Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - Trump To Impose 104% TARIFF On China At Midnight In NUCLEAR BOMB On Global Trade | Timcast IRL

00:01:52.000 Donald Trump will impose a 104% tariff on China, taking effect at 12.01 a.m.

00:02:01.000 Ladies and gentlemen, this is apocalyptic levels of tariffs on China.

00:02:06.000 This basically means that all these Chinese made goods in the United States, good luck getting them. 1.00

00:02:10.000 It's not just more than doubling the cost of goods imported from China.

00:02:15.000 But if any components go to China and back or any resources bounce between the two countries, it's going to be even more expensive than that.

00:02:23.000 Understand, a large portion of the products we have in the United States we do not make here.

00:02:27.000 They are made in China.

00:02:29.000 So this is an economic, a global trade nuclear bomb.

00:02:33.000 Donald Trump warned China to back down.

00:02:35.000 They said no.

00:02:35.000 He is going to nuke a large portion of their economy overnight if this takes effect.

00:02:43.000 So it's going to get big.

00:02:44.000 We'll talk about that, plus the Supreme Court has technically sided with Trump.

00:02:49.000 They said that he can deport people under the Alien Enemies Act, but every single individual must get a hearing, which means it's going to be impossible to deport 10 million people.

00:02:58.000 It's just not, never going to happen.

00:03:00.000 Now, the big controversy here is that Amy Coney Barrett has sided with the liberals once again, and Ann Coulter is now saying to stop voting for women and stop appointing women to anything ever, and sure.

00:03:11.000 We'll talk about that.

00:03:12.000 Plus, ladies and gentlemen, last night I was not here.

00:03:15.000 The show was hosted by Phil as I was in a meeting with the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu.

00:03:19.000 There were several other personalities there.

00:03:22.000 Many of their names have been released, and considering that is the fact, people such as Molly Hemingway, Bethany Mandel, Dave Rubin were there as well.

00:03:31.000 And, you know, I want to say it was supposed to be what's called Chatham House Rules.

00:03:35.000 But when they do these White House influencer meetings, And none of these people know what Chatham House rules means.

00:03:42.000 Don't be surprised when the entire meeting is leaked to the press and everything's all wrong.

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00:04:09.000 They're posting fake news about me.

00:04:11.000 So we will talk about the conversation that I had with the Prime Minister and as well as many other people that were there.

00:04:17.000 We asked several questions, much of it pertaining to the deep state, potential war with Iran, as well as influence operations.

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00:07:24.000 Here's the news from CBS.

00:07:26.000 White House says 104% tariff on China will take effect Wednesday.

00:07:32.000 Yo, heads up, everybody.

00:07:33.000 I'm willing to bet that if you walk into your kitchen, if you walk into your bathroom and you look at everything, it's all made in China. 0.99

00:07:40.000 CBS News reports starting tomorrow, the White House will begin collecting steep levies on imported goods from China as President Trump follows through on a threat issued against Beijing on Truth Social Monday.

00:07:52.000 Mr. Trump on Monday threatened to slap an additional 50 percent tariff on all imports from China if the nation said it would impose a 34 percent import fee on American products.

00:08:02.000 China's retaliatory move came after Mr.

00:08:05.000 Trump said China would face a 34 percent tariff on all goods imported to the U.S., a rate tailored specifically to China.

00:08:09.000 Trump also said in his Truth Social post the U.S.

00:08:12.000 would.

00:08:13.000 cease all negotiations with China while proceeding with trade talks with other nations.

00:08:17.000 China's Commerce Ministry on Tuesday asserted that Beijing would fight to the end and take countermeasures against the U.S.

00:08:25.000 if Mr.

00:08:26.000 Trump did not walk back his latest threat.

00:08:28.000 So I did a quick search.

00:08:30.000 They say 13.4% of all products, all goods in the U.S. were made in China or sourced from China.

00:08:37.000 That seems pretty low, but I suppose with over the past 10 or 20 years, you've started to see stuff get made in Vietnam or Bangladesh or some of these other countries, so perhaps it's not as much as we realize, but still a large portion of our goods are made in China.

00:08:51.000 Now, here's where it gets crazy.

00:08:53.000 A lot of people don't know this.

00:08:54.000 You might buy a bicycle, and they say made in the U.S.A.

00:08:58.000 If they don't tell you, all the parts came from China.

00:09:01.000 And then it comes to a factory or an assembly line where they physically screw the wheels together, put the chain on and say, "Made in America." They don't tell you where the parts are sourced from.

00:09:09.000 So there have been NGOs, there have been activists who have been trying to source, they've been trying to create a trail, as it were, saying, "When you buy this computer, here's where all the parts actually come from."

00:09:21.000 This is a nuclear So think about computer components.

00:09:49.000 Think about vitamin C. Washcloths, t-shirts, whatever it might be that's made in China, it's going to come to shore. 1.00

00:09:56.000 The company that imports it is going to be told double the cost of that right now.

00:09:59.000 A lot of them are going to say they can't do it.

00:10:01.000 So I think we're going to see a lot of companies go out of business very quickly.

00:10:05.000 There may be panic.

00:10:06.000 This is bad.

00:10:06.000 But you know, what's funny, Trump's attitude is, I will sacrifice so much to destroy the Chinese economy.

00:10:16.000 I think China's going to be well, well, way more Damaged by this than the United States will be.

00:10:23.000 And Trump's not somebody you want to play chicken with.

00:10:28.000 Yeah, I mean, so if I understand correctly, the number of products that are coming in from China that go into all the type of things that are manufactured here.

00:10:47.000 It's going to have significant damage.

00:10:49.000 I really do think that one of the things we should have learned from COVID was we should have realized our government should have realized and moved to encourage the U.S. manufacturing base to start We were selling PPE stuff to China, or we were buying PPE stuff from China, and China just shut it down.

00:11:13.000 Everyone knows that the vast majority of our pharmaceuticals are made in China.

00:11:18.000 There's all kinds of necessary products that are made in China, and whether or not you consider China a rival or openly hostile to the United States doesn't matter.

00:11:32.000 These things are things that Americans need, and we shouldn't have to source them from one country.

00:11:38.000 Now, granted, we talk about Taiwan and the need for semiconductors for national security because of the military's reliance on them.

00:11:48.000 And that's true.

00:11:48.000 But again, there is a there is a plan that China has that 2027 they're going to take back Taiwan.

00:11:57.000 They say that that China.

00:12:01.000 And if that's the case, we've got a year and a half to start sourcing.

00:12:05.000 This is shutting down their timeline.

00:12:08.000 I don't think Trump backs off this no matter what.

00:12:12.000 I think when Trump says if China backs down, he'll not do this or whatever, I think it's BS.

00:12:18.000 I think Trump is just trying to find a trade to cast his belly so that he could cut off China and effectively implode their economy.

00:12:27.000 You know, I mean, China does have significant, you know, they rely on the U.S. for a lot as well, and they've got significant problems.

00:12:33.000 They've got a lot of debt.

00:12:35.000 They've got an aging, significantly older population than the U.S. So do we.

00:12:38.000 Pardon me?

00:12:39.000 We have all those things, too.

00:12:40.000 Yeah, but I mean, China's got one and a half billion people.

00:12:42.000 A billion?

00:12:45.000 We don't know that.

00:12:45.000 Maybe. They have way more than 330 million.

00:12:50.000 Didn't they end their one-child policy not too long ago?

00:12:53.000 Yeah, because it wasn't working so well.

00:12:54.000 But there are reports that China's been lying about their population.

00:12:58.000 Yep. But even still, they do have significantly more people than we do.

00:13:04.000 What's interesting is, like you said, 13.4% of American imports are from China.

00:13:10.000 Conversely, 6.2% of American imports are from China, but 30-35% of Chinese exports are foreign-invested enterprises.

00:13:20.000 About 10% of that is American.

00:13:22.000 So that's going to be a huge...

00:13:23.000 Just based on the fact that...

00:13:26.000 30-35% of their economy, and that's one-third of their GDP, is based on foreign investors and foreign enterprises.

00:13:31.000 I think that's going to be a huge hit alone.

00:13:33.000 So 10% of their GDP is exports to the U.S.?

00:13:35.000 No, one-third of their GDP is tied to foreign-invested enterprises.

00:13:40.000 Oh, and 10% of that?

00:13:40.000 30-35% of Chinese exports are tied to foreign-invested enterprises.

00:13:46.000 About 10% of that 30-35% is American.

00:13:49.000 Interesting. And that's not even to account for, like, the rest of this 30-35% could be countries we have influence over.

00:13:55.000 This is really interesting, actually, because let's think about it practically.

00:13:59.000 There's a company in the United States, and let's say they manufacture lipstick or something.

00:14:02.000 I don't know.

00:14:03.000 Toys and video games.

00:14:04.000 Let's see.

00:14:05.000 They say that textiles, furniture, bedding, lamps, toys, games, sports equipment, and other miscellaneous manufactured items amounted to about half.

00:14:14.000 53.2 of U.S. imports for that genre of commodities.

00:14:19.000 In the United States, if you're selling baseballs, and Trump says 104% tariff on China, Simple.

00:14:25.000 You call up a company in Vietnam and say, can you make baseballs?

00:14:28.000 We need a shipment ASAP.

00:14:29.000 We're cutting off China. 0.99

00:14:31.000 In China, however, those factories walk in and say, you're all fired.

00:14:36.000 We can't sell anymore to the United States.

00:14:38.000 Nobody's buying.

00:14:39.000 That's why I don't think Trump backs off this.

00:14:41.000 I think this was the play all along.

00:14:42.000 I think Trump is trying to isolate China.

00:14:44.000 That's why these 70 other countries are negotiating and he's cutting trade deals, or he wants to.

00:14:49.000 And this tariff on China is basically, we're going to nuke their economy. 0.79

00:14:53.000 Trump I think he's coming in and he's basically saying we do not want a multipolar world.

00:15:00.000 There will be one power on this planet and it will be the United States.

00:15:03.000 And Trump's not going to back down from that.

00:15:06.000 I mean, I suppose that could be the goal as far as economic powers go.

00:15:14.000 There's going to be a lot of pain because of this.

00:15:17.000 And I'm not sure.

00:15:19.000 Never mind the economic ramifications, but I don't know what's going to happen to the party at all moving forward.

00:15:27.000 I don't know if Congress is going to allow this because technically...

00:15:30.000 What can they do about it?

00:15:31.000 Congress is who's supposed to actually enact tariffs and stuff like Donald Trump's not supposed to be doing tariffs.

00:15:37.000 He's doing it under a specific provision based on national emergencies.

00:15:41.000 Fair enough, but Congress can get together and say, hey, you don't have the authority. 0.99

00:15:48.000 Whether or not you like that or people will like that, they might.

00:15:53.000 I don't think so.

00:15:54.000 I mean, we have pretty firm control of Congress right now.

00:15:58.000 We have, like, I think there's like two or three people, there's two or three Republican Majority?

00:16:07.000 And Thomas Massey doesn't like tariffs.

00:16:10.000 I could easily see a couple vulnerable Republicans saying, I don't want my name on this.

00:16:20.000 And don't forget the DEI Republicans that want special permissions for women who could seek out leverage and obstruct whatever they want. 1.00

00:16:28.000 This isn't me saying that I want this or that I want them to go against Trump.

00:16:32.000 I'm just talking about the realities in Congress.

00:16:35.000 And we've talked about this.

00:16:36.000 You have to make deals because we have thin margins.

00:16:40.000 We have very thin majorities.

00:16:41.000 So we can talk about what we want Trump to do, but you have to remember the reality in Congress.

00:16:48.000 People vote, the voting majority, it's not big, and Republicans do not get in line the way Democrats do.

00:16:58.000 Well, I think like Tim said, a lot of people are going to outsource to Vietnam or other countries like that.

00:17:04.000 And I also think that there's going to be a lot of skirting of the system.

00:17:06.000 I don't know how Trump's going to respond to it, but we just saw Apple fly in five planes full of iPhones from India to skirt the tariffs.

00:17:16.000 And then, in addition, I just think this whole problem just wouldn't even exist if in the 1970s and 80s when all of our corporations started moving to China, India, Indonesia, Bangladesh, whatever country it is, if we just said, all right.

00:17:28.000 So you guys are moving there for slave labor, basically.

00:17:30.000 You want to pay people 10 cents an hour to produce whatever you have in a sweatshop.

00:17:34.000 If we just said, all right, so let's implement a tariff on these countries that is a counterweight to whatever the difference in labor cost is, but we didn't do that.

00:17:42.000 I mean, shoulda, coulda, woulda.

00:17:43.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:17:44.000 But now it is too late, and now we have the gun.

00:17:48.000 What I would say is I think you look back at the 1970s and 80s and it's like, shoulda, woulda, coulda, but the reason we didn't do it is because we were afraid of protectionism.

00:17:56.000 I'm not this huge Raha protectionism guy, but I think that we shouldn't look at a problem that could have been solved with this exact procedure in the past and say, well, we shouldn't do it now because of the implications, because that's what they did in the 1970s and 80s. 0.79

00:18:10.000 Yeah, I mean...

00:18:11.000 I don't know.

00:18:13.000 Obviously, I don't know what's going to happen.

00:18:14.000 I do think that Donald Trump is going to stick to his guns.

00:18:17.000 It's just my big concern, or most immediate concern, is will Congress allow this to happen?

00:18:24.000 Because if people are going to be voting against Donald Trump and people are bummed, if it has a massive effect on the economy, and people are going to vote against Republicans in the midterms because of it, people have a long memory, and if this sets the country into a recession, people are going to be upset.

00:18:41.000 I don't think their memory's that long.

00:18:42.000 They say that a month is an attorney in politics.

00:18:44.000 So if Trump does everything he's doing now and then starts changing the policies a year from now and things start getting better, he wins.

00:18:52.000 That's a lot of ifs.

00:18:54.000 I think it's actually rather simple, in fact.

00:18:57.000 This is why it is so important they have the October surprise.

00:19:02.000 You put out damaging information in September, ain't nobody going to care come October.

00:19:06.000 You want to get all the bad news out.

00:19:08.000 Against your political opponent in October so that it's fresh in their minds.

00:19:12.000 That's why Trump is taking these actions he's taking right now.

00:19:15.000 It's as soon as he can do it, he does it.

00:19:18.000 And he wants to make sure that as we go into next year, he's going to have some leeway.

00:19:22.000 And if he makes some policies at that point begin to improve things, then people are going to vote Republican in the midterms.

00:19:29.000 More importantly, the Republican Congress can come out and say, we turn things around, so vote for us.

00:19:33.000 I will say on top of this, however, before we go to the next segment, you know, we're screwed either way.

00:19:38.000 Either we do it now or the country implodes.

00:19:40.000 Gen Z owns nothing and they are unhappy. 1.00

00:19:43.000 A new study came out purporting they did a poll of twelve hundred representative sample of the country.

00:19:50.000 Fifty five percent of left of center individuals are in favor of assassinations and political violence.

00:19:56.000 And this is overwhelming with the younger population who don't own anything and don't believe they have a path toward owning anything. 1.00

00:20:03.000 And it is the older generation that is living longer and getting all of the political authority.

00:20:08.000 So they they're more likely to vote.

00:20:10.000 So they get pandered to more often.

00:20:12.000 The youth vote doesn't vote.

00:20:13.000 So they're not getting it.

00:20:13.000 But the youth vote is getting very angry and they live in cardboard boxes.

00:20:16.000 I'm being figured if they live in closets in in bachelor apartments and they can't afford to have families. 0.97

00:20:22.000 A lot of guys are checking out young men.

00:20:25.000 And this this means that our social system will implode.

00:20:28.000 I wonder if Trump is considering this as he's making these moves.

00:20:32.000 What I can say is let's jump to this tweet from our good friend, Kyle Kalinsky, who hates you.

00:20:37.000 They hate the working class. 0.99

00:20:39.000 They hate the American worker in general.

00:20:42.000 They call you flyover states.

00:20:44.000 And Kyle Kalinsky posted this video, which is going viral, of factory workers.

00:20:49.000 This is it.

00:20:50.000 Let me play the video for you.

00:20:52.000 Ah Here's a fat middle-aged guy sewing some shorts or some other shirt. 0.98

00:21:00.000 Some fat, obese American women sewing things. 1.00

00:21:08.000 Here's a guy making some bras. 1.00

00:21:13.000 Some white people making phones.

00:21:18.000 That's crazy.

00:21:19.000 Make America great again, it says.

00:21:22.000 And the left is laughing.

00:21:24.000 They love it.

00:21:25.000 There's another meme that they share where it's a guy in a mega hat.

00:21:30.000 Wearing a ribbon that says, fell for it again, who says, wait a minute, there's a mistake.

00:21:33.000 I thought I was going to own the factory and be rich as Trump pumps a shotgun and says, sew the effing socks. 0.79

00:21:39.000 This is what they think about you.

00:21:41.000 The American workers who work in factories or who wish their factories remained open that were outsourced to foreign countries.

00:21:47.000 The example that I've been citing consistently now is the MyPillow factory.

00:21:52.000 You got a bunch of workers at the MyPillow factory who love their jobs and they're making socks.

00:21:56.000 And they're making pillows.

00:21:58.000 And the American liberal is making fun of these people with AI-generated memes, mocking the idea that Americans would want to work a job that pays well.

00:22:08.000 Well, I mean, I don't think that Americans would not want to work a job that pays well, but I do think that the idea of returning the factory jobs...

00:22:18.000 I mean, you were talking about this the other night.

00:22:20.000 I don't think factory jobs...

00:22:22.000 On this, you know, this type of factory jobs are coming back to the U.S. Why not?

00:22:27.000 I mean, you were saying the other night that you don't think that they're bringing back these kind of jobs back here.

00:22:32.000 What specifically did I say?

00:22:34.000 I don't remember exactly what it was, but we were talking about...

00:22:37.000 Re-onshoring jobs.

00:22:38.000 And I forget who the guest was, but you were saying...

00:22:41.000 Gen Z is not going to do these jobs because they have ego problems. 1.00

00:22:44.000 Well, I mean, I don't think boomers... 0.82

00:22:46.000 They're already in the service industry, Gen Z. I think it depends on where you're...

00:22:49.000 Sorry. Well, I mean, I don't think that that's necessarily true because Gen Z is overwhelmingly in the service industry.

00:22:57.000 You think Gen Z would work factory jobs like this? 1.00

00:22:59.000 Especially if it paid better.

00:23:00.000 I think the issue with with Gen Z is even if you were to work one of these jobs, your ability to buy a house to own stocks or any kind of wealth building doesn't exist. 1.00

00:23:12.000 I mean, it is it is it has been largely wiped out.

00:23:16.000 The challenge is if you're if you're a boomer right now and I know not all boomers are wealthy.

00:23:22.000 I think like boomers all typically own their house. 0.99

00:23:29.000 they own about 60% of corporate equities stocks and mutual funds and things like this why are they going to sell it?

00:23:37.000 so what happens is a Gen Z kid might get a job at this factory maybe it pays him $50,000, $60,000 a year and then he says okay I've got some money I want to buy some stocks and the boomer is like I ain't selling for that I want more money I don't need to sell it.

00:23:51.000 I can liquidate.

00:23:52.000 I'm okay.

00:23:53.000 I've got my retirement.

00:23:54.000 I don't need to sell to you, young man.

00:23:56.000 And so that young person's like, even when I do have some leftover money, I can barely buy any stocks that move the needle.

00:24:03.000 So what are they going to do?

00:24:06.000 I think the issue that we have is not to say that all of Gen Z has ego problems.

00:24:10.000 I think it's a spiritual problem.

00:24:13.000 It's that what am I going to accomplish?

00:24:17.000 Better yet, to quote the Simpsons, how are we going to catch up to the rest of the class by going slower than they are?

00:24:24.000 And that's the issue.

00:24:25.000 I think there's going to be a...

00:24:27.000 Let's imagine that nothing changes right now.

00:24:30.000 Everything that we're doing, we keep doing.

00:24:34.000 Nobody has actually...

00:24:35.000 I've not seen anybody talk about the impending wealth collapse and monetary collapse of the United States.

00:24:42.000 When boomers transfer their houses, when they die, and millennials and older Gen Z begin to inherit these homes, the value of those homes will drop by 70% or so. 0.93

00:24:55.000 It's pretty simple math.

00:24:58.000 Boomers all buy houses. 1.00

00:24:59.000 And some of them actually have investment properties.

00:25:02.000 I know not all boomers do.

00:25:03.000 I'm just saying.

00:25:04.000 I think it's like 90% of boomers own homes.

00:25:07.000 70-something percent of Gen X owns homes.

00:25:10.000 50% of millennials own homes.

00:25:12.000 And I think only a tiny fraction of Gen Z actually owns homes.

00:25:16.000 A boomer owns, let's say they own one house. 0.74

00:25:20.000 And that house is worth $700,000 because the prices are going nuts.

00:25:23.000 They live in a suburban area outside of Chicago or something.

00:25:25.000 They die.

00:25:26.000 That house goes to their millennial kids who say, I don't want to move to the suburbs of Chicago.

00:25:31.000 I moved out.

00:25:32.000 I live in New York.

00:25:33.000 They call an agent and say, sell the property.

00:25:35.000 The agent says, okay, I'll put it on the market.

00:25:36.000 Estimated value, $700,000.

00:25:38.000 You think a millennial or a Gen Z-er is going to be able to buy that?

00:25:41.000 Nope. How are they going to raise $140,000 for a down payment on one of those houses?

00:25:45.000 Not going to happen.

00:25:46.000 So the agent says, we can't get any offers.

00:25:49.000 So they say, okay, well then lower the price.

00:25:50.000 What do you think we can get for it?

00:25:52.000 And like, I don't know, we'll put it at six.

00:25:53.000 No offers.

00:25:53.000 Five. No offers.

00:25:55.000 Four. No offers.

00:25:56.000 Three. No offers.

00:25:57.000 Gen Z doesn't have money to put a down payment on a house. 0.99

00:25:59.000 The median 401k retirement for a millennial right now, mind you, who is 40 years old, is $15,000 to $20,000.

00:26:09.000 You ain't retiring off that.

00:26:11.000 And Gen Z, they have something like 5,000, if they do even have one.

00:26:15.000 I think only 30% actually do, and it's microscopic.

00:26:18.000 So how are they, look, millennials are 40 years old, and half of them own.

00:26:25.000 And I mean that with no disrespect, but when they start aging out and passing on.

00:26:39.000 the properties and the equities and everything they hold transfer to the younger generation, that is erased overnight because no one can buy it.

00:26:48.000 And if there's no demand and no ability Right. It reminds me of these practically ghost towns in Japan where they're outside of the city because this is mostly because of their low birth rates. 0.89

00:27:01.000 They... These older people die and they own homes outside of cities and they either don't have children to inherit them or the children they had, the one or two children they had, are not interested in owning those homes. 1.00

00:27:17.000 And now they're just ghost towns and a lot of Westerners are interested in buying those homes because they're incredibly cheap.

00:27:22.000 Yeah, I've seen some of that.

00:27:24.000 The solution is providing them jobs like this.

00:27:27.000 I actually think a lot of Gen Zers will take jobs like this, especially the further out from the city you get. 0.99

00:27:33.000 I also think there's a problem with not teaching Gen Zers fiscal responsibility or now even younger kids. 0.90

00:27:41.000 I have a lot of friends, I'm Gen Z, so I have a lot of friends who just have either no job or screw around jobs where they're not actually real jobs.

00:27:49.000 But if you provide them jobs like this, I mean, I'm from like the sticks in upstate New York on the Canadian border and everybody wants to work up there.

00:27:58.000 When I was in high school, everybody wanted to work on a farm when they're 14, like they're itching to work.

00:28:02.000 And that's not the same for the cities.

00:28:04.000 And the closer you get to the cities, it's not so much like this, but there are definitely Gen Zers, like I think a high number of them that would take factory jobs. 0.99

00:28:11.000 There's another scenario.

00:28:14.000 When the millennials inherit the homes and then put them on the market, BlackRock buys them up. 1.00

00:28:20.000 Right. And then you will own nothing and you will live in the pods and you will eat the bugs.

00:28:24.000 You're talking about the factories being in the right places.

00:28:26.000 The problem is Gen Z wants to live in either suburban or urban areas so that they can have opportunities for consumption that are actually accessible to them because obviously they don't have the capital to buy homes and make investments. 0.75

00:28:41.000 The only consumption that's accessible to them is...

00:28:45.000 Basically DoorDash and streaming services.

00:28:49.000 So they want to live in or near cities.

00:28:53.000 So are the factories going to be in or near cities?

00:28:56.000 I don't think so.

00:28:57.000 I think you put them in places where the culture is working.

00:28:59.000 So like I come from a mining town.

00:29:01.000 Everyone. Not everyone.

00:29:03.000 I shouldn't say everyone.

00:29:03.000 But a lot of people, when they get to like a legal working age, like 18 to, you know, they're out of high school, 18 to 25, whatever, they go and work in the mines.

00:29:12.000 And they're happy to do that and they love it because they're making good money, whatever.

00:29:16.000 So you have to put them in places where the culture is to work.

00:29:19.000 And I think when you put the factories in those places, the town around it will develop on its own.

00:29:25.000 And it's not like a mine where I'm from.

00:29:27.000 The mine dries up, the town goes to crap.

00:29:29.000 You know, I think the issue largely is that Younger generations, starting with probably to a smaller degree Gen X, to a greater degree Millennials, to a great degree Millennials, and then to an even greater degree Gen Z, the older generation continually treats the younger generation like incompetent children incapable of doing anything.

00:29:53.000 So whereas a 22-year-old man should be either running his own shop, Or the manager of a business, or doing a mid-level position with starting out as family, buying his first home, having kids.

00:30:09.000 Today, in the news, in the media, in our culture, they will say a 22-year-old is a child.

00:30:14.000 Like a 22-year-old, fully grown adult human being, and they treat him like a child.

00:30:18.000 And so we don't have...

00:30:20.000 How many Gen Z politicians are there?

00:30:23.000 I don't think...

00:30:24.000 A handful.

00:30:26.000 People run for stuff.

00:30:27.000 Who's that chick with the keffiyeh? 1.00

00:30:30.000 But she's not in.

00:30:32.000 Is Jasmine Crockett?

00:30:34.000 I don't think she's Jasmine Crockett.

00:30:36.000 I'm not sure how old Jasmine Crockett is.

00:30:38.000 How many millennial are there?

00:30:40.000 A greater number now, but I would say massively delayed.

00:30:47.000 And part of it is they say that when the...

00:30:52.000 There's a 170% increase in Gen Z lawmakers taking office as of 2023.

00:30:59.000 But what does that mean?

00:31:00.000 Is that state reps or is that in Congress?

00:31:02.000 And how many of them are communists?

00:31:05.000 Probably most.

00:31:06.000 A lot of them, I'd imagine.

00:31:08.000 So, look, my view is when you see these stories of 30-year-old virgins, we had a movie that came out, what was it, 10, 15 years ago called The 40-Year-Old Virgin?

00:31:21.000 And it was like, ha ha ha, how funny of this guy who, like, never had it happen for him.

00:31:26.000 Now we have increasing reports that young men have isolated themselves, and there's, like, early 30s virgin men.

00:31:32.000 You know, and again, I always mention this because Seamus Coughlin said, based at that story, because he's thinking it from a religious perspective, and I'm like, bro, no.

00:31:40.000 They should have been married at 22. Only one?

00:31:43.000 Only Maxwell Frost, who's a Democrat from Florida's 10th congressional district.

00:31:47.000 He was first elected in 2022.

00:31:49.000 At the age of 25, he remains the only Gen Z member in the 119th Congress.

00:31:54.000 To be fair, I mean, I think the oldest Gen Z is, what, 27?

00:31:57.000 I think so.

00:31:58.000 I'm not sure.

00:31:59.000 There's a good amount in, like, state politics, I think.

00:32:02.000 Yeah, I'm looking at the state reps.

00:32:06.000 Largely what I mean is industry is, like, the boomer generation is not letting go.

00:32:13.000 And it's because they're living longer.

00:32:16.000 People used to die and retire much earlier.

00:32:19.000 Now the retirement age is getting pushed.

00:32:20.000 People are living longer.

00:32:22.000 I'm not saying this to disrespect you boomers, but boomers are not letting go of their wealth and property and assets.

00:32:28.000 So millennials have accrued very little.

00:32:30.000 Gen Z has accrued much less. 0.93

00:32:32.000 And still, Gen Z and millennials look up to boomers who are past retirement age by now.

00:32:39.000 I think it also goes back to, like I said...

00:32:41.000 Everyone forgets Gen X, by the way. 0.58

00:32:42.000 That's why I didn't mention them.

00:32:44.000 We're quiet.

00:32:45.000 Fiscal education in school.

00:32:47.000 Another problem is Gen Zers do have some degree of money. 1.00

00:32:52.000 It's not a lot, but they're also not taking any of their money and investing it.

00:32:56.000 They're not taking any of their money and doing anything with it that will cause that money to grow over time because they're not taught to do that, which is a problem.

00:33:02.000 Because if you don't start saving for retirement until you're 45 years old, you're probably not going to be retiring at the age of 65. Look, Let me just round out this segment by saying millennials can't retire. 0.83

00:33:15.000 There's no reality where a millennial retires. 0.53

00:33:18.000 None. Me?

00:33:20.000 Well, I don't care.

00:33:20.000 I imagine I'll end up like 80 years old doing some kind of show to a bunch of other 80-year-olds going like, yeah, I was watching the news on the virtual thing today.

00:33:29.000 I mean, we're already complaining about the kids, so I'd be complaining about the kids.

00:33:32.000 You're on my lawn again!

00:33:33.000 But look, man, when I pulled up the data today, because I was looking at the left.

00:33:39.000 The youth left overwhelmingly pro-violence.

00:33:42.000 And I saw that the median 401k for a millennial is $15,000 to $20,000.

00:33:48.000 I was like, alright, let's put that into wealth management with a historic return of 7%, where you can extract about 3% without hurting your principal.

00:33:56.000 3%. So you're going to have a couple hundred, $600?

00:34:01.000 Or was that six, yeah, $600 a year?

00:34:05.000 You're pulling 3%, you get $600.

00:34:07.000 Good luck.

00:34:09.000 20,000.

00:34:10.000 Wow. You ain't going anywhere with that.

00:34:13.000 No, people are going to be working until, you know, forever.

00:34:15.000 50 bucks a month?

00:34:16.000 Yeah, until they're dead.

00:34:17.000 And I got to tell you, it's going to be really weird.

00:34:23.000 Although one thing that could happen is a slingshot effect where when the boomers start passing on and millennials all start absorbing.

00:34:35.000 All of this wealth, instantly, all at once, in a tidal wave, and they're all going to be probably 65 years old, because, let's be real, I mean, people are living longer.

00:34:46.000 Instantly, overnight, they're going to have access to all of this stuff.

00:34:48.000 They can trade it amongst themselves, I guess, and then they'll just hold it, but then they're not long for this mortal coil, and then it's going to be just wealth continually accrued by the older and older generations until the whole thing just breaks.

00:35:04.000 I guess we'll see.

00:35:05.000 Yeah. Let's jump to this next story from NPR.

00:35:09.000 Supreme Court backs Trump in controversial deportations case.

00:35:13.000 The gist of the story is that Trump can deport these, uh, Trend de Aragua and whatever under the Alien Enemies Act.

00:35:21.000 However, anyone being deported must at least be able to get a habeas hearing, meaning they can challenge their detention, which is, uh, weird.

00:35:31.000 This is not a victory for Trump.

00:35:33.000 Sure, you can deport people, but good luck. 0.99

00:35:35.000 You ain't deporting 10 million people when all of them want a hearing.

00:35:38.000 The court system will implode.

00:35:41.000 And then they've created, Democrats have created a de facto second-class citizenship in this country.

00:35:46.000 On top of that, Amy Coney Barrett has betrayed the right once again, siding with the liberals to say, no, Trump can't deport people.

00:35:53.000 Yeah, I mean, Amy Coney Barrett is not a reliable conservative.

00:35:58.000 And that's not, I mean, that's, you know, obviously that's...

00:36:01.000 That's one of the more obvious statements I think I've ever made.

00:36:04.000 But people shouldn't expect anything less from her because she has a history of not being reliable.

00:36:10.000 And we were talking about this last night.

00:36:11.000 The Democrats always, you can always figure out where they're going to come down.

00:36:17.000 They almost never surprise anybody.

00:36:20.000 You know, Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett and sometimes Gorsuch and Kavanaugh.

00:36:25.000 Well, not so much Kavanaugh, but sometimes Gorsuch surprises people.

00:36:28.000 And I really do think it's because they're real judges as opposed to ideologues.

00:36:32.000 Do you remember when Amy Coney Barrett was the evil Wicked Witch of the West, though, and she was a Trump loyalist and everyone hated her?

00:36:37.000 Oh, yeah.

00:36:39.000 Ann Calder says, All the ladies, Republicans, please stop voting for, electing, or nominating women for anything. 0.97

00:36:44.000 Will you never learn?

00:36:47.000 You know, I gotta be honest.

00:36:48.000 Why did Trump nominate Amy Coney Barrett?

00:36:50.000 I think, like, Mike Cernovich...

00:36:52.000 Weren't, like, Cernovich and Posobiec both saying, like, uh-oh?

00:36:54.000 Well, I mean, yeah, but Trump's a boomer.

00:36:56.000 I mean, when a lot ask...

00:36:58.000 Donald Trump, what is a woman? 1.00

00:37:00.000 The responses that he gave were all the responses that you would expect someone that grew up in the 70s, 80s, and 90s.

00:37:07.000 He said someone who's much smarter than me.

00:37:09.000 Exactly. Exactly.

00:37:10.000 He did.

00:37:11.000 He was doing the whole, you know, playing the, well, you know, shucks, girls are powerful and blah, blah, blah. 0.62

00:37:18.000 He was doing that.

00:37:19.000 And it's because of his age.

00:37:20.000 It's because of when he grew up.

00:37:22.000 Is he a feminist? 0.97

00:37:23.000 I don't think.

00:37:25.000 Is Trump a feminist? 0.98

00:37:26.000 He absolutely is, yes.

00:37:27.000 He is a second-wave feminist.

00:37:29.000 He's famous for appointing, I think, the first female skyscraper foreperson or something like this for a contract company.

00:37:35.000 Trump very much continually puts women in positions of power. 1.00

00:37:39.000 He should stop doing that.

00:37:41.000 I don't think you have to be a feminist to do that, though. 1.00

00:37:44.000 But this is second-wave feminism. 1.00

00:37:45.000 It is feminism. 1.00

00:37:46.000 You go back to when Trump was a kid, there were concerns about giving a woman the lead role in building a skyscraper.

00:37:51.000 Nobody would do it.

00:37:52.000 Trump did.

00:37:52.000 So you think that if...

00:37:54.000 To be considered not a feminist, you have to do things like say, no, I won't hire a woman for that? 1.00

00:37:58.000 Yes. Really?

00:38:00.000 Look at first wave feminism. 1.00

00:38:01.000 Women can vote. 1.00

00:38:02.000 Second wave, women should be in the workplace and running the show. 1.00

00:38:05.000 Third wave was when it got weird, you know, intersectional stuff.

00:38:09.000 Women aren't women. 1.00

00:38:10.000 Now that's fourth.

00:38:12.000 Now women aren't women. 1.00

00:38:12.000 Fourth or fifth generation or whatever. 1.00

00:38:14.000 I think it's fourth wave.

00:38:15.000 Third wave was the intersectional weird equity stuff.

00:38:18.000 Third wave was like all sex is rape. 0.97

00:38:21.000 The fourth wave was women aren't women. 1.00

00:38:24.000 The second wave was literally give women leadership roles. 0.99

00:38:28.000 Make them girl bosses. 1.00

00:38:29.000 And Trump was one of the leaders of that.

00:38:32.000 Girl boss president.

00:38:33.000 Trump bragged about it.

00:38:34.000 I think he said the first person to put a woman in charge of building a skyscraper. 1.00

00:38:39.000 It's my intuition that Trump wants people to like him so much that he does things that he thinks people will like.

00:38:45.000 And I don't think that it's about ideology.

00:38:47.000 I don't think that it's about, oh, I'm a feminist and I believe in blah, blah, blah.

00:38:50.000 I think it's all about people will like me if I hire women because people want to see women in these positions. 0.99

00:38:57.000 Not that Trump hasn't committed to it.

00:38:58.000 It's both because, I mean, that type of second wave feminist ideology was really ingrained into his generation.

00:39:07.000 Maybe. Something he wouldn't even second guess.

00:39:09.000 Let's take a look at this Wikipedia page that's pulled up.

00:39:12.000 Barbara Ress.

00:39:15.000 Let's see.

00:39:15.000 Let's go back real quick.

00:39:16.000 She was the first woman to oversee a major NYC construction site working with Trump.

00:39:23.000 That's amazing.

00:39:24.000 She helped build Trump Tower between 80 and 84. Is that what that says?

00:39:28.000 She was born...

00:39:29.000 Where's the works here?

00:39:31.000 Let's get the...

00:39:32.000 Where's that quote?

00:39:36.000 Let's try and get the...

00:39:37.000 I don't care about her book.

00:39:38.000 Here you go.

00:39:40.000 They just talk about this, blah, blah, blah.

00:39:42.000 As Ress joined the Trump Organization in 1980 and then worked for Trump over the course of 18 years as a vice president, senior vice president and executive vice president.

00:39:50.000 Ress was hired by Trump to lead construction on Trump Tower as vice president in charge of construction when she was 31 years old and helped build Trump Tower between 1980 and 1984. 0.86

00:40:00.000 Ress was the first woman to oversee a major New York City construction site and worked with Trump on some of its biggest projects, including renovation of New York's Plaza Hotel.

00:40:09.000 Now, how did she reward two decades of service helping Donald Trump build all of these things?

00:40:15.000 She has spoken out publicly against Donald Trump, particularly about his treatment of women.

00:40:22.000 She released a memoir, Tower of Lies, what my 18 years of working with Trump reveals about him.

00:40:28.000 Indeed. She apparently has gone on speaking publicly against Trump and his treatment of women in opinion articles in the New York Daily News, The Guardian, CNN, Rolling Stone, The New York Times, appearing on MSNBC.

00:40:40.000 So that's Trump for you.

00:40:41.000 So what did she say?

00:40:42.000 Did she say that Trump mistreated her?

00:40:45.000 She described, let's see, the Washington Post described how Russ's description of her experience at the Trump Organization offered support for Bob Woodward's book, Fear.

00:40:53.000 And at the time, blah, blah, blah, both works to grab the president, a president whose orders are not always carried out by those around him.

00:40:59.000 I don't know.

00:41:00.000 She's unfit for office, whatever. 1.00

00:41:02.000 He also really liked promoting female entrepreneurs on The Apprentice.

00:41:07.000 He has a history of being a...

00:41:10.000 I strongly feel like that's because he gets the pats on the back.

00:41:14.000 He loves powerful Slavic women. 1.00

00:41:15.000 Like I said the other day, if the Democrats had kissed his butt when he got into office in 2016, he would have switched sides in a second because he's a people pleaser.

00:41:26.000 It's not that he has some kind of deep, or at least it's not my sense that he has some kind of deep belief that women have been oppressed and he needs to do this and blah blah blah.

00:41:35.000 It's about...

00:41:36.000 If I do this, people will like me.

00:41:38.000 So I don't consider...

00:41:39.000 I mean, maybe you can call that feminism or whatever, but it's not like he's got some kind of ideological disposition towards it.

00:41:46.000 It's just, how do I get people to pat me on the back and say, good Trump?

00:41:49.000 I mean, an ideological disposition only insofar as he is a boomer.

00:41:53.000 And all boomers have that. 0.86

00:41:54.000 Almost all boomers have that ideological disposition.

00:41:57.000 There was that one story.

00:41:59.000 I can't remember exactly how it went, but he was at a meeting and like his lawyer walks in the room and it's this young busty woman or whatever.

00:42:05.000 And the guys were like they asked him something about if she was good at her job.

00:42:09.000 And then he made a comment about her looks.

00:42:10.000 I can't remember the exact story.

00:42:12.000 Yeah, he said something like, I don't know, but look at her.

00:42:15.000 You know what I mean?

00:42:15.000 It's great.

00:42:17.000 There you go.

00:42:19.000 You could say things like that back then.

00:42:21.000 I wonder if Trump thought by nominating Amy Coney Barrett, it would...

00:42:26.000 Be an easier confirmation because she's a woman. 1.00

00:42:29.000 It's kind of a win with the religious right because everyone was so excited about the possibility of overturning Roe v.

00:42:34.000 Wade with her.

00:42:35.000 She did.

00:42:35.000 Yeah. Yeah.

00:42:36.000 To her credit, she did.

00:42:37.000 But I think what's happened is over the past couple of years, she's terrified of being murdered and that, you know, some guy showed up to kill Kavanaugh.

00:42:45.000 I think she's freaked out by it and she doesn't want to do it anymore.

00:42:48.000 I think, you know, maybe she should resign right now. 1.00

00:42:53.000 Then Trump can appoint somebody else.

00:42:54.000 I mean, look, if you're scared and you don't want to do the job, resign.

00:42:58.000 If she resigned and gave Trump what likely will be three appointments, I'm all for it.

00:43:05.000 I think there's a strong possibility that she is scared because you look at how she voted to overturn Roe v.

00:43:14.000 Wade and that was one of the most consequential rulings of our generation.

00:43:20.000 And now she's... 1.00

00:43:22.000 With this ruling she did with the Supreme Court, she only backed half of their dissent.

00:43:27.000 She's terrified to do anything meaningful at this point.

00:43:30.000 She's just like, please just leave everything alone.

00:43:33.000 Clearly she's scared.

00:43:34.000 Resigning wouldn't realistically...

00:43:36.000 Trump would fill the vacancy.

00:43:41.000 Trump would then appoint Clarence Thomas as clone.

00:43:44.000 If she's scared for her personal safety and her family's safety...

00:43:48.000 Resigning wouldn't necessarily solve that problem for her.

00:43:51.000 Out of sight, out of mind.

00:43:53.000 I guess.

00:43:54.000 It's going to reduce it 80% overnight.

00:43:57.000 And then she's gone.

00:44:00.000 But yeah, I mean...

00:44:01.000 I'm surprised that Trump chose a man for his VP this time around, actually.

00:44:07.000 Why's that?

00:44:08.000 A lot of people were saying it was going to be Tulsi Gabbard.

00:44:12.000 Oh, I don't know.

00:44:12.000 That doesn't make sense.

00:44:14.000 J.D. Vance made sense.

00:44:16.000 He's... I'm just surprised for all the...

00:44:18.000 He wants to be liked and he would probably think that appointing a female VP is a way to be liked.

00:44:27.000 I would have described, I think I did describe J.D. Vance as like vanilla pudding.

00:44:31.000 You know what I mean?

00:44:32.000 Like, it's good.

00:44:33.000 Nobody complains about it.

00:44:34.000 He's like a donut, whatever makes sense.

00:44:36.000 I say vanilla pudding because it's kind of like this very boring but good dessert, you know?

00:44:41.000 I would revise that and say, as we've seen him act, I'd now describe him as a vanilla pudding with sprinkles on top.

00:44:50.000 I actually think J.D. Vance is astounding, actually.

00:44:53.000 Oh, I think he's fantastic.

00:44:54.000 He's great at debating.

00:44:56.000 Which dessert do you think he is?

00:44:57.000 I think he's like a big chocolate pie.

00:45:00.000 He's awesome.

00:45:01.000 Maybe an Oreo pie?

00:45:04.000 Another great thing is J.D. Vance is the embodiment of the American dream.

00:45:07.000 He grew up poor in Appalachia with a... 0.92

00:45:09.000 Drug addict mother, and now he's the Vice President of the United States.

00:45:12.000 He put himself through Yale, graduated summa cum laude.

00:45:15.000 He's awesome.

00:45:16.000 So he's a homemade vanilla pudding with sprinkles and chocolate chips and whipped cream.

00:45:20.000 Maybe a cherry as well.

00:45:21.000 He's probably more America first than Donald Trump is.

00:45:25.000 Yeah. I think Donald Trump, he looks at the economy and...

00:45:33.000 He'll look at that first, whereas I think that J.D. Vance would say, no, I don't think the economy is the most important thing.

00:45:39.000 The well-being of the American people is the most important thing.

00:45:42.000 And granted, they're strongly linked, but they're not...

00:45:46.000 Exactly the same thing.

00:45:47.000 Look at the way he went on Zelensky.

00:45:49.000 And Zelensky started that, for sure.

00:45:51.000 But, like, I mean, he was ready to go, and for sure, I think he's probably more America First.

00:45:55.000 Let's jump to this next story.

00:45:56.000 Ladies and gentlemen, as the, I believe, what were these protesters?

00:46:00.000 Pro-Palestine protests?

00:46:01.000 Hands off or something?

00:46:02.000 People began to throw garbage from their building at the protesters, and we have the video.

00:46:11.000 Don't do this.

00:46:11.000 This is super illegal.

00:46:13.000 So you've got...

00:46:14.000 Yeah, I think it's pro-Palestine protests.

00:46:17.000 We are watching the video.

00:46:20.000 Garbage is flying out of buildings at the pro-Palestinian protesters.

00:46:25.000 This is in New York.

00:46:26.000 People don't really like these people.

00:46:28.000 It's bad to do this, but holy crap, is it funny.

00:46:31.000 Yeah, don't do it.

00:46:32.000 It's like insane felony territory.

00:46:36.000 People could get hurt, man.

00:46:38.000 But they're getting drenched in garbage juice.

00:46:40.000 That's the worst thing.

00:46:41.000 You know, taking the garbage out and the garbage water comes out.

00:46:43.000 They're covered in it.

00:46:45.000 I wonder what they must be thinking when they're like, people are throwing garbage on us as we march.

00:46:50.000 Do they think they're...

00:46:51.000 They're doing something right.

00:46:56.000 Oh, there's more?

00:46:57.000 Wow, they are hucking garbage at these people.

00:47:00.000 Holy crap.

00:47:03.000 You shouldn't throw anything.

00:47:05.000 Oh, whoa, they broke the window.

00:47:07.000 Look at this.

00:47:09.000 Yo, they shattered somebody's window, man.

00:47:11.000 That's not okay.

00:47:13.000 It's crazy.

00:47:14.000 It's bad to throw things out of high rack.

00:47:16.000 I think there's a banana.

00:47:21.000 Man, that's messed up because the dude...

00:47:25.000 Whose car got his windshield shattered?

00:47:26.000 He's not a protester.

00:47:27.000 He's not, yeah.

00:47:28.000 That's just some guy's car.

00:47:29.000 This is New York.

00:47:30.000 Yeah, that's how crazy things are getting.

00:47:32.000 Well, I tell you what, man.

00:47:34.000 People don't like these protests.

00:47:36.000 People are getting sick and tired of the leftist protest.

00:47:38.000 Phil, did you ever figure out what was going on in D.C. the other day?

00:47:42.000 We came out to D.C. to look at cherry blossoms and all of these crazy people everywhere.

00:47:48.000 Was it Sunday or Saturday?

00:47:49.000 It was Saturday.

00:47:50.000 It was the nationwide hands-off protest.

00:47:53.000 They were in Charlestown too.

00:47:55.000 There was another one that I think were Sikhs and they were not affiliated with the hands-off protest.

00:48:00.000 The people with Palestinian flags just kind of approached them and acted like they were the same thing.

00:48:07.000 But then there were other not even affiliated protesters who just wanted to wear fishnets.

00:48:15.000 Did you see the video where the guy showed up to the hands-off protest carrying a sign that said Free Diddy?

00:48:22.000 Our favorite sign actually was a couple.

00:48:26.000 And one said, make lying illegal.

00:48:30.000 And then their compatriots said, trans rights are human rights.

00:48:36.000 Yeah. Something like that.

00:48:37.000 I'm just like, you're complaining about lying while you're hanging out with a person that thinks that trans people are real.

00:48:44.000 There's another nation.

00:48:45.000 Yeah, here we go.

00:48:45.000 We got this nationwide anti-Trump protests are planned for the 19th.

00:48:52.000 The April 5th hands-off protest, blah, blah, blah.

00:48:55.000 They're doing an all-50 state anti-Trump protest.

00:48:57.000 You know, whatever, man.

00:49:00.000 That's how I felt.

00:49:02.000 I was like, I'm not even mad.

00:49:03.000 I just kind of feel sorry for you.

00:49:05.000 Well, you know, we were talking just a moment ago about how Gen Z is listless, but the funny thing is, most of these protests are boomers. 0.58

00:49:13.000 Oh no, I saw like old ladies with purple hair. 1.00

00:49:15.000 Yeah, it's all boomers. 0.99

00:49:16.000 That's what it was.

00:49:16.000 Trump stuff is, yeah.

00:49:17.000 It's all old people. 1.00

00:49:18.000 The Palestine stuff are younger. 0.90

00:49:20.000 Younger, right.

00:49:21.000 In fact, when I approached one group in Charlestown, I noticed that most of them were kind of gray-haired old ladies.

00:49:27.000 And she was saying to me, oh, I'm so glad you showed up.

00:49:32.000 Like, we need young people, blah, blah, blah. 0.89

00:49:35.000 And I was like, honestly, I think you're kind of out of touch.

00:49:37.000 And I'm looking behind you and there are all these, no offense, but you're older.

00:49:41.000 And I completely disagree with everything you're saying.

00:49:46.000 That should tell you something.

00:49:48.000 And they believe that young people are on their side, too, even though the young people aren't showing up.

00:49:52.000 That should tell you something, though.

00:49:53.000 The young people who are out doing the anti-Israel stuff, they're leftists.

00:49:57.000 The old people are Democrats, right? 1.00

00:49:59.000 They're against Trump, but the younger people are leftists.

00:50:01.000 I did a lot of work like inside these anti-Israel protest encampments, and the second most common symbol inside of all of them, I went to Berkeley, Irvine, UCLA, Georgia, and I think those are all the encampments I went to.

00:50:14.000 The most common symbol on the inside of these encampments is the hammer and sickle, other than the Palestinian flag.

00:50:19.000 That's the most common, second most common symbol.

00:50:21.000 Well, how long until we start seeing people on the right join them?

00:50:24.000 That's a great question.

00:50:25.000 I think it's probably already happening.

00:50:28.000 Under the hammer and sickle, you think?

00:50:31.000 Well, I mean, the interesting thing is the anti-Israel sentiment we're starting to see from a lot of prominent personalities.

00:50:36.000 So at what point do members of their audience say, I'm going to go out and actually join these protests?

00:50:40.000 I think that anti-Israel sentiment has bled into sympathy for the left, actually.

00:50:47.000 Maybe not sympathy, but a lot of right-wingers, right-wingers, who have started being anti-Israel have become, have adopted sort of like leftist tendencies, I think.

00:50:57.000 They start to steer their audience in the direction of leftism.

00:51:00.000 Yeah, I mean, you do get a lot of the same kind of...

00:51:02.000 Don't worry, I got you guys.

00:51:04.000 Here you go.

00:51:05.000 The real horseshoe theory.

00:51:08.000 I hate lumping these guys in with the right, though, because they're not actually right-wing, right?

00:51:13.000 Yeah, what is this?

00:51:14.000 This is so weird.

00:51:16.000 Yeah, this is funny, though.

00:51:17.000 For real.

00:51:19.000 When you say sympathy for the left, like, which issues, then?

00:51:24.000 Well, here's a great example.

00:51:26.000 Candace Owens, on her podcast, she debated, I forget who it was, but they were talking about East Jerusalem.

00:51:33.000 They're talking about the difference between the Muslim, Arab, Jewish, and why am I blanking, Armenian quarters.

00:51:41.000 Four quarters of the Old City of East Jerusalem, and she's basically like, I was there with the rabbi who took me around, and the signs say, no, Arabs can't leave.

00:51:48.000 They have to live here.

00:51:49.000 The Muslims have to live in the Muslim quarter, which is not true.

00:51:51.000 I've been to Jerusalem.

00:51:52.000 There is no division between the quarters.

00:51:54.000 There are Muslims wearing hijab in the Jewish quarter.

00:51:56.000 There are Jews wearing kippah in the Muslim quarter.

00:51:58.000 There's no division.

00:51:59.000 There's Muslim-owned businesses in the Jewish quarter, and they sell kosher here and non-kosher here, and the Jews buy it. 0.76

00:52:05.000 No division.

00:52:06.000 She was corrected on that by whoever she was debating and basically told that she was lying.

00:52:11.000 She continued to parrot that talking point afterwards.

00:52:14.000 But what she appealed to is, and by the way, this is the woman who built her career on the whole Blexit, racism isn't real, don't let people convince you you're a victim. 1.00

00:52:24.000 Well, I just see that and I think of the Jim Crow South and my grandparents built up in that.

00:52:29.000 It's like, that's not necessarily a left or right issue because left and right is an economic axis, not a social one.

00:52:34.000 That's not true.

00:52:35.000 What do you think?

00:52:36.000 So, I didn't interrupt you, and I don't mean to be disrespectful, but left and right refers to the cultural tribes.

00:52:44.000 There's left economics and right economics, but typically in this country when they say left and right, it incorporates the components of the umbrella factions.

00:52:52.000 Yes, yes, yes, yes.

00:52:53.000 So, race, economics could apply to each other.

00:52:56.000 When you say right, the reason it doesn't make sense is the authoritarian right is not free market.

00:53:01.000 But the libertarian right is.

00:53:02.000 I actually tend to believe that there's no such thing as a libertarian left.

00:53:05.000 And I think that like – so when you look at like the actual axis of authoritarian, libertarian, right and left, and we probably won't get anywhere with this conversation.

00:53:15.000 But like generally in the past at least – and I agree with you when we talk about right and left in the United States, we're referring to tribes.

00:53:24.000 Yes. But, like, traditionally, right and left is an economic axis.

00:53:27.000 The further left you go, the closer to communism are.

00:53:29.000 The further right you go, the closer to anarcho-capitalism.

00:53:31.000 I gotta correct you on that one.

00:53:32.000 What's that?

00:53:32.000 The left and right axis refers to the monarchy versus the revolution in France.

00:53:38.000 Originally, yes.

00:53:39.000 So it wasn't necessarily economic.

00:53:41.000 It was power-structured based.

00:53:43.000 And so...

00:53:45.000 Left and right has typically referred to the factions in opposition.

00:53:49.000 Status quo, traditionalism versus progressivism.

00:53:52.000 The reason why it was associated with economics for a while is because the only real divisions we had were economic.

00:53:56.000 We largely agreed on cultural issues.

00:53:59.000 I would say there is a libertarian left, and it's like hippies living on a farm.

00:54:03.000 You never hear from them.

00:54:04.000 You have 20 hippies on a farm sharing watermelon with each other nobody cares about. 0.96

00:54:07.000 That's libertarian left.

00:54:09.000 The problem was when they started massing into large numbers and then start demanding you join the commune, which you don't want to do, then they become tankies.

00:54:15.000 Sure. But, you know, the action never really made sense left and right economically because the authoritarian far right has nothing to do with free markets.

00:54:24.000 Exactly. That's my point.

00:54:25.000 And also, conversely, the libertarian left, you cannot have communism or socialism, whatever you want to call it, because depending on what parts of Marx you've read.

00:54:37.000 You can't have socialism and libertarianism.

00:54:39.000 You can't have free markets or, I guess, liberalism in socialism.

00:54:43.000 Because in order to uphold a socialist system, you need authority to prevent capitalists from going in the woods and starting markets in your country.

00:54:52.000 You need an authority structure.

00:54:54.000 You need a government to prevent all these things they don't want.

00:54:56.000 They want to abolish money.

00:54:57.000 How are you going to abolish money if you don't have a government?

00:54:59.000 You need somebody to enforce the abolition of money.

00:55:01.000 Yeah, otherwise people will just keep trading.

00:55:02.000 Exactly. And you can't do anything about it.

00:55:05.000 I would say that...

00:55:06.000 I didn't see the debate between Candace and whoever she was debating.

00:55:11.000 But the interesting thing is, the modern left today wants the Jim Crow self. 0.76

00:55:19.000 Yeah. That's the problem that we all have with the left.

00:55:22.000 So, you know, if Candace is saying, I don't know if she, look, I don't know exactly what she said about the separation or whatever, but in a general manner, saying, I look at separation and I think of the Jim Crow self is a critique of the left today.

00:55:39.000 Right. But this...

00:55:41.000 So the left today wants the Jim Crow South in a different context.

00:55:44.000 They want it where...

00:55:45.000 No, no.

00:55:46.000 You think it's the same...

00:55:47.000 What's the guy's name?

00:55:48.000 Derek Bell?

00:55:49.000 I think his name was?

00:55:52.000 What are you...

00:55:53.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:55:54.000 Was that his name?

00:55:55.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:55:56.000 Derek Bell.

00:55:57.000 He's the civil rights activist lawyer who was one of the principal authors of critical race theory who argued that Plessy versus Ferguson was decided wrong and that...

00:56:08.000 Yeah, segregation should remain and all of those things. 0.85

00:56:10.000 Many of these individuals have argued that during the BLM protests, during the Michael Brown protests before all the Trayvon Martin stuff, they had a letter they were circulating that outright said the end of segregation was a mistake because it forced black-owned businesses, which were smaller in wealth, underneath the white industries.

00:56:31.000 And segregation was better because they had their own wealth, their own luxuries. 0.86

00:56:34.000 I've not heard this.

00:56:35.000 The most common context I've heard it in is like, we want a black space where we eliminate whites from the space, and it seems almost like when you see that photo of the water fountains in Jim Crow era, the black one is obviously crappier, and it seems like they want that to be the white one. 0.84

00:56:50.000 That's what I see the most common, but...

00:56:52.000 I mean, I'm sure there are people who want benefits for themselves, but we just had Trevor Noah a couple months ago, I think it was, or, you know, he was arguing that segregation was a good thing.

00:57:03.000 And he said the problem with American segregation was that the black people had lesser.

00:57:08.000 But if you had true equality in segregation, he was for it. 0.71

00:57:11.000 And that's the problem with these woke leftists.

00:57:14.000 That's something that there have been a lot of college campuses that have groups that are saying, well, we need spaces that are specifically for POC.

00:57:26.000 There was the Day of Absence at Evergreen College in, I think it was Oregon.

00:57:32.000 And the point was to say it used to be where...

00:57:36.000 People of color and black students wouldn't go to school, so that way the white students would notice their absence.

00:57:43.000 But it turned into they didn't want white people going to school on those days.

00:57:49.000 And this was happening in, I think, 2017, 18, 19. This was before your average normie knew what woke was.

00:57:57.000 So the idea of segregation on the left is absolutely real.

00:58:01.000 There are a lot of people that want it.

00:58:03.000 They're the quote unquote progressives.

00:58:05.000 And they're the people that, you know, if they're not moderated by government or whatever, they would they would be all for any kind of discrimination against white people because they they look at it as what's his name?

00:58:17.000 The Abram Kendi guy.

00:58:19.000 He was saying that, you know, the cure for past for past bigotry is not bigotry, but the discrimination is discrimination.

00:58:28.000 Now this cure, the cure for discrimination now is discrimination in the future.

00:58:31.000 I guess...

00:58:43.000 Ferguson was decided wrong.

00:58:44.000 One of the principal authors of the book Critical Race Theory, Derek Bell, argued this.

00:58:49.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:58:49.000 I agree.

00:58:50.000 I know.

00:58:50.000 But what I'm saying is, like, I think most commonly what I see is sort of like a rebranding of segregation.

00:58:57.000 They want this new segregation that's really the same thing, but then they always beckon back to, At least I'm talking about, like, the whatever, like, Gen Z leftists, right? 0.79

00:59:07.000 But they always still beckon back to the Jim Crow South or slavery or whatever it was, past oppressions, to justify what they want to do now.

00:59:14.000 And that's kind of a big problem I have with what Candace was saying and appealing to.

00:59:19.000 Look at how terrible, you know, people that look like me were treated in America, and now they're doing it in Israel, which just isn't true.

00:59:26.000 And she's lying about it to push, you know, propaganda. 1.00

00:59:28.000 Well, let's jump this story, because currently there is fake news about me, so last night I wasn't here.

00:59:32.000 I got a late word that I was invited to a private roundtable meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

00:59:42.000 It was under what's called Chatham House rules.

00:59:45.000 For those that are not familiar, this means that you cannot reveal anybody who attended nor attribute anything to any one individual as they can deny it.

00:59:54.000 And they would.

00:59:55.000 However, what I love about what the White House is currently doing, when you bring together a bunch of influencers and podcasters who don't know much about journalism, culture, whatever you want to call it, not that we respect it tremendously, most people didn't know what Chatham House meant.

01:00:09.000 So with all due respect, it's funny because they bring us into the Blair House, which is where Netanyahu was staying.

01:00:15.000 And immediately people are walking around with their cameras, their phones up.

01:00:18.000 They actually took our phones from us.

01:00:20.000 And I legit thought they would maintain Chatham House rules, meaning – If you wanted an official quote on a specific matter, you would then ask an official once the meeting was wrapped and they'd provide you the exact quote.

01:00:39.000 Or they would just say outright, like, we ain't putting our quotes on that one.

01:00:42.000 So the story that comes out, which basically violated whatever, I was going to talk about what we, like, we went there for a reason.

01:00:48.000 This story from Jewish Insider says, Netanyahu pushes back on anti-Israel trends in a meeting with podcasters.

01:00:53.000 I don't know if the individual who wrote this, Lahav Harkov, was actually there, but this is wrong.

01:00:57.000 It's fake news.

01:00:59.000 And people are now spreading fake news about me because I'm going to go ahead and say as arrogantly as I can to everyone else who was there.

01:01:06.000 I hope you all hear me because I'm saying this somewhat facetiously.

01:01:09.000 I think I was the only one that asked a real question.

01:01:13.000 Now that I've pissed off all the other journalists and individuals who were there, Most people were asking what I would describe as, I don't know, I felt like pretty obvious questions.

01:01:24.000 Is there going to be a war with Iran?

01:01:25.000 Do you think the nuclear talks are going to be good?

01:01:28.000 That Trump is going to be talking with you?

01:01:30.000 Will it work out for you?

01:01:31.000 What's the concern?

01:01:32.000 What's going on with your prime ministership or whatever?

01:01:35.000 And you get these answers that I really felt like you could have just got a Fox News.

01:01:39.000 You know, the prime minister is going to get asked about this stuff.

01:01:42.000 He's going to say, I can't speak too much on the nuclear deals, blah, blah, blah.

01:01:45.000 Considering this was Chatham House and it was expected whatever he said was going to come out, I didn't see anything really substantive.

01:01:52.000 However, in the story they say, Poole expressed concerns about increased anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism in the pro-Trump podcasting space, according to sources in the room.

01:02:00.000 So they weren't there.

01:02:01.000 Poole famously had Kanye West on his podcast and the rapper walked out mid-interview after Poole pushed back against anti-Semitic comments.

01:02:07.000 Responding to Poole, Netanyahu said that the reason he invited the group is to meet with him.

01:02:10.000 To me?

01:02:12.000 Poole argued that there is a Qatari op to manipulate social media algorithms to make anti-Semitic and anti-Israel episodes appear to receive far more views than, say, tips for picking up women in order to incentivize podcasters and YouTubers to produce more anti-Semitic content.

01:02:25.000 Netanyahu, however, was noncommittal in his response, saying that's only possible.

01:02:28.000 Fake news!

01:02:29.000 How dare you, Tim.

01:02:30.000 Absolute fake news.

01:02:32.000 It's close to reality, but this is what they do, okay?

01:02:34.000 First, the person who was there clearly wasn't there.

01:02:36.000 Ask somebody who then conveyed incorrectly what I actually said.

01:02:40.000 I said there has been a report released from pro-Israel sources alleging Qatar is funding bots and operations to promote anti-Israel content.

01:02:49.000 Is there any evidence that's true?

01:02:51.000 And he said, I don't know.

01:02:53.000 It's possible.

01:02:53.000 That's what happened.

01:02:54.000 I did not say they actually were doing that because I don't know that they're actually doing it.

01:02:58.000 However, I did to a variety of people express what I've expressed on this show, that there are clearly bots that are.

01:03:07.000 That is not to say that people who are critical of Israel don't exist or that no one is critical of Israel.

01:03:12.000 People certainly are.

01:03:13.000 So my concern was, and I will say this too, speaking about the meeting, how they discussed Iran, the threat, and all of these things, I feel, based on that meeting, and I don't know if this was their intention or otherwise, that they are absolutely clueless as to what is going on in this country.

01:03:33.000 They are too heavily focused on kinetic, on-the-ground Israel issues, which I can understand, I guess. 0.99

01:03:41.000 And my attitude, and I'll tell you one thing I said to them, to these officials.

01:03:48.000 In 10 years, your support from the U.S. will be evaporating.

01:03:56.000 And in 20 years, you will not have U.S. support.

01:03:59.000 That's what I said.

01:04:00.000 And I stand by that.

01:04:02.000 I don't know.

01:04:03.000 You know, when it came to talks about Iran, certainly there was a deep concern.

01:04:08.000 And the general conveyance from the Israelis was Iran says death to America.

01:04:15.000 You are their principal target.

01:04:16.000 They are upset that the U.S. is exerting power in the region, which they want to exert.

01:04:20.000 So they're coming for you.

01:04:22.000 Israel's an ally of the United States.

01:04:24.000 Israel's an enemy of Iran.

01:04:25.000 Iran wants to crush Israel, and they want to crush the United States. 0.99

01:04:29.000 The sentiment being conveyed was whether the U.S. wants it or not, we will be in a war with Iran, whether we start it or they start it.

01:04:36.000 I'm not entirely convinced that's true.

01:04:37.000 And the point I brought up when I mentioned the allegations, which they're allegations of, I don't know there's evidence of this, which is why I asked, about Qatari.

01:04:46.000 Let me see if I can pull this up.

01:04:48.000 I think I actually have the allegations in question.

01:04:52.000 Let me see if I can find this.

01:04:53.000 Here we go.

01:04:54.000 What is this?

01:04:54.000 FDD. There are people that are saying that Tucker Carlson is being funded by Qatar as well.

01:04:59.000 I don't believe that anyone's being funded by Qatar.

01:05:01.000 So FDD, this is the Foundation for Defense of Democracy, says Al Jazeera allegedly using bots to spread propaganda while skirting U.S. law.

01:05:08.000 This came out December 9th.

01:05:09.000 I did not assert this was true.

01:05:11.000 I said, is there evidence to corroborate this?

01:05:14.000 Largely because what I see happening is multifaceted.

01:05:18.000 I've talked to enough young people, probably not enough to be completely honest, but I've talked to young people, where is this?

01:05:25.000 Here we go.

01:05:26.000 Who are scared to call for the suspension of TikTok largely because of the anti-Israel cohort.

01:05:34.000 So typically the conversations go, the only reason Democrats and Republicans want to ban TikTok is because of Israel, which is true and correct. 1.00

01:05:42.000 But there's a bunch of other reasons why we should force TikTok to divest as well.

01:05:47.000 I see the younger protesters are largely anti-Israel, and I see right now there is no message conveyed to young people why they should support Israel, and I'm not saying that I do.

01:05:56.000 I'm asking them, what are you paying attention to?

01:06:00.000 Now, I'll tell you this.

01:06:01.000 My having left this meeting is they are clueless to the issue.

01:06:05.000 They don't know.

01:06:07.000 Despite the fact there was literally a protest outside, they were dismissive of.

01:06:10.000 They say these things happen.

01:06:13.000 The trends that I see are Younger people are increasingly anti-Israel, and on the right, they're relatively neutral or don't care.

01:06:22.000 My prediction, as I made over a year ago, is that with the anti-war elements of the populist movement on the right and the anti-Israel section of the left, not to mention there is a smaller but still prominent anti-Israel right, Israel's not going to have support from this country in 20 years.

01:06:39.000 The U.S. is going to say, we've got two factions.

01:06:42.000 Young people on the right who are following in the footsteps of MAGA, the populist movement, who don't want to fund foreign wars, they vote no on Israel.

01:06:49.000 The far left that hates Israel, they vote no on Israel.

01:06:52.000 Israel, you've got no funding anymore.

01:06:53.000 That's what I see happening.

01:06:54.000 I think that's fairly obvious when you talk to any Zoomers. 1.00

01:06:59.000 They're clearly not pro-Israel.

01:07:02.000 They look at the United States and say, look, we have our own problems here.

01:07:05.000 And they look at our history of foreign adventurism and they're like, this hasn't worked out for me personally.

01:07:11.000 I can't afford this.

01:07:13.000 I can't pay bills or I can't.

01:07:15.000 I think it comes from a lack of education on how foreign policy actually works and the fact that you literally cannot survive in this world without...

01:07:29.000 ...without allies.

01:07:30.000 Ten guys show up to beat you up.

01:07:32.000 Are you going to fight them all by yourself?

01:07:33.000 No, you need friends.

01:07:34.000 Phil might.

01:07:35.000 What's that?

01:07:35.000 What? I said Phil might.

01:07:36.000 Phil might.

01:07:37.000 But you see this from people in Congress, too.

01:07:40.000 They just don't understand how foreign policy works.

01:07:42.000 I think it's really unfortunate.

01:07:43.000 But the other issue to what you're talking about with like the lack of Gen Z support for Israel is there are no like pro Israel champions that I really see.

01:07:52.000 I talk about Israel a lot.

01:07:53.000 I'm a raging Zionist, but I don't see a whole lot of other people who have like a firm understanding of the history.

01:07:58.000 Most people can't make a cogent argument that young people find compelling as to why we should.

01:08:05.000 Which is why, on the right, it's...

01:08:07.000 Sure, Israel can do its thing.

01:08:09.000 Don't care.

01:08:09.000 And on the left, it's down with Israel.

01:08:11.000 So I actually...

01:08:12.000 Here's a question for you guys.

01:08:13.000 Can you...

01:08:14.000 Honest question.

01:08:15.000 This is not a gotcha because I'm asking for...

01:08:16.000 I'm looking for a real answer.

01:08:17.000 And for those that are listening, comment.

01:08:19.000 Can you name a prominent, high-profile, large following?

01:08:22.000 I'm talking like a podcast with millions of listeners who is staunchly pro-Israel, advocating very heavily for Israel.

01:08:28.000 Someone who's Gen Z? 0.88

01:08:30.000 No, anybody in the podcast space.

01:08:32.000 Dennis Prager.

01:08:33.000 Like Ben Shapiro is an obvious one.

01:08:35.000 You know?

01:08:36.000 My point is, I'm not saying there's none.

01:08:38.000 I'm saying I can think of a bunch of big shows that are either Israel-neutral or skeptical and leftists who are anti-Israel.

01:08:46.000 Is Destiny pro-Israel? 0.86

01:08:48.000 Yeah. Oh, it is.

01:08:49.000 I didn't know that.

01:08:51.000 Ben Shapiro's the obvious one.

01:08:52.000 And it's not a critique of anybody who is.

01:08:55.000 I'm just saying, like, my point to these people was, hey, look, man, I'm on the internet all day, every day.

01:09:01.000 I live in the internet.

01:09:03.000 It's become a problem.

01:09:05.000 And all I see is I either don't care about Israel or Israel is bad. 0.92

01:09:09.000 Yeah, it's because they don't understand.

01:09:11.000 I think Destiny actually is...

01:09:12.000 Why is he pro-Israel?

01:09:14.000 I don't know.

01:09:15.000 Destiny sometimes takes rational approaches, but he's...

01:09:18.000 The problem is that Destiny is probably the best defender of Israel I've seen in terms of debate skills. 0.79

01:09:23.000 But... For anyone on the right, it's just like, oh, that guy's pro-Israel?

01:09:27.000 I better not be pro-Israel, right? 1.00

01:09:28.000 So it's just a problem.

01:09:29.000 He's definitely not on the right.

01:09:31.000 People watching him are on the right.

01:09:34.000 Anyone who's on the right who's like, oh, this guy's really good at defending Israel, he's also like a terrible He's an absolute horrible person.

01:09:41.000 He's the worst advocate.

01:09:43.000 He literally comes out and says, you know, violence against Trump supporters is okay.

01:09:47.000 He knows they'll have that reaction.

01:09:50.000 Here's the question.

01:09:51.000 Let's cut out anybody over 40. Are there young, prominent personalities with big followings who are pro-Israel? 0.89

01:09:58.000 Is Destiny over 40?

01:09:59.000 Yes, yeah.

01:10:00.000 Wow, really?

01:10:01.000 I think.

01:10:01.000 No, I don't think so.

01:10:02.000 But either way, we've acknowledged Destiny exists.

01:10:04.000 Okay. I'm just saying, like, obviously there's prominent personalities who are older who are pro-Israel.

01:10:10.000 I get it.

01:10:11.000 My question is, in the next 20 years, who will be leading the charge to have the U.S. fund Israel?

01:10:17.000 Look, man, I gotta be honest.

01:10:19.000 I look at, you know, Sam Harris was ragging on Joe Rogan recently, and people have been ragging on Joe Rogan and Tucker Carlson, saying that they're entertaining these positions, blah, blah, blah.

01:10:29.000 Tucker is a bit older.

01:10:30.000 Joe's a bit older.

01:10:31.000 But these are big shows, and the people they're having on these shows of influence are either, again, like Dave Smith is a great example.

01:10:38.000 A lot of the MAGA pro-Trump people do not want the U.S. funding Israel.

01:10:46.000 So there's a tiny faction of people who are younger and in favor of the U.S. funding Israel.

01:10:51.000 It doesn't make any sense to not...

01:10:52.000 What is the argument for funding Israel?

01:10:56.000 Is it really?

01:10:57.000 Someone said Aiden Ross.

01:10:59.000 The argument for funding Israel is that almost all of the money we give Israel goes into their military.

01:11:05.000 So first of all, from a capitalist perspective, the best part of that is you're taking public dollars and re-injecting them into the private sector.

01:11:10.000 We don't give any money to Israel.

01:11:11.000 We give money to our defense companies.

01:11:12.000 They give weapons to Israel. 0.76

01:11:14.000 Primary benefit of that is, like, a really good example is in 1981, Israel battle-tested F-15s for the first time ever.

01:11:20.000 These F-15s had never been battle-tested. 0.53

01:11:22.000 They flew them in combat against Iraq.

01:11:24.000 We learned our F-15s were capable of long-range bombing campaigns against Saddam Hussein's nuclear reactor.

01:11:30.000 They didn't lose a single F-15 in battle against Russian MiGs at the height of the Cold War.

01:11:33.000 That was great.

01:11:34.000 They were the first to battle-test our F-35 Lightning IIs.

01:11:36.000 Sure, but that's 40 years ago, so what's today?

01:11:38.000 F-35 Lightning IIs are today.

01:11:40.000 Trophy systems and Abrams tanks.

01:11:41.000 They were the first to test them.

01:11:42.000 They were one of the first to test...

01:11:44.000 So today, they're still providing us with, like, the money we give them, we are essentially just an R&D program for our military.

01:11:52.000 Look at, like, what they do economically.

01:11:54.000 The Leviathan and Tamar oil fields.

01:11:56.000 These are massive oil fields in the Mediterranean off the coast of Israel in Israeli waters.

01:12:00.000 And a U.S.

01:12:01.000 LNG company was able to completely take over those oil fields.

01:12:05.000 It's called Noble.

01:12:07.000 They're, I believe, based in Dallas-Fort Worth.

01:12:09.000 We made tons of money off that.

01:12:10.000 We also regularized relations with Arab countries in the region by selling them the oil.

01:12:14.000 Tel Aviv is the fourth biggest city in the world for tech startups.

01:12:18.000 We usually wait for them to start new tech companies and then buy them.

01:12:21.000 The technology that's in Teslas, Mobileye, it's called, is an Israeli invention that Intel bought.

01:12:30.000 Sorry. How much money does Israel get every year from the United States?

01:12:34.000 Like $3 billion.

01:12:36.000 Yeah, the amount of money that Israel gets isn't actually a lot compared to the way that people talk about how much.

01:12:44.000 There are arguments that the Middle East wars that the U.S. is engaged in are all for Israel.

01:12:50.000 I'm not particularly...

01:12:51.000 I don't find those arguments generally compelling, but...

01:12:56.000 That's something you hear a lot.

01:12:58.000 It's not very much.

01:12:58.000 If that's the case, that the wars the U.S. is engaging in the Middle East are for Israel, and then you tack that money in, then you're talking about significant expenditures.

01:13:08.000 A little bit.

01:13:09.000 The other thing, too, is that money creates jobs in our own defense companies because, again, it never goes to Israel.

01:13:14.000 It goes to our defense companies.

01:13:15.000 On the political side, Israel votes with the United States more than any other country in the world on contested UN votes.

01:13:21.000 90 percent of the time it's more than Canada.

01:13:23.000 It's more than the UK. It's more than anyone we consider to be a close ally.

01:13:26.000 So the – like what everybody is calling the woke right who insists that Israel is not an ally.

01:13:32.000 They're – what do they call it?

01:13:33.000 Detriment or whatever, right?

01:13:37.000 They're off their rocker and they don't know anything effectively.

01:13:39.000 They're definitely not holding us back.

01:13:42.000 They are a very strong ally that gives us a lot of benefits whether it's on the political, the military – In 2024, they got $6.8 billion.

01:13:54.000 Yeah. And Ukraine got $6.5.

01:13:58.000 The money that Israel gets is directly in weapons, so that money actually goes to U.S. weapons manufacturers.

01:14:06.000 And so that money does go into the U.S. economy.

01:14:08.000 So I understand people making the argument, well, it helps the economy.

01:14:12.000 No, this is crazy.

01:14:13.000 I mean, just even outside of the whole issue of Israel, Take a look at how much money the U.S. is giving to everyone.

01:14:21.000 Oh, it's ridiculous.

01:14:22.000 Sudan got $800 million.

01:14:24.000 Nigeria got $770 million.

01:14:26.000 This is crazy.

01:14:28.000 Malawi? Malawi? 0.56

01:14:30.000 How do you say that?

01:14:30.000 Malawi. Malawi.

01:14:32.000 There you go.

01:14:32.000 See, I couldn't even pronounce that one.

01:14:34.000 $637 million.

01:14:37.000 Here's my pitch.

01:14:38.000 We take all of the money we give to all these countries and give it to random firefighters.

01:14:42.000 Just put on a big pool and then just...

01:14:45.000 Dish out a million bucks to every firefighter we can until we run out.

01:14:47.000 But a lot of this money is also to prevent, like, to put U.S. influence over these countries, take a drop in the foreign aid bucket, give it to these countries so they're dependent on the United States and China doesn't swoop in and take them.

01:14:59.000 It's the liberal economic order.

01:15:01.000 The idea is that if we maintain, if you tell those leaders, hey, look, man, you're gonna be a millionaire.

01:15:07.000 You're gonna have an infinity pool and every luxury car.

01:15:10.000 Don't go to war.

01:15:11.000 They say, okay.

01:15:12.000 And if they don't listen, then, you know, a helicopter flies in the middle of the night and they're not the leader anymore.

01:15:20.000 That's how it goes.

01:15:21.000 Yeah, well.

01:15:23.000 So this is obviously not correct.

01:15:25.000 They got more than, in 2024, Ukraine got more than 6.5 billion.

01:15:29.000 Yeah. That's how they're calculating.

01:15:30.000 How are they calculating?

01:15:31.000 Right. Because a lot of it was just like old military equipment.

01:15:33.000 2023, what do we get for Ukraine?

01:15:37.000 What is this?

01:15:37.000 France, get out of here.

01:15:39.000 2023, we don't need it.

01:15:40.000 Go away.

01:15:42.000 28 billion.

01:15:43.000 Wow! What did Israel get in 2023?

01:15:46.000 Not 28 billion.

01:15:48.000 3 billion.

01:15:50.000 28 billion?

01:15:53.000 What? We're fighting the war.

01:15:56.000 I mean, this war wouldn't be going on if we were not fighting the war.

01:15:58.000 Jeez, man!

01:16:01.000 Conversely, if we weren't funding Israel, Israel would still be fighting the war and they'd be doing probably just fine.

01:16:07.000 As they've shown time and time again before we funded them.

01:16:09.000 I think the principal reason that people in this country are supportive of Israel is for religious reasons.

01:16:14.000 A lot of Christians.

01:16:16.000 Evangelicals, a lot of them. 1.00

01:16:17.000 Yep. And it's fascinating that, I guess what, before modern Israel, what was there?

01:16:28.000 What did they call it?

01:16:29.000 Mandatory Palestine, Eretz Israel. 0.99

01:16:31.000 Land of Israel, Mandatory Palestine. 0.79

01:16:33.000 Interesting. And then before that, it was obviously the Ottoman Empire.

01:16:35.000 We were talking about this a while ago, that there are people who are intentionally trying to create the circumstances by which Revelation happens.

01:16:42.000 Yep. So, we talked about the red heifers.

01:16:46.000 They're intentionally trying to breed them so that they can have them.

01:16:49.000 And some people, I watched this interesting little mini-documentary about Armageddon, and they were saying that there's some people who believe that, it's the book of Revelation, right?

01:17:00.000 Or is it Plur?

01:17:01.000 It's Revelation, right?

01:17:02.000 I don't know.

01:17:02.000 They say it's singular.

01:17:04.000 It's the revelation.

01:17:05.000 Yeah, which I think Armageddon means revelation too, right?

01:17:09.000 There are people who believe it's predictive, this is what will happen.

01:17:12.000 There are people who believe it is descriptive, this is what did happen.

01:17:16.000 And there are people who believe it's a, how would you describe it?

01:17:21.000 It's telling you what to do.

01:17:24.000 It's describing...

01:17:25.000 Instructions. Right, it's instructive, there you go.

01:17:28.000 And some people are a mix of all of these things.

01:17:30.000 And there are people with power that are trying to intentionally bring about the circumstances from the book of Revelation so that they can force the coming of the Messiah, or they believe that when they accomplish these tasks, it will happen.

01:17:43.000 So I don't know about all that.

01:17:44.000 All I know is that there's people, they exist, right?

01:17:47.000 They're breeding the red heifers or whatever.

01:17:48.000 I don't know if they're prominent.

01:17:49.000 But I do believe when you look at the United States today, it's overwhelmingly pro-Israel.

01:17:55.000 It's like 70, 80% pro-Israel.

01:17:58.000 But I think if you go to look at the younger generation, it's probably split.

01:18:00.000 It's probably way less than that.

01:18:02.000 Maybe less than 50-50.

01:18:04.000 Probably general opposition.

01:18:05.000 The general pro-Israel stance, too, is probably mostly people who just view it as a default thing.

01:18:09.000 Right, exactly.

01:18:10.000 I remember when I was a kid and abortion was a thing, I was just like, default.

01:18:15.000 Yep, I'm pro-choice.

01:18:16.000 Because that's how we ride in the 21st century.

01:18:19.000 That's how I looked into it.

01:18:20.000 But I think that's probably the case for most people who are pro-Israel.

01:18:24.000 They're not talking about it.

01:18:24.000 Interesting. 18- to 24-year-olds.

01:18:26.000 A poll found, Harvard-Harris, 48% support Hamas.

01:18:31.000 That's... That's what it says on the survey?

01:18:36.000 Do you support Hamas, yes or no?

01:18:38.000 That's what it says.

01:18:39.000 Young Americans have mixed views about Hamas.

01:18:42.000 Let me pull it up.

01:18:43.000 I am fine with people that are critical of Israel and don't like Israel, but supporting Hamas is... 0.80

01:18:49.000 I don't think they know what Hamas is.

01:18:49.000 Harvard-Harris poll from March found that 40% of Americans aged 24 said they support Hamas over Israel.

01:18:55.000 I don't think they know what Hamas is.

01:18:57.000 No, they don't, of course.

01:18:58.000 I don't think they know what that word means.

01:19:00.000 Their charter literally says that their day of judgment, so whatever, the rapture, says the day of judgment will not come about until the Muslims fight the Jews, killing the Jews. 0.91

01:19:10.000 Oh, it's worse than that, brother.

01:19:11.000 It's actually in the Hadith.

01:19:13.000 Yeah, it's a Hadith.

01:19:14.000 Yeah, exactly.

01:19:14.000 It says that until the Muslims fight the Jews and every rock and tree will say, oh, Muslim, come, there's a Jew hiding behind me, come kill him.

01:19:21.000 There's a Jew behind me, come and kill him. 1.00

01:19:22.000 Yeah. That's crazy.

01:19:23.000 Except the Garknad tree, which is a Jew lover tree. 0.97

01:19:25.000 That one won't.

01:19:26.000 That one won't?

01:19:27.000 No, yeah.

01:19:28.000 No, read it.

01:19:29.000 That's hilarious.

01:19:30.000 Yeah, you know, that one really bothers me because, like, all of these rules you get on social media companies about hate speech, and I'm like, bro, there's a religion that has, like, a tenet that says they have to kill another religion.

01:19:41.000 We're not going to respect all religions here, dude. 1.00

01:19:44.000 Part of it also is that they have to lie to non-believers about what they believe in order to make them join Islam. 0.89

01:19:51.000 Well, I think they can lie.

01:19:53.000 I don't know that says they have to lie.

01:19:55.000 They're the same kind of comments about Judaism as well.

01:20:01.000 Like in the Talmud, I guess there's some really controversial things that are in there that people tend to cite a lot.

01:20:08.000 There's a lot of people that are in my mentions frequently being, Like, read the Talmud and they hate you.

01:20:13.000 They hate you'cause you're a Gentile or whatever.

01:20:16.000 But the difference between that is that a Hadith is the word of the Prophet Muhammad, right?

01:20:23.000 That's what they believe Hadiths are.

01:20:24.000 They are the word of Prophet Muhammad.

01:20:26.000 And the Quran says that the word of Prophet Muhammad is the word of God and whatever he says goes and that's what you follow.

01:20:32.000 The Talmud is 2000 pages of rabbis arguing about what biblical law says, right?

01:20:38.000 So none of it is like authoritarian One thing I don't get about, like, Islam is, like, Islam says that Christians are polytheists, right?

01:20:47.000 They say that because they worship the Trinity, they say they're polytheists.

01:20:52.000 But at the same time, they say that Muhammad is, like, Muhammad's words are the word of God, word of Allah.

01:21:00.000 Yeah, so that's the same thing, isn't it?

01:21:03.000 Or at least it's, I mean, it's...

01:21:05.000 You think they view Muhammad as a deity?

01:21:07.000 No, no.

01:21:08.000 Well, I mean, the way they behave, they would say they don't.

01:21:10.000 But to an outsider, it looks the same as the way that...

01:21:15.000 You know, people treat Christianity when it comes to the way that Christ and God and the Holy Spirit are one, you know?

01:21:21.000 And there are different degrees of Hadiths, which is based on, I believe, like the, how strong the belief is that Muhammad actually said this thing.

01:21:29.000 So I don't know what degree that Hadith that says the Day of Judgment will come about, the Muslims fight the Jews, killing the Jews, is, but it doesn't matter because there is a group that, what was it, 24% of Gen Zers said that they support that does believe that. 0.88

01:21:42.000 48. 48?

01:21:43.000 Okay, great.

01:21:44.000 Even worse.

01:21:45.000 Yeah, didn't I just pull it up?

01:21:47.000 Where did it go?

01:21:48.000 I don't know.

01:21:49.000 Here you go.

01:21:50.000 New York Post.

01:21:52.000 It says, Harvard Harris Poll, 40% of Americans aged 24 say they would support Hamas over the Jewish state, making them the only age demographic for which Israel did not enjoy at least a double-digit support over the terror group in the Gaza Strip.

01:22:01.000 Yeah, I mean, look, at the end of the day, Hamas is a terrorist organization.

01:22:05.000 And guess what's legal in the Gaza Strip, by the way?

01:22:07.000 Actually, every other Muslim country that I can think of except Jordan. 0.61

01:22:12.000 Child rape.

01:22:13.000 You can marry a child. 0.87

01:22:15.000 There is no legal age of marriage in any of these countries.

01:22:17.000 And spousal rape is legal. 0.74

01:22:19.000 If you can marry a child, what does that equal? 0.96

01:22:23.000 Sudan has a legal age of marriage at 10 years old.

01:22:27.000 In Jordan, it's 18. In the West Bank, it's actually 18 as well, which is very surprising.

01:22:31.000 But Gaza never adopted that rule.

01:22:34.000 Yep. Crazy.

01:22:36.000 Wonderful. You know, I guess...

01:22:39.000 We'll grab another segment after this, but my final thoughts on this meeting.

01:22:46.000 My view would be that, man, I don't know.

01:22:51.000 There's concerns over Iran getting a nuclear weapon.

01:22:54.000 Trump is supposed to be having talks this, I think, what is it, Saturday, with Iran that I don't know are going to go well.

01:23:01.000 And we're back in Bagram as well.

01:23:05.000 Exactly. We're back in Bagram.

01:23:07.000 The general sentiment that was conveyed to us was whether we want a war with Iran or not, Iran is intent on destroying us. 0.58

01:23:16.000 So, obviously, you know, as expressed, we don't want war.

01:23:19.000 We don't want war.

01:23:20.000 But if these nuclear talks don't go well and they begin to work towards a nuclear weapon, they never said anything like there's going to be war, but that was the general vibe of like, yo, no one's going to let Iran get a nuclear weapon.

01:23:31.000 It's going to get bad.

01:23:32.000 I don't want war.

01:23:33.000 I don't want to be involved.

01:23:35.000 I don't have any good answers for you guys.

01:23:36.000 Sorry. The US is going to do weird, crazy stuff and they're going to lie to us the whole time.

01:23:41.000 Yeah, I was surprised when I read that the US was going to go back into Bagram.

01:23:44.000 It only makes the Abbey Gate and the pullout that much more infuriating that, you know, the Biden administration pulls out and we gave the Taliban a boatload of weapons.

01:23:56.000 I'm not sure what the agreement is or how the Taliban plans to guarantee that there won't be attacks on Bagram other than massive amounts of U.S. military hardware pointed outward from the airbase.

01:24:10.000 I haven't read this story.

01:24:11.000 Are they giving assurances that there won't be attacks?

01:24:14.000 I don't know.

01:24:15.000 We don't know that we're taking back Bagram.

01:24:20.000 They said a CIA plane flew overhead and did weird stuff.

01:24:23.000 Which couldn't mean anything.

01:24:26.000 Let's jump to the story from the Post Millennial.

01:24:28.000 55% of left-leaning Americans say...

01:24:31.000 I'm not going to read this headline.

01:24:32.000 I can't read it.

01:24:32.000 But they're in favor of hurting the president.

01:24:35.000 We'll put it that way.

01:24:36.000 Only somewhat.

01:24:38.000 55% somewhat justified.

01:24:40.000 It's 55 that are somewhat justified or totally justified.

01:24:44.000 They combined it.

01:24:44.000 That's how they got the plurality.

01:24:45.000 Or the majority, actually.

01:24:47.000 You're the bad guys, guys.

01:24:48.000 Yeah, according to a poll done by the Network Contagion Research Institute, a growing number of people are fine justifying or even celebrate Yeah, this is what I'm saying.

01:24:59.000 Look, we were talking about Gen Z, whether they would work in factories or not. 1.00

01:25:04.000 And we were talking about how I think the younger generations largely look up to the older generations, like they're in charge and they know it's best, even though 22-year-olds should be running businesses.

01:25:14.000 That's the way it used to be.

01:25:15.000 Like, you were 22 and you had a farm.

01:25:16.000 And you were the boss.

01:25:17.000 You were in charge.

01:25:18.000 You answered to nobody.

01:25:19.000 But now it's like Gen Z is just looking up to everybody else instead of taking the reins.

01:25:24.000 millennials are no different.

01:25:24.000 I think that there's a general lack of purpose.

01:25:28.000 And what's going to happen is the younger generation becoming increasingly radicalized are going to get increasingly violent because there's no path.

01:25:38.000 And it's not so much about opportunity or the American dream.

01:25:41.000 It's about what are we even doing?

01:25:42.000 Someone's going to find a way to fill that with orange man bad or, you know, insert any other ideology.

01:25:48.000 And then I think we're going to see young people in 10 years be espousing their violent rhetoric and ideologies.

01:25:54.000 I think that there's a Gen Alpha's gonna be getting older.

01:25:58.000 And then, you know, bad stuff happens.

01:26:00.000 This is something I've been wondering about.

01:26:02.000 Why is it that they latched onto Luigi Mangione and started hero-worshipping him, but the same response didn't happen for Thomas Crooks?

01:26:12.000 Because Luigi's a pretty boy.

01:26:14.000 Because Luigi had...

01:26:16.000 I disagree.

01:26:18.000 Thomas Crooks had a more important target.

01:26:20.000 Crooks had no motive, ideology, structure.

01:26:23.000 He had no grievance.

01:26:24.000 We don't even know how he got there.

01:26:26.000 Mangione said, I was living the good life and then I hurt my back and it destroyed everything.

01:26:31.000 And they kept denying me and delaying.

01:26:33.000 And so he went out for revenge.

01:26:35.000 And that was an ideological...

01:26:37.000 You still know nothing about Thomas Crooks.

01:26:38.000 Exactly. Bill Burr said on Jimmy Kimmel...

01:26:43.000 Are you kidding?

01:26:43.000 He said something like, are you kidding?

01:26:45.000 People are wondering why this happened?

01:26:46.000 That's why.

01:26:48.000 They started worshiping.

01:26:49.000 Not to say you're completely wrong, Phil.

01:26:52.000 Charisma matters.

01:26:53.000 The ladies do want to hook up with that guy. 1.00

01:26:55.000 They started worshiping and romanticizing him before they even knew who he was, too.

01:27:00.000 Because they had a suspect.

01:27:04.000 This guy just killed a healthcare CEO.

01:27:07.000 Oh, he's definitely on our side.

01:27:08.000 And that's not a, I hate Republicans, I hate Trump thing.

01:27:11.000 That's a, Down with the system.

01:27:13.000 I'm a leftist thing.

01:27:14.000 And that's why they latched on to it.

01:27:15.000 Now, here's the important question.

01:27:16.000 The important question is age, in my opinion.

01:27:21.000 I don't care about the general left of this country.

01:27:24.000 What people often completely overlook in these things, the way described it is, how can I describe it?

01:27:31.000 Imagine that you have, there's a graph indicating your proximity left and right, where you are.

01:27:40.000 And in the 1990s, everybody was really close to each other.

01:27:43.000 That's what the Pew Research shows.

01:27:44.000 Over time, the left and the right start to move away from each other.

01:27:48.000 What people don't understand is that the bifurcation among the younger generation is night and day, and the bifurcation among the older generation is, they're fairly similar, it's not that big a deal.

01:28:00.000 Voting patterns right now reflect an older generation in boomers, Gen Xers, and some millennials that are still somewhat Close in worldview.

01:28:10.000 But as you get millennial, you know, so some millennials, you get millennial, Gen Z, and younger, the distance between ideologies is a chasm.

01:28:21.000 When the older generations that agree with each other die and pass on, they will no longer be voting.

01:28:27.000 That means you are going to have increasing hyperpolarization as the younger generations begin to take over these principal voting blocks and become the only voters.

01:28:36.000 This is missed by everybody.

01:28:38.000 Ten years from now, boomers are not going to be voting. 1.00

01:28:41.000 So their shared worldview among Democrat and Republican boomers?

01:28:44.000 Gone. Then you're going to have far-left young people, or I mean far-left middle-aged people, and conservative moderate right-wing people, and they're going to be voting for insanely different things.

01:28:56.000 To the point where voting don't matter.

01:28:58.000 They're going to be like, I will not let you do that no matter what.

01:29:01.000 It's one thing when in the 90s everybody agreed.

01:29:04.000 In the 90s, like, Everybody agreed on almost every single policy except, like, should the taxes be 1% higher or 1% lower?

01:29:11.000 And should abortion be 15 weeks or 16 weeks?

01:29:14.000 Now it's abortion for everybody no matter what or no abortions at all. 0.92

01:29:19.000 It is Marxism, it is DEI, or it is anti-woke, anti-Marxist, whatever.

01:29:25.000 The only thing holding everything together is boomers, for the most part, and Gen X. When boomers stop voting, Hyperpolarization is going to jump the left-leaning Americans when they include elderly people who are anti-violence. 0.85

01:29:42.000 Look, another poll that we pulled up a year or so ago was that they polled whether or not people thought a civil war would happen in this country.

01:29:49.000 Boomers overwhelmingly said it will not.

01:29:51.000 Gen X, it was 2 to 1 that it won't happen.

01:29:55.000 Millennials were split 50-50, and Gen Z was 2 to 1 it will happen. 0.99

01:29:59.000 So just carry that sentiment as Gen Z ages and becomes older and starts entering the age where they should be controlling industry. 0.99

01:30:08.000 I guess the only saving grace that I can think of with that is the fact that young people are the ones that actually engage in revolutionary activities generally. 0.70

01:30:19.000 Usually if there's a revolution or a civil war or something, it's young men that are doing it.

01:30:24.000 And hopefully...

01:30:25.000 The people that feel like there will be one age out of it before it actually comes to a head.

01:30:31.000 But that is definitely a...

01:30:33.000 They're more likely to think in black and white and grow out of it.

01:30:37.000 Like, I wonder what millennials would have said had they been asked in the 18 to 24 age range.

01:30:42.000 Well, millennials, they wouldn't have thought that...

01:30:45.000 I imagine that they wouldn't have thought that we would have a civil war because remember, they're in their 40s now.

01:30:51.000 So 20 years ago...

01:30:53.000 You know, it was 2005 and it was a whole different world.

01:30:57.000 It was a whole different world.

01:30:59.000 So the reason why millennials are split pretty close to thinking there will be is because we grew up with a constant battle between left and right in a way that boomers did not.

01:31:09.000 Don't get me wrong.

01:31:10.000 I shouldn't say that there wasn't.

01:31:12.000 There was certainly far left, but it wasn't as pronounced in the mainstream.

01:31:16.000 So when millennials are growing up, it was mainstream for the left to make prominent videos attacking the right.

01:31:23.000 It was mainstream for Green Day to make a whole album saying, screw America, F you.

01:31:28.000 So, I mean, I know that there was punk rock stuff and there was criticism of the government, but the mainstream was largely not this.

01:31:34.000 I mean, look, people that liked Rage Against the Machine in the 90s, 95% of them didn't know what Rage Against the Machine was singing about.

01:31:43.000 That's why there's that video that's really funny of a bunch of middle-aged white people dancing to the song Killing in the Name.

01:31:49.000 It's like, uh...

01:31:51.000 Do you know what they're singing about?

01:31:54.000 I used to love Green Day.

01:31:55.000 Used to.

01:31:57.000 I mean, I was never a Green Day fan, but I still listen to Rage Against the Machine.

01:32:00.000 If they come on the radio, I'm not turning them off.

01:32:02.000 I like Rage Against the Machine, even though I know that ideologically we couldn't be further apart.

01:32:07.000 I still listen to Green Day, rarely on occasion.

01:32:10.000 In the 90s, the 2000s, the 2010s, I think millennials also believed that political solutions existed because the left was ascendant and it was like, That could very well be.

01:32:28.000 Which is probably why there are so many people that are, you know, young people that are That look at the situation and freak out if they're on the left.

01:32:46.000 If they're leftists like people like Hassan and stuff.

01:32:48.000 There's not a whole lot of moderation coming from these guys.

01:32:53.000 That's why Trump freaks them out.

01:32:55.000 Because they thought they had a permanent victory.

01:33:00.000 And that was kind of the vibe that people had.

01:33:03.000 Now that Obama's won, now we can look at the Republicans as a regional I think the

01:33:34.000 one thing that people just don't consider, and I'll say it again, is that Look, somebody right now who's 17 years old will be voting in 2028.

01:33:44.000 Somebody right now who is 28 years old, who's never voted before and doesn't care because young people don't vote, will be voting in 2028 for the first time because it's beginning to impact their retirements or something like this.

01:33:56.000 It's funny to me that whenever it comes to elections, people say things like, how do we convince more people to vote Republican?

01:34:01.000 How do we register more Republican voters?

01:34:03.000 And it's like, go to a freshman college class?

01:34:07.000 They'll register tons of Republicans there.

01:34:09.000 You just start signing them up.

01:34:10.000 They never registered before.

01:34:11.000 They're 18. They can finally vote.

01:34:13.000 People aren't considering that a large portion of the people who voted for Donald Trump the first time are dead.

01:34:22.000 In 2016, when Trump ran for the first time, how many voters did he get that were elderly?

01:34:28.000 And it's been 10 years and they ain't here anymore.

01:34:30.000 So he needs to find voters somewhere else.

01:34:32.000 Which is another point which is interesting in the 2024 election.

01:34:35.000 Because this means Trump A substantial, a large number of new voters, considering many of the older voters of a Republican are aging out, as we call it.

01:34:43.000 Passing on.

01:34:45.000 Expedited by COVID.

01:34:47.000 Indeed. So, absolutely.

01:34:48.000 So how many, so he actually won bigger than people realize because they're thinking of it like the body politic is a static thing.

01:34:57.000 Yeah. Not that it's constantly changing.

01:35:00.000 So Trump is winning bigly with young people.

01:35:02.000 That's an era that I feel is Every group kind of makes.

01:35:06.000 People think that time doesn't progress.

01:35:11.000 They almost forget that there's going to be changes.

01:35:16.000 Like I was just saying earlier, the Democrats thought that they were going to be in control forever.

01:35:21.000 They couldn't imagine someone like Donald Trump.

01:35:25.000 Taking over the Republican Party and really changing what a Republican is.

01:35:31.000 The left thought the Republicans were people like John McCain and Mitt Romney.

01:35:40.000 And then Donald Trump came in and changed everything.

01:35:43.000 And that's why the other day we were talking.

01:35:47.000 Williams was here, and I was like, look, man, you don't know who can pop their head up.

01:35:52.000 There may not be someone obvious now on the Democrat side, but there is no guarantee that the Republicans or America First is going to be in control for the next 30 years.

01:36:02.000 There's going to be someone that could...

01:36:04.000 Or there could very well be someone that will pop up on the Democrat side and be, you know, a fiery speaker or have influence and could really, and you can't tell what's going to happen in the world either.

01:36:16.000 There are conditions that change.

01:36:17.000 I don't think, so there was a poll that came out for who's the, for the 2028 election, who do you got?

01:36:25.000 J.D. Vance had like 40-something percent, and Stephen A. Smith had the Democrat ticket.

01:36:28.000 Yeah. I mean, there's no one right now.

01:36:30.000 What? There's 100% no one right now that's obviously ascendant.

01:36:34.000 I'm just saying that it could be in four years or six years that someone decides, because, you know, someone that's 25 now that's not in politics, in five, six, seven years, they could be like, hey.

01:36:46.000 What I can say is Terrence sent me a box of sweet potato pancake mix, which I've been using to make waffles with.

01:36:53.000 And it is good.

01:36:55.000 It's real good.

01:36:56.000 He sent us buttermilk pancake mix too, but Allison's not doing dairy right now, so we can't use it just yet.

01:37:01.000 But the sweet potato pancake mix does not have any dairy in it, so I've been using it to make waffles.

01:37:06.000 And I would describe them as based AF.

01:37:09.000 Very delicious.

01:37:09.000 Very healthy, by the way.

01:37:11.000 Shout out to Cousin T's Pancakes. 0.95

01:37:13.000 And we used his blackberry.

01:37:14.000 He sent us blackberry syrup.

01:37:16.000 Yeah, it's good.

01:37:17.000 Not too sweet.

01:37:18.000 Not too sweet.

01:37:19.000 Only 10 grams of sugar and two tablespoons.

01:37:21.000 So it was one-fifth of the dark maple syrup that we normally use.

01:37:25.000 Like cough syrup.

01:37:26.000 I guess.

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01:38:04.000 Raymond G. Stanley Jr. says...

01:38:06.000 With a new study of more and more leftists being okay with deleting their political opponents, I can't see an off-ramp unless they win it all.

01:38:12.000 Don't steal my catchphrase.

01:38:14.000 Yeah. Love you.

01:38:16.000 It's going to be like these elections are becoming increasingly more dire every time where everyone's like, the world will end.

01:38:24.000 Well, considering what Trump is doing, who knows?

01:38:26.000 The liberal economic order is certainly being gutted.

01:38:30.000 Ginger McIsaac says, here's an important fact.

01:38:32.000 Tariffs are the real tax on billionaires and corporations.

01:38:35.000 They pay to import goods to the U.S. It is now up to us to actually decide to make the ultimate purchase.

01:38:40.000 The elite are birthing kittens.

01:38:43.000 Okay. Birthing kittens?

01:38:45.000 What? I don't know.

01:38:46.000 Yeah. What?

01:38:48.000 Shanice Wilder says, I already have Holo, so I can't use the promo, but everyone else should.

01:38:52.000 I can attest that it is great.

01:38:53.000 I use it daily and highly recommend.

01:38:55.000 Shanice Wilder is such a good dude.

01:38:59.000 Very, very cool.

01:39:00.000 All right.

01:39:00.000 Let's see what we got over here.

01:39:03.000 Let's see.

01:39:05.000 I'm tempted not to read this because they started this chat with, I bet Tim won't read this.

01:39:10.000 Should I read it?

01:39:11.000 I mean, can you get away with reading it and not have any kind of negative consequences?

01:39:17.000 There's nothing wrong with the chat.

01:39:18.000 They're just saying, I bet he won't read this.

01:39:19.000 Read it.

01:39:19.000 That usually makes me say, then I won't.

01:39:21.000 Lose the bet.

01:39:22.000 Yeah, I'll lose the bet.

01:39:24.000 Nah, they put $20 in.

01:39:25.000 Tony Clips said, I bet Tim won't read this.

01:39:27.000 Want to test your fitness?

01:39:28.000 Check out 8lift.com.

01:39:29.000 Set the example that you would want to follow.

01:39:32.000 I just think that when people write, I bet you won't read this, it's like, dude, I get it.

01:39:36.000 You're trying to, you think you're tricking me into reading your post.

01:39:39.000 Come on.

01:39:41.000 Derwood says, I'm a proud 48-year-old virgin, was engaged at 16, but my fiance became pregnant while I was at college.

01:39:46.000 She married her baby daddy. 1.00

01:39:47.000 Ouch. Brutal, man.

01:39:50.000 Sorry to hear it.

01:39:51.000 Proud, though?

01:39:53.000 Maybe he's religious.

01:39:54.000 Yeah. Maybe.

01:39:56.000 That's a funny thing, too, because, like, the left had this big meme where they mocked Ben Shapiro.

01:40:00.000 Because they were like, haha, he's a virgin, and he's like, I'm married and I have children.

01:40:04.000 And they're like, well, you were a virgin.

01:40:05.000 He's like, yes, I was, but until I got married.

01:40:07.000 Literally everyone was a virgin.

01:40:10.000 Before not being one.

01:40:13.000 The left believes that you should be doing whatever.

01:40:16.000 A religious person isn't offended by you.

01:40:19.000 I just don't understand what liberals are thinking, okay?

01:40:22.000 Ben Shapiro's a religious guy.

01:40:23.000 He's looking at you and he sees a degenerate scum monster and you're like, haha, you're pure.

01:40:28.000 And he's like, yes.

01:40:30.000 That's how he sees it.

01:40:32.000 He sounds like demons.

01:40:34.000 He sees a bunch of degenerate filth going, and throwing mud, and he's like, this means nothing to me.

01:40:40.000 Like, your boos mean nothing. 0.86

01:40:42.000 I've seen what makes you cheer.

01:40:45.000 Snoop123 says, Make $33 an hour and my wife works. 1.00

01:40:49.000 Paid $65k for a house not worth $20k.

01:40:52.000 Between cost of living and gen bills, we don't have any extra money.

01:40:57.000 We don't waste our money.

01:40:58.000 I can't get any house repairs for less than $10,000.

01:41:01.000 Less the $10,000?

01:41:03.000 Crazy. OneWednesday says sweatshop jobs will not come back. 0.90

01:41:07.000 The factories in the U.S. will be more advanced and industrial.

01:41:12.000 There will be a few high-skilled workers overseeing large industrial sewing machines.

01:41:16.000 Yeah, probably.

01:41:19.000 Blaze Kaiser says, oh Tim, most millennials already know we aren't ever retiring.

01:41:23.000 It works out for me because I don't want to retire.

01:41:26.000 I have no intention of retiring, and I don't want to.

01:41:30.000 So I'll always be doing something.

01:41:32.000 It's weird.

01:41:34.000 People always ask me this.

01:41:35.000 They were like, what are you going to do for your retirement?

01:41:37.000 Do you have a 401k?

01:41:38.000 Do you have a Roth IRA?

01:41:39.000 I was like, what do I need that for?

01:41:40.000 And they're like, well, when you retire.

01:41:41.000 And I was like, what does retire mean?

01:41:43.000 When you stop working.

01:41:44.000 And then what do I do?

01:41:46.000 And they're like, I don't know.

01:41:47.000 What do you want to do?

01:41:48.000 And I'm like, work.

01:41:50.000 You're a rare person who does what they want to do and it's what they do for work and that's not most people.

01:41:55.000 I've only ever done whatever I wanted to do.

01:41:58.000 Yeah, most people don't.

01:41:59.000 Because they need gumption.

01:42:02.000 Well, I think you're just born with it or you don't have it.

01:42:06.000 For the most part.

01:42:07.000 What do you call that?

01:42:08.000 Talent realist?

01:42:11.000 Talent realist?

01:42:12.000 Yeah, like you believe that people are inherently born with or without talent?

01:42:15.000 Well, I mean, I don't think that...

01:42:17.000 I don't think that you're just born with or without talent, but it is true that you're born with the kind of personality that feels like, oh, I can do this, or oh, no, I can't do this.

01:42:30.000 My father, he was his own business.

01:42:36.000 He would plow in the winter and would do construction site work.

01:42:41.000 When he started his business, my grandfather, his dad, was like, don't.

01:42:46.000 You need to get a job.

01:42:47.000 You need someone to make sure that you're getting a paycheck every week.

01:42:50.000 It's a terrible idea, blah, blah, blah.

01:42:51.000 And this is in like 1980.

01:42:52.000 My dad's like, look, I just went and I made 200 bucks, which is a ton of money.

01:42:55.000 And he's like, yeah, but what?

01:42:57.000 My grandfather was like, yeah, but what about the next $200?

01:43:00.000 Where's that going to come from?

01:43:01.000 So it really depends on your experiences and how your intuition is.

01:43:10.000 What's the word I'm looking for?

01:43:12.000 Anyways, the kind of person you are.

01:43:14.000 Some people are geared for that, and some people aren't.

01:43:17.000 And I'm not criticizing people that aren't.

01:43:19.000 Like I said, I love my grandfather, but he just wasn't that kind of dude.

01:43:22.000 He's like, I think you need to have a job.

01:43:25.000 And my dad was like, I'm going to go and do it on my own.

01:43:28.000 You also run into a problem with Gen Z, too, where they think that they're the kind of person who can make a job out of nothing. 0.78

01:43:33.000 Like, I'm going to start a podcast and be really successful because I'm full of talent, but they're not.

01:43:38.000 But they're willing to do the work, maybe, but they're just not the talents.

01:43:41.000 It's usually not a podcast, though.

01:43:43.000 I think the Gen Z men are getting really into these back-end money-making schemes or what they think are going to make them money. 1.00

01:43:52.000 They're buying e-books and joining courses and courses on how to make e-books.

01:44:01.000 I've said it before, I'll say it again.

01:44:04.000 There's a fast way to make money, and it's really simple.

01:44:07.000 And a lot of people succeed in doing it.

01:44:09.000 And we talked about this on the show.

01:44:10.000 Some super rich guy explains to me a long time ago in passing.

01:44:14.000 He's like, what's one thing everybody wants?

01:44:18.000 What's one thing everybody wants?

01:44:20.000 They want to make money.

01:44:21.000 Okay, great.

01:44:21.000 So Google search top tips for making money.

01:44:24.000 Find 20 talking points bits of advice.

01:44:27.000 Put it into a 20-page book.

01:44:30.000 Sell it online through Amazon.

01:44:32.000 Run Facebook ads.

01:44:33.000 They're automated.

01:44:34.000 They'll optimize to sell.

01:44:35.000 Whatever it costs you in ads per book sold, charge a dollar more.

01:44:40.000 Congratulations. At the end of the month, you'll have six figures.

01:44:43.000 It's all automatic.

01:44:44.000 It runs itself.

01:44:45.000 Tons of people do this.

01:44:46.000 I'm not saying everyone can figure it out.

01:44:48.000 Some people aren't smart enough to figure it out.

01:44:50.000 But we've talked about it on the show before.

01:44:55.000 What I would say is when I was 20 years old, I could play guitar.

01:45:02.000 Okay, and I can sing.

01:45:03.000 And that's an advantage, I suppose.

01:45:05.000 So I took my guitar and I went out in Chicago and to the subway and I started playing.

01:45:10.000 And I made something like, I was probably getting like, I don't know, 10 bucks an hour.

01:45:13.000 And then I got yelled at.

01:45:14.000 You need a permit.

01:45:15.000 You can't do what you're doing.

01:45:16.000 And I was like, what?

01:45:16.000 Really? You can't play down here.

01:45:17.000 You need a permit.

01:45:18.000 And I was like, okay, where do I go to get it?

01:45:19.000 Went and got one.

01:45:20.000 It was like 10 bucks.

01:45:20.000 Now I got a permit.

01:45:21.000 I'd go on the subway and then I would play songs.

01:45:24.000 If I played top 40s, I would do like 30, 40 bucks an hour.

01:45:28.000 So I was like, okay.

01:45:29.000 I learned some Oasis, some CCR, songs that I liked.

01:45:32.000 And then I started making big money.

01:45:34.000 I was making like, I'd play for like an hour or two and I'd have like 80 bucks and I'd go put it in the bank.

01:45:39.000 Go to Wrigley Field after a game, time the game, wait for it to end, walk outside, put the guitar up, play Top 40s.

01:45:45.000 You make like 200 bucks an hour.

01:45:47.000 Yeah, everyone's drunk.

01:45:48.000 But it's only for like one hour as everyone's leaving and they're wasted and they see you and they start singing.

01:45:54.000 There was a guy.

01:45:55.000 So here's how it works in Chicago.

01:45:56.000 There were four train stations you could busk at.

01:45:58.000 It's called busking.

01:46:00.000 And it was first come, first serve.

01:46:02.000 So you'd go to the subway.

01:46:03.000 You'd get off the train.

01:46:03.000 You'd look around.

01:46:04.000 If nobody was performing, you could perform.

01:46:06.000 But there was this one guy.

01:46:08.000 I can tell you.

01:46:09.000 These people who want to get rich and don't know what to do.

01:46:12.000 He was a 5'6 black man holding a football.

01:46:16.000 And he had a stereo.

01:46:17.000 And he would press play.

01:46:19.000 And it would play that NFL song.

01:46:23.000 And then he would just hop back and forth with the football and like spin around with it with a bucket out for money.

01:46:28.000 And he got paid.

01:46:29.000 What? She's laughing.

01:46:31.000 People loved it.

01:46:33.000 And I was watching him and I'm like, he's not as talented as me, but he's smarter than I am.

01:46:38.000 It's like Jordan Neely doing those Michael Jackson impressions.

01:46:42.000 Mildly popular.

01:46:44.000 All right.

01:46:44.000 Jump Daddy says, Tim, I keep...

01:46:46.000 Oh, wait, wait, wait.

01:46:47.000 I keep seeing that evil Trump is holding a military-style parade for his birthday.

01:46:51.000 Apparently he's been forcing the army to hold a parade on his birthday for 250 years.

01:46:55.000 Impeach him now.

01:46:58.000 Ooh, I got a good one.

01:47:00.000 Michael Gammon says, Hey Tim, should AIPAC have to register as a foreign agent?

01:47:04.000 Ooh, what answer could I give that would make you the angriest?

01:47:07.000 Well, if you tell them no, that'll upset them.

01:47:10.000 What if I said, why should they?

01:47:12.000 Yeah, there you go.

01:47:13.000 No, honest question.

01:47:16.000 Here's what I love.

01:47:17.000 Honest question.

01:47:18.000 What is it about...

01:47:21.000 Wanting APAC to register as a...

01:47:23.000 What is it about...

01:47:25.000 Where were we?

01:47:28.000 Okay, here we go.

01:47:29.000 What is it about APAC registering as a foreign agent that people care so much about?

01:47:35.000 Because they believe that APAC owns Congress.

01:47:39.000 And what would registering as a foreign agent change?

01:47:42.000 Because they'd still be doing it, and Qatar still does it, but they do it with way more money.

01:47:46.000 Right now.

01:47:47.000 What does registering as a foreign agent actually do?

01:47:49.000 What does it do?

01:47:50.000 It limits...

01:47:52.000 I don't remember.

01:47:53.000 It limits and puts up red tape for certain things, just adds a couple barriers.

01:47:57.000 It requires disclosure.

01:48:00.000 A registering under FARA would require disclosure.

01:48:04.000 You must publicly disclose your relationship with a foreign principal.

01:48:07.000 You're required to file regular reports detailing activities, finances, and political or advocacy efforts.

01:48:12.000 Distributed materials must clearly be marked as being disseminated on behalf of a foreign principle.

01:48:16.000 It does not ban activities nor make you a criminal.

01:48:20.000 There's potential reputational risks for working for a foreign agent, and you may face scrutiny for doing so.

01:48:28.000 It does not ban any activities that you would perform.

01:48:31.000 It only requires that you disclose them.

01:48:33.000 Okay, then yes, they should register because it would change literally nothing.

01:48:36.000 And isn't Israel in the name?

01:48:39.000 Israel is in the name.

01:48:44.000 They're buying elections, Tim.

01:48:45.000 Well, I would say, who cares if they do or they don't?

01:48:49.000 If that's the case, then I'll say, yes, they should.

01:48:52.000 Because nothing changes.

01:48:53.000 They literally keep doing whatever it is they're doing.

01:48:55.000 I don't have any problem with them registering as a foreign agent, but if I understand correctly, they are a U.S.-based organization.

01:49:04.000 That's right.

01:49:07.000 I heard somebody say this the other day.

01:49:08.000 Probably the best I've ever put it is, like, do you think the rich Jews in Los Angeles and New York actually want the shekels coming from Israel? 0.86

01:49:14.000 They don't.

01:49:14.000 Like, they don't want it.

01:49:15.000 They don't need it.

01:49:17.000 There's no reason.

01:49:18.000 All it does is complicate what they're trying to do.

01:49:20.000 Yeah. Hey.

01:49:22.000 All right.

01:49:22.000 Villainous V says, Sup Tim, my cat Merlin had to be put to sleep today.

01:49:26.000 Miss him already, but I know he is terrorizing people by casting fireballs from the top of the frig.

01:49:31.000 To my cat Merlin, cheers.

01:49:32.000 Sorry to hear it, buddy.

01:49:33.000 Sorry to hear it.

01:49:34.000 Sorry to hear it.

01:49:37.000 US Atlas says, Cam and I met when we were both doing political commentary on TikTok.

01:49:40.000 I stepped back to focus on growing my family after three and a half years of trying.

01:49:44.000 I am pleased to say my wife is 12 weeks pregnant as of tomorrow.

01:49:47.000 Congratulations. I want to share the news with my friends and heroes.

01:49:49.000 Wow, congratulations.

01:49:50.000 Congrats, Bradley.

01:49:52.000 It is very fun.

01:49:54.000 Alright, let's read this one.

01:49:56.000 Lurch685 says, Cam, how do you feel about the IDF executing 15 medics or burying the bodies in a mass grave to cover it up?

01:50:03.000 Yeah, so I haven't looked into this story.

01:50:06.000 I've been preoccupied with other things.

01:50:08.000 I have a debate with USS Liberty Survivor coming up on April 19th, so I've been preoccupied with that.

01:50:13.000 That's Phil Turney from The Candace Owens Show.

01:50:15.000 So I haven't been up to date with this, but if it's anything like the World Central Kitchen thing, then I would just be happy to condemn it, but while also acknowledging the nuance of the situation, like the World Central Kitchen people didn't have the IR strobe they're supposed to have on their trucks, they were driving armored vehicles in the middle of the night, Israel blew them up, Israel should have taken further steps to identify them and make sure they weren't killing innocent people, but to be fair, it probably did look like a military convoy in the middle of the night.

01:50:37.000 If it's anything like that, then I would just be happy to condemn it and say that Israel are not infallible and they do things wrong sometimes, but I think that when you look at who we should I've heard none of that's true. 0.99

01:50:59.000 Oh, yeah, I'm sure, right.

01:51:01.000 None of it's true, even though we have the leaflets.

01:51:03.000 Like, these are all things that the U.S.

01:51:04.000 usually doesn't do.

01:51:05.000 Like, there are some cases where the United States has, like, dropped leaflets, like, over Japan before we nuclear bombed them.

01:51:10.000 But ultimately...

01:51:13.000 Ultimately, these are things that most militaries do not practice.

01:51:16.000 Israel does it because they're so hyper-cautious about killing civilians and the narrative that's going to surround it that they do it anyway. 0.63

01:51:21.000 So, yeah, they're not infallible.

01:51:23.000 Sometimes they do things wrong and innocent people die and it sucks, but welcome to war.

01:51:28.000 400,000 people died in Berlin, Germany, but I don't see you condemning World War II.

01:51:32.000 I'm just, you know, what do you have to say about the humanitarian aid workers that were killed in North Darfur?

01:51:38.000 Why haven't you commented on that?

01:51:40.000 Humanitarian aid workers that were killed where?

01:51:42.000 In the Zanzam camp attacks in North Darfur.

01:51:47.000 When was this?

01:51:49.000 It was in February.

01:51:50.000 And I gotta say, Lurch, why don't you care about the innocent people being killed in Sudan? 0.98

01:51:58.000 What about the genocide in the Congo?

01:52:00.000 You know, my point is like...

01:52:03.000 You want to come to me, ask me, ask me, Tim, are you upset about Israel blowing up, you know, a food truck?

01:52:09.000 I'll be like, I guess as much as I am upset about the aid workers killed in Sudan and the oppression in Eritrea and the journalists that are killed in Turkey and Thailand and all the other places where governments are massacring people where you won't, like these people, guys, other countries exist.

01:52:25.000 I don't know what world you'll live in.

01:52:27.000 Uh-huh.

01:52:28.000 Yep. Bro, Gonzalo Lira killed in Ukraine.

01:52:32.000 To be fair, a lot of the same people did call that one out.

01:52:34.000 That's fair.

01:52:35.000 I'll give you that one.

01:52:36.000 But it's like, I understand there are some conflicts that are more pressing than others.

01:52:43.000 We don't want to get entangled.

01:52:45.000 Israel is an ally, whether you want them to be or not, and they could get us entangled in foreign war.

01:52:49.000 My point is, it's just, guys, the world is bigger than just the Middle East, okay?

01:52:54.000 Can we acknowledge that?

01:52:56.000 I don't buy that they're going to get us entangled in foreign wars, because we don't have a mutual defense pact with Israel.

01:53:00.000 We're not obligated to go fight for them if they get into a war.

01:53:03.000 And on top of that, it is ultimately, at the end of the day, the decision of the United States whether or not they're going to enter into a war.

01:53:08.000 You know, and there's one other thing that people kind of neglect.

01:53:11.000 Like, we struck, the United States struck Iran when Trump was in office and killed Soleimani when he was in the first time.

01:53:21.000 The idea that the United States, should the United States carry out a strike on Iran in order to take out a nuclear program, that does not inherently mean the whole world falls into a war.

01:53:34.000 They can't fight us.

01:53:35.000 So, like, if we go bomb, what happened after Soleimani got killed?

01:53:39.000 Nothing. That's my point.

01:53:40.000 Nothing happened.

01:53:40.000 Because guess what?

01:53:41.000 In order for Iran to fight the United States, they're going to have to fly over the airspace of all of our allies and somehow make it to the United States for a bombing campaign. 0.90

01:53:49.000 That war happened.

01:53:50.000 They already entered the southern border four years ago.

01:53:52.000 That's true.

01:53:53.000 That's a problem.

01:53:53.000 That is a problem.

01:53:54.000 That's a real big problem.

01:53:55.000 All right.

01:53:56.000 Princey says, how do tariffs play into Thucydides' trap?

01:53:58.000 If China faces economic collapse from U.S. tariffs, do they initiate war with the U.S. or Taiwan as a last-ditch attempt?

01:54:05.000 Yeah, I think it exacerbates it.

01:54:07.000 Thucydides Trap, of course, says that when a rising economic power is about to supplant the dominant one, war tends to break out.

01:54:13.000 And with Trump basically saying, you're done, they may say, fire the missiles.

01:54:20.000 Don't know for sure, though.

01:54:22.000 All right, let's see where we're at.

01:54:24.000 We've got...

01:54:25.000 I think it's actually Myron Gaines.

01:54:29.000 Indeed, I'm looking for his super chat.

01:54:33.000 Let's see.

01:54:35.000 I know I could, but I want to find it on the actual thing so I can have it pulled up permanently while the chat still goes.

01:54:40.000 But I think YouTube deleted it, Myron.

01:54:42.000 Sorry. You want me to read it?

01:54:44.000 I got it.

01:54:45.000 No, I can pull it up.

01:54:45.000 It's just not showing up on our list.

01:54:47.000 Why is it not on our list?

01:54:50.000 It's gone, right?

01:54:52.000 Yeah, look at that.

01:54:53.000 It's gone.

01:54:55.000 But don't worry.

01:54:55.000 I know how to pull it up.

01:54:57.000 Myron Gaines says, this guest is low IQ.

01:55:00.000 There is zero American strategic benefit to supporting Israel. 0.52

01:55:03.000 Be nice.

01:55:03.000 They never get held accountable.

01:55:04.000 We run cover for them at the UN despite them spying on us and being involved in multiple conspiracies and terrorist attacks.

01:55:10.000 Yeah, so Myron Gaines is probably one of the dumbest people I've ever encountered in my entire life.

01:55:14.000 Well, we love Myron here.

01:55:16.000 He's nice.

01:55:17.000 So we have common enemies.

01:55:19.000 He came after me first.

01:55:21.000 Yeah, Myron, you started it.

01:55:23.000 We have common enemies with Israel. 0.99

01:55:25.000 Israel has used the intelligence that they gather because they're constantly spying on jihadists who, by the way, have legal child rape in their countries, chant death to America every single day.

01:55:32.000 They are constantly gathering intelligence in those people, those people who, by the way, want to kill you.

01:55:36.000 So Israel has thwarted at least three major terrorist attacks in the United States by giving us intelligence that otherwise wouldn't happen.

01:55:44.000 There was a huge terrorist attack that was planned for our diplomatic missions to Europe.

01:55:49.000 They coordinated with European intelligence to prevent that terrorist attack.

01:55:51.000 ISIS wanted to disguise bombs as laptops to murder Americans on airplanes.

01:55:56.000 They thwarted that.

01:55:57.000 And there was one other one, attacks on U.S.

01:56:00.000 embassies by Hezbollah.

01:56:01.000 They foiled that plot as well.

01:56:02.000 And numerous, numerous, numerous others.

01:56:05.000 There's economic benefits.

01:56:06.000 We talked about the Leviathan and the Tamar oil fields earlier, which thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of gallons of natural gas were extracted from Israel, sold to Arab countries, regularizing our relations with those countries, bringing profit to American companies. In addition to that, like I said earlier, number four place in the world.

01:56:48.000 the funniest thing about all this is that, like, Some of the biggest podcasts in the world are hosting conversations critical of Israel or outright anti-Israel and outright anti-Jew.

01:57:03.000 And the narrative is still that Israel is secretly controlling it.

01:57:08.000 Well, I'm wondering, I'm like, the argument is that Israel is secretly paying podcasters or whatever, and I'm like, Bro, the biggest podcasts in the world are all pretty critical of Israel, or at least entertaining those conversations.

01:57:22.000 Why isn't Israel doing more?

01:57:25.000 I don't understand.

01:57:26.000 Maybe it used to be that way, I guess, and the argument is that since Elon bought Twitter and turned it to X, that's changed.

01:57:34.000 It used to be not...

01:57:36.000 You were always able to criticize Israel. 0.56

01:57:39.000 That's how these activist groups exist and have always existed.

01:57:43.000 Hassan has been around for a long time.

01:57:44.000 The dude hates Israel.

01:57:45.000 Well, he's going to argue that and say, no, I'm just critical of their policies, blah, blah, whatever, fine.

01:57:49.000 But the dude's been prominent on social media for a decade.

01:57:51.000 He's open about it.

01:57:52.000 He hates Israel.

01:57:53.000 He doesn't hate Israel.

01:57:53.000 He hates America.

01:57:55.000 That's a totally different country.

01:57:56.000 And he's open about it.

01:57:57.000 But people always say things like, no, no, it's the government they're doing, the people, we want to, you know, but whatever.

01:58:02.000 My point is, when, when, honest question, when was Israel running social media to the degree that they claim when you had all of these big prominent leftists and the biggest Gen Z streamers outright Just saying, like, they hate Israel and arguing against it all day, every day. I've always argued for Israel. 0.63

01:58:19.000 I was banned at a million and a half followers on TikTok.

01:58:20.000 Where was the Jews to come help me? 1.00

01:58:22.000 Like, how did I get banned?

01:58:23.000 How did I get banned on livestream ban on Instagram?

01:58:26.000 How did I get banned on Twitter?

01:58:27.000 Where were the Jews to help me when I was doing all this? 1.00

01:58:29.000 They don't run the world.

01:58:30.000 It's the dumbest thing ever.

01:58:32.000 They spring up all these conspiracies.

01:58:33.000 The USS Liberty.

01:58:34.000 I'm debating Phil Turney on April 19th.

01:58:36.000 Myron. So make sure to tune into that one.

01:58:38.000 So, like, the Levon affair.

01:58:40.000 Nobody died!

01:58:42.000 Look at all the sketchy stuff the United States has done in terms of, like, false flag operations in other countries.

01:58:47.000 I don't see you complaining about that because you're an American.

01:58:49.000 Israel does a false flag one time that's confirmed, doesn't kill a single person.

01:58:53.000 I would disagree with that.

01:58:55.000 They're very, very comfortable criticizing America.

01:58:58.000 Generally, if you're anti-Israel, pardon me?

01:59:02.000 Not to the same degree, though.

01:59:03.000 The issue I see is, does Israel do bad things?

01:59:07.000 Yeah. Does Ukraine do bad things?

01:59:09.000 Yeah. Does Russia?

01:59:10.000 Yup. Does China?

01:59:11.000 Yup. Does India?

01:59:12.000 Yup. Does Pakistan?

01:59:13.000 Yup. Does Eritrea?

01:59:14.000 Yup. Does Malaysia?

01:59:16.000 Yup. Does Singapore?

01:59:17.000 Yup. China?

01:59:18.000 Oh boy, they're bad.

01:59:19.000 It's the obsession.

01:59:21.000 It's like the singular focus of people where they're...

01:59:25.000 You know, this is what I try to explain to people.

01:59:27.000 Like, I like Dave Smith.

01:59:28.000 He's a funny guy.

01:59:29.000 And he's really good at explaining why he thinks the things that he does fast.

01:59:34.000 And I love it when people try to get him.

01:59:36.000 When they try to tweet at him or insult him, it's like, bro, he's a professional comedian.

01:59:40.000 He's going to roast you, dude.

01:59:41.000 You're not going to be able to get a fat...

01:59:42.000 What are you doing?

01:59:44.000 When Dave makes his arguments from a pro-America or libertarian standpoint and he's critical of Israel, it's in a way that is personable, logical, calmly explained, and he's your friend as he does it.

01:59:54.000 These people insult you and they...

01:59:58.000 I would argue that the anti-Israel social media users like Fuentes' crowd are the...

02:00:04.000 Biggest pro-Israel group I've ever seen in my life.

02:00:07.000 It's not my opinion.

02:00:11.000 There is actually a prominent conspiracy theory that Fuentes is an Israeli op.

02:00:17.000 Because that's how weird it goes.

02:00:19.000 Because when he and his supporters go on social media and attack people, it pushes them towards Israel.

02:00:26.000 It makes them hate the people who are criticizing Israel.

02:00:30.000 Whereas Dave Smith don't do that.

02:00:31.000 Dave Smith makes you laugh and feel good.

02:00:32.000 and you're having a good time.

02:00:34.000 Fantastic crowd comes by and they call you a bunch of names and insult you and post pictures about you when you didn't even say anything.

02:00:40.000 And it's like, I get a wave of criticism because I was like, oh, I don't really care about Israel.

02:00:45.000 I'm like, aha, you're a Zionist. 1.00

02:00:46.000 And I'm like, I literally just don't care.

02:00:48.000 And they're like, well, as long as you think it exists, you're a Zionist. 0.80

02:00:50.000 And then they spam blast me.

02:00:51.000 And I'm like, are you guys trying to make me like Israel?

02:00:54.000 Like, I don't understand.

02:00:55.000 Because you're certainly not arguing Is it working?

02:01:04.000 I am America.

02:01:06.000 I am an American citizen.

02:01:07.000 That's what I mean.

02:01:08.000 I don't care.

02:01:10.000 When they come to me and they're like, Israel did a bad thing, I'm like, wow, that's awful. 0.54

02:01:14.000 And? Well, we should stop funding them.

02:01:17.000 Okay. You're a Zionist. 0.93

02:01:19.000 What? It's the problem with these people.

02:01:24.000 That's why I think...

02:01:26.000 This fervent Israel derangement syndrome really irks me. 0.81

02:01:29.000 You can literally come on this show, as I have and libertarians, and say the U.S. should taper off its support, no longer provide military support for Israel, and break away from this, and they'll say, so you think Israel exists, huh?

02:01:42.000 And you're like, oh my god, dude.

02:01:44.000 These people are going around being like, it's not enough to be critical of Israel, you must be anti-Israel.

02:01:49.000 That's part of the reason why Lindsey calls them woke right because they do a lot of the same tactics. 1.00

02:01:56.000 Yeah, but that's not what woke is.

02:01:58.000 That term is dumb.

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