The government is spending tens of millions of dollars per person on a ton of liberal media outlets, and the media is trying to figure out if it's fake news or something else. Plus, the government shuts down USAID, a government agency at the center of a lot of big breaking news.
00:00:20.000So it all started when news broke that Politico, a news outlet, didn't pay their employees.
00:00:26.000And everyone started wondering what could be going on in the world where Politico, a large news organization that is considered considered to not like Donald Trump.
00:00:35.000How are they not paying their employees?
00:00:37.000And so people immediately started looking up government spending on Politico and found eight million dollars.
00:00:42.000Actually, the number is much higher if you go back further years.
00:00:44.000This led to some people tweeting that USAID, a government agency at the center of a lot of big breaking news, was funding Politico.
00:00:54.000What was actually uncovered is that the government is spending thousands of dollars per person on insane, nonsensical subscriptions to a ton of different media outlets.
00:01:05.000Some people are pointing at Thomson Reuters, the AP, the New York Times, Politico.
00:01:41.000It's only because of the actions of Doge and what we're seeing that people actually started digging into how the government is spending money on liberal media outlets.
00:01:50.000And they're spending tens of millions of dollars.
00:01:53.000In one instance, I think I found like the Department of Fish and Wildlife Service or whatever it's called was spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on the New York Times.
00:02:23.000Donald Trump also signed an executive order banning men from women's sports.
00:02:27.000And, of course, a lot of people are losing their minds over that one.
00:02:30.000We had CBS release to the FCC the full, unredacted, raw interview with Kamala Harris.
00:02:37.000I can't believe people actually watched it, but they did, and they found that there were some alterations, which is very interesting and may impact Donald Trump's lawsuit.
00:02:43.000So we're going to talk about all of this stuff, my friends, and we're going to break down the scandal here and how the government is funding the liberal press.
00:02:51.000Before we get started, of course, head over to CassBrew.com and buy coffee.
00:02:54.000Unfortunately, you can't buy Ian's Graphene Dream.
00:04:46.000But the thing about the future and how we sit around, we kind of predict what's happening, is we're also creating what's happening.
00:04:51.000The way that people are, you know, if you study, like, neuro-linguistic programming, the way that people are just ready to, like, do what you say is going to happen, it's pretty wild.
00:05:13.000And I just want to mention yesterday what happened for many people who aren't familiar.
00:05:18.000I did address this on my – I did a morning live show over at YouTube.com slash TimCastNews.
00:05:22.000So we're all sitting here having a good old time, and we were about 20 minutes until the show started.
00:05:29.000I'm not going to get into too much personal information.
00:05:31.000All that I will say is – I am a recently married man with a child on the way, and we are about a month out from that child, which means don't be surprised if 10 minutes before the show we have everything set up perfectly with my face smiling in the thumbnail, and then it's Phil instead.
00:05:47.000Because when the wife comes a-knocking, we're out the door, no questions asked.
00:06:51.000We've had days where, like, there was a glitch in the payroll system because everybody uses a lot of the same companies, and it's no big deal, and then within a few hours it's resolved.
00:06:59.000However, people then started digging in being like, is Elon Musk gutting funding that took money away from Politico?
00:07:05.000Because there was a question being asked.
00:07:07.000How is it that Politico, of limited audience and consequence, is able to fund such a massive operation?
00:07:16.000We here at Timcast rely on you guys to become members.
00:07:20.000And then if we do ad reads, we don't really, but becoming members funds all of this, and it's not easy, and we're limited, and we don't have nearly the size and staff of Politico.
00:07:43.000That came from, it was a purchase order.
00:07:46.000And it's from the Department of the Interior National Park Service from September of 2021 until September of 2025. A four-year purchase totaling $862,000.
00:08:02.000This one coming from the Department of Interior U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from June of 2022 until June of 2026. Another four-year deal.
00:08:41.000Doge targets government media subscriptions after MAGA attacks, and they mention the New York Times, AP, Reuters are getting exorbitant amounts of money for products and subscriptions from the government.
00:08:53.000So my question as we kick off this conversation to the panel, for what purpose?
00:09:07.000Well, we were talking before the show.
00:09:09.000There was something like they were saying that Politico Pro or like these...
00:09:13.000Politico has this government service where it kind of acts like Bloomberg terminals do for people in the investment banking world or whatever, and it allows them to see things with this proprietary software.
00:09:27.000So it'd be like paying any other sort of contractor, like the way the government pays Palantir for their proprietary software that tells them logistical stuff.
00:09:40.000Politico has – my understanding is from a government tier.
00:09:44.000They have a specific subscription for the government for like $2,750.
00:09:49.000And then they have this like Premier Plus Pro thing or whatever that might be I think like $15,000.
00:09:54.000And so they're – is this an intelligence agency?
00:10:01.000Are these media companies effectively – Well, so far I haven't really seen in any of the articles like an explanation of exactly what the government's paying them to do with this sort of stuff.
00:10:38.000So they're getting just shy of a million bucks a year from the government, from government subscriptions, which it's still I mean, it's impactful.
00:10:45.000And in their lifetime, I think someone posted that they like 34 million in their lifetime.
00:10:49.000So, hey, man, I'd love to get a million bucks a year from exorbitant government subscriptions.
00:10:54.000How about we launch Timcast Trump Pro, where it's $5,000 per subscription, They would call it money laundering immediately.
00:11:17.000They say, like many international development organizations, BBC media action has been affected by the temporary pause in US government funding, which amounts to about 8% of our income in 2023-24.
00:11:27.000We're doing everything we can to minimize the impact on our partners.
00:11:45.000USAID to do the vast majority of the things that I've heard about.
00:11:50.000Maybe there are other programs that USAID has that are legitimate, that actually do benefit the United States when it comes to foreign policy, but all of the stuff that I've heard being discovered by Doge or whatever, it's all garbage.
00:12:09.000A significant portion of it is money being used for one political agenda.
00:12:15.000That's the American taxpayers' money being used to promote one political agenda that a lot of Americans are in complete opposition to.
00:12:25.000So that right there alone is enough reason for me to say cut them as deeply as we can.
00:12:34.000Make as many significant cuts as possible.
00:12:39.000And people that are screaming and crying against this, they're all from one side.
00:12:44.000You don't hear, I haven't heard any Republicans or conservatives making significant protests about this, but the left, they're literally out in the streets, out in front of Congress, out in front of, well, I was out in front of Congress the other day, screaming at the top of their lungs, threatening to use lawfare, threatening to shut the Senate down.
00:13:05.000All because these are the projects that the left likes because they promote the left's ideology.
00:13:11.000And to keep it, because it's not just left and right, and Mike Benz made this observation.
00:13:16.000He's been doing a lot of research on USAID. If Bernie Sanders had won in 2016, USAID would be funding anti-Bernie Sanders stuff.
00:13:24.000They're anti-populist because the populism is a threat to the control of the empire.
00:13:28.000I disagree because Bernie Sanders has been...
00:13:31.000But they were anti-Bernie Sanders the whole time.
00:13:33.000Bernie Sanders at the time was getting attacked relentlessly by the establishment press, and the DNC colluded to shut him out.
00:13:41.000However, Bernie Sanders, he figured out who butters his bread, and, you know, he likes his vacation houses, and he likes being the largest recipient of Big Pharma dollars, and so he got in line.
00:13:52.000Yeah, I disagree that they would actually have gone after Bernie.
00:13:56.000Bernie is one of the biggest cowards in the Senate, and he would have laid down as...
00:14:31.000Much softer on it if it's for their guy or for people that have their political ideology.
00:14:36.000As far as the government funding for these different news organizations goes, I think the most forgiving explanation is that these are essentially a subsidy to different news organizations because the business of news is actually extremely difficult and it's extremely difficult to maintain a successful news business and people turn over and get out of the business a lot and it's within the government's interest to have a vibrant media space and then I'm sure they benefit from good coverage.
00:15:01.000Back and forth from the people kind of lining their pockets.
00:15:03.000But they could argue that we have an interest in a vibrant media covering what's going on in our country in an effective manner.
00:15:31.000How come the law enforcement that's being fair and democratic is only after going Trump supporters and J6ers and it's not going after Antifa?
00:15:37.000And when it comes to the funding, it's always just these big liberal media outlets.
00:16:46.000He's got a staff of 130. He's like, you know, we hear a lot of news have been fighting the good fight and we got all these people here.
00:16:52.000And then all of a sudden, CIA knocks on the door and says, we'd like to have a meeting with you.
00:16:56.000And then they slide over a piece of paper that shows 50,000 of his subscribers are actually government employees that are buying a premium plus plan.
00:18:21.000That's the meme, at least, that if you actually are going to break down a big story that's going to expose the government, they won't let you do it.
00:18:28.000And so I think for a lot of these companies, there's the mockingbird argument that the feds have been deeply involved in spreading propaganda intentionally.
00:18:40.000Look, they want plausible deniability.
00:18:43.000That's why the way it works is they're going to buy premium subscriptions to the tune of a million bucks a year or whatever.
00:18:51.000That's going to fund a lot of employees.
00:18:54.000With $860,000, how many people can you hire?
00:18:58.000You can hire a bunch of low-level staff at $48,000.
00:19:02.000Maybe you can hire a handful of staff at 100, maybe a couple of high-profile journalists for 200, and they're going to report what you tell them to report, and that money is coming from government subscriptions.
00:19:12.000But again, what percentage of Politico's revenue is actually government funding?
00:20:39.000I think that was actually one of the issues of contention with the story is that they don't actually run a lot of ads if you go to their website.
00:21:05.000I have an honest question about, say, the BBC and other foreign media outlets that report on the U.S. influence U.S. reporting or otherwise, and USAID accounting for 8% of the BBC's annual budget is insane.
00:21:33.000Everyone that buys a television has a license to have a television in the UK. It's a meme.
00:21:40.000Do you have a license for that TV? So part of this revenue of Politico, they got bought by Axel Springer for over a billion dollars in 2021. And I think that they're calculating that billion into their revenue over X amount of years.
00:22:15.000I do not see a reality, and that's just me, and maybe I'm crazy, where Politico is able to generate hundreds of millions of dollars per year off subscriptions.
00:23:05.000In that way, they don't need to depend on subscriptions, although I'm sure the New York Times enjoys getting them.
00:23:10.000And the Washington Post doesn't need to worry about ever actually going bankrupt because they could stay in the red, but Jeff Bezos will fund them indefinitely.
00:23:18.000So the shift in the way media is as a business will affect the coverage.
00:23:23.000Also something to consider are local news stations and these smaller local news areas where they don't get any business and are completely driven based off of ad revenue and wouldn't be able to exist.
00:23:37.000Well, they're also not so small and independent.
00:23:41.000Isn't it Sinclair that owns a lot of these local stations and stuff?
00:23:46.000But the thing is, because they can't make money is why they will get bought out and be further consolidated into Sinclair.
00:23:52.000So the whole business behind media is completely in disarray.
00:23:57.000This whole subscription business model has only been a thing for the past decade.
00:24:17.000The question then becomes, if we are bigger than Politico, how are we not doing $200 million a year?
00:24:26.000Look, man, I've got to launch this Timcast Pro $13,000 a month subscription plan and offer people something I can't imagine how that is considered acceptable.
00:24:52.000Let's jump to this next story, which is still related.
00:24:54.000Take a look at this from The Dispatch.
00:24:56.000No, Politico did not receive substantial funds from USAID. Various government agencies have purchased subscriptions to its publication since 2016. The funny thing about these fact checks on this story is that it is fair to say that Kyle Becker and Benny Johnson got this one largely wrong by claiming that USAID was providing $8 million.
00:25:16.000But I love how they then say the claims are false.
00:25:20.000According to USAspending.gov, an official source for U.S. government expenditure data and the resource used by Becker in his post, Politico received 8.2 million total payments from government departments and agencies between fiscal year 2016 and 2025. Okay.
00:25:33.000Well, so they are receiving government funds.
00:25:36.000But it is a fair question that Nonspro brings up in what is their total revenue and will this actually affect their bottom line?
00:25:42.000That being said, however, quid pro quo, if the government is spending a million bucks a year, a little bit more, On premium subscriptions, is that going to someone's pocket?
00:25:57.000Look, I'm sorry, like, on the ground, independent media, you go to anybody in the space and say, do you think if you offered up $13,000 subscriptions that would make sense for anybody?
00:26:09.000We offer up proprietary technology or whatever.
00:26:12.000The question then becomes, why is a news organization fronting for an intelligence technology operation?
00:26:19.000I want to know how much money the U.S. government gives Axel Springer, the owner.
00:26:23.000So basically, they're a German company that owns Politico.
00:26:25.000Politico is now a German company, just so you know.
00:26:27.000It's headquartered in Berlin, is where Axel Springer is.
00:26:29.000And I wonder if they're in bed with the military, industrial, the liberal economic order.
00:26:34.000You know, it's in Germany, which is basically one of the European capital of the liberal economic order next to Britain.
00:26:40.000But I'm wondering if they've broken that, Axel Springer.
00:26:43.000If you search for Axel Springer and you can see how much donations or purchases have been made by government agencies to Axel Springer SE, which is the name of the corporation.
00:26:52.000It's interesting that they use the substantial funds language here because, yeah, it's $44,000 and then eight...
00:26:59.000.1 million in that period of time from just government agencies in general.
00:27:04.000But just for BBC, as you were covering earlier, just straight from USAID, I guess not even from government agencies altogether.
00:27:12.0008% of all their revenue was just from USAID. So it's interesting.
00:27:17.000The substantial funds were going to the BBC, but not...
00:27:21.000Yeah, well, it's the term substantial funds is relative.
00:27:24.000Well, I mean, if you're talking about...
00:29:07.000Now that the lid's blown off of USAID. I mean, again, I don't think the problem or I think who owns the company is less impactful than their actual connection to the DNC or to the administration, the actual government.
00:29:24.000Because it's whoever's running Politico, whoever's actually in charge of that, having the access to people in the Democrat Party and Putting out essentially what is official, you know...
00:29:39.000Press releases that are written by the government or that are approved by the government.
00:30:09.000The BBC Media Action, which is an NGO, is what's receiving 8% of their income from USAID. It says, as the BBC's international charity, we're completely separate from BBC News, literally in their statement.
00:30:22.000Wholly reliant on our donors and supporters to carry out our work.
00:30:25.000And you've got to remember, when it comes to these global corporations, they're great at naming things to obfuscate.
00:30:31.000Put a name in a name and another thing with the same name with a slightly different thing that means something else or they'll call it something completely unrelated and that's who's really in control is this umbrella corp that's called like Official Strategies LLC. Remember the Panama Papers?
00:31:02.000Let's just pause and take a big step back from whatever this story is and respect the point that we don't know the total revenue of these companies.
00:31:09.000Maybe they're much bigger and better at this than we think.
00:31:10.000I know the New York Times makes a lot of money.
00:32:19.000It's the one hand washes the other, right?
00:32:22.000So these companies, like Politico, is getting money from the federal government via USAID. And so Politico then writes stories that are complimentary.
00:32:34.000They're literally paying Politico through USAID to write good stories about them.
00:32:40.000And it doesn't matter if they're paying them a substantial amount of their cost of operation or if they're just paying them a million dollars a year and the top four or the top five people that work there are taking 200 grand each.
00:33:12.000Here's the thing that I think we're overlooking, guys.
00:33:14.000I'm reading into Political Pro, and here it says, Political Pro users are able to quickly get an AI-generated summary of federal bills, rapid access to critical legislature coming out, and different articles.
00:33:27.000So if you put AI into anything, any part of your business, you will immediately double or quadruple the value of your company.
00:33:35.000So that's what you need in your company here at Timcast.
00:33:37.000Timcast does AI. Everything that we're saying was scripted by AI. You could build an AI that's you, that answers people's questions, and then you'd have 50,000 people buy that.
00:33:58.000So I don't think their government income is substantial, but I still think the issue at play is the media is freaking out that we're talking about cutting government waste.
00:34:07.000And having government employees spending millions of dollars on these subscriptions at high costs to various media organizations, that shouldn't be happening.
00:35:22.000He's like, he says USAID. So you're saying it's been reported as the case.
00:35:25.000The National Endowment for Democracy is probably the next one that's going to be the next USAID. Lid blown off, like, oh my god, what are they doing?
00:35:33.000These are like the boots on the ground, according to Mike Benz.
00:35:36.000Well, there was an anti-Elon Musk and anti-Doge protest today in Washington, D.C., outside of the Department of Labor.
00:35:43.000I think there's allegedly supposed to be, it's been reported that there's going to be a meeting tomorrow with people inside the Department of Labor and people at Doge.
00:35:50.000So they are seeing cuts left and right, and I'm not surprised to see any given day what department that the Doge team or the Trump team might decide to cut up.
00:35:58.000Let's jump to this story from Fortune.
00:36:13.000Well, here's a tweet from Shelby Talcott.
00:36:15.000The number of deferred resignations has risen to over 40,000 ahead of tomorrow's deadline.
00:36:22.000A source familiar with the situation tells me the number is still expected to grow.
00:36:26.000For those that don't know the story, Donald Trump said to all of the federal employees, How would you like to get an eight-month paid vacation with full benefits?
00:36:34.000Just submit a response to this email saying, resign, and then you will not have to come into work, and you will get paid in full with benefits until September 30th.
00:36:45.000The number is now at 40,000, and there's a bunch of Democrats saying it's a coup, saying it's illegal.
00:37:25.000Because the way this happened is an email got sent out en masse to the various employees that this would apply to.
00:37:31.000And the title of the email was A Fork in the Road, which if people remember, it's the same email that went out to all these ex-employees at the time to give them their severance and said, hey, you can stay with us or you can take this severance.
00:37:44.000It's a generous severance package and leave if you don't want to go hardcore or whatever.
00:37:49.000So in this case, they're doing an eight-month severance.
00:37:52.000I guess there's something in the law where they can do that through executive action any longer.
00:37:56.000I think Elon wanted to do like two years initially, but that would require an act of Congress, so that's why they're doing this eight-month thing.
00:38:36.000If you've been working for the federal government for 19 years and you're like, oh, I could get that 20-year pension once I hit that 20-year mark, you're going to want to be like, I want to hit that 20 years because that's actually more money than eight months of severance.
00:38:50.000I don't know if people have made, if they've been made aware of this, but like taking the offer might be the best option because...
00:38:58.000Doge may just come and get rid of their jobs after.
00:39:00.000If they don't take this option, Doge might come after them.
00:39:08.000The idea that this is some kind of horrible development for America, that it's a coup or any of that stuff, it's literally just trying to streamline the government.
00:39:20.000That's all that they're doing is trying to make cuts, which any functioning business does.
00:39:50.000It shouldn't be just one time that Doge comes in.
00:39:54.000There should be, every year, there should be audits that you have to pass, that you have to show where all of the money that you're spending goes.
00:40:04.000This should be the most normal, mundane thing in the world.
00:40:07.000And the fact that the left is apoplectic about it and trying to make it seem as if it's an attack on...
00:40:16.000You know, average people when average people are not going to be significantly affected by these things.
00:40:22.000In my opinion, it shows that they're the people that are going to lose because these programs are slush funds for the left and for their agenda.
00:40:30.000The more government that you have, the better the left likes it.
00:40:35.000Yeah, the Democrats are making a huge mistake by hitching their wagon to this, like, USAID cause, because the only people who are at these protests or care about USAID for the most part in the United States are people who live maybe within, like, a two-mile radius of Washington, D.C. It doesn't make any sense.
00:40:51.000People like Axelrod, David Axelrod, and even—what's his name?
00:40:55.000Who's that Democrat strategist that looks like a naked mole rat?
00:40:57.000He also says, like, they're making a mistake by, like, putting all their political capital— Democrats are making a huge mistake by standing up for this instead of the things that really matter, like the Medicaid.
00:41:10.000Especially when you can show that these programs, when you can tie to it like the gender-affirming care in Guatemala or trans people in blah, blah, blah in some foreign country.
00:41:22.000When you're sending millions of dollars, which granted, a million dollars when it comes to the federal budget is nothing, but to the average American, a million dollars is a lot of money.
00:41:33.000If they got a million dollars, it would change their life.
00:41:35.000So when you can tie a million dollars to this stupid program, a million dollars to this stupid program, and then not only that, it's all stuff that's all like quote-unquote woke and things that normal people are like, I'm not okay with that.
00:41:51.000When you can put those things together, you have a recipe for the worst PR imaginable.
00:41:59.000And the Democrats are walking right into it.
00:42:01.000I think the most amazing thing here is how fast Trump is making all of these moves, and it really has the left in disarray.
00:42:07.000So in a different season, when Trump was reinvigorating ICE and talking about these mass deportations, that would have led to a whole social movement, and Trump wouldn't have been able to do stuff for a month.
00:42:18.000But here he signs that the left isn't even able to organize around it.
00:42:23.000One day he's talking about taking over Greenland and the Panama Canal.
00:42:26.000You could have seen a whole round of protests against that, but since he's moving so quickly...
00:42:31.000This USAID stuff, so quickly they can't get a response.
00:42:34.000He said he's withdrawing from UNRWA and withdrawing the UN. The U.S. from the Human Rights Council, all of these moves, talking about taking over Gaza, that it really has all of the left in disarray, the speed that he's able to go through all this stuff and accomplish so much.
00:44:51.000In this country, like based on what you're saying, we believe that good men of honor and integrity who are trying to get to the truth should be able to make those arguments.
00:44:59.000But then the issue is there's rules in court.
00:45:01.000There's rules to how you can argue or present a case.
00:45:07.000If you file this paper and get this permit, when does it got to be submitted to this office?
00:45:10.000And if you don't know those things, you're going to lose.
00:45:13.000A person representing themself, that's why they have a fool for a client, as the saying goes, because they're going to walk in and be like, I'm honest, I have the truth on my side, and I'll tell people the truth, and then the lawyer's going to say, Your Honor, based on this reason and that reason, strike that from the record.
00:45:26.000And then the judge is going to be like, your evidence is out, and you're like, wait, why?
00:45:29.000But with a good artificial intelligence program that will guide you through the process and let you avoid all those pitfalls, you may be on par with the people that went to school for eight years for it.
00:45:39.000You'll be in prison, and you'll have a cellmate, and they'll be like, what are you in for?
00:45:42.000And you'll be like, honestly, I... I didn't do anything, nor was I arrested.
00:45:44.000But the AI made a miscalculation on my name and put me instead of the other guy who was also named Tim Pool in prison.
00:45:58.000I think we're being sold a false bill of goods.
00:46:00.000And the market evaluation boom that we've been seeing off of the marketing of AI, it doesn't hold water in any way.
00:46:09.000People talk about the applications of AI. I don't think we're going to see.
00:46:13.000I think we've been sold false technological advances in the past that haven't panned out, and we're just being sold more and more of them now.
00:46:21.000I think the chatbots that we see now are wrong half of the time.
00:48:53.000An edge case will be, for example, if a leaf falls the exact way or there's like a strange object in the street that it doesn't know if it's like a shadow because it's working purely on vision because Tesla only does vision.
00:49:07.000They don't do LIDAR. With just a vision, and it doesn't have any gimbals so it can move around and stuff, it's hard for it to completely identify objects the same way humans can in edge cases.
00:49:52.000And there are going to be edge cases and stuff like that.
00:49:54.000AI is the technology that people say that.
00:49:57.000So, Phil, I don't think that the AI that we're being marketed right now justifies the doubling, tripling, quadrupling of a lot of tech stocks that we're seeing right now in the stock market, is my point.
00:51:04.000Okay, well, I didn't mention that specifically.
00:51:06.000I'm talking about, you know, maybe three-fourths of the stock market that is, you know, booming because of these AI chips.
00:51:13.000But these chatbots are wrong half of the time, and these evaluations aren't justified.
00:51:18.000And I think we'll be seeing the consequences of that.
00:51:19.000I wanted to kind of wrap back into the end of this talk about Elon and Doge because I think people's fear, this terror...
00:51:25.000What's going to happen is this unelected bureaucrat has been appointed into office and he's going to be able to go into an agency and fire people without any congressional authority.
00:54:51.000And they were doing this segment called Is It Legal?
00:54:54.000And they kept saying things that Elon or Trump had done.
00:54:57.000And then this guy is increasingly with books and messy glasses going, I don't know if it's legal.
00:55:03.000And I just want to clarify something for you, Ian.
00:55:05.000And I want to clarify something for everyone listening.
00:55:08.000The question is not supposed to be, is it legal?
00:55:11.000The question you need to answer that has no bearing on what we do or want is, is it illegal?
00:55:18.000Because the reality is we do not operate in this country upon fear of something not being legal.
00:55:24.000If it is not explicitly illegal, you can do it.
00:55:27.000If it is codified in law that is illegal to do or unlawful, then you cannot.
00:55:32.000So when Elon Musk does things and they're not codified in law as crimes or unethical or anything like that, asking the question, is it legal, is a waste of our time and is imposing upon free American individuals.
00:55:47.000Some kind of responsibility to the government to check with them if we're allowed to take actions.
00:56:16.000So the executive order that Trump created Doge with, it mandates that Doge has an administrator that reports to the White House chief of staff.
00:56:26.000And I don't know who that administrator is.
00:56:28.000In order for this organization to function, it needs an administrator.
00:56:31.000I suppose it would just default to the president until he appoints one.
00:56:47.000Because that's the process of our government.
00:56:48.000If you're going to, through executive order, create an agency that says you need an administrator, but then you never appoint one, what the hell is going on?
00:56:55.000Where does it say you need an administrator for that?
00:56:56.000It says it in the executive order in section 2, 3B? Read down.
00:57:01.000It's section 2. It's in section 2 of the executive order.
00:57:23.000The U.S. Digital Service, despite its name, is not a budgeted part of the U.S. government, which requires approval from the United States Congress.
00:57:37.000So that means it's operating under only executive order so Trump can literally do what he wants as the executive.
00:57:41.000Well, he signed the executive order that it says the establishment of a temporary organization that shall there should be a U.S. Doge Services administrator established in the executive office of the president shall report to the White House chief of staff that section 3B of the executive order.
00:57:55.000You would feel more comfortable if he did another executive order saying, OK, we don't need an administrator.
00:57:59.000Or if he appointed someone as the administrator publicly.
00:58:01.000This is this is I got to be honest, you're arguing like.
00:58:06.000The door is supposed to be locked, but you have a deadbolt.
00:58:22.000I think the arguments against Elon Musk is that he has many interests that the government is also involved in, and there's a conflict of interest there.
00:58:31.000He also has many business interests abroad.
00:58:33.000So, for example, he has SpaceX here, obviously Tesla here.
00:58:36.000He also has mega Tesla factories in China.
00:58:39.000So these are conflicts of interest down the line that could be an issue.
00:58:47.000But there are credible arguments that this is a conflict of interest.
00:58:49.000The concern is that if the president by executive order sets up a department that oversees tech companies, and then they hire a special government employee that happens to be the CEO of a tech company to oversee that organization that oversees tech companies while he's still the CEO of a tech company, you've got a big conflict of interest.
00:59:07.000Well, what if Xi Jinping just starts penalizing Elon Musk's mega factories in China?
00:59:13.000You know, then Elon Musk will feel the pain and he would, you know, hypothetically try to get Trump to work with them to stop, you know, penalizing him in China.
00:59:23.000The issue with Elon Musk is that he has many business interests, domestic and abroad, that could potentially influence his thinking when talking to Trump.
00:59:31.000So, for example, in China, he has many mega Tesla factories.
00:59:34.000And if Xi Jinping wanted to penalize Elon Musk, he could hypothetically make it harder for him to do business in these factories.
00:59:39.000And that could influence the way Elon Musk would try to get Trump to negotiate on Xi Jinping with...
00:59:49.000Yeah, but I don't know if that hit the Tesla stuff.
00:59:51.000Because Tesla doesn't really import from their factories.
00:59:55.000Beyond the international stuff, even domestically, Elon Musk has a lot of business interests with SpaceX, where he has to work closely with the government.
01:00:01.000So the argument would be that having a close advisor who has so many interests with the government could be a conflict of interest.
01:00:08.000Yeah, it doesn't mean that it's illegal.
01:00:09.000No, not illegal, but it's a conflict of interest.
01:00:35.000Activist organizations around the world that are being funded to the tune of massive amounts of money.
01:00:39.000And so when I see Elon Musk going and be like, hey guys, did you realize they just gave like $8 million over the past, you know, $3 million a year to this news organization for bloated subscriptions?
01:00:47.000I go, oh wow, why are we wasting that money?
01:00:49.000I don't care if it's a substantial portion of the revenue of that company.
01:00:52.000I just think I'd rather give all of that $8 million to a single 9-11 first responder in need of help.
01:01:00.000That instead of spending $30 million or whatever the number is in various media subscriptions, we just give that to one first responder or one veteran.
01:01:07.000I think that's just a better use of our time.
01:01:37.000There's one where it's spreading atheism in Pakistan, I think, or something like that.
01:01:41.000There was one where it was doing gender-themed plays in Peru or something.
01:01:47.000So when Elon's like, hey, this is $40 million of your money going to these programs, I go, that's a really big problem.
01:01:57.000And then with all due respect, you come and say, but is Elon allowed to point this out?
01:02:01.000And I'm like, well, Trump could point it out, but Trump asked Elon to do it.
01:02:04.000So I really don't care about the nuance or the granular bureaucratic debate of how do we, through the parliamentarian process, formalize Elon Musk when not even Democrats care about that.
01:02:16.000There are times when I think that We talked about this last night, that breaking the law is the only way to move forward, like suspension of habeas corpus after the Civil War.
01:02:24.000They just dispensed with the Constitution and were like, we're just going to do what we need to do to establish order.
01:02:39.000I don't know the specifics, but I know that they dispensed with the Constitution for a short period of time.
01:02:43.000The suspension of habeas corpus was a corridor between D.C. and Pennsylvania, specifically because Maryland was a slave state, and they needed access to D.C., and they were concerned that the sympathies of Maryland would interfere with their ability to move troops to protect D.C. So they said from this corridor, from here to down here, in this area, don't mess with the U.S. We are at war.
01:03:04.000And there was an instance where a random guy got locked up.
01:03:06.000And he refused to play ball and they held them until the war was over and let him go.
01:03:09.000There was an instance where they went and arrested a bunch of the state representatives from Maryland for having Southern sympathies.
01:03:16.000These things, I don't feel, were good.
01:03:18.000And I don't know that we have evidence that doing that actually improved the efforts.
01:03:23.000To be fair, you can say the U.S. government is securing this corridor under martial law.
01:03:30.000But the argument that the general suspension of habeas corpus was a good thing that needed to happen, I don't know that that's true.
01:03:35.000And in this situation, if people, if they feel like, look, we have been subjugated by a business class, by bureaucracy since 1913, the Federal Reserve, these bureaucrats have taken over our country.
01:03:45.000We need to suspend some sort of metaphorical habeas corpus to get our country back.
01:03:49.000I mean, and they're willing to break the law.
01:03:52.000The jury's out on whether or not that's a good thing because it's the first step on a slippery slope.
01:03:57.000If you do it now, you think the next president's not going to do it?
01:04:06.000We have long maintained this position of, but guys, the Democrats are doing bad thing, and if we try to stop them, then what happens if later on someone else uses the powers we created to do bad thing as well?
01:04:19.000What that ignores in the slippery slope argument is that a bad thing is currently happening.
01:04:24.000So the Democrats are abusing the system.
01:04:26.000Spending money with reckless abandon to burn everything down and spread their crackpot Marxist ideology.
01:04:32.000And we go, wait, if we stop them doing evil, later in the future, someone else might do evil.
01:04:38.000And I say, okay, when that happens, we will fight against that evil the same as we fight against this evil right now.
01:05:49.000Rep Ilhan Omar advises Somali immigrants not to comply with ICE deportations.
01:05:55.000We then have this video from Libs of TikTok.
01:05:58.000Rep Dan Goldman is now putting out videos in Chinese instructing illegal aliens how to evade ICE. Why is he trying to protect Chinese murderers, spies, and criminals who are in our country illegally?
01:06:12.000This is 1907 Title 8 USC 1324A Offenses, which includes something called encouraging or inducing, subsection 1324A1A4, makes it an offense for any person who encourages or induces an alien to come to, enter, or reside in the United States, knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that such coming to entry or residence is or will be in violation of the law.
01:06:41.000Dan Goldman, AOC, Ilhan Omar, and many other Democrats are quite literally violating a federal law which has a penalty for inducement of up to five years in prison.
01:06:53.000So I really doubt the DOJ is going to come after these people and put them in prison.
01:06:58.000But they're quite literally breaking federal law by doing this.
01:07:02.000And so my question to all of you as we jump into this story, what happens if we don't enforce this law?
01:07:08.000And we tell Democrats, as a large political class, you can break it.
01:07:12.000Well, it's arguable if they are breaking.
01:07:14.000So, for example, if they are saying...
01:07:17.000And this goes out to all my illegal immigrant friends out there, and I'm telling you this, that would probably be breaking the law.
01:07:24.000But if they're saying, hey, a lot of people who aren't illegal, people who are maybe asylum people and other various legal status migrants are getting caught up in this sort of stuff, and they're telling it for those people, and maybe it could apply to illegals, that would not necessarily be illegal.
01:08:10.000If a guy walked into a bank and went to the teller and said, Can you please, with expedience, empty out that drawer and fill this sack up for me?
01:08:21.000When the police show up to arrest him for bank robbery and he goes, I wasn't robbing them.
01:08:26.000I just asked them if they would give me their money and they said yes.
01:08:28.000Do you think that's going to fly in court?
01:08:34.000So the issue at play is, the question is going to be, do Ilhan Omar and does AOC and Dan Goldman know that the information they are giving No, but they've been citing cases where that has been the case.
01:08:57.000And a lot of the people that they're saying, for example, do you actually believe?
01:09:02.000That AOC, Goldman and Omar are specifically trying to inform legal residents of the United States their legal rights?
01:09:08.000I think in their opinion, a lot of them are.
01:09:14.000When Trump was citing the Haitian migrants in Ohio and everything, a lot of people on the Republican side are saying those are illegal migrants.
01:09:44.000So when you say it's questionable as to whether they vote the law, sure, but it doesn't matter.
01:09:47.000Because I think any reasonable person knows they're not talking about legal residents who are scared of ICE. Because if you're a legal resident and ICE shows up to you and say, here's my green card, here's my ID, what's the problem?
01:10:28.000If you had a jury of 12 individuals of regular random people and said, do you genuinely believe that when Dan Goldman spoke Mandarin advising people how to avoid ICE and immigration enforcement, do you believe his intention was to provide Relevant legal information to legally residing Americans, no one says yes.
01:10:51.000I gotta push a little on it, unfortunately, because I'm enjoying this.
01:10:55.000It's like people saying, don't talk to the cops.
01:10:57.000Even if you've done nothing wrong, don't talk to the cops.
01:11:00.000And this might be a similar, like you could argue this is a similar thing.
01:11:03.000I think it is not, because first, when it comes to telling someone don't talk to the cops, that's a general broad statement that applies to all Americans of all status, whether they've committed crimes or not.
01:11:13.000When you say specifically, Immigrations and Customers Enforcement is coming to deport illegal immigrants, if they approach you, do not talk to them.
01:11:22.000We are talking about people who are actively committing a crime and you advising them on how to avoid, which is specifically codified in laws, inducing them to reside in this country.
01:11:32.000If you went to someone, so there are other questions in other crimes being committed.
01:11:37.000If someone had a bag of drugs on them and you said, you've got drugs on you?
01:12:10.000Lawyers are—so if you're a criminal, legit criminal, and you tell your lawyer, yes, I committed that crime, the lawyer can't—I'm pretty sure the lawyers aren't supposed to go out and say—but I don't know, though.
01:12:21.000Like, I know therapists have to report it, but the issue at play here, there's specifically a law saying encouragement or inducement to reside illegally in the U.S. or with reckless disregard as to whether it would be legal or not.
01:12:37.000But I think it's fair to say— We understand what these Democrats are doing.
01:12:41.000Trump is going after violent criminals, people who already broke the law, and Democrats are saying, we will provide you with materials to avoid detection, inducing them to reside here.
01:12:52.000Well, in your drug example, I actually, I'm not sure, but I don't think it would be illegal to say, look, you just inform someone of their rights, even though you know they might have committed a crime.
01:13:06.000But if you said, for example, if your way of helping them is, hey, if you go hide in these specific locations or you do this or that, that's probably illegal.
01:13:15.000But if you would just inform people of their rights when it comes to dealing with law enforcement, I don't think that would necessarily constitute a crime.
01:13:23.000I do think lawyers are required to report if their clients are actively committing crimes.
01:13:29.000Well, I think they're still allowed to represent them, it's just the argument has to change.
01:13:33.000So it's like, if your client murdered someone, you would say, yes, he killed this individual, but you have to like, you say there's like a mitigating circumstance and you try to get a...
01:13:44.000Lower sentence, or maybe not guilty by reason of insanity.
01:14:14.000The thing too here is that it's a total virtue signal.
01:14:17.000I don't think anybody's reading Dan Goldman's Chinese tweet about like...
01:14:21.000Who is a Chinese person in Chinatown and using that information to try to avoid police?
01:14:26.000And I have full confidence in our police and ICE service members that they will be able to get the job done despite, you know, Ilhan Omar giving hints about, you know, not opening the door or what have you.
01:14:37.000And what actually helps their defense is how kind of like alarmist they've been with their language, like saying, Trump's going to deport.
01:14:44.000Everyone who's an immigrant, like, not even stipulating illegal or whatever.
01:14:49.000They're just like, if you're just brown in America, they want to deport you and kill you.
01:14:53.000So that would probably help them in a court of law.
01:14:56.000I would need to hear specifics about what Ilhan said in this instance for this to see, like, did she incite them to continue to break the law?
01:15:16.000That's like a don't talk to cops type statement.
01:15:19.000Right, and so there's a difference in that.
01:15:24.000It is codified as a crime to induce someone to reside illegally in the U.S. That's the distinction.
01:15:30.000It is not codified anywhere that inducing someone, like telling someone drugs are cool or whatever, I'm pretty sure it's not illegal, you know, giving your opinion on those things.
01:15:38.000But if someone is not a legal resident here and you are telling them they can stay...
01:15:43.000Here's how you avoid detection from law enforcement.
01:16:26.000So it says, any person who encourages or induces an alien to come to enter or reside in encourages to reside in.
01:16:36.000Giving someone legal advice when it comes to their rights, when it comes to law enforcement, is not you necessarily encouraging them to reside in the United States.
01:16:46.000It might have the effect of them residing if they're successful or whatever, but that's more of a matter of process.
01:17:57.000Who knew they had illegal immigrants on their planes should also be charged.
01:18:01.000I mean, it was definitely an unethical thing to do.
01:18:03.000It was a fact during the past four years that there were commercial flights where pilots knew they were ferrying large amounts of illegal immigrants across the country.
01:18:13.000You also had this story where, into Tennessee, I think it was, they were taking illegal immigrant children, putting them on planes and flying them into various cities.
01:18:22.000One of the big stories was Westchester, New York, in the middle of the night.
01:18:26.000Illegal immigrants were being ferried into these places, some using government taxpayer money.
01:19:34.000And so what you're really saying is the Confederates were conquered.
01:19:37.000And the union could have done whatever they wanted, as were the words of Ulysses S. Grant when he said, you have a right to revolt, but when you lose, you will be ruled over by your betters.
01:19:45.000So it's a similar, much less magnitude, what we're experiencing right now with people that broke the law, escorting illegal migrants across the country and into the country.
01:19:54.000They were doing what you could consider after the fact a violation of law, but like, do you prosecute and imprison them all?
01:20:00.000Because it's similar with the Confederates.
01:20:10.000They stand in front of the jury of their peers, and when they're convicted, the judge says, we're going to give you court supervision and a $50 fine.
01:20:16.000You were faring illegals, and that's going to be on your record.
01:20:19.000Also, the left is going to attempt to impeach Donald Trump again should they take the House in two years.
01:21:09.000And I rise today, Mr. Speaker, with a to whom it may concern message.
01:21:15.000To whom it may concern, ethnic cleansing in Gaza is not a joke, especially when it emanates from the president of the United States, the most powerful person in the world, when he has the ability to perfect what when he has the ability to perfect what he says.
01:21:35.000Well, I don't care about his grandstanding.
01:22:20.000The real backwards and ironic thing here is that Trump is trying to bring a historic peace to the Middle East where he's really taken conventional wisdom and flipped it on his head.
01:22:31.000And he would continue to be a historic figure and be a more historic figure after bringing peace to Gaza.
01:22:37.000And that's what they're going to try to impeach him for.
01:22:39.000When he said he wanted to buy Gaza to take over.
01:23:00.000They are impeaching him because he's actually a representative of the American people and he is not a member of the approved deep state, whatever you want to call it, the approved elite class.
01:23:11.000It has nothing to do with Gaza and it has everything to do with he is doing things to the...
01:23:18.000To the entrenched bureaucracy and the quote-unquote deep state that they find defensive.
01:23:55.000I'm sure he'll be able to go back to his district.
01:23:57.000There are 450-some-odd reps, and he's going to go back to his district and say, Hey, I drafted up articles of impeachment against the fascists who's deporting all of our brothers and migrants here in town.
01:24:08.000The point is this is going to continue to degrade the quality of our politics and the quality of our representatives, and it will probably end up with the United States becoming another basket case of a country in the long run.
01:24:24.000Unless we can prevent these kind of people from being elected, but we have an electorate that continues to keep electing them.
01:24:31.000Well, you've got to be responsible with what you're telling people is going to happen.
01:26:11.000You have a microphone, you have the power to change people's minds.
01:26:14.000Up the stakes, Mitt Romney level, ten thousand bucks.
01:26:17.000Yeah, I'm pretty sure that if polymarket made a market for if Democrats win the midterms, they will impeach Donald Trump, it would be 100%.
01:27:25.000However, it's fair to say that any reasonable individual, based on literally what happened the first time, and literally the same guy filing the same articles like he did the first time, if the Democrats win the midterms, they will file to impeach Trump immediately.
01:28:52.000I could see a rationale for Dems to actually not impeach Trump, because I think some of the rationale the first time is, well, we can prevent him.
01:29:02.000We could just dirty his name so much that he won't have the political capital to win another re-election.
01:29:08.000He'll be dead in the Republican Party.
01:29:29.000I kind of think that what we're witnessing right now is Donald Trump's march to the sea.
01:29:36.000I think that Trump has routed the deep state, and now he is just smashing through the institutions and raising their farms and raising their fields.
01:29:50.000But this is the point at which I don't know the deep state recovers from the gutting of USAID, CIA getting mass buyouts, FBI agents getting—the FBI sued Trump.
01:29:59.000They sued the admin to stop the surveys from going out, and the FBI delivered a list of 5,000 agents who were working on the January 6th.
01:30:14.000This is— This is political, scorched-earth strategy that Trump is doing.
01:30:19.000And Marco Rubio, a couple days ago, said that in five years we won't be talking about tariffs anymore because the U.S. dollar will no longer have the power that it has anymore.
01:30:29.000Like, we've left the unipolar world now.
01:30:32.000He's saying, like, he gave it a five-year time window, that the Russian, the BRICS, it's just become so powerful that this whole paradigm is like...
01:30:42.000You know, to think that we're the ones in charge is kind of, you know, it's losing its fervor.
01:30:49.000That'd be a dark, dark day on planet Earth.
01:32:18.000Sanctions won't work anymore in five years.
01:32:21.000Rubio's upset that U.S. will no longer be able to oppose sanctions as they switch from the settlement in dollars to other national currencies.
01:32:26.000And then, quote, in five years, we'll no longer be able to talk about sanctions.
01:32:29.000This is the whole reason that I talk about mandatory spending.
01:32:32.000The reason that the U.S. won't have the reserve currency anymore is too many countries will move to other things because they don't believe that the U.S. is going to remain solvent in the long term.
01:32:43.000Because we have to fix Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid.
01:32:47.000I can't remember which institution, but they're predicting in Trump's first term, Bitcoin hits 500,000.
01:32:56.000But there's a lot of speculation that what Donald Trump is doing...
01:33:01.000In terms of tariffs and international trade, isn't so much about Trump's retribution.
01:33:05.000It's about Trump rushing in to try and put out a fire that can't be stopped.
01:33:09.000And there's concern that the movement away from the petrodollar, the BRICS nations, all these things, it's just a snowball rolling down a hill.
01:33:17.000And Trump's coming in, he's trying to throw a rope around it, but ain't gonna do nothing.
01:34:29.000And not only does it go up all the time, but it goes up faster and faster and faster because you're adding not only money to it, but the interest rate.
01:34:36.000Well, the interest rate varies, but you're adding money that's all accruing interest.
01:34:40.000So as you add more money to the principal that you've borrowed, the interest rate continues to accelerate.
01:34:46.000And the spending goes up, the budgets go up.
01:35:53.000You could abolish the whole government and have zero discretionary spending, but you'd still have, as long as you had the administration of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, you're still insolvent.
01:36:08.000Do you know how much, what percent it is of our debt is that?
01:36:37.000So all these people are being added to the Social Security rules, Medicare and Medicaid rules.
01:36:43.000And you have people that, you know, it's a smaller percentage, but people that have any kind of Social Security benefit, if they're injured and they can't work and they get government benefits, that all goes into the same thing.
01:37:48.000And so the point that I'm making is, yes, what you're talking about, Is practical for people that are running, but that's going to keep, as long as they keep kicking the can down the road, eventually this is going to destroy the U.S. economy.
01:38:47.000That's just going to insurers and stuff like that.
01:38:49.000The problem is when you're running and talking about trying to fix Medicare, your opponent says they're going to cut your Medicare, they're going to kill your grandma, they're going to blah blah blah, because someone's going to be opportunists.
01:39:25.000Yeah, I mean, all of these programs obviously need reform, but the political realities on the ground is that the older you are, the more likely you are to vote.
01:39:33.000And then the older you are, the more likely you are to be getting Social Security benefits.
01:39:37.000So just the way that interests play out is that it's disastrous for your campaign.
01:39:41.000You're throwing in the towel by running on that.
01:39:44.000Even saying you're only going to fix it, people will tar and feather you as doing much worse.
01:39:48.000Well, yeah, that's the thing your opponent's going to say.
01:39:50.000I think whenever Rick Scott talks about it or whatever from Florida.
01:39:53.000It's never, because he's one of the guys who's an elected officer.
01:39:56.000Because a lot of these people run on it as, like, we have to cut this or else we're going to die.
01:40:02.000Instead, run on, we need to fix this or else.
01:40:47.000I was talking to Lisa Reynolds earlier and I was like, could you imagine if Trump just came out and did a press conference where he was very just like, you know, low energy as he sometimes is and says, well, quite frankly, the IRS is very bad and we're going to shut it down.
01:41:10.000And he just walks off out of the room.
01:41:12.000It's a hypothetical that I bring up because I don't believe.
01:41:16.000I believe 97% of the population would celebrate that.
01:41:21.000Understanding that it means, like, government programs, funds, things would end, in the immediate, the average person would be like, so you mean I keep all of my paycheck now?
01:42:13.000We were all hanging out on the couch, and it was probably one of the better green rooms that we've done, because it was a lot of just, I don't know, bro humor, I guess.
01:42:23.000But I'll read your supertext now, and then we're going to have that uncensored show coming up in about 20 minutes at TimCast.com, where you as members get to call in and talk to us.
01:43:03.000you know you gotta find someone you wanna get married to Techie Plady says friends shout to Sir Rank Zero Productions He's on the web, plays video games, and cooks.
01:43:36.000The U.S. seizing Gaza as the 51st state, we all laughed and said that would instantly start World War III. And then Trump just went out and said it.
01:43:44.000It's been amazing how expansionist the mindset of Trump has been once he took office.
01:43:49.000He really started talking about the Panama Canal, Greenland, Gaza.
01:43:53.000I'm excited every day to see the next thing we might add to the list of potential U.S. territories.
01:44:27.000I don't know if I should spill the beans just yet.
01:44:30.000But we're working on—so let me just say this.
01:44:33.000The Culture War podcast has never been completed.
01:44:36.000We had plans for what the Culture War show was supposed to be, and the Friday morning live streams are placeholders until we build out the real plan.
01:44:44.000And so let me just give you a general idea.
01:44:47.000You know, I'm going to say it, and everyone's going to get mad at me, because this is how it works.
01:44:51.000He's like, oh, my team's going to get mad at me.
01:44:53.000I'm going to say it, but I'm going to tell you guys what we're doing anyway, and then the people behind these things are like, Trump, we're not ready.
01:45:00.000If you're a member of TimCast.com and you're in the Discord, we are going to be having members-only events, and those events are going to be on whatever day we can do them.
01:45:11.000Probably a weekend, sometimes Friday morning, maybe Saturday or Sunday night, in-person, live political debate shows, The Culture War, where our members join the debates.
01:45:24.000The audience will only be our members.
01:47:13.000Axa Filioma says, Hey Tim, one of my best friends was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer in three organs at age 35. He has two kids and wants to fight.
01:48:08.000J. Joan Clark says, Tim, every time you talk about Israel and Gaza, nobody ever talks about the 1990s discovery of mass oil deposits off the shore of Gaza, also the mass deposits of natural gas underneath the Gaza Strip.
01:49:08.000Some of it's really, really, really deep from tectonic shift.
01:49:11.000I just want to stress, we have never gotten more death threats.
01:49:16.000In my career, I have never gotten more death threats.
01:49:19.000And the Timcast organization, as a company, has never gotten more death threats since I posted jokingly that we were going to invade Canada.
01:49:47.000And then I tweeted, as soon as their economy is destroyed, their will to resist will erode and then will march in and put them in their rightful places of U.S. territory with no political representation.
01:50:03.000Defend their territory with their life.
01:50:05.000They're just a very, very vocal minority.
01:50:07.000Most of the Canadians will welcome us as liberators.
01:50:11.000It's funny because so much of Canadian nationalism is centered around being anti-American, and most of the time us Americans forget Canada is even there.
01:50:20.000For example, when I was talking about territories we were going to take over, Canada is an afterthought.
01:51:52.000To keep them happy, they get special benefits in Quebec, as I understand.
01:51:57.000We might need to bring a Canadian on to break it down further.
01:52:00.000If we go in through Saskatchewan and the more red areas in the center, they'll side with us, and then all we have to do is sweep outward towards the coasts and crush the resistance.
01:52:12.000I think that would be an interesting culture war to have a Quebec...
01:52:15.000National, or whatever you would call them, that wants independence.
01:54:38.000Trump was so masterful on Trump's part that he threatened tariffs and then immediately got both countries to establish border patrols.
01:54:44.000It was a masterful response from Pierre to stay out of the way.
01:54:49.000All right, let's grab some of what we got.
01:54:51.000got we got common sense fishing says nuance bro say a company like politico makes 50 million a year the government pays it 1 million a year but its profit margins may be slim profits may only be a few percent if they lose that percent they go in the red right that's that i would say that's Like, 2% of your annual revenue is substantial.
01:56:15.000And someone's giving a kickback of, you know, the government's buying a $10,000 premium, you know, detailing package for their vehicles when it normally costs $100.
01:56:23.000You might say, yeah, but it's only $50,000 a month out of their, you know, million dollars of revenue.
01:57:00.000Yeah, the gutting of USAID, the FBI, and the CIA. Everyone I know from that time, all the arguments they were making, Trump is steamrolling this.
01:57:11.000That's why I said that Trump's the most libertarian president that we've had since Calvin Coolidge, possibly the most libertarian since, like, the founders.
01:58:11.000I hope that he's got, you know, he has people that are competent in charge of the Secret Service now.
01:58:20.000It would make perfect sense for him to be like, we need to get, you know, all the people that were...
01:58:26.000In the Secret Service and get them out or get a significant portion of them out and make sure that we get the most competent people that are available.
01:58:37.000Maybe he got people that were new or had not been in the Secret Service for a long time when they were taking care of the situation in Pennsylvania.
01:58:53.000Now, I would imagine that it's something at the top of his mind.
01:58:56.000Did you see his recent comments about assassination where he said, you know, he's like, well, if Iran goes for it, I have instructions that I've left.
01:59:04.000And I'm like, dude, you're sending a message to Mossad to like, I'm sorry.
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02:00:05.000You want to sign up to be a member right now, you will not regret it, but I can't say more.
02:00:09.000Only that, if you wait, you'll regret it.
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02:00:19.000The members-only show is coming up right now, plus we have a Green Room episode that was really, really fun and funny, and you will enjoy it.
02:00:26.000It's something you want to watch while having a beer, and you're going to laugh your ass off.