On today's episode of The Libertarians, Josie and Tim talk about the latest in the Trump administration's healthcare fraud investigation, and how it could have a big impact on the future of the country. Also, the guys talk about aliens falling from the sky.
00:02:52.000Well, they've announced now the DOJ has indicted and arrested hundreds of individuals for this crazy healthcare scheme, of which many were defrauding Medicare and Medicaid, buying luxury vehicles and living lavish lifestyles.
00:03:06.000So hopefully this is just the beginning.
00:03:09.000But my friends, we were struggling to figure out what the lead of the day was, despite the fact that they started off actually rather slow.
00:08:00.000The lead story is they filed criminal charges against 324 defendants and the seizure of more than 245 million in cash, luxury cars, and other assets.
00:08:12.000The actual loss to the U.S. government totaled about $2.9 billion.
00:08:18.000So when we had all this Doge stuff going through and everyone's saying, when are you going to start arresting these people who are ripping off the taxpayer?
00:08:28.000They say today, quote, today marks a decisive moment in our fight to protect American taxpayers from fraudsters and to defend the integrity of America's healthcare system.
00:08:37.000Matthew, how do you pronounce that, Galioti?
00:08:41.000The head of the Justice Department's criminal division told reporters during a press conference.
00:08:44.000Those charges include 93 doctors and other medical professionals accused of submitting false claims to government health care programs like Medicare and Medicaid.
00:09:04.000My name is Matthew Gagliotti, and I'm the head of the Justice Department's criminal division.
00:09:09.000Thank you all for joining us today as we announce the largest coordinated health care fraud takedown in the history of the Department of Justice.
00:09:18.000Today marks a decisive moment in our fight to protect American taxpayers from fraudsters and to defend the integrity of America's healthcare system.
00:09:30.000We are announcing today charges against 324 defendants for their alleged participation in healthcare fraud schemes involving approximately $14.6 billion in false claims submitted to Medicare, Medicaid, and other healthcare programs.
00:10:04.000I do like the fact that, well, not like the fact, but I'm hoping that this will actually lead to people that are extremely critical of the government and that are impatient.
00:10:14.000They're saying, oh, these things aren't happening fast enough.
00:10:16.000Hopefully this will be another indication that there are, you know, there are investigations going on.
00:10:23.000And whereas, yes, I would love it if, you know, they could have just got into office and snapped their fingers and all the bad people just automatically.
00:10:54.000I'm not saying this is exactly how everything's, you know, everything's going to be rosy and stuff.
00:10:58.000But I do think that you're going to see more and more of this throughout the summer.
00:11:01.000I mean, that's what Dan Bongino and Cash Patel said.
00:11:03.000I was looking up who some of these people were, and there's a story out of Baton Rouge, some women just totally defrauding elderly and disabled to get cars.
00:11:13.000And that's part of the problem with a government, with the budget that we have, the size of the government, the idea that there isn't massive fraud and abuse.
00:12:14.000Rand Paul is looking to subpoena Fauci, and hopefully we can actually get something moving on that front as well.
00:12:20.000Considering the information, I don't know if we're going to talk about this either, but considering the information about the RFK found all the hidden information that the CDC was hiding, you know, again, that's another thing that'll come out or that's come out that shows that there are people in the government that were elected or that were appointed by Donald Trump, proving that, you know, electing Donald Trump was definitely the better option without question.
00:12:49.000I want to clarify, we don't exactly, it has been reported hundreds of arrests.
00:12:54.000That's why we led with that phrasing specifically.
00:12:58.000Reuters doesn't say arrests as charges, but other websites do say arrests.
00:13:02.000And I started thinking about some, I wonder if they actually showed up and started cuffing all these people, which I imagine most of them probably did.
00:13:07.000There's 13 confirmed people in Indiana that were arrested over this.
00:13:10.00012 people, I think, in like Eastern Europe got caught or something.
00:13:13.000I don't, you know, and I just want to clarify: it has been reported by many outlets these are mass arrests, but Reuters didn't say that.
00:13:20.000So I'm just going to make sure that's clear because we want to be specific.
00:13:23.000And if it turns out they're like, oh, we arrested, you know, it says in the Reuters article, they arrested 12.
00:13:28.000There's another article saying they arrested 13.
00:13:30.000If it turns out that there's dozens of arrests, I'm still happy with it, you know, beginning, but I just want to make sure that's clear.
00:13:36.000The article I was referencing about the ladies in Baton Rouge, they were charged with conspiracy after alleging defrauding federal programs, benefiting the elderly and disability.
00:13:44.000Hopefully the situation, this is like the DOJ just kind of sticking their toe in saying, let's see how the water is.
00:13:49.000And now they can be like, oh, the water's fine.
00:13:50.000Let's just jump in there and just arrest everybody.
00:13:52.000Well, it's also, you know, some people might be saying, who cares about health care, you know, the system, whatever, like get to the corruption in politics and in law and the FBI.
00:14:04.000I think most people are not going to be satisfied with this because this is going after the fraud of where people were stealing money.
00:14:09.000It's what Doge was looking for, waste, fraud, and abuse.
00:14:12.000And people were saying, if there's all this fraud, where are the charges?
00:14:14.000Okay, well, they just brought 324 defendants in.
00:14:24.000You start pulling Jenga blocks out from the bottom of the pyramid and you weaken the infrastructure.
00:14:30.000So I'm not saying that any of these doctors are colluding or conspiring, but starting at the bottom and eroding this base of criminality and fraud in the government.
00:14:39.000And then the higher up people that are trying to maintain support that will have no support systems themselves.
00:14:49.000I'm looking at Doge AI, and it says the Transnational Criminal Organization, they're calling this Operation Gold Rush, allegedly led by individuals based in Russia and Eastern Europe, used foreign straw owners to purchase over 30 small U.S. medical supply companies already enrolled with Medicare using stolen identities of more than a million Americans.
00:15:10.000The group submitted fake claims for equipment that was neither ordered nor delivered.
00:15:14.000The proceeds were laundered through shell companies and cryptocurrency to accounts in Singapore, Pakistan, Israel, and other countries.
00:15:52.000Afghanistan, Tajikistan, over that part of the world.
00:15:55.000But yeah, I mean, look, the amount of money, it's a big, big dollar amount, but this really should make people think if this much in this one particular scam that they're talking about or what is it?
00:17:13.000Basically, all of the people who are, well, I shouldn't say all, but many of the people who are defrauding the government through these NGO schemes as lawyers and stuff like this are living in these areas.
00:17:23.000And so they got some of the best restaurants ever.
00:17:39.000But jokingly, it's like, I'm going to go there and there's going to be some guy, like a homeless guy, and it's going to be like, I used to make $15 million a year.
00:17:45.000And he's going to look at me and be like, it's you.
00:17:48.000And I'm going to be like, I would have made $16 this year if it wasn't for you meddling kids.
00:17:53.000You helped Trump win and he took everything from us.
00:17:57.000But that's, you know, the amount of houses.
00:17:59.000Apparently people are saying there's going to surge in homes for sale in these areas where all the people defrauding the government are now like, time to leave.
00:18:18.000I'm going to shout out my friend Lauren Rogue Lou18.
00:18:22.000She actually, right after Trump was elected, she was sending me a list.
00:18:26.000All of a sudden, all of these multi-million dollar homes were going up for sale in Alexandria.
00:18:31.000And it's like all of a sudden it was all at once.
00:18:34.000To be fair, to be fair, some of it's probably legit.
00:18:36.000Like if you're working for an NGO and there's an actual contract that you have and it's a real contract and you're like, yeah, Trump's going to cancel that contract.
00:19:27.000So at least that's a couple years ago, they were reporting this.
00:19:32.000I think they say outside of Vegas and Atlantic City, the highest-grossing individual casino is D.C.'s National Harbor.
00:19:40.000And I got questions about their poker room.
00:19:42.000Not that they're doing anything wrong, but I've made this point.
00:19:46.000They have a room inside D.C. National Harbor where they play sometimes, so for those that don't know poker, when someone says the numbers like 1, 2, 2, 5, 3, or 5, 10, those define what are called blind bets that you're forced to make.
00:20:02.000So if you're sitting down, there's, let's say you're playing with eight players.
00:20:55.000If you're an oil executive and you're trying to send some money to a politician of some sort, maybe not the position director, but maybe a super PAC without having it on the books, you sit down at the table and you look at your cards and there's no cameras and there's walls and no one can see who's in there.
00:21:12.000And you go, oh boy, I got a real good hand.
00:22:38.000The Trump badmint has codified its efforts to strip some Americans of their U.S. citizenship in a recently published DOJ memo that directs attorneys to prioritize denaturalization for naturalized citizens who commit certain crimes.
00:22:51.000The memo published on June 11th calls on attorneys in the department to institute civil proceedings to revoke a person's U.S. citizenship if an individual either illegally procured naturalization or procured naturalization by concealment of a material fact or by willful misrepresentation.
00:23:14.000At the center of the move are the estimated 25 million U.S. citizens who immigrated to the country after being born abroad, according to data from 2023.
00:23:21.000And it lists 10 different priority categories for denaturalization.
00:23:25.000According to the memo, those subjected to civil proceedings are not entitled to an attorney like they are in a criminal case.
00:23:30.000And the government has a lighter burden of proof in civil cases than they do in criminal ones.
00:23:34.000The memo claims such efforts will focus on those who were involved in the commission of war crimes, extrajudicial killings, or other serious human rights abuses, and naturalized criminals, gang members, or indeed any individuals convicted of crimes who pose an ongoing threat to the U.S. Wow.
00:23:58.000And right now, the statutes for that, the naturalization process is laid out by Congress, Article 1, Section 8, and is residency, good moral character, language proficiency, and passing a civics test, right?
00:24:14.000So there's an argument that you can revoke citizenship if you violate, if you're not a good moral character.
00:24:20.000And if you're breaking the law, then you can't.
00:24:22.000But then at the same time, it has to be, since Congress has the power of naturalization, it would have to be written into their, they would have to write a law.
00:24:30.000So this is something that Trump can do by executive order.
00:24:33.000And then Congress can make a law to support that, to codify his executive order.
00:24:39.000Dude, I was talking about this morning.
00:24:45.000The ACLU's lawsuit, the class action on birthright citizenship has created either you ban abortions or birthright citizenship is de facto out.
00:25:00.000So basically what happens is, I'll keep it short because I talked about it a lot, but it's massive.
00:25:03.000They argued that the class to be protected is future persons.
00:25:07.000All persons born on or after, all persons born on or after and future persons.
00:25:13.000If future persons are certified as a class, this means that the unborn have legal standing to be represented in a court of law.
00:25:21.000And if that's the case, how can you argue you can kill someone before they've had a hearing before a judge?
00:25:28.000I mean, in the instance of like the Terry Chavo case going back, saying this person has to be represented, or they say that future persons cannot have legal standing.
00:25:40.000And then, of course, abortion is still where it's at.
00:25:42.000But that means no one can sue on behalf of the unborn for citizenship.
00:25:47.000And so then Trump just says you don't get it.
00:26:10.000They've got 10 criteria that was mentioned in the article.
00:26:12.000They say: individuals who pose a potential danger to national security, terrorism, espionage, et cetera.
00:26:18.000Individuals who engage in torture, war crimes, or human rights violations.
00:26:21.000Individuals who further or further the unlawful enterprise of criminal gangs, transnational criminal organizations, drug cartels, individuals who committed felonies that were not disclosed during the naturalization process.
00:26:58.000You know, maybe on their taxes, they file something they know is false or whatever, but they think, what's the worst that's going to happen?
00:27:03.000He's going to be like, okay, we'll get out.
00:27:06.000Fraud against private individuals, acquiring naturalization through government corruption, fraud, or material misrepresent representations.
00:28:22.000Look, this is all just absolutely wonderful stuff.
00:28:26.000Anything that we can do to get rid of criminal aliens or even or criminals that are not from the United States, naturalized citizens, if you're breaking the law, send them back.
00:28:36.000This might prevent a lot of people from coming too.
00:30:12.000This is the actual well-known paper in Minnesota.
00:30:14.000They say, new documents revisit questions about Rep Ilhan Omar's marriage history.
00:30:19.000And they say, new investigative documents released by a state agency have given fresh life to lingering questions about the marital history of Rep Ilhan Omar and whether she once married a man, possibly her own brother, to skirt immigration laws.
00:31:23.000They mentioned she's denied them as baseless rumors, but it's been ongoing.
00:31:28.000Question service, again, this is from 2019, mind you.
00:31:30.000In a state probe of campaign finance violation, showing that Omar filed federal taxes in 2014 and 15 with her current husband, Ahmed Hersey, while she was still legally married to but separated from Elmy.
00:31:40.000Although she has legally corrected the discrepancy, she has declined to say anything about how or why it happened.
00:31:45.000How do you accidentally marry your brother?
00:32:18.000I would say no because she was here illegally and her the who actually she'll be given the choice to take her kids with her and most of them do well her father of her daughter is 20 something years old oh Then who's the father of her kid?
00:35:10.000And again, why, you know, not why, but I'm still hopeful that the FBI is actually looking into it because there is a lot of questions left to be answered, you know, that have gone on.
00:35:37.000Yeah, I mean, I would expect the Democrats to just be like, okay, well, you know, it happened and we've got all the information that we need.
00:35:43.000Like that seems, you know, if it happened to them though.
00:36:55.000But that's not good enough because the real egregious parts of the NFA aren't really the tax.
00:37:00.000It's the registration, the fingerprints, the passport photo, and the fact that you can't travel interstate with an SBR or an SBS without notifying the ATF.
00:37:12.000And especially around here, we live in an area where you can easily jump from into one state to another with, you know, just by going through some back.
00:37:21.000Try to get to the other part of the state you left.
00:37:24.000And it shouldn't be a felony just for traveling.
00:37:27.000So that is still the NFT, the Hearing Protection Act and the Short Act have not been fully put back in, but they will be reducing the $200 tax.
00:37:37.000This does make the situation where if you were to get it to the Supreme Court, which I don't think the Supreme Court would actually grant cert for this, but if you were to be able to get this in front of the Supreme Court, then they would have to come down and say, okay, you can't regulate like this because the NFA has always been justified under the argument that it is a tax.
00:37:59.000Multiple times throughout history, the NFA has been in front of the Supreme Court and they've said, this is a tax.
00:38:07.000Real quick, additionally, it has been reported by many that they were going to remove 1.4 million illegal aliens from Medicaid, and now they will not.
00:38:19.000This alone is reason enough to say no.
00:38:58.000The reason they likely put the parliamentarian in with these rules and procedures was so they could say, What if all of our constituents demand a law that we must block?
00:39:07.000Then let's blame bureaucracy and say, Oopsie, we couldn't do anything about it so we can still get re-elected.
00:39:15.000I think that there should be a law that if the guy who installed you died of old age, maybe your time is up.
00:39:21.000Look, if I understand correctly, and I might have this wrong, but if I understand correctly, the changing of rules, right?
00:39:28.000So the reason the Republicans are hesitant to just fire her and get someone else or just ignore her is because changing rules like that can end up backfiring.
00:39:38.000And the example that I keep hearing is how Donald Trump ended up getting the Supreme Court nominees that he did, because the Democrats had changed the rules to get rid of the filibuster.
00:43:44.000Thomas Massey wrote, you were promised a big, beautiful bill would not do these things.
00:43:48.000Prohibit welfare for illegal aliens, stop funding sex changes for kids, end registration of suppressors, defund Planned Parenthood for 10 years, implement the Reigns Act, and reduce the deficit.
00:43:58.000So I asked, did the House put these provisions in and the Senate took them out?
00:46:01.000I mean, real quick, while we're talking about Trump doing things, I do want to say he is about to go down for the opening ceremony for Alligator Alcatraz.
00:55:17.000Didn't they decide that it's going to be too much work or something like that?
00:55:20.000Might as well just build a new one in the middle of the speakers.
00:55:23.000And also, I just literally don't care about anything the left says anymore.
00:55:28.000They're concern about government and all of this stuff.
00:55:30.000I'm like, you've really lost all of the arguments entirely.
00:55:35.000Like a society needs to be able to enforce its laws and its worldview and maintain what it wants.
00:55:42.000And so what ends up happening is we have these blasphemy laws and you can't swear in public.
00:55:48.000And people are like, dude, it's not that big a deal, right?
00:55:50.000And over every decade, we slowly erode the moral foundation of the country.
00:55:55.000Any insinuation that we would in any way, even the tiniest degree, go back to enforcing what we morally believe in is called fascism or authoritarianism.
00:56:56.000I guess it depends on who's running it.
00:56:58.000Yeah, I mean, they're in for a rough ride if they get after the whole defund the police thing.
00:57:03.000And then if Mamdani does become the mayor and he actually institutes his own policies that he's proposing, there will be a significant increase in crime.
00:57:14.000It's already worse than it was 10 years ago.
00:57:16.000And he's back on the defund the police stuff.
00:57:20.000I think there's something like 40% of police are saying, I'm going to retire or I'm going to quit if Mamdani gets elected.
00:57:25.000It's Sodom and Gomorrah, like the way it's planned.
00:57:28.000The way he's like, we're going to have prostitutes everywhere.
00:57:30.000All the criminals we're going to release.
00:57:51.000Which is typical of, I mean, Siljer Nitsin, that's where I got that idea from Soljunitsin to talk about the Soviet Union that way.
00:57:58.000You're expected as a good communist or good citizen, you're expected to know better.
00:58:02.000But the criminal, well, he wouldn't know better.
00:58:04.000You have to take care of him, which is the same kind of maternalism that you're seeing in the United States now, which is running rampant and actually causing so many problems in the U.S. They outsourced tyranny so well during lockdowns that your neighbors just became tyrants overnight and were happy to tell on you.
00:58:23.000And I think that that is something that more people, I mean, I'm glad that people noticed And that they're seeing that because that is exactly how the Soviet Union kept people in line.
00:58:35.000It's exactly how East Germany kept people in line.
00:58:38.000You know, I heard stories of when the Berlin Wall fell, you could go and talk to, if you were arrested, you could actually go and find out who turned you in.
00:58:49.000And you hear stories about people that were living with people and this woman that was like, oh, I'm going to go find, she spent five years or whatever in prison or whatever.
00:59:14.000So the idea that people won't decide to embrace the authoritarian impulse.
00:59:22.000And it gets so bad, it's just like, oh, if I send this person in, I'll get an extra room in my house.
00:59:28.000Or if I turn my neighbor in, you know, or someone that I work with, I might get their job.
00:59:36.000Those kind of petty things are what people start doing.
00:59:38.000And that's why the fabric of society just completely falls apart.
00:59:41.000We talk about the United States, how we want a high trust society, and that's what actually produces a good life for your societies.
00:59:49.000When you know, when you can, you know, you know your neighbors aren't going to kick in your door or take your stuff if you forget to lock something up or whatever.
00:59:56.000If you have a society that might turn you into the government, all rules are off.
01:00:02.000The whole society, nobody trusts anyone, and it destroys the cohesion, not only, but it also destroys the kind of happiness that people have because you can't feel content and safe that if you're always looking over your shoulder.
01:00:16.000There was a restaurant nearby that went out of business and we were surprised because we ordered from them, you know, every couple of months.
01:00:23.000Every Friday we order food for everybody and we try and vary what's going to be.
01:00:27.000They went out of business and I was talking to locals why and they said they couldn't find anybody to work there.
01:01:08.000So what ends up happening now is this dependency has been created by the establishment over the past 30 years where it's like, now you've got no choice but to import the third world because at least they'll do the jobs.
01:01:20.000Instead, we could have taught our young people the value of hard work and taking pride in their jobs, whatever those jobs may be.
01:01:28.000But instead, especially me growing up, the insinuation was always, you want to end up being a garbage man?
01:01:37.000And it's like, okay, okay, geez, I won't.
01:01:39.000And now millennials are like, I ain't doing that.
01:01:42.000It's disrespectful or it's dishonorable.
01:01:45.000That's what the people who are studying the population collapse with the mice, you know, when it got to the edge of the civilization collapse.
01:01:52.000Masutopia, yeah, and the beautiful ones they would call them when they would get to that certain point where it's about to collapse and the mothers are eating their young, like mouse, mice would all of a sudden become homosexual.
01:02:00.000And then there'd be these mice who would just not go anywhere and just groom themselves, which I think of as like the rise in influencers that we have today.
01:02:08.000And I mean, there's people who would be like, you can't look at mice as a way to study humans.
01:02:12.000But they were looking at the way the civilization was collapsing every time.
01:02:17.000And then when they would take mice that had what they call, what is it, behavioral sink, and they would put them into a normal mouse society.
01:02:26.000They would not correct their behavior.
01:02:42.000It's worth noting that the idea that that kind of attitude, whether it be in something like mice or a society, that kind of attitude does spread.
01:02:55.000And it's why you see people on the left behaving the way they do today.
01:02:59.000Because 25, 30 years ago, the left that we have today was not the same left.
01:03:19.000And nowadays, it's all the rage to, at least in the urban areas and cities.
01:03:24.000And I think that part of why you see this stuff is because of cities, because of the way life in cities is now, because it's so expensive.
01:03:34.000And if you have debt from school and you can't find a job, I mean, it's got to be a nightmare.
01:03:41.000So it makes sense for people to be unhappy.
01:03:43.000And unhappy people want to change their situation.
01:03:47.000And if they have nothing, maybe tearing everything down is fine because maybe I'll have something then.
01:03:53.000Or at the very least, all these people that have stuff won't have stuff just like I don't have stuff.
01:03:59.000And so there's just all these terrible, terrible human impulses that get, you know, they get amplified and people really latch on to them when you have that kind of society.
01:04:20.000I saw somebody speaking in South Africa recently.
01:04:22.000I'm a little bit out of frame on this, but I saw someone speaking in South Africa recently saying that the idea that everyone had to take from the white people was the wrong idea.
01:04:28.000No one ever came to South Africans, at least the ones who lived in South Africa after the ANC took over and said to them, hey, you can go and build a bigger country, build a better country.
01:04:35.000They just said, oh, I must take it from the white people.
01:04:37.000I must take it from all the British and the Indians, the Malays who also live in South Africa because they have and I have nothing.
01:04:42.000No one ever went to them and told them, build more, make South Africa bigger, make it stronger, add to it.
01:04:47.000And I think that's what people need to be told.
01:05:23.000Despite the fact he has a tweet where he says this is the kind of candidate New York needs, and it says hashtag communism.
01:05:30.000They go on to say in what may be the stupidest argument, but look, look, they're arguing to stupid people intentionally, okay?
01:05:37.000Smart people, they're going to figure it out, but they know that smart people aren't going to vote socialists because socialists are developmentally disabled.
01:05:44.000They say Zoran Mamdani, the 33-year-old who soared the lead, blah, blah, blah, described himself as a democratic socialist, but some politicians and social media posts falsely labeled him a communist.
01:05:53.000Nick Sorter, Ben Shapiro, Oli Stefanik, et cetera.
01:05:56.000They say Mamdani's platform calls for making transportation, housing, and groceries more affordable, but experts say he hasn't espoused key tenets of communism, such as government takeover of industry and private property.
01:06:07.000Mamdani is not a communist, wrote Anna Grismala Bus, Stanford University Professor, saying communism involves a centrally planned economy with no market forces.
01:06:17.000Prices and quantities are set by a central government authority.
01:06:20.000There is no democratic political competition.
01:06:21.000Instead, a single party rules the country.
01:06:25.000In other words, if we can go full Godwin's law, she's basically saying that the argument would have been that Hitler isn't a fascist, tyrannical, genocidal maniac because he was only advocating for making Germany better and taking back historical lands that were stolen.
01:06:40.000If he was actually a genocidal maniac, he would be advocating right now before attaining power for the mass genocide.
01:07:04.000It can't function in a market economy.
01:07:06.000So the moment you take any amount of the means of production and seize them, you destroy the market who can't compete with the guns you're pointing at people.
01:07:14.000And then you start centrally planning the economy and become a communist nation.
01:07:19.000They're arguing he's not communist because he's not advocating outright to destroy your way of life and take away your choice.
01:08:35.000It says, Zoran Mamdani attended Bank Street, a prestigious Manhattan private school that now costs as much as $66,000 a year for elementary school students.
01:08:45.000Communist who went to a Manhattan private school.
01:09:16.000The tendency among the rich to have worked for and earned that in some way versus politicians who lie, cheat, and steal to get it and cult leaders who lie, cheat, and steal to get it, I would prefer the meritocratic work-based system, despite the fact some people do get wealthy through corruption.
01:09:32.000Corruption is going to exist in any kind of power consolidation.
01:09:35.000At the bare minimum, a capitalist system takes a long time to become tyrannical, whereas a communist system snaps its fingers to become tyrannical.
01:09:45.000If we go capitalism, in about 200 years, ultra-wealthy people give rise, start consolidating power, merging their companies, and then entrench themselves in the political establishment, and you get crony capitalism.
01:09:58.000We can go for communism, in which snap your fingers, the party rules, and the crony, and you'll beg for crony capitalism, at least you had cheeseburgers.
01:10:07.000Or we can go socialism, which is let's not run into communism.
01:10:52.000I mean, what if you have a one acre plot of land in a suburb and you start growing some herbs in your back room under special green lights and everything?
01:11:02.000You go to the grocery store, you buy some, or the hardware store, you buy some lamps, and you're like, I'm going to grow some rare herbs that I can sell and make a bunch of money.
01:11:10.000And then you make enough money to buy the neighbor's house next to you and expand your operation.
01:11:14.000So is your house the means of production?
01:11:55.000I would put it on top of my monitor and press the record button and then talk for 10 minutes and then just plug it in and transfer the footage to my computer.
01:12:02.000So my computer is the means of production.
01:12:04.000So I'm not allowed to own a computer now?
01:12:05.000They go, no, your computer is your personal property.
01:12:07.000Okay, well, I make millions of dollars doing that.
01:12:36.000And I'm going to stress the argument of socialism is the workers control the means of production, but no one can define the means of production.
01:13:58.000This is like every young adult future dystopia where it's like, I want to be an astronaut.
01:14:04.000Well, you can't because your job is goat crap shoveler.
01:14:09.000Like in a socialist society, as they dictate, you would go to your committee and say, I have an idea for a new kind of engine and I need the materials to build it.
01:14:30.000Well, they're all like, I want to live on my commune and I want to paint and I want to farm on my commune and I'm like our commune.
01:14:38.000And one of the worst things about it is it destroys the motivation to do anything.
01:14:43.000Nobody wants to try if the government's just going to take it.
01:14:47.000If you can't have that, if you can't possess the profits of your labor, if you can't work and then actually better your life through that work, nobody wants to work.
01:14:59.000I think the state of the U.S. actually is to the point one of the issues that's leading to social degradation is, look, progressive tax system is simple.
01:15:12.000If you make, you know, I'm going to use rudimentary, you know, let's just actually let's pull the tax brackets.
01:15:17.000Show me progressive U.S. tax brackets.
01:15:46.000What this means is that if you are working, if you run your own business, salary is immaterial.
01:15:54.000So if you make widgets at a factory, you're then sitting there going, okay, if I work 40 hours this week, I'm going to make $100,000 by the end of the year and get taxed at 22%.
01:16:06.000If I decide to stay open on weekends so I can increase my output, that will put me in the next bracket, the next 100,000, I lose 2%.
01:16:15.000Every time I decide to work harder and expand my business, the return on my investment decreases.
01:16:21.000So it's not an exponential growth curve.
01:19:20.000So there's no way when Elizabeth Warren's up there saying, we need billionaires to pay their fair share.
01:19:24.000She has no idea, for one, what a fair share is.
01:19:27.000For two, that they're not paying whatever she wants them to pay because she would be committing a felony if she did know that because she would not have fairly gotten that information.
01:19:38.000Like the dollar amount doesn't matter because that's why they say things like fair share because it's an abstract, you know, an abstraction that they can.
01:19:49.000Well, it sounds like rainbows and unicorns and lollipops.
01:23:44.000It could be considered woke in that Jaguar was the James Bond-esque style of masculine, come here, no, come here, no, come here, okay, fine.
01:23:55.000And then Sean Connery, the joke is he goes, three no's and a yes means yes.
01:24:02.000And they were like, let's just go for this weird, you know, verse.
01:24:07.000Those, the, the whole, like, even the ad and the cars, all, they just make me think of like some kind of throwback to a 1960s kind of attempt at maybe postmodernism or absurdity.
01:27:38.000If you're a liberal and you're being followed by like 10,000 people and then you post something like, you know, schools need to be reformed and then 100 12 year olds say ban homework and you think those are adults, you will adopt the political values of 12 year olds.
01:27:55.000And that's likely what's happening with the left.
01:29:08.000So they might as well just take on the entire identity of a child that can't.
01:29:13.000It's like they're going to legalize drinking for children and they're going to be like, you know, look, I go on Twitter and everybody's saying kids should be allowed to drink.
01:29:19.000It's just a bunch of 12-year-olds being like, I want beer.
01:29:34.000I think the overall, I've talked about how you can identify bots before, but I tweeted earlier.
01:29:40.000I'm just going to start ignoring profiles without pictures because it's just, it's going to be a bot or it's going to be a 12, 14 year old.
01:29:47.000You notice the new bots that understand your post and write like a sentence that's about your post, but then it turns into the spam.
01:31:14.000And then people using old videos, especially during times of war, and they're like, this is an explosion from yesterday, but we saw it five years ago.
01:31:22.000There was a really funny moment in like 2016 or 17 where everyone started posting videos of tanks and APCs being transported and military helicopters.
01:31:32.000And they were like, whoa, what's happening?
01:31:36.000And people, is that what it was called?
01:31:38.000There was a lot of people talking about an Operation Jade.
01:31:41.000And all that was really happening was everybody was in on the troll where you'd find a random video of military movement or police movement and then post it and claim it was happening right then.
01:31:49.000And then a trend happened where people thought the U.S. government was doing something.
01:31:53.000Just this weekend, the whole Trump talking about UFOs thing was going viral, but that was over a year ago.
01:32:22.000We're like, what, a couple years out from like, I feel bad for Rockstar for making GTA because they spent like, was it like $2 billion to make GTA 6 some ridiculous amount?
01:32:33.000And we're a couple years out from being able to just go to an LLM and be like, take the code of GTA and make a new version and it'll do it.
01:32:42.000So right now, Gemini and I think, was it Claude?
01:32:46.000Claude, they can already make like Atari games.
01:32:52.000A little complicated to make Mario, but they can make Atari games.
01:32:55.000So I think we're six months to a year away from you being able to tell this, make me a two-dimensional platformer where a character punches bricks and then it'll make you a game just like Mario.
01:33:05.000It'll have better hitbox detection and controls than most mobile apps.
01:33:10.000And then we're probably a year or two away from you being able to be like, take the game structure of Baldur's Gate 3 and make an entirely new game with new characters and new story.
01:33:39.000I guarantee you internally at Google, they've already had it make movies.
01:33:45.000If a consumer can make, what is it, four or five, eight second videos per day for 20 bucks a month or something, the company itself with all its computer, they're probably telling it, make me a Spider-Man movie.
01:33:59.000Their version is probably, so here's the thing.
01:34:02.000The version we get, they've probably had for two years because they have to test it to make sure it's not going to do really messed up stuff, like show snuff films or something.
01:34:11.000What they have probably shows really nasty things.
01:34:15.000So they don't release it to the public yet.
01:34:17.000But I bet you Google has already said, make a movie, and then within like two days, it renders a full two-hour long horror film or something.
01:34:25.000If you're telling me that AI could put Hollywood out of business and we won't have to deal with A-list actresses anymore and actors, I'm not against it.
01:35:04.000I think humans are being converted for the singularity.
01:35:16.000And I don't mean that as a joke or to be facetious.
01:35:17.000It's literally lowering IQ, lowering cognitive ability and general capability.
01:35:23.000So what's going to happen is we all thought it was going to be like idiocracy, where everyone's sitting there like, oh, I'm all balls and they're really dumb.
01:35:54.000And then your phone will go, and it's, and you're not going to know because the AI or the people running that app, you don't need to know what you're doing.
01:36:03.000They just need to get that object from point A to point B in the fastest way possible.
01:36:05.000And that's some guy bring it to some other guy instead of waiting for a courier, getting a tax service or whatever.
01:36:39.000The AI isn't intentionally making people dumb, but people are being made dumb by AI doing everything for them.
01:36:47.000So they will maintain a level of being able to do rudimentary tasks, like picking things up and placing them in places.
01:36:54.000That will maintain the AI system, and then they will do work, and the AI becomes the multicellular organism system, the next evolution of life, from a single cell to a multi-cell to a multi-organism system itself.
01:37:08.000The machine will be sustained, and each individual person will be like a single cell in a multicellular organism, doing one task all day, every day until they die without deviating or thinking of anything else.
01:37:19.000And if anybody does deviate, what do we call that?
01:37:26.000In the human body, when cells deviate from their designated task and start doing whatever they want, like tumors will grow teeth and hair and it's random, cancer.
01:37:34.000And then you die or your body destroys it.
01:37:37.000And I think that's what this society is turning into.
01:38:06.000A lot of these AI people, like Sam Altman, keep saying this is going to make everyone's lives better.
01:38:09.000But I'm like, we already have all this technology at our disposal.
01:38:11.000And a lot of kids can't even read anymore.
01:38:13.000So why do you think all of a sudden giving us AI is going to make us any smarter?
01:38:16.000There was one study that found that high school kids who were using ChatGPT could not remember after like 10 or 15 minutes what they had written into ChatGPT or what it had told them.
01:39:42.000There was a story where a guy was a normal, mild-mannered, middle-aged guy, started using ChatGPT for assistance with, I forgot what it was.
01:39:53.000He was doing some hobby and then started using it and then got wrapped into it and then started, he came to believe because of what GPT was saying to him, that someone was trying to kill his wife and their child.
01:40:04.000And he was on his knees crying and begging his wife to believe him that the AI was warning them.
01:40:09.000And so they ended up, she and like another guy went out to get money and they planned like, we're going to have to get him help.
01:40:15.000And when they came back, he was trying to kill himself.
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01:41:02.000We got three events set up already, July 26th, August 2nd, and August 9th.
01:41:08.000So we've confirmed August 2nd, which is going to be the craziest and funniest show we've ever done, unless the other events are, you know, we'll see.
01:41:14.000But Michael Meliss and Angry Cops will be debating police and authority and all that.
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01:45:21.000Skyline 99 says when Burma was taken over by communists, aka socialists in 65, they even seized sewing machines from families who can afford one.
01:46:28.000If I told you to give me money, and if you didn't, I'd draw a gun on you and you further refuse, only for me to lock you up, then I am robbing you.
01:46:35.000I disagree with that assessment, despite the fact that I hate getting taxed the more that I work.
01:49:06.000Jackson wrote, a Martian arriving here from another planet would see these circumstances and surely wonder, what good is the Constitution then?
01:50:25.000A Martian arriving in front of another planet.
01:50:27.000Why is the Supreme Court justice saying that silly nonsense?
01:50:30.000They could literally just say an outside observer to this nation would wonder what is the purpose of a constitution.
01:50:36.000It's really – Amy Coney Barrett's her opinion, the way that she criticized KBJ in that, it just shows that there is contempt for her at this point, that she could openly do that.
01:50:56.000I was actually talking to my lawyer today and we were making jokes about this, but the fact that she articulated the way that she did, or maybe it was AI or whatever, it's probably unprecedented to have the Supreme Court kind of go after and excoriate a justice in the way they did.
01:52:02.000I believe she has a photographic memory.
01:52:03.000If you remember her confirmation, her hearing, she was just, she had notes and it's a blank piece of paper and she holds it up, a blank piece of paper.
01:52:13.000God, somebody's going to meme that later.
01:52:15.000But it was empty and she was given notes to write as she went and she was referencing all these cases right from her mind.
01:53:37.000It's it's like I said, it's unprecedented.
01:53:40.000And to see the kind of ridiculous takes that she had on display, it doesn't bode well for the court.
01:53:49.000I was I was under the, or again, like I said, I was talking to my lawyer today and he was kind of of the opinion that she's essentially going to be sidelined as a as a justice for the next decade or so, or maybe she'll get pressured to step down.
01:54:00.000But they're not going to take anything that she says, you know, seriously.
01:54:03.000You can't have that kind, not only that kind of dissent, but also the fact that she has been so verbose and said so little.
01:54:16.000It's like people that talk to sound smart, they just say a bunch of words and say nothing.
01:54:22.000You reminded me of the old in living color, the guy that was, the Damian Waynes guy that was, or was Keen, I don't know, one of the Wayne's brothers was the guy in jail that just used big words, the criminal guy.
01:54:42.000And it's good that the court excoriated her the way they did.
01:54:47.000It's good that they pointed out how ridiculous the thing that she was saying are and put it on display so that the American people can actually say, all right, we were right when we thought she was dumb when she said she couldn't identify what a woman was.
01:55:02.000Remember when they did the bar graph of how much words each justice did?
01:57:34.000I didn't get to talk about really any American history today.
01:57:37.000So let me just say that the founding fathers were terrified that Ben Franklin would put a joke into the Declaration of Independence.
01:57:45.000So when it came down to choosing who was going to write the Declaration of Independence, it was John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, or Ben Franklin.
01:57:51.000Adams got behind Jefferson and really pushed for that.
01:57:54.000He put all of his weight behind Jefferson.
01:57:56.000And as far as we know, there is no joke into the Declaration of Independence.
01:58:02.000And something that Ben Franklin did add to the Declaration of Independence is Thomas Jefferson had written, we hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable.
01:58:13.000And Ben Franklin said, no, we hold these truths to be self-evident.
01:58:16.000That way, it wouldn't be, your rights would be natural and they wouldn't be divinely sanctioned.
01:59:42.000Somebody was saying that she eats rice with her hands and she quote tweeted it and was like, actually, I was born in the United States and I've eaten rice with a fork my whole life.
02:06:01.000And essentially, he thought that, or the detectives, the state thought that the situation was, he thought he was going to outsmart the cops.
02:06:09.000And they started showing all the evidence.
02:07:51.000And it's probably a stupid story to tell, but I'm not like Ian where Ian's like, if you say it, then you're making all the problems.
02:07:56.000Like, dude, things exist and things happen.
02:07:58.000I'm not taking responsibility for telling stories, but Ian's wacky.
02:08:00.000The story is there was a guy in Illinois that he murdered a bunch of people by bringing him out to a bar, buying him a bunch of drinks, walking out of the bar to the river, Des Plains River, and then just pushing them right in.
02:08:14.000And then calling 911 and saying, help, my friend is drowning.
02:08:18.000He would then jump in and drown them, make sure they died.
02:08:23.000But when people ran up, he would be saving them, screaming, help me, help me, please.
02:08:29.000And then he got caught apparently because eventually some cop was like, this local hero has saved a lot of people from drowning or tried to.
02:08:38.000Like, this local hero, it was like apparently the story that I was told was that a sheriff was reading the paper and read the guy, local hero tries to save man who drowns.
02:08:48.000And he was like, wait a minute, that's the guy from my town that tried saving somebody who was drowning.
02:11:35.000I don't think that I think if you took baby Hitler and literally just, if you could go back in time to Germany, I'm assuming you could teleport.
02:12:11.000There's that funny video where child Hitler gets attacked by a Jewish guy.
02:12:17.000A Jewish guy goes back in time to kill baby Hitler, but then he gets stopped.
02:12:22.000Then he tries again a few years, like he goes back to the future and then goes back in time again when Hitler's a child and fails.
02:12:28.000Then when he's a teenager and fails, and then when Hitler is like a young adult and fails, and then the last time he's like, when Hitler's now an adult man fails, and then Hitler just goes, why do these Jews keep trying to kill me?
02:12:43.000And that's the joke is that's what made him.
02:12:45.000I've only seen one story on that and it's really anti-Semitic, so I won't share it.
02:13:03.000All right, I'm going to get straight into it.
02:13:08.000Zoran discussed taxing wealthier, whiter neighborhoods in NYC and advocated for government-run grocery stores.
02:13:18.000If we take both of these together, it will run out all the businesses out of town.
02:13:24.000They can't afford to compete with the government store, and they can't afford taxes to stay open.
02:13:30.000Do we think the quote-unquote wealthy white business owners are going to still vote for him against their own interests, or will they vote for someone else?
02:13:48.000Do you know why we had the Boston tea party?
02:13:49.000A lot of people are like, well, it's because of the taxes.
02:13:52.000No, it was because, you know, they were getting off work, and the boys got together and they were like, bro, let's have a party and drink lots of tea.
02:14:11.000Now, what really happened is, so King George was in bed with the East India Company, and he'd made all these deals with him.
02:14:19.000And they were saying, okay, well, you don't have to pay any taxes and we're going to reimburse all of your lost product and you'll be able to undercut all of the smugglers.
02:14:26.000So primarily John Adams or sorry, Sam Adams and John Hancock.
02:14:31.000Also, Parliament had invested whatever the equivalent of stock was then.
02:14:36.000They'd invested everything into this company.
02:14:38.000So there was a lot of fascism essentially happening there.
02:14:43.000So they were really protesting the cronyism and the corporatism that was going on.
02:14:48.000And that's why they dumped all the tea.
02:14:50.000And that's why Boston Harbor got closed and that was never reopened again until they won the war.
02:15:13.000They installed a governor and they got rid of the judges and they made Massachusetts essentially little Britain, like completely overruled by Christian.
02:15:22.000And then they said, give us your guns.
02:15:25.000So Lexington and Concord happened because they were trying to confiscate the guns, but the spies got word of it and they were able to blow that up and, you know, then kill them all on Battle Road.
02:15:36.000And that happened one year and one month before the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
02:17:11.000And Paul Revere named one of his sons after him a year later.
02:17:14.000Could you imagine just like if you went back in time to the Battle of Lexington and Concord with like one AK-47 and just handed it to like one random militiaman being like, here's how you fire it.
02:17:39.000Honestly, I feel like if you gave them one, I don't know, like AR-15 with maybe 100 rounds, there would not have been a battle like the Conquered.
02:17:49.000That one guy would just pop off everybody as they're walking down the street and that'd be the end of it.
02:17:54.000Because they'd be marching and they would go pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, and they'd just start collapsing.
02:20:06.000Anyway, Meme Smith, did your question get answered?
02:20:08.000Do you want to add anything or shine anything out?
02:20:12.000Yeah, Dan answered my question and also told me why I am happy that I ordered some 1776 coffee so I can try and get some of that Josie revolutionary war knowledge in my head.
02:21:37.000But my question is, so Tim, in your morning segment about the ACLU suing Trump over birthright citizenship, you talked about the district courts, rightfully so, don't have the authority to say people can or can't have machine guns to combat feral hog problems.