The Keith Edwards Show - Another MAGA Republican’s gay secret leaked

Episode Date: August 7, 2026

👍 SUPPORT THE SHOWSubscribe on Edwards WireBecome a MemberKeith Edwards is joined by Nate Cornacchia, a retired green beret and host of the YouTube channel, ‪@ValhallaVFT‬ , to discuss the latest updates in the Iran war, and growing rumors surrounding Senator Josh Hawley.📡 JOIN THE COMMUNITYListen on SpotifyFollow me on FacebookFollow me on InstagramFollow me on TikTokFollow me on XFollow me on Threads🎙️ TALK TO MEVoicemail line: ‪[phone]‬Business: [e-mail]

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Nate, thank you so much for joining the channel. Yeah, thank you for having me. Like, my audience, I know I was excited. We have a lot of crossover audience, and I know I was just telling Keith, I actually reached out to Keith about a month and a half ago and asked to collab, so, and I think you missed it. So we ended up working it out.

Glad to be here. Yeah, I'm glad we got so many emails. It's actually kind of insane to imagine, but I'm glad we were able to connect and I'm glad you're here. We got a lot to talk about. about, got a lot to talk about. We have, one, we're getting reports about the troops and they're awful, terrible conditions that have come out. And there's, you know, there's, we've got

photo evidence that was in April. Now we just have more reporting on that. And we, of course, I mean, it's really not, it's not a week in Trump's America. If we're not talking about a Republican being accused of being a homosexual. And we have that coming. We have that coming up. On my channel, we call it the closet homosexual Republican politician crisis. It's an actual crisis at this point for sure. It's an issue. It's an issue, one that I hope to resolve. Sorry, we do have, for the viewers, we got some fun stuff to talk about

because one of my close friends works at the very top of Grindr. He's got a C in front of his title. We'll just say that. I got some inside information. We can drop on that one. Wait, wait, wait. I can't. All right.

I have a million things to ask. We'll get to that. We'll get to that later. Let's get to first with what's going on with what is called the USS Lincoln that is in the Arabian Sea. I'm going to bring this up. We have a report here that says the following. It says, moldy showers, food shortages, sailors running out of toothpaste, deodorant, and soap. families of the sailors and Marines aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln are sounding the alarm that their loved ones are so exhausted.

They fear it could lead to deadly mistakes as the carrier enters its ninth month at sea and its fifth consecutive month of combat operations against Iran. The family is told MS now there's no indication of when their loved ones are going to return home as their routine seventh month deployment for the 5,000 plus crew members appears to have been extended for a second time. The crew and the Lincoln has had only two days off the aircraft carrier since it left its home port in San Diego in November. The ship had a short port call in Guam in December and they did not have another stop until July 7th when it briefly pulled into Oman after 208 continuous days at sea, a modern day record for Navy aircraft carrier. Okay, so there's a lot to go through with that story. There's more to it. We're going to get to you in just a moment. but I don't know what I don't know.

And I know that you are much closer to this stuff than I am. That doesn't sound good, obviously running out of toothpaste, moldy showers. That baseline sounds bad. But what's it mean that the troops are experiencing those awful conditions and I guess they're setting records being out at sea? What's that tell you? Well, I mean, one, it's horrible. But it's also important to understand why this is happening.

Okay. So you're talking about an aircraft carrier that typically when it needs to resupply is going to go to port, the port of Oman, Kuwait, UAE, Saudi Arabia, any of our allies in, oh, I don't know, up through the Strait of Hormuz, where that's where we would normally port to resupply. And the problem now is, obviously, we can't, we're not put, a lot of people don't realize that we seem to think this naval blockade is like us just in the Strait of Hormuz. No, we're nowhere near this because of fear of Iran hitting our ships with ballistic missiles and drones. So they're way, way, way off from any port to resupply. So now if you can't stop it port to resupply, well, you need to be able to aircraft resupply. Well, you can't fly an AC130 onto an aircraft carrier. You can launch fighter jets off it, but you'd have to resupply through helicopter.

Well, what's the problem there? Well, Iran destroyed all of our bases with all our Gulf allies in the Middle East. So now the helicopter flight, the helicopters can't fly that. far without refueling. Okay, well, now you can't get resupply from from helicopters either. So basically these ships have no resupply. And now the troops of, again, having their deployments extended past. And for the biggest thing here is just morale. Moral for the troops, I can tell you somebody that's deployed to war. Low morale is absolutely brutal. And especially like when you're about ready to go home to be told like, hey, sorry, another six months, especially if you're

married, you have kids. All these things are brutal on the psyche of the troops. And then also just conditions are terrible. So now food, you're not eating good food at all. You're eating, you know, whatever they have left and supply MREs and different things like that. And we've seen, I don't know if you've seen the pictures of some of the food that's being served. We have it. Actually, just pull it up. We have it. Yeah. Yeah. So, I mean, this is like, what are we looking at here? That does not look appetizing. So you obviously have some carrots. That's some type of ground beef hamburger and as I mean as long as I spent in the military and as a green beret I mean I ate in very austere conditions and I can't tell you what that is yeah and then here you go this is some shredded

beat prison swap these these photos came out actually in April of this year and it was part of another story about the conditions the troops are going through but I guess I guess like to me we spend how much money on our military I was literally I was literally I was literally Well, 1.15 trillion. I was literally just going to say that to Keith beforehand. It's like, we spend four times what China does. Our military budget is four times the size of China who has an insanely massive military and Navy.

And we can't afford decent food for the troops, which to me drives me crazy because, man, when I was in Afghanistan, rural Afghanistan, middle of nowhere, I was eating pretty good. Like, we were always able to have pretty high morale. you know, surf and turf on Tuesdays and things like that. And now for these guys, especially these young kids, first deployment, something like that, I can promise you all of these sailors, these young sailors, they're not re-enlisting. Not after this. They're going to be like, I'm out, dog.

I'm not never doing that again. So it's just, it's just par for the course coming from Trump's military. I mean, we like to pretend like there's, you know, all this respect for the troops or anything like that. But when you actually, I talk to all my buddies. I still, I only retired two and a half years ago, guys. So I'm pretty fresh out. I served under both Trump, Biden, and Obama.

So I know the differences of all those and what we're looking at now. And a lot of my buddies are now Sergeant Majors in Army Special Forces and active duty. And I can tell you, I don't know a single one of my buddies that's still active that is happy about what they're seeing. And I don't know a single one of them that supports the war in Iran, which is pretty crazy because typically the warfighters hate to say it, but like war. I mean, this is our job. This is what we spend all our time training to do. Not war itself, but the action of combat. Do they say why?

Like, why this war? Is it just because, like what? I have some hypotheses, but. Sure. So the biggest one is, I mean, most of us are also just, uh, and I say us as veterans and those as fought the global war and terror are also just burned out from 20 years of war in combat, but also pretty much everybody realizes now that the 20 year wars that we fought were all

a big lie and were for nothing, right? And there's a lot of complicated. and the psyche of veterans that deal with that, you know, having lost teammates and friends myself. And then you realize it's for nothing. So everybody's very, very disillusioned at the top, the highest, not like the Pentagon level, but the, you know, highest enlisted levels very disillusioned. And then now all of a sudden we kick off a war that, again, nobody believes in, right? Everybody knows it's all BS.

We know the reasons why it's what's for. We were never even given any, it's like they didn't even try to. lie. You know what I mean? At least George Bush, I still know why we're doing it. Yeah, that's what I'm doing it. I don't understand. No one knows. It does. Like there's no there's literally like I guess

it's from what I understand it's to stop their nuclear capabilities. But I thought we already did that last spring. But we also you know. So like you know what's funny, Keith is I covered the 12 day war you could call it extensively.

And when we did the four doe bombing, I've got entire videos where I called BS on us destroying anything. So I was a J-TAC, which is the, uh, the guys in layman's term that facilitate dropping bombs from the planes. So I'm very familiar. I actually, I actually talked about the type of munition they'd used to do it before they ever announced it. And I called BS.

I'm like, there's zero percent chance. Zero percent chance. You guys just went and dropped a bunch of bombs in the desert. And like Donald Trump, you know, we did it. We declared victory. We destroyed everything. It's like, yeah, okay. But then, you know, uh, nine months later.

we've got to destroy their nuclear program again because we obviously never did. But also, they don't even have one. You know, Tulsi Gabbard, our own Director of National Intelligence, literally said nine months ago, Iran is not trying to develop a nuclear weapon or the CIA said this. And then I don't remember if you know that famous clip of Donald Trump being asked about Tulsi Gabbard saying that Iran is not developing a nuke. And he goes, I don't care what she says. They're definitely doing it.

And you're like, okay, man. Well, now they are. from what I understand now they're of course they are you guy the new guy who's actually more extreme than the last guy is is wanting to move forward with that in a way that the previous ones were not so and would you not be more extreme if somebody bombed your country and killed your dad and maimed one of your daughters like you don't think that guy's gonna be like oh good to go let's get some peace like this is what I don't understand about war because it's like I just don't understand like I don't think it ever I think If I bitch slap you, you're more likely to bitch slap me, right? Like maybe we, maybe you talk it out. No bitch slapping to put it simply. So I don't understand. I just don't understand the point of war usually.

I know that sometimes you have to defend yourself, but it seems more often than not. It doesn't look like we're doing that. No, no, no. That's not what's happening here. I'm just saying generally speaking. Sometimes sometimes. No, I agree.

But this seems, this seems pointless and just made us less safe. But also, Keith, and I try to explain to people, I'm like, what's our track record on regime change? We can go back to the Korean War, right? We go back to the Korean War. Did we overthrow the communists? Nope. We gave up and left. Vietnam. My dad was a green brain, Vietnam. 19 years. Did we regime change? Hohi men? No, we left, you know, Iraq, Afghanistan, right? In Afghanistan, I'd said, you know, I was part of that, 20 years fighting the Taliban to replace the Taliban with the Taliban. Iraq, we're still there.

And now there's like war kicking back up there. Syria, we replaced Assad with the former leader of al-Qaeda. It's like, this is our success rate as America in these regime change wars. It's zero percent, zero percent. So I don't know. I think like all of us at this point. It makes me feel like what are we like what we spent so much money. We spend more than anyone else.

We get, it seems like we have, we get fewer success. successes and it seems like we're just not as safe as we used to be. So it just, it, it, I don't know how you, I just feel like we got to stop spending as much on the military writ large and like start investing in, I don't know, children. Anything else other than bombing brown people maybe? Yeah. Literally anything else. Yeah. So I mean, for me politically, it's funny because I grew up in a very far right Republican household. And then I kind of just shifted, shifted. But it was really me actually going and serving in Afghanistan that sort of opened my eyes,

you know, because it's green berets, we work a little bit different than the rest of the military. We don't, you know, it's not like a hundred of us that go out and fight like Rangers or Navy SEALs or the infantry. There's only 12 of us. And we actually work by with and through the local army. So for us, it's 12 of us that actually take 50, 60, 70, Afghans out. to go fight the Taliban, for example. So we live with the people that we serve with. And for me,

it was living with, you know, Muslims in an Islamic country that every night after night, every operation we went out were risking their lives to protect me and my teammates. And I started being like, oh, well, maybe this post-9-11 Islamophobia lie I've been sold isn't what I thought it was. And so I begin to shift more and more and more. I left the Republican Party about four years ago now. Now I'm just an independent. I call myself an independent, and I'm getting to my point here, I call myself an independent conservative, but I think I'm going to drop that because conservatism believes in exactly what you just said, Keith, which is like, let's not spend $10 million on bombing brown people and, you know, another $100 billion on, you know,

a domestic police force like ice that we don't need and all these different things. So I'm not sure what that word means anymore. So now I'm just to consider myself an American populist, I guess, because I don't know what I don't know what, I don't know what, for sure, conservatism even is in America? Listen, I think something that's like underreported right now and something that really hasn't been fully looked into is that there is a real alignment happening in this country. Big time. There is a realignment happening because I truly don't know.

I don't know where on the spectrum. I know I'm not on the right. But I feel like in many ways I'm very progressive. But I feel like the progressiveness is just, it's just a matter. effect looking at what's happening in this country and wanting things to be different. And I do think that there are folks like you who are traditionally more conservative who are just seeing things too and saying, hey, we've been sold. We've been sold some things that aren't necessarily true.

And we have to do something differently. So I do think there's like a huge real line. I mean, I think about Zoramamani and Trump hanging out in the Ovalon, office and being buddy buddy. But I think there's I think that means something more than just like a press opportunity because I think there are some things that are both populace they both both agree on. Now of course there's much they don't agree on. But I do think that um you know we're seeing these fights on the left between like moderates and progressives and my hope is with the progressives who are winning in swing states we're going to see that actually progressive

ideas, which really are just about like Medicare for all, let, you know, not bombing overseas, you know, it's, uh, you know, like I feel like those are things that conservatives and moderates agree with that, yeah. So I, I, I personally, and a lot of people, I get called a socialist, it's crazy. I'll get called a socialist or a communist immediately from, from MAGA. I'm, I'm not MAGA's biggest fan if you follow my content, obviously. But yeah, I mean, the way I look at it, I'm like, we spent $10 trillion on the global war on terror. We got nothing out of it. What could that $10 trillion have done in the United States?

So where I'm at at this point is, and a lot of people, a lot of veterans and even conservative veterans kind of agree with this is not like a full isolation approach, but I prefer, I would prefer we yanked every military base for the most part outside of, you know, I mean, out of Europe, out of Africa, out of the Middle East, out of Asia. and we brought all the troops home and we defend the homeland. If we need to defend the homeland, we defend the homeland. And we take those trillions and trillions of dollars and we start to invest them in whatever. And I really say America first on my channel, not as a Nick Fuentes America first.

I want to get a big distinction there. But as a, I only support policies and politicians that want to directly, positively impact the working class American. And so what I'd like to see is instead of spending all these trillions of dollars on, you know, again, bombing brown people, in Latin America and the Middle East and Africa. And yeah, let's do universal health care. Let's do free education.

Like, let's do, I just saw a Republican governor candidate talking about how he's against, you know, maternal leave for mothers after. Like, we can't, we can't support our wives and our moms and our sisters and our daughters with a little bit of help. We're the richest country in the world. And so if that makes me, you know, this is where I'm probably like you as a populace, maybe all over the place politically, but like, what are we doing here at this point, right?

And that's really what made me fully leave the Republican Party was just watching. One, they're not conservative because the spending, Keith is not going down, right? Like the budget or the debt, excuse me, the debt is skyrocketing. Yeah, it's worse. And we have nothing worse and worse. Do you look around and see your roads being repave? Do you have, you know, do we have universal health care, free education? Do we have any of these systems in place as the richest country in the world?

No. So I was talking about this on my show the other day. What are we spending the money on? Does anybody know where these trillions of dollars are going? Because I don't see any positive output from it. I mean, the thing I think about a lot actually, or like my biggest example of how even centrist Democrats aren't really, aren't really interested in helping Americans was when we had the child. Child tax credit, which was the greatest policy to pull most Americans out of poverty. And what that policy did was it allowed people to claim the deduction for their children ahead of time so they'd get it back as a rebate every month as a check. And it actually did the job of helping lift Americans out of poverty. And what happened to that? well they got rid of it they got rid of it they got rid of lax and you know who helped

centrist democrats they voted they voted to let it lapse so that's the thing is like i just am interested in policies and politicians who are against corporations who want money out of politics and want to invest in us simple as that let me let me let me pitch an idea to you here keith because a lot of people I don't think add all these things up. If you didn't see, the military is at record recruitment levels right now. Record. Do you think Gen Z, who I can tell you does not support the war in Iran or a certain country for the most part, that's pretty much where they were fighting it for?

Do you think record numbers of Gen Z are wanting to join the military? No, it's usually a last chance effort for a lot of young poor Americans that have no other option. Like, I joined the military because I didn't have any other options left. Like, is that a prison, right? So what I'm going to pitch to you is that the Trump administration wants a bad economy. See, a war administration wants a terrible economy because it jacks up recruitment numbers through the roof. And if you're potentially, I'm still a big proponent.

I think we're going to do a full-scale grand invasion into Iran. I think that's coming. And we got to remember in the global war on. Terror 2001 is when we initially went to Afghanistan. We didn't, they couldn't get across the goal line to invade Iraq until 2003. It's two years of war before the neocons finally got that across the table. We're only five months into this. And if you're looking at the, you know, this is also expanding, right?

Saudi Arabia is now entering the war against Iran. Ukraine has been bombing Iran, right? Russia, everything is sort of being intermingled and intertwined and getting more complicated to undo. That's the only way forward. you can't pull out you got to push through and so i think that's coming and if that's coming and a full-scale ground invasion in iran will be far more death death toll than even vietnam well you're going to need a lot of bodies in the military and but but how how are we how are we going to be able to fight a ground invasion in iran if we were talking before we started recording and

you were saying that there's actually we're like we're low on munitions right we're not going to be able to get them back until 2032 so So how do you square that circle? It feels like we're not, we don't have the capability. So am I wrong? No, you're, they're definitely very, and we'll talk about it here in a second, very specific types of munitions that are actually incredibly important, specifically if you were going to want to launch a ground evasion.

But yeah, well, we could do it. Now, we have plenty of air to ground munitions. Now, as I talk about in my channel all the time, an air campaign doesn't win a war. It's an air campaign has never changed a regime. It actually increases. the resolve, excuse me, we got super bad forest fires here in Oregon right now. So I'm so sorry. I'm getting up from that. No, it's good. But what we'll do, right, is, and this is most likely what will happen is we'll go retake Afghanistan. So what we'll do is we'll go back.

We'll take Bogram Air Base. We'll take Kandahar Air Base. And that will allow us to facilitate. Now in southern Afghanistan, there's what's called the Heroin Silk Road that runs from Pakistan, up through Kandahar, Helman, Farrah, out through Harat, which takes you into the area you can actually drive into Iran with tanks and troops like that. Nasty Valley that if we did that, hundreds of thousands of troops will die. But to actually facilitate, excuse me, a ground invasion into Iran, you have to take Afghanistan back first. And there's rumors of that going on. One of my former commanders that is still in was saying the other day, he told me in 23 right

before I retired that we would be back in Afghanistan within five years to take that back to probably facilitate Oregon St. Iran. He was talking about that in 2023. So, and what that allows us to do is now we have Bogum Air Base, which is right next to Iran, and now you can facilitate air campaigns much easier. You don't need to use the aircraft carriers and things like that. And then you can push through with conventional ground military troops like we did in Iraq. But again, it's going to be bloody. It's going to be messy. But don't be shocked if you see that happen before the end of Trump's term, because I think they're trying to get a lot of this across the goal line while they still have the support to do it. So it's terrifying.

But yeah, for the missile systems, if we want to talk about that next, the shortage of missile systems. Yeah. So what we have, let's see, do I have? I think I had. I don't know where it is. Anyway, I'll just explain it. Oh, so yeah. So the story as it goes here, and we've covered, yeah.

So we are, as far as we're being told, whistleblowers and even the Pentagon acknowledged this about a month ago. go is a couple different types of missile systems. We have what's called ATACOMs, and these are our surface-to-surface missile systems. And why these are really important is because they're mobile. You put them on what's called a Haimar system. I don't know if you've heard that term before. Listen, pretend like I don't know anything because this is all new to me. I just know domestic stuff. I know who's going to win in Michigan. Yeah. So the Hymar system is the launcher, the mobile launcher, right? It's a vehicle that has the launcher system on it. You'll see that, right? The Atacums are the missile themselves that launch. And the Hymars are super, super important because they're

mobile. So you can put them on a AC130 jet and fly them, you know, into an area that you're trying to help facilitate maybe a ground invasion for. And then you have a surface, they're like, think about Iran's ballistic missiles, right? Except you have a mobile version of that that you can move around. So that can be very, very important because you use those to take out. enemies of their missile systems and their anti-air systems and things like that. So that's why those are so important. We're pretty much completely out of those. We're also pretty much out of our Patriot missile systems, which are what we give to Ukraine

and Israel to shoot down incoming ballistic missiles. We didn't see in Ukraine yesterday. Ukraine got drilled by 24 Russian ballistic missiles and shot none of them down because it's not just Ukraine that doesn't have them anymore because the United States doesn't have anymore. same as Israel. So our ability to, that's a huge deal too, right, for America if you were to try to, you know, launch a ground invasion. And is that, is that like Pete Hegsteth? Is that like, is that just bad management? Or is that, how could that be? How could that be?

Of course, because we did, we did five months of just bombing, you know, anything with four corners in the desert in Iran for zero strategic or tactical value, right? Got it. We showed everybody, look how many bombs we can drop. It's the most Trump thing ever. We drop so many bombs, right? Because that's the same as our Tomahawk missiles. The Pentagon has said we're pretty much out of Tomahawk missiles because we spent them all, you know, bombing little girls elementary schools, I guess.

And so now we can't backfill those until close to 2031, it sounds like. So, yeah, I mean, we're in, to your point, I don't know how we're going to facilitate some type of ground invasion. Most likely it'll be us trying to take ground around like not Carg Island itself, but along the actual coast of the Strait of Hormuz to try to. But then the issue is if you don't have any A-Tacombs, you can't knock down Iran's ballistic missile systems anyway. So again, I don't think there was a whole lot of, well, I know there wasn't, but let me give you a example, a whole lot of planning that went into. Yeah, I think I know that. I think everybody's figured that out.

For example of this, I don't know if remember Trump in the press conference saying nobody could have expected them to close the straight-of-hor moves, that nobody. would have ever thought that they would do this. And I'm like, that's funny because you can go 10 months back on my YouTube channel to a video where I talked about if we go to war with Iran, the very first thing they'll do is shut down the straight-hor-moos. And I went through all the shipping lines and all the effect it would have. And it's like, if some random dumbass like me by myself behind a camera knew that, then I'm pretty sure the Pentagon knew that.

But I think it's just a fly by the seed of your pants. I think it's like Donald Trump wakes up and, you know, they tell them something's going on. And he's just like, all right, well, it's Monday. So let's tell the markets that the war's over, right? And then once Friday hits, then we'll start bombing again. And then, you know, Sunday night, he'll declare peace. And we've just done that for five months while we just wasted all our munitions.

And his buddies made, you know, billions and billions of dollars off it. To me, I think it's really just a big grift right now. It's also great for the military industrial complex because we're dropping bombs again, right? After Afghanistan, Iraq, kind of, well, Iraq, we're still there. but after those campaigns ended, they got to make that money, right? You got to drop bombs on brown people, Keith. That's what America's all about, baby, right? We got to keep that machine rolling, you know?

So I'm sorry to laugh about that, but it's just such a joke at this point that, and none of America, like, America doesn't support it at all. You know, what is it, like 25% of Americans, which is just MAGA, I guess, support the war at this point. Yeah, I mean, I don't think anyone supports this roar who's paying attention. And I think it's one of the reasons why we're going to see, regardless of who Democrats nominate, whether they be a progressive or a centrist in a swing state, we are going to see more likely than not that Democrats are going to win overwhelmingly because it's going to be a rejection of everything happening right now. I don't know if that's going to happen statewide for local races, like governors and that sort of thing.

Yeah, that might be different there. That's different. but I think when it comes to federal, we are going to see a very overwhelming push. Let me, can I expand on that for my audience? Sure. I have a very broad audience, right? We got progressive leftists and we've got far right.

We've got everything. But the majority of my audience is disillusioned former Republicans for the most part, right? Independent conservatives, whatever they consider themselves. And I can tell you, I do polls. And none of my audience, especially after two, two big things after what happened to Thomas Massey. And then after 100, basically 100% of Republicans voted to merge our military with another country, they pretty much said we're done.

So my entire audience, I've done polls, like 98% of my audience says that they will not vote for any Republican candidate in the next two elections. Yeah, listen. Just refusing to. James Tala Rico, we showed this video when I live streamed a couple of days ago that these three nice ladies were interviewed by, I don't know who interviewed them. but they were like, they're like, we're like, we're voting for James.

We voted for Republicans our entire life. We like the middle school teacher. We don't want the guy Ken Paxton. So it's like, there's something. Releasing PDFs back onto the street. There is something happening.

And it makes me, it's nice to know that people are paying attention. Okay. All right. And let's get to this third and final story. Really the best story, the best of the worst. We, right.

The most surprising story ever, by the way. No, we were all very surprised. Let's get to this tweet. So someone tweeted this the other day. And they said, this is Chef Joe Jera, Gera, said to Josh Hawley, maybe we should ask Carlos, not a pseudonym, the bus boy who saw you kissing your strong date from that, quote, agency when he was taking out the trash behind the property about your integrity, Josh.

And I think we have one more here. And then someone else said, don't worry, man, let it out, be honest, leave the GOP and the vicious religious light. Be a good gay man. Now, I think we also have a clip. Hunter Biden alluded to this when he was on the Don Lemon show. When was that?

A week ago, he talked about a closetocracy. Hunter is my new, my new favorite, man. He is one of the funniest guys. I'm not going to. Like, I'm already in enough lawsuits, It's done. Allegedly, allegedly. Allegedly.

Allegedly. Allegedly, who else? Allegedly, who else? I'm not going to do this. Can you give me initials? Do you know? You know as well as I do. I mean, are you asking me if Josh Hawley's gay?

Yes. Are you asking me if Stephen Miller's gay? Yes. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know. I really don't know. Okay, let me tell you this. Are you asking me of you?

Speaker Johnson's gay? Yeah. Okay. I personally, I don't know. I believe what Hunter Biden was doing there was saying, hey, are you asking me if they're gay? Yes. Yes. Yeah, absolutely.

Are you asked, you know what I mean? He's so funny. And we also heard Bernie Marino has some, has had a profile on a mail for male website. Like, what is going on? So. Republicans. Well, I mean. I mean, and it's Republican evangelicals.

That's the thing. Like when you really zoom in on it, it's like that one specific demographic like Lindsey Graham, right? Like Mike Johnson, Josh Hawley. And again, I did a whole episode like two months ago on like I said before, the closeted gay Republican homosexual crisis. And I'm a big supporter of the gay community. Don't get me wrong. But what I'm not, yeah, what I'm not a big supporter of is closeted homosexual Republican politicians who, use their positions of power to enact anti-LGBQ legislation.

That is a huge fucking problem. That's what I'm like, I mean, come on, right? Like that's, it's almost, I don't know, I don't want to use any other, any terms, but it's, it's a very repressed religious thing, I think. I think all of these guys are gay men who, you know, unfortunately, and there might be some other influencers like, Benny Johnson. Sorry, you can put that out if you want. That is very, yeah, that is an open secret.

Allegedly, sorry. Allegedly, yeah. But my point is, is like, they can't be openly gay in the evangelical base of the Republican Party, right? It's obviously they're not supportive of anything LGBTQ. So they can't be. So they have to repress it. And then that's what you get. You get all these.

What are the, I learned this term the other day, Keith Lavender marriages, right? Oh, yeah. And that's, I mean, that's, it seems like that's what it is. And lavender marriage, for those who don't know, I think it's when you marry, is it, is it, you're gay and you marry a woman and she knows that you're gay? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And a lot of times it's political, right? And things like that. But, but, but yeah, I think a big problem is just that they can't, they can't be openly gay. So they've repressed it their entire lives. And then for whatever reason, I think they hate themselves because of that. And so they take that out policy-wise by, you know, pushing forward policy that's anti-gay because of that. But it does seem to be way – and also second part to this, I think also that that type of person, the political apparatus really looks for, right?

Because if you want to leverage and control people, the number one way to do that is through shame. And if someone like Lindsey Graham, who let's say, you know, you find a lot of, you find, out that he's hiring, you know, maybe gay or trans escorts and you get that information on him. Well, you now control that politician. And so they're much, much easier to control, whereas, you know, in the Democrat party, you can be an openly gay candidate and no one cares because Americans don't care, right? But in the Republican Party, you can't be that. So they get a lot of leverage on these people as well. And that's a good point. And so, and not just that, but like, you know, PDFs as well, right?

People that have bad back histories. I think they're much, much easier to control politically. So I think, yeah, like, do you think Ken Paxton is going to think for himself if he's elected to Senate? Absolutely no. No. No. So I think that's the two-pronged system there that we have is, you know, evangelicals. Yeah, you can't, you can't be a part of that.

You can't be a part of that club if you're gay. And then also, I think it makes it much easier for them to be controlled politically. So what is your, so you said you know some of the highest ranks at Grindr, which by the way, one, one, one. Just let them know to fix the app. The app sucks. It's a terrible app. Just let them know.

So, yeah, they used to be better. So one of, yeah, one of my friends. And again, I'm not going to give up too much, but you know, like in corporations, if you got a C in front of your name, you're one of the chiefs. You're at the top of one of the, one of the things, okay? Great dude, straight guy. Actually, our wives are best friends. And so, yeah, I get some inside information on to what's going on with that.

So a couple different things. Rumors I can either shore up that are either not true or true. We can go over that you may have heard about. The Republican Party and like TPSA events shutting down grinder servers. Unfortunately, that one's not true. So I hate to not that their traffic isn't drastically higher, which it is. I'll tell you that. They have they've made it.

servers no longer buckle under the intense pressure. So the traffic in those areas, I can confirm, does skyrocket. However, the servers themselves are stable. Okay. So there's a little truth, truth and a lie to that. Grinders like, hey, come on, guys. We got good servers. We can handle the pressure.

Yeah, we can handle the workload of the Republican Party coming into town. But the next one I want to talk about, do you remember the White House Correspondence dinner? Do you remember hearing about how Grindr was going to sponsor that? Yeah, I went to the party. Oh, you did? Okay, cool. So I remember hearing about that and I was like, there's no way. There's no way.

This is too funny, right? The Republican Party, the class of the gay crisis party is going to have Grindr host their event. It almost felt like satire. So I called my buddy. I'm like, is this true? And he's like, oh, yeah, dude, 100% true. We're hosting it. Right.

And he's like, I can get you a media pass if you want. And I was like, well, it was my wife's birthday so I couldn't go. Too bad because I would have gone. And I was like, well, can you tell me about, you know, all this closet of gay, you know, politician crisis? And he's like, well, he's like, I can't get like too much into to potentially what's going on. But he's like, I can get you with our brand manager, right? So it's the guy who would like coordinate with the Republican Party to do that and was going to get me an interview for it after the dinner happened. and then we all saw what happened with the assassination attempt.

Oh, yeah. And so it all got canceled. I wasn't able to do it. But they were like, dude, as long as you're, they're like, we don't give a shit. As long as you're not going to be anti-gay, well, yeah, we'll do interviews with you and tell you all about how active the Republican Party is on our politicians are. They wouldn't give me names, but they're like, yeah, it's way more than you think, way more than you. I bet you, though, they know. Of course they know.

They know specific accounts. Yeah. Yeah. Of course they do. Yeah. But so they were like, we can't we can't divulge actual names. Release the grinder files. Release the grinder files.

Yeah, there's definitely grinder files, which is just, it's just hilarious, right? Because it's just like another one of those things of, I'm just like, let your freak flag fly, man. Like, who cares at this point? It's 2026. No one cares. Well, I guess maybe, you know, the very religious sect. But other than that, the rest of the country cares, you know. No, no.

This has been kind of thoroughly vetted, and everyone's just like, whatever. Yeah, right. That's like in our country, the problems we have with candidates. You know, it's like all the things you find out about some of these people. That's like the least, the least thing anybody's worried about right now. Across Canada in a Volvo. Destination, Vancouver, turn left to leave. Travel west through.

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meet you and reach out and collab. Yeah. Also, what I wanted to, I wanted this to be a good, uh, demonstration for your audience is like there is a lot of independence and conservatives who are also fed up with this, who are also pro so many of the populist things. things that I'm really trying to like kind of get away from this really hardcore right left versus right divide in America and get us to you know I think we agree on probably 70, 80% of things. Most of us is populace right or left. And I think if we could do more stuff like this across the aisle, although I'm not not like I'm a far right guy or anything like that, but it would show people like we as Americans, we have a lot in common. And we probably

probably figure these things out together. billionaires want us to be separated. They want us to feel divided because then we're, I mean, it's the oldest trick, right? You're divided. You're more easier to conquer. But yeah, that's why these conversations are important. And we have so much more in common than we do have different.

And it's when we, that's why they don't want us talking to each other. Because when we do, it's like, wait, is I, you want health care? Wait, you think the bombing is stupid? Wait, you think the military's being spent? Is there too much money been spent? You know, it's like, oh, huh, wait a second. Wait a second. Wait a second.

Yeah. Yeah. So, no, I think these conversations are really good, excuse me, and really important for, for America to see that, like, we're, we are in this together. And at some point, if we could ever figure that out together, ooh, you know, the elite apparatus would be in big, big trouble. Well, I would, I would wager to say we are figuring it out. And that's the reason why we're seeing more populist candidates win. because people are like, they're fed up and they're able to get their information from places. They weren't able to 10 years ago.

If you, sorry to interrupt there, if you go to my video I just did on the Michigan race. And again, my audience is heavily, you know, at least liens right or conservative. And you go to that comment section, 100% of my audience is cheering on Abdul Said winning. Wow. So why would 100% of a conservative base be cheering on a, Democratic Socialist winning a race. Well, to exactly to your point is, I mean, we're now at this point across the aisle.

You have people pretty far on the right that are populists that are going, I would rather have the Democrat socialist than the, you know, mainstream corporate lobbying foreign investment candidate, you know. So it's pretty wild. And I think Thomas Massey is another example of that for people on the left or like, I don't agree with everything this guy says. But hey, he's a populist who's actually trying to stand up against Donald Trump and the administration and things.

Yeah, I'm telling you, there's a realignment. There's a realignment happening. And I can see it on the ground. Absolutely. All right, brother. We'll be in touch and we'll get a live stream scheduled here soon. Yes. And again, that's Nate.

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