Bill and Bill discuss the latest in the ongoing conflict between the United States and Russia, and the potential for World War 3. They also discuss the recent decision by Joe Biden to have his concealed carry license revoked, and a man who may have caught bird flu.
00:01:11.000When I tweeted out that Western forces have begun firing weapons into Russia, I get a community note saying it's not accurate to call them Western forces because Ukraine is a sovereign nation.
00:01:22.000A sovereign nation that can only take military action if Joe Biden gives them the approval to do so.
00:01:28.000A sovereign nation that is trained, armed, funded by NATO.
00:01:32.000A sovereign nation where blink in the United States says that Ukraine will be in NATO.
00:02:07.000This could escalate, as we've already gotten reports that Russia has removed a line of demarcation from a lake that separates Russia from Estonia.
00:02:15.000Moves may already be in place for this war to expand.
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00:03:39.000Joining us tonight to talk about this and everything else is Bill Ottman.
00:04:36.000Watch the videos out of Syria during the civil war of people walking through rubble and active gunfire with grocery bags from a supermarket.
00:04:43.000Let's jump into this first story from the New York Times.
00:04:46.000Ukraine strikes into Russia with Western weapons, official says.
00:04:50.000The official said Ukraine had destroyed missile launchers in the Russian region of Belgorod using an American-made rocket system.
00:04:58.000So we've got these videos that have been coming out of Russia.
00:05:02.000Just days after the Biden administration granted permission for Ukraine to fire American weapons into Russia, Kiev took advantage of its new latitude, striking a military facility over the border using a U.S.-made artillery system, according to members of Ukraine's parliament.
00:05:17.000This has already been reported on in Russia as well, confirmed by both sides.
00:05:21.000Yehor Shchernev, the Deputy Chairman of the Ukrainian Parliament's Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence, said on Tuesday that Ukrainian forces had destroyed Russian missile launchers with a strike in the Belgorod region about 20 miles into Russia.
00:05:32.000Ukraine's forces used a high-mobility artillery rocket system, or HIMARS, he said.
00:05:38.000Confirmation coming from ABC News as well.
00:06:41.000You have to be a special kind of stupid to believe that's the case.
00:06:44.000So when I look at these liberal pundits and they're just like, wow, look what Ukraine did after Biden gave them the weapons and the permission.
00:06:50.000Yeah, that means they're taking orders from Joe Biden.
00:06:54.000This could very well be the doorstep of World War III, or at the very least, war, a direct confrontation with Russia.
00:07:02.000Now to be fair, we're already at war with Russia, so the question is, does this escalate beyond and become something more akin to World War III?
00:07:08.000You can guarantee that Russia is going to consider this an escalation.
00:07:15.000I'm not making any predictions about what they do, but inside Russia, you can absolutely guarantee that they're going to consider just the acknowledgement, right?
00:07:24.000Because there's all kinds of things that they probably know and they're like, well, we're pretty sure they're doing this, but we can't prove it or whatever.
00:07:30.000Like, all kinds of stuff happens like that when it comes to international politics and stuff like that happens all the time.
00:07:36.000But when you have something that is either uncovered and the The administration or whatever country in question has to admit it.
00:07:44.000That makes a whole different ball of wax as to how the country that was targeted is going to respond and how the international community will accept their response.
00:07:58.000is going to be like, no, you shouldn't do anything at all, blah, blah, blah, no matter what.
00:08:02.000But what the rest of the international community is going to say is going to be different because of that.
00:08:07.000Yeah, well, we initially saw reports about this authorization from Biden last week, but it was when the Trump conviction came out.
00:08:13.000So it sort of was like some media reporting on it, but for the most part, it was news that was reported without really being, I think, taken in by the American public.
00:08:22.000I don't really understand how the White House can defend being like, well, we're not being aggressive against Russia.
00:08:29.000We're just helping Ukraine out by telling them to use our supplied weapons and force against Russia inside Russia.
00:08:37.000And then within days they actually do it.
00:10:35.000does not want to outright just dive straight in with sending in NATO forces into Ukraine and going to war with Russia.
00:10:41.000They're only doing what they hope they have to do, and Russia's doing the same.
00:10:45.000This means every time one side is pushed back, the other side will escalate.
00:10:52.000Russia gets pushed back in the Donbass, then they escalate with artillery strikes and they start expanding.
00:10:57.000So then the U.S., NATO, and Ukraine, seeing the Ukrainian forces losing, a CIA official already predicting that Ukraine will lose the war by the end of the year.
00:11:10.000Deploy long-range rockets into Ukraine and tell them to strike in Russia to push them back.
00:11:16.000Russia is now likely going to respond with an escalation of their own.
00:11:20.000There's not going to be a very simple shot heard around the world.
00:11:23.000This war will be going on for some time, but maybe...
00:11:27.000Maybe we're not quite at the point of a World War III.
00:11:29.000Maybe that will be if and when Russia fires a tactical nuclear strike somewhere in Ukraine to advance their position on the battlefield or to maintain their control of the Donbass region.
00:11:42.000The administration, they want the best of both worlds.
00:11:44.000They want to be able to say we're not at war, meanwhile being at war.
00:11:47.000And it's just this language game of, you know, oh, is it Western forces?
00:11:55.000You point out the language game and I think that's something that the American people are going to have to start deciding that they want to see through.
00:12:01.000You're going to have to go by actions and not really go by what people are saying.
00:12:08.000It's clear that... These are legal definitions around, you know, what constitutes Western forces.
00:12:16.000They'll use the proper terminology to say that they're doing things legally, and they'll articulate it in a way that, should it be brought into a court, it would be, you know, tight as a drum and whatever, and then they're just going to do whatever they want.
00:12:34.000So the American people, the only the only option we have is the is the American people have to decide that they want to vote a different way.
00:12:39.000They have they want to decide that they want to vote for people that will not behave this way.
00:14:02.000has to pay reparations or something like this.
00:14:04.000But the U.S., of course, being very far away from this conflict and it being on Russia's doorstep, of course, Russia is never going to stop.
00:14:12.000NATO and the United States are not going to stop either.
00:14:15.000And so I don't know where this ends up, but perhaps this flies over the head of the average American.
00:14:21.000The reason why I get that community note on my tweet is because deep state shills are like, we can't let people know what we're doing, so we need to do this, but no one's falling for it.
00:14:31.000But the average person's not an ex anyway.
00:14:34.000If Russia fires a nuclear weapon into Ukraine, there is no hiding that.
00:14:40.000That will be a shot heard around the world moment.
00:14:43.000And the US government, Biden, whoever, will not be able to ignore it.
00:14:48.000I mean, I think the same thing can be said from It's really easy for them to point towards NATO's actions and say, look, they are specifically threatening us.
00:14:59.000I think of when they admitted Finland to NATO.
00:15:02.000That doubled NATO's border with Russia, and we were just supposed to act like Russia wasn't going to see that as a threat?
00:15:10.000I'm not going to debate whether they should or shouldn't have been admitted.
00:15:12.000I'm just saying everything we do to make NATO bigger on Russia's doorstep is perceived by a threat by Russian leaders.
00:15:19.000We should abolish NATO because without NATO there is nothing that will prevent us from behaving like we have NATO.
00:15:29.000If you say, hey, we're going to dissolve NATO, all of the countries that were in NATO can still have friendly relations, can still support each other with military action if they want to.
00:16:01.000It is no longer the case that the United States being an ally to a country will guarantee that there will be no aggression.
00:16:10.000There's asymmetric warfare, there's all kinds of ways to go after nation-states nowadays that are not actually big military, so the United States does not offer the same kind of protection that it used to be, or that align with the United States doesn't.
00:16:24.000Ladies and gentlemen, I give you this story from MilitaryTimes.com.
00:16:28.000Lawmakers move to automate selective service registration for all men.
00:16:33.000I hope Gen Z is listening to this one, and Gen Alpha.
00:16:37.000And I hope people who have kids who are Gen Alpha are listening to this one.
00:16:40.000Now, to be fair, if you're a dude, you gotta sign up for the draft either way.
00:16:44.000There hasn't been one in 50 years, so most people aren't worried about it, but I'm pretty sure if there's a World War III coming, and the US thinks it may be the case, yeah, they're gonna draft all of you.
00:16:55.000Now, I'm fortunate enough that I'm old.
00:17:48.000A new plan from House lawmakers would automatically register men for a potential military draft when they hit 18, avoiding potential legal consequences connected to failing to file the paperwork at a proper time.
00:17:58.000Language included in the House Armed Services Committee's draft of the annual defense authorization bill would mandate the automatic registration of all males between 18 and 26 living in America in the Selective Service System.
00:18:10.000The federal database used for a military draft in the case of a national emergency.
00:18:13.000It hasn't been used for that purpose in 52 years, but men who fail to register can face a host of legal consequences.
00:18:19.000Now, I wonder what would be happening right now, where you have a Democrat, Chrissy Houlihan, sponsoring the automatic registration language, calling it both a money-saving and common-sense reform.
00:18:33.000I tell you this, I can assure you right now, The majority of young men will never agree to fight in a nation where women do not have to, but are granted equal say in government, politics, and favor in courts.
00:18:49.000There is a huge issue right now with the rise of the likes of Andrew Tate and Pearl Davis, and now you've got HOMAF.
00:18:56.000And these channels exist for a reason.
00:18:58.000Young men are not happy with the disproportionate, the second-class citizen system as related to things like Selective Service.
00:19:08.000You go to an 18-year-old guy and say, you will be forced to fight and die for a country because a female politician, who does not have to do it, mandated you do so.
00:19:18.000Now you go back in time, and a guy says, I am going to go fight and die, and you are expected to do the same, and a lot of guys were like, it's our duty, we all do it.
00:19:29.000Now you have a system where you have a bunch of elite multi-millionaire women like Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats who would vote in favor of this, not to mention older guys who don't have to fight, telling young men they have to go fight and die.
00:19:40.000One of the big reasons why the draft is not popular in the first place is because you have elite older men forcing young people to go fight and die for them and their wars and they don't have to.
00:19:49.000I say we take it all the way back to 1900s when they tried passing this bill I think it was an amendment that said if you vote in favor of war, you have to go fight for it.
00:19:58.000They said we'll put an amendment saying we vote on whether to declare war directly and then if you vote yes, you're conscripted on the spot.
00:20:05.000It's going to be interesting to see what happens right now with the current state of how young men are viewing the world and the rise of these angry young men who are pissed off about this system.
00:20:40.000But I don't know if it's actually going to take off or if it's going to happen, but I do think it's interesting that they're actively trying to do it right now of all times.
00:20:49.000I do think it's fair for men to question why the standard, you know, if feminism's so great and we all want equality, why are they still expected to be in the Selective Service?
00:21:30.000We chuckle about it and stuff, but I tell you what, I was telling the guys in the band that in 2015, I was like, trans people are going to be a big deal.
00:21:39.000It's going to be a national conversation.
00:21:55.000It is impossible, and it will absolutely wreak havoc in our society if we try it.
00:22:02.000We can say to trans women and trans men, we will call you she and we will be polite, but there are going to be places where you are not going to be allowed to be if you're a trans man, and there are going to be places where you're not going to be allowed to be a trans man.
00:22:16.000Look, the military doesn't allow that already.
00:22:25.000I think the point of me saying that there are people that are gender abolitionists is we should have people that change that policy in the military.
00:22:32.000My point is, the military is saying if you're a trans woman, you're a guy.
00:22:36.000If you're a trans man, you're a woman, you can't be in the military.
00:23:21.000There's a lake, and half the lake's controlled by Russia, the other half's controlled by Estonia, and Russia went out and removed the international border barriers, or the border markers.
00:23:31.000Certainly seems like there's an escalation for conflict happening.
00:24:05.000Edge of Tomorrow is, there's an alien invasion.
00:24:08.000The humans all unite together to fight against the aliens, but they're losing everywhere.
00:24:13.000And so Tom Cruise plays a propagandist PR guy who works for the, who's in the military.
00:24:20.000And he's like, his story is that he did ROTC and then, you know, went and ran a marketing firm.
00:24:26.000So when it came time, he said, I'll do marketing for the military.
00:24:29.000And then one of the generals of the Allied forces wants to send him to the front lines with a camera to film their new exosuits that they can fight with to push back on the aliens.
00:24:42.000And then he gets covered in alien blood which sends him in a time loop so every day he wakes up at the same time and then ends up destroying the aliens.
00:24:51.000You know, because he's like sitting there smiling, shaking hands with Biden, and then you know it's going to happen.
00:24:55.000I mean, it won't be literally like that, but they're like, hey, look, when the war comes, you're going to have to convince everybody to go fight and die.
00:25:01.000If it comes down to it, he's going to be the kid that they're going to hand the camera to, and they're going to say, have fun in Europe!
00:25:08.000Well, and if you think Biden's such a good president, I mean, hopefully you'll be like, yes, of course, President Biden, I will go into this war.
00:25:41.000They're happy to hang the flags and they're happy to have the flag flown in our Congress, but they don't actually want to be the people to be on the ground.
00:25:48.000And I think that's the sort of maybe generational gap between generations that have faced hardship and have been closer to war times versus the younger generations today.
00:25:58.000They don't have a concept of what it's like.
00:26:01.000I think Russia removing the barriers is interesting, again, because this is obvious, right?
00:26:07.000There is clearly no de-escalation plan.
00:26:10.000And I think the Biden administration is making this worse for everybody.
00:26:14.000I don't think they're doing anything to, you know, to stop Russia from seeing NATO as an increasing threat.
00:26:21.000And so why wouldn't Russia increase what it's doing?
00:26:24.000Like, this is all just more and more and more until, I don't know, what, Ukraine collapses?
00:27:32.000Then at the first battle of Bull Run in Manassas, they went on the hilltops and they picnicked, and they watched as troops lined up, and it was like, there's no civil war, and then it was a massacre.
00:27:42.000And then they're like, oh wow, maybe we're in a civil war.
00:27:49.000It was Rebellion in the South, depending on who you talk to.
00:27:53.000Then it was called the War Between States for a little while, and then about a year or two into it, they started referring to it as the U.S.
00:31:59.000World Health Organization confirms first death in Mexico from bird flu never seen in humans.
00:32:04.000The 59-year-old was the first lab-confirmed human case of the infection with an H5N2 subtype of the virus, which has been reported in poultry in the country.
00:32:24.000The World Health Organization said on Wednesday a death was caused by the first laboratory confirmed case of infection with a subtype of avian influenza.
00:32:31.000This was the first laboratory confirmed human case of the infection with H5N2.
00:32:36.000The victim had no history of exposure to poultry or other animals.
00:32:38.000The person had multiple underlying medical conditions and had been bedridden for three weeks for other reasons prior to the onset of acute symptoms.
00:32:46.000This story is going massively viral because people think we are going to get another lockdown.
00:32:53.000It doesn't seem like it's actually dangerous enough.
00:32:54.000They said that he had underlying conditions, etc.
00:32:58.000So it's likely that they're reporting this because they're looking for clicks.
00:33:03.000But at the same time, I don't think that it's out of the question that something like that could happen.
00:33:07.000But they've been warning about bird flu for like six months.
00:33:10.000And they were saying that it's got respiratory symptoms a couple weeks ago.
00:33:13.000I mean, they've been warning about this for a while.
00:33:16.000I don't know if you could – there are parts of the population that would probably agree to lockdown.
00:33:23.000What I find interesting about the bird flu cases is that they're kind of attaching to everything.
00:33:26.000Like for a while the US health authorities were saying, don't drink raw milk because bird flu.
00:33:31.000And it just seems like it will become the boogeyman maybe for lockdowns but also maybe to give up alternative lifestyles that the government doesn't want you to have.
00:33:41.000And it's not just in Mexico, because we've had these stories popping up quite a bit.
00:33:45.000Reuters says bird flu reported in Iowa dairy herd, expanding U.S.
00:33:56.000Now they're saying someone died from it.
00:33:58.000It certainly looks like they are planting the seeds to get to the point where, in a couple months, they're going to be like, the threat of bird flu is too great.
00:34:11.000I mean, it's definitely not out of the question, because they've done it.
00:34:16.000You know, whether or not this is... Cow flu.
00:34:19.000Whether this is the actual thing that they pull the trigger on, or that would make the people in positions of power decide, okay, we need to go ahead and do this, because they know that it wouldn't be easy the second time.
00:35:06.000But we think you guys should be aware of the risks.
00:35:09.000Now, because of the risks, and no lockdowns, but because of the risks, we're going to have universal mail-in voting as an option for all of you who are concerned and don't want to congregate at polling stations.
00:35:24.000So we'll be sending out your universal mail-in ballot.
00:36:14.000If Trump supporters and the right do not turn out in November, Joe Biden wins.
00:36:20.000The polling shows that among voters who voted every election, 18, 20, 22, Biden has a 12-point advantage.
00:36:30.000Among voters who only voted one time in the past three elections, Trump has a 12-point advantage.
00:36:37.000If Trump supporters don't show up, Biden wins.
00:36:40.000And maybe that's what they're counting on.
00:36:41.000I mean, that is like it's true, but that's also true every election.
00:36:45.000It's super important for people to get out.
00:36:46.000And it's hard to get conservatives out if they're not excited.
00:36:49.000I do believe that generally conservatives are going to be excited, but it's really going to boil down to everyone knows it's going to boil down to the independents.
00:36:57.000So how do you get out to make sure that you get every single vote?
00:37:01.000If there's not a ground game for the GOP, they are going to lose.
00:37:09.000I think there's this weird ground game of Trump being in the media and more and more people being upset about the conviction or different things like that.
00:37:15.000Although we did see polls that said, for the most part, independents, you know, the conviction in New York made them support Trump.
00:37:22.000On the other hand, for the most part, people have already kind of decided who they're voting for.
00:37:26.000I think the biggest obstacle for voter turnout is always going to be basically what happens in the last eight weeks before the election.
00:37:36.000Stuff that happens right now helps build tension, but I think people who are on the fence about going to the polls make their decision in September and October, and that's really when we're going to know what voter turnout is going to be like.
00:37:48.000I know, I mean, obviously Scott Pressler, there are a lot of people trying to get people registered.
00:37:54.000It's not that people should be complacent now, but I think when it comes down to those really hard to get voters, it's the final days that make a decision.
00:38:02.000I don't know how you feel about this, Bill.
00:38:05.000Yeah, I mean, I'm curious to hear a little bit more about what your guys' experience at the Libertarian Convention, and it just seemed like Well, I mean, I think we're dried up on that one.
00:38:23.000Everyone's kind of just like, we're going to do a post-mortem with Dave Smith, Clint, and Angela, but the Libertarian Party has basically just nuked themselves.
00:40:19.000So I think what we'll likely end up seeing towards the end of the year is not lockdowns, but some kind of justification to be used I don't know.
00:40:30.000to expand universal mail-in voting, which will maximize voter turnout, which guarantees
00:40:35.000more Biden voters, and Trump voters aren't showing up?
00:40:40.000I think it's hard to say at this point.
00:40:42.000I think the I think I would be interested to see, like, have a campaign staffer for
00:40:50.000Trump on the show and have them explain what they're doing a little bit more, because we
00:40:53.000do talk about a lot again, like Scott Pressler, things like that.
00:40:57.000Leading into midterms, there's this whole thing about the red wave and this is going to, you know, motivate people.
00:41:02.000Obviously, Virginia was sort of a high point for some conservatives.
00:41:07.000It wasn't exactly what had been predicted to be, and I think the variables for this election are so much more complicated.
00:41:13.000I was listening to an interview from Michael Whatley, the chair of the RNC, and they were saying like, so how are you going to have your convention if Trump's in jail?
00:41:23.000And he was like, we're thinking about all the contingency plans.
00:42:35.000And if you to get the normies, you have to talk about literally kitchen table issues, especially considering you've got we're in a situation but not if you're going after the independence.
00:42:43.000The independents are where you're going to get it.
00:42:44.000You're not going to get... Look, I love the Libertarian Party, right?
00:42:47.000But they were super pumped about Ross Ulbricht, right?
00:42:50.000And I think Ross should be freed as well.
00:42:53.000Ross Ulbricht does not move the needle in politics, period.
00:43:10.000I hope that they all listen, because I know a lot of them do.
00:43:13.000Your party is a bunch of low-IQ morons.
00:43:17.000Trump comes out and says, no war, and they're like, yay, and pardon Ross Ulbricht, yay, doesn't mention Julian Assange, and I'm like...
00:43:23.000You know what I'm hearing more and more and more from libertarians?
00:43:26.000Like, well, he did say he was going to really pardon Ross Ulbricht.
00:43:29.000And I'm like, is the most important thing to you that one guy, one guy you've read about is being pardoned and not literally all of the other international issues financing?
00:43:40.000I can mention Julian Assange, but we'll talk about the media industry in general, free press.
00:43:46.000But the only thing they ever say is Ross Ulbricht.
00:43:48.000And I'm like, I got to be honest, I don't care about that guy at all.
00:44:02.000And the Libertarian Party wants open borders and is screaming and cheering for Ross Ulbricht.
00:44:08.000I'm like, it is a joke of a political party that only exists to fill its ranks with people who want to do things that are not allowed to do.
00:44:18.000The unifying principle of the Libertarian Party is, I, as an individual, want to do this thing that's illegal, so I'll join the Libertarian Party and then tell them that we should be allowed to do it.
00:44:26.000And that's why none of them agree on anything, and that's why they nominated Chase Oliver.
00:44:30.000Let's jump to this next story from the New York Times.
00:44:33.000Georgia appeals court stays most proceedings in Trump election case.
00:44:37.000The order means the prosecution of Donald J. Trump in Georgia is effectively frozen, at least through the presidential election.
00:44:51.000Yeah, the Georgia Court of Appeals on Wednesday stated the criminal election interference case against Trump until an appellate panel could resolve the matter of whether the district attorney in Fulton County should be disqualified from prosecuting the case based on a conflict of interest.
00:45:03.000In a one-page order, the court stated that any movement at the trial court level pertaining to Mr. Trump and eight other defendants who have appealed a ruling allowing the prosecutor Her name is Fannie T. Willis.
00:45:14.000To remain on the case was stayed pending the outcome of the appeals.
00:45:19.000And then you've got the documents cases basically being jammed up by Judge Cannon.
00:45:25.000So it's looking like, for the most part, Trump is winning all of these, except for the local one.
00:45:30.000And that's funny, too, because that's the one where he can't pardon himself.
00:45:33.000Now, Georgie, he won't be able to pardon himself either.
00:45:35.000But it's funny because a lot of people I hear people in what we call the normiverse who do not understand, and, you know, watching some of these shows on YouTube, like other podcasts, and they're like, well, if Trump just goes to jail and becomes president, he'll just pardon himself.
00:46:42.000I don't even know that it matters at this point.
00:46:44.000I mean, I suppose winning would have to happen.
00:46:48.000But we're in uncharted territory right now.
00:46:51.000I mean, July 11th, something weird is going to happen.
00:46:54.000Because I don't think they're just going to... You know, at first I was saying house arrest makes a lot of sense, and that's what I'm hearing on Fox, and many pundits are saying, yeah, they'll probably put him in an ankle bracelet, limit his ability to campaign.
00:47:23.000Judge Marchand, who already said, you know, has threatened Trump with jail time over the gag order.
00:47:28.000Like, he has already floated the idea that he is willing to put Trump in jail.
00:47:33.000Why would he not now that there's a conviction?
00:47:34.000Like, we're saying they, but really right now it comes down to this one guy.
00:47:39.000I don't really agree that normal people don't care about some of those issues.
00:47:43.000I mean, fair enough on Russ Ulbricht, that's pretty niche.
00:47:47.000But like, in terms of just basic truth about what is going on in the government, the secret stuff that everybody wants to know about... Nobody cares about it.
00:48:27.000They're going to ask, the single issue right now for everybody is immigration.
00:48:31.000That's the largest single issue, followed by economy in general.
00:48:36.000Why is it hard for me to buy bread and milk?
00:48:38.000And if you go... I mean, dude, I'll bet you a hundred bucks right now that if we go to a grocery store right now and just walk up to some random people and say, what's the most pressing issue for you in this election?
00:48:48.000They're not going to say the secret workings of the government.
00:49:14.000Yeah, but I think, I don't know, I don't agree.
00:49:17.000I think people do want to hear the secret truth of what's going on and I think that it's just this lingering feeling, this uncomfortable idea that, you know, there's just kind of this shadow government that is running and they want to know what's really going on.
00:49:34.000I think it's becoming much more of a mainstream thing.
00:49:37.000Bro, if you went to, if you drove your car ten minutes up the road and walked into like Dairy Queen and said,
00:49:43.000do you want to know the secrets about the inner workings of the government?
00:51:21.000The majority of people, the average person, does not go out and vote.
00:51:26.000The average person might watch Joe Rogan and want to hear about Bigfoot.
00:51:29.000They're not going and voting for Bigfoot as an issue, and most of those people aren't voting at all.
00:51:35.000I mean, if it gets spoken about on the debate stage or in any major context, then it can become a voting issue.
00:51:43.000I think the one thing that might is Epstein.
00:51:47.000But then we're talking about a guy who is actually a criminal, high-profile, working with government agencies, and died under mysterious circumstances.
00:51:57.000I think if we didn't have the inflation that we had in the past year, two years or so, I think you guys might be onto something, but I think that right now, the major topic on everybody's mind is the economy.
00:52:10.000But again, the largest single issue is immigration, followed by the economy, and I'm saying the only...
00:52:16.000So I don't know what you're implying there, Phil, because I'm disagreeing with his idea that people care about those things.
00:52:22.000People care about immigration, the economy, and then you go down the list and it's like the cost of rent, the price of houses, abortion, Israel-Palestine foreign policy.
00:52:32.000But even if you go down that list... Conspiracy stuff doesn't even crack the top 30 probably.
00:52:47.000The reason that I'm saying this, or the reason that I'm trying to make this point, is because, honestly, it's super depressing to me when I think about it.
00:52:55.000I do not have a very... I think there are a vanishingly few amount of people that actually care and actually pay attention to regularly, and even fewer people that know what they're talking about when you actually present them with, like, hey, what do you think of this topic?
00:53:11.000If you go to the average person and say, vote for Donald Trump and he's going to tell you about UFOs, they're going to say, shut up.
00:53:18.000If he started talking about it more seriously, I mean, you have politicians, Matt Gaetz, Representative Burschat, you've got like a UFO caucus now.
00:53:30.000We're not seeing videos on TikTok of dads going, walking their kitchen with a bag of groceries saying, I just want to know about these UFOs!
00:53:38.000Understood, but that's only if you think about it in the context of it not being related to the economy and not being related to the black budget.
00:53:47.000Yes, because if... Dude, you're convincing nobody.
00:54:00.000If there is, and I'm not claiming, I'm not on either side of it, I'm on pro-disclosure of the information, but if there is secret technology that exists, That is, you know, some new form of energy, then that has insane economic implications that changes the whole global economy.
00:54:22.000So you're talking about 0.1% of the population that watches those shows?
00:54:28.000But if you can educate people that disclosure of this information is going to have major impact on the economy, their quality of life, then It can change people's perspective on it.
00:54:42.000You don't spend, as a campaign, billions of dollars doing market research to figure out
00:54:46.000what people respond to, only to ignore the secrets that you're describing.
00:54:50.000The reality is, Democrats and Republicans have ideological bases that they target.
00:54:56.000Democrats—and this is the problem with the Libertarian Party—Democrats say,
00:55:17.000The Republicans are like, we want to go for the black community, Donald Trump is doing well, he's got endorsed by a Black Panther, the founding member, and register new voters because they lean towards Trump.
00:55:28.000The policies of the Republicans and Democrats are, what do we have to adopt policy-wise for the party that will maximize our vote potential?
00:55:35.000The Libertarian Party does the opposite.
00:55:37.000The Libertarian Party says, we don't care what the population thinks, we just want what we want, and they stay.
00:55:42.000And it's funny because Trump said 3%, which is unfair because they got 1.8 last time around.
00:55:46.000They're that miserably bad at what they do.
00:55:49.000So, you don't spend billions upon billions of dollars in market research to figure out what the average person cares about, only to then go, well they really do care about UFOs and government conspiracies, but we're going to ignore all of that and all of the money we spent on this research.
00:56:02.000If that were the case, it's the only thing they'd talk about.
00:56:06.000Well, I think that they should more, and that's why the top podcasts on the planet are talking about those things.
00:56:11.000And if you're not talking about those things, you're not paying attention.
00:56:14.000And that's, I think, to Trump's credit, I think that he does engage with those topics on Some level.
00:56:20.000You know, he does not dismiss those things, and I think that that's an important strategy to continue.
00:56:26.000The issue is, the people who care more about UFOs than, say, immigration or the economy, are not going to vote on that issue.
00:56:35.000No one actually thinks that they're going to get any information or that it matters.
00:56:39.000The things that motivate people are when they wake up and they can't buy milk for their kids.
00:56:42.000All that I'm saying is that it is smart for a candidate to make, like, in the same way that he said, OK, I'm going to be pro Bitcoin and he created that political division between him and Biden.
00:57:30.000The top issue right now with 21% is government poor leadership.
00:57:36.000You mean the people don't feel comfortable with a disabled man holding on to the nuclear football?
00:57:44.000Immigration has dropped from 27%, the single largest, into May at 18%.
00:57:50.000And this has pushed government poor leadership to the forefront as the single largest.
00:57:57.000Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to stress, the single largest issue right now among voters, the plurality, is Joe Biden's brain don't work.
00:58:08.000Followed by immigration, the economy in general, and the high cost of living and inflation, and then we have poverty, hunger, and homelessness, then the federal budget deficit, then we have abortion, elections reform, unifying the country, ethics, moral, religious, family decline, foreign policy, foreign aid, focus overseas, and Having learned this important fact, from now on, all segments of TimCast IRL will be, Biden's brain is broken, here's why, and then whatever subject you're talking about matters.
00:58:42.000And that's why we gotta talk about Bitcoin.
00:58:43.000Because that's what people want to click on.
00:58:44.000They want to click on Biden's broken brain.
00:58:46.000I don't know how much you guys looked at it, but the Time interview that came out today that was done at the end of May is fascinating for this reason.
00:58:52.000They point out the fact that, you know, when asked about what's going on with China, he references Putin.
00:58:58.000When he's asked about something that's going on in South America, he starts referencing Africa.
00:59:03.000The state of Biden, and this is a private interview prearranged with Biden's press corps, right?
00:59:08.000Like it couldn't have been a safer environment for him to be interviewed.
00:59:12.000I think the Times is pretty sympathetic to him and it's still not looking good.
00:59:16.000But I think it's interesting because when American people One of you guys were talking before, I pulled up this poll from Hamilton College that talked about or was measuring the amount of people that say that they're aware of politics, that they're engaged in the news.
00:59:30.000And it was highest, you know, this poll is from 2022.
00:59:32.000So it was particularly high during COVID.
00:59:34.000I think a lot of people can explain why.
00:59:38.000They felt like they had to watch the news to get information.
00:59:40.000And I think with Biden's slipping leadership, both, you know, the cognitive stumbles, the physical stumbles, but also just generally conflicting signaling on the international front, I think people are starting to say things are not going well and their options are either to like close their eyes and try to avoid the media at all and stick their heads in the sand or to become really aware and kind of overthink what's going on in the U.S., for U.S.
01:00:06.000and especially in the Biden White House.
01:00:07.000I mean, I think that's a great idea to focus on the brain broken, like constantly, because that's such a natural human instinct to just, oh, my leader can't function.
01:00:19.000I think it makes total sense that that's the top issue because people don't feel confident at all.
01:00:24.000So it's wild to me that we have become such a gluttonous and successful nation that the issues that affect us now are unrelated to policy.
01:00:37.000The issues that we truly deeply care about are turning into cultural issues and not where's the food coming from.
01:00:45.000Now don't get me wrong, where's the food coming from is a huge issue, but I'm saying like Man, we are, we have fat homeless people.
01:00:53.000Like, we have truly conquered, rather poorly I might add, but man, just go back a hundred, two hundred years and tell the people in this country and be like, you know, you know what people are gonna be voting on for president?
01:01:09.000And they're going to be like, Aren't people gonna be worried?
01:01:11.000Well, I mean, like, it's all ancillary, like, if your president's broken, can you really solve the economic problems and all that stuff?
01:01:17.000But people are gonna be complaining about all sorts of weird things in TV shows, movies, the words that are being used, and they're gonna be like, how will you have time to do that when you are hungry and starving and winter is coming?
01:01:28.000And I go, no, we got refrigerators, we got preserved foods, we have trucks and planes that can transport food.
01:01:33.000You go to, you go to, um, Didn't they hide Roosevelt's condition for a while?
01:02:02.000But there was so little media pointed at them.
01:02:06.000And media was so different back then that it was way easier to have it not be a top
01:02:11.000And I think not being able to walk wasn't there a story about them like Like strapping him to a podium so he could stand during a speech right like they would put the you know, whatever Not being able to talk is very different than not being able to effectively communicate with the people I mean, I don't know how Not being able to stand is different from...
01:03:16.000You have to find the link and go for it.
01:03:18.000And they'll be like, oh, well, he's got some acid reflux, but other than that, he seems okay.
01:03:24.000This is obviously a huge lie to the American people, and I think it is a strange position for the party that's saying, like, well, we released the White House visitor logs.
01:04:46.000I mean, so the New Jersey primary is yesterday, and I think it's something like over 6% of the write-in vote was not Biden, right?
01:04:53.000And that's actually not a cognitive commentary.
01:04:55.000That's, again, a geopolitical that has to do with Hamas, Israel, and Palestine.
01:05:00.000But people either don't want him for ideological reasons, or they don't look at him and say, we're confident you can make it.
01:05:07.000This is a very strange position for an incumbent president to be in, where people are saying, You just don't make me feel safe either because you can't talk or because I think you're gonna send us to war.
01:05:18.000Well maybe the point of the criminal trials against Trump is to make sure he doesn't talk about real issues.
01:05:23.000So that he's constantly just going, they're putting me in jail!
01:05:45.000But I think, you know, his rallies are funny, but I wonder if, I'm not saying Trump's falling for it, but I wonder if their strategy is just make sure he doesn't talk about the issues Americans care about and are actually worried about.
01:05:57.000Yeah, it's good for him to acknowledge the situation that he's in but not fall too much into the victim non-stop mindset and just stay focused on actual issues.
01:06:08.000And I think you could – I mean, again, I always think Trump should be on the offensive here.
01:06:12.000I'm interested in the debate because – not because I think we'll have any intelligent, nuanced conversation about policy, but I do think it would be interesting to see Trump be on the offensive and say, Biden, you have to explain why America is in the state that it's in right now.
01:06:26.000Why are we looking at conflict internationally on so many fronts?
01:06:29.000Why do people feel like there is no way out?
01:06:31.000They're sort of in an economic downward spiral because everything is so expensive.
01:06:37.000Why are you not being held accountable?
01:06:39.000Trump has a lot of punches to throw in this respect.
01:06:42.000And if the moderator and Biden are able to say, well, you were just convicted in a trial and Trump Doesn't just push it aside and keep pushing on Biden's record.
01:06:52.000You know, it's showing that there's definitely a way to distract him from the advantage that he could lean into.
01:09:21.000It's very sad for his family, you know, his young children.
01:09:24.000Again, his office had been a little bit sketchy about not being honest about the fact that he wasn't in good conditions, that things were looking pretty serious.
01:09:32.000And so theoretically, that would have been the time when voters were like, oh, no, maybe we've got to like plan ahead.
01:10:53.000It was when Bill Clinton went on and played sax and talked to, you know, the MTV generation.
01:10:59.000He was cool, musician, blah, blah, blah.
01:11:01.000But the Rock the Vote was just getting people out to vote.
01:11:05.000And it didn't matter that they were unaware of what the thing was.
01:11:10.000And the way that Rock the Vote was, if I recall correctly, the way that it was presented, it wasn't partisan.
01:11:18.000You still, like, it wasn't partisan, but you still kind of got the sense that people were probably going to vote for Democrats because the Democrats were the not stuffy ones.
01:12:08.000I'm now wondering if Payne's wife is going to run in his place because the last two times, again, I'm going to reference Hale Boggs and Nick Begich when they went missing in Alaska and they won their elections, it ended up being their wives who ran and Hale Boggs' wife did win.
01:12:25.000I think it's always weird when this stuff happens.
01:12:27.000I think if you were to have no name on the ballot, It would have been interesting because maybe the community would, in this case, have fundamentally been like, oh, well, this person is already someone I know and who's been active in our community, and that's who I think should represent us.
01:12:41.000But ultimately, I think it's just sort of name association, like the fact that this guy had this seat for so long after his dad held it for a long time, like this community is just sort of like, I don't know, that's the guy who does this job.
01:12:53.000It would take more legwork for people to be aware of what's going on.
01:12:56.000They'd have to be more plugged into their community if they were trying to have to select someone on the fly after someone has Only net taxpayers can vote.
01:13:12.000From now on, the court of Tim Cass has agreed, if you're not a net taxpayer, you don't get to vote.
01:13:17.000Which basically means, like, only the top 20% of income earners in the country get to vote from now on.
01:13:23.000So that basically means, like, everybody watching the show, you can't vote anymore.
01:13:27.000Net taxpayer is not an easy thing to accomplish.
01:13:30.000Because basically the way it works is, if you're spending like, if your tax bill at the end of the year is like $20K, you're not a net taxpayer.
01:13:38.000I think it's gotta be like $60,000 or $70,000 in taxes paid before you become a net taxpayer.
01:13:46.000It means you are paying more than you are receiving.
01:13:50.000So the amount of people in this country who pay more than they receive is super small.
01:13:56.000The overwhelming majority of people in this country, including the working class and middle class, are receiving more from the government than they're paying into it.
01:14:02.000And it's overwhelmingly the wealthy that are covering the costs.
01:14:06.000Technically, it's a modern monetary theory and the government just prints money in deficit spends into oblivion until the system crashes.
01:14:17.000I mean, I'm not saying it's a perfect solution, but the idea that anyone can show up to a polling station, vote for a dead guy, I think the dead guy should be the one in office, and no one can challenge him.
01:15:59.000You had to have served this nation, have a real stake in the future of this nation, and that includes land and family.
01:16:09.000I think the land and family are actually a big part of it.
01:16:11.000I mean I think ultimately we want our voters to be engaged in our civic process and we want – I mean I remember when Vivek Ramaswamy talked about this, right?
01:16:18.000Like you want people who feel as though they are actively participating in the society, that they have ties to the culture and especially to their communities to be the people casting votes to decide what happens here.
01:17:09.000The vote was fairly novel in like 1800, you know what I mean?
01:17:14.000It's not like it was common for the average man to be able to vote.
01:17:18.000The average person, like the, you hear a lot of feminists talk about the fact that like it took so long for women to get the vote and et cetera, which is a blatant lie because if you look at on a, on a, on a societal timescale, right?
01:17:32.000long human beings have been human beings and we've had societies, the men got the right
01:17:37.000to vote and instantaneously, instantaneously women did.
01:17:41.000If you look at it at a full-time scale, it was what, 50 years, 100 years?
01:17:45.000Less than 100 years women got the vote.
01:17:47.000So in 200,000 years that human beings have been human and 100,000 years that we've had
01:17:52.000fairly complex societies and they didn't have votes, like you know, didn't at all.
01:17:58.000And all men didn't have enfranchisement when the US was created.
01:18:02.000It was only, you know, we were talking select few.
01:18:04.000So then even beyond that, once all men got enfranchised, actually all men, it was almost instantaneously that women did too.
01:18:12.000It's just that if you say that men oppressed women, then you can go ahead and demand goodies from the government.
01:20:17.000It's really funny because we've been talking about this, like, there should be lists of the Democrats who are going to be criminally prosecuted for the things they did.
01:20:23.000And, like, you know, Hillary Clinton's way up on the list.
01:20:55.000Well, it's because Bannon was talking about it.
01:20:57.000And I'm like, The media is like, Trump supporters threatened to jail Alvin Bragg, and it's like, dude, that is an understatement.
01:21:05.000The people who are going to be criminally charged and arrested, and I want to give a shout out to the Biden administration for posting the clip from this show, where I said we will have investigations.
01:21:17.000Okay, I'll tell you exactly how we'll do it.
01:21:20.000Trump will be elected, and then he will appoint an attorney general that will launch investigations, and where there is evidence, warrants will be issued.
01:21:31.000We will then take the Democrats to a room to be made comfortable, and then the prosecutors and the law enforcement officers will make a decision about what to do next.
01:21:43.000I think it's funny that there's clearly a group of people in the Biden campaign that are assigned to watch TimCast IRL every night.
01:22:14.000I believe that when Trump is elected, all Democrats and Republicans who have committed crimes should be criminally charged when there's evidence and there are warrants granted by judges or grand juries, indictments returned, and they should go to jail.
01:22:41.000There was a Secret Service agent who wanted to testify that Cassidy Hutchinson was lying about Donald Trump attacking the driver of the beast, and Liz Cheney didn't want to do it.
01:22:58.000The pearl clutching on the, you know, Trump says that maybe Democrats should be jailed from the left-wing media was really funny today, partially because it was like, he's suggesting he would go after his political enemies.
01:26:29.000Well, and his, I mean, I've always felt this way because I've always identified as conservative, but like, it's harder for me to think about what you would ask Biden because I just know his goals are very different from, from mine.
01:26:41.000Like I could ask him questions about, or, you know, Tim could ask him questions about immigrations, but his objectives for immigration in this country are very different than what I would go for.
01:26:58.000It's very different than talking to someone who you believe would potentially carry out policies that you're sympathetic to.
01:27:03.000I would be interested in asking Biden about his previous record, having him answer for his record in the Senate because it seems like so often Biden doesn't really Remember what's going on or seems like do you remember at one point there was this whole story about how he would say his first wife you know who died you know in a car accident his daughter died it's very sad uh but then he started saying that the other driver was drunk and it was a DUI situation and that driver's family had to like sue him to get him to stop like he'll say stuff that just doesn't really make sense and I would be interested in hearing an explanation for his own record to see like if he's like I never voted for that or you know whatever because like
01:27:49.000It just doesn't seem like the Biden that was elected to Congress is the same Biden that was in the Obama White House, including and in his current White House.
01:28:28.000I mean, the smartest thing he could do would be to go on a comedy show or something and actually have someone ask him those questions and have a sense of humor about it.
01:28:38.000He should get interviewed by Zach Galifianakis.
01:29:03.000And I think that's part of the reason why Trump has done like podcasts and stuff like that is because he's making it clear that even if you don't like him, he can still have normal conversations where he is totally cognizant, where
01:29:16.000he is present, even if you don't like his answers, even if he's gonna BS you,
01:29:19.000because he's still gonna be Trump. Not saying that he's gonna be different, he's still
01:29:23.000gonna be Donald Trump, but at least he's going to understand the questions
01:29:26.000you're asking and be able to respond with something coherent. His
01:29:39.000But, you know, I've talked to their team, and they said high likelihood that we end up doing like an actual full show with everyone, you know, sitting down talking with them.
01:29:47.000And the reason for it is, because we're gonna pull up a story like dead Democrats win, like, Trump, and like, and then we'll talk and then Trump will give his thoughts.
01:29:55.000Because Trump often talks about Big, big issues.
01:30:00.000But having him sit down with a variety of news stories, like imagine if we were able to pull up Star Wars, right?
01:30:07.000The Acolytes, big news, are saying it's getting woke, it's going broke.
01:30:10.000Imagine getting to hear Trump talk about in-depth cultural issues, how he feels about movies, TV shows, and what it means for American culture.
01:30:16.000A lot of people would groan and say, I want to hear about immigration.
01:30:20.000Trump did a million interviews about it.
01:30:21.000Imagine you have an opportunity to sit down with Trump and hear him just give a stream of consciousness on all of these issues and what he thinks about them in a real conversation.
01:30:40.000I think Donald Trump would probably thrive here.
01:30:44.000The thing that Donald Trump has over Biden and has had over a lot of candidates, Republicans too, is that he has such a strong personality and that he is very comfortable on camera, you know, all the years being on reality TV paying off.
01:30:58.000I don't think Americans feel like they know Biden better after four years in the White House, right?
01:31:02.000They don't feel like he is more of a personality.
01:31:05.000He was sort of in Obama's shadow before.
01:33:14.000But he was mentioning, basically what happens is, as Vice hires more and more of these young woke people, they had to take down their own magazine covers off the wall.
01:33:24.000Vice had a wall in their office with all of their magazine covers.
01:33:27.000One of them said, We Heart Cops and had a cop on it, and it was meant to be tongue-in-cheek.
01:33:40.000I cannot believe Shane Smith was so weak.
01:33:43.000Like, I've met the guy, I've known him well or anything, but he always came off as kind of just like a, I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna get it done, get out of my way kind of guy.
01:33:53.000And in the moment some whiny, whinging, woke millennial showed up, he dropped to his knees and begged them and got ousted from his own company.
01:34:03.000And I think the issue is, Wesley Yang nails it.
01:34:06.000These people were so much more worried about what people would say about them as individuals, they decided the best course of action was strip as much resources out of the company as you can, agree with the mob, and disappear.
01:34:22.000That's what I think we're seeing across the board in all institutions, in politics especially.
01:34:27.000What we see with Vice is a great example of it.
01:34:30.000Vice was edgy, shocking, and offensive.
01:34:34.000And then a couple woke millennials got in, and they said, sell off the stock and jump ship.
01:34:39.000Because they didn't want to be perceived as bigots or something?
01:34:44.000There's a very simple formula to covering news that people actually click on, which is, so it'll be interesting to see what Washington Post does after this statement, because it's not like these people don't know what they could cover and what would go viral.
01:35:03.000It's very clear, like cover, you know, the Telegraph covered the COVID cause of excess deaths.
01:35:24.000The issue is that the CEOs were like, hey, we're losing money and the woke stuff doesn't play, but we're scared of our employees because they're going to call us mean words.
01:35:33.000So they burned their own companies to the ground.
01:36:34.000Like you need to have the other side on here.
01:36:37.000And basically because he has the cash to do it, he can potentially have a voice at the table that just the readership of BuzzFeed wouldn't have, which is another fascinating aspect to all of this.
01:36:47.000Like the Washington Post, BuzzFeed, at a certain point they're going to listen to who's in their staff room, yes, but they're also going to say like, Hey boardroom, do you guys all feel this way?
01:36:55.000It's not actually about the readers, it's about their own perspective on the world.
01:36:58.000I think what Vivek is doing is an institutional attack on BuzzFeed because BuzzFeed does not have... I could be wrong, I'd love to talk to Vivek about this.
01:37:07.000I don't see BuzzFeed as having the assets worthy of buying out and fighting for.
01:38:16.000Yeah, no, I'm just asking if there's any example, like... I think the only example that we know of in modern history was the Reno Reset, the Libertarian Party, when the Mises Caucus took over in 2022.
01:38:28.000Now, they did, and they won again, and Angela McArdle won her election again, but for a lot of reasons they nominated Chase Oliver, because, you know, it's not, it's, you know, just, the war's just over, done overnight.
01:38:41.000But, this is one thing a lot of people were talking about at the convention, is that this is one of the only institutions we've seen actually de-wokify.
01:38:49.000They took over, and there's still some cleaning up to do.
01:38:52.000If Dave Smith ran, he would have won the nomination easily, but he didn't, so you end up with politicking backroom deals, and then the worst candidate gets chosen.
01:39:01.000But they still, for the most part, de-woke-ified the core of the institution, and the people who are running the Libertarian Party are anti-woke.
01:39:07.000So, potentially, if Ramaswami were to be able to steer the ship back towards, you know, drifting farther and farther left for BuzzFeed, it would be a pretty symbolic win of sort of, you know, nature healing itself, at least coming back towards the center.
01:39:20.000Dude, I'd say by vice, but, like, you're better off just starting your own thing.
01:39:25.000You know, so I can really break down for you where Vice went wrong.
01:39:30.000And it was, they had an article that was titled something like, this horrible app can show you what women look like topless.
01:39:38.000It was an AI app where if you took a picture of a woman, it would algorithmically generate an image of them topless.
01:39:42.000It would generate an image of their boobs.
01:39:46.000And I was talking to some guys at Vice and I was like, guys, you wrote that article.
01:39:50.000I'm like, do you know what the article would have been titled in 2010?
01:39:55.000This amazing app can show you what women look like topless.
01:39:58.000Because Vice was intentionally trying to be shocking and punk rock.
01:40:02.000Now you're a bunch of whinging losers who are pissed off all the time.
01:40:07.000You went from being the kid in the back of the classroom with the leather jacket on shooting spitballs to the kid at the front of the class pushing his glasses up complaining to the teacher that someone's shooting spitballs at him.
01:40:17.000I was like, overnight you turned into that!
01:40:20.000You were the bad boys, and now you're the whiny, preppy losers!
01:40:23.000Is the whole news division shut down now?
01:42:01.000But I mean, the Washington Post guys should reach out.
01:42:03.000They got a big one a couple weeks ago.
01:42:06.000I would imagine some of these corporate media executives Want help, you know and like they might be willing to start covering reality I mean it seems like why is this guy making these public statements like this if he's not sort of like Asking for help.
01:42:20.000It seems like he's having making a cry for help.
01:42:22.000So You know, I mean it's public to the staff right like his his nobody's reading This was reportedly said and it could be wrong but in a staff meeting so right he is publicly saying it internally I guess he knows there's a there's a chance it could get leaked.
01:42:35.000Um, I mean it would just be interesting if There is – if we see a star reporter rise to the ranks of The Washington Post who kind of is saying, I always wanted to cover this stuff and now I couldn't and now I couldn't before but now I can, it really I think depends on – to a certain point like what the writing room is willing to cook up in terms of stewardship.
01:42:57.000We're going to go to Super Chats because we're a little bit late today, but I really wanted to read that media one.
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01:45:43.000I don't believe that David Pakman, um, and like, well, you know, look, like, Cenk Uygur likes to tweet things where he says, like, the Republicans believe all the lies from Trump, blah, blah, blah.
01:45:56.000But when he was on the Culture War show and I calmly was bringing up details from the Ahmaud Arbery case, he lost his mind and started going, and just like, that was an exaggeration.
01:46:10.000And I'm like, my dude, if you can't listen to a thing that happened, like, I don't know who you're talking about when you're saying they just listen to lies all the time.
01:46:18.000But that's the reality of these liberal personalities.
01:46:21.000For David Pakman, I guarantee you, my view of Pakman is that he knows he's lying.
01:46:28.000Because he has to read the news all day.
01:48:19.000There's no reality where the Krasensteins, Cenk Uygur, David Pakman, Kyle Klinsky, and the rest of them miss these stories and just, whoopsie, this one story went right over my head.
01:48:59.000The reality is these guys go online, read the news, and then think to themselves, hmm, well I can't cover this story because it'll piss off my audience, so I'm gonna ignore it.
01:49:08.000I'll give you another example for David Pakman.
01:49:11.000On one day, David and I ran the complete opposite stories.
01:49:16.000My story was Trump's approval rating skyrockets.
01:49:20.000David Pakman's story was Trump unfavorability skyrockets, or his polls tank.
01:49:53.000They selectively choose one story that will fit the narrative so they can rally their cult base and then accuse us of doing the opposite.
01:50:02.000Ladies and gentlemen, I will pull up CNN, MSNBC, Politico, and all the corporate press news guard certified sources in the world and show you they are reporting all of this stuff.
01:50:14.000And then they say that we're making it up and we're lying.
01:50:35.000If it is the top of news, it is literally what we talk about.
01:50:38.000When we start the show every night, the question is, what's the biggest story right now?
01:50:42.000What they would probably do is when I said that Western forces fired rockets into Russia, they're the kind of people who go, no, that's not true.
01:51:29.000There is no reality where if you were to actually read the news, you would conclude Donald Trump was guilty of civil fraud, sexual abuse, and this is the problem.
01:51:40.000It's not a question of whether you're pro-Trump or not pro-Trump.
01:51:43.000Did Joe Biden offer a quid pro quo to the President of Ukraine in exchange for firing the prosecutor?
01:52:55.000But the people who are coming out, these Democrat personalities, they're selectively pulling stories to lie to an audience to build a base.
01:53:04.000And it works, because political interests like it.
01:53:14.000He says, crew, I'm terrified if World War III starts, if a civil war kicks off, you can consider World War II and the Mongol invasion an effing joke.
01:53:37.000This is NATO weapons delivered to Ukraine to attack Russia directly.
01:53:44.000So this is a major and a tremendous escalation.
01:53:48.000Fighting in Ukraine, the argument is, we're allowing Ukraine to defend themselves from a Russian invasion.
01:53:52.000Giving Ukraine weapons and then saying, we hereby authorize the use of these to kill Russians on their own soil.
01:53:59.000Imagine if Russia deployed weapons to the cartels, trained them how to use it, and then handed the clicker to a cartel member and said, fire on New Mexico.
01:54:07.000We'd be like, yeah, Russia is attacking us.
01:54:09.000We don't care who's pressing the button.
01:54:20.000Let's see, Bucket Aquatic says, Tim, if there is a World War III and our replacement rate is below what it should be, who do you think will be drafted when the 18-27 year olds die?
01:54:28.000They'll take everyone they can for this one.
01:54:51.000And women in Congress who don't have to sign up for selective service have no right to create laws that require men to go to war and sacrifice their lives.
01:54:57.000But you know what the answer to that is?
01:54:59.000Those older people in Congress will just vote to draft women too.
01:56:02.000Jeff Green says maybe the Biden administration had him sign an executive order to pardon 350,000 immigrants and allow 250,000 a day because they are only pardoned if they fight for the U.S.
01:56:12.000It's 2,500 per day, and he didn't pardon 350,000.
01:58:33.000I think any sort of food scarcity would heighten tension.
01:58:36.000And again, if we're going back to the study I referenced before, people being more aware during the pandemic, or at least paying attention to the news more, like, I think that could actually backfire for Biden, because the news does not show that he is commanding strong leadership of this country right now.
01:59:49.000What they don't want is to lose public support.
01:59:51.000And at a time when the economy is being strained because of how they're spending, it is a problem if they come out and they're like, oh, we're doing the war.
02:00:00.000You already had that massively viral TikTok where the kids like, I can't afford rent.
02:00:04.000Why are we sending $100 billion to a country no one can find on a map?
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