Trump declassifies the JFK, RFK, and MLK files, and we talk about why so many people are cheering for Donald Trump. Plus, castellanos is back in stock, and Skandalism is back on the menu.
00:00:00.000Donald Trump signed its He signed the executive order declassifying the JFK, RFK, and MLK files.
00:00:24.000And then, with the pen, he hands it off to someone and says, give that to RFK Jr. And everybody was just like, dang, what a mic drop moment.
00:00:34.000So we're all getting really excited to see this.
00:00:36.000Trump said people have been waiting for this for a very long time.
00:00:42.000Donald Trump's approval rating is plus 13. I kid you not.
00:00:47.000In his first term, he enjoyed only very briefly in his first couple of days at a four percentage point net approval before it flipped completely and never, never did he achieve above water approval ratings.
00:01:02.000In the first few polls to come out for the beginning of his presidency, there's three polls, plus 17, plus 6, and plus, I believe, 16, giving him an aggregate of plus 13. Let's see if he can maintain this.
00:01:16.000But you see, I wonder what it is that Trump is doing that perhaps is generating such strong approval.
00:01:20.000Could it be that he's already authorized ATF and DEA to deport people?
00:01:26.000The Pentagon has already confirmed they'll be using US Air Force aircraft to begin migrant repatriation, they call it.
00:01:34.000And we've already seen over 500 criminal illegal aliens being arrested and deported.
00:03:11.000And for those that don't know, the 20th Amendment, of course, is the right to keep a bear and breed chickens.
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00:03:36.000Yesterday, we talked with Angela McArdle, the chair of the Libertarian Party, about what went down in her meeting with Donald Trump and how did she get Ross Ulbricht pardoned.
00:03:46.000And she tells this amazing story about Trump and how he acts and who he is.
00:03:59.000And let's just say this is an uncensored show for a reason, because he discusses what Poland does to defend their country from terror and illegal immigration and uncensored.
00:04:21.000I have a channel called Rattlesnake TV where we analyze debates and also host them on a weekly basis.
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00:05:06.000His birthday today, I think he turns about 85. We actually just had him on a culture war debate show as well.
00:05:23.000If you guys are interested in seeing more about the protests at Trump's inauguration, check out Tim Pool's YouTube channel where we have field reporting of those protests.
00:06:00.000But so long as they're choosing to enforce some of the laws they have on the books, especially one they passed in 2021, which effectively bans individuals from working as contractors, I did not know they did that.
00:06:25.000There is a move happening across the country to effectively make it illegal for individuals to do work unless they are under the employment control of a company.
00:06:35.000Or they register with the state as a formal legal entity.
00:06:39.000And I believe this is part of the you will live in the pot and eat the bugs.
00:06:43.000It's largely gone unnoticed, except in California, where it resulted in tens of thousands of people losing their jobs.
00:06:49.000In smaller states or less populated states like West Virginia, nobody noticed these things were happening.
00:07:32.000Lastly, sir, we have an executive order ordering the declassification of files relating to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
00:08:55.000But the language of the executive order has been released, and we do have it, so let's read it so we can understand.
00:09:01.000I don't know if we need to read literally everything about it, but it says, President John F. Kennedy's Assassination Records Collection Act of 1982 required all records related to the assassination to be publicly disclosed in full October 26,
00:09:28.0002017, unless the president certifies that continued postponement is made necessary, etc., etc.
00:09:33.000I previously accepted proposed redactions from executive departments and agencies in 17 and 18, but ordered the continued reevaluation of those remaining redactions, and blah, blah, blah, he says.
00:09:45.000In the next three years, it disclosed that no longer warrants continue withholding.
00:09:48.000President Biden issued subsequent certifications with respect to those records in 21, 22, and 23, which gave agencies additional time to review the records.
00:09:55.000I have not determined that the continued redaction and withholding of information from the records pertaining to the assassination of JFK is not consistent with public interest, and the release of these records is long overdue.
00:10:04.000Within 15 days of this order, the DNI and Attorney General shall, in coordination with the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and the Council to the President, present a plan to the President for the full and complete release of records relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy within 45 days of this order.
00:10:21.000The Director of National Intelligence and Attorney General shall in coordination with the assistant to the president review records related to the assassination and present a plan for the president for the full and complete release of those records.
00:10:32.000That second one was RFK and MLK Jr. So, right, that's what we heard.
00:10:35.000By March, they should be totally released, but JFK coming soon.
00:10:39.000Are we going to learn that LBJ collude with the CIA to kill the president?
00:10:44.000I don't know about LBJ. But I mean, honestly, I haven't done any kind of digging into the JFK assassination stuff.
00:10:53.000I always figured it was Lee Harvey Oswald and Anna.
00:11:13.000It is going to be funny when the day before the documents release, all of those anti-Israel people on the internet are going to be foaming at the mouth.
00:11:21.000And the day after, if Israel's not mentioned, they're going to pretend it doesn't exist.
00:11:26.000She's already tweeted, if they say anything about Iran or someone else, I'm going to lose it or whatever.
00:11:32.000She's already primed for it to be Israel.
00:11:35.000So it is a suggestion that Trump is signing the executive order to release fabricated information implicating Iran for the benefit of American interests to go to war with Iran.
00:11:45.000It was before they even had beef with Iran.
00:13:01.000The book Chaos goes through how there was some sort of...
00:13:04.000During the MKUltra, there was some doctor who was heavily involved in it who also interviewed Jack Ruby and maybe Jack Ruby had some sort of MKUltra stuff happening behind the scenes.
00:13:12.000Well, I'm not too sure that JFK and RFK weren't involved in the Lolita Express with Jeffrey Epstein.
00:13:23.000Because, no, we don't have the Epstein files anymore.
00:13:25.000It just seems to be swept under the table.
00:13:26.000I wonder if MKUltra could come out that it's an MKUltra.
00:13:29.000Well, I have been reliably informed by Dr. Ron Paul himself.
00:13:33.000It was the CIA. It's kind of crazy because when I was growing up, the implication that there was any kind of conspiracy would get you ridiculed.
00:13:42.000And today, it's just like Ron Paul comes on the show and he's like, the CIA did it.
00:13:47.000The widely accepted theory is that the CIA... The theory is that after the Bay of Pigs was such a colossal failure, Kennedy was like, the CIA can't do the job that they're essentially designed to do, so we're going to get rid of CIA, and then so CIA hired...
00:14:05.000You know, people or whether it be Lee Harvey Oswald or multiple people to kill Kennedy.
00:14:11.000And I mean, whatever anyone's opinion of it is, honestly, that story does seem to be the most legit because the CIA had had done a bunch of things to try and get Castro and they'd failed multiple times.
00:14:26.000There had been a lot of and it put a lot of egg on the face of the administration.
00:14:29.000And so when Kennedy was like, look, this is not working and this is actually fairly anti-American.
00:14:38.000They were like, well, you know, that was that was essentially the there.
00:14:42.000The argument goes that that was the actual beginning of the deep state, right?
00:14:46.000The administrative state, the intelligence apparatus decided that they were more important than a president, and from then on, the country's been run by CIA, State Department, and DOD as the blob, which is what Mike Benz.
00:15:00.000Have you guys ever seen the movie Shooter with, um, what's his face?
00:15:14.000They basically, it very much feels like it's about the JFK assassination.
00:15:19.000Basically, Mark Wahlberg is a retired military sniper of some sort, and he gets approached by the government.
00:15:24.000They're like, we fear someone's going to try and make an assassination on this politician, and we need an expert who can tell us how they might do it.
00:15:31.000And so he's like, I don't want to do it.
00:15:33.000And they're like, well, make it worth your while.
00:16:04.000Here's how I think the JFK thing went down, and here's what really happened.
00:16:08.000And so they decided to make a movie based on that, like, conspiracy theory.
00:16:11.000Maybe I'm just a sucker for a mainstream narrative, but if this Thomas Crooks guy was able to get a clean shot off at Donald Trump, and we believe that he acted alone, then I don't think it's beyond reason that Lee Harvey...
00:16:47.000I suppose, though, in terms of things going on right now, maybe he wouldn't do it because...
00:16:51.000Could you imagine what would happen if Trump declassified and it was like...
00:16:55.000Elements within the US government or in private sector colluded to try and take his life.
00:17:00.000What that would do to this country, I don't know that Trump would want to see.
00:17:03.000Do you think that they would have covered their tracks to the point where they know that he has potential, if they miss, to get into the White House next?
00:17:09.000So they're going to be covering their tracks so that he doesn't have anything to release once he's in.
00:17:15.000Well, you know, one of the original excuses for not releasing the JFK files early on was that people who were involved in the case in one way or another were still alive, and they didn't want people chasing down those people.
00:17:25.000So I guess the same principles could be applied for anybody involved in the Thomas Crook stuff.
00:17:31.000Or incompetencies in the Secret Service leading to...
00:17:34.000Yeah, look, they might make the same argument, but honestly...
00:17:37.000Considering that it's not something that has been covered up for a long time, and Donald Trump got elected and he was the target, it makes perfect sense for the administration to say, we're going to find out what happened, where the failures were, and if there was some kind of nefarious plot, we're going to expose that, and we're going to put those people in jail.
00:17:57.000You would think that that would be up top of the agenda?
00:18:00.000Did they try to kill somebody who was running for president?
00:19:30.000Since he began, it has only been a few days, admittedly, But the polls show Donald Trump with a 13-point aggregate net approval, the highest he has ever enjoyed, ever.
00:19:41.000And his favorability is currently above water.
00:19:45.000That has only happened one other time, and that was in December.
00:19:48.000When Trump first got into office in his first term, his favorability was in the gutter.
00:20:32.000I will absolutely play that game, and I will tell every Democrat, what did you do wrong in policy that resulted in the most popular president ever becoming the least popular president ever?
00:20:43.000Certainly, something related to his policies led to the most popular becoming the least approved.
00:20:50.000If we want to eat the narrative, the given narrative about what happened in the 2020 election, then okay, we can now eat it and say, well, didn't you guys mess up?
00:20:59.000And then what we can do is we can say, let's take a look at all the policies that Democrats rolled out in those four years and then explain how this man who got more votes than any president in history then went on to enact these set of policies and it resulted in him having the lowest recorded approval rating in the history of this country.
00:21:20.000What do they mean in the article by he's a great but he's not...
00:21:56.000It's almost like you can't call a president good if they are doing good things.
00:22:00.000To be fair, if Donald Trump came out right now and said that he was going to do everything he can to help Ukraine win the war, including sending wave after wave of his own men into battle, every mainstream corporate news outlet would be like, Trump is a good president.
00:23:11.000Look, this is like the weight of expectation being realized.
00:23:13.000Yeah, the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit a new all-time high again today.
00:23:19.000You know, crypto is doing well, if I understand correctly.
00:23:22.000These kind of things add to a sense of well-being to the American population because most...
00:23:28.000Well, not most people, but a significant portion of the American population has things like 401ks and they have some kind of savings.
00:23:34.000So those people look at their 401ks, they look at their portfolios and they say, well, this is good.
00:23:40.000About the only thing that you can see the Democrats really criticizing Donald Trump on is something that he has no control over, which is the cost of eggs because of the bird flu or whatever that's happened.
00:23:51.000So there's a problem with getting eggs.
00:23:54.000That's got nothing to do with Donald Trump.
00:23:59.000I think that that stuff has a significant effect on his approval rating.
00:24:18.000The fact that he keeps doing things people say they want.
00:24:32.000And everybody right now, you know, when that story came out about how stores have run out of eggs and there's a shortage because they're culling chickens, I warned you.
00:24:48.000So, but now that I've just interrupted with stupid inanities, I don't know, Alal, what do you think?
00:24:54.000Trump's been a larger-than-life figure as soon as he kind of came on the political scene.
00:24:58.000And I think for many people, though, it pushed him over that edge with the assassination attempt in Butler and just the way it happened and the way he kind of escaped death by twisting his head.
00:25:08.000So for a lot of his evangelical base, that really pushed him over the edge to a...
00:25:13.000It makes it seem as though that he survived for a particular reason.
00:25:18.000Trump believes that he was able to survive that assassination attempt for a reason.
00:25:23.000I believe he thinks it's so he was going to be able to save America.
00:25:27.000I think he's still riding a high from that assassination attempt with a rally around the flag effect.
00:25:32.000I think this is about as high as his approval ratings are going to get.
00:25:35.000But these are amazing heights that we're seeing, even to begin with.
00:25:38.000I think it's an all-time high, even for Donald Trump.
00:25:40.000So as soon as he hits some major roadblocks is when we're going to see...
00:25:45.000When some major decisions have to be made.
00:25:47.000But we're only, what, a day or two in, so.
00:25:49.000It's three days, and I guess today was the fourth day.
00:25:54.000Trump's approval has never been above 50%.
00:25:57.000Just in the beginning of his first term for a couple days.
00:26:01.000This is the only other time and it is the highest it has ever been.
00:26:04.000Yeah, and especially because it feels as though this past election was in a referendum on whether or not you liked Donald Trump's presidency or Joe Biden's presidency more.
00:26:12.000And I feel like people were having that nostalgia for Donald Trump through the Joe Biden presidency.
00:26:17.000And that's what brought so many people who might not have typically supported Donald Trump in the past on board for his campaign.
00:26:24.000I feel like Trump's cult-like following, too, is unique in our modern American politics.
00:26:29.000No other politician has anything near the supporter base who is loyal to Donald Trump, no matter what he does and says, is unique in this modern era.
00:27:09.000Because Donald Trump was a reaction to Barack Obama in many ways.
00:27:13.000There's also this one thing, I forgot it, it was the correspondence dinner when Obama made a slight at Donald Trump, and it was one of the major things that inspired him to run originally.
00:27:27.000He did it when he did the reading mean tweets, but he also did it at the Correspondents' Dinner.
00:27:33.000I think the Correspondents' Dinner, with a room full of people while Donald Trump is there laughing at Donald Trump's expense, I think that's when he was like, I'm going to run for president.
00:29:25.000But from what I hear, being raised around, like growing up in this world of cutthroat politics that his dad is going through has made him incredibly savvy and understanding how the political machine works.
00:29:38.000That means that if he does decide to go this route, he is going to be better at this than anyone around him.
00:29:46.000There's also Laura Trump, who is already co-chair of the, what is it, the RNC. So she already has her foot in the pond.
00:29:53.000I don't think a woman will ever be president.
00:29:55.000When they look back at Donald Trump, well, that's part of why Trump is 2-0.
00:29:59.000When they look back on the Trump legacy, I think he'll be one of the last forces.
00:30:03.000He's going to be known as the last guy who was able to unite the Republican Party behind him.
00:30:08.000I think we're in for a major shift in both of the parties.
00:30:11.000And Donald Trump will be known as the last guy on the right who was able to get the pro- Do you guys think that the days of the canned Republican are over?
00:30:27.000Because I think one of the things that's attractive about Trump is that he does, you know, he sits down and he talks off the cuff.
00:30:33.000He's done more interviews in his first three days than President Biden did his whole...
00:31:55.000I think that he had a whole movement pushing back against him in this election of people who were saying, no, no, no, you're not radical enough.
00:32:01.000Even a lot of the Catholics were saying...
00:32:02.000I feel like he was astroturfed to begin with, to be fair, though, as far as Vivek Ramaswamy goes.
00:32:08.000I mean, you look at India, they've got whole industries around getting people fake degrees and getting people fake qualifications in order to get visas.
00:32:22.000Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump executive order ending birthright citizenship.
00:32:26.000The case was brought forth by the Attorneys General of Arizona, Oregon, Washington, and Illinois on Tuesday against the executive order.
00:32:33.000U.S. District Judge John Koffenauer issued the ruling in a case brought forth by the attorney generals.
00:32:39.000According to ABC News, the suit stated the plaintiff states will also suffer irreparable harm because thousands of children will be born within their borders but denied full participation and opportunity in American society.
00:32:48.000Absent a temporary restraining order, children born in the plaintiff states will soon be rendered undocumented, subject to removal or detention, and many stateless.
00:32:58.000Let me just stress this to everybody who watched our amazing episode with Thomas Massey.
00:33:04.000There was a question about the intent of the 14th Amendment, which of course states that all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to its jurisdiction therein are citizens.
00:33:14.000And as I described it, as my limited readings of the Civil War, I am by no means an expert, it was very easy to conclude the intention of the 14th Amendment was descriptive, not prescriptive, that the amendment was stating...
00:33:30.000All of the people as of right now who were born here and subject to our jurisdiction are citizens, right?
00:33:38.000The argument is, no, no, it means that from this point forward, anybody who's born here is a citizen.
00:33:44.000That's actually not correct, and I have the tweet just for you, because it was Jacob B. Howard during the congressional debates on the 14th Amendment specifically addressing the issue, and I quote, This amendment, which I have offered, is simply declaratory of what I regard as the law of the land already, that every person born within the limits of the United States and subject to their jurisdiction is by virtue of natural law and natural law a citizen of the United States.
00:34:10.000This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the government of the United States, but will include every other class of person.
00:34:23.000It settles the great question of citizenship and removes all doubt as to what persons are or are not citizens of the United States.
00:34:29.000It's long been a great desideratum, pronouncing that wrong, in the jurisprudence and legislation of this country.
00:34:36.000He quite literally stated in 1866 in the debate in written historical quote, this will not include foreigners, aliens, etc., So how, for the life of me, we got to this point where we were just like literally anybody at any point who comes here and has a kid, that kid's a citizen, is insane.
00:34:56.000I believe it is corrupt individuals seeking to corrupt ends to corrupt this country, and that is how, not even that long after this man died, he died only, I believe, about five years after this debate.
00:35:08.000They immediately said, well, you know, now that we think about it, he must have meant everybody for all time.
00:35:13.000And here we are with this great conundrum as to what it means for this country to be a citizen.
00:35:18.000Donald Trump is correct in this executive order, and I hope the Supreme Court finds it as such.
00:35:24.000Well, in case you're not aware of it, this is the next necessary step to get this in front of the Supreme Court.
00:35:32.000So this is exactly why Donald Trump made the executive order, so that way someone would challenge it, so that way you can go ahead and go through the necessary steps to get in front of the Supreme Court.
00:37:07.000The Supreme Court is going to answer the question on the 14th Amendment, and I hope they answer it correctly, as for Jacob B. Howard, I believe his name was, his exact quote.
00:37:27.000At some point, some judge was just like, nah, we want it to.
00:37:30.000And like, well, okay, now we have a crisis.
00:37:33.000So the next step is obviously going to be with this temporary block, there's going to be an appeal, it's going to go to SCOTUS, and we're likely going to see what is a six to three court issue their ruling.
00:37:43.000Passport bros take advantage of this stuff, you know?
00:37:45.000You get the passport bros around the world who will be like, all right, I'm going to have a baby.
00:37:49.000Argentina, Mexico, new passports, new passports every single time for the family.
00:37:52.000So you don't want to be one of those countries.
00:37:55.000Do you guys, do you have any sense that should the Supreme Court rule that If someone is born here, it doesn't matter the circumstances.
00:38:03.000Essentially, anchor babies are acceptable under the Constitution.
00:38:07.000Do you think that the American people have the stomach to actually produce an amendment and change that?
00:38:25.000There's some people that I'm friendly with.
00:38:27.000They're talking about this, and they say, well...
00:38:28.000If this goes to the Supreme Court, because it's plainly worded and the Supreme Court finds that Donald Trump is right, that anchor babies aren't covered under the 14th Amendment, that's not what they meant, then they're going to call that judicial activism and that they're legislating on the bench.
00:38:48.000I don't think that that's the case because I do think that subject to the jurisdiction thereof, I think if you just get over the line and have a kid, I don't think the person's actually subject to the jurisdiction because they're not a citizen of the country.
00:39:15.0001866. The thing about our immigration system is literally every single part of it is being taken advantage of and being manipulated by actors without our best interest.
00:39:24.000So not only are they taking advantage of birthright citizenship, people are taking advantage of our H-1B system and how they're getting work visas into our country.
00:39:34.000Yeah, not even just birthright citizenship or the H-1B visa system.
00:39:38.000They're also abusing chain migration where, you know, if you're an American citizen, you could marry somebody and then bring over their kids and they'll become American citizens too.
00:39:45.000So there was originally supposed to be a limit when I believe they passed the Hart-Celler Immigration Act of 1945, something like that.
00:39:53.000We need immigration reform on the grand scales.
00:39:56.000And just doing it through executive action will leave us open to all of this being able to be undone.
00:40:03.000I don't think we can rely on the Supreme Court trying to interpret different laws, different ways to try to get this goal done.
00:40:13.000But if this is an amendment thing, it'll have to go to the Supreme Court.
00:40:16.000It'll have to be the Supreme Court or it'll have to be an amendment.
00:40:19.000Because this was passed long before Social Security, before any kind of government assistance program.
00:40:25.000And the idea that you can come here...
00:40:28.000Have a baby, get over the line, and have a baby two days, three days after you get here, and that child gets to stay, or even if the child gets to come back when he's 18 and bring the family back when they're older, then they get onto Social Security, then they get some kind of support from the federal government.
00:40:46.000No American's going to be okay with that.
00:40:48.000Well, even pragmatically, it's like birthright citizenship.
00:41:35.000Resist the manipulation attempts and be strong and say, listen, we are not doing this to make that woman suffer.
00:41:42.000We are doing it because there's abhorrent evil happening on our border from murder to rape to child trafficking and it must be stopped.
00:41:50.000And that means some nice people who are trying to enter illegally, I'm offended by that, but okay, are going to have to be told they can't come in and the port of entry is that way.
00:42:00.000Yeah, you guys are going to have to get smart to this as well, because right now you've obviously got a wave of immigration happening from Latin America.
00:42:07.000It's been happening since maybe the 60s, since you guys, since the, was it the Immigration Act of 1965 or something like that?
00:42:12.000Before that, it was more Western European, Northern Europeans.
00:42:15.000And then the next wave of immigration, if you're not careful, is going to be Indian, Chinese, etc.
00:43:45.000That they didn't mean that anchor babies were a thing.
00:43:48.000But I don't know for sure that that's what we get.
00:43:52.000And I don't know what kind of backlash that means from the people that do think that it should be, that anchor babies should be okay.
00:44:00.000Let's jump to the story from Fox News.
00:44:03.000First images of ICE mass deportation efforts show arrest of MS-13 gang members and murder suspects.
00:44:10.000Trump administration moving rapidly to fulfill mass deportation promise.
00:44:14.000So I guess we're hearing that already over 500 violent criminals, or there have been 500 arrests, many of them violent criminals.
00:44:21.000They say Fox News embedded exclusively with ICE in Boston.
00:44:24.000As the agency targeted egregious criminal aliens, including MS-13 gang members and murder suspects, as part of mass deportation efforts under Trump, Fox News witnessed ICE Boston make eight arrests, including multiple MS-13, Interpol red notices, murder and rape suspects, and a volatile Haitian gang member with 18 convictions in recent years who told our cameras that he ain't going back to Haiti and F Trump Biden forever.
00:44:56.000I mean, I was speaking to a Venezuelan the other day and they were saying to me, you know, it's actually getting a little bit more safe on the streets of Caracas because of all the criminals going to America.
00:45:15.000Could perhaps this be why Trump's approval rating is so high?
00:45:18.000I mean, this is what people elected him for.
00:45:22.000The Democrats on X and on Blue Sky can make a whole bunch of noise if they want.
00:45:27.000But the average person that said, you know what, I want to vote for Trump, they voted for Trump knowing full well that he was going to round people up.
00:45:37.000He was like, yes, we're going to round up the criminals.
00:45:40.000I've been talking about the criminals since 2016. Everyone knew that was coming.
00:45:48.000And they still voted for him and he won the first, you know, Republican majority since 2000 or since like 1988 or something like that.
00:45:59.000So, you know, yeah, it was it was not a surprise.
00:46:04.000And this is what the American people want.
00:46:06.000And I think that this is part of the reason why he has such a high approval rating, because he's doing the things that he said.
00:46:12.000Americans do not like the idea of criminal aliens running around in the streets, and they see videos like that dude swearing up and down and saying, I'm not going anywhere, and you know the guy is a criminal.
00:46:24.000It's like, alright, good, we get that guy out of here.
00:46:28.000Americans like the idea of the Marines going to the border ready to get into gunfights with the cartels if the cartels shoot at the Marines.
00:46:37.000That's something the American people want.
00:46:39.000Like what the Polish guy was saying the other night, he's like, why not just kill?
00:47:07.000We're not talking about random dudes here.
00:47:08.000We're talking about federal law enforcement and National Guard that are armed.
00:47:11.000And so Trump sent him down to the border.
00:47:14.000I suppose the issue that Dominic was bringing up...
00:47:18.000Is that we have sort of this non-confrontational policy where we usually just retreat and hope they go away.
00:47:25.000And I don't know what we can expect, but at least internally, we're going to see what Trump has already done.
00:47:32.000The DEA and the ATF have been granted deportation powers.
00:47:36.000The Pentagon has confirmed Air Force aircraft will be used to deport.
00:47:42.000Illegal immigrants, and they're going to be staffed internally with federal law enforcement, not military.
00:47:48.000So the goal here from Trump and the administration is not to engage the military directly, but to use existing federal law enforcement with the resources of the military.
00:47:58.000And the Marines are there, fully armed.
00:48:02.000As if they were going on any other operation, as if they were being deployed anywhere else with the authority.
00:48:09.000If you take fire, you are to return fire.
00:48:17.000But, I mean, look, if you're sending...
00:48:20.000I don't know what the Marines are like, you know, these particular guys.
00:48:23.000The issue right here specifically is that...
00:48:25.000Operating on the border, I believe, still falls under posse comitatus.
00:48:29.000And so there have been, I guess, legal scholars stating that we expect not to see the U.S. military that's been deployed, which is, I believe, 1,000 Army and 500 Marines.
00:48:40.000They will not be engaging in ground operations.
00:48:42.000They're going to be providing intelligence, air support, but they won't be engaging directly.
00:48:45.000Federal law enforcement have been granted authority to do so, specifically because posse comitatus, the military can't engage in enforcing domestic law.
00:49:15.000Does it actually become a situation where you say, okay, this is an actual invasion?
00:49:19.000And I guess Trump is doing that now, which is good.
00:49:22.000He declared an invasive force on the southern border.
00:49:23.000It just blows my mind that that hasn't happened yet.
00:49:25.000You know, it's crazy because times are different.
00:49:29.000And we see these migrant caravans where you've got 2,000 people and they're carrying flags of their nation as they march towards the border.
00:50:50.000So these people are not going to be allowed in.
00:50:53.000There's not going to be violence toward them.
00:50:55.000They're going to be physically removed.
00:50:56.000If they enter illegally, they're going to be deported.
00:50:59.000And it's really fascinating to me that...
00:51:01.000Democrats are acting like this is the apocalypse when we're literally saying, hey man, we didn't invite you over, but we'll give you a ride home.
00:51:22.000And they're like, oh, you're kicking me out.
00:51:24.000Dude's like, yeah, I'm kicking you out and I'm giving you a ride home.
00:51:25.000It's the nicest thing I can do for you.
00:51:28.000As far as Mexico go, and a lot of these South American countries go, I think the bigger issue at play is that these are narco states, and there is not enough political will, either domestic or there, to deal with it in a serious way because of the violence that it would bring.
00:51:42.000So neither here or in Mexico do they actually want to deal with the cartel in a serious manner, or they'll murder you.
00:51:47.000You think they're in bed with the cartels?
00:51:55.000Any legitimate criticisms of the cartel?
00:51:57.000They'll chase you down and murder you.
00:51:59.000And if we deal with them in a serious manner on our side of the border, then we'll see violence erupt.
00:52:04.000And I don't think the Americans have the stomach for this.
00:52:07.000And in Mexico, they'd rather cooperate with these cartels than...
00:52:11.000I'm saying if the will was there from Trump, for example, and if he said to Mexico, hey, listen, we're going to do X, Y, and Z. You guys have a military.
00:52:37.000I think Trump's accusation that he was sending criminals to America.
00:52:40.000He was releasing criminals who were coming to America.
00:52:42.000Okay, so that's how he was dealing with them.
00:52:44.000It seems like a different deal if he's sending them to America.
00:52:46.000But I mean, there's no doubt that there's big facilities with lots of high-ranking gang members in El Salvador, and they're locking them up there, and they're punishing them severely.
00:53:09.000The United States wouldn't be able to do anything because the Mexican government wouldn't work with the U.S.? It's hard to make deals with the Mexicans because the Mexicans are run by the cartels.
00:53:22.000And if we do deal with the issue head-on, then we will face a lot of violence.
00:53:27.000Do you think that the U.S. wouldn't have the stomach to actually deal with the cartels because the cartels would have a lot of violence in the U.S.? Yeah, unfortunately.
00:53:38.000Unless the cartel played nice, and then you'd have to make deals with the cartel.
00:53:41.000But they are so deeply ingrained in Mexico and different South American countries that they aren't going anywhere.
00:53:45.000The state of Mexico is run by the cartels and gang members.
00:53:49.000I mean, all I hear you saying is that we need to do to Mexico...
00:53:53.000Yeah, we'll do to Mexico what we did in the Middle East.
00:53:56.000Because the United States military has shown that they are capable of dismantling terrorist organizations, and that's exactly what the cartels are.
00:54:04.000So, if the United States has to go in and say, look...
00:54:07.000You're either going to handle the cartels or...
00:55:03.000If you feel safe, take photos or videos.
00:55:05.000Write on the time, date, and exact location of the encounter.
00:55:07.000Time stamp when they show up and leave.
00:55:09.000Once verified, share the information with your networks.
00:55:13.000Let's say there was like a roaming band of wanted bank robbers.
00:55:18.000They had robbed a bank, and their faces were up all over the city and on the TVs.
00:55:24.000And then you came out and said to all of your friends, If you see law enforcement alert the criminals so that they can escape and protect themselves, if you were a part of these criminal gangs and someone came out and offered up advice for how you could subvert law enforcement to escape and not get arrested,
00:55:49.000I'm wondering if there's any codified laws in the books about aiding and abetting wanted criminals and providing them with information so they can escape law enforcement?
00:55:58.000If she's an accessory to any of the crimes that she commits, maybe we could subpoena any of these networks that she's in.
00:56:03.000She should be censored just for posting that.
00:56:07.000If I'm a Venezuelan gang member, this sounds like the type of networking groups I want to be in, and I guess I'm thankful that Tom Homan takes ICE Law and his job there at ICE seriously to follow through with what...
00:56:19.000Even if there was one legit example of what she was saying, then she could probably get away with posting something like that and she couldn't actually be linked to it.
00:56:28.000But people who were actually aiding and abetting now can say, oh, well, I saw AOC's post.
00:58:30.000But the Democrats are in no position to criticize the release of the J6 prisoners or anything, because this is the exact kind of thing they do.
00:58:46.000That's trying to interfere with a duly designated...
00:58:51.000The whole fake ice thing is like a sleight of hand that she's played there in order to tell people, hey, listen, if ice are trying to round you up or people that you know up, get out of there.
00:59:01.000You can say, oh, there's fake ice people.
00:59:56.000They want to see the Lakin-Riley Act enforced, which I believe we will see be the first law that Trump signs.
01:00:05.000Absolutely amazing that Ro Khanna was like, he voted against it because it allows the deportation of an individual simply for being arrested.
01:00:13.000And it's like, but when they're here illegally?
01:00:36.000And that's the thing with the murderer of Lakin Riley.
01:00:39.000This was an illegal immigrant who was arrested multiple times in multiple different states, and then ended up doing heinous crimes, and then obviously...
01:00:47.000It's like when the left in America say, no...
01:00:50.000Every person is illegal, except for every single person who crossed the border illegally.
01:00:54.000And I just put in the Slack, Tim, someone posted, Brian Crandall from NBC10 on X, FBI Homeland Security agent's raid office of well-known Providence immigration lawyer.
01:01:44.000But yeah, I mean, this is what should happen to all lawyers that in any way get in the way of a duly deputized federal employee or whatever rounding people up.
01:02:39.000Do you think they allow contracting for illegal immigrants in New York City in these restaurants?
01:02:43.000That's been the worst thing about all of this is the special protections for illegal immigrants and the penalties on legal citizens and immigrants.
01:02:52.000The fact that in New York they were putting up illegal immigrants in hotels with some reportedly had PlayStations and Gen Z is like, I wish I can afford to get a bachelor apartment.
01:03:03.000You know what a bachelor apartment is?
01:04:42.000My concern with watching lawyers get served and stuff is, at what point does it go too far?
01:04:48.000I guess we need to really know exactly what's going on here beyond the caption reading FBI. Well, I mean, just like, hypothetically, like...
01:06:31.000Dude, have you seen the one in China where there's a law in China where if you hit somebody with your car and then they're injured, then they can sue you.
01:06:38.000But if you kill them, then they can't do anything.
01:07:09.000And so the local government, I think it was the British government in India, and they were like, bring us the heads of the snakes and we'll pay you for them.
01:07:14.000So local Indians started breeding the snakes because they were worth money to the government now and it made the problem worse.
01:07:19.000It's like Mao with the sparrows in China as well, trying to get rid of the sparrows and then...
01:07:24.000Let's jump to this story from the Post.
01:07:26.000Millennial advisor for Biden White House admits deep state is real.
01:07:30.000Says bureaucracy could crush Trump's pick for HHS. In this latest release from James O'Keefe, this guy basically says the deep state is real.
01:07:38.000They're going to obstruct RFK Jr. They're going to use phony commissions to investigate things and then never actually do what they're told to do.
01:08:36.000They're going to do whatever they can to hide their actual intentions.
01:08:42.000So do we think that Trump is going to succeed in his efforts despite the fact that we see these videos where the deep state's like, yeah, we exist, we're going to keep doing it?
01:08:49.000Well, like we were talking the other night with Angela, like...
01:08:52.000It's one thing to get a – it would be one thing to have a libertarian or someone that's really good as the head of a cabinet-level position, a secretary, right?
01:09:01.000But it's probably better to have seven or ten people in the upper management that are of the same mind as you so they can monitor the other people around, turn them in if they're breaking the rules.
01:09:13.000Because if you're just ahead, you're delegating authority, but you have – just like with Trump's – First term, he had problems with the people that he hired.
01:09:23.000If you get people that are in the bureaucracy and you get good people that are not head of the department or the secretary level, but they're actually the administrative level, those people can do more to make good policy and make sure that the policy that the president wants is actually being implemented.
01:09:44.000I think this guy's getting a little bit ahead of himself because I don't even foresee RFK Jr. getting confirmed as HHS secretary.
01:09:51.000Yeah, he's way too radical on abortion for, I think, like, we only have 53 Republican senators right now.
01:09:58.000I think they'll be able to pick off a few.
01:10:00.000Mike Pence is trying to knock off a few.
01:10:02.000RFK Jr. has said he supports abortion.
01:10:05.000Thune has said that he's got the votes.
01:10:42.000But I think this guy's getting a little bit ahead of him.
01:10:44.000Trump was pretty clear when he said that we're going to leave RFK to do what he does best to sort of disentangle the big entrenched farmer cartel.
01:10:53.000We're going to leave the environmental stuff away and everything.
01:10:56.000Will he have much of a say with abortion?
01:10:59.000He will have some say because he'll still be HHS secretary, but the bigger hurdle is getting past the pro-life Republicans in the Senate.
01:11:06.000But Trump's left it to the states, right?
01:11:08.000Meaning that federally he won't have much to do with abortion, but it will be up to the states.
01:11:12.000I still think HHS will be involved in some of the legal processes, but even before he gets that far, it'll be the pro-life Republicans in the Senate who I think would block the confirmation.
01:11:23.000But will it affect the abortion laws, though?
01:11:27.000I think it'll have some effect over abortion law at HHS. I mean, it is the Department of Health and Human Services.
01:11:34.000If Trump is actually leaving it to the state, then it...
01:11:35.000I think that he would have foreseen that because he wouldn't want a radical like RFK on abortion having anything to do with the abortion.
01:12:07.000I think it would be people that are part of the intelligence apparatus dealing with foreign policy as opposed to the people that like, you know, Tulsi Gabbard.
01:12:16.000I think it's funny because I kind of think the opposite.
01:12:18.000I think it's Republicans who hold grudges against people who used to be Democrats that might stop them from getting over the line.
01:12:23.000So like, for example, some people in the national security apparatus don't like how Tulsi Gabbard cozied up and met with Bashar al-Assad in Syria when he was still in power there.
01:12:32.000This abortion issue is a huge issue for Republicans across the board in the South, especially the abortion issue.
01:12:39.000Those people are the ones I don't really foresee getting.
01:12:43.000Yeah, I don't think that the I think the Republicans understand that Trump has basically a mandate.
01:12:50.000At least on the Republican side, they're of the opinion that Trump has a mandate and they feel like they need to get on board.
01:12:56.000The only people that I think don't hold that opinion are people like Murkowski and Collins that don't have to worry about Pleasing their Republican base.
01:13:08.000It's ironic because Thune is actually going to be appearing tomorrow at the March for Life in D.C. while he's allegedly going to try to whip up votes for an HHS secretary who will likely be the most pro-life one, at least that are Republicans ever appointed in office.
01:13:23.000Yeah, I think on a federal level, the abortion question is...
01:13:51.000People love fundraising money on both sides.
01:13:53.000That's part of why I don't think it'll ever get resolved.
01:13:55.000Also, it's because the pro-abortionists are possessed by demon spirits.
01:14:00.000Democrats raise so much money based off this issue alone.
01:14:04.000It's one of their biggest platform policies that they even have.
01:14:08.000As the Democrats run on in the past election, women's rights was the top issue that most of the women cared about, and their base are becoming more and more feminine.
01:14:15.000It's 50-year-old women that have gone through menopause that can't have kids that are making us think about it.
01:14:20.000A lot of young women are Democrats because of abortion.
01:14:24.000It is the case, unfortunately, because what do you get sold these days if you're a young woman?
01:14:29.000You get sold a bill of don't need no man, be independent, don't have kids, it's bad for the environment, and you want to have a job with a fluffy little notepad.
01:14:37.000The solution to the abortion question isn't convincing young women that they shouldn't get abortions.
01:14:45.000It's convincing young men and women that they need to get married and have kids.
01:14:49.000I think the solution to the abortion problem...
01:16:11.000The issue is always going to be, will your culture tolerate these things?
01:16:16.000So this idea that we're simply going to say, arrest people who do it, won't change the fact that people will just end up doing it illegally.
01:16:21.000You need cultural reformation, and that is...
01:16:24.000Ridiculously hard to accomplish, but it's the only way to put a stop to these things is if on shows like this and on other platforms people are shaming.
01:16:33.000We need to bring back shame to as hard degree as possible.
01:16:36.000If a dude gets caught buying OnlyFans, he is mocked relentlessly.
01:17:37.000Well, now you've got a violation of the Civil Rights Act.
01:17:39.000Look, I'm not saying that nip slips need to be sort of banned, but if you're having sexual intercourse on camera, and if it's being distributed and distributed to children, should you be liable for that?
01:17:47.000By all means, you can legislate to ban porn, and it will curtail a decent amount of it, but it's not going to change the culture.
01:17:58.000So, by all means, I'm not saying it's ineffective completely.
01:18:01.000People will still absolutely do these things.
01:18:50.000Maybe it would be effective to a certain degree to ban these things because it would result in a reduction across the board, and then you can shame those who would continue to do so.
01:18:58.000But really the most powerful motivator is when young people are ridiculed for doing bad things.
01:19:04.000So you look at the effect that Instagram and TikTok has on teenagers, and if they don't get enough likes, they get depressed.
01:19:13.000And they try to follow the trends because they're trying to fit in.
01:19:16.000Imagine what would happen if somebody posted on a platform and people found out that they had bought an OnlyFans subscription and all their comments were filled with, ha ha ha ha, unfollowed, unfollowed, you're a loser, you're nasty, you're a loser.
01:19:32.000100% agree with you on the cultural implications and there being shame and there being an incentivization towards the nuclear family and towards people being virtuous.
01:19:42.000However, when I do look at the industry of porn, when you look at it holistically and you sort of zoom out on it, this is the reason for so much human trafficking in the world.
01:19:52.000And if you're looking at purely from a utilitarian point of view, the damage is unbelievable with this industry.
01:19:58.000So, I mean, I can really see a case where we would have much stricter laws on these things in the West.
01:20:05.000And also, there's been studies done that show that the countries that are more liberal about it, like Holland and these sort of northern European countries, they tend to have much larger industries and much larger influxes of human trafficking.
01:20:21.000But I think it's important to stress that when you get to the point in society where you're writing things down to make sure people don't do it, you have an immoral society.
01:21:13.000If they allow access in any way to adult content or graphic content to children, then they are They were penalized criminally like any other company.
01:21:24.000Because Pornhub has had many different instances in the past where they've had children who have been on there for weeks, CP, and it's got millions of views and millions of impressions.
01:21:32.000And they should be criminally penalized for that.
01:21:34.000And they've already had numerous states enact ID requirements where Pornhub's been like, oh, why are they making us require IDs?
01:21:40.000Because the adult bookstore down the street doesn't let kids in, and neither should you.
01:21:45.000I was gonna follow up in like the real world and pragmatic practice of this is that in something like 15 odd states now they um Pornhub ended up um Blocking service because those states were pushing forth laws that required, I believe, state IDs to prove they're above 18 to access their website.
01:22:02.000I think that's a sort of sensible regulation.
01:22:04.000I don't think banning is the proper direction to go, but something like more regulation around access, especially for kids, as we advance into such a technologically savvy environment where these kids probably know more about tech than we do.
01:22:18.000I want to jump to this next story, which is a bit more personal.
01:22:20.000Ladies and gentlemen, we are leaving West Virginia.
01:22:24.000I didn't do proper research, and I didn't think I would have had to have done research in this field.
01:22:28.000But, you know, look, let me put it this way.
01:22:32.000First, I want to apologize to my friends in West Virginia who work in governance, who are desperately trying to find some way to rectify the issues the state has.
01:22:39.000And unfortunately, I will tell you, the fact that it has come to me discussing this in the first place means that we are well past this.
01:22:47.000West Virginia's tax laws are psychotic.
01:22:50.000They require itemization of all objects you own, including your chairs and pens.
01:22:57.000If I am wrong about any of this, then it's actually easier than all of that.
01:23:00.000We're being harassed by the state, so I'm leaving.
01:23:02.000And so I've had a lot of conversations with people who work in local governments.
01:23:06.000Of course, we're friends with some of these people.
01:23:07.000And I've informed them every step of the way, I will never, never will there be a time where Tim Pool makes a phone call to the government and says, I, Tim Pool, want you to do a favor for me.
01:23:49.000I regret ever coming to the state and putting any money into it.
01:23:52.000It is on par with, we have this here from Investopedia, what California did with AB5 and it's why we largely do not work with anyone based in California.
01:24:03.000Very few things motivate me to such rage and this is one of them.
01:24:10.000This has to do with the gig economy, and West Virginia followed California in basically saying that if you are an individual who wants to do work in any capacity, you must register as a business first or be an employee, taking away the rights of individuals to choose when and how they work.
01:24:27.000And I am shocked and offended that West Virginia put this law in place in June of 2021, right before we started our expansion.
01:24:36.000So had I done my proper research, I would have easily seen...
01:24:39.000That West Virginia was banning contracting, and I would have said we will never go near this state.
01:24:43.000And so we've run into this because we have talent contracts.
01:24:48.000And there's reasons why we have contractors versus employees.
01:24:52.000Due to the nature of contract law, there are certain legal requirements we have with employees pertaining to intellectual property and disclosure and things like this.
01:25:03.000And it has nothing to do with, like...
01:25:06.000There's a lot of people out there who think NDAs, non-disparagements, and non-disclosures are because companies have secrets.
01:25:13.000For us, it's because we have movie ideas.
01:25:17.000It's because we have songs that have not been released.
01:25:19.000It's because we have technological advancements and plans for a media company.
01:25:29.000Certain contractors already work for other companies, but we want to share talent.
01:25:33.000Certain contractors have a list of personal intellectual property that we would never negotiate ownership of, creating a distinction between when someone's a contractor and someone's an employee.
01:25:43.000Well, we're getting heat from the state because we have people who drafted a report on, like, I'm not going to get into too much nitty-gritty on this, but we've been butting heads with the state because, for instance, a single individual who doesn't own a business said, I can help you draft a report on X. And we were like, that would actually be really helpful for us expanding our business.
01:26:04.000And the state came down and said, how dare you contract an individual?
01:26:11.000It's an individual who lives in West Virginia who offered to do some work over the weekend for us to literally just draft a report on a certain issue.
01:26:18.000And they said, that's not allowed in this state.
01:26:22.000And so we began looking into this, and sure enough, that's West Virginia's new law, the Employment Law Worker Classification Act, which uses the excuse of Uber and other BS to create absolutely psychotic provisions as to what constitutes an employee or a contractor, which restricts our ability to work with top talent.
01:26:44.000So if I go to a famous individual and say, we want to contract you for a series of shows that are, can't do it.
01:26:50.000Because they're going to be an employee so long as we require locations.
01:27:05.000But if they're employees, we're required to give them our company policy employee contract, which creates ownership of IP. It is an absolute disaster.
01:27:13.000And so I can show you some of these stupid garbage that's in this thing.
01:27:18.000The form that was sent to us from the government.
01:27:21.000How to determine whether or not someone's an employee or a contractor?
01:27:25.000If a worker has the right to quit at any time without incurring liability, this indicates an employer-employee relationship.
01:27:31.000Well, we have a company policy with HR requirements.
01:27:34.000We cannot have policies that are not uniform.
01:27:38.000So if we apply it to one employee, it has to apply to all.
01:27:40.000So if we hire an employee for creative work and say that if you produce a creative work, we own the rights to that, that's what we've hired you for, that would have to apply to anyone who falls under this criteria.
01:27:51.000We say, hey, we want you to only do one specific thing because we don't want to buy out the rest of your IP or anything related to the work you do.
01:27:58.000Because if the individual has a right to leave at any moment, they're now an employee and we must implement our uniform employee policy on everyone, making it impossible to work in the state.
01:28:08.000And don't get me wrong, it's not just West Virginia, it's also California and a bunch of other states that are doing this.
01:28:13.000The reason why this makes me so angry...
01:28:15.000It's because while the law may be constructed in such a way that says something like, no, no, it's only if certain criteria within this are met.
01:28:40.000Well, they're requiring us to do that, and I refuse.
01:28:43.000I believe these moves that are passing in California and West Virginia and a bunch of other states are intended to push forward that you will live in the pot and you will eat the bugs world, where, guess what?
01:28:53.000If you are a man, or a woman, whatever, if you're a person, and you live in your house and in your spare time you build birdhouses, and eventually some guy notices it and says, hey, would you like to build some birdhouses for me, for my company?
01:30:17.000And if you operate outside of the state, same thing applies.
01:30:21.000this is absolutely offensive, that So let me tell you about what happened with California with what their AB5 bill is.
01:30:28.000Vox.com, they had a website called SB Nation.
01:30:32.000California said because of the gig economy and the exploitation of contractor work, we're passing a law that says after a certain amount of gigs, you're officially an employee.
01:30:42.000A bunch of people, how freelance writing works.
01:30:46.000Somebody will write an article and then they'll send it to some people they know in media and say, hey, would you want to buy this article?
01:31:03.000This means that people in California who of their own volition produce an artistic work are now barred from selling it to media companies because the state has put a restriction on those companies saying if you purchase a certain amount of these products, you must employ the individual.
01:31:19.000That means the individual doesn't have the choice to be an independent contractor anymore.
01:31:23.000They are required now to be an employee of someone else's company.
01:31:35.000And then when you become an employee of another company, they're going to have corporate policies saying you can't work for anybody else.
01:31:39.000And that effectively ends the careers of individuals.
01:31:42.000What this is, California, West Virginia, and again, many other states, they are moving to ban the right of individuals to do work for money.
01:31:49.000And it is one of the most offensive things imaginable to me.
01:31:53.000And for this, this is the straw in the camel's back.
01:31:56.000There's a lot of other problems that I can deal with.
01:31:58.000We wanted to make West Virginia great, but this one is offensive to me and my moral framework.
01:32:04.000This is, you will live in the pot and eat the bugs.
01:32:07.000You will work for Walmart, not the mom and pop shop.
01:32:10.000Because who has the ability to navigate these laws?
01:33:05.000When we operated out of Maryland, this never was an issue, and the fact that West Virginia is choosing to take enforcement action against us offends me.
01:33:12.000It is disrespectful, and I've got to be honest, this is largely why I think it's been impossible to get the anti-Times Square thing moving.
01:33:19.000Nobody will open businesses in this state, and I think it's their own fault, and we are now intent on divesting as quickly as humanly possible.
01:33:28.000So I know that there are people in the legislature, they've been trying to talk to me.
01:33:31.000I know someone tweeted the government was trying to reach out to me.
01:33:34.000Look, with respect, that should not be the case.
01:33:38.000That a small business in the state is now barred from hiring a contractor unless, and get this, it's going to cost you $300 to go through the registration too.
01:33:45.000If you want to mow someone's lawn, spend the $300 to register with the state first because they've taken away your right to do work.
01:35:12.000They want you to, in our instance, proselytize the greatness of West Virginia.
01:35:16.000And my option is, okay, I will publicly claim we are happy with the state's laws and regulations and encourage other people to come here because you've given me a favor.
01:35:27.000So I told them, with respect, I appreciate they're trying to help.
01:35:31.000But I am offended at how the state runs itself.
01:35:33.000They can choose not to enforce these things for the time being and call a special legislative session to abolish these ridiculous and psychotic draconian laws that strip the rights away from working class people.
01:35:45.000But I'm not going to take a favor from them, nor am I going to go on my show or go on accident and be like, everything's great.
01:36:40.000It's because they want payroll taxes and they don't want to lose revenue.
01:36:44.000But if that were really the case, then they would simply go after people who don't pay their taxes.
01:36:50.000If someone comes to me and says, I can draw you a beautiful picture of a chicken and I say, I would like to hire you to draw that chicken picture.
01:37:00.000They have to be a registered business entity.
01:37:02.000And there's a bunch of other restrictions pertaining to whether they're a contractor or they're an employee.
01:37:07.000And one of them is like, here's another one.
01:37:29.000And I'm like, well, that can't be the case.
01:37:31.000And they're like, well, then if you have a singular individual who appears on a regular scheduling basis, they must be under employment law.
01:37:37.000And your employment, your company policies as per how employment works have to be uniform.
01:37:42.000And I'm just like, okay, so we're shutting the company down.
01:37:48.000And so there's temporary stopgap measures, but it's insane that they're doing this.
01:37:52.000I believe this is largely attached to the you will live in the pot and eat the bugs and I believe it largely flies under the radar because West Virginia implementing these laws doesn't really affect anybody of consequence to generate something like this, this news, until us.
01:38:08.000California did this, and it created a huge media splash because it resulted in, I think, 300 people got fired from Vox or something like this.
01:38:17.000Hundreds of people lost their writing jobs.
01:38:20.000That made big news when journalists lost their job and tweeted up a storm saying, I just got fired because of this law, which was a bit ironic considering this was pushed by unions and Democrats in the state.
01:38:33.000So we're not seeing the news on all of the states that are implementing bans on individual contracting because most people just it doesn't it doesn't hit the news the same way like a burning building does.
01:38:44.000But what's going to happen in 10 years?
01:38:46.000Kids are going to grow up and be like, what do you mean?
01:38:48.000It's normal to not be allowed to work.
01:38:49.000The only way you can get a job is if a company offers you employment.
01:39:30.000What we know it looks like, the judge himself, I put it in the Slack if you want to take a look, it looks like the judge himself was an illegal immigrant.
01:41:14.000But I'm hearing that Tennessee actually, there's a reason why everyone's moving there.
01:41:18.000So a bunch of people hit me up, prominent conservatives from all over the country said they're moving to Tennessee because the laws are actually really good.
01:41:30.000The property values are skyrocketing because everyone wants to move there.
01:41:34.000And I'm looking into it, and there's a lot of friends and allies who live in Tennessee.
01:41:38.000Robbie Starbuck, of course, the Daily Wire crew.
01:41:40.000I don't want to spill the beans on the other people who are already planning on moving there, but some large, prominent creators, influencers, and conservatives that you all know and have been on this show have told me that they're actually relocating as well.
01:44:03.000Not always used that way, but it is better that 10 guilty persons go free than one innocent person suffer.
01:44:07.000So if the president is pardoning 10 guilty people and we roll our eyes and we grumble about it, and then one innocent person is released, I think it's a good thing.
01:44:15.000And he should have that executive power.
01:44:17.000I mean, what's the point of being president if you don't have the executive power to do that?
01:44:21.000Jason Nixon says, Tim, tell me why you were considering leaving West Virginia.
01:44:57.000Don't think I haven't seen the comments where they're like, Tim couldn't open a coffee shop in two years in West Virginia.
01:45:03.000And what do you think the politicians in West Virginia say when I tell them, guys, we've been trying to open a coffee shop for two years.
01:45:10.000How do you think that makes me look when I go on a show to millions of people and say, come to West Virginia, we're opening a coffee shop, which should take six weeks, and it's been two years and we can't do it.
01:45:49.000This is probably why when we were advocating for people to build in West Virginia and join us, nobody would.
01:45:55.000Because the moment they take a look at the laws, the regulations, I was talking for some time with a very prominent individual in a particular industry, I'm going to keep it private, and I was telling them to relocate in West Virginia, and I was lobbying hard, and they came back to me and said, we've reviewed the Constitution, the laws, and the legislature of the state, and we're not going anywhere near it.
01:46:27.000But when I found out the state passed a law banning individual contracting, or at least passing regulations in such a way that it makes it nigh impossible for an individual to just do the work, I said, I ain't doing that.
01:46:41.000If a 20-year-old guy knocks on a door and says, I'm hungry and need work, please let me work for you, he should have to file a $300 permitting process to the state to get a license to work on someone's farm.
01:48:51.000A 20-year-old skateboarder from Ohio who came down for this one contest ain't going to be registering $300 in West Virginia to do a kickflip down a stair set.
01:49:00.000So we're trying to do another contest where we call it Boonies Bounties, and we're trying to get people to produce more culture and content.
01:49:07.000So we said, every month we're going to have a bounty on a trick.
01:49:11.000This month it was a frontside 180. For those that don't know, it just means you spin.
01:49:31.000We are not going to do any weird circuitous means by which we can pay a contest winner.
01:49:35.000Well, then they have to register in the state of West Virginia because they're delivering a product to be displayed by a West Virginia business and they're operating in the state.
01:49:42.000And I'm like, okay, do we cancel the contest?
01:50:25.000Dustin Wood says, Tim, please consider Arkansas as a state to move to.
01:50:28.000We have universal school choice next year, super low property taxes, cheap land, beautiful mountains and rivers, common sense.
01:50:33.000And Sarah Sanders, please check northwest Arkansas especially.
01:50:37.000The first thing I'm going to do is check to see if your state is one of the states that have banned individual contracting and we won't set foot in them.
01:50:42.000And I hope Tennessee hasn't done this.
01:51:45.000They didn't give us any hassle over this, and at least temporarily we're going to find a state to go to that isn't doing these evil things.
01:51:50.000This is straight-up Agenda 2030 stuff, where they're taking away the rights of people to just work.
01:51:55.000They want to take away your ability to trade with cash.
01:51:58.000There's already a bunch of stores that don't accept cash.
01:52:11.000One of the things here that is particularly unfortunate, too, is that the government thinks they're actually helping the workers, but they're harming them by not allowing them to get business at all, is so it seems.
01:52:20.000And then they're just trying to line their pockets with forcing people to get these business permits.
01:52:25.000I don't think that's why they're doing it.
01:52:26.000I do not believe that they're intending to help anyone.
01:52:29.000I genuinely believe these people are like, let's strip workers of their rights so that they're forced to be employees of Amazon, Walmart, Meta, etc.
01:52:38.000They're going to work for the corporations.
01:52:40.000You will own nothing and you will be happy.
01:52:42.000You will live in the pot and you will eat the bugs.
01:52:43.000Well, I think what they're trying to do is saying that if you do any small amount of work consistently for a company, that you're going to have to hire them full time.
01:52:50.000But what they don't understand, I think, is that a lot of business would just forego hiring the people altogether if they can't be hired as a contractor instead of a full time employee.
01:52:58.000Big corporations like Uber or whatever can easily...
01:53:03.000Spend $10 million to adjust the company in such a way that it navigates the cracks of those laws.
01:54:04.000Like, you know, with all due respect, I don't want to disclose too much about Luke's private life, but we talked with Luke about how we could have him permanently on the show, and the issue is he owns several companies himself, and we have a uniform employment policy which says you can't work for other companies.
01:54:18.000And there's reasons for this because of IP rights and restrictions that we have to abide by.
01:54:21.000So we were like, yeah, we can't do it.
01:54:26.000Just because I'm free says if there are elements in the government that helped the shooter and PA, I think it's important they are exposed.
01:54:32.000If there was a corrupt cop, wouldn't you want them exposed?
01:54:34.000The narrative that it'll create distrust in the police isn't an argument.
01:54:39.000I think those files are at this point even more important than the JFK, RFK, MLK files.
01:54:47.000Especially because it was so much more recent, but...
01:54:50.000We'll see if they'll have a congressional hearing or investigation on that stuff.
01:54:53.000I believe they said they would before the election.
01:54:54.000The excuse is always that it's disruptive and could screw the economy up and stuff like that, and people would revolt and whatever, whatever.
01:55:21.000And, you know, but I don't know, maybe we should be going to these purple states where we can inject influence and actually force them to move in a certain direction.
01:56:24.000What a lot of the guys in government are saying is like, look, man, we had the Manchin Democrats in West Virginia, and the entrenched bureaucracy here has caused a lot of problems for everybody.
01:56:47.000You know, if the governor wants to issue an executive order in the state that they're not going to enforce their crackpot evil garbage law.
01:56:54.000On everyone in the state, maybe I'd consider it.
01:56:56.000But I'm offended that they even passed the law.
01:57:20.000Rusty Sheckover says, Tim, why do you need special favors?
01:57:24.000Contact the state legislature and demand they repeal the gig law.
01:57:28.000Make the state a better place for everyone.
01:57:29.000If a guy owns a coffee shop and makes 40,000 a year calls the state legislature and says repeal this law, they'll say, OK, sure, fine, whatever.
01:57:37.000If a dude with a combined like eight or nine million followers, maybe like 10 million followers, calls and says, I'm going to go on X to 2.3 million people and disparage your state, they're going to be like, I will do whatever you say.
01:58:34.000I got my flight while everyone else was stranded.
01:58:36.000And all the first class and priority status people got rebooked and all the coach people were told, good luck.
01:58:44.000And now we live in this era where if I go to McDonald's and they make my burger wrong, I send a tweet and all hell breaks loose at McDonald's.
01:58:52.000And it's ridiculous that the world works that way.
01:58:55.000Everybody's entitled to good service and accountability.
01:58:58.000That means I should not talk to a legislature or a legislator or a mayor or whatever to get special favors.
01:59:07.000And Rusty, I know you're saying it's not a special favor, but it is true.
01:59:11.000If Elad calls them and says, I need something, they'll say, well, think about it.
01:59:14.000If Tim Pool calls, they're going to be like, whoa, that's Tim Pool.
01:59:17.000And that is just the reality of someone like me calling.
01:59:20.000So apparently me tweeting that I was leaving put up a bunch of red flags and alarms were going off and the state was freaking out that I said this.
01:59:27.000To be honest, guys, I really thought I was going to get 10 retweets when I said I was leaving West Virginia.
01:59:31.000I didn't realize it was going to be 1,000.
01:59:36.000If I called the state reps in West Virginia and said, hey, I'm having contracting issues, they would laugh at me.
01:59:42.000Tim has this bully pulpit of his platform, obviously, and then all of his stuff that goes wrong with him becomes a PR nightmare, as opposed to us plebs, us regular citizens who don't carry around that kind of clout.
02:00:14.000And there's like five other people who are prominent personalities in conservative media who told me they're moving to Tennessee, and I'm like, really?
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