In the latest episode of Pop Culture Crisis, Mary and Phil are joined by Mike Crispy and Tate Brown to talk about the latest in immigration, Letitia James' $500 million fine against Donald Trump, and the Oreos.
00:01:55.000An appeals court has thrown out the $500 million penalty that Donald Trump got from Letitia James in the, I think it was the New York Second District or whatever.
00:02:05.000Marco Rubio paused truck driver visas for basically the whole country.
00:02:10.000I believe Donald Trump and the administration is reviewing $550 million or no, $55 million visas for violations.
00:02:17.000I think that's going to end up with a lot of deportations.
00:02:21.000And he's also going on patrol tonight in DC.
00:02:24.000I imagine that he is not going to be dressing up like Christy Noam does, but we'll see what happens.
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00:04:06.000My name is Mary Morgan, and you can usually find me on Pop Culture Crisis here at Timcast.
00:04:12.000And I guess because I usually am talking about celebrities, it's only fitting for me to mention that I've brought with me the Selena Gomez limited edition Oreos.
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00:04:49.000She's in her mansion like crying about her people.
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00:05:45.000Appellate, Court has thrown out the $500 million civil fraud penalty against President Donald Trump in the high profile case brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James.
00:05:56.000The New York Appellate Division reversed the penalty, ruling the disgorgement was an excessive fine that violates the Eighth Amendment.
00:06:01.000The five member panel all upheld findings that Trump and his company were liable, affirming that James acted within her authority and that injunctive relief to curb Trump organization practices was appropriate.
00:06:13.000The ruling leaves liability intact but eliminates the massive financial penalty of $364 million plus interest, which rises to about $500 million.
00:06:35.000So in a complex three hundred twenty three page series of opinions on Thursday, the justices wrote that they were deeply divided, with two saying a new trial should be ordered and one writing that the case should be tossed altogether.
00:06:47.000A majority of four justices settled on an alternate path, vacating the massive financial penalty without resolving the merits of the case.
00:06:55.000The penalty, as one wrote, was far from reasonable approximation of the amount that was warranted.
00:07:02.000Friedman, who dissented from the majority, noted that two of the four justices who voted to vacate the penalty do not actually agree with the resolution of the appeal for which they are voting.
00:07:11.000I find it remarkable that although the three justice majority of this five justice panel believe that the judgment in favor of the Attorney General should not stand, the result of the appeal is the affirmance of the judgment, albeit as modified to eliminate the disgorgement award, Friedman wrote.
00:07:26.000To draw sports analogy, it's as if a team awarded a touchdown without crossing the goal line, he continued.
00:07:32.000This is something that I think is actually a result because of the fact that it's in New York, and I think there's a lot of politics involved in the matter.
00:07:41.000Do you guys have a similar opinion or have you had a chance to look into this?
00:07:45.000I think that Leticia James now needs to face the consequences.
00:07:50.000I mean, just because you try to do something really illegal and you fail doesn't mean you shouldn't pay the consequences.
00:07:57.000So Judge Ngaran and Leticia James who are now saying they're being politically targeted.
00:08:03.000Okay, they're saying they're being politically targeted because we're actually standing up for ourselves and responding to these things and talking about it.
00:08:11.000They need to be investigated because everyone talks about the rules and the norms and the system of our country, but they're the oneses who took the sledgehammer to it first and tried to break it into a million pieces.
00:08:25.000So I think this, you know, this whole appeals court thing is good, but now we have to get some accountability, or else, Phil, they'll just do it again.
00:08:43.000There's a statue of, for those who don't know, there's a statue of a big fat black woman that they put, you know, they took our beautiful statues, like, you know, the Columbus statues, and they put this random statue of like a fat black woman wearing sweats in Times Square.
00:08:56.000And nobody can explain why wearing sweats is the best part.
00:08:59.000Yeah, it's like nothing heroic, just like wearing sweatpants.
00:09:03.000Yeah, here, here, uh, there's just a lady.
00:09:17.000Donald Trump took to Truth Social to actually talk about this.
00:09:21.000He called it a total Trump took to Truth Social to declare a total victory and rail against James and the original trial judge Arthur Endergon.
00:09:29.000James claimed to win to, noting that the appeals court upheld the findings of fraud and restrictions on Trump's businesses and she pledged to appeal the penalty decision.
00:09:36.000Total victory in the fake New York State Attorney General Letitia James case.
00:09:41.000Trump wrote I greatly respect the fact that the court had the courage to throw out this unlawful and disgraceful decision.
00:09:47.000They kind of didn't that was hurting businesses all over New York.
00:10:13.000You know, if this can happen, if the Attorney General can just decide that they want to attack a business person over politics, that's going to chill business.
00:10:20.000Now, grant that I think Donald Trump was a special case because of the fact that he was the president and because of the support that he got.
00:10:27.000But at the same time, I mean, I don't think that it's beyond the Democrats' impulses to go after their political rivals using the DOJ of whatever jurisdiction they can.
00:10:42.000It's just like we've gotten to a point where it's so absurd where you have so New York City, it is the beacon, you know, all of the billion billion dollar companies.
00:12:11.000Yeah, crime used to be cooler, as you said, and like, you know, innocent people used to not get caught in it, you know, it'd be like, okay, it's like these people are fighting or like these gangs or like these organized criminals.
00:12:22.000And it was always like, somewhat, you know, systematic.
00:12:25.000Now it's just like indiscriminate and people are defecating on the sidewalk in between and it's like, it's not cool.
00:12:44.000Well, so, I mean, you talk about, talk about people going to jail, but I mean, this is not actually put to bed yet.
00:12:50.000In CBS News, New York Attorney General Letitia James said in a statement Thursday that her office will appeal the decision to the Court of Appeals, the state's highest court.
00:12:58.000Her statement lauded one aspect of the ruling, which left in place sanctions barring mister Trump from serving as an officer or director of any corporation or other legal entity in the state for three years.
00:13:06.000His sons Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. were banned for two years.
00:13:09.000The court upheld the injunctive relief.
00:13:11.000We won, limiting Donald Trump and the Trump Organization officers' ability to do business in New York.
00:13:26.000Like the parties involved, when they were actually being questioned on the stand, they all said that they were, you know, they were happy with the transaction.
00:13:40.000They were they were all considered, you know, sophisticated and all understood the terms when they went into this.
00:13:47.000And this was something that Letitia James brought, and this is something that she actually ran on.
00:13:52.000She ran to get her job as the Attorney General.
00:13:55.000She said that she was going to go and find the crimes that Donald Trump committed.
00:13:59.000Now, I know that there are some people out there that think that that's what no reason to go after someone other than political or go after Donald Trump other than political motivation.
00:14:15.000You know, her number one quote ever, Letitia James is she said, I'm in this system where everyone is too male, too pale and too stale.
00:14:46.000But Trump got the loan and Deutsche Bank said, as you said, Phil, Deutsche Bank said, he was fine.
00:14:50.000He paid it back with interest, no problem.
00:14:52.000Letitia James committed hardcore mortgage fraud where she misrepresented where she lived and all these other things to get a loan term that she had no business getting at all.
00:15:00.000She's literally guilty more blatantly than what they were trying to get Trump on and it's similar.
00:15:05.000So I think that they're going to get him, get her and Ed Martin is going to get her.
00:15:10.000And I think Letitia James will end up going to jail over her own mortgage situation.
00:16:22.000There are a few people around here that think nothing, that nothing ever happens or nothing ever changes are the two kinds of things that are thrown about.
00:16:31.000Nothing ever happens is a short hand for nothing ever changes.
00:16:36.000That's what they on X. They said nothing, that nothing ever happens, Crow.
00:16:39.000I would say as far as the comparison between Leticia and Schiff, it's like with all the issues we do have with Leticia, it's like she did, as we did say, she ran on it.
00:16:49.000She's like, I'm going to go after him.
00:16:50.000That's what you're going to vote me in for.
00:16:52.000On the other side, we have Schiff, who was voted in to, you know, take care of the welfare, you know, and they just, yeah, you know, in the Senate to help out his constituents.
00:17:05.000Instead, he took all of the time to literally lie about Russia and basically.
00:17:10.000If you want to argue, possibly, you know, commit treason, basically, and just have our entire country divided for four years.
00:17:16.000He accused Trump of committing treason in the first term, which totally derailed everything that led to the impeachment thing.
00:17:22.000So he literally got on television and said the president is committing treason.
00:17:43.000I mean, look, when it comes to what should happen because of those accusations and stuff, I think that's a totally separate issue from, you know, mortgage fraud or whatever.
00:17:53.000And I think that the idea that mortgage fraud would be a good replacement punishment for what he's actually done when it comes to the accusations that he was making.
00:18:04.000I think the only problem is most of the time when he was making those accusations, he was on the floor of Congress, right?
00:18:08.000When he actually said it on television, though.
00:18:16.000I have seen he did say it in Congress when that, you know, they say that protects you if you're in Congress, but he said it on television many times.
00:18:22.000And I don't think we've ever had a politician who has breached that boundary.
00:18:26.000It's like, you know, I don't like Democrats, you know, but I don't accuse them of treason.
00:18:32.000Like, you know, you don't just accuse someone of treason.
00:18:36.000So I think that just crossed a barrier.
00:18:37.000So what happens for crossing that that barrier?
00:18:39.000We don't know because no one has ever done it.
00:18:41.000Yeah, well, there's also like a big because, you know, there's these, you know, let's arrest Obama or Hillary and you see that and you're like, okay, that's clearly red meat for the base, but that's probably not going to happen.
00:18:51.000But with this where it's like, there's obvious, there's obvious smoking gun, like it's obvious they did these things that DOJ's currently investigating, it really feels like, okay, yeah, we're talking.
00:19:26.000The people that we're talking about now, no.
00:19:30.000Well, I mean, I think that, I mean, it's just funny to me that the whole campaign was marketed basically on like retribution and that was Yeah, you're right.
00:19:46.000I need to see some high profile overdue lock-ups.
00:19:50.000Too bad that there is there is I would say we're going gonna have a crowd.
00:19:55.000I mean, there is a difference between, like you said, throwing Obama out in the middle of a hot moment versus the DOJ coming out and listing specific infractions that James and Schiff have made that they can't, that they are currently investigating.
00:20:08.000Like, I mean, I agree, you know, I need to see it, to believe it, but there is like, there is a ramp up here in like what mechanism they'll deploy to actually bring these people in a courthouse.
00:20:50.000And so I and so I want to see people arrested for the crimes that were fairly obviously committed.
00:20:57.000I think that, like you said, if Schiff was saying stuff when he was on TV, as opposed to on the floor of Congress, then yeah, like that kind of stuff he can actually face a prosecution for.
00:21:11.000But if they don't have all their ducks in a row and they don't have the proper charges and everything, then you're not going to see anything happen from it.
00:21:21.000And that's a, then it would be even worse than not doing anything, I think.
00:21:25.000And to the point of, you know, what's going to be done, the Democrats have shown that they will do all this stuff.
00:21:31.000And this is a point that we actually harp on a lot around here.
00:21:34.000Democrats have shown that they will send the FBI to the president, the former president's house and arrest, you know, and not arrest him, but search him and stuff.
00:21:43.000And that when they brought him in, they actually had him come in to New York of his own will.
00:21:49.000So they didn't actually have to, you know, perp walk him or anything.
00:21:52.000But there were a lot of Democrats that wanted that.
00:21:53.000There were a lot of Democrats that were verbally saying, like openly saying, I want to see Trump perp walk, et cetera.
00:21:59.000So it's not a good idea for Republicans to just let things go.
00:22:04.000They should actually make arrests if they have the material, the substance there.
00:22:10.000And they wanted to perp walk Trump, but they wanted to perp walk Trump for the only reason of just let's just go perp walk Trump.
00:22:16.000And these people don't care about the constitution or the framework of the country or what it was built on or what we're preserving or they don't care about any of that stuff.
00:22:46.000You just have to give them permission.
00:22:47.000They're like a bunch rabid dogs ready to do it.
00:22:49.000With the Republicans, it'd be like pulling teeth.
00:22:51.000Because even though, yes, you know, Gabbard and co are shaking up the Intel community, you know, you're seeing a lot of security clearances were revoked.
00:22:58.000A lot of people claim, I mean, Gabbard laid off like half of the DNI recently.
00:23:03.000Even with that, like still it's very entrenched.
00:23:05.000There's still a lot of deep state bureaucrats.
00:23:06.000It's going to be very hard to get the government moving.
00:23:09.000in the direction of starting to prosecute some of these slime balls.
00:23:12.000It's just the nature of how the deep state is constructed and it will take, you know, probably a year or two to really clean house to give it a good scrub and get our people in there so you can really start activating and utilizing the weapons that we do have.
00:23:27.000I mean, yeah, that's I think that's something that we can all around the table here agree on.
00:23:31.000So we're going to jump to this story here and this is actually some good news in my opinion from Bloomberg US to pause issuing worker visas for truck drivers.
00:23:40.000Rubio says the US will pause issuing worker visas for commercial truck drivers.
00:23:46.000The latest in a series of Trump administration moves to clamp down on foreign workers, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Thursday.
00:23:53.000Effective immediately, we are pausing all issuance of worker visas for commercial truck drivers, he wrote.
00:23:58.000The increasing number of foreign drivers operating large tractor trailer trucks on U. S. roads is endangering American lives and undercutting the livelihoods of American truckers.
00:24:07.000The Secretary of State's post didn't include statistics nor specific examples detailing the nature of the threats.
00:24:12.000However, the move comes after days after a deadly August twelfth crash on the Florida Turnpike by a driver that was accused of making an illegal U turn.
00:24:20.000The Department of Homeland Security said that the driver of the rig was a migrant from India in the country illegally.
00:24:25.000The Trump administration has repeatedly sought to tighten immigration rules for commercial vehicle drivers.
00:24:30.000In May, the Department of Transportation said it would up enforce an English language requirement for drivers following an April executive order from Donald Trump.
00:24:38.000These things seem so obvious, and it blows my mind that there are so many people that just don't jump right on and say, yes, obviously, this is something we do.
00:25:27.000When the people come in to Texas and the southern states from every single Central South American country that they're looking to escape, when they get here, they just turn it into that country.
00:25:36.000And then the Indians, they don't have any traffic laws.
00:26:18.000Yeah, we're like, what's going on here?
00:26:20.000It's like, yeah, there's a truck, when two tractor trailers are going on a highway at the same speed in two lanes, not allowing any cars to go around you.
00:26:42.000And in these states like in California, Gavin Newsom said he was going to, something about him with the truck drivers, like laxing the laws.
00:26:48.000So they become a truck driver in California, but they're going all over the state.
00:26:52.000So it's the way that Gavin Newsom or anyone in a liberal state can just fuck it up for the whole whole country because then they just go everywhere and cause accidents.
00:26:59.000Yeah, This falls right on Gavin Newsom and on California and Gavin Newsom's policies, right?
00:27:03.000This guy got into the country in California.
00:27:25.000And I think that there's a there's a there's a there's a there's a there's a certain amount of standardization when it comes to the test.
00:27:30.000But if I understand correctly people in California, if you're a foreigner, if you don't speak English, they will actually provide someone to help you.
00:27:36.000That was one of the super chats we got.
00:28:45.000And I'll just say, you know, when you, when you look back, when you zoom out and you just see this whole thing happen, the really what's going to happen is the people, the real truck drivers, the American truck drivers are going to be affected because there's going to be a time with all these, you know, the EVs happening.
00:28:58.000There's going to be that time when, look at these stats, look at how many people die for trucks.
00:29:27.000But no, to your point, the driverless truckers, that' is going to be something in the future.
00:29:34.000I imagine within twenty years there will be some congressman that submits a bill that says we need to outlaw human beings driving trucks.
00:29:42.000Under the pretense of what he's saying, it's these people who shouldn't even be in the country in the first place, who don't know how to drive in the first place, and then they use that as the pretense to get these driverless trucks and destroy an industry that should remain for American white workers.
00:29:56.000And the craziest thing is like California, like California, Gavin Newsom will be the first person to blame a red state whenever there's a shooting and be like, oh, their gun laws are the reason that this happened.
00:30:12.000This, the, the, the, the whole like speaking English to your point earlier about, like, not being able to read the signs and stuff like that.
00:30:19.000That's a point that we made on the show, you know, six months ago.
00:30:23.000And it actually happened to be, like, right before Trump said that they were making an executive order.
00:30:27.000It's, like, one of the things that I think would be really, is really important is to do all that we can to make sure that the federal government doesn't produce any paperwork or any kind of form in any other language other than English.
00:30:41.000And if you can't fill out the form yourself, not with an aid provided by the federal government, but if you can't fill out the form yourself, well, that means that you can't gett get whatever job or assistance it is that you're trying to get.
00:30:51.000And companies like Uber need to be fined for allowing illegals to drive Americans because I recently, well, I already knew that was a widespread issue.
00:31:02.000And oftentimes, like, they have a citizen make an account and then their whole, like, family of illegals is using it.
00:31:10.000And I had an Uber driver recently who I was directing when I showed up at the location.
00:31:16.000I was like, can you turn left over there?
00:31:19.000And he literally didn't know the words right and left.
00:31:34.000So, um, yeah, people are going to die because of this.
00:31:37.000So there was there was time to prevent this.
00:31:40.000There was time to prevent the automation of these jobs.
00:31:44.000I remember several years ago, like many years before this was really a popular conversation, I think Tucker Carlson and Ben Shapiro were having a discussion about the automation of truck driving jobs.
00:31:57.000And Tucker was basically on the side of like, we need to regulate before these jobs get replaced.
00:32:02.000And then Ben Shapiro basically said, well, that's just capitalism, baby.
00:32:10.000Well, who's which is a better, which is a better option though, having a bunch of immigrants that can't speak English and can't read the road signs or having trucks that actually can follow the road signs, which is which is better.
00:32:22.000I mean, it's clearly better to have automation as opposed to it's not really that's a false dichotomy.
00:32:40.000There has been a shortage of truckers for a long time.
00:32:42.000And then, yeah, as time goes on, we're going to have massive shortages in these industries.
00:32:47.000And from the government's perspective, they need – I mean just for tax recuperation purposes, it's like, OK, we have two options really.
00:32:54.000It's automation that can hopefully increase wages for the jobs that are still out there or you flood the country with the third world.
00:33:01.000And the third world's – People are net cost on the welfare system though.
00:33:06.000I agree, but they're never going to – the government is never going to learn their lesson.
00:33:08.000Regardless of – The entire West has voted year after year.
00:33:11.000Every Western country you go, they vote for less immigration and it never happens.
00:33:14.000Regardless of what option or what other option you get, I will take automation over flooding the country with third world immigrants every single time.
00:34:25.000But, but, but, but, no, because the thing is, like, you talk about rounding it up, rounding people up, and, and if you have people having to deal with, if you have, you know, Karen watching Ice rounding up Miguel, she's going to panic out, right?
00:34:38.000She's going to say, oh, you're doing these terrible things.
00:34:40.000So the real, the real compassionate option is make it so incredibly hard for immigrants that are illegal immigrants that are here to stay here.
00:34:57.000So you don't have to have ICE fighting with people, you don't have to have videos of ICE rounding up people, put up on the internet, and then people go after the ICE agents and stuff.
00:35:07.000That like it's just the smartest and cleanest way to do it.
00:35:44.000That will, if you pass, you pass legislation that says if you hire illegals or you rent a place to live to an illegal, you risk losing your property.
00:35:52.000I'm just saying it's not, it's not mutually exclusive.
00:35:56.000The time to deport people is way before the midterms, which is why I was so frustrated with people saying it's only been two months, three months, four months, five months.
00:36:10.000And for the record, once, I mean, basically as soon as the calendar year ends, the only thing anyone is going to be thinking about is the midterms.
00:36:34.000He pays way too much attention to the media.
00:36:37.000I mean, look, what is he so afraid of?
00:36:40.000I understand what you're saying, but like, you're you're not thinking about the perspective of people that are in Washington and how things, how the actual process is done, right?
00:36:51.000Like, I know I would like to, like, well, the compassionate option so that the Karens don't see these videos that make them cry is for us to do this.
00:36:58.000Well, yeah, the more compassionate option is having compassion towards the American people.
00:37:04.000Oh, well, I mean, that's well, it's like, look, the American people are going to be offended.
00:37:10.000The American people don't like to see that.
00:37:12.000That's why I'm saying to not have those videos go up because that will.
00:37:17.000make the Americans that will make people that are a little on the queasy side when they see people get wrapped up, that will make them change their opinion.
00:37:23.000And you don't want them to change their opinion.
00:37:27.000The most important thing is getting the illegals to leave.
00:37:30.000And the best way to make sure that you can get the illegals to leave is not to have those videos up because then you'll have people say, Ooh, I don't want to see that.
00:37:37.000I'll go vote for the Democrat because that hurt my feelings.
00:37:42.000That's the reason why you don't want those videos going up.
00:37:45.000And whether or not, like I know that you don't have that same kind of queasiness and people around here don't have that same kind of queasiness, but there are a lot of people that do and they're swing v voters and they're the ones that are queasy, you need to make sure they don't lose the stomach for this.
00:38:00.000And the best way to do that is not to have videos of ICE agents wrapping people up.
00:38:05.000To his point, you know, they could have avoided the high school graduations.
00:38:09.000They could have avoided the high school graduations.
00:38:13.000There's something to be said about flooding the zone though, where it's like you just go crazy, like just really go, like mask off the first few months, like go to the high schools, like just throw like random kids in van and stuff.
00:38:23.000Because it's like, then by the time the midterms seriously, no, listen to me.
00:38:34.000Everyone's like, and everyone always says when they see the video, they always say, well, I really want the deportations, but start with the criminals.
00:38:41.000And they say, okay, start, so you're right.
00:38:49.000Beat the shit out of everyone, deported them out as viciously as possible.
00:38:53.000And the attention span of these Karens are so short that they would forget all about that and be mad about whatever the Democrats are doing.
00:39:01.000And I think they're doing that to some degree, because it's like there was this video yesterday of some guy in DC getting dragged out of his car.
00:39:08.000And like the Libs freaked out for like a few hours and then of course it came out he was a pedophile obviously that just happens all the time.
00:39:14.000It's like I'm seeing the reaction Yeah, you're not seeing as many Kilmar's now.
00:39:17.000You're not seeing as strong a reaction from the left.
00:39:19.000I think there is an aspect where they're demoralized, like that's one hundred percent true.
00:39:22.000But I think there is also an aspect where the average American, like the people like in like Joe Rogans, the guys that came out early and were really upset about the deportations, they're kind of like whatever, they're used to it now.
00:39:53.000I don't think we're going to get many of those stories any more.
00:39:56.000I don't think that any of us around the table are arguing about what needs to be done or what should happen.
00:40:01.000It's just a matter of how it's going to be done and the velocity apparently of how fast it's going to happen.
00:40:08.000And to be honest with you, look, I don't know exactly the details about how the fund, how funding works.
00:40:14.000The argument that you heard from the Capitol from Capitol Hill was that the big, beautiful bill needed to be passed because the funding was in it.
00:40:19.000They didn't have the money to pay ICE to do this stuff.
00:40:22.000And if that's the case, then, you know, nothing could be done before that was passed.
00:40:26.000When did the bill, the big, beautiful bill pass?
00:40:28.000Three weeks, four weeks ago, a month ago?
00:41:12.000Like there was a story, I think it was in NBC News today where Kirsty Noam is exploring just buying planes right because contracting these planes chartering these planes is very expensive.
00:41:22.000It's like if we just had our own fleet, we could be, you know, logged out of reach.
00:41:37.000Whatever she has to do and holding a rifle.
00:41:39.000We're going to jump to this story because it's basically the same topic here.
00:41:43.000From the AP, Trump administration is reviewing all 55 million foreigners with US visas for any violations.
00:41:49.000Washington, the Trump administration said Thursday it is reviewing more than fifty five million people who have valid US visas for any violations that could lead to the deportation, part of a growing crackdown on foreigners who are permitted to be in the United States.
00:42:02.000In a written answer to the question from the Associated Press, the State Department said all US visa holders, which can include tourists from many countries, are subject to continuous vetting with an eye towards any indication they could be ineligible for permission to enter or stay in the United States.
00:42:15.000Should such information be found, the visa will be revoked, and if the visa holder is in the United States, he or she would be subject to deportation.
00:42:24.000workers visas for commercial truck drivers.
00:42:26.000Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Thursday on X, he said the change was effective immediately.
00:42:32.000So the fact that there are 55 million visa holders, we know it's that many.
00:43:00.000And also, this is what they this is how they fit figure out portioning for Congress.
00:43:05.000This is they will count all of those people.
00:43:08.000I would be willing to bet anything that they're counting visa holders.
00:43:13.000Maybe they don't count people that are here on a tourist visa, right?
00:43:16.000But if you're here on any kind of green card or anything like that, you get counted for the census.
00:43:20.000These people are not Americans and to say that they only dilute voting power a little bit, that's a ridiculous assertion now because there's 75 million of them.
00:43:31.000And the Democrats will say it outright that they want these people to count in the census.
00:43:37.000Everyone's like, oh, I thought the Democrats, they love the inner city blacks the most, but what do they do?
00:43:42.000Where do they put the illegals when they come into the country?
00:43:44.000They build beds for them in the gymnasiums in like inner city Brooklyn and they say, all right, they're all going to stay there.
00:43:51.000So you'd say, all right, why are the Democrat politicians pissing off their voting base by putting these illegals like in the gymnasiums of the schools where their voters send their kids?
00:44:02.000And it's because they just want to juice up those census numbers.
00:44:04.000They want to juice up those census numbers.
00:44:06.000And when you do that, it also impacts the census and that impacts the congressional districts and how many districts you have.
00:44:12.000And these Democrat politicians would rather have smaller, concentrated liberal districts and more districts of that because for them it's about their votes in Washington.
00:44:23.000It's not about serving constituents or anything like that.
00:44:25.000So that I think the Electoral College, it doesn't the Electoral College also has a weight based on population.
00:44:44.000The whole point is to affect the makeup of Congress and that is to dilute the voting power and political power of the existing Americans, the American people that are born here, the people that are citizens, the people that have the right.
00:44:57.000to be here and that have the right to say We object to this.
00:45:03.000And that's a big part of why Donald Trump was elected, because the American people don't want this.
00:45:08.000They understand, even if they didn't understand the technical way that they were doing the actual method that was being used to dilute their power, they understood that it was happening and they have for a long time.
00:45:19.000And I think that's why you have, you had such a turnout for Donald Trump.
00:45:23.000This is, this is an absolute travesty.
00:45:26.000And I think that the Trump administration shouldn't just review people that have any violations.
00:45:31.000Like if they have, if they have even the smallest violation, if they have a traffic ticket, you go because this is a problem.
00:45:38.000A problem for the voting population of the American people.
00:45:42.000It's not just, oh, if they're good, that's okay.
00:45:46.000No, these people are getting counted in the census and they affect Congress.
00:45:55.000We want America to be American, we want it to be culturally American.
00:45:58.000And they do this thing, like even Republicans, they'll conceive that it's bad on political grounds.
00:46:03.000They're like, okay, yes, this is okay, they'll outvote you.
00:46:06.000But it's like, I think it's perfectly valid as an American and as an American that has family here going back hundreds of years to be a little worried that there are seventy five million foreigners here.
00:46:14.000It's like, I didn't vote for this, none of us did.
00:46:16.000So it's like I did, and I'm tired of being gaslight.
00:46:19.000Like it's it's a totally irrelevant conversation to have of like the cultural makeup of my country being changed.
00:46:24.000It also is that, you know, no matter what you do, it'll never change because Republicans made this happen.
00:46:29.000I mean, and Democrats, but Republicans too, because this system was built over the last 40 years by Republicans and Democrats.
00:46:36.000So, you know, no matter who you elect, it would no matter what they say, I'll vote for me or do this.
00:46:59.000So this will help that, I think, a little bit.
00:47:01.000Well, and it's, I mean, because people come here and they impose their will on the United States.
00:47:05.000I mean, there's a huge difference between, like, the initial settlers that came to this country or even the waves of immigrants, you know, leading up to the Ellis Island wave, post Ellis Island, post the World Wars, the stock of immigrants coming are completely different.
00:47:17.000They're coming here without the intention of assimilating.
00:47:19.000They're coming here with the intention of changing the country.
00:47:21.000And in all fairness, the people that are letting them come into the country give them that command.
00:47:52.000The stuff that's going on in the UK is pretty objectionable to most people.
00:47:57.000And you see it in the way the English people are actually responding.
00:48:00.000They're starting to put up flat, actually English flags.
00:48:03.000And for a long time in my life, I remember hearing from my friends from Europe and stuff, they were like, Don't you think it's a little silly how many American flags you have put up?
00:48:21.000But now, but now I think that there are a lot of people in Europe that are starting to see the value of believing in their nation, believing in their country.
00:48:29.000The immigration situation in the UK is similar to ours in that it's more starkly a cultural difference because the immigrants are largely Muslim.
00:48:40.000The cultural differences are far more noticeable.
00:48:44.000You could say that Mexican culture and American culture are less dissimilar than Muslim countries and the UK.
00:48:53.000It is a racial issue more so in the US, and the mandate has been extremely clear from 2016.
00:49:02.000I believe nine out of ten people who voted for Trump in 2016 are white people, and the message was very clear.
00:49:11.000And yeah, maybe they don't understand the intricacies of how businesses influence the issue, but they're tired of interacting with them.
00:49:21.000They're tired of interacting with foreigners on a daily basis.
00:49:23.000They're ornery and rude and inconsiderate.?
00:49:27.000Yeah, I thought these were like people who were fleeing oppression and seeking asylum, but they come in and act like they own the place.
00:50:13.000And if you go to Europe, I was there last summer, and all the flags are European Union flags.
00:50:18.000So none of the flags have their own identity anymore.
00:50:22.000You know, wherever you go in Europe, they're flying the European Union flag where the flag of their country should be, and I say, why would you fly the flag of this organization that you created?
00:50:31.000It's almost like they're taking the identity and just trying to wipe it clean, make it one thing.
00:50:35.000And, you know, that's the Globalist threat.
00:50:38.000You know, back to the point of what's going on in the UK.
00:50:40.000In the UK, they're actually painting potholes with the English flag, the Red Cross, and on a white flag they're painting the that in the bottom of pools in order to get the magistrate to come and actually fill the pools and fix the roads.
00:50:54.000And apparently it's working fairly well, but you do see a lot of people have actually started to fly the English flag.
00:51:01.000And I think the people are actually getting in trouble for it too.
00:51:04.000There's a pushback from the government itself saying.
00:51:09.000Well, I don't think it's about the pools, but more when they're actually flying regular flags.
00:51:14.000But they're like, you know, you should take that down because it's culturally insensible.
00:51:17.000And the idea that you wouldn't be able to fly your own country's flag in your own country because it might insult someone else's identity.
00:51:24.000Somebody that is in your country, living off your country's large assets, living off your benefits and stuff is, I mean, that's ridiculous to me, but in the UK that's honestly like that's the norm, that's the way that it is.
00:51:39.000And you could just not leave your house and just tweet something and then get sentenced to two years in jail.
00:51:45.000The guy, wasn't there a guy and he got sent, what, what country?
00:51:47.000Was it in the UK where he said, I don't want my kids getting raped by these, you know, whatever people?
00:52:07.000And what you're saying, it's like, it's actually kind of, there actually is some truth to what the government is saying over there, which is, yes, flying the St. George's flag, the English flag, that actually is hostile towards what is currently the ideology of the United Kingdom's government.
00:52:40.000If you're the government, this is horrifying, seeing people actually identify and be proud of who they are.
00:52:44.000That's terrifying if you're a bureaucrat.
00:52:47.000Actually, let's go back and start from the beginning and look at all, like you see all these people that are starting to fly flags.
00:52:53.000And this, again, I've been to the UK, I think, like thirteen or fourteen times in my life, and the entire I've never seen anyone flying the English flag.
00:53:03.000I would once in a while, once in a while, I'd see the Union Jack, but I would never see the English flag.
00:53:08.000And there was a time where, you know, this just didn't happen.
00:53:15.000The last time I was in the UK was 2019, you know, right before COVID happened.
00:53:18.000And you wouldn't see this, but this is actually speaking.
00:53:22.000It's actually something that's very positive for the country.
00:53:24.000You know, they're they're actually standing up for themselves, but it does kind of shock me that you have to wear a mask in order to fly your own country's flag.
00:53:37.000And it's like, I mean, if they can't succeed there, I mean, the UK does always feel like to some degree they're ten years ahead of the United States in many ways.
00:53:46.000I mean, like Brexit was a really good indicator of how the Trump election was going to go.
00:53:49.000So it's like a lot of people see this in the audience, they kind of roll their eyes and say, well, that's England or, oh, well, that's Canada or that's Australia.
00:53:56.000It is true, there is a big difference.
00:53:57.000The United States is obviously a very different culture even though we are in the Anglosphere, but it is worth keeping an eye on because those trends do affect us to some degree and we are struggling with the same issue.
00:54:06.000I mean, Marion noted, okay, the immigration to the UK is culturally far different.
00:54:10.000I mean, it's like Pakistani stuff, we're getting mostly like Latin American or historically speaking, but it's still fundamentally the same issue.
00:54:16.000And the issue now, the question people are asking, Charlie Kirk is asking this, he's saying, what is an American?
00:54:20.000That's a question that has to be answered.
00:54:22.000And the same thing in England, they're having to ask, what is it?
00:54:25.000And I think people are articulating that simply acquiring a legal citizenship in the US does not make you an American.
00:54:33.000Paperwork Americans is what they call them.
00:54:36.000So, I mean, like, look, I think that the United States is different in different from England, from the UK, from Wales.
00:54:45.000I do think that like the United States doesn't have the same kind of history that the UK does or like England does.
00:54:51.000England is like it's 1000 years old, right?
00:54:54.000Like it's it's got deep history and there are English people that are English.
00:54:57.000There aren't the way that Americans are Americans, they're they're American, they're born here, but it's not that there's a racial component to it.
00:55:06.000You can say that there's there's a history that Americans share and that, you know, paperwork Americans aren't that aren't real Americans.
00:55:13.000But you if you are from another country and you come here, you do actually have the opportunity.
00:55:17.000to become American, but it's more about, do you believe the things that Americans believe?
00:55:22.000Like if you come here and you're just coming here because you want to get some kind of benefit or whatever, or you're just looking for a job, I don't think that person should be allowed to just come in.
00:56:23.000But you'll see, and now it's still, you'll still get arguments, you still get arguments about what a white person is because Irish and Italians were not considered white.ite.
00:56:33.000The idea about wasps, like the what seriously, like you can give me the eyes, but it's true.
00:56:40.000And that's that's we know what's not white.
00:56:43.000Like we can start there and then, and then kind of close in on like the final.
00:56:48.000Also, just because it's a construct that was normalized because there were so many different European ethnicities in one place, doesn't mean that the construct is meaningless.
00:57:55.000And also, like, we have to be realistic with immigration policy in the 21st century because, like, I had Nathan Hauber set up in the morning show two or three days ago, and he made a really great point, which is the way an immigrant matriculates into American society now in 2025 is very different from, like, 1935.
00:58:11.000Because in 1935, you get on a boat, there's a good chance that's the last time you ever see where you came from.
00:58:15.000Versus now, when you come here, you have your phone, you have internet, you're watching TV in your native language from your country, you're talking to your family all the time.
00:58:22.000Like, the digital age makes it very difficult for an immigrant toants are on the phone all the damn time?
00:59:17.000Like it is, like there is a to downplay the European contribution to the United States or really the European foundation of the United States is just a match of disservice to everyone.
00:59:26.000And that's why I mentioned earlier that ninety percent of Trump's voters in 2016 were white voters.
00:59:36.000We have this candidate who is promising us he will remove these foreigners who don't look like us from the country and build a wall so he can make sure that they don't come back.
01:00:09.000I'm just saying that what white voters were voting for in 2016, being nine out of ten of Trump's base, they were voting for people who are culturally and ethnically similar to them to get removed and also for them to stay away.
01:00:29.000And I don't think that Donald Trump was ever actually offering that.
01:00:32.000But look what activated his campaign in 2024.
01:00:36.000I mean, going to 2020, like the energy in the Trump campaign was starting to struggle a little bit going fall into the electoral summer into the election round the debates.
01:00:44.000And then Springfield, Ohio happens, like right?
01:00:46.000There's like an on Twitter says there's literally there's a video of the audience cat.
01:00:50.000And that like overnight Trump skyrocketed in the polls back to where he was.
01:00:55.000So it's like there is this feeling among Americans that it's like our country's starting to look very foreign and very unfamiliar, and that causes a lot of anxiety.
01:01:04.000Mary's point is, is that is directly associated with the whiteness and the Europeanness of the country.
01:01:10.000So that's a very, and that's a very fair point.
01:01:13.000Yeah, and it's not, and like what she's saying, what we're saying is not ridiculous at all.
01:01:17.000Because it's like, I would expect someone in Haiti to feel this way, right?
01:01:21.000I would expect someone in China to feel this way.
01:01:23.000People in Haiti don't have time to feel this way.
01:01:24.000Well, I mean, they're running away from other people that are in Haiti.
01:01:27.000But like in China or Japan or Saudi Arabia, like they have the right to like be like, yeah, I'd like my country to stay.
01:02:13.000Like, I'm pretty much a shell for the admin.
01:02:17.000And I remember going in like., like it was, it was like, oh no, like this Kamala hot swap is going to work.
01:02:23.000And then that happens and everyone like remembered they're like, this is what Mag is about, is making America take it and make it great again.
01:02:30.000And we don't want to see like Haitians eating.
01:02:32.000If you're from the Midwest and you're from a small town, you've seen this happen.
01:02:36.000Like my family comes, I'm not going to say which town, but a town in Illinois, and it was swapped.
01:02:40.000You go there now and there's no one left and they were hot swapped for these.
01:02:52.000Okay, we're going to jump to this story from ABC.
01:02:56.000Trump joins police and military in DC as he pushes deployment in more cities.
01:03:00.000President Donald Trump joined police and military in Washington, DC on Thursday to oversee the surge in federal law enforcement and National Guard who are responding to what he says is a crime emergency in the district.
01:03:10.000Trump left the White House in the presidential limousine, nicknamed the Beast, with US Attorney General Pam Bondi, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Millier Thursday afternoon and were driven to the US Park Police Anacostia Operations facility in Southeast DC.
01:03:32.000You guys are doing a fantastic job and gal's doing an amazing job.
01:03:36.000He told the crowd who he said were a healthy, attractive man looking group of people.
01:03:40.000It was not immediately clear if Trump would actually walk the streets with the police and military personnel.
01:03:45.000The president mobilized the National Guard one week ago to assist the police, claiming crime was out of control.
01:03:50.000Officials have said that guard personnel are not making arrests, only helping to detain people briefly if necessary before handing them off to law enforcement.
01:03:57.000Violent crime levels have decreased compared to years prior down twenty six percent since twenty twenty four, a thirty year low according to crime statistics released by the city's Metropolitan Police Department.
01:04:06.000Every single person that I hear talking about this that actually dives a little deeper into these kind of numbers is like this is all BS.
01:04:48.000And you see that in the response that people are having to Trump's use of the National Guard.
01:04:54.000This is extremely popular with the American people, particularly with the people in DC.
01:04:59.000You see people putting up TikToks and videos and stuff all the time saying they feel like they can go to the gas station and they're not going to get their stuff stolen.
01:05:07.000They feel like they can drive around with their window open and no one is going to try to jack their car.
01:05:11.000So do you guys think that this is just a stunt Donald Trump walking out there?
01:05:16.000Do you think this is something good where he's actually being on the ground with people that are actually enforcing the law?
01:06:05.000So, and just seeing one of those TikToks, you know, I watched one of the, a black woman with her windowow open, she's just like, finally, I can just, you know, I'm at a red light, I know I'm not gonna get robbed, this is incredible.
01:06:17.000It's that black woman versus Jasmine Crockett who said, this is the most racist thing I've ever seen.
01:06:22.000So it's racist that you're curbing the ability for black people to kill each other and then of any other race of people and just shoot each other in the street.
01:06:44.000I see that they, that like the left, you know, the left's hypocritical, I know, it's shocking.
01:06:50.000But they made like the most openly racist statement out of anyone in the last week where they like, we're like, hey, the crime in Baltimore and DC and Memphis is pretty bad.
01:06:57.000And they're like, that's so racist to point that out.
01:07:00.000And it's like, these are the blackest cities in America.
01:07:02.000Like, that's you made that point, not me.
01:07:06.000Some white guy who lives in DC made another one of these TikToks about it.
01:07:11.000And he was running, he was on a run at night around DC and talking about his observations.
01:07:17.000I have no idea if any of it is true because he didn't provide evidence, but he said that when he saw some of the militarized police on a street, corner, one of'cause he saw I saw this, This black mother walking with her son and she said to her son, hold my hand, sweetie.
01:07:36.000You don't want them to get any bad ideas.
01:07:39.000You don't want any trouble with these guys.
01:07:41.000The black mother said that to her son.
01:07:43.000To her son, who he said was like, you know, twelve years old or something.
01:07:48.000Like they're just about to start like randomly arresting black people for walking on the street.
01:07:54.000Like literally like walking while black.
01:07:56.000Like, that's the modern, that's the modern Rosa Parks of our time.
01:08:17.000To Mary's point, that notion is what fueled an entire summer of riots in the country.
01:08:24.000Like when George Floyd was killed, the argument that people were making was, oh, black people are getting, you know, gunned down in the streets by police.
01:08:33.000And even people like LeBron James was saying, they're out here hunting us.
01:08:37.000This was a total, this was a total fabrication.
01:08:41.000It's true he said it and it's a total fabrication.
01:08:44.000And that's why, that's what the justificationation was for an entire summer of looting, burning cities, destroying property.
01:08:54.000And, and people realized too late, of course, that it was BS.
01:08:58.000And that's why there's been such a backlash or that that's why so many people have stopped caring about things like Black Lives Matter.
01:09:04.000Everyone saw what kind of scam that was.
01:09:06.000The money that the people that were running it stole.
01:09:09.000They, they had all you had to do is say that you were giving your money to Black Lives Matter or you had some Black Lives Matter affiliated organization and you could run ads and people were just scamming the crap out of everyone.
01:10:00.000But that attitude is something that comes with all the DEI stuff, with all the critical race theory stuff, the stuff that Donald Trump is taking out of the Smithsonian, all the stuff that they're taking out of the museums.
01:10:14.000We talked about this the other day, the whiteness stuff, the idea that white people are evil and after black people and stuff.
01:10:19.000It's a ridiculous idea, but it's what fuels the fueled Ferguson back in 2013.
01:11:10.000I remember, I think it was during 2020, during the riots, when they would have these, these, and these big Instagram posts where they would be like it was mostly black celebrities and they would be like I just had to have the talk with my son.
01:11:24.000And it was like this thing where they would basically just make them paranoid of police like at a very early age.
01:11:29.000So it's like like you're saying, it's like okay, we can blame we can blame what's happening in schools and that's obviously a big problem that needs to be stopped.
01:11:36.000But it's like also within the black community, they are like traumatizing themselves by like what there's like six unarmed black men get shot a year.
01:13:30.000And he talked to people that, you know, were not insiders that actually had a wise view of how things work in Washington, not an inside view that was looking to benefit themselves.
01:13:47.000You saw it the way that he ran up to 2024 to get elected.
01:13:51.000And you see it now in the way that he's actually executing because the whole as much as you think that he's doing enough to get people out of the country, he's doing way more than he was doing in 2016.
01:14:02.000Also they said, I think back then they were saying, oh, you know, you don't have the jurisdiction to do this or you can't send in the National Guard.
01:14:08.000And I think like if Los Angeles is an example of, you know, Trump in 2016 versus 2024, 2020 rather in 2024, I think he just sent in the National Guard to LA unilaterally.
01:14:20.000Like he didn't go through the process.
01:14:22.000Last time he was, I guess, being told that he couldn't do it.
01:14:25.000I totally thought he should have done what he did in LA and quelled it immediately because nobody deserves to live in a city that's getting burned down.
01:14:43.000Look, the amount of actual contact that the National Guard had to have with the population in LA was almost none.
01:14:50.000You didn't see National Guards men actually fighting with the crowds.
01:14:55.000It was the police and the National Guard were just there making sure that the police could do their jobs.
01:15:00.000I don't remember seeing any video of dudes in multicam fighting with dudes hardly ever.
01:15:07.000There were a handful of times where they were they were they had gas masks and they had They had gas masks and they had shields, but it wasn't like they were holding people down.
01:15:14.000They were just preventing the rioters from attacking the police.
01:15:17.000They weren't wrapping people up at all.
01:15:44.000I understand that, but that's not, that's not good optics.
01:15:47.000And I know that's not a popular thing to to say around this table tonight, but the fact of the matter is the fact of the matter is that those things do matter because if you lose public support, you don't have the ability to do anything.
01:15:58.000You listen, Donald Trump, as long as he has public support, he can do whatever he wants.
01:16:03.000And I think that Barack Obama was an example of that.
01:16:07.000He had public support and he got away with all kinds of stuff that he got away with not even being born here, but literally.
01:16:15.000If you have popular support, the president can get away with all kinds of things, but you have to do it in a smart way that keeps the popular support.
01:16:25.000If you just do things that's un unpopular with the American people, the American people will turn against you and then you can't do anything.
01:16:33.000I know that there are people that want, you know, wanted to be Darth Vader and come out and do all this stuff and blah, blah, blah.
01:16:38.000And I get it because that's what I would like to see, but that's not, that doesn't function in reality.
01:16:42.000You mean in the way that that affects his current term or the way that that affects electability for the next Republican?
01:16:50.000The way that it affects the people that, the people on the street.
01:16:53.000You're, like, if he did something that was really beyond the pale, there would be enough people on the street to make it look like he's done something that the whole country doesn't like.
01:17:22.000You do have the C's to a certain degree because the left is completely demoralized right now.
01:17:25.000They have no leadership, they don't know what's going on, and then also the USAID money's dry up.
01:17:29.000So like half of their mechanisms they can't even use right now.
01:17:32.000And so it's like, and I do think Trump is doing a great job with this, but it is like, yes, now is the time to execute, now is the time to put your foot on the gas because, like you said, this window, I mean, knock on wood, what if we lose the midterms?
01:17:44.000And again, this is not me disagreeing withreeing with any of the points that you guys have made or having some kind of strong disagreement about what should be done.
01:17:52.000I'm just trying to talk about the reality of the situation and how things have to be, how things have to work in the United States.
01:18:37.000I mean, in my mind, it's like over fifty percent.
01:18:39.000I'm a little I'm a little worried about it because it to your point, if you look at what's going on right now in the Senate, like there are Senates in recess.
01:18:48.000Everybody's in recess for the summer and they're calling these like, I don't know what they call them, but there's a name for it, pro forma sessions or whatever.
01:18:55.000So Trump can't make recess appointments.
01:18:58.000So he has 160 plus people who have been appointed into very important spacots that cannot get into the spots because they're waiting for their Senate confirmation.
01:19:07.000So Thune, who is the Senate leader, is calling these pro forma sessions.
01:19:12.000So Trump cannot make the recess appointment.
01:19:16.000So if the, if the, if the Congress, that is the Senate and House, is out for a certain amount of time, the president can appoint them for like 180 days or something.
01:19:38.000How are we going to get anything done in the last two years or basically running until the end of this year because when the election season starts, all these swing district Republicans are going to be massive pussies because they care about, you know, winning the R plus one or the D plus two that they hold.
01:19:53.000So we're not going to get things through.
01:19:59.000Well, yeah, the house, I mean, house members are already freaking out over the Texas redistricting.
01:20:03.000Like Kevin Kiley, he's a congressman out of California, Republican.
01:20:06.000Well, he's only, he's saying that for his own purposes.
01:20:08.000Yeah, he's like losing his mind because like the national GOP is trying to make a move and he's just trying to save his own seat.
01:20:12.000I'm like, we're just not locked in at all as a party.
01:20:15.000I mean, it's like great that the Trump admins, you know, firing all cylinders to elect.
01:20:18.000to a large extent, but like the House GOP is still plagued by the same problems that have plagued us for a very long time, which is people look out for themselves and not the country.
01:20:28.000I mean, look, that's the problem with representative government.
01:20:31.000Like they're going to look out for themselves.
01:20:32.000They're going to look out for their constituencies.
01:20:34.000The problem, another, and another part of the problem with representative government is they, there's no reason for us to have federalized all this crap that we do.
01:20:46.000All this stuff that's, you know, that's nationwide and stuff.
01:20:49.000We are in a different world now than we were 250 years ago, but like the idea of having the same laws in Massachusetts and Florida and California was just ridiculous if you go by what the founder said.
01:21:01.000So I don't know that there is a solution, but in we were we were talking about Donald Trump and we're going to jump to this story real quick from post post millennial.
01:21:13.000DC goes a whole week without a homicide after Trump crime crackdown.
01:21:17.000Now, I don't know when the last time they went a whole week without a homicide, but I think that's good.
01:21:24.000For the first time in months, Washington DC has gone seven consecutive days without a homicide following President Donald Trump's federal takeover of the city's police force and deployment of the National Guard.
01:21:33.000The rare streak confirmed Wednesday comes during the summer season when homicide levels are typically at their highest.
01:21:39.000The last time the Capitol reported zero killings for a full week was in March.
01:21:42.000Other crimes have also dropped sharply according to the figures cited by the local police union.
01:21:47.000Robbery declined by forty six percent in the week after the federal control began, car jackings fell eighty three percent, and overall violent crime was down twenty two percent.
01:21:55.000The crime freeze began the day after a fatal shooting in Logan Circle, which occurred just hours after Trump announced the move.
01:22:01.000At the time, Representative Eric Swalwell said on social media that Trump owns this.
01:22:06.000Critics have since noted that the statement could apply to the decline as well.
01:22:10.000Law enforcement saturation in high crime areas has drawn comparisons to tactics used in New York City in the nineteen nineties under then Mayor Rudy Giuliani, when murders fell by more than half in his first term.
01:22:21.000Observers pointed out the deployment of the National Guard outside DC's Union Station, long hotspot for homelessness and drug activity as an example of the new approach.
01:22:29.000I think that this is something that is just overall positive.
01:22:32.000I don't think there's I don't think there's a downside, you know, I I don't think that there's there's anyone that can say, oh, here's the bad thing.
01:22:39.000The I want the Democrats to keep complaining about it because it just reinforces the fact that they're totally unserious and actually have no policies to talk about other than Trump bad.
01:22:50.000And but that's the same thing that they've been talking about for ages.
01:22:54.000There's only so many times that the American people can hear he's a threat to our democracy and actually think that it means something.
01:23:01.000They've definitely lost the swing voters.
01:23:05.000Trump's approval rating last I saw again was like 52 or something like that, which is sky high for Donald Trump and conservatives, especially in such a polarized time.
01:23:14.000Yeah, I mean, this is just an example of you can just do things, right?
01:23:17.000I mean, it's very obvious they've taken a page out of El Salvador here.
01:23:21.000I mean, El Salvador was just like a total disaster zone and Bukele is just like, oh, we can just like end this.
01:23:27.000Like this is crime is optional and twenty.
01:23:33.000The left loves crime because they love filth and they hate their fathers and they hate America.
01:23:38.000They hate themselves, they hate beauty.
01:23:40.000And what is more beautiful than like Union Station, right?
01:23:43.000Union Station is a very beautiful place, very dignified to take a train to Union Station until you see homeless people pooping on everywhere.
01:23:58.000Violent criminals only understand the language of violence and people, especially on the left, but more generally, have misgivings about criminality and what makes criminals criminals.
01:24:10.000They need to understand that violent criminals are ontologically criminals.
01:24:17.000And they will be criminals for the rest of their lives.
01:25:37.000If you have an area that is high crime that will drive businesses out, that will drive investment out, that will drive all the good things about a society out of the area.
01:25:47.000But if you have, if you go in and take care of the crime, there is money to be made in providing low cost housing to people that don't have a lot of money.
01:25:55.000There is money to be made in putting in bodegas or shops for people that don't have a lot of money to go somewhere and buy the things that they need.
01:26:04.000But if you have a high crime area, no one wants to invest because they're going to lose their their money.
01:26:09.000They're going to lose their investment.
01:26:10.000Poverty doesn't drive crime, but crime does drive poverty.
01:26:15.000There are poor places all over the world that have lower crime rates than places like DC.
01:26:20.000And they're poor, but they're not criminal because they're not inherently criminal people, and it doesn't take very much to actually wrap up the criminals and throw them in jail.
01:26:31.000When you're dealing with a place like DC, someone's rights are going to be violated.
01:26:35.000It's either the criminals or it's the innocent people just trying to go for a walk and not get knocked over the head.
01:26:41.000So it's like if someone's rights are going to be violated, it should be the criminals.
01:26:46.000Like, sorry, I mean, it's unreal that we have to deal with this in the United States.
01:27:06.000It's absolutely about, I mean, in the people in New York City.
01:27:09.000I mean, New York City, nobody takes the subway, for example, especially after a certain time because they're worried about rising instances of people getting pushed on the tracks.
01:27:19.000So then they say, okay, I can't do the subway.
01:28:39.000Like, I didn't have a good relationship with my father.
01:28:42.000Like, what is what do they ascribe to this man's inner life that they think this can be explained away with like childhood trauma or something?
01:29:00.000Maybe he's a sensitive young man that could be Yeah.
01:29:03.000I heard this guy in New York City that was on the subway and another guy was like heckling this woman and the guy went in, stepped in to stop it and the guy who was heckling the woman slashed this guy with like a box cutter on his face, slashed his face.
01:29:18.000face slash his face up fast forward like a month or two later they go to court and when he goes to court the woman whom he helped was actually siding with the criminal who slashes I mean that's New York for you guys.
01:29:31.000Yeah, it makes it you have no incentive and they want it like that, no incentive.
01:29:34.000You go, listen, these people are all fucked up, they're liberal.
01:29:38.000If somebody's getting harassed, you just go, I'm just going to mind my own business.
01:29:41.000It's not me and I'll just let it happen.
01:29:43.000And that's like you're taking away the culture, the New York culture, the humanism, the humanic nature of it.
01:29:51.000You have no type of community or semblance of, you know, we're all in this together and that is destroying what it means to be an American, right?
01:29:59.000You're just like a vessel in this Gotham City type of deal, trying to survive, trying not to get hit by an Indian truck driver, trying not to get slashed in the subway.
01:31:05.000People are willing to endure the heckling.
01:31:07.000I mean, I'm, you know, the sidewalk's one thing, but I'm like, you know, this is your, this is your Oh, I saw someone rocking Helias the other day.
01:31:13.000I mean, that if that doesn't tell you how bad crime is getting, I don't know what will.
01:31:48.000And by the way, the nicest areas in this country, like the nicest areas, the best objective real estate.
01:31:53.000I'm not talking about what they do they do to it, but the best real estate, there's none of our, like, nobody speaks English in those places, you know?
01:32:43.000Me and my wife go to Montauk every year and every year, I'm telling you, it gets worse and worse with like when you go to a restaurant, you look around and like there's like Russian people speaking Russian, speaking Japanese.
01:32:55.000Every year it gets less and less American and it's like people can't afford it out here.
01:34:03.000And like, and then they, I mean, we talked about it on the show, it's like there was this poll that came out where Gen Z soured on Trump, seemingly, overnight.
01:34:10.000And Tim made the point, and it's true, is like, that's not them thinking, oh, you know, Trump's too conservative or whatever.
01:34:16.000That's them outflanking him to the right.
01:34:18.000And they're like, oh, he's not deporting enough people.
01:34:20.000Like, people don't realize how angry Zoomers are about what's been done to their country.
01:34:26.000The argument that Donald Trump was the moderate option is a Very true statement.
01:34:31.000Donald Trump is a Democrat from the 90s, genuinely.
01:34:38.000As much as the left wants to cast him as such, he is not particularly far right.
01:34:43.000None of his policy prescriptions are in any way far right at all, and the American people don't understand what's coming when it comes to when Gen Z is not just, you know, is really politically active.
01:35:00.000Now, granted, there's not a lot of Gen Z. Oh yeah.
01:35:23.000When you hear stuff like that, though, I think that that actually will harden, harden at least some people.
01:35:29.000And maybe this is just because I got a baby on the way.
01:35:32.000But like the idea of outlawing abortion seems obvious to me.
01:35:36.000And the idea of possibly outlawing the pill is like, well, maybe that's what the human race needs because the the fact that the birth rates are down.
01:36:24.000I remember studying this, like, you know, there's all this complex economic theory and everything.
01:36:28.000It's not about positive birth control and like, yeah, and people get on TikTok and see hot people and like, oh, I don't want to, I'm not going to sell for anyone except that.
01:36:35.000That's all, that's all that's going on.
01:36:37.000That's the only way you can explain India going separate places.
01:36:39.000We can never live in a pre birth control world again.
01:36:44.000Like, the technology has been unleashed.
01:37:06.000I think the only way out of this mess, and I hate to sound like, you know, a, you know, soapbox person, but it's like religiosity, specifically Christianity.
01:37:15.000I don't know that that not that I think that won't help, but I don't know that that's going to be a thing for enough people.
01:37:22.000And I was talking about this, I think it was last night, like a lot of the questions that were answered by religion are no longer questions.
01:37:31.000For a long time, for the vast majority of human history, all of the questions that God answered have been answered.
01:37:46.000Because right now, people need religion, right?
01:37:50.000Religion is more like a language than anything else.
01:37:52.000Religion is ubiquitous throughout human history.
01:37:55.000So whether it be, it doesn't matter where the people are or how far apart in time they are, every single civilization has had some kind of religion.
01:38:04.000And the, the secularists of today have replaced God with basically themselves, right?
01:38:10.000That's why there's the whole the trans stuff is really self worship, the, the, because the idea that you're the idea that you can can create a perfected world, that's a godlike.
01:38:21.000So really what's happened is the religions that we remember or the religions that came before have been replaced in Western countries with this secular religion.
01:38:32.000And it doesn't have to have a Christlike figure, even though the Christlike figures are what people think of when they think of religion, when they think of a god like the Christian God or whatever, or the Catholic God or the Muslim God, that's not necessary for religion.
01:38:48.000That is one type of religion, but there's all kinds of other religions that have existed in human history.
01:38:56.000in the West has replaced the traditional religions with this kind of secular religion.
01:39:01.000And so whether or not you can convince whether or not people will believe in the older religions isn't whether or not they will believe in religion.
01:39:11.000Well, I don't know if it's a question of whether or not Gen Z is going to show any interest in traditional religion.
01:39:34.000And also But it's Gen Z who are the smallest of generations.
01:39:39.000The number of church going young people is increasingly male.
01:39:46.000That's never been the case before historically.
01:39:49.000So now the majority of church going Gen Zers are male.
01:39:52.000Well, that's historically because men are the most lost in this modern world.
01:39:56.000Well, it's because, like you said, okay, a lot of these questions are being answered, like, okay, where does the sun go, et cetera, et cetera.
01:40:01.000It's like, that's what, like, okay, the scientific, we can, we can, that'll be Dawkins and John Lennox can debate that.
01:40:47.000I mean, witchcraft is gaining popularity specifically with women, but also overall, like it's been commercialized into a multi-billion dollar industry.
01:41:02.000Like, it just because there has been an increase in traditional religion doesn't mean that it's actually going to be the thing that's fixing our our population going off the cliff.
01:41:14.000I mean, look, like restoring, restoring the West to the pre modern state of things is going to take more than a generation.
01:41:20.000But I'm much more optimistic about the children that Zoomers will raise actually than I am of the generation that Boomers and Gen X raised.
01:41:27.000No offense, because I mean, I love Gen Xers, but it's just true.
01:41:30.000Is the fact that Zoomers have effectively figured all this out on their own is a very strong indicator for what the next generation that zoomers are going to birth are going to be.
01:41:38.000Institutions like the church and marriage just have a way of reasserting themselves.
01:41:44.000Well, that way is because if everyone on the one side is saying, Oh, I'm going to abort all my children and I'm not going to have any kids and I can't bring kids into the world, then the people that are having children are going to inherit the earth.
01:41:54.000No matter what you do, it's going to end up that way.
01:41:56.000And the children that we have as right-wingers will be much more well rounded.
01:42:00.000They'll be, they're just going to want it more than the kids that whatever kids the left-wingers manage not to be selecting their, you know, gender or if they identify as a cat, you know, when they start struggle they have the litter boxes for the children to do.
01:42:13.000And there's traits like neuroticism that just like passed along.
01:42:16.000So it's like the left is like giving them like a basket case.
01:42:19.000They're all going to have like, you know, all these different, you know, problems.
01:43:42.000Jake says false accusations should hold the same punishment as what you are accusing someone of.
01:43:47.000I'm not sure the context in this, but I don't have a problem with that.
01:43:50.000That was when we were talking about Schiff and, you know, should Schiff face the death penalty for accusing Trump of treason, which the penalty is death.
01:43:59.000So one would say in a civilized society, the answer would be yes.
01:44:02.000Well, I mean, I think that he should face whatever the.
01:45:59.000There will be in ten years there will be hundreds of thousands of humanoid robots walking around among us and I think that most people are going to be pretty okay with it fairly quickly.
01:46:09.000There will be people that won't, I am sure of that.
01:46:11.000I'm sure that I'm going to catch a lot of hell from the chat just for saying that.
01:47:54.000Used to be a trade that people apprenticed for.
01:47:56.000The bar has been lowered by easy schooling, basically DEI to open the trade to everyone.
01:48:00.000I mean, look, that's the way that kind of it goes.
01:48:03.000But really, I understand that trucking at some point was similar to a trade, but it is one of the trucking is something that most people can do.
01:48:11.000Most Americans, most people can drive, especially, particularly if you can speak the language of the country that you're in, you can learn the rules of the road and most people can at least.
01:48:20.000So the idea that it's, that it's specialized, I mean, part of the reason why they're stuffing, you know, people that have, you know, newly arrived foreigners and illegal immigrants into these jobs is because it is something that they can generally do if they're, you know, if they can read English.
01:48:36.000I think the failure point is that we're allowing people to that aren't familiar with the country and can't read the language and can't speak the language, we're allowing them to drive.
01:48:44.000And that's where the breaking point is.
01:48:46.000I've never driven an eighteen wheeler, but I imagine it's a little more difficult than driving, you know, than driving like a truck, right?
01:48:53.000Like, so there is a it's even scarier to think that, you know, obviously any, you know, people can learn these things, but the fact that they have to learn it and they can't speak English and they're they're very low IQ people, smaller brains.
01:49:05.000I think the blind spot for an eighteen wheeler is like 180 feet or something that you can't, so I don't know.
01:49:37.000And, and, you know, they're, they are more difficult to drive than a regular vehicle, but it's not something that's super complex, you know.
01:49:45.000And it could be up to 200 feet the blind spot for an 18-wheeler.
01:49:54.000Dad squatch, it looks like Phil, your argument for having automated trucks safer than having illegal immigrants on the road is exactly what the liberal tech bros want.
01:50:03.000White American trucker, I don't know what your point is that it like that is what they want, but it is also like there is going to come a time when vehicle will be driven more safely by robots than by humans.
01:50:30.000Shane H. Wilder says with deportations, some left.
01:50:32.000Some leftists are calling to bring back the Bracero program that ended in nineteen sixty four because it made workers essentially slave laborers and required them to be sprayed with DDT before working.
01:50:52.000Evan for us says, If y'all want to see some shocking data on the dating marriage homeowners realm, look up the statistics on the number of Gen Z that are married and or have children.
01:51:05.000I'm not sure that there is a fix a comin'.
01:51:08.000Gen Z has to have four kids each for replacement, right?
01:51:12.000Like boomers and Gen X were at the 2.1.
01:51:17.000There were so few millennials and even fewer still Gen Z. They have to have four.
01:51:23.000So I don't know if that fix is coming or not.
01:51:28.000A lot of people, that's another thing that people like, there's a lot of people that are like, oh, you know, the idea of so much automation, that's terrible, that's terrible, that's terrible.
01:51:36.000like just to have a society that functions because you've got fewer people that fill the jobs that are necessary to keep society working and you're going to need some some, some way to get the garbage out.
01:51:50.000You're going to need some, some way to get things built.
01:51:53.000You're going to need some, some way to get a lot of things done that people do, but there's just not enough Gen Z to do it.
01:52:00.000Well, go like about two weeks ago on the Culture Ward channel, my interview with Nate Fisher, that was, that's a really good case, the right wing case for, for automation.
01:52:11.000It's just very pragmatic, especially dealing with population decline.
01:52:15.000And he does a good job explaining how AI could actually be a good solution for increasing the birth rate just because women particularly work these pointless email jobs oftentimes.
01:52:25.000And if you can automate those out, increase male wages through increasing their productivity, Then we could actually see the total fertility rate increase as women are freed up to raise children.
01:52:38.000And you might see a lot of the depression, a considerable amount of the depression that you see in women go away because honestly, I think that most women have been fooled into thinking that they want to be boss bitches and be career women and they actually don't.
01:52:55.000And if they had kids, they would be like, holy cow, this is the best.
01:52:59.000Women that go to work, they start a career, they work for a little while, then they get married and they have a child and they take time off and they're like, I don't want to leave my child.
01:53:43.000Cat 318 says Kathy Hochel said at a press conference that what happened to President Trump wouldn't happen to any other business after President Trump lost that case.
01:53:52.000Tish James just needs to go after real criminals.
01:53:56.000Well, yeah, but they say that, but the precedents have already been set, right?
01:54:01.000They say that it won't happen until, you know, the next president that gets in that's on the right, because remember, they were saying that Donald Trump is the worst thing that could ever happen.
01:54:10.000He's worse than Hitler, literally verbatim.
01:54:14.000And then, as soon as you start talking about JD Vance, you see, you see think pieces coming out.
01:54:20.000Donald Trump was bad, but whoa boy, JD Vance is worse.
01:54:25.000There were people that were starting to make that very argument about Ron DeSantis when DeSantis was running against Donald Trump before DeSantis dropped out, before everyone saw the lifts in his boots.
01:54:37.000And they were like, look, DeSantis might actually be worse than Trump because he's competent and Donald Trump was a buffoon and blah, blah, blah.
01:54:44.000They were starting to make that argument.
01:54:46.000That is the argument that the left will make forever because they don't have any principle at all.
01:54:52.000They only use words as a means to strike to strike fear in people.
01:54:58.000Now, their words don't have to have any attachment to reality.
01:55:03.000That's why they call Donald Trump Hitler.
01:55:05.000Even though he's nothing like Hitler, like his policies are not like any kind of socialism or national socialism, nothing like that at all, but they draw any connection to Hitler they can because they don't have the ability to make reasoned arguments.
01:55:19.000They only have the ability to say that he is the worst thing ever because they believe that words don't have meaning, words are just access to power.
01:56:20.000Listen, New York is quickly becoming more of a failed society and obviously Mandomni and all that, but we will always be better than Maryland in every single way, in every single form.
01:58:39.000Maverick Cuba says, why should American businesses, landowners, be punished for not proper vetting?
01:58:45.000Do you see how the property business seizures will be used to punish Americans for not legally vetting other Americans for work slash rent under the table?
02:00:14.000So I get it, I understand your argument, but I abandoned that argument a long time ago when I stopped being a libertarian because it doesn't work in the real world.
02:00:24.000If you don't use the power of government when your party has it, if you don't have representatives that will use that power, you are just saying, let the left use the power, let the left beat up on me, let the left destroy my country, let the left do all the things they want to do, and I'm too principled to do it.
02:00:40.000Well, I tell you what, I'm not too principled to tell the government to use its power in my, on my behalf, in my benefit.
02:00:49.000Not a bot says, When my dad's family came to America from Mexico, my grandpa told me not to teach his children to speak Spanish, because we're all Americans now.
02:00:58.000He was a Marachi, and he was so proud to earn his family citizenship.
02:01:35.000I I don't see why people don't, you know, make the connection of if you are in the country, you should be speaking English, but we're going to wrap it up from here.
02:01:46.000So actually, do you want to go ahead and shout something out?
02:01:49.000It's been great to be on the show tonight.