00:02:35.000Okay, maybe not, but there's this new report that they've increased the age limit for enlistments to 42, and they don't care if you've been convicted of marijuana or light drug possession.
00:02:52.000They're also giving out steak and lobster to our troops.
00:02:55.000And the best part is the marijuana thing, because I'm like, okay, now they're basically saying we need to open up the pool a little bit wider.
00:03:21.000And there's a lot of people saying, you know, it would be funny if Biden brought in 20 million illegal immigrants from Honduras, not for the economy, but to just unload them all in Iran.
00:03:30.000And then as John Bolton would say, this time next year, we'll be eating pantanos and baliera in Tehran, which he never said, but would be absolutely hilarious if Iran just became like new Honduras.
00:03:43.000But the big news, of course, is, my friends, if you've been following this show, you are not surprised to learn that we are deploying the 82nd Airborne Division, 3,000 more troops to the Middle East.
00:03:55.000The speculation being this will be for the occupation of Karg Island, the key oil distribution hub for Iran.
00:04:04.000We had heard rumors in the area about, you know, people who know other people, who see them packing up and getting ready to go, rumors of deployment.
00:04:13.000And it appears that it's actually going to happen.
00:04:16.000As many are saying, this is increasing the probability that we will see boots on the ground in Iran.
00:04:21.000That being said, Donald Trump has said he's in peace negotiations with Iran, and they gave him a truly, truly wonderful gift related to oil and natural gas, but he's not going to tell you what it is.
00:04:31.000And that's good, but I got to be honest, all the while we're being told that things are winding down, but all of the military action we see shows a dramatic escalation.
00:04:44.000Now, there's another big conspiracy theory.
00:05:07.000Interestingly, yesterday, only a few hours after Donald Trump announced postponing the attack in Iran, an oil refinery exploded.
00:05:14.000Now, that's just some wacky speculation, right?
00:05:17.000Except a Saudi X account posted only a few hours before the explosion that just across the street, there would be an oil refinery explosion and then deleted it.
00:05:30.000It was captured and reposted, suggesting there was foreknowledge of this explosion at the plant, which makes one wonder: was this a cyber attack?
00:05:41.000We're going to talk about that and a whole lot more.
00:05:43.000Joe Kent says he's willing to testify in the trial of Charlie Kirk, which is being called betrayal.
00:07:41.000Until I had a hard pivot when Donald Trump came out of the elevator, and now I'm firmly in the America First Camp, and I run a lot of different campaigns actually against my old friends within the Republican Moore establishment.
00:09:05.000Pentagon prepares to send another 3,000 troops to the Middle East.
00:09:10.000The decision to move the Army's 82nd Airborne Division to the region heightens the possibility U.S. troops will enter Iran.
00:09:17.000No decisions have been made for troops into the country, according to defense officials who confirmed the planned deployment.
00:09:22.000But the buildup of troops is a drastic escalation.
00:09:24.000The 82nd has a quick reaction force that can deploy around the world within 18 hours, but it's not clear if that division will head to the region.
00:09:32.000The troops increase comes a month into U.S. military airstrikes against Iranian military forces and infrastructure.
00:09:38.000And amid spiraling gas prices, Iranian officials block access to the Strait of Hormuz, through which about a fifth of the world's oil passes.
00:09:46.000U.S. Central Command, which oversees the effort, said Tuesday that U.S. aircraft and missile attacks have destroyed more than 9,000 military targets inside Iran since the attacks started February 28th.
00:09:56.000Military officials have said the strikes targeted around missile launchers, Navy, and defense industrial base.
00:10:01.000Strikes have also killed dozens of the regime's leadership.
00:10:04.000The U.S. already has 50,000 troops in the region.
00:10:07.000The increase suggests potential for more involvement, such as taking control of the strait by force.
00:10:13.000So it is being speculated heavily that we are going to occupy Karg Island, a small island in the Gulf where Iran does most of its oil distribution.
00:10:22.000Trump keeps saying things are getting better.
00:10:27.000We're having peace talks, but everything we're seeing from the military is suggesting an escalation.
00:10:32.000So I actually want to throw it to Elad first because you're, I mean, you've been like dancing on the table, tap dancing, excited with joy about what's going on.
00:12:15.000So I think if we leave these guys in power, they'd probably race to the bomb.
00:12:19.000And I think that's what the president's mindset on this issue is at this point now.
00:12:22.000We've done way too much damage to not take the regime out.
00:12:24.000Is this the most you've ever supported Donald Trump?
00:12:27.000Look, I knew the president was not going to allow this regime to get a nuclear weapon because he's been crystal clear on this issue for decades.
00:12:36.000I know a lot of people like to project their politics onto the president and pretend that the president is flipping a new script all of a sudden, but he's actually been extremely consistent when it comes to this issue about Iran not being able to get a nuclear weapon.
00:12:48.000And actually, I saw Michael Tracy actually quote this, the president talking about this 20 some odd years ago, saying how he would take Karg Island if it came down to it, if push came to shove.
00:13:01.000It sounds like you worked for a lot of neocons in the past and now have kind of, I don't know, would be too supportive of an act like this.
00:13:08.000It seems like John McCain's wet dream.
00:13:10.000Maybe you would know a little bit more about that than I would.
00:13:13.000Yeah, I'm conflicted on it, especially since I spent so much time working for, I feel like, that wing of the party.
00:13:18.000And then I left it in like a kind of public breakup.
00:13:40.000You have 90 different religious factions.
00:13:42.000And also, they don't care about human life.
00:13:44.000So when you say that, like, if we take Karg Island, and yes, it'll hurt their economy, but like the Iranian regime doesn't give a shit about their economy.
00:13:51.000Like, they can let their people starve.
00:13:53.000And all they have to do to win the war is just outlast us.
00:13:56.000And so we've seen this before when Donald Rumsfeld went on TV and told us that we were going to be going to Iraq for two days and then it was two weeks and then it was two months and Rumsfeld went out there and it's the exact same thing now.
00:14:08.000They're telling us two days, then two weeks, then two months, then it's two years and then it's 20 years.
00:14:12.000And so having said all that, I'm praying and hoping for the best.
00:14:17.000And I do think President Trump is a wonderful commander-in-chief and a great leader.
00:14:21.000And I do think it's preposterous that like Netanyahu can just walk in and tell President Trump to go do something and he would do it.
00:14:26.000Trump is famous for bringing in a lot of different opinions, letting people duke it out, and then making a decision.
00:14:32.000So I, you know, if there's, if there is an off-ramp at this point, I would love to see it.
00:14:36.000But I don't see how there is an off-ramp.
00:14:38.000I think that now is a good time to buy Raytheon or Palantir.
00:14:43.000I mean, that is kind of, I think it's almost maybe a miscalculation.
00:14:46.000I don't know if it's a miscalculation.
00:14:48.000I think it's consistent with the Don Rowe doctrine, which is, again, when you're negotiating with these countries, you assume they're all self-interested.
00:14:53.000They're all driven by economic, you know, economic gain, these sorts of things.
00:14:57.000And that's worked very well thus far through both Trump administrations.
00:15:01.000That's kind of the miscalculation, I think, with Iran, to your point.
00:15:04.000They're driven by things that are sort of detached from like tangible assets, right?
00:15:08.000We're talking like oil, energy, economics by and large.
00:17:02.000I think we have a kill-death ratio of something like one to 100.
00:17:06.000Still, obviously, all these deaths are too much.
00:17:08.000But I went to a Pentagon briefing with Secretary Hegseth the other day where he said he went to the dignified transfer for a couple of soldiers that were killed.
00:17:16.000And the families told him to finish the job and not let his death and these service members' death be in vain.
00:17:23.000So just, you know, that's where my mindset's at.
00:17:26.000I know you guys also represent a wing of the party, an emerging wing.
00:17:31.000It's hard to say what exactly is going on, though, because according to many of these polls, people, Republicans, at least, are trusting the president's plan and are letting him cook.
00:17:56.000It's the very thin middle that you need to convince, and they are not being convinced.
00:18:01.000Now, you can call it whatever you want.
00:18:02.000I honestly believe a good portion of these quote-unquote podcaster personalities would say whatever the advertiser dollars direct them to.
00:18:10.000And I'm not going to call it anybody, but I'm not talking about Tucker Carlson.
00:18:12.000I don't know what his deal is or what he believes or why he's doing what he's doing.
00:18:15.000A lot of people have accusations, but he's got something going on.
00:18:17.000Like, I mean, and I don't mean negatively.
00:18:19.000I mean, like, whatever it is he's doing, he's doing.
00:18:20.000But there are certain personalities that have no business in politics that I guarantee you, if you went to them with like a $10 million deal and said, just, you know, don't be mean to the president, support him, they'd say yes.
00:18:45.000Well, I mean, I'm not tuning into like the Theo Vaughn show for like a nuanced take on geopolitics, but like it is worthwhile.
00:18:52.000Like, I think the useful polling that we would need to see is what did first-time Trump voters, what do they think about the war?
00:18:58.000I think that would give you an indication of like the status of the coalition.
00:19:01.000Because, you know, everyone's declaring that the 2024 coalition is dead, et cetera, et cetera.
00:19:05.000And you do see polling like, within MAGA, it has 100% support.
00:19:08.000It's like, yeah, because that's what it selects for.
00:19:10.000It selects for people that are in favor of decisions Trump makes.
00:19:13.000So again, if you're against the Iran war, then you're probably not considered part of the MAGA polling group anymore.
00:19:18.000And that's when you would need to go back and look at that initial batch of 2024 Trump voters, really determine how popular is this war.
00:19:24.000And then again, it's like, I think even President Trump is starting to realize that this might have been a miscalculation you're seeing on his truth social feed.
00:19:34.000It's kind of like he's a little upset.
00:20:17.000So, it looks like when you get a story like this and they're saying they want to increase enlistment, and so they're changing the rules instead of offering incentives, it sounds like they're really trying to get a lot of people in right now.
00:20:32.000And of course, there have been concerns.
00:20:34.000At least I would argue they may be fake, but the left liberal media has been reporting fears of a potential military draft over this conflict.
00:20:42.000What people need to understand about Iran: 90 plus million people.
00:20:48.000If you think it was hard, if you know that it was hard enough for the U.S. to deal with goat herders with AK-47s in a desert country, imagine what it's going to be like going to a mountainous, 90-million-person strong country.
00:21:01.000They can take out military targets, but you do not get regime change with 90 million people without occupying that country by force.
00:21:08.000Yeah, I mean, this is why I think the Trump administration, I don't actually expect that.
00:22:11.000I'm saying, let's say we've stretched our physical force to its limit, and the president says we need any able-bodied man who fits this category, whether you're trained or otherwise.
00:23:16.000I'm just imagining, you know, it's like the boat crashes on the shores of Iran and then like Elad runs out and he looks to his left and there's Lindsey Graham and Lindsey Graham's like, I can't believe I'm fighting alongside you, Elad.
00:23:28.000And he was like, what about fighting alongside a friend?
00:23:30.000And they go like this and then they run in together.
00:23:33.000Well, because that reminds me of Ukraine.
00:23:34.000You had the Reddit waffen get deployed.
00:23:36.000And they kept like posting like just like with all the metadata in there and they would just get their site blown up all the land.
00:23:42.000I don't want to romanticize war, but isn't there something so romantic about, you know, you and the boys fighting against the ops and like, Tate, if you got hurt, shot in the arm and I'm holding you in my arms and saying no and then like avenging your injury.
00:23:57.000I don't mean to fetishize that, but it's like there's something so there's just like awful about, I don't mean to even use that sort of rhetoric.
00:24:55.000But what we know as the world is actually a small portion of the planet surrounded by an ice wall where the 43 billion Koreans keep us in as slaves.
00:25:31.000I just love the idea of Hassan eating a really nice meal at a five-star restaurant and there's like a bunch of starving kids outside like shivering.
00:26:19.000Of course, expanding the age range, but also like this waiver for marijuana is very overdue.
00:26:24.000I think there's a lot of people who could serve despite having minor possession convictions.
00:26:28.000I think there was also one other thing and that's the grooming standards.
00:26:31.000As I understand, like there's a strict grooming standard in the military and black people deal with this differently than other people because their beards grow in differently and it's very curly and like it causes.
00:26:41.000Shaving causes ingrown hairs and stuff like that.
00:26:43.000And it's actually a serious issue where it affects the amount of black people that could be recruited.
00:26:57.000I think they look cool with their beards.
00:26:59.000I was at a meeting in the Pentagon recently and this marijuana thing came up because they were actually talking about the context of how Trump has been talking about how he wants more shipmaking in the United States.
00:27:07.000But like to build ships, there's not a labor force here in the United States.
00:27:11.000And even to build out the ports to have to do it.
00:27:15.000And really it came up with me like the biggest problem was marijuana possession or use.
00:27:19.000If you like when you become a contractor for the Department of War, even if it's just to build this facility or to enlist, you have to say that you've never smoked marijuana before.
00:27:29.000And so that takes out almost all of the workers that you would have to do like some construction jobs like this.
00:27:34.000And so there was really no way to proceed with building these huge new bases and things Trump wants to do without removing that waiver.
00:27:40.000Yeah, I don't mean to sound like a pothead, but that seems like an unex like an unreasonably high bar to pass for some of these gigs.
00:27:51.000Don't, I mean, look, we're legalizing weed, so doesn't it seem like there's some contradictions here?
00:27:58.000I think it's more so just we want to get as many people as possible to sign up and we're going to remove the restrictions.
00:28:03.000I wouldn't be surprised if like, look, if we actually did invade Iran and we were in full-scale war with 90 million people, I know that's not the entire size of their army or whatever.
00:28:12.000Yo, they'd be like, send in the crackheads.
00:28:16.000If you tell them there's fentanyl on the nuclear reactors, get them, and then drop all the homeless in, this war would be wrapped up like that.
00:28:21.000No, what you do is you fly over Iran with all of the addicts, and then you give one like, you know, carrier with a bunch of crackheads, one with a bunch of meth heads, one with a bunch of heroin addicts.
00:28:32.000And then what you do is, as they're all like sitting there, like freaking out, you walk up to like, you know, they open the hatch or whatever, and then he dangles a bunch of baggies and says, you guys want this?
00:28:41.000And he chucks it out, and they all run full speed and just jump out to go get it.
00:28:46.000There wouldn't be a single copper wire left in Iran after war.
00:29:37.000I'd say if they were putting mines in the strait, I was like, why don't we just capture some of these Iranian ships and just make them go first?
00:30:11.000A rise in online searches related to U.S. military drafts is revealing growing anxiety among immigrants and non-citizens following recent changes to federal law that automate selective service registration.
00:30:20.000A new report from Mendoza Immigration Law found that Google search activity in March of 26 spiked dramatically, with some searches increasing by as much as 5,000%.
00:30:28.000The data suggested growing concern over how personal information collected through draft registration could be shared across federal agencies.
00:30:37.000If Joe Biden brought in 20 million illegal immigrants and the play was to send them all to Iran, I ain't even mad.
00:31:40.000When it said it's like the shriveled up, I'm like, no, you're wrong.
00:31:42.000See, when you caramelize the plantains, they are sweet and delicious, but bananas would melt and break apart.
00:31:48.000So, anyway, the point is: could you imagine if like the Israelis, the Israelis finally go into Iran to like finalize the occupation after the country's been conquered?
00:31:59.000And when they get to Iran, it's just basically Honduras.
00:32:01.000There's like just burrito and taquitos everywhere, and everyone's speaking Spanish.
00:32:05.000Well, you're connecting some dots for me because if this was a long game by Biden here, then lifting the marijuana restrictions would make sense for Hunter to be deployed.
00:32:14.000If this is a Biden family operation here, yeah, Hunter goes.
00:32:19.000Well, but they didn't lift the crack, so he's still out.
00:32:28.000Robert on the patio, he's like sniffing around, goes and turns around.
00:32:32.000It's almost like that's kind of encouraging if the White House staff is doing Coke.
00:32:35.000That means they're getting everything done.
00:32:36.000But it was outside the situation room.
00:32:38.000So why Hunter was in there is a greater question that we have not gotten answered.
00:32:42.000So they've already, there was already a couple legislators a few years ago that were trying to get a bill passed to grant citizenship to illegal immigrants if they serve in the military.
00:32:51.000I would not be surprised if a big reason that Biden was like, bring as many as possible in, is because they're going to go to them and say, you go fight for us, and when you come back, you're a citizen, knowing that a lot of them ain't coming back, if any at all.
00:33:06.000Would you be open to something like that?
00:33:07.000An illegal if they served our country patriotically over, I don't know, let's say the course of four years, then they could have like a pathway to citizenship.
00:33:14.000They have the French Foreign Legion, and you aren't actually given a pathway to citizenship unless you get hurt or you did it for like five years.
00:33:19.000Yeah, I think it would have to be an extended service, like eight years, not a single, you know, four-year.
00:33:24.000So, and uh, and you got to consider that there, there's, there's, there's a darkness to this question because what you're basically saying is most of them aren't coming back.
00:33:34.000If we said we got 10 million males of fighting age, as everyone was pointing out, and we're going to just drop you in the country and just take it over, like we got narco gangs.
00:33:44.000You know, why is it that Joe Biden wants so many rapists and murderers?
00:33:47.000I know, no, no, we need to keep them because we're going to drop them in Iran and let them just do their thing.
00:33:51.000It's kind of like if you took a cat and threw it into a like a rabbit pen and just like watched what happened, yeah, that cat would go nuts.
00:33:56.000It'd just be mauling everybody, and the rabbits would be freaking out.
00:33:59.000Now, honestly, the rabbits might actually kill the cat, but 10 cats.
00:34:02.000So, the challenge there is some bad people might come back.
00:34:06.000But while I would like to say yes, understanding that what you're saying is, you know, six million are probably going to die.
00:34:14.000If we actually, like, this is a country of 90 million people.
00:34:17.000And if you do, like, a foreign legion, you also have this problem.
00:34:20.000The French Foreign Legion had this problem is since they were, you know, they're having activities in Western Africa, a lot of Western Africans would go and join the French Foreign Legion and then come back and start settling scores right away.
00:34:31.000You just have, it's like, where did Emmanuel go?
00:34:34.000And he's like burning down like a rival tribes village with a French double Asian problem.
00:34:38.000Yeah, we'd probably have like a similar issue with like these guys just going back to like the Middle East and just settling scores.
00:34:44.000I got to be honest, I mean, I don't understand why this isn't like a standard military tactic.
00:35:30.000That's the argument is by Greenland because then they go and fight, and then you give them at the end of the war, they get a plot of land in Greenland, and they get to live in the United States.
00:35:46.000Iceland is starting to build some too because they've got geothermal, which is actually a great source to use energy instead of taking it from other things we're using, geothermal.
00:35:54.000And it's cold, so one of the data centers needs a lot of water to cool.
00:36:00.000But no, my point is most of the people ain't coming back.
00:36:04.000Like, if you set them on the ground in Iran for a full-scale invasion, they're not coming back.
00:36:08.000Well, look, we had roughly 3,000 casualties in Iraq.
00:36:12.000Or wait, wait, you just go back on your word and leave them there.
00:36:16.000No, we give them the plot of land in Iran.
00:37:02.000If you kill 200 Iranians and you get a place in Gaza or something.
00:37:06.000It'd be like the arcade where everyone, they give you a ticket and then you go to the counter and you can exchange for your plot of land or you can get a penthouse in Gaza City.
00:42:26.000And then like, when you walk up to it, we're going to do a trick with the windows where inside looks really nice, but when you walk in, it's actually dingy and gross.
00:42:44.000I don't know how they do it, but like at our cades, they have this thing where it's like, it's glass you can see through, but this is a touch screen as well.
00:43:11.000Yeah, you would have like a kitchen staff defect like the normal Korean restaurant and they get like hauled back in.
00:43:16.000No, what we do is every like every hour we stage an error where like the like a guy will run out from the from the back of the kitchen being like, I'm so sorry, I messed up your order.
00:44:04.000We don't know the, I think they've gotten only a preliminary.
00:44:09.000The sheriff came out immediately after it said it was a fire that caused an explosion in one of the engines or something.
00:44:15.000And then they did a press conference this morning that I watched it.
00:44:18.000So shortly before this, Donald Trump announced he was postponing strikes on Iran.
00:44:25.000Seven years ago, June 21st, 2019, Donald Trump came out and said he was stopping.
00:44:31.000He was calling off an attack on Iran because the casualties would be too great and it was disproportionate to Iran had shot down a U.S. drone.
00:44:38.000So he's like, no, no, no, we don't want to kill that many people over this.
00:45:21.000Except I was unaware of, not this post, this post here from at Amuse, who tweeted, a Saudi X account posted a specific threat against the Port Arthur Motiva refinery one hour before the nearby Valero explosion in the same city.
00:45:38.000He deleted the post and all 4,739 of his previous tweets immediately after.
00:45:43.000This account is a Saudi X account created in April of 23, connected via Saudi Android app, posted a specific warning that Motiva Enterprises in Port Arthur, Texas, the largest U.S. refinery at up to 720,000 barrels a day, would be destroyed within a week.
00:45:57.000The post went up about an hour before the Valero refinery explosion rocked the same city.
00:46:35.000But I went through, he wiped all of his tweets, but all of his, when he tweeted at someone, you could still read it.
00:46:41.000So I just put in his, and like, he was, I don't know if he's like a terrorist or something, but he's just always talking about foreign policy and stuff.
00:46:49.000But he absolutely sent that one hour before.
00:46:57.000But this could be one of those things, like, you know, the people that will like tweet the prediction of a sports game like a year before, but they tweet like 100 predictions.
00:47:04.000So one of them, when it does hit, they delete all the other ones and they're like, see, possibly I got that right.
00:47:09.000And I think he may have been seen as a tweet of different predictions.
00:47:12.000Tweeted a bunch of, this is going to be target, like a bunch of different targets.
00:47:15.000A bunch of refineries and like a tweet, the president will attack Carg Island on this day.
00:47:42.000We don't know how much damage has been done, but if that facility were to go down or offline in what is already a very delicate oil market, it would be very bad.
00:47:52.000Well, it exploded, and that is going to cause problems.
00:47:56.000It wasn't the Motivo, but it was right across the street from it.
00:47:59.000And I believe there is a very strong probability that these things are ICS sabotage.
00:48:12.000I think one demonstration I saw at the Black Hat convention in Vegas, security researchers said only a couple lines of code can blow up any, any refinery, any industrial chemical plant, water processing.
00:48:48.000And Valero is also the primary defense contractor for like energy supply for a lot of the Air Force specifically.
00:48:54.000So I did see people speculating that, look, if there were going to be a foreign attack on refinery of some sort, this would be the number one target.
00:49:02.000This is like, it would be kind of obvious almost as, again, you go for Valero because Valero is a domestic oil producer and they are the defense contractor of choice.
00:49:12.000They also, this refinery process is heavy crude, which is what Venezuela has, which is kind of interesting because Venezuela and Iran had some deep ties.
00:49:18.000And so if Iran wanted to retaliate against Venezuela's new, like working with the U.S. government, then hitting this facility would make sense.
00:49:28.000And it seems largely like the very pro-Iran war, pro-Trump factions are the most, I don't know what the right word is, a combination of skeptical and offended.
00:49:40.000The response that I've seen are that the most Arduino Trump supporters are like, this is ridiculous.
00:49:45.000Because the implication is that we are being attacked.
00:49:48.000And they don't want the narrative to be that Trump gets involved in this war and then the U.S. is paying the price domestically in any way.
00:49:55.000The one thing that could turn a hawk into a dove in this country is high gas prices.
00:50:01.000The one way to drop support very quickly, even among the most hawkish of us, is for gas prices to go up by a dollar.
00:51:01.000Not only, you know, in the United States, we're a little bit more insular to that, but allies across the region, across the country, the fertilizer is like just as you could see a massive famine from this in places like India.
00:51:14.000I've become less and less concerned with our allies as it becomes more abundantly clear that they are just spineless and not willing to help us when it matters.
00:51:21.000It seems as though they're more of a burden and drag us into things more than anything else.
00:51:26.000I think Scott Bessett put it most succinctly, though.
00:51:28.000He said, we're going to have to deal with 50 days of higher prices for 50 years of no Iran nukes.
00:51:34.000So I think that's the current pitch from the administration.
00:51:37.000I think there are things that we could do to help curb the issue of high gas prices in the United States that we should look into.
00:52:36.000As an exporter, if I saw an autist gaming out on Twitter, he was just saying, like, best case scenario is what Trump is doing, which is you ease sanctions on Iran.
00:52:44.000Something you said I wanted to follow up on that grabbed my attention.
00:52:47.000I know that you used to be part of the, maybe we'll call it more hawkish squad and now the more so-called American First Squad.
00:52:52.000What do you make of Trump's actions in Venezuela and how that went about?
00:52:56.000I know you're also in Florida right now.
00:52:58.000And as I understand, a lot of Floridians are very supportive of that kind of stuff.
00:53:02.000What do you make of the president's stuff in action in Venezuela?
00:53:05.000So I was pretty heavily involved in that.
00:53:07.000And I went down to Venezuela not long ago, actually.
00:53:12.000And I was initially against it, mainly because I was against the narrative that we were doing this because of drugs.
00:53:20.000And I'm like, that doesn't make sense.
00:53:28.000And so I just felt like we were being, we started blowing up boats, or I called the canoes.
00:53:34.000I'm like, I don't really understand what we're doing there.
00:53:36.000And I think there were two different, again, this is why I love Trump.
00:53:39.000He'll bring in different factions to come and debate, and then he chooses the course to take.
00:53:43.000There were factions that wanted a full regime change there, which was to go in, take Maduro, and then bring in MCM, who is the opposition party leader.
00:53:58.000They already had a massive migrant crisis that led to them all flowing here.
00:54:02.000And so if you start a civil war and just take out the leader and regime in Venezuela and then just abandon it, then like you could see real famine, inflation, and then migration.
00:54:12.000But what Trump ended up doing is he took what the real hawkish, you know, my South Floridians wanted, which was to topple the Maduro regime.
00:54:20.000But then by putting Delcey Rodriguez in charge, he was the vice president there who I've met.
00:54:38.000But we got the objectives we wanted, which was to neutralize what could be a threat there.
00:54:42.000I mean, they were close to the Iranians and Russians or other.
00:54:45.000They were selling all their oil to like pennies on the dollar to China.
00:54:48.000And now we really get to be the ones to export all that and secure that.
00:54:51.000And there's also a lot of other natural resources that Venezuela has.
00:54:54.000So I think it was flawlessly executed by President Trump.
00:54:58.000And I think he took several opinions and meshed that together.
00:55:01.000And I was a skeptic, but I'm very, very pleased with the outcome.
00:55:06.000There is some chatter now about something similar being done in Cuba.
00:55:10.000I know you're a little bit reluctant to support what the president is doing in Iran, but what do you think of a potential regime change or similar to Venezuela move in Cuba?
00:55:22.000I know you have those again, those Florida connections.
00:55:25.000You could give us a tidbit about why this matters so much in Florida and the influence of that in Washington.
00:55:32.000Yeah, so I just reread Marco Rubio's book because I was trying to get inside of his head as we were going through all these Venezuela negotiations.
00:55:40.000Yeah, his father's dying wish was for him to liberate Cuba.
00:55:43.000I think for Rubio, this is like very, and even Venezuela, Venezuela, it was weird.
00:55:48.000Like Maduro's security guards were all Cuban.
00:55:50.000And so the Cuban intelligence, they were directly linked.
00:55:52.000So I think Rubio's thought was if you, you know, take down Venezuela and cut off Cuba, that was their only financial resource and lifeline.
00:56:01.000So for me, I'm just, I'm less interested in Cuba because they have no natural resources.
00:56:08.000But like Venezuela was a strategic, incredibly important country of like 23 million people on a coast with a ton of oil.
00:56:16.000And more importantly, they have a lot of gas.
00:56:19.000Cuba, you can build hotels at the end of this.
00:56:21.000So I'm like, but for Ruby, I get that it's deeply personal.
00:56:25.000You could topple the Cuba regime in like eight seconds.
00:56:27.000I don't like, we went in and captured Maduro, no problem.
00:56:30.000We took out half the Iranian regime, no problem.
00:56:33.000We can't find Nantikon three, so that's confusing.
00:56:35.000But I'm assuming they could find and take out the Cuban leadership.
00:56:38.000But I think that that is on pause right now because I think it's taking a lot of our, whether or not Secretary Ruby or high-level State Department folks, their time away from like Iran is now what everyone actually should be focused on or working.
00:56:51.000But I think Cuba will fall fairly easily.
00:56:54.000But it's really just South Floridians.
00:58:19.000And the seat will be going up for grabs in 2026.
00:58:22.000But Vote Hub is projecting that the Democrat has won the Florida State House District 87 general election.
00:58:29.000This goes along with the other story that we have from Media.
00:58:31.000Yikes, yikes, yikes, seen in poll experts stunned by Trump's massive plunge with young men, showing that Trump is down on with men 40 points on the cost of living, a 40-point swing to minus 30 from plus 10 on cost of living.
00:58:48.000And generally seeing he's minus seven among men.
00:58:52.000I believe that the conservatives who are telling Republicans Trump is with, like, Trump is enjoying 100% support.
01:00:00.000And the problem with these is when you go ask the MAGA question where I was on CNN of like that question, the way they phrased it was: if you were a consider yourself a MAGA voter, if that's how you would check the box when they asked you that, which like a MAGA enthusiast, that that's the wing of the party that you're in, then it was just asking, do you still of Trump's approval?
01:00:19.000Like I'm a MAGA voter and do I approve of Trump?
01:00:25.000But that doesn't mean you can't disagree with certain things.
01:00:27.000And also, I do think, especially for someone like me who works in this field, I'm very vocal when I do disagree on things because this is what I like about Trump.
01:00:36.000So it's just Lindsey Graham on the golf course with him telling him to bomb Iran all day.
01:00:40.000And the rest of us are just clapping, saying you have 100% support.
01:00:43.000Then, like, what are we all doing here?
01:00:44.000What did I work eight years of my life for?
01:00:46.000Reuters Ipso's poll shows Trump's approval is at 36%.
01:00:49.000Now, to be fair, that's a single poll.
01:00:51.000But I think when you're looking at all of these polls, let's pull up the RCP average and see what the current approval aggregate is for Donald Trump.
01:02:20.000So, do you guys, should we start just exercising now and smoking so we can get ready for prison?
01:02:28.000No, we got to get tough and in shape and be ready to be shipped off and fight for a great conversation.
01:02:34.000I don't know if it was discussed in the show previously, like while you guys are in Austin, but do you think there's any credibility to the idea that the Republicans don't want to pass the SAVE Act because they would just be getting primarily left and right?
01:02:42.000Because a lot of these primary votes are propped up with probably a lot of shady tactics.
01:02:47.000Out of John Corn and Route and Paxton.
01:02:50.000That's a fair point, but I view it more likely that Republicans and Democrats share the ethos of we here in Congress are smarter than you, and we know it.
01:02:59.000And so they don't want people to vote.
01:03:02.000Oh, I'm just imagining like Thune is sitting there with Democrats and he's going, oh, God, could you imagine if people voted for us?
01:03:10.000And so, to be fair, I actually don't like the popular vote for the Senate, and it should be through state appointment.
01:03:16.000But I think the actual view is we want procedural elections, not popular elections.
01:03:23.000We want to win by the numbers of the machine, not by the whims of the people.
01:03:28.000So if they pass the SAVE Act, you're going to actually have people making decisions.
01:03:32.000So long as they don't, Democrats get elected by just convincing morons to vote who don't know what they're talking about.
01:03:38.000What I hate most about this is that it feels so just theatrical.
01:03:42.000The whole time, the president knew the SAVE Act wasn't going to pass.
01:03:45.000John Cornyn knew the SAVE Act wasn't going to pass.
01:03:48.000Chuck Schumer knew the SAVE Act wasn't going to pass.
01:03:51.000Everybody knew that you needed 60 votes to overcome the filibuster.
01:03:56.000They weren't going to flip, what, eight some odd Democrats to do that.
01:04:00.000John Cornyn was never going to get rid of the filibuster.
01:04:04.000Senators like the filibuster because it makes them more powerful.
01:04:07.000It makes each individual, individual senator more powerful because now if you want to reach that 60 vote threshold, you need to compromise.
01:04:14.000And that allows more people, more senators to stuff more pork in each bill to bring back home the bacon.
01:04:22.000So it just, it feels like a dumb waste of time.
01:04:24.000It feels like some people were let on.
01:04:26.000This was used as a sort of pressure release valve for some people who thought we were going to get some form of voter ID ID, but it was never going anywhere.
01:04:34.000And, you know, I felt like I was taking crazy pills for a moment because it was like, I don't know, am I missing something here?
01:05:02.000Because corporations did not want, think of your big pharma company and Elizabeth Warren or someone just goes and gets to drop a bill that says that like we need to lower insulin prices and you only need 51 votes.
01:05:12.000And all of a sudden these senators actually really do have to be on record on a vote like that.
01:05:16.000When you do the 60 vote threshold and there's never, you know, no one's ever had more than I think 56 or 57 of one party, then you can always blame the other side or whoever else and claim this bipartisanship.
01:05:26.000But really it's a massive corporate lobby trying to keep this filibuster to exist because these senators would not be able to survive in their jobs if they were actually taking votes that we, the people, wanted them to take on things such as an 80-20 issue like voter ID.
01:05:39.000So then it goes to the Democrats said we will lift the filibuster.
01:05:44.000That was Nancy Pelosi's big their election bill, basically the same thing, that now they're saying you can't federalize elections.
01:05:50.000It's like, okay, you all, all of you went on record saying you would nuke the filibuster to pass your HR1, which was federalizing elections in the way you want.
01:05:57.000Two senators didn't, and that was Joe Manchin and Kirsten Sinema.
01:06:00.000They are no longer senators because of that one vote alone.
01:06:03.000Democrats only had 52 seats, so they couldn't get it passed to nuke.
01:06:06.000You have to actually vote and get 51 to nuke the filibuster.
01:06:09.000And in fact, Sinema couldn't even go to like a wedding in Arizona.
01:07:20.000And they all, everyone's like, we've never, John Thune came out and said, I've never even heard of this.
01:07:24.000Well, I found a video from two years ago of Chuck Schumer calling to use the talking filibuster to pass HR1 when it was right after Sinema and Manchester have voted against nuking the filibuster.
01:07:59.000The Senate parliamentary will never allow it.
01:08:01.000You couldn't even get illegals who are on Medicaid.
01:08:04.000We tried to get the Senate parliamentarian to, we tried to ban that in the big, beautiful bill, and the Senate parliamentarian stripped it out.
01:08:10.000And the idea that you're going to get any part of the Save America Pass through reconciliation is a joke, but they just want to fundraise on Hannity and tell us that it's going to happen.
01:08:18.000I think this is largely why young men especially are sour on Trump.
01:08:24.000And I think just dudes in general are checked out.
01:08:26.000I think the polling data shows exactly what a lot of people are suggesting right now in the space.
01:09:10.000We struggled, we screamed, and we clawed for years, and we're back at square one.
01:09:16.000It's almost like you ever play a video game, and then it's like you forget to save, and you fight a boss and lose, and then you realize you didn't save, and now you got to go start from the beginning, and you're like, oh my God.
01:09:27.000That's what it feels like for a lot of people.
01:09:29.000And then, so at the same time, there are in the metrics, a lot of behind the scenes, I'll tell you guys a secret.
01:09:35.000A lot of people are pointing out, like, we're friends with some of these people who have been, you know, talking about Erica Kirk quite a bit, though we disagree with it.
01:09:41.000Their viewership is skewed almost entirely female the moment you start talking about Erica Kirk and it makes a lot of money.
01:10:01.000And I'm just like, she looks like completely the same as how I always see her.
01:10:05.000But for women, it's like big differences.
01:10:07.000Even Joe Rogan had a viral clip where he was talking about Erica Kirk because everybody in the history knows this.
01:10:15.000And what I will say to everybody is that behind the scenes, these conversations, like I had like an hour-long phone call with someone in the industry that you guys all know who it is.
01:10:22.000I'm not going to say who it is, talking about how viewership is collapsing right now.
01:10:28.000And the one thing I often hear is like, obviously, for those that are watching on Timcast IRL, between Rumble and YouTube, we have, I think, 32, 32, 33,000 concurrent viewers.
01:10:39.000And we were hitting like 45, 50K two months ago.
01:12:03.000We're looking at like a 30-sweet, 30-seat swing or something absolutely insane with these numbers.
01:12:09.000Yeah, you're kind of just seeing, you know, it retract back to the politicos, where it's just the people that are interested in politics are the ones tuning into political content.
01:12:16.000I mean, to Tim's point, like, you know, I'll do uploads occasionally on his channel.
01:12:20.000And by far, my best performing video was one of HOMAF.
01:12:23.000Yeah, they talk about women being hoes, and it's like guys are like, tell me about it.
01:12:27.000And I like, I put out these different videos, and it's fine.
01:12:29.000Like, I'm not, it's whatever, but I put out these videos and I bring all these different experts or whatever on like politically focused content to get like 10,000 views.
01:12:36.000When I have like congressmen on it, like it's like 10,000 views, but then you start talking about like stuff that men are really at the top of their mind dating.
01:12:43.000That's why we'll get into it later, I suppose, is the discourse right now again.
01:13:20.000And I know, I know the Trump supporters are saying they're for it, but it's fascinating to see Trump supporters all of a sudden being like, a lot's right about everything.
01:13:48.000Bro, I'm going to go order a pizza and go kick back and fish or something.
01:13:51.000You know, I think we're also coming off of a high of like the pre-Trump era or like the early Trump era where all of the left was freaking out about everything that the president would do.
01:14:02.000There was a ton of these women marches and Tifa and then there was the George Floyd riots and like media was really hitting a high then and the left was going crazy and there was transgenders everywhere.
01:15:01.000And so guys are not being as motivated.
01:15:03.000I think maybe, and they've canceled Starfleet Academy.
01:15:08.000I think maybe they're getting the message that we should just let guys play video games.
01:15:13.000Well, I think the left just like realized how disastrous the resist lib like era, how bad optics that was.
01:15:20.000Because you think about all the characters that to a lot of point, they're freaking out all the time.
01:15:24.000Trump, too, they're actually things are happening that they were saying because nothing happened in the first term, but the things that they were saying were happening in the first term are actually happening now.
01:15:32.000Like there's ice goon squads and everything.
01:15:34.000And they're like not really freaking out.
01:15:38.000You remember like the first term, like Moeller was like the superstar and they were glazing him like crazy and they had like you know effigies and these candles forming everything.
01:15:46.000And then he died and they just kind of like quietly were like, okay, because they're almost embarrassed by how crazy that period.
01:15:51.000I remember Trump supporters being assaulted in the streets regularly.
01:15:54.000If you wore a MAGA hat, you were persona non-grata.
01:15:57.000You were liable to be assaulted and people would justify it on the internet.
01:16:00.000They would say like, yeah, we're just punching a Nazi.
01:16:02.000And if you're wearing a MAGA hat, then you're a Nazi.
01:16:04.000The country has shifted completely away from them.
01:16:52.000But that, to me, that part is like kind of, one, it's just everything is so formal now when you're president Joe's law and he's also had multiple assassination trips.
01:17:00.000But I just find in January, the White House was saying, all right, we're going to spend, said the president out and we're going to focus on a like affordability tour.
01:17:08.000And now we're in March and I'm like, okay, but, well, I think I saw him go to Memphis and like one other place and we've invaded Iran.
01:17:16.000But like, where, can we go back to the future?
01:17:35.000The party in power almost always loses in the midterm.
01:17:39.000So the president might just be thinking, F it, if I'm already going to lose, I'm just going to do whatever I want.
01:17:44.000And then, again, second-term presidents have a history of being more unrestrained, especially when it comes to the— And he's got Mark Levin in his ear, who's like—there's a literal Nazi group in Iran.
01:17:56.000And if you take them out, you can like be in the history books forever.
01:17:58.000And Trump's going to like respond to that.
01:18:00.000And also, to be fair, like the people that are slamming Trump for like being friendly to Mark Levin, keep in mind that these guys are like constantly supporting the president and encouraging him and like putting out these like really pleasant posts about Donald Trump.
01:18:12.000And then all the guys that they're like mad that Trump won't listen to are like constantly like ankle biting and like being nasty to him.
01:18:17.000It's like, well, why would Trump listen to these guys who are like undercutting him, even if they're like more based?
01:18:22.000Trump's going to respond to the guys that are like glazing him all the time.
01:18:55.000It's going to be interesting if the progressive Democrats lose, the Republicans lose, and we get corporate Dems taking over.
01:19:02.000I wonder how that's going to change the culture in this country because, I mean, the polls are not good for Trump, but the corporate Dems have not been in control of their party for some time.
01:20:34.000What do you mean you guessed the Democrats?
01:20:36.000I think the whole debates in 2028 are going to be about this and about Israel and support, and both parties are going to have it.
01:20:43.000And so I think, you know, if you have Ruby a run or even JD Vance, I think you're going to have an MGG and a Tucker and a Thomas Massey and people all on the stage in these primaries.
01:20:53.000And this is going to be a declining question.
01:21:11.000Bill Maher said, if I'm with Trump on this issue, boomers love Israel, but boomers are on the way out.
01:21:18.000I'm not trying to be a dick, but it's true.
01:21:19.000And among the younger generations, you've got either anti-interventionist or outright anti-Israel and on both sides, the fringes, anti-Semites.
01:22:04.000That means they will be a minimal voting block.
01:22:07.000They'll be important, but they'll be much, much smaller than Gen X, Millennial, and Gen Z, which each are going to be around, I think Gen X is like 70, then Millennials and Gen Z are 80.
01:22:16.000Gen Alpha is microscopic, so they're not going to play a role.
01:22:19.000Millennials are going to dominate politics in this country as the largest voting block.
01:22:24.000Indeed, with boomers out, Israel's got no support.
01:22:30.000And so I wonder if, and this has been some of the speculation, the reason why we went to war with Iran now is that Israel knows if the war doesn't happen now, the U.S. will not be involved six years from now.
01:23:59.000She was then radically born again, committed to church, evangelized constantly, puritan books in her bedroom, prayer journals, grief over past sexual sin.
01:24:07.000We got to know each other well for over a year, dated for four months, engaged for two and a half, and didn't sin sexually with one another.
01:24:13.000Our first kiss with each other was at the altar on our wedding day.
01:24:26.000She's more pure than most virgins as biblical purity has less to do with past sins and more to do with one's current posture.
01:24:33.000I'm going to speed through this because you get the point.
01:24:36.000He says, a woman or man's past sexual sin matters, but what matters far more when it comes to deciding who to marry is if the person is truly born again, if their repentance is real, if they truly have a heart for Christ, if they truly follow Jesus and obey his commands.
01:25:32.000What we're having contention with is two things.
01:25:35.000One is the bizarre public declaration where you just air your dirty laundry on the internet and then somehow package it as if it's like a testimony and that it's somehow helping somebody.
01:25:47.000And it's actually just having a demoralization.
01:25:49.000I actually think that's like the primary issue.
01:25:52.000But I think it's also exacerbating the problem by telling women you can be promiscuous and slutty, but don't worry.
01:26:01.000Just once you're done, just claim that you're born again and you're good.
01:26:04.000Because that's like the primary issue I would say with the entire thing is it's really just presenting to women the concept that it's more of a bailout than an actual like there's not a there's not a proper there's not proper indication to these women that like it's actually a really bad thing to be promiscuous it's just saying like it happened oh well you know it's like it was like a phase of her life you know it's like Like some people are emo, some people sleep brown.
01:26:26.000We call it Bart Simpson, and he says, A life of sin followed by the deathbed repentance.
01:26:30.000Yeah, well, that's and that's effectively what he's telling.
01:26:32.000And again, it's like this isn't a novel testimony.
01:26:35.000This is probably like half of marriages where like the woman or the man had like a really promiscuous background.
01:26:40.000Because unfortunately, the world that we live in today is like the concept of chaste, like the concept of saving yourself for marriage is basically laughed at.
01:26:49.000So it's like, it's really rare this actually happens.
01:26:51.000So again, I don't know why he's packaging this.
01:26:53.000Like this is some unique testimony that we are desperately needing.
01:26:55.000It's like, no, young women understand this.
01:26:57.000And for young men and young women that are pursuing like a Christ-like marriage, this is just unbelievably demoralizing and frustrating to see because it's like, yes, we know young women who are women that like sleep around, get bailed out all the time.
01:27:35.000He says, you know, when you've never driven a car before and then you scrape money together for an old shitty vehicle, but you think it's pretty good because you've never driven another car?
01:28:08.000What Tristan's getting at, and like, you know, I'm trying to approach this from like a Christian standpoint.
01:28:13.000But what he is hitting on is valid, and this is a problem, is this like scarcity mindset.
01:28:18.000So it's specifically with young men because the dating market is so bad for young men right now that as soon as they find a woman that will like show them love and affection, especially if like this guy, I think he's a little older, he's like 30 when he got married, they're just going to jump in with both feet because the reality is for a lot of young men right now, especially Christian young men, there is this sense that like there's really not that many eligible spouses and they have a really difficult time finding eligible spouses.
01:28:41.000So if they finally find someone that at least ticks a few boxes, they just go all in and like worship this woman.
01:28:46.000It's the scarcity mindset and it's a big problem with the evangelical community.
01:28:50.000If you're a young guy right now and you're seeing this, like I agree with what you're saying, it's basically like this, this guy is a weak man.
01:29:00.000And this is the narrative that's been pushed on the internet for some time by like the red pill or like men's rights guys.
01:29:05.000Maybe not men's rights guys is that way to describe it, but like dating advice that women are going to go for the Chads, the Alpha Chads, and they're going to get used and abused by them because these guys have no reason to settle down because everybody wants them.
01:29:17.000Then once they're older and hit the quote-unquote wall, they'll look for a weak man who says, I'll give you anything you want.
01:29:22.000So the young guys are sitting there saying, I just want to have a family.
01:30:53.000What I'm saying is, stop presenting this like it's a model because it's not.
01:30:58.000And the reality is the way that marriage works in 2026, I'm saying this as a Christian, picking your spouse is not something you can screw up.
01:31:06.000And so it's like you need to interpret it, interpret whatever data you can to determine you're making the correct calculation for the same reason why you wouldn't have a born-again pedophile like babysit your children because it's like that's great.
01:31:19.000You've redeemed your life and I do believe you.
01:32:55.000It's just like there's a reason why, because this is like it just epitomizes like what a lot of young men are feeling, but specifically young men that are Christian, the young men that are like specifically in the evangelical are young Christian men seeking a virgin woman?
01:33:09.000Well, the problem isn't that we're like seeking that every man, it's going to be ideal for them.
01:33:14.000Like, let's not pretend like men are actively seeking out women with a high body.
01:33:20.000Well, it's 100% a consideration for a lot of men who are like serious about marriage.
01:33:23.000You want to make sure they get it right.
01:33:24.000And then like the message from like evangelical leaders, I'm seeing it all over the timeline.
01:33:28.000Is like, not only is it like you're wrong for thinking that it's like they're basically saying you don't have the right to like desire in Christianity, nobody's beyond redemption.
01:33:39.000And I agree, but it's like, again, it's just the way things work with how broken the dating scene is.
01:33:44.000It's like men have to be a little caught.
01:33:47.000For the record, women should also have the right to want their spouse to like be at least on the same footing as them, the same level of experience.
01:33:53.000Because this doesn't apply to sexuality.
01:33:57.000Education, like you could, it's fair to say you want your spouse like at the same level as you.
01:34:02.000But for some reason, men, for some reason, evangelical leaders are dead set on removing all the consequences of like sexual degradation, sexual degeneracy.
01:34:12.000I don't know why, but they're just so intent on it.
01:34:14.000It's trying to get these promiscuous women wed.
01:34:38.000Evangelicalism in 2026 is just anti-male, fundamentally.
01:34:42.000And it's this, and then you're seeing it where all these pastors are coming out and they're like, the real problem here is actually the men.
01:35:21.000So there's a really funny, I guess, trope where it's like, you ever notice that in the 90s, people who are like 30 looked like they were 50?
01:35:28.000Like on Seinfeld, you're like, those people were 29, 30 years old.
01:36:31.000Young men used to have to go and lift rocks and do work as kids.
01:36:35.000Like women worked at the soda shop and they'd bring in your burger on roller skates and guys would move boxes and lift and break rocks.
01:36:45.000And then you had like that video of the presidential fitness program where the guys are swinging on the monkey bars and they're doing pull-ups.
01:38:31.000This topic that did remind me, and maybe it's the picture, but I um, I used to work for Turning Point, and I know Charlie from like original and helped with fundraising for him.
01:38:40.000And Charlie and I were flying to New York, and he was that night having his first date with Erica.
01:39:20.000I'd not seen a guy just like take a girl out on a date in so long and then do that and then just actually like be so interesting.
01:39:27.000Let's actually hit this one more story.
01:39:28.000I know we're pushing a little late, but let's grab this one from Media Betrayal.
01:39:32.000The Charlie Kirk show utterly disgusted after Joe Kent says he'd testify at alleged assassin's trial.
01:39:38.000Now, Joe Kent has made the claim that he was not allowed to investigate any foreign nexus which may have been involved in the assassination of Charlie Kirk, which, of course, presents a little bit of doubt.
01:39:50.000I'm not saying it's, you know, beyond a reasonable doubt, but the outrage here is that Joe Kent is insinuating there may have been something else involved and they were blocked, which will allow the defense for the alleged Charlie Kirk assassin to say this was not a proper investigation.
01:40:05.000And with this statement already in the public, how can the FBI say that their investigation was thorough and complete and correct if you have the testimony from a counterterrorism director saying they weren't not allowed to investigate?
01:40:17.000That's going to create reasonable doubt for the jury.
01:40:19.000They're going to get this guy found not guilty because at least one or not to mention the amount of jurors that are probably watching a lot of these podcasts and these shows.
01:40:28.000So this is interesting, but I will just say, you know, I haven't seen the evidence.
01:40:33.000You know, we've only seen what's in the public.
01:40:36.000We should be able to see what the evidence is.
01:40:38.000And I think that the official narrative on Tyler Robinson is not correct, but I think Tyler Robinson is likely the person who did it.
01:40:47.000We'll see what the evidence bears out.
01:40:49.000I think Tyler Robinson did not act alone, and there's evidence that other people had foreknowledge of what was going to happen.
01:40:53.000And that is being effectively, and I don't know if cover up is the right word, but you've got people claiming Israel did it, which seems ridiculous because Charlie held a seminar to convince Gen Z to support Israel.
01:41:06.000Like even Nick Fuentes is like, that's crazy.
01:41:08.000Like if Ben Shapiro died, people are going to be like, Israel did it.
01:41:12.000That being said, they are really downplaying all of the evidence suggesting other people were either assisting or involved with this assassination, such as the vehicles outside of Robinson's house, the social media posts from individuals saying something is going to happen.
01:41:26.000They had foreknowledge something was going to happen.
01:41:30.000Well, he's the director of counterterrorism, which, by the way, this is an organization that was founded post-9/11 because there are many people say that if the CIA FBI had actually been coordinating on the intelligence that they have, we could have prevented that attack.
01:41:43.000So that is what his role is to be at the intersection.
01:41:46.000He has access to every single piece of sensitive data that comes through our country from both the FBI and CIA.
01:41:53.000So the idea that Joe Kent, he's saying that they tried to obstruct him.
01:42:11.000And I think that this is pretty outrageous as to what he did.
01:42:14.000And by the way, you were in that role for a year.
01:42:15.000So, what the hell did you do about anything other than run away and then go debate Mark Levin where I learned absolutely nothing and what was the worst like 47 minutes of my life?
01:42:22.000Yeah, and if he's fixated in all this, this indicates why there was so much inaction on like the NT facilities following the Charlie Kirk assassination.
01:42:27.000If he didn't even think it was them that conducted it.
01:42:30.000But if Andrew Clavelt sends you a private text message chain that they want to keep private, and your job is to go investigate that, you have access to literally every single piece of intelligence the United States government has access to.
01:42:41.000And instead, you give it to Candace to say on her podcast.
01:42:43.000So he denied leaking it, but Colvett, and I can corroborate this, said that he said that he gave that text where Charlie said he was he would be being forced to leave the pro-Jewish cause.
01:42:57.000He gave that to Joe Kent, and then sure enough, the next thing you know is it leaks to Candace Owens.
01:43:01.000Joe Kent's denying it, but then it would be Joe Kent gave it to somebody.
01:43:05.000He shared with somebody after he said it needs to be made public.
01:43:08.000What I can say is that I had spoken with guys at TPUSA, including Colvet, and what they're saying now is true.
01:43:16.000That this is my understanding before any of this became public when the text came out, I was told this exact story.
01:43:23.000And so the fact that Joe Kent is now, you know, in the spotlight and Colvet is saying he's the guy that was given it and it got leaked.
01:43:32.000So I don't say anything because if someone tells me to keep things private, I'll be like, okay, because they're like, we don't know who leaked it, but I'm like, yep, I don't know.
01:43:48.000Now, whether he leaked it to Candace Owens, I don't know, but somebody was given it and it got to Candace.
01:43:53.000Now, the problem is the problem with the selective release of a text message like that and what Candace is doing with these texts is that she can just put out whatever message she wants to frame the picture any way she wants.
01:44:02.000And Charlie can't speak up to defend himself or to correct the context.
01:44:06.000And so I just, you see it endlessly where people are like, this proves Charlie was anti-Israel.
01:44:12.000And it's like, yes, but at the same time, like around the same time, he did a seminar with Gen Z to convince them to support Israel.
01:44:22.000And it sounds like to me from these texts that he was basically venting, not that he was saying he was changing his stance, but he was like, man, you know, it very much reminds me of the, oh, won't someone rid me of this meddlesome priest?
01:44:34.000Not a direct statement of, I want him dead, but I'm just so frustrated with these people.
01:44:39.000And then it's taken to be construed as that he was anti-Israel.
01:44:43.000No, he was under a lot of pressure from his donors.
01:44:46.000I was a fundraiser for Charlie, and the pro-Israel donors are very intense.
01:44:51.000They care about one thing, and that is Israel.
01:44:53.000I always joke that there are pro-Israel donors, pro-business donors, and then the like actual ideological ones.
01:46:28.000So I got to tell you, it's demoralizing and it makes it like, why would I want to be involved with any of this insanity?
01:46:36.000Why would I want to be party to the grifter class who are just saying whatever they have to say because they're scared their views are going down?
01:48:37.000I was talking to a guy who does ad sales and he says, you'll notice the Hodge twins on Facebook and the Hodge twins on Twitter have inverted political opinions.
01:48:46.000And what I was told, it's because the marketing company that does the posting does not care about politics.
01:49:17.000Facebook is largely boomers who like Trump.
01:49:19.000X has something else going on, whatever that may be, different audience.
01:49:25.000So all of a sudden, these people, they start shifting what they normally talk about.
01:49:29.000They're talking about geopolitics, talking about taxes, to Erica Kirk's leather pants.
01:49:33.000100,000, 400,000 views, you know, 100,000, 200, 300, 400,000.
01:49:36.000I'm like, why is this guy who used to talk about politics that I actually liked watching and cared about now just complaining that you wore the wrong pants?
01:49:49.000So by all means, we can have a show here where we talk about whether Trump is doing good or Trump is doing bad and be honest about our thoughts on it.
01:49:56.000But that's not what makes the most money.
01:50:32.000That means for every thousand views you get, you'll get $6, $7.
01:50:35.000Not if you're talking about Erica Kirk, you'll get $25.
01:50:37.000That means not only do you get more views, you get more money.
01:50:40.000And the reason you get more views is because YouTube is like, if the RPMs are higher, promote these videos more because we'll make more money off ad sales.
01:50:48.000So who the is advertising intentionally on Google ads targeting Erica Kirk content?
01:51:11.000And if you really want to influence what's going on, you need to be talking about Pete Hegseth or Donald Trump or our Mark Wayne Mullen right now.
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01:52:01.000I will briefly mention that we have this post on X where they're announcing they are now going to RevShare based on your home country to stop foreigners from talking about American politics.
01:57:12.000And that's literally what I do all the time.
01:57:17.000I go out every weekends to various poker rooms, of course.
01:57:21.000And one of the things that I and everybody loves about the poker table is sitting down with usually seven other people because a lot of casino, a lot of poker rooms, they make more money if they do eight Macs instead of nine seaters.
01:57:32.000And then you're sitting with a random group of people and everyone's talking.
01:57:50.000It is very nice, you know, to play with these guys.
01:57:52.000And then you talk and you find that I got to be honest.
01:57:56.000I find that most people I talk to similarly agree with what I've been saying.
01:58:02.000Even the people who are like, I like Trump, like me, I like Trump.
01:58:04.000I think Trump's the best president of my lifetime.
01:58:06.000I think he's had a series of blunders and he's hurting really greatly among moderates.
01:58:11.000I sit down with some young guys, varying ages, old guys, and they all say the same thing.
01:58:15.000Yeah, Trump's a lot better, but man, this is not looking good, and the economy's not doing well, and young men are struggling, and they're frustrated because all of these hoes are getting bailed out by these Christian guys.
02:00:01.000It's got so much juice from the solar panels that it will never run out of power because it's just somewhat.
02:00:05.000And I had actually produced my morning show from it when I was on a road trip to go to Texas to join Joe Rogan.
02:00:12.000And Timcast IRL in real life was going to be, I would do my show from this mobile sleeper van and then pull up somewhere and say, hey, guys, I'm currently in this place.
02:00:25.000Come hang out and we're going to do a real conversation where I put up a table and anybody can come and we can have a conversation about anything.
02:08:02.000When I was working for Fusion, we had discussed like, okay, we should go do some men in the street stuff and talk to people about what's going on politically.
02:08:08.000And we found that every single person we met was actually of moderate intelligence.
02:08:25.000We're talking about like Occupy protests or something or like tax the rich.
02:08:29.000And you'd go to a random person and you'd say something like, you know, you'd ask him a question about modern politics at the time, which 2014, I can't really remember because I wasn't.
02:08:44.000You'd ask them about something like the Supreme Court, and they would just go, you'd get a lot of, well, I wish I was you'd stop like a young woman, and you'd be like, what do you think about the current makeup of the Supreme Court and the ruling Jonathan Obergefell?
02:08:55.000And they would go, which one was that?
02:08:57.000And you go, this is the ruling on gay marriage.
02:08:59.000And they go, oh, yeah, yeah, that's interesting.
02:09:00.000You know, honestly, I haven't followed it enough to give you a fair opinion.
02:09:03.000So I just feel bad if I said something.
02:09:35.000That's actually like unironically kind of a good thing.
02:09:39.000Well, ask yourself about the demand then, because if these people aren't interested in purchasing your product tape, then what are you selling them?
02:09:46.000I think you should be focused more on selling spray tans than the news.
02:12:29.000And so that means the first 15 minutes of Laura Ingram, we got on the TV and she was talking the slowest I've ever seen her talk with just abject disinterest.
02:13:55.000And I don't judge, I don't, I feel like I can't blame people for being misled by them, though, because a lot of the pictures are extremely convincing.
02:14:02.000And if you don't know that the president wouldn't take a picture like this, then I could see somebody thinking like, oh, the president met with one of his supporters and it is just some with her cleavage out in this really odd way.
02:14:25.000Like, I think it's convincing a lot of people online.
02:14:28.000And then it's also hard to differentiate real pictures from AI pics because people are also editing their pictures in weird ways that make them look like AI.
02:14:36.000So it's, you know, I don't know, but I get fed a lot of those pages.
02:14:40.000And it's funny that you've seen them too.
02:14:43.000I mainly just consume like current events and political news.
02:14:46.000I don't really watch TV and I don't watch sports, but I will say the Savannah, Savannah, the Savannah Gunthri, Nancy Guthrie thing, like locked me in.
02:14:54.000And to where my, I had like massive family text with cousins I'm in spot two in seven years and we're all like out here like investigating this woman's kidnapping for like 10 days of my life.
02:15:04.000I lost 10 days of my life just like investigating.
02:16:33.000Knew him on his early part of his relationship with Erica.
02:16:37.000And just, I don't know, I guess what's your reaction to see many people, particularly, though, Candace Owens, slandering her so aggressively?
02:16:46.000I think it makes, I think it's deeply uncomfortable.
02:16:49.000But also, you know, when Erica stepped into that role, I guess you get, you assume some responsibility.
02:16:54.000And I think that they moved too soon on doing that.
02:16:57.000I think that they should have put an actual one like figurehead in charge of the show and like and replaced Charlie with someone.
02:17:04.000I think those are meaningfully different arguments than what Candace Owens is making.
02:17:08.000Candace Owens isn't saying, oh, Erica Kirk took over a turning point too soon.
02:17:12.000She's saying, oh, Erica Kirk was potentially involved in the murder of her husband.
02:17:16.000I don't think Candace has gone that far into say that.
02:17:48.000By the end of it, I'm like, Bridgette is not only a man, but also It's very scary how people are very impressionable and like easily misled, particularly by documentaries that are very selective in what they show you.
02:18:04.000A documentary, a well-put-together documentary could leave out the most things.
02:19:06.000But also, if you think that the country is being marched into World War III, that could potentially lead to 20 million deaths, as we all discussed, then should you even be talking about anything else?
02:19:54.000But Candace, I think it's narcissism and sociopathy.
02:19:57.000I think she likes to be, she wants people staring at her.
02:20:01.000But I do think it's interesting that she's married to a British lord.
02:20:03.000Her lawyers work in a building with federal agents and she's casting doubt on Tyler Robinson, which if he really was a Patsy in a foreign government really did prop him up, then this would be the way you get your Patsy out without going to prison.
02:22:05.000And they're just chasing after this machine.
02:22:09.000Trump is going to lose because of this.
02:22:11.000And when I said this in December, if this is the route that we are going and she is pushing this and she gets followers to track this stuff, we will lose support for the Republican Party.
02:23:49.000If I may start out with my shout-out, I want to shout out the great Seamus Coglin for his return to the internet after two months, two-month disappearance.
02:24:01.000Well, the rumor is, the Reddit rumor is that he was actually in federal lockup for possibly being an accomplice in the Butler assassination attempt.
02:24:30.000I want to talk a little bit about some domestic terrorism and the good old Virginia AG Jay Jones.
02:24:37.000So I doubt anyone's surprise at the rise of Islamic terror attacks at home, given what's happening overseas.
02:24:43.000My concern is the local prosecutors who would charge those patriots that are willing to defend themselves.
02:24:48.000We know the Austin DAs are required by law to present evidence to any police shooting to a grand jury.
02:24:55.000Question for the panel: Do you foresee confessed domestic terrorist Jay Jones taking legal action against the old Dominion ROTC candidates who defended themselves from a jihadist with nothing more than a pocket knife?
02:25:37.000I was just thinking, you know, there's been so much fear-mongering around Jay Jones, and I've been keeping a close eye on him, but I feel like he hasn't.
02:25:44.000I don't know if anything's come up yet so far into his term.
02:27:45.000You know, if we had a hard enough time with the Taliban, we're going to have to have a full-scale occupation of the country with boots on the ground.
02:27:54.000We didn't have a hard time with the Taliban.
02:28:10.000And that's just the main thing that stops us from.
02:28:12.000And I reckon Afghanistan was mainly by design in order to really funnel money into the military-industrial complex.
02:28:18.000It was a sick combination of politics and military action, which just goes to show how powerful our military really is and how capable it is.
02:28:28.000You're not going to have regime change with 90 million people unless you have boots on the ground.
02:28:33.000Fighter jets can't occupy street corners.
02:28:39.000But it can definitely facilitate a revolutionary action.
02:28:47.000We should have done this before the 40,000 people were murdered by the regime.
02:29:34.000No, I haven't been seeing those protests.
02:29:37.000As I understand the president and BB Netanyahu were assuming that there would be like a part two to the protests that just aren't materializing.
02:29:47.000Maybe they're scared of all the fucking bombs flying everywhere.
02:29:50.000Because you saw like, look, you saw like not to go World War II, but like in World War II, we started bombing the Germans because we were like, we're going to demoralize them.
02:29:57.000And all it did was like consolidate support around the, well, the Third Reich was on their last legs.
02:30:02.000And also like they also did this anticipating that like people would come out and protest against the regime.
02:30:08.000But all that happens is people are like, wow, a foreign country is bombing us.
02:30:10.000I guess I'll take the devil I know or the devil I don't know.
02:30:12.000And that's what's happening in Iran is like, again, it was just a miscalculation is they thought that since there were protests occurring, that once we started bombing Iran, that then these protesters are feeling bold and they go and they'd storm the capital and like pull them out like a Disney movie.
02:30:26.000Not only are they not protesting, but there are demonstrations now for pro-regime move, like a pro-regime movement are the ones that are out in the streets of Tehran.
02:30:40.000I think that was the main thing that they were trying to do is they thought that if they just sort of provided some breathing room for the protesters, took the boot off of their neck, that they would go in and then they would do the regime change without us having to get involved.
02:30:51.000And I think that's why we're in this situation we are in now.
02:30:54.000I don't think they were trying to acquire a nuclear weapon.
02:30:56.000I think they just wanted to maintain enriching at 60% and tell people that they were trying to obtain a nuclear weapon because they learned the lesson from Libya.
02:31:04.000Like, look what happened to Gaddafi when you take the nuclear weapons, like the country gets toppled and stuff.
02:31:08.000So that's where I just think that they wanted to maintain a status quo and tell people they were enriching.
02:31:13.000They were like, and just maintain right in there so that they have a lot of regional problems with Saudi Arabia and others.
02:31:18.000And they were never actually going to obtain a bomb or drop it on New York City or any of that.
02:31:23.000And I just don't understand why we couldn't just let that status quo continue.
02:31:30.000Their last opportunity to do it before the boomers die and there'll be no support for any of those operations.
02:31:35.000Look, I think in 20 years, we'll look back on this and say, wow, the president really reinvigorated American hegemony in the Caribbean with Cuba when we eventually invade, which I think is a fargone conclusion at this point, in South America, with Venezuela, and with Iran, which, God willing, will be a democratic ally.
02:31:56.000Because here's the problem, though, is like, look, we already saw today, like, Trump is negotiating.
02:32:00.000Well, JD Vance, apparently, if you believe they're reporting, is like now going to be negotiating directly with the Iranians.
02:32:06.000That means we're going to have to make some concessions.
02:32:07.000The most likely concession is that we pull out of Iraq, like completely.
02:32:36.000We're going to leave the Persian Gulf, but there's a realistic situation in which we just withdraw completely from Iraq, which I think a lot of people in the audience will enjoy.
02:33:39.000So, let me paint a picture for you here.
02:33:42.000Imagine you're a high-ranking military commander in Iran, and you want a more pro-Western government to replace the regime, but you risk being assassinated if you're too public.
02:33:50.000You have control over, let's say, tens of thousands of troops who just want a paycheck.
02:33:54.000How do you start talking to and convince the Israel-U.S. alliance that you are the real deal and have the power to effectiate regime change in Iran?
02:34:02.000Perhaps the alliance suggests hard evidence that you can do what you say you can do.
02:34:06.000So, you suggest firing some missiles that aren't supposed to exist, that have a range twice than what everybody knows you have, capable of hitting London.
02:34:14.000So, Trump suggests they, you know, that they knew they were speaking to the right people based on things that have happened, but he didn't say what that was.
02:34:21.000And that was shortly after those missiles were fired at the UK Diego Garcia base.
02:34:25.000So, my question to the panel is: yes or no?
02:34:28.000Were these missiles that were fired a signal that Mossad or pro-Western actors in control of large enough segments of Iran are in a position that can help affect regime change?
02:34:39.000Are you saying that these missiles were fired because Trump was like, prove it?
02:35:48.000So I don't believe that they're getting commands from the top and organizing in a meaningful way strategically with one another.
02:35:55.000So if anything, I think it was a small segment of whatever command group that had access to these weapons that just said, F it, let's try to get a hit on them.
02:36:04.000I think the reason for them not actually being able to hit the island is because their weapons suck, not because this was like sort of a like, yeah, we're in power or we have some influence here.
02:36:15.000So if that kind of makes sense, I don't think there's like a really good plausible deniability for the people in the regime, but how does that explain what Trump said?
02:36:22.000We're talking to the right people because of things that have happened that we've seen.
02:36:27.000Well, I think what he said, who they're talking to is the like basically the head of the parliament there.
02:36:32.000But the problem with the military or how to deal with this in a regime, and this was the same thing with Venezuela, is what they do is they decentralize their military very much.
02:36:50.000That way, if that military leader gets struck, someone else just comes in and replaces them.
02:36:53.000And also, you can't organize a military coup, most importantly.
02:36:56.000It is very difficult to start a coup when you have a decentralized military system like they had in Venezuela, like what they have in Iran.
02:37:03.000And so, to your question of like, if you control 10,000, then I don't think I would step up if I'm in Iran because your head would get chopped off.
02:37:11.000And then probably all 10,000 of the soldiers that followed you, which I only think a few heads would also be chopped off.
02:37:17.000And so that's why they killed the Ayatollah.
02:37:20.000But I think it's going to be a harder mission than just that.
02:37:56.000The Beaver Day was the greatest thing I've ever seen in my life.
02:37:59.000Also, the killing of Hassan Nasrallah, also the Hamas commander that was killed in Iran before even the 12-day war started.
02:38:07.000Israel's become extremely effective at these targeted assassinations.
02:38:11.000One thing I was curious about, too, is why we're not doing any of the targeted assassinations.
02:38:16.000And why is it that Israel gets to kill the Ayatollah instead of us?
02:38:20.000Because I think that Israel's willing to take the backlash, which is horrified scary.
02:38:24.000But if you're the one who actually said, and so for the United States, that's why we try to distance ourselves.
02:38:28.000But the idea that Trump doesn't know, like he does know what's going on, but Israel is literally willing to be martyrs in this type of fight.
02:38:34.000I mean, this is the war that they know they've been have to have.
02:38:39.000And I think they actually are the ones who fire the weapon and stuff.
02:38:42.000But especially those weapons they have where the hum just go around and went literally into someone's apartment window and killed them and left the whole apartment building intact is the most amazing thing I've ever seen.
02:38:53.000There's good reason to believe that Mossad has deeply infiltrated Iran Islamic regime over there.
02:38:59.000Deeply, deeply to uh they had someone in the very inner circle that they knew about that meeting like taking place that day at the Ayatollah side.
02:39:14.000Well, these leaders are getting assassinated left and right.
02:39:16.000So there's there's military promotions happening quick.
02:39:19.000So you can bet those low-level Mossad agents are getting promoted into high-level positions.
02:39:23.000At the end of the day, I really think all of the leadership is going to be Mossad.
02:39:26.000And James O'Keefe is going to dress up as the Ayatollah and be the new supreme leader and take off his next Ayatollah was just a Mossad agent.
02:39:34.000That's who they're waiting to bump up, where it's eventually just like this agent that bubbled up.
02:40:32.000Can we stop pretending and just say it out loud?
02:40:35.000The Senate under the spineless fuck, John Zoon, is the most pathetic, flawless, Olympic failure of an entire history of the United States at this point.
02:40:46.000Why are we barreling towards another midterm ass whooping, staring down at another lame duck session of President Trump?
02:40:54.000And we're just getting blushed down the toilet because they're bubbling at this point are still bent over, eagerly sucking off the Democrat cock.
02:41:35.000Well, because nobody wants to know who voted for who because we all want to sit here every ICO and say, oh man, there was cheating involved.
02:43:37.000Do you know like how much bandwidth Horowitz got out of like 15 years ago going to like the Bronx and asking black people about IDs and then going to that college campus?
02:43:44.000And everyone cites it on every podcast for 15 years.
02:43:48.000Like, bro, can we do this video again and see if they've learned?
02:43:59.000I mean, man on the street interviews with mommy Horowitz have ruined it for everyone else.
02:44:04.000Tim, you talked about you had to go out for four hours and you barely got one or two people that might have passed muster on being dumb enough.
02:44:34.000I bet, I bet most of the people would be would most of the people are going to say something like, oh, yeah, yeah, I heard about the Iran strikes, but to be honest, I'm not well versed in it, so I wouldn't have a good answer for you.