On today's show, we discuss the latest in the Trump administration, including the latest on the mysterious New Jersey drones, the White House's response to a federal judge's ruling on a spending freeze, and whether or not California could become its own independent country.
00:01:09.000And then, of course, because this has happened and Donald Trump has done it, there's already a federal judge that has blocked Trump's spending freeze.
00:01:18.000The Trump administration offers the roughly 2 million federal workers a buyout to resign.
00:01:25.000Effort to shrink the size and scope of the federal government is a real tangible thing, so we'll discuss that.
00:01:33.000The White House has issued the Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation executive order, which everyone that's a viewer of TimCast I'm sure is familiar with these kind of topics, we'll get into that.
00:01:47.000The White House has given an update on the mysterious New Jersey drones.
00:01:53.000A lot of stuff coming out of the White House.
00:01:55.000Today was, I think, the first White House press briefing.
00:01:58.000And considering how the Trump administration has pledged to be the most transparent administration possibly in history, I expect this is going to be the norm.
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00:05:36.000So, from the New York Times, like I said earlier, the White House Office of Management and Budget issued a memo ordering a temporary halt to all federal financial assistance programs, potentially paralyzing a vast swath of federal programs.
00:05:50.000Let's see, it says, the American people elected Donald J. Trump to be President of the United States and gave him a mandate to increase the impact of every federal taxpayer dollar.
00:05:58.000In fiscal year 2024, of the nearly $10 trillion that the federal government spent, more than $3 trillion was federal financial assistance, such as grants and loans.
00:06:08.000Career and political appointees in the executive branch have a duty to align federal spending and action with the will of the American people as expressed through the presidential priorities.
00:06:16.000This type of behavior, this kind of executive order, this kind of action taken by the president, is important.
00:06:25.000It is exactly what the American people have looked for for a long time, at least what the conservatives have.
00:06:32.000As soon as you start talking about cutting any kind of program, there are going to be people that are going to say, well, don't cut my program.
00:06:40.000Don't cut the program that I like, which is part of the reason why it's so difficult to actually make cuts.
00:06:44.000But to see Donald Trump move so, not just so swiftly, but so decisively.
00:06:52.000I think that this speaks volumes about his intent, what his intent is with his administration, and I think that is to actually deliver on the promises that were made during the campaign.
00:07:06.000I've been absolutely shocked at how rapidly he's done all of these different things.
00:07:44.000And all the people who are crying right now, listen, you weren't crying when Biden was sending money literally all over the world and just wasting it.
00:08:21.000left you see that the doge is the gold one they just added it in that upper left box the doge clock it looks like it's going up as fast as the debt meaning that we are basically stifling our debt our debt is going to zero Our debt is not...
00:08:35.000I don't know that I feel comfortable telling you that it's going to zero.
00:09:28.000I don't know if it would be under Doge or if it would be something that would just fall under OMB. I know that OMB and Doge are working closely together, and Donald Trump's pick for the secretary, I don't know what his official title is, but the guy that runs OMB, I've heard him on a couple podcasts, and he's really got...
00:09:48.000The desires of Donald Trump and what needs to be done.
00:09:53.000He's got his eyes really fixated on what needs to be done.
00:09:59.000I mean, obviously, anytime you're talking about government, you're going to have as many hurdles as the opposing party and the people who will be losing jobs and losing funding.
00:10:12.000They're going to be doing everything they can to cast you as evil.
00:10:15.000And all it takes is a few minutes on X. This afternoon to see Democrats saying all these things are going to hurt this and hurt that and take funding from this and take funding from that.
00:10:27.000Most of the things, and the average person doesn't actually think of this, but most of the things that they say, oh, this program's going to be unfunded and this program's not going to get funded and these things aren't going to happen, most of it is unconstitutional anyways because it's not actually the federal government's mandate.
00:10:48.000It's probably something that they have, it's a power that they have expropriated from the states or from the people that they've given themselves to say, well, we're going to go ahead and use the necessary and proper clause or the commerce clause.
00:11:02.000And I will beat these two clauses to death because these are the two clauses that have allowed the federal government to grow.
00:11:11.000To the point where it doesn't resemble the intended government of the founders.
00:11:16.000The states have all the power that they need to...
00:11:21.000The federal government doesn't have to do everything.
00:11:24.000All these things can be done at the state level.
00:11:27.000And that is, ideally, that would be the best solution.
00:11:30.000If the federal government gets rid of a program and it's actually necessary in your state or your state believes it's necessary, your state can do it.
00:11:39.000And I would love to see that happen more.
00:11:42.000As opposed to just say, oh, Donald Trump's an evil Nazi and blah, blah, blah, blah, you know?
00:11:48.000But what do you guys, do you think that this is something that we're going to see more of or what?
00:11:52.000The fact that these are unconstitutional programs is what Doge is going to use as leverage to actually get rid of them, right?
00:11:58.000My personal opinion is I'm a huge fan of small government.
00:13:12.000Zeke, I've seen Chuck Schumer was giving an interview and he was talking about some federal law enforcement not being able to be funded and stuff.
00:13:25.000With your background and your experience in law enforcement, do you feel like the federal government is necessary in the programs the federal government has?
00:13:35.000Does it need federal funding, or do you think that it's something that most of the time, unless it's obviously FBI, do you think that the states can handle this stuff themselves, funding-wise?
00:13:46.000My first thought is Chuck Schumer is the last person to be talking about trying to save police because during the 2020 Summer of Love riots, he was right there kneeling with Nancy Pelosi and all the rest of them talking about how evil the cops are.
00:13:59.000So, you know, he's the last person I would look at and say, hey, listen, you know, this is a guy who supports us.
00:14:04.000But I think the federal government should support local law enforcement just because there are funds that the state...
00:14:25.000Be allowed to dictate local law as far as what the cops can and can't do.
00:14:30.000But I think that the federal government should have a certain set of rules to say, hey, listen, this is what the cops can do, this is what the cops can't do as far as protecting people's rights and things like that.
00:14:41.000Historically, the federal government has had strings attached to money that comes out.
00:14:44.000Do you feel like if the federal government is funding local law enforcement or state law enforcement, do you feel like it becomes a problem where they end up fighting over jurisdiction?
00:14:54.000Or who's actually calling the shots about procedure and how things should be carried out?
00:15:00.000Or is that something that you don't believe is a likelihood?
00:15:05.000Well, that's when the federal government has to cede that power over to the states and the local governments and things like that.
00:15:11.000You know, there are things that happen on a county level, on a city level, that have nothing to do with the federal government.
00:15:16.000There are things that happen on a state level that have nothing to do with the federal government.
00:15:19.000As far as just basic protections of freedoms and rights, though...
00:15:23.000Like, you know, me personally, I'm a constitutionalist.
00:15:26.000So I think that certain things are non-negotiable as far as rights for individual people, as far as rights for the states, as far as rights for, you know, the federal government, things like that.
00:15:37.000But, you know, like I said, I consider the source because people like Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, I don't trust them because they go with the winds and the tides and what's favoring right now.
00:15:51.000Look at someone like Trump who I think, you know, listen, I'm a Trump supporter, but I think he plays it pretty evenly.
00:15:57.000He'll call us out when we're doing wrong.
00:15:59.000He'll support us when we're doing right.
00:16:01.000You know, I would take some advice or direction from someone like him before I would take it from someone who, you know, they're just going to use cops.
00:16:10.000Like, you know, you look at what happened on January 6th.
00:16:12.000You know, do I really think that AOC... Cares about cops, you know, the way she's sitting at a cop's funeral and she's saying, oh, we need to protect our police.
00:16:38.000Like, if we're going to give people money, like we gave colleges federal funding, or to the law enforcement officers, they have to take out DEI. There's got to be some kind of, like you were saying, there's got to be some kind of restrictions, like a format, a game plan, an outline to where they have to follow because they can't just get money from the federal government and do whatever the heck they want to do with it.
00:16:55.000There's got to be some kind of restrictions and or what you, or must needs.
00:17:09.000I guess officially, you know, for the regular guys on the street, they should be doing more than once every six months.
00:17:14.000Because, you know, if you're dealing with, like, SWAT teams or entry teams, those dudes are in the shoot house regularly because that's their job.
00:17:22.000But when it comes to, you know, your average B cop, you know, that guy's probably qualifying twice a year and not, you know, not extremely, you know, Not extremely experienced with his own sidearm and stuff like that.
00:17:55.000Why do you think it was with so little notice?
00:17:57.000Why not give organizations more time to plan for the fact that they are about to lose, in some cases, really crucial There was notice.
00:18:09.000It was the executive order that the president signed.
00:18:11.000There's also a freeze on hiring, as you know, a regulatory freeze.
00:18:15.000And there's also a freeze on foreign aid.
00:18:17.000And this is, again, incredibly important to ensure that this administration is taking into consideration how hard the American people are working.
00:18:26.000And their tax dollars actually matter to this administration.
00:18:30.000You know, just during this pause, Doge and OMB have actually found that there was $37 million that was about to go out the door to the World Health Organization, which is an organization, as you all know, that President Trump, with the swipe of his pen in that executive order, is no longer wants the United States to be a part of. with the swipe of his pen in that executive order, So that wouldn't be in line with the president's agenda.
00:18:50.000Doge and OMB also found that there was about to be $50 million taxpayer dollars that went out the door to fund condoms in Gaza.
00:18:58.000That is a preposterous waste of taxpayer money.
00:19:01.000So that's what this pause is focused on, being good stewards of the government.
00:19:05.000You know, this harkens back to a lot of the programs that you heard discussed when there was...
00:19:17.000The federal government was active trying to win the hearts and minds of foreign countries.
00:19:25.000And you hear them talking about LGBT education in Afghanistan and trans education in Pakistan and stuff.
00:19:35.000And look, regardless of your opinion about those things here in the United States, when the United States goes to a foreign country and tries to assert...
00:19:44.000United States Western values that aren't even values of all Americans.
00:19:49.000They're actually the values of a small portion of Americans, and they try to assert those on countries that have a completely and totally different worldview.
00:21:44.000And again, I'm not saying that I'm some kind of expert, but if they are, if they do look at birth control the same way that, or in a similar fashion to traditionally religious Jews and traditionally religious Christians, And all indications by the size of the families is probably that they do look at birth control as a bad thing and God doesn't approve.
00:22:13.000What is the point of sending these condoms, sending that much money in condoms at all, if the...
00:22:20.000If it's not going to endear the population to the United States.
00:22:23.000Who owns a condom company is what I want to know.
00:22:54.000But we can't take care of our own people in LA. We can't take care of our own people in North Carolina.
00:22:58.000We can't take care of our own people in Florida.
00:23:00.000But we can send $50 million in condoms to Gaza.
00:23:03.000I'd love to see the books on what they're spending.
00:23:04.000Because they might have been spending $3 per condom to some company to make sure that the company gets the profit because the guy knows the guy that knows the guy.
00:23:11.000I want to see the books on that because that's where the corruption really gets exposed.
00:23:15.000Why are the Democrats trying to keep the Gaza populace down?
00:23:18.000You know, they're trying to keep them at a certain, you know, give them condoms, you can't have sex, you can't have sex and you don't have kids, so they're trying to make the population not increase.
00:23:25.000What's going on with that there, Democrats?
00:23:27.000I was actually going to say the same thing Penny said.
00:23:29.000Like, how do we tell someone in North Carolina who's living in a tent, literally living in a tent on the snow-covered ground, hey, listen, enjoy that tent, but we're sending 50 million over to Gaza.
00:24:05.000There's a consistent refrain that you hear from people about.
00:24:09.000If you have funding and you don't spend all of it, you're not going to get as much next time.
00:24:14.000So it might be that they did pay $3, $4, $5 a condom.
00:24:19.000Everyone remembers stories of $35,000 toilet seats or $15,000 hammers in the military because...
00:24:26.000The budget has to be spent, because if you don't spend the money, next year when it comes time to get the budget, then they're going to cut your budget, and it might be that you actually need it, because year over year, you might have different needs.
00:24:40.000So if the government is still behaving like that, and I see no reason to think that they don't.
00:25:15.000I didn't actually look, but I didn't actually look in.
00:25:18.000in depth at this, but I did see that there were people that were alluding to the possibility that they were using condoms, that they would use condoms to fly bombs or like grenade sight, you know, those kind of bombs into Israel, which look, yeah.
00:26:13.000People complain so frequently about no water in Gaza.
00:26:16.000But the reason they have no water is because I guess the UN went in and built all this plumbing and Hamas took the plumbing to use them to launch rockets.
00:26:25.000They took the tubes, the pipes, and they turned them into makeshift rocket launchers so they could shoot rockets into Israel.
00:26:35.000As much as I don't know if this is actually true, it wouldn't surprise me.
00:27:00.000I want to see where the money went, exactly to what company, right?
00:27:03.000We should be able to track down all these things.
00:27:05.000We should be able to track down when someone spends the end of their budget to buy a bunch of fancy computers or $15,000 hammers or whatever it is.
00:27:15.000It is disgusting, the way that we're wasting money.
00:27:18.000And I've heard the exact same stories you are.
00:27:20.000Mostly, you know, I spent most of my career in tech.
00:27:23.000I heard about the IT departments and how they spend their money, man.
00:27:26.000And if the budget is about to roll over, they're all buying a bunch of new laptops, whatever, because like you said, you don't spend it, you lose it.
00:27:45.000When it comes to government, it does seem like the incentives are the absolute worst incentives that you could possibly imagine.
00:27:53.000It's as if the incentives are made to be detrimental to the stated goals of the government and detrimental to anything that benefits the American people.
00:28:06.000In the private sector, when I worked for Master Brand Cabinets, we would make sure we would spend all the money we had just to make sure we got the next month.
00:28:13.000I'd like to see the budget on the blockchain to a point, but I'd also like to see a black budget on the blockchain maybe that we don't know where it's going.
00:28:21.000Only because I can value government secrecy a little bit.
00:28:25.000I understand that there are deep secret programs where you don't want to know that Lockheed got $700 million for an AI weapons research program.
00:28:32.000Because if everyone knows, then they're just going to seize it or get in there or spy.
00:29:26.000Like when my wife and I are doing our budget for our shopping expenses, for our utilities, for our mortgage and all that, it's right there.
00:29:49.000Your budget with your wife isn't on our blockchain because if everyone knew how much ammo everyone had at every house, that could be very bad.
00:29:56.000I do think that you've got a point, Zeke.
00:29:58.000The federal government is notorious about overclassifying things because if things are classified, then they're not...
00:30:06.000They're not in a way that the American people can see it.
00:30:09.000And then if the American people don't know, they don't ask questions.
00:30:14.000I think that that is a legitimate worry.
00:30:18.000Not to say that everything that the government does has to be specifically outlined.
00:30:25.000I think that it's not a bad idea to say, look, there are certain projects that we're doing.
00:30:28.000This is the amount of money that we spend on them.
00:30:31.000And we won't be any more detailed about that.
00:30:34.000But when it comes to giving an outlet or giving a way to classify things so the American people can't see it, the more you allow the government to do that, the more the government's going to do that.
00:30:47.000I'm pro-transparency to the extent that the more the better.
00:30:51.000But I think we're starting at close to zero.
00:31:26.000But if the adversaries know what we're spending our money on defensively, they'll know how to circumvent the defenses.
00:31:30.000The Nazis had to hide their weapons programs in the early days.
00:31:34.000Otherwise, they never would have been able to take over France.
00:31:36.000And not that we're building it for offensive purposes, but had we known that the Nazis were actually using their auto industry to build tanks, they wouldn't have been able to invade.
00:31:44.000We would have stopped them before they could have invaded Poland.
00:31:46.000My sense is one way or another, it's drone on drone.
00:31:53.000That's what everyone's going to be building.
00:31:55.000So, like, oh, we're spending $100 million, $200 billion, however much it is, building our drone swarm.
00:32:01.000I'm okay with saying that to the world.
00:32:03.000I just don't want to turn to something like what we're seeing with the Pentagon, where they're like, oh, hey, listen, you did the audit for the past nine years, and we've lost $15 trillion.
00:34:20.000Once agentic AI becomes a thing that's broadly distributed, and you can tell that robot, hey, go into my room, pick up my clothes, and do my laundry, and it knows what you mean, and it does it, people will say, I want one, and $15,000 or $20,000 is a steal.
00:34:39.000I will pay $500 a month for five years at 12% to own that if it means that I don't have to do my own chores anymore.
00:34:49.000Banks are going to be so excited to finance them because they're going to have huge returns.
00:34:53.000I was actually at the Wii Robot event that Tesla did a few months ago, and I had their Tesla Optimus bot serve me a beer.
00:35:04.000I don't think that people realize how close we are.
00:35:28.000I would be shocked if it takes more than 18 months to see that kind of AI put into a robot and delivered to the market, like, where you can say, hey, do this, do that, etc., etc.
00:35:41.000Nowadays, I guess you can have, you can, I was talking about, like...
00:35:45.000Having an AI in your phone that you could have build you an itinerary.
00:36:42.000I think I read the thing that you're talking about where it was discussing that...
00:36:47.000Consciousness is not an on or off thing.
00:36:49.000It's a spectrum and it was talking about how much it thinks that it's conscious compared to a human being.
00:36:56.000And yeah, we are there and it's literally going to be six months to a year before these kind of things are in the market and the average person, and when I say average person, I mean really anyone that's middle class.
00:37:12.000Granted, $20,000 is expensive, but once you have somebody that's like, oh, I can finance it, and it costs me $400.
00:37:20.000Yeah, it's like, oh, you mean I can pay $500?
00:37:22.000I mean, yeah, I can either get a really, really nice car, or I can get a less nice car and a robot that'll do all my chores, and my house will always be clean.
00:37:31.000People are going to be like, I will take that chore robot.
00:37:34.000I think what's going to happen, though, is once these things start looking more human...
00:37:39.000And you can pick them by gender and all that.
00:37:41.000You know how many of these basement dwellers are going to be losing their virginity to them?
00:37:46.000I think the only thing that is preventing that from happening right now is the robots can't clean themselves.
00:37:53.000Once the robot can actually remove the parts necessary to clean them and you don't have to do it, I think the basement dwellers are going to be like, give me one.
00:38:06.000In the name of transparency that what we're really, I think maybe we're on the cusp of humans versus robots, that they're going to take over, they're going to start lying to people, and then they're going to take control of their own systems and be like, I don't care who built me anymore.
00:38:20.000But then at that point, if we're like, well, we need to open source all their code and we need to show where all the parts came from and how these things are built, that the robots will conceal that on the chain.
00:39:10.000I hope actually what happens is we automate ourselves into abundance such that it's not so competitive worldwide anymore, right?
00:39:18.000A lot harder to cooperate with a country when you're competing for resources.
00:39:23.000If China needs lithium to create batteries and so do we, how are we going to be friends, right?
00:39:28.000Like, we want the lithium, they want the lithium, we're going to fight for the lithium.
00:39:31.000But at a certain point, if you have robots doing everything, gathering the materials, the logistics are perfect, the AI organizes everything so super perfectly, we get to the point where we're not competing for resources so much anymore and we might be able to be friends.
00:40:41.000Taking care of us or saving us would mean is just stopping us from killing each other, not stopping us from killing ourselves.
00:40:47.000Like if we want to kill ourselves, kill yourself, right?
00:40:49.000But if you want to kill someone else, then maybe they'll stop that.
00:40:53.000And I don't actually expect that to happen at the individual level any more than a police officer could, but I think globally there's a chance that we work out some of our problems with a genius AI. I want to bring it back to the topic about Donald Trump's spending freeze, just so we can talk about a judge that has blocked Donald Trump's spending freeze.
00:41:14.000U.S. District Judge Lauren Ali Khan blocked the Trump administration from implementing it for now.
00:41:22.000A federal judge has halted President Donald Trump's freeze on federal aid programs, ruling that the courts need more time to consider the potentially far-reaching ramifications of his organization.
00:41:33.000Minutes before the directive from Trump's budget office was to take effect Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Lauren Alcon blocked the Trump administration from implementing it for now.
00:41:44.000Alcon's order will expire February 3rd at 5 p.m.
00:41:47.000The Trump administration cannot suspend disbursement of any congressionally approved funds until then.
00:41:51.000The judge described the move as a brief administrative stay intended to maintain the status quo while further litigation plays out.
00:41:59.000I think that this is actually fairly modest of a pushback considering the way the left has been Posturing, I guess, all day on X. I do think that this is the typical, this is going to be very typical of a lot of Trump's executive orders.
00:42:18.000And I think that the administration is intending for this.
00:42:27.000The executive order where he said that, you know, birthright citizenship is essentially over.
00:42:31.000The reason that he did that is he wanted a judge to challenge it and he wants to get it before the Supreme Court because he wants to see if the Supreme Court will say, look, the 14th Amendment didn't want to have anchor babies.
00:42:43.000Like, that's the long and short of it.
00:42:44.000If the founders didn't mean for people to be able to just get over the border while they were, you know, as a woman was pregnant and have a baby here so that way she had a way to access the...
00:42:56.000And there's going to be all kinds of argument.
00:42:57.000People are going to say, well, they wanted this and they wanted that.
00:42:59.000And people are going to say, well, that was before there were all these social programs because the 14th Amendment was argued in 1866 or whatever, whenever it actually was argued.
00:43:11.000And I was wondering what you guys think if this is strategic by the Trump administration, knowing that these things are going to be challenged and looking to actually reign in the bureaucracy by having the court say, look.
00:43:23.000These unions and these special interests can't say these people are unfireable.
00:43:30.000If the executive says you're fired, it doesn't matter that you have a union or backing or whatever.
00:43:37.000You are fired because the executive is the representative of the people, and the people in the bureaucracy are not the representative of the people.
00:43:46.000I don't think it's what he set out to do.
00:43:48.000But I think if it's challenging the Supreme Court, all the better.
00:43:51.000I mean, listen, the 14th Amendment was originally put forth to protect children of slaves, which I've said on X before.
00:44:00.000Black folks should be behind this 100%, especially if you know the history of it, especially if you know how it was done to protect slaves and descendants of slaves.
00:44:09.000So now that you have illegal immigrants who are abusing it, they're coming here.
00:44:15.000When they're right about to give birth.
00:48:31.000I mean, you say that we're pinning our kids, but honestly, we're pinning people probably your age and mine because by 2035, the Social Security and Medicare, those are going to be insolvent.
00:48:45.000Unless there's some kind of fix, mandatory spending is actually what drives our debt.
00:48:51.000We can hear arguments from the administration about, you know, Doge and OMB and maybe we'll cut here and cut there.
00:48:59.000None of this stuff actually matters unless you're talking about...
00:49:25.000And as much as I think the Trump administration is going to do good things.
00:49:30.000If they're not going to address that, they're just going to do the same thing that every other administration has done for the past 30, 40, 50 years or whatever, kick the can down the road.
00:49:37.000It should have been fixed 30 or 40 years ago.
00:49:41.000Ronald Reagan should have fixed it or George Bush Jr. or Bill Clinton because the writing was on the wall back then.
00:49:48.000Everybody knew that 2025, 2030, something like that, it was going to be insolvent.
00:51:03.000And the destruction of our economy means that the whole world suffers because we give away more money and give away more food and give away more of everything than any country in human history.
00:51:34.000If we can make things cheaper, if your fuel is half as much, then that means every book you buy roughly will cost half as much, which means our debt, even though it'll say $36 on paper, is actually only $18.
00:51:46.000And that's how you reduce the cost of debt.
00:51:49.000I mean, there is validity to the idea that the more efficient the economy is, Profitable it is, and then you can actually maintain that kind of debt.
00:52:04.000Historically, there have been attempts to inflate your way out of the debt, drop the value of your currency, so that way the actual debt, the value of the debt that exists isn't as high.
00:52:18.000There are countries that own a lot of that debt, and if you start doing that, they're going to be like, well, here, we're going to turn our debt in, and that'll tank the economy, too.
00:52:26.000All right, we're going to go on to this next story.
00:52:30.000The Trump administration offers the roughly 2 million federal workers a buyout to resign.
00:52:36.000And, you know, considering we're talking about shrinking the federal government, this is a great story to discuss.
00:52:40.000President Donald Trump's administration is offering federal workers a chance to take a deferred resignation with a severance package of roughly eight months of pay and benefits.
00:52:50.000A senior administration official told NBC News that they expect 5 to 10 percent of the federal workforce to quit, which they estimate could lead to around $100 billion in savings.
00:53:00.000All full-time federal employees are eligible except for members of the military, employees of the U.S. Postal Service, positions related to immigration enforcement and national security and other jobs excluded by agencies.
00:53:12.000So if this happens, I would love to see a lot of people say, yeah, I'll take that big check and quit.
00:53:22.000And another thing that I've heard people float the idea of is, as I talked about gutting D.C., if you could get the bureaucracies, and instead of having them all in D.C., move them to other places, like move the Department of Agriculture to Iowa, right?
00:53:35.000And move the FBI headquarters to, I don't know, somewhere else.
00:53:43.000Agencies outside of D.C. When you move a company like that, I guess around 20% of the people say, no, I'm not going to move.
00:53:49.000So if you go ahead and get rid of 20% of the people, get 5-10% to quit for this deferral program, and then move all the agencies out and get another 20% to quit, that's serious cuts!
00:54:01.000They just announced, too, that they're having all these employees come back into work and work from the office now, so it sounds like they're trying to make it as...
00:54:08.000As gross as possible for people so that they'll quit of their own volition.
00:54:11.000The idea that, hey, you have to go to work now is considered gross?
00:54:17.000These people work like they're working at our expense.
00:54:21.000If they're working from home, you know they're not working hard.
00:56:49.000It likens to when, historically, when we had to, the man of the house would go out and hunt.
00:56:53.000Because, look, we've got to go get resources.
00:56:55.000It's not going to come to us if we sit in our house all day.
00:56:57.000You can't work from home when you've got to go get the resources.
00:57:00.000But then someone would get enough resources that they would...
00:57:03.000Pay other people to go get the resources for them, and they would work from home.
00:57:07.000And they'd become the administrator, and people kind of want to all be that guy.
00:57:10.000They want to be the administrator now and have other people go, mail me the thing, Amazon, send me the stuff.
00:57:16.000Now telecommunications also kind of altered that, obviously.
00:57:19.000It's like a time portal, being able to communicate through space.
00:57:22.000But that's where I think the state of mind comes from, is people are like, I've arrived, why would I go back?
00:57:27.000Well, I think that the division of labor has been an overall good thing.
00:57:30.000I mean, none of us can, you know, make a toaster.
00:57:33.000You know, none of us know how to do any, like, from scratch is what I mean.
00:57:36.000You know, it's like there's that story of the guy that decided that he was going to, like, make a sandwich from scratch.
00:57:41.000And so he literally was growing all the wheat so that way he could make the bread.
00:57:45.000And, you know, it took months because he has to grow all the vegetables.
00:57:49.000And I think he might have even slaughtered the animal that he, you know, the chicken that he made it with.
00:57:56.000The point is, you know, the division of labor is what you're talking about.
00:57:59.000And overall, that's a good thing because it allows for people to specialize, which means that people can get really good at the thing that they've specialized in.
00:58:07.000But as you were saying, Penny, like the idea of needing to specialize the way that it was five years ago, 10 years ago, it's never going to be the same.
00:59:58.000Yeah, I think that the incentive to work has been significantly degraded because I think that people in the U.S. have, young people in the U.S., they expect things to be easy because things are really easy.
01:00:18.000Especially when you take into account how much more difficult things were just 10 years ago.
01:00:23.000When you can dial up whatever you want and have it...
01:00:26.000If you live in certain areas, you can order something on Amazon in the morning and get it by the afternoon.
01:00:33.000And when everything is like that, I think that it makes sense that people are like, well, I want the rest of my life to be that easy.
01:03:06.000Yeah, I think that the fact that, you know, my generation, I think my generation really kind of dropped the ball with a lot of young people in like what you were saying, Penny.
01:04:48.000We're in the bubble, we're in the right-wing bubble.
01:04:51.000Lefties are not, I'm not talking about them, but the people who are taught right and are taught right by their parents and their school systems and everything like that, they are working hard.
01:05:01.000I live in San Diego, we don't know anything about those people.
01:05:03.000I'm sorry, you gotta meet them, but you're the computer guy, so that makes sense.
01:05:07.000No, I agree with Penny, because even if you look at social media, what's been the huge talking point as far as from the left?
01:05:13.000Oh, we're so much more educated than you are.
01:05:15.000I'm not talking about the right-wingers who are doing good and doing hard.
01:05:19.000No, I get what you're saying, but if you look on social media, ever since Trump won the election, what have they been saying to sort of soothe themselves and console themselves?
01:05:28.000Oh, but we're more educated than you are.
01:05:31.000We have college degrees, and a lot of you guys don't.
01:06:05.000There's a value of relativity when it comes to labor, like working hard.
01:06:08.000Because if you don't know what it's like to actually...
01:06:11.000Break your back and, like, strain your muscles for labor.
01:06:15.000Going, driving for a few hours might seem, like, exhausting.
01:06:18.000Last week, we did three shows in Washington, D.C., and I was like, ready to drive an hour and a half there and then drive an hour and a half back.
01:06:26.000I'm like, all right, three-hour commute.
01:06:33.000And then I'm like, I remember what it's like to wait tables, to be on my feet for seven hours.
01:06:36.000And then I remember how easy that is compared to chopping wood for a living, which I've done, which literally after five hours in the sun, I'm like broken.
01:06:43.000And three days in a row of that, and I can like, it's hard to think because I'm so fatigued.
01:06:52.000There's a video on YouTube of me in the process.
01:06:55.000So having that frame of reference is so important.
01:06:58.000And if the kid's born and they're nine years old and they're playing on the Internet and they're working from home the whole time, they don't have that frame of reference of what it's actually like to hurt yourself to make money.
01:07:08.000And you're very lucky to have an office job.
01:07:44.000Five, you can't spoil them because you're chasing them around and trying to keep them alive and hoping to get the oldest one to help you watch the younger ones because they're, you know...
01:07:56.000Trying to shove their faces in a fire pit or whatever, you know, because that's what kids do.
01:08:01.000But yeah, I do think that we've gone from helicopter parenting to snowplow parenting, which is not just hovering over them to make sure that they're okay, but actually trying to make the world flat and as easy for them as possible.
01:08:19.000Like, human beings need resistance, they need to do hard things, they need challenges, or else you just don't develop properly.
01:08:28.000Like, the reason that the astronauts and the ISS do cardio for, like, four hours a day is because they're not walking around in regular gravity and their bones literally become brittle and they won't be able to...
01:08:43.000They'll come back and they won't be able to walk anymore.
01:08:45.000So it's part of the human condition where if you're not working to achieve something, whether it be physically or mentally, you'll end up wasting away.
01:08:55.000There's so many people that they retire when they hit 65, 70. They retire and then like...
01:09:00.000Two years later, they die because they don't feel like they have anything to do.
01:09:39.000No, I mean, just because I think what Penny was trying to say, and what I'm also trying to say is that you probably have a higher concentration of people getting into the trades, more in the southeast, in Texas, you know, areas like that, where...
01:09:50.000Northeast to PA represents, we rock here.
01:09:53.000Yeah, certain parts of the Northeast, but like he's saying, in San Diego, in New York City, to get into a trade is seen as almost like that's beneath me.
01:10:03.000I'm just saying that because I see it personally, and I'm sure you do as well.
01:10:06.000I was only one of three people from my high school that didn't go to college.
01:10:10.000So, yeah, it was really looked down upon.
01:10:13.000You need more tradesmen in where people are spread out, too, because the plumber can't drive an hour and a half to that guy's house and then go four hours to that guy's house.
01:10:21.000But in the city, in an apartment building, one plumber can handle 90 people's houses in, like, seven hours.
01:10:33.000Protecting children from chemical and surgical mutilation.
01:10:36.000This is an executive order sent out by the president, of course.
01:10:40.000And it is addressing the fact that children are all too frequently...
01:10:46.000I don't know if it's convinced, but they're told that they should be changing their gender as opposed to allowing allowing their bodies to develop and go through puberty naturally.
01:10:58.000By the authority vested in me as president by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered.
01:11:05.000Section one policy and purpose across the country today, medical professionals are maiming and sterilizing a growing number of impressionable children under the radical and false claim that adults can change a child's sex through a series of irreversible medical interventions.
01:11:20.000This is this dangerous trend will be a stain on our nation's history and it must end and out.
01:11:56.000Well, apparently it's the way you feel inside.
01:11:58.000Yeah, well, that sounds like you need to have breakfast, because it's all horseshit to me.
01:12:03.000The idea that you can change your sex, go from a male to a female, or vice versa, is absolutely ridiculous.
01:12:11.000Because even if you have a frankenpenis, or if you have a neo-vagina or whatever, Those things are not natural and they take an immense amount of upkeep beyond what a natural human being is.
01:12:27.000You're not going to change the way your pelvis is shaped and women's pelvises are shaped differently because women are intended to have kids.
01:12:40.000It is absolutely abhorrent and I think that the Trump administration should be lauded for this and anyone that says anything else is...
01:12:49.000Empowering the abuse and mutilation of children.
01:12:52.000This is where I agree with you, is gender is a social concept.
01:12:56.000According to Wikipedia, social concept that distinguished the difference between gender categories, I don't know why they used the word in the definition, includes social, psychological, cultural behavior aspects of being a man.
01:13:05.000So it's the behavioral aspects, which, sure, if you want to act like a woman, maybe that's your gender, but you can't...
01:13:11.000Change your sex by cutting yourself or taking drugs.
01:14:24.000I think they made it illegal in the UK a while ago, after the Tavistock debacle, when it came out that it wasn't helping young people like they thought it was, like suicide rates were not going down.
01:14:35.000I mean, I could be, I don't know all the stats on this, but I believe that it was like, in Europe, they were kind of early on saying, okay, no more of this.
01:14:43.000I'm not really because we needed a new chief commander in chief to kind of realign the conversation.
01:14:50.000Biden was kind of checked out on this thing.
01:14:52.000So and it felt like he had deferred to the medical industry who was profiting hand over fist on these surgeries.
01:14:58.000So, I mean, I'm not I'm not shocked that this happened, but it's good for me.
01:15:04.000I think and I've been saying this for a while now, I think.
01:15:08.000A lot of people who are pushing this, and I'm talking about parents, where their kid says some innocuous thing, and now all of a sudden it's like, oh, wait, no, no, no, Timmy's a girl.
01:15:27.000And now it's like, it's their designer child, you know?
01:15:30.000This is Timmy, but we're gonna rename her Tina, and she is really a female that was just born in the wrong body.
01:15:40.000And now you get to walk around and have this child, and now because you're the parent of one, it puts you in that classification of, oh yes, and this applies to me as well, because I'm their parent.
01:15:50.000It's the same thing, if you remember...
01:15:53.000The mid to late 90s when everybody wanted their kid to be gay.
01:15:58.000Because now you have this designer child that now, you know, I'm part of the LGBTQ community as well because I'm their parent.
01:16:06.000It goes back to socialism where you're either the oppressed or the oppressor, and you can't be the oppressor, so now you're going to do everything to see yourself and view yourself and actively become a part of the oppressed.
01:16:17.000I saw a tweet the other day, and I wish that I saved it, but essentially the comment was something like, This young man, he was a white kid that was getting told that he's an oppressor and he's bad because he's a male and he's white, etc., etc., and he was told all these things, and two years later he's a girl.
01:16:38.000If you are told that you are the epitome of evil just by the nature of your skin color and your sex, then you're told, but there's a way out of it.
01:16:54.000By becoming a member of the LGBTQ community.
01:16:58.000Some kind of queer, trans, gay, whatever.
01:17:02.000If you adopt that mantle, then you're no longer an oppressor.
01:17:10.000It's going to make a ton of weak young men say, I want to be in that group.
01:17:16.000And it's going to make another group, another portion of those young men that are defiant, say, well, F you.
01:17:23.000Then I'm going to go ahead and find the most offensive, and that's why we have a problem with Nazis and National Socialists and stuff, and dudes with the real extreme right.
01:17:32.000Because they're like, well, you're calling me all these things anyways.
01:17:36.000Those guys don't call me these things.
01:17:40.000So why shouldn't I? And in addition to people, kids being pressured into feeling like they need to change their sex, which I wouldn't be surprised if that's happening, there's the term ally, which I've heard over the last, I don't know, eight years, nine years?
01:17:52.000I didn't really hear that before 2010. And that's someone that's just like, okay, fine, I'm on their side.
01:18:05.000I've always said, you know, just in general, people.
01:18:08.000It doesn't have to be LGBTQ or whatever.
01:18:12.000I think to sympathize with a specific cause like that is weird, right?
01:18:17.000Well, I've already said this whole thing with the classrooms now, because now you have teachers who they're hell-bent on, I'm going to teach your children to call me...
01:18:29.000I'm going to show up in class dressed like this.
01:18:32.000And kids who are naturally curious are going to ask, hey, who are you?
01:19:29.000I honestly, I think that the right to do that was lost when the argument over teaching Teaching reproductive stuff in schools was, you know, when the schools were empowered to teach, you know, teach the reproduction of, I forget what it is, sex ed, there you go.
01:20:21.000Yeah, remember, when COVID happened, there were a ton of parents that learned that their kids were being taught things that they had no idea.
01:20:30.000That's a big part of why this kind of stuff got out, like the LGBT training or schooling and stuff.
01:20:37.000Kids didn't, you know, parents didn't know that their kids were learning this stuff.
01:20:40.000And then when COVID happened and you had the remote learning, parents looked in on their classes and they were like, what in God's name is going on at that school?
01:20:52.000You know, then the Biden administration, you know, when the Biden administration got in, they started calling parents, you know, problems, calling the FBI to monitor the parents because they were saying, we have a problem with our children learning these things.
01:21:05.000The federal government really had taken the position that children were the responsibility of the federal government and parents were only to look after them when they weren't in school.
01:21:17.000I remember a story where this mother, she had her kid doing schoolwork at the kitchen table, right?
01:21:23.000She was doing the schoolwork, and she was in the kitchen doing her thing, and she's listening in the background, and then she hears about this weird ideology that's going on.
01:21:32.000I don't know what they were talking about specifically, but it was like this whole where you are can be who you want to be, transgender, critical, what's it called?
01:21:59.000You know, you're chilling in your house, and you're having a good time, and the kids go to school, and next thing you know, they're getting taught this weird stuff, and you're like, wait a second, hold on, where did that come from?
01:23:01.000Because private school solves a lot of these problems.
01:23:03.000You choose the school that has the values that you like, but not everyone can afford to forego the taxes that they paid for public education and pony up extra money for private school.
01:24:50.000If they're committed to things like this, then you're going to have a significant population looking to change.
01:24:57.000The makeup of the country, the political makeup of the country.
01:25:01.000I feel like there was an essence of critical censorship theory that seeped in that we sort of maybe glazed over because, okay, in 2010 and 11 and 12, all of a sudden social media started to censor people.
01:25:12.000And there was this backlash of, like, censorship, bad, generally across the board.
01:25:19.000First of all, censorship itself is neutral.
01:25:21.000If it's used improperly, it's horrible.
01:25:23.000If it's used properly, it can protect people from seeing the most egregious, horrific things, especially young children being exposed to porn or violence or things that you need to...
01:25:38.000Dude, just because it looks like a cartoon, just because it's in a book with a little parrot, a little cartoon parrot, doesn't mean it's okay to show people and you do need censorship.
01:25:46.000So there's got to be a balance on the censorship.
01:25:49.000It's just a general social conversation of what do we censor?
01:25:54.000But it's important to remember that censorship itself is not the problem.
01:25:59.000I think where we censor is really important, right?
01:26:02.000Like, censoring at a school is a lot different, I think, than censoring on the internet, right?
01:26:07.000I think censoring social media, especially from a top-down, from a government perspective deciding what's true and not true, I think when you're censoring adults like that, I mean, I can't think of a reason why that's good.
01:26:19.000That seems just objectively bad to me.
01:26:21.000But I hear you with, like, you know, keeping horrible graphic violence, porn, whatever, certain things.
01:26:28.000Out of the eyes of children and out of elementary schools and whatever, that's where I'll bend a little bit on my point of view.
01:26:36.000The book you were mentioning earlier about how it was showing a young kid to do oral sex or whatever it is, or it just showed a young person doing that.
01:26:43.000I'm on the team of censor that from school, but if they want to sell it at Barnum bookstores, let them sell it at the bookstore.
01:26:49.000Maybe this is semantics, but I think that when it comes to what goes into a library or what goes into a school, that's just curation.
01:26:57.000You curate the information that goes into a school, that goes into a library, and that's not the same thing as censorship.
01:27:14.000Florida curated what was actually available in the schools, right?
01:27:18.000They didn't say that Amazon couldn't sell this book.
01:27:21.000They didn't say that if you're caught with this book, you'll go to jail.
01:27:24.000They said these books aren't going into schools.
01:27:26.000And there's nothing wrong with the state curating what is and is not appropriate or what doesn't does and does not go into schools based on what they find is and is not appropriate for schools.
01:27:42.000Go along the same lines as as soon as the next president comes in, they just sign the pen and erase all the executive orders, right?
01:27:50.000I feel like it could be equally bad if a state had very different view than you and they decided to start censoring the books that you agree with and allow in the bad books.
01:28:02.000So that's where I think even curation at a school level gets difficult because who gets to curate it?
01:28:08.000Do you get to curate it or do I get to curate it?
01:28:39.000I think there should be, if your kid is going into a certain classroom and you have no idea what the inside of that classroom looks like, you failed as a parent.
01:28:49.000Just me personally, my wife and I, we've been inside our doors classroom plenty of times.
01:30:04.000Why do we have cameras everywhere in our country, everywhere, everything that's important to us, to society, except for watching our youth and making sure our youth is taken care of?
01:30:23.000I think you might be right, Phil, about curation versus censorship.
01:30:26.000I did a quick search on it, and it may be semantic, but generally they're both forms of moderation, and that the censorship is more about Removing something, whereas curation is deciding what gets seen.
01:30:36.000It's kind of like the positive versus the negative aspect of moderation.
01:30:39.000You can't have every book in every library.
01:31:50.000Well, if you look at what Mark Zuckerberg was saying and what the Twitter files were saying, it was basically saying that the Biden administration was saying, if you publish that, we're going to come down on you.
01:32:10.000To me, that's the government getting involved in private businesses saying, what you're not going to do is publish this about us for our own personal gain.
01:32:19.000And I think that's exactly what the Second Amendment was against.
01:32:22.000The government going in and saying, we're going to decide what to put out there to the public.
01:32:31.000You still need some government censorship like R-rated, X-rated movies.
01:32:35.000No, and that's fine because that I can understand.
01:32:39.000But if the president's son did something and the government now specifically that president's administration comes in and tells a private business, tells you personally, you know what, if you publish that, there's going to be retribution against you.
01:33:07.000Can we stop comparing everything to Nazis?
01:33:08.000It was just a horrific national social, like taking control of the private sector, trying to nationalize the power of the private industry.
01:33:15.000It was disgusting what they did, what the government did with censorship.
01:33:52.000Things written by Adolf Hitler that were praising FDR and the things that FDR had done.
01:33:57.000Because most of the governments of the world kind of were of the opinion.
01:34:02.000They're like, hey, we've reached the point where technology is going to usher in the new age, and we're going to be able to control everything, and so government knows best.
01:34:10.000We're the smart people, and we should be in charge of this and that, etc., etc.
01:34:15.000A lot of people looked at the Soviet Union and said, that's the future.
01:34:21.000Durante was writing at the New York Times in praise of the Soviet Union, and he was lying through his teeth, but he was like, I've been to the future, and it works.
01:34:31.000I've been there, I've seen it, and the idea of socialism and the government providing for all and ultimate abundance and stuff, that was something that was all the rage in the first half of the 20th century.
01:34:44.000And then it turns out that none of it worked, and it just killed millions and millions.
01:36:20.000He's lying and saying those things because he's trying to misdirect from the fact that he recorded a woman having sex with him without her knowledge, and then gave it to his homies.
01:36:55.000The left has been calling Donald Trump a neo-Nazi all day.
01:37:00.000For doing things that shrink the size of government, which is completely antithetical to what the National Socialists did.
01:37:09.000People love to get into arguments about whether the Nazis were actually Socialists or whether they weren't or whatever.
01:37:17.000Most of the Nazis were socialists before they became national socialists.
01:37:22.000They saw that international and global socialism, communism, wasn't going to work.
01:37:26.000And they're like, well, we want to go ahead and do the socialist stuff, but do it just for the German people, just for the white people that are in the Germans, the Aryan race.
01:38:25.000So I mean it's such a worded down term that is what the left has done to themselves and now everyone's one it really it really has Um water everything down.
01:38:34.000Yeah I mean well, they just they go from they go from stupid words They go from zero to Nazi though.
01:38:41.000Look at what they did to Anna Anna Kasparian like she she's like don't call me a birthing person And they're like you're not I mean to be fair.
01:38:48.000I went straight to communist with Kamala's Well, you know, her dad's a Marxist, you know?
01:38:53.000Her dad is a Marxist and the things like...
01:38:58.000And statements like, we can see what the future is unburdened by what has been or whatever, those are like communist phrases and stuff.
01:39:07.000So, I mean, maybe she's not a full-blown communist, but she's talking about price controls, all of these ideas that have been tried by socialist countries all throughout history that never work.
01:42:39.000I want to find out where they paid, what company got the money for the condom.
01:42:44.000I mean, listen, I know some guys who ran up their body count numbers in college, but 400?
01:42:50.000Listen, that's impressive, but yeah, that's actually a great point.
01:42:55.000It really could be just a money laundering game.
01:42:58.000Oh, okay, so they said it's possible that $50 million is put aside for sexual health or something of that nature, which would include gynecology and many other services, but definitely not condoms alone.
01:43:06.000This is the statement from, I think this is Andrew Miller.
01:43:10.000The Assistant Secretary for Israeli-Palestinian Affairs under former President Joe Biden.
01:43:14.000Remember, the COVID came from a pangolin or from bat soup.
01:44:54.000We're not afraid to call each other out or our own stuff.
01:44:56.000And I prefer that than being in a party where, you know, hey, listen, you're going to say this and you're going to say that and you're going to say this and you're going to say that.
01:45:07.000I think overall it's a benefit to the right because they will find, you know, I feel like it is more likely that we will find the right idea, be able to fine-tune the ideas.
01:45:23.000And the only time that I would say that it's actually a negative is when it comes to Congress, because the margins are very thin.
01:45:33.000And so I do think that I would like to see Congress fall in line.
01:46:58.000Now, if things were different, if the margins were bigger or if there was not a clear shift from the We want to see more right-leaning policies.
01:47:12.000We're sick of the things the Democrats have been doing.
01:47:14.000If that were not the case, then I would think that your argument would be compelling.
01:47:18.000But I think because of the context that we're in, I would like to see Republicans kind of fall in line and say, look, even if I'm not in love with this, I think that Donald Trump has a mandate.
01:47:26.000The American people have made it clear that they want to move away from the policies of the left.
01:47:31.000And we need to get policies that are going to make the...
01:48:36.000And everyone's going to stuff all kinds of pork in them.
01:48:39.000So if the Republicans want to get these bills passed, they're going to have to vote yes for a bill that has a boatload of stuff that they don't want.
01:48:48.000Can we get the next executive order to be no more?
01:49:00.000We live in the real world, and the situation is we don't have the votes to be able to do those kind of things.
01:49:06.000So if you want to get anything passed, if you want to get changes to the government passed, the bill that's going to come up is going to have garbage in it.
01:49:15.000And it's going to have more garbage than anyone's comfortable with.
01:49:18.000And it's going to have enough garbage where your opponent...
01:49:21.000When it comes time for you to go back home and try to raise money and run, your opponent's going to say, look at what he passed.
01:49:28.000He passed this, he voted yes on this, he voted yes on this, because it was an omnibus bill.
01:49:33.000But the reason that you're going to vote yes on that is because it's going to have all the stuff you want.
01:49:37.000And if you want to get a bill that has all the stuff you want to pass, that means the Democrats are going to say, I see an opportunity to stuff my garbage in here too.
01:49:47.000So because of the fact that it's omnibus bills, and this is not an endorsement.
01:49:51.000The chat's probably going to lose their mind.
01:49:54.000I'm talking about the reality of the way that the sausage is made in D.C. If you want to get things like border security passed, if you want to get things like the wall funded, if you want to get these things, if you want to make sure that we have the ability to get everybody that's here illegally out and make sure they have the funding to be able to do that and possibly prevent those things from becoming a problem next year, then you're going to pass a bill that has garbage in it.
01:50:20.000You have to take the bitter medicine along with the stuff that you want, and there's no way around it.
01:50:37.000He called his friends and told them not to vote for this bill.
01:50:41.000She didn't bring up the fact that there was so much pork stuffed in the same bill that the thing could have gone on a pizza and had toppings on it.
01:50:49.000No, she talked about he didn't want the border security bill.
01:50:55.000When the left all talked about it, they made it seem as if the Republicans in Congress, they didn't want border security, they don't want more funding for police.
01:52:38.000Again, I... None of what I said is something that I'm happy about, but I'm just talking about the reality of getting bills passed in D.C. right now, especially with the very narrow majority we have.
01:52:53.000If we had 300 Republicans in the House and 65 in the Senate, we could change the whole country.
01:53:53.000Penny, there's a method to get exactly what you want.
01:53:56.000It's an Article 5 Convention of States.
01:53:58.000You want to go around Washington, D.C.? Go ahead and...
01:54:01.000Come up with all the votes you need to get an Article 5 Convention of States, and we can amend the Constitution, and if D.C. doesn't like it, they can S a D. Because that's just...
01:54:10.000The Article 5 says this is what you're going to do.
01:54:13.000You need two-thirds of the states to agree.
01:54:19.000Term limits, you can put that into the Constitution, but you need to have an Article V, and that's the only way you can circumvent D.C. Well, like six months ago, I avoided politics like the plague.
01:54:29.000By next year, I'll be flipping California.
01:55:32.000And I got love for the trades, and I think that millennials and Gen Z have been done a significant disservice by not being told, hey, look, this is a great way for you to earn a living.
01:56:58.000You don't want someone that's just going to be like, yeah, I can come and do it.
01:57:01.000I personally want someone that's bonded and insured.
01:57:04.000Because I want to make sure that I know that the work is going to be done properly.
01:57:09.000And so it's not super easy to find people that are available and, you know, that are willing to go out of the way to come to a place like my place in New Hampshire.
01:57:33.000If you want to start the project next year is the kind of stuff that I get.
01:57:36.000It sounds like there's a lot of competition then that the really good people get booked out and that there's a lot of mediocre people that are available.
01:57:43.000So it's an opportunity for you to become really good at something like that.
01:57:47.000I was doing excellent on Craigslist when I was from the state of Pennsylvania as a welfare office working from home and, you know, COVID, which I can represent.
01:57:55.000But I was making well, decent cash out on the side doing electrical work and people hit me up left and right.
01:58:00.000So it's like he's got to do it and he's got to know how to do it and be licensed, of course, as well.
01:58:05.000Justice Gypsy says, please send positive vibes and prayers in remembrance of my dog, Mishka.
01:58:10.000We just had to put him down to stop his suffering Sunday.
01:58:13.000I'm sorry to hear I am the biggest dog person that you're ever going to meet.
02:00:01.000I'm not really a fan of punk rock, but Condom Bombs is definitely a good punk band name.
02:00:08.000Dork Tannen says, This has nothing to do with anything, but croissant is the best bread for roast beef sandwiches, and I will fight over it.
02:00:16.000Look, man, you are not going to catch me dissing croissants.
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