On today's show, we have a special guest, Elijah Schaefer of Vigilant News, who joins us to talk about what's going on in the world right now, including the return of Donald Trump to the White House and the impact it's having on the immigration system.
00:01:30.000The ATF is trying to hide their DEI people, like shoving them under the rug and stuff.
00:01:36.000Trump went to California and talked to Gavin Newsom, added all kinds of strings to getting funding for the fires that are out there, which is not a surprise.
00:01:47.000I mean, that's how there's the 21-year-old age for drinking, because all of your federal funding comes with strings attached.
00:01:57.000He's talking about, oh yeah, that's the target one.
00:02:01.000And then we're talking about Mexico has decided that they're going to try to refuse to accept planes that are deporting people.
00:03:37.000You know, you said Ian's graphene dreams, and I think the last time Ian had a little too many graphene dreams when he was a teenager, his mom found his crusty sock at the end of the week.
00:04:49.000So, FEMA. Turned out to be a disaster.
00:04:52.000Trump calls for overhaul eradication of federal emergency aid agency.
00:04:56.000Look, I like the idea of downsizing the government.
00:05:00.000And whatever shape that takes, I'm probably going to be for it.
00:05:05.000The Post Millennial says, on Thursday, President Donald Trump said he will be signing an executive order to reform the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, or get rid of the agency altogether.
00:05:18.000During a stop in Asheville, North Carolina, an area ravaged by Hurricane Helene, Trump held a press conference in the airport and said, I'll also be signing an executive order to begin the process of fundamentally reforming and overhauling FEMA, or maybe getting rid of FEMA. I don't know.
00:05:39.000I think, frankly, FEMA's not good, Donald Trump says.
00:05:42.000I think when you have a problem like this, I think you want to go, and whether it's a Democrat or Republican governor, you want to use your state to fix it and not waste time calling FEMA, Trump added.
00:05:51.000Well, I mean, does anybody really find it strange, given North Carolina and Hawaii, that people would be doubtful about whether they're able to actually do anything of note?
00:06:05.000Personally, I think that the federal government should be downsized.
00:06:09.000So if they can streamline getting funds to disaster areas, and you don't have to have FEMA to be the arbiter of who does and does not get the funds.
00:06:19.000So if it wasn't to come through FEMA, then it would come through what department?
00:07:25.000Whether it be a hurricane or the snow that just happened across the southeast into Florida and places that don't normally get snow, you had warning.
00:07:36.000It's 2025 and there's a significant infrastructure to predict the weather and predict these kind of things.
00:07:44.000Sure, when it comes to something like an earthquake, You know, if there were an earthquake in California, then okay, everyone gets surprised about an earthquake.
00:07:52.000But even forest fires, the fires that California is experiencing going through, it's not a surprise that California is having fires.
00:08:32.000A lot of times the jurisdiction, they're...
00:08:35.000There's arguments over who does and does not have jurisdiction, so I'm not sure.
00:08:39.000But you had also made another good point, Elijah, the fact that FEMA, like everything else in the federal government, has been politicized.
00:09:03.000I've been at least in a strong enough earthquake that it knocked my TV over and broke it.
00:09:07.000Born and raised in Whittier with the Whittier earthquake.
00:09:08.000It was really, really catastrophic right there on the fault lines in the Whittier Hills.
00:09:12.000Shout out to the people in East L.A. over there.
00:09:15.000But that being said, not only that, but they discriminated against Americans.
00:09:19.000And to answer your question, I mean, okay, on one hand, I got to support FEMA because there's the most lesbians, I think, in the history of the department currently serving there right now.
00:09:27.000And shout out to those people who are into crafts and sometimes you use scissors, whether it's in the classroom or in the bedroom.
00:10:09.000But what I've heard the best theory is that the government, FEMA, is in such a catastrophic position that they have to stop American citizens from helping because it'll make them look bad and they have to be needed and wanted.
00:10:20.000So if Americans are faster at responding, getting supply chains set up faster and are more reliable than FEMA, then what does that mean about FEMA? It should be dissolved.
00:10:28.000And they don't want that and they're in a very dire position.
00:10:31.000So they were trying to stop that in North Carolina.
00:11:33.000So if there were an alien race that visited the U.S., do you think that FEMA would be involved and they would be facilitating?
00:11:39.000Well, if there was a crash, right, like they crash in Roswell and they, you know, you don't send any unit other than FEMA over there to get them.
00:11:57.000At this point, under Biden's administration, we were like one year away from having FEMA be literal aliens, like illegal aliens, right?
00:12:03.000And on top of that, I always thought it's weird, you know, like FEMA can't get aid across LA because AIDS spreads quicker in Los Angeles than anywhere in the entire country.
00:12:11.000I mean, look at West Hollywood, right?
00:12:26.000And so I think what's going to happen here is this is going to be a battle against people, again, believing the mainstream media, taking the establishment institutional position versus believing our eyes, right?
00:12:37.000Once again, it's like, you know, did Elon Musk, Sigh Heil?
00:13:23.000So when you have an agency like that and we have the evidence, the media is going to be like, Trump's trying to stop aid.
00:13:29.000When in reality, I think he just – we can see, well, somebody has got to finally fix these government budgets and do something because these aren't really working.
00:13:38.000No, the problem is though the headlines that get to be created out of his budget cuts and stuff like that are too good for the politically uninformed.
00:13:45.000They'll read it and they will take it as fact without understanding the deeper process behind why.
00:13:50.000I mean, I feel like that's going to be the situation just broadly when it comes to the average person that isn't consuming political content regularly.
00:14:03.000So it's my sense that your average normie that isn't really read into politics probably spends about 30 minutes to an hour per week.
00:14:14.000On their political information, right?
00:14:16.000These are the people that have lives, they have kids, they have jobs, and they'll catch a couple things that they hear on TV or on the internet somehow.
00:14:25.000Maybe they have an X account, but if they have an X account, it's unlikely that they're not really read it at all.
00:14:34.000You know, half from the morning, you know, local news and half from The View, which is, I mean, which means they're mostly uninformed.
00:14:42.000Or it's like when Bill Burr talks about, when he was in, he talks about, you know, well, I think it was handled just fine.
00:14:48.000What you're saying is there's a difference between government mismanagement and firefighters doing their best with the limited resources they had to fight the fires.
00:14:57.000Now the average person who's not paying close attention is going to assume that he means both but we understand that he is just uninformed and doesn't know what he's talking about.
00:15:07.000I think the larger issue at hand when it comes to FEMA is that what Americans really want is effective emergency disaster relief whenever and wherever it happens.
00:15:17.000And what we're looking for is the most effective way to deal with it.
00:15:20.000I think Ron DeSantis proved over and over again that the state was more effective in handling it than On the state level rather than the federal level was more effective.
00:15:29.000If Trump's going to move forward with abolishing FEMA, so long as I think he redirects those funds to the states who should have a better handling and understanding of what's going on in the state than the federal government does is the right way to go.
00:15:41.000But at the end of the day, that's what the American people want.
00:16:01.000The points that you're making about Ron DeSantis and the states handling it, that's really going to depend on who's in charge of the state, because if you look at the way that, you know, L.A. And California have been governed.
00:16:19.000Ron DeSantis is the most competent, at least as far as anyone can tell, is the most competent, you know, governor in the United States.
00:16:27.000Whether you're talking about his management of emergencies or you're talking about the way that they run elections and stuff, Florida is really the exemplary state in the U.S. Can I put a caveat on that?
00:16:50.000But, you know, these are a little bit of like elitist bubbles, especially depending on the region.
00:16:54.000The reason why I believe we think that DeSantis is the best governor is because he's...
00:16:59.000Kind of like one of the only good significant governors.
00:17:02.000This sounds so dismissive of the rest of the countries, but when you have states that are as large as Florida, as California, as New York, with these highly populated metropolitan centers, the ability for corruption in Chicago and Illinois to be there is pretty much unavoidable.
00:17:28.000Are you saying that Florida is an anomaly because it isn't as corrupt as others?
00:17:32.000It's an anomaly because of the size that it is and the amount of money and the size of its economy.
00:17:37.000Because it's the size of an average nation around the world, and yet it operates strategically and in such a way that we do not see such widespread corruption that does not benefit the average people.
00:17:49.000Meaning there's no property tax, yet at the same time it's managed much better than Texas.
00:17:53.000I think there are some very, very, very I'm not saying I could do it.
00:18:23.000I'm just saying we look at DeSantis and that's to show you that our leaders are capable.
00:18:28.000And I don't want to say this to not just governors.
00:18:30.000He's at like a federal level responsibility.
00:18:33.000That when you're managing 20, 30 million, 40 million people, it can be done.
00:18:37.000And so when we look at Chicago, when we look at Houston, when we look at Dallas, when we look at LA, when we look at New York, what the hell are you doing?
00:18:44.000Because South Metropolitan Miami-Dade area, I mean, some parts of it, some of the recent migration are pretty problematic, but overall the state is functioning pretty damn well.
00:19:07.000I mean, obviously, I totally agree with you.
00:19:10.000I think that Florida is the best-run state in the U.S., at least to an outsider, as far as I can tell.
00:19:17.000And I do think that the people that are running it matters.
00:19:21.000I think that you're not going to get...
00:19:25.000You're not going to get that with Chicago, with the people that they elect.
00:19:30.000Their mayor is completely captured by the whole leftist ideology.
00:19:36.000And as long as that's the situation, you can't help but run into corruption and all sorts of problems from the state.
00:19:46.000So as much as I do agree with you a lot, but I think that...
00:19:49.000I think that it's exemplary of the people.
00:19:52.000Does being, okay, so I was thinking about how in Bush's second term, right, a lot of people said that Katrina was a huge downfall to him, right?
00:20:02.000Is that even – like if you get rid of FEMA and you take your emergency management organization money and you push it to the states, does that actually take some of the heat off a president on the federal side if it's then done exclusively through the state, even if the money is coming from the federal level down?
00:20:19.000I mean I'd argue – Because there's no organization to link it back to him?
00:20:23.000The idea is that the state would be able to more effectively deal with the disaster.
00:20:27.000But I feel as though some states are more prepared on purpose and other states aren't on purpose because they know the federal funding would be coming on the other side is one of the issues here.
00:20:36.000One of the things, too, as far as the governors go...
00:20:39.000I think there are half-decent, I don't know, is it kosher to say on here?
00:20:42.000There are half-decent Democrat governors.
00:20:45.000I think some of us tend to stay in a bubble and we're willing to overlook them.
00:20:48.000So, for example, in Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro, I think, makes an effective governor.
00:20:53.000And in the same way how Governor Ron DeSantis was able to repair bridges after whatever disaster, I think on the I-95 collapse, Josh Shapiro was also able to quickly move to fix that disaster.
00:21:32.000So there was one, there was a, I'm reading it now, there was a...
00:21:35.000There's a collapsed bridge in Pennsylvania that he was able to quickly and effectively build back up by skirting different regulations and making people work.
00:21:44.000More than a few people here especially have said that it was insane that they chose Tim Walz to run.
00:21:49.000I guess we found out later that Shapiro didn't want anything to do with it, and I think that's because they understood that Shapiro was a more effective candidate, and that was why it was so surprising that they didn't choose him.
00:22:22.000Secretary of State Marco Rubio halted spending Friday on most existing foreign aid grants for 90 days.
00:22:28.000The order, which shocks State Department officials, appears to apply to funding for military assistance to Ukraine, which I think is a positive issue.
00:22:37.000Rubio's guidance issued to all diplomatic and...
00:22:41.000Consular Post requires department staffers to issue stop work orders on nearly all foreign...
00:22:46.000on nearly all existing foreign assistance awards, excuse me, according to the document, which was obtained by Politico.
00:22:54.000It appears to go further than President Donald Trump's recent executive order, which instructed the department to pause foreign aid grants for 90 days, pending review by the secretary.
00:23:03.000It had not been clear from the president's order if it would affect already appropriated funds or Ukraine aid.
00:23:09.000What do you guys think about stopping foreign aid?
00:23:13.000Personally, I love the idea of ending all foreign aid because just like I think that when you give individuals money, you turn them into wards of the state and you make them dependent on the state.
00:23:26.000I think when you give other countries foreign aid, I think that it does make them dependent on the United States.
00:23:33.000I will say the one thing that the one...
00:23:36.000I think positive argument about foreign aid is when you have as much stupid debt as the United States does and you give foreign countries dollars, that incentivizes them to spend the dollars and use the dollars, meaning that your currency is going to be propped up by that as opposed to people who stop using it.
00:23:57.000If they have the money and it's valuable or they see value in it, they're going to spend it and that's good for the...
00:24:18.000Alad, what do you think about foreign aid, man?
00:24:21.000I think foreign aid is an important foreign policy that we have in our country.
00:24:29.000Having said that, I think for way too long, American foreign aid has been taken for granted and been taken advantage of by other countries.
00:24:38.000And every single, all foreign aid that we are giving out to people does need to be re-evaluated for how important and useful it is to advance American policy objectives around the world.
00:25:25.000I think that there's an update because it said that the proposal was from Trump originally, and then what Marco Rubio did actually goes further than what Trump was talking about, but go ahead.
00:26:37.000I mean, Israel pays too much money to politically lobby to give up their foreign aid.
00:26:41.000So to me, I still think this is a win.
00:26:43.000I know people are going to hate me for this, but it's like, look, if we even got the political...
00:26:47.000You know, lobbying, cornered enough with Qatar and other nations that we are able to melt down our foreign aid down to at least two countries.
00:27:14.000And he said during his inauguration That he's bringing around colorblind meritocracy That's the most fence-sitting bullshit That you could possibly say If you were trying to be right-wing He's still a 90s Democrat Well yeah, he's just a moderate guy But unfortunately for us, it's like, you know Things have gone so far left that even just pulling towards some common sense, I'm going to say, as someone who would be considered staunchly right, I still celebrate the win towards the center.
00:27:38.000And so even if I could sit here and say, yeah, I'm not happy that we're still giving five, six billion dollars to these countries who are politically lobbying us and it shows you we don't have full control of our government.
00:27:47.000The fact if we can even get the fire contained 30 or 40 percent, I don't want to be one of those guys that's just, oh, this isn't a win because we didn't get all of our countries.
00:27:58.000Any money that the government doesn't spend is a victory because the government is always, always not just spending money, it's always increasing spending.
00:28:07.000I think it's a big win because of the fact that we are not giving money to Ukraine, which is, that's been the biggest consumer of American foreign aid for the past two years, definitely.
00:28:20.000I'd love to see foreign aid stopped going to Israel and to Jordan and to Egypt and all.
00:28:27.000Like I said, just overall, I think that foreign aid is a net negative.
00:28:32.000When it comes to foreign aid, I do think we're missing a little bit of the forest for the trees, I think is the saying, because beyond America supporting other countries financially and sending arms, we run the world economy, and the backbone of the world economy is based off of Americans' ability to police the seas and allow free trade to occur.
00:28:51.000So if Americans weren't willing to subsidize free trade globally, it wouldn't exist in the world system would collapse.
00:28:55.000We have troops all throughout Asia right now that act in a way of foreign aid.
00:29:02.000Why do we have this foreign policy of trying to support many of these other nations?
00:29:05.000It's because if we didn't, then the world order would look completely different.
00:29:08.000If the American military wasn't there to help support South Koreans now with troops stationed there, there would likely be war to continue there.
00:29:14.000If we don't send money to Egypt, the Egyptian government would likely collapse.
00:29:18.000If we don't continue to support NATO, which people tend to overlook, then Russia will definitely encroach more on Eastern Europe.
00:29:28.000And I said, I don't know that I believe that.
00:29:29.000I think they'd go after Ukraine, but I don't know that they're looking...
00:29:33.000I think there's a reason that other countries like Finland and Sweden, I believe, decided to join NATO after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
00:29:40.000I think Russian ambitions in Eastern Europe are obvious and clear.
00:29:44.000There's NATO lobbyists and expansionists who have this other idea.
00:29:47.000I think it's within our interest to help prop up the American world order that we continue to benefit from.
00:29:52.000Switzerland changing a centuries-old, you know dogma and suddenly supporting Ukraine in a conflict.
00:30:58.000I think being a neutral border country would create actually more strength for them because Finland could then in many ways play both allies to both countries and say, well, we're in net neutral.
00:31:07.000We'll buy from both and they might be able to negotiate for cheap gas.
00:31:09.000You have countries competing to bring sovereignty into the nation and to give them all the resources they want at an exchange rate that would be beneficial to people.
00:31:16.000I'm just saying I don't think certain countries joining NATO is beneficial.
00:31:21.000And particularly, I don't think NATO is beneficial to the United States considering how little people pay for their own.
00:31:26.000I think you talk about a lot of these things very ominously because you're missing like the most obvious answer to these questions.
00:31:32.000So why would Finland want to join NATO and have access to the best weapons on Earth to help deter a potential future invasion?
00:31:38.000That's why these countries want to join NATO.
00:31:47.000I know, but they didn't, and they're still getting the weapons.
00:31:49.000What does that tell the rest of the people?
00:31:50.000You don't have to join NATO to get protection.
00:31:51.000You want access to the best weapons on planet Earth, and the guarantee from the United States that they'll defend you because you were scared of countries invading you.
00:32:03.000Because Russia is very bellicose in invading its neighboring countries.
00:32:06.000Well, maybe because they're cozying up and the government is becoming radicalized towards a pro-NATO, not even a pro-West, because the West doesn't need NATO in its current form.
00:32:58.000I mean, I'm not a geopolitical, I'm not deciding the borders of the countries, but I do know the Russian ethnic people who already decided or voted to secede and to join Russia and also to give themselves Russian passports, I think they have the right to secede and join Russia.
00:33:10.000So I do believe, especially with all the shelling from Western Ukraine.
00:33:12.000Do they have the right to join NATO if that's what they want to do?
00:33:58.000If you look at the expansion of NATO, I do believe this current conflict, especially when you talk about the U.S. literally waging a coup inside of Ukraine about...
00:34:08.000About 11, well, 11 years ago now, about, and then also with the annexation of Crimea, this has been cooking for, this is a war that's been going on for over 10 years.
00:34:17.000It escalated with an invasion into what they, what Ukraine calls sovereign territory, but what Russia sees as its own and its own citizenry.
00:34:39.000I don't know what their domestic and internal problems are and why they would want to.
00:34:43.000I know why other countries, or why we've expanded, I know what lobbying happened from the military-industrial complex to try to convince and lobby politicians so that they would be able to buy our weapons to keep our imports and our exports up on our weaponry because they have to buy our weapons and NATO-approved weaponry.
00:34:57.000I know that, and I'm saying I don't believe that the expansion of NATO was really about protecting Europe.
00:35:02.000I do think it was about money and power.
00:35:04.000Vlad, do you think that Ukraine should be allowed to join NATO? I think if Ukraine was in NATO, Russia would not have attacked.
00:35:11.000Do you think that Ukraine should be allowed to join NATO? At this point, no, because they're in a conflict and you need to settle all your border disputes if you want to be a part of NATO. Do you think that they should have been allowed to join before Russia invaded?
00:35:21.000And by Russia invaded, I mean after the 2014 election.
00:35:38.000They had a border dispute following that.
00:35:40.000And if you have a border dispute and have an open conflict going on, we don't want to bring you in because we don't want to be dragged into that.
00:35:45.000So then prior to that, do you think they should have been allowed to join Ukraine?
00:37:01.000To our NATO allies, to our Asian allies, to our Israeli allies.
00:37:05.000It's like, no, but I think Trump is a nationalist, and I think that he's actually, no, I don't think he's, I think what Trump actually is doing, he's actually tried to modernize our own military.
00:37:14.000So he's actually come home first, and my person, from what I've seen, is saying he came in in his first administration and realized that not only was Air Force One outdated, that we have a new one coming in 2020 or 2030, the protection and the military, I think it's...
00:37:25.000Technically considered an Air Force, right?
00:37:42.000My only derision or difference with you is I do believe that the American military machine has gotten too greedy.
00:37:49.000And I do believe that there are multiple aspects.
00:37:51.000And maybe this is where you and I might agree more because I don't think you're a very pro-war.
00:37:55.000I'm an individual, and a little of my libertarian anti-war Scott Horton side comes out.
00:37:59.000I do believe that the military-industrial complex is very sneaky, and it's not just by waging endless wars in Iraq or Afghanistan that we have weaponry that we leave behind.
00:38:08.000I think adding NATO members has been a crucial and vital part of just like the EU needed to add new members to keep its bureaucracy running, or the USCIS immigration in our country needs to increase immigration because they increased fees, and now it's completely run through paperwork fees.
00:38:22.000A lot of the bureaucracy and the back end are run by expansionism, and sometimes we need to realize it's not...
00:38:29.000It's not always so maniacal and malevolent and evil.
00:38:34.000It's my sense that the future of the military-industrial complex is going to be less, and I think the Ukraine war kind of exemplifies this.
00:38:43.000It's going to be less about tanks and bombs and stuff and more about intel.
00:38:49.000And I think that in the next 30 years, Lockheed Martin's not going to be as important as Google is.
00:38:57.000I think that the tech companies and the AI companies that you see, I think NVIDIA is going to be more important than the military.
00:39:07.000Well, I mean, I would like to see them be US-based companies, but yes, I do think that tech companies are going to actually be where the frontier of the military-industrial complex because as AI becomes more and more important and as robotics becomes more and more important...
00:39:24.000You're going to see less reliance on manned systems.
00:39:29.000You're going to see less reliance on, you know...
00:39:35.000But that seems to be the way in which the military-industrial complex has captured at least the former anti-war left who talk about, when you talk about where the spending is going, they try to point out that the weapons are being made here in America, so American wages are being paid for it.
00:39:50.000Well, which we know is really just a Trojan horse to allow you to make more arms and sell more weapons overseas.
00:39:56.000Elijah, I just wanted to follow up, because I think big picture where we disagree is that I believe in American values and American hegemony.
00:40:03.000I think it's important to stand for those values and support our allies worldwide and not cede any room to the Chinese in the Pacific or the Persians in the Middle East or the Russians' irredentist dreams in Eastern Europe.
00:40:16.000So I think that's the bigger picture idea of where we disagree because if we do pull back in NATO, if we do pull back...
00:40:25.000If we don't want to continue supporting our allies in the Middle East, we are only ceding ground to our enemies who have the opposite values that we do here in America.
00:40:34.000I will, I do, I do think, I do agree that...
00:40:38.000The United States is in a position where the more the U.S. pulls back, the more it will create a vacuum, and the more that will be filled by other countries.
00:40:49.000We were talking earlier, whereas I don't want the U.S. to go and start any kind of other wars or anything like that, but if the U.S. does shrink its role in the world, that's going to have a corresponding effect on...
00:41:05.000The dollar, and it's going to have a corresponding effect on the influence that the United States has.
00:41:09.000And I don't think the American people really want that.
00:41:12.000I think, again, Joe Sixpack or whatever you want to say, the average person that isn't politically dialed in, they don't want to see a significant change in their life.
00:41:22.000That the average person is completely unprepared for the kind of changes that they would see if the U.S. did become less of the global hegemon.
00:41:32.000So now whether or not you think the U.S. is a force for good or force for bad is actually neither here nor there.
00:41:39.000It's just that when the U.S. stops being the global hegemon, that makes a massive change in the whole world.
00:41:46.000It makes a massive change in the whole world.
00:41:48.000And I don't think that the average person has really thought through the ramifications.
00:41:54.000The other problem is that when they see the way that disasters happen in America and there's no help for American citizens, they're not thinking five steps ahead.
00:42:03.000They're saying, why are you spending trillions of dollars, billions of dollars overseas when you don't even have the money to help us here?
00:42:10.000And they're not thinking about all of those steps and what it means to be a global power.
00:42:14.000And that actually speaks to my exact point.
00:42:17.000The average American doesn't even understand.
00:42:32.000When the government wants to fund something, the government wants to make bombs, the government wants to fund a program, whatever, they print the money.
00:42:39.000They use taxation, and they use interest rates to control the dollar supply, the amount of dollars that are out there.
00:42:47.000But if they want to do something, they don't need to.
00:42:51.000I mean, it's still bankrupting your kids.
00:42:57.000It's still putting your kids' future in danger because they're also going to be taxed at an endless rate because we're never going to get out of debt.
00:43:03.000Foreign aid is not what's bankrupting America.
00:43:06.000By the way, Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security is what's bankrupting America.
00:43:10.000I love why we always love to point the finger and we say, oh, foreign aid, and that's why we can't help the homeless people, and that's why people are starving in the middle of God knows where.
00:44:48.000And in that region, basically, But the point of the matter is...
00:45:02.000Is that Australia, like you said, people don't think about where their money goes.
00:45:06.000Over there, everybody's like, you know, we have healthcare and we have this and we have that.
00:45:10.000And you're like, yeah, well, it's because you have the luxury of the United States is propping up your failed military, which their military is so failed, by the way, that they're planning on letting non-citizens join their military ranks.
00:45:22.000And it's so bad that right now, one of the most contradictory or controversial ideas in the country, the U.S. is saying, hey, I think this actually started, it might have started under Trump.
00:45:32.000You need to actually buy your own nuclear subs to deter China.
00:45:36.000We're not going to fund and patrol your waters anymore.
00:46:13.000It's like, you've got to give back because even though we're not giving $3 billion in aid, let's say, to Australia, the amount of military support that we give to petroleum protecting their northern border is probably way more than what we give Israel.
00:46:24.000Where are they buying these submarines from?
00:46:40.000I wish that they had the ability to create their own if they really are considered an ally.
00:46:44.000They want to have a qualitative military edge over other countries, then you have to buy from the best.
00:46:48.000They've let their edge fall like many Western countries.
00:46:50.000They wouldn't be able to compete otherwise.
00:46:52.000Not every country can have a cutting edge.
00:46:53.000Everyone's been relying on the U.S. for decades that people have not been developing their own weaponry.
00:46:57.000We have the best arms industry, and it's a good thing that our allies continue to buy from us, just like you were talking about earlier, how we have five eyes.
00:47:05.000I think it's an important thing that we continue.
00:47:08.000We need to collaborate with our allies abroad to help buy these submarines.
00:47:14.000All I was trying to say is the reason why that's – I'm saying what's happening in the world today with foreign aid since we're talking about this.
00:47:19.000It's easy to look at foreign aid as just the dollars that we send in numbers on a screen we're transferring.
00:47:24.000But how many years have we been protecting New Zealand and Australia?
00:47:28.000It's about time that we do cut back on our foreign aid of these countries and say, look, you guys make trillions of dollars in GDP. You can build some damn submarines.
00:47:35.000I mean, well, I don't know that I'm – I'm particularly concerned with the shipworks of New Zealand and Australia.
00:48:02.000share I don't have the numbers but all you got to do is Google like the United States Navy compared to every other Navy in the world every other Navy is is would be destroyed in a moment if the United States wanted to we have something like a dozen nuclear submarines I mean don't that no other country truly has Maybe Japan has one or two.
00:48:20.000The amount of power that the United States has when it comes to the Navy is mind-boggling.
00:48:28.000And the United States does make trade safe.
00:48:33.000As much as the United States is going to be, you know, we're going to be imperfect and there's going to be corruption and stuff, I'd rather the United States be the country that's making sure that the seas are open for trade than China or than Russia, because I just don't trust that China or Russia would deal even close to as fairly as the United States.
00:48:52.000I don't think the United States deals fairly.
00:48:53.000I'm sure that there are countries that feel like they're getting, you know, the crap end of the stick and stuff like that when they're dealing with the U.S. I'm sure that's the case.
00:49:00.000But at the end of the day, I think the United States is...
00:49:07.000I don't think that it's a bad thing that, you know, honestly, the foreign aid, when it comes to military aid and stuff like that, it's the U.S. having Americans build military weaponry for other countries.
00:49:22.000So essentially, the U.S. is just paying.
00:49:28.000And again, now you can be against these kind of things and stuff that's fine, but it's not the same thing as handing out bags of cash.
00:49:34.000We're not sending pallets of cash to Australia and New Zealand like we did.
00:49:40.000We just put our largest CIA operative headquarters base right in Australia, which is essentially a U.S. controlled extension of our dominance.
00:49:49.000Although all this being said and done, I just thought it would be a time to remind you guys of how much We're all collectively frustrated at this table with the West Virginian local politics of sole proprietorship and business.
00:50:02.000I've been here for a day, and I've got to get the hell out of here.
00:50:49.000Well, any profit-seeking entity was looking to do this anyways.
00:50:51.000This just gave them the excuse to finally be able to do it and put the blame on someone else.
00:50:55.000And CNN gets to call the orange man bad for doing it.
00:50:58.000Target said in a statement Friday that it will end its three-year diversity, equity, and inclusion goals.
00:51:03.000In 2022, the company said that those goals included ensuring equitable access to career advancement and equitable business decisions that increase relevance with diverse guests and support economic inclusivity.
00:51:18.000I think we all around this table probably agree that these are terrible ideas because you're not hiring for competency.
00:51:49.000But again, I think that that person that you're the...
00:52:00.000The hypothetical person you're talking about is the person that watches maybe 30 minutes to an hour of Jimmy Kimmel a week, and that's where they get their news.
00:52:09.000Which is a terrible, terrible development when you have people like Jimmy Kimmel that are the people that are giving the news to Americans.
00:52:20.000Absolutely worse, but only marginally.
00:52:23.000There's also a lot of guilt by association in Americans who just they see something like this and they say, yeah, I do come from a privileged background.
00:52:30.000Now, whether they do or they don't or whether this other guy on the other side of the table is of the same, has the same access as them, doesn't matter to them.
00:52:37.000So they don't see a problem in stuff like this, especially NIMBY white liberals out in the suburbs.
00:52:42.000They're not going to see a problem with programs like this.
00:53:37.000If you go into a lot of these companies and you look at the demographics, they haven't become more diverse.
00:53:41.000You know, when you look at upper-level management in tech companies, you can check this out for most of the large ones.
00:53:46.000It's still upwards of, like, 90% East Asian.
00:53:49.000We're not even talking about South Indian.
00:53:51.000Like, East Asian and predominantly white men who are running, like, core engineering, core development, especially the executive department level.
00:53:58.000And then it'll look and it'll be like, well, 50% of the employees are basically brown, gay, or a combination of some sort of melanin nation.
00:54:08.000And the thing is, is that what happens is, is that these jobs are actually...
00:54:14.000don't want these jobs at their companies they're bloat and a lot of this stuff isn't needed you ever watch the videos of these like yes that's exactly like asian girls going like and i get a little soda at my office and i type up a couple codes oh those are the yeah your company knows your job is worthless too and when the cuts came recently don't take it aren't there they do the cuts for them first like you know wow everyone i love how people will be like we're winning woke microsoft cut 20 000 jobs you're like bro they've been waiting for like i agree with elon they've been waiting to cut these 20 000 jobs because once they had the financial you know
00:54:43.000excuse to tell the government because at a certain level of a corporate you know size you have to have the government does check in on your diversity quotas it's unfortunate but they do you have to have evidence for why you made the cuts and i just don't believe dei is good for business i believe it's annoying to people and i do not think that the average consumer really wants to buy tucking underwear at target or see gay flags while they're buying their coffee like i just i don't even i don't know anyone who cares outside of like maybe portland this was the same thing that happened in hollywood after the strikes and they immediately
00:55:11.000They started cutting jobs like that and sending work over to Canada, work over to India.
00:55:16.000The first thing that they do is like, look, we're like telling you, look, the strike is going to hurt you.
00:55:20.000You're going to get what you want on paper.
00:55:22.000And the first thing they're going to do is send your work elsewhere.
00:55:34.000Same thing people have been talking about for years.
00:55:36.000They're basically, the people who go to do that, the ones who work for Google, are just influencers that are used to make propaganda videos to make, look how good it is to work at Google.
00:55:45.000But everybody knows, like when Elon bought Twitter and he cut like 80% of the workforce and the website still worked.
00:55:51.000And you're referring to those TikToks that you saw.
00:56:52.000I understand this idea of fascism, but people don't understand this alignment of sort of the private and the public sector.
00:56:58.000The reason why I understand this is because what we kind of are seeing right now is that the private sector does take direction from the public sector.
00:57:06.000And if Trump is saying we're going to be a certain way, then the private sector lines up.
00:57:11.000And right now we like us, or a lot of us in this room at least, like where Trump is taking things.
00:57:15.000So we like where the private sector is going.
00:57:16.000When Biden's in, We don't like where it's going, and so we don't like the private sector.
00:57:21.000How much should we be fighting for government strength like this or government control?
00:57:26.000Because we do have a direct alignment of our private and public.
00:57:30.000Where do we set the limit, and why is fascism then wrong?
00:57:35.000So the idea that the government aligns with private industry, that's undeniable.
00:57:43.000It would be my preference that we have a government that's small enough where they really don't have any influence, federally at the very least.
00:57:52.000If there are states that want to say, okay, you're going to operate in our state, these are the rules that you have to have to operate in our state.
00:57:59.000And then these companies can decide, I don't want to.
00:58:03.000And you saw that with Tesla leaving California, with Oracle leaving California.
00:58:08.000I think Joe Rogan, even though he's not a gigantic company, he left California.
00:58:12.000See people deciding, I don't like dealing with these, the regulations or whatever.
00:58:18.000I've moved multiple times because I didn't like what was going on in my state.
00:58:28.000When you can make your federal government, when you can actually have your federal government reined in and make it actually abide by the rules laid out in the Constitution, I don't think that the United States qualifies as fascist that way.
00:58:42.000Especially if we could have some kind of miracle and have an amendment that clarifies the Necessary and Proper Clause and clarifies the Commerce Clause.
00:58:55.000The government wasn't using that to basically bully every single industry that it just...
00:59:00.000Well, not just the industry, but people as well.
00:59:02.000So I don't think the United States is intended to be fascist.
00:59:19.000Before the Nazis, before the horrors of what the Nazis did became public knowledge, before everybody really knew.
00:59:25.000You know, Woodrow Wilson and the League of Nations and all of this stuff that was going on from World War I and after World War I, this was all the rage and it was normal for people to think, well, the government should do this and the government should do that and etc.
01:00:52.000All the stuff that really made the United States go from being a small government country to a big government country, that all happened long before the 60s, long before the civil rights era.
01:01:02.000Great Depression, a lot of that stuff.
01:01:03.000It was all stuff that actually did happen because of the Great Depression.
01:01:06.000And a lot of the things that we have now, they're vestigials of what was put in place to deal with what people would call excessive capitalism or the way that capitalism behaves without regulations.
01:01:17.000I think that's totally wrong, especially nowadays when you have the ability to communicate as fast as possible.
01:01:23.000I think that the reins that you put onto private companies, I think those are completely unnecessary and they're antiquated and they don't need to be, you know, they could be revisited and taken away without any significant problem.
01:01:37.000If there was significant problem, word would get around so fast that companies wouldn't be, I mean, you're not, if you got rid of child labor laws, right, you're not going to have, like, kids in coal mines again.
01:02:40.000And I think when you have kids, it humbles the hell out of you because you have to think about how my decisions are going to affect their life, right?
01:02:45.000I know boomers are currently toasting their champagne in their jacuzzi that they bought on Afterpay and kicked their kids out at 18 enjoying their life.
01:02:52.000But some of us want our kids to be successful.
01:02:55.000No, but I mean, I look at my kids, I want them to be successful, and I'm thinking, okay, you know, am I scoring points with a Christian Crusader 1488 on Twitter?
01:03:20.000We all have all these utopian ideas, but the truth is both of these sides that are pushing fascists and communists, to me, they got one thing right.
01:03:26.000We do a pretty damn freaking big government.
01:03:29.000That government is in control of the means of production and a lot of ways in influencing it.
01:03:50.000Are we just being boomers, out-of-touch boomer utopian people where we're just like, I just want a small government while these young Gen Zs are all going communist?
01:03:56.000They're either going full communist or full fascist.
01:04:00.000And why don't they believe we can shrink the government?
01:04:01.000What I think they see is they see the shortcomings of the liberal economic order, right?
01:04:09.000But the thing that they don't understand is that the shortcomings of the liberal economic order are actually...
01:04:17.000Not as big of a deal when they're put into the context of what came before, right?
01:04:23.000So nowadays you've got all kinds of problems with like we talk about the cost of living, the value of the dollars gone down, the way that the boomers behaved about, you know, essentially all of their 401ks and kids can't buy homes, kids can't afford all kinds of things.
01:04:46.000They don't have an experience with the things that were before the boomers.
01:04:50.000They don't have the experience with the Great Depression.
01:04:52.000They don't have the experience without having the ability to just have food delivered on their apps or all kinds of possible avenues to make revenue that the internet provides and stuff like that.
01:05:07.000Whereas I'm not saying that they're wrong and I'm not saying that their struggles aren't real.
01:05:10.000I'm just saying that they are products of a Time and a place, right?
01:05:17.000And you can't get outside of that context without experience.
01:05:21.000You can't just be like, if you're 19, 20, 21, 22, and you're in the United States, that's all you've ever known.
01:05:29.000And you're not a bad person because that's all you've ever known.
01:05:34.000Kids, for the most part, support these policies.
01:05:37.000The way these policies are framed is they're saying that Trump didn't roll back DEI. He rolled back protections for minority and marginalized groups.
01:05:47.000So by that nature, the whole point is that they're saying equal opportunity under the law, which is what it actually was before, which was beneficial to everyone, is now a bad thing.
01:05:57.000And they want to see the government at least...
01:06:00.000A lot of the young kids, the liberal kids, they like the idea that the federal government was willing to impose that because they feel that's a good thing.
01:06:07.000And that is a way towards communism, like you said.
01:06:10.000Elijah, I wanted to follow up on what you were talking about a couple of minutes ago with fascism or fascism light that we're seeing in our upcoming generations.
01:06:17.000I want to ask, what do you think of the...
01:06:19.000I don't even necessarily mean this in a derogatory way.
01:06:22.000Do you believe the current Trump administration is fascistic?
01:06:25.000No, I would say that the United States...
01:06:27.000Imperial system like it wouldn't matter who came into power the overall totality of the size of our government and our power across the world is so big that it's Corporate interests and government just cannot be I've been unlinked.
01:06:40.000I think this is a misreading of fascism.
01:06:44.000I said, people say that we only have two directions to go.
01:06:47.000Like, either we make it fascist to get control of it, or we make it communist, but we're kind of like free-floating, and it's a fight for who's going to control.
01:06:53.000I think that's an argument that a communist or fascist would say, that there's no other way that you have to go, that you could either be a communist or you're a fascist.
01:08:21.000Honestly, that's incredibly good advice, though, because whether you're talking about now or you're talking about 50 years ago or 100 years ago, I don't know how many people out there have read Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People.
01:08:36.000This is a book that salesmen and people used to read all the time, and it's full of the most obvious Shit, right?
01:08:44.000But the point that it gets across is the most important...
01:08:48.000Part of getting a good job is who you know.
01:08:52.000So if you're sitting at home and you're on your computer all the time and you don't actually interact with anybody except from an anonymous account on Twitter, that doesn't help any.
01:09:03.000If you go on X and you look at people that tend to be on X a lot, one of the things that people say is, meet your mutuals.
01:09:12.000Because when you actually make contact with other people...
01:09:17.000Then you are going to be in a better position to get Opportunities.
01:09:22.000And there's also a phrase that you hear all the time, like 90% of the problem or 90% of what you need to do is just show up.
01:09:30.000If you go out and you get out into the world physically and you go do things with people and you're around people, opportunities are far more likely to come up, to arise, than if you spend time at home.
01:09:43.000And again, this is not me saying that it's not hard for Gen Z or Gen...
01:09:49.000I'm not poo-pooing any of the struggles, they say.
01:09:51.000But the culture today and the things that, the incentives, the way that society is now, kids are not incentivized to go out into the world and do things with real people.
01:10:02.000And the more you get out and interact with real people doing real-world things, the more opportunities are going to present themselves.
01:10:10.000And even if that means that you go and you meet your ex...
01:10:13.000Mutuals, go meet the people that you hang out with on Discord if you can.
01:10:57.000No, and honestly, honestly, when it comes to that, like our first record was garbage and no one cared.
01:11:03.000I literally learned how to write songs well because I called up Adam D. from Killswitch Engage and said, dude, I... I can write riffs all day.
01:13:49.000Giving Newsom the old Donald Trump at 2 in the morning tweeting treatment, and it's been pretty glorious.
01:13:56.000CNN is reporting advisors to California Governor Gavin Newsom spent the week monitoring new White House advanced staffer social media accounts.
01:14:05.000See, he's just sending the mean tweets and changing the world, hoping for clues for where President Donald Trump might be headed when he lands in Los Angeles on Friday afternoon to talk about the wildfire damage.
01:14:16.000That's the state of relations as California and the federal government face one of the most expensive natural disasters ever and perhaps one of the most complex in American history.
01:14:26.000No one is talking between the Democratic governor's team and the newly inaugurated presidents.
01:14:30.000Two people on the governor's team told CNN through a spokesman for the governor told CNN on Friday that he will head to the airport to greet Air Force One.
01:15:01.000Voter ID in California, which it's an odd thing to connect to emergency relief, but I don't hate the idea of having California actually have to do voter ID. And what was the other one?
01:15:17.000I mean, I'm actually surprised at this one.
01:15:33.000And moreover, it's not only, I think, bad, like, morally for what the government should be doing there.
01:15:38.000I think it's just really poor politics.
01:15:40.000People forget that California is one of the biggest states that has the most Republicans in it.
01:15:45.000And to win the House, you need a lot of...
01:15:46.000So there was actually one new Republican rep from California, Young Kim, who said playing politics with people's livelihoods is unacceptable and a slap in the face of the Southern California wildfire victims.
01:15:59.000With a tight majority in the House, many seats were picked up in California, and this is not going to help them out with Republicans trying to stipulate aid.
01:16:07.000So I think it's a bad move politically because you know they're going to lose some seats in a couple of years here.
01:16:13.000It can't be like, and I think this is where we need to draw the line.
01:16:16.000People obviously, I used to play a little more, not intentionally, to my side, just because I hadn't explored the political spectrum so much, right?
01:16:24.000It's like we're all on the spectrum, but to some extent.
01:16:26.000And I think looking at it left and right is...
01:16:28.000I think that's a very, very increasingly rare thing.
01:16:36.000People just look at, you know, oh, in North Carolina, Republicans suffer?
01:16:40.000I watched a TikTok of a girl saying that.
01:16:42.000She's like, I don't know if you other liberals understand that Republicans enjoy that Los Angeles burned down because, you know, we were all enjoyed when North Carolina got destroyed.
01:16:57.000And quite frankly, there are plenty of right-leaning people that probably suffered in the LA fires and vice versa in North Carolina.
01:17:02.000So do not tell me that, you know, this is a political storm, right?
01:17:06.000This isn't Q. We're not going into the storm here, okay?
01:17:09.000But I do think, I understand Trump trying to play hardball with a state and with a governor, and I'm not opposed to some alternative or interesting or unheard of tactics when you're playing hardball like this.
01:17:27.000Federal taxpayer dollars, I think if you went back to finding out what the American people would want, I do not believe that the average American taxpayer would want to withhold their money from emergency relief in an area based upon political grandstanding.
01:18:42.000Yeah, I mean, essentially, as far as I know, the situation is there is a smelt in a bay up in Northern California, and because of the way that the water is flowing and the way that they have the dam set up, it pushes the freshwater further out into the San Francisco Bay, and so the brackish water doesn't come so far in, making the habitat suitable for the smelt.
01:19:11.000Allow the water to flow south into Southern California.
01:19:14.000Then the brackish water would actually move further into the bay.
01:19:19.000Sounds like you're explaining a woman's mind here.
01:19:28.000But the point that I'm making is this little fish is alleged to be the reason why...
01:19:35.000Southern California has problems with water.
01:19:38.000And I think that if that is the case, like if the situation is that, hey, the environmentalists are actually the reason why California doesn't have water to fight fires in Southern California, one of the most densely populated regions in the United States, and clearly, you know needs water badly because of the the winds and because of the other mismanagement of the forest and stuff then I think that it's okay to say look this needs to happen
01:20:05.000if you're gonna come to the United to the federal government and say we need you to fund it then the federal government should be able to say you need to do these things to fix the problem the voter is the voter ID The issue is if this becomes standard.
01:20:25.000That, I think, might actually have some merit.
01:21:03.000There was people saying that what Trump did in this case was an impeachable offense and they were like, obviously you don't understand how these things go together.
01:21:10.000He's going to get impeached over something stupid at least one more time in the second term.
01:22:14.000Now, she lives in a mansion outside of her district.
01:22:16.000And I think Tucker touched on this where he said directly, he goes, it's quite hilarious because...
01:22:21.000There's no place that you can really point to with so much corruption where people can be so disliked by the populace, not only retain power, but rise to prominence.
01:22:29.000Like, when I went and covered Kamala Harris during the original run for the primaries for the Democratic ticket, she couldn't fill half of a high school gymnasium.
01:22:52.000And sometimes I do wonder if, at very much, if, and only if, you know, Maxine Waters and some of these people, we should keep an eye and realize that Trump might be playing long-term political strategy to break up a cartel, right?
01:23:20.000So, right now we're looking at the Senate vote for Pete Hegseth, and the Republicans are now at 50, and the yeses are at 50, the noes are at a total of 49, and I think that means that even if...
01:24:05.000The thing is, though, they're in purple districts and whatever, we can avoid the politics.
01:24:09.000What I think is interesting, though, is that there are whispers that Mitch McConnell was thinking about, you know, backstabbing Donald Trump.
01:24:19.000Surprisingly good things to say about Mitch McConnell, but I'm surprised and happily surprised that he decided to go with Pete Hexeth and not ruin this nomination.
01:24:26.000I do think that this is going to be the situation with multiple people.
01:24:31.000I wouldn't be surprised if you see this with RFK. I wouldn't be surprised if you see this with Tulsi Gabbard.
01:24:38.000I wouldn't be surprised if you see this kind of result with cash fatalities.
01:25:24.000So, I mean, whereas I understand the impulse that you're feeling, because, honestly, Murkowski and Collins really are frustrating, but it's not really a situation where, like, it doesn't happen to the Democrats or whatever.
01:25:36.000I think of Joe Manchin as, like, the strongest example of that.
01:25:40.000What do you think of the argument that...
01:25:42.000Didn't he flip parties, technically, though?
01:25:42.000Or didn't he technically, like, not vote along with the Democrats in this stuff?
01:25:45.000A lot of conservatives will hold up Joe Manchin as somebody who votes on principle because his constituency is purple, so he's somebody who votes in favor of the interests of the people that he represents as opposed to just voting on party lines.
01:26:38.000This is why, by the way, elections matter.
01:26:40.000And I want to remind you guys, to you holier-than-thou people who told me and a lot of people, that you had problems with Trump and that you weren't going to vote for him because things wouldn't be different.
01:26:49.000Well, let's start keeping a tally here.
01:26:53.000You, like, literally right here when we're talking about this, not saying that Pete Hagseth would have been appointed, but saying, look, you see...
01:26:59.000Right now, the immediate Trump administration, not only who they are confirming, but also having to actually vote to do the split in the Senate.
01:27:05.000So let's say that we had a split in the Senate again.
01:27:07.000Regardless, you know, we have the same outcome right now.
01:27:09.000And who would be deciding what would be happening right now?
01:28:30.000Well, no, because, look, the fact of the matter is he's only got 18 months to get anything done because as of after 18 months, then people start running for re-election and stuff.
01:29:45.000But if you want to get things done, if you want to actually save America, if you want to shrink the government, you want to actually make changes, you're going to have to understand, you're going to have to...
01:29:56.000Deal with the fact that we don't have the kind of majority where you can just shove through whatever you want.
01:30:02.000I'm just saying, it's like, get married, and you'll find out, you know, you have to make compromises, both of you guys.
01:30:08.000I do think, by the way, I'm going to say that real fast to the people that do lean more extreme.
01:30:13.000I think we've been playing to a lot of that out there, and I know no one will ever like people taking a centrist position, and I'm not one.
01:30:19.000However, I will much rather take Trump's centrist vision for the country that's pro-nationalist than whatever...
01:30:25.000I don't know if I'm alone on that, but it's like it is not a right-wing nationalist dream.
01:30:33.000But at the same time, I mean, when you talk about the better of two evils or definitely getting good stuff done, I think Trump is proving himself up front and proving people who said don't vote for Trump sort of to look a little silly.
01:30:55.000That's one of the things that makes me loathe even calling myself a libertarian at all, is because the libertarians are just notorious for, like, making the perfect.
01:31:04.000Well, they make the perfect the enemy of the good.
01:34:29.000No, the breadsticks and the Alfredo sauce together, I was too poor to afford Alfredo sauce when we could afford, you know, Olive Garden thought we were rich.
01:34:36.000I grew up thinking that was like what rich people ate.
01:34:38.000And maybe it's my bias, but those breadsticks and that salad, there's nothing hits like the breadsticks and salad.
01:34:43.000I will take no Olive Garden slander here tonight.
01:35:16.000It's all Marxist power dynamics, whether it be proletariat versus the property owners or black versus white or whatever.
01:35:25.000Critical race theory, then we got to DEI. Even now, when you guys are talking about fascism, you're like, okay, let's settle on a definition first because all of the definitions for all of these terms have been adjusted so much over the last few years that you don't even know what it means.
01:36:04.000So if it was Mark saying it, or whether it was Herbert Marcuse saying it, or whether it be Angela Davis saying it, or whatever, it doesn't matter who's carrying the message.
01:36:13.000And it doesn't matter if the power dynamic that is being presented to you is the rich versus the poor, or black versus white.
01:37:46.000to assault the people that have what they want and they will continue to do that until they get...
01:37:53.000Power over whatever it is they're looking for.
01:37:55.000It's the same reason you see so many of them in charities and NGOs, because they understand that if they solve the problem of their organization, they are inherently going to go out of business.
01:38:22.000We cannot let that distract from the movement like they did last time.
01:38:27.000This is true, and I do think that the positive thing about the situation now is that the The modern American has kind of grown tired of being called names for being pro-America, being called names for being like, well, I don't feel bad about my skin color.
01:38:47.000I don't feel like I should be treated badly just because of the way that I was born.
01:38:52.000I think people are sick and tired of hearing Nazi.
01:38:55.000I think everyone, if you look at the way that people behaved about the whole, you know...
01:39:14.000They're like, look, this is the same stuff they've been saying forever.
01:39:18.000To their credit, these are the people that finally got around to looking at the original tape of the Very Fine People hoax, and they said, oh, they do lie about whether or not someone is a Nazi when they're calling people Nazi.
01:39:31.000Like, the whole Very Fine People hoax has probably been the best inoculation against the left.
01:39:37.000Tactics that probably you could find, you know?
01:39:41.000Can I give a quick conspiratorial to you?
01:39:54.000The conspiritual take on the Elon Musk stuff is that this guy's way too smart to not know what he was doing, but he knew he'd have the plausible deniability of it.
01:40:02.000And Elon Musk loves the media attention.
01:40:04.000So he was baiting this, knowing that a lot of the leftist media would come out against him and that he'd have a bunch of people on the right defending him.
01:40:11.000He wanted the attention during the it was right after the Trump inauguration.
01:40:14.000It was a perfect time to make him the news cycle.
01:40:17.000And I think Elon Musk again and again, proven himself to be a savvy media actor and he's very trollish and I don't think he's beyond doing something like this to bait people into getting such a big reaction.
01:40:28.000Honestly, even if you're right, I don't care, because at the end of the day, I don't believe that Elon Musk is actually a Nazi.
01:40:36.000There's no part of me that believes he's a national...
01:41:02.000I used to work with Glenn Beck, and like...
01:41:05.000He would have somebody on his show who would say something conspiratorial, and then the next day, an article would mention something true he said, but to counter him, it would say...
01:41:15.000Glenn Beck, who recently hosted a virulent conspiracy theorist, said.
01:41:19.000And so it's creating this ranking sort of like SEO, human credit score that they bring onto people that they can use their own articles as their own source to back up their own points.
01:41:28.000It's like using Wikipedia, but you wrote your own entry to support your own historical point.
01:41:34.000It's like it's a circle jerk where they feel like they're justified in the worldview because I'm from New York Times, but someone from ABC said that you're a Nazi.
01:41:41.000And so I can quote ABC, but it's like, what world are you living in?
01:41:44.000That was also you under a different pen name.
01:41:46.000So you know what I'm talking about in the media.
01:41:48.000They just use it as a way to justify their bullshit circle jerk worldview.
01:41:53.000And I think the rest of us that are sort of opting out of it are taking it for granted because countries like the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, they're still stuck on the mainstream media circle jerk.
01:42:24.000So yeah, we're just going in circles with an outlandish claim and then it gets cycled through and next thing you know, it's on Wikipedia being accepted as truth.
01:42:30.000I feel like it gets onto Wikipedia very early because that place is run by crazy leftist I heard on Tim Kass news that he was not a Nazi so that's my source Oh, yeah, you know, I think you're right I think the problem that I find with all that now is everybody just dismisses everybody else's news sources anyways so So the best thing you can do is to find an argument that can be bolstered through their own news sources.
01:42:52.000Otherwise, they're going to look at anything you say, well, that site isn't credible, so it doesn't matter.
01:43:31.000Okay, it's the fact that, look, life is not about what you're showing.
01:43:35.000Even if you're growing, as long as you are able to show when it's needed, so we're the grower gang because we are able to show up when we're called upon, even if we're unimpressive.
01:45:07.000So I understand what you're saying, but at the same time, I do think that the U.S.'s ability to move massive amounts of military hardware and logistics, if there's anything that the U.S. is good at, it's that stuff along with blowing up bad guys.
01:45:29.000Because the point is to keep the wars going.
01:45:30.000So it's like as long as we're continuing the buying of arms, we've never lost because our goal is as long as those companies are funded, our military stays armed and bolster.
01:47:03.000Look, I mean, if anyone remembers the stated reasons why we went to Afghanistan, like, for the first...
01:47:11.00012 years that were, 10 years that we were in Afghanistan, the reason that we were there was to capture or kill Osama bin Laden.
01:47:17.000If we'd have left May 7th or whatever, I think they got him on, no, May 11th, they got him on, or 2011 or something like that.
01:47:24.000If we'd have left the next morning, we could have walked out and said, Mission accomplished.
01:47:29.000We did what we needed to do, and that would have been an actual war that the American people said, we went in, we did what we had to do, blah, blah, blah.
01:47:36.000Mission accomplished, Bush on the aircraft carrier?
01:47:42.000The Bush stuff was BS, but if they'd actually left after they went into Pakistan and found Osama bin Laden, if they had packed up and left, then the United States could say, look, we did what we came here to do.
01:47:58.000The military's operation is finished, so we got out of there.
01:48:03.000That would have been an acceptable situation to the American people, but, you know, whether it be poppies or CIA or whatever reason people want to go ahead and say we stayed in Afghanistan, that...
01:48:16.000Is what happened and we stayed, you know, a decade or so longer than we should.
01:48:20.000It's a million people and a couple trillion dollars later or whatever, I mean, you know.
01:48:24.000It wasn't, wait, not a million American.
01:49:05.000Like I said, you know, that money goes back into the United, at least when it comes to military funding, that money goes back into the United States, goes to, you know...
01:49:17.000That's the most sinister part about it, right?
01:49:19.000Is when people are talking about paring down on sending weapons overseas and that our money shouldn't be going, they're like, well, it's going to American citizens.
01:49:26.000And people are like, yes, through your tax money that shouldn't need to be taken anyways.
01:52:27.000I don't know if JD has actually cast the vote, but ostensibly the plan that you hear is, okay, 50-50, and so JD Vance can cast the tie-breaking vote.
01:52:39.000Elijah, I wanted to ask, for all intents and purposes, isn't Pete Hexeth essentially a neocon, though, for what he stands on?
01:52:58.000I would say that Zionist and Neocon interests are oftentimes aligned because they both want war and they both have expansionist ideas and that the Neocons use Zionists because it helps meet their goal of endless war.
01:53:09.000But I don't think that the Neocons would always need Zionists and I think if the Zionists ever broke off from the Neocons, they'd find a way, like I said, to expand NATO or something that has completely separate ideas.
01:53:17.000I think neocons are involved in so many other conflicts outside the Middle East.
01:53:21.000It's just that Israel's expansionism takes advantage of the neocons, I would say.
01:53:26.000Do you think he's a good pick despite his Zionist credentials?
01:53:30.000Do I think that he's going to run the military well?
01:53:34.000I don't know we had any other option, and I think he does love our country, and he does love the boys and the girls there, and I do think that he will at least lead with a position of care.
01:53:42.000Again, his policy suggestions are the way that he decides to implement our military to follow orders from the commander-in-chief.
01:53:51.000I think he'll take those orders directly, and I don't really know how much he's going to be deciding where we go to war or what.
01:53:56.000But if Trump decides we're going to go somewhere, if Congress brings it into law, do I think Pete's going to do a damn good job about getting our pizza huts and Burger King set up quickly and our defense lines?
01:54:29.000It is not a Nazi symbol when it's on the floor of the church that Jimmy Carter was presented in when people came to pay their respects to Jimmy Carter, that Jerusalem Cross is on the floor, and apparently that makes it not.
01:54:45.000When it's on your chest, it makes it Nazi.
01:56:08.000But they came up with this, like, I don't know where they got it, but it went viral, like millions of impressions, like my family history, that my grandma was like this...
01:56:36.000And so then DDG, her boyfriend, who they broke up, by the way, now, and they have a child together, so I'm sorry, DDG, but you defended a woman who ended up splitting from you and leaving you, so learn not to be a simp.
01:56:48.000But on top of that, you wonder why they don't like me, but on top of that, and then also he libeled me and said some things that I could...
01:56:56.000You know, there's potential legal action still there.
01:57:00.000You might be black in the streets, but when we get into the courts, the Jews are in charge, and I am one, apparently.
01:57:04.000So when they said, he said that my, they said my parents were like Adeline Schoenberg from, like, Ukraine and Romania.
01:57:09.000So the best part is now is they used to, like, get mad at me and call me a racist and, like, go at me for being white.
01:57:14.000They call me, like, a mayo monkey and all this stuff.
01:57:16.000And now, because they have identified my grandparents as being, you know, Romanian-Ukrainian Jews, the black community is so anti-Semitic towards me, it would even make jokes.
01:57:25.000James Lindsay shiver in his little boots.
01:57:27.000Because the point is, it's like you go to my comments and it's black people being like, you stupid rat Jew.
01:58:39.000There are tons of handsome, talented people that do not have contacts, so are without opportunity.
01:58:44.000Look, if you are a handsome person, if you're attractive and you can't get some kind of job, you need to get off the couch because they're, look.
01:59:25.000But if you're a millionaire and you look like some beautiful person, it's like, well, maybe they married into it, maybe they lucked into the job somehow.
01:59:33.000Charlie Kirk, you know he's talented, right?
01:59:35.000I'm just saying, you see that smile with the gums and you're like, that dude's smart as fuck.
01:59:51.000So no, that's how you know it's a meritocracy here at Timcast.
01:59:53.000You know what's even worse, though, is it gets even worse in right-wing media because they would say that you have a face for radio, but that would assume you have a good voice.
01:59:58.000But the people like me, like, I have a face and a voice for the books.
02:01:22.000We've got good backers, and I'm genuinely like, I am shilling it.
02:01:24.000But if you like this show, you'll probably enjoy it.
02:01:27.000And it comes out in between Culture War and this, so if you're looking for something during the day, check it out, Almost Serious, on YouTube.
02:01:57.000I'm not a particularly pro-life person, but something about the March for Life, the people are so welcoming and kind, and I go to so many nasty events where people are generally mean and negative, and at the March for Life, it's a bunch of young Pretty people and with families and everything.
02:02:13.000So it was a very nice uplifting event.
02:02:14.000I'm going to upload our coverage of that on the Tim Pool channel probably on Monday.