On this week's episode of the show, John and Raymond discuss the latest in the ongoing media meltdown over Matt Gaetz's appointment as the new Health and Human Services Secretary, the collapse of Alex Jones' Infowars, and the sale of Casper Coffee.
00:00:00.000Donald Trump has nominated RFK Jr. to win.
00:00:22.000to be the Health and Human Services Secretary, and we are very excited.
00:00:26.000The rumors already are that they're going to go after all of the medical industry collusion between big pharma, the insurance companies, the hospitals.
00:01:38.000Ordered a hearing over how this purchase came to be because The Onion apparently was going to be using credit on future earnings to buy this.
00:01:46.000Meanwhile, there's actual investors trying to buy it, and the judge said, wait, you can't do that.
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00:04:45.000They say President-elect Donald Trump has picked RFK Jr.
00:04:47.000to be his next secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, a choice that would add to Trump's list of provocative picks, whose confirmation processes will test the loyalty of Senate Republicans.
00:04:56.000Trump on Thursday announced the selection, confirming CNN's earlier reporting, saying he was thrilled to share the pick.
00:05:01.000Of course this is what we're going to go for.
00:05:04.000Some people said maybe FDA, HHS, let's roll.
00:05:06.000Quote, The safety and health of all Americans is the most important role of any administration, and HHS will play a big role in helping ensure that everybody will be protected from harmful chemicals, pollutants, pesticides, pharmaceutical products, and food additives that have contributed to the overwhelming health crisis in this country.
00:05:23.000Trump said in a post on X, And here we go.
00:07:07.000So you can't actually, like, HHS doesn't spend that much money on other stuff, and you're not going to be able to do anything about the mandatory spending without serious legislation, which Trump is It's
00:08:05.000Yeah, he was talking about yellow dye, and he's like, this is a coal byproduct that is used to make a yellow dye that doesn't need to be in food.
00:08:12.000And so I bet that—whose is that, that Mountain Dew right there?
00:08:59.000And his whole point was like, hey, let's start here.
00:09:01.000If it doesn't need to be in the food, don't put it in the food.
00:09:04.000So the other day, Allison was on Instacart looking for heavy cream because I don't know if she's making croissants or something that eats cream.
00:09:46.000But then if you start to pursue that line of argument from a more maybe right wing perspective where it's like, well, we probably shouldn't be polluting our population because we want people to be healthy, because when people are healthy and well adjusted, they probably are not so anxious and scared all the time.
00:10:00.000You don't have types of people that wind up in like the Antifa mug shots.
00:10:02.000I mean, there's a reason they all look the same.
00:10:04.000These are like fundamentally maladjusted people.
00:10:06.000And it's because of these kinds of chemicals, which is why none of these articles are talking about that except for to make him sound crazy.
00:10:12.000They're highlighting the skepticism about they're saying he's an anti-vaxxer and things of that nature to, you know, sort of, I guess, squeeze the last fear or panic out of that like covid kind of, you know, divide that we had in this country.
00:10:34.000They want people unhappy because well-adjusted people with happy lives and happy families that feel fulfilled, they are not revolutionaries.
00:10:42.000If you are happy, you do not want to tear society down to rebuild it in your image or in a way that you think will be more fair in distribution.
00:10:53.000So I appreciate you making that point, sir.
00:10:55.000And this is, by the way, the history of how communism works, too.
00:10:58.000I mean, if you look even in, like, the Russian Civil War and the Russian Revolution, the first thing they did was open up the prisons, recruit all of the people who are criminals.
00:11:06.000Like, you're never going to sell a system of equality to people who are more or less capable of being independent, productive members of society, which is why there's that one type of person.
00:11:15.000You know, you can have liberal friends and relatives who are maybe a Yes.
00:11:20.000Those Antifa mug shots, there's a reason they all look that way.
00:11:23.000It's a biological phenomenon because largely of what we're ingesting, and that's what RFK is going to fix.
00:11:56.000They do mention urban legends, but a systematic review of the medical literature concluded that among patients with asthma, research has shown that exposure to tartrazine does not worsen symptoms and avoidance of tartrazine does not improve symptoms.
00:12:06.000However, due to the paucity of evidence, it's not possible.
00:12:09.000So I don't know why they even included that.
00:12:25.000If you pull up right now Donald Trump's Wikipedia page versus Adolf Hitler's Wikipedia page, I swear to God, you read Hitler's Wikipedia page and it states things about him, but there's no moralizing language.
00:12:35.000It's just like, he did this and you can read that and be like, well, maybe that wasn't so good.
00:12:38.000If you read Trump's Wikipedia page, it's actually written less charitably than the one for Hitler.
00:12:43.000It uses these very just, oh, he did this defrauding these people and making it very contemporary so you know that you can't like anything about him.
00:12:53.000Yeah, so when you search and you look up Tartrazine on Science Direct, they have a study saying hyperactivity, asthma, rhinitis, urticaria, and atopic dermatitis.
00:13:03.000And the rhinitis was the one that we pulled up, because when this story first broke and he came out, it was all in the Wikipedia.
00:14:10.000I mean, your hormones affect literally everything about you.
00:14:12.000If you look at, like, symptoms of low testosterone in men, the soy boys, like, you are depressed, you have low energy, you are...
00:14:18.000Even the way your physicality develops, you look more androgynous.
00:14:21.000I mean, you look the way that, like, Zoomers look compared to Millennials or Gen Xer men, the women, everyone's sort of morphing into these, like, androgynous blob creatures because the hormones are just totally imbalanced because the estrogen in the tap water...
00:14:33.000You've got the atrazine and other endocrine disruptors in the food, things of that nature, because of pesticides, even the packaging.
00:14:39.000And phthalates, PCBs, and Mountain Dew.
00:15:07.000But we always, you know, what I've been doing, and we've been doing this for like a couple years now, we just, we typically avoid ingredients that are just, if we don't know what it is.
00:15:17.000It's like, I don't know what that is, I'm not going to eat it.
00:16:33.000Over a long enough period of time, eventually everybody is all messed up and their brains don't work, even though it was only one thing that was tainted.
00:16:40.000Then you come in and ask them, what should we do and how should we run things?
00:16:45.000Once you get to half of the people who have consumed something that's rotted their brain and body and they can't think properly, you cannot run a system effectively.
00:16:54.000And it also kills the drug pharmacy like you show the pharmacy folks and the medical industry in general.
00:16:59.000Oh yeah, and then won't someone think of the jobs?
00:17:36.000He is not a Democrat, but he is aligned very much with Democrats in opposition to Donald Trump.
00:17:41.000He has now actively called for the weaponization of the DOJ against Donald Trump's appointees, who are accused of nothing other than being his appointees.
00:17:52.000I know you'll hear smears about Matt Gaetz and young women.
00:17:57.000The DOJ dropped those, stating there was no evidence.
00:18:00.000If you want to bring something up, the DOJ already dropped it.
00:18:13.000This is John Bolton saying the DOJ is a tool of the political establishment to go after their political opponents, and that's it.
00:18:20.000They have been backed into a corner, and they've become so desperate, the only thing they can do now is openly say, this is what we do, this is why we do it.
00:18:29.000Donald Trump wants to appoint two people they don't like, so he says, use the government as a weapon against them.
00:18:38.000I mean, they're saying it openly, but that's something that's been the norm for, I mean, at least since Lois Lerner and the IRS, you know, the Obama administration sending the IRS after him.
00:18:51.000So I think that it's probably been the norm since the Obama administration.
00:18:55.000It was clearly the norm that the DOJ was, even Trump's DOJ was against him, because it's not just who's in charge, it's the upper levels of the bureaucracy.
00:19:08.000They don't all share the same opinions.
00:19:09.000But there's enough people in the upper levels of all of the bureaucracies where they will continue to function as if they are opposed to anyone that would look to make substantive changes.
00:19:25.000And I don't think that it's not really a surprise or in question.
00:19:31.000So it's clear that Donald Trump has a mandate to clean out the The vestiges of that deep state, whatever you want to call it, the entrenched bureaucracy, the blob, clear out the vestiges that are anti-American and that are actually aligned against the American people.
00:19:53.000They've made it clear that the DOJ considers people that are called quote-unquote patriots, people that are constitutionalists, people that would limit the power of the bureaucracy.
00:20:26.000And he's more or less like campaigning on doing exactly what he did in his first administration in regards to foreign policy, which was actually very successful.
00:20:32.000I mean, We always say, you know, he didn't start any new wars, and that's true, but he also reduced our presence in the Middle East.
00:20:38.000He set up the timeline to get us out of Afghanistan.
00:20:40.000He broke from establishment orthodoxy with the regime change program in Syria, where we were trying to topple Assad's regime.
00:20:46.000And of course, you know, the media ran with that and said that this is Trump's gift to Moscow because Putin was aligned with the Assad regime and things of that nature.
00:20:52.000But it is so incredible, and I don't think Trump gets enough credit.
00:20:55.000You know, it's not enough to say he didn't start any new wars.
00:20:58.000To get up on a debate stage with Jeb Bush and say...
00:21:02.000Actually, your brother didn't keep us safe.
00:21:04.000The Twin Towers came down under your brother.
00:21:07.000And Jeb Bush, before he says that, if you remember in that debate, I think in maybe February 2016, and he was booed for this, by the way, by the donors and the special interests.
00:21:17.000No, he was booed for this at the time because he had mentioned after Jeb Bush said, well, my brother kept us safe because he constructed a national security apparatus.
00:21:25.000And what did that security apparatus end up doing but targeting the very patriots, like you said, who actually voted the Bush family into power three times?
00:21:33.000And so Trump was able to do away with all of that and break free from it in a way that was just impossible.
00:21:38.000I mean, if you had said that as any other Republican, it would have been political suicide.
00:21:41.000And until Trump, your level of Republicanism was measured by, like, outspoken support for the wars in the Middle East.
00:23:20.000I've installed my family into the RNC. These are now who I am appointing.
00:23:24.000And you are either going to side with me and vote yes or you are going to demonstrate that you are disloyal.
00:23:28.000You are a disloyal R and I'm going to have to teach you how to win.
00:23:31.000And so it's an effective mechanism, I think, for finding out who's going to be loyal to him and who's not and how that affects his administration.
00:23:37.000So everyone's talking about recess appointments.
00:23:39.000We've got this article from the Daily Wire.
00:23:40.000This is how recess appointments work and how they could help Trump fill his cabinet.
00:23:44.000One potential workaround is the president's constitutional authority to adjourn both chambers of Congress, and when they're adjourned, he can appoint in recess.
00:23:51.000I don't know that he's going to have to do that.
00:23:53.000I think there's a decent probability he does, but I'd say right now my estimate is probably two to one he doesn't have to do this.
00:23:59.000I think that from what we've heard so far, Trump cut deals for these appointees.
00:24:05.000So he's announcing this stuff and people are losing their minds.
00:24:09.000I'll say this about Matt Gaetz because we mentioned it yesterday on the members only show.
00:24:14.000Everyone's acting like this is the apocalypse, all the Democrats, the neocons.
00:24:18.000I think Trump probably cut a deal with Congress.
00:25:46.000Look, there's no way that we're going into this next administration and all of Trump's nominations get kicked back.
00:25:55.000And Trump has chosen nuclear bombs in Tulsi Gabbard, in Gates, in RFK Jr., So either he's going to get his confirmations because he's cut deals already, or Reese's appointments, and he gets them anyway.
00:26:10.000Just on your point about it was the best thing, I think it was great for the American people that Trump did lose in 2020.
00:26:37.000Do you guys remember who it was who said that they think sometimes we need terror attacks because then it reminds people, you know, like what the security state does for them?
00:27:02.000People vote for Democrats when they think everything's fine, and then Democrats burn it to the ground, and they go, ah, help Republicans, and then Republicans have to come back in and clean things up.
00:27:09.000And that's not necessarily completely true.
00:27:13.000And, you know, if you go back to the 2000s, I mean, the Iraq War, Afghanistan was an absolute disaster.
00:27:18.000But I'm curious, your thoughts, John, because Donald Trump using racist appointments is, it's within his powers, but it's a very, very strong executive action, right?
00:27:30.000Yeah, I mean, I think that that's what people would like to see, at least in the base, is some sort of, I hate to use the word balls, but that's what people want.
00:27:37.000I mean, people lament the first Trump administration.
00:27:39.000They think it wasn't as fruitful as it should have been, which I understand.
00:27:42.000And I think that they are aligning themselves such that they should be able to do that.
00:27:45.000Because, I mean, you look at somebody like RFK, Tulsi Gabbard, these are not like staunch, you know, good old boy type conservatives.
00:27:51.000They should be able to be installed into these positions.
00:27:54.000And so, yeah, I wouldn't be opposed to that.
00:27:57.000move and i think that he's effectively assembling this team whether it's like you know vance rfk elon all of these different people who are not matching the purity tests of people online necessarily but who are each in their own way very strongly equipped to be able to dismantle every component of leftist power like you look at how the left maintains power in this country it's because of things like immigration it's because of things like elections because of things like health because of things like things like elections oh yeah we like elections right i love elections
00:28:25.000i'm the biggest election fan ever but sometimes you know with immigration for example the way that's like they had to be in charge in 2020 so that um trump's deadline for the amnesty thing could get messed up or uh the census having a question right on uh whether or not you are a citizen they delayed that in the courts then finally by the time it could have passed the deadline um had already passed and so it was too late and so that's why it's very important that we're in charge in 2030 for the same reason because then you have illegal aliens who are residing in these states their numbers are inflated they have more congressional power they now have more power in terms of the electoral college.
00:29:21.000That creates extra congressional seats and extra electoral college votes.
00:29:26.000Now, here's the important thing to understand.
00:29:28.000Donald Trump is not legally the president-elect.
00:29:33.000The president-elect happens because we don't operate on a popular vote in this country.
00:29:37.000He is president-elect when Congress, I should say Democrats, when Congress men and women count the electoral votes and say the winner is Trump.
00:29:47.000From that point on January 6th until the 20th, two weeks, he is president-elect.
00:29:53.000Right now we just call him president-elect because we consider the popular vote to be the deciding factor because then the electoral college happens.
00:30:02.000So the important distinction right now is if Democrats allow in, let's say, 1.5 million illegal immigrants and they bring them to a sanctuary state, that state will get two extra congressional seats and two extra votes for president.
00:30:48.000If the Republicans can enact federal citizenship requirements, proof of citizenship requirements, and some type of voter ID, that may be it, Democrats are going to lose in 2028.
00:31:04.000I should clarify, I'm not anti-election.
00:31:07.000What I meant by that is exactly as you said, I think only two states that Democrats won in 2024 require photo ID to vote.
00:31:13.000Like they benefit when there are very loose election laws and anybody can vote because those people tend to vote more for Democrats because they want free stuff.
00:31:20.000And like you said, when the free stuff goes away, they tend to leave.
00:31:23.000And so I think we have like four years here to stop the bleeding because there's obviously going to be a counterattack in 2028.
00:31:28.000They're one amnesty away from permanent control of the federal government because, you know, illegal aliens who are now going to be citizens will vote 80 percent for Democrats.
00:31:37.000And so we sort of have like this window of time to cut all of those problems, immigration, election security, things of that nature, so that when a Democrat, if a Democrat gets back into office, they can't just undo everything and hit the kill switch.
00:32:02.000If the Republicans do not get a handle on illegal immigration, this is it.
00:32:07.000I mean, winning this time was very important because if the Republicans didn't win the way they did, then Democrats would enshrine all of this stuff and you'd never have a Republican win again.
00:32:54.000Normally, I'd say, OK, here's a normal scenario.
00:32:57.000Democrats need to stop pandering to fringe groups.
00:33:01.000They need to adopt an authentic identity.
00:33:03.000They're going to need to actually look at what's popular in this country based on polling and adopt those policies.
00:33:08.000The Democrat Party will have to adapt.
00:33:10.000So what they could do is they could say, OK. We're going to be moderate.
00:33:15.000We've got to have some restrictions on abortion.
00:33:17.000We've got to get rid of the weird woke stuff when it pertains to gender and race.
00:33:20.000And we're going to go economic populist, slightly left leaning, make your health care cheaper and more available, protect your Social Security, things like that.
00:33:28.000We're going to deal with climate change.
00:33:41.000If they embrace it, the same problem happens.
00:33:44.000Now, that being said, I think the problem is sort of self-correcting because if you look at AOC's X account, she lost 150,000 followers this month.
00:33:53.000All of the liberals are – there's a purge of far leftists.
00:34:06.000Now they're having their exodus to blue sky, proving the exodus to threads didn't work.
00:34:10.000And what's going to happen is default liberals are going to be hanging out on X and there will be zero influence from the woke because they all ran away screaming.
00:34:19.000They will isolate themselves, become a fringe party.
00:34:22.000The Democrat will be forced to adapt in four years as an eternity in politics.
00:34:27.000We may see something in twenty twenty eight.
00:34:29.000I don't think so because they have no backbench.
00:34:32.000AOC is trying to moderate a little bit, likely not going to work.
00:34:35.000She could maybe pop up, but the wokeness is too just it's not good.
00:34:40.000So I don't see a path for them in 2028 right now.
00:34:44.000But then again, in a year, in six months, something will change and we'll say, ah, we didn't know what we didn't know.
00:34:49.000And then we'll see how they could maybe have a path to victory.
00:34:52.000Yeah, I mean, these people really are true believers.
00:34:54.000And the people who would be in positions to make those calls, like the swamp elders, they're going to continually lose that fight to the ascendant theater kid class because they're the activist base.
00:35:05.000And they view all of this just to be a vindication of what they believe, which is that, well, we actually are secretly controlled by a white supremacist state, which is why Trump is back in.
00:35:13.000So we really actually just need to dig our heels in even deeper.
00:35:16.000And I think they just think it's a numbers game where it's like, okay, we let in 10 million people, we just have to get in the position to amnesty one more time, and then we're good, and it's over.
00:35:24.000And we're losing, like, what, 2.5 million baby boomers every year?
00:35:58.000So the argument that they're moving people from the border to purple states in order to turn them blue, that's the goal, and they're doing it on the taxpayer dime, that is all true.
00:36:09.000You can go to the Department of Health and Human Services website and you can see the policy itself.
00:36:16.000Like I said, it's called the Refugee Resettlement Program.
00:36:19.000So whenever they say, oh, well, people are here for asylum, they want people to come...
00:36:24.000And claim asylum so they can use the refugee resettlement program to move them around.
00:36:30.000It's not just, oh, they're coming in illegally.
00:36:32.000They want people to come in and all they have to do is say, I'm looking for asylum.
00:36:37.000And it doesn't matter if they're actually legitimate, which is why they accept anybody from any country, even though an asylum seeker is supposed to stop at the first safe country that they get to.
00:36:49.000Every single person that comes through Mexico that says, I want to seek asylum, they should have stopped in Mexico because Mexico is a safe country.
00:36:57.000So they absolutely are lying about who is coming and what they're doing.
00:37:02.000Let's jump to this next story from Mediaite.
00:39:30.000She says, Whether you believe that Americans embraced President-elect Donald Trump's misogynistic, racist, bullying persona because they misunderstood what he stood for, or because they liked what he stood for, or because they believed falsely the economy was in recession, or because they could not afford to buy their own home, or because of some combination of all these, we cannot ignore the success of right-wing media's disinformation or because of some combination of all these, we cannot ignore the success of right-wing media's disinformation network in shaping Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Inquirer put it succinctly.
00:39:57.000The things that pundits have been talking about since Tuesday, an economy that hasn't worked for the working class at the time of Ronald Reagan, anxieties among white voters about potential end to white privilege and patriarchy, But nothing mattered more than this.
00:40:09.000Donald Trump was returned to power by the most badly informed electorate in modern American history.
00:40:14.000She goes on to say, in the right-wing media's world, the economy's in shambles.
00:41:03.000Ezra Klein goes and talks to people and they're like, I'm dealing with crime.
00:41:07.000I talked to a guy from Chicago and he said the area that he's in just north of downtown, there are 13 year old gangbangers shooting up stores.
00:41:16.000And it's like, I've never seen it this bad.
00:41:37.000Economy's a big thing on their factors.
00:41:39.000If they were big on polls and that lady, Jennifer Rubin, should have listened to the polls and would have known that that's why people voted for Trump.
00:41:45.000Like, I have a Democrat family who live in Pennsylvania, and they see immigration's a huge deal for them, economy's a huge deal for them, and they voted for Trump.
00:41:54.000Black voters in Chicago, there was a community gathering where they said, we are being replaced.
00:42:54.000At the beginning of the Biden administration when the actual line was that prices were going up because corporations were colluding to do it to turn the people against Joe Biden because he was in the pocket of all these corporations.
00:43:09.000It's just fascinating to me that if you read the Washington Post and New York Times exclusively and you watch MSNBC, you are in a paranoid, delusional state.
00:43:17.000Yeah, you can find like the most fringe right-wing theories and it's going to be something like, I think the elites are up to stuff that they probably shouldn't be up to.
00:45:30.000You've got the view saying don't go to your families for Thanksgiving.
00:45:36.000Huffington Post wrote an article saying, my husband and his family voted for Trump, so I'm skipping the holidays.
00:45:41.000That is the weird psycho cult saying, stay away from your friends and family.
00:45:46.000They're the ones giving you bad information, claiming it's good.
00:45:50.000Then they're claiming it's Alex Jones who's got you trapped in a cult.
00:45:53.000Yeah, I think he even got it wrong in 2016.
00:45:55.000And then he had to explain it by saying, well, actually, my model predicts the popular vote.
00:46:00.000And since Hillary won, technically, I'm still right.
00:46:01.000So he's had to, like, explain himself walking into walls like two or three times now.
00:46:05.000And like you said, I mean, if you read the keys, it's just like an interesting set of heuristics.
00:46:09.000And yeah, you could go back and apply it to every election since the Civil War, which I think is what he's done.
00:46:13.000And this guy probably makes a very handsome salary to get wheeled out every four years and go on MSNBC and do his little segment about how the Democrats predicted to win.
00:46:21.000And I have this Forbidden knowledge and skeleton key, but he has no idea what he's talking about because if anybody who is aligned with reality applies his model, it shows that Trump is going to win.
00:46:30.000There was even, I think on MSNBC, there was this female economist who has a model for predicting recession.
00:46:35.000It has something to do with the three-month change in unemployment over the absolute rate or something.
00:46:40.000And every time that number has been a certain figure, we have been in a recession.
00:46:44.000And so they had her on because that number was showing we are in a recession.
00:46:49.000Well, actually, it's different now because we're waiting for the Biden policies to take effect, but we're getting close, so we have to go out and vote.
00:46:57.000And so it's like, okay, if you're that woman, are you really concerned about integrity or do you want to keep your nice MSNBC contributor job and just lie?
00:47:05.000So, real quick, Nate Silver, I've mentioned this three times in the past show, but Nate Silver said, when I was putting out information, it gave me a sample of how Republicans and Democrats react to news and elections.
00:47:17.000Republicans are happy if you agree with them on some things.
00:47:20.000Democrats are mad if you don't agree with them on everything.
00:47:33.000Yeah, I think because, you know, the people, it doesn't matter what the figures say, their perception is going to inform how they choose to vote.
00:47:41.000I didn't want you to stick the pitbulls on me if I cut you off or anything.
00:47:46.000People were experiencing, I mean, a majority of Americans were saying, I think we're in a recession, and that model said we're in a recession.
00:47:52.000And if you look at every election in the last 60 years or so, every time the country has had a presidential election while there was a recession, the incumbent party lost that.
00:48:01.000Because whether or not it's their fault, people are experiencing the economy and the grass is always a little bit greener.
00:48:06.000And so that was what it was looking like going into this.
00:48:08.000It's like, OK, Trump's going to win just based on that alone.
00:48:53.000The fact that they managed to slow inflation down, that's a good thing that I think that maybe the administration can take credit for, but that doesn't mean that they weren't responsible for what caused the inflation in the first place.
00:49:05.000You can have a booming economy that doesn't have the major effects of inflation because you have increased the money supply, but you have to have that kind of pro-business, Pro-growth policy.
00:49:19.000And the Democrats have never had that.
00:49:21.000The left has always had a policy, or at least in the past 20 years, has had policies that say we need to cut back.
00:49:27.000We need to shrink because we can't use too much energy.
00:49:31.000We have to worry about global warming.
00:49:32.000We have to worry about the environment.
00:49:34.000We have to worry about all of these things that are inconsequential to everyday Americans and that have a massive impact on the economy when you regulate for these things.
00:49:48.000I want to show some statements that...
00:49:50.000The New York Times is getting a lot of attention right now because they've been tracking these 13 undecided voters and they followed up with who they voted for and why.
00:49:58.000Democrats are losing their minds and refusing to accept it.
00:50:01.000So there's a few that—so one guy says he voted for Trump in 2020.
00:53:14.000At least that's what we're hearing now.
00:53:16.000And everyone just believed because they said they did it was true.
00:53:20.000So the fake news website that literally makes jokes claimed that The Onion purchased Infowars, which may be a joke, and Reuters runs with it.
00:54:44.000They're standing on the shoulders of giants, and they think that they're flying.
00:54:47.000Like, the last time anybody in this room heard about The Onion is because they're talking about InfoWars and Alex Jones, and it's like, what are you going to—oh, wow, the Alex Jones InfoWars parody?
00:56:24.000Yeah, it's the same way that they went after Douglas Mackey, Ricky Vaughn for posting the same memes that I think Jimmy Kimmel was reciting on air, you know, making jokes about, oh, if you want to vote for Trump, vote on Friday.
00:56:38.000That was one of the first things the Biden DOJ did is they go after Ricky Vaughn because Ricky Vaughn's Twitter, I should say Douglas Mackey, who's raising money right now for his legal defense.
00:56:45.000They go after this guy because his Twitter account was so effective and influential in 2016 because it was fun.
00:56:51.000And it's like the same thing with Alex Jones where he says some things that are pretty outlandish, but because of that, everybody knows who he is.
00:58:21.000But then Alex Jones, the guy who's apparently so evil and so stupid, he comes in and everyone's like, it's like, you know, a rock star walked in.
00:59:46.000Once you see through the hoax, there's no going back.
00:59:48.000I also think there's a large portion of default libs who are raiding the onion and other things just to fit in.
00:59:54.000They didn't actually know what was cool or what was in style or what they're supposed to do.
00:59:58.000So they were just marching in lockstep.
01:00:00.000It's like a chicken with its head cut off.
01:00:02.000Now that the election has shown them the popular movement is Donald Trump and the Republicans, they're rushing over to the other side being like, I was hanging out here the whole time.
01:00:10.000That's definitely because they immediately after Trump won in 2016 started the popular vote line of argument trying to delegitimize him and discredit him for being the president.
01:00:18.000But now it's like he has the popular mandate.
01:00:20.000He won the Electoral College by a lot.
01:00:22.000He picked up votes this time and he won the popular vote.
01:00:36.000Yeah, I mean, there are plenty of people that had, you know, apprehension about voting for Trump, that there are plenty of people that didn't vote for Trump or stayed home because they didn't, you know, because they believe the things that the media has been saying.
01:00:49.000I mean, but when you if you listen to very mainstream voices, not left.
01:00:55.000Owned properties, but like the All In podcast, right?
01:00:58.000Like the guys that are on that, they're very mainstream dudes.
01:01:07.000Chamath was saying that one of the things that really woke him up was he believed all of the narrative that he was told about Donald Trump for a long, long time.
01:01:26.000And that's something that most honest people, if they're actually movable and actually do have an honest perspective where they can say, all right, new information will actually change my opinion.
01:01:39.000If they hear that, when they hear that, when they hear Donald Trump say, not the Nazis, not the white supremacists, they should be condemned totally.
01:01:46.000When they hear that, they immediately feel...
01:02:15.000So Seamus and I... Seamus is a hundred million times funnier than I am, but sometimes when he's here and we're brainstorming...
01:02:21.000So when he made his latest cartoon for Freedom Tunes, not today, it's the one where Trump comes back and then he sends a mean tweet and it puts all the liberals in crystals.
01:02:29.000I said, you should do a thing where it's like an after credit scene where like 10,000 years later it shows Kamala cracking out and then we all laughed and he was like, I'm going to do it.
01:02:36.000And then he basically makes that version of it.
01:02:38.000And then we worked together on the Fauci and Trump in Mount Doom with coronavirus in the Wuhan wet market.
01:03:45.000The exaggerated truth here is that they're trying to say that the right wants Ten Commandments in schools, so they want to put it in the womb because babies and abortion.
01:04:52.000Don Lemon writing Broadway musical about leaving X. So what I would describe as the difference between the Babylon being the onion is that you understand the point being made in the exaggeration.
01:05:03.000And so I'll give the onion credit on the abortion Ten Commandments one because I get the point they're trying to make, but they're mashing two different things together, the Ten Commandments in schools and abortion.
01:05:12.000So it's like, okay, I see what you're trying to do there.
01:05:14.000All right, that's not an F, it's a D. What we're seeing with the Babylon Bee and their jokes is their jokes make a direct reference to a thing and then exaggerate it for comedic effect.
01:05:25.000Appalling, new Trump appointee has zero experience being useless government bureaucrat.
01:05:28.000Right, they're saying Trump is appointing people with actual experience and not bureaucracy.
01:05:33.000I don't know what happened to The Onion, but I'll give you my theory.
01:05:48.000The onion is like if we ever step out of lockstep with the with the approved opinions of the Democratic Party, we will get canceled.
01:05:56.000That's why the joke doesn't mean Trump boys have slap fight over who gets to run foreign policy meetings, can't veer off into any negative territory.
01:06:03.000It's not going to insult any racial groups.
01:06:05.000It's not going to insult any religious groups or anything like that.
01:06:08.000The only thing that they can do is insult Christians.
01:06:10.000That's not going to survive as a culture.
01:06:15.000Even to be funny, you have to have like very low levels of neuroticism.
01:06:20.000And unfortunately, leftists all have very high levels of neuroticism.
01:06:24.000And so I don't even know if they can perceive or experience humor the way that normal people can.
01:06:29.000Like it can only be funny for them if an approved target is the butt end of the joke.
01:06:33.000I think what we're seeing with the Democratic Party is that there's a bell curve of intelligence, and they are on the back end of it.
01:06:39.000Maybe intelligence is the wrong word, because some of these people are good puzzle solvers, but being a good puzzle solver doesn't help you understand other human beings.
01:06:47.000So there's something about Democrats where they lack higher-ordered thinking.
01:06:52.000You know, give them a Rubik's Cube, maybe they can solve it, but explain to them beyond step one, and they're lost.
01:07:02.000If you're going to start a comedy brand to mock InfoWars on the right, you're going to build up from the ground up and direct your audience to this.
01:07:11.000You'll spend $15 on a domain name, you'll spend $50 on some hosting, and then you'll hire some staff, set a budget for $10,000 for the first month, make some articles, then say, hey, Onion readers, check out our satirical website over here.
01:07:24.000Spending tens of millions of dollars or accruing debt to the tune of tens of millions of dollars for buying InfoWars...
01:07:31.000Is the stupidest thing imaginable because the question then becomes, what's step two?
01:07:35.000And they're like, I don't know, but step three is profit.
01:08:23.000I think there are levels, too, because I'm sure my Democrat family, which a couple are watching right now, will have Thanksgiving dinner and Christmas dinner with me.
01:08:52.000If you want to elaborate on why that's justification for allowing, I don't know, Kamala Harris to open the border, for the economy to be in its crappy state, for boys and girls' bathrooms.
01:09:02.000I mean, Trump being mean is not an excuse to allow bad things to happen to other people.
01:09:12.000We're going to jump to this story from The Hill.
01:09:15.000Eva Longoria says she and her family have moved out of dystopian U.S. So I don't know if they published it already, probably when I was on Yes or No with Michael Knowles.
01:09:25.000One of the questions was, I don't know if it was about celebrities, but it was like, do you think people actually flee the country?
01:10:15.000I know it costs something, but if you're really committed, if you really actually believe...
01:10:20.000That the United States is over, and that it's going to become a fascist country, and there's no turning back now, and Donald Trump is never going to leave office, and Barron's going to be the emperor after Donald Trump dies.
01:10:31.000If that's what you actually buy, why would you even worry about coming back?
01:10:35.000You'd renounce your citizenship, say, I don't want to pay taxes to Hitler II. Literal Hitler.
01:12:11.000And they're just going to say something else, some other kind of BS, some kind of other lies that the TV's going to tell them to repeat and regurgitate.
01:12:18.000Do you think anybody else is going to leave?
01:12:32.000And they're gonna go ahead and they're gonna talk about it on social media so that way they get, you know, pats on the back from all the people that hate Donald Trump and they can say, look at how good of a person I am.
01:12:42.000I'm too good of a person to live in America.
01:12:44.000Because remember, I've said this multiple times this past week.
01:12:52.000They believe that America is not good enough for them.
01:12:55.000They believe that they are better than the average American.
01:12:58.000They believe that the average American deserves what they deserve, what they're going to get because of Donald Trump, when literally they actually do deserve the things that Donald Trump is going to provide for them.
01:13:13.000But it's not because they're bad people and it's not because it's going to be bad things.
01:13:17.000But the average leftist believes that mankind needs to be remade.
01:13:22.000They believe that the organizational structures of our country are inherently bad.
01:13:28.000They believe that from day one we've been a racist country and that we've always been bad and all of the negative things.
01:13:35.000If you listen to the narrative that they spew about America...
01:13:57.000And then it went to Hillary Clinton with the deplorables.
01:14:00.000And then Joe Biden called everybody, you know, said that the...
01:14:05.000MAGA Republicans are a threat to the very soul of the country, and then he called us garbage, and that is just the people, the leaders, never mind all the things that the senators and leftist senators and congresspeople have said, how many times they've said that the United States is a bad place and that the American people are inherently racist and you should feel shame and you should feel bad.
01:14:36.000I mean, he is a Manhattan real estate developer, reality TV show star, Playboy.
01:14:41.000I mean, he is what Europeans always thought Americans are, which are they have to do everything in excess, everything's larger than life, and they're very crass sometimes with their language.
01:16:30.000I remember in 2015, reading tweets from these people, like when Trump would win a caucus or do well in a poll, they would literally tweet out like...
01:16:38.000I'm glad that they all stopped taking opiates for a second to go to the polls or something.
01:16:42.000Like, all these people who claim to be flag-waving patriots, I support the Iraq war, whatever, they finally, for the first time in their entire lives, have to be challenged on these positions from the right, where Trump comes along and says, wait a minute, why are we allowing for the mass importation of people?
01:16:55.000Why are we over there in the Middle East?
01:17:02.000And they get to be on mainstream news programs to do so.
01:17:04.000But Trump comes along and he says, wait a minute, why are you doing this?
01:17:06.000And then he's got all this energy online on Twitter.
01:17:09.000And all these people are like ratioing these journalists and these commentators and just making them cry.
01:17:13.000And they literally like bullied these people into exposing how much hatred they have on both the left and the right for just normal Americans.
01:17:20.000And once you see it, you can never unsee it.
01:17:25.000Yeah, I mean, it's something that the American people have noticed.
01:17:30.000And I think that that's a big part of the reason why, you know, people have moved, not just when it comes to Donald Trump, but like, across the board, there was a large right shift.
01:17:55.000There are people that are going to go ahead and be like, oh no, well I need to make these changes and I need to say the right things.
01:18:01.000But people that have a little bit less agreeableness and people that are a little more comfortable with being disagreeable are going to say, no, I'm not.
01:18:10.000Because genuinely, I don't think these things.
01:18:13.000Like, when they're like, oh, you're racist and you're bad.
01:18:14.000It's like, I long ago stopped worrying about when people call me those things because I know that I'm not racist.
01:18:22.000I don't hate people based on the color of their skin or whatever.
01:18:25.000And I'm not going to ascribe to your newfangled mentality That's the definition of power plus privilege.
01:18:32.000I grew up in a middle class family and that's a true thing.
01:18:39.000So the idea that I'm going to allow someone to tell me that I should feel bad or I'm going to feel bad because someone says, oh, well, you're this kind of oppressor.
01:18:49.000And it's like, no, I reject that totally.
01:18:51.000And I don't feel bad for rejecting it either.
01:18:54.000And that circles back to the health thing where it's like you can spread these victim narratives and it works really well for different interest groups but also for just recruiting in general because if you have people who are like hormonally maladjusted and they are experiencing depression and anxiety they can't even get through the day they're like Kamala Harris where they have to medicate themselves like those are people who are going to hear that that signal for hey Mm
01:20:35.000You know, I almost selfishly am glad that she's still in, because I know a lot of, like, older Republican voters who, if you say Nancy Pelosi's name in their house, I mean, that really, like, lights a fire in their belly.
01:20:46.000So it's almost better that you've got, like, years of just pent-up rage just down at...
01:20:51.000Nancy Pelosi, and we can use that to get us over the line in the second Trump administration.
01:20:55.000There's an interesting phenomenon happening right now, because I mentioned this earlier in the week.
01:21:00.000I was ragging on MSNBC and CNN, and then I realized something.
01:21:04.000Their key demo ratings, 70k and 90k, and I was like, wow.
01:21:09.000David Pakman and Brian Tyler Cohen, they get substantially more views in the key demo.
01:21:14.000Why are we talking about these people?
01:21:18.000The issue then is similar with Nancy Pelosi.
01:21:21.000We talk about her, not because she's maintained power, but it's because she's the known Democrat Political rival.
01:21:29.000Like you were saying, these older Republicans, they know her name.
01:22:03.000There was a time where it seemed like it was going to be the squad, but I think that with the way that the American people are kind of rejecting the far left...
01:22:52.000I mean, that's what happens with anybody in the whole world, the United States of America, the whole world of the United States of America, is when you get off the Democratic plantation and start paying attention to middle-of-the-ground conservative right-leaning people who actually make sense of what they're saying.
01:26:58.000We've seen what his administration looks like.
01:27:01.000People are like, okay, this is actually pretty good.
01:27:03.000So it just doesn't work the way that it used to.
01:27:05.000I was in Madison Square for the rally, and I was walking around all day in a MAGA hat.
01:27:09.000I got nothing but high fives and support, and obviously, you know, we're not flipping New York, but you couldn't walk around that city in 2016 with a MAGA head.
01:28:23.000This is the self-selection bias for women in media.
01:28:26.000They're more like the radicalized women are more likely to get jobs in media because they're not going to have families.
01:28:32.000They're more likely to then write and express their worldview, which exacerbates wokeness and then just destroys industry and the Democratic Party.
01:28:40.000So I guess you can just say wokeness was the greatest gift to Republicans.
01:28:44.000It has ripped the Democratic Party in half.
01:28:47.000And in 10 years time, Democrats have destroyed themselves.
01:28:52.000I hope that we can pull it off and dismantle it because I do fear the counterattack.
01:28:56.000I mean, there's no way that they're going to just sit on their hands.
01:28:58.000I think they understood that they were getting themselves into something highly disadvantageous with Kamala, which is why you had, you know, the Washington Post suddenly deciding they're not going to endorse a candidate for the first time ever or something or for the first time in like the century.
01:29:10.000You had all these different instances that just should not have existed given the stakes of the election where Trump is a convicted felon.
01:29:16.000He has all these new controversies or whatever.
01:29:18.000But people seem to more or less be conceding that Kamala was not going to win, which is why even I think she got turned down by eight or nine prospective VPs, which would never happen.
01:29:29.000Oh yeah, Gavin Newsom, Gretchen Whitmer, the political talent, to the extent that it does exist on the left, all of a sudden they don't want to hitch their wagon to that.
01:29:36.000She had to go with Tim Walsh, who, you know, that was a disaster.
01:29:39.000So yeah, no one was really confident about that.
01:29:41.000What do you think the counterattack might be?
01:29:47.000I think it's mass immigration, a pathway to citizenship like Elizabeth Warren was talking about, Kamala Harris was talking about, persecution of patriots.
01:29:54.000Everything that they can do to just further just clamp down and make it harder for patriots.
01:29:58.000And Trump's going to have to do the racist appointments.
01:30:28.00035 to 49 among men is just about even, but unfavorable is one point higher.
01:30:33.00050 to 64, very favorable, and 65 plus men is very favorable.
01:30:36.000Women overwhelmingly do not like Donald Trump.
01:30:39.000I think the young men are going to break out of it.
01:30:42.000Yeah, I feel like they do just because they're what their world is and like they like young ladies and they want to get with the young ladies and they watch certain news.
01:30:49.000But once they grow up, white favorability around May 27th shifted positive net positive.
01:31:19.000On the policy of mass deportation, by the way, George Bush got like, what, 39% of Hispanics and all of the neocons were like, "See, this is why we need to get this immigration stuff done and focus more on traditional family values and things that appeal to Hispanics or whatever." And then Trump runs on mass deportations and actually wins more.
01:32:25.000Yeah, she was the lowest rated VP in history, and then she gets that boost simply because they now view her as the person who will stop Donald Trump, which is why you look at the polling of Most people who voted for Trump say they're voting for Trump, not so much against Kamala.
01:33:30.000Women overwhelmingly say it should be restricted to some degree.
01:33:33.000Women overwhelmingly say it should not be restricted at all.
01:33:35.000Yeah, I mean, that's what feminism is at its core, right?
01:33:38.000Like, liberation from the reality of your sex, from biology, which is why any time women start moving towards feminism, it comes in degrees, whether it's birth control, liberation from family structure, total abortion access.
01:33:50.000Like, this is the ultimate goal of feminism as a political project, is that.
01:33:54.000Well, it's the liberation from being a woman, which is ironic considering they are supposed to be pro-woman, but it's the liberation from all of the things that make you a woman.
01:34:13.000Even 18- to 34-year-old males think it should either be illegal in most cases, legal in most cases, number one, illegal in most cases, number two, Among 18- to 34-year-old men, they're in support of restricting abortion.
01:35:46.000I don't know if this has been your experience with women, but they tend to not like accountability, and I think that abortion provides that to them because it's the get-out-of-jail-free card.
01:35:54.000They can live as they want, you know, have their little, like, girl boss phase in New York City or something, and they get ran through by all the finance guys or whatever, and then there's that get-out-of-jail-free card where it's like, I don't have to deal with the consequences of these decisions.
01:36:16.000Women aren't going to like this, but I think it's actually because we don't have a dog in the fight, we can view it more objectively and been like, should we as a matter of policy endorse this or prohibit it in our laws?
01:37:19.000Let's talk about this at the Members Only Show.
01:37:21.000So, smash that like button, share the show with everyone you know, become a member over at TimCast.com for that Members Only Call-In Show coming up in about 25 minutes.
01:38:06.000I just say, yeah, any one of those is good.
01:38:10.000I like the idea of having a test to show that you understand how our government works.
01:38:19.000I was talking to my girlfriend today, and we were talking about states' rights versus the general notion that people have that everything should be done at the federal level.
01:38:31.000It is far more important for you to be active in your state and local politics than at the federal level.
01:38:42.000And if every school, instead of having a mock election every time the president is elected, if they had a mock election based on the rules for their state when the governor was elected...
01:38:58.000If you did that for kids and you instill in children, when they're learning about how our government works and how our system works, that the states have all the powers that they need to have all the laws passed that they want.
01:39:13.000Literally, the states are empowered to pass all kinds of legislation, and that's the way that it's intended to be.
01:39:20.000The federal government has abused the necessary and proper clause and they've abused the commerce clause to the point where they're unrecognizable.
01:39:29.000But if you had kids learning things like how their own state works, because all the states have different nuances in their process and stuff, they're not exactly the same.
01:39:39.000But if you had kids do things like mock elections for their governor as opposed to a mock election for the president once every four years that kind of stuff could really instill in kids that the state is more important than the federal government when it comes to what really affects your day to day life.
01:39:55.000Yeah, the show's been preaching that message for a long time, and many folks are in the know that local elections are what matter the most for yourself, everyday lifestyle.
01:40:48.000And, yeah, Riley's great, his aunt not so much.
01:40:52.000She's in favor of red flag laws and lied about it.
01:40:54.000So maybe, I have no confidence, I really don't, that Riley could talk sense into her.
01:41:03.000So, Riley's the dude who got an estate treasurer in West Virginia and then banned ESG. Like, he just straight up stuck his neck out against all these massive corporations, and I have tremendous respect for that.
01:41:13.000I don't know why these politicians are so intent on being some weird old guard anti-humanity machine.
01:44:52.000All of your decaf UNWOKE will be half off.
01:44:56.000Because we had requests for decaf, so we made Sleepy Joe and Unwoke, and we sold them to the people who wanted them, and then people typically just do not buy decaf coffee.
01:45:05.000I'm surprised people would even buy coffee that's decaf.
01:47:00.000Rebecca Karn says, I know I'm a little too late, but to all the girls saying Korean women are doing 4B, why is there a lot of money in dating and marriage meeting services?
01:47:47.00025,642 people have logged in, signed up for Kennedy's website, and then voted for Brandon Herrera for ATF. Thank you for all the people that put that into my feed.
01:49:04.000Ben P says, take a look at the election map real quick and tell me that doesn't look like a big blue band-aid just got ripped off this country.
01:50:49.000Decision Desk and a couple others have called it.
01:50:53.000Because he's up by 24,000 right now, and so they're starting to count ballots that were sealed improperly, that the signatures don't match, the dates are wrong.
01:51:04.000They're basically just saying, no, don't care, find the votes.
01:51:07.000And that's our boy's county, Pressler.
01:52:36.000Saravia says, invaders will self-deport if employers are jailed for breaking labor laws, immigration laws, payroll tax fraud, and discrimination against citizens.
01:55:40.000Except for the Democratic Party that's cheating.
01:55:42.000Yeah, but there's like 80% of Americans, so even a lot of Democrats want it.
01:55:47.000All right, let's do this, and I'll debunk this next one.
01:55:52.000So, the Helenium says, conspiracy, 20 million missing votes equals people who voted for Biden to get their student loans forgiven, also cheating.
01:56:45.000They were mailing ballots out en masse in 2020.
01:56:48.000If you're mailing them out and then going out and harvesting them, it's much easier to...
01:56:54.000I think certain states, because I didn't get one in 2020, I got one this year because I asked for one because I listened to Trump and I wanted to go early, but it didn't come until the Saturday before the freaking election, so I took it in and got provisional.
01:57:07.000But yeah, either way, a lot of states just, if you got it in 2020, PA sent it out this year again.
01:57:14.000And lawsuits from Republicans took like hundreds of thousands of these voters off roles in various states, which is very good because I forgot who said it.
01:57:21.000Somebody who's like very smart and works in this kind of stuff had a quote that was something to the effect of like, once you cast a vote, it's very hard to undo it.
01:57:28.000And so that's sort of been like the dirty secret in politics with all of these like Democrat run cities.
01:57:33.000The DNC organizations there have been doing similar things in terms of like harvesting these ballots for a very long time.
01:57:39.000And in 2020, people just started to catch on to it.
01:58:15.000They'll try and find something, but then you just change the name to Infowars and call it the Infowars Network.
01:58:20.000That would be the funniest thing, or the funniest outcome, is if he bought MSNBC. And actually, it would be even funnier if he just left it, called MSNBC, and just had a 24-7 Alex Jones.
01:58:36.000But we're adding Alex Jones on as a panelist for every show.
01:58:39.000And he's going to be their sidecar, and he's going to have the articles, and he's going to have the iPad, and he's going to be fact-checking everything you say.
01:59:01.000Michael Knowles, look, I've never met Rachel Maddow, but Michael Knowles is extremely charismatic and extremely friendly, and Rachel Maddow doesn't come across that way, but I understand why you made the mistake.
01:59:17.000All right, we'll grab one more before we head over to that Members Only, and let's see.
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