On today's show, we discuss the latest in the Trump administration and the ongoing saga of the Russia investigation. We also hear from the president of the National Association for Gun Rights, Dudley Brown. And we have a new guest on the show to talk about concealed carry.
00:01:02.000This is actually from a week ago, but it's been getting bigger with more outlets picking up the story.
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00:01:20.000So we'll talk about that, plus a whole bunch of other stories that should be fun.
00:01:24.000A lot of stuff going on with Donald Trump.
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00:04:40.000Trump election case is tossed after special counsel Jack Smith requests dismissal, citing categorical DOJ policy.
00:04:48.000The judge left open the highly unlikely possibility of a future prosecution.
00:04:54.000The judge overseeing Trump's election interference case dismissed the case Monday after special counsel Jack Smith asked the judge to toss the case due to longstanding DOJ policy that bars the prosecution of a sitting president.
00:05:04.000What I find interesting here is that Trump is not the sitting president, but they're dropping the case even before he gets in.
00:05:10.000And he's not even legally president-elect.
00:05:14.000He's only, I guess, in the media we call him that.
00:05:16.000He's not president-elect until they count the Electoral College votes on January 6th, and he's not president until January 20th when he's sworn into office.
00:05:24.000So as of right now, he's just the guy who the media says has won, and they're already dropping the cases against him.
00:05:30.000They say Smith also asked the judge in Trump's classified documents case that his appeal against Trump's two co-defendants in that case, Walt Nauta and Carlos de Oliveira, be allowed to continue.
00:05:40.000U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan dismissed the election interference charges against Trump without prejudice, leaving open the highly unlikely possibility of a future prosecution.
00:05:48.000Now, here's where it gets interesting.
00:05:49.000Pam Bondi, Trump's choice for AG, says that she has a past vow.
00:05:54.000She will prosecute the bad prosecutors who indicted Trump.
00:05:57.000NBC News reports in 2013, Florida Attorney General Pambani's office faced a decision whether to join investigations from other state attorneys general into Trump University, where students paid $35,000 for business classes that critics claimed were fraudulent.
00:06:17.000Bondi spent the last decade, etc., etc.
00:06:20.000Bondi called the prosecutors who charged Trump with crimes members of the deep state, spreading a false conspiracy theory that DOJ prosecutors and FBI agents were part of a secret cabal trying to undermine Trump.
00:06:32.000Bondi, without citing evidence, said that since they were no longer hiding in the shadows, they can all be investigated.
00:06:37.000Now, I love how this is an opinion piece.
00:06:50.000But I will add, if they're saying outright that this is the charges being dropped without prejudice and there's a possibility of Trump being charged in the future, they are basically screaming at the top of their lungs to Trump's AG to criminally charge them.
00:07:06.000I mean, I just want to see Pam Bomdi go after, what's his name, the special counsel, because Jack Smith, if I understand correctly, he was appointed illegally, right?
00:07:19.000Yeah, I believe this—wasn't there a court ruling that he was not— Eligible?
00:07:24.000Yeah, there was— I don't— Let's pull that up.
00:07:27.000Yeah, I'm not sure what the details were, but if I understand correctly, he was appointed illegally.
00:07:35.000The—I believe it was the Supreme Court that said that his role as special prosecutor was— There was some procedural reason that he wasn't.
00:07:44.000But, you know, if he is not, if it's not legal, and he's been spending all this time going after President Trump, or President-elect Trump, whatever you want to call him, I would like to see this get taken out.
00:07:55.000Because I personally don't think, I mean, regardless of your opinion on Donald Trump as a president, you know, if...
00:08:02.000If the existing administration creates a scenario where it's just political motivation to go after a president, I mean, this is unprecedented.
00:08:13.000It's something that has historically, you know, presidents that break the law and do things that are questionable legally, or the legality is questionable.
00:08:25.000That's been something that, you know, Washington and the opposing party hasn't gone after presidents for.
00:08:31.000President Obama with the drone strikes that killed American citizens.
00:08:36.000Yeah, Judge Eileen Cannon ruled, this is back in July, that Jack Smith's appointment as special counsel was unconstitutional because he was not appointed by the president or confirmed by Congress, leading to her to dismiss the entire case.
00:08:55.000But we are losing sight of an issue here, though, because the core issue we're talking about is the claims of fraud, that the 2020 election was stolen.
00:09:07.000And should that be, should it be taboo to question and make wild claims about a stolen election?
00:09:24.000Well, you have to be able to question it, but should you be able to make any claim you want and not have to prove it?
00:09:31.000And in the case of a sitting president, who at the time anyway was sitting and was calling, we know he was calling a secretary of state in Georgia and saying, can you find 8,200 votes?
00:09:46.000Find me 8,200 votes or whatever it was.
00:10:00.000I'd argue that we're not a country when the Supreme Court refused to issue a ruling on Texas v.
00:10:04.000Pennsylvania when Texas was challenging under original jurisdiction whether or not Pennsylvania violated the Constitution by altering the rules of an election outside the legislature.
00:10:12.000And the Supreme Court said, we're a bunch of cowards who won't look into this.
00:10:15.000And only Thomas and Alito had the gall to actually say, well, this is our jurisdiction.
00:10:28.000The other side says, well, Trump has to do this.
00:10:30.000I agree that any anyone who questions an election has an absolute right and duty.
00:10:36.000Especially a president to investigate or push in all facets the challenges under the law.
00:10:41.000But when the courts start throwing out every challenge on standing so we don't actually get rulings and the Supreme Court refuses to actually hear the challenges when we see states where judges and governors were changing election rules.
00:10:51.000Then you're going to get absolute chaos.
00:10:54.000Because if you go to the courts and you actually argue on the merits, the judges didn't do this, they threw them out on standing for the most part, meaning, oh, we don't think that Trump has standing in this, he's not party to the damages.
00:11:07.000Then what ends up happening is one side says, we are not being heard, and the election was rigged.
00:11:14.000That's the only conclusion they're going to make.
00:11:15.000But hasn't Trump already said that he did lose 2020?
00:11:29.000And that was actually a point of contention in the debate because they said Trump started – it's this trap that they've laid for Trump consistently in the press where they want him to yell about the previous election instead of this current one.
00:11:43.000Trump – Ranted on it and said, I didn't lose.
00:11:56.000But the fact was, we've got to stop prosecuting this 2020. I mean, we all agree that there should be election integrity and we've got to make the efforts to do it.
00:12:05.000But just literally talking about destroying the institutions completely and saying we need to terminate the Constitution is not the way a conservative should have.
00:12:16.000I don't think Trump ever said he wants to terminate the Constitution.
00:12:19.000I mean, well, he's a little wishy-washy on when it comes to fidelity to the Constitution.
00:12:30.000I think that the argument that Trump would make or was making that the 2020 election was novel because of COVID, because of the way things that went, because of a lot of things that went down, it was completely and totally different from any other election in history.
00:12:46.000I don't think that anyone is going to argue that it was normal.
00:12:49.000The fact that there was so much ballot harvesting, that there were ballots mailed out to people based just on the census, right?
00:12:58.000And so all those things change the way that the election, the results of the election.
00:13:03.000And so whether or not Trump articulates properly the arguments that he's making, because the guy never articulates arguments properly.
00:13:12.000He's talking with his gut, and that's how people hear him, too.
00:13:19.000And so, fair enough, people that are going to go ahead and look at the letter of the law, they're going to say, Trump said this, and he said that, and it was wrong, and blah, blah, blah.
00:13:56.000Trump calls for termination of Constitution in Truth Social Post.
00:13:59.000Of course, the people who then don't follow the media, who don't follow news, just see the headline and believe it's true.
00:14:06.000What Trump actually said, quote, Do you throw out the presidential election results of 2020 out?
00:14:13.000Do you throw the presidential election results of 2020 out and declare the rightful winner, or do you have a new election?
00:14:17.000A massive fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution.
00:14:55.000When it comes to having faith in the institution, I agree it's important, but I think it's also legal for people to lie, politicians to lie.
00:15:03.000And if they say there's fraud when there's no fraud, I'm pretty sure it's legal to do that.
00:15:08.000And since, you know, politicians lie, I lose faith in the industry.
00:15:22.000Section 230 allows for people to post obscene, disgusting, far-left psychotic content on social media and throw out all norms as it pertains to free speech.
00:15:32.000Is that me calling for the overturning of free speech?
00:15:36.000Whenever Trump says something, and by all means, I'm not going to defend Trump on him having accurately articulated anything pertaining to the 2020 election.
00:15:46.000He gets criticized right now because he went on Joe Rogan, and when Rogan asked him about what happened in 2020, he didn't really have much to say.
00:15:53.000They run these smears, and you know what?
00:15:55.000All that matters is he won the popular vote because people have seen through Liz and Dick Cheney's BS and the corporate press screaming and crying about how they're the real press and no one else is, but in reality, they're just lying the whole time.
00:16:09.000Well, it didn't hurt that he was running against someone who had run a coup against...
00:16:14.000Against the sitting president, Joe Biden, and had 107 days to campaign and was a horrible candidate.
00:16:36.000And to the point that Dudley was making earlier, you can be critical of President Trump, but when you factor in the things like the novel election and stuff, it makes it really hard to say, okay, yes, Trump has to follow the letter of the law, but everything else is...
00:16:58.000The borders are kind of fuzzy, or the distinction between legal and illegal, or following procedure and not following procedure.
00:17:05.000If all of those situations are all fuzzy and kinda, and you're not sure, and blah blah blah, then when it comes to Trump, everything is, it must be the letter of the law exactly, blah blah blah, he said this, and that alludes to this, and blah blah blah.
00:17:18.000Then you're going to have people that look at the situation and they say, well, I don't trust either side.
00:17:24.000You know, I don't believe that either side actually has honesty as their goal.
00:17:29.000There were a lot of claims about 2020, and I just, you know, largely say, I don't know, you know.
00:17:33.000I think it was just, you know, ballot harvesting.
00:17:35.000The funny thing is that article says that, you know, Pam Bondi was alluding to some kind of secret cabal or whatever.
00:17:41.000But as we know, it was Time Magazine that actually coined the phrase shadow campaign.
00:18:01.000So Time Magazine wrote this article, Molly Ball did, and I love bringing it up because this just refutes so much of what they were saying.
00:18:06.000The secret history, the shadow campaign that saved the 2020 election, where they say a conspiracy was unfolding where a well-funded cabal was engaging in electioneering, blah, blah, blah.
00:18:18.000When I read this, I was blown away that they actually printed it because I'm like, this is coming out and literally admitting to doing everything they can to rig the election, right?
00:18:30.000That's the way that it reads, all of the verbiage they use and stuff like that.
00:18:35.000And I sent it to some of my left-leaning friends, and of course they're like, well, that's just politics.
00:18:41.000I'm like, then what the hell do I care about?
00:18:44.000About if Donald Trump is saying, oh, find me the votes, because they're there.
00:18:48.000He wasn't saying, find me the votes, as in create them.
00:18:53.000Again, like I said earlier, it becomes really hard for me to think, oh, well, you know, Donald Trump has to be squeaky clean and write to the letter of the law when Time magazine publishes this and everyone on the left says...
00:19:15.000This is February 4th, 2021. It is just after the inauguration, well before the criminal charges against Trump pertaining to January 6th or anything like that, they were writing articles where they outright...
00:19:27.000I should say, Democrats and their allies in media had published an article where they outright explained that they engaged in a conspiracy.
00:19:50.000FLCIO is not what we'd call a right-wing cabal, nor is the Chamber of Compromise.
00:19:57.000But back to the original point about a potential AG coming in and wiping the slate clean and saying, all right, I'm going to prosecute these people for what they've done.
00:20:13.000Let's shine some light on the rats and see what happens.
00:20:24.000We feel like a banana republic because we've seen these using the judicial system to prosecute people and put your political opponents in jail rather than just beating them in an election.
00:20:37.000You know, the issue I have with targeting Jack Smith with lawfare is that he got appointed illegally.
00:20:59.000The individual himself, but each of those layers that ultimately contributed to the end state.
00:21:03.000The man who's not a Supreme Court justice, Merrick Garland.
00:21:07.000That's how you should refer to him all the time.
00:21:10.000Let's jump to the story from the post-millennial.
00:21:12.000Axios CEO goes on tirade, labeling Elon Musk's declaration that citizens are the media now as BS. I love this because the dude is just absolutely losing his mind, and it's fun to watch.
00:22:22.000What hard work are you doing there, buddy?
00:22:25.000Tim, this is really like the candle makers being furious at light bulbs.
00:22:33.000They are so far behind the swing here.
00:22:38.000Do they not know that their occupation is basically dead?
00:22:42.000There's a great line in iRobot, because I watched it a couple weeks ago, and Will Smith's character is talking to the CEO, and he's like, your robots are bad, basically.
00:22:50.000And he was like, I got a commercial idea for you.
00:22:52.000It's a carpenter working really hard to make a birdhouse, and the robot comes in and does it better, and then you call it, you know, our company ishing on a little guy.
00:22:59.000And the guy says, you're the kind of person that would ban the internet to save libraries.
00:23:04.000And that's what I see with this guy in the corporate press.
00:24:10.000No, these are dinosaurs who are extinct and they don't know it.
00:24:14.000They don't understand the nuance and energy that goes into some of this content creation that you have now that's bringing reality to people's faces when the media, mainstream media, whatever you want to define that as, is, right?
00:24:26.000So the effort, like you alluded to, to produce your own content, set up your own studio, fund your own studio.
00:24:32.000I mean, I'm in one right now that has kind of built itself.
00:24:36.000What work is he talking about that's not there for that?
00:24:53.000I'm talking about more of the people that try to provide that expert nuance on things, where you'll have this media segment that's like a four-minute-long hit on such a nuanced topic like war.
00:25:04.000You really need these creators in spaces that are available, like Twitter, to really provide the additional context and nuance necessary to distill something like that, because...
00:25:14.000Watching the news, you can ingest the entirety of the news, but being able to then digest that information, do you have enough context and nuance to do that?
00:25:22.000I don't think you do, because again, and I've done some of these spots, it's a four minute.
00:25:26.000You get four minutes to relay your information.
00:25:27.000The fascinating thing about this guy losing his mind is that I'm like, bro, it's been 14 years.
00:25:34.000X has been around for a long time, Twitter at the time.
00:25:37.000And I remember during the Arab Spring, and then during the Spain, what was it, like an M24 movement was called, and then of course Occupy Wall Street.
00:25:45.000Everybody was using Twitter to report and relay information.
00:25:48.000And the news media at the time was saying, look at this social media, citizen journalism.
00:25:53.000Now, the funny thing is, these people lost their minds, and to this day, they still don't know what citizen journalism is.
00:25:59.000And I'll give you the distinction because this is important.
00:26:01.000The only reason anybody gets the definition of citizen journalist wrong is because scumbags like this guy and the elites who face losing their job want to make sure they disparage and discredit an independent media.
00:26:26.000Citizen journalism was coined as a reference to regular people posting video and photos to the internet.
00:26:32.000However, what ends up happening is we now have on X... And we've had for some time now, but now it's getting particularly more prominent, especially with the ability to make money, accounts that exist solely for the purpose of reporting news.
00:26:43.000That would just be a journalist, a regular journalist.
00:26:46.000Mario Knopfel, for instance, a guy who has a team, they collect information, they disseminate it on Twitter.
00:26:52.000This is a guy who is not a citizen journalist, but the corporate press has long called any independent personality citizen journalist.
00:27:00.000Because in these circles, in the press club and at these events like News Exchange, they all understand that to mean these people are not journalists.
00:28:08.000Dude, it's about time these dinosaurs accept that they are trying to ban the internet to save libraries.
00:28:14.000The situation that he neglects to even address is the fact that the corporate media failed miserably during COVID. That's a big reason why you see podcasts and you see new media or whatever you want to call it be so influential and have such an impact.
00:28:34.000If the corporate media hadn't been the lapdog Of the established government, if the CDC had been telling the truth to the media, or the media had been pushing back as opposed to doing exactly what the government said they should do, then they might be in a position to say, no, we're necessary.
00:28:54.000They might be in a position to say, the service that we provide is valuable.
00:28:59.000But they were a literal arm of the government.
00:29:03.000And they did whatever the government said.
00:29:07.000There was so much pushback about the idea that it came from China.
00:29:12.000Just saying that it came from China would get you called racist and stuff.
00:29:15.000And I'm not going to get into the many things that turned out to be untrue during COVID. But The fact that the media was doing exactly what the government wanted them to do and they did it because they wanted the access to the government and they wanted to know that they would get a cushy job or they would be able to get someone's home phone number so they could get the scoop, so they could get the information out to the population.
00:30:27.000We do like 70 to 80. From a certain perspective, though, right?
00:30:30.000So my military background is in information operations, right?
00:30:34.000So I also see an open-ended platform like this as kind of a goldmine if I was still performing that function from a dissemination perspective.
00:30:44.000Something without checks and balances from a level of expertise, what you're really looking at is the opportunity to really shape narratives in whichever direction you want with some false sense of expertise, right?
00:30:55.000So you'll have these anonymous Twitter accounts, X accounts, excuse me, kind of posing as some level of expert on a topic, when in actuality what you're really seeing is something regurgitated with a couple words changed.
00:31:09.000So where exactly the balance is to that, you know, I'm not really nuanced or eloquent enough to understand, but I do know that when I look at something like this, I see a breeding ground for misinformation, disinformation, stuff like that, and you can't say that that's not there, and the design is that the community is supposed to weed that out, but what's going to need to happen over time is it's going to take time, right?
00:31:31.000Rather than being told somebody is an expert and presenting bona fides, over time you'll have to eventually You know, as a society, weed out those accounts.
00:31:52.000Real life is a breeding ground for all the horrible things that can happen in real life.
00:31:56.000We've just tempered it so that it's very unlikely for it to occur.
00:32:00.000And it's the same thing with disinformation on social media.
00:32:02.000The level of anonymity opportunity is...
00:32:05.000Orders of magnitude higher when it's, you know, you can just throw up an anime profile pic and then, you know, make broad-ranging claims on topics that you don't necessarily have the expertise yourself, but if it's confident, right?
00:32:19.000So, you know, those that have studied communication...
00:32:22.000...styles know that delivery of information confidently increases the likelihood that somebody's going to believe what you're saying, right?
00:32:29.000So if you deliver that information confidently and it seems to be contrary to what a wider opinion is, then those of us that are open-minded, myself included, are going to pay a little bit of attention to that, but what we can't see is the orders of magnitude below that, or beyond that, where the origin of the information is coming from.
00:32:49.000Let's jump to this story from Reuters.
00:32:51.000Trump pledges 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico, deeper tariffs on China.
00:32:58.000So this story was breaking just a few hours ago.
00:32:59.000Donald Trump posted, On January 20th, as one of the many first executive orders, I will sign all necessary documents to charge Mexico and Canada a 25% tariff on all products coming into the United States and its ridiculous open borders.
00:33:13.000Trump said the tariffs would remain in place until the two countries clamp down on drugs, particularly fentanyl, and migrants crossing the border illegally.
00:33:20.000On China, the president-elect accused Beijing of not taking strong enough action to stop the flow of illicit drugs crossing the U.S. border into the U.S. from Mexico.
00:33:28.000Until such time as they stop, we will be charging China an additional 10% tariff above any additional tariffs on all of their many products coming into the United States, Trump said.
00:33:37.000Trump has previously pledged to end China's most favored nation trading status and slap tariffs on Chinese imports in excess of 60%, much higher than those imposed during the first term.
00:33:47.000I gotta say, based AF, I'm very excited for this, and I look forward to seeing how it plays out.
00:35:03.000It's one of the many factors that drove inflation.
00:35:07.000You look at Chinese goods and whether they're almost anything you buy from over there, which if you say you don't buy them, you've got a phone in front of you.
00:36:25.000And I was wrong, and I was proven to be wrong.
00:36:28.000So, again, I'm not an economist, and I don't know what's going to happen, but I would at the very least say, I'll give the guy the benefit of the doubt this time, because it was fine last time.
00:36:40.000Not a skateboard expert, that's for sure.
00:36:41.000Just because we make skateboards, and I've been skateboarding my whole life, I know this.
00:36:46.000Skateboards are made of North American rock maple, either coming from the U.S., usually from Canada, or They don't make the skateboards here.
00:36:55.000They take the wood, they chop the trees down, put them on big shipping containers and send them to China, where Chinese laborers for dirt slave labor costs turn them into skateboards, then putting on big cargo ships and sending them back to the United States.
00:37:06.000I never understood why that made sense.
00:37:08.000That's actually consuming more energy and more wasteful.
00:37:10.000But it's okay because the Chinese laborers work for 50 cents an hour.
00:37:14.000So you can get a skateboard for cheaper so long as it's made by Chinese slave labor.
00:37:19.000The problem, the American companies that used to make skateboards go out of business, and now people can't afford skateboards anymore.
00:37:24.000Skateboards end up costing $80 for a pro model where they used to cost $55.
00:37:28.000And it's because the companies that used to make them locally and could get them to you easily and the people whose lives were sustained and supported doing it.
00:37:35.000Lives were sustained in support of doing it.
00:37:37.000So what really, really bothers me largely about the shipping off of skateboarding manufacturing to China is that basically skateboarding is dead in this country.
00:37:37.000So what really, really bothers me largely about the shipping off of skateboarding manufacturing to China is that basically skateboarding is dead in this country.
00:37:44.000What is now an Olympic sport, which used to be a massive multi-billion dollar industry, is watching massive collapse across the board.
00:37:44.000What is now an Olympic sport, which used to be a massive multibillion dollar industry, is watching massive collapse across the board.
00:37:51.000One of the reasons, I think, is that all of it was outsourced to China.
00:37:54.000The people who worked in the industry, who would make the products, lost their jobs.
00:37:59.000Now they're not working in skateboarding, advocating for skateboarding, doing sponsorships and promos.
00:38:17.000And I say we put 100 percent tariff on all of these goods and force the factories to come back.
00:38:23.000So when we make skateboards over at boonieshq.com, they are all made in America.
00:38:27.000And that means our profit margins are smaller, but we still sell the boards for $55, whereas the other people who are making them in China sell them for more.
00:38:46.000So you see the auto industry flee Michigan and they start opening plants in Mexico.
00:38:51.000Donald Trump, this is Michael Moore's famous speech, comes in and he says, Donald Trump goes to the auto manufacturers and says, I'm going to slap a 30% tariff on all your vehicles and no one will ever buy them again.
00:39:00.000It was the first time someone had stood up for the autoworkers in the Rust Belt.
00:39:04.000When Donald Trump got elected in his first term, what did he do?
00:39:09.000I don't know if he put tariffs down, but we ended up seeing a $3 billion reinvestment from these trade restrictions into Michigan to bring back autoworker jobs.
00:39:30.000Now, I'm not going to sit here and say...
00:39:32.000You know, that workers and unions, whatever, are guaranteed work when technology is shifting or changing, but you're not going to do it by government mandate, and shipping off factories to foreign countries doesn't make any sense.
00:39:43.000Okay, so, but, and this is a little out of my lane.
00:39:48.000But I studied economics, and I consider myself an Austrian, a big fan of Ludwig von Mises, and And a lot of libertarian friends love to school me on that world.
00:40:00.000I'm a free trader, and all it ends up doing is hurting the consumer.
00:40:05.000Phil, you say, oh no, I didn't see anything wrong.
00:40:08.000I'll bet you two years ago you were complaining about inflation.
00:41:44.000These greedy short-term morons are like, I'm going to make 50 bucks per board this year, and then four years, five years, six years later, there's no one to buy skateboards anymore.
00:41:54.000And now we're wondering why it is the biggest media outlets in skateboarding have collapsed, why pro skateboarders are now destitute, and it's because they sold off the industry to China, where all the garbage clothing is made, the brands have died, it's all centralized under one Walmart, no offense to Walmart, it's not Walmart specifically, but a corporate generic garbage brand.
00:42:23.000And the Chinese don't get any of that.
00:42:24.000So here we are saying, who cares if this Chinese labor at Foxconn, where these phones are made, are walking off a building committing mass suicide?
00:42:32.000That's the American consumer saying, we don't care.
00:42:45.000The idea that the United States is dependent upon China for all of this, and it's only because the American consumer doesn't care that Chinese people commit suicide in mass at Foxconn Labs.
00:43:02.000Maybe we should be like, this is not the way the economy should be functioning, and we should bring jobs back here.
00:43:07.000The other principal issue is, what we're basically doing is extracting the economy and giving it to our adversaries.
00:43:13.000All of this money being sent to China, even if it is 50 cents on the dollar or on the hour, for these laborers means that the money made by American citizens is sent to China to build up their economy, while ours suffers and our industry is collapsing.
00:43:41.000And then the other country struck back with their own.
00:43:43.000That was 2018. It's pretty wild that in 2019 we were being told we had the best numbers of our lives.
00:43:47.000Well, in 2019 he ended up printing and giving aid to the farmers about some $28 billion or something.
00:43:54.000$12 billion increasingly at $28 billion, which is a third of the farmers' income in the United States to make up for the retaliatory tariffs from these other countries back in the United States.
00:44:51.000And we are spending ourselves into oblivion.
00:44:54.000We don't have the money to spend on this stuff.
00:44:57.000The philosophy of like you take a big loan to pay people to build a water mill to irrigate the crop so that you grow a bunch of food to pay back, to sell that, to pay back the loan, and then you've got excess surplus makes a lot of sense.
00:45:08.000And to scale that out, I understand the philosophy.
00:46:03.000That is a great question because the fact is we're dealing with countries with incredibly low standard of living and there may be no true solution to that except you produce a good like the skateboards that are high quality made in America and you probably advertised that right?
00:46:26.000And so they sell to people who care about quality and the individuals have to care about that.
00:46:33.000I care about quality, so I only buy things that are higher quality, and I value it much more.
00:46:39.000But there's people who are entering the market, and they can't afford the higher quality.
00:46:45.000The Chinese skateboards are of comparable quality.
00:46:48.000They are high-end, they are all well-made, and they're made by slaves.
00:46:51.000One of the ways to deal with slave labor and stuff like that would actually be to get rid of things like unions and stuff in the US because unions drive up the price.
00:47:02.000You get rid of your minimum wage laws, you get rid of your unions, and you get rid of the incentives.
00:47:53.000That's just how long you've been sitting in a seat.
00:47:54.000But real collective bargaining outside of unions is completely within market norms.
00:47:58.000If you have 100 employees, and they're not getting paid well, and they go, I don't want to work here because I'm not getting paid enough, and they all walk out, you, the employer, go, wow, I'm not competitive, and they're going to go somewhere else because you have to raise the rates.
00:48:09.000The problem is unions are weird quasi-governmental organizations that have, you can't strike now, but you can strike then, and then you get fined if you do it this way, and I'm like, that's nothing.
00:49:12.000Unions, that's not like I don't think it's fair to call that what unions are.
00:49:16.000Unions are weird, quasi-governmental political machines that even the Teamsters, despite all the Teamsters wanting to vote for Trump, would not endorse the guy because they're political machines to steal money from workers.
00:49:27.000I despise how the government operates, or how unions are operated within the government.
00:49:32.000I love it when people are like, we're going to work together, we're going to decide how we want to be here, how we want to be part of this machine.
00:49:37.000So, like, workers unionizing is legitimate philosophy.
00:49:41.000It should be thus, but, like, does the company then have a right to say, then you're all out?
00:49:46.000Well, in states with a right-to-work law, that's what we're really talking about here, states with a right-to-work law, you can't force a worker to join a union as a condition of employment.
00:49:59.000And so I don't know how many states we're up to, but we've had attempts at one vote in particular in the U.S. Senate on a national right to work law.
00:50:11.000And there's been bills to pass that on a national level.
00:50:16.000But they're all around the country, and a lot of the southern states are right to work.
00:50:22.000And yeah, those states generally find better industry because the union can't collectively bargain for them.
00:50:31.000They don't have a sole negotiating power.
00:50:36.000And so if individuals want to work there, they don't have to join the union.
00:50:39.000I could see in a state if they were like...
00:50:44.000We're going to lower, and no more minimum wage.
00:50:46.000Like, if they took it hard, and they're like, we need to compete with foreign, like you were saying, Phil, you'd get rid of the minimum wage, all the right-to-work laws.
00:50:52.000Twelve-year-olds can now work for our company and our factory, and we're going to pay $3.80 an hour.
00:50:56.000A lot of desperate people would keep that job, and a lot of other people would be like, I can't do that job for $3.80, then they're out on the street.
00:51:03.000Well, minimum wage laws don't solve for any of that anyway.
00:51:42.000If a 40-year-old man wants to go do a certain job, the government restricts whether or not he will be able to or not based on certain requirements.
00:51:48.000If a 12-year-old wants a job, I say absolutely they should.
00:52:21.000Your gut reaction is to say, well, what about all these dangerous things that they might do?
00:52:27.000But the point is, you're going to have actually generally intelligent people making reasonable decisions about what is and is not safe for people.
00:52:39.000The images that come to mind when people say we're going to get rid of these things are images of the late 1800s, early 1900s, when work was dangerous for everybody.
00:52:50.000It wasn't just dangerous for children.
00:52:52.000You had men that were mining coal by hand.
00:52:55.000You saw black lung was ubiquitous and all these things that are terrible.
00:53:01.000But those things have ended for everyone.
00:53:04.000So it's not just children that don't do that anymore.
00:53:07.000Men don't go into coal mines without some kind of respirator or some kind of cleaning material or some kind of cleaning mask that makes sure that they're not breathing in coal dust and stuff all the time.
00:53:17.000So you're actually talking about multiple different issues, OSHA and the age of how old a person can be to work.
00:53:25.000There's nothing wrong with a 12 year old sweeping floors or taking out garbage at their parents or whatever.
00:53:32.000But Democrats argue that as soon as someone says kids should have jobs, they immediately jump to the most extreme case and say they're trying to put kids in factories.
00:53:41.000What they want to do is create a—I call this domestication, where when you look at how dogs came to be domesticated, they were wolves, and then the wolves that were too aggressive were not tolerated near the human camps.
00:53:54.000So over a long enough period of time, only the wolves that were more docile, eventually creating proto-dogs and then dogs, and dogs are basically permanent wolf puppies.
00:54:03.000Dogs behave like wolf puppies do, like they never grow up.
00:54:06.000And so what they're doing now with this leftist policy to make it so that young people can't work in some meaningful way— There is an entire generation, millennials and Gen Z, who are 22 years old and have never had a job.
00:54:35.000He's never actually had to like lift a sack of flour and move it to the other room for a baker or move a bunch of bricks.
00:54:42.000So what they're trying to do is they're taking away meaningful work from young people so they grow up and become inept and incapable and incompetent.
00:54:50.000So you've got a generation now all voting for the same thing.
00:54:55.000It is terrifying to see listless millennials who say things on X like, I just want to sit around and watch TV all day because all they want to do is what they did when they were young.
00:55:06.000But then you look at people who are pro-baseball players, pro-football players.
00:55:09.000What were they doing when they were two and three?
00:57:22.000They say they're ionized mylar bands that give you improved balance.
00:57:26.000They train their salesmen to do a magic trick, a magician's trick called the center of gravity illusion, to convince you that they are increasing your balance with a piece of rubber, silicon.
00:57:36.000They make millions of dollars doing this.
00:58:13.000If the claim they make seems a little off and you bought a $5 bracelet because you bought their garbage and you saw their magic trick, yeah, sorry.
00:58:27.000Frankly, you better get a better brain.
00:58:29.000What if you have three generations eating phthalates and PCBs and disrupting their endocrine systems to the point where they're developmentally disabled?
00:58:39.000So there should be a government entity with the power to enforce and stop them from doing it?
00:58:44.000I'm not suggesting that there is no place for government.
00:58:47.000I'm just saying, when you're making these decisions, when you're trying to come up with these theoretical concepts, always insert, should government, not should we...
00:59:05.000So there should be some enforcement agency that's going to restrict?
00:59:07.000There are clearly some standards, yes.
00:59:10.000I'd rather have it done on a local level, but some things are too big nowadays because, of course, you're producing goods that are sold all around the country and sometimes all around the world.
00:59:19.000So I don't see a functional difference then in saying government has the ability to regulate for the protection of consumers if it's the same thing about Chinese slave labor destroying industry in the United States and putting towns and people out of work.
00:59:31.000I just don't think government does it efficiently.
00:59:34.000And I think the courts actually do a better job.
00:59:37.000I think you see the living tar out of companies that produce garbage that are harmful or, frankly, dangerous and dangerous.
00:59:46.000I can agree that government is largely inefficient and bloated.
00:59:50.000So the answer then seems to be like sunset clauses.
00:59:53.000But the free market has not done well for the Rust Belt.
00:59:57.000We've got manufacturing jobs shipped off to Mexico and China.
00:59:59.000This is why Trump wants to put in these tariffs.
01:00:01.000People lost their jobs and Michigan has been absolutely destroyed by the flight from the state.
01:00:06.000More people are leaving the state than coming to the state.
01:00:08.000So the existing infrastructure is becoming more expensive to maintain per person.
01:00:12.000This is basically what causes the Flint crisis.
01:00:14.000Well, Michigan's also facing a big political crisis from leftist government.
01:00:21.000But that's a product of the collapse of the state.
01:00:25.000I mean, if you go back to what Michigan was in the 40s and 50s and you see it booming, the rise of the auto industry, I know we can give a lot of credit to World War II for destroying our competition overseas.
01:00:34.000But what we see now is the factories leave, people lose their jobs, families leave, base infrastructure remains the same cost and gets distributed among the remaining population.
01:00:43.000This is what happened with Flint and why Flint switched off their water from the Detroit lines into the Flint lines, which basically got a bunch of people sick.
01:00:50.000They were saying the Detroit water was too expensive.
01:00:52.000It's the most expensive in the country.
01:00:54.000It's because they have an infrastructure that costs X, is divided amongst Y people.
01:00:59.000But as more and more people leave, the distribution, Y becomes smaller, so X becomes larger per person.
01:01:05.000I mean, we could debate the auto industry, and all I have to say to that is compare a 1982 American-made car to a Japanese car.
01:01:59.000I think the end result of laissez-faire capitalism would just be, you know, probably it's a bit...
01:02:08.000I don't want to say it's hyperbolic, but I would say the end of humanity would be the end result.
01:02:13.000And the reason why is humans, if they're chasing after decentralized carnal desires, it's literally going to be porn and video games.
01:02:21.000Mechanisms that trigger dopamine is what we tend to see.
01:02:24.000And so I'm not a fan of communism and absolute government control, but I think there's some degree of restricted regulation based on a moral people deciding some things are destructive in the long term.
01:02:35.000And so what we see now is a lot of calls from conservatives to ban pornography because it's fried the minds of young men to an extreme degree.
01:02:43.000All the research shows that their brains are addled and atrophied and look like that of hardcore drug users.
01:02:49.000So now there's a lot of people saying like, hey, maybe if we unrestrict the market, people will just like the mouse with the cocaine button.
01:02:58.000They told the mouse, press the button, it gives you cocaine, and all the mouse did was just pressing the button.
01:03:02.000And there's a funny meme where it's two lab rats having escaped, and one lab rat looks at the other one outside and says, we did it, we're finally free, and the other one says, yeah, but I'm going to miss the cocaine button.
01:03:11.000When given the opportunity, humans overwhelmingly choose that.
01:03:15.000Now, there is another point to be made.
01:03:17.000I mean, the evidence is just in how people consume sugar.
01:05:25.000Let's jump to the story from the Daily Mail.
01:05:28.000Trump plans to kick transgender troops out of the military with 15,000 service members to be medically discharged on his first day in office.
01:05:36.000The controversial order would cause as many as 15,000 to be medically discharged.
01:05:41.000Trump seeks to issue an executive action on January 20, 2025 on day one of his term, the Times said, preventing any transgender people from enlisting in the military as all branches continue to struggle with recruitment.
01:05:51.000I've actually heard that following Pete Hegseth's announcement, they've seen recruitment and Trump's election enlistment numbers have been going up.
01:06:52.000So both bulimia and anorexia could be.
01:06:55.000And clearly, if you overeat, that'll get you, you'll fail a PT test.
01:07:02.000So from 2013 to 2017, 124 active duty service members were discharged as a result of eating disorders.
01:07:08.000Yeah, and so the idea that people with gender dysphoria would be allowed, I think is totally ridiculous.
01:07:14.000The question, the return question to that, right?
01:07:17.000All of those dismissals are ultimately predicated upon the inability to perform a function, right?
01:07:22.000So if you have an eating disorder of some kind, you can't really be expected to perform your fundamental mission, whatever that might be, whatever your MOS is, whether you're infantry or a cook.
01:07:33.000If you have an eating disorder, that's going to be detrimental to that.
01:07:36.000The fundamental question that I would actually kind of throw out at the table here is, you know, does gender dysphoria ultimately cause one to be unable to perform their mission?
01:07:46.000Because that's how I've always looked at topics like this, is we have kind of shaped the military into this almost inclusive effort that everybody's individual perspectives, who they feel about themselves, is what matters more necessarily than our ability to be lethal.
01:08:06.000So from my perspective, ultimately, regardless of what your condition is in the military, if that keeps you from being able to perform your fundamental mission, and a part of that is being a part of a cohesive team, it doesn't matter what that condition is for me, because your identity doesn't matter when you put your uniform on.
01:08:24.000That's how I've always looked at that, but I'm interested to kind of throw that question back out.
01:08:28.000Does gender dysphoria lead to an inability to perform your fundamental mission?
01:08:33.000I mean, it depends on how you define being transsexual.
01:08:37.000If that's the phrase, like, does it mean that you took bottom surgery?
01:08:40.000Because then, yeah, that's going to be, if you've got scar tissue and you need a catheter or whatever the hell these tools, that could be a problem.
01:08:45.000But if it's just this burly dude that, like, kicks ass and then he's like, I'm a woman.
01:08:50.000Like, but he's still a beast on the field.
01:09:46.000Gender dysphoria, where someone seeks medical transition, includes body integrity dysphoria.
01:09:54.000So body integrity dysphoria is individuals that feel a specific body tart does not belong to them or is alien.
01:09:59.000So if there's an individual who has male parts and they want to have that removed, that means that people with gender identity disorder or gender dysphoria also have body integrity dysphoria.
01:10:12.000Like a subcategory of body integrity disorder.
01:10:40.000What's the official definition of my trans at this stage?
01:10:43.000Because if you're going to remove people that don't have any body dysmorphia, but they just think they're a different sex, is that really a reason to not be in the military?
01:11:19.000I'm saying if somebody's like, my hand feels alien to me and I need it off, it's like, okay, well, this person's going to not be able to function to the extreme.
01:11:54.000So, you know, like I was saying earlier, we've kind of gotten away from the military's fundamental mission, right?
01:11:59.000The fundamental mission for the military is to be lethal, right?
01:12:02.000You know, whether that's, whether you're a soldier, sailor, airman, marine, that is ultimately, whether you're combat arms, combat support, that is ultimately the mission that you are an enabler for, right?
01:12:14.000I do find the assimilation piece to this one that's interesting.
01:12:17.000I've got a lot of friends that went through the Special Operations Forces pipeline, and one of the criteria for them to continue through or pass is the ability to assimilate as a part of the team.
01:12:47.000If you can do your job, which ultimately does include setting yourself aside, selfless service being one of those tenants and core values, if you're able to do that, then you should be afforded the opportunity to serve.
01:13:00.000But again, it boils back to selfless service.
01:13:03.000Can you assimilate as a part of a team?
01:13:05.000Can you focus on something not yourself?
01:13:08.000That's where I think we have one of these issues in the military right now that I'm starting to get a little bit excited about some of the pathways that are being taken where we're prioritizing individualism rather than ultimately, again, the ultimate mission, which is to be lethal, to be able to maintain the crown.
01:13:27.000Heavy is the crown, and we need our military to be able to do that.
01:13:31.000So if we start to focus a little bit more on that as a fundamental issue, Right?
01:13:36.000Rather than, you know, who are you as an individual?
01:14:51.000I think the woke elements of the military have resulted in people resigning their commissions or just outright not wanting to enlist.
01:15:00.000And I've personally met maybe like two or three people who said, you know, I remember one guy a couple years ago, he was a captain and he said it was his goal and his dream to be a careerist and retire.
01:15:10.000And he's in his mid-30s and says, nah, I resigned.
01:15:13.000I can't be a part of whatever this is.
01:15:14.000So the ideological divide here, I think the issue is, like you could say, a person who is transgender can easily serve, not if it creates a hyper-political divide to the point where you're going to have someone who's going to say, this is a DSM-5 mental disorder that is in line with a whole bunch of mental disorders we would not allow in the military.
01:15:35.000The military is broken, it has been politicized, and I don't want to be a part of it.
01:15:38.000So that goes back, once again, to what I was saying earlier.
01:15:47.000Now, how exactly we measure that and how—I might just not be intelligent enough to understand how exactly to employ that, but I do know that there is a recruiting crisis, right?
01:15:57.000I do know, you know, as a member of the military, that I still think that it is a positive to serve, right?
01:16:06.000And— There is something that is keeping people from being a part of the military, right?
01:16:10.000So if there are people out there that can do that, and they happen to fall into this category of 15,000, I don't know where that number comes from.
01:16:17.000I mean, it's the drag queens that we see in the military, adds the promotion, it's the appointment of people who are...
01:16:24.000I think when you've got a lot of people who...
01:16:27.000Let's go back to the Army commercial that went viral, where it was a cartoon about a girl saying, I have two moms.
01:16:33.000And then you look at everybody cheering on the Russian commercial where it's like a guy jumping out of a plane and landing.
01:16:38.000One was a male ego action movie, and one was a feel-good drama for women.
01:16:46.000And it probably didn't actually recruit the type of people you wanted in the military anyway.
01:17:21.000I think the issue might just be with like, if you want to live your life, you want to do your thing, like, by all means, like, you know, go ahead and do it.
01:17:27.000But if the, I don't know, 99, if the overwhelming majority of people might say we're tolerant of this, but...
01:17:34.000It doesn't mean they want to be involved in the administration that's doing it.
01:17:37.000I think it's not just about transgender soldiers, but this is a component of what is leading to recruitment shortfalls.
01:18:22.000So let's just step beyond just the military.
01:18:24.000I think mental acuity, mental aptitude, that needs to be tested a little bit more from a service perspective.
01:18:33.000More of a fundamental approach on the service aspect to that, setting the individual—I'm going to go back to the same word.
01:18:40.000I'm sorry I keep beating this word—but setting the individual aside, I think if the focus shifts back to that, from a fundamental perspective, our military is off in a better direction.
01:18:51.000I don't think this specifically is— Itself, the biggest issue, I think it is, you know, a discussion to have as a part of a greater problem.
01:19:01.000Again, getting our military away from what it's designed and meant to do, which is be lethal.
01:21:23.000But if you have people that are transgender or have some kind of weird kink that they want to wear a dog mask and uniform, this is centering.
01:21:31.000And by the powers that be or the establishment saying this is acceptable, that is centering the marginalized in an arena where centering the marginalized is absolutely unacceptable.
01:21:43.000So this is not about whether they're functional or not.
01:21:46.000This is about rooting out leftist philosophy.
01:21:50.000Setting that foundation pour right out of the gate.
01:22:02.000Washington commanders agree to uncancel Redskins' logo.
01:22:06.000The censorship of the former commander's logo was a classic case of woke gone wrong, the Montana senator wrote.
01:22:14.000So it sounds like what they're saying is they're going to bring back the—what do they call it?
01:22:18.000The official name is—let's just read it.
01:22:21.000They say the iconic Blackfoot chief logo.
01:22:24.000They are not—I do not believe they're going to say Redskins.
01:22:27.000But they're going to bring the iconic logo back.
01:22:30.000Now, my only disappointment here is that as soon as they banned the Redskins, I ordered on Amazon Redskins Ziploc bags, hoping that they would accrue great value, and now they're probably not going to.
01:22:42.000I've been a Redskins fan my whole life.
01:22:44.000This logo is like a part of my childhood for me, you know?
01:22:50.000Didn't they actually, weren't they ignored, and didn't they actually have a lot of tribes come forward and say, hold on a second, we actually love this, you know?
01:23:01.000They were like, we were a part of this, we want the logo to stay.
01:23:05.000Yeah, it was white liberals who wanted to get rid of the name and logo.
01:23:09.000Chief Wahoo was mine, I'm a Cleveland guy, Akron, and that was like a Sambo kind of like...
01:23:16.000You know, 1920s caricature of a crazy Indian guy.
01:23:20.000And that was way more, if you're going to call it racist, that one was.
01:23:24.000This one actually is just a legitimate picture of a Native American looking dude.
01:25:12.000The use of the term dwarf for little people was to be nice because people were offended by midget.
01:25:18.000And dwarves are a mythological story folklore creature of they are small creatures that are born from the clay of the earth and live in mountains.
01:25:32.000It did not evolve into a slur or whatever to be for little people.
01:25:36.000So when they had Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, it's literally a maiden and mythological creatures born from the clay of the earth who mine gold.
01:25:42.000And then he's like, dwarf is offensive to me, so they shouldn't do it.
01:26:11.000It has nothing to do with the fact that he's a dwarf.
01:26:12.000But he was given a high-profile part...
01:26:19.000Because of the fact that he is a dwarf.
01:26:21.000That is a key component for the Lannister character.
01:26:24.000And his character is literally one of the best in TV. Yeah, and now because he's like, oh, I'm so offended, he's saying that other people that could have had important roles or had roles because of the fact that they were a dwarf, now he's saying, well, we can't.
01:27:30.000There's nothing you can do when you pursue this woke garbage.
01:27:33.000I just saw, it was for, what's that Matthew McConaughey movie from 2003 where his family is a bunch of, is it little people or is it dwarves?
01:28:03.000Just don't do the movie if you're brutalized.
01:28:04.000Could you imagine if they do this movie and they get the evil queen and she actually says the line, her skin is white as snow, and then it shows her.
01:28:10.000The worst part about all this is it cheapens...
01:28:12.000It really cheapens the term racist because clearly there are racists who literally care about race more than anything else.
01:28:23.000But we've literally desensitized people to that term.
01:30:51.000The idea that we have to get rid of Chief Wahoo because it's offensive to Native Americans, it's like, I don't know, literally every single cartoon ever that has a depiction, like Homer Simpson, come on, talk about mocking white people.
01:31:07.000Yeah, no, we've got to ban everything that's offensive to anybody for any reason at any point, so just nothing's allowed ever.
01:31:15.000That's basically the plot to Fahrenheit 451. We're trying to erase history.
01:31:20.000No, the premise in Fahrenheit 51 is that everybody's offended by everything, so the government has to get rid of books to stop everyone from being offended.
01:31:27.000I just don't think getting rid of the past makes it not pop back up.
01:31:32.000You gotta at least know what happened.
01:32:21.000They became the commanders with their mascot being a pig, and everybody was laughing because it was literally the commanders and a war pig was their mascot.
01:34:00.000You know, with this shift, I was saying a few years ago that if the wokeness trend continues, we would eventually see co-ed professional leagues.
01:34:09.000The argument would be made that there's no reason...
01:34:14.000We decide what the rules are of the game.
01:34:15.000We could easily decide the rules should be half men, half women.
01:34:18.000Every team must have an equal amount of men and women playing and they have to have equal time in the court, in the field, whatever it is.
01:34:24.000If wokeness continued, I think that would be the outcome.
01:34:29.000They would be like, no, no, no, we don't have enough diversity in these major league sports.
01:34:33.000Now that they've been crushed and defeated...
01:34:37.000What we're seeing with the revival of the Redskins logo, I think it's actually starting to go the other way.
01:34:40.000I think people generally just didn't like watching males beat women in their own sporting events, and it's causing a lot of controversy.
01:34:48.000The Wall Street Journal called it a sleeper issue in this election.
01:34:51.000One woman interviewed by the New York Times said it radicalized her into voting for Trump because even though he's psychotic, he seems more normal.
01:34:57.000I mean, when Martina Navratilova, the lead lesbian...
01:35:03.000You know, in professional sports, as a tennis player came out and said, this is wrong.
01:35:09.000Women should compete against women, period, biologically.
01:35:13.000You know, who cares if you're butchy like she is, but you're a woman.
01:35:44.000Now that he knows on the wrong side of this, Bill Maher was just ripping into him, and he was like, come on, you're the guy who couldn't tell me why the WNBA couldn't beat the Lakers.
01:35:53.000And so, you know, he got absolutely just annihilated on the show.
01:37:16.000We're going to go to Super Chat, so if you haven't already, would you kindly smash that Like button, share the show with everyone you know, literally everyone, and become a member by going to TimCast.com and clicking Join Us.
01:37:26.000We're going to have a members-only uncensored show where we go deep into the lore of guns and their infringements.
01:37:32.000And the gentlemen we have with us know all about that.
01:38:06.000We should touch on this show a little bit during Super Chats because you're running probably the number one charity on the planet that's supporting individual gun rights.
01:38:14.000Let's grab some Super Chats and then we'll grab some gun questions.
01:38:17.000So we got Hal Gailey saying, N-A-G-R has always had the best patch and hats.
01:38:24.000And we've redesigned some of our stuff.
01:38:27.000You can see the logo on Ronnie's shirt.
01:38:29.000We've got two different logos, but one of them we just replaced it.
01:38:32.000There's a brown Bess on one side, which is the weapon used in our Revolutionary War by both sides, really.
01:38:39.000And then the other one is a Nemo Arms 6.5 Creedmoor exo-carbon rifle.
01:38:44.000I actually that's my rifle with a burro scope on it in a Thunderbeast suppressor and like I just decked it out and then took the pick get my art guys do the picture Mike yeah that's a cool gun to put on there because we don't want to just put an AR right that's boring.
01:39:58.000I would do that too, but they're not going to make things up.
01:40:03.000They have to look back and look at previous decisions.
01:40:06.000And the great part was they've got Heller.
01:40:08.000Yeah, I'd look back at the- They got Heller and they had McDonald, and of course now they have Bruin, and they can go back to the original intent.
01:40:15.000And when they had privateers and corsairs with cannons and grapeshot, they'd say, the intention of the Founding Fathers was sometimes you hire dudes with warships, private individuals can have warships.
01:40:53.000We know for a fact that Justice Thomas and Alito were waiting for a case that would, after it's gone through its interlocutory appeals, and that's just a fancy way that my attorneys tell me, and I'm not an attorney, you know, they tell me it's and that's just a fancy way that my attorneys tell me, and I'm not an attorney, you know, they tell me it's all these
01:41:14.000And in the post-Bruin world, if the Supreme Court will take the merits of a case that are broad, like they may on the Maryland assault weapons ban, which is the Snope case, if they do, they probably rip apart every single restriction in America. they probably rip apart every single restriction in America.
01:41:34.000Magazine bans, assault weapons bans, other Any ridiculous notions of pistol braces and bump stocks?
01:41:42.000And sorry, both parties are complicit in that, and many of those.
01:41:46.000And forced reset triggers, if you've ever seen that issue?
01:41:50.000But you know that quote they say from Trump about banning bump stocks and banning guns was fake, right?
01:41:54.000So I've heard Luke say this over and over again about how Trump said, I go for the guns first and then go to the courts later.
01:43:36.000Everyone said, well, you couldn't stop Barack Obama after the Newtown, Connecticut shootings, and we did.
01:43:42.000In fact, the NRA stood on the sidelines and gave, patted, Harry Reid, a member of the Democrat leader of the Senate, patted him on the head and gave him the highest ratings.
01:43:53.000And then they gave John Cornyn, Their highest rating, even though he ran the red flag law in Congress, right at the same time as the Bruin decision, 22. Let's grab some more superchats.
01:44:05.000We got I'm Not Your Buddy Guy saying, it's short-sighted to say institutions are beyond reproach, and to maintain civilization we must do everything to maintain them.
01:44:13.000This is how you get to abuse of authority, as we have all lived through.
01:44:20.000So I'm not sure you took me in context, but I just believe that at some point you have to trust institutions.
01:44:27.000And I mean, most people, I saw some articles that said Americans believe that this was a fair election in 2024. It sure seemed like we had a lot more people watching, paying attention to the potential of fraud and election abuse.
01:44:43.000But we do have to have some faith in our institutions because that is what we built as a country.
01:45:12.000These are the bellwether counties that always, in majority, like great majority, it's like 19 counties, 17 or so will always vote for the winner.
01:45:21.000Whoever they vote for ends up winning the election, and you go back, all these different elections, you can see them.
01:45:25.000They were accurate up till 2020, and then everybody had questions, and then in 2024 they were back to being accurate.
01:46:01.000He says, if tariffs make things $3 more expensive, but him slashing taxes lets me keep $4, that good is $1 saved, let alone all the jobs that are created here, keeping money in the U.S. instead of going to China or India.
01:48:20.000Well, let's clarify what lobbying is, too.
01:48:22.000Like, if I personally go to a representative from Congress and say, hey, man, we should be allowed to carry weapons, I think you should do something, I'm lobbying them.
01:48:30.000Well, you don't have to actually register as a lobbyist to do that.
01:48:33.000There are some thresholds in which, if you're being paid to go and represent people, you know, I represent millions of members who ask me to do this, and I'm not the only lobbyist I have.
01:48:45.000We have I'm a score of federal lobbyists and work for NAGR. And then we lobby in states.
01:48:52.000I think I've lobbied 31 states, legislatures, and then Congress in some form or another.
01:48:59.000And some states have little different requirements.
01:49:02.000The term comes, lobbying means you sat in the lobby outside the legislative body.
01:49:07.000And, you know, talk to legislators as they came in and out.
01:49:11.000But because it's a controversial issue, it's a very different type of lobbying.
01:49:14.000I always look at myself as, you know, we don't wear Gucci loafers and take people out for $500 dinners.
01:49:24.000We literally deliver pressure from members, grassroots pressure, and tell the politician, these are people.
01:49:32.000We deliver the petitions and We want you to vote this way.
01:49:36.000Thomas Massey and I delivered 1.4 million physical petitions into the U.S. Capitol several years ago opposing red flag.
01:49:46.000Do you think people should have the right to own nuclear weapons?
01:49:59.000I'm a bare knuckles brawler in politics.
01:50:00.000It's all I know how to do legitimately.
01:50:04.000But I do know that the Second Amendment was written to protect the rights of individuals for small arms.
01:50:11.000It didn't say I'm not opposed to people owning artillery pieces.
01:50:16.000I have friends with an anti-tank gun, a World War II anti-tank gun.
01:50:20.000I've got, I know lots of people with stuff like that, but the Second Amendment actually applies to small arms.
01:50:27.000So what you're saying is when, back then, people did own cannons and warships, they were basically saying, yeah, yeah, yeah, like, that can't, it's legal now, but if they want, we could ban it and you can't have those things.
01:51:03.000But I will say that, remember the Miller case, you guys are familiar with the Miller case.
01:51:09.000That was the seminal court case the Supreme Court ruled on, or kind of didn't rule, but Miller set the tone.
01:51:16.000And this was, Miller's an interesting case in that it was a couple of moonshiners who got caught with a still, but there was no alcohol in the still, and the revenuer had to charge him with something.
01:51:26.000So they charged him with a violation of the 1934 National Firearms Act because they had a short shotgun.
01:52:05.000I just pulled up the Bill of Rights Wikipedia, not that it's a great source, but it says the federalists were concerned the Bill of Rights would actually create procedural uncertainties and that the states could guarantee rights better.
01:52:15.000The federal government wasn't that strong.
01:52:16.000And that's a horrifying thing because, especially after the Civil War, this country became under the boot of the federal government, who then decides what you can and can't do.
01:52:23.000So thank the heavens for the Bill of Rights.
01:52:33.000I mean, we make that joke with politicians when we're vetting them before they run for office.
01:52:39.000We ask them, what's your stance on guns?
01:52:42.000And a couple of them said, tank in every garage.
01:52:45.000And it's a great joke, but the Second Amendment actually doesn't cover guns.
01:52:50.000So, clarification, it was the fifth article in the first iteration of the 17 articles, ultimately ended up with the Second Amendment, which stated, It doesn't say anything about small arms.
01:54:06.000I do believe it's going to stop where infantryman carries an M4. Well, so if that's the case, you would include, you know, all belt-fed, man-portable, even if they're teen, correct?
01:54:57.000We might personally disagree on where the boundaries of the Second Amendment are, but what I'm learning, though...
01:55:03.000Is that he better knows the levers necessary to apply and enact change.
01:55:09.000So I think that's one of the things that kind of always drew me to NAGR. So I can only look this thing up so far.
01:55:15.000The Virginia Constitution, one of the precursors of the Second Amendment, says that keep among us in times of peace standing armies and ships of war, affecting to render the military independent of and superior to the civil power.
01:55:28.000Standing armies and ships will say that one more time.
01:55:30.000And they have the Declaration of Rights, that a well-regulated militia composed of the body of the people trained to arms is the proper, natural, and safe defense of a free state, that standing armies in times of peace should be avoided as dangerous to liberty, and that in all cases the military should be under strict subordination and governed by the civil power.
01:55:50.000And so then you have Pennsylvania, that the right of the people to keep and bear arms are defensive themselves and the state, that standing armings in times of peace are dangerous to liberty, they ought not to be kept up, and that the military should be kept under strict subordination to and governed by the civil power.
01:56:34.000That's why I don't live in Massachusetts anymore.
01:56:35.000That's one of the major reasons why I don't live in Massachusetts anymore.
01:56:38.000So I would argue that if, so we've got Vermont, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Maryland, Virginia, all of these, they're all saying standing armies should not be kept because they are dangerous to peace.
01:56:50.000The civilian population must be trained and armed.
01:56:55.000How could you actually defend the state if these people did not have cannons?
01:57:00.000And you can, of course, have cannons now.
01:57:53.000Tim, right now our foundation has nine federal lawsuits against assault weapons ban, magazine bans, the ATF's restriction on forced reset triggers.
01:58:07.000We're all over it, and we know we're running against government.
01:58:11.000When are we going to see the Supreme Court rule on selective state weapons bans and overrule them and say you can't do that anymore?
01:58:17.000That's where it's probably going to be if they grant cert to Snopes.
01:58:22.000That's the Maryland assault weapons ban case.
01:58:27.000Good, because Maryland's got the stupidest laws.
01:58:29.000Yes, and it's furthest along in the court system.
01:58:33.000Now, we had a case that was being propelled quite quickly in Superior, Colorado, and it actually got wrapped up with the city of Boulder and the county of Boulder, and we had four municipalities in one case.
01:58:47.000And it's an assault weapons ban and magazine ban in one little tiny town.
01:58:51.000And when they enacted it, and then the ruined decision happened, and so we're like, well, let's file suit against this little tiny town and make them defend it.
01:58:58.000Well, of course, it's Bloomberg's attorneys actually doing the defense.
01:59:01.000They fly in from New York for all the court cases.
01:59:04.000And so all we had to prove is common use, that an AR-15 is in common use, and therefore it's not unusual.
02:00:49.000I think we were both using 7.62, and I was like, why is this...
02:00:52.000With a 10-round magazine illegal as an assault weapon with iron sights, and then Luke's got this modern weapon with a 30-round magazine, and it's totally fine.
02:01:01.000It's because they have no idea what they're talking about.
02:01:02.000The laws make no sense, and they're insane people.
02:01:04.000Well, unfortunately, here's the problem, is sometimes our people become technocrats, and they go and explain to the commies how to go ahead and change their bills, and they do that.
02:01:16.000Let's talk about this in the members-only portion.
02:02:30.000My work at Funker 530 has really sustained me.
02:02:33.000It's, you know, what I've been doing now for quite a few years, and I was enamored with the work that's happening behind the scenes, and I chose to work at NAGR specifically because of the people, because they're shooters, because...
02:02:45.000You know, Dudley's out on the ground with me by himself, working booths, trying to talk to people, help people understand exactly what's happening behind the scenes.
02:02:55.000So I would just echo what Dudley said.