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00:05:24.000Now that we got the niceties out of the way, normally I drag that out much, much longer, but this is a big one, so we're going to have some fun with it.
00:05:30.000We have Vice Presidential Candidate J.D.
00:05:33.000Vance, happens to also be my good friend.
00:09:16.000I mean, and I think perhaps that's why it resonated so well.
00:09:19.000It's like, your story, and I mean, my dad's too, to an extent.
00:09:23.000My family's been blessed with the American dream.
00:09:27.000It's a thing that so many Americans face, whether it's the crisis of poverty, whether it's the exportation of your American dream abroad to the decimation of these small towns in middle America, to addiction.
00:10:48.000I mean, I think every person's story is obviously different, Don, but my story worked out because my grandma was tough as nails and she didn't take any bullshit, right?
00:10:56.000And I talked about her at the RNC speech, and I had no idea how people would react to some of these stories.
00:11:01.000I tell this story that my grandma, when she found out I was hanging out with a drug dealer in the neighborhood, she came up to me and said, J.D., if you keep hanging out with this kid, I'm going to run him over with my car.
00:11:18.000I actually believed that she would do it and so I was like alright for this kid's sake I'm never gonna talk to this kid ever again and there were all these weird little moments where she kept me on the straight and narrow.
00:11:27.000Obviously I made a lot of mistakes like any other kid but She managed to sort of keep me rowing in the right direction, and life worked out for me, right?
00:11:35.000I enlisted in the Marine Corps, and then I went to law school, I started businesses, and started a family.
00:11:41.000We've got three little kids, and I just look back on my life, and it's like, wow!
00:11:44.000Things really worked out for me, and you feel this sense of gratitude, but then you also feel this sense of anger, because it's not working out for a lot of people who are doing the right thing, and are just getting screwed over by people in Washington, D.C.
00:12:51.000I mean, we can sort of, you know, get pretty fired up here because all of a sudden, four days ago, Kamala Harris became the second coming of Abraham Lincoln.
00:13:34.000It's like something out of George Orwell.
00:13:35.000Somebody sends me a screenshot of a reporter saying, Kamala Harris is the Borders are three years later, and the exact same person saying she's no longer the Borders are.
00:13:57.000It's been weaponized against me personally, our family.
00:14:00.000But what's really interesting is for the first time in arguably decades, the last three weeks prior to Joe dropping out, was the first time I've actually seen the media be like somewhat honest, like somewhat introspective to be like, you know what?
00:14:22.000She's no longer the most radical person in the Senate, even though she was literally dubbed that across the board by random agencies that check these things.
00:14:41.000You see the clips of the reporters calling them out.
00:14:43.000And now they're like they're back to full regime propaganda.
00:14:47.000They were honest for the first three weeks in modern history, and now they're back to doing the bidding of the Democrat Party.
00:14:53.000And it's frustrating because it was like, you know what?
00:14:56.000It'd be nice if everyone could actually make a decision based on news and truth rather than sort of narrative that they've been manipulated into believing.
00:15:04.000Well, my attitude, Don, to put on my tinfoil hat here, is they were doing the bidding of the Democratic Party during the three weeks when they were honest.
00:15:14.000We have to remember here that for three and a half years, the media and the Democratic Party lied about Joe Biden's fitness to serve.
00:15:21.000And it's not even, I mean, yes, him falling down the airplane stairs is embarrassing.
00:15:26.000Him flubbing an answer to a debate, that is embarrassing.
00:15:30.000What's scary is when he's in a room with world leaders and the cameras aren't on, and who the hell knows what's been going on for the past three and a half years.
00:15:37.000One person who knows is Kamala Harris, and she lied about it.
00:15:41.000And a lot of reporters knew about it, and they lied about it because they knew that if the American people knew the truth about Joe Biden, then President Trump would glide to re-election.
00:15:52.000They can't hide from it anymore, and they come up with a new plan, which is to effectively boot this guy off the ballot after lying about him for three and a half years, tell the truth for just long enough to get him off the ballot so they can replace him with somebody else, and that's exactly what we're seeing happening.
00:16:07.000And look, I think all evidence is that Kamala Harris is going to be the nominee, and so we have to run our race and actually articulate for the American people why her record is so broken.
00:16:17.000I'm sure you and I will get into that.
00:16:18.000But Don, it would not shock me If this is just another trial balloon.
00:16:23.000Joe Biden was trial balloon number one.
00:16:25.000Even the New York Times polling had him down by six points to your dad.
00:16:38.000Well, the whole process, I mean, talk about that because you've been hearing, you've been in the Senate for a few years now.
00:16:44.000You've been in politics now involved for a while.
00:16:48.000They talk about democracy every... Everything's a threat to democracy, except when they run roughshod on, like, a democratic process.
00:16:55.000But it's like, well, they're going to destroy democracy to save democracy.
00:16:59.000They're going to make sure Americans can't vote for their chosen candidate to literally save democracy, because it's literally at risk, J.D.
00:17:13.000Obviously, I don't like his policies, but he was the person that Democratic primary voters selected during their legitimate election.
00:17:21.000Okay, so now Joe Biden is a deadweight politically, and Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, and a few billionaires literally get together and decide they're going to completely take this guy out politically so that they have a chance at winning the 2024 election.
00:17:44.000But I think it's important for us to point this out to especially Democratic primary voters that we actually try to persuade you.
00:17:51.000You may not vote for us, but we respect you enough that we want you to hear our viewpoint and try to hear why we think we deserve your vote.
00:17:59.000Their attitude is, we're going to take 14 million of your votes and completely throw them in the garbage pit because we want a chance at winning in 2024, and we think your choice wasn't good enough.
00:18:09.000Yeah, well, I mean, I've sort of said this a little bit tongue-in-cheek.
00:18:11.000Not really, though, because, you know, their party does not quite stand for what the old Democrat party used to stand for, but it was like, hey guys, You want to show your party that your vote actually matters?
00:18:25.000We can get back to peace and prosperity.
00:18:28.000And then, like, in four years, you know, you can try again for, like, drive-through abortions and whatever, you know, whatever you want.
00:18:33.000Like, you can go back to being insane.
00:18:35.000But like, as long as they keep pushing this Notion that, you know, democracy is all things, but if the elite, meaning, you know, Barack Obama, the Clintons, a couple billionaire donors, be like, okay, this isn't working, we're gonna take everything we gave you, we didn't give you any other options, we threw, you know, RFK off the ticket, we basically tried to push anyone else from happening, so we gave you your only choice, you actually then chose that person, and now, eh, we don't like it anymore, so we're just gonna subvert democracy to install our puppet candidate.
00:19:06.000And I've been making this pitch to Democratic primary voters.
00:19:09.000Look, this was fundamentally illegitimate, and Republicans, we do actually respect this process, and we think we should have to earn your vote, not, like, throw off one candidate, replace him with somebody else that has no real Democratic legitimacy.
00:19:21.000And we have to remember, Kamala Harris has no Democratic legitimacy.
00:19:24.000Yes, she's, you know, has political problems.
00:19:27.000Like, I'll let the pundits analyze that.
00:19:33.000Talk about that because people don't understand it because they're trying to literally whitewash that right now to pretend that she was not the most radical leftist person to sit in the United States Senate.
00:19:44.000I wrote about this in my book in 2020.
00:20:24.000Okay, she supported an end to fracking, which drives up energy costs, put a lot of energy workers out of business.
00:20:31.000She has supported giving Medicare and Social Security to illegal aliens, which would bankrupt those programs and throw a lot of hardworking Americans into poverty for the rest of their lives.
00:20:41.000Congratulations, you can pay for your own health care and Medicare over the course of your entire life and career.
00:20:47.000It's going to be insolvent anyway, and we're going to accelerate that process so you too can have the privilege of paying for an illegal who's never going to contribute.
00:20:53.000Who came to this country illegally, violated our country's laws to be here, and now we're going to give them free health care in a way that makes your life more impoverished and worse.
00:21:03.000That is exactly what the Kamala Harris agenda is.
00:21:32.000So this is a person who wants to throw energy workers and manufacturing workers out of a job in service of the Green New Scam, which just creates a lot of jobs in China.
00:21:41.000So she's just a nightmare on public policy.
00:21:45.000In the border, she wants to decriminalize illegal entry, basically give people not even a slap on the wrist
00:21:52.000for coming into our country illegally.
00:21:53.000That's gonna exacerbate the border crisis that she has already set in motion.
00:21:58.000It's just top to bottom, the worst possible policy agenda for the American people.
00:22:03.000And by the way, the media is totally uninterested in talking about it.
00:22:29.000I hate to say it, but like literally, but it's like me, a couple other people that we're friends with that are like, hey guys, here are the facts, but you're not gonna get that.
00:22:37.000Honestly, you may not get that on Conservative programming in America.
00:22:41.000They're sort of, you know, globalist in and of themselves.
00:22:43.000But like, you know, you're certainly not going to get it from CNN or CNBC or MSDNC.
00:22:48.000They're going to go and they're going to try to pretend her record, years, years in the Senate, does not exist.
00:22:56.000And they're going to try to magically remake that.
00:22:58.000So make sure you guys are sharing this, that other people can actually see it.
00:24:04.000What's going on with the fundraising mechanism?
00:24:06.000Because the whole WinRed thing, I mean, that looks like the greatest scam in the world.
00:24:09.000But of course, because the FEC is going to be super left-leaning and all this stuff, I'm sure if there's ever a problem, it'll be discovered on about November 7th after it no longer matters.
00:24:19.000Like all proper things that have been weaponized.
00:24:32.000They have figured out a way, I think, of funneling a lot of resources from mega billionaires.
00:24:38.000And I don't know if it's legal or semi-legal or maybe it should be illegal, but it's actually totally fine.
00:24:43.000It is something that we need to look into.
00:24:44.000Because the whole purpose, whether you agree with it or disagree with it, the whole purpose of federal elections law is to ensure that normal people have a stake in this.
00:24:52.000It's one of the great things about the Donald Trump fundraising machine is that it was really powered by people.
00:24:58.000And if you look at what Kamala Harris has been depending on, it is the mega donors of the Democratic Party.
00:25:04.000Those are the people who got Joe Biden out of the race to begin with.
00:25:07.000They're the people who are trying to deliver her the nomination, and then they will try to deliver her the presidency.
00:25:12.000I don't know exactly how it works on the back end, but we know that the big Wall Street donors, the people who've gotten rich from shipping American manufacturing jobs to China, the people who've gotten rich when you bring in 20 million illegal aliens because their housekeeper is a little bit cheaper, but normal Americans get their communities flooded with fentanyl, those people like the policies of Kamala Harris.
00:25:33.000President Trump and I stand for normal Americans who want safe streets, no fentanyl in their schools, just common sense, right?
00:25:40.000The President says this all the time and I think it's very powerful.
00:25:45.000We're going to disagree about a whole host of issues, a whole host of social issues and things like that.
00:25:49.000We just want good middle class jobs for people who work hard, schools that make sense and educate kids, and basic border security and community safety.
00:26:27.000It's a bit like my grandmother that way.
00:26:29.000This sweet old lady, and then you hear her, and you're like, whoa!
00:26:31.000It hits so much harder when you're not expecting it.
00:26:34.000If Trump drops one, you're like, OK, it happens.
00:26:36.000Well, obviously she's in the news so much lately, so we've had all of these moments where somebody will reach out to me and be like, oh, do you remember this story about Mammal?
00:26:43.000Do you remember that story about Mammal?
00:26:45.000One of my favorites, which I was there for, but I forgot because I was six years old, my aunt calls me a couple days ago.
00:26:51.000And she's like, do you remember that time we were driving to Kentucky?
00:26:53.000and there was this motorcyclist and he got really aggressive
00:26:56.000and he was swerving in and out and he was kind of like scaring all of us.
00:26:59.000And I was like, yeah, I kind of do remember that.
00:27:36.000That is a one-in-a-million kind of personality, but that is the embodiment of the American spirit.
00:27:42.000That is what allowed us to do all of the things we've done as a civilization, as a country.
00:27:46.000And I think what is so sick about our current leadership class is they look down on people like my grandmother and they say, Oh, they're backwards.
00:27:55.000Oh, they don't understand how the economy really works.
00:27:57.000Oh, they want to border, they must be racist.
00:27:59.000This is like the best of America, right?
00:28:02.000These are the people, my grandma had six grandkids, three of us enlisted in the United States Marine Corps
00:28:52.000It's like now all those writers that were complaining about learn to code, now they're saying, those are the guys being replaced by AI.
00:28:58.000The pipeman, the plumber, those guys, they still have jobs.
00:29:02.000So it was sort of interesting because it was like, the people who thought of themselves as the elites Even if they're very average at what they're doing, they thought of themselves as the elites, and yet they're the first people to get traded in by AI and everything like that.
00:29:17.000There's this thing you hear, Don, which is very common in Silicon Valley, where people are talking about the new economy and the old economy, right?
00:29:29.000The old economy is people working with their hands.
00:29:31.000I actually think we should turn that on its head.
00:29:33.000It's the real economy and the fake economy, right?
00:29:36.000The people who are growing our food, transporting our food, getting energy out of the ground, that is what's necessary to run a real economy and to have real prosperity.
00:29:45.000The people who are selling targeted advertisements on Google, Come on, right?
00:29:53.000Those are the jobs that are being automated away because those are the jobs where AI can replace them.
00:29:58.000You cannot AI yourself out of, we need farmers to grow food, right?
00:30:02.000You can make people more productive, but you still need farmers, and you still need truck drivers, and you still need people who are actually going to do the jobs that are necessary to power the economy.
00:30:11.000It's one of the, actually, one of my really To get a little in the weeds here, people say that AI is going to replace truck drivers.
00:31:30.000Explain, there's sort of an interesting revolution going on right now in the tech world.
00:31:34.000The guys that are, you know, whether it was David Saxon, you know, the Winklevoss twins, like, all these guys, like, jumping on, being like, okay, we're done with this Democrat, you know, just blind following thing.
00:31:48.000Explain that change, because it's interesting, because people like on our side, and by the way, I'm the first guy, big tech's been screwed, and you know, they have.
00:31:55.000But there is a change, and it's not from like, you know, the programmer at Facebook.
00:32:00.000It's from the people at really high levels that are on the cutting edge of this technology.
00:32:06.000It's going to take a while to disseminate down to sort of, let's call it the programmed, no pun intended, masses.
00:32:11.000But there is a real shift going on there.
00:32:14.000Yeah, so there are a few different things, and I've been thinking about this for a while,
00:32:17.000but I think there are a few different things going on.
00:32:19.000So, number one, you have a lot of people in tech who recognize the difference between the old versus new,
00:32:26.000and I think are more leaning into the real versus fake.
00:32:29.000So for example, right, Winklevoss twins, very successful in the crypto world.
00:32:33.000Okay, to do cryptocurrency, that has to sit on top of a layer of really high-quality access to power.
00:32:40.000Crypto doesn't work unless you have cheap energy.
00:32:42.000So these are guys who recognize that unless you have the cheap energy, all of the cool innovation they're doing doesn't make sense.
00:32:48.000So they want an American president who cares about the energy sector.
00:32:55.000I've never actually heard that argument for crypto, because I know the crypto bros all love us, but I never thought about the massive amount of energy that it requires, and you're not going to get that using fake subsidized wind farms and solar panels on people's roofs.
00:33:09.000It just doesn't make enough energy, and they recognize that.
00:33:12.000You take a guy like Marc Andreessen or David Sachs, These are guys who are investing a lot and creating businesses a lot in the real economy, right?
00:33:19.000They're interested in bringing American manufacturing back and they're figuring out how AI is going to play a role in making manufacturing workers more productive, which is great, right?
00:33:27.000Higher wages, more technology, more innovation.
00:33:29.000And they recognize that the regulatory burden of the Biden administration, the Kamala Harris administration, is destroying our capacity to innovate.
00:33:37.000Like there's the old way of putting it, which is that America innovates, China steals and Europe regulates, right?
00:34:49.000Because for a long time, and I've seen this, we have a share of friend in common who has, you know, a person in their family that does a lot of sort of high net worth, you know, Fortune 500 company job placements.
00:35:00.000And like, there are Fortune 500 companies out there, like, no white guys.
00:35:04.000Some of them are like, we don't even want white women.
00:35:06.000We need to check three or four boxes so you can end up with, if you're a trans communist, this, that, and the other, you too can be the CEO of a Fortune 500 company with no experience whatsoever.
00:35:19.000But it doesn't matter because the virtue signaling overrides.
00:35:23.000They would rather be busted literally breaking the law to put in a checkbox type figure.
00:35:31.000You'd see the nonsense going on with I mean, you know, planes are falling out of the sky.
00:35:35.000I'm like, can't we pick something that's a little less dangerous?
00:35:38.000If we're going to play this game, let's not try it with a plane going 700 miles an hour at 36,000 feet, because it's probably not a recipe for success.
00:35:45.000There are two things where I really, really care about merit.
00:35:48.000The guy operating on me and the guy repairing my airplanes, right?
00:35:52.000I'm not a big fan of the DEI stuff, but I really want the highest quality person working on airplanes, operating on people.
00:36:01.000By the way, the people pitching the DEI framework and stuff like that, the powerful ones, they too are going to the best doctor and not the DEI hire.
00:36:09.000It's a great idea for you, not so much for me.
00:36:13.000And we know, of course, Kamala Harris's Department of Justice is not going to go after these illegal hiring practices, even though they are explicitly illegal.
00:36:20.000One of the most profoundly evil things the Harris administration has done over the last
00:36:24.000few years is they did a farm aid program where they said literally only non-whites can apply.
00:36:56.000It's why we've got to elect Donald J. Trump.
00:36:58.000Sort of like, I always use the example, you know, me versus Hunter.
00:37:01.000You know, we're not exactly the same, and yet, you know, he skates, and I do 50 hours of testimony, and it's just like, you know, insane.
00:37:07.000But I think, you know, my audience is going to want to know, what's it like now with, let's call it, significant interaction with my father?
00:37:17.000Because it is, that one's always fun, and it's interesting, and he can put you on the spot at an uncomfortable, any good stories yet?
00:39:01.000And it's actually been an interesting one for my father in business, which is like, he will ask,
00:39:05.000the guy that's working on the job site, And it's amazing how... And I think it's why he also, unlike the Democrats, actually has so much respect for the working man and woman of America.
00:39:21.000He'll ask them their opinion, and all the guys behind their computer screens, in their corner offices, they totally miss it, because they're not on the ground.
00:39:32.000Perhaps he's the guy that shouldn't, based on the usual metrics of it, but he has more respect for those guys, and he's able to talk to those people so much more effectively than anyone else in politics, because he's actually spent real time with them.
00:39:45.000I would say he's the blue-collar millionaire, and 15 years ago when I said it, people used to shit all over me, like, what are you talking about?
00:39:52.000But people know when somebody's interested in what you have to say, and he's actually interested in what they have to say, and people pick up on that, right?
00:39:58.000So, you know, the media always asks me, have you ever talked to the president about being VP?
00:40:02.000And this is before, of course, he named me.
00:41:16.000appreciate his love of service and I want to support him however I can. It's
00:41:20.000just like a totally, it's a very Usha answer right, because she's a very
00:41:23.000diplomatic person and he looks at her and says, yeah my wife hates it too.
00:41:28.000But it's funny like actually this, this process of running, my wife is
00:41:38.000And that's one of the cool things is, I don't know if it's just because it's a different stage or because... Yeah, talk about that, because that's a big change, right?
00:41:44.000I mean, she's a lawyer, she's this, she's a mom of three.
00:41:47.000You know, even as a senator, I mean, it's just...
00:42:26.000I think she's loved it in part because people are so nice, and she's gotten to meet a lot of cool people.
00:42:31.000To your point, people come up to her and cry and tell her their life story, and she likes people just like I like people, so she's gotten into that.
00:42:38.000I think one really interesting thing about the Senate race that is just different this time is Terrible mistake in family planning.
00:42:48.000We had a baby like four months before the Senate primary, and so she was just exhausted.
00:42:52.000I was out there, and I was like... Love our baby, so glad we had her, but maybe we could have timed it a little bit better, right?
00:43:02.000But this, it's just, you know, our kids, our youngest is now two and a half, and the kids are easy to travel with, and I just, we've tried to make it a family thing, and the kids, you know, they got to see Milwaukee, and my son, my four-year-old's still talking about, like, You know seeing Lake Michigan and it just the thing about campaigning for vice president is you see the country in a totally different perspective and to get like a little sentimental you really appreciate what makes the country great and you get to see it up close and you know I want us to win I think we're gonna win I will always be grateful for this experience and just the I'm trying to enjoy the ride just as the ride.
00:43:38.000And you should, because it is amazing for me.
00:43:41.000I need this like a hole in the head as well, and we were real estate guys, and that's how we made a living, and it was a lot easier.
00:43:45.000And yet, when I do see that, mother, these policies allowed me to build a business.
00:43:54.000It was going so good for so long, and now I'm getting crushed.
00:43:58.000It's like, oh crap, when I'm like, it's really inconvenient that I got another hit piece from the New York Times, I don't even care anymore.
00:44:05.000That means nothing, because that story, and it's day in and day out, or worse, the person who lost a child to fentanyl.
00:44:26.000He said, listen, if we don't win this election, and there's radical leftist policies, and we would be told that they are moderate policies, but the radical policies, we do get to a point where the pendulum can't Get back to normal.
00:44:56.000They won't say it in the media, but behind closed doors, this is how they're acting.
00:45:00.000Yeah, well, I mean, look, 20 million illegal aliens, the Democrats, Kamala Harris has been explicit.
00:45:05.000She wants to give every single one of those people amnesty, wants to leave them in the country, and then give them the right to vote, okay?
00:45:11.000The person who gives them free healthcare, or the people who are paying for the free healthcare, right?
00:45:15.000We know they're going to vote for the Democrats.
00:45:17.000Electorally, I don't know if the country ever comes back from that.
00:45:21.000And I think even a lot of Democrats, right, who maybe they're going to vote for Kamala Harris or maybe they're undecided.
00:45:27.000My pitch is, you should want to vote for a president who puts your interests first.
00:45:31.000Even if you don't always agree with the specific policy, somebody who wants to give 20 million people who broke our country's laws legal status so that they can vote.
00:45:50.000It's insulting to the people who came before us.
00:45:52.000So I really do think the border issue in particular, if we don't get this under control, if we don't make it clear that you're not allowed to come here illegally and send at least the violent criminals back to where they came from, we are never going to have a border and fundamentally we'll never have a country again.
00:46:08.000So we've got to vote against Kamala Harris for President Trump.
00:46:12.000Or, look, the consequences are going to be so dire, it's going to be really hard for us to come back.
00:46:16.000Well, J.D., I know you have to get going.
00:49:28.000AgBlue's starting to do the process of stealing, it seems, but we'll let that get settled with the FEC, the Federal Election Commission, where we filed a complaint because we find it unlikely that individual people donated hundreds of times in a 24-hour period, meaning one individual donated all these times over.
00:49:44.000That sounds like a money laundering scheme to me.
00:49:49.000I don't think the FEC is all that conservative or all that neutral, but we got to do whatever we can.
00:51:06.000I don't know where they're getting their news.
00:51:09.000The reality is this, if they're getting it from citizen journalists, you know, That's probably more real than most of the actual, you know, professional journalists that we see out there.
00:51:18.000I think, you know, the stuff that we've seen from citizen journalists over the last few years has been sort of groundbreaking and has done some amazing things.
00:51:26.000And so I think that's really important to keep nurturing that reality.
00:51:33.000Make sure you get that stuff to other people who are not just The White House.
00:51:36.000If there was good stuff there, I'd imagine they'd sweep it under the rug like they did Joe Biden's health, like they did, you know, his dementia-riddled brain, like all the things they've been lying to us about for a while.
00:51:46.000But, you know, that's a bit of a problem.
00:51:50.000Bobby1966, question on, can anyone go to Mar-a-Lago for a dinner at some point?
00:51:57.000Not really, you know, it's a big house, but it's a private thing, so it's set up as like a private club.
00:52:02.000I know, you know, for politics, through a bunch of the things that we do, we, you know, we'll raise money and they'll do raffles where winners can, you know, get that ability.
00:52:11.000I've run into people, you know, at some of the rallies where they just, they go so far out of their way in their work, I just say, hey, Go to dinner on me.
00:52:18.000It's not the kind of thing you can just drive up, especially with Secret Service.
00:52:22.000And, I mean, they gave me the, uh, hey Don, we're gonna have to sweep your car to get into Mar-a-Lago tonight.
00:52:30.000They're like, well, the bomb dogs and the this.
00:52:32.000I was like, hey guys, I'm going in because, uh, Let's just say there's always a couple weapons in my car, and I probably just don't want to get swept at that point.
00:52:41.000So I think I'll get my father to overrule that one for me.
00:52:44.000It's one of the few times I probably can make something happen, because I come here a lot, and that would be really kind of annoying.
00:52:50.000But because of that, they keep a pretty tight ship as to who can get in and when.
00:53:21.000Honestly, obviously, that's a Democrat stronghold.
00:53:24.000Obviously, that's a place that is quite left.
00:53:27.000And yet, when you look at what happened to Maui, when you look at the response to that, the disastrous response, not just from the local Democrats, but then the Bidens, it's like, here's 200 bucks, and we'll give 100 billion to Ukraine.
00:53:58.000Yeah, that would do a lot for so many Americans, for the energy we're talking about.
00:54:01.000That would do a lot for the crypto folks, especially when you're talking about LNG, liquid natural gas, when you can literally run power plants off stuff that's in the ground.
00:54:08.000You can burn it clean, like much cleaner than so many other things.
00:54:11.000Like, you know, not all fossil fuels are or the same or even environmentally close.
00:54:17.000I mean, there's so many things we could do.
00:54:19.000That's just stuff you'll never hear about.
00:54:21.000So I agree with it and we got to do it.
00:54:23.000But don't forget Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, these are the things they wanted to eliminate.
00:54:29.000Look at the things she said about drilling and clean energy and all these things.
00:54:34.000This would be a disaster for our energy.
00:54:36.000Our energy is not just sort of security at home, but it's also security abroad.
00:54:41.000If we're not beholden to our enemies, Don't forget, we still need oil, we still need these things.
00:54:46.000We can do it ourselves, create incredible jobs for hardworking Americans, or we can just export it to Iran and Venezuela and regimes that we hate, which we're doing.
00:56:54.000Like JD was saying, hey, we are literally, this is gonna be something that's gonna change over the course of the coming weeks.
00:57:00.000Like, we are gonna be the people getting you actual information, right?
00:57:04.000Whatever you see when you turn on regular cable, You know, it's going to be so muted and or so flipped on its head, so biased, so ridiculous, it won't be even like levels of truth, it'll just be outright lies.
00:57:18.000So you guys like, share, subscribe, send this to your friends, make sure they see it.
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00:57:33.000On to there so that you can send it to your friends that get their podcast that way you're a hundred percent, right?
00:57:38.000Like you guys participating in this you guys commenting that although live feeds going pretty nuts But you know the likes all of that stuff matters that changes the algorithm that means more people see it the more people that see this message Maybe we get a couple even a couple percent You change the minds of someone else who's been brainwashed, who's busy trying to survive in Kamala Harris, Joe Biden's America, under these ridiculous policies.
00:59:18.000You gotta be able to relate to people.
00:59:20.000You gotta be able to have a personality.
00:59:22.000I mean, I thought my father, the clip of my father last weekend when he was doing, and he sees his hair from the side shot of the teleprompter, he's like, whoa!
00:59:37.000Isn't that what you need from, like, let's talk about socioeconomic policy that no one understands, no one knows the details of, the numbers and the inputs that they use are always designed to get the result that they want that's convenient for them from an election cycle standpoint.
01:01:33.000That will get them to vote for Democrats forever.
01:01:36.000And you, as American citizens who've been paying into these systems forever, will never get the benefit of the money that you've spent, because they will have given it away to illegals to buy their vote.
01:02:37.000And you guys know, here at Triggered, at Rumble, we support small businesses.
01:02:42.000Whether it's our sponsors, whether it's the guys at Public Square, all the stuff we do with that, supporting the lifeblood of America by supporting small businesses.
01:02:51.000If our neighborhoods go to hell, those small businesses go with them.
01:03:53.000I like doing the things that most of the Republicans are not all that comfortable with, like engaging and getting aggressive about these things.
01:04:26.000We fight with our energy to get it out there, to make sure people are out there, to make sure that people are voting, to make sure that we're getting people registered, to make sure that people aren't buying into the fake news.
01:04:39.000We gotta fight like the third monkey getting on the ark and it's starting to rain because that's what we're up against.
01:04:44.000You saw that, the donations this week, you know, act blue, like it's literally insanity.
01:04:50.000And they're gonna get hundreds of millions of dollars to spread the lies that will literally elect someone who's gonna be the most, by far the most radical person to ever sit in the White House, someone who is literally ranked, and the fact checkers will try to make this go away because even they said it, The most radical person in the United States Senate ever, Kamala Harris.
01:05:09.000Like, that is insanity, but that's what we're up against.
01:05:12.000CCW Maggie, Don Jr., 2028, I'd vote for you.
01:06:39.000A level of coincidence that is not even close to believable was going on during all of this insanity.
01:06:51.000If they want to protect him, they can protect him.
01:06:54.000He can do an outdoor rally and they can put him behind glass like they do the president or all these things like they used to do for him and stuff like that.
01:07:00.000You don't have to leave him out there.
01:07:01.000You can maybe cover roofs within a few hundred yards, you know, the little things like that.
01:07:07.000But, you know, that was an act of divine intervention that saved my father's life.
01:07:11.000Like, you know, I'm not, you don't hear me talking spiritual all that often.
01:07:16.000And If I ever believed it was at that moment when he came up defiant, because that should not have been the case.
01:07:25.000That should not have been the end result.
01:07:28.000A very lackluster shooter in that situation with that much time and that kind of armament, almost impossible to believe.
01:09:24.000They are literally actors for the regime.
01:09:27.000If this happened to conservatives, the Federal Election Commission, the same FEC we're talking about with this, would literally sue them for in-kind contributions, for the free boost that they give to the Democrats, you know, and the lies that they give about Republicans.
01:09:42.000It's not right, but it's never going to stop.
01:09:48.000Is Elon Musk donating $45 million a month?
01:09:52.000I thought that was real too, but it turns out the original story was never real.
01:09:55.000He's donating to, I guess, a PAC called America PAC.
01:09:58.000I think they support, generally speaking, probably people who support freedom.
01:10:01.000I think that leans far more Republican than Democrat.
01:10:04.000I think, you know, I think he sort of endorsed Trump, but people are like, well, he's pulling back.
01:10:09.000It's like, no, no, it was never actually true, but he is supporting a PAC that is supporting,
01:10:15.000I believe, a bunch of Trump stuff, a bunch of conservatives, perhaps in the Senate.
01:10:20.000So he's doing stuff that way, but people are like, well, he's changed his mind now.
01:10:24.000And it's not because of Kamala Harris.
01:10:25.000It was like, it was that the original story that was the premise for a lot of tweets and all this stuff actually turns out to never have been true in the first place.
01:10:33.000So, uh, I guess fake news is gonna fake.
01:11:02.000Don Junior's trying to put someone in there that he can run with or run against or something.
01:11:07.000If I wanted to do that, I wouldn't put that guy in there.
01:11:09.000That guy's a charismatic guy with an incredible story, incredible background, incredible career, who came out of incredible poverty and a family that suffered from addiction.
01:11:22.000I don't want to compete against that guy.
01:11:23.000If I wanted to actually definitively run in 2028 or whatever the story is that they were trying to plant out there, I'd be like, I'll pick one of the old stooges that has zero chance, even if they had... even if they were my father's VP, and even if they had his endorsement that, like, you know, guys like me would destroy in a primary in about three seconds.
01:12:19.000Like, if I can go hunting and fishing, have a cabin in the woods and a drift boat and, you know, get to go hunting in deer season, like, I'm a happy guy.
01:12:27.000I'm actually a pretty simple dude that way.
01:12:29.000Like, I don't have the hubris, you know, perhaps, to ever even run.
01:12:34.000But, you know, I'm not ever ruling it out.
01:12:36.000If it needs to be done and I'm the guy that I think can get it done, maybe I would do it.
01:12:41.000Like, I do what I do because I believe in our country, I believe in our Constitution, I believe in our values, I believe in everything we stand for, and I've seen the scourge of communism because my mother escaped it.
01:13:28.000I'm doing it for our country, and I'll do whatever it takes, whatever I see fit, to make that work for America, because that's what actually matters to me.
01:15:35.000Earley, and where I kind of got friendly with him...
01:15:38.000After that, I loved this book and when it was like sort of being anti-Trump, at least initially, I was like, oh crap, because this is a guy, like, this is a guy you could build a movement around.
01:16:02.000I guess we, you know, in a couple of years we'll get rid of him and we'll go back to the old ways of never ending wars and shipping your jobs abroad.
01:18:04.000Part of the Kamala Harris switch, in my opinion, is when they do break out their games, If Joe Biden wins, like, no one's ever gonna believe that.
01:18:12.000At least we'll come out and be like, no, they love her!
01:19:54.000Listen, I love where crypto is going, because I think right now, and you know, we're working on some stuff actually in it, you know, from the family business standpoint.
01:20:05.000That's literally happening now, looking at so many of these technologies, but ultimately it's... I love something that's of finite capacity.
01:20:13.000I love something that's, you know, they can't just print more of it.
01:20:49.000And right now, maybe a little bit of the Wild West, but it shouldn't be.
01:20:52.000And if you can take these central banks out and hold them accountable with something real, I mean, I couldn't be more, I couldn't be more along.
01:23:13.000When I can, we always just try to line it up and if we can make it happen, we make it happen.
01:23:18.000So I will make a cognizant effort to Uh, to get back on Crowder.
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01:23:41.000We had a short window that we could, well, wait almost an hour, but We had a window that just worked between all of the other craziness they have been doing, so I love that the guy's actually a worker, too.
01:23:50.000Not like so many of these politicians, who's like, anoint me, and then, you know, hide me in a basement.
01:23:56.000He's actually working, so that's great.
01:24:28.000These days, it's somehow become the boogeyman.
01:24:30.000But when you think about what you can do relative to the impact, et cetera, It doesn't have to be like Fukushima, where you build it on a tectonic plate, right?
01:24:39.000There's a way to do it where it's safer, where it's secure, and the power is incredible.
01:25:27.000California is, by the way, it's one of the most beautiful states ever, and the weather's incredible, the scenery's incredible.
01:25:32.000I ain't dealing with the commies, okay?
01:25:36.000The policies have failed so badly, so badly.
01:25:42.000You couldn't even, as a business guy, as a family guy, as a father, as someone who pays taxes and pays a lot anyway, the Delta would literally It would be a disaster.
01:26:20.000They go, like, what are you talking about?
01:26:22.000You get rid of the 12% New York State tax, you get rid of the 4% New York City tax, on top of the 38, 39% federal tax, that like 14% savings, whatever, you know, 16% savings, whatever it's going up to, like, that allows me to live in a badass house, have a badass boat, have a this, that, and the other.
01:26:42.000Assets accumulate, like create future wealth, assets that will accumulate.
01:27:11.000I will take that savings that I'm not giving New York City and State.
01:27:15.000And I'll live a really awesome life in Florida.
01:27:21.000Anyone, like, and that's what really sucks is a lot of hard-working Americans would love to make that switch, would love to make those savings, and they can't.
01:30:35.000Do I have a relationship with Senator Grassley?
01:30:38.000He's making some hardcore posts on ex-eviscerating Cheadle.
01:30:41.000Well, Mike Davis, the guy I just said, would be, you know, he was his chief of staff.
01:30:45.000He worked for him in the Senate for a long time.
01:30:47.000So, you know, I know him a little bit, not that well.
01:30:50.000You know, he's not one of the guys I talk to on a regular basis, but he's coming out pretty hot on this one, which is actually nice to see when you get the guys that are a little bit more, you know, old guard and they come out and they fight.
01:31:16.000We got to win as many congressional seats as we can.
01:31:19.000There are vulnerable places that you can fight in California.
01:31:21.000California, I think, is like the second or third most populous conservative state in the union because they have the largest population of any state in the union.
01:31:37.000I just don't think I could live there under those policies, under those tax things, under Soros DAs and the weaponized nonsense, because I understand I would just be a target.
01:31:46.000For a regular guy, it probably wouldn't be as bad.
01:32:48.000Guys, we did this remote, so we're talking.
01:32:50.000I think they're doing some battery changes and everything like that, but looks like we're going to probably have to start running into that fundraiser.
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