Former Department of Education official and lawyer Candace Jackson and actress Drea DiMatteo join host Emily Edwards to discuss the latest in anti-woke politics, from Joe Biden's "pro-choice" stance on abortion to the Ukraine's flag waving in the halls of Congress, and much, much more. Plus, we discuss why Hollywood is so angry at conservatives, and why we should all be mad at them for it. This episode is brought to you by Triggered, a production of Micah Vellian and the MicahVine Podcast. Thank you for listening and share the podcast with your friends, family, and strangers! You can also join the conversation by using the hashtag and on social media, and find us on Insta if you re a fan of the show and want to share it with a friend or become a supporter of the podcast, tweet me to let us know what you think! . Timestamps: 1:00:00 - What's the craziest thing Joe Biden has ever said to you? 2:30 - What are your thoughts on abortion? 3:15 - What do you think of the Ukraine flag? 4:00 5:40 - What would you do if Joe Biden was pro-Russia? 6:20 - What kind of flag you'd like to see in the White House? 7:15 8:00 | What's going on in Ukraine? 9:30 | What s going to happen with the Ukraine Flag? 10:15 | What are you d? 11:40 | What do we have to do with our border deal? 12:30 13: What s your favorite piece of food? 15:50 | What is your favorite thing? 16: What's your favorite color? 17:00 // 16:30 // 17:20 | What would your first reaction to the Ukrainian flag in the House of the U.S. 18:10 | Is Joe Biden s first border crossing? 19: Should we be the most patriotic flag in America? 21:00 / 16: How do you have a pro-American flag in Ukraine s flag in your halls of the USA? 22:00 + 17:10 15,000 + 16:40 Is that a real flag in our first border deal ? 19,000
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00:09:17.000And if you remember what we were talking about last week with Wikipedia and all of that insanity,
00:09:22.000there is a whole lot of bias out there, whether that's Google, whether that's Meta,
00:09:27.000whether that's Wikipedia, a lot of nonsense.
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00:09:40.000So let's get to some of the top headlines of the week because last week the House passed the $60 billion
00:10:01.000That'd be like the devil putting on holy water.
00:10:03.000But their flag, you know, the Ukrainian flag, in the halls of Congress, they wouldn't dare wave an American flag.
00:10:12.000I mean, that would be, like, almost patriotic or something.
00:10:15.000They're waving the flag of the Ukraine.
00:10:19.000Check it out. Just so we're clear, folks, that video is sickening because these are elected American representatives, not Ukrainian representatives.
00:10:39.000Ask yourself, when's the last time Democrats waved the American flag?
00:12:16.000That's how you get the board seat at Raytheon.
00:12:18.000That's the retirement program for our generals and our congressmen.
00:12:22.000And you don't keep that board seat if you don't keep us in wars.
00:12:25.000So we can keep selling missiles and whatever else they use over there.
00:12:30.000And a couple people in D.C. get rich while we become poor, whether that's through inflation, whether it's through America losing its power on a world stage because we don't have the munitions to actually take care of ourselves if the crap ever hits the fan, etc.
00:12:47.000And meanwhile, folks, today in New York City, we saw just how politicized the show trial against my father actually is.
00:12:55.000After opening statements today, the judge wrapped the trial for the day at noon so a juror could go to a dentist appointment.
00:13:06.000Yes! Yes! Yes, remember, Trump can't go to his son's graduation, okay?
00:13:12.000This is the same judge, literally the same judge, that has yet to confirm whether my father can attend his son's high school graduation.
00:13:22.000But, you know, I mean, we can take the day off for a dental appointment, right?
00:13:25.000I don't think they even convene on Wednesdays.
00:13:27.000You couldn't just do it then? I mean, I don't know.
00:13:29.000Seems odd. Unless it's all bullshit, which, of course it is, folks.
00:13:36.000The Democrats' bias couldn't be more obvious.
00:13:40.000And while Alvin Bragg is in lower Manhattan trying to save Joe Biden's failing campaign with a corrupt prosecution uptown, just a few miles to the north at Columbia University, he's letting pro-Hamas radicals Target Jewish students, just allowing it to happen. Set up a camp right in the middle of campus.
00:18:12.000Doesn't matter if you drive away all the small businesses and big businesses and every business and you can't go buy toothpaste because it's behind a lockbox.
00:18:19.000None of that matters. You know, because I guess they were able to stop mean tweets or something like that, I guess.
00:18:27.000It's one of the many problems in education today, folks.
00:18:31.000In just a few minutes, we'll talk with lawyer Candace Jackson about Joe Biden's Title IX reforms.
00:18:37.000Let me give you a quick overview, though, just so we're clear on where we are and how we start.
00:18:41.000The Biden administration completely rewrote Title IX, which is supposed to protect women on campus and sports.
00:18:50.000The new rule bans discrimination against so-called gender identity.
00:18:56.000This means that any school, any school that receives federal funds can no longer acknowledge biological reality, right?
00:19:16.000Bathrooms and locker rooms will no longer be single sex, and refusing to use someone's preferred pronouns will be considered discrimination.
00:19:24.000By the time they're done with it, I'm sure it will be considered hate speech, a crime punishable, but by, in all likelihood, death, if the Democrats get what they always want, and they usually do.
00:19:36.000Imagine for a second if there were mass protests by conservative students in red states about these new rules.
00:19:43.000Within an hour, Joe Biden would have the National Guard breaking it up.
00:19:47.000Many of these people would be thrown in jail.
00:19:50.000They'll be put on terror watch lists, just like concerned Catholics and concerned mothers going to PTA meetings concerned about the indoctrination of their children in these schools.
00:20:02.000The government funds these colleges and they push radical gender ideology when they push DEI practices that are effectively sanctioned discrimination against others, etc., etc.
00:21:32.000Because folks, in the crazy world of Democrats and the radical left, everything is racist.
00:21:38.000If the Democrats had their way, I guess we aren't allowed to know who is
00:21:42.000and who isn't a convicted felon, even when they're applying for a job.
00:21:47.000That used to be something that created problems.
00:21:49.000Apparently they want to get rid of that.
00:21:51.000Just like they're probably fine with pedophiles teaching kindergarten and other things because we all probably know what's coming.
00:21:58.000That too will be racist and off limits in the not too distant future.
00:22:03.000It's just another example of left-wing logic that flies in the face of reality.
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00:24:18.000How's it going, Candace? Thanks for joining us.
00:24:20.000Absolutely. Glad to be here to talk about the most horrendous thing that anybody could ever do to girls and women in the name of a law that was intended to help us.
00:24:28.000But, you know. Yeah, like, you know, it's sort of funny.
00:24:31.000You know, all the things they say about the Trumps and all that stuff.
00:24:33.000I really didn't have, like, Donald Trump Jr., like, male feminists.
00:24:54.000I mean, you understand the ins and outs of Title IX as well as anyone, and Biden's radical education agenda really threw a major wrench into it.
00:25:05.000It's almost like the opposite of what it was intended.
00:25:07.000Can you help demystify the latest Title IX action and what people need to understand what it all means?
00:25:14.000Well, sure. I mean, first of all, for what it does, people need to be clear that Title IX applies to all schools, colleges, and universities across the land.
00:25:24.000Anybody who receives any kind of federal funding, even if that's just in the form of student loans given directly to the students.
00:25:32.000So it's most schools and colleges across the country.
00:25:37.000And what the new Title IX regulations turn on its head is saying, we're not just going to talk about discrimination on the basis of sex, men, women, equality, equal opportunity.
00:25:50.000We're now going to consider that Title IX sex discrimination applies to gender identity.
00:25:57.000That's the main huge theoretical conceptual shift and negative change under these regulations.
00:26:08.000Directly make it impossible for schools to watch out for and continue to provide equal opportunities specifically for girls and women when those are necessary to create equal opportunities due to the differences between men and women, between girls and boys. It makes it impossible for schools to do that and also obey this new mandate not to supposedly discriminate based on something called gender identity.
00:26:37.000They don't tell us. The Department of Education and its new rule, 1,500 or so pages, nowhere does it even describe to us what is a gender identity.
00:26:46.000What we do know is that something subjective, some inner sense of being a boy, girl, both or neither, And in that context, when it's that subjective and that based on inner feelings, And the mandate says you must validate that.
00:27:01.000Schools must now ensure that students are participating in their education and all their programs and activities consistent with their gender identity.
00:27:13.000So if their gender identity conflicts with their factual, biological sex, being male or female, too bad, you have to respect that gender identity.
00:27:25.000Yeah, so my understanding of Title IX, it was really, you know, hey, you know, men's sports dominated collegiate field, you know, football kind of gave back to football, and this was sort of a way of, you know, leveling that playing field.
00:27:35.000Now, I understand sort of the notion of, you know, the, you know, college football, it's a billion, multi-billion dollar industry, same with basketball, you know, other men's sports and a lot, you know, most of the women's sports really don't bring in that much.
00:27:47.000You saw a little bit of, you know, with the NCAA women's basketball this year, but I don't know that it translates anything, but it was designed to sort of level that playing field to give women that opportunity.
00:27:56.000Does this just basically throw all of that out?
00:27:59.000Because I feel like... You know, at first it almost started off as a little bit of a joke, but now, you know, every day I read another article about, you know, some guy that became a girl about two weeks ago, you know, came in first, second, and third at the high school track meet at the state championship, and now they're getting a full scholarship.
00:28:16.000You know, given the lengths, I mean, you've seen people in Hollywood, they've gone to jail to try to get their kids into a school that maybe they didn't otherwise, you know, couldn't otherwise get into and stuff like that.
00:28:27.000It's a big deal. How many people are just going to game this system, ultimately destroying women's sports?
00:28:34.000Because, hey, if you can be a state champion in something from being a journeyman athlete as a male, I imagine there's a lot of people that would do that, even if it's only temporary, even if it's just total BS for a couple of years to be able to get that spot or to get that scholarship or not have to take on that debt, etc., etc. Yeah, you know, the lawyer in me just...
00:28:55.000It cringes at how subjective this entire concept is.
00:28:59.000There are no standards for proving up your gender identity.
00:29:04.000It is truly a concept that has to be taken at face value.
00:29:08.000Whatever comes out of your mouth is your gender identity and everything around you, all our policies and rules and systems Are now going to be forced to validate that.
00:29:20.000There's never been any kind of non-discrimination basis or category before that has forced the participation of everyone around you to go along with what you subjectively say, especially with what you're saying just blatantly conflicts with objective facts.
00:29:45.000Sure, we're human. That's why law is typically infused with these objective standards so that we can appeal to something beyond, you know, one person's individual desires because that, by human nature, lends itself to gaming a system.
00:30:02.000Okay, so, you know, if the current law is what you're saying it is, and sex itself isn't even defined, we don't know.
00:30:11.000Can the executive branch, are we just setting a precedent where the executive branch just invents a bunch of new definitions of what words mean, or just leave enough ambiguity knowing that, hey, they're going to end up at a federal court where they've got the system sort of rigged against it, and, you know, it's just going to...
00:30:28.000No. Or is it just they don't even care enough, they just want to push something through?
00:30:34.000They don't. It's a combination of things.
00:30:37.000I don't think they understand that the ambiguity will, I believe, hurt them in the upcoming litigation.
00:30:46.000They don't have a choice, I don't think, except to roll with a lot of ambiguity in the realm of gender identity because it is a fallacious concept.
00:30:57.000It is this wacky academic postmodern concept that does not have a logical, non-circular definition or inherent logic to it.
00:31:10.000So you kind of have to be ambiguous about it.
00:31:13.000It is... Is your gender identity the same as your sex?
00:31:16.000Is it not? It's very, very circular, and nobody is able to define it in any kind of objective way.
00:31:25.000Nobody is able or willing to put any kind of standards to say, well, I demonstrate my gender identity by doing X, Y, or Z. Well, no, because that would, you know, You know, somebody's inner feelings of their gender identity.
00:31:39.000So the ambiguity is inherent in the concept.
00:31:42.000I don't think they can get around that.
00:31:44.000But I do think that there are enough ways to position this as arbitrary and having negative impacts on women, especially in areas like sports, that, you know, legal challenges are, you know, I'm hopeful for the legal challenges.
00:32:03.000Yeah, I hope this stuff actually ends up in front of a jury.
00:32:06.000It's interesting. I've been talking about this now for years, since sort of the first sort of farcical things, and then you see it.
00:32:13.000And of course, it only goes one way, right?
00:32:15.000It's men that become great at women's sports.
00:32:18.000It's never really the other way around in the transitioning, so it seems particularly biased against women.
00:32:24.000You know, the six, seven, eight years that this has sort of been out there on a stage, much more so now than before.
00:32:29.000But, you know, I would sit there, even on Twitter, like 1.0, you know, back when it was just fully 95% ruled by the radical left.
00:32:37.000And I'd say this, and I'd be like, this is ridiculous.
00:32:39.000This is like men playing. And even there, if you read the comments, and if you read my comments even today, it's like, you know, 90% just disaster.
00:32:48.000Like, it's sort of funny, but like, you know, But even there, Twitter 1.0, five, six years ago, peak hatred of Trump, and they're like, you know, I can't stand Donald Jr.
00:33:23.000Because like I said, if I can be like shocked at the response in a positive way that there's like people who literally hate my guts, hate my political views, hate everything about me are like, you know what?
00:33:58.000The whole gender identity concept has so many different fronts to it.
00:34:02.000You've got the gender medicine, medical procedures on youth aspect of this.
00:34:10.000There are lots of people pushing back hard against that.
00:34:12.000Got the freedom of speech against compelled pronoun usage and things like that going on in schools, the sports, the prisons, lots of different areas where people are pushing back.
00:34:23.000But the silent majority on this issue, I think, is...
00:34:32.000It's so appalling and it's so bizarre that I think it takes something specific, like Aaliyah Thomas bashing women's swimming records or something for a lot of the public to kind of take notice and try to backtrack and figure out, well, where is this coming from?
00:34:51.000And the reason that it's been so successful and gotten so much leverage is because it very quietly, this gender identity issue, very quietly got hooked onto the so-called gay rights movement.
00:35:03.000That ridiculous acronym that kept expanding over time.
00:35:28.000Boom, in comes the letters Q and T for queer and trans and made it look like this is somehow a gay rights issue and it's not.
00:35:37.000But that's been the hook that allowed this issue to creep under the radar.
00:35:43.000Yeah, because, I mean, you know, again, I think, you know, most of the guys I know in that community, you know, the, you know, LBG, like, whatever, like, community, it probably stops there.
00:35:52.000There actually seems to be perhaps more animosity against the TQI, you know, the one...
00:36:02.000Because, you know, I think a lot of people in the gay rights movement, hey, we fought for basic stuff, we fought for equality, we did this over decades, we finally got it.
00:36:10.000Now the trans community comes in and is like, we don't want equality.
00:36:13.000We want equality, plus, plus, plus, plus, plus, and we will get it.
00:36:17.000And I never understood how does the trans community...
00:36:29.000There is nothing, you know, they can shoot up children's schools and their identities and their motivations have to be protected.
00:36:36.000It can't be because they've been on drugs since they were two years old when someone convinced them that, you know, or convinced a parent that it would be a wonderful accessory.
00:36:44.000You know, it's like the newest Birkin bag to have a child that's trans.
00:36:49.000So it's interesting to watch that because a lot of the gay folks that I know are like, man, we don't want anything to do with that.
00:36:55.000Like, they leave three-year-olds alone.
00:36:57.000That's bullshit. And yet it still happens.
00:37:03.000Because I feel like there's actually a lot of stress sort of within that community of, you know, the gay side, you know, more before you go out there.
00:37:14.000We don't want to be indoctrinating children.
00:37:16.000We don't want to be doing sex conversion therapy on three- and four-year-olds.
00:37:20.000They can't buy a pack of cigarettes for 15 more years, but they can clearly decide to mutilate their body and chemically castrate themselves for lives.
00:38:34.000The fact is, these are rights that are being demanded that are taking away from the rights of others.
00:38:41.000That's never happened before in the landscape of American civil rights.
00:38:46.000Yeah, no, I literally, you see that, you see the privileges that are extended.
00:38:50.000I tell my son, right, he's a white man with the last name Trump.
00:38:54.000I'm like, hey man, do you want to go to college?
00:38:56.000Like, you better become trans pretty soon, buddy.
00:38:58.000So, it's sort of a joke, but it's actually 100% true.
00:39:02.000You know, like, I have a friend that wanted to get in, he has a son that's, like, super conservative and wanted to go to a school that actually is...
00:39:09.000Very left-leaning. I won't betray the school or the person, but he basically...
00:39:13.000I was like, well, how are you going to get in? He wanted to go to a very specific program for something only there is the best there is.
00:39:18.000And literally, he wrote his college admission essay.
00:39:21.000He's like, I just went, like, full crazy.
00:39:24.000Like, I literally tried to be as insane as possible on, like, gender ideology.
00:39:31.000Like, more MAGA than me, like, swept in to get into this program.
00:39:36.000He's graduating this year, and it's like, just game the system, because it's like, he realized exactly what it took.
00:39:44.000Yeah, it's so ridiculous that, you know, you got to...
00:39:49.000At some point, you think it's going to implode on itself, and it just might.
00:39:54.000Because, I mean, hey, if you can demand surgeries and drugs to validate your own inner gender identity, Well, what if my gender identity needs cosmetic surgery?
00:40:29.000I mean, someone else should pay for that.
00:40:32.000Why do it the old-fashioned way if I can get the government to pay for it?
00:40:38.000Well, that's right. If everything comes down to, you know, I must have my inner vision of myself validated and brought to life, well, there's no end in sight for that.
00:40:49.000No, not at all. But how is the Biden administration sort of enabling this indoctrination that we're seeing, you know, at the local level?
00:41:03.000A lot of it's through the enforcement decisions that the Biden Education Department and Department of Justice decide to make.
00:41:12.000The Education Department is careful to say the right things in terms of we at the federal government level don't impact or direct curriculum, you know, local school curriculum.
00:41:21.000And that's true. And so they say that.
00:41:25.000In words, but their enforcement actions make it, and their policy documents, their guidance documents make it very clear that they are going after schools that aren't...
00:41:38.000Educating, re-educating, programming students to become immersed in gender ideology, in the notion that sex isn't what's real or concrete or binding in any way, that boy, girl, both or neither is a choice that everybody gets to make.
00:41:59.000Yeah. In a second Trump administration, what would be the best strategy to reverse all of these wrongs?
00:42:05.000I mean, you know, you sort of want to do it with the stroke of a pen early with executive action, but I think you probably also want to make that more permanent by going through the proper sort of legislative channels.
00:42:14.000I mean, can federal dollars be conditioned on, say, you know, not allowing for certain types of indoctrination or pronoun police type behavior, etc.?
00:42:29.000Toward the end of the first Trump administration, we were starting to think about what to do in a second administration and what needs to be done to cement getting this out of our schools.
00:42:42.000We can get back to great education in this country.
00:42:46.000I think it might be time to step back and rely pretty heavily on working through some of this legislatively.
00:42:56.000We really might be better off trying to craft something on the legislative side.
00:43:03.000On the purely executive side, I think in a second Trump administration, One of the only reasons that the Biden administration is imposing this joke of a Title IX rule on us in the last few months of its term here is because the Trump administration did things the legally correct way and only made changes to Title IX in a regulatory fashion and not by the stroke of a pen or a letter to schools, an informal thing like that.
00:43:35.000We took the time to do it correctly under the regulatory procedure.
00:43:40.000Biden administration, therefore, had to do the same thing.
00:43:42.000That's why it's taken them at least this long to impose this.
00:43:47.000And I think in a second administration, that's one of the reasons to prevent this from being this consistent football that just goes back and forth, back and forth with the changing of political administrations, might be to look to some more long-lasting legislative changes that just cut that head off, this ideological snake.
00:44:08.000You know, put right up there in federal law, you know, the basic premise that we all know who the men are and who the women are, and where sex does matter in our society, treat everybody equally, you know, regardless of sex in a lot of ways, but where sex does matter, like intimate spaces and locking people up in prisons and, you know, sports opportunities, where it does matter, we know who the men are, and they're not allowed on the women's team.
00:44:35.000Yeah, well, as far as higher education is concerned, Columbia appears to have enabled out-of-control pro-Hamas demonstrators.
00:44:43.000They set up a camp in the middle of the campus.
00:44:45.000How do we get to this point, even within education?
00:44:49.000As someone who was in the Department of Education, man, it feels like I'd have been thrown out of school 20...
00:44:58.00024 years ago when I graduated college for even, you know, some of this stuff.
00:45:02.000I mean, you know, blocking, you know, a Jewish student from crossing a line.
00:45:10.000It's 2024. We're supposed to be progressive and all this stuff.
00:45:12.000It feels like we've actually regressed to the point where this kind of discrimination is actually 100% fine.
00:45:19.000I guess as long as it serves a specific agenda for the left.
00:45:24.000Yeah, I can guarantee you schools and universities right now would not be getting a pass the way that they are now back in the Trump administration.
00:46:02.000Well, you know, we don't want to be called a mean name and the trans mafia is going to come after us.
00:46:07.000But it seems like, you know, all the Democrats, all they want to actually do is focus on, like, the lawfare against my father.
00:46:13.000They compare him to Putin and Hitler and Stalin, which is basically what Hillary Clinton said recently for the, you know, 50 millionth time.
00:46:22.000They always accuse us of doing exactly what they're doing themselves.
00:46:26.000You know, you've sort of borne witness to that.
00:46:29.000I mean, that projection is a very real thing.
00:46:42.000I think that this year, more even than 2020, is an opportunity for disaffected, homeless-feeling Democrats to actually feel really good about joining a side that's willing to take strong action.
00:47:04.000Yeah. Well, so I guess I'd ask you, I mean, what did you experience?
00:47:08.000You said your wife, and I didn't know because I don't want to ask about people's sexual preferences or gender.
00:47:12.000So what was that like for you serving in the Trump administration, doing these things, standing firm to that, fighting hard?
00:47:21.000What was that like within that community, if that's a thing that you actually even care about?
00:47:33.000You know, I'm a parent now, so I've got kids that have to balance and have some concerns with, you know, oh, your moms are gay.
00:47:41.000So, you know, it is a concern in that community.
00:47:45.000But I'll tell you, I was, as far as in the Trump administration, extremely comfortable.
00:47:53.000President Trump was the first American president to come into office fully supporting gay rights, including accepting gay marriage.
00:48:01.000Always had the welcoming arm out to lesbian and gay Americans, and saw the differences between being tolerant and non-discriminatory in terms of sexual preferences like that, and saw that that had nothing to do with Being forced to call men women and rolling back, you know, women's equal opportunities, you know, to kind of kowtow to a trans agenda.
00:48:31.000So he had that straight from the very beginning through the end of his term, and I think a second Trump administration could do so much to permanently roll this back, roll the craziness back, and honestly get back to some of the issues that matter a whole lot more for America, but we're being Completely derailed right now when we can't even speak in reality.
00:48:56.000It's amazing. I mean, I literally, I joke on the show all the time.
00:48:59.000I'm like, I wake up most mornings being like, is there a TV camera in the room?
00:49:02.000Like, people have to be just fucking with me.
00:49:04.000You know what I mean? Like, I'm waiting. Like, I'm the star of the Truman Show, and I just, I don't know it.
00:49:09.000No one's like, you know, please blink three times if this is all one big joke and I'm just being punked every day, because you're right.
00:49:15.000Like, the issues that are like the hills to die on for half the country, you know, or at least the Democrats in charge are like, I'm like, I don't even understand how it's an issue we're even talking about.
00:49:28.000Given everything else going on in the world, it's almost mind-boggling.
00:49:33.000So I guess I'd ask, if you were called to serve again in a second Trump administration, would you be down for that?
00:49:38.000Because we actually need some people who are actually willing to fight.
00:49:43.000Absolutely. It was such an honor to be part of a Trump administration.
00:49:50.000And I tell you, we had collectively so many great plans for entering another four years.
00:49:58.000And I think the four-year interim here has just proven some of these things on the social crazy side that can and should and would and will be locked down tight Just dealt with once and for all so that we can get back to making America great.
00:50:16.000Well, Candice, thank you so much. Will you just let our audience know how they can find you on social or whatever, wherever it may be?
00:50:21.000Because I think, you know, they're probably interested in following, especially given the specifics of some of the stuff you're talking about.
00:50:41.000As some of this stuff evolves, as the lawfare and that, and hopefully our side pushing back on some of the insanity gets there, we'll have to talk about all those changes when they come.
00:51:27.000They are not the same. We're good to go.
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00:53:22.000Just getting my nails ready to put in my coffin for being on your show right now.
00:53:27.000Yeah, there's a solid chance they try to kill you, but join the club.
00:53:31.000They've been trying to kill me for eight years.
00:53:32.000It just makes you stronger. Well, you know, first of all, thank you for coming on.
00:53:38.000And, you know, I want to talk politics and sort of some of the state of the country, but we got to get to some Soprano questions because the second I said that, people are like, I've watched The Sopranos the entire series seven times.
00:53:50.000I'm like, whoa, we got to make sure we take care of some of these for the fans watching.
00:53:55.000So, you know, The Sopranos, the finale aired 17 years ago.
00:53:59.000When I read that fact today, I was like...
00:54:59.000Yeah, well, we'll get to that, because I love that you're pushing back on some of the woke nonsense.
00:55:03.000I mean, I wish, you know, more people in Hollywood, and I've met plenty of them that are like, oh, you know, I'm kind of with you, and it's like, well, so say something.
00:55:11.000We understand there's consequences to that, obviously, but, you know, when you're doing a show like that, and you're on for that many seasons, and it's got that sort of acclaim, what was that like when, you know, when you find out Adriana, your character, uh, I mean, it felt like a death, but at the same time, I had been playing that character.
00:55:36.000I was never supposed to be series regular, so I felt like I had done my part, and it was okay.
00:55:43.000I was so grateful just for being able to Playing that sandbox for as long as I did.
00:55:50.000And when it was time to go, I was like, all right, man, I couldn't cry every day like that anymore.
00:55:55.000In those days, I really took myself super seriously as an actor.
00:55:59.000I mean, not that I don't really act anymore, but I just couldn't keep doing it anyway.
00:56:17.000I didn't even realize, like, I mean, obviously, you know, in thinking back, I didn't realize that you were going to be a sort of shorter-term character that ended up having, you know, quite a long runway in the show.
00:56:27.000How did that happen? You know, how did that change and evolve?
00:56:30.000I originally read for the pilot, and I thought it was about singers, soprano, like opera singers.
00:56:42.000But they called me back for the series way after, but I messed up all my lines when I did the actual little tiny part of playing the hostess in the restaurant and the pilot.
00:59:21.000I just went job to job to take care of my family.
00:59:24.000But I see what I see, you know, and...
00:59:27.000You know, I never thought I would never be able to work in that industry again until I realized that, I mean, man, what happened in the last three years?
00:59:38.000I mean, I'm sure it's been happening for 50 years, you know, in society.
00:59:42.000Maybe not as much Hollywood, but Hollywood's hijacked, man.
00:59:46.000I mean, all I do now at this point is I just check the shareholders everywhere.
00:59:51.000I go and I'm just like, well, you're done and you're done and you're done and you're compromised.
00:59:56.000And I feel like that's the way it goes.
01:00:00.000But the people themselves, like the actors, the players, the people that don't really Understand or follow the money to try to understand.
01:00:08.000I think a lot of people aren't paying attention because they didn't have stuff taken away from them.
01:00:13.000I lost everything when I was kind of holding out to really try to understand stuff a little better.
01:00:21.000And that's when you start, you know, you start following money a little bit and then, holy shit.
01:00:25.000But I think that the regular folks don't have any idea.
01:00:29.000And if you're part of the Democrat Party, liberals, Democrats, Republicans, Less with the Republicans, I guess, but in the last few years with the Democrats, it feels like the times changed.
01:00:46.000And those critical thinkers, the people that used to sit around in New York City, read the New York Times all day, and the intellect, I don't understand how they didn't change with the times.
01:00:57.000They're still supposed to be critical thinkers.
01:01:00.000Yeah, no, they're driving in their cars by themselves, still wearing masks.
01:01:05.000Oh, I know. They totally just buy into whatever the latest thing is.
01:01:14.000No one's saying, hey, do you think maybe we got something wrong?
01:01:17.000Even when it's objectively a fact that they got something wrong.
01:01:21.000It's almost like they don't care because as long as we get to the ends that they want, reality, facts, logic, science, none of it actually matters.
01:01:31.000But the fear, though, I think that the fear, I mean, I was petrified in the last three years just to, I mean, I thought my bank accounts were going to get tapped.
01:01:41.000Not that it mattered because we ended up losing everything anyway, but But just listening to what was happening in Canada during the whole convoy and what Trudeau was doing, I just couldn't believe that people were just getting criminalized for thinking things and for talking about things or texting things or supporting people that were fighting for freedom.
01:02:07.000And I can't believe that the word freedom has become a word that gets you banned on all kinds of platforms now.
01:02:14.000It gets you called a white nationalist.
01:02:16.000I mean, you can't love your country anymore.
01:02:18.000I think what's really going on is you can't really love yourself anymore.
01:02:22.000I think that's what's happening to our children.
01:02:25.000I think it's what's happened to a lot of people in Hollywood where it's like, no, everything's your fault.
01:02:31.000Racism, sexism, every single social issue, a climate, it's your fault and you have to carry that burden now and everybody feels guilty and everybody's afraid.
01:02:44.000I don't know how I... I ended up in this by mistake, man.
01:03:28.000And then I got caught up in it and then I felt the impact of what was happening and Whether it was propaganda or not, and God knows, we've been in the middle of a lot of propaganda.
01:03:43.000But I think for me, it was the mandate.
01:06:31.000Are we ready to stand together and fight for what's right?
01:06:34.000I can't I got outed because I started that crazy OnlyFans page to get out of foreclosure.
01:06:42.000That was my story. Had I not spoken to Fox and tried to mitigate what my situation was, no one would have even known my problems and the fact that I did all of this over the mandates and that I held out.
01:06:56.000As hard and as tough as I could without, you know, having to go beg for money at some point.
01:07:01.000I'm going to be coming to ask you guys for a job soon.
01:07:03.000Now that I'm doing this show, I mean, I'm going to go run one of these buildings.
01:07:06.000Hey, listen, we can make something happen.
01:07:07.000Listen, we'll put you in charge of health and human services.
01:08:53.000They got it wrong. I didn't pay off my mortgage.
01:08:55.000But we were able to take care of stuff.
01:08:58.000And I was able to not have to beg to stay within this industry that I don't really care to be in at the moment, especially if there aren't any amazing roles.
01:09:12.000So, you know, I gave an interview to Fox.
01:10:48.000So I never voted until I was caught up in the emotion of some of my friends that were illegal.
01:10:55.000And I needed to get them to New York and I hired a tour bus and an armed driver to get my friends across the country when your dad was in office.
01:11:03.000And man, when we look at that situation now, all of us, even the illegals, right?
01:11:10.000My friends. They're like, hey, wait, this is going too far.
01:11:18.000We did not realize what was happening at all.
01:11:22.000And that's why I say we're evolving and changing.
01:11:25.000We have to be accountable and we have to be able to change and not feel embarrassed that we might make a mistake and recognize that we didn't know what we were talking about.
01:11:35.000And then my other friend's company made these hats.
01:12:07.000Listen, I want a little piece of the action if we do this one, but like, but yeah, but that's the difference, right?
01:12:13.000When, you know, my mom's an immigrant.
01:12:15.000I don't think we're not anti-immigrant, but there's a process.
01:12:18.000When I'm looking at 12 million people, and I see our school systems are disastrous as they are.
01:12:25.000Our healthcare systems are overwhelmed.
01:12:28.000It's probably not affecting people like myself that much.
01:12:31.000It's affecting some of the lowest income earners who are trying to break through and doing it, and they're going to get crushed.
01:12:37.000The systems that are already barely getting by and compromised are getting so much worse.
01:12:45.000It is an interesting thing to see what's going on.
01:12:48.000It's like, you too can have your, you know, MS-13 left in your backyard.
01:12:52.000I'm like, I don't know. It doesn't seem like a great idea, but, you know, what do I know?
01:12:56.000I'm not even... I'm thinking beyond that at this point, when you let that many able-bodied men come over here in that way with, you know, things on their ankles and all that kind of stuff.
01:13:08.000It feels heavily weighted towards able-bodied, fighting-age men, right?
01:14:43.000I'm supported, you know, by my boyfriend.
01:14:47.000I know this sounds crazy, but my God, my children, my children are, they believe in what we believe in, which is freedom and unity the right way, not unity the way this administration was trying to push, because that was bullshit.
01:15:05.000They took every social agenda and used these social issues as pawns to further their administration.
01:16:17.000Because we know the parties get hijacked.
01:16:21.000There's one party in Washington, D.C. That's the UNI party.
01:16:24.000They may tell their people at home a little different thing.
01:16:26.000But in the end, it feels like there's very few people...
01:16:30.000That, you know, that are representing us, that are supposed to represent X, Y, Z, they're sort of doing the bidding of the swamp.
01:16:36.000And, you know, I think we've seen that.
01:16:37.000It's why we're rallying so hard against that.
01:16:39.000I think it's why, you know, frankly, with my father, it's why so many, even on, you know, our side, quote, unquote, you know, do whatever they can to, you know, subvert him, to undermine him, you know, at every opportunity they get.
01:16:58.000Every single day he ends up in that courtroom, I'm like, well...
01:17:09.000More PR, people are rallying behind them even more now, because I think even Democrats, the people, not the industry folk, but, you know, they're just like, how can you do all of them?
01:17:20.000But then I don't understand a lot of these, the people that are not really paying attention, they really believe that these cases are real.
01:17:30.000I don't understand. I'm having a hard time with the poly crisis of it all myself.
01:17:34.000It's just, they're just grasping, man.
01:17:38.000Yeah, it's the people who, you know, they're still like, you know, watching CNN pretending like that's news instead of like propaganda.
01:17:45.000You know, and again, to your point, you know, mine, I started sort of waking up to it during, you know, during Russia, Russia, Russia, and the hoax that that was only because, you know, I was a target.
01:17:55.000So all of a sudden, it became so much more real.
01:18:21.000And yet I'm like, man, how can you think anything's true given the world in which we live?
01:18:25.000You watch what's going on, and Joe Biden will call half the country fascists, and yet he's literally there trying to jail his political opponents.
01:18:33.000I'm like... I don't know, sounds kind of like a fascist.
01:20:26.000We started paying for some stuff, got out of debt.
01:20:31.000And then I used the rest of the money to start up the company and try to promote freedom because We need to do that right now.
01:20:40.000I mean, the clothing line obviously means something to us.
01:20:43.000It's a streetwear line. It was inspired by my son, who loves all the streetwear stuff.
01:20:48.000And my boyfriend is the drummer from All Them Witches, and he's like a real outdoors guy.
01:20:54.000So we'd be kind of moving into the outdoors vibe stuff.
01:20:58.000But we caught some heat for it, for guns and And people seem to have forgotten about Guns N' Roses, Velvet Revolver, Sex Pistols, The Sopranos.
01:21:09.000I mean, but now they want to call us, you know, white nationalists, you know, because we have a gun on a t-shirt.
01:21:30.000We all need to come together and we need to fight this thing that's way more evil than political parties and your neighbors.
01:21:36.000Everybody needs to stand together right now because America's in trouble.
01:21:40.000We've got to get ultra-free on Public Square and some of these places so that, again, I don't think Google's going to do much help getting it out there for you and stuff like that.
01:21:51.000Just like Instagram was suppressing you 14 years ago for basic messaging.
01:21:56.000I think people do understand now that my opinion and someone on the left's opinion, they're not getting the same weight.
01:22:04.000I can have millions of followers and they can have three and they'll outperform me because there are You know, major hands on the scale of sort of what is truth and what is, you know, acceptable discourse, you know, out there right now.
01:22:18.000But I do think it's gotten so extreme that people are getting it and they're looking to, you know, to other venues.
01:22:58.000Like, literally left, you know, escaped communist Czechoslovakia because she was an Olympic skier and was like, I'm out.
01:23:03.000Then, you know, came here legally and did that.
01:23:05.000But, like, yeah, so I didn't have a choice.
01:23:07.000There was going to be no Marxism or socialism in my household growing up because she was like, listen, you asshole, like, you know, I left this shit.
01:23:14.000Like, that's it. So it's a little different.
01:23:17.000Amazing that... Amazing that my daughter's friends...
01:23:40.000I mean, I am a capitalist through and through, man.
01:23:43.000But, you know, in the best way possible.
01:23:46.000Not... It's just the kids don't get it yet, and they need real leaders and parents.
01:23:52.000The new way of parenting is also, you know, sometimes makes me sad about, you know, we don't say no, we don't say never, we don't say don't.
01:24:00.000Oh, hell no. These kids need to have discipline and learn and know, you know.
01:25:08.000Again, you know, I'm not on OnlyFans because I think that would just create a major headache and story for me.
01:25:14.000You know, maybe one day I may have to get on it once they cancel me everywhere else.
01:25:17.000That's all you guys need. But, so, you know, I don't know enough about the details, but I do gotta ask, there must be, like, are there, like, DMs on OnlyFans?
01:25:26.000Like, what are some of the most outrageous things that, like, you saw with people, like, requests, or, you know, sort of mentioned, like, hey, we put a bikini picture up, like, you know, I'm trying to still figure out, like, the whole foot fetish guy thing, like, what the hell's going on with that one?
01:27:32.000Look, at that time, man, I couldn't use, I didn't want to use a vaccine card.
01:27:36.000I had one to take my kids out to eat so they could feel normal, you know, take them to the theater.
01:27:41.000We felt like we were killing people walking into places, not being vaccinated at that time, thinking that that was really might be a thing, you know?
01:27:49.000And my daughter, when it really came down to the final hour of me turning down jobs and little jobs here and there, my daughter was like, just don't use the card.
01:28:17.000I believe that we should be free to choose.
01:28:20.000All you free choicers out there, this is free choice, man.
01:28:24.000It's my body. I'm not going to contaminate somebody.
01:28:26.000We all knew it wasn't about that at one point.
01:28:30.000Um... So, yeah, I mean, the OnlyFans thing to me is just, I don't care, you know?
01:28:37.000It's just a means to an end at that point.
01:28:40.000Like, and I'm not, you know, I'm not on there.
01:28:44.000Sorry, guys, but I'm not on there really doing any porn.
01:28:47.000There's a lot of people that have pages that are kind of basic pages, and it's a Hey, you probably shouldn't have said that because there could be a bunch of subscribers that are going on.
01:28:56.000No, it's crazy. I'm doing crazy stuff on there.
01:30:56.000And again, like the labels and stuff, and that was part of the whole ultra free thing.
01:31:01.000It's like if people are afraid to not be a liberal or to be a Republican, they just get rid of the fucking labels.
01:31:06.000Get rid of all of them and just really come to the middle and start really researching what's happening in the world and understanding what the wars really are about.
01:31:17.000I mean, I don't really think half America understood what was really happening between Ukraine and Russia.
01:32:39.000That's the reality of the world in which we live today.
01:32:41.000If you don't believe that's happening, if you think that these people are functioning for what's best for our country and not for their wallets or their friends' wallets or power...
01:32:52.000You haven't been paying attention at all.
01:32:54.000And I don't mean just over the last eight years.
01:32:55.000I mean probably over the last 50 years.
01:32:58.000Oh, yeah. I mean, even when the whole thing started popping off and none of my friends even understood what was going on in 2014, you know, with our own country and our own involvement over there in Russia and over, you know, the whole Victoria Nuland thing, I was just like, how are you guys not hip to this?
01:33:17.000There's phone calls, phone calls, and I just never understood how nobody...
01:33:23.000Cared enough to understand before they'd speak out.
01:33:27.000Look, I don't care if you don't understand what's going on and you say, I don't really know what's going on.
01:33:31.000I can dig that. But when you have such a fucking toxic opinion about it and you can't back down from that opinion, but you know nothing about the subject, that to me is the most dangerous thing.
01:33:45.000I guess that's just stupidity and that's super dangerous.
01:33:59.000Like, it's like, well, here are the actual facts.
01:34:01.000It's like, literally, objective facts, even as reported by the insane people that they follow who are just regime propagandists at this point.
01:34:08.000I'm like, but even they're saying it's a lot.
01:34:10.000No, no, no. Russia, Russia, Russia was real.
01:34:13.000I'm like, like, where have, like, like, this person votes.
01:35:05.000Well, listen, I appreciate that you're speaking out about it and willing to do so.
01:35:09.000Hopefully, you know, hopefully that starts something else, you know, with the people that would be, you know, in your peer group and other actors and, you know, whatever it may be, man.
01:35:19.000The more people that are talking about this, the better.
01:35:22.000So, you know, I just, I appreciate that you have the guts and, you know, I always say balls because it's much better and you can say that on Rumble without getting canceled.
01:35:28.000I got the balls. Hey. Yeah, you got the balls.
01:35:30.000I'm going to call you Donny T and I got the balls over here.