On this week's episode of The Green Room, we discuss the latest trade deal between the United States and China, Elon Musk and the FBI, Marco Rubio and his plan to shut down USAID, and the latest on the latest in the Kardashian/Jenner scandal.
00:01:10.000Sure enough, before anything kicks in, both the president of Mexico and Justin Trudeau called up and said, please, for the love of all that is holy, do not destroy our countries, our economies.
00:01:28.000Now, a lot of people have been saying the tariffs were good because we need to restore American manufacturing and industry, and that's true too.
00:01:35.000But hey, two things can be true at the same time, and this was a win-win situation for Donald Trump.
00:01:39.000Either they agree to secure the border, or we bring back American industry, and that's what we're going to have to do because these countries are not playing fair.
00:01:47.000Then we got, holy crap, probably what may be one of the biggest stories of our lifetime.
00:01:55.000Okay, Marco Rubio wants to reform USAID, but Trump and Elon are saying they should shut it down.
00:02:01.000USAID is a very, very interesting organization that has long been accused of effectively being a CIA front to funnel resources to activist organizations to stage soft and hard coups around the world.
00:02:12.000Among other things, they're also accused of funneling money to activist organizations, which then kick back money to the United States, which then finds its way in the hands of other politicians, which are used to get them re-elected.
00:02:24.000And the files that we get out of USAID, when the information gets released, assuming it does, and I don't see why it wouldn't, it's going to be massive.
00:02:31.000So, my friends, we have lots of news to break down.
00:06:31.000And then I tweeted, Trump's first month was the best month of my life.
00:06:35.000Which was an inside joke to literally just me and my wife.
00:06:39.000And I showed her and we both just started laughing.
00:06:41.000And then everyone, it got like 5,000 retweets from people who were like, it has been great, hasn't it?
00:06:47.000And then some liberal was like, or I don't know if it was a liberal, but they were like, what has Trump even done that you're so excited about?
00:06:52.000And I was like, no, no, no, I got married.
00:07:30.000When he announced the tariffs, I started clapping and cheering because I can't stand that we have given away so many of our jobs and our industries to Canada and Mexico to the point where it was like 80% of their exports are coming to us.
00:07:42.000Okay, well, what about our jobs and the people who work here who need to have a job, teach their kids how to have jobs, do hard work?
00:07:48.000We're not going to become a bunch of gluttonous, lazy, partying, oh wait, because we're giving away all our jobs to these other countries.
00:07:56.000Because it was going to go one of two ways.
00:07:58.000They were going to beg Donald Trump for whatever, whatever they could possibly give him so that he would lift these because this will destroy the economies of Canada and Mexico.
00:08:08.000And then Trump said, OK, I want troops on the border.
00:08:11.000So Canada, I think they're going to be doing like a border, a fentanyl czar of some sort.
00:08:15.000They're going to be enforcing border protections.
00:08:17.000Mexico is sending additional 10,000 troops to the border.
00:08:42.000You know, the people have been, like, wigging out about the whole situation with Canada and with Mexico.
00:08:51.000As if this wasn't the big ask, as if this wasn't a negotiation, it was just like, oh, Donald Trump's going to put these tariffs on, and they're going to be there forever, and they're going to be there until the whole country falls apart, and until everything burns up.
00:09:06.000They're acting as if this wasn't intended on getting a deal out of both.
00:09:15.000That's Donald Trump's M.O. And we had four years of him as a president already doing things like this.
00:09:22.000But yet the left is in such disarray now.
00:09:25.000They refuse to look at reality, I guess.
00:09:30.000I mean, they were harping on eggs for the first week and a half of his presidency.
00:09:37.000They've lost any semblance of direction, and I don't have it in front of me, but I think it was a Wall Street Journal article about how totally in disarray the Democrats are.
00:09:46.000And so it's almost as if it's worth nothing to listen to anything they say, just because they have no idea what to say.
00:09:54.000All they're saying is, they're back to whatever Donald Trump decides he's going to do, we're against it.
00:10:00.000It's as bad as Donald Trump says, drink water's good, so we're going to try to drink sand.
00:12:04.000The LGBT stuff, the fact that you have to hate America, which whether they want to admit it or not, when they're doing things like land acknowledgement, you're saying that you're ashamed of the country that you're in.
00:12:15.000No society in human history has ever given credit to the society that came before them that they essentially conquered.
00:12:24.000Oh, you're talking about like mud flood in Octaria, right?
00:12:27.000I'm not sure what you're talking about.
00:12:29.000The indigenous people, they have land acknowledgement to the Tartarian.
00:12:32.000You don't know about mud flood theory?
00:12:35.000There's a conspiracy theory that there was a great civilization that ran Earth or whatever, and then there was a great mud flood, and it buried all the buildings.
00:12:50.000Anyway, so I made a joke tweet about how we're going to conquer Canada.
00:12:54.000Because I saw all of these Canadians really angry on X. And so I tweeted something like, after we destroy the Canadian economy, their will to resist will erode, and we will march in and put Canada in its rightful place as a, what did I call it, as a territory of the United States with no political representation?
00:13:13.000I got so many death threats from that.
00:13:23.000Well, so we got a bunch of death threats, and then I posted one of the threats that was the most egregious, and it got like two million hits or whatever.
00:13:32.000And the guy said he was, among other things, I'm not gonna, it's very vulgar, he was going to do horrible things to my family and sell them to rabbit Indians.
00:13:50.000And so people started posting pictures of rabbits wearing headdresses and then rabbit Indian started trending on X. Grok was busy making pictures of rabbits with Indian headdresses or rabbits in India from the country.
00:14:07.000We've talked quite a bit about how Democrats don't understand humor.
00:14:33.000The type of person that's that unhinged that would send a death threat is exactly the type of person that would go crazy and do stuff like that.
00:14:40.000Look, it's a bad idea to make death threats.
00:14:42.000It's a bad idea to do that kind of stuff on theinternet.com.
00:14:47.000Like, you know who you are, they can find you, and that's forever.
00:16:19.000With Trudeau's lax immigration policies and his virtue signaling, what's been happening is Canada is actually the bigger threat to the United States when it comes to unsecured border.
00:16:29.000In that video I saw this morning, they said that there were 150 encounters and arrests of terrorists at the southern border, but there were over 350 of these arrests at the northern border with Canada.
00:16:42.000And that's because Trudeau is out there signaling, saying he's not going to do anything to stop this illegal immigration.
00:16:57.000I mean, look, anything that needs to be done or the government, the federal government and ICE and Homeland Security should go to any lengths.
00:17:06.000To stop illegal immigration coming into the United States.
00:17:09.000It doesn't matter if they're coming from Mexico or if they're coming from Canada.
00:17:13.000If we have to build a frost wall along the northern border, that's fine with me, too.
00:17:18.000We can have the hot wall and the cold wall.
00:17:25.000Especially if these other countries, our neighbors, are facilitating or allowing for Foreign nationals to come into the United States without putting legitimate effort into preventing them from coming here when these people are intending to do damage to our country and hurt American citizens.
00:18:50.000They're not making sure our crops don't go bad.
00:18:52.000They're in major cities taking jobs for Americans.
00:18:54.000But I have an answer to that when they say, like, if you deport all these people who's going to pick our crops, I'm like, well, there's a bunch of FBI agents.
00:18:59.000Here's attorneys and DEI coaches who are looking for work.
00:19:07.000But it's all just, it's BS. But I just think it's funny that Democrats are basically saying, we do this.
00:19:13.000But Tim, the more important thing, though, that I'm seeing and that I'm loving is there is this IDGAF mentality amongst everyone in the White House.
00:19:24.000They don't care what the media says to them.
00:19:27.000Stephen Miller just last week, he lectured Jake Tapper.
00:20:03.000What do you think that he got wrong the first time?
00:20:05.000I think he thought it was going to be a traditional American presidency where there's the play fighting, but at the end of the day, you're going to get an infrastructure bill done.
00:20:16.000Yeah, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, they're going to fight you like they fought George W. Bush, but it's not serious.
00:20:21.000They're not actually going to try and put you in prison.
00:20:23.000They're not actually going to try and kill you and do all this stuff.
00:20:29.000He thought that they were going to treat him as a member of the club because he got elected.
00:20:33.000So the way that the government behaves is there are certain people that are acceptable to be president and then there are people that are not.
00:20:43.000I think every single person that's been a president has either been in government somehow before or they were a general.
00:20:52.000I don't think there's been anyone else that came directly from corporate America, from the business background.
00:21:00.000And so they essentially treated him as if he was not a member of the club.
00:21:04.000And they treated him like that from day one, actually before, because they were spying on him.
00:21:41.000Basically in government was working against him.
00:21:44.000So his biggest mistake was believing that they were going to allow him in and believing that hiring people that were clearly, for lack of a better word, swamp monsters, for lack of a better word, those people would listen to him as opposed to work against him.
00:22:28.000They created felonies out of misdemeanors.
00:22:31.000They said, oh, these were felonious actions when there was no underlying crime to actually elevate them to felonies.
00:22:38.000So he saw what the deep state and what the bureaucracy, what the government itself wanted to do to him.
00:22:44.000And he was like, okay, well, how do I stop this if I win again or when I win again?
00:22:50.000He obviously knew that if he didn't win again, he was going to go to jail.
00:22:53.000And there's a lot of other people that would end up in jail, too.
00:22:55.000I honestly truly believe that people like Tim, people like and other other pundits and other people that are involved in the in the political space, they would either go to they would either end up in jail or they would be run out of the business.
00:23:16.000Let's call it that because that's essentially what it was.
00:23:18.000But he learned from that and he didn't back away and he stuck with it and he fought them even more, you know, violently than he did before.
00:23:26.000I just want to say before we move on to the next story, to all of our Canadian viewers, I know that most of you don't like your own government and don't agree with the way they're running things and you want Canada first too and I respect that.
00:23:36.000So hopefully the future we get to is a stronger Canada for Canadians with a government that the people actually need and support.
00:23:43.000And the United States has much of the same thing.
00:23:45.000But let's jump to this next story from CNN. Elon Musk said Donald Trump agreed.
00:24:29.000The accusation, I believe RFK Jr. talked about this, was that USAID was funding revolutionary groups in Ukraine to overthrow the government in the Maidan protests, culminating in the ousting of, I believe it was Viktor Yanukovych.
00:25:02.000US government funds USAID. That money goes to various NGOs and activist groups around the world.
00:25:09.000Those various NGOs give money to various other organizations, which somehow that money finds its way into the election campaigns of politicians.
00:25:17.000This may be the system by which the deep state keeps its cronies in office indefinitely because you can't go up against them.
00:25:24.000They're basically getting money from the government.
00:25:27.000They're taking your money and they're paying themselves to run again.
00:25:31.000If they get shut down, it's going to be massive.
00:25:34.000Either way, if information comes out from Doge, from Elon Musk and his crew, about what they've been doing, and we uncover serious malfeasance, I think it's a strong possibility.
00:27:12.000Someone, some entity, is using ActBlue, it appears, To funnel money through people's names that they've stolen into politicians and PACs and other people's hands.
00:27:24.000This needs to be criminally investigated.
00:27:26.000The ponderance of evidence is in front of our faces.
00:27:46.000That isn't actually USAID. USAID is essentially a front for, like we said, for CIA. And there was a time where it was important to have USAID, and that was when communism was a threat.
00:28:00.000There was a time where the domino theory was legitimate, the idea that more and more countries were going to fall to communism, that the influence of the Soviet Union was something that threatened the whole world.
00:28:13.000And so that was when USAID existed to help to influence other countries, to prevent them from becoming communist by providing them with funding, providing them...
00:28:25.000Providing them with help with infrastructure, and also there was the covert actions which CIA would do, which was trying to topple other governments.
00:29:07.000It probably would look something more like...
00:29:10.000Chinese communism where you've got markets and market communism or whatever, but it's still a top-down authoritarian government and USAID doesn't need to do the same kind of things.
00:29:22.000And so if it's actually just turned into a money laundering operation, get rid of it.
00:29:29.000It's not something that's necessary the way that it used to be.
00:29:32.000And, you know, Doge is showing that it's...
00:29:48.000He was saying that the U.S. strategy was basically, first they go to you and they say, okay, we're going to give you a bunch of money if you do what we want you to do.
00:29:56.000If the leader says no, they say, okay, well, then we're going to manipulate your system and we're going to throw you out of power.
00:30:00.000If that fails, then they send in the wetworks.
00:30:24.000I do think that in the absence of the United States being the global hegemon and having the influence that it does, you end up with something like China, you know, someone like China or possibly Russia.
00:30:35.000Russia has like, if you list all the countries that have the most slaves, currently Russia is like number five or six, right?
00:30:48.000As much as the U.S. has problems and there is human trafficking and stuff, that's not something that the United States openly is okay with.
00:30:59.000And there are other countries where that is still okay.
00:31:03.000The U.S. is the best country in the world still, even though we have our own problems.
00:31:10.000I'm not trying to say that the U.S. is perfect and that we're completely clean.
00:31:14.000When you're a government doing government things, you're going to do bad things to people sometimes.
00:31:37.000Everything we're seeing right now with tariffs and the potential shuttering of USAID, does that lead to a China-dominated planet, a unipolar China Communist Party, or a...
00:31:53.000I think the most likely way that we end up with the Chinese dominating or with Russia dominating is if we don't take care of our economy and we allow the unfunded liabilities, the mandatory spending to blow up the dollar.
00:32:05.000I think that's the most clear and present threat to the U.S. You know what's crazy is that for I don't know how long it's been, what, 50, maybe 40 years, the U.S. economy has been extracted.
00:32:16.000We've been giving away our jobs and industry to Mexico, to Canada, and to China.
00:32:22.000And this has led to the threat of nuclear annihilation with a massive superpower that is China.
00:32:59.000Well, look, I don't think it works just to pay people, but...
00:33:03.000One thing that Elon brought up recently that I thought was creative was, I think it was Bill Clinton, he did a budget cutting bill, and essentially they offered federal employees $25,000 to retire early and quit.
00:33:20.000And that $25,000 opened up the doors for us to cut even more.
00:33:45.000But what about, like, a friend of mine, he actually brought this up.
00:33:48.000What about, like, a new Homestead Act for families?
00:33:50.000We have all this federal land, like, literally, I think millions and millions and millions of acres that are just taken up by the federal government.
00:33:59.000What if you gave anyone that signed a forgivable loan after 25 years, you pledged to have children, but you have to go out there and you have to build your own home, and it's forgiven after 25 years of marriage and being open to life?
00:34:50.000One of the things the federal government can do is stop focusing on LGBT issues.
00:34:55.000And the reason I say that is when the goal of the federal government is to center the marginalized.
00:35:02.000And so this actually goes beyond LGBT issues, but actually goes to more the impulse of everyone on the left or the left-leaning people.
00:35:11.000The federal government should be focusing on families, should be focusing on traditional families, should be focusing on men and women having babies.
00:35:59.000You have the U.S. American government funding schools that are teaching the kids, not that America's bad, but that their United States of America government...
00:36:10.000Is corrupt and evil and intrinsically...
00:36:13.000What interest do you have besides destroying the country?
00:36:19.000I just looked it up and it says Hungary's birth rate has been declining over recent years.
00:36:25.000This trend has been consistent since 2022. Probably why they're implementing...
00:36:30.000The utility rate has shown a slight increase in recent years.
00:36:34.000Well, it's still early, but 1.5 births per woman in 2025, a 0.45% increase from 2024. Despite these efforts, the birth rate has continued to fall, and that reached 1.5 births per woman in 2023, which is 11% lower than in 2022. It's feminism.
00:36:57.000I don't think that the government can do anything about it.
00:37:03.000It's about people's hearts and their values, and the government can't do anything to prevent a cultural change on that level.
00:37:26.000And I think largely through USAID, we've had this massive shift towards telling women that they should be girl bosses and they should live alone.
00:37:37.000And it's wild to me that I think if you look at the voting patterns, you basically have families versus Single people.
00:37:47.000Like, liberals are largely single women who have cats.
00:37:54.000And if you go to one of these people and you ask them about what would you want to invest in, they're going to say, but Trump putting tariffs is going to make my avocado toast cost more money.
00:38:05.000And then I'm saying, if we don't bring back American culture and industry, what will be left for our children?
00:38:17.000And I think that the idea that, you know, like Mary said, it's not something that government can do, but government can push around the edges, right?
00:38:26.000It seems counterintuitive to make it more comfortable for people so that they feel comfortable with having children.
00:38:32.000Because historically we can see people only really have children when they're uncomfortable and they're afraid for their lives.
00:39:01.000So I read this book years ago called What to Expect When No One's Expecting.
00:39:05.000It was by Jonathan Last before he went nuts on this Trump derangement stuff.
00:39:09.000And he points out one very important thing.
00:39:12.000The population carries a lot of momentum.
00:39:16.000It's very tough to stop a baby boom or to slow it down because what happens is you have a bunch of kids and then those kids just naturally have a bunch of kids.
00:39:24.000But at the same time, population decline is incredibly hard to stop.
00:39:29.000Once it starts to get in motion, for example, once your average woman who hasn't had a kid turns 35, well, her fertility drops by 50% when she hits her 30s.
00:39:40.000So it's incredibly difficult to have more kids.
00:39:42.000I will say this though, Mary, is in terms of what the government can and can't do to get people getting married and having kids again, there's a lot they can stop doing right now that would help at least stop the bleeding.
00:39:54.000And what I mean by that is like, why are we, we have 1.6 is our fertility rate right now, which is like, you know, 0.6 under, to be fair.
00:40:03.000Liberals are like 1.3 and conservatives are like 1.8.
00:40:09.000I know, but I'm just saying like liberals are doing it.
00:40:11.000What I meant when I said that is that you can just see when any country becomes wealthy, they just stop having kids and it just seems to be their preference.
00:40:22.000That's a great point because it really is like the unsolved...
00:40:29.000The problem is that wealth creates a society that doesn't want to have kids.
00:40:36.000And the funny thing is, kids are like the physical manifestation of a hopeful society.
00:40:41.000You don't have a lot of kids if you think tomorrow is going to be worse for your children.
00:40:48.000If you think that the world's going to end, and that's part of why liberals don't have kids nowadays is because they think, oh, I don't want to bring kids into this world that's getting hotter and we're going to have a war.
00:41:01.000They're all nihilistic at the end of the day.
00:41:03.000And so they're like, well, I want to live for myself.
00:41:06.000Whereas people that have religion and have hope for the future, or at the very least hope in general, even if they don't have hope for human society, they're like, well, when we die, we all go to heaven, so it's okay to have kids.
00:41:43.000It seems to come more, less religion, or more, it's weird because it's not really like less religion, they just turn it into a state religion, but like, it's not the same kind of traditional religion, and then you have fewer people having kids because they don't have the same impulses.
00:42:00.000They think, oh, you know, I'm going to live for me.
00:42:02.000So I don't know that I have the solution, but I do think that the government shouldn't be...
00:42:08.000I think the government should be focusing on people that want to have families and want to have kids.
00:42:13.000We were talking about this a little bit before the show because I was playing Like a Stone by Audioslave, which to anybody with a brain is about a dude reading the Bible and then he says, I regret all the things I've done and I want to be in heaven and all that stuff.
00:42:25.000And the point I was bringing up is that culturally in this country, when we have these songs or movies that are very right-wing in their, I guess, message, The right never cheered for it.
00:42:42.000So Captain America is a reference I give quite a bit.
00:42:44.000The first Captain America movie, and it was like 2010 or whatever, is about a dude who's desperately trying to enlist to serve his country.
00:42:50.000The second movie is about a guy realizing the government was corrupt and overrun by fascists who had secretly taken over it for the whole time and been operating since World War II. It's a very different message.
00:43:00.000People still enjoy these movies, but I look at it like...
00:43:03.000Why don't conservatives, or why didn't they, I suppose it doesn't matter why they didn't, but they didn't say, hey, this is really, really great, make more of it.
00:43:11.000What ends up happening is the woke activists come in and complain, and the squeaky wheel gets the grease, and you end up with, you know, 14 years or 10 years of wokeness.
00:43:18.000Until finally, it's not even necessarily conservatives, just regular people were like, we do not want this weird garbage.
00:43:26.000I do think conservatives and anyone on the right needs to do a better job of rewarding anyone that's doing the right thing and producing beautiful pro-America, pro-God, pro-family art.
00:43:37.000And as you were talking, it reminded me of the Chick-fil-A protests.
00:43:42.000I think it was around 2011, 2012. Their founder comes out and says they only respect one man, one woman marriage.
00:43:49.000And the left back did a whole backlash.
00:43:51.000All the LGBT groups started boycotting them.
00:44:04.000And if you think about what would have happened if conservatives just went away and didn't go and do the boycott, didn't reward Chick-fil-A for...
00:44:14.000Didn't Chick-fil-A ultimately cave to a lot of bulk demands later on, though?
00:44:16.000They did a little bit, but it was more on the tolerance of things.
00:44:20.000But they never changed their position on gay marriage.
00:44:24.000Yeah, I guess maybe I'm talking myself out of this.
00:46:04.000But they didn't hire him because he's a white guy.
00:46:06.000And there's multiple cases pending right now like that.
00:46:11.000If I remember correctly, it's been going since like five years, I'm not sure exactly.
00:46:19.000But the point is, once these actually come to light and you see that there's a lot of people that are suing or that have been passed over for important jobs, this kind of talk is going to be widely rejected.
00:46:33.000People are going to be like, no, this is not okay because you're making the world worse.
00:46:37.000We've talked about a crisis of competence.
00:46:40.000On this show multiple times because of hiring people that are not qualified because of their identity.
00:47:09.000Like, you have to have a lot of things go wrong to have an accident, especially one like this.
00:47:13.000Well, the meme now is that Pete Buttigieg was holding this all together like Spider-Man in the train.
00:47:18.000And that as soon as he's out, like, planes are bursting into flames and they're crashing.
00:47:22.000I'm like, it is kind of funny to me that we've been warning you about this for years, and then Trump's not even a week in, and we see a bunch of disasters, you're like, Trump must have done it.
00:47:53.000We're blaming it on the system that you created that forces, not forces, but where you actually choose people based on their identities, not on their qualifications.
00:48:03.000And it's just more and more the same from these guys.
00:48:06.000They lost and they still didn't get the memo or they're like refusing to accept the memo.
00:48:12.000It's been 10 years of this stuff or longer.
00:48:15.000You know, I think the first kind of inkling of this stuff was probably like when Barack Obama first got elected.
00:48:22.000So easily 10, probably 15 years of this stuff has been going on.
00:48:30.000And it's something that people have been complaining about.
00:48:32.000And being called all the names in the world, you know, if you said, oh, this is a bad policy, it's like, oh, you're a racist, sexist, bigot, blah, blah, blah, all the isms and stuff like that.
00:48:43.000Everybody that's, you know, would be critical of this stuff, and they, you know, if someone on the left says, oh, well, you're only saying this because you're a racist, they're like, I don't...
00:49:13.000If I envision who I would think of as the ideal air traffic controller, he's like a...
00:49:21.000Kind of nerdy white dude who's like played video games since he was like eight years old and has incredible hand-eye coordination and incredible focus.
00:49:47.000And, like, back to the Grammys, this is just, like, a huge moment of catharsis for all of these people because, like, the wound of Trump winning is still so fresh for them.
00:51:59.000I'm gonna make the Hollywood Actors Award Ceremony, and I'm gonna give it to me and Phil.
00:52:05.000And, uh, you know, basically just, when they give an award for country music and they're not the country music awards, it's just meaningless.
00:52:47.000Yeah, when you end up, like, the way that you get submitted is your label submits you, and then it's always like, who does your manager know?
00:52:56.000Does your manager know the right people?
00:52:58.000Can they grease the palms of the people that are on there?
00:53:01.000Or at least, are they going to take them to dinner?
00:53:04.000Well, there's been times where our label submitted, but I've straight up said that if we ever got a Grammy...
00:53:08.000Like, we would never get one because I'm not in with the people, but if we ever did end up with one, I would do the same thing that Randy from Lamb of God did.
00:53:58.000You can even see in one of the videos, there were children present on the red carpet because there were all these, like, make-a-wish kids there.
00:54:48.000It's really disheartening because you can't get away with this once you have cultivated a mainly Christian fan base or at least people who profess to be Christian with this worship music that he was making as recently as 2023. And then now with his current behavior, you can either We're talking about Kanye?
00:55:35.000I think he's one of these crazy artists.
00:55:38.000A lot of people just wanted to take him at his word when he was talking about converting to Christianity and wanting to make music that isn't offensive and indecent.
00:55:46.000And then Carnival comes out and you see, okay, I guess you went back on that.
00:56:49.000Yeah, Project 2025. Then we got this from Elon Musk.
00:56:52.000R slash FBI says, OPSEC reminder, use of fingerprinting on emails and notices.
00:56:57.000Basically warning that Elon and his Doge team are using...
00:57:02.000There's this technique called coloring the water, where to prevent leaks or to track leaks, you send out slightly different information in every direction, and then whichever information leaks, you know who the leaker is.
00:57:14.000In this instance, they use fingerprinting in emails.
00:57:17.000So if you screen grab the email, they know exactly who it came from.
00:57:21.000It looks uniform, but there's something tiny about it you don't notice.
00:57:24.000So Elon Musk is saying, if you leak, you're fired.
00:57:40.000This is something that at least libertarian kind of minded people have had a sense of because the libertarians have been unaffected forever.
00:57:52.000But this administration is actually the most libertarian administration in...
00:58:00.000This is the kind of stuff you can expect the government to do.
00:58:03.000These kind of like, oh, he's such a terrible person, and oh, they're going to put all these people out of business and are out of work, etc., etc.
00:58:11.000That's the same thing you get any time you try to cut in government at all.
00:58:17.000Any program, the people that are made a living off of it, of course, are going to call you names.
00:58:24.000They're going to say that you're this bad person, etc.
00:58:27.000And if you're a president that is so polarizing with an opposition that is so sure that you're the worst person ever, they're going to do everything they can to cast everything you do as the worst.
00:58:42.000It's ridiculous because they're saying, oh, Donald Trump is a fascist and he's like Hitler.
00:58:47.000And it's like he's trying to make the government smaller.
00:58:51.000Fascists don't try to limit the scope and size of government.
00:58:55.000They want a government that's involved in almost every aspect of your life.
00:59:00.000Because, I mean, Mussolini said everything within the state, nothing outside of the state.
00:59:05.000And Mussolini is the quintessential fascist.
00:59:09.000Aside from the Nazis, which were a whole other kind of fascism.
00:59:13.000But Mussolini really kind of wrote the book on fascism.
00:59:16.000And there was nothing that the Italian fascists were not involved with.
01:00:13.000His approval rating's rising as he's doing his agenda, and now you have this deep state, this shadow government, let's call it, who's trying to thwart him every which way.
01:00:52.000More than 50 interviews with Democratic leaders reveal a party struggling to decide what it believes in, what issues to prioritize, and how to confront an aggressive right-wing administration.
01:02:58.000But if the U.S. goes in, if Elon and Rubio or whatever, they go in and say, no, no, no, we're just going to make sure that all that money goes to Bible study or something like that.
01:03:07.000That could dramatically shift things in a way that's worse than just shutting it down.
01:03:40.000I think that the actual things that the Republicans or conservatives want the government to do...
01:03:47.000Probably don't take as much money as is being cleaned up.
01:03:51.000And again, this is just discretionary, right?
01:03:53.000So even if you took that excess money, did a couple things that conservatives like, and threw the rest of it at mandatory spending, you don't do anything about the coming economic crisis.
01:04:04.000No, you know what you do is you redirect the USAID funding.
01:04:18.000Tim, I think we've talked about this on your show because we did this report years ago.
01:04:22.000It was like 2019. And we studied the impact that family structure has on voting behavior and ideology.
01:04:29.000If you're married and have kids, you're way more conservative.
01:04:32.000And if you come from a household of a married mom and dad that didn't get divorced, didn't cohabitate, you are way more likely to be conservative than their never married peers.
01:05:38.000We're starting to win, but again, we have this report that's coming out later this week.
01:05:44.000We analyzed all of the funding streams that the federal government's using to push gender ideology on our kids and throughout our entire culture.
01:05:51.000It is over $100 million, at least, right?
01:05:58.000Government is doing so much to cause dysfunction that if you were to just get the government to stop doing the programs that are causing dysfunction, I think you'd have a lot of healing that would naturally start happening.
01:07:13.000He's got a billion-dollar investment from Tether.
01:07:17.000There's tons of cultural victories and we've been gaining.
01:07:20.000I think with Trump's victory, a popular vote win for the first time in 20 years, we are gaining ground.
01:07:26.000But doesn't it signify that there's like a real shift in people and where they get their news from?
01:07:31.000I mean, I think that's the most hopeful thing is people really don't watch CNN or MSNBC anymore.
01:07:36.000They are going to Timcast and they're going to Rogan and they're going to all these other sources.
01:07:41.000It's becoming decentralized, which is a beautiful thing because it's one less tool that the state can use.
01:07:47.000And look, we're expected to believe that the FBI and the CIA and USAID, that they do regime change and operations in every other country except the United States.
01:08:02.000We got this one from the New York Post.
01:08:04.000Democrats' unfavorability rating reaches a new 16-year high as party keeps licking its wounds following disastrous 2024. Phil had this post.
01:08:18.000More than 50 interviews with Democratic leaders revealed a party struggling to decide what it believes in, what issues to prioritize, and how to confront an aggressive right-wing administration.
01:08:26.000I just want to make it simple for everybody.
01:08:30.000There is, let's count, just Tulsi Gabbard, she was a Democrat.
01:09:36.000I could have misheard because it sounded like the people that were actually reading the rules at the DNC convention were confused as well, so I might have misheard or misunderstood.
01:09:45.000But the point is, they're still doing the same things that turn people off.
01:09:51.000If they do this stuff and they have policies that are working, most people will be like, I don't care, whatever, right?
01:09:58.000Until your child is confronted with a man and until your daughter is confronted in the bathroom with a man, for the most part, most people will be like, nah, you know, it's not that big of a deal.
01:10:07.000And they're like, it doesn't really matter to me.
01:10:09.000It doesn't affect me until it becomes personal.
01:10:11.000But when they're doing this stuff and they're mismanaging the government, when they're doing this stuff and you have inflation, when they're doing this stuff and you have an economy that's not...
01:10:21.000When they're doing this stuff and there are actual tangible problems, these things become important.
01:10:31.000Look, if I was Trump or if I was one of these billionaire conservative donors, I would be getting my team together and plotting and planning on how we can start to make California purple.
01:10:42.000Do you listen to the All In podcast at all?
01:11:34.000And they've seen the way that the government has been behaving and the way that the government has been stifling innovation and stifling new technologies.
01:11:43.000After the RFK Jr. hearing, I was watching that.
01:12:07.000All these hippy-dippy leftists wearing their sundresses and, like, refusing modern medicine and doing their holistic crystal woo-woo stuff.
01:13:05.000Republicans, and I'm telling you, it's not the Democrats that are going to kill RFK Jr.'s nomination.
01:13:09.000It's Republicans, and those Republicans better watch out because I'm telling you, there's so many of these moms that are heavily involved in the Republican primaries.
01:14:24.000Could it be that under your policies of getting rid of insurance companies and giving single-payer, they're going to go on government contracts that will never break?
01:14:30.000Could it be that they're going to essentially start functioning like USAID, where the government just writes them a $20 billion check?
01:14:36.000They can pay themselves because their private entity is getting government money forever, and they'll never have competition ever again because the government is going to give them infinite cash?
01:14:43.000Maybe that's why the people who work there are like, I want to donate to this guy.
01:14:46.000And he's the number one recipient, and he was like, no!
01:14:50.000It was only $1.5 million out of $200 million.
01:14:54.000The fact that it didn't come from the CEOs doesn't change the fact that he got all that money from people in pharma.
01:15:02.000You don't have to be a CEO. This is what the game the Democrats try to play because they know that the average person doesn't follow the news.
01:15:08.000They go like, you know that Donald Trump is increasing your taxes and you're like, how?
01:15:14.000And Democrats go, tariffs are a tax on you.
01:15:16.000And it's like, okay, well, that's not necessarily true.
01:15:19.000Taxes are going to be on the people importing, and the assumption is they'll raise the cost of the price of the product to cover the cost of the tariffs.
01:15:26.000However, because of market forces in the United States, that may not actually be true.
01:15:30.000If there's two coffees, and one comes from Canada and one comes from the United States, and there's a 25% tariff, that means that $10 bag of coffee in Canada is now $12.50.
01:15:39.000So the company says, to absorb the cost of the tariff, we're going to raise the price at $12.50.
01:16:09.000They use assumptive language to trick you into thinking the wrong thing.
01:16:13.000Well, how about the slow sucking sound that took all of our manufacturing jobs away over the last 30 years?
01:16:20.000I mean, there are other costs besides...
01:16:22.000I'm willing to pay a little bit more for my coffee or my tables or my clothing if it means my neighbors have jobs still and that they aren't humiliated and told by Joe Biden that they need to learn how to code after getting kicked out of their coal mine.
01:16:36.000Well, it's funny because we've talked about this forever.
01:16:39.000Before the election, I'm ranting on free trade and talking about how our jobs have been extracted four years ago, longer.
01:16:47.000I'm talking about how Trump threatens a tariff on Mexico and the auto manufacturers come back to Michigan.
01:16:52.000Biden gets in and they rip it off and they go back to Mexico.
01:16:54.000It was crazy the back and forth they were doing.
01:16:59.000We as Americans are willing to pay more for American-made products because it's better for our culture, our economy, and our children's future.
01:17:05.000And I made the point, we launched Booneys HQ well before the election.
01:17:09.000Booneys HQ skateboards are made in America.
01:17:39.000A great example is Mammoth Nation and Public Square, as if Trump supporters and MAGA and populists were not actively building industries around supporting American-made products.
01:17:49.000They just wanted to keep their gravy train running.
01:17:53.000The Democrats' campaigns are all funded by the major corporations that don't want to have to worry about restructuring or changing anything in their business.
01:18:01.000They just want the profits to keep coming through.
01:18:03.000The Democrats are now both the party of big corporations and big government.
01:18:08.000You're starting to see a bit of a shift from big corporations.
01:18:11.000They're starting to come back to the Republican side after Trump won, but I don't know how long that's going to last, actually.
01:18:18.000I mean, I don't know how long it's going to last either.
01:18:24.000Man, as the joke goes, this past week was a hell of a year.
01:18:48.000And so clearly, in terms of what the American people want, they're liking what they're seeing.
01:18:51.000I like the fact that he's got high approval ratings, but to be honest with you, the substance of what he's doing, all of these executive orders, all the things that Doge is doing, that's the real victory.
01:19:04.000Even if people started to get a little weak in the knees because it's big changes too fast for them or a little faster than they're comfortable with, I feel like that's okay, because these changes are what he actually did run on, and these are the things that are necessary.
01:19:20.000Making the government smaller and more efficient, making sure that the bureaucracy has...
01:19:29.000There's a limit to the bureaucracy's ability to stymie the will of the American people.
01:19:33.000The bureaucracy passing rules has the same effect as Congress passing laws, and that's not supposed to be how legislation works in the United States.
01:19:45.000The executive branch has the ability to implement things, and so they're going to make some rules, but they shouldn't be making more rules than the American people can deal with.
01:19:55.000I think it's like three felonies a day is what the average person commits accidentally.
01:20:01.000And really, that puts everyone in a position where at any point, the government might stick their nose into your life and say, hey, you have a massive problem now because we want to make your life a problem.
01:20:12.000Well, that's why I love Trump talking about...
01:20:14.000Look, I don't know how feasible this is.
01:20:17.000But I love Trump talking about eliminating the income tax and going to an all tariff based system because right now with all of us having to pay an income tax, Every single one of us is at the at the whims of the federal government and the IRS and whether or not they decide to go after us.
01:20:35.000But if you put I think I think the onus on federal revenues and taxes should be on major corporations and businesses that do do business overseas.
01:20:44.000They've already got the accounting firms.
01:21:26.000I would love to get rid of the income tax, too, but the idea...
01:21:29.000Like a VAT. Well, I'm not sure if a value-added tax is the same thing that I'm thinking of.
01:21:34.000Essentially, a federal sales tax, or a federal...
01:21:37.000I mean, the reason it's a consumption tax is on everything, right?
01:21:40.000And if you had 1% tax on every dollar that was spent, right?
01:21:46.000I don't know exactly what it would generate, but it would generate a considerable amount of money because our GDP is $27 trillion or something.
01:22:31.000So that way, if you decide you're not going to spend money, you're going to save your money, you're not paying the tax on your income.
01:22:38.000You're paying the tax only when you're actually engaging in economic activity.
01:22:42.000And I don't know the percentage or whatever, but to me, it seems like that would be a better system than taxing people for going out and creating work or working and having an income.
01:23:03.000So I like where you're going with this.
01:23:05.000What I would want to do is have this...
01:23:07.000If I was going to do this, have a national consumption tax, but then give a rebate for families.
01:23:13.000You get X amount of dollars for a rebate on this for every kid you have or whatever it is, but you reorient the entire country, the entire economy around the family.
01:23:24.000I think doing it around individuals is just too...
01:23:31.000I mean, like I said earlier today, I like the idea of focusing government policy on promoting families as opposed to focusing government policy on...
01:23:39.000And this sounds horrible, and I understand that there are people that need help and stuff like that, but the idea that we incentivize women having children outside of wedlock is bad.
01:24:49.000To be honest with you, all it does is make society worse.
01:24:54.000When Trump signed the executive order to bring all the federal employees back to working in the office instead of remote work, a lot of people actually said that that decision was anti-family because the women who were working for the federal government from home We're no longer able to work from home.
01:25:16.000And people were like, okay, but we're paying as taxpayers.
01:25:20.000We're paying for them to basically do nothing all day.
01:25:39.000I'm telling you right-wing conservative people who are saying this is a bad thing to force federal employees back into the office because the women who work for the federal government are no longer going to be able to stay home with their kids while they work this laptop job or whatever.
01:25:55.000I'm pretty sure if you're doing telework, you're required, at least my organization requires it.
01:26:24.000I would be in favor of firing them and coming up with a program for married couples to supplement the income that they would have and then actually getting rid of that job.
01:26:35.000Because once their kids are old enough, they can not have that whatever program it is anymore.
01:26:44.000The example I was reading about was that she did have the...
01:26:49.000Availability for subsidized childcare through her federal government job, but she made too much money to qualify for it.
01:26:59.000Okay, so I just didn't understand the argument there.
01:27:04.000I mean, I'm not 100% sure the argument there either, but I mean...
01:27:44.000It's bad that we got to this point, right?
01:27:46.000COVID is what made this happen, and we should have gone back to normal as soon as we could have after COVID. And at some point, we should go back to normal, because you know if there are people that got onto this program while COVID was going on, if they didn't end it, then more people were getting onto these programs, and it becomes a...
01:28:10.000There will always be people that are working remotely that are saying, well, you know, I can just sign up for this because I have a kid or I want to have a kid, so I'm going to work remote and I'm going to make, you know, $200,000 a year working remotely and I'm actually only going to work about, you know, 30 hours a week for the federal government.
01:28:25.000I'm going to work on the, you know, it's going to be the taxpayer dime or whatever.
01:28:30.000So, whereas people may be making that argument, honestly, I find it uncompelling.
01:28:46.000We can't have a system where people are working remotely and not going to work.
01:28:50.000All the competent, self-governing, conscientious people out there are saying, "No, as soon as I started working remotely from home, I got so much more done." And I don't really even disbelieve what they're saying, but most people, the vast majority of people do need to be supervised in order to get anything done.
01:29:12.000Yes, and honestly, I imagine that people that are that...
01:29:21.000At that point, just own your own business.
01:30:04.000I like the idea that as much as you're probably not going to get this in the federal government, but I like the idea that when Musk was going around to people at Twitter saying, what did you get done this week?
01:30:51.000But, man, I gotta tell you, I talk to a lot of people who own businesses, and the conversations are, I don't know if it's always been this way, but a large majority of the people who come in for work do not want to work.
01:31:03.000Elon Musk goes in and says, what did you get done this week?
01:32:27.000And then, like, once 3 o'clock rolls around, you got from, like, 3 o'clock until whatever time the band goes on to kind of, you know, do your own thing.
01:32:35.000And you can play video games or whatever.
01:33:19.000So it's really hard to find people that are actually going to do the job and do the job well and actually going to seem like, okay, cool, man, I'm here to do the job.
01:33:27.000If you're not here to do the job, it's real obvious real quick.
01:33:32.000And it's like, all right, I'm not seeing nearly as many of these videos anymore.
01:33:36.000But, you know, these a day in the life of a Google employee or whatever.
01:33:41.000And they're usually made by, like, girls my age who are, like, recent college grads or something.
01:33:47.000And I don't see these videos as much anymore, but they definitely radicalize some people to see these luxurious laptop jobs where you do...
01:33:55.000Like, a meeting, and then you get coffee, and then maybe you have another meeting, and then you get coffee.
01:34:01.000Then you have, like, afternoon drinks?
01:34:02.000Yeah, and then you go for drinks after work or whatever.
01:34:06.000Do you think that those are PR departments doing that?
01:34:09.000It could have definitely been, like, an effort by the company to get more people, get more, like, candidates to apply, but...
01:34:18.000I don't doubt that some of those videos were more realistic to the picture of what it looks like for an employee.
01:34:26.000And I just look back at these videos that were made by Twitter employees, you know, before it was X, and I just laugh and laugh because they're not there anymore.
01:34:36.000I've been invited to Google's office like 10 years ago.
01:35:45.000And it really helped me understand the purpose of monetary policy.
01:35:49.000But he brought up the fact that there were way more mergers and acquisitions coming out of Silicon Valley than IPOs.
01:35:55.000And he detailed how Google, their entire existence was essentially buying up all their competitors and giving them paperclips to play with.
01:36:03.000Like, they suck up all the guys that are going to disrupt things, really, and they buy them out, and then there's no real innovation.
01:36:10.000There's no real disruption in the market anymore.
01:36:13.000I read a story about a guy who had an office job and he said that his company got bought out and he's like, "I guess they didn't realize that I was still in one of their satellite And so he would just show up every day, but nobody was there.
01:37:49.000They want you to live there or something?
01:37:53.000Well, because they were working on defense contract stuff, if there was something where they had to be there overnight, there were beds and bunks and stuff like that.
01:38:02.000If you had an emergency and they needed you, they might be like, you have to stay here until this national emergency is over.
01:38:10.000I think that that's a significant difference between, like, the stuff that goes on in Silicon Valley and the way that, because you see videos of Google and how they have, like, you know, the rest, the meditation rooms and the stress balls and, you know, they bring puppies in and all the stuff that they do at those companies.
01:38:26.000And that's real different than what you see, like, in office space or, you know, whatever kind of, like, call center that's a whole different animal, you know?
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01:40:19.000I was 20. So I met her in 2007 at CPAC in D.C. We were volunteering for Sam Brownback, who was a senator from Kansas, running for president.
01:40:34.000And then we started dating on the campaign trail out in Iowa.
01:43:41.000And that's why when we got married, we were like, well, let's do the ceremony when we have time.
01:43:45.000But we'll go to the courthouse and we'll get it legal.
01:43:47.000And it's largely just about protections and the legal protections and all that stuff.
01:43:51.000You know, our commitment to each other was already there.
01:43:54.000I do think that when your missions are aligned, you don't have to worry about these tropes and these claims and, like, sin for your wife or whatever.
01:46:46.000The ending of Interstellar, when Matthew McConaughey meets his daughter, who's now older than him because of time dilation or whatever, and she's like, no dad should watch your daughter die.
01:46:54.000I have a family, and there's like 30 people in the room with her.
01:50:15.000Jeff Rock says, not all Canadians are like that, but all Canadians don't want to be a part of the USA. We also have seen a rise of white supremacists.
01:50:34.000Basilis says, hey, I'm an air traffic controller, and I can say that maybe DEI affects us in the management hiring, but as controllers, we have a staffing problem.
01:50:50.000Yeah, I thought that it was a problem with getting enough people to be hired.
01:50:57.000Wasn't in the Potomac crash, wasn't it like one guy was at two stations?
01:51:02.000Yeah, they had someone that was running the—it's supposed to be one person for airplanes and one for helicopters, and there was one person running both of them.
01:51:12.000Have you seen the new footage of that crash, though?
01:51:14.000That chopper flew right in that plane.
01:51:16.000It was like the scene from Austin Powers where the steamroller's coming and the guy's 200 feet away going, And then just slowly coming.
01:52:32.000We'll grab some more Super Chats here.
01:52:34.000Anthony T. Schrade says, My wife and I are trying to raise five daughters in this crazy world, hoping and praying for a positive outcome for our country and world, MAGA and MAHA. I hope you live on a large piece of land with chickens and goats and maybe a mini cow.
01:52:49.000Because one thing that can really help you out is making your own food.
01:52:54.000I gotta tell you, we don't have one anymore, but when we did, I love it.
01:52:58.000I wake up in the morning, I walk outside, I grab a zucchini, a handful of cherry tomatoes, then I grab some eggs right from the chickens, right from their butts!
01:54:23.000I mean, look, they have all those chemicals they're injecting those cows with, and we know that they have chemicals that can make, you know, men who identify as women lactate, so, like, you don't know what the hell they're putting this.
01:54:37.000There's some questions about whether that's...
01:56:19.000This familiarity with people and you miss out on, like, maybe you go out after work to go get dinner together with your friends or everyone's going, oh, we're going here to grab lunch.
01:56:32.000Those kind of things, a lot of ideas are shared and a lot of things can come from that.
01:56:41.000Things that are beneficial to the team, to the...
01:56:44.000To the jobs that you're working on together and stuff.
01:57:10.000You can say you don't like it after you've tried it, but you can't say, no, we're not going to try it.
01:57:14.000Because there's been so many times where, like, we had tried an idea, and two people talking don't always understand what the other person's saying.
01:57:21.000And sometimes, you'll try an idea, and it'll go bad, but that'll make a third person say, ooh, ooh, ooh, that made...
01:58:29.000A Zoom meeting will never accomplish that.
01:58:32.000Dude, literally, we've come up with so many ideas for things that we've done where it's like somebody was walking past someone else in the kitchen and they made a joke and they were like, hey, actually, what if we actually did bake pizzas today?
01:58:43.000It's like, oh, man, let's do a thing where we get, oh, let's go.
01:59:12.000Ren says, will Canada still have free healthcare without the U.S.? Wasn't Trudeau proposing COVID-level recovery efforts if the tariffs went in place?
01:59:23.000They were going to give guaranteed incomes to people and they were going to go into emergency mode?
02:00:09.000Those tariffs, though, on Canada are no joke.
02:00:11.000In Toronto, I forget the name of the mayor, but right now in Toronto, they have 400,000 people in the surrounding area or whatever that are unemployed.
02:00:20.000They said if those tariffs go into effect, it would be another 400,000 to 600,000 people that are unemployed.