On this week's episode of Mythology and Conspiracy Theories, we discuss the latest on the JFK assassination and the growing problem of illegal immigrants in the United States. Plus, a major announcement from Rumble Premium, and much, much more!
00:00:26.000Anna Paulina Luna said that after going over the new documents in this meeting, she believes there were two shooters in the JFK assassination.
00:00:32.000But ultimately, it looks like there's a much bigger story as Trump's border czar, Tom Homan, outright said that they're going to start rounding up these leftist groups that are aiding illegal immigrants.
00:01:01.000It's a question that we asked when we see these Democrat politicians, well, let's just say, dancing on the line of aiding and abetting people who are illegal immigrants.
00:01:11.000And some would argue that, well, they have the legal right to tell someone else their legal rights.
00:01:16.000The question then becomes, but where is the line of inducement, inducing an illegal immigrant to reside in this country?
00:01:22.000When you say you know they're illegals and here's how you avoid detection and law enforcement, would that be inducement?
00:01:27.000So it's going to be interesting to see this.
00:01:32.000One of the higher-ups at FEMA and a total of four individuals were fired after Elon Musk uncovered that $59 million were sent to luxury hotels in New York to house illegal immigrants.
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00:06:14.000I live in Washington, D.C. I've been running a national security think tank for about 20 years, working on Iran, Middle East, foreign policy issues.
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00:08:00.000Here we go, ladies and gentlemen, from Daily Mail.
00:08:03.000Trump's border czar gives wild answer on if ICE will round up leftist groups aiding illegal immigrants.
00:08:09.000Before I read this quote, I just want to say, we asked this question as many Democrats had been instructing illegal aliens on how to avoid law enforcement.
00:08:20.000And the question, so there is, along the books, I believe it is US Code, Title 8 US Code 1324, Section A, Section 4A, which says that inducement of an individual who is here illegally, knowingly or otherwise, with reckless disregard for whether or not they'll be committing a crime, if you induce them to stay here, that would be a crime.
00:08:43.000Now, in the debate, in sort of the argument, it was, yeah, but if you're informing someone of their legal rights, you're not really committing a crime.
00:08:50.000The issue is, of course, when we see Ilhan Omar and these other Democratic reps, we know their intention.
00:09:14.000I do think because it's a congressperson that's actually making these statements and informing these people, that would imply to people, obviously not directly tell them, but imply to people, look, this is an authority.
00:09:29.000Telling me that it's okay for me to do these things.
00:09:32.000This is someone in a position of authority saying it's okay for me.
00:09:35.000I can get around the law if I do these things.
00:09:38.000So I think that if it's just someone, you know, just a Joe on the street saying this is what you can do, it might be one thing.
00:09:46.000People in positions of authority should be held to a higher standard because that position as a congressperson comes with the implied knowledge that you would think that the government has.
00:10:00.000We know the intention of these members of Congress when they're doing this.
00:10:03.000They're not just telling your run-of-the-mill American citizen how to make sure their rights are being protected.
00:10:11.000Certainly, if you're an American and you get stopped by law enforcement, depending on the state you're in, it's always different, but you typically don't have a requirement to give your information to cops or show them your ID unless they suspect you've committed a crime and are detaining you for such a thing.
00:10:30.000But here's what we're seeing is activist groups, even I think AOC did this, they're putting out information specifically intended for illegal immigrants to skirt the law.
00:10:42.000They're going to mention since Trump took office, hordes of protesters have descended on L.A. and other major cities, waving Mexican flags and those of other Central and South American countries to decry the president's illegal immigration crackdown.
00:10:53.000These protests have involved protesters blocking freeways.
00:10:57.000Though many demonstrations have been peaceful.
00:10:59.000Quote, Sir, is there any plan to go after these leftist groups and these protests across the nation where those likely illegal aliens are flying foreign flags to be rounded up?
00:11:08.000A journalist for the Gateway Pundit asked Homan.
00:11:11.000The Bordazar had seemingly answered his share of questions, began walking away from the scrum, but the question piqued his interest.
00:11:17.000I do want to point out they chose the wrong peaked.
00:11:33.000Followed by, we're working on that right now, Homan added before striding away.
00:11:38.000Some of the groups seen protesting include Centro CSO, an undocumented immigrant advocacy organization, and the Freedom Road Socialist Organization.
00:11:47.000During the questioning, the Bordazar also shared that he is deeply unsatisfied with the rate at which immigration and customs enforcement agents are able to arrest illegal immigrants residing in the USA. When posed the question of whether Trump is happy with the pace of ICE enforcement, Homan shot back, I'm not.
00:12:01.000If you look at the arrests in the interior enforcement, it's about three times higher than it was a year ago today.
00:12:06.000Three times higher is good, but I'm not satisfied.
00:12:08.000There's more criminal aliens that need to be arrested.
00:12:11.000Hundreds of thousands of sanctuary cities are putting up roadblocks.
00:12:15.000The question is, what are they going to do about these sanctuary states, these sanctuary cities, where you have a government official outright saying we will aid and abet illegal immigration in violation of federal law? - Well, a couple of things strike me, Tim.
00:12:31.000First of all, I don't understand why these...
00:12:35.000Immigration groups are flying foreign flags.
00:12:51.000Number two is, if you're inducing somebody to commit a crime, if I'm inducing someone to commit a robbery or armed assault or murder, I am as complicit in that crime as the perpetrator.
00:13:59.000Let's say you're a regular person on the street.
00:14:00.000And you see a guy about to rob a bank.
00:14:02.000And you walk up to him and say, alright, here's what happens.
00:14:04.000After you go and do this, the cops are going to come from these places, do not speak to them, and here's how you can avoid detection after you've committed that crime.
00:14:12.000Wouldn't that be plotting with them to commit the crime?
00:14:15.000Like, wouldn't you get in trouble for that?
00:14:33.000So the challenge here is illegal immigrants in this country have broken the law already.
00:14:39.000And it's one thing to provide blankets, legal advice, constitutional advice, all those things as an American citizen saying to all of my American friends out there.
00:15:12.000But there's something different here in that we have the intent.
00:15:17.000We know for a fact, and no reason, if you go up to a random person on the street and say, hey, AOC just provided this information on how to avoid ICE. Was that intended to help illegal immigrants avoid deportation?
00:15:32.000The question is, is Trump going to have the gall to actually go after Democrat politicians who have long broken the law and skirted our federal codified law to induce illegal immigration?
00:15:43.000Because let's be real, as Phil was pointing out, these people from a position of authority saying this, what did we see?
00:15:48.000We saw people come to the border wearing shirts saying, please, Biden, let us in.
00:15:57.000And the result was 15, 20 million illegals came in in the four years, something along those lines.
00:16:05.000I mean, it was record-breaking and an astronomical number.
00:16:09.000And so if someone in a position of authority, if someone in Congress, an elected official, if they're making these kind of statements, there has to be a higher standard that they're held to because of the...
00:16:21.000Because of the implication that they're telling people the legal right thing to do.
00:16:27.000I understand that everyone is free, whether they be in Congress or a regular citizen, you're free to say whatever you want to say.
00:16:37.000But there are certain responsibilities that come with your position in Congress.
00:16:47.000You know, interaction with people that are illegal, saying, look, these are the things you do to avoid detection, and these are the rights that you have, so that way you can avoid having to interact with police or whatever.
00:17:01.000I do think that that does at least approach a crime, and it should be something that Congress...
00:17:08.000And I know I'm gonna sound like a fossil for even saying this, but maybe Congress people need to be censured for it.
00:17:13.000We haven't censured anyone, I know, in ages and ages.
00:17:16.000Most people don't even know what a censure is, right?
00:17:18.000But, like, there should be some repercussions because they've enabled people to come to the U.S. illegally and help, and they're helping them stay.
00:17:28.000For those who don't know, just real quick, if you don't know what inducement means, it's an inducement of federal orders can be illegal if it involves improper financial arrangements, which is if you get away from ICE and you keep collecting money from the state and the government, that might be that, or actions that violate federal laws, which is them telling them, the illegals, to get away from ICE. If someone's in jail...
00:18:10.000Inducement would be providing some kind of incentive.
00:18:13.000Say, if you do this, we'll do X. So this is encouragement under the inducement statute.
00:18:18.000But I think the issue is for these Democrats, they have for a long time operated with impunity as it pertains to the law.
00:18:26.000Like, sanctuary states and sanctuary cities is one thing where they say, we're not going to participate in law enforcement nor communicate with them.
00:18:35.000I feel like they're violating the spirit of the union of states by basically saying, we're going to break the law, which negatively impacts all of you, disproportionately gives us power in Congress and the presidential elections, whatever.
00:18:45.000But now when they're at the federal level actively helping illegal immigration, advocating for it outright, now we're at a point where we have to ask ourselves a question.
00:19:26.000They get extra congressional seats, extra votes at the Electoral College, and we all have to abide by them breaking the rules and violating the Constitution and committing federal crimes.
00:19:38.000I mean, unfortunately, it seems like there's one strong way, and it's going to be DOJ accountability.
00:19:43.000Perhaps Trump can cut off all funding.
00:19:46.000The federal government will no longer provide a single penny to any state that is not enforcing the law.
00:19:52.000Look, I grew up in a country, Canada, where, I mean, the political game in Canada was that the Liberal Party for decades would let in as many immigrants as possible, legal immigrants, and basically the quid-quo-quo was, we're letting you in, you're going to vote for us.
00:20:06.000And that's why Pierre Trudeau stayed in power for two decades, right?
00:20:10.000Democratic politicians in America understand that game.
00:20:13.000I mean, AOC, Ilhan Omar, and the Democratic Party understand that the more legal immigrants they bring in, the more pathways to citizenship they provide.
00:20:21.000The more votes they get, and that secures them a Democratic majority.
00:20:25.000I mean, I think at the end of the day, Donald Trump is president of the United States, and Republicans control the House and Senate, because it is in effect today an 80-20 issue, the 80% of Americans.
00:20:38.000By the way, they want legal immigrants.
00:20:40.000I mean, a number of us who came from different countries, we understand the power and the strength, and in some cases, the beauty of legal immigration.
00:20:49.000What we don't want to do is have our borders violated, illegals come in, and one political party in America basically piggyback on illegal immigration in order to ride to a permanent political majority.
00:21:06.000At the end of the day, that's behind everything.
00:21:08.000Let's jump to the story from the New York Post, where it gets a lot worse.
00:21:12.000Borders are Tom Homan accuses FBI of leaking information about ICE raids, lives at risk.
00:21:18.000Kristi Noem made a similar comment, pointing out that information was leaked to the LA Times about raids that were going to be happening all over this country.
00:21:26.000Tom Homan pointed out that if this information gets out, there's going to be some criminal.
00:21:30.000A gang member, a cartel member, who's concerned about getting caught, lying in wait, and when the law enforcement shows up, they get ambushed.
00:21:40.000Tom Homan said that they've narrowed it down, they think they know who it is, and there's going to be an arrest.
00:21:47.000So they're going to go after the leakers in the FBI. But in the previous segment, we were talking about Democrats, largely in California, but there's many states that are doing it, that are violating the law.
00:21:58.000That's Title 8, U.S. Code 1324, Section A, Subsection 4, encouragement and inducement of illegal immigration.
00:22:10.000California provides free health care to illegal immigrants.
00:22:26.000States violating the law for power and at the federal level, leaking information to aid and abet those states and the people who have broken the law illegally entering the country and those that would help them.
00:22:37.000The question we asked in the previous segment was, will the DOJ have the gall to go after these states for doing this?
00:22:43.000When Tom Homan says they're going after the FBI, it's actually a terrifying prospect if you think about it.
00:22:56.000What happens when the DOJ starts going after arresting FBI agents, state officials, people who are who are within our state government and federal government who are actively trying to cause harm to this country?
00:23:09.000I think you have the makings for a very serious constitutional crisis and potential in intrastate conflict.
00:23:18.000So what's going on here, if I understand this, is that FBI agents are leaking information about ICE raids to...
00:23:25.000Information that's ending up in the hands of not only illegal immigrants, but gangs who get the heads up that ICE is coming in and then can flee.
00:23:36.000I mean, that has got to be a violation.
00:23:38.000I mean, it's got to be a violation of every duty that the FBI holds.
00:23:43.000I would also say probably a violation of their actual security clearances, because this is information that is classified information that they are leaking.
00:23:52.000And they should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, as anybody who holds security clearance and violates that clearance has been and should be.
00:23:59.000Well, I don't know about anybody that's had that clearance and violated it.
00:24:04.000that that'd be interesting but but i do think that um i do think that in this context it's not it's undeniable if if those things have happened if the if the fbi is leaking about you know ice rates and stuff
00:24:21.000um i think that that is ample evidence that we need people like cash patel people that are outside of the bureaucracy going into these organizations and and looking for the people that are not on board with the administration There's a lot of people that are up in arms about Elon Musk, and the thing they say over and over is, he's not elected, he's not elected.
00:25:07.000So this idea that an unelected person going in and trying to fix the problems of other unelected people is beyond the pale is ridiculous.
00:25:19.000And the president needs to have the authority to fire people.
00:25:23.000And this is something that I'm not sure if we're actually going to talk about it, but it's something that will come up in the future.
00:25:29.000Because a lot of these, there's a lot of judges that are blocking things that the president has said, you know, as executive orders he's made.
00:25:36.000And the argument is, well, the president doesn't have the authority to do that.
00:25:40.000The president doesn't have the authority.
00:25:42.000And essentially, what they're saying is...
00:25:44.000If the president is of the opposing political party, he has no authority and will use the judiciary to prevent him from doing anything we don't like.
00:25:54.000I mean, there's a list, I have it, of specific things that have been blocked so far.
00:26:01.000We're definitely going to talk about that because the judge is being impeached.
00:26:20.000What we're talking about when you have states defying federal law, cheating the Constitution, FBI agents opposing the executive administration, and judges going rogue to shut down executive authority.
00:26:46.000And thankfully, we do have, and this is something that I said a couple months ago when we were talking about these possible problems, I would prefer there to be some kind of conflict like this when the party that I prefer has the levers of power than when the other party has the levers of power.
00:27:07.000So if there's going to be, if the Democrats want to be like, oh, well, we're going to go ahead and resist, etc., etc., and want to do all that stuff, fine.
00:27:16.000Then we'll go ahead and allow the executive to do executive things.
00:27:20.000Send the FBI to go ahead and pick up the people that are not following the rules and put them in front of the jury.
00:27:53.000Now, we will get into more of that, of course.
00:27:55.000To go back to the immigration thing, we'll center this around, like, you know, what we're talking about now, law enforcement at the federal level that has been aiding and abetting criminals.
00:28:06.000Because certainly we can look at what Tom Homan said.
00:28:09.000According to the story, he told Fox News, Hannity, some of the information we are receiving tends to lead toward the FBI, saying they're quite certain it's coming from inside the FBI. He said he's been promised not only will a person lose their job and pension, but they will go to jail.
00:28:41.000So I don't know how far any of these people are willing to go, but I'll tell you likely what I see happening.
00:28:45.000Tom Homan, Trump, they're going to say, if we've got cogs in a machine that are the banality of evil, but they're going to do their job now as we go against, they're going to let these guys go.
00:28:57.000The CBP agents that were bringing these children in knowing that they were being trafficked into sex slavery, they're not going to see any charges.
00:29:03.000And the argument is going to be, oh, well, you know, they're just doing their job and we need their assistance and we don't want to lose these officers and things like that.
00:29:27.000He's hardcore, and if he would go after people today, I can see him, to answer your question to him, yes, he will do that.
00:29:33.000But I don't see, I'm really worried about him not going, him going back and not taking all the agents who did facilitate all the child traffic sex working.
00:29:44.000Let me say something, I think it's going to be controversial with this audience, but...
00:29:48.000Look, I think you're arguing with everything you said, but there should be some legal consistency, right?
00:29:53.000I mean, FBI agents violating their clearances, providing classified information to drug cartels to give them the heads up that ICE is coming in is beyond the pale, immoral, and illegal.
00:30:08.000But a guy named Snowden, who had high security clearance, the highest security clearance in the land.
00:30:15.000Instead of going to the inspector general of the CIA and saying, I believe there's a legal activity taking place that violates America's constitutional rights, decides on his own accord to leak highly classified information to the press, putting people's lives in jeopardy.
00:30:33.000And there are people, I think, who want to see...
00:30:37.000Donald Trump issue a pardon of Snowden or think that he was illegally convicted in the first place?
00:30:43.000I mean, I believe at the end of the day— Was he convicted, actually?
00:30:47.000I don't know if they held a trial or anything for him.
00:30:49.000Well, he certainly – I mean he should be put on trial.
00:30:53.000I think that – I mean we'll see what the evidence points to.
00:30:57.000But at the end of the day, if it's shown that he violated his security clearance and he leaked information that he was not allowed to leak, it's no different than FBI agents leaking information about ICE raids.
00:31:33.000The difference is when it came to Bradley Manning at the time releasing information on specific actions, blowing the whistle is saying this one thing that happened was illegal and people need to know this illegal thing happened.
00:31:47.000That's a broad definition of whistleblower.
00:31:48.000Some might prefer that you go through the official channels of saying, I have uncovered something illegal, but when you're dealing with superiors or whatever, and I'm not saying this is exactly what happened, but it's not so easy to do.
00:31:58.000If a person goes to the press and says, I have uncovered a direct action that is illegal and needs to be revealed, you're blowing the whistle.
00:32:21.000Snowden took tens of thousands of documents without checking any of them or redacting any of them and leaked them to a bunch of different news organizations in which Snowden admitted this in an interview saying, perhaps I should have actually gone through them.
00:32:36.000There's a big difference between being a leaker and a whistleblower.
00:32:39.000Certainly I can say I am glad to an extent Snowden revealed information on NSA spying and these illegal programs.
00:32:55.000When one of the documents that got released, just one, but it happened in many occasions, I don't think anyone lost their lives, but the identity of a U.S. operative was compromised in the leaking of this information without redaction.
00:33:07.000Snowden was challenged on it, and Snowden said, yeah, I probably shouldn't have done that.
00:33:11.000And it's like, right, well, you did wrong.
00:34:10.000Edward Snowden leaking information from several administrations ago, of which it included some illegal activity but was done improperly, is not child trafficking.
00:34:31.000Children were coming off with numbers on their arms to child sex traffickers, and they were like, oh, well, Biden told me to do it.
00:34:37.000And I'm like, Edward Snowden being doofy and being like, oh, I'm going to leak all these documents is a more of a banality of evil, but some good was in it.
00:35:07.000There is a moral line in that CBP knew children were coming across the border, had numbers on their arms to sell them into slavery, sex slavery, and they went, oh well.
00:35:16.000There was no good being done there, and I will take no statute of limitations on that.
00:35:21.000Snowden, I'm just kind of like, I don't care at this point.
00:35:34.000So perhaps we need to say to Snowden, like, look, you leaked, and if we're going to hold them to the same standard, you will get held to it as well.
00:35:40.000The penalty probably wouldn't be too severe, so maybe fine.
00:35:44.000But for those CBP agents, for this FBI agent, I'm like compromising national security, aiding and abetting cartels, drug smugglers, fentanyl, all that stuff.
00:36:25.000Eli Crane of Arizona posted on Axe that he will be filing articles of impeachment based on Engelmeyer, who is attempting to stop White House employees from axing the very systems they oversee.
00:37:09.000This is a federal agency tasked with performing an audit of another agency and a judge intervening from outside the executive branch saying, you can't audit your own departments.
00:37:44.000Congress says federal employees are protected in this way.
00:37:47.000So that's a check on the executive branch.
00:37:49.000You may not like it, but that's how we're supposed to do it.
00:37:51.000When Trump says, I have the U.S. Digital Service, now called U.S. Doge Service, with executive branch employees who are going to go in and review documents from another branch, a judge can't block that.
00:38:05.000It's literally federal executive employees who serve at the pleasure of the president looking over documents in a department of the federal government to look for fraud and abuse.
00:38:18.000There are judges now blocked Trump from pausing federal grants.
00:38:22.000So Trump basically signs his order saying we're going to stop spending all this money, the federal government because of the because there's a lot of fraud, waste, fraud and abuse.
00:38:52.000Or Trump should just say, you are outside of your purview.
00:38:55.000The Constitution grants you no authority to stop me from doing an audit of a federal department that may or may not be spending money fraudulently.
00:39:06.000They fired several FEMA employees over it.
00:39:08.000Money should not be going from FEMA to luxury hotels for illegal immigrants.
00:39:12.000Especially when FEMA was specifically targeting conservatives and Trump voters, people with Trump flags or Trump signs in their front yard after Hurricane.
00:40:17.000But I do recall that when President Obama was elected, one of his favorite lines was, elections have consequences.
00:40:27.000This is what the American people want.
00:40:30.000This obstruction by federal judges, this is literally obstructing the will of the American people.
00:40:38.000And I don't see how you can see it any other way.
00:40:43.000Because this is Like, I mean, the USAID stuff is egregious in and of itself.
00:40:52.000But all of this stuff, it's just essentially an audit.
00:40:57.000And they don't even want to allow an audit.
00:40:59.000And the American people are almost consistently, like, this is an 80-20 issue.
00:41:04.000Like, everybody says, okay, yeah, it's okay to audit the government.
00:41:07.000It's okay to shrink the size of government a little bit.
00:41:10.000Because we know that there's some kind of waste, fraud, and abuse all the time.
00:41:14.000Look, I mean, Trump's political genius is finding the 80-20 issue, taking the 80 and letting Democrats go crazy about the 20. And it's a great political strategy.
00:41:22.000And if he follows that, Democrats will never come back into power.
00:41:25.000I would say the other thing, President Obama...
00:41:40.000I don't know how this will play with you guys or the audience, but what's going on with TikTok, right?
00:41:46.000TikTok, controlled by the Chinese Communist Party, right?
00:41:49.000I mean, it's akin to having, like, Joseph Goebbels control every radio set in America during World War II, or Joseph Stalin controlling, you know, ABC, CBS, and NBC during the Cold War.
00:41:59.000Congress on a bipartisan basis, overwhelmingly.
00:42:02.000Passes a law requiring ByteDance that owns TikTok, that's owned by the Chinese Communist Party, to divest within a certain period of time or face a ban.
00:42:10.000It gets challenged by TikTok in the courts.
00:42:59.000So while Trump has come out and claimed he's put an executive order pause on TikTok, TikTok has and is still banned on all app stores.
00:43:09.000So when the law was put into effect, it triggered.
00:43:13.000Google, Apple and all the other ancillary digital and TV stores nuked TikTok from their platforms, as well as CapCut and other apps that are owned by that company.
00:43:22.000Trump issued an executive order saying we're putting a pause on it.
00:43:25.000TikTok pulled this stunt where before the law went into effect, they shut themselves down.
00:43:31.000Then Trump came out and said, I'm going to work with TikTok.
00:43:34.000Then TikTok turned themselves back on and said, thanks to President Trump, you know, we're back.
00:43:40.000All of these young people on TikTok who don't understand how the system works started cheering for this, saying, I can't believe I have to support Trump now.
00:44:16.000It's like trillions of dollars, billions of dollars a day or trillions of dollars a day.
00:44:21.000And he said, you know, for this amount of time, we're not going to enforce those fines.
00:44:27.000And my point was, you know, running a company, you're going to be hard-pressed to find an insurance, an insurer, who's going to say, so let me get this straight.
00:44:35.000You intend to violate federal law, but because Trump said he won't come after you for the liabilities you incur in a short amount of period, you're willing to incur the liabilities over a greater amount of period?
00:45:02.000So that means if Amazon, if Oracle, whatever, if any of these big tech platforms provide a service to ByteDance, to TikTok, they're going to incur those penalties, which is billions and trillions of dollars.
00:45:15.000And then after Trump's executive order expires, then they're going to go after him.
00:45:20.000Every single insurance company that's operating in that chain, of which I bet there's 30 to 40 of them for Google, for instance, would cut them off in two seconds, saying there's no way we are going to take the risk.
00:45:32.000That Trump is going to just not enforce that against you, and then we have to pay it.
00:45:41.000But you do ultimately support the proposition that the Chinese Communist Party should not be controlling the most important media platform in America.
00:45:48.000TikTok just gave us—so we launched another channel.
00:46:01.000So our social team got a warning saying that while we allow opinions, we exist in a shared reality and your opinions have to adhere to ours.
00:47:07.000I think when I said earlier, the U.S. doesn't go far enough when it comes to the Chinese Communist Party.
00:47:11.000I think the CHIPS Act was a good intentioned policy.
00:47:15.000But I think the fact that we don't make enough...
00:47:19.000Chips here in the United States to take care of the federal government and the military.
00:47:24.000I think that that's actually one of the biggest threats to the United States there is.
00:47:31.000It's not controversial to say that almost every piece of equipment that comes from China can be compromised by China.
00:47:39.000And I would not in any way be surprised if the Chinese had the ability to Either access or to cripple vital hardware in the military that's used in the military.
00:47:57.000Look, because of the FAA, we can't make drones in the United States.
00:48:05.000All of the drones that are built, they're all made in China.
00:48:07.000Because the FAA says that to have a drone, to build a drone, it has to be line of sight.
00:48:15.000Or you have to have a pilot's license.
00:48:17.000So the Chinese can make drones, sell them in the United States, but you can't have an American company make them.
00:48:22.000That means the U.S. military, which is using drones all the time, and is only going to use them more as AI becomes more prevalent, because when you can have a drone that literally will just be following a squad around.
00:48:33.000So you've got four dudes and you've got one drone that goes with the squad over their shoulder, giving them heads up of possible threats in the...
00:48:41.000You know, downrange, or if you can send the drone into a building that you're trying to clear so that you can assess what's going on, that kind of stuff, China will have all the access to that it wants.
00:48:52.000Not only that, it'll have access to all of our planning and all of our methods and all the training that we do.
00:49:00.000All the stuff the United States does on the ground, and the idea that we don't have an infrastructure to make sure that the F-22 has the chips that it needs, to make sure that all the drones that we fly have the chips that we need, to make sure that all of the drones that are going to be assigned to just infantry guys, like your 0311s, all your riflemen, your squads, all of that stuff needs to be...
00:49:27.000It needs to be made in the United States.
00:50:23.000I would love to see, you know, I know David Sachs is working with AI stuff and I know that he's working with crypto.
00:50:30.000I hope that there are other people in the administration that are as focused on this stuff because it is the, so I'm regularly I say that the greatest, the only existential threat the United States faces is our debt, is our national debt, right?
00:50:46.000The social security, the unfunded liabilities, those things can blow up our economy.
00:50:51.000There is one other thing that maybe it's not an existential threat, but a major threat, and that's our inability to produce semiconductors in the United States.
00:50:59.000Let's jump to this next story from the New York Times.
00:51:02.000Top FEMA official is fired over payments for New York City migrant shelters.
00:51:07.000The Trump admin fired the Federal Emergency Management Agency's chief financial officer and three others after Elon Musk misleadingly claimed the agency had used disaster relief funds for migrant services.
00:51:17.000Ah, let's play the game, New York Times.
00:51:19.000They say, blah, blah, blah, we get it.
00:51:21.000The firings kept a startling chain of events.
00:51:23.000Elon Musk claimed misleadingly that FEMA recently sent $59 million meant for disaster relief to New York City to pay for high-end hotels for migrants and who called the expenditure unlawful.
00:51:31.000New York City officials raced to clarify the federal money had been properly allocated by FEMA under Biden last year, adding that it was not a disaster relief grant and not been spent on luxury hotels.
00:51:41.000Nonetheless, just two hours after Mr. Musk's post, FEMA's acting director, Cameron Hamilton, announced the payments in question have all been suspended, even though most of the money had already been dispersed and that personnel will be held accountable.
00:51:53.000By Tuesday morning, roughly 24 hours after Musk's post, the Trump administration had followed through on one part of its pledge.
00:52:01.000Spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees FEMA, said that the four employees have been terminated for circumventing leadership to unilaterally make egregious payments for luxury NYC hotels for migrants.
00:52:12.000Ms. McLaughlin did not specify how the employees had undermined leadership or how making payments previously appropriated by Congress amounted to unilateral conduct, but she said those fired included two program analysts, a grant specialist, and the agency's chief financial officer, Mary Comins, whom FEMA's website identifies as a longtime public servant.
00:52:29.000Under President Trump and Secretary Noam's leadership, DHS will not sit idly by and allow deep-sit activists to undermine the will and safety of the American people, McLaughlin said in her statement.
00:52:38.000The swift firings underscored Mr. Musk's growing influence, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:52:42.000Now I'm just going to pause real quick and ask the New York Times a question.
00:52:46.000Where in this story do they explain how Musk was wrong other than just saying he was?
00:54:45.000And I'm curious what you guys think about the moves Elon Musk is making and if it's a good thing or not.
00:54:51.000Well, just one quick point about the New York Times, not to get to sort of my issues, but I've been reading the New York Times for decades, particularly on the Middle East.
00:55:02.000Condolences on the Middle East, on Israel, on the Palestinian conflict, on Iran.
00:55:06.000And it's not shocking to me at all, after reading the New York Times for decades on something I know a lot about, to find the New York Times continuing to mislead the American people about all of these issues.
00:55:21.000Red flag a long time ago that this is not news reporting.
00:55:26.000There are ideological agendas at work here.
00:55:29.000There are editors who have ideological agendas and find reporters to fit the story.
00:55:35.000And for those of us who support what Elon Musk is doing, for those of your audience who voted for President Trump, you should not be surprised that the New York Times has a deep ideological hostility against the president, against Elon Musk and against Republicans.
00:55:51.000And every story you should read with a skeptical eye.
00:55:54.000Let me do this for you guys because to make my point, often I'll use CNN and the New York Times to make that point.
00:55:59.000Here's ABC7. This is your typical corporate press news outlet.
00:56:04.000Outright saying, Department of Government Efficiency had Elon Musk on Monday signed the alarm over a $59 million payment by FEMA to house migrants in New York City.
00:56:12.000They're going to say that the finding comes as Doge continues to uncover controversies of taxpayer dollars.
00:56:17.000So there's numerous outlets asserting this as true, and the New York Times just simply said it was false and then didn't tell us why it was false.
00:56:33.000Donald Trump was elected specifically to go after waste, fraud, and abuse, among other things.
00:56:38.000So in the New York Times, which has lied numerous times about Donald Trump and actively worked to stop him from getting elected, comes out and says Elon Musk is lying, I'll be like, oh wow, the New York Times is lying.
00:56:49.000That's the knee-jerk reaction that only makes sense.
00:56:52.000You know, the New York Times has been, I mean, look, it's been garbage since the Soviet Union, since they were shirling the Soviet Union in the, what, 20s, when Durante was writing, I think it was, you know, and just straight up lying for ideological purposes.
00:57:07.000So to believe the New York Times is to intentionally accept the propaganda.
00:57:19.000Telegraph wrote, FEMA officials sacked over $59 million payments for migrant hotels.
00:57:25.000Oh, that's weird that it's being reported as fact by the Telegraph and by ABC. But they make an interesting point.
00:57:31.000They say, in November, a FEMA official was suspended after allegedly ordering disaster relief workers to avoid homes owned by Trump supporters as they worked to clear devastation wreaked on Florida by Hurricane Milton.
00:57:42.000Remember when the media lied about that and said it wasn't happening?
00:57:46.000Then you end up with an interview where the woman said, well, I mean, if someone feels uneasy and they don't want to go to that house, you know, they can't.
00:58:15.000Well, I just think, I think that these kind of things are, they happen so regularly and the bias from the media is, it's not, look, in the early aughts, it was like, oh, well, you know, there is a left-wing bias in the media.
00:58:31.000It's because they're based in cities and the people live in cities and so they have city kind of...
00:58:39.000And the difference isn't really intentional.
00:58:43.000Because you wanted to believe that you weren't being propagandized.
00:58:48.000And honestly, you wanted to believe that people of the opposing political opinions weren't actually being targeted and attacked.
00:58:55.000But then, when Barack Obama had the IRS scandal, the Lois Lerner scandal, when they were targeting conservatives, and then every single, you know, You know, legacy media outlet went all in on Donald Trump's a Nazi and they all were doing the, you know, the very fine people hoax and all that stuff.
00:59:17.000It's not only did it become undeniable, it became common knowledge, but they were doing they were doing the whole, you know, like social distance said, like, they're lying.
00:59:38.000And I know there are people that are going to say, oh, well, you know, they weren't being paid.
00:59:42.000They weren't or they weren't getting, you know, just getting free money.
00:59:45.000They were buying, you know, buying subscriptions and blah, blah, blah.
00:59:49.000Yeah, but they were still making tons of money off of the government.
00:59:53.000Well, where do you think all this goes?
00:59:56.000Do you think Elon is going to stop anytime soon?
00:59:59.000I hear the rumor going around now that they're just going to gut all the departments, all the agencies.
01:00:04.000Look, I don't know how far alone is going to go.
01:00:05.000I'm certainly a huge supporter of this kind of accountability.
01:00:09.000But I was thinking, just as you guys were speaking about the media, and I hate to invoke my age, but I'm old enough to remember what the media used to be like and what the media is today.
01:00:20.000And I think what saddens me is there's so much disinformation, there's so much fake news that I think young people have lost all trust in the media.
01:00:31.000I think to be skeptical today, to be a critical thinker today, is what will make America great.
01:00:38.000What I worry about is because we've lost so much faith in mainstream media and their reporting and their ideological agendas, is that it is now so easy to be influenced by conspiracy theories, to go down rabbit holes, to start to accept things that...
01:01:02.000And from our government is evil to America is evil is not a far leap.
01:01:07.000So for that reason, I mean, great to have shows like this one.
01:01:11.000I mean, the explosion of social media, of podcasts, of opportunities for people to go and get another perspective.
01:01:19.000It's no longer the days of Walter Cronkite, where Walter Cronkite declared one thing, and that was the universal truth.
01:01:26.000And it's certainly not the days of where now the New York Times, the paper of record, it's no longer the paper of record because I think it has delegitimized itself.
01:02:50.000So in our lifetimes, we have shifted dramatically from the how dare you question the narrative to it's widely accepted that this was an inside job to take out a president that had been causing problems.
01:03:02.000And there were a lot of special interests that wanted to see this man lose his life.
01:03:14.000Our first investigation will be announced, but it's going to be covering on a thorough investigation into the John F. Kennedy assassination.
01:03:21.000And I can tell you, based on what I've been seeing so far, the initial hearing that was actually held here in Congress was actually faulty in the single-bolt theory.
01:03:30.000I believe that there were two shooters.
01:03:32.000And we should be finding more information as we are...
01:03:39.000Now, I believe she's also getting roasted by many on the left because she mentioned something about wanting to bring in the Warren Commission.
01:03:49.000I think the last person died in 2006 or whatever.
01:03:54.000I'm just assuming she misspoke or is just incorrect, but that's okay.
01:03:58.000I'm curious to see what they uncover from these documents, and I think largely the reason Democrats are singling out one misstatement or whatever is because they don't want to address the meat and potatoes here.
01:04:09.000That is, there are a lot of documents.
01:04:12.000Trump ordered them to be released, then offered up the pen to RFK Jr. that he used to sign the order, and everybody, oh man.
01:04:52.000And I think the most likely reason for a cover-up is government involvement.
01:04:57.000Yeah, so my tertiary understanding, after the Bay of Pigs, Kennedy was like, maybe the CIA is not all that, and maybe we should think about...
01:05:08.000Disbanding or significant cuts or whatever, and CIA didn't like that.
01:05:12.000He didn't say he was going to splinter them into the wind?
01:05:25.000I mean, obviously, I'm also, again, old enough to remember Oliver Stone and his film and the conspiracy theories that we all grew up with.
01:05:31.000I mean, I think many of us didn't believe there was one shooter, and many of us believed that there were, you know, whether it was angry Cubans or the mafia or the Soviets.
01:06:04.000I mean we were talking earlier about just my fear that this sort of new generation of Americans is not proud, is not patriotic, doesn't love this country, is skeptical about their government.
01:06:18.000And I just think that if that becomes true and that the CIA was involved in killing JFK, I mean, I think we are—I don't know if as a country we recover from that.
01:06:29.000Do you have a sense of what people believe now?
01:06:32.000Like, I know obviously nothing's confirmed.
01:06:34.000And the reason I say this is because there's been a long time where people were talking about UFOs, right?
01:06:40.000And UFOs were, you know, something that the government didn't comment on, etc., etc.
01:07:09.000I mean, if you have a different outlook— I think it's one thing to have a theory of the case based on your own views, your own ideologies.
01:07:19.000I think it's another thing for the U.S. government to release information after all these years that demonstrates that the CIA was responsible for the assassination of the U.S. president.
01:07:28.000I worry about our country if that's true.
01:07:37.000What does the Trump administration do if that turns out to be the evidence?
01:07:44.000Look, I think part of the problem with this whole issue has been the lack of transparency over decades, which has fed so many conspiracy theories.
01:07:54.000And I think the Trump administration is right to finally disclose this to the American people.
01:07:58.000And now, if it's true, again, I'm skeptical, but if it's true, we're going to have to reckon with this.
01:08:05.000Quite possibly one of the ugliest episodes in American history.
01:08:12.000And I gotta say, there's a strong incentive for Trump to want this to be true.
01:08:17.000Considering what happened with him, with the 51 Intel officers who said the laptop and all that stuff, maybe the real reason Trump is like we're declassifying the JFK files is that you are going to find either...
01:08:56.000I'm not an expert on JFK assassination, but...
01:08:59.000So Lee Harvey Oswald is the single shooter, kills JFK. Jack Ruby, who works for the mob, kills Lee Harvey Oswald and goes to jail for the rest of his life and never breathes a word.
01:09:51.000Trump may want to, you know, go after the CIA for the things that were done against Trump.
01:09:56.000And certainly there are, you know, 51, as you say, senior intel officials who not only deserve to have their security clearances revoked, which he did.
01:10:41.000But they're operating like it's COINTELPRO. What is the CIA doing?
01:10:46.000Why is our – what benefit – let me put it this way.
01:10:51.000There is a country, the United States.
01:10:53.000The vision for this country and the perception of this nation in the minds of the people for a long time has been that it is the will of the people through a constitutional republic.
01:11:02.000That the structures of government will abide by what the people largely vote for, who the representatives they send to Washington and to their states, to their capitals.
01:11:30.000The American people do not agree with those interests.
01:11:32.000If the CIA, FBI, the intel agencies were actually operating under what the American people wanted, we would have a secure southern border and no war in Ukraine.
01:11:40.000Instead, what we get the whole time is the CIA protecting only itself and what it perceives, the people in the CIA and the FBI, what they perceive to be the right thing to do.
01:11:52.000To shut down the petrodollar, resulting in a unipolar communist Chinese party state, the American people voted for it.
01:11:58.000I do not believe we should live in a country where a deep state bureaucracy operating behind the scenes dictates for us what it thinks we should get.
01:12:08.000And that's what we've got in our whole lives.
01:12:13.000Well, that's what America is, and that's what America is supposed to be.
01:12:16.000And I do not accept that we should be a nation of secret institutions guiding the blind American public into war and conflict because it's the best thing for them, so say I, the secret cabal of individuals working in intelligence.
01:12:30.000The American people voted for Donald Trump.
01:12:32.000They want these institutions brought to heel.
01:12:37.000And if that means these corrupt institutions that largely only believe in themselves stop doing what will make Americans prosperous, will stop making us the big name all around the world, whatever it may be, American people never wanted that.
01:12:50.000American people never wanted to be at war in Ukraine, never wanted to be at war in Israel, never wanted to be at war in Afghanistan, never wanted to go to war in these places.
01:13:06.000I actually think it's worse than that because I think the reason we have a southern border that's not secure, the reason that we went to war against Russia, the reason that we went to war against Iraq and against Afghanistan is not because of a deep state.
01:13:24.000debate is because elected officials decided on a policy decision to do that.
01:13:31.000Joe Biden decided to open up the southern border.
01:13:34.000Joe Biden decided to- I don't believe that for a second.
01:13:37.000I mean, at the end of the day, you know, there was some American, I think it was, I can't remember actually who it was, it was an American politician who said, you know, you get the politicians you deserve, right?
01:14:10.000And I think Donald Trump and his appointees are going to do this.
01:14:13.000And we elected a Donald Trump in 2016. Right.
01:14:15.000And the CIA colluded and conspired to destroy this man.
01:14:20.000And now we've re-elected Donald Trump, and now he has the opportunity and should have the authority to do everything necessary in order to make sure that doesn't happen again.
01:14:31.000Shatter the CIA and splinter it into the wind.
01:14:32.000I guess maybe I'm old-fashioned here, and I've said that a few times this evening.
01:14:36.000But I do believe that there are serious, patriotic, hardworking men and women in these agencies who committed their life to defend us and defend our country.
01:14:46.000I mean, the fact of the matter is we have enemies.
01:14:49.000We have enemies abroad who want to destroy our way of life.
01:14:52.000The Chinese Communist Party, the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Putin in Russia, the North Koreans, and their enablers around the world, including Sunni jihadists and Shiite jihadist groups who want to destroy us and bring 9-11s over and over again.
01:15:07.000We need people who are going to defend us, and brave patriots have stood up for decades to defend this country, and those people are still hard at work.
01:15:17.000There are political appointments that have been made of people in these agencies who have undermined our democracy and undermined our elected officials.
01:15:26.000There are elected officials who've come in and have made terrible decisions for our country and for our people that have cost lives and cost treasure.
01:15:33.000And I think we should welcome this administration holding all of these agencies accountable, doing what they do, and let the Democrats freak out and let the radical left freak out.
01:16:38.000So the U.S. Through the CIA, with the CIA counterterrorism director on the board of Burisma, along with the president's son, is trying to operate in what they call American interest, despite the fact the American people reject it outright.
01:16:50.000And when Joe Biden flies over there, right after his son called, saying, please help, the prosecutor in Ukraine is investigating the founder of the company that we're using as a CIA front to go up against the gas monopoly, because we want to build a pipeline through Qatar and Turkey.
01:17:05.000The American people do not want to be involved in Ukraine, do not want the vice president flying to Ukraine and offering a billion dollars in loan guarantees for any reason.
01:17:12.000No matter what the American people say, they keep doing it.
01:17:16.000And when Donald Trump got elected by the will of the people through the electoral system.
01:17:21.000The CIA, not just through the whistleblowers falsely accusing Trump of wrongdoing, but through these intel officers who lied to the press, and now the email's been released where they said they were doing it to assist Joe Biden with a talking point during a debate.
01:17:36.000This is the intelligence agencies conspiring and committing sedition against the American people.
01:17:42.000If I live in my house and I want to operate in my house as I see fit, Police should not be able to walk into my house and tell me I have to live the way they want because I'm wrong and stupid.
01:17:54.000The American people voted for a secure border for our jobs.
01:17:59.000We are tired of our jobs being sent to China and to Mexico.
01:18:02.000We are tired of seeing Michigan be gutted and destroyed.
01:18:04.000We are tired of seeing, as Ro Khanna described it, this leftist globalist dream, a multicultural dream of bringing in all of these people to create this multicultural utopia, which failed.
01:18:19.000But for some reason, my entire life, no matter how many times we said, no more war, no matter how many times we said, stop sending our jobs overseas.
01:18:58.000Intel agents conspire against Donald Trump, along with powerful interests at law firms in D.C., to destroy what the American people voted for.
01:19:16.000I talked to a guy who worked at Intel in D.C., and he said, You know, there are a lot of people in these departments and these agencies who love Trump and want to see him succeed.
01:19:25.000And then I said, but is your department being run by these deep state bureaucratic elements?
01:19:32.000And the response I got was, it's the same inside as it is outside.
01:19:40.000So the people at the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, all the other intelligence agencies, of which I believe there's 17, the people who like Trump wouldn't speak up in his defense.
01:19:50.000Certainly I think many of those people are good, but here's the problem now.
01:20:00.000What is it, like 40% of FBI agents were hunting down J6ers?
01:20:06.000I mean that is absolutely insane considering we had thousands of far leftists across this country ransacking everything in the George Floyd riots.
01:20:13.000Trump sent out a memo that got leaked, or a memo was sent out, I think it was from Trump, saying, we don't believe you can uphold the Constitution and do your duty because of the biased political actions you took during the Biden administration.
01:20:37.000These institutions are majority deeply corrupt.
01:20:40.000You either have the banality of evil or evil.
01:20:43.000There certainly may be good patriotic FBI agents who sat by and watched as corrupt institutions went after the president in the most corrupt ways and hunted down nonviolent protesters.
01:20:54.000You want to complain about the violent people in J6?
01:21:04.000So those FBI agents go after those people while other agents sat back and watched.
01:21:08.000That is not the kind of person I want upholding my constitution or at least pretending to.
01:21:13.000Donald Trump's going to have to go into these institutions in whatever way he can, shatter them, splinter them into the wind, and maybe we can rebuild them.
01:21:23.000Maybe if we get Pam Bondi and Kash Patel start going through and firing all of these people that were complicit in this corruption and the targeting of the American people.
01:21:33.000Maybe then we can actually have a resurgence of deep patriotic Americans in Intel we can trust.
01:21:40.000But let me just finalize this January 6th point.
01:21:44.000The American people voted for Donald Trump.
01:21:46.000It is a fact, a fact, that Intel officers lied to the press for the purpose of benefiting Joe Biden, lied about the Hunter Biden laptop story, which would have benefited Donald Trump, lied about what Trump's involvement was in the Burisma scandal because Trump discovered Joe Biden broke the law with a quid pro quo.
01:22:03.000And CIA agents conspired to blame Trump for that and impeach him, damaging his image.
01:22:09.000The FBI raided his home over a spattering of random documents in memo boxes that he had while ignoring that Joe Biden did substantially worse.
01:22:18.000Admittedly, Joe Biden said on recording he did it to make money.
01:22:22.000He said, I want these documents to make a book so I can make money.
01:22:25.000And his ghostwriter tried to delete the evidence.
01:22:27.000The FBI did nothing to go after these people.
01:22:29.000The FBI did not go after the far leftists who firebombed the White House.
01:22:42.000We live under a deep state bureaucracy, or we did, where these people say, you Americans are stupid, you're morons, and if we actually enacted policy the way you wanted it, China or whatever country would crush us, and then we'd get 9-11s all over again, whatever it may be.
01:22:59.000So the simple point is, the American people should be the ones dictating what we want.
01:23:04.000We should not have a secret unelected bureau deciding how the government should be run, using the press, and lying to the American people so they can do whatever they want.
01:23:13.000As it turns out, through USAID, the State Department, and other NGOs, they are basically using the system to their benefit while they extract from us our value, our working class, our morals, our cultures, and it leaves us with nothing.
01:23:29.000With a listless generation of lazy individuals who don't want to work, who are supporting communism, who are so overweight they're injecting themselves with a drug because they can't stop eating.
01:23:40.000This country has become deeply sick, and now for once in my life I see something truly amazing.
01:23:47.000The entirety of the Democrats try to shut him down.
01:23:49.000Tulsi Gabbard, Pete Hegseth, this has been absolutely fantastic what we're seeing, and now Trump's going to have to go in and make sure he shatters out the corruption.
01:23:58.000And maybe then, as I said, he can rebuild it.
01:24:05.000I mean, I agree with 80% of what you said.
01:24:07.000We can quibble over the 20. But I think the important thing to focus on, in addition to that, is we have real enemies abroad who want to destroy our country and our way of life.
01:24:18.000And they are—and let's just not whitewash this.
01:24:52.000I think you and I probably agree we can taper that off over the years, even though at the end of the day, the Israelis are spending all of that military aid in the United States on U.S. companies and U.S. jobs.
01:25:01.000But I think Israel is a great ally, and I think I wish we had more allies like Israel around the world fighting the Islamic Republic of Iran that has killed Americans, maimed Americans, taken Americans hostage.
01:25:11.000And if the Israelis are going to fight against our common enemy using their men and women, their boys and girls, thumbs up, great ally.
01:25:18.000This will be more controversial with you, given what you said.
01:25:21.000With everything you said about the corruption in Joe Biden and Ukraine, the Ukrainians are fighting against Vladimir Putin.
01:25:29.000And it's cost a huge number of Ukrainian lives, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian men and women against a brutal enemy that has used force without compunction and deliberately targeted Ukrainian civilians.
01:25:44.000And the Ukrainians have been fighting the Russian military, an enemy of the United States with no American soldiers.
01:25:50.000No American soldiers have lost their lives.
01:25:56.000Well, there are American individuals who are operating as volunteers, and there's U.S. special forces on the ground.
01:26:01.000So to a large degree, I think it's fair to say U.S. boots are not on the ground in an official capacity, but U.S. personnel are operating in Ukraine as private contractors and volunteers, and that's just to get around the fact that Congress hasn't declared war since World War II. So when the U.S. is providing the weapons, the intelligence, and...
01:26:21.000And telling them when to press the buttons, but we're using the Ukrainian people as drafted cannon fodder, I wouldn't necessarily praise what's going on.
01:26:42.000Do a deal with me or I'm going to punch you in the face, quote unquote, right?
01:26:45.000But at the end of the day, I don't believe any Americans have died fighting in Ukraine, and that is the kind of ally that we want.
01:26:54.000So if the Ukrainians and the Israelis are going to fight American enemies, and we're not going to lose American men and women in that fight the way we did in Iraq and in Afghanistan and Vietnam and other wars.
01:27:04.000I think at the end of the day— Why would we want Ukraine as an ally?
01:27:07.000Well, I'd rather have Ukraine as an ally fighting Russia and preventing the Russians from taking over Eastern Europe, from taking over Poland and Lithuania.
01:27:15.000Why would Russia go near Poland or Lithuania?
01:27:19.000Well, Putin has said— Very clearly, and he says it at length and he says it often, that he wants to rebuild and resurrect the Russian Empire.
01:27:53.000And I do not think we want to send U.S. troops because we will be obligated under treaty to defend our NATO allies under Article 5 if Putin moves into NATO. And God forbid we do that because then American men and women will be dying on the plains of Europe.
01:28:11.000I don't see indication of that happening right now.
01:28:14.000I don't think it's happening right now.
01:28:16.000Number one, because I think the Russian military has taken a serious beating from the Ukrainians.
01:28:20.000But when were they ever going to go into Lithuania or these other countries?
01:28:23.000So if Putin had done what Putin had intended to do and what his intelligence community told him he could do, if he had moved in and taken Kiev in three days and moved into Ukraine without a significant cost, if you take him at his word, I'm not saying you should, but if you take him at his word, he was going to go further.
01:28:44.000And at some point, he was going to be on the NATO border.
01:28:48.000And then the question would be— He's on the NATO border.
01:28:58.000But what we want to avoid at all costs, okay, is an invasion of a NATO country that obligates us under treaty.
01:29:06.000To send men and U.S. men and women to defend these countries under Article 5. Sure, then we want to avoid that.
01:29:12.000What we should have done is not gotten involved in a Ukrainian conflict in which we are not allies, nor are they in NATO. They're not in NATO. They're not EU. And all we've done is convince Russia, as they've now stated over and over again, they're at war with NATO already because of our involvement.
01:29:24.000It is the U.S. military weapons and intelligence under the asking Ukrainian to press the button guys that sunk the Russian.
01:29:39.000I should say U.S. I want to say NATO. I want to say the EU is involved in this fight over Ukraine's future, whether it's going to be an EU, Schengen's own state, etc., or it's going to be Russian Trade Federation.
01:29:52.000When Russia says, I will not allow NATO expansion on my border to this degree, we say, well, they're not an ally of ours.
01:29:58.000Why are we going to get into a war which would create the exact scenario saying we should avoid?
01:30:03.000If Putin went in and sees the Donbass and Mariupol and all that going down to Crimea and he took control of Crimea largely was the motivating factor because the U.S. influence in Ukraine and them joining the EU would cut off Russia from their Black Sea port.
01:30:17.000If we didn't get involved in this at all, the war would have been over, as you as you said, in three days.
01:30:23.000Sure, maybe in some hypothetical scenario, we're trying to make a move on Lithuania or something.
01:30:27.000I think it's strange considering they already border Poland and I think it's Estonia with Kaliningrad and the Baltic.
01:30:34.000I don't see why they would make that military move directly confronting NATO. If they moved into Ukraine and we did nothing, there'd be no war, there'd be no death.
01:30:41.000But instead, what we're dealing with now is...
01:30:43.000You, you, you, this, this goes well beyond just Russia's expansion and some noble effort by the West to stop an evil dictator.
01:30:54.000You've got Joe Biden committing crimes in Ukraine.
01:30:57.000You've got questions about Hunter Biden and Michael Zaslavsky's involvement in the crimes they committed and why the U.S. government was involved in stopping a prosecutor from investigating corrupt elements.
01:31:33.000So the US was trying to gain control politically of Ukraine so they can put controls on Gazprom and cut out their ability to sell gas.
01:31:41.000Then once they control Ukraine and they cut out Russia from the Black Sea, Russia's ability to sell fuel in the Mediterranean through other nations in North Africa gets shut down and it extremely damages the Russian economy.
01:31:51.000Russia then says, we're not gonna let you do it.
01:31:53.000So a war starts in the US gets involved in a conflict.
01:31:56.000It has created a potential for World War III. It has convinced the Russian people and the Russian government and their media that they're at war with NATO, not Ukraine, while the American media keeps lying, claiming we're not involved at all, and it's Ukraine doing it.
01:32:08.000And then you end up with the president of Ukraine refusing to hold elections, coming to the U.S., getting our Congress to fly Ukrainian flags, us spending hundreds of billions of dollars on their war under some strange guise of Putin, maybe Hitler.
01:32:31.000That justifies why the U.S. is running the risk of Russia actually having an incentive to strike a NATO ally, triggering Article 5 and making us go to war.
01:33:51.000It's supposed to be, as the Founding Fathers envisioned, we elect representatives who keep us informed to the best of our abilities.
01:33:57.000They have the SCIF. They have classified intelligence.
01:33:59.000And they try their best to explain to us why we have to do certain things.
01:34:02.000Instead, what we've got is a largely corrupt state of permanently elected bureaucrat politicians who raise money from special interest groups, never seem to lose elections.
01:34:14.000Intelligence agencies that when we actually get a popular president defy the will of the people to go against them.
01:34:19.000If this is what we are fighting to preserve, we're burning down the country and the world as it is.
01:34:26.000We can say this corrupt nation of bureaucracy, garbage and self-infliction and corruption should exist for the sake of itself.
01:34:34.000Or we should say the American people should get a grip on what's going on.
01:34:36.000We should reassess our priorities, not be involved in these foreign wars.
01:34:39.000And that may result in Russia gaining more economic power.
01:34:43.000It may result in China making a move on Taiwan.
01:34:46.000I don't see how we are served as a country by having open borders, weak generations who don't want to do work, don't have kids, and then we dump our funds into ridiculous USAID programs.
01:34:58.000We have intelligence agencies backing all of that up.
01:35:01.000Democrat politicians panicked that our slush fund into ridiculous gender studies NGOs.
01:35:37.000And rebuild what America is supposed to be.
01:35:40.000Maybe then we can be a player on the grand stage.
01:35:42.000The way I see it right now is with Donald Trump and with Biden, Clinton, Obama, whatever it is, you have two visions of what the world is going to be.
01:35:49.000And the Obama, Biden, Clinton system that was being built was America doesn't matter.
01:36:09.000And eventually we will get World War III most likely.
01:36:13.000And the war that I blame Biden for in Eastern Europe, which is exacerbating this, not to mention it's spreading with North Korea getting involved now.
01:36:22.000We have the makings of potential World War III. Donald Trump's vision seems to be, let's make America functional.
01:36:35.000Once we are strong, we can build powerful economic ties around the world, which can prevent the collapse of these nations into war.
01:36:42.000Yeah, but there's one other element of Trump's strategy, which I think is worth highlighting, and I think this is why a lot of Americans voted for him, because he absolutely believes in peace through strength.
01:36:58.000And I think Americans saw that under Biden, completely agree with you, under Obama, we were heading to World War III. The world was unraveling.
01:37:07.000Our enemies were emboldened, whether it was Eastern Europe, the Middle East, or the Indo-Pacific.
01:37:12.000And I think what Trump has come in and said is, don't mess with me and the United States of America.
01:38:26.000And I think largely this just means if we don't get a handle on what our intel agencies and our law enforcement institutions are doing, if Trump can't get confidence that they'll operate under the – as to the will of the American people, we'll never get any of that.
01:38:42.000You want to hit a point before we go to Super Chats?
01:38:45.000To add to the point, I think you're right, but I think that part of what needs to happen, because he needs to have...
01:38:51.000The bureaucracy needs to be something that the administration can trust.
01:38:55.000That's why we need to have the president be able to fire people and put in the people that he wants.
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01:43:37.000Matthew Emmons says the swatter that went after Tim Kass and other YouTubers caught and sent to federal prison for four years, per Jeremy at the quartering.
01:43:47.000The story about the swatter that went after us had been reported a while ago, so maybe he has just been convicted, but I will tell you this.
01:43:55.000My understanding is the person who went after us was for hire.
01:44:00.000That's the information that we thought was reasonable based on the evidence we'd seen.
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01:44:37.000So when people show up, when 16 guys show up to your house with rifles pointed through your windows, and you say, here's evidence suggesting who did it, and they say, we don't care, makes you wonder.
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01:45:26.000We can set up an area with couches and do a sports podcast in a similar element.
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01:45:53.000I've only been getting clips until now.
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01:49:55.000And look, I think the Taiwanese people are going to fight for their country.
01:49:59.000Now, at the end of the day, I think what's deterred Xi Jinping from launching an invasion for now has been his fear that the United States is going to step in.
01:50:08.000And this goes back to my original point.
01:50:10.000I mean, I don't know if we're going to step in.
01:51:17.000It was like, hey, we're going to, you know, I won't give out too much of the private details, but we're going to go from this point to this point.
01:52:25.000I can barely snowboard and ski as it is.
01:52:28.000It's worth noting, it's a good idea to do different types of cardio, because your body does get acclimated to whatever type of cardio you're doing.
01:52:36.000So it is a good idea to throw in variation, because like Tim says, you'll get...
01:52:40.000Used to one thing, and then you do something else, and it's like, whoa, this is totally different.
01:52:45.000All right, let's grab some more Super Chats.
01:52:48.000Iggy the Incubus says, reminder, JFK turned down Operation Mockingbird.
01:52:52.000I know he turned down Operation Northwoods.
01:52:55.000I don't think Mockingbird was turned down.
01:53:07.000I've just seen tidbits on the internet.
01:53:09.000Wanted to stage false flags in Florida so that we could justify conflict with Cuba.
01:53:14.000Wanted to blow up a plane near Florida and say Cuba did it and things like that.
01:53:19.000And JFK was like, no, we're not doing any of that stuff.
01:53:21.000And so that often gets brought up by people to point out that false flag attacks do exist.
01:53:27.000One thing that people need to, or you should understand about Northridge, is it was actually proposed by the DOD. The CIA was going to carry it out, but it was DOD. So, like, when Mike Benz talks about, quote-unquote, the blob, he's talking about State Department, DOD, and CIA. It's three different means of exercising power.
01:53:47.000State Department's soft power, DOD is hard power, and then the CIA is when they don't want anyone to know the U.S. is exercising power.
01:54:31.000The Dexvet says, so we leave the alphabet agencies and we continue having our country destroyed from within, or we dismantle them and we have foreign intervention.
01:54:38.000I'll take the bad guy I know over the bad guy pretending to be my protector.
01:54:43.000You know, I told my friends this back in like 2015. I was like, if you want to live in America where you watch the red carpet, listen to, you know, whatever weird R&B pop is on the radio, eat dollar slices of pizza, vote for the machine state.
01:55:02.000Because they're going to go blow up kids in foreign countries so that we can maintain the petrodollar.
01:55:06.000And then you don't got to think twice.
01:55:07.000But if you're actually concerned about what this country is going to turn into and how long it's going to last, then you probably should vote for someone who's interested in what actually happens to this country.
01:56:15.000Well, all I can say is, what makes America great, and maybe make it great again, or make it greater, is the fact that this conversation can take place, where you could literally sit here in this amazing studio, and say what you have about the CIA, and the FBI, And at the end of the day...
01:56:34.000They'll falsely accuse you of being a Russian.
01:56:55.000And the problem is when you look at like the James O'Keefe videos, you see these people who work in the bureaucratic state outright saying, we will defy the will of the people outright.
01:57:25.000Why are these other federal employees?
01:57:27.000I don't want to go on a big old tangent.
01:57:29.000These other federal employees that got elected and are working for the United States government are saying, no, don't listen to your leader.
01:58:12.000FDR made massive changes to the government.
01:58:16.000Some of them were unconstitutional, and I believe there were some things that were struck down eventually.
01:58:21.000None of the stuff that he proposed, none of the executive orders that he made, none of them were prevented or stopped or put on hold by any judges.
01:58:36.000And this really, this idea of a judge in the Ninth Circuit putting a stop to something the president does nationwide, that's honestly new in the past.
01:58:46.000I think it really started to get ramped up during the Obama administration.
01:58:50.000But honestly, it's an innovation in the past 20 years.
01:58:53.000It's not something that has a long history of happening in the United States.
01:58:59.000The separation of powers is supposed to actually be a separation of powers.
01:59:04.000And if a judge can say, no, you can't do this, Mr. President, there's actually no separation of powers between the president and the judicial branch.
01:59:16.000Triple eight says the difference is that Snowden did this on behalf of a privacy breach of the citizens of the US. The others are illegal immigrants committing absolutely heinous crimes against Americans.
01:59:32.000I look at what Snowden did and I'm like, man, he sure did find a lot of malfeasance and then went about it the very wrong way in leaking all this information without redacting it.
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02:00:26.000Mark, do you want to shout anything out?
02:00:29.000Again, shout out to, first of all, thank you for having me.
02:00:32.000Please follow me on X if you can, at M Dubowitz.
02:00:36.000And yeah, I mean, if you're interested in Iran, it's kind of my obsession, but I've got this Iran Breakdown podcast that is going to be launching in the next week.
02:00:44.000It'll be a limited series, 10 episodes to start.
02:00:47.000It gives me an easy off-ramp if it fails to say it was a limited series, and that's why I'm ending it.
02:00:51.000But if it succeeds, we're going to obviously continue it.
02:00:53.000And I think all Americans should understand more about Iran, more about the threat from the Islamic Republic of Iran, and how we can actually stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons without risking U.S. lives.