11:20.000 Chris Christie.

02:11:23.000 His plan to invade Candyland is brilliant.

02:11:27.000 Foreign policy interventions I've ever heard.

02:11:29.000 I don't know.

02:11:30.000 Ryan Binkley looks pretty promising.

02:11:32.000 Number five right there.

02:11:33.000 Well, hold on.

02:11:33.000 Do we know anything about Binkley's platform?

02:11:35.000 I know he got 266 votes to Christie's 16.

02:11:39.000 Like, what if he's just like a really nice guy who loves his state?

02:11:43.000 He wasn't even running.

02:11:44.000 He's just a really nice guy and everyone knows him.

02:11:47.000 No, but everybody knows him.

02:11:48.000 He's a good dude.

02:11:49.000 I think Vivek's the obvious pitch.

02:11:52.000 The dude is such a hardworking guy.

02:11:54.000 He's brilliant.

02:11:55.000 And he's got some of the most libertarian pitches that we've seen in any Republican candidate, so I don't see anybody else right now.

02:12:03.000 I mean, I don't think Matt Gaetz is going in that direction.

02:12:07.000 Matt Gaetz is pretty awesome.

02:12:08.000 But who else is there?

02:12:10.000 J.D.

02:12:10.000 Vance is pretty cool too.

02:12:11.000 Yeah, Vance is doing well.

02:12:12.000 He's a good dude.

02:12:14.000 I like Vivek not only for his libertarian, but he's very constitutional if you've seen him speak.

02:12:18.000 He talks about the founding documents, the founding fathers.

02:12:21.000 He knows his history, which I appreciate.

02:12:23.000 He knows the real history because everything kind of got switched around in the 60s if you don't know that, but he knows the real stuff and that speaks to integrity.

02:12:31.000 I do like a lot of people starting to bring up that DEI is the natural evolution. I like to call it D.I.E.

02:12:37.000 It's way better. Because D.E.I. means God and D.I.E. means death. So we'll go with that one. But

02:12:41.000 it's the natural evolution of the civil rights laws. And it sort of is. It's the extreme version of

02:12:47.000 them. But I always tell people just because someone corrupted a thing doesn't mean that thing

02:12:51.000 was always bad. You know what I mean?

02:12:53.000 Yeah.

02:12:53.000 Like, look, you know, maybe cake is good, but if you're eating cake every single day, it's bad.

02:12:59.000 We passed laws saying we don't want people to discriminate or whatever, and there are certain limitations to it.

02:13:04.000 Like, back when they passed this bill, nobody thought they'd get rid of women's sports. 1.00

02:13:08.000 I don't know that they had women's sports at the time, but nobody thought they would be like, you know, males can use female bathrooms. 0.96

02:13:13.000 That's not the intent.

02:13:14.000 But then you get this corruption through nefarious forces, which start breaking things down.

02:13:19.000 Which proves, the law's meaningless.

02:13:21.000 The only thing that matters is what a society is willing to accept.

02:13:24.000 And we mention a lot, there's these laws on the books, and there are blue laws, some of them are called, that were made back in the day that no one follows anymore.

02:13:32.000 Like the favorite gag one, which I think is no longer in play, was, women can't go skydiving on Sunday in Florida. 0.92

02:13:38.000 I think that's, I read about that, like it's been overturned or whatever, but there are weird laws like that.

02:13:42.000 No cop's gonna arrest a woman for skydiving in Florida on Sunday.

02:13:45.000 They should.

02:13:45.000 But when you look at, you know, the civil rights law and where it's at right now, We're surprised to see how it's being implemented.

02:13:52.000 And I think a lot of this has to do with originalist versus textualism. 0.95

02:13:56.000 People who are like, if it says regulated and today regulated, this is the stupidest argument in the world. 1.00

02:14:03.000 I mean, these people are just despicable. 0.99

02:14:05.000 The Second Amendment says, a well-regulated militia.

02:14:08.000 Well, we know what the Founding Fathers meant when they wrote it, but because today regulated means government control, that's what it means. 0.99

02:14:13.000 That's the stupidest idea I've ever heard. 1.00

02:14:15.000 Why on earth? 1.00

02:14:16.000 Why after winning a war where the Redcoats confiscated ammo and guns from the people of Massachusetts, why on earth would the Founding Fathers be like, yeah, you know what? 0.86

02:14:25.000 We should have the government regulate our guns.

02:14:27.000 That's what we're going to do. 0.99

02:14:28.000 That is just so dumb. 1.00

02:14:30.000 So dumb. 1.00

02:14:31.000 The percentage of votes in went down. 1.00

02:14:33.000 By 1%.

02:14:34.000 Did Nikki Haley's number go down?

02:14:36.000 It did.

02:14:36.000 A lot.

02:14:37.000 Good.

02:14:38.000 Yeah.

02:14:39.000 They just pulled a bunch of votes back.

02:14:40.000 That is sketchy.

02:14:42.000 Wait.

02:14:44.000 Remember when this happened on CNN and everyone said it was rigged?

02:14:47.000 There was like, the vote count for Trump changed.

02:14:49.000 And I'm like, people are saying, how did that happen?

02:14:50.000 I'm like, maybe the AP doing the official reporting said we made a mistake and pulled it back or clicked cancel, I don't know.

02:14:56.000 But it was at 39%.

02:14:56.000 Haley was at 8,000, Nash at 7,000, so I have no idea what that means, but you know, how fun.

02:15:02.000 Nikki Haley's votes went down.

02:15:03.000 I thought I was at 9,300.

02:15:05.000 You were at 9,300?

02:15:06.000 Yeah.

02:15:07.000 40-bound delegates.

02:15:09.000 Where are you at?

02:15:10.000 Four?

02:15:10.000 I'm on the New York Times.

02:15:11.000 40.

02:15:11.000 I'm on CNN.

02:15:13.000 CNN has Nikki Haley with 40 delegates? 1.00

02:15:15.000 No, no.

02:15:15.000 There are 40 bound.

02:15:18.000 And she's at 9,300 votes.

02:15:19.000 Huh.

02:15:20.000 Interesting.

02:15:20.000 The New York Times is just breaking.

02:15:23.000 All right, let's get another question in there.

02:15:24.000 My name is Lucas Carter.

02:15:26.000 I have kind of a two-part question.

02:15:28.000 So do you, especially Luke, have any thoughts on the similarity between Vivek's campaign At the beginning of this election, I always told everyone that what matters here is not who gets the votes, it's the ideas that get pushed.

02:15:41.000 out of the picture more. I grew up off of his ideals. Do you see him possibly being

02:15:46.000 a Gen Z replacement? At the beginning of this election I always told everyone that what 0.77

02:15:51.000 matters here is not who gets the votes, it's the ideas that get pushed. It's the Overton

02:15:55.000 window that gets pushed. I think Vivek's doing a great job at that.

02:15:59.000 There's a lot of Ron Paul people that are within his campaign.

02:16:02.000 There's a lot of Ron Paul people that I met on the campaign trail.

02:16:05.000 So there is a crossover here as of course a lot of the same ideas, not all of them, but some of these great ideas of freedom.

02:16:14.000 You know, liberty, personal responsibility are being shared here.

02:16:18.000 And those ideas, especially in the minds of young people, are critically important.

02:16:22.000 So I do see a lot of crossover.

02:16:24.000 I do see a lot of actual people that were Ron Paul people here on the ground be a part of the Vivek campaign as well.

02:16:31.000 So there is some crossover.

02:16:33.000 Foreign policy-wise, there's a lot of difference, especially when it comes to Mexico and China.

02:16:39.000 But overall, there is kind of a larger kind of energy that does resonate very similarly.

02:16:48.000 And what?

02:16:49.000 Censorship?

02:16:50.000 As far as?

02:16:51.000 In terms of the media coverage.

02:16:52.000 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

02:16:53.000 And then also, what kind of happened to him earlier happened to Ron Paul many, many years ago, as, of course, the corporate media was against him and rigging the process against him in many unfair ways.

02:17:05.000 Now, to be fair, CNN.com has this little widget in the left that only has Trump, DeSantis, and Haley.

02:17:12.000 But when you click it, they don't hide Vivek Ramaswamy.

02:17:15.000 He's included in their list with Asa Hutchinson behind him.

02:17:18.000 So I gotta give CNN credit.

02:17:20.000 The people who were running, they put him in there.

02:17:22.000 What was that?

02:17:24.000 Where's Chris Christie?

02:17:25.000 He's not running.

02:17:25.000 Ryan, those other guys.

02:17:28.000 His plan to invade Candyland.

02:17:30.000 Did you write that?

02:17:30.000 Like, last night you were waiting to say that.

02:17:32.000 I was waiting to say it, yeah.

02:17:33.000 I was like, when am I going to get that zinger out there? 1.00

02:17:36.000 When he funded the coup against the gumdrop princess.

02:17:40.000 I just thought that was absolutely insane.

02:17:45.000 Liberated the fudge swamp.

02:17:47.000 Remember that clip where it was like, who was it who asked him?

02:17:51.000 She's like, uh, you're very overweight.

02:17:53.000 Why did you get president?

02:17:55.000 And he's like, well, he's a Barbara Walters.

02:17:56.000 He has a Barbara Walters.

02:17:57.000 He's doing hard. 0.98

02:17:58.000 And she was like, some say you shouldn't be president because you're always like, oh, that's ridiculous. 0.74

02:18:01.000 She's like, why are you so heavy? 0.80

02:18:03.000 And he's like, if I knew, I would fix it.

02:18:05.000 Why?

02:18:05.000 That's such a sad answer.

02:18:07.000 I mean, I've tried everything.

02:18:08.000 There's a clip of Ron Paul telling a guy in the audience that he's fat and he needs to lose weight.

02:18:12.000 I remember that.

02:18:13.000 Really?

02:18:14.000 Yeah.

02:18:14.000 It was a doctor.

02:18:15.000 Said maybe the government should put you on a diet.

02:18:17.000 Yeah.

02:18:17.000 Is that what he said?

02:18:18.000 Yes.

02:18:18.000 Yeah, because the guy was like talking about how government should take care of it.

02:18:20.000 Oh, right.

02:18:21.000 It was so bad.

02:18:23.000 Chris Christie actually got gastric bypass and just blasted right through it.

02:18:30.000 I'm impressed, honestly.

02:18:31.000 It's true.

02:18:32.000 Your name and your question, sir.

02:18:34.000 Yeah, I'm James.

02:18:35.000 I came down from Minnesota.

02:18:36.000 I had some time to waste in the hotel.

02:18:39.000 And I turned on MSNBC just to see what they were talking about.

02:18:42.000 And I think it was Maddow said that one feature of the Iowa caucus is anyone can go and vote or caucus for in the Republican primaries.

02:18:52.000 Even if they don't typically identify as a Republican.

02:18:55.000 Yep.

02:18:59.000 That was a component of their plan.

02:19:00.000 There was also... Wasn't there some scandal where, like, DeSantis' team said people from out of state should show up or something like that?

02:19:06.000 I remember something like that, yeah.

02:19:07.000 What was that about?

02:19:09.000 It was like Ron's wife or something, right?

02:19:11.000 Yeah, it was misinformation for sure.

02:19:12.000 Like, real misinformation, not the other stuff.

02:19:15.000 Yeah, don't do that.

02:19:16.000 I'm pretty sure that's illegal.

02:19:18.000 What up?

02:19:20.000 Is that Aaron Rodgers on the Jets now, right?

02:19:22.000 Randall Cobb.

02:19:24.000 He's on the Jets too now.

02:19:26.000 So my name is Jason Heitman.

02:19:29.000 Tim, you're the first person in my entire life to get my name right on the first try.

02:19:33.000 When I super chatted.

02:19:37.000 Those substitute teachers really made my prepubescent life hell. 0.99

02:19:39.000 Maybe they're doing it on purpose though.

02:19:41.000 No, they say like Jazzan and then everyone laughs at me and stuff.

02:19:45.000 J-A-A-Z-A-N. 1.00

02:19:49.000 So my question, I was really complaining about my state politics here.

02:19:52.000 I'm from Wisconsin, obviously.

02:19:56.000 No one's really talking about what's going on in our state right now.

02:19:58.000 I feel like we're losing our state.

02:20:00.000 Last election... I do too.

02:20:02.000 Last election, not a lot of turnout on the conservative side.

02:20:07.000 We elected a Supreme Court Justice for our state, a liberal, and she ran on the fact that our maps are gerrymandered.

02:20:16.000 And now they just decide that our maps are unconstitutional.

02:20:20.000 They're going to redraw the maps for this next election, and all of our congressional seats are going to be up for re-election.

02:20:25.000 Why all of them?

02:20:26.000 That's what I heard.

02:20:28.000 It could, you know, take that a grain of salt, but that's what I heard.

02:20:30.000 Did he gerrymander a state?

02:20:32.000 What's that?

02:20:33.000 They gerrymandered a state?

02:20:35.000 They say that our maps are gerrymandered towards the conservatives after the last census that we gerrymandered them.

02:20:41.000 So now instead, we always do it every census as we redraw the maps.

02:20:46.000 Right.

02:20:46.000 Now they're saying they're gerrymandered unconstitutional.

02:20:49.000 Now there's a liberal majority in Supreme Court. 0.97

02:20:51.000 They're overturning it and they need to draw new maps by the next election.

02:20:55.000 This could be why the RNC is going to be in Milwaukee.

02:20:58.000 So that'll be interesting.

02:20:59.000 I think there's going to be a push for Wisconsin.

02:21:00.000 It's a very important state to not let Democrats take over.

02:21:03.000 But, yo, if they pull that, they're taking over.

02:21:06.000 It's a very purple state.

02:21:08.000 I mean, where I live, it's really half... I live by UW Oshkosh.

02:21:12.000 It's like, the north end of the city is very liberal because of the college, and the south end is very conservative.

02:21:18.000 It's everywhere you go, you don't know who's on your side.

02:21:20.000 Yeah, that's how it usually is.

02:21:21.000 The people who do the actual work that makes this country happen vote on the right, and then the people who are in the institutionalized learning facilities vote left.

02:21:28.000 That's the kind of thing that the RNC should be fighting.

02:21:31.000 They should have lawyers. 0.59

02:21:32.000 They should be looking to prevent that kind of stuff.

02:21:34.000 This is one of the reasons why Ron McDaniels is such a failure and such a joke.

02:21:41.000 I don't know why they're not...

02:21:45.000 Trying to play ball, like trying to defend the system as it is.

02:21:52.000 This is part of the reason why Donald Trump lost, is because the RNC allowed the Democrats in Pennsylvania and stuff to unconstitutionally, according to Pennsylvania's constitution, change the way that electors are sent and stuff.

02:22:07.000 It's an absolute failure on Ronna's part, and I don't know why Trump endorsed her.

02:22:14.000 So, so frustrating.

02:22:15.000 What article makes gerrymandering unconstitutional?

02:22:18.000 Is that in?

02:22:20.000 They just, they said, from the article I read, they just said that the maps are gerrymandered towards the conservative side, and that, I don't know, I don't remember exactly.

02:22:30.000 They need to DEI their maps, got it.

02:22:32.000 So, yeah, I'm just, I'm just scared that, because we, right now, our governor is Tony Evers, like my dad likes to say, I don't like Evers, and then our, Congress is mostly conservative.

02:22:45.000 So it's just like, Evers does something, the Congress says no.

02:22:49.000 Congress does something, Evers says no.

02:22:51.000 There's nothing going on in our state right now.

02:22:52.000 It's a constant just stalemate.

02:22:55.000 Nothing's happening.

02:22:55.000 But if they start to sway their way, we're going to start, it's going to affect us because we're purple.

02:23:00.000 I mean, we have good strong gun laws, but they're not getting stronger and they could definitely go in every aspect.

02:23:08.000 We're going to win those fights at the Supreme Court for a long time.

02:23:11.000 I mean, the current makeup of the Supreme Court is pretty good for a while.

02:23:16.000 Another thing I'm worried about, our state's kind of being invaded by your old state, Tim.

02:23:20.000 We call them fibs.

02:23:22.000 I'm sure you know what that term means.

02:23:23.000 What is it? 1.00

02:23:25.000 Effing Illinois bastards. 1.00

02:23:27.000 I don't know that because I was from Illinois. 1.00

02:23:29.000 We didn't call ourselves that.

02:23:30.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

02:23:33.000 Especially in Madison, Milwaukee, a lot of people from Illinois are moving to Wisconsin because apparently our welfare benefits are better.

02:23:39.000 Well, also because Illinois is just like a failed state.

02:23:42.000 But it's like, they're bringing their policies with them.

02:23:46.000 You should build a wall.

02:23:50.000 Highly likely we'll do another show like this at the RNC for that full week.

02:23:55.000 So we'll probably have like a series of shows at some, you know, rented location and then maybe like a bigger show with an audience for Thursday with the final day of the RNC.

02:24:03.000 And we're definitely not going to the DNC because it's in Chicago.

02:24:07.000 And I feel like someone's gonna get shot.

02:24:09.000 Yep.

02:24:10.000 I don't even... I'm kind of like... I'm not trying to be cute, man.

02:24:13.000 I think...

02:24:15.000 There's a high likelihood of like, there's gonna be riots, there's gonna be serious injury.

02:24:20.000 Cops are- Look, at the no-NATO protest, Luke and I were there.

02:24:25.000 The cops arrested a group of leftist activists and detained them for like 10 days in what's called a black site.

02:24:33.000 It's basically a police-controlled facility no one knows about, where these people were detained without word.

02:24:37.000 No one knew where they went.

02:24:38.000 And disappeared.

02:24:39.000 They were disappeared.

02:24:40.000 In Chicago, I literally had a cop put a gun to my head when we were pulled over.

02:24:45.000 They tried planting drugs on us.

02:24:47.000 I'm not exaggerating.

02:24:47.000 That's not a joke.

02:24:48.000 That's literally what happened.

02:24:49.000 Oh my gosh.

02:24:50.000 Yeah, it's a crazy story, and this really happened.

02:24:52.000 Chicago, the whole place is so dirty.

02:24:54.000 The state itself is so dirty.

02:24:56.000 And the idea that there's going to be a DNC.

02:24:59.000 You know, we went to the DNC at, I think it was, what, 2016?

02:25:03.000 The RNC and the DNC were so fun back during the cycles.

02:25:06.000 You know, like, you know, Jimmy Dore spit on Alex Jones.

02:25:08.000 How fun was that?

02:25:09.000 We were there in that room.

02:25:10.000 We were standing right next to it.

02:25:12.000 And that was at the RNC.

02:25:13.000 But nobody protested the RNC.

02:25:14.000 Nobody cared.

02:25:15.000 The DNC, there were thousands of protesters trying to storm the barricades and break their way in.

02:25:20.000 Yo, DNC in Chicago is going to be bonkers. 0.97

02:25:23.000 Corrupt cops, corrupt government, all Democrat controlled, gun violence. 0.98

02:25:29.000 I'm not going anywhere near that place. 0.64

02:25:33.000 My name is Cameron.

02:25:34.000 Before I ask my question, I'd just like to say, as a fine Irishman, I don't see how people could accuse you of stealing spoons, Seamus.

02:25:40.000 I appreciate that, because I wouldn't do that, and you know me.

02:25:40.000 Thank you.

02:25:43.000 Do you steal spoons, too, is the question.

02:25:46.000 I would never steal a spoon.

02:25:47.000 As an Irishman, I would never steal spoons.

02:25:49.000 Thank you.

02:25:49.000 God bless you.

02:25:50.000 I sense a conspiracy here.

02:25:51.000 It was more of an observation that he did it. 0.99

02:25:53.000 On top of being thieves, they're also liars. 0.97

02:25:57.000 Do you believe it? 0.96

02:25:58.000 There's a little bit of a bias in this panel.

02:25:59.000 Why do we put up with this?

02:26:01.000 I don't know.

02:26:02.000 First, the paddy wagons, now this.

02:26:03.000 It's sickening.

02:26:04.000 That is funny they still call them that, paddy wagons.

02:26:07.000 I don't think it's funny at all.

02:26:08.000 I think that's funny.

02:26:10.000 Stop drinking so much.

02:26:11.000 He does think it's funny, he's laughing.

02:26:12.000 No.

02:26:15.000 No, I'm serious.

02:26:18.000 So with having friends that are on the left and that are pretty much in the leftist cult, how do you start them out and trying to move them over at all when you have articles like the secret history of how they fortified the election and people that, like Phil said, think that that's a good thing?

02:26:35.000 It's super easy.

02:26:36.000 What you do is get a bunch of them, call a bunch of your lefty friends, you've got like 10 or whatever, I don't know, and tell them you've got this great idea for, you know, this cool event they should come to.

02:26:46.000 Then you tell all your MAGA friends and you trick them all into going to the community center where you lock the doors and make them stay there overnight so they become friends.

02:26:53.000 Yeah.

02:26:54.000 That's all you do.

02:26:55.000 Or you can talk to them.

02:26:58.000 I mean, it's like the simple answer is kind of boring.

02:27:02.000 Ask them questions, the Socratic method.

02:27:04.000 If you argue with them and tell them that they're wrong or insult them, they'll get angrier.

02:27:08.000 So if you have friends who are on the left, you can be like, you know...

02:27:13.000 Whenever they say something, just pull up on your phone a source.

02:27:16.000 This is why I always like using CNN and NPR and their sources.

02:27:19.000 I like using corporate press sources to debunk what they're saying.

02:27:22.000 And I often tell people, too, they're like, the media never reported this thing.

02:27:25.000 I'll be like, dude, I pulled it up on the New York Times.

02:27:26.000 They reported on it.

02:27:27.000 It's just the Democrat establishment forces will ignore stories from the corporate press.

02:27:34.000 If someone claims Joe Biden never did insert thing, I'm going to make sure the report comes from CNN because then they can't deny it.

02:27:41.000 So it's things like that.

02:27:43.000 Other than that, it's tough.

02:27:44.000 The reality is to change someone's mind and help them understand, you need to surround them with people who will influence them.

02:27:52.000 If you reorient people towards kind of what Occupy Wall Street was about, which is international banking, like that really is the biggest threat to our way of life is corporate Totalitarianism, technocracy, so there is something that all Americans can focus on, at least most Americans can focus on, that we can agree with, that having corporations run our lives is not ideal.

02:28:17.000 And you have to be gentle with how you do it because these people, since at least 2012-2013 with the NDAA, they haven't been told they were wrong in a very long time.

02:28:28.000 They've had their confirmation bias inflated for 12 straight years.

02:28:34.000 She's right.

02:28:34.000 You have to let them come to it, to present them with the idea.

02:28:39.000 And then allow them don't try to make them change their mind.

02:28:42.000 Don't try to change anyone's mind.

02:28:44.000 You'll never ever do it.

02:28:46.000 Present them with stuff that conflicts with their preconceived notion and just let it go.

02:28:51.000 Just let them and like, you know, don't constantly do it.

02:28:55.000 But every once in a while be like, oh, you see this or something like that.

02:28:58.000 And let them change at their own pace.

02:29:01.000 If they feel like you're trying to convince them of anything, the walls go up, the heels get dug in the dirt, just let them change.

02:29:07.000 There's a dude that I'm very, very close with that is very anti-Trump and very, very blue-pilled.

02:29:15.000 After Joe Biden was elected and after he saw the results, His tone about politics is 100% different than it was right before Joe Biden was elected, and it is much easier to talk to him, but you never try and shove anything down anyone's throat.

02:29:36.000 Never try and make anyone see things a different way.

02:29:39.000 Always just give them the option.

02:29:42.000 Real quick, just with the data coming out of the New York Times, a lot more of the voters come in.

02:29:46.000 There still is a slim possibility, based on their estimates, that Nikki Haley beats Ron DeSantis.

02:29:50.000 They're projecting Haley between 17% and 21% to DeSantis' 19% to 23%.

02:29:55.000 I don't think it's likely.

02:29:57.000 And the Vague is still sitting around 8%.

02:29:59.000 They expect him to hit around 7% to 9%.

02:30:01.000 Interestingly, Nikki Haley did end up losing Johnson County. 0.99

02:30:05.000 Which was supposedly this very, you know, liberal area.

02:30:09.000 Trump won.

02:30:10.000 Nikki Haley currently has Story County.

02:30:13.000 And I would also say, it's kind of sad.

02:30:14.000 We actually saw Vivek doing rather well, but I'm not sure if Vivek actually has any counties in third place.

02:30:20.000 I see him with one bound delegate.

02:30:22.000 Which is good.

02:30:23.000 But I think, okay, here we go.

02:30:24.000 He's in third place in Appanoose County so far.

02:30:27.000 And the neighboring Wayne County.

02:30:28.000 So he does have some where he's in third place.

02:30:30.000 You scrolled over Polk County earlier.

02:30:32.000 Where's that at?

02:30:33.000 It's below Des Moines.

02:30:35.000 Somewhere below there.

02:30:36.000 Congressman Massey had tweeted that, or had shouted out that DeSantis won it, but when you pulled it up, it was... You sure it's below?

02:30:45.000 Yeah, I'm pretty sure.

02:30:45.000 Oh, okay, it is Des Moines, right.

02:30:48.000 Okay, yeah.

02:30:48.000 Yeah, Trump.

02:30:49.000 Yeah, it was for Trump.

02:30:50.000 Thomas Massey said that it was for DeSantis.

02:30:53.000 What?

02:30:53.000 Yeah, I guess he got early results and it wasn't, though.

02:30:57.000 Massey, Massey. 0.99

02:30:58.000 What a silly thing to tweet. 0.99

02:30:59.000 I know. 0.95

02:31:00.000 Yeah.

02:31:00.000 Tsk, tsk.

02:31:01.000 We still love you.

02:31:02.000 It's okay.

02:31:03.000 Your question, ma'am?

02:31:04.000 My name is Julie.

02:31:05.000 I'm visiting here from Nebraska, and I just needed to represent the ladies.

02:31:10.000 I don't know if you guys noticed that there's about a six or seven to one ratio out here of guys.

02:31:15.000 I have not noticed this at all.

02:31:17.000 I bring that up all the time, don't I?

02:31:19.000 No, I point that out on the show several times.

02:31:21.000 Like, you go to any, like, event, sporting event or whatever, it's always like eight Eight to two?

02:31:29.000 Four to one?

02:31:29.000 I'm in a metal band.

02:31:30.000 You should see what that's like.

02:31:31.000 I'm actually really politically active in Nebraska, and then I've come up here to Iowa to work with the Team Trump events.

02:31:41.000 And I've also been able to go to an RFK Junior event in Nebraska and the V-Vakes event here last week on Wednesday.

02:31:52.000 And I just wanted to point out there's a lot of energy at a lot of these events, but they're not people from Iowa.

02:31:59.000 The Iowa people, I think, are, you know, you can't judge by what you see in the crowds.

02:32:05.000 I think that they get oversaturated.

02:32:08.000 I've done the caucus cards, and there was a couple events where most of the crowd was from Nebraska, South Dakota, and these other states.

02:32:17.000 So I think there is energy for Vivek.

02:32:20.000 Um, it's just not all centered in, in Iowa.

02:32:24.000 So I think he, he has the potential to, to do better, um, in the future, but, uh, I love going to these events, but they're very, very, very deceiving when you, a lot of the people drive.

02:32:37.000 Really?

02:32:38.000 Long ways to come to these, yeah.

02:32:40.000 The actual amount of people from Iowa that I talk to is probably 5-10% of the people that I would talk to at an event.

02:32:49.000 Let's do this.

02:32:50.000 Show of hands, how many people in the room right now are from Iowa?

02:32:53.000 So what, like half?

02:32:54.000 Yeah.

02:32:55.000 Maybe?

02:32:56.000 Like currently living in Iowa?

02:33:00.000 Is that less?

02:33:00.000 Yeah, I'd say about half.

02:33:03.000 About half.

02:33:04.000 And that makes sense.

02:33:05.000 A lot of people drove here from neighboring states or from a few hours out.

02:33:10.000 I'd imagine, with internet popularity, you... You know, I've talked about this with, like, AOC.

02:33:14.000 And we were talking about it with, like, Civil War stuff.

02:33:17.000 Back in the day, everything was much more regional.

02:33:19.000 AOC is able... It's not just sort of the squad.

02:33:22.000 If you look at where their revenue comes from, their donations, overwhelmingly from outside their own district.

02:33:26.000 They're internet candidates that represent an amorphous online Nebulous community with no geographic center point. 0.92

02:33:34.000 And even for this show, it's obvious that about half the people are from Iowa, were in Iowa, so it's easy for them to come.

02:33:40.000 Somebody who lives in New York is not going to come to this event.

02:33:42.000 It's too difficult.

02:33:43.000 But people from Minnesota or from Illinois or slightly neighboring areas might take the drive to come visit because it's an opportunity.

02:33:50.000 Same thing is going to happen to Vivek or any other internet-based candidate.

02:33:54.000 I just had one more thing to the gentleman from Wisconsin that was talking about the state turning or being purple.

02:34:02.000 And the best way to change that is to get involved on the local level.

02:34:08.000 In Nebraska, we were run by pretty big rhino Pete Ricketts.

02:34:12.000 I don't know.

02:34:13.000 He was our governor and 75% of the funding for our party.

02:34:16.000 The grassroots took over in 2022.

02:34:23.000 and are changing the direction of the party and bringing in more grassroots.

02:34:28.000 And there's definitely more energy.

02:34:29.000 But the only way you're going to make change on that is at the local level, because that's where these laws are voting laws.

02:34:37.000 And all those procedures come from your state legislature.

02:34:40.000 So don't look past what's going on in your local area and focus too much on what's happening nationally.

02:34:49.000 Yeah, Julie is absolutely right.

02:34:51.000 It's about getting on your school board, your sheriff's department, your select board, starting there, working your way into state senate, state representative, and that's where you're going to make the changes.

02:35:01.000 When the communists infiltrated America, they started at a very small level and they worked their way up into the Tim, I know you have a hard out in 10 minutes.

02:35:09.000 One more or two more?

02:35:10.000 I think maybe two more if we try and go quick.

02:35:13.000 I mean, I don't know.

02:35:14.000 We have 10 minutes, but we do have a hard out, so.

02:35:17.000 we can learn something from the communists.

02:35:20.000 Tim, I know you have a hard out in 10 minutes. One more or two more?

02:35:24.000 I think maybe two more if we try and go quick.

02:35:26.000 I mean, I don't know, we have 10 minutes, but we do have a hard out.

02:35:29.000 Name and question, sir?

02:35:30.000 Alec, I actually have two questions.

02:35:32.000 Oh, too many. No, next person.

02:35:35.000 I want to step back to the beginning of the show.

02:35:37.000 You guys are talking about the tunnels in New York City.

02:35:39.000 Seamus, is it like the stealing of the spoons just happenstance that you dug those tunnels? 0.96

02:35:45.000 This is another sick, false accusation. 0.94

02:35:49.000 I will not hear it.

02:35:51.000 Alright, so my real question is, we talk about dismantling the corporate governments around The FBI, the ATF, the CIA, and everything else.

02:36:01.000 I love the idea about that.

02:36:03.000 But I've been, like, reading the books on tape and so on, and there's a lot of things talking about, like, the dictators down in South America.

02:36:14.000 Was it Condor, Project Condor, wherever it was?

02:36:18.000 A lot of the times you'd have these systems that are being torn down, and often they're being replaced in the back end through other I don't know about worse, but possibly.

02:36:29.000 Maybe the same.

02:36:30.000 It's hard to know for sure.

02:36:30.000 If we had tear down the CIA, the ATF, and all those other ones, would they just be replaced

02:36:35.000 with even more tyrannical and worse people?

02:36:37.000 I don't know about worse, but possibly, maybe the same.

02:36:41.000 It's hard to know for sure.

02:36:42.000 It just depends on who, it depends on the degree to which we win culturally.

02:36:48.000 If, you know, I think that, what did Ron Paul say about...

02:36:51.000 Abortion shouldn't be illegal, it should be unthinkable?

02:36:54.000 That's an idea that expands well beyond just the concept of abortion.

02:36:57.000 So many things should be unthinkable to our culture that are becoming permissible, even though people generally don't like them.

02:37:04.000 And so when it comes to, we get, we elect, we elect Donald Trump.

02:37:08.000 Let's say in 2028, Vivek is the guy and he ends up winning and he's massively popular for whatever reason.

02:37:13.000 And then we get, you know, with Donald Trump, you get the firing of a lot of bureaucrats, the relocation, although Trump has said what he wants to bolster the FBI headquarters or something.

02:37:20.000 So who knows?

02:37:21.000 But let's say Vivek doesn't start crushing everything.

02:37:23.000 Maybe at this point, culturally, we don't tolerate the existence of these institutions and then nothing replaces them.

02:37:31.000 It just depends.

02:37:32.000 I think the interesting thing to think about is Why is it that in Russia, you can offer a bribe to a cop with no question and no fear, and in the United States, no one would dare do it?

02:37:42.000 The police officer has scruples.

02:37:44.000 It's not just that he fears doing something wrong like that.

02:37:47.000 Some cops will take bribes, for sure. 1.00

02:37:48.000 The average cop is like, yo, I will go to jail.

02:37:51.000 I'm scared.

02:37:52.000 Like, in Russia, the cop expects you to give him a bribe.

02:37:55.000 There's a culture that's different from the United States to Russia as it pertains to what law enforcement is willing or capable of doing.

02:38:02.000 And now in the United States, law enforcement scruples have been eroded.

02:38:05.000 Now you've got cops in Texas who are willing to actually engage in human smuggling themselves.

02:38:10.000 And they don't care why.

02:38:11.000 They fear nothing.

02:38:13.000 So, as this continues to erode, if we don't change this mentality, You will get more and more law enforcement behaving like they do in the collapsed former Soviet states, or the former Soviet states, I'll just call them that.

02:38:28.000 When you're at the point where cops are like, I will take money to engage in human smuggling and facilitate crimes against this country, that's worse than accepting bribes.

02:38:39.000 Of course the FBI's gonna have massive corruption in it, the CIA of course, the deep state, the intelligence agencies.

02:38:44.000 What solves that is when that cop is terrified, he will go to prison for the rest of his life, and that's a guarantee.

02:38:50.000 You know, you have this video from Taylor Hanson, Tenet Media, shout out, and the cop's yelling at him.

02:38:55.000 The cop is worried he'll get caught. 0.93

02:38:57.000 He just doesn't think anyone will do anything about it, because the criminals are running the clown show right now. 0.59

02:39:02.000 I mean, Biden's in office, it's not gonna happen to him.

02:39:05.000 But if people find out Oh, then his neighbors are going to yell at him, so he doesn't like being filmed.

02:39:11.000 We need to make sure, one, we elect Donald Trump, and if something bad happens, God forbid, someone like Vivek Ramaswamy, if not Vivek, and then we make sure each and every one of these law enforcement officers know, scruples are back baby, we will find you, you will be criminally charged, and you will suffer the consequences for breaking the law.

02:39:31.000 Then I don't care if we have an FBI or a CIA.

02:39:34.000 I mean, if the FBI was doing what the FBI is, on paper, supposed to be doing, investigating federal crimes, like, let's talk about what the FBI should do.

02:39:41.000 Human traffickers?

02:39:42.000 Arrested.

02:39:43.000 Child traffickers?

02:39:44.000 Arrested.

02:39:45.000 What are they really doing?

02:39:47.000 Pull rope in a garage?

02:39:48.000 Investigation.

02:39:50.000 Donald Trump orange man bad?

02:39:51.000 Arrest his supporters who are bumbling around, like, you know, on January 6th in D.C.

02:39:57.000 A functioning, legitimate Federal Investigative Bureau is fine.

02:40:02.000 So, what we need to do is, it's simple.

02:40:05.000 Win culturally.

02:40:06.000 Convince everybody law enforcement exists.

02:40:10.000 You will be held accountable for your actions.

02:40:12.000 There is no escaping it.

02:40:16.000 Okay, I'll come back to the caucus here.

02:40:21.000 So I'm Joe, and two weeks ago a canvasser for DeSantis came to my door.

02:40:27.000 She's from Virginia, and she's like, who are you going to vote for?

02:40:31.000 Stuff like that.

02:40:32.000 And I said, have you checked out Vivek?

02:40:35.000 And she's like, who?

02:40:37.000 She had no clue.

02:40:39.000 I pulled open Clips.

02:40:41.000 She flipped.

02:40:42.000 She had a DeSantis shirt on, and we sat down on our steps, and we watched Clips.

02:40:47.000 She's like, I really like this.

02:40:49.000 The old switcheroo.

02:40:50.000 And so what's interesting, so this is a little bit pro-Vivek a little bit, is that there needs to be someone that is connecting with people on this level that isn't Trump.

02:41:03.000 He's great.

02:41:03.000 We'll vote for him.

02:41:05.000 But he's coming in behind and scooping up people that don't have this Trump mentality of, no way, never, never, never.

02:41:12.000 But Vivek is actually selling the American dream better than Trump in the sense of his words, showing it with his family, his kids are there.

02:41:22.000 It's a super sweet dream.

02:41:24.000 And it's not Trump like, oh, they hate me.

02:41:26.000 No, it's great.

02:41:27.000 You know, I'll still vote for him.

02:41:28.000 But I'm saying that he's saying the American dream, make America great again.

02:41:35.000 But a lot of these younger kids don't know what that means.

02:41:38.000 Make America Great 10 years ago, because that's when I was born, or whatever.

02:41:42.000 You know what I'm saying?

02:41:43.000 So Vivek is actually painting that picture really well, and if Vivek wasn't part of it, then it's just Trump, and then say he gets in or whatever, it ends with him.

02:41:56.000 But we need somebody painting that picture, so then he scoops in all these other people that will actually go to Trump.

02:42:01.000 I gotta say, one thing that was pointed out, I can't remember who pointed this out to us, and they said Vivek can never win because even people who know him can't pronounce his name right.

02:42:11.000 And the point there is not that his name is odd or whatever, it's that the amount of, like, the fact that, I mean, you called him Vivek, even though he's repeatedly said it's a Veik-like cake and he has to correct people all the time, it means that he's not pushing information enough to individuals to know enough about him.

02:42:29.000 Donald Trump is unforgettable.

02:42:31.000 His name is known by everybody.

02:42:33.000 When Hillary Clinton made love Trump's hate signs, I thought she was, when I first saw it, I was like, she's telling me to love Trump?

02:42:40.000 Like Trump is hateful and I should love his actions?

02:42:42.000 I don't understand.

02:42:43.000 Oh, they meant love is better than hate.

02:42:46.000 I didn't understand it because his name is just, it's always going to be the proper noun, paramount.

02:42:52.000 Vivek is doing a lot of great things, and he's spreading a really great message, but I think it is fair to say that one example of how he's not generating enough is that people don't even know how to say his name.

02:43:03.000 It's unfortunate.

02:43:05.000 I don't know how you solve for that.

02:43:08.000 But I agree with you.

02:43:10.000 I'm hoping he can be the plan B backbench.

02:43:13.000 But we do have a couple superchats that have pointed out, after this election, Vivek is gone.

02:43:19.000 And the idea is kind of like, what keeps Vivek relevant after this election if he's not chosen for a position in the Trump administration and is not frequenting the press?

02:43:28.000 If he goes the podcast route, no, that's great.

02:43:31.000 You know, he'll be a podcaster.

02:43:33.000 There's not a path from there back to the presidency.

02:43:36.000 So I'm not sure what his plan is, but I do think he's a smart enough guy to figure something out.

02:43:40.000 The answer's gonna have to be, if we do want Vivek as, you know, the up-and-coming young stars to look forward to in the future, Trump is going to have to embrace Vivek and offer him some kind of position.

02:43:51.000 Or, even if it's not, like, a direct cabinet position, it could be some kind of, like, business consulting position where Vivek is kept in the light.

02:43:59.000 So that, you know, going to the next cycle, he's there and in front of everyone.

02:44:03.000 You know, he's a musician.

02:44:04.000 I'd love to play... He's on keys.

02:44:07.000 We should get him on keys, Gaff, or something.

02:44:09.000 Some hot hit song, man.

02:44:10.000 Because I could see that guy just jamming, dude.

02:44:13.000 But I don't know if anyone else wanted to wrap this one up before we do our sign off.

02:44:16.000 Anything else to say?

02:44:17.000 Well, in that case, thank you all so much for hanging out for this live in Iowa caucus show.

02:44:24.000 We're looking at all of the other primary events.

02:44:27.000 We're trying to figure it out because I'm not going to say too much.

02:44:30.000 March, our plan was for this big show, it may be changing, and I just want to say this, Pittsburgh is an impossible city.

02:44:36.000 I guess the leftist influence is too extreme, and the general thing that we're hearing is the venues, let me be very careful how I say this, without naming any individual group, but it would seem they're very terrified of the very active far-left contingent, and The threat of violence is legitimate.

02:44:53.000 So I'm not sure that Pittsburgh will allow us to do the show because if the venues don't let us in, they don't let us in.

02:44:59.000 Cleveland, Ohio is another option.

02:45:01.000 Perhaps Akron, Ohio.

02:45:02.000 Yeah, maybe Blossom Music Center.

02:45:03.000 That place is hot.

02:45:03.000 We'll see.

02:45:04.000 I gotta rest in Pittsburgh.

02:45:05.000 It's not a fun place to be in.

02:45:07.000 Well, then we'll see, but at any rate, thank you all so much for hanging out, watching the show.

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02:47:25.000 See what happens. 1.00

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02:47:26.000 He was in the Navy during Vietnam.

02:47:28.000 He's got an interesting perspective on all this stuff, so it'll be really fun.

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02:47:34.000 Check it out.

02:47:36.000 I am PhilThatRemains on X. I'm PhilThatRemainsOfficial on Instagram.

02:47:41.000 The band is All That Remains.

02:47:42.000 You can follow us on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Pandora, you know, the internet.

02:47:49.000 And I'm Josie.

02:47:50.000 I'm the redheaded libertarian over on X. And I host a show called Spaces with Josie, which you can watch on X or on MembersOnly at TimCast.com.

02:48:01.000 If you're a member, you can go watch that.

02:48:02.000 And my handle is TRHLOfficial over on X.

02:48:06.000 All right, everybody.

02:48:07.000 Thank you all so much to everybody who came and watched here in person and threw us questions.

02:48:11.000 Thank you to everybody who's watching online.

02:48:13.000 We are back tomorrow.

02:48:14.000 Right now, we are going to get in our cars and drive on icy roads to get to a jet so we can make it back to the studio so I can record once again at like 8 or 9 a.m.

02:48:23.000 It's gonna be a lot of fun.

02:48:24.000 Thanks for hanging out.

Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - January 16, 2024

Timcast IRL - TRUMP WINS IOWA CAUCUS Live w-Benny Johnson, Alex Bruesewitz, Vivek Ramaswamy & More

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