Donald Trump has approved a strike plan on Iran, and the Iranians want to come to the White House, and that may happen. Plus, a story about a mysterious plane carrying supplies to Iran and more! Plus, Obama says we are steps away from autocracy, because apparently he was sleeping for the past 7 or 8 years.
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00:06:23.000Joining us tonight to talk about this and so much more, we got Mike Duran.
00:06:49.000I'm not expected to know anything about what's going on in the Middle East, but we're going to talk about it because normally I'm doing Pop Culture Crisis Monday through Friday, 3 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, which is noon Pacific.
00:07:25.000Here's the story from the Wall Street Journal.
00:07:28.000Trump privately approved of attack plans for Iran but has withheld the final order.
00:07:33.000The president is hoping that threatening to join Israel's strikes will lead Tehran to abandon its nuclear program.
00:07:40.000They say, since his private instructions in the White House Situation Room to the military, Trump has disclosed publicly that an attack is an option.
00:07:47.000Quote, I have ideas on what to do, but I haven't made a final.
00:07:51.000I'd like to make the final decision one second before it's due, he told reporters.
00:07:55.000Trump is hoping that threatening to join Israel's strikes in Iran, which continued for a sixth day, will compel Tehran to meet his demands.
00:08:03.000The people said he acknowledged that a U.S. attack was under consideration, but said he still might decide against it.
00:09:48.000nobody is upset about what Israel's doing.
00:09:51.000They don't want to participate in it, but everyone wants to see Iran's nuclear programs There was a story earlier about Russia giving some kind of warning, but the warning was actually just fears of destabilizing the region.
00:10:09.000You know, all these different news outlets are trying to make it seem like Putin was saying, Trump, I'm going to come for you and join Iran.
00:10:14.000He was actually saying, oh man, if Iran falls, that could destabilize the region.
00:10:55.000Putin has been keeping a certain amount of distance from Iran since Trump was elected.
00:11:00.000A lot of people, one of the strongest arguments against going to, for the U.S. getting involved in anything going on with Iran is that there would be a rush to support Iran from not just...
00:11:18.000Neither of them seem to be doing anything.
00:11:21.000Do you think that that changes the equation regarding China and Taiwan as well, or do you think that these are too different to make comparisons?
00:11:33.000To me, it's a huge question, a hugely important question.
00:11:37.000How is China going to read the implications of the Iran war?
00:11:45.000For its relations with us over Taiwan.
00:11:48.000And I don't know that I have a good sense of that.
00:11:51.000I think that Trump taking his whole point about peace through strength, I think the stronger he is, the more decisive he is, the more he'll be able to deter Xi Jinping.
00:12:03.000But how Xi Jinping is reading it, it's not clear to me.
00:12:06.000One little small thing that's interesting about China and Iran.
00:12:11.000The Israelis, we say that their goal is to destroy the Iranian nuclear program, but it's not exactly true.
00:12:18.000destroy the nuclear program, and also destroy the ballistic missile program.
00:12:23.000And the reason for that is that last October...
00:12:37.000They got through and hit the Nevatim air bases, which is where the Israelis have the F-35, and it really rattled the Israelis.
00:12:43.000So they responded by taking out part of the production supply chain, the production chain of the Iranians for these ballistic missiles.
00:13:01.000And the Israelis calculated at that time that they had set the production of the ballistic missiles back or stopped the production for at least a year.
00:13:09.000But what happened was the Chinese moved in and gave the Iranians new equipment.
00:13:14.000And then the Iranians started a plan to double or triple their supply of these weapons, or their arsenal of these weapons, within the next five years.
00:13:29.000And if they had got that kind of arsenal, from the Israeli point of view, that would be the equivalent of an atomic bomb, even though it's a conventional weapon because of the firepower it would have.
00:13:38.000So there's kind of two things that are pushing the Israelis forward.
00:15:38.000Because there's another article in the Wall Street Journal about the magazine of the Israelis, their interceptors, running out.
00:15:49.000Because the interceptors to shoot down the ballistic missiles are much more expensive than the missiles themselves.
00:15:55.000Because you have to build a much more sophisticated missile to hit a missile than the one coming in.
00:16:02.000And then sometimes it takes two or three to do it.
00:16:04.000So the Israelis are running up against a clock.
00:16:09.000So the Iranians are running a marathon, and the Israelis are sprinting, which is one of the reasons why I think Trump might actually bomb Iran.
00:16:29.000Iran's basically saying, we're going to wait until Israel's defenses are run out, and then go full bore.
00:16:35.000Well, I think what they would do is, if they could, because it's a kind of a race, I think they would like to demonstrate that they're not going to be toppled.
00:16:51.000And wait until they can see that Israel is having trouble with interceptors, and then producing interceptors, and then start a serious negotiation with Trump, if they could hold out that long.
00:17:03.000And then Trump would be, that would give Trump leverage over Israel to shut the thing down if he were so inclined.
00:18:05.000Trump is going to look at this and see, unless the Iranians are coming and capitulating and saying, we will destroy our nuclear program, we will destroy all the underground facilities, we'll do it under IAEA supervision and so forth.
00:18:18.000Unless they say that, then they're just playing for time.
00:18:21.000And he's going to see that the closer the Israelis get to running through their magazine, the more they're going to be inclined to take extreme measures to put pressure on the Iranians.
00:18:34.000Worst option will be to just destroy the program and then we're done.
00:19:22.000They say, to add to the mystery, flight plans indicated a final destination of Luxembourg, but the aircraft appeared to have never flown near European skies.
00:19:31.000Aviation experts have noted, The type of plane used, Boeing 747 freighters, are commonly used for transporting military equipment and weapons and hired to fly government contract orders.
00:19:41.000Quote, These cargoes cannot but generate a lot of interest because of the expectation that China might do something to help Iran, said Andrea.
00:19:48.000Gisele, a lecturer at the University of Exeter, who specializes in China's relations with the Middle East and North Africa.
00:19:55.000They're going to mention that China and Iran are strategic partners, aligned primarily in their opposition to the U.S.-led world order and in favor of a new multipolar phase in global diplomacy.
00:20:06.000They mention Iran is one of China's key energy suppliers, sending as many as 2 million barrels of oil a day.
00:20:13.000So it's no surprise that Beijing might be looking for ways to support and stabilize the Islamic Republic.
00:20:19.000Now, I'm wondering, could these have been evacuations?
00:21:50.000Patrick Blumenthal said, quote, I deleted my social media and stopped reading the news, and honestly, my mental health has been so much better.
00:22:40.000Yeah, now you can put up to the microphone.
00:22:42.000Okay, now I'll put up to the microphone.
00:22:43.000So, John, we're looking at a map and there was, in the Telegraph, there's this report that a Chinese plane or three Chinese planes a couple of days ago flew into Iran.
00:23:07.000So if they're cargo planes and if they're Chinese, I would say my number one guesstimate would be solid propellant components for Iranian missiles.
00:23:20.000My second guesstimate would be guidance systems or microprocessors for, again, Iranian missiles.
00:23:32.000My third guesstimate, and these are all, I'm ranking them according to their probability, my third guesstimate would be a Chinese attempt to boost Iranian air defenses or electronic warfare systems, but this is helpless against Israeli technologies.
00:23:50.000I know the Iranians use Chinese anti-ship missiles, but I don't think in this case they are looking for them.
00:24:01.000So my fifth guesstimate would be some drone components.
00:24:05.000But if I had to bet on one thing, I would say Iran needs solid propellant medium-range ballistic missiles against Israel as a counter-offensive deterrent.
00:24:19.000And I know that the Israelis hit their solid propellant production facilities hard back in October 2024.
00:24:28.000So if they had one chance to go Chinese for something, and if I were advisor to So, the full missiles?
00:24:46.000So you have to produce the microprocessors, mission computers, multiple re-entry vehicles, the fins, the airframes, the part...
00:24:58.000That the Iranians are mostly depending on the Chinese is the solid propellant fuel for the solid propellant ballistic missiles.
00:25:12.000Why solid propellant is very important?
00:25:14.000Because it minimizes the launch cycle almost three to one compared to liquid fuel systems.
00:25:22.000And it is very important in two kinds of situations.
00:25:27.000First, A, if your adversary is flying over your airspace and looking for your transporter erector launchers, which is the cool way of saying the vehicles that launch your ballistic missiles.
00:25:40.000And second, if you want to boost the surprise factor against your adversary, like a blitz, like a lightning attack.
00:26:04.000Whenever I have a question about what's happening militarily in the world, I can call him up in the middle of the night and he never complains, even when he's about to get married.
00:26:41.000But if they dispatched an airlift, a strategic airlift, and if it is really solid propellant components, it means that the Chinese and the Iranians, because they are the demanding party, they were in a hurry, literally.
00:26:59.000Yet again, there comes another question.
00:27:54.000Like, look, it is like a child's play.
00:27:57.000If you reduce the warhead weight, For instance, the Horamshar missile that the Iranians fired, like signal fired, it is more than test fired, like signal fired a few days ago, the warhead was almost empty.
00:28:21.000But it's going to get dangerous because they have some toys that they haven't demonstrated yet.
00:28:27.000Like Fatih 2, like Hormshar with an actual warhead.
00:28:32.000The actual warhead is more than three times the warhead of the Hach custom missiles, for instance, or EMAT missiles that they have been throwing at the Israelis.
00:28:42.000So is it possible that right now Iran is using weaker warheads to try and run out the interceptors?
00:29:22.000Defensive missiles that intercept other missiles, like the Aero missiles, like the TAT missiles.
00:29:28.000So the magazine depth is at the highest point during the opening stages of a conflict.
00:29:36.000So you want to troll, you have to be very careful, you want to troll your less important assets in the beginning of a conflict.
00:29:47.000To deplete the adversaries, interceptors.
00:29:50.000But you cannot go very weak and very low with that because also you have to signal that you are powerful and you are capable of inflicting damage to your adversary.
00:30:02.000So what the Iranians are doing right now, like Hachkasen, Imad, this kind of missiles, this is the sweet spot.
00:30:09.000And I think their choice of weapons are really good.
00:30:12.000I would advise the same if I were advising Armani.
00:32:34.000The medium ranges are the ones that are doing the real damage on the Israelis.
00:32:37.000It says 24 to 36, but of course then he made the point they can reduce the warhead yield so they can get more flight time, really play with it.
00:32:46.000Does it surprise you that this story got missed by so many people given all the implications that there are for that?
00:34:23.000So they say Cargo Lux, the Luxembourg-based company that operated the planes, said its flights did not utilize Iranian airspace, but the firm did not respond to questions about what they were carrying.
00:34:32.000Cargo manifests are not considered a matter of public record, and though any dangerous goods or special loads have to be declared to the operator and handling agents, information provided could be inaccurate or misleading.
00:34:42.000China has tried before to send weapons disguised as commercial goods, labeling drone components as wind turbine parts or shipments intercepted by European authorities.
00:38:05.000So you'd have a Turkic population in Iran that would have strong allies right across the border that could help them out.
00:38:19.000So, that's going to happen, I think, anyway, one way or another.
00:38:22.000I don't mean that Iran is going to crack up.
00:38:24.000I mean the ethnic mix in Iran is going to shift.
00:38:28.000And it's going to shift to the advantage of the Turks.
00:38:31.000You know, it's such a strange coincidence how Iraq and Afghanistan, these two countries we just had to invade, just so happened to surround Iran.
00:39:49.000How harmful is that to Trump at home now with polling saying that people are – that CNN reporting that people are in support of what he's doing.
00:39:58.000Then maybe I'm just kind of fractured and living online.
00:40:01.000But the anti-war right now, the anti-war right has a problem with this and it's causing problems.
00:40:30.000Yeah, they're mostly fine with airstrikes, if I understand correctly.
00:40:33.000And this is from the polls that I've seen.
00:40:35.000But they don't want to see Americans on the ground.
00:40:37.000And I think that just so long as we don't end up with a situation of Americans on the ground fighting in Iran, I think that this will be a total non-issue just so long.
00:42:04.000I'm just curious about it because I can only go through what it looks like reflected back at me.
00:42:10.000And most of the people that I interact with are kind of given the platform that Trump ran on.
00:42:16.000No wars in his first term, peace through diplomacy, foreign policy through diplomacy.
00:42:21.000And what you're seeing right now, one of the questions that I had was like, would he have handled this differently if he was in a first term and seeking a second term?
00:42:28.000Remember in his first term when he struck Soleimani and he said to take out?
00:42:33.000So those are two things that really kind of cast him as credible when he makes a use of force threat.
00:42:42.000And I think that this particular issue, he will in the future use this as the evidence that he's willing to use.
00:42:52.000He's still willing to use force because of how powerful the United States military is.
00:42:58.000That comes with, that threat comes with real danger, but I think that he will not, he'll still try to avoid using force, and he's going to use this as his quote-unquote trump card to be like, ah, you don't know, maybe I will.
00:44:05.000I've been told this app has become the place to go for common sense political discussion and analysis, so I'm thrilled to be here to engage with all of you.
00:44:14.000He then posted, A series of posts to that end, I found Justice Thomas' concurrence on the medical care for transgender youth quite illuminating.
00:44:21.000He argues that many of our so-called experts have used bad arguments and substandard science to push experimental therapies on our youth.
00:44:28.000I might add that many of those scientists are receiving substantial resources from Big Pharma to push these medicines on kids.
00:45:18.000Yeah, people were getting suspended immediately for saying, you know, not particularly racy stuff at all.
00:45:26.000Well, and then a lot of the people, like, a lot of celebrities will end up, say, they'll make a big show of leaving X and going over to Blue Sky, and then they come back to X, because you can't actually have a discussion on Blue Sky with anyone.
00:45:38.000One of my favorite things about that is when they have their name on X is blah, blah, blah, at bsky, blah, blah, blah, and it's like they're making sure that you know I also have a Blue Sky account.
00:45:51.000Not that anyone on X is going to go to Blue Sky to find them.
00:45:54.000The people on Blue Sky that are interested in what they have to say are probably already following them.
00:45:59.000But yeah, I love the fact that they're just like, I'm on Blue Sky.
00:47:50.000I mean, a lot of people have kind of fallen by the wayside on that because it seems like the tech bros have kind of tried to cozy up to the right since Trump came back to office, right?
00:47:59.000But it doesn't mean that, you know, next election cycle comes around and they lose that they won't go right back to the way they were before.
00:48:05.000Yeah, I suppose the bigger question is, how do you break people out of the cult?
00:48:15.000as like you yourself, like how do you as a person do it to somebody else?
00:48:21.000It's always, to me, been the same thing.
00:48:24.000Like you cannot be led to that information by yourself because when somebody leads you to that information, your hackles are up and somebody's already, The best thing that a person can do is go seek new information on their own.
00:48:58.000I think this characteristic is largely what defines what we would call the left or liberals in that they're not looking for stats.
00:49:10.000They tend just to agree with whatever the other part of the crowd agrees with.
00:49:15.000And so you end up with violent echo chambers that ban the vice president when he cordially and politely brought up a major Supreme Court ruling.
00:49:25.000Yeah, I mean the same thing comes true when you go look at the protests and stuff like that.
00:49:29.000You're not allowed to actually go and have a discussion with them because they understand that most of the time their arguments fall flat when you try to engage with someone honestly and you have a different viewpoint.
00:50:42.000I mean, largely the mission is just to kind of break down what's going on in the world and try and discuss it with the most accuracy possible and then our opinions on the matter.
00:50:51.000The internet as it is right now, it's like everything is so algorithmically programmed that the people that want this information are going to find it.
00:50:58.000And the people that want a different set of information, albeit maybe less accurate, are going to go find it wherever they go because their computer, their phone is telling them this is what you like looking at.
00:51:08.000So it's going to feed you more of the same thing.
00:52:10.000Jon Stewart mocked Steve Bannon, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Jack Posobiec, and Charlie Kirk, who are all anti-intervention with the war in Iran.
00:52:37.000Then Jon Stewart comes out and goes, you know, I don't like war, but if you actually were listening to, say, Jack Posobiec, or Steve Bannon is a better example, he's going to be like, no war, no, no, no, never.
00:53:24.000So they're not, I think the issue largely is that these liberals, they're very pro-war.
00:53:29.000And like we saw in the 2000s, the goal of the media narrative will be to convince people why war is necessary if that's going to be the plan of the United States.
00:53:38.000So attack anybody who is staunchly opposed to it and then play the moderate voice that reluctantly says, I guess we have to go to war.
00:53:47.000What do you think the – where's the source of the power of what you're calling the cultists?
00:53:56.000So it seems to me that it's more than just control of the internet.
00:54:03.000There's a whole ecosystem and an economic system built around it, starting with the universities.
00:54:24.000Not everyone is going to see the theology, so let's just call it an ideology.
00:54:27.000But it's the entire ideology of all the universities.
00:54:32.000Big business has gone in for it, not because it's really sincere about it, but because they figure that the right will be with them automatically, and they can buy the left with some wokeness.
00:54:45.000Yeah, they did that after Occupy Wall Street, they had to shift their business model, what they call rainbow capitalism.
00:54:51.000Right, yeah, they shift their business model.
00:54:53.000And they thought there would be nothing to pay for that.
00:54:55.000The conservatives would never account for that.
00:54:58.000So if you want to break the cult, it has to be more than just an informational effort.
00:55:07.000There has to be an economic effort as well.
00:55:40.000Of different ideologies that have moved together because of the insanity of the left.
00:55:45.000They've actually cost themselves a good amount of their political power.
00:55:49.000Right now what we're seeing is Democrats staging arrests, like intentionally trying to get arrested because they have no policies to campaign on, so they just attack cops.
00:56:01.000Democrats have attacked cops, getting arrested, and I think what happened was the first ICE arrests we saw with McIver and Baraka, This was an accident.
00:56:11.000They got into a fight with cops, got arrested, saw something and said, hey, that worked.
00:57:17.000And it was two guys that were in, I think, like Tempe, that would just make up fake stories, put them on their website, post them to Facebook, and then get millions of views.
00:57:52.000They actually, in their criticism of Bannon, Connected two different sentences before they were completed and cut them together to make a fake statement from Bannon.
00:58:24.000Because if you say that YouTube should have the power to censor what they think is fake news, they will just start getting rich people on the right as they were doing before.
01:01:40.000It then says, the homegrowns are next, Donald Trump, April 14th, 2025.
01:01:44.000This is the psychotic and deranged world liberals live in because they can't tell the difference between, and obviously the pundits are going to be like, of course we know it's a skid, it's to make a point, but many of the older liberals, people I know, think this is real.
01:02:01.000The example that I love to use, Hassan Piker.
01:02:04.000Did not know that Abrego Garcia was from El Salvador.
01:02:07.000This is a guy who's got one of the top streams in the world who genuinely thought Trump arrested an American citizen and sent him to El Salvador.
01:02:15.000And that's what they say in this video.
01:02:17.000How do you break this so that liberals stop getting fed these lies?
01:02:23.000The funniest thing about that one was you have to actually show them side by side the amount of headlines that suspiciously use the phrase Maryland man, which makes no sense.
01:02:32.000It's like when you look at the videos that were made by news networks during That's a level of taking ownership of your own life experience and how you get information that is unique to somebody who actually cares
01:03:03.000about these things beyond just the idea that they're right and that the other side is evil.
01:03:09.000Approach it from the side of actually wanting to get information because you think it affects you and the world.
01:03:13.000Which would lead you down a path to the idea that some things that you believe or that you've been told are wrong.
01:03:20.000And for the most part, what you were saying earlier, like, where does the power come from?
01:03:24.000I think when the average everyday American is busy and they've got stuff to do, they for decades have been trained to believe that the talking head on television, the guy wearing the suit, is going to tell them the accurate information because that's a trust in the institutions that's been instilled in them since they were young.
01:03:49.000Now, that doesn't mean that they don't fall victim to it as well in the age of TikTok, but it does mean that one generation specifically is more prone to that.
01:03:57.000And like you mentioned earlier, the colleges, the institutions, it's been reinforced to them at every level.
01:04:03.000But there is a sense that you have to be kind of your own arbiter for how to get your information that I think precludes a lot of what's going on in the left.
01:04:11.000The right doesn't make videos like this.
01:04:14.000Conservatives have traditionally insulted and mocked artists.
01:04:18.000And it's only recently they've kind of chilled out on doing this and then started to actually come up in this space.
01:04:36.000Yeah, it seems like there's a big shakeup over the Daily Wire and so they've changed things around.
01:04:40.000It's a hard path to continue because I tend to be critical of those types of projects because as left-leaning as most artists in Hollywood are, at least it used to be the case that they started from a place of being an artist first and then their views kind of trickled into the art that they were making.
01:05:00.000Whereas when the right tries to make art simply for the sake of making the political opposite, it rarely turns out well.
01:11:47.000And they said, whoa, okay, this algorithmically generated stuff being fed to kids is bad.
01:11:52.000Take out the weird gore and the eating of feces, and now it's fine, which it's not.
01:11:57.000Parents were putting tablets in front of their kids and pressing play, and YouTube would start with something like a nursery rhyme, but then autoplay would eventually bring them to Peppa Pig eating feces.
01:13:06.000My hope is that as Gen Z grows up, I guess they're having kids now, but the point being that growing up with technology the way they have is that they are more acutely aware of how much damage it can do, and the hope would be that when they start having kids that they do not let their kids have access to technology.
01:13:24.000I think that's Gen Z. What do you mean?
01:13:27.000Gen Z, when these things were coming to fruition, Gen Z was of the age to recognize how insane it was.
01:15:07.000They say the 6-3 decision by a conservative majority is a major blow to the transgender community and its advocates at a critical time.
01:15:14.000Since 2020, Republican-led states around the country have passed a wave of laws regulating the lives of trans Americans with a particular focus on minors.
01:15:23.000And President Trump, who ran for re-election in part by ending the transgender lunacy, has taken several steps and tended to roll back gains made by that community.
01:15:31.000So they say roughly half the states have similar bans.
01:16:37.000Reality shifting is a community of people online who believe they have the ability to transport their consciousness into an alternate reality.
01:16:46.000The things they believe get dangerous.
01:16:49.000In one of the posts on Reddit, they say when you die in your current reality, don't worry.
01:17:11.000Obviously, you know nobody can transport their consciousness to another reality.
01:17:18.000Maybe if we first discover that parallel realities exist through science and then build a machine where you can literally do it, maybe that's possible.
01:17:27.000But the idea that you can lock yourself in a closet, close your eyes and go, it's impossible.
01:17:35.000That's called imagination, not reality shifting.
01:17:39.000So what happens is, 15-year-olds go online.
01:18:40.000We are years away if this is the trend where doctors providing reality shifting care will bring you to a hospital bed and put you in an induced coma so you can transport to your desired reality like in the show The OA.
01:19:50.000What we learned from, we had Helena Kirshner on the show.
01:19:54.000She said what happened was she goes on, I think it was Tumblr, and she was angsty and depressed, and someone commented, maybe it's because you're trans, just abruptly for no reason.
01:21:03.000This is why I was saying Miss Rachel and Coco Mellon and its other kids stuff on the internet is no different.
01:21:10.000It's the same detached from reality psychobabble garbage.
01:21:14.000And kids are going to attach their brains to it and they're not going to function properly.
01:21:20.000Yeah, and not only that, when it comes to at least Miss Rachel, she started jumping into politics as well.
01:21:26.000And it's bad enough that it's not really all that nourishing content for kids in the first place, but then to be shoving into it political opinions for whatever, toddlers or something.
01:22:24.000I have friends who have supported their children in this.
01:22:31.000I'm talking about children who are over the age of 18. But – and they clearly were uncomfortable with it but felt that they had to go along with it.
01:23:18.000If someone was suffering from suicidal ideation because they were suffering from what we would call dimensional displacement, what's the treatment for it?
01:23:36.000So when a kid claims they're in the wrong body and they need to be altered because they're actually a koala bear, do we give them surgery to make them a koala bear?
01:25:02.000The other thing that I think it is when it comes to parents is that society now, because think of your Facebook mom groups in the way that everybody is now kind of viewed.
01:25:11.000The idea is like everybody's running for president all the time.
01:25:15.000You don't get to employ your own methods for parenting without being under the scrutiny of everybody else, not just in your friends group, but whoever may interact with your kids down the line.
01:25:25.000And somewhere along the line— I took for the Johnny Walker and the baby.
01:25:44.000Right now, if you're a parent and you don't unconditionally support everything your kids do, you will be viewed as a bad parent not doing your job and you will be ostracized.
01:25:54.000I think women especially will fall victim to this with the Facebook mom groups and the need for women to be part of the social cohesion and the way that they interact with one another enforces a certain level of conformity amongst all of them.
01:26:10.000And that's where a lot of this starts is that you aren't allowed to be.
01:26:14.000Your own autonomous parent anymore without having to worry about the judgment and sometimes the intervention of people, of the state and people who might get the state involved.
01:26:23.000That's the thing that I'm most scared about about becoming a dad is the idea of me wanting to do something with my kid or not wanting my kid to see something or whatever and then having to deal with the state.
01:27:36.000I'm not saying that everybody's going to agree on what the solution is and God knows that getting the government involved rarely helps anything because it doesn't help anything ever.
01:27:43.000But to look at what's going on right now with insurance companies and pretend like that isn't a problem is also ridiculous.
01:27:51.000I think we should make a dimensionally displaced lobby.
01:29:16.000Got surgeries to look like a tiger, split his lip, got metal plates put in for whiskers, pointed the ears, shaved the teeth down, and then got a sex change to be a female tiger, and then committed suicide.
01:29:55.000that means that a person who is trans simply stops being trans, called desist.
01:29:59.000Trans children, children who are suffering from or diagnosed with gender dysphoria, So that means if your 10-year-old is suffering from dysphoria, do nothing.
01:30:13.000By the time they're 13, they'll be like, I don't even remember what that was.
01:30:17.000The problem is they're now trying to do gender-affirming care on these kids and give them drugs and surgeries.
01:31:19.000Either that or your parents would have lost you.
01:31:23.000They'd have come and taken you away from your parents, you know, if they didn't, if you didn't do or if they didn't do the things that the state said they should, which is.
01:33:53.000It's weird, because when everything was going on, it feels like that was nine crises ago when everyone was discussing the different things that were in that bill.
01:34:01.000But maybe it's just me, but I never thought of Trump as fiscally prudent at all.
01:34:21.000But it's just I never thought of Trump as the dude who was going to come in for fiscal responsibility because for the most part, whoever's going to get elected is going to – it's not a good thing, but the deficit's going to get worse.
01:34:33.000And I don't know if there is a candidate that is electable that is actually going to be able to take a dent out of it.
01:34:40.000Yeah, I mean at the risk of sounding like a – The Borg will win out.
01:34:43.000Yeah, I mean at the risk of sounding like a mouthpiece for the administration, like he never – He was never a fiscal conservative.
01:34:51.000Everybody that was pro-Trump knew very well that he was a Democrat.
01:35:41.000Well, we have to do this to keep the government open and blah, blah, blah.
01:35:44.000And in this particular issue, there's like, well, you know, we need to go ahead and pass this funding bill so that way we can keep doing stuff with the border and blah, blah, blah.
01:35:53.000You know, it's like they're just referencing things that...
01:36:01.000So it's nothing new and nobody's surprised at all.
01:36:06.000I guess I didn't expect anything except for maybe some tax cuts might happen.
01:36:10.000Or like they have to ratify the 2017 tax cuts again.
01:36:22.000It probably will be the only thing that happens.
01:36:24.000I mean, I could conceive of possibly getting some of the doge cuts, getting something passed with the doge cuts, but I don't know what the House and the Senate schedules are like, so I don't know for sure if they have time because their schedule is so crazy.
01:36:41.000So, I mean, like I said, I could conceive of it because I could imagine that there are Republicans that would be like, yeah, let's do this, and that I could see it getting passed, but I don't know if they're actually going to do anything, and to be honest with you, that should come as no surprise.
01:42:26.000Like, they can't imagine a world where somebody would say something they disagree with because they believe it, other than because it's some op against them.
01:42:38.000It's crazy how many words have been totally ruined because people just use them so carelessly and imprecisely.
01:42:45.000It's one of the hardest things to prove, too, because you're actually saying that you know what's in that person's heart, that they don't believe what they're saying, and that's a very, very lofty claim to make against somebody.
01:43:32.000And it says skateboarding content and culture.
01:43:36.000So, plus, we are going to make shirts of the board graphics, and we're going to make Casper shirts of the coffee graphics, but without, like, the writing, of course.
01:43:44.000But, you know, these are the skateboards that we got.
01:43:46.000My favorite, of course, is the 28th Amendment.
01:43:49.000It says, chickens being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep, bear, and breed chickens shall not be infringed.
01:43:57.000And if you own chickens, you must own one of these and hang it up.
01:44:01.000But Step on Snack and Find Out sells out all the time.
01:45:17.000And when I say friends, it's not like I hang out every single day, but there are people that I talk to on a regular basis that I know are Scientologists, and I don't care, but they don't talk about it.
01:48:26.000Based African says the anime How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom explores how a country should approach debt, war, and internal corruption.
01:48:36.000Basically, it follows the idea of minimize harm.
01:48:39.000to endear yourself to enemies'citizens while removing their leadership.
01:48:43.000Ian Kinney says, Why did YouTube just give me an ad in the chat?
01:48:51.000So YouTube has changed how ads work on YouTube.
01:48:56.000So earlier this year, they announced we started We started getting these notifications on videos where it said, soon all ads will be placed automatically.
01:49:06.000And it was like, as of May, the ability to...
01:49:19.000And what I found is like on the live stream, I'm not talking about the segments.
01:49:22.000You drop your ads every 15 minutes, 15, 30, 45, all the way to the end.
01:49:27.000It automatically demonetizes the first three ads, which is your largest space of time where you're actually getting viewership, which sinks any ability to really get revenue from that.
01:49:36.000Cause the people who are watching to the end, theoretically, you're going to see more.
01:49:40.000Like if somebody makes it to the fourth ad, they're staying the whole way to the end anyways.
01:49:44.000But the ones who joined For just the first few segments, you're not going to get any ads on any of that.
01:49:49.000You have to leave the automated ads on.
01:49:52.000YouTube basically said, if you don't run ads, we nuke your monetization.
01:49:56.000So it's like, you can be off-platform and broke, or you can just run ads the way we want ads to be run.
01:50:01.000And it drops like 60 ads in there, but not all of them are going to end up showing.
01:50:07.000Right, so basically what happens is, if you upload a video to YouTube, it'll let you place ads, and then when you do, if you go back like half an hour later, they're all red.
01:50:19.000And then it will automatically choose where to put ads on all your videos from now on, and it does a ton.
01:50:24.000But YouTube claims they have a limiter so that you can't see a certain amount of ads in a certain amount of time because they're tracking you individually.
01:50:32.000It's per person, my understanding is, because they want to make sure you don't leave the program or leave the video.
01:50:38.000So everybody has a different threshold for ads.
01:50:42.000And it's different for videos as opposed to live streams.
01:50:45.000Like on the live streams, there's an option to like turn on ads during the live stream, which most people don't.
01:50:51.000Well, yeah, you have to turn it off every day.
01:50:54.000And actually, so what happens now is it just changed on us.
01:50:58.000No longer gives us – it used to say, do you want ads?
01:51:44.000But the general idea is, for those that are wondering, some channels have a ranking system now where if you are a dedicated user who super chats and is a member, you earn experience and then actually get ranked and appear next to the stream.
01:51:59.000Like in the chat, you can click XP rankings and you can see who the biggest fan is.
01:52:03.000When we click the XP rankings, nothing shows up.
01:52:06.000People will get the badge when they're chatting, but when I go and look at the XP rankings, it's just blank.
01:53:20.000He tried playing the, why are you obsessed with Israel?
01:53:24.000That doesn't work when you're actively involved in war with Israel, like alongside them.
01:53:29.000The point I bring up to people— Like, U.S. presidents go to Saudi Arabia and beg them to stay on the petrodollar lease and not pump oil.
01:53:44.000But when there's a bombing campaign from Israel, our ally, that we're defending and supplying, it is absolutely understandable why we are talking about Israel in this context.
01:54:09.000And it's like, my dude, it's because they bring it up when we are not engaged in a conflict and there's an active conflict that we are engaged in.
01:54:15.000When Ukraine is the war, they're talking about Israel.
01:54:48.000If they do, they get into all kinds of problems.
01:54:53.000And I have talked to Mossad people about this.
01:54:56.000I talked to a former deputy head of Mossad, and he said, you don't know how strict it is for us.
01:55:02.000If I'm running an operation anywhere in the world and I want to surveil someone, if it's an American citizen anywhere in the world, I have to go all the way up to the prime minister to get permission to do it.
01:55:15.000I believe him because the power disparity is such that if they did actively spy, it would— But I'd imagine that's for the average American citizen.
01:55:28.000I imagine there is select spying that they do.
01:55:31.000No, I would say we spy on them much more than they spy on us.
01:56:15.000everybody's spying on everybody yeah the world is the way it is and we the amount of spying that we do on other people is I think the issue was that he was flustered for no reason and it looks really bad.
01:56:27.000It was a classic Nixon-Kennedy situation.
01:56:35.000Yeah, like, optics-wise, if you're somebody that's not paying the closest attention to what's going on, if a government official looks that flustered over those questions, like, regardless of whether you think his answers are right or not, it doesn't help if he doesn't look like he can handle the questions that are fed to him.
01:56:57.000I mean, that's just like, I imagine that the average person just believes that allies spy on allies and that this stuff is going on at all times.
01:57:04.000Except for the Five Eyes Spy Club, we just share all the data with each other.
01:57:08.000Hey, UK, I'll spy on your guys, you spy on mine, and then you give me the data and I give you mine.
01:57:55.000So it's in like a special cloth that they have to then hold up and give to a Muslim so they can swear on it because, you know, non-Muslims can't touch it.
01:58:50.000Common Sense Fishing says, could it be possible China smuggled a nuke into Iran via three trips?
01:58:56.000Making plausible deniability if nuke used, that would sure mess things up globally.
01:59:00.000I don't think they need to use three planes to bring in a nuke.
01:59:06.000When you mentioned the story earlier about the three planes, and when you look at that image of the planes on satellite and how everybody's kind of skirting around it, it's like if there's actual uranium on those planes, that is something they end up making a movie about 20 years later, once all the information is declassified.
01:59:25.000There is a realistic possibility that the Iranians have something in escrow in North Korea.
01:59:36.000in escrow in North Korea, as in, like, just saved up?
01:59:59.000And, I mean, well, North Korea has already thought to have nuclear weapons, so they probably assume that it's safer to have them hold on to it and say, and rely on the fact that the international community is not going to be like, we need to send inspectors in to make sure, because the international community is kind of like, ah, well, they already got them, so it's a little too late for these guys.
02:00:21.000Extonman says the Boeing 747 stops in Turkmenistan.