On today's show, Libby and Hannah discuss the latest in the Trump/Russia scandal, the latest on Kamala Harris' interview with CNN's Dana Bash, and the recent addition of Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr. to the Trump's transition team. Plus, a new book by Anya Parampil and much more.
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00:04:12.000A guy who was already ruled to have no authority to bring one case against Donald Trump, now because of the Supreme Court ...saying that the president has immunity as it pertains to official duties.
00:04:23.000Jack Smith has filed a superseding indictment against Trump, basically bypassing or attempting to bypass the SCOTUS ruling.
00:04:32.000Postman Hill reports, a Washington, D.C.
00:04:34.000grand jury on Tuesday returned a superseding indictment in the January 6th case against Trump, charging him with the same four counts he had been charged with over one year prior by a different grand jury.
00:04:44.000The 36-page suit proceeding indictment charges Trump with conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of an attempt, obstruction of, and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights.
00:04:58.000In a court filing, special counsel Jack Smith, his office wrote, Holy crap, they even admit this is what they're doing and why they're doing it.
00:05:04.000that had not previously heard evidence in this case and reflects the government's efforts to
00:05:08.000respect and implement the Supreme Court's holdings and remand instructions in Trump v.
00:05:13.000United States. Holy crap. They even admit this is what they're doing and why they're doing it.
00:05:18.000Instead of acknowledging, maybe we can't bring these charges against Trump, it's,
00:05:23.000no, because of what they said, we respect that and we're going to charge him again.
00:05:26.000Mm-hmm. Yeah. They even said the defendant had no official responsibilities related to
00:05:30.000the certification proceeding, but he did have a personal interest as a candidate being named
00:05:52.000And it's really an example of writing the rules kind of as you go along, because the Supreme Court, according to the civics lesson I got as a kid, is supposed to be the highest court in the land.
00:06:04.000And for me as an American, I just feel like it's very depressing that our democracy is just being, it's been made into a joke.
00:06:11.000I think this is the kind of news that Democratic insiders or liberals sitting in coastal cities across the country get really giddy about when they hear they're like, ooh, they're going after him.
00:06:21.000But the rest of the world honestly looks at us like as if we've taken all of those ideals
00:06:29.000that we preach and ripped it up, lit it on fire.
00:06:32.000And it definitely makes it seem as though we have no leg to stand on when it comes to
00:06:38.000one of the major issues that I'm interested in, which is regime change.
00:06:42.000We constantly are running around the world saying that these other countries are undemocratic
00:06:46.000or not abiding by the rights and ideals that we hold true.
00:06:51.000And now it just shows the rest of the world, demonstrates the rest of the world that we
00:06:54.000have no authority to speak on those issues.
00:06:57.000You've actually put me in a good mood about this now.
00:07:18.000And so look, they, you know, I certainly think it's a smear on the reputation of a country that is reputation is so smeared, it's hard to see what it used to be.
00:07:28.000But at least the military industrial complex and the warmongers can no longer pretend, except to their cult members who will just keep waving the flag and voting for their garbage.
00:07:40.000Yeah, and on the issue of just how the world's looking at us, I actually, I put in the afterword of my book when the Stormy Daniels indictment came down, I think it was Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, tweeted, like, the U.S.
00:07:56.000cannot talk about the weaponization of the judicial system or dictatorships abroad anymore.
00:08:09.000president to be indicted on any charges period is Donald Trump, before we went after George W. Bush or any of the other major actual criminals.
00:08:18.000And George W. Bush, basically his administration lied to the United Nations about weapons in Iraq in order to start a war there.
00:08:44.000Liberal economic order, the Council on Foreign Relations talks about how after World War II, European allies in the United States decided that we're going to create a global structure for how we make everything operate.
00:08:56.000And since then, it's just been like, well, we don't need to declare war anymore.
00:09:01.000Yeah, I mean, that happened too with, what was it, with Desert Storm, and the Congress was basically like, oh, go ahead, President, do whatever you want.
00:09:10.000And then you had the Patriot Act, and you had this continuous ceding of the people's authority and power to the executive branch.
00:09:23.000And it's the justification of, well, they have an obligation.
00:09:26.000I refer to this a lot, but the Secretary of State of Maine, when she said, I'm not going to put Trump on the ballot because I have an obligation to the country.
00:09:46.000nonprofit has led these efforts in multiple states.
00:09:49.000It's interesting, and I know you live in D.C., but it's interesting that the expansion of the federal government and the supporting economy in D.C.
00:09:57.000is really what's sort of colluding to keep these movements in motion.
00:10:01.000How about we look into Loudoun County, Virginia and what the average job there is.
00:10:07.000I think there's probably some jurisdictions of the planet that have very, very, very high net worth.
00:10:14.000But I think on average, Loudoun County has the highest in the world.
00:11:08.000There are a lot of people in Loudoun County across the board who are moderates, who are sick of what the establishment Uniparty has been doing.
00:11:59.000Yeah, and I think, you know, maybe that's not horrible, right?
00:12:02.000Rural states need some kind of expansion of jobs.
00:12:05.000On the other hand, if you have a concentration of elite people who suddenly all think the same way, I can only imagine that someone in that group is going to say, well, we really know what's best for the country.
00:12:16.000Yeah, I think that it also depends on what exactly is driving that expansion.
00:12:21.000It's clear if you drive through Northern Virginia now that it's the military-industrial complex.
00:12:27.000My husband always calls it the necro-economy.
00:12:31.000You just see one military contractor or spying But to your original question of when all this began, I sometimes think that it was actually first 1913 establishment of the Federal Reserve handing our country over to a banking cartel that then got us involved in World War I. I think that was the inception of that unipolar global world that was then born through the process of World War II.
00:12:57.000hadn't intervened in World War I and hadn't, you know, sacrificed an entire generation of Americans, the entire graduating class of Princeton basically died fighting that war for France and Britain when I thought we actually fought a war to be independent from Europe.
00:13:11.000I think that whole, that network of, and that idea that the United States is tied to Europe somehow in this transatlantic relationship that came through, yeah, first the creation of the Fed and then World War I, that's really when The promise of the United States, I think, fell apart.
00:13:47.000I wonder if the people who made that game were like, what kind of terrain could we use to represent evil, malice, and death, and profiting off death?
00:14:06.000Shannon says, I'll admit I used to kind of roll my eyes when people claimed that President Trump was being persecuted.
00:14:12.000I was looking at it through the distorted filter of the media.
00:14:14.000Well, I just completed my first cross-examination of our second New York ballot access case, where the DNC-aligned PAC attorneys questioned me like a criminal.
00:14:48.000But Nicole Shanahan and many other moderates and former Democrats are now realizing that there is a criminal element within our government.
00:14:56.000Mark Zuckerberg the other day admitted that the FBI and the Harris-Biden administrations at the White House were pressuring him to censor.
00:15:06.000And the funny thing is, If you know the news and you break it down, you understand what Mark Zuckerberg is really saying, though he doesn't want to admit it.
00:15:14.000He says, the FBI came to us and said there was going to be some misinformation about Biden and Burisma.
00:15:18.000You know, we should keep a lookout for it.
00:15:20.000So when the Hunter Biden laptop story popped up, we censored that.
00:15:23.000The reality is criminal elements of the federal government went to Mark Zuckerberg and said, do not let people expose our criminal actions.
00:16:02.000And on the Jack Smith issue, I just think it's outrageous that CNN would never mention the fact, for example, that his wife actually works as a documentary filmmaker who made the whole documentary about becoming Michelle on Netflix.
00:16:17.000She's like basically a propagandist for the Obama family and the Democratic Party.
00:16:22.000And her husband is the one overseeing this operation to now usurp our Supreme Court to weaponize the judicial system against a former sitting president.
00:17:40.000I don't think CNN can tell the difference, though.
00:17:48.000I think they are past the point of the logic there.
00:17:50.000Like the Caitlin Collins and Bill Maher the other day, it was pretty clear.
00:17:54.000Yeah, I think obviously they would say if it was happening to someone else, they would see it.
00:17:59.000But I don't think they're aware of their own bias.
00:18:01.000I don't think they could tell you why it's an obvious conflict of interest for special counsel Jack Smith, who's currently going after Trump, to be married to someone who is actively donating and supporting the legacy of one of the leading Democrats in the party.
00:18:15.000I mean, I think they really believe that that's OK because that's how much they hate Trump.
00:18:26.000So when it turns out that Kamala Harris' best friend who introduced her to her husband is the head of ABC, and that's the only network she's willing to debate on, like nobody bats an eye at that.
00:18:39.000For some reason, everyone thinks that's totally okay.
00:18:41.000And when you have Pete Buttigieg and all the others coming out and saying, You know, don't debate on Fox, don't do interviews on Fox, because they're too biased.
00:18:48.000But somehow ABC is this breath of fresh air or something?
00:18:53.000It's weird, too, because you can only name one, right?
00:19:45.000But Clarence Thomas, Justice Thomas said in his concurrence on the immunity ruling that he thought Jack Smith was unconstitutionally appointed.
00:19:54.000And this resulted in, was it Judge Cannon?
00:20:42.000The other thing is, where's the Biden investigation?
00:20:46.000Why is Jack Smith only caught up on Trump if he cares so much about classified documents?
00:20:51.000Why doesn't he go after- They had a special counsel for Biden and he ruled that he was a sympathetic old man who would never be convicted by a jury because he was just too kind and dotty and old.
00:21:02.000We didn't get pictures of the Biden garage where their documents were stashed, did we?
00:21:42.000Or, again, it depends on who this ally with the secret nuclear program is.
00:21:46.000But another issue on that, it was just stunning to me once I was watching CNN, Jake Tapper was interviewing the former Secretary of Defense, Mark Esper, and asking him, like, why do you think it's so bad that Donald Trump would have these documents lying around?
00:22:02.000And Esper said, actually, that it would prevent the United States He said this from executing a successful strike on Iran.
00:22:10.000He's like, there could be logistics documents about our plans to... Well, excuse me, are we going to war with Iran?
00:22:18.000Apparently, Mark Esper was privy to some information or some plans that...
00:22:23.000That haven't been made public, haven't been discussed in Congress, which is supposed to be the authority that declares war.
00:22:28.000We've had a couple of people pass through here recently who believed that Kamala Harris's election would be bad for Israel and that they would cut a deal with Iran.
00:22:37.000And I'm just like, I think that's ridiculous.
00:22:40.000They are literally the deep state military industrial complex.
00:22:43.000They are going to redouble their efforts and they're going to try to exacerbate the conflict so they can get the war with Iran.
00:22:48.000And Donald Trump, I don't think he's even perfect on the issue either, but I think the principal conflict that the deep state had with Trump is that he wanted to get our troops out of the Middle East.
00:22:58.000Not perfectly, but he tried getting our troops out of Syria.
00:23:00.000He set a deadline for withdrawal from Afghanistan.
00:23:02.000They lost their minds over that and I think that was the principal catalyst that set them off to try and destroy him.
00:23:08.000Yeah, and having dialogue with other world leaders such as Putin.
00:23:12.000I mean, I went to the Trump-Putin summit at the time I was working for RT, which was super fun because we were at the center of the conspiracy to elect Trump, you may recall.
00:23:22.000And it was, for me, incredible actually to witness a U.S.
00:23:26.000president acting like a statesman and sitting down with a powerful leader of another powerful country and supposedly acting in good faith.
00:23:37.000And I later interviewed the Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia who was involved in those negotiations and he told me that they agreed on so much in Helsinki at that time that then just got completely, he said that we were shocked when a few months later Trump withdrew from the INF Treaty.
00:23:53.000Went along with all the things that John Bolton wrote in his memoir he advised Trump to do.
00:23:58.000And it just, it really does demonstrate that I do think Trump tried, but that the president is up against a lot more than we realize.
00:24:06.000And it's even more than Bolton and Pompeo and these characters.
00:24:09.000Do you know the one time the media praised Donald Trump as presidential?
00:25:01.000And it's because they don't want to solve these problems.
00:25:04.000And this is true for a lot of the pro-lifers who are anti-Trump saying, oh, Trump's not.
00:25:07.000No, they want to maintain the problem.
00:25:09.000So that they can keep making money off of it.
00:25:11.000We even had one of the guys from the Freedom Caucus, I can't remember who it was, said that they had the ability to end Obamacare and leadership came to him, this is a Republican, said, do not vote to end Obamacare because we need the wedge issue to raise money.
00:25:26.000This is what the machine is and always has been for, and I won't say always, but has been for probably, yeah, since 1913.
00:25:32.000And abortion definitely is used in that way because I remember when the Supreme Court ruling came down, my immediate thought was this is almost like a gift to the Democrats to keep the one issue that they have alive.
00:25:43.000One issue that they also had a chance to resolve but they won't because they just want to keep pitting us against each other and it's like Americans are just in a pinball machine and we just deserve so much better.
00:25:52.000You know the Planned Parenthood pact was like yes when the Roe thing came through, right?
00:25:57.000Because they have so much to do now and they can fear monger like there's no tomorrow.
00:26:01.000I mean this is what's been fascinating about the abortion issue is, you know, everyone could then go to their states and battle it out instead.
00:26:08.000Pro-abortion groups, especially Planned Parenthood, can look around and say, your life is about to end.
00:26:13.000Did you know that everything you hold sacred is about to be ruined and just make so much money off of it?
00:26:18.000Well, that's what happened with the Human Rights Campaign and other groups that were advocating for gay marriage.
00:26:23.000When they got gay marriage, when Obergefell went through, they didn't have anything to fundraise on.
00:26:28.000And that's when they really started pushing all of the trans stuff.
00:26:31.000Because they were like, oh, let's come up with this new issue so we don't have to give up our half a million dollar a year not-for-profit jobs, you know, in nice buildings in D.C.
00:26:40.000And now we have the transing of American kids simply so that these, not simply, but like in large part for the fundraising efforts.
00:26:50.000And it's Human Right Watch that issues those travel advisories, right?
00:26:55.000Every couple, especially during the summer, they'll release these, you guys probably know it, but they'll release these lists where they're like, you can't go to Georgia.
00:27:24.000Where people were asking about crime in big cities and the response from these liberals were like, oh yeah, well, all these conservatives are complaining about the cities, but I'm fine here.
00:27:31.000But, you know, if we were to go there, what they would do to us?
00:27:34.000And, you know, if a black person went to a white rural area, I'm like, none of that is true at all.
00:28:01.000And you, I dare you to walk into a Walmart anywhere in this entire nation without seeing some white grandma with like a bunch of like biracial grandbabies perfectly happy buying everybody a bunch of Legos and stuff.
00:28:26.000Right, and they're expanding it, so they're bringing a lot of people in.
00:28:27.000They have a Walmart- They're having babies?
00:28:29.000I watched this interview with this girl who is like, you know, I lived in New York and I lived in D.C.
00:28:33.000and then I was in Miami and they offered me this job and I really didn't want to go because, you know, I thought it was going to be, you know, backwards and conservative.
00:28:42.000Which, you know, of course locals are like, well, they're bringing their own values, but there really is this, like, Kind of overstated fear of rural America, I think, especially in 2024.
00:28:53.000And then you get there and everyone likes it, you know?
00:28:55.000And I just think that there's so much of the internal anxiety that left-leaning people, like both just people who live their lives, not super political, but and voters create for themselves that makes it unable to
00:29:54.000The higher up you go, the more separate it becomes.
00:29:58.000A really good example or circumstance that explains a lot of the wokeness is, do you remember when there was that media campaign about the talk that black parents give to their children?
00:30:39.000And this is how you're supposed to react.
00:30:42.000They started acting like this was only black families that had to have these conversations, because the people who run these campaigns, the people who exist in these political circles, are from white wealthy enclaves that don't actually have to deal with any of this stuff.
00:30:56.000Their crime rates are low, so they don't understand policy, they don't understand how to alleviate crime, they don't understand how to maintain a city, and then when they get in trouble, They're in smaller scale communities where their wealthy parents call the city and take care of it.
00:31:09.000So they go, wow, this is how it must be for all white people everywhere.
00:31:14.000Meanwhile, in almost every other place, white poor people go through a lot of these same problems as literally anybody else.
00:31:21.000But this is the isolation that leads them to creating these, I call them awful policies, affluent white female liberal policies.
00:31:28.000Well, when I lived in Brooklyn with my son when he was little, we had to talk about how to talk to cops in the park, which was like, if a cop tells you to do something, just do it.
00:31:45.000So yeah, all parents tell their kids how to deal with authority figures that have guns.
00:31:51.000But then there's Governor Kathy Hochul of New York who says that inner-city black students don't know what a computer is.
00:31:56.000I mean, the obvious discrepancy between that should just – I think it really captures what a lot of elite Democrats are experiencing every day, which is they have no idea.
00:32:07.000That Kathy Hochul thing was ridiculous.
00:32:14.000She believed it, and then her office was like, no, she didn't really mean it.
00:32:19.000And then you had all of these, like, black kids from the Bronx on TikTok making jokes about Kathy Hochul being like, like, sniffing the computer.
00:32:30.000Then, I think one of the best videos ever on this issue is Ami Horowitz's voter ID video, where he went to Berkeley and asked a bunch of white college students if it was racist to have voter ID, and they're all like, yeah, you know, because black people don't know how to get IDs.
00:33:01.000If that were true, then the solution should be get people IDs.
00:33:04.000Go on a campaign to do that instead of saying that you can't have a basic voter ID law in place.
00:33:10.000Because as someone who's covered elections or observed elections in other countries that are being actively undermined by the United States, Can I read to you guys what Kamala Harris said about voter IDs?
00:33:21.000of the fact that they have to present IDs and go through this arduous process
00:33:25.000to vote because they say that it makes their system very secure or and and here
00:33:30.000I am like what if I told you that in the United States we can't get people IDs
00:33:35.000it's it's very bizarre. Can I read to you guys what Kamala Harris said about voter
00:33:38.000IDs? Oh yeah. I don't think that we should underestimate what that compromise on
00:35:30.000And then another thing was the situation with illegal immigration and people just automatically being registered to vote.
00:35:38.000So like the motor voter laws, that seems kind of crazy that you just automatically get registered to vote because then you're not taking any real responsibility for it.
00:35:47.000And I think that if you have to You know, own your opportunity to vote and own your duty to elect representatives.
00:35:55.000You might determine that you should be a little better informed.
00:36:04.000Once again, from the post-millennial, we've got big news, ladies and gentlemen.
00:36:07.000Kamala Harris has agreed to finally do an interview!
00:36:11.000And this is such big news, because Kamala Harris has not given one, at all, so that the moment she decides to actually just talk to the press, it apparently is headline news.
00:37:14.000You know the thing is the last time she did an interview was late June and she appeared with a Kentucky-based pro-abortion advocate who later appeared at the DNC.
00:37:30.000Even then, that was the last time we heard from Kamala Harris in an interview setting like this, and she wasn't alone.
00:37:35.000You would think, you know, this person who wants to be president is going to appear solo, but she won't do that.
00:37:40.000That's how much she respects her voters.
00:37:42.000She'd rather put her own sense of emotional security first.
00:37:45.000Not only a person, but according to their logic, she's a strong woman of color who apparently can't do an interview without a white man sitting next to her.
00:37:53.000I mean, that's how they see the world, right?
00:37:55.000How does it look for them to be promoting this woman as a great leader and a woman of color, and yet...
00:38:09.000I think it's so weird that she's showing up with Tim Walz.
00:38:12.000And her husband is probably going to be there too.
00:38:14.000Well, he's going to be in the green room, of course.
00:38:16.000He's going to be ready with a bag of Doritos, like any good man would be backstage, you know?
00:38:21.000But yeah, I really think that it's sad that she needs someone to come hold her hand, that she needs someone to be there with her, that she can't show up and speak to this reporter who's already You were mentioning how ABC is hosting the debate and it's seen as this great victory even though there are all of these interests behind the scenes that are obviously very political involved at ABC.
00:40:31.000It's fascinating that once we got to the internet era and independent shows were able to emerge that started rivaling or even beating the quality of these programs, the narrative's breaking.
00:40:43.000Donald Trump's victory in 2016 was not supposed to happen.
00:41:07.000Well, and then that totally undermined his foreign policy for his entire presidency.
00:41:12.000It was by design because he'd already laid out that he wanted to shake things up and take on the established foreign policy, you know, the blob, as actually that term came from Obama's former chief of staff or National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes.
00:41:28.000He actually called it the blob because he was part of it.
00:41:31.000And yeah, Trump obviously ran on taking that on, and so they planted the seeds of Russiagate, just in case.
00:41:37.000And I do think it wasn't just a domestic political play.
00:41:41.000It was to undermine his genuine attempts at diplomacy and good faith outreach to the world that I think are the aspects of the Trump presidency that should be commended the most.
00:41:52.000Like, I just don't understand why we can't have a president who wants to talk to the world and just make deals instead of Yeah.
00:42:03.000Luke Rudkowski says, it was the church committee in 1975.
00:42:06.000We got a super chat saying, Luke is screaming right now.
00:42:09.000Well, Luke has every opportunity to come and hang out on the show and set the record straight on all of these things whenever he feels like it, so.
00:43:03.000We don't know everything they're doing, but one thing I'd say is they're involved in perhaps like the indictment against Donald Trump, or how about the two impeachments against him, which are also ridiculous and insane.
00:43:15.000I'd have to imagine that it's not just the CIA.
00:45:10.000I mean, we were just talking about, you know, previously believing things that it turned out to be not true at all.
00:45:18.000It's hard to break out of a mindset when that's all your friends are saying that, when it's all your family is saying that, when it's everybody at your workplace and that you come into contact with who is saying that.
00:45:29.000So it's hard for people to think for themselves, which is really a shame, but it is hard for them to do that.
00:45:36.000And so if those people who can't think for themselves and just go along with what all their friends say, Show up at the ballot box, I don't know if they're offering free mimosas or whatever, then they'll probably vote for Kamala Harris.
00:45:57.000and Tulsi Gabbard, his argument is now we're a big tent party and we're trying to be accommodating and compromising to as many people as we can because we all agree we want to help America.
00:46:38.000One point I would just make, since we were talking about the Church Committee and learning about how we were even able to learn or confirm what was true about our past, is that that was possible thanks to Frank Church holding these committee hearings.
00:46:51.000Back then, you know, he was a liberal Democrat who was anti-war.
00:46:55.000That used to be what the Democratic Party was, but now it's completely flipped.
00:47:50.000I describe it as he shows up to the ivory tower and he knocks on the door and he says, listen, we got all these people behind me and we say I should be president.
00:47:57.000And then they just dump water on his head.
00:49:03.000We can rag on George W. Bush and all these people, but Hillary Clinton is right up top.
00:49:07.000Well, Bush, you kind of get the idea that he wasn't running the show.
00:49:11.000She was running the show when she was at the State Department.
00:49:16.000The ideologically committed Bush was kind of just the idiot son that they put up as cover for Dick Cheney and Rumsfeld and all these other people that were the Hillary Clintons of that administration.
00:49:26.000And then Obama himself, I don't know how much he, I mean, I don't even want to talk about him, to be honest.
00:49:41.000Why do you think it took him so long to endorse her?
00:49:45.000the Obama era? Maybe because I mean I think ideally they probably didn't want to run her
00:49:51.000but it would have just been too anti-democratic to remove Biden and then Kamala it would have
00:49:56.000just exposed the whole sham I mean it or there were those reports that he wasn't going to endorse
00:50:01.000her for several weeks ostensibly to let her have her moment in the sun but the Clintons endorsed
00:50:05.000right away so many other top Democrats did and Michelle and Obama really held out.
00:50:10.000I mean, I do think that he is ultimately the kingpin for a lot of vibes from the Democratic Party, but it's interesting to me that he doesn't actually seem to like Kamala all that much.
00:50:19.000Well, haven't you ever, you know, seen a cartoon?
00:50:22.000The supervillain has lackeys, and the lackeys screw up, but the lackeys never get, you know, fired or kicked out or whatever, you know?
00:50:28.000The supervillain's henchmen will go and do something, ruin it, and then come back, and the supervillain's just like, well, okay, I guess.
00:51:48.000Quote, as President Trump's broad coalition of supporters and endorsers expands across partisan lines, we are proud that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
00:51:54.000and Tulsi Gabbard have been added to the Trump-Vance transition team.
00:52:29.000But why is it that the best possible Democrats are Republicans now?
00:52:35.000I think it's that the parties themselves are a little bit irrelevant once you have Trump at the head of this party, because his values are not the uniparty values.
00:52:44.000So, you know, Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer may as well be in the same party.
00:52:50.000I'm going to say something that's unpopular, and I think that there's a lot of benefits to having Tulsi and RFK on his transition team.
00:52:58.000I think they bring a really interesting perspective.
00:53:00.000I think it's good for moderate voters undecided, but I do think that there's a chance that some of these appointments make The core MAGA base supporter kind of nervous that the campaign that they were so invested in is changing.
00:53:15.000And I think part of that has to do with, you know, immigration and some other things.
00:53:20.000I'm just saying that, you know, it's one thing to have one or two former Democrats.
00:53:24.000But when you start, if the dyed in the wool, like I am voting MAGA, Trump is who gets me to the polls, voter starts to feel like he is changing too much.
00:54:25.000We want the government to be your primary partner in life.
00:54:29.000And then you have, you know, RFK, Trump, Tulsi Gabbard, and a whole heck of a lot of MAGA people who would say, we want government out of our lives.
00:54:37.000We don't want you to tell us what to do with our kids.
00:54:39.000We don't want you to tell us what to do with our bodies.
00:54:42.000That means we don't want you pushing abortion.
00:54:44.000We don't want you to tell us what kind of car we get to drive or where we can live or what kind of housing we can live in.
00:54:51.000So I think it's more of a, you know, pro-government partner in your life worldview, and an anti-government in your life worldview.
00:55:27.000Conservatives were calling on Donald Trump to fire Bolton and bring Tulsi Gabbard on because Tulsi was right about foreign policy and Bolton was a maniac.
00:55:37.000I said back then, Donald Trump needs to bring on Tulsi Gabbard as a national security advisor, or in some way, his administration, and this would help win over many independents.
00:55:48.000I also said Andrew Yang, because Andrew Yang was very popular among liberal-leaning independent voters.
00:55:53.000A lot of people say, no, no, he's crazy, he wants to be a socialist.
00:56:05.000Bringing on Tulsi, I think, is the right move.
00:56:07.000And it's late, but I'm happy to see it happening.
00:56:10.000And I actually think a lot of the MAGA people are going to be happy about it, especially since she's come around on 2A.
00:56:16.000She's endorsed Donald Trump, and it's a Democrat joining the ranks.
00:56:19.000This is basically like going to a MAGA voter and saying, you know, you were right the whole time.
00:56:23.000They're going to go, that's right, I was.
00:56:25.000I think it's a really good play for Trump politically, I do.
00:56:28.000I think that it kind of is throwing back to the energy of his 2016 campaign, because for a while it just felt like now the campaign was overtaken by the walls, Kamala fever.
00:56:41.000I'll say something now that might be controversial, and I know you're going to accuse me of having Israel Derangement Syndrome, but the way that I see it is that I don't totally see them as switching teams.
00:56:52.000They are all part of the Adelson Money Network.
00:57:10.000But the reasons that I love them is that they were committed to ending forever wars and to issues like free speech in the United States.
00:57:17.000And for me, all of that, even if you can understand Ukraine and you can You know, understand Syria the way Tulsi did.
00:57:24.000I just don't get how you remove those issues from the Israel lobby and the fact that they're the greatest threat to free speech in the United States with their anti-BDS laws.
00:57:32.000You just had NYU now say that you can't say Zionism on campus because that is also considered anti-Semitic and, you know, they've actually criminalized speech around the country.
00:57:43.000And to see RFK and Tulsi just, you know, pledge allegiance to Israel while— They did, though?
00:57:50.000Well, RFK, absolutely, and Tulsi, and they repeat the script.
00:57:54.000They repeat the script and they say all this stuff about Israel being our great ally.
00:57:57.000I mean, RFK himself was just doing fundraisers for Rabbi Shmuley's personal security, okay?
00:58:03.000So that's a little bizarre to me and it just feels like it just discredits their position on war and speech.
00:58:10.000I wouldn't call any of that Israel Derangement Syndrome.
00:58:13.000I'll clarify Israel Derangement Syndrome.
00:58:15.000We had a guy on the show who literally any question that was asked about anything policy-wise was Israel.
00:58:19.000We had a members-only caller who said, I'm concerned about the fentanyl crisis in West Virginia, and within 30 seconds he was talking about Israel.
00:58:28.000You know, my thing is anti-intervention.
00:58:31.000The United States' interests are not in sending out our troops to military bases overseas in every part of the globe and expanding the liberal economic order and nation-building in Afghanistan.
00:58:41.000Whatever the parasite is that infected the United States, probably in 1913 with the start of the Federal Reserve, has manipulated what this country is supposed to be.
00:58:52.000I look at the history lessons of the Founding Fathers leading up into the Civil War and the lessons learned at
00:58:56.000the Civil War and I'm like, wow man, these people were fighting really, really hard and
00:59:00.000they really just wanted to be left alone.
00:59:02.000And then at some point we were like, nah, let's go get involved in foreign entanglements,
00:59:05.000which is weird. And then after World War II especially, we just stopped declaring war and
00:59:11.000started just doing whatever... I don't even want to say we, the parasite in this country.
00:59:56.000That's where we get to tell the guy who lives down the street who's representing us in Congress what we think should happen for the benefit of our district and for the benefit of our nation.
01:00:06.000And they just gave up, not their power, they gave up our power to the executive branch.
01:00:13.000And I think that they really need to pull that back.
01:00:15.000And you've seen the executive power just expand and expand and expand, you know, like not just in the 20th century, but you have like George Bush, it got bigger.
01:00:27.000Biden, it got bigger to the point where now with, you know, now you have a situation where They can tell schools, if you don't let boys go into girls' bathrooms, we're not going to give you free lunch aid.
01:00:41.000So let me just pose this question then, just as a thought experiment.
01:00:45.000Taking away the legitimacy of the Trump case and the political attacks on him aside, do you think that there's any dangerous precedent with the Supreme Court ruling that it does put the president above the law?
01:01:16.000If we lived in a system where you could criminally charge the president for anything he did, even under his presidential duties, you would have the weaponization of the system against their political opponents, which is literally what we're seeing.
01:01:28.000That's why the SCOTUS ruling was important.
01:01:30.000Barack Obama murdered Anwar al-Awlaki and Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, two American citizens.
01:01:35.000By all means, I'll have a conversation with a neocon or a neolib about why Anwar al-Awlaki was a jihadi waging war against the United States, and he was a traitor.
01:01:45.000And the argument is still that he needs to have a trial, even if he's not there, that proves to a jury he, as an American citizen, has waged his levied war against the United States and its people, and thus that's a death penalty.
01:02:01.000He blew him up, and then he blew up his son.
01:02:04.000Now, I think Barack Obama should be criminally charged for that.
01:02:07.000That being said, I haven't seen the full court case and the evidence, so what we should do is he should be post-presidency impeachment, which is never going to happen, but this is what should happen.
01:02:18.000The impeachment is, as president, you are given military options by your Advisors, your lieutenants, your commanders, etc.
01:02:26.000They would give Barack Obama something that was referred to as the disposition matrix.
01:02:33.000And they would basically give Barack Obama a list of people that looked like baseball cards, folders, and said, which one should we exterminate?
01:03:12.000Congress would then look at the evidence and say, we do not find sufficient reason to believe Barack Obama had a legitimate official duty in killing a 16-year-old American citizen in Yemen, a country we are not at war with, and bombing a civilian restaurant.
01:03:26.000So it wouldn't prevent a criminal charge of a president committing war crimes in the future?
01:03:32.000jurisdictions with jurisdiction, I should say, or the jurisdictions with standing could then
01:03:36.000criminally charge Barack Obama, which would include San Diego, Boulder, Colorado, as well
01:03:51.000Let's say you have a president and an adversary blows up one of our ships in the South China Sea or whatever.
01:03:59.000We have a ship going near Taiwan and China blows it up.
01:04:02.000The president responds by sending in a strike group or whatever.
01:04:07.000Which encounters an unidentified vessel that will not respond to hail, and then it opens fire on the U.S.
01:04:12.000So he instructs them to blow it up, destroying what turns out to be a Russian vessel that was working alongside China, triggering a response from Russia saying, you jump the gun.
01:04:21.000Now there's questions about whether it's the official duty of the president to, in a time of emergency after we were attacked, and let's just say like the story is legitimately we were attacked, it's witnessed by everybody, there's videos, unprovoked attack on American vessels, the president issues an immediate reprisal and response against the vessel that attacked us.
01:04:37.000You can try to impeach him, but I think a reasonable political body says, well look, the president has to make difficult choices.
01:04:43.000It may have started a war, but this is official duties.
01:04:45.000Now let's say the president sends in a vessel and then fakes a military action, bombs itself, And then lies about it, and then claims it was an official duty.
01:05:11.000In the event the president takes a legitimate action in the interest of the United States that was a difficult decision, but a decision that had to be made, he should go to prison for it because a Democrat gets mad he's a Republican, or a Republican mad he's a Democrat.
01:05:43.000I mean, Clinton set the precedent for the Iraq war, right?
01:05:46.000Bombing Iraq without congressional approval.
01:05:48.000The challenge is, for the most part, official duties.
01:05:52.000We know what they are, but you are right.
01:05:53.000There's a lot where it gets into this really fine print-esque area where it's like, Well, the president was having a conversation about his personal vehicle, but it was in the Oval Office.
01:06:38.000Who cared about the facts and wanted to do right by this country and not just partisans trying to fundraise and sound good on the internet.
01:06:45.000And you had senators who actually cared to represent their states.
01:06:48.000You would have had Barack Obama impeached first as an impeachment inquiry over the killing of Abdulrahman Al-Awlaki.
01:06:55.000Then they would argue, in fact, his actions were part of his official duties as president, and for that reason, he cannot be criminally charged for this, unless we impeach him for it.
01:07:08.000We then find him to be criminally negligent in the murder of Abdulrahman Al-Awlaki, and for that, we find it to be a high crime or misdemeanor.
01:07:17.000The president, perhaps well-intentioned, used with reckless disregard the might of the U.S.
01:07:23.000military and blew up a civilian restaurant, killing civilians as well as an American.
01:07:30.000I'm sorry, when you're driving down the road and you're reckless and you accidentally kill someone, you do get criminally charged.
01:07:35.000For that reason, while it was Obama's duty to answer these calls, He acted recklessly and with disregard for human life, particularly of an American, and for that he should be impeached, convicted, removed from office, and then criminally charged for reckless homicide or something to that effect.
01:07:50.000If we could prove in that trial that Barack Obama said, I'm going to send a message to all jihadis who would wage war on America by killing the son of a terrorist, which I think is what he did, then that's life in prison, that's murder, that's first degree.
01:08:08.000I believe that Barack Obama killed Abdulrahman Al-Awlaki because he wanted to send a message to jihadis that the United States, and I don't even want to say we, the United States is willing to murder your children wherever they may be.
01:08:19.000He wanted them to feel that their children would be safe nowhere.
01:08:58.000That's the justification for Barack Obama bombing a civilian restaurant and killing an American, as well as other civilians?
01:09:05.000That is nightmarishly illegal, in my opinion.
01:09:08.000And the man... But now I'm gonna just... I'll hit it out of the park with this one.
01:09:13.000Not probably the right turn of phrase I'm trying to use, but let's exemplify this to the upteenth degree.
01:09:19.000After everything I've just explained, the man has faced no justice, not even an inquiry from Congress, not even an impeachment inquiry, and Donald Trump is facing multiple criminal prosecutions for the most absurd and insane things imaginable.
01:09:34.000The first president to actually get charged, and it's BS, because there are criminal elements in our government that are willing to let evil people do whatever they want, and Donald Trump is I gotta be honest.
01:09:46.000I think for a lot of these things he was involved in at the federal level, he was bumbling about.
01:11:01.000That's why she wanted to sit down at a desk.
01:11:02.000You think they'll give her like, you know, either extra high heels or like some telephone books to stand on or something?
01:11:08.000This is interesting because I wonder if they are going to request something to level.
01:11:14.000I think they want her to look shorter.
01:11:16.000If someone on their campaign is smart enough to be like, no, you want to be shorter because if Trump seems at all aggressive, then everyone's going to be like, oh, he can't be mean to ladies.
01:11:39.000Or maybe we'll get to see his tuna mayonnaise taco.
01:11:44.000I'm just surprised, honestly, that, I mean, because usually Democrats are so, that's one of their big issues, right, to demonize Republicans is with immigration.
01:11:54.000So why do you think she's now responding to pressure on this issue?
01:11:57.000Because black community members in Chicago were screaming, we are being replaced.
01:12:15.000And that's one of the reasons he did well in his his debate with Biden, which is that He could always return to the issues and be like, things are bad and I will fix them.
01:12:23.000This guy's in office and made them worse.
01:12:25.000And I think, frankly, it's the sort of same argument with Harris, right?
01:12:29.000She's in office and either she is complicit by doing nothing or she's that ignorant.
01:12:35.000At which point, why would you put her back in the White House with more responsibility?
01:12:39.000Something that I just want to say about the current crisis, because this is something that you might not hear a lot and something that I have learned through my reporting in Latin America is I know people make the point a lot that a lot of our immigration issues right now on the border are blowback from our meddling regime change wars, yada yada.
01:12:57.000But there's another element that people might not realize.
01:13:01.000For example, right now we have Venezuelans primarily coming into the country.
01:13:06.000I wrote a whole book, I don't want to give the whole spiel about how we destabilize that country, but I think I spell it out pretty clearly in the book.
01:13:15.000What people might not realize is so Trump He did launch this policy to recognize a shadow government and really aggressively sanction their country, really strangle it to the point that people were wanting to leave and they'd left and gone all around Latin America.
01:13:28.000It wasn't until Biden came in and agreed to grant Venezuelans temporary protected status that they actually started coming to the United States, because that's pretty much a green light.
01:13:38.000You can work before you have a green card and all these, you know, you get special treatment.
01:13:43.000It's like wet foot, dry foot that we had for Cubans.
01:13:47.000A lot of people get here and actually realize they don't have a great life.
01:13:55.000The Venezuelan government actually has a policy where, and they've done this all throughout South America, where they've chartered Venezuelan government planes to bring people back to the country, repatriate.
01:14:08.000They've done it with hundreds if not thousands of people now.
01:14:11.000And I had a conversation with the Venezuelan foreign minister in New York a few months ago, and he represents the government that actually controls the borders and the ministries of Venezuela that we don't recognize because we recognize the shadow government.
01:14:24.000And he said they want to do that with the United States.
01:15:38.000But why is it, though, that the Biden-Harris administration admits, you know, like it's sort of an open door policy for like 30,000 Venezuelans, among other countries, per month?
01:16:07.000I'm just curious as to your take, because I've spent a lot of time in Nicaragua as well, where the United States funded very violent riots in 2018 to try to overthrow the government.
01:16:15.000We have harsh sanctions on the country.
01:16:19.000And earlier this year, I went to Nicaragua and I passed through El Salvador.
01:16:26.000And, you know, I saw firsthand the flight that I was told about in the media of people coming from North Africa and Africa, it seemed mainly, filtering through the Salvadoran airport.
01:16:36.000The Salvadoran government has a policy where they won't let them out, but they'll let them on.
01:16:43.000I've never been on a full flight from El Salvador to Nicaragua like that before, but it was all mainly African, North African, even some Chinese migrants.
01:16:54.000And Nicaragua used to have a policy where they would not let any of those people out
01:16:58.000of the airport because they were coordinating with us to slow the immigration, to slow migration.
01:17:04.000And people wouldn't even bother going there.
01:17:06.000But since we've tried to overthrow their government, strangle and strangle their economy, they've
01:18:11.000And the same thing is true for Republicans in Congress as well.
01:18:15.000Congress, because Democrats are getting around five to six additional congressional seats based on the amount of illegal immigrants they've allowed into the country, who don't get to vote, who don't get a say in the matter, Republicans have to have a majority greater.
01:18:27.000So this is basically Democrats operating on a political handicap.
01:18:30.000Republicans have to work extra hard to get extra seats to be able to overcome that advantage that they've cheated to give themselves.
01:18:37.000So they certainly want these people to come in.
01:18:38.000Yeah, they want it so that they just maintain their power because it's really just a power struggle.
01:18:45.000You could even start sending some of these people back, not with massive deportations, voluntarily.
01:18:49.000And the other governments might, you know, like I said, the Venezuelan government would happily charter planes to do so because they've done it elsewhere.
01:18:56.000So why aren't we doing that if it's such an issue for people?
01:19:01.000Our government obviously doesn't care about our people here.
01:19:04.000And that's the only conclusion I can draw from it.
01:19:51.000He's a Harvard-educated economist who worked in the Venezuelan government and left, got into fights with Maduro way back in the early 2000s when Maduro was a legislator.
01:20:03.000He's heavily opposed to Chavismo and Maduro's government.
01:20:07.000But he, because he actually cares about The people of his homeland doesn't support this aggressive U.S.
01:20:14.000policy of attempting to strangle their economy and cause suffering in the country.
01:20:20.000And he actually conducted a thorough academic study with his Harvard chops and his Wall Street chops.
01:20:28.000And I can pull up the page somewhere in the book because there's a picture.
01:20:31.000I actually show a chart that he produced.
01:20:34.000Venezuela's economy is entirely dependent on oil and he shows through time series data that every major drop in Venezuelan oil production occurred directly after a U.S.
01:20:52.000And he said, the quote that he gave me is, and of course because he's in the opposition, he says, Of course, the economy was being mismanaged.
01:21:00.000It was, you know, not, it's not perfectly run, but no one, nobody was predicting a major crash in the oil market or in their oil industry or in their economy that they saw.
01:21:11.000And so without that US intervention, there's just an absolute, and he's not the only expert that I turn to in the book.
01:21:31.000For instance, the example I often give, and granted it's been a decade since I've been there, but when I went to buy a cell phone, You can't just walk into a store, meet one person, and buy a cell phone.
01:21:45.000They made me go through a bureaucratic process with like six different steps, and when I asked them why, the answer was, the government requires the creation of jobs.
01:21:54.000Jobs are good for the economy, so they regulate in such a way that jobs must exist, even if the jobs are actually inefficient and bogged down the economy.
01:22:02.000That being said, I agree with you on the oil thing.
01:22:05.000The United States wants to be completely in control of who can buy, trade, and sell oil, and it's how the U.S.
01:22:10.000maintains its control over the liberal economic order.
01:22:13.000Americans are in for a rude awakening, mostly urban-dwelling liberal Americans, now that Saudi Arabia has jumped the petrodollar deal.
01:22:35.000And if there's an Iranian supermarket that is building and expanding on Venezuela because of our sanctions, who would have thought that Iran would have a base of influence on the U.S.
01:22:51.000Because of a policy crafted by John Bolton and Elliott Abrams.
01:22:54.000It's like our policy just doesn't make sense.
01:22:59.000My view on this whole thing is that the neoliberal, neocon establishment says we have to retain military supremacy over the planet and suppress anyone who opposes the petrodollar because the U.S.
01:23:29.000Our economy is good because we have a bunch of cannons and guns and drones pointed at a bunch of other countries saying, trade oil in dollars or else.
01:23:47.000will struggle to maintain their imports.
01:23:50.000The simple way to explain what this means for all of you is that that $1,500 MacBook you love, it's going to cost you $10,000 in a few years.
01:24:00.000It's that the only reason we can import a computer that's manufactured in China is because we control the petrodollar.
01:24:06.000So that means when we want to import goods, we get them at a premium rate because if anyone wants to buy oil, they've got to buy US dollars first.
01:24:13.000Our export is literally the control of the currency required to buy energy.
01:24:17.000Now that that's breaking, We're going to try to buy a laptop from China and they're going to say, why do we need U.S.
01:24:45.000For the past decade, China and Russia have been dumping U.S.
01:24:47.000dollars in bonds, and they've been trying to get out of that market because the moves they're making are clear.
01:24:51.000We can no longer appease Saudi Arabia, so Trump says, secure our borders, Sure up our economy, build up our jobs, make sure we're producing, manufacturing, and bringing our troops back, because we will not be able to sustain this massive military expansion when we don't control the oil system.
01:25:08.000And the deep state said, no, bomb Russia, bomb Ukraine, bomb Iran, and that's how we're going to maintain the system.
01:25:16.000I mean, John Bolton writes about it in his memoir, crafting the coup policy, this shadow government that they recognized, forcing Trump to do that or pushing Trump to do that.
01:25:25.000I mean, I just one other point to make, because I think this is something that for Americans, I just I wish that we knew how ridiculous our policy is.
01:25:34.000So when Trump recognized the shadow government in Venezuela at that time, Venezuela was providing us with about 7 percent of our oil imports.
01:25:42.000Canceled those, put sanctions saying we can't buy Venezuelan oil.
01:26:04.000Obviously, we don't have the infrastructure in place here to make it up.
01:26:07.000And just one more point, we hear all about this like communist socialist dictatorship down there.
01:26:12.000They actually would do business with us.
01:26:14.000They would have been happy because they started actually opening up their oil market to foreign investment.
01:26:18.000And because we were the ones boycotting they went to Russia and China.
01:26:22.000I have sources on Wall Street who want to do business with the Venezuelan government, but their main obstacle is not the socialist government down there.
01:26:32.000Treasury Department, which is somehow so ideologically obsessed with just overthrowing anyone who resists the liberal order.
01:26:39.000That we are now at a point where you could have maybe made the case that this interventionist foreign policy, even if we're morally opposed to it, was benefiting the United States at some point.
01:27:15.000And so I think, I think in the future, Donald Trump, you know, he's negotiating with Kim Jong Un, I think ultimately, Trump is going to, the Trump policy would probably be Venezuelan neutral.
01:27:38.000Unfortunately, I do think the fact that now the Venezuelan opposition group that drove this policy under Trump and now pushed Biden to give Venezuelans temporary protected status wants to build a base of political support in Florida that
01:27:53.000operates like the Miami Cubans or anyone else that says we're one issue voters, you have
01:30:10.000Part of the reason that I developed an interest there is that I, as I learned about that country, I saw they're actually very similar to us.
01:30:16.000They were, we had the British, they had the Spanish, you know, they came over, had, A slave economy and fought for independence then from the European powers.
01:30:25.000Actually, their revolutionary independence leaders fought alongside ours in the U.S.
01:30:30.000Revolutionary War, laid siege to King George's troops because they saw our fight as the same fight.
01:30:36.000And I actually think in a world where the U.S.
01:30:38.000was acting in America first, our main allies would be Mexico, Venezuela, The countries that are powerful in our immediate neighborhood.
01:30:45.000Venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the world over double what Saudi Arabia has and the largest untapped gold deposits in the world.
01:32:07.000Then huge portions of the taxes from this country and the labor goes back to the IMF, keeping them forever entrenched in this international system.
01:32:14.000The idea they had was this would create a stabilizing force where you have less incentives for war.
01:32:19.000The reality is they created a gigantic squid-like monster with tentacles Ripping into these foreign countries, entangling the United States and other European states into this whole quagmire mess they could not maintain, that their children don't know how to maintain, and is resulting in severe animosity, and actually creating the potential for a grand World War III scenario with Russia.
01:32:42.000Russia doesn't want to abide by these crackpot rules, and the U.S.
01:32:46.000We had a Ukrainian now who's got a warrant for his arrest for blowing up Nord Stream.
01:32:52.000Yeah, Vladimir Z. So the U.S., because of Russia's ability to sell energy at a higher rate through Gazprom into Europe, decides we're going to seize Ukraine, we're going to seize Syria, we're going to destabilize these countries, because that's what the liberal economic order must do to maintain the system, because we're the good guys, they say.
01:33:13.000And all it's done has destabilized these regions, often intentionally so that
01:33:17.000we can justify our military expansion in these countries for the purpose of energy exploration and
01:33:46.000sovereignty and the sovereign rights of Americans, which we've made a lot of progress over the years to gain, or fought really hard to gain, they kind of forgot, they just, they just, they have this doubt of humanity.
01:33:59.000They don't understand that like every single country is also going to eventually fight for their sovereignty.
01:34:05.000Every group of people around the world is going to push to be free and to have their own state, their own will enacted, and we can't impose it on them.
01:34:17.000And we thought forever that, oh, the Iranians, they're Shia, and the Saudis, they're Sunni, so they'll never get on the same page.
01:34:24.000Well, now they both are in bricks on the same page because guess what?
01:34:28.000I mean, even Saudi Arabia wants to preserve their sovereignty.
01:34:32.000does and is like, wait, what if one day they decide to weaponize the dollar again?
01:34:36.000I mean, already when you had Lindsey Graham and major U.S.
01:34:39.000officials whining about Prince MBS, it's very clear the agenda there is to one day go and overthrow the Saudi kingdom if it starts to not enact, you know, or grow along with the petrodollar, which I think is, yeah.
01:34:56.000Remember when Biden put down the Russia oil embargo disaster and he called the UAE, he called MBZ and he called MBS and they didn't answer the phone?
01:35:09.000And they begged Saudi Arabia to stop producing oil, and Saudi Arabia said, uh, we're gonna sell more.
01:35:15.000That was in the lead up to the 2020 election.
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01:36:48.000I don't think we ever will, to be completely honest.
01:36:50.000Um, we just get a lot of offers and I have these people that are like, you do know that most podcasts will do three to five reads during the entire show?
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01:38:38.000Hang out with him and make a funny video and then do a podcast with him where you can talk about these issues.
01:38:44.000And if he goes the Elon route and says, we're going to change the rules on Facebook, we're going to stop being so censorious, Because they're not.
01:39:36.000All right, Wrath of Ball says, having no policies on our website, Kamala Harris is the personification of, we have to pass the bill to see what's in it.
01:41:04.000And then you actually get older and you realize, hold on.
01:41:07.000The actual founding of this country put in place the mechanisms by which we can maintain and protect it, but we have bad people that are like, there's mold.
01:41:15.000Our country's gotten moldy and we got to scrape the mold off.
01:41:22.000And you were saying earlier that all of our institutions and our government, it's all teaching us to hate ourselves and hate our country, and I think that's why.
01:41:29.000It's because then we forget that, oh, the Patriot Act and all these things took away these rights that were actually pretty good.
01:41:35.000Instead of sitting around and being like, our country sucked because of slavery, we should be like, what about these rights that we had that were taken away and that we could actually- It sucks because of the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Education.
01:41:47.000No, but you know what I mean in terms of how it's like- No, I feel you, for sure.
01:41:50.000Our US civic education is basically like World War II and slavery and civil rights.
01:41:55.000There's no other- There's nothing else.
01:42:00.000Basically, you know, in 1913, the United States was exploring a planet where they had gotten a distress beacon for intelligent life, and they encountered an android that said, come with me, I want to show you something.
01:42:13.000And then they went down and found these big pods, and they said, don't worry, trust me, it's safe.
01:42:17.000And when they looked in the pod, a creature jumped onto America's face and laid its eggs in its belly, the Federal Reserve, which erupted from its stomach, killing the host and creating a xenomorph hybrid.
01:42:28.000Yeah, I think that's the plot of Alien Covenant.
01:42:31.000Because once we got involved, if we just hadn't gotten involved in World War One, let the Europeans settle it.
01:42:37.000That was funny when they criticized Trump for this.
01:42:39.000At the time, I was relatively ignorant on it, but I talked to Michael Malice, because it was rather superficial.
01:42:44.000They said Trump was an idiot for claiming we shouldn't have been involved, and then Michael was like, well, but really, why were we involved?
01:42:49.000And I was like, destabilization of European allies is bad in the long run economically.
01:42:53.000And he's like, but you know, long story.
01:44:42.000In order to utilize the second floor, so all three floors are one floor, because the way the building was designed, even though there's a door separating it, they consider it to be an open connection.
01:44:53.000And that means that we have to have an elevator for people who are otherly abled, differently abled.
01:44:59.000The problem is the elevator we have is one of the first elevators ever created in the United States.
01:45:07.000It's just, it's like the second, I don't know, it might be like the second or third elevator ever installed and it goes way back and we don't want to tear it out.
01:45:36.000So I was like, okay, what do we have to do to make the second floor and the third floor have to be a private space?
01:45:41.000And they're like, then you have to create a separate... For some reason, even though they're separated by a door, they consider the first floor and the second floor staircase to be one open connection.
01:45:52.000Therefore, to have a business, we have to have an elevator.
01:45:55.000And it's like, so how do we get the elevator repaired to maintain it as a historical elevator while, uh, getting up to code?
01:46:14.000Basically what we have to do is we have to restructure the first floor walls so that we can isolate it as a separate building, basically moving a door or something.
01:47:03.000That being said, the reality of money in podcasts is that I've been told that we are throwing away $10 million by not doing ad reads during IRL.
01:47:14.000Because we have like five available slots that we are refusing to sell.
01:47:19.000What, like between stories, basically?
01:47:25.000Instead of me saying, let's jump to this next story, they would say, we got another story, but before we do, let's talk about this really great product.
01:48:35.000A lot of these shows, they'll have like five or six in between, but some of the biggest podcasts in the world, and everyone always says, everyone I've ever talked to on podcast, and they're like, oh, I'm really worried if I do ads, I'll lose viewership.
01:48:48.000And that's why the biggest podcasts in the world do this, because they're making $30 million a year by putting the sponsor spots in the show.
01:48:55.000I just, I don't know, I'd rather do members.
01:48:57.000And then they go, yeah, but members plus, and I'm like, I don't want to read ads in the middle of the show.
01:49:13.000Tim's like talking about the border and he's like, yeah, I mean, I really feel like everyone's getting kind of hydrated and, you know, maybe they should get some Gatorade.
01:49:20.000I have no problem with... Some people have asked if we would drink their drink on the show, and I'm like, if you want to pay for the drinks that we have, I'm fine with that.
01:49:28.000I'm not... We won't shout you out during the show, but... And their companies, they're like, no, no, no, we just want you to have our drink, to be drinking it.
01:50:29.000They want that to be the place because that's where they spy on everybody.
01:50:31.000All right, and of course that's why I remember when Bezos was making the big competition about where in the country he was going to go open the big Amazon center as if Crystal City in Virginia wasn't going to win because it's right there by the Pentagon.
01:50:43.000But I will, I will say Reston is, it's so beautiful, it's so fun.
01:50:59.000And I will give them a shout out all the time because they're very nice to us and people who work there are fans of the show.
01:51:05.000And every time we've gone there, not every time, but several times I've gone there, people, they walk by and they're like, hey, I just want to let you know I'm a big fan.
01:51:12.000You probably don't hear that out here.
01:51:13.000And I'm like, dude, actually, The people who work here are fans.
01:52:51.000The city would be like... And you have no way to contest it?
01:52:54.000It creates this convoluted system where a private company determines whether or not you're in violation of their parking, but then the city enforces it.
01:54:08.000That's very different from like Gray's Papaya, where it's literally just a hot dog.
01:54:13.000It's kind of crazy, you know, growing up in Chicago, we always wondered why Chicago didn't have great culture, why all the music and sports and celebrities were East Coast, West Coast.
01:54:24.000But I didn't really think about it until, you know, I was in my 20s that Chicago is notorious for its food.
01:54:29.000It's culinary universities and things like that, plus the taste of Chicago.
01:56:26.000I don't know if that's the absolute solution, but my proposal is that if you want to vote in this country, you have to sign up for Selective Service.
01:57:16.000Watching these videos of these people, these people are despicable scumbags.
01:57:20.000And they've got big YouTube channels, and they're like, here's us operating in Ukraine, and here's what we are doing, and I'm like, you are an enemy of this country, and you are a scumbag.
01:57:54.000Of course, Russia doesn't believe this, but Ukraine is causing all of these problems, working with the deep state, working with the establishment.
01:58:46.000If we got invaded, yeah, I'd be standing up and saying, where do you need me, right?
01:58:52.000If a bunch of boats landed on the shores of, you know, just south of D.C., and then there was an emergency call to action, and some function of government said, everyone, we need your help, we are being attacked, I'd say, what can I do?
01:59:15.000That's what 9-11 was supposed to be, right?
01:59:17.000It got a lot of brave young men and women to run full speed to their recruiting office because they wanted to help this country because we were attacked.
02:00:18.000The way people voted was you'd go in and you'd write down who you want and you put it in a box.
02:00:22.000Voting was, the parties would print out papers showing all their candidates and they would give them to people and say, hey, use this, write your name on it, sign it, and these are the names you want to vote for or something to that effect.
02:00:36.000Then at some point we have now public government ballots, which restrict the amount of people who can appear on it, and then we put D and R next to their names.
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