00:02:38.000Donald Trump today announced that the U.S. has annexed the Strait of Hormuz in a post on Truth Social, which I'm sure the United States, like most people are going to assume, is just a joke.
00:02:48.000He posted this image where it's a big circle over the Strait of Hormuz.
00:02:53.000But he also told a gathering of supporters that he was planning on annexing the Strait of Hormuz as a U.S. territory once we conquered the area.
00:03:01.000And I'm sure the rest of the world doesn't take the joke lightly when the president of the United States says we're going to take this Strait and control it.
00:03:08.000I got to wonder is the real goal here just to create a permanent Tollway controlled by the United States so that our enemies, the BRICS nations, won't be able to get energy.
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00:05:49.000I'm an Afghan veteran, and I'm advocating for President Trump's top legislative priority for veterans, the Take Care of America's Veterans Act.
00:08:10.000Considering, you know, it's really funny, is.
00:08:14.000Talking to my normie friends, they're like, I don't know how many, I'm over the whole war thing because it's not, there's nothing developing.
00:08:21.000There's no, it's not a developing war.
00:08:23.000It is just the same thing every single day.
00:08:24.000Trump's declared victory several times.
00:08:26.000It's not changing and people are just burned out on it.
00:08:32.000You know, it seems like the play may be to permanently control the Strait of Hormuz.
00:08:37.000Yeah, I feel like whenever it comes to what Iran is saying or what Donald Trump is saying, this is the first negotiation where I'm like, they're both definitely full of shit.
00:08:48.000There's no truth to anything either of them are saying.
00:08:51.000But, you know, I don't see why Iran is going to, you know, make any kind of concessions right now.
00:08:59.000I mean, the U.S. doesn't want to continue like significant bombing.
00:09:04.000We haven't been, if I understand correctly, there haven't been a lot of sorties going over Iran and dropping bombs.
00:09:09.000So that's not really applying pressure.
00:09:12.000And Donald Trump, I mean, and Iran has no reason to give any concessions.
00:10:24.000I thought he was very disciplined by saying we've got tight military objectives.
00:10:28.000But we all knew destroying the Navy, destroying the Air Force, and degrading or destroying their nuclear program was going to be easy in the short term.
00:10:36.000But those negotiations that we're seeing right now, like what you're saying, Tim, people are just kind of getting tired of it.
00:11:50.000And it seems like in this debate, oftentimes there's like, you're either all for it or you're all against it.
00:11:55.000And really, Trump has taken the pragmatic approach.
00:11:58.000And I look back to North Korea, for instance, in Trump's first term, I volunteered to go to South Korea at the height of the tension when Kim Jong un was lobbying those missiles.
00:12:08.000And President Trump was ratcheting up the rhetoric.
00:12:10.000You know, he's like, my button is bigger and it works.
00:12:13.000And I thought we were going into war, but Trump was able to use diplomacy and became friends with Kim Jong Un.
00:12:20.000And I remember like these think tank policy wonk nerds in DC, these neocons that always talk about, you can't talk to Kim Jong Un.
00:12:52.000I mean, that's really the thing we're just in this holding pattern as long as Iran's continuing.
00:12:56.000That even if we do get these domestic policy victories, it's everything's kind of just seized up right now because, again, you know, and I'm saying this as a massive Trump supporter.
00:13:06.000I mean, this was a line for a lot of people.
00:13:14.000Experience what happened in the Middle East, you know, with GWAT and previous escapades.
00:13:18.000And they're just like, dude, I'm allergic to the Middle East right now.
00:13:22.000So, I mean, I know I'm preaching to the choir on this.
00:13:24.000I think the miscalculation, maybe, from Trump was, and I'll give credit to these people that are actually like vehemently in favor of the war with Iran.
00:13:34.000Is they're actually correct when they do say that Iran is this like theocratic extremist country?
00:13:40.000You know, they're at least their elite.
00:13:41.000That is correct, which would be the reason why you shouldn't conduct a war with them because.
00:13:47.000Like when you're dealing with great powers, like when you're dealing with the Russians, you're dealing with the Chinese, it's quite easy to understand what they want, what they want to get out of negotiations.
00:13:56.000With Iran, they really do believe that there is like this sort of jihad that they're taking part in.
00:14:01.000So you're basically dealing, again, like to the super vehemently pro Iran war people are like, this is literally like the Taliban.
00:14:08.000It's like, yeah, it's like the Taliban with a massive military and like in pursuit of tons of money.
00:14:14.000And so it's like, that means we should probably.
00:14:17.000Like, maybe be a bit more cautious with conducting affairs because for them, victory is like literally just surviving.
00:14:23.000And we could go through all like the different, try to analyze, psychoanalyze where the Ayatollah is at or where the Iranian, you know, IRGC is at.
00:14:29.000I just think they saw what happened in Libya and they're like, hey, you know, we're next if we don't pursue a nuclear weapon.
00:14:34.000If you're the United States, the only way to win that conflict is to completely eviscerate Iran, which is not going to happen for political reasons, but also just like logistically, it's going to be very difficult to pull off.
00:14:45.000Like, this isn't Venezuela where it's just a gas station where you can roll in and take over and hold it up GTA style.
00:14:51.000It's like, dude, no, this is like a full, like, mature, Dictatorship that has tools, that has so many resources, and they're in this geopolitical situation where the Chinese and Russians have an interest in them winning.
00:15:06.000It's got partners in the vicinity, right?
00:15:08.000Both Russia and China have a stake in Iran, whereas even if Russia was tacitly supporting Venezuela, it's on the other side of the world.
00:15:17.000The US can do a lot to prevent Russia from supporting Venezuela, whereas you can't really do that with Iran, not in the same way.
00:15:26.000Even with the North Koreans, they're still going to respond to logical, like, trains of thought insofar as you can reward them with certain sanctions relief or cut deals with them, this, that, the other.
00:15:40.000Like, the North Koreans, throughout the Russian conflict, they're having their most prosperous moment ever because they're capitalizing on the fact that Russia can't really trade with anyone right now except for them.
00:15:50.000Iran is different, where Iran doesn't respond to kind of logical, They're like quite literally like theocratic, again, which is the reason why we probably shouldn't get wrapped up in the first place.
00:16:02.000That's just kind of like part and parcel in the Middle East.
00:16:05.000Where the North Koreans, again, you can just like throw sanctions relief their way and they're like, okay, we won't point missiles at you for a few years.
00:16:10.000And if you look at our national debt, we're going to approach $40 trillion, I think, in the next two weeks.
00:16:17.000I think we're already there ahead of schedule, right?
00:16:19.000And when I came back from Afghanistan, our national debt was, I believe, $13 or $14 trillion.
00:16:26.000And I thought that was our greatest national security threat back then.
00:17:00.000You can see where, like, you know, it's hard to believe we would ever enter that, like, you know, doom spiral, but like, you are starting to see some of the elements you would expect to see if we were approaching that, insofar as, like, yeah, the treasury market is starting to run away from it.
00:17:14.000What's probably going to happen is inflation is going to be above 5% for, you know, an indefinite period of time, and people are going to hate it.
00:17:34.000The overall, everyone knows, or at least it is a fact that the driver of the debt is Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
00:17:43.000Look, if the government had allowed George Bush to create the accounts in like 2002 or whatever that he was trying to make and put the money into the stock market, we would have plenty of money.
00:18:01.000If the U.S. Actually, invested in American businesses.
00:18:04.000This is why when people are like, oh, the US shouldn't be buying stocks because they're picking winners and losers.
00:18:09.000It's like, look, man, I get that there is an allergic reaction to the idea of nationalizing businesses, but the US purchasing stock is, especially when it's a non controlling interest and they don't get the vote or anything, they're just buying a stock and holding it.
00:18:26.000That's not nationalizing a corporation or an industry.
00:18:30.000And it's actually the government showing that it has faith in the market, in the capitalist system.
00:18:36.000And so I don't have any problem with that, with what the Trump administration is doing buying stocks.
00:19:00.000So it's just people who just put it in VOO and walked away are just like, I'm good.
00:19:03.000It was something like 50% didn't even beat Treasury yields.
00:19:06.000So it's like, who would have made more money by literally just investing in bonds like a boomer?
00:19:10.000Well, right now, there's a lot of speculation about market collapse.
00:19:14.000And my view is largely just cash is king.
00:19:17.000If stocks are going to, if the market's going to break, if housing is going to break, you know, real estate, all these things are going to burst, then cash, buying power goes way up.
00:19:25.000So getting a high yield interest or something, you know?
00:21:02.000Israel launched airstrikes into Syria, targeting a region where Turkey was expected to deploy, and many are considering it an attack on Turkey.
00:21:10.000The AP is reporting Israel struck an airbase in northwest Syria early Tuesday, saying it aimed to prevent Turkish troops from deploying.
00:21:16.000Turkey, which has close ties to the Syrian government, has been providing assistance to Syria's military, has tense relations with Israel.
00:21:23.000Eight strikes hit the runway of the Abu Dhuhr airbase in the northwestern province of Idlib.
00:21:28.000Causing damage but no casualties, state TV said.
00:21:31.000Syria's foreign minister Assad al Shabani told reporters in Damascus that Syria condemns the Israeli aggression, adding the strikes were an unjustified provocation, the violation of Syria's sovereignty, and a direct threat to regional and global stability.
00:21:44.000So, as we were just saying, World War III, and let's pull up the good old map here and talk about why.
00:21:51.000So, we got our Strait of Hormuz, but let's go up to the Caspian.
00:21:54.000So, this is to the north of Iran, and they were shipping weapons and materials to Russia when Ukraine struck that ship.
00:22:01.000But then you've got these strikes in Syria from Israel, which, of course, Turkey was planning on sending troops, which many are considering an attack on Turkey.
00:22:12.000It's not that they directly attacked Turkey, but they attacked the interests Turkey had.
00:22:16.000Now, Turkey is a NATO ally, and so Israel launching strikes against a NATO ally, this is just getting weird.
00:23:09.000And if you talk about World War III, if the United States wants to be postured for a real World War III type situation, we need to focus on our industrial base.
00:23:20.000We need to focus on our own hemisphere first.
00:23:23.000And as we keep on chasing these ghosts in CENTCOM, you listen to what you're saying about Israel and Turkey and all stuff.
00:23:29.000We can't even figure out things here in the United States, right?
00:23:33.000So let's focus on building a strong republic.
00:23:36.000Bring back manufacturing to America so we can actually produce these ballistic missiles at a higher capacity.
00:23:42.000Let's strengthen our military or recruiting and look at the real long term threat, which, in my opinion, number one focus has to be on our debt, our financial solvency, and then take care of deporting as many people as possible, securing the border.
00:23:58.000But if you look at World War III, who are we going to be fighting?
00:24:28.000You mean if they actually struck Turkish troops?
00:24:31.000If they strike Turkey and then they invoke Article 5, that creates the biggest political crisis since World War II because what's going to end up happening there is one of two things, probably both, is Trump.
00:24:42.000Either says post 1949 world order gone, NATO gone.
00:24:48.000What's going to happen is Turkey has a deal with Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.
00:24:52.000They signed a mutual defense pact, I think, last year, a few years ago.
00:24:56.000So, our entire, to your point, our entire posture that we've been building up in the Middle East now for decades, which is in some parts, at least this is the goal of the Intel community, is building up an anti China posture in the Middle East.
00:25:07.000Suddenly the Saudis are out, the Pakistanis are out.
00:25:21.000Like, here's the question Bashar al Assad was opposed to U.S. interests, aligned with Russia, opposing the U.S.'s plan for the Qatar Turkey pipeline.
00:26:05.000So now Israel is a problem with this current leadership crop.
00:26:07.000The Turks are coming in and they're saying, we want to bolster, we want to basically buttress the new Syrian leadership.
00:26:12.000We want to support them, help them build out a government, build out a military, et cetera.
00:26:17.000From Israel's perspective, they're saying, no, we want Syria to stay weak because we're suspicious of any leadership that rises in Syria.
00:26:23.000So it's this like total mess that's occurring now in Syria.
00:26:27.000Again, you know, you would have gotten called every name in the book for just saying, I don't know, man, maybe keeping Assad in there might have been somewhat.
00:26:33.000Stabilizing, like he was actually a bit of a stabilizing force.
00:26:39.000Now, again, Trump is just put in this really difficult situation, which is like, again, if Israel and Turkey are clearly trading blows, but they're clearly not seeing eye to eye, where does that leave us?
00:26:51.000Because let's just go worst case scenario.
00:26:52.000Let's say Israel does start conducting some sort of real operation on Turkey.
00:27:40.000I'm genuinely confused by what we're seeing here with the issue of Syria.
00:27:43.000Of course, we've covered a lot of this stuff on Timcast IRL.
00:27:47.000If the U.S. is actively trying to negotiate with the new Syrian government, why would we tolerate Israel launching strikes against the new Syrian government?
00:28:01.000Whether or not they share intel with us, whether or not they're a, you know, what the government has largely said, they're an outpost of democracy in the Middle East and they give us basically.
00:28:13.000Forward look into what's going on in the Middle East.
00:28:18.000I mean, all that can be true, but is it worth, you know, standing with Israel against NATO?
00:28:25.000And look, I've said before that I think that Turkey shouldn't be in NATO because they're a theocracy and we shouldn't have a theocracy in NATO.
00:28:32.000Like that is a big, you know, an Islamic theocracy.
00:28:36.000That's a big problem because that means that their goals ultimately don't align with Western goals.
00:28:42.000So, You know, Turkey has the inclination to do whatever they can to empower themselves.
00:28:49.000There's probably people in Turkey that are like, We got to bring the Ottoman Empire back.
00:28:54.000And to pick sides between the bad friend and the other bad friend, it does kind of make me think, Well, look, man, maybe the U.S. should be like, Palms up, dude, you guys are on your own.
00:29:05.000I was just saying, I think back to when Trump was getting ready to board Marine One and he dropped that epic F bomb on the floor of the White House lawn.
00:29:13.000Yeah, like these people lost their effing mind or whatever.
00:29:17.000And he was so frustrated that he's trying to accomplish the United States' strategic objectives, and our ally seems to be undermining him when they wanted to drop all that ordinance.
00:29:26.000And this looks like another case where our ally is undermining our strategic interests.
00:29:32.000And that's why we always say in the military, the enemy has a vote.
00:29:37.000And we can bomb the hell out of Iran, which we did, and we can sink their Navy, we can destroy their Air Force, we can greatly degrade their ballistic missile capability.
00:29:47.000But there's these second and third order effects in the region that you can't predict.
00:29:52.000And I don't care what any of the smart guys in DC say at the think tanks or even guys like me with combat experience, you try to make the best guess.
00:30:00.000You plan for the most probable course of action and the most dangerous course of action.
00:30:05.000And what we've seen throughout world history is one military decision can set off a huge catastrophe down the road.
00:30:12.000So I think President Trump, though, he is, I still believe he's the president of peace.
00:31:18.000Because they understand that as long as the United States is dependent on Israel and this conflict with Iran, They don't have any leverage over Israel as they conduct affairs in Syria.
00:31:27.000So the United States has been explicit.
00:31:29.000The United States wants Syria to be stable.
00:31:33.000Everyone in the State Department has been explicit, unusually explicit, actually, that they want Syria to be stable because they know that the Syrian government has made like real, actual, tangible efforts to sort of exhibit to the world that we're no longer Iranian aligned.
00:31:48.000They've communicated to the world we're okay with sort of, you know, getting in bed with the Turks.
00:31:59.000So we don't have to worry about Syria anymore because Syria has been this like thorn in our side for a long time.
00:32:03.000We do not want the Iran, again, from the, you know, the State Department's perspective, we do not want the Iranians to have a beachhead in Syria.
00:32:09.000And we've all the troops that are there right now, it's a huge mess.
00:32:12.000So if Syria is strong and maybe not strong, but as if they're stable, that solves that problem.
00:32:16.000We don't have to worry about Syria anymore.
00:32:18.000So again, the State Department's been very explicit with what they want to see from Syria, but they can't come out and put any, you know, they can't twist the screws on the Israelis right now because you cause any sort of rupture.
00:32:29.000In the relationship right now, again, just purely from the State Department's perspective right now, any rupture in that relationship, we're screwed in Iran.
00:32:36.000I mean, more screwed than we already are in a lot of ways.
00:32:38.000It's going to be a disaster from their perspective.
00:32:41.000So there's all these, like, again, all these different dynamics going on that is just, again, put us in such a complicated situation, these second and third order consequences from Iran.
00:32:52.000I mean, I do think Trump is just, like, really, quite frankly, upset with how this has played out because the Israelis are playing their hand from their perspective.
00:33:01.000They're playing their hand quite well.
00:33:02.000They're saying, We can do whatever we want basically in Syria right now.
00:33:04.000The Americans won't do anything about it because they can't.
00:33:07.000They quite literally have their hands tied.
00:33:09.000So it's just between them and the Turks to figure this out.
00:33:18.000Obviously, I don't have any kind of inside information about what the plan is for Trump, but I do think that the fact that Israel is initiating strikes to prevent Turkey from getting a stronger foothold in Syria, I think that.
00:33:35.000You know, the Trump administration has got to draw a line and be like, look, you need to stop this.
00:33:41.000And if the U.S. has, like, this is the time to pull out all the stops when it comes to Israel and be like, this can't happen.
00:33:53.000And I know everyone in the audience is shouting right now, we'll just tell them to go screw themselves, tell the Israelis to go screw themselves.
00:34:18.000As long as the Israelis are bombing and going tit for tat with the Iranian proxies, there will be no peace.
00:34:25.000So, part of the problem here, again, the math is you can't, geopolitically speaking, you can't tell the Israelis to just go screw yourself because they will just.
00:34:34.000Trump has demonstrated he's very frustrated at this.
00:34:37.000I mean, a month or two ago, we had the whole rift because we had the MOU and then the Israelis started bombing southern Lebanon.
00:34:44.000And the Iranians were like, dude, what?
00:35:11.000The fact that we're the biggest, baddest country on planet Earth and we're boxed into a corner.
00:35:15.000I wonder if it's worth just, you know, Just pulling out of Iran and being like, look, this is not going to continue as long as the region is.
00:35:26.000We can't because they'll shut the straight down.
00:36:01.000Suddenly, I mean, you even start having these doomsday projections, like maybe the USD is on the chopping block.
00:36:06.000I mean, what happens if the Saudis are saying, the US, we cannot trust the US to carry out managing the global economy, so we're going to pivot to China?
00:36:22.000I'm just simply like trying to see around this corner of what would happen if that happened.
00:36:26.000And again, we would have to be okay with the fact that the U.S. would, you know, our standing on the global stage would severely decline.
00:36:33.000Things would get a lot more expensive and China would sort of emerge as the global superpower.
00:36:38.000I think, too, if you look at our standing on the global stage, I mean, we spent all this money in Afghanistan and we're paying the Taliban right now.
00:37:34.000So, if we stop paying the Taliban, if we stop tactically supporting the Taliban's right to rule, then the Chinese just eat our lunch or whatever.
00:37:42.000Well, wasn't it the Taliban were trying to stop the Bacha Bazi stuff or whatever?
00:38:33.000And so my interpreter, Told me that these parents, to try to get their kids a better life, would sell their child into one of these arrangements.
00:38:43.000And the expectation was that the rich Afghan elder would take care of this kid and then send them to like the university, right?
00:38:57.000And we would talk about this like man, man, boy love Thursday or whatever.
00:39:04.000And you just hear all these stories about how these guys were taking advantage of these young little boys.
00:39:09.000And there's actually a CNN article written like in the early part of the Afghan war.
00:39:15.000I think it was down in Kandahar in the southern part of Afghanistan, where these army nurses couldn't figure out why Afghan women weren't getting pregnant.
00:39:24.000And it was because the men were having anal sex with their wives, that they were so used to this degeneracy of this gay culture.
00:41:14.000Well, I get the camera back and I download the images, and there's a bunch of images of these Afghans getting high, like hugging each other.
00:41:23.000And then, oh, and then there's a picture of these AK 47s and these RPGs.
00:41:30.000And those are the things that we had to deal with.
00:41:31.000And then also, if you want to talk about like the way they would treat women.
00:41:35.000So I would never see an Afghan woman ever.
00:41:38.000We would patrol, we'd get on foot and we'd go through a village, and all the women in their burqas would just flee, right?
00:41:45.000And because the men would like beat them and all this stuff, and they couldn't be around American men.
00:41:51.000Well, we had these female engagement teams that were attached to my unit.
00:41:55.000We had three incredible Iowa girls that were attached to us.
00:41:59.000So if we had to talk to a female, they could talk to them.
00:42:03.000Well, if I had these women attached to my unit, we had to like babysit them, not because of them, but because these Afghan men, these Afghan national security forces would just hover around them and like seriously were super creepy.
00:42:17.000And then we'd be going through these villages and these men would just start pouring out.
00:42:22.000And these young women, like, they just want to do their job, they just want to serve their country.
00:42:26.000They had a very important role to play.
00:42:28.000And these guys, they do not respect women, they do not respect our norms.
00:42:32.000And that's why I was trying to warn people during the Mamdani election I'm like, hey guys, You don't want these people in control of your government.
00:43:25.000If I had to take one lesson away from the last 70 years of American history, it would be we're all blank slates and everyone's the exact same.
00:43:34.000That makes me, you know, my first thought when you were talking about the cultural practices, I was like, Is turning it to glass still an option?
00:43:40.000But obviously, it's a joke because we're trying to save these kids from this torture and torment.
00:43:45.000So you got it, you got it rocking a hard place.
00:43:48.000Is the U.S. going to invade every single country every time something like this happens?
00:44:20.000And it's just an unfortunate part of this warfare, this counterinsurgency.
00:44:25.000And that's what makes like the American style of colonialism so indefensible because like the British, if they came in and they saw that kind of thing going on, they would just say, I don't know, mop that, do what you need to do to mop this up.
00:45:32.000He was like, yeah, he was like the Michael Jordan of like G1, yeah.
00:45:35.000He was, as far as Australia goes, yeah, he was like an all star.
00:45:39.000And they're just like, oh, we've come up with these charges, he did this that violated the human rights of people that were obviously doing terrible things.
00:45:47.000We were just handcuffed all the time, and so you could hear that and say, okay, well, you know, the United States was trying to employ counterinsurgency, right?
00:45:54.000They're trying to do different types of oh, yeah, yeah, but even on like, I was trying to drop a bomb.
00:46:02.000It was right along the Afghan Pakistani border, right?
00:46:06.000So, not only am I trying to do all this counter surgery stuff and work with local village elders and work on local governance and like agriculture and all this stupid stuff.
00:46:16.000So, now I'm in a firefight where my men are pinned down in a location where American soldiers had died.
00:46:22.000We had rolled through this valley and there was like a memorial of soldiers that got killed there.
00:46:26.000And you could see why, because the turn was so tight, if you could roll your truck into a riverbed.
00:46:34.000And we're like, oh, we're getting jacked up on the way home.
00:46:54.000And a guy from an air conditioned unit or air conditioned room somewhere in Bagram or Kabul or whatever is trying to contact me on my tactical satellite radio and trying to get me to stop.
00:47:07.000I act like I don't hear it because I'm actually trying to drop a bomb to save my life and my men's lives.
00:47:12.000So, even the normal warfighting functions that we were trying to do, just because I was like, I think 400 meters away from the Pakistani border, they were worried about, oh, is this going to send political shockwaves or whatever?
00:48:02.000So in 2011, two U.S. Army Special Forces soldiers intervened against an Afghan local police commander who had raped a boy, and they faced disciplinary consequences for it.
00:48:10.000Captain Daniel Quinn and Sergeant First Class Charles Matlin.
00:48:13.000Confronted an Afghan police commander, Abdul Rahman, in Kunduz province, they say it, Kunduz, after learning he had kept a young boy around 12 chained to a bed and raped him repeatedly for days.
00:48:24.000Quinn was relieved of his command and left the military.
00:48:27.000Martin received a formal reprimand from a general calling his actions flagrant departure from expected standards.
00:48:34.000This adverse mark on his record led the army to push for his involuntary separation, forced retirement years later.
00:48:40.000Yep, I remember this is a big scandal because there were U.S. troops who were horrified to learn they were to keep their mouths shut.
00:48:48.000And sit back and let the rapes happen.
00:48:50.000And like, that's who we were defending in Afghanistan.
00:49:21.000It's like the most, like, we've been doing this for thousands of years, but all of a sudden we decided to flip everything on its head in the 20th and 21st century and, like, we're just going to impose ideology on it.
00:49:30.000No, I'm just going to rag on liberalism, okay?
00:49:34.000The idea, apparently, the reason why they were like, don't stop the rapes is because they didn't want to undermine the culture of Afghanistan.
00:50:06.000And I love this because it is very much the liberal boomer of the 80s who made this show.
00:50:09.000And I'm a big fan of the show, but they romanticize, they fantasize.
00:50:14.000In the fictionalized version of discovery, of coming to new lands, in this instance, it's science fiction where they go to new planets.
00:50:21.000The people are just a little different, just a little different.
00:50:24.000And they're ignoring the fact that when, you know, like the Spanish came to Central America, they found the Aztecs were ripping out children's hearts.
00:50:30.000And so they were like, we're going to stop this.
00:50:32.000We are going to directly intervene and put a stop to this barbarism.
00:51:20.000You're just not extracting them and using them for anything.
00:51:23.000You could maybe attribute it to like warlords, but also I just don't think you have the know how to do it.
00:51:27.000Yeah, let the British and the French and the Americans come in.
00:51:29.000Like, we know what to do with these sorts of things.
00:51:31.000We'll like build some nice TVs and send them back.
00:51:33.000It's like, This is a well established way to conduct affairs.
00:51:37.000But to Tim's point, like the poison of liberalism that came in that really, you know, sunk its teeth into our geopolitics in the 20th century has just led to the situation where we think it's like altruism to let them destroy themselves.
00:51:50.000It's like, actually, no, the freedom to destroy yourself is not freedom at all.
00:51:55.000So, again, us coming in and imposing a better way of life, as in basic ethics and whatnot, and then being rewarded for that, much better arrangement than us expending blood, steel, et cetera.
00:52:06.000For nothing in return, and they hate you anyway.
00:52:32.000So I have friends who have gone to India, and they said that.
00:52:37.000There's just feces everywhere littered through the streets.
00:52:40.000And you'll go to a public bathroom and you'll find the feces littering outside of the door and around the building because the insides are so disgusting that people don't even go in them.
00:52:51.000They just go next to it and go on the ground.
00:52:56.000It's crazy what you find in the rest of the world.
00:52:58.000See, the problem we have in the United States with these liberals, not so much the lefties, the liberals have a romantic view, a romanticized view of the rest of the world.
00:53:04.000They assume everyone's just like them.
00:53:06.000It's like, oh, you know, I'm going to go to India and it's going to be beautiful.
00:53:08.000And you go there and you're like, there's.
00:53:16.000Well, we saw that in Afghanistan too, where we would have the Afghan soldiers stay with us on our compound the night before major operations.
00:53:23.000So they used our bathrooms and they completely messed them up.
00:53:27.000They're standing on top of the toilet lids.
00:54:20.000And yeah, to Tim's point, I mean, like, you go to India, right?
00:54:22.000And it's like, there is like, Really beautiful architecture there.
00:54:25.000It's either really old or like the British built it, like the Victoria Memorial.
00:54:29.000If you look at the Victoria Memorial in Calcutta, it is like one of the most beautiful buildings I think I've ever seen in my life.
00:54:34.000And the British literally built it out of benevolence.
00:54:36.000They were just like, yeah, we appreciate you guys helping us fight wars.
00:54:40.000We just wanted to like show our gratitude and like show, you know, we like this partnership.
00:54:44.000So we're going to build the most beautiful thing you've ever seen in your entire life.
00:54:47.000And if you go to like on Google, if you go to the Google reviews, you'll see a lot of Indian people replying and they're like, this is so beautiful.
00:54:53.000Like we're still thankful to the British for this to this day.
00:54:58.000Resent the British because they told their ancestors to like eat with a fork and causes a lot of strife.
00:55:05.000You know, India's, I mean, to be fair, to be fair, India probably is better at administering their own affairs than the British would be right now.
00:55:12.000I don't think the British are in too hot of a position.
00:55:14.000But in the absence of liberalism, Western civilization is a stabilizing force everywhere.
00:55:21.000Not because we're implementing our system in their country, but because we're just imposing our way of life on those countries.
00:55:26.000And that's just better for everyone involved.
00:55:28.000It's like if we're creating prosperity, then that can be replicated other places.
00:55:32.000And it's not by like installing democracy or whatever.
00:55:35.000It's just by like providing them with our governance.
00:55:45.000Not like go in there and install democracy, but like literally just take over, extract the resources they're not even using and like provide them some basic security so they can like have a shop without getting shot or something.
00:55:55.000A lot of it is just the basic security part, right?
00:55:59.000If you like, if you set up like some basic.
00:56:02.000Basic security apparatus, whatever you want to call it, and make sure that you have some kind of way to moderate the corruption that seems to be rampant.
00:56:16.000A lot of these places turn into very different cultures, right?
00:56:21.000Well, not culture, but very different societies.
00:56:25.000And if the local people don't have the capacity to manage that, then what's the actual problem?
00:56:34.000Some other country coming in and saying, Hey, I mean, the UN does it with peacekeepers, or they say they do it, but then they blow it, right?
00:56:41.000They botch the job because they don't have the ability to do what's necessary.
00:56:44.000Well, and half of these countries, honestly, the majority of countries on this earth are not real countries.
00:56:48.000Like, again, El Salvador prior to Bukele cannot be described as a real country.
00:56:55.000Again, to establish a country, right, to be legitimately viewed as a country, you need to be administering basic services to your citizens, and they're failing to provide basic security to their citizens.
00:58:04.000You can't impose a high trust society on low trust people.
00:58:08.000No, I'm not saying you're going to impose a high trust society.
00:58:12.000But what you can do is make the people that are there rely on the government structure because when you have a low trust society, you need.
00:58:20.000An authoritarian type government or a stronger.
00:58:24.000They imported a bunch of low trust third worlders and then said, put up flock cameras everywhere and we'll just beat the crap out of anybody who says otherwise.
00:58:32.000The United States didn't need that before the immigration.
00:58:34.000What I'm saying is there are places, if you're talking about a place that doesn't have a high trust society where people are.
00:58:41.000If the United States, let's say we go to Liberia and just put troops on every street corner and aim guns at anybody, anybody who acts out, they get dragged off and taken away.
00:58:49.000You will get a functioning society so long as we hold the boot.
00:58:56.000Yeah, and what you're describing is like if you are presented with this term doesn't actually mean a lot, but if you're presented with a low trust society, like I don't know, Liberia as an example, you can't manufacture a high trust society.
00:59:08.000So the next best thing is insulate the majority of people from the crazy people.
00:59:16.000It's just making sure that the population has order, that you have courts that function without a ton of people.
00:59:24.000Have grease in their palms without having to be like, well, you know, I don't know if these guys are going to actually, you know, they're going to treat me fairly in the court.
00:59:32.000Have a court that's administered by someone that's actually like, look, man, I don't have a dog in this, right?
00:59:37.000My friend is not back here telling me who I should pick or whatever.
00:59:41.000Like, have that and have a security force that will actually arrest criminals.
00:59:57.000And he came in and he's like, look, You all need the boot.
01:00:00.000And it's a very, if I understand correctly, and I'm not someone that's extremely well-diverse on Singapore, but it was a fairly diverse society.
01:00:08.000And the reason why he needed to come in and put the boot down was because, or part of the reason, was because it was a diverse society and people weren't, you know, didn't look at each other as compatriots.
01:00:17.000Lee Kuan used just a great example of what could be described as authoritarian pragmatism, right?
01:00:22.000Where he came in and he was an authoritarian, but like everything was for very pragmatic reasons.
01:00:26.000Like one of my favorite quotes he ever said is: to your point, it was a very diverse society.
01:00:29.000At the time of independence, it was about, 75% Chinese, about 15% Malay, and the rest was Indian.
01:00:34.000He came in and he said, Okay, well, elections, democracy is not going to work here because the Chinese will vote for the Chinese guy, the Malays will vote for the Malay guy, and the Indian will vote for the Indian guy.
01:00:42.000So he understood, like, again, these just very natural things.
01:00:47.000And so, yeah, he just came in and he's like, Well, we're not going to LARP like the British.
01:00:50.000He's like, We'll take what we can from them, but ultimately, we can't LARP like the British.
01:00:54.000And this is like the mistake a lot of other countries made where you look in Africa and they actually try to sort of LARP like the British, and it doesn't work.
01:01:00.000You got to be realistic, pragmatic about what the actual situation on the ground is in your country.
01:01:04.000Well, all that's interesting, but I'm bored.
01:01:13.000And he's got two screenshots with different timestamps.
01:01:17.000And of course, Dan Bilzerian has lost the election in Florida's 6th district to Randy Fine, who was recently accused of rifling through someone's mailbox.
01:02:24.000And if anything, when they make these stupid mistakes, assuming it is, they just add fuel to the fire for people like Dan to say that they would cheat out an election.
01:03:16.000And then Randy Fine is this, like, complicated character where he's actually, like, really good on immigration, but then he's also, like, beyond.
01:03:28.000And then he's also like a full blown blood and soil nationalist for Israel, which is like, you know, it's one thing if you're pro Israel, but he's like legitimately like a blood and soil guy.
01:03:39.000And you're like, very complicated figure.
01:03:42.000You know, this is one of those races where I'm like, you know, it's okay to say, I don't know if I really have a dog in this fight.
01:03:47.000I'm glad I don't live in their district.
01:03:49.000It's also funny that Dan Bulzerian, like, you know, he's doing the JQ thing, but he's doing it in like the third most Jewish district in the country.
01:03:57.000Like, if he would have done it, I don't know, there's probably some district he would have played.
01:04:18.000But the point is, like, he's attacking the people that are most likely to go to bat for him.
01:04:23.000Now, I don't know how many Groypers are in that district there, considering the it's Florida, and they're usually young, so probably three of them, right?
01:04:31.000But yeah, I mean, Dan's not really a guy that seems to know a whole lot about how Paul is just like, all right, so I'm going to go really hard on Jews.
01:05:33.000Like, COVID really did a job on people.
01:05:37.000There were already, you know, people that were suspicious of the government.
01:05:41.000There were, A lot of libertarians, you know, ever since, you know, whether it be the Gulf of Tonkin or, you know, the people that don't believe the official story of 9 11 or, you know, people that were like, oh, you know, the government told me if I like my plan, I could keep my plan or, or like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.
01:05:57.000The government doesn't have a good track record.
01:06:00.000And then the COVID thing was kind of the straw that broke the camel's back, particularly with people that are Tate's age, right?
01:06:05.000Like his, his, you know, when he's like, he's like a teenager and basically they're like, yeah, we're going to shut the country, well, the world down for two years when you're basically becoming an adult.
01:06:48.000He endorsed DeSantis in the presidential.
01:06:50.000Primary and then switched his endorsement to Trump because he said, uh, DeSantis wasn't sufficiently like in favor of the Gaza war enough, yeah.
01:06:59.000And then he said, if Kamala won, he would move his family to Israel.
01:07:03.000I was like, I was like, is that like, are you really that worried?
01:07:07.000Randy Fine is the dude that like the Groypers say all of the Republicans are like, anyone that's pro I think he might be like the one candidate that unites like libertarians, populist left, the Groypers, and Candace and Tucker like, just everybody at this point.
01:07:23.000Yeah, I mean, he has like John Potter.
01:07:25.000It's like, geez, dude, like tone it down.
01:07:33.000You know, again, I imagine, unfortunately for Dan, a lot of these votes are probably protest votes.
01:07:38.000But so I don't know if this is going to be the most viable strategy for campaigning going forward.
01:07:42.000But it does show, to be fair, that, again, you can be hypercritical of Israel and it's no longer a taboo insofar as it may not win you an election, but it's not going to get you like tossed off the ballot.
01:08:34.000I have to, because sometimes you make the news and the news is you.
01:08:38.000So I try to hold off on talking about this stuff because it involves me.
01:08:42.000But, you know, so the first thing I'm going to say is everybody's, a lot of people, I see a lot of people, they're texting me and they're tweeting, like, why is everybody ragging on you, Tim?
01:08:52.000Because I was on Jubilee on Saturday and my name recognition right now is through the roof.
01:08:57.000There was like a stunt where I got up and walked out.
01:09:01.000So, if you're trying to milk the algorithm, you got to put Tim Poole in there because that's what's popping up on everybody's feeds.
01:09:07.000So that's the real reason people are doing it.
01:09:09.000But to point out, we live in a fake reality where the new left right divide is going to be Israel, and to point out that I don't play ball with the deep state, let me show you this post that I just made in response to Alex Jones.
01:09:25.000So this has been carrying on since yesterday in ways that quite literally do not make sense.
01:09:32.000Alex Jones says, This is why I'm challenging Tim Pool to a debate on Israeli meddling in America's political system.
01:11:12.000It is one for one with the Young Turks.
01:11:16.000When you discard woke, their opinions start to overlap.
01:11:19.000So, why did Alex Jones just yesterday decide that Tim Poole was pro Israel, despite I'm not?
01:11:25.000I don't think many of these people who are planning these systems don't look at the fine tuning of it.
01:11:31.000They just know, I don't know, Tim Poole had Randy Fon on and he wasn't mean to him, I guess.
01:11:35.000And Tim Poole met with Netanyahu in 2025.
01:11:40.000Ergo, Alex, we want you to go out and say you want to debate Tim on Israel.
01:11:46.000The only problem is, I agree with those things.
01:11:49.000It's almost like there is a machine in place that doesn't actually know what I've said about what's going on and has decided to have Alex or whoever else debate me on something I agree with.
01:12:00.000So I'm getting texts from people saying, Tim, you should debate Alex Jones on Israel.
01:12:25.000There's probably a political action committee, and they said, guys, if we want to win in 2028, you know, if Trump loses, right, in the midterms, then there's going to be impeachments, there's going to be investigations.
01:12:36.000If Rubio or Vance loses in 28, the Democrats are going to be controlled by the DSA, and they're going to start going after all of Trump's allies.
01:12:43.000So here's the game plan the new left right divide is going to be so we're going to capture parts of the disaffected left, we're going to move them to the middle position, we're going to get rid of woke, we're going to say Trump is bad.
01:12:54.000Then we're going to create two factions.
01:12:56.000Woke is eliminated, and you've got the anti foreign, you know, you've got like the libertarian esque left where they're like, war is bad, Trump is bad, Israel is doing bad things to the United States.
01:13:04.000And then you have the more neocon, pro Trump right faction of this.
01:13:08.000That's where things are starting to shuffle out, and everything you're seeing on social media is fake.
01:13:14.000Alex, whatever pack you're working with, Candace, whoever else involved, I am not so easily manipulated because I don't care.
01:13:23.000I am not going to be emotionally triggered into being like, oh, well, actually, Israel, I like.
01:13:28.000I'm going to be like, oh, yeah, you're right.
01:13:32.000The question really comes down to this.
01:13:34.000Why is Alex Jones all day on his live shows, on these posts, consistently saying that I work for Israel, that he actually posted Tim gets his marching orders from Netanyahu?
01:13:45.000This is all completely fabricated and a near two year old story.
01:13:51.000So, I'll give you an example because I, uh, let's break down the lies just so we can, once again, explain to you this is all fake, fake, fake.
01:13:59.000So, uh, Also, I mentioned I'm working in a game where you play Alex Jones and you have to throw Israeli flags at Tim Pools.
01:14:33.000And claiming I got caught after the fact, and it was only after it was leaked that I admitted to being there, which is just absolutely not the case.
01:14:41.000So the question is, why is Alex lying?
01:14:44.000And then you have Robert Barnes tweeting, Hey, Tim Cass, maybe stop trying to screw over folks who worked with you, which again, also hasn't responded to.
01:14:51.000Why did all of a sudden all of these people, as I already mentioned, right?
01:14:56.000There's like my name is in the press, so everybody wants to latch on to it because I'm trending nonstop.
01:15:01.000So the question though is, why is Alex and the people around him lying about it?
01:15:05.000What is the purpose of lying and claiming that I believe things I don't?
01:15:08.000Is it because people who don't watch my show will then believe that I think things I don't think?
01:15:14.000There's one point I'll make on this one.
01:15:17.000One of the first things I said to Alex when he posted the Israel thing is that the meeting was public.
01:15:22.000House and Habit posted videos from the meeting.
01:15:25.000I took pictures with several of the people there that were posted.
01:15:28.000The Chatham House rules means you just don't attribute to anyone.
01:15:31.000So if, like, you know, if Dave Rubin said, you know, I'm going to go get roast beef after this.
01:15:35.000Chatham House rules means you don't go, hey, by the way, Dave Rubin wanted roast beef.
01:15:38.000You would just say, someone there said this.
01:15:41.000In fact, we were entirely allowed to talk about what Netanyahu himself was advocating for, which was the Iran war, to which half the room was largely like, F off.
01:15:54.000Well, that's the standard line is like, oh, you know, Tim has had a secret meeting.
01:16:01.000And for the most part, the people that are retweeting this stuff or watching these shows or that.
01:16:08.000You know, end up in your mentions, they have no clue what your actual position is.
01:16:13.000They just heard this guy is pro Israel, and so that means, oh, well, you know, if you're not consistently criticizing Israel on your timeline, they're like, well, he must be pro Israel.
01:16:24.000They don't put a lot of thought into it.
01:16:26.000Now, I'm not, I can't speak for Alex and what he's doing, but I'm talking about the viewers, the people that watch Alex, and the people that end up, you know, talking about it on the internet.
01:16:33.000I believe you hosted on April 7th, 2025, because I was going to the White House because I got invited to meet with Netanyahu, to which literally right after the meeting.
01:16:42.000I said, just left a meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu in DC.
01:17:12.000Why would Alex Jones, who was my friend, instead of calling me, just randomly start tweeting things going on his show and making these false claims about me?
01:17:19.000I had a phone call with a mutual friend and I said, This doesn't seem organic.
01:17:23.000And they said, It seems like someone's telling Alex what to say.
01:19:16.000Nick's going after, you know, Candace and Tucker and to a degree, even Alex Jones.
01:19:24.000My theory was that they were trying to pied piper Nick Fuentes' followers into a different direction where you could then chop them off and cast them out.
01:19:33.000That is, the way we describe it, maybe think of it like a plank, but I describe it as we've often described it, the censorship that we saw on YouTube, as there's like a spire in the middle of the ocean that bowls outward.
01:20:31.000It just adds up for people to be like, oh, you know, now the idea or the fact that, you know, Alex Jones has been a friend and you've defended him on multiple occasions, you know, it's a drag to hear this kind of thing.
01:20:52.000It's, well, I mean, so maybe he doesn't believe it, but the fact that he's saying this publicly is still, you know, stabbing you in the back after you've defended him in the past.
01:21:03.000What would make Alex Jones be so dishonorable and disloyal?
01:21:07.000Do we believe that is possible of Alex Jones' character?
01:21:11.000I mean, his recent arc where he was calling Trump, like, basically demon possessed and stuff.
01:22:24.000This is what I've been critiquing people that are going hard on Trump.
01:22:26.000It's the same thing with You, where there's always been an attack vector opened up on you from the left because, for reasons we could get into, left wingers hate you in particular more so than probably any other political commentator in many ways.
01:22:40.000So, they understand that if they participate in that attack vector, they will be rewarded.
01:22:44.000So, if it's a Sam Cedar attack vector, you do the same thing.
01:22:47.000You're going to get golf claps from, you know, Sam Cedar and all those types where they're saying, you know, Alex Jones, you know, a broken clock is right twice a day or whatever.
01:22:55.000Like, that's kind of what's happening.
01:22:56.000Different because, like, his character has not been to diss him.
01:23:02.000I want to show you guys an example, and this is not a humble brag.
01:23:06.000The way thumbnails work on YouTube is there's something called A B testing, which is relatively new, but it's been around for over a year, I think.
01:23:14.000You upload three thumbnails and three titles.
01:23:17.000YouTube will then mix and match and see which combination works the best, what's going to get the most clicks.
01:23:22.000When Jubilee launched the Surrounded, it actually had a few different titles.
01:23:27.000One of them was One Moderate vs. 20 Progressives.
01:23:30.000It now says Tim Pool vs. 20 Progressives, which means.
01:23:35.000But when you look at this one right here, where it says one black conservative versus 20 black liberals featuring Officer Tatum, this is that YouTube decided black conservative was more click worthy than the name Officer Tatum.
01:23:52.000And so you can actually see this when they do it.
01:23:54.000One anti manosphere versus 20 manosphere, their name recognition doesn't dominate the post.
01:24:01.000Governor Wes Moore versus 29 voters did.
01:24:16.000The point is, right now, I think largely what we're seeing is, you know, we can set the political stuff aside, and I will say this viewership is down for everybody.
01:24:29.000Well, it's just a fact, and people are desperate for clicks.
01:25:27.000Well, you know, I'll say this I see it as one of two worlds.
01:25:33.000My personal opinion is that the simple solution actually is that Alex is working with a political action committee that is also coordinating with other individuals for the purpose of.
01:26:36.000For him, seven months later, to completely have inverted all of his positions, I find to be suspect.
01:26:42.000Look at it like, look at a political commentator.
01:26:45.000Let's draw an equivalent to a different industry like Nick Cage, for example, where Nick Cage is completely broke, like lost all of his money or whatever.
01:26:51.000And he said himself he had to start taking roles he wasn't proud of because he needed to start getting money coming in.
01:26:55.000So, for someone like Alex Jones, same thing, completely broke.
01:26:58.000He's got to start taking on roles he doesn't like.
01:27:00.000And one of those roles is the villain, right?
01:27:34.000But imagine there's a political action committee and they said, Listen, as we go after the midterms, we're going to this is going to be the play.
01:27:41.000You can see that you know, Tucker and Anna Kasparian are completely aligned in their worldview at this point.
01:27:46.000They disagree on ancillary things that are outside of the mainstream, outside of the zeitgeist.
01:27:51.000They disagree on culture war issues, but when it comes to culture war issues, have yeah, when it comes to like hard American defining issues, right, like long term.
01:27:59.000Economics and foreign policy being the strongest issues right now, they've aligned.
01:28:04.000So, you get a political action committee that goes and says, Look, you know, we're working with Candace, we work with Tucker.
01:28:28.000We've got, you know, Michael Malice posted on his wall hanging up is one of my beanies and the tinfoil hat that Alex Jones wore on this show.
01:28:37.000For someone like Alex, who was a friend of ours for years, to abruptly and seemingly for no reason be like, F. Tim Poole, he works for Benjamin Netanyahu.
01:29:18.000And I was like, I tweeted that if you build up a channel for 10 years supporting Trump, but then stop supporting him, you're going to lose viewers.
01:29:26.000And everyone's like, yeah, that's not a reason for him to make up fake things about you.
01:29:32.000That's like, You know what, I will say is obviously, we know a lot of people who work at his company.
01:29:40.000And there's a lot of fervor right now over what he's doing.
01:29:43.000And there's a lot of, we'll see what happens.
01:29:46.000But I do think that for most people, money talks and BS walks.
01:29:49.000So I would not be surprised if there are people who just duck and keep their heads down and sacrifice their morals for the paycheck.
01:29:57.000There's a lot of money sloshing around right now.
01:30:32.000The deal with the devil was always that if you don't serve the devil, he'll slaughter your children.
01:30:38.000People have this fantasy movie reality where, like, the vision where the devil comes to you and says, How would you like a million dollars?
01:31:17.000When I was a kid, I was watching these like religious cartoons.
01:31:21.000I don't even remember what I was watching.
01:31:22.000I think it was, I went to Catholic school, right?
01:31:25.000And I remember like a story about a Christian who refused to convert.
01:31:30.000They told us these stories about how like the Christians would draw the swipe in the sand, then the other person would draw the other swipe to make the fish.
01:31:36.000And that was the secret sign of like, okay, we're Christians, we're safe.
01:31:43.000And I remember watching, like, they were taught something, and there's like a pagan or like a Muslim, and they were like, renounce your God now, or we'll kill you.
01:31:51.000And I remember watching, it's like, it's a cartoon, there's a guy on his knees, and he's like, no, I will never renounce my Lord and Savior.
01:31:58.000And then the guy slits his, like, kills him, and you don't see it, it's a cartoon.
01:32:02.000And then I was just thinking to myself, when I was young, because I was like nine or 10, why not just lie?
01:32:06.000Why wouldn't you just say, yes, okay, I lie, and just live, live to see another day?
01:33:28.000Now, with all due respect, the Jubilee thing was about 80% real.
01:33:31.000But of course, there's a component of it where they're producing a show.
01:33:35.000Like I mentioned, the claims are out of order and stuff like that.
01:33:38.000You know, there was a point where I think it's actually in the show, someone mentioned that it was, where they yelled at the people, the progressives, for not debating and just yelling at me.
01:33:48.000They were like, they kicked the guy off.
01:33:50.000They were like, stop, you're not actually having a conversation.
01:33:53.000So, you know, to a certain degree, you're not actually expecting, you know, it's like very much TV.
01:33:58.000But I'm just going to tell you, like, everything we're seeing on social media, I will not do it.
01:34:08.000And there are people tweeting, a handful of tweets were like, We already know what this is.
01:34:13.000Alex is stirring up a fake beef to generate views off of the SEO so that Tim will come and debate Alex Jones and it'll get a million views.
01:35:04.000The whole drama stuff that goes on with like YouTubers and stuff, there's so many people that are just completely, you know, completely driven by how can I get the content that I need?
01:35:18.000You know, whether it be these quote unquote debates or whatever, you know, Sam Cedar was here and he was clip farming.
01:35:25.000And it's like, it makes engaging in any of it pointless because it's not about talking about ideas, it's not about, you know, Finding where you agree or disagree and hashing it out.
01:35:38.000It's literally just about, you know, I'm going to, you know, you're the curb and I'm going to do an Ollie off of you.
01:36:06.000A whole lot, and to see that he would throw a relationship away.
01:36:08.000I mean, that's the reason that I'm here.
01:36:11.000Like, I used to watch Tim's show, you know, I would watch his daytime shows, and then, like, when he started doing IRL, I was watching IRL all the time.
01:36:19.000The reason I was here is because I was watching one of his streams.
01:36:22.000He was doing a daytime stream and he was talking about, oh, you know, I need to find some people that can fill in and host the show so I can, you know, get out and do some stuff once in a while.
01:36:31.000And I literally sent a super chat and I was like, I'll do it.
01:36:36.000And, you know, and he was like, Really?
01:36:39.000And then I was just like, Wait, are you serious?
01:36:41.000And so it was like, you know, a couple days later, I grabbed my dog, threw the dog in the Jeep, and we drove down here, you know, hashed it out real quick.
01:37:05.000And like, you know, Biden was the president and nobody knew what was going to happen.
01:37:11.000And I'm thinking Connie's are taking over.
01:37:14.000And my whole drive was I really believe that the United States has a problem with communists.
01:37:21.000And like, we're seeing it now materialize with the DSA, the way that if you talk to, there's tons of polls out that, That the whole Democrat Party, like over 50% of the Democrat Party, has a positive view of socialism and a negative view of capitalism.
01:37:35.000And it's like, the whole point of me coming down here is because I believe in the stuff they do.
01:38:42.000They pressured us, forcing our hand into the Iranian war, for which it's undermined our interests, and they're currently undermining our interests in the Middle East.
01:40:34.000Yeah, because I think IRL probably overlaps more with the political crowd, where I think you do have just a lot of more, maybe like Rogan Sphere people, I think maybe.
01:40:45.000Yeah, I'm just saying, like, I'm trying to think of, like, you know, most of the people that have disengaged are people that are also watching the Daily Wire or the Blaze or whatever.
01:40:51.000I think the people that are watching your morning show are a different type of people.
01:40:53.000Like, they're not just consuming conservative media a lot.
01:40:59.000But I'm bringing this up because I'm like, maybe the issue is that, you know, like, if I go to Alex Jones' post, he posted an hour ago, it's got 70, it's got 30 retweets.
01:41:11.000So it's like, I think everybody's looking at their engagement and they're seeing, Limited exposure, limited engagement, and it's scary to people.
01:41:19.000YouTube even announced that they're going to be changing the way views are counted to increase the view count, which.
01:41:31.000And they're probably doing this because if you're an advertiser and Instagram comes to you and says, for 50 bucks, we can get you a million views.
01:45:12.000But my, so Phil, my point was, uh, no, nobody's watching right now because like if you go to work, Are you going to come and just listen to the news and the problems of the world?
01:45:22.000Or are you going to be like, I want to relax, put my feet up, and just kind of tune out?
01:45:25.000I mean, when I get out of here, I'm hanging out with my kid, you know?
01:49:41.000He announced and he was nice and he was cordial.
01:49:45.000It was before he kind of really came out as a Groeper kind of dude, which, you know, I'm not sure how much he actually believes that stuff because I think that he was just trying to like throw his lot in with young people and young people are so anti Israel and stuff.
01:50:02.000But he was talking about being anti data center.
01:51:04.000But he was like fighting for young people, but then he was like giving a full throated endorsement of like abolishing property taxes in Florida.
01:51:11.000And I'm like, that's like the one thing that actually does.
01:51:15.000Like, manifest in policy that's going to screw over young people.
01:51:18.000So it's like, it's kind of, it's like, okay, it's easy to take these like grandiose stances on things that will never happen, but like on actual things that are happening in Florida right now that you could take a stand on.
01:51:26.000Do you think that very many young people are aware of that though?
01:51:29.000Well, no, that's the point is like they're voting for like aesthetics.
01:51:33.000So there's energy there, but insofar as like translating that to actual victories for like young Americans, it's like nothing's going to manifest out of that.
01:51:39.000It's like, okay, you can be like super based online, but when it comes down to brass tacks, like, how are you actually going to help young people?
01:51:45.000What can you actually implement or what policy changes can you prevent that will actually?
01:51:49.000Help young people get a foot in the door.
01:53:12.000So, what's going on in Alaska is that a Democrat, he's registered as a Republican now, named Dan Sullivan, is running as a spoiler in the primary.
01:53:23.000So, this means Dan Sullivan, the incumbent, you're going to go to vote, and there's going to be four candidates, and it's going to be Dan Sullivan, Dan Sullivan, and it's going to confuse people because they don't know which one they're voting for.
01:53:35.000This is going to result in Dan Sullivan, the actual incumbent, not reaching the threshold for the jungle primary so he won't be on the general election later this year.
01:53:44.000It is evil what the Democrats are doing in Alaska.
01:57:25.000Quantum Strange Quark says Tim, your early report about Rep Dan Sullivan, Alaska reminded me of Jack Johnson and John Jackson from Futurama.
01:59:12.000Crowder was making that point about Lauren Southern.
01:59:15.000Here's what I said of Lauren Southern.
01:59:16.000Like a year ago, she accused Tommy Robinson of smuggling cocaine in a plane and blasting it off in a bathroom, and that Andrew Tate had raped her.
01:59:25.000And Tommy Robinson, of course, refuted that saying.
01:59:30.000I think it was Tommy Robinson in the plane with drugs.
01:59:32.000It's been a long time, so I could be wrong.
01:59:34.000But he was like, Lauren was hanging out with him, asked to go back and hang out with him, got a ride to go hang out with him, went up to his hotel room with him, and The next day, gave him a kiss goodbye.
01:59:44.000And then I said, Yeah, look, I've been friends with Lauren for a long time, but I just find this story hard to believe.
01:59:49.000And she wanted to turn it into drama and beef for clicks.
02:02:11.000And then I switched to Fox News and I never switched it back.
02:02:13.000Because it's just, they stopped being news.
02:02:17.000So when their ratings collapsed and it became a brand worth nothing and they're getting traded back and forth, I will make a crude joke about that because nobody wants to watch it.
02:02:27.000If you open an ice cream shop and you're there for years and everybody knows your name and get the best ice cream in town, And then one day you decide ice cream is bad for people, so you're going vegan.
02:02:39.000People will show up, they'll never come back.
02:02:44.000So, these people that have changed their positions and just said, you know what, I'm going to attack Tim Poole, I'm going to change my opinions, don't be surprised when you lose audience.
02:02:52.000If you're going to do that, my recommendation is to start a new YouTube channel.
02:02:55.000So, we're going to go to the uncensored portion of the show right now.
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02:03:02.000Sir, do you want to shout anything out?
02:05:31.000A clock's because, like, when you murder somebody, the person who actually does the murdering gets a worse charge than the person who planned it.
02:07:49.000I retweeted it where he's like, he's like, women, you know, are always complaining about how, like, it's dangerous walking home and men don't understand.
02:07:58.000And he's like, I mean, that's not true.
02:08:00.000Like, I understand, like, women are scared, but, like, you know, sometimes I'm walking through New York and, like, I get scared.
02:08:05.000I'm just never going to call my girlfriend and tell her that.
02:08:07.000Like, get on the phone and be like, honey, I got the heat.
02:08:54.000First, I just, out of curiosity, being that you're an infantry officer, you're an army ranger, combat vet, what were your thoughts or your observations about both the Afghan withdrawal and the lack of accountability after?
02:09:08.000So, I remember that day and I was looking at a map on Google Maps and I was looking at the area where I was at.
02:09:19.000And my stomach started to churn, like where it was post traumatic stress.
02:09:25.000And I recognized in that moment, I remember I walked into the kitchen with my wife.
02:09:29.000I said, honey, I think I'm experiencing some PTSD here.
02:09:34.000And like mentally, I was fine, but it brought back this physical feeling that I hadn't had in a long time.
02:09:42.000And I also have a voicemail that was left by an Afghan soldier.
02:09:50.000That somehow found my number and I was walking out of mass.
02:09:57.000I was going to daily mass and I walked out, I was walking to my house and I got this missed call from Afghanistan.
02:10:04.000And this guy who either pretended to know me or he knew me got my name and number and was asking for my help.
02:10:12.000And I was walking to my house and in that moment, I think God gave me some clarity because I was starting to get emotional, but then it kind of clicked in my spirit that.
02:10:56.000The way that our service, I think, was dishonored by people like Joe Biden and Lloyd Austin.
02:11:02.000A guy in Lloyd Austin who I believe bragged that nobody in the military had more experience in making like large troop movements or something like that.
02:11:10.000Some big logistical feat that he claimed that nobody had more experience to.
02:11:27.000You've done a lot of work to get accountability over the VA and to get reform passed.
02:11:34.000I'm curious what could be done now post withdrawal, post the fallout of all this, the army and equipping of the Taliban?
02:11:44.000Because you know as well as I do and Phil and others, like a junior Marine, a PFC in the army, whatever, if they lost a single piece of serialized gear, they would have been punished far more harshly.
02:12:13.000You know, the officer corps has become very aristocratic.
02:12:17.000You know, I was talking to the guys before the show that these general officers have their own private homes, their private chefs, their drivers, some of them have planes.
02:12:36.000And there's no accountability for members of Congress.
02:12:38.000There's no accountability for some of the largest executives in the country, right?
02:12:44.000There's just, it seems like the little man and guys like me from, you know, small Midwestern upbringing, you know, that we're always kind of crapped on.
02:12:55.000So, you know, for me, I try to use my voice as a nonprofit leader for veteran action to avoid some of these mistakes and to call them out.
02:13:04.000But I think that General Mark Milley should be investigated.
02:13:09.000I think what he did to, Create a back channel to China, I think, should be considered treason.
02:13:18.000I've encouraged members of the administration to do that.
02:13:22.000But there's a lot of people that are upset about accountability in the government all across the board.
02:13:27.000But I think it's important, and this might be a little bit harsh, to humiliate these people.
02:13:32.000I mean, these people are like the Venman that just lost in Florida.
02:13:36.000I mean, these guys were committing treason, in my opinion, going after the president and really.
02:13:42.000Focusing more on Ukrainian interests and business interests in this republic.
02:13:45.000And ultimately, there's got to be accountability.
02:13:49.000And I think, you know, one thing I'm worried about is that if there's no accountability and there's no law and order, that does not bode well for the future of the republic.
02:13:58.000I know it's probably not the best answer in the world.
02:14:00.000I wish we could hold these guys accountable, but I do think that some of what Pete Hegseth is doing is that he was a junior officer, he was a major, he was never a colonel, never a general officer.
02:14:13.000And The aristocratic officer corps absolutely resents him.
02:14:18.000They hate his guts in the Pentagon because he's not one of them, right?
02:14:29.000And these guys who are supposed to be the smartest men in the room, these general officers with all these stars, they know that the young men and women in uniform respect him more than they respect them.
02:14:45.000I think it would be great to have a Secretary of War that's actually never served in uniform.
02:14:50.000It's supposed to be a civilian run agency.
02:14:52.000I think that that would be a really good first step.
02:14:55.000I think we need to get back to wrap this up.
02:14:59.000I mean, more accountability, and we have a better job to do on that front.
02:15:05.000Would legislation, you don't have to take too long with it, apologize if I'm running late, but would legislation like your Reform Act at the VA be a solution?
02:15:15.000Just getting legislation, get Congress to act?
02:15:18.000To go after these, I mean, the general corps is bloated as it is, but like you said, to go after their lack of accountability.
02:15:26.000Well, at the Veterans, what the Department of Veterans Affairs, the accountability looks different.
02:15:30.000So it's for the VA bureaucrats that allow veterans to die.
02:15:34.000So you got the VA that handles veteran policy, you got the DOW that handles like the military policy.
02:15:41.000On the VA front, I will tell you that there are people in Phoenix, Arizona that allowed veterans to die on secret wait lists.
02:15:52.000So these men and women were willing to die for their country.
02:15:54.000They tried to get health care at the VA and they were allowed to die on secret wait lists.
02:16:01.000And so for those people, they need to be fired.
02:16:03.000They need to, I think we need to take it up one step further.
02:16:07.000I've talked to members of Congress that we should have a 25 years to life in prison federal penalty for somebody that allows a veteran to die if they broke the law.
02:16:19.000So the VA employee said, Hey, we're not allowing you to get care in the community like we passed under the Mission Act, and we're playing games with wait lists, and we're not allowing you, and you end up dying.
02:16:30.000I think that VA bureaucrat should face prison, life in prison.
02:16:35.000And I've talked to some very serious members of Congress about this.
02:16:38.000And that's one thing I'm going to be pushing for after the midterms because we have the VA that is openly defying the law.
02:16:46.000They are breaking the law that President Trump signed in the Mission Act, and they're playing games, not allowing people to be on community care.
02:16:53.000And I know there's a friend of this program who ran a mental health and substance abuse clinic, several clinics, and he had close to 16 veterans in beds, right?
02:17:09.000And under this, not under it's not President Trump's fault, but under this VA secretary, Doug Collins, they went from having 16 people in beds to one.
02:17:16.000And they had to shut down because VA bureaucrats were undermining the community care system.
02:17:21.000So that's one thing I would really push for with helping veterans get better access to health care.
02:20:29.000Yo, this is the real game of money here.
02:20:33.000And so basically, the yen is collapsing and the Fed is selling off euros in order to buy up the yen, in order to keep the yen from collapsing.
02:21:37.000We saw, what was it, a few weeks ago that 3% of the population of Korea, not the market, 3% of their population got margin called.
02:21:47.000Because that was because their Fed or their SEC had a retarded, they allowed a triple leveraged ETF and it completely bankrupted them.
02:21:57.000I mean, the reason why the United States is bailing out the yen right now is because Japan is our largest holder of debt.
02:22:03.000So, what's happening right now, like here's the mechanism that's at play right now the Japanese are our largest holder of debt.
02:22:11.000Now, to defend the yen, because for the longest time, the bank of Japan had zero interest rates because they wanted people to borrow in yen, provided economic activity for the country, et cetera.
02:22:22.000Well, Japan has a lot of, to your point, a lot of internal issues.
02:22:26.000So, they're having to change course here because the yen is now eroding in value.
02:22:30.000Like, this is the worst few years that the yen has traded against the US dollar since the end of the war.
02:22:36.000So, The Bank of Japan is now trying to defend the yen.
02:22:39.000In order to do that, they have to sell off U.S. treasuries to do so.
02:22:42.000Well, the U.S. doesn't want them to sell off treasuries because we're already in a rough bond market.
02:22:46.000So that is why the Trump administration is now helping the Japanese defend their currency because if they don't defend their currency, the Japanese will continue to sell off bonds.
02:22:56.000Investors, to your point, are already spooked.
02:22:58.000They're questioning if the United States is going to even respond to inflation.
02:23:04.000And now we're just in this cycle that I don't know how it ends because the Japanese aren't probably going to get out of this.
02:25:02.000Now, obviously, it was a good investment because the internet basically runs the world.
02:25:07.000But the fact that they laid all that, like, dark fiber, they laid all the infrastructure for it, but they didn't have enough websites to really support the investment they put into basically building the internet.
02:25:20.000And so people kind of realized, oh, these websites don't do anything.
02:26:26.000Linux is a big deal because Apple uses Linux, but Well, now it's come so far, but back then it was like anything with a dot com, anything Linux related, and that was like Linux with hardware.
02:26:35.000So a lot of people wanted to buy into it, and there's all this capital.
02:26:38.000Right now, it's like, man, I hear it tends to rhyme a lot with the 90s.
02:26:44.000And I'm like, well, what's the problem with all this compute?
02:27:06.000So, when they do have a life on them, so you can, you know, you're going to have people building data centers and the GPUs are going to be used.
02:27:13.000They're being, you know, like I said, they are being used and, you know, like they do have a life.
02:27:21.000Whereas with like all the fiber and stuff that they laid, like it's the same fiber now, 35 years later, that it was, you know.
02:27:30.000But also, I want to make a point like, I love AI.
02:27:32.000I think it's going to, it's already revolutionizing things.
02:27:36.000But they seem to be overselling it, right?
02:27:38.000And like with the dot com era, like the internet was real, it has made a major transformational effect.
02:27:45.000But you got all of these guys coming in, these charlatans trying to raise money and try to sell companies, try to IPO.
02:27:51.000And I think they're overselling it, which we know is improving a lot of different types of workflows.
02:27:58.000But I don't know if you read Axios, it's like they've got fear porn every morning in their newsletter about how AI, like some models got out of control and it's taking things over.
02:28:08.000Well, that's because the founders want that to happen, right?
02:28:11.000Like, if you're Dario, you want, because he doesn't care what the normies think.
02:28:15.000Like, defense contractors, governments, they want to hear this is like potentially a doomsday, like level technology.
02:28:27.000I mean, you know, the ultimate way to explain this is you have to understand that Japan is the opposite problem of the United States, where the United States is always fighting inflation.
02:28:35.000The Japanese, since the 90s, has been, well, even longer than that, has been battling deflation.
02:28:40.000So the reason they had zero interest rates for the longest time was because they were trying to make borrowing cheaper.
02:28:45.000They wanted to stimulate the economy because they had deflation.
02:28:48.000You don't want your currency to deflate because people stop spending money and then your country collapses.
02:28:52.000So that's the ultimate way to understand they had the opposite problem.
02:28:56.000COVID hits, inflation comes back in Japan, you get the yen carry trade.
02:29:02.000But now the reason, okay, the reason why Bloomberg and all these outlets, kind of what we were talking about with Dario, the reason why a lot of investors are panicking, you know, or trying to instigate panic over what's happening in Japan right now is because the yen carry trade is dead and that was a cash cow for a lot of them.
02:29:18.000While it is like a very real situation, we're not going to get like a collapse or anything, I don't think, because a lot of this is kind of fear porn because they're pretty upset about the bond market, the yen carry trade dying.
02:29:31.000But yeah, it is interesting that the U.S. is trying to bail out the end because they understand that, like, hey, this, you scratch our back, you know, we scratch your back, you scratch ours.
02:29:39.000That's kind of what's going on right now.
02:29:49.000I got a PhD and quick shout out to David Congdon from the University Press of Kansas, who's currently editing a book about the Federal Reserve that I originally wrote for you.
02:29:59.000And I certainly concur with most of Tate's analysis.
02:30:02.000I just want to point out that the ultimate solution to this is to nationalize rather than end the Fed.
02:30:08.000Long story short, you can learn more about this in the amazing documentary by Ben Joseph Stewart called Game of Money on timcast.com.
02:30:17.000On Rumble, actually, and everything is going to get better in this country.
02:30:20.000Everything's going to get fine just as soon as Tim. Releases this documentary on YouTube or Rumble.
02:30:25.000So, uh, well, it's on Rumble, isn't it?
02:30:27.000Yeah, it's on Rumble, but you gotta really drop it for free for the non subscribers, too.
02:30:32.000Oh, actually, by now, maybe we should.
02:30:34.000As soon as you do that, dude, everything's gonna get way better in this country.
02:31:28.000So, as a resident ethnic Japanese member of this community, I'm going to try and redirect the arrows from one of my motherlands towards China and say, China sucks.
02:32:10.000First of all, thank you, Tim, for the unsolicited financial advice.
02:32:15.000And I think there's an argument that the next business in your portfolio could be Tim Cass Advisors with Ian Crossland as CFO because of his clairvoyance and ability to control the weather.
02:32:42.000So, speaking of a couple weeks ago, James Carville all but announced his exit from the D's Nuts party if Hassan Baker became a driving force in the direction of the party as reflected by their candidates.
02:32:55.000Last night, he sings a completely different song on Jesse Waters, aka Beanie Baby's favorite news program, almost as if today's elections in Alaska, California, Florida, and Wyoming are going to, quote unquote, do something.
02:33:11.000So, can we speculatively use Mr. Clean's sudden optimism as a hint that flash drives with the necessary number of votes will ensure that the machine's candidates will strengthen the doodocrats' chances of flipping seats in November by advancing tonight's candidates?
02:33:29.000I don't know that that's going to happen.
02:33:31.000I think the DSA is looking like the DSA is going to win a significant number of the races that they're in.
02:33:41.000So, yeah, polling shows that they dominate.
02:33:43.000So, the Democrats are going to have to pull some USB sticks, if you know what I'm saying.
02:33:52.000I just thought it was, you know, he was all coming from a couple weeks ago.
02:33:55.000And then two weeks later, he seems like, ah, pretty confident.
02:33:59.000You know, he's an old timer in the game and maybe he's a little bit out of touch, but just it seemed like a very 180 approach, almost as if there was something to his confidence.
02:34:10.000When I also look at what the Democrats did, To swap out Joe Biden after South Carolina, like Pete Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders had some major momentum coming out of Iowa and New Hampshire.
02:34:22.000And after the South Carolina primary, they basically cleared the field and everybody fell in line with Joe Biden.
02:34:27.000So they will put power over everything.
02:34:30.000It'd be interesting to see what they do with those guys.
02:34:39.000No, I just wanted to get your thoughts on that.
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02:34:48.000We're often first on the scene after crises and natural disasters.
02:34:51.000Plus, we've been preppers culturally from our founding.
02:34:54.000So, the guy or gal or family whom you know that is a member of our church could be your best friend if you're not a prepper, especially in these times.
02:35:39.000So what does the panel, especially Phil, think of this?
02:35:44.000And could this be some kind of response to coming out of the Biden administration's politically weaponized two tier justice system, where a lot of right wingers, you know, it looked like they were attempting to disenfranchise or disarm their political opposition with the level of their sentencing and the aggression of their arrests and even the kind of law that they were writing?
02:36:13.000I don't, I think that it's more of a response.
02:36:16.000Who on the Supreme Court made this statement, but they, the SCOTUS has made it clear.
02:36:22.000Um, and when I say the SCOTUS, the, the, you know, conservative leaning justices, that they don't view the Second Amendment as a second class right.
02:36:33.000They view it as just as much of a right as the right to free speech, the, the freedom to assemble, all, you know, the rights that people consider, um, you know, fundamental that, that are kind of covered under the, the First Amendment.
02:36:49.000Um, They made it clear that they don't want the federal government and by extension, they don't want the states to treat the Second Amendment as a second class right.
02:37:02.000And so I think that it's really kind of a, you know, it comes out of that kind of idea.
02:37:08.000Look, if you're not a violent person and you've committed some kind of, you know, malum and prohibitum crime, right?
02:37:17.000So it's not a crime of violence, not a crime of, you know, That makes you a dangerous person.
02:37:24.000You just did something that is prohibited by law for some reason.
02:37:31.000You know, if you're that kind of criminal, when you, you know, you get your right to speak, you know, you retain your right to free speech.
02:37:43.000You retain your right to be protected from, you know, unreasonable searches.
02:37:48.000You retain your right to a jury trial.
02:37:52.000You retain your right to, You know, practice your religion.
02:37:56.000And so, by that same logic, you should retain your right to defend yourself.
02:38:02.000If you're a violent criminal, if you're using a gun, actually, if you're using anything and aggressive and assaulting people, then it's reasonable to say, look, this person can't be trusted with a firearm.
02:38:16.000They've demonstrated that they're violent.
02:38:18.000But if you're not a violent person and you just broke some law, you know, whether it be a felony or not, You know, you should retain all your rights.
02:38:27.000And so I think that this is an extension, or this is, you know, obvious by the idea, you know, in the idea that the Second Amendment is not, you know, the right to defend your life, to keep and bear arms, that's not a second class right.
02:38:42.000It's not a right that the government can say, well, we don't want you to exercise that right.
02:38:47.000And there are still places in the country where, you know, where they treat it like that.
02:38:51.000You know, there was the ruling in Hawaii recently about the vampire rule for people that aren't.
02:38:58.000Familiar, the vampire rule was basically Hawaii said you needed expressed permission from a business owner or wherever you're going.
02:39:07.000If you're going to go and carry your gun, if you go into McDonald's, you need the permission of the owner of that McDonald's.
02:39:13.000If you're going to go into a convenience store, you need the permission.
02:39:16.000And the Supreme Court said, no, you don't have to have permission to speak freely.
02:39:20.000You don't have to have permission to do anything.
02:39:23.000You know, if you want to prohibit, then you can tell people, you can put up a sign or whatever, not, you know, Firearms aren't allowed, but you're still not violating a law by going into a place that says your firearms are unprohibited.
02:39:37.000They've recently changed the law or rolled back the prohibition on carrying a firearm into a post office or whatever.
02:39:46.000Now, anything that I'm saying, you need to check.
02:42:02.000So I'm happy to see that we've become more comfortable with this idea.
02:42:08.000Look, I got a buddy that lives in New York that went through the whole rig, or he lives on Long Island, And tried to get his permit for the city, right?
02:42:15.000He's got a permit for New York State, but you have to have a special permit for the city.
02:42:35.000There was a funny post someone made of like, if you gave Genghis Khan 10,022 lever action rifles, he'd take over the world twice as fast and his empire would reign 10 times as long.
02:42:48.000Yeah, Carter, to your point, I always take the position of when the right is proposing pro 2A bills, legislations, et cetera, I'm always in favor.
02:42:59.000It's when the Democrats propose pro 2A bills, laws, et cetera.
02:43:04.000That's when I get extremely skeptical because this happens a lot and people clap like seals.
02:43:09.000And I'm like, okay, if Todd Blanch is loosening 2A or he's loosening gun restrictions on nonviolent.
02:43:17.000Uh, falins or whatnot, he's doing that for a good reason, he's doing it for people like you.
02:43:20.000But again, if Joe Biden were to do that, the reason he's doing that is to basically allow black kids in inner cities to get off of gun charges.
02:43:27.000That's primarily what the function is.
02:43:29.000Civil War musket, and it's so silly because it's so like heavy to the front, you know.
02:43:40.000The Union overproduced these, and they didn't actually need them because by the time they'd advanced in the war, that's why it's in such good condition.
02:43:47.000This is an actual Union Civil War rifle from way back then.
02:44:49.000Oh, yeah, they got the uh, when he shoots the bat, the bat wing or whatever they called it in that one.
02:44:54.000Um, but yeah, color look, you know, there's always going to be people on the left and people that don't like guns, uh, trying to prevent you from having a gun for whatever reason they can come up with.
02:45:09.000Um, but you know, look, we've had a lot of wins for the Second Amendment.
02:45:16.000Had a lot of wins for the Second Amendment, and it's like a cannon, too.
02:45:21.000And I don't foresee that changing anytime, you know, with this particular court.
02:45:26.000The court's very, very good about the Second Amendment.
02:45:30.000Again, they don't treat it like a second-class right.
02:45:33.000There's the Viamantes, Veramantes case that's coming up about, you know, semi-autos, and it's looking like they might actually do a magazine, take a magazine case as well.
02:46:38.000I can't change that part, but I know it's unwieldy.
02:46:41.000And also, after all of this happened, I mean, I was convicted four years ago, but New York is never done with you once they get their hands on you.