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00:08:43.000And, you know, since we spoke last time, Congress went into recess without, you know, passing the Save America Act.
00:08:51.000You know, without beating a dead horse here, you know, how is it that a 90 10 issue across all sides, across every ethnic group, across literally the spectrum, the very broad spectrum that is America, how is it that that issue can't get through the Senate?
00:09:10.000Yeah, it's kind of horrifying to see something that everyone agrees on and then See it go nowhere.
00:09:18.000So you've got half the Senate, plus or minus, who's decided it's an existential threat for them if their voters, if their voters, air quote, have to show voter ID at the booth.
00:09:30.000They just can't exist as a party if they're not able to manufacture fraud in ridiculous amounts of nonsense.
00:09:37.000So that's a big problem is that the institutional Democrat Party just will not allow voter ID.
00:09:42.000The other problem, which I think is a little harder for us to deal with, is you have a bunch of Senate Republicans who just don't care.
00:09:49.000It already passed the House multiple times.
00:09:51.000And yet, even though we have a majority in the Senate, we have a bunch of people there who are obstructing either explicitly, like Lisa Murkowski, who's honestly really a Democrat, saying, I'm not voting for it.
00:10:01.000But I think you have a bunch of Republicans who, for reasons that I genuinely don't understand, maybe it's because they don't like Trump and it's a priority.
00:10:09.000So they decided, you know, screw that.
00:10:11.000But I think you have a bunch of Republicans in the Republican Party in the Senate who just decided they don't care.
00:10:17.000They're going to get reelected regardless.
00:10:18.000And so, whatever, they're not really in the mood to do the work they have to do to make it happen.
00:10:24.000I mean, You know, their entire party is basically protected by the fact that illegals are voting in these elections, quite obviously, as we saw in New Jersey a few weeks ago and everywhere else.
00:10:34.000But it's the Republicans that I don't understand.
00:10:36.000I mean, and again, whether they were even pretend Republicans, I mean, they were sent there by people wanting to push conservative ideas.
00:10:43.000And, you know, frankly, having to like prove that you're a citizen of the country that you're voting isn't even a conservative idea.
00:10:48.000It's a common sense idea, which is why it's a 90 10 issue.
00:10:52.000But yeah, does anything you think change?
00:10:54.000Is there anything that can get this thing over the line, or you just think it just, you know, hangs there in perpetuity?
00:11:00.000I don't think it'll hang in perpetuity.
00:11:02.000I think that a lot of Republican senators need to get educated on the consequences of not doing their job.
00:11:20.000You had the same thing with Bill Cassidy down in Louisiana.
00:11:23.000These guys are people who wanted the praise of the elites, they wanted the praise of the media, they wanted to be looked at as reasonable guys.
00:11:31.000And they thought they could pull it off, and the Republican voters said, No, we're tired of this crap and we're sending you home.
00:11:36.000So I think that needs to happen more and more often.
00:11:39.000And I know all these Republican senators were pissed off when Trump didn't come in and save Paxton or save Cornyn and Paxton won instead.
00:11:55.000Well, my father also is like, If that's what the people want and these guys aren't going to give it to them, like, You can't do it.
00:12:02.000And then you have, you know, SLF out there spending what they spend, like a hundred, more than a hundred million dollars to try to save a guy that literally couldn't be saved even with a hundred million dollars, but couldn't be saved because he wouldn't do what his people wanted him to do.
00:12:18.000It's like the easy, it's actually the easiest job in the world being a Republican senator.
00:12:22.000You just have to do all the things you promised.
00:12:25.000Just show up and vote for the things you said you would do and then accomplish it.
00:12:29.000And then you can go home and you'll be a hero.
00:12:31.000But for some reason, I think they're still stuck in this age where they think it matters if the New York Times likes you or the Washington Post or CNN.
00:12:41.000And it's also the local, you know, it's the DC mentality, right?
00:12:43.000They know what it is, but it's, to your point, it's harder to be a Republican when you go against your people because you got to get reelected.
00:12:51.000But it is easy to be a Republican in DC if you're like only 85% Republican.
00:12:57.000You know, you can vote Republican on a bunch of stuff, but when it really matters, you know, gun control, abortion, whatever, you know, the immigration, The Save America Act.
00:13:06.000You know, as long as you fold on like the big ones, the things are actually really, really, really important to people, you know, they leave you alone.
00:13:12.000They write nice articles about you and you get invited to the cool person Christmas party.
00:13:15.000And that's really problematic because that doesn't work.
00:13:17.000And it's the exact opposite way of how the Democrats function.
00:13:22.000I mean, I think back to the Obamacare vote.
00:13:24.000We had been told by Republican leaders, hey, you have to give us the White House and the Congress and the Senate, and then we'll get rid of Obamacare.
00:13:32.000And then as soon as the voters gave it to them, In you have people like John McCain who come in to save the Democrats and, like, nah, I'm not going to do it.
00:13:39.000And then they get feted by the media and praised and all that.
00:13:43.000If you don't do what they demand, they will take you out and your career is over.
00:13:48.000I kind of wish we would have a little more discipline like they do as voters.
00:13:52.000But I think we need to send some more examples to Republican senators that you work for us.
00:13:58.000And if you're not going to do the work for us, we're going to take you out.
00:14:01.000So, how do you, you know, obviously there's a lot of primaries that have already passed.
00:14:05.000How do you do that sort of this late in the game?
00:14:07.000Because some of these guys just, you know, they win their primaries and, you know, we're not that interested basically until the presidential cycles, which is really scary, especially when you see, you know, the bench that the Democrats are putting up this time around.
00:14:18.000It's like, I don't really want to support that Republican.
00:14:20.000There's no enthusiasm for a lot of these guys, which I totally understand.
00:14:24.000At the same time, the alternative is shockingly still like a lot worse.
00:14:29.000Yeah, I think there are some things you can do.
00:15:10.000I don't even know what you're thinking.
00:15:11.000It's a, well, not just five days a week, like five days a week when they're in session and then they're out of session for months at a time.
00:15:28.000And we had an issue about a month ago, maybe not even a month, where you had a bunch of senators missing votes on appellate court nominees because they wanted to go to an air show in London.
00:16:23.000And so you've got to get your diehards out.
00:16:25.000And right now on the right, There are people pissed off at the Republican Senate, looking at them refusing to do their jobs and thinking, we gave you the majority.
00:16:35.000We gave you everything you said you needed and you didn't do anything.
00:17:13.000You saw that even after the 2024 election.
00:17:17.000A month later, you have a special election that controls the Supreme Court in Wisconsin, which ultimately does the redistricting and decides what's going on.
00:17:24.000And if everyone showed up, we win that thing in a hand.
00:17:34.000You have like an election in two days that literally decides the future state of the state, and it's they had no idea.
00:17:39.000And I mean, you know, we can't simply just laugh at how insane the DSA candidates.
00:17:45.000I'm guilty of doing that on this show all the time because it is great material, but we actually also have to make sure that we win these races in places like Michigan.
00:17:55.000What do you think the most effective way to do that is right now?
00:17:58.000Yeah, I think you have to educate everyone on how existential this election is.
00:18:04.000And it probably feels cliched at this point here.
00:18:06.000Oh, it's the most important election ever.
00:18:09.000But look at what these people do when they get in power they try to throw everyone they don't like in prison, they cheer when people they don't like aren't assassinated.
00:18:18.000They cheer when people they don't like are assassinated.
00:19:21.000Yeah, I mean, you highlighted a 2024 Pew finding that only 42% of adults under 50 said the American dream was still even possible for most people.
00:19:33.000What would restoring that dream look like in the actual life of a young American right now?
00:19:41.000Yeah, I found the numbers shocking because it wasn't millennials or Ziers.
00:20:04.000A lot of these people work really hard.
00:20:05.000A lot of people for 20 years have been turned down for job after job after job because they have the wrong skin color or the wrong politics or the wrong sex.
00:20:13.000So I think you have to go into these institutions and you have to crush the left and you have to crush the DEI infrastructure that they've set up.
00:20:52.000And I know plenty of people that it's happened to.
00:20:55.000I think about it with my young kids and, you know, I don't know, my, you know, white boy children with, you know, definitely coming from a place of privilege.
00:21:04.000Like they could never go to the schools that I go into.
00:21:06.000They'd never even think, they could have a 4.0 GPA.
00:21:09.000They could have a perfect board so they could have everything.
00:21:19.000And you think about the productive capacity that we've lost by telling an entire generation of people, No, no, no, you don't get to have these jobs.
00:21:29.000Well, and you have to report to someone who you know is dumber than you and only got the job because they did check a couple boxes, not because of any actual merit in most cases.
00:21:43.000You've also got to deal with the massive immigration problem.
00:21:47.000It is insane that both legally and illegally, we're importing replacement level numbers of labor, of jobs.
00:21:56.000You cannot do that in a country for 50 years and then be shocked when you look around you and you see actual Americans being boxed out of the job because they don't want to work for below market wages, subsidized by the governments who are sending these people to flood our borders.
00:22:10.000So I think those are the two most important things.
00:22:14.000Engine, you just got to pour sand in it or sugar in it and just crush it.
00:22:18.000And then you've got to turn off the illegal immigration and to a large extent, the legal immigration spigot.
00:22:23.000Like there's no reason we should be importing millions of people to do jobs just because they can do them for cheaper because they're subsidized by their own government than giving those jobs to actual Americans, to people whose families bled in the wars for this country and who built it from the ground up.
00:22:39.000So those two things, I think, radically transform our economy and actually make it work for everyone again.
00:22:45.000Well, I know the administration's doing a lot of those things, but it's also the problem with politics that everyone expects sort of instant gratification.
00:22:52.000You could have, to your point, a half a century, 50 years of failed policy doing the exact opposite.
00:22:58.000And it's like they expect it fixed in a year, two years, three years, even four years.
00:23:05.000What's really interesting about when I look at the administration is my father's actually playing this sort of like 50 year game, which is like, hey, we're bringing back manufacturing, but like you do that in 2024.
00:23:16.000It takes five years to get the factory even up and running.
00:23:18.000I mean, you're creating some construction jobs.
00:23:20.000You're creating, I mean, there's definitely some creation.
00:23:23.000But the real value is actually when those things go operational and they're making their widget and they're employing the people to do that and they're employing the people to transport it.
00:23:33.000And the reality is, like, the next president, or possibly even in some cases, two presidents from now, are actually going to be the people that see the benefit.
00:23:40.000And of course, I'm sure they'll take the credit even if they had nothing to do with the policy.
00:23:45.000And he's the first president we've had in.
00:23:48.00030 plus years, who has actually taken that long view, said, Hey, you know, I've inherited this house where they've not done any maintenance on it for decades.
00:23:57.000That house isn't going to be ship shaped and structurally sound overnight.
00:24:21.000I mean, first off, you have to kill off the completely lecherous foreign industries that have been coming in, dumping stuff below market to steal market share, to drive us out of it.
00:24:33.000It takes time, it takes tariffs, by the way, which are a really, really important tool.
00:24:38.000And wouldn't you know, a bunch of people who got rich over 30 years by offshoring America, turns out they don't really like the idea of onshoring manufacturing capacity again.
00:24:48.000I honestly couldn't care less what they think.
00:24:50.000I feel like they've made their money selling out the country.
00:25:06.000I mean, I'd be curious at your thoughts on some of the, you know, the Democrats are definitely very guilty of this a lot, you know, where they just, they've shown a clear disdain for Americans in general, certainly working class Americans, you know, certainly even more so Americans that don't check any boxes or, you know, are just conservative leaning.
00:25:23.000But, you know, what are your thoughts on some of this?
00:25:25.000What we've seen in the last, you know, week or two with, You know, basically, conservatives talking down to Americans who are saying, Hey, man, like the price of a burrito is a little high, it's too high.
00:25:49.000But if I see that, how is it that so many other Republicans don't see it and are still willing to sort of step into the same, you know, traps that Democrats have, basically, you know, talking down to the people that are supposed to elect them in a couple months?
00:26:17.000Hey, I'm the son of a billionaire from the 67th floor of Trump Towers, where I grew up, overlooking Central Park.
00:26:23.000Like, if I see that there's a problem, like, how is it that I know, like, hey, man, like, A, you have to address it, and B, like, certainly don't talk shit to people who are actually complaining about it.
00:26:35.000I mean, it's hard to believe to watch, and it's usually from the neocon side because, you know, they.
00:26:41.000They want to perpetuate wars and all these kinds of things.
00:26:43.000They never met a war they didn't love.
00:26:44.000But it's scary that they don't get that because if we're talking about having to gin up enthusiasm in an otherwise unenthusiastic year because of midterms in general and historically how things play out, that seems like a really bad way to go about it unless you secretly want Democrats to win because it's easier to be in the opposition.
00:27:02.000It's easier to be like, well, they're in power now and they're blowing everything up and we can just talk shit about it.
00:27:30.000If we can just throw the next election or two, we'll get MAGA, you know, we'll get it out of our system and then we can take control again.
00:27:38.000But there is also a part of it where I think people are just utterly detached from reality.
00:27:42.000And a basic rule of politics when someone tells you they're concerned about something, you don't tell them, No, you're stupid and you're actually not concerned about that.
00:27:53.000No, like find ways to meet people where they are.
00:27:57.000I cannot tell you the number of people I talk to, whether they are new college graduates, whether they're in their 30s, or whether they're approaching their 50s, saying, man, I don't remember life being this hard.
00:28:08.000I don't understand why I have to have a two earner family, each earning six figures, and we're still having a hard time paying for college.
00:28:18.000Used cars, by the way, cost like $15,000 to $20,000 now.
00:28:24.000To look at that and just say, no, actually, everything's fine and you're dumb and your problem is you use DoorDash too much, you are consigning yourself to utter irrelevance.
00:28:32.000Because the reality is, 99% of these problems have been caused by Democrats and the left.
00:28:38.000They have been caused by 30 years of nonsense.
00:28:41.000And it's our side, it's the conservatives and the Republicans who actually have the solutions.
00:28:46.000So go out there and talk about the solutions, which, by the way, are not big government, they're not socialism.
00:28:52.000Undoing all of the awful things that government has done for decades to destroy this country.
00:28:58.000And so I just, I find it utterly mind boggling.
00:29:01.000I think these people must be so bubbled.
00:29:03.000I think they don't talk to anyone who's ever worked with their hands for a living.
00:29:07.000I don't think they've talked to anyone who's graduated from college in the last five or 10 years.
00:29:11.000Because if they had, there is no way you can look at things and be like, yeah, this is as good as it can ever be.
00:29:20.000Yeah, sort of along a similar line, what's your sort of take on some of these things you're seeing again?
00:29:24.000The sort of neocon establishment going after JD Vance for basically mirroring my father's policies and trying to, you know, saying the same thing and then just sort of re clipping it and, you know, just flagrantly falsely interpreting it to be like, he's going against.
00:29:38.000I mean, what do you think of that attack?
00:29:39.000Because the people that are doing it are, you know, they don't, it's like they don't have the balls to attack my father directly.
00:29:46.000So they're like, they're going after him because they don't want to do the other thing.
00:29:49.000But it's clearly designed to, you know, to go after that, you know, again, the MAGA potential side and reclaim that, you know, You know, neocon, you know, mindset for future elections.
00:30:02.000Like, this was a failed experiment, and we're going to go back to what we did, which was clearly failed.
00:30:09.000I mean, this actually has at least done positive things and is doing positive things, sort of, despite them.
00:30:23.000It's just a power grab, and, you know, they know how to, you know, benefit themselves from that.
00:30:28.000Yeah, I think a lot of it is a power grab.
00:30:30.000It actually reminds me, it feels in a lot of ways like we're living 2015 and 2016 again.
00:30:36.000It's all of the exact same people who were never Trump then.
00:30:39.000Yeah, the people who hated Trump in 16, the people who then pretended to like him for a couple of years and then hated him again after January 6th.
00:30:47.000And then, you know, until he was, you know, he was dead in the water until he wasn't.
00:32:09.000So they think they can play these cute little games and go after JD and be like, oh, JD, oh, there's some daylight here with JD and Trump, which by the way is not even true.
00:32:19.000Well, beyond that, like, if there was, do we think for one moment that Trump wouldn't be like on TV, like talking about?
00:32:27.000They said it about me, like, oh, Don Jr.'s not following his father's policies.
00:32:58.000But the neocons think they can play these cutesy little games and, like, oh, we don't want to attack MAGA because then Trump will come after us.
00:33:04.000We don't want to attack America first because he'll come after us.
00:33:13.000These people are morons and they're actually too stupid to understand this, which I'm kind of fine with.
00:33:19.000But they're also at the same time, they're trying to wreck the country and they're trying to wreck the midterms so that they can rule over the ashes of the Republican Party.
00:33:27.000And I think the only thing we can do is mock them for being retarded, which all of them are, and then utterly reject their nonsense.
00:33:34.000I mean, I guess the other side of that is also one thing that's so consistent about Democrats, because we got a lot of news about this one this week, is that they will accuse you of exactly whatever it is that they are doing.
00:33:47.000You know, Saul Alinsky, rules for radicals.
00:33:50.000I mean, We saw Eric Swalwell just this week.
00:33:53.000You know, while he was spouting about Russia, Russia, Russia nonsense and subpoenaing me, and I'm, you know, I'm sure the Democrats, you know, I imagine I haven't gotten my last subpoena from the Democrats and, you know, last congressional testimony because, you know, their playbook's old.
00:34:06.000But while he was doing that and leading the charge on all of that, he was in bed with literally a foreign spy.
00:34:14.000But now more and more has come out about that.
00:34:16.000I mean, how much further do you think that goes?
00:34:18.000I mean, that, A, that it took this long to figure this stuff out.
00:34:21.000But I mean, the guy that was on the Intelligence Committee, the guy that was, you know, Leading the charge that somehow me and the rest of my family are agents of Russia sleeping with a Chinese spy.
00:34:33.000And like every week, there's more information that comes out about it.
00:34:35.000How is it that this is taking so long?
00:34:37.000And what do you think happens about it now?
00:34:38.000Or now that he's sort of out of the political prospects, does it even matter anymore?
00:34:43.000Yeah, he's doing what Democrats always do.
00:34:45.000He used the acronym DARVO, D A R V O, deny attack and then reverse dictum and offender.
00:35:02.000And by the way, the fact that this guy was on the intelligence committee, I think, tells you everything you need to know about the fact that they didn't remove him after they found out this had actually happened is even crazier, right?
00:35:35.000And by the way, if there's one thing that anyone who doesn't know anything about my father, like, he's gotten better about it because of politics.
00:35:43.000But like, my father's like one of the biggest germaphobes, maybe in history.
00:35:48.000Like, he's reluctant to shake like family members' hands at times.
00:35:51.000Like, again, politics, but like back in 17, this was still very much the case.
00:35:55.000Like, so you're telling me like years before that, he was like letting random Russian, like, I was like, This doesn't even come close to passing a smell test.
00:36:03.000And anyone who knows them actually, but that doesn't matter.
00:36:21.000They legal fee people to death in some cases.
00:36:25.000So many people on the original campaign just keep them busy and tied up till they lose their home, they lose their mortgage, they lose their family.
00:36:31.000And oh, well, there's no recourse back on them.
00:36:35.000We were just trying to get to the bottom of it.
00:36:39.000Obviously, that's going to be their playbook again, but I imagine it's just the system and we're going to have to deal with it.
00:37:15.000I wish Republicans would learn this lesson and maybe do a little of it back as opposed to their nonsensical unilateral disarmament.
00:37:22.000But yeah, you had Eric Swalwell, Mr. Fang Fang Bang Bang, who he was using a Chinese spy to reimburse campaign donors, which is like 50 million different ways of illegal.
00:37:35.000And while all this was going on, you had the FBI, based on literal made up lies from Democrat operatives, saying, you know, actually, we should probably just investigate Trump and everyone for Russia at the same time.
00:37:59.000But he certainly deserves to go through the same thing that he put other people through because he actually did wrong stuff.
00:38:06.000He actually did things that were materially harmful to our national security.
00:38:10.000And I think he should have to pay for it.
00:38:12.000Well, I mean, speaking of sort of fraud and hypocrisy and paying for stuff, You can't talk about any of those things without talking about Tony Fauci.
00:38:21.000We now know that he knew the vaccine wasn't working as advertised.
00:38:24.000He lied and he hid the truth so he could keep pushing vaccine mandates.
00:38:28.000I imagine he profited handsomely from that, whether that be directly or indirectly, just being famous and the speaking tours or whatever it may be.
00:38:38.000I mean, this has to be one of the greatest abuses of American power scandals in history.
00:39:00.000It wasn't in a random wet market, it was Fauci and his friends ignoring gain of function research bans within the government and going and finding viruses in the wild and then weaponizing them so that they could make humans sick.
00:39:35.000So I hope every attorney general in the country that has original criminal jurisdiction starts going after this guy for negligent homicide, um, for medical malpractice and fraud, uh, for manslaughter.
00:39:48.000I don't care if Biden, if Biden gave him a federal pardon, um, There's a whole lot of charges out there that I think he needs to pay for, and he should spend the rest of his life paying for them.
00:39:58.000Do you think that actually happens, right?
00:40:00.000Because I mean, I think you do need to see the accountability because you're right.
00:40:04.000It's not just the vaccine that could have done damage or could have forced women into miscarriages and whatever else it may be.
00:40:10.000It was to your point, and again, it's not something that people talk about even in this conversation, even frankly from our side, which is that he was the guy pushing gain of function, which allowed the virus to be much worse than it should have been.
00:40:24.000For years and lying about it, funding it with our taxpayer dollars, making it worse.
00:40:29.000You know, then it gets released whether, you know, China did that on purpose or not.
00:40:32.000You know, who knows, but wouldn't surprise me.
00:40:33.000And then, you know, it'd probably be another conspiracy theory proven right if we actually took it down the line.
00:41:16.000He told Rand Paul he was stupid while he was keeping a personal diary of all of his crimes on a government computer.
00:41:23.000Just on principle alone, he should go to waste forever for that, just for being stupid.
00:41:28.000Yeah, it'd be one thing if he was just wrong.
00:41:32.000And I'd say there's a long history of him being wrong.
00:41:35.000I mean, go back to the AIDS crisis in the 80s and everything like this.
00:41:37.000This guy hasn't been right in his entire career.
00:41:39.000It doesn't stop him from being the highest paid person in the U.S. government, as well as the person making these decisions in perpetuity, which in and of itself is a little crazy.
00:41:48.000It wasn't just that he was wrong and people make mistakes, or maybe the science showed, but he knew he was wrong because he was talking to his colleagues, people who knew, the same people who accused me of not being able to say that it came from Wuhan because I'm not a virologist.
00:42:02.000I was like, well, I'm not a virologist.
00:43:26.000We're still going to have to deal with a ridiculous DC jury of completely rabid left wing partisans there.
00:43:33.000But that's not the case in these other states.
00:43:35.000And so I think you do need places like Florida or Texas, any state where the AG has original criminal jurisdiction, you have to go after him for fraudulent malpractice, negligent homicide, failure of duty to care for lying to people about medical procedures and treatments that he was trying to mandate.
00:43:57.000How has he not lost his medical license?
00:44:02.000So, I mean, Sean, whether we're talking about Swalwell or Fauci, I mean, these scandals aren't just their scandals, they're also media scandals.
00:44:11.000I mean, that's really the common thread.
00:44:13.000We say it all the time, but the more interesting question really is what is the power of regime media right now?
00:44:21.000I mean, they did whatever they could to protect him then.
00:44:24.000Now that they know he lied to them, frankly, as well, they're still running cover for them.
00:44:29.000I mean, Could they do what they did during COVID and get away with it again?
00:44:34.000Or do you think the trust is just so broken that they may try, but it's just not going to have the same level of effect?
00:44:41.000Yeah, I think their influence is waning, but it's definitely not gone.
00:44:45.000They still have half the country, again, because we're so divided politically, who's happy for them to lie to them as long as it's the right lies.
00:44:53.000But I think, unlike 10 or 20 or 30 years ago, the other half of the country that's not brain dead, like we know we're being lied to, we know CNN's lying, we know New York Times is lying.
00:45:04.000Well, by the way, there's some pretty big conservative outlets that aren't exactly telling the truth, right?
00:45:07.000I mean, certainly not through the lens of MAGA.
00:45:11.000You know, they're doing sort of the bidding of the, again, DC establishment, neocon, whatever nonsense.
00:45:17.000I mean, some of the stuff they're saying, I'm like, hey, like, have you been present for the last decade to understand where the people are?
00:45:45.000We've had the internet, which has been huge.
00:45:48.000It's why they're constantly trying to shut you down and rumble down and shut me down and censor us.
00:45:54.000They understand that things are changing.
00:45:57.000And it's why I'm such a huge proponent of going to town on big tech, because that's the new public marketplace of ideas.
00:46:04.000It doesn't matter that much anymore what the broadcast networks say.
00:46:08.000What matters is your ability to reach your audience on the internet.
00:46:11.000And it's why Google and Facebook and these guys having the control they have.
00:46:16.000Is a real problem because instead of relying on the broadcast networks and the papers to do their gatekeeping, now they're, you know, say, oh, we'll let the Federalist exist.
00:46:25.000We'll let the triggered podcast exist.
00:46:28.000But then they make it impossible to find us or get our information.
00:46:30.000So I think the big media battle now is actually over big tech, over big tech censorship, because that's how they try to rig elections and rig information operations anymore by making it impossible on the greatest thing ever invented, the internet, which democratized information.
00:46:48.000They want to make it impossible to find.
00:47:59.000They don't want people to hear what we're reporting right now.
00:48:02.000And now I realize with hindsight, it was actually much bigger and more insidious than that.
00:48:07.000And it's because of how they train these AI models.
00:48:09.000They wanted to make sure there wasn't anything on the internet that was contradictory, knowing how the AI models are going to pull stuff in.
00:48:16.000They want it trained on nonsense Wikipedia citations.
00:48:35.000And then number two is Reddit, which is the same thing.
00:48:37.000Like on Reddit right now, they're banning people from talking about Sophie Cunningham in the WNBA subreddit because they think it's harmful to the league.
00:48:46.000So, like, these are the two main sources of information for training for all these AI models.
00:49:03.000I mean, so Sean, to take this a little bit further, I mean, you've built the Federalist into a major news outlet.
00:49:08.000You know, while that same regime media keeps getting more and more hostile to those independent outlets that, you know, I guess they perceive to be a threat to their hegemony and rightfully so, you know, what's the hardest part of building a conservative institution, you know, that doesn't sort of get absorbed by, you know, the donors, the elites, you know, other platforms like that, or, you know, essentially just, you know, the Washington Social Club?
00:49:34.000Yeah, I'd say the hardest part is avoiding all of these insidious secret attempts to shut us down, coming largely from the government, not anymore since Trump won again.
00:49:45.000But we had to fight our own federal government, who we fund in federal court for years for what they did to us to shut us down.
00:49:53.000So you imagine that it's not an easy job doing this to begin with, but then imagine you have to do it with both hands behind your back, with a neck on your throat, and a gun pointed to your head.
00:50:04.000That's kind of what we have to do every day.
00:50:15.000If they try to shut down this avenue, we're just going to find another one.
00:50:18.000But I would be lying if I said it didn't get a little bit tiresome constantly having to fight like the entire Borg and then getting pot shots taken at us by our own idiots, like these people going after JD Vance and calling him a socialist.
00:50:32.000And, you know, it's well, it's also such that you're doing all this, you know, the same amount of effort you're doing just to combat that, to try to even, again, create.
00:50:42.000Not even create a level playing field, but to try to be less biased against.
00:50:49.000You could be doing to actually grow your business, not just fighting to exist.
00:50:53.000The other side doesn't have that problem.
00:50:54.000They can just focus on peddling whatever nonsense they have and selling the clicks.
00:50:57.000And I mean, you always are hamstrung and handicapped because of the nature of that beast.
00:51:22.000Like it's a joy and a blessing to be able to do it because what we're doing is right and it's making a difference.
00:51:27.000And if we weren't making a difference, they wouldn't be trying to kill us all the time.
00:51:30.000So, Sean, you know, lastly, you know, what do you think are some of the big stories?
00:51:34.000You guys break these things all the time.
00:51:35.000You're sort of ahead of the curve, but what are some of the big stories to keep an eye out, you know, heading into fall that perhaps we're not thinking about just yet?
00:52:12.000You know, go work the polls, watch the polls.
00:52:15.000I think that's probably the most important thing you can do.
00:52:18.000I think the big story nationally that's going to consume us for the next couple of years is the ongoing judicial insurrection, where we have a bunch of unelected district judges all around the country who think that what the Constitution actually does is say the president can only do something if a bunch of unelected judges unanimously say he can.
00:52:37.000That's not the system of government we have.
00:52:39.000Unfortunately, we have a Chief Justice in the Supreme Court who seems content to just let these rogue judges do whatever they want and he'll fix it in five years or whatever.
00:52:47.000So, I think that's the really big, important thing that we're going to have to deal with and figure out how to get around or just start impeaching judges, because that's become the main roadblock that Democrats have put up since they don't control Congress right now, is they still control this rogue judiciary and they don't really care if they get overturned because all they have to do is run out the clock for a couple more years and wait for their people to get back in office.