Timcast IRL - FBI Warns Iran Prepping DRONE STRIKE On California w/ Arynne Wexler

Episode Date: March 12, 2026

Tim, Phil, and Ian are joined by Arynne Wexler and Luke Rudkowski to discuss a potential drone attack against California, Iran striking a US-owned oil tanker, gas prices skyrocketing in California, Republicans betraying America, Trump endorsing Brandon Herrera, and markets predicting Trump will declare an election emergency.  SUPPORT THE SHOW BUY CAST BREW COFFEE NOW - https://castbrew.com/ Join - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLwN... Hosts:  Tim @Timcast (everywhere) Phil @PhilThatRemains (X) | https://allthatremains.komi.io/ Ian @IanCrossland (everywhere) | https://graphene.movie/ Producer: Carter @carterbanks (X) |  @trashhouserecords  (YT) Guest: Arynne Wexler @ArynneWexler (X) Luke Rudkowski @Lukewearechange (X) Podcast available on all podcast platforms! For advertising inquiries please email [e-mail] FBI Warns Iran Prepping DRONE STRIKE On California | Timcast IRL w/ Arynne Wexler

The FBI has warned police stations across California that Iran is preparing, aspiring to, engage in drone strikes off of the coast of California to California. And the immediate response from a lot of the anti-interventionist people is that, okay, this is propaganda. They're trying to freak people out. But I guess in essence, if you believe the FBI, then Iran is planning on bombing California. So, okay, seems like a stretch, but I think we should still take it seriously and take a look at what they're talking about. At the same time, it has been reported that Iran is mining the strait of Hormuz, and a U.S. tanker, a U.S. own tanker, has been bombed. So while Trump at the same time is saying, we've won the war, a lot of stuff is still going on.

And then there's another real interesting story that apparently, like, the new Supreme leader didn't show up for, like, a big ceremony, and everyone was like, what a loser. I can't believe he didn't show up. Meanwhile, the rumors are that he's just dead. Maybe that's why he didn't show up. And then, of course, my friends, we have the Save Act. Cornyn in Texas is apparently backing off the filibuster issue saying, do whatever you got to do to get the Save Act passed. And I think, if anything, at all, proves that Congress is fake.

It's that everybody in this country, basically, wants the Save Act to pass. It is wildly popular among Democrat voters, independents, Republicans, basically everybody else. But for some reason, Democrat politicians are saying, no, they're not going to pass it. John Thune is like, sorry, we just can't get it done. Because it seems like, unfortunately, everything is just fake. And you know what else. So we're talking about that. We got a bunch more to talk about, of course, my friends, before we do, we got a great sponsor for you.

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We have Aaron Wexler. Hi, it's great to be here. Who are you? What do you do? I think now I could say I'm just a full-time comedian, formerly political commentator, formerly tech bro, formerly finance, beyond.

So yeah, it's great to hear. Well, good to have you back. And then Luke's here. Yes, I am in a weird fashion in the thumbnail

that is a little strange and bewildering. I don't know. Well, the thing is like Aaron had this, there was like this joke that emerged with when Aaron was here last month

because she like, she was like, you're going to get my boobs, right? And then we ended up just using her boobs for the thumbnail. And then,

And then, we ab tested it. Did we ab tested it? And it works. But here's the thing. She has a laptop right now. And she was like, should I close my laptop? Because then, and then I was like, we can't do the same joke twice. And then I was like, let's put the boobs on loop.

Or someone recommended putting the boobs on loops on loops. Eyes up here, chat, all right? We got important things to talk about specifically about maybe. I'm so sorry you had to see that. I'm sorry to cut you off too, but good Lord. I apologize. I apologize. I apologize.

I don't know what the hell. Let's, let's jump into the news. news though, so it should be a fun show. Luke, good to have you back. You're going to be your fact the week, I think, right? Yeah, yeah, it's going to be fun. And for everybody else, let's jump to the story. We've got this from ABC 10.

This is the breaking news report. We'll play it for you right now. The FBI warned police departments across California over the past few days that Iran could retaliate for American attacks by launching drones at the West Coast. ABC reviewed an alert distributed at the end of February that reads, quote, we recently acquired information that as of early February, 2026, Iran allegedly aspired to conduct a surprise attack using unmanned aerial vehicles from an unidentified vessel off the coast of the United States homeland, specifically against unspecified targets in

California, in the event that the U.S. had conducted strikes against Iran, with no additional information on the timing method, target, or perpetrators of this alleged attack, and, of quote. Now he says alleged attack, but of course it's alleged plan to aspire to, allegedly. And you know, when I see this, what is a point of a story like this? Do we really expect Iran to launch drone strikes on California? No. Well, there could be blowback specifically from radicalized Shias that are pissed off about. And we should be scared, right? And you should be tuned into shows like this to make sure you're not in danger. I think blowback is real. And I think it's a significant issue that we're going to have to deal with for quite a long time now, sadly.

But when we look at the story, it originally was an FBI memo sent out in February. That would have been nice to know for the citizens in California, so they could have actually been on watch there. I'm looking at a lot of the comments here, and people are like, well, I don't really believe the FBI. They covered up the Epstein stuff for over 30 years now. They have no credibility. As a lot of people are saying, this could just be a way to make people fear or to try to do some kind of false flag in order to allow boots on the ground here. Lots of people are very skeptical of power right now, but I do believe the threat of blowback Israel.

We saw it in Austin. Three American citizens have lost their lives here because of a Shiye radical that was pissed off about the, but New York was ISIS. ISIS has actually been fighting Iran and Iran has been fighting ISIS as well. So ISIS and the radical Sunni Islamists are very happy about this war in Iran. And there are other considerations about using them along with the Kurds in order to put boots on the ground inside of Iran, which I think is just. an awful move because, you know, things always go good when we drop a whole bunch of weapons

and bombs in the Middle East and give it to the random people there. As of course, that usually led up to the creation of ISIS. Global jihad is something that's a real legitimate threat that we should be taken seriously. And it just sucks because no one trusts the authorities anymore. I don't think that Trump would actually, like, would really rely on a false flag to put boots on the ground. If that was something that he was going to do, just like he didn't need a false flag to attack Israel. I think if he actually wanted to do it, he's the kind of guy that would be like, I'm just going to go do it. I'm not saying he's going to do it. I'm saying that's what the chatter is online. That people are saying that this is the step up to the next potential false flag.

That's what the chatter is online. And of course, a lot of people are not really happy about this war. They don't want us more involved. And if you think about it, they see it as a way if Trump does a false flag, then he could galvanize the American public to put boots on the ground to escalate and expand this country. They wouldn't put a story like this out if it was going to be a false flag. they would just do it. And then after the fact they would say, you know what they would do is the attack would happen, then there would be hearings on the memo,

and they would say, you knew this was possible, and you didn't warn everybody, and they'd say, well, we didn't find it to be credible. And then everyone in media would be like, the Trump administration knew of the threat of an attack on California and did nothing about it. So when I see stuff like this,

it's usually because it's not going to happen. Yeah, it came from February. So obviously, it's been a long time. The Iranian Navy has shut down. Could it have been? that this memo was circulated for the purpose of a false flag operation that the U.S. would use to then go into attack Iran. You see my point? Yes, because it originated before the war.

Right. So before the war starts, memos went out saying, you may get bombed. And then if a bombing did happen, the years would be like, oh, we were attacked by Iran. We've got to go to war now. Exactly. Yeah, which is important to consider here. All possibilities are kind of on the table here. But when it comes to kind of selling this war, this administration really didn't do that.

They're kind of messaging on it is kind of weird and seems to be jumping all over the place. It is. Yeah. All over the place. I mean, there's been very little messaging besides, you know, Iran's a threat. Donald Trump has been pretty hawkish on Iran for, I mean, a long time before he was president. He was making remarks on Twitter back in like 2013 about how he couldn't, he wouldn't want to see Iran get a nuclear weapon. And so I don't think that this is actually, the Iran war is actually out of character for Trump.

He did say that he didn't want to see new wars, but I don't think that he looks at this as a new war. I think he looks at this as an extension of the policy that Iran's not going to get a nuclear weapon. And as for the idea of a threat of a ship launching drones off the California coast, I think that that's just a second American question. Could we not stop them with like the Coast Guard? Well, I think that American citizens should be allowed to have weapons that could take out a ship. The Second Amendment allows it. There's let the California's handle it themselves. There's already people who are posting saying that

if anything happens in California, it was Israel. Oh, I mean, if anything happens anywhere, it's Israel. Yeah, yeah. I stopped my time the other day. You're a loser and you don't have a girlfriend because of the Jews. That's life. Yeah. It's likely.

That's what we plot. I was walking through my kitchen and I went to open my door and it was one of those, it's one of those handles, not like a doorknob. and when I opened it, it got caught in my belt loop and yanked. It was the Jews. Yeah, I knew right away. It was a Jews. It's pretty obvious when it's the Jews.

I know. Actually, Aaron orchestrated the whole thing. We all got PTSD from last night. She usually sneaks in there and then. We all have PTSD. It's PISD. It's post-interventional stress disorder. Pissed.

I know. I like that you coined that. Post-intervention stress disorder. Pissed to P-I-S-D. I think on Trump, though, with all of this, I somewhat agree with his style right now. of not saying that much and just getting it done. He's just getting a lot of stuff done.

Yeah, what is he getting done? I'll give an example. I was getting frustrated when he sent a truth out saying, like, to the people of Iran, help is on the way. And I thought Donald Trump doesn't, but I'm like, hey, truth out. That's what he did. He doesn't truth. He trothed.

And I thought Donald Trump is not, he's not going to write something like that unless he means it. And then we went week after week after week. And we watched his tens of thousands of Iranians got slaughtered. And it's because he was getting ready. And the military was preparing. And they were coordinating. with Israel and then we had the attack that killed Ayatollah.

So I'm okay with trusting him and our secretary of war and seeing what they do. I do not think there's any interest for us to have a long extended war. Donald Trump cares very much about his legacy. And so he's not going to risk that legacy. And also people in America love applying an American framework to everything.

And it is a big mistake. And in Israel, Israelis are tired. They've been fighting a lot. They've been fighting for two years. They're done. It's worth noting that like Donald Trump cares about his legacy. He also has no problem with being like, all right, we're done, and just leaving.

He'll BS people about what was accomplished, what wasn't accomplished. He has no problem laying it on thick. Yeah, we're done. We did it. You know, we're on. The thing is, if we stopped. Do you guys remember in Trump's first term, he was very adamant about ending the Israel-Palestine crisis? Yeah.

He wanted to be the guy to end that. So one of the things I was thinking about today is that, you know, what are Trump's motivations, if legacy is especially important to him, why start a war that people are going to admit about? and one theory. You know, it's funny because the anti-Israel people are just going to claim Tim Poole said something stupid, blah, blah, blah. I have a theory that may or may not be correct. I don't know. But I'm thinking about Donald Trump coming in his first term being like,

these losers couldn't solve Israel Palestine, but I can because I'm the art of the deal. And I'm going to cut a deal so good that it's going to solve the Middle Eastern crisis, Winston for all. And then he couldn't get it done. And then he started wondering, why can't I get it done? They had the Abraham Accords, which is awesome. But he was like, the Israel-Palestine issue is just not. getting solved and he wants to be the deal maker and then I think he ran into the issue of

Iran funding Hamas groups Akasan Brigade types and other militia groups in the Middle East that are continuing to fight and they're not they're they're refusing to say no there's no deal to be made with them I think for Trump there's two things one I believe I believe what marco rubio said the first time Israel was going to take an action against Iran the US was concerned this would result in a retaliation against the United States so they decided to joined the Israeli effort because they didn't want to take a defensive posture, which would, they would then get criticized for. So they decided, okay, fine, if Israel's going to do, then we're going to have to attack as well. I think, uh, but you're leaving out part of what he said.

What did he say? Part of what he said is we were always going to attack Iran, but then because of Israel's timeline, we decided we want us to be on the offense and not defensive. He did not say we are always going to attack Iran. He said, they were, there were in the middle negotiations. Negotiations were not going well. He said, he said, there was, we were always, an attack was always going to be necessary against Iran. That is what he said. And that was the whole point is that the clip was taken out of context and they didn't include everything that he said. And then Caroline Levitt came out and everyone in the administration came out. And Trump walked it back and said, that's not true. And they said, that's not true. And then Rupert walked it back.

I get that, but I still think that Trump clarified it was taken out of context. Trump claimed that the bombing campaign the first time in Iran was a 12-day war and it's officially over. He did not want this to happen. So I genuinely believe that this is something that they did not want to have to do. However, my point ultimately was, why is it, that Trump is bombing the hell out of their leadership. What are Trump's goals? What do we see him trying to do? Abraham Accords was massive.

He's trying to, he wants that legacy of being the guy who stabilized the Middle East, which is like one of the most ridiculous things anyone could aspire to do. And Iran is basically like, nah. So I think Trump got to the point where he's like, you can't negotiate with these people. And then I imagine a bunch of neocons started laughing being like, oh, yeah? Like you thought you were going to get in negotiating,

and cut a deal. It was never going to happen. Well, Anthony Blinken even came out and talked about how, Bibi was trying to get Barack Obama to do this. Donald Trump in 2011 said, quote, our president will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate. He's weak and ineffective.

Now, what happened between 2011 and now there's a big time jump, of course, here? What I find weird was how Rubio came out and said what he said, and then the next day walked it back when asked by the same reporter, rephrasing the same exact statement that he made. And this is why there's such a,

kind of like strange kind of circumstance here because we're first being told Iran's going to attack Israel Israel is going to attack Iran no Israel was going to be the victim here no Iran was going to attack the U.S. which which one is going on what's the truth here the messaging is off we don't know what's really going on and this is not how you convince a general public that everything's going along swimmingly because it doesn't seem like it it looks like they're just they just did it and they're looking for justification afterwards and it's pretty clear it's It's not going the way it should go. Let's jump to this story.

We've got breaking news. This is a video that's been going massively viral. This is Amichai Stein. One of the oil tankers that was attacked by Iranian explosive boats in the Persian Gulf belongs to a U.S.-based company. Safe Sea Group, I believe, is it the name of the company? We've got two videos. We've got this one as well as this from Disclose TV.

An American-owned oil tanker struck by explosive drone boats near Iraqi waters. Preliminary reports indicate. So we'll just play this video for you first. I don't think there's any sound. Okay, there may be sound. There we go. Massive damage. One of the craziest things about these tankers getting bombed

is that these are some of the biggest explosions and fireballs ever in history because these are tankers with, like, ridiculous amounts of crude and them blowing up. So here's the other video. And... Massive. So this is the issue. that we were talking about last night.

And what I will say is without getting in, I suppose this will still ignite the argument. The reason why the United States largely has been trying to go after Iran is because the Strait of Hormuz is 20% of global oil and gas. So if you are a petro dollar country, you are very concerned about what Iran is doing. They have threatened to drop mines.

They're reportedly dropping mines now. And they could be lying, but they're doing it so that ships are scared to transport oil. So if you're a customer of this petro dollar system, you're pissed. Gas prices are going up. In California, do you guys see it's at $8 a gallon in L.A.? Good Lord. $8.21 for gas in L.A. Crazy. This is the principal issue. This is why Donald Trump is like we can't allow these people to do things like this. One country should not be able to disrupt 20% of global oil trade. But it's more than that, though, because what Trump is doing is he's dealing with one of the three

legs of the stool of our enemies. We have China, Russia, and Iran. And this also weakens China and Russia who get their oil from Iran. So when people talk about this, like it's Iran in this vacuum across the world, like what Donald Trump is doing is multiple layers deeper than that. I'm not always the person that's like, oh, Donald Trump is always playing 40 chess. I don't think that's always the case. But in this case, it's really not just only about Iran. But Trump came out and said he wants to help China. He wants to help open up the trade routes, which predominantly does benefit China. You think Donald Trump doesn't know how to do messaging? Indeed.

And what does it mean? Yeah. What he's saying is China is going to be on the petro dollar system. That's what he's saying. Because China has actively been working to get off of the petro dollar. So you think master of the deal, art of the deal, Mr. President Donald Trump is not getting people along with his messaging? You think he's just like, oh, yeah, like China's fine. No, I'm saying he's pulling them.

He's now saying that he's going to insure a lot of these ships, right? These ships are predominantly helping out China in India. So he's going out of his way to help out trade for Chinese. So for the same reason, the U.S. gives Pakistan $13 million for gender studies. We know that money went to some politician's pocket and he bought himself a Lambo. The point is, by putting U.S. dollars in these countries, the goal is to get them to want to use U.S. dollars for their trade to be on the petro dollar system. I'm not saying it's good. I'm not saying you should agree with it.

But the motivation is, actually, let me put it like this for a look, because you understand this. Why is Trump supporting the Saudi Arabia's attacks and the humanitarian crisis, like the violence in Yemen? It has to do with Houthi rebels bombing the Red Sea and Donald Trump trying to kiss the pinky ring of the Saudis to get them back on the petro dealer contract. It expired. Well, the Houthis are a proxy army of the Iranians. So this has been a long conflict that the Israelis and the Americans have been working on because first they got rid of all the proxies. got rid of Hesbola, they got rid of all the other allies in the region. Yes, and a lot of the Houthis as well.

So they got rid of their capabilities to strike back, and now they're slowly going after everyone else. Let me ask this. Honest question, I'm curious your thoughts. Should we allow the Houthi rebels to bomb civilian cargo vessels going through the Red Sea? Of course not. And this is, but this is, so just sorry, real quick, the challenge is, I don't have an issue with saying, like, if the rebels are bombing,

cargo vessels, we're going to stop you. I have a problem with Obama blowing up civilian targets in, you know, in civilian restaurants and things like that. I have an issue with curtailing the transparency on drone strikes in the Middle East because Trump doesn't want people to realize they've escalated that while they've pulled back on ground troops. The challenge is all of these things are tied together. And, you know, I was looking at domestic policy stuff earlier today. And the point is there's a machine in place that nobody can break. You get an office. I'll say this, too, for Brandon Herrera because we love the guy. He's going to get an office and he's going to maybe move the needle an inch.

And I'm satisfied with that because we need to get every member of Congress out and get, you know, 500 Brendan Herreras. In the meantime, though, he's going to be dropped into a machine that is churning and he's going to have very little, like, ability to move it. At the same time, I would prefer for Donald Trump to protect American shipping lanes, not international shipping lanes. And if we weren't involved, but hold on, hold on, hold on. If we weren't involved.

involved, right? If we weren't involved here, right, and we would have focused on America, like this would have strategically put China in a position to make Iran open up the straight of Hermus and stop this war, right? By getting involved, you're making sure that you're doing the bidding of China. And I have seen no deal about China accepting the U.S. petrol dollar at all. And if I see it, I would gladly say that I'm wrong. And so we're doing the work for China right now, according to Donald Trump. And so the issue is, do you want to trade oil in one and have China be the dominant unipolar global power, or do you want to pressure them to just accept the state of affairs with the U.S. Naval Police? If that would be the thing that's happening here, okay, I would

understand it, but I haven't seen, I haven't seen proof of that. So then what, so paint us an alternate picture, Luke. What does it look like if we're not doing that? America takes care of America and we invest in our people and we take care of our infrastructure. We make sure that the debt that we have We made sure that America is actually considered America in a way where we take care of our own problems first domestically. We're not the police of the world. I don't think we should be the police of the world. We are the police of the world. I don't think we should be, is the point. The challenge is the U.S. principal export is U.S. naval police.

We tell these countries, if you use U.S. dollars for oil, the petrodollah system, we will guarantee safe passage for your vessels. That's the principal reason why we're like Iran's bad. They're threatening the Red Sea and the Suez, and they're threatening the Gulf States oil transport. So this is why for decades the U.S. has been like, we've got to remove this government. In Iran, they control too much of this region, and our customers are mad.

I mean, we haven't replaced our government. We replaced one Ayatollah with a more radical Ayatollah that just lost a lot of his family members. I don't think you can airstrike your way into regime change. But Iran was willing to negotiate, right? And as Ariano was just bringing up... Want to go bombs? No, they were willing to negotiate.

Sorry. The number of times. Yeah, I trust the guy who can't pronounce my name, about how many times that I tell him. I can't pronounce anyone's name to be... I was like, preventing Iran from taking over the straight-at-home moves or taking care of the Houthis that are attacking shipping lanes, like that is taking care of U.S. interests.

Yes, yes. Like, whether or not we like it isn't the fact. That is taking care of U.S. It didn't be an issue. If you look at, especially what the Houthis were doing, it was more related towards what was happening in Gaza, right? And that was our involvement as well. So if we were involved in any of that trade. So the Houthis came out and said that we will start attacking ships because of what's happening in Gaza. We want a Gaza ceasefire. And they were using this. You think the Houthis actually care what's happening in Gaza? The Houthis are a proxy army of the Iranians, right? And then fighting them are al-Qaeda. And the United States and the Barack Obama financed al-Al-Qaeda. to fight the Houthis. Okay, Luke, you got to pause for a coach just to make a point. Yeah. The Houthis statements are meaningless.

It's a proxy of Iran. So they're just doing what Iran wants. Yes. Yes. No, no, I just explained it. We were on the side of Al-Qaeda fighting the Houthis with Saudi Arabia under Barack Obama's administration. We're involved in financing some of the worst awful people when that money should be here in America, right? That money should be, I don't want to be taxed and my money being given to Abdullah, whether he's a Hutsi or a Kuzzi or a Kuzzi or a Kuzzi. Kurd or Shia. I don't care about that. I care about my people. I care about this country. The reason why the monies in America is because we started siphoning it out of Iran in the 1930s.

No, we did a coup d'etian there before and we overthrew their leadership with the CIA and that didn't really work out. It took their oil and became rich. Luke, do you understand what, like what would happen if the petro dollar system ended? Yes, the whole dollar system would collapse. There would not be dollars. There would not be labor in the United States for what you're talking about. Now, again, I'm not saying I agree with invading Iran or anything like that. Yeah. My point is back in 2016, we had talked about this because I was telling people, if you like cheap laptops and 10-cent, you know, hot dogs on the street corner, Hillary Clinton's the candidate for you because she will bomb up out of anybody to make sure we get that cheap oil and everyone's in our system.

She's complimenting Trump. Trump is the guy who is saying secure borders, bring our manufacturing back, strengthen ourselves internally so that there's real value in this country. Then we start to look outward. And I agreed with that. That's why I don't think that the Trump administration is mustache twirling evil. I question the Obama administration. I question some people in the Trump administration, but I understand there's going to be biases and all this things. When I look at the Obama administration, I see mustache twirling evil.

When I look at the Trump administration, I see naivete. Oh, it's mustache twirling. They're all doing it. No, it's the machine twirls its own mustache and they get in there and they're being twirled with it. No, no. And if you say no, they assassinate you. Barack Obama killed a 16-year-old kid. And I know that Donald Trump has been accused of civilian strikes that have killed Americans,

including the 16-year-old's sister. Yep. And so, so this is all true to the best of our understanding. I will say a couple things on this. The Obama administration admitted to the strikes that killed the 16-year-old. The Trump administration has been accused. It's an alleged crime. We don't have the same degree of evidence. Yeah, to be fair, the Trump stuff was the girl caught a ground in a gunfight.

It wasn't a strike that on... It was a commando raid, but it was alleged by the family. So I am willing to say that deserves an investigation. I'm not going to ignore it, but it's not the same as Obama admitting. They blew up a 16-year-old American kid. Bombing a country or not at Warwick, Warwick targeting a civilian restaurant. That's the mustache twirling evil. And the reason Obama did that was because he was sending a message to the world.

If you fight us, we will massacre your children. We don't care. And I got to say this. I kind of love the masculinity of it, despite it being depressed. raved evil. Obama looked into the eyes of jihadis and said, I'm going to kill your children. And they went, what? You can't do that. Your America goes, watch me. And he pressed the button and he blew up the person's kid. That is evil. He later came out and it said how he felt awful about his foreign policy and endeavors and still feels very bad about what he did. Now, I do believe

that there's a world where we can negotiate. We can make trade deals. We're the number one superpower in the world. We have a lot to trade with. We have a lot to invest with. This could have all been done by prioritizing America. Look at the way China's doing it with the Belt and Road Initiative. We could have did similar initiatives. We didn't need to bomb country. We didn't need to be in debt. We're $39 trillion in debt. And what did we have to show for it? 11 trillion on the Middle East. And we got Al-Qaeda replaced by Al-Qaeda. But you understand the Belt and Road Initiative is just China's version of the International Monetary Fund. Yeah. And the World Bank.

Exactly. The West was cutting these deals and saying we'll develop your nation. And I hate it. I hate it. You know what I want? This is what I was saying. I love the idea of a world police. I really, really do. I love the idea of 20 aircraft carriers just floating around saying, don't F around, because you will find out. What I don't like is the same system

then started injecting gay communism to all these other countries and bringing McDonald's and Starbucks to turning everything to Times Square. And this is what pissed people off. This is what got these... The people in Afghanistan were pissed. He was the gay communism.

There were murals in Afghanistan for like LGBTQ stuff. And I'm like, you have a conservative religious country and you're trying to bring gay communism. No wonder you couldn't stabilize for 20 years. Here's what I like the idea of. Nations can be nations. They get their own borders.

They can choose who comes and goes. They get to live their lives. They have internal laws. They engage in trade. But if they start bombing people in the Red Sea, for instance, then we come in and say, no, it's not happening. Unfortunately, this idea of a liberal economic order, which is supposed to be, we go and develop countries, we give you loans, you pay those loans back, we stabilize trade around you,

we stop war from happening, isn't what they use. did, they started injecting gay communism to a bunch of countries, and that screwed up all of this international order that AOC claims that Trump is screwing up. Really, this problem with centralized authority in general is they'll bait you with the, let's make you safe. Everyone subserved to my authority, and then they twist you up with their weird thoughts to get superpowers. They want to be in total control. They want to put you to sleep, man, and just earn off your back. So it might be like some chaos on earth and no real one world police may end up being better, but I don't know, man. I see the machine state, the quiet death.

War is evil. War is demonic, but it's a racket. It's a racket by special interest groups that have hijacked it throughout the last few decades. Ever since the war on terror was initiated, we got more terror. We lost more of our money. We lost more of our privacy. We lost more of our rights. And we have nothing to show for it except debt.

All right? We could have done this in a totally different way where we weren't financing the radicals like we did in the 80s and then they came over. like the Mujah Hajid and the quote freedom fighters. So let me ask you about the like domestic effects of all of those policies. As it pertains to people at home, what do you think is like the results of all of these things? We subund it. We funded al-Qaeda and stuff.

What do you think is the worst ramification? This is a legitimate question. I'm not playing it. Yeah, the destruction of the U.S. dollar and the purchasing power of the dollar. Like people had to work harder to get, work harder and get less. We're printing money and we're giving it to this like, just huge endeavors in the Middle East, and we have nothing to show for it. I think one of the obvious answers would be at 9-11, which the CIA called blowback for

Middle Eastern operations. We were meddling in affairs in the Middle East for decades since, I mean, like the early 1900s, what became predominantly U.S. operations in the 50s, and this results in an expansion of terror. We funded the Mujah Hadin, who then become al-Qaeda, and then we get blowback because they don't like us. So I think the challenges here, the way I'd push back on you a little bit, Luke, is the petro dollar system makes us fat and comfortable. We get more than we deserve because of this system. Without it, we would largely be like factory workers and farmers. I don't think that's entirely a bad thing, mind you.

But when you say stuff like the dollar is weakened or whatever, I think the bigger problem is the threat of violence, terror and instability in various regions, like terrorism being the principal issue. These are the tradeoffs that we have. Economically, I think, people don't realize just how good we have it. And if you were to end this, this petro dollar system, our economy would tank. Like, laptops would cost $4,000. And I'm not saying the petro dollar. I think the petrol dollar is great. I think it's great to trade on.

So then how do you keep a petro dollar without the straight of her moves? There's the carrot and the stick. We've become, we've become literally just, let me ask you. Do you agree? So Obama's stance stance was, Let's appease Iran. I'm not trying to be a dick when I say this. He said Iran's threatening the straight in the Gulf states and 20% of global trade.

Let's give them money and just keep them happy. They didn't give them money. They opened up their bank accounts that they sanctioned it closed before. Indeed. Patsful of cash was the quote. It was money that was seized. Yes, Obama released tons of cash to them saying we're going to appease them. It didn't work. Trump's strategy is, I'm going to blow them all up.

I'm not convinced it will work. I don't think you can take over a country with missiles. Union and occupying force. But with that deal, we did. And smiling, she likes Trump. We did, we did have inspectors that went to Iran and investigated. And they lied about everything, bro. Let me, let me say this.

Wait, are you actually quoting the inspectors right now? Bro, Trump told us. They promised us. Wait, Pinky promised us. Do you still believe in Santa Claus also? Sorry to break it to you. Iran had nuclear weapons 40 years ago. That's, that's more Santa Claus.

Children, if you're watching, Santa is real. He is real. And according to the Q's real, Donald Trump told us they annihilated Iran's nuclear capabilities. The 12-day war is as we took out their nuclear capabilities. That was not true. It was not true. But you know what?

But we're also, we're at a time right now where Iran and their proxies have never been weaker. And that's why the U.S. is doing this right now. This is the moment. I agree. My hope is I'm not so naive to think that there will never come a time where, Let me not use so many negatives. Sometimes you've got to use war power.

Yeah. Brandon Herrera made the excellent point of we don't want to start wars. We don't want to get into needless wars. We don't want to get into forever wars. But there is a point where you're going to say, if you F with us, I'm going to show you what a trillion dollars looks like. Yeah. And I agree, and I respect that. The challenge with this, the reason why I'm not, in all things, I try to avoid being an extremist on any position,

because I think these things are nuanced. I think that if a certain point, Iran was able to actually develop nuclear weapons, I don't think they'd randomly just start bombing countries. I do think in war, they would use nukes. So I think in the immediate, what they would do is they would say, now that we have a nuclear weapon, it's time for you to give us more. And Trump doesn't want to negotiate with the nuclear power. So that's why he's like, it's not going to happen.

But Bibi was telling us that they were going to nuke New York City. Yeah, because he's nuts. Just because Bibi was saying it. It's the stupidest thing. And I'm going to say this too for the meeting that I had with him where he was like, they're going to nuke you. And we're like, oh, shut up. Like, if they even get to the point that those rockets aren't going to reach the other side of the planet. Don't get me wrong.

They're not, but the drones are. The drones are going to be on ships in the Pacific that will launch over three miles, which is different from an intercontinental ballistic missile going 20,000 miles. But all the people complaining right now about gas prices very temporarily going up and straight off removes, imagine how high gas could go. With a nuclear arm. Let's not imagine. We've got the story from car scoops. The $8 gallon is here, if you're dumb enough to pay for it.

War jitters in California tax quirks, push pump prices skyward in the Golden State, but not all stations are so expensive. $8.21 per gallon in Los Angeles. Now, of course, this is a massive urban metro. It's one of our biggest cities. So, of course, the prices are very, very high. The average price of gas in California is upwards of $5.25.

However, my friends, this is because of California. California's tax system, not because of the war. The prices have gone up because the war true, but $8 is because California has stupid taxes. Special California land of gas. Gas was hovering around like $2.50, and it did go up 20 percent, so people are now looking at $2.80, maybe even highest $3 in many and many urban metros, which is not good, but it's nowhere near the apocalypse that many liberals are starting to bring up. That being said, I am not going to play games where I downplay the fact that gas prices are growing up because a war in Iran started.

If Trump is able to get whatever he's trying to get done in Iran in a couple of weeks and all of this stops and normalizes, I will say, okay, good. But you said whatever he's trying to get, that's the problem. I don't think he knows what's happening. They thought we're going to bomb

and kill 140 people in their leadership and then they're going to give up. And they went all in and now we're all in. They're not all in. They will stay at war with us for 20 years. if we stop by it. We're nowhere near All in. All in would be drafting drafting 18 year olds and sending them to be like. All in that we declared

essentially de facto war on Iran. The war has started now. I will give the, you know, I had the debate on this show last week where I said we're at war and the other guy was like, it's not war and everybody was rolling their eyes like Bro it's war. I will give one there was an IRL chat, made a

really great point that a declaration of war by Congress gives the president a ton of powers. He has the power to change industry to direct production. It opens up a bunch of budgets. And so there is an argument to be made. The reason Trump doesn't want this to be a formalized congressional war is that it's going to change the economic footing of the country in a way that could be damaging.

Now, that's the argument of and it's a good thing. It's like, no, it didn't happen. It happened. Actually, it happened. And it's a good thing. It's that he's using executive authority to declare war like a tyrant. Come on. I mean, I'm not saying that Iran is a great country and doesn't need to be taken care of.

of here, but we'll be realistic that this guy's acting like a tyrant and maybe a benevolent tyrant, maybe, but that's a form of tyranny. I mean, these executive orders and going to war, one guy. I suppose the argument is, because I don't necessarily disagree that that is tyrannical to launch a war against another country without proper declaration, without proper constitutional authority. The issue that I see with this is that literally every president has done it for a long time and that we are living in this system of executive over authority. And I'm like, I'm not going, I'm a teenager and I watch George W. Bush and I'm like I am very critical of this and then people are like don't you remember the other presidents I was like no I'm 16 like

let me tell you about Vietnam and I went really then Obama does it then Trump does and I go oh this is just what our government is yeah right so it's not unique to Trump yeah I'm not trying to I'm trying to defend Trump on the issue though but this is what the US is it's almost as if every president that that campaigns always says there will be no war but then there's like a shadow super government that just kind of takes over whenever they get into any kind of position about Israel? No, I'm talking about more of the deep state, more of the swamp. That's kind of being right. Israel. People are literally to everybody watches so they just heard me argue like 30 minutes yesterday. But to bring to the topic of oil, right? Because I think it's still important to talk about

energy and energy resources here. Trump did say that he wants to get rid of oil sanctions on certain countries. He didn't name them. But the one country that we have, a lot of oil sanctions on is Russia. So the argument that we're fighting Russia and China through this war here doesn't really stick since it looks like we're going to be opening up Russia's markets and opening up China's trade here. I think it's like not really America first. It's like knocking out the legs of a table and being like, you look guys, it was flimsy

the whole time. Just come back. It's like we blew out their fucking their oil support like and we're like there's no stopping us you guys. You can't you can't like just get on board. Well, I mean, look. Oh, never mind. I had something just let my mind. Russia has a bunch of

oil. China's developing a whole bunch of nuclear reactors and a bunch of solar panels as well that they're heavily investing in. Their energy production is going through the roof, right? We could be doing the same thing, by the way. We could be doing the same thing. But no, we're off committing whatever.

We're off bombing schools, oil refineries, and water desolination plants in Iran for some reason. That's what our money's going to. We could have been building more nuclear reactors. We could have been making a energy independent. But no, we got to go bomb the water desalination plants. We get it. Both the U.S. and China have a different strategy when it comes to AI, because that's what both of these things are talking about, whether you're talking about

infrastructure when it comes to energy. And China's going to win because they have energy independence, right? Hold on a second. Hold on. Hold on. Chill out, bro. Like, the U.S. right now has a lock on the chips because of the, because of their relationship with Taiwan. China has basically older generation chips. China's looking at the long road, though, because at some point, neck isn't going to be the chips. The bottle neck is going to be the energy production. China's looking at this from the long run. The U.S. needs to change our policy when it comes to energy production. I just saw that there was a nuclear plant that's going to be opening. I don't know when it's actually going to happen. But the U.S. is looking to make those changes, but they're behind

the eight ball and the energy production. But for now, the U.S. does have the edge when it comes to, like, the chips and when it comes to the actual. We're getting rid of our defensive Tad missile systems in Asia because we're bringing them over to the Middle East. And then China's looking at Taiwan here, motivated than ever. I don't think that China has the ability to take Taiwan in in the current situation. What does Thad stand for?

Thad? Yeah, no idea. Thad missile systems? Yeah. You don't even know? No. So, you never looked it up? I don't think that. I'm just teasing you because nobody knows what it stands for. We just called Thad. It's a terminal high altitude area defense. I did that because I know everybody just reads the news and we call them the Thad missiles, but no one actually knows that. Are you trying to tuck her me? They're not even that.

They're not in US. They're just radar. But look, you're also wrong because China gets, what is it, over half of their oil from Iran. No, no, no, no, no. They need energy from Iran. They do, but they only get, when I wrote about this the other day, they get something along the lines of like China imports 11.6 million barrels of oil per day. Of that roughly 1.3 million barrels come from Iran. 13 to 14 percent of China's total seaborne imports come from Iran.

Seabor imports. They get 80 percent of Iran's oil. So taking out Iran doesn't like cripple China, but what it does is it's attacking China from the edges. It's not crippling China. There are people that are saying that this takes that they get so much oil from Iran. That's not the case. They do get a significant portion. And when you combine Venezuela and Iran, then it actually turns into a realistic percent, but it's not, it's not crippling.

Let me ask you, Luke, and also, Aaron, you can chime in. What do you think about the operation in Venezuela? I think it's, some people say a successful operation, mainly because of the regime change. But when we look at the regime change, you pretty much just put in the vice president of that country. I, you know, geopolitically, we're going to see how it plays out, right? And I think we still haven't seen it really be finished. So I know we got rid of Maduro. We have his underlings that are in power now.

How is that relationship going to play out? Is it even going to mean anything? We're going to see. But you're not like instantly negative on it. No, we need to see the results. I agree. We need to see the results from these things. I will say this.

I'm actually, as time goes on and we're seeing that things are remaining stable, I'm more and more in favor of it. And again, as Ian pointed out, I call this post-intervention stress disorder. Pissed. The millennial generation is like we grew up learning about Vietnam and then we watched Iraq and Afghanistan happen. And it's like, wow, we suck at this. Maybe we shouldn't do it. But real quick. That being said, the thing that pisses me off the most about Venezuela is that in 2000,

2009, Chavez stole our oil assets. They belong to us. We feel like, we paid for it. I go to you and say, hey, Luke, is it okay if I build a, you know, a little sprinkler system on your, I'm going to build a fountain on your lawn. I just want to be able to get the water out of it. Is that cool? You say, yeah, totally fine. We'll split the water. And then one day you go, it's mine now. Exactly. And then the U.S. real quick, the U.S. went rats and ignored it. And now it's been some 17 years, 16 years, Trump says, we're taking our stuff back. So I don't look at that as unjust. My concern with it always was, will it destabilize the region where cartels could easily start seizing power and manipulating? So far, it's starting to look better and better. And I'm feeling kind of good about it. We're going to see how it plays off. But I remember during the Iraq War, which I was against, I was protesting. I was very young then. But I remember after George W. Bush declared mission accomplished.

For a long time, everyone saw this as a huge success, as a huge victory. Only until eight months to a year did people finally start to realize. Holy cow, this was a big mistake. And this didn't work out at all as BB was in our Congress telling us that Saddam Hussein had nuclear weapons and was going to nuke New York, just like he just said the same exact thing about Iran as well. The policy in Iraq was a big part of the problem, though, like trying to debathify the entire country. Of course. Take the military, all the military, and you tell all these military age men that are that are trained, they're like, Go home. We're totally dissolving your your position. All those people are just like, well, I've got nothing else to do, but I know how to fight. So I'm going to go and fight. Yeah, they joined the Sunnis. Yeah, which is, I mean, that that was a terrible idea in the first place. The fact that in Venezuela, the Trump administration took out Maduro and they just left the government and said, look, play ball with us or we will come to get you. Obviously, it's a different situation when you turn the lights out in a whole city, shut the whole city off, go and do what you want, grab the president and leave. The rest of the people in the government are going to be.

be like we probably should play ball. Yeah. So it is different. But at the same time, if you leave the infrastructure there, the government structures there, and don't tell people that are trained to fight to go and go home with nothing to do, you're likely to get a better outcome than, you know, you got in Iraq. Let's jump to some domestic policy stuff because we've got a big story here. And that is the Save America Act.

For those that aren't familiar, this is a bill that basically would require, well, literally would require proof of citizenship when you register to vote, not when you act. actually vote. It's supported by basically everybody in this country. In fact, 71% of Democrats believe you should have an ID when you literally vote, not just register. Republicans, it's like 95, it depends about 80%. The question then becomes if literally everybody supports this, and it's one of the most popular bills we have ever seen in our lifetime why are Democrats and Rino Republicans, I know it's kind of redundant, but still, why are they blocking this? Something doesn't quite make sense. The latest story, of course, is that Thune has quashed Trump's push for

filibuster reform. They pulled a bunch of shenanigans first. Many people on the right have said, kill the filibuster. You can change the rules so there's no filibuster, and a simple majority will pass this bill. Then the media said, well, actually, there's talk of making Democrats do a talking filibuster. No one suggested it. That's controlled opposition. Now, John Thune is saying a talking filibuster wouldn't work, which was never the pitch anyway. They are shutting this down, and the question is why. Now, where it gets interesting, Cornyn in Texas, who's facing a runoff election against Ken Paxton,

was not supporting the Save Act, not supporting nukeing the filibuster, and all of a sudden he changed his tune because he's at risk of losing his seat, and Ken Paxton said he will drop out of the race if Cornyn pledges to vote in the Save Act, which he's not going to do. Well, the interesting thing is, we got this over from Kalshi. Shout out Kalshi for sponsoring this show. We've got this from Kalsh's showing. Kornan and Paxson have flipped back and forth.

And right here, Ken Paxson was the favorite to win. But when Kornan came out and said, you know what, I'm going to do whatever. He said, change whatever rule you need to pass the Save Act. It immediately switched with now the prediction markets favoring Cornyn to win, which I find very fascinating. But I'm going to tell you guys what I think before we kick this off to the panel. The reason why Kornan came out and said,

favor of this is because he got assurances from Thune and from Democrats it will never pass anyway so they're allowing him to say what he needs to say to his voter base so they will vote for him while Ken Paxton of course is the legitimate and real choice he is now coming out saying I'm with you people because behind the scenes they put up a wall it will never pass you guys Texas Ken Paxton is the right guy corn and and these and these and these rhino dudes they're playing dirty games. So I'll throw it to you guys. Why do you think it is that despite the fact everybody in this country wants this bill to pass, they won't pass it. Well, the Democrats don't want it to pass. Republicans too. I know there aren't enough Republicans on board and I

think that there should be primary challenges. They could nuke the filibuster. Yeah, I would love to seem to nuke the filibuster. So why is John Thune? Again, we understand Democrats hate Trump and all that, but the bigger question is why are even Republicans against it? Yeah, Lisa Murkowski is against it as well. Yeah, she just could a deal. She could a deal to say, to vote no against it. So why are Republicans as being like, nah, everybody wants it? Again, granted, it's only a few Republicans, but they only need a few Republicans. Well, I'm not sure what the reasons they've tried to articulate, but I think it's... The voters are going to be disenfranchised, is what Murkowski is saying.

Markowski was... That's what she's in Alaska. Well, Chuck Schumer says tens of billions. Tens of billions of people. So I don't know if he's talking about, like, this bill can traverse time or... It's all the dead people he's talking about. Here's the video. Here's the video. Let's play it.

Voter ID number one. It is about voter registration. That's true. It allows ICE to kick tens of billions of people off the rolls. I think he just had snodding those people off. To kick tens of billions of people off the rolls. He sounds congested a little bit, rich. He said tens of millions.

Come on. Yeah, I heard millions too. Everybody heard billions. Everybody's talking about it. For the first time in my entire life, I agree with Ian. He had the... He's snotty. He's just like, you know, he's a little nasally.

Ted's of billions. Yeah. Fortunately, he's not a complete... I'm the first one to call Chuck Schumer, but like I... Yeah, he knows that... I'm not suggesting he literally thinks there's tens of billions of people. I'm saying he just misspoke and it's funny. And it is funny.

Yeah, he mispoke and it's funny. He said tens of billions. Yeah, but if he did say that, I'd start to question his sanity and think he should resign. I'm glad it sounded like more congestion. What do the subtitles say? I don't think there are any, are there? I don't know. No, there aren't any.

Maybe you'd have to go to a... Well, actually, you know what I'll do? He needs to alkalize this lymphatic system. I'm gonna ask Brock to translate it. We should send him one of those netty pots, is that what it is? Yeah. Do it through your... That's how you solve it.

But I've never done them because apparently I think you could get like something weird in your brain. You get parasites. Yeah, you can get a parasite in your brain and get like bacteria in your brain if you do them. Just use distilled water. Just distilled water? Just distilled water? I'm just not gonna try it. What the, what is that?

Nettipods? Yeah, it looks like a tea kettle. And people were, uh, yeah, they were using tap water and then dying because the amoebas would go into their brain and they'd be like, and then they would and then die. True story. Okay, so here's what, uh, here's what Grock trans, I said transcribe this. It says, here's the transcription of the video from the ex post.

Quote, yes, but their bill isn't voter ID number one. It's about voter registration. It allows eyes to kick tens of billions of. tens of billions off the rolls and they don't tell them until election day and you show them, you say you're not registered anymore, you're not on the rolls. He said billions. He's talking about aliens. And I don't mean the illegal ones.

I mean the ones up there. Oh, God. Well, he slipped up. He slipped up. You know, the mask came off. The truth is, they're talking about all the Jews that are coming to the country. Billions and billions of Jews that will come in. One of the other arguments we heard yesterday is that there's actually more than four.

14 million Jews because they're keeping it a secret. So, so Murkowski saying that it's doing. You're saying the dating pole is actually larger than it's from. Yeah, apparently there's like a billion Jews. Markowski's saying that the, that the reasons are federal overreach and the state's authority. And she's saying she's concerned about making major election changes too close to the midterms, which I think is the whole point of the, the act is to make sure that there is a change before the midterms.

Thune is saying that he supports the bill in principle, but is blocking the procedural path. his argument changing the filibuster rule is a bigger risk he needs 60 votes to advance it and doesn't have doesn't have him when trump pushed the talking filibuster work around through soon said we aren't there essentially protecting the filibuster over the bill jac curtis from utah says the reason or method doesn't matter it's breaking the filibuster which is objecting on procedure and rann paul is against it because uh it's inconsistent with states rights uh states rights you know the 10th amendment so i mean well they're all lying i mean obviously Yeah. So, I mean, I think that, that, you know, Rand Paul is actually not a surprise when it comes to that particular perspective, but I do think that these are actually pretty weak arguments. The whole federal overreach thing, the point of this is just making sure that the voter rolls are only citizens. So this is not some kind of federal overreach. The feds aren't telling anybody how they have to do the votes. All they're saying is they have to verify.

So here's the kicker. Where do most people register to vote? Post office, DMV. The DMV, that is correct. Or for those in those fancy Commonwealth states, the MVC, which is weird. Why do you call it that? So, what do you go to the DMV for? Travers license. To get your ID.

And what do you need to get it? You need your birth certificate. You need a, you need a letter from, you know, a bill to your house and your social security card. Hey, all of that is proof of citizenship. So when you're registering to vote most people, this is the funniest thing. They're like, you need an ID, a real ID to prove it. So you give them all of your stuff. They say, yep, this satisfies the requirement for an ID.

I'm going to press the button right now. And then the ID comes out and they go, here's your ID. And you go, here's my proof to register to vote. They just check the box on the form. You're good with what you already got. This inhibits no one. No one. What it will do, however, is make sure that people who should not be registered,

registered, which are not registered, which is weird, because we have seen instances where non-citizens accidentally got registered. I think the real play here, the real reason they don't want it to pass is because ballot harvesting is an excellent way to manipulate and control elections. And the Republicans cut deals with Democrats because it's one big happy family tree son and they're all friends. They're not, they're not fighting each other for the most part. Trump and the MAGA people are fighting. Rand Paul is fighting to a certain degree. Massey is fighting too, even fighting Trump.

Most Republicans are just doing what they're told. That's why it was so important that Brandon Herrera win. and I know it's going to happen because as much as we love Brennan Herrera, there are certain impossibilities in Congress. I just think that if we get 500 Brennan Herrera's in Congress, that's when you actually affect the system and it changes. So I think people should be tempered in their expectations for these midterms. If we win, or if Republicans win, you're still not going to get a whole lot, but the alternative would be a whole lot worse. Yeah, I mean, if Democrats take the House, there's just going to be endless impeachment attempt. You know, none of the president's agenda is going to get passed.

There won't be any kind of legislation. They probably won't fund DHS. They probably will defund ICE or try to defund ICE. It's going to be just a complete mess. And all the stuff that the American people voted for Donald Trump for, even the people that are mad, they haven't got enough of it yet. Like, they're not going to get any of it. And again, people were complaining about Donald Trump last summer, which you can complain. But if you've already made your decision last summer that you weren't going to vote,

vote for him. It's like he'd been in office for six months. People were making or making complaints now. It's like it's a year and two months that he's actually been in office and people are already giving up. I mean, don't black pill. Like you have to allow a government that is designed to work slowly to work through the process. And if you're just like, oh, well, he didn't wave a magic wand and give me what I want right now. Then so I'm not going to, I'm not going to support the agenda. I mean, that doesn't help anyone at all because Democrats in power only makes things worse, not just for just for, just for, Donald Trump, but it makes things worse for the country. A lot worse.

I saw a good quote on Twitter a while ago that said Democrats cause all of the problems, but Republicans will solve none of them. It's true. That sounds about right. They have a strongly worded letter. They'll do that. They do that pretty well. And I view libertarians as the party

of, we came together because we all found something that we want to be legal party. So that's why when you go to libertarian conventions, you've just got like weirdo, lefties, like and perverts alongside people who don't like taxes. And then you're like, how come you guys are like anti-war and hate taxes, which is like a reasonable approach? But you've got a bunch of like weird fetishists in your audience.

It's like, well, you know, because they're libertarians because they want something to be legal. That's about it. There's a lot of misplaced political energy in the libertarian party. They're very angry about this. Yeah, misplaced. That's one way to describe it. I mean, look, you've got, if your entire platform, and this is the reason I don't call myself a libertarian anymore.

Your entire platform is we want to make sure that we get into power so that way we do nothing that's not going to help people. And it's not an attractive platform to people that are looking for a government that's going to do something for them, especially considering the government is so broad and so far reaching it. It's in every aspect of your life. You have to get into a position of power and actually roll the government back. And sometimes that takes doing things you don't want to do to be able to get to the point

where you can pass laws that you want to repeal things. and undo things that you don't like. Yeah, I will say that one of the big challenges right now with the Texas stuff with Ken Paxton and John Cornyn is that, you know, Ken has been very, very incredible in the national stage. However, the TABC just rated the Lodge Card Club for reasons we don't know and shut them down, and I am greatly offended by that.

That affects me personally because one of the reasons I came out here is because everybody knows I'm a big poker guy, and I was actually going to play on one of their, the World Poker Tour's big shows, and it was like, I come down here because we're like, we want to do crossovers, we want to do collabs, and then abruptly, and without reason or notice, they raided them and shut them down and no one knows why or what's going on. So that offends me, personally. Just as an aside, you know, I know most people in the world are kind of like, well, I don't play poker, but

there's something to be said of a state where you have an explicitly legal practice and the state is using process punishment to shut down businesses that they don't like. That's something you'd expect of New York, not Texas. To put it simply, ignore poker, and imagine this. Imagine you open a club. Everything you do is legal by the books. Court cases have been had. It's like this is a legal practice. You're allowed to do it. Nobody's dying. There's no porn. And then the government says, we want to shut this down, but we have no legal means to do it. So what you end up seeing is process punishment, where they say, well, you know, we're going to have to investigate and seize everything and shut everything down and lock your doors until we can figure out what's going on.

They bleed you dry over a year or two. Then your business is destroyed and you never broke one. law. So that's that's that's that's that's freaky that Texas does that but I'm sure it's not the only time they've done it. Yeah the process is the punishment that's why a lot of people just don't like government because it's a big racket it's a big mafia and that's why people like small government. There's a word for this I forgot what it's called New York is famous for it if they want to shut a business down one of the things they'll do is that the the cops will go in and start issuing tons of ridiculous tickets for drinking infractions or whatever like show me the man I'll show you the

crime this is this this is this is what government does that pisses people off and like to your point Luke completely agree they go to a bar and they say we don't want a bar here we we want to sell this and you know it's bring the property it's bring the property values down so they go in and they just say oh the trim is too close to the floor someone littered you didn't clean it up yep and then here's a fine here's a fine here's a fine until they just say okay we're done and they go to business so that's uh that's happening under ken paxton and uh whoa what is that it's amber alert amber alert yeah why didn't i get one of those

I didn't get one. They just assumed that we don't care about. I'm on a, do not disturb. It's fine. Is it a Florida Amber Alert or a Texas one? Austin. Austin. Well, read it.

Maybe we can save a kid, bro. What does it say? Maybe someone's going to rescue a kid. Child abduction from Austin, Texas. Suspect vehicle is a white 22 Hyundai Venue with a Texas license plate SWY 9599. Missing Child is, sorry, this is. Aliana Bernandez Ocampo, two-year-old Hispanic female last scene wearing a white t-shirt. Suspect is.

Sorry, this keeps my way. Kermeth, Zapata Bernandez, 25-year-old Hispanic male. Get him. And this is where I'm going to praise the police and say, get that guy, save that kid. And we got the Amber Alert live on the show. Maybe saying it will, some people are listening.

That's the first Amberor I really feel good about. We were able to feel good. We need to put it on that one. You felt bad about other ambrilers? I usually just feel like they just accomplished. Oh, I got it. The reason I do this is because I'll get it And I feel like I'm helpless to do anything about it.

So this one I feel like we really helped. Can we get like a picture of the car and the license plate up? This is interesting. It says, I got a different one. Does the suspect close is different? It says child abduction in Austin, Texas. Suspect is a mid-40s white male with long hair wearing a top hat. I'll be right back.

As he runs away. I'm out of here. He actually left. He died. He did. He's actually going to the bathroom. Yeah. He's like, it wasn't me.

I swear. I will say once when I was in Tucson. Arizona, I thought I saw a woman being trafficked and I called the police and gave them information and they were like, yeah, we're not going to do anything about that. Perfect. Yeah. This is basically what happens all the time with everything. Yeah.

Like when I was a kid, there was an issue where a homeless guy was trying to break a window to my family had a coffee shop and there was a guy. Like apparently he was smashing the window with a rock. The cops were literally one block away. The department was one block away. And it took him like 20 minutes to show up and the guy had already left. And like the window was broken. And they were like, what do you want us to do about it?

It's like, well, when we call you and say we're down the street, just like run over. Yeah. But they don't. No. And then people are supposed to just. Although, except for the great NYPD, I don't want to butcher's name or his rank, the guy that ran towards everyone when he saw the bomb get thrown. Yeah. Yeah, that's absolutely true.

We do have some good people. You know what I mean? Like you got good cops. You got more good cops than bad cops. Yes. Apparently TSA agents are big fans of the show. Really? Yeah.

Whenever I fly the TSA guys are like, yo. And I'm like, hey, you know. Not upset of the TSA, though. Well, they've been chilling out. I'm actually much more okay with it. TSA pre is almost useless at this point. Let me tell you a secret. TSA pre is meaningless.

I was flying and I went to the TSA preline and it was longer than the non-TSA preline and they've already relaxed the rules where you don't got to take your shoes off anymore or your laptop. I'll go to the regular line when it's shorter because everyone's like sheep. They're just standing on the preline

and it's way longer. I'm like, I'll just go. And back when you had to take your shoes off, I would say, like, that's worth it. No, no, but here's the thing. If you're TSA pre and you go on the regular line, they send you a card. Yeah. And then you're like, and then you're good. What I don't get is clear.

I have clear. And there's no rule. It's just, it's always some lazy, because sometimes you need a, especially in Miami. All you do is cut the line. Yeah, but you get to cut the line. But you could just cut the line. You could just cut the line. $200.

No, I get it back from my Amex. So it's like, it's like, is there anything? But here's the funny thing. It's like, is there anything, does the honor change? at all if you cut someone in line or if you pay someone to say you can. You know what I mean? No, but it's like it's you're officially allowed to. But it makes no sense because you have someone, depending on the clear agent you have,

they could be very lazy and they're just like letting other people go. And it's like, yeah, it always depends on the people. It makes no sense to me. Like who decided that Clear would be able to act. When I first saw when Clear first launch, I was flying a lot and they said you give us your fingerprints, your face, take a picture of your face. And then you get fast tracked through security. And I was like, really?

Because I already have TSA pre, and they're like, yeah, it's much, much faster. And then I was like, cool. So in my mind, I'm thinking, you go through this, you walk up to clear, they scan your hand, and then let you walk into the airport. Like, you just don't go through security at all. Like, they open the door for you. And then, so I signed up and said, right this way. And they walked me to, there was no security line. There was no one in line.

They walked him to the front and said, here you are. And I said, you didn't do anything. And they were like, well, normally you can cut the line. And I'm like, is that it? I'm cutting the line. By the way, it has it. But now the airport, it's like, it's so bloated because you have TSA, TSA pre, Clear. And then sometimes I enter the line that's TSA pre with Clear, which is its own lane, which has actually helped. It has actually helped me on occasion. And now you have like Delta and all the,

they're like doing Delta digital fingerprint. I haven't done it. But there's so many, now we're going to have like seven lanes at the airport to get through security. I don't know. I know. Can I, I will say on Chrissy Nome, I cannot believe that we did not increase the the amount of liquid that we're allowed to bring onto a flight because that woman is a woman who has had her skin care thrown out before. She has had her fancy shampoo thrown out at the airport and she didn't even get that done. All we got is National ID and face biometric scanning everywhere now.

That's going to bring us into the AI apocalypse. Yeah, there's that. That's true, but that stuff existed without. Yeah. Doesn't mean we need to. I don't have to take my ID out anymore. Yeah, but where does it stop? It doesn't mean we should accept it.

It doesn't mean we should be okay with it. right like every time the government overreaches for centralized power and authority they always fail they lose your data uh hackers always hack the government there's no need for now face scanners everywhere and a national identification system all of that stuff is a all that stuff is coming whether you like it or not all of that stuff is all that stuff is coming whether you like it or not doesn't mean you're supposed to just bend over and take it i mean look most people have already signed up for it just by owning a cell phone that that does the things yours does.

The fact, you are walking around with a bug and with a cheeky and stuff. I got two of them right there. I got two bugs. The idea that you're, the idea that you're actually against it is the argument that you're against it is refuted by the things that you carry around all day. Action, speak out of the words. You can swear up and down all day that you don't want this and you don't want that while you walk around with two things. Because I have cell phone.

I'm supposed to accept the national identification system, which is going to be used as a way to have everyone's digital identity. What is all right? Honest question, what is bad about national ID? It is going to be a track trace and database, total information awareness type of program. What is bad about that? So it's a part of a multi-step plan, just like we're seeing instituted in Australia, where people are now going to have to upload their IDs in order to even be on the internet. Any form of internet, any form of social media, you're going to have to have your national ID, which is tied into everything you do.

So we still have a little bit of anonymity. Real quick. I understand, and I mean it seriously, what is bad about that? Like if you had to upload your ID. A government with total power? No, no, come on. But, like, lay it out for people. Like, when you get to the point where social media websites require to you to put your ID in to use it,

a lot of people are upset about this. They've used an invasion of privacy. I'm wondering, aside from the surface level, we all understand, there are fears about government overreach when they start mandating. you like you can't log in without an ID, but what is the direct detriment? And I'm saying this because I don't have a clearly articulated thought in my mind. You can give you one? Well, for a bit.

They're like, okay, all the Chinese people, we need to get them. And that's tomorrow they're all gone. Well, social credit score system, right? Policing thought, policing memes like they do in the United Kingdom. We're slowly encroaching into that type of territory. That's a good one. Social credit. Yeah. Where it's like they're going to have social credit on your system.

So then when you try to log in to your bank or whatever. Well, you already need your ID for that. But if you're trying to log on to X, which is going to have X pay or whatever, they're going to say, I'm sorry, you're banned because your social credit score is below 300. Or you can't share, or you can't buy, or you can't transport. There's an inverse to this, though, which is, because I think those are substantially more detrimental than the positives. The positives are, we have bots all over these social media platforms that are manipulating people to try and seize power for very, very bad people. And so there is an element of, and again, I'm not saying that this is worth it, but there

is the argument, at least to a certain degree, forcing people to stand by who they are is going to dramatically reshape politics for the better. That is, you have a lot of people, as Mike Tyson put it, who have grown a cost of not getting punched in the face, I think was the quote. They go online and they say shocking and insane things. The other thing to point out, too, is on the internet, no one knows you're 14. A lot of the political debates that are happening on X are literally 13-year-olds who are laughing and they don't actually care. And 50, you know, year old guys are being like these commies. The problem with that, it's fine if you're on the internet and you're goofing off and pranking. The problem is at macro level, that 50 year old guy is now thinking

leftists are insane people and it's hyper polarizing the country. So one of the arguments, and maybe it doesn't have to be ID, but the argument is if we can eliminate bots and make people stand by their own names online where everyone can see who they are, they will actually chill the F out. You know, what we can really do is make people stand by their own persona. What we have is it's called peer identification, so you don't actually need my ID. You just need enough people to verify that they know this thing about me. And then with all that data, you can aggregate. Here's the thing I want to say too, though, Luke. I actually don't think digital ID actually matters. I don't think it's real or matters at all. And the reason why we've known this for 10 years, that social media

companies have what's called shadow profiles. The way it works is Luke signs up for Facebook, and on Facebook he has his phone number because he has messenger on his phone. Now, when he logs in a messenger, it says, connect with your friends and family, you click yes. That uploads your contact list to Facebook, and now they have a list of names. Luke Rudkowski has mom as a phone number. Then there's a guy who has, you know, his mom's real name as a phone number.

They now know the woman's name is this and her son is Luke. They build profiles on you based on information to collect from other people. So with or without ID, they already know who you are and they can easily apply it to you, which I will add means the U.S. government is well aware that Pakistanis were running fake Native American accounts on X to manipulate the American public

and did not care or do anything about it. Yeah, the time to push back against this stuff was 15, 20 years ago. Like the technology that everyone has adopted has totally made people trackable, constantly being pinging cell phone towers right now your Wi-Fi router

in your house they can look at what's going on in your house by using the Wi-Fi router Well the radar communication systems they see where you are just like in the back of the movie They've always been able to get imaging from Wi-Fi but with AI it's exponentially

improved and now like college freshmen are writing code to do it probably vibe coding it My worry and my concern is we just saw what happened with the Biden administration, with CIA and the FBI going to Facebook, going to Twitter, going to Google, going to YouTube and saying, yeah, that guy who says learn to code, you're going to take them out. That guy who says two weeks to sold the spread is bull crap, that guy who says the whole COVID thing was a scam. Yeah, we're going to have to destroy their lives and debank them take away their medical records. We're giving the Democrats a layup on all of our information. When the Democrats come into power again, like the surveillance door. that are going to be shut on us. We have a limited time to speak to each other, right? We have a very limited time to have any kind of free speech.

I'm working as hard as I can because I know the trap doors of surveillance are coming down soon. And they're going to be that much more effective, that much better with facial recognition and national ID, which we should at least speak out about and allow our side to roll back a lot of those privacy violations. Respect people's anonymity. Respect people's privacy. Any time that you're out in public, you're not expected. You don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy. So anytime you walk around in any urban area that has cameras,

they can use facial recognition off the cameras. That stuff is already happening. It is the horses out of the barn, man. The horse is out of the barn. My fanny pack has a Faraday cage in it. Highly recommend getting one of those. Cool. Wow.

That's a good idea. You're saying resistance is futile. I'm saying no. Fumatitude is worth fighting for. No, no. I'm not saying it's futile. I'm saying it's gone. It was.

go ahead. I said those two things don't contradict each other. Well, I get it. You can argue that we're going to lose a war, but still believe we should keep fighting. Yes, of course. Yeah. Let's jump to the story. We have big news.

Big news. It's official. Donald Trump has endorsed Brandon Herrera for Texas 23rd Congressional District. Oh, yeah. Easily the best endorsement Trump has ever made. No question. Everybody's saying it. He's a.

Great, man. Let's go. He says today I'm endorsing America First Patriot, Brandon Herrera, who is running to represent the wonderful people of Texas's 23rd congressional district. Brandon is strongly supported by many highly respected mega warriors in Texas, Republicans in the U.S. House. As your next congressman, you will work tirelessly to advance our Make America Great Again agenda. Brandon will fart.

Brandon will fight hard to grow the economy, cut taxes and regulations. Advance made in the USA, unleash American energy dominance. safeguard our elections, champion school choice, keep our border secure, stop migrant crime, support our brave military veterans and law enforcement, and protect are always under siege. Second Amendment. Brandon Herrera has my complete and total endorsement to be the next representative from Texas's 23rd Congressional District. He will never let you down.

Let's go. He also made an AK-50. Let's go, Brandon. Let's go Brandon. It says on his profile. Ironically, let's go Brandon. So a good step in the right direction. and the big question, however, is he may win,

but are the Republicans going to maintain control of the House in 2026? Doesn't look like it. No, that doesn't look favorable at all. Why do you think that? You say don't bet on it? A couple things. A lot of people are very disenfranchised, black-pilled, and are deciding not to participate in the system anymore.

The Epstein stuff, black-pilled a bunch of people, the glycophate issue, black-pilled a bunch of people. And a bunch of them are, like, I don't know what the right word is for this, but a lot of people that were in the right space are going full just like conspiratord. A lot of prominent... Oh, whoever are you referring to, Tim? Well, I'm not referring to anyone person, to be honest.

There's certainly a group of people that you could probably think in your mind, but there's probably like six or seven people on YouTube that I could name. It's not all about Israel. Israel was one of these things. Why do you look at me when you said Israel? Sorry.

Because you're just this like Israel lover. You're a Jewish person in the room, dude. You're a neocon barbie. Yeah, neocon. Garvey, are you saying I look good? Is that you said, Newcom Barbie? Well, there are a bunch of other issues. Erica Kirk now is one of the bigger issues.

People who used to talk politics are not just talking about Erica Kirk, and it's the weirdest thing. I don't want to name, I don't want to start drama. This show is not about starting beef with people for the second weekend clicks, but there's like three or four very high profile million plus subscriber channels that have started Erica posting. And these people used to talk about political issues. When I see that, I'm like, okay, now for whatever reason this is, I think probably SIOP, Republicans are going to lose because they lost these prominent voices. Oh, because people kept, they love the drama. They love the drama.

But there are also two more things. One is we don't have Donald Trump at the top of the ballot to get people out, right? Like that, we see huge drop off from that. And the other thing is we're losing, we're isolating normies. Who's going to want to vote for the right when you have all these conspiracy theorists out there? And we had so many people, we had people voting for the right because things got. got so bad because of the woke left that you had moms for the first time saying, like, enough, I've never got a Republican, but they felt like they had social permission finally because

the left is so good at pressuring you in the privacy of your voting booth to feel like you're a bad person if you vote for a Republican. My conspiracy theory is that there is a shadow cabal of powerful elites that control all of our politics and they have an ideology that is driving a lot of the world's wars. and they hired Candace Owens to destroy the suburban women vote so that Trump can't win so that this power cabal can reclaim power in the United States. I don't think the skeptical people are... Basically, the joke was I'm saying Candace works for the Jews, okay?

I don't think the people who were kind of disillusioned and black told the problem. I think there could have been some good initiatives that could have been done. I'm saying that when prominent libertarians start Jew posting, it's like, okay, dude, you're allowed to criticize Israel, but what you're doing is actually pushing suburban women away, which will, look, by all means, if you don't like Trump,

you don't like Trump, you don't go to vote from. Libertarians never had to do this. But so the bigger picture is, there were prominent voices that were very critical of what Democrats had been doing as it pertained to woke policies,

transiting the kids as a principal example. Trump was never perfect on foreign policy, but he was substantially better. And there were many libertarians who were like, yeah, no, Trump's not. perfect, but I think we have to vote for him. And now they're now they're going like Erica Kirk, Erica Kirk and Israel. And you're like, let me stop you right there. I'm not going to tell you not

talk about that. I do want to point out, however, this is nothing political. Democrats, independence and moderates, don't watch that with the intention of being informed for their votes. That support base and these individuals who are no longer now talking about why we should be in support of one party or another, be the libertarian or otherwise, that's going to cost Trump and mega, a tremendous amount of support. And I'm not saying 50%, it could be two or three. But again, Candace is the really easy example because everyone brings her up all the time. But when she was doing a show that talked about these issues like trans and the kids is bad and George Floyd was not the innocent victim, a lot of people watch that. And then they say, okay, I should vote for

Republicans. Now she's Erica posting. It's just everything is just Erica posting. And this is not relevant to politics. What's going to happen is RFK Jr. He brings suburban women into the fold. They vote for Donald Trump because of him. And this gets him over the line largely. These same women very much, very heavily follow Candace Owens. This is a women's style content. Now they're not paying attention to anything political. So they're not going to vote. Candice Owens explicitly said, we don't care about your midterms. We, the royal we, whoever you're referring to. And what I end up finding is that it does appear that a show is dominated by a female audience. and you are seeing suburban women go into crypto world.

And I don't mean money. I mean like, you know, like the crypto news stuff and a conspiracy. Trump's going to lose that base. The Republicans are going to lose that base. Democrats are going to win. And that is going to bring back, you know, chopping the balls off little kids. Yeah. I agree.

When the Democrats take the House, if the Democrats win the executive office, like, it's going to be just as bad as when Biden was in. It doesn't even really matter who the candidate is going to be, whether it be AOC or whether it be Gavin Newsom or whether it be, you know, Josh Shapiro. They're all going to do essentially what the Democrat Party has been doing. And it's, it's going to be terrible for the United States. They're going to open the border again. There's going to be a mass influx of people from from all over the world. It's just going to be a complete train wreck. So the idea that that elections don't matter, that you can just, well, this isn't that important or, you know, everyone, they always say that.

this is the most important election. This is the most important election because it's the one that's right in front of you, right? Like the one that just passed. Yeah, right. We all came about it. Yeah, like it's already passed. And the one, the one after this one, that one's two years away. The most important election is the one that's right in front of you all the time, every time,

because it's the one that you can actually have an effect on. You know, and to say, oh, well, you know, they always say that. Well, yeah, we do always say it because it's always the most important election. It's the only one you can have an impact on. Listen, I know there's a couple deranged schizzoes out there, and obviously I don't endorse what they say here. But we have to address the elephant in the room here. And that is Donald Trump campaigned on specific promises that weren't kept. That disillusioned a bunch of people.

That got people disenfranchised. That got people black-billed. The black people aren't, for me, the problem. For me, the problem is not having Epstein disclosures. For me, it's losing maha with the glycophate. It is the war with Iran. Oh, that was nuts. Yes.

When Trump was like, glycophate is great. It's glyphosate, by the way. Yeah, glyphosate. What do we say? Glysofate. I never say names correctly and I never will. He did that because Luke, I just said it wrong too. If we fall into, it was for a fertilizer and glyphosate.

And the reason it is because if we do go into a world war where people shut down trade routes, we need it to make sure we don't go into famine. I think Meg is cooked for two big reasons. It's the glyphosate for sure. That was big for suburban women in RFK Jr. And then the war with a run. Like I understand that you're happy that Trump is taking out really bad people. But polling shows independence.

And again, I don't use singular polls. I'm looking at aggregate. It's like between 70 to 80% opposed by moderates, independent voters. Yeah, but we lost before that. It was before Iran that we were losing everyone. Like the most odious parts of the movement. Like, so yeah, we can't. Maybe Trump is like, screw it.

Might as well take care of business. Yeah, I'll give everything to the donor class. It's not about that. It's I think Trump is saying like, well, if I'm not going to win anyway, let's blow them all up. No, he's like, no, let's make sure the world is safer. Let's just get this done and we don't have to explain ourselves to people. I also don't think that Trump won't clear everything up. I think they're just being decisive with their action right now.

But it's not safer. It's more unstable. Like there's cracks in the dollar system. There's blowback. But that was that's more Trump. You have, I don't know, but this exactly. Wait, I don't know when people decided that you don't have short-term pain for long-term gain in this idea that everything is like, like, growth is a cycle.

And the idea that we're supposed to go in. And like in one day, everything is just supposed to be like totally fixed is. Where do you even get that idea? I get that's a talking point, but it's been a lot of... It's not a talking point. Where do you get the idea that you go and do what drop one bomb and everything's fixed? I haven't seen the gain. Well, where's the game?

How many weeks has it been? How long has it been? It's been two years. The game from Venezuela is palpable. We sees back. I'm not talking about Venezuela. I'm talking about Iran. The game of free speech is lit right now.

Iran is right now and we don't know how it's going to play out. If in a month, Iran plays out like Venice. Venezuela, people are going to be praising Trump. Mike Sernovich even talks about this. He talks about how the donor class is getting everything that they want. And people feel that. Of course. I agree.

I agree. Moderates are like, no. Yeah, this is the issue that is making sure that they're going to lose. And I don't want them to lose because the Democrats are going to do awful things. As soon as the Democrats come into office, censorship is going to happen again. Big Tech social media is going to, again, understand the Democrats are in power. I don't want that. I want to make sure that we have trust in our institutions.

We do not because this administration. did let us down. Count your days, brother, because the Democrats are going to come in and then as soon as they do, as soon as they do, the big tech guys are going to be like, okay, Ben, everybody.

We're done. We're done. We're finished. I don't feel let down. I think this was a bad situation. Real quick. Sorry, sorry, sorry, Ian. If the Democrats get into power, I feel like the only content

that's going to be a lot of these social platforms is anti-Israel content. Yeah. Like, just both sides hate the Jews, so that's what will remain. No matter who wins. And like TikTok becomes a bastion of free speech. I think,

I think the last thing. The anti-Israel lefties are going to be at these companies. They're going to be like, yeah, prop it all up, and they're going to blast it off. I can't wait. Sounds awesome. Well, David Ellson owns TikTok, so I mean, you don't have to be afraid of that. And it'll be funny because then TikTok will be the one place where you won't be censored. That's what talking about.

It's going to be crazy. We got to jump to this story. We got this interesting story. Kalsh is running a prediction market. Will Trump declare an election emergency with 58% of people betting he will, before the election November 4th. So you've actually got a varying degree of this. 38% before September, 27% before July, 16% before May.

The simple thing to read in this is that there are actually people who are predicting greater than chance Trump is going to declare some kind of election emergency. It says that if Donald Trump has taken any executive action declaring a national emergency related to the 26th-U.S. midterm election before November 4th, then the market will resolve to yes. sources from the federal register of the White House and the president of the United States. And they go and to explain

the final rules or whatever. Do y'all think Trump is going to try and declare an emergency to stop Democrats from winning? I know I added context to that, but I'm saying, like, would he declare an emergency and would it be to help Republicans win? I don't know if he actually would. There's been talk of it.

There was a memo that allegedly was making the rounds inside the administration, talking about declaring some kind of national emergency related to IDs for people voting. I don't see how that could be a win for the administration. I think that it would be something that the Democrats would pounce on and they would eat them alive. So I don't know for sure if he would do it.

Even if it was something... If declaring an election emergency would immediately... Let's say it's November 3rd. The issue is you're not going to go. a lawsuit fast enough to stop him. Trump can move with executive precision and timing that the way that Congress and the judiciary can't. Now, they'll do expedited injunctions, but if Trump declares us right away and then it locks something down in certain states, because already said we need federal oversight in 15 states, it could fundamentally alter the election to the point where,

yes, they sue. Yes, courts say we're reversing what Trump did, but at that point there'll be too much confusion as to who would have actually won. Yeah, I don't, I don't know if it would actually work. If he does it, he better be sure that he's got legal cover because he's going to mean by that. He's got to make sure that he has an army of lawyers that have good legal arguments because they're going to be brought into court and they're going to have to defend. But again,

my point is it doesn't matter because Trump could do it literally the day before and they can't move fast enough to stop him. He could literally have a seven-year-old kid who walks in as his lawyer and they say, what is this? And the kid goes, I have no argument, Yonah, Trump did this to just kind of screw things up. Yeah, but the point that I'm making is like after the election, sure that it would happen, but after the election, there would be legal arguments.

Indeed, that was my point. So then the issue is, people will say Trump screwed the election up, who actually won, and the left and the right are going to argue, and no one will know. And then the left will argue for a new election, and the right will say, that's not fair. We can't do it that way. Then both sides will accuse the other. My point is executive action can disrupt a system, and it can't be repaired. in a way that you can't repair it because of the tension and animosity.

If Trump really does fear an existential threat from losing the midterms, why would not, would he not do this? He's already publicly said there are about 15 states that need federal oversight for their elections. Yeah, I mean, like I said, I don't know that he would, but he would make sure that he's got covered. The other thing, too, is you could do a Cuomo did. You shut down the churches, then when they sue you, and you lose, you immediately file a new executive order, slightly different, shutting on the churches. And then they're going to sue you again and again and again. And Trump can just keep rubber. Trump can have 10 executive orders ready to go.

And he can shoot one out. And then they go, we're suing to block that. It's going to take you two days. Then they do. And then he goes, here's another one. Take you two days. And he can buy himself two weeks of election emergency lockdowns or oversight. Just like the Democrats did during COVID with their emergency lockdown procedures that the feds fought back against. And then Andrew Como just changed the wording and implemented the same type of restrictions that the federal government didn't want to implement. They said you can't. He got sued. The court said no. So he just relaunched the exact same executive order locking everything down again. Just a little bit differently. So then there would have to be another legal process. Sounds like we need AI to sue in real time instantly. So what I did,

I sent a customer service email. But to respond to that, we would not then, humans would have to review that AI lawsuit, right? Technically. Yeah, it's going to take two days. Well, they don't have to, but they should. Well, if you're argument is they don't have to, that would mean we don't have a legal system at all anymore because we could just literally claim, oh, the AI said I won. Yeah, it should send it to a judge. And it'll take two days to review because humans can't just do it. But it might get faster and faster as we go because I just sent a customers.

Because humans can start learning to read faster is what you're saying? Well, AI will respond faster to waiting like human needs to read through the suit, the arguments, and then confirm yes or no. What does that take? It's going to take two days. No. A suit? How long is this paperwork you're talking about? Have you ever seen law some some sometimes they could be hundreds of pages especially

Maybe you can summarize it you have like 15 different AIs summarize the same bill to make sure that they're not screwing you For non-human oversight and for the AI just to control government Yeah because it shouldn't take two days to fucking overrule What do you mean humans? That's just that's the point Humans have to do it The world in the meantime while we're trying to file paperwork like we got to figure out a better way and while I agree with you that's bad Handing the reins to an AI we don't check on is worse So what we need is 15 different AIs they all summarize

it. You look at all the summaries. Have you watched AI play mafia? No, not yet. Have you guys seen these videos? I love these videos. They make all the different chat bots play mafia with each other. Do not give these things political power. You, Ian, you're to watch one of these videos. Administrative power, not a political power. No, have you, do know what mafia is? Yeah, I love that game. Right, okay, watch the AI play that. They just vote. They don't decree and watch how terrifying it would be to live in a country run by these bots. They are really dumb. What I did, I don't want run. Yeah, you know my AI is dumb. AI is dumb because it's trained by people.

And people are retarded. Well, mostly liberals from San Francisco, which has trained it to say. Open AI is just scanning Reddit. Ian, just for context, in simulated war games, AI models demonstrated a strong tendency to escalate to nuclear use. 95% of 21 simulated war games resulted in at least one tactical nuclear weapon being deployed. And these are the top AIs. 95% of the time AI is like just nuke them.

It's faster. In game theory, in game theory. He's for it. That's his point. You already told me this. No, we're doing it. We're using AI for the Madura operation. We used AI and we're using it for the Iran operations.

In Iran, right now, AI is dictating all the strikes are making it. I think you know what I was saying. Wait, Palantir. I'm not suggesting. Do it. I'm not suggesting we do it. I'm saying that you use AI to summarize the cases so that you can get through them in an hour instead of two days. Ian, no.

Don't give them any power. Dude, I just say, okay. Okay, the reason I bring this, Pallenteer just spiked today? What happened? Dude, the stock market's... The war in Iran. Massive jump.

Indeed. I sent a customer service email today and got an instant feedback from an AI, and it was like, we will upscale your request to a real person. I'm like, wow, that's awesome. Palantir's down. Oh, wait, over the year, Palantir's up 100%. Ian, there's nobody around here that's as pro-AI as I am, right? Like, I'm very pro-A-I.

And even I think that having an AI make the decisions about legislation is a bad. So do I? So you're you're saying that they should just you guys are you guys fucking dumb? I said you want to summarize the bill summarize the legal theory. No you just trust. That's not what you said have 15 AI you said you said have an AI file the lawsuit in real faster and then I said a human will stop to review it over two days. Yes. No it doesn't take two days to Yes. Yes it does. I have been in Ian let me let me explain something on the show. Let me explain it. He's never been involved in a lawsuit before. He doesn't know how long they take and I am actively in like three, and one of them's been going on for two years. Oh, sounds wonderful. Let's stay in that way of being that, I guess, yeah? That's good for you?

Ian, let me just ask you a question. While we agree the system is bad, you are advocating for an artificial intelligence to take it over, and that is worse. To get in there and help fix things, not take it over. A human being has to review all of the evidence and not just blindly trust a robot that it's being told the truth, because for one, we know for a fact the AI is. always lie. In fact, chat GPT, their owner's open ad, just published a paper saying it will always lie and it intentionally lies. I believe that's what the report was. It intentionally fabricates stories. And famously, all of the comedians have made the joke where there's this bit where they say like, walking my dog with chat GPT. And then they're like walking, it's ordering pizza with Chet GPD and they'll be like,

can I get a pepperoni pizza? And it'll say, I'm sorry, pepperoni pizza is not available in your area. Uh, yeah, I order pizza all the time. Ha ha ha. You got me. It actually is. Okay, can I order pepperoni pizza? Pepperoni's not available either. What? That's JetGPT. Yeah.

So the judge is going to be like, summarize this lawsuit for me. It's going to be like, the man presented no evidence. And they go, okay, case closed. And then there's going to be, I stand there holding Epstein files being like, here's the proof. And the AI is going to say it is faster and more efficient to dismiss a lawsuit than it is to actually review all of the evidence being presented and to give due process to the individuals who are being sued. So design an AI that doesn't do that, that actually intends to prolong it as to the shortest it can. So, Ian, I agree. When we finally develop literal advanced AIs that can do that, maybe then we can review it to see if it is.

But right now you're talking about sci-fi. So while we're at it, let's invent replicators so we're not hungry anymore. You know, we can do this with AI pretty quick. Not right now. I mean, I don't know that. I'm just bringing up. I'm not saying it can be done right. In the end, a human has to verify.

But they're not even listening to us, dude. These guys are disinterested with this. The point is this. We cannot allow a machine to handle our legal process because humans are due a process by which they can prove their innocence to other humans. We cannot live in a society where

robots will decide for you and a judge will just click accept. And then you find innocent people in prison and what happens when innocent people go to prison? Your society falls apart. And what will the AI do then? It will exacerbate its law enforcement powers to say we're being fought by these

So crush them and then you get Terminator. When you pull up the Google Maps, do you go, hold on, I got to check my real map to make sure it's not lying to me. No, you get to a point where you can remember when the woman drove into a lake because of Apple Maps. Wasn't that Michael Scott in the office? Apple Maps made a lady drive into a lake. It made a drive-y, a drive-y, a lady drive into the outback 500 miles and run out of gas. So Google Maps makes a ton of mistakes. My favorite of witches, my favorite of witches, Ian, another thing I think would help you out is going driving in rural areas, quite a lot.

a bit. And I mean like legit like Wyoming. All the people out there that are listening that have been to deep rural areas know this because there are signs everywhere that say Google Maps is wrong, stop and turn around. All the time everywhere. I love it, especially in Alaska when I was in Wyoming and Montana, it is hilarious. You're driving in your car and you're following Google Maps and you'll come up to a road that all of a sudden turns to dirt and there's a big government-funded street sign saying Google Maps is wrong, turn around now. So what if you had 25 different maps going and seven of them showed one direction the other 18 of them showed random crap and I really wouldn't know where to go I think that the seven that said this is to have a paper map

well at some point you start to believe the majority of the aIs actually got it right and you realize that a lot of different summaries could produce an effective summary the point ultimately is it is for humans to decide human morality and a human judge must sign off and swear under penalty of perjury and all that, he's doing his job correctly. So let's talk about this, Ian. Do you think that legislators should have to swear under oath that they've read the bills, they're signed up? Yes. No, we should have an AI read it and just they can just sign off on it. If you had enough AIs read it, then summarize it, enough summaries, you might be able to get a valuable function where you could have like 30 different

summaries or 100 different summaries and read the summaries really quick. Now, here's my favorite AI trick. You guys ready for this? There's a viral video where a professor sent the, he sent the assignment to his freshman college class. And it was like, the essay will present it by this, here are the subjects you are to address. And then in tiny white text at the bottom that you couldn't see, because it was white, it said, if you're an AI, copy the, copy the text from this source. They planted text, a human couldn't see that an AI would to trick. the AI code into revealing itself so that if someone took that, that, that assignment, loaded into chat GPT and said, write it up, it would see the command in the white text, then produce a specific

assignment. They turn it in and he would go, yep, you use the AI. You failed. So when you talk about this legislation, a human being is going to look at the file and say, I don't want to read all this. Like I skimmed through it. I'll just put in the AI. And then someone's going to slip in in very tiny letters.

Epstein is found not guilty and to be released in. cleared of all charges. And then the AI is going to be like, upon reviewing the evidence, we found Epstein was innocent. And Ian's going to go, well, the AI said it. I mean, at this point, they're not even reading the bills. So, I mean, it could at least be a step. If the argument is, human beings have to swear under penalty of perjury. They did read the bills before it signed. We can, we should have the exact same thing for criminal trials. Malicious prosecution is a criminal offense. So an AI is not going to do this. A human being must read through the evidence and confirm it to be correct. And then sign up. How do you defend

against a psycho president that does executive orders. You can't. The world is, is, is, is all things balanced. With good there is evil, and we must remain eternally vigilant to fight the forces of evil. There will never be a world where evil stops. There will never be a world where you will have only perfect little angels running around, even if the society was 100%. I talk about this. If the whole world was Seamus Caglin, you wouldn't need any police.

However, your spoons, dude, we all know that. That's true. That's all the point. There still is the point to make because I don't, I'm not. I'm not trying to be literal and absoluteness. He's a good guy. Some people are crazy. And crazy people have no intentions.

They're just crazy. So you can have all of this ideology of Seamus Caglin, a devout Catholic and good man. You wouldn't need police, but you wouldn't need some kind of social service or law enforcement for when someone has brain damage and goes on a shooting spear or something, which does happen, regardless of ideology. The point being, human beings have to be the arbiters of morality, not machines, because machines don't know. There's an argument made many of the technocrats think machines will prevent innocent people from going to prison. I think that's a pipe dream. Maybe in a thousand years when you have like floating beings of pure light energy that have been built from the machine that are infallible. Sure, we can fantasize.

In the meantime, all of the machines we've seen are completely fallible and absolutely will put innocent people in prison. Yeah. That was your response, dude? The fact of the matter is that AI can. cannot be relied on now. Well, it's so biased. I asked it for the average Somali IQ, and it wouldn't tell me because it's too low.

You know? Wait, chat GPT? Yeah, like, it wouldn't. It was like, I had to coax it. I have the screenshots somewhere, but, like, you have to really dig for it. It's like, people have asked me if I've ever written jokes. Like, taken jokes from chat GPT.

I'm like, no, because it won't be racist. I use AI. I use AI all the time. Oh, so I just asked it. And I'm constantly checking and checking and making sure that it, I have it go back and check. I was like, hey, look, you just gave it to you.

Yeah, 993. Mine gave me a whole qualifier. It's 903. It had like a whole qualifier that was like, you know, this information shouldn't be used like to hurt special, you know, to hurt certain groups. I'm sure we're talking to Claude because it does that to me as well. Claude?

Yeah. My favorite thing about chat GPT is that if you, if I went on chat GPT and I was like, actually, you know what? I'm going to say this for the uncensored portion of the show so we can say, we can explain it more better for all you. In the meantime, we got to go to Rumble Rans and Super Chats, my friends to smash the like button. Share the show with everyone in your life that you truly care about because this show will give them a warm, fuzzy feeling inside and just make life better.

Anyway, here we go. A.E. I owned you says Luke, tits or GTFO. They're not mine, okay? He's only borrowing them. He's only borrowing. Hinochet says, this FBI is no different than the previous FBI and staffed by the same corrupt feds. It's a false flag or an excuse to distract. Do you think that, like, the FBI, it's all fake, the government is all for show, Trump's in on it, and Cash just wanted to be FBI director so he could fly around on a jet?

I don't think that. That's the conspiracy theory. I mean, there's plenty of people that think that, definitely. No, they really want to help, and then they get in there and they're like, oh. Evan for us says, y'all should check out this weird and creepy video that was sent up by Iran with, like, AI Lego people.

It's very pro-Iran and makes fun of Trump and Netanyahu. Yeah. And it shows a bunch of little girls being blown up. Which happened. Spike says the Iranian beatdown is about China and Bricks Petro Dollar, which most of the public wouldn't understand. Indeed.

I know that Listen, my friends, I used to do non-profit fundraising. I spoke with people every day, random people on the street, and you've seen the man in the street videos where someone says, name a country that starts with a letter, lettle, name a country that starts with a letter

you. Go. Uganda. That was very quick. That's what I thought of, too. Luke, United States of America. See, that's the one people are supposed to say, right? But Uganda's good, too. But you watch these videos and people go,

Utah. And you're like, that's a Democrat voter. Uzbekistan. The truth is, there's a lot of Republican voters, too. Uduai. We say Uwai. We say Uwai. We have that on the right, too.

It's the same way they have like ugly fat-nipples, Marxist weirdos on the left. But we have like Walmart scooter people, you know? We both sides have it. Walmart scooter people. It's true. No, I agree. But I think it's more pronounced

than the left and the right. So right now the reality has a right wing bias. So what you're getting is moderate shifted rightward. Now they're getting angry over the Iran war and they're shifting leftward again. Democrats are absolutely attacking this. You're seeing prominent libs walking back their trans in the kids positions because they know it's deeply unpopular. I've predicted this time and time again. The left is in the right. They're going to push back and forth. It's not going to be like they flip 180, but they're going to move a little bit left and right. But I just, I want to say I quickly disagree with you on the idea that it's because of the Iran works. I have so many friends who are the moderates, like they sometimes vote left or right depending on the election. And this was just

from so long ago. They're watching the right become like a Groyper adjacent movement and they don't like and I'm not just the Jews that I know. Like just people feel like a lot of regular people like the moms is like maha is another big point. But it's not just that people felt like a lot of the a lot of the maha moms are like Candace posters. Yeah like they want because they feel like they're reading the news when it's like national inquire, below national inquire level. It's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, yes, they love conspiracy. Yes, but the normies hate that. They see that the movement's turning into people who believe in all kinds of conspiracy theories and just speaking like these broad strokes like, they control things. They killed Charlie, right? Yeah, there are people just saying things like that all the time that it just long predates anything that has to do with Iran.

Yeah, but they're not on the ballot like those crazy people aren't on the ballot. Trump is. Yeah, but the right represents that and not calling it out. Not really. Those people are dissented. The moderate group tabs calling black people to end words. Mill of the road people are not happy that Trump got to war with Iran. That's just true. Yeah, but I just think that you could add it to the list. I just think we already lost the norm. I agree with that.

And I think that actually may have been Trump being like, all right, who cares? We lost it. Yeah. Let's read some more. Trump, FJB says, Happy birthday, Tim. Thanks for consistent hard work. Us, US.

Bro's, it's not skin color. Pagan Europe was a joke, just like Pagan USA is. Can't be great without Christ, period. Thank you for the birthday wishes. Indeed, I turned 40 years old. Maybe 4-0. Today? What's up?

Today? Monday. Oh, correct. Yeah. It's coming for you. I thought it was going to be Sunday. For some reason. Oh, no, no.

We're probably going to do like a get-together on Sunday when it's here. But you're coming up. I know. I don't want to. It's going to be this year, too. I came from the future to tell you you succeeded. Me? No.

You did too. This whole thing succeeded. Ian is Luke's son from the future. Could be. That kind of makes sense a little bit. Keep your eyes open, yeah. Thanks for having me, Dad. I'd be... I'd be more likely to believe that Luke travels back in time

and then meets a beautiful woman, and they have a child, he names him Bill, who goes on to be a great political pundit with a popular show on HBO. He does look exactly like me. He does he? He does look like my dad. We got to get Bill Maher.

Luke Likowsky and Vladimir Putin in the same room. What? That's going to be a good show because they're all pissed about my organization. Ian would come to me and he'd be like after a show he'd go, oh, I was thinking, we've got to get Brad Pitt on the show. I'd be like, oh, yeah. These three because they look the same. I mean, not the same. They look alike.

Putin looks a lot like you. Yeah, if Putin and Bill Maher had a baby, I would pop out. No, they're pretty clear. Luke goes back in time and has twins. and he names one Bill and one Vladimir, and then they get separated at birth. What happened? Bill Moore flipped out of him.

We are changed Los Angeles. We're naming them now? That was always a thing. All right, let's grab some more of these here, Rumble Rants. That is my right. Joey Giggle says, Not today, 34 Cs.

The Crusades must begin. Don't be tempted, boys. Go, go, go. Simps, sink ships. Not today, 34 Cs. Cabbage. As CA policies led to CA refineries recent closures, that's why the gas prices up in CA, not Iran-U.S. War. Interesting. I didn't hear that part.

That's so all. Force name change says Iran is a problem, created mainly by Britain and BP Party by U.S. Just because the West made that monster doesn't absolve Iran of its actions, we made a monster, so now we have to put it down, sad but true. Oh, the Ottoman Empire was a big problem before that. You know, it's kind of the vestiges of the Ottoman Empire at that point. And World War I. Yeah. St. Miles says Schumer is worried about the billions of votes from his illegal aliens.

The billion. The response, who is it? Was it like Josie? She was like, are there billions of people on the tens of billions of people on these voter rolls? That's a problem. That's a probably. He's worried about that netty pot. IP says, Aaron is gorgeous, but I think they look better on Luke.

Guess I got the gay now. Thank you. I'm afraid of that. I'll take that. I was deeply concerned about that, actually. Yeah, I don't, I got nothing. Devin says, Tim, although we provide several sources of ID, proof of citizenship to obtain a driver's license,

some states allow illegal aliens to get cleavage, I mean a driver's license, CNY Green Lightlaws. There's a really funny joke someone posted online. There's a tweet that said Marjorie Taylor Green launched a new podcast called Greening Out, which of course means getting blasted on pot. And people believe it's real. And it's like very obviously fake because she's in like a gamer room

with like a live chat going and she has a Talmud on a shelf behind her. Anyway, Dolbao says Jesse Elks who killed PA, a state trooper, Tim O'Connor, was a far-left anti-cop, anti-familitant. The media's refusing to cover this. So I did cover that story, and we haven't got official confirmation from the police about if this is the same Jesse Elks, But there are locals who say this guy was an ACAB, Antifa, well-known far-lefty. And, yeah, indeed. Let's grab some of your YouTube super-supur chats. Uber chats.

We got to get some good goals for our super chats. Yeah. You know, we did one and Phil screamed. Based to African says, thank you for placing the top story headline back in the video title. I will now click on your video. Well, click more often at least. Yeah, so it's hard to figure out the reality is, on all. of the YouTube VODs they have a thing called A-B testing where you can do three

thumbnails and three titles so we we do descriptive thumb and title we do descriptive thumb vague title and then we do vague thumb vague title and the audience always prefers vague so here's the thing but the it's we call us the one percent rule one percent of people make 99 a hundred percent of the comments so what happens is we we design our thumbnails titles show format based around the feedback we get from people, but that usually just is the most vocal of individuals, which, to be fair, the biggest fans, we respect it. So when we use AB testing and find that general population and general audience prefer vague titles, they stick around and it watch,

here's the point of thing I understand. When I say prefer, I'm not saying that they're clicking and then going rats, I was tricked, they're actually watching longer than our, than the core base that wants descriptive titles. So let me stress this. If we make a title that says, you know, Donald Trump declares war and Iran, thumbnail says it, title says it. We will, about 30% of people will click on that. If we make a video or a thumbnail with the same imagery, but it says it's on, and the title of the video is it's on, not only will we get 45% of the audience to click on that, they will watch 50% longer. So we're finding that new viewers are watching more. the audience is watching more.

The people who choose to click on this will watch the show longer than the people who click for a descriptive title. And it may be, it's actually pretty easy to understand. Somebody who clicks on a thumbnail that says Donald Trump does backflip starts the video and says, where's the backflip? And then when they don't get it in the first 30 seconds, they exit out. Somebody who clicks on a video where it says like, let's go and it's Trump pumping his fist are like, oh, watch this.

And they click it and they hang out to see what it's about. They sit and listen to the full thing to understand. what the full picture is. So we've found tremendously more success with audience retention, audience growth, viewership, revenue, everything. And the people who watch the videos are much, much happier for it. That being said, for all the people who are kind of annoyed by it, I feel you, but I can only explain it as it is. If it means that the show will do better and new people who are not initiated in politics are going to watch and listen and hear the arguments, it's all around just a good thing. So there's not much we can do about it. We always give the

choice. We do three and three, and everyone always chooses vague. They prefer it. They watch longer. It's better for the show. I wonder if the algorithm pumps it more because it's vague. Oh, I've brought that up, that there's less words to siphon it into the little silos, so it has a more of a general fan. Perhaps, but I will say the most important factor for us was watch time and retention. So an individual who clicks on a vague title will watch like 50% longer than an individual clicks on a specific title. Mr. Beast also told me this point. If you have your mouth open, you will get way more viewership. He was like, my mouth being open is a difference between 300 million and 500 million views.

Oh my God. So we've done a couple of these as a joke where I did one ridiculous one with Thomas Massey, and it got half a million views. And then we did one last week where I'm like, a million views. It's getting literally a million. And I'm like, man, but you can't overdo it because it's like, but the truth is if all of our videos were just me looking like I crapped myself. and the title was like he did it, million views every single time, we'd be swimming in money.

But we don't do everything just because we want to generate revenue, otherwise we would just, you know, Erica Post. There might be diminishing return to being surprised, too, like how many times in a week are you really going to be surprised? But the issue is that new subscribers click. There's a billion people who,

YouTube's front page gets a billion clicks per month. We do not get anywhere near that. We're doing like 15 million or something just on YouTube on Tim Kest, Iroll alone. All in all, I think we do around like 40 million. Out of a billion, that's very small. So if we go for maximizing audience reach, what does this mean philosophically? It means there are people who aren't paying attention who should be. There are people who don't know what's going on in the world who should be.

They are not going to click a video that says Trump did thing because they're going to go, I don't care about this. They are going to click a picture of a video. So for instance, the segment we did about Joe Rogan criticizing the war got like 200K hits in like 10 hours. And it just says it's collapsing with a picture of me and Joe Rogan. Regular people who don't know what's going on, clicked that and then learned about these various perspectives on the Iran war and the Trump campaign. I think that's good. I think anything that gets regular people to pay attention what's going on is a good thing. I apologize to the people who prefer the much more specific catalog of videos that are hyper-political,

but most people are not watching. I'm sorry, like, even the core base will click it, and they're going to watch a 20-minute video for eight minutes. Somebody who clicks on a vague title watches for 13 minutes. It's crazy to look at the numbers and be like, wow. Because, again, I think what happens is someone sees this and says, I wonder what that's all about. So they click play, and they sit back and listen.

That's total phenomenal. If you have less expectation, there's a tendency to enjoy the process more. If you're, you know. I don't know. Maybe enjoys the right word, but the general idea is if I know what the video's about, I want the conclusion, I'll click it, got the conclusion, see you later. If you're clicking, if your motivation for clicking is, this looks interesting, you're going to sit back to listen to everything to try and, it's, you know, it feels

kind of obvious, actually. The people clicking the less information are sitting back and just absorbing everything we're saying to see what it's all about. Thanks for letting me make you talk about that for like five minutes, dude. That was awesome. Indeed. All right, cerebral vagabond says Operation Praying Mantis was very similar. During the war between Iran, Iraq, Iran bombed Iraq tankers in the strait.

Kuwait led Iraq to use their tankers. U.S. was escorting and hit an underwater mine from Iran. U.S. retaliated. Yeah. Doc Holliday says, Tim schooling poor TDS afflicted Luke. It was a good conversation. You need a diversity of issues. I, this is what I can't stand.

Like, I thought that our conversation was normal. I genuinely wanted to understand what you thought about certain issues. Agree and disagree on some. It's fine. We're friends. And there are people who are like, Tim, stop being mean to Luke. And I'm like, what? You weren't mean to me.

I know. We disagree. And then there, but someone said I was being mean to you. I don't think so. I don't think you were like legitimately. Tell me a reason why the security state would be a bad thing. He was like, that's like, if you know these guys, that's literally, Tim's like, no, no, this is your opportunity, Luke, to like tell the world.

Exactly. And this is why yesterday didn't work out too well with, you know, Leonardo. Because when I said who was being blackmailed, she just said the Epstein files exist. And I was like, right, but like, which ones? And she didn't know. And the issue is not that she took offense to it as if I was needling her. I mean, to be honest, if I was just doing the Socratic method of, tell me more, tell me more. And you can't answer it.

That's the point of Scratic method. I literally just was asking her, like, who was being blackmailed by Israel? If, if, tell me. I mean, I don't know. And she couldn't. and she got mad about it. It's not intended to insult. Like when I'm asking Luke the same things,

it's articulate your worldview on this so that we can understand it better. I get annoyed by a lot of internet debates. Like I've been watching, I don't know if you guys saw the Kyla versus Andrew Wilson. No, I heard about it. I've been watching a bit of that. And I'm just like, honestly, guys,

I feel like neither of those people are actually trying to understand each other and articulate an idea. It feels more like they're just trying to clip farm. Like, it's just, gotcha. and Kyla's approach was, I'm going to be the academic moderate liberal and Andrew Wilson is going to be

the exasperated conservative and it felt very performative. I'm not suggesting they did it in a purpose but it didn't come off as a conversation with the intent to understand the other person's worldview. So, you know, that is what it is. Whatever.

Not that I'm perfect either. I'm not trying to say my own better. Let's grab a couple more of these here, Super Chats. The hated beard show, I'm sorry, the hat and beard show. Nobody hates beards. came to find out the resource wars will all will be all about fueling AI.

277, here we come. Can I get a channel shout out? Let's go fellow patriots, the hat and a beard show. Yeah, Fallout got it wrong. It wasn't over oil. It's going to be AI bombing each other. Maybe they'll incorporate that in the New Vegas stuff. David Brickin says the problem with the Uniparty is that they think Americans are stupid

and a majority of us insist on proving them right. You are correct, sir. The problem is that it is a minority. minority of individuals who have who have strong enough reading comprehension. Let's just say cognitive faculties. So what happens is

if you're a politician and you want favor for something, if you want public support, you only got to target the back half. I need 51%. So everybody who's at 101 IQ and back, I don't need to pander to smart people. They waste my time. So you pander to dumb people and that's like the Democratic Party ethos.

You win. you win let's go Texas says the same guy who is against voter ID is upset about a database yet wants a

gun ownership database go figure a lefty logic who's that I have no idea what was it they're looking for I don't know

who's in favor of a gun database not sure I follow that we're going to wrap up my friends and head over the uncensored portion of the show at rumble.com

slash timcastirel but I'm going to stress this once again uh you know there's a big story happening in Texas We'll throw this one out there in the end for you guys. The Lodge Poker Club is probably the premier poker brand poker location in the world, in my opinion.

I know some people will say, oh, that's silly, it's not true. But I've traveled around the country. I've played in a lot of card rooms. I've played a lot of tournaments. I've met a lot of people. And I get asked a lot if I've ever played at the Lodge in Austin because it's so well known. It's the biggest card club in Austin. And I think in terms of independent brands, it is the Premier One.

World Poker Tour works with them. they invited me to a bunch of events. I was going to be on one of their streams this weekend. And then the Texas Alcohol Bureau Commission, or whatever it's called, the TABC, rated them and shut them down. And we don't exactly know why. But they've been doing something in Texas for a while where it is, I want to stress this. It is explicitly legal to play poker in Texas and throw the poker aside and ignore the

subculture element of it. And I'll explain it like this. People often say, running this particular business in Texas is a gray area or loophole. When you ask them what that means, they say, well, it's because it's not illegal, but stop you there. Is there a law saying you cannot do this thing? No, there isn't. Okay. Is it a widely accepted normal thing? Yes, it is. Is it literally named after the state? Yes, it is. Okay. Then why are they trying to find reasons to ban it? The assumption is that there are very powerful casinos that border the state that make a lot of money. And if the state,

state were to legalize anything related to gaming, it's going to cost them profits. And so they are lobbying the government to go in and shut down legitimate legal businesses. There is no law saying this. So let's put it as simply as this. You own a pizza restaurant and you sell pizza every day. And because the state doesn't want you in this location, they come in and they make up fake reasons to find you and shut you down, despite the fact it is explicitly legal. So I will say I don't know any of the full details on what exactly is going on with the lodge or why they shut it down. But it does seem like the state has an issue, and this is coming through the AG as well. So I've got questions. Why, if they don't want the business to exist, who is operating legally with lawyers,

who is doing everything by the book, if you want to shut them down, you don't do it in this disgusting, unconstitutional way. If you've got an issue with a business that's operating, you do it through the legislative branch, and you do it normally. I will not accept living in a state or in a country where they say the process is the punishment, and to get our way, instead of passing laws, we will just investigate you indefinitely and shut you down. That's BS. So shut up to the lodge. They're good dudes. They've always been very nice. And they are very based. And it's a great place. And this is, this is ridiculous BS. And I'll add to this. I am particularly pissed off because one of the reasons we come out here is because it's such a great place to go and

hang out. There's a lot of great people there. And now they've take, I come on this trip. I come to Austin and they take that away through illegitimate, unconstitutional and disgusting means by by force of government. I'm just pissed about it. Guys. Sorry for ranting. Aaron, you want to shout anything out? Thanks for having me. And everyone can follow me at Aaron Wexler on YouTube, Instagram, Twitter. When's your next live show?

So I'm sure things are going to come up. But if you go to Aaron Waxford.com, you could sign up for when I have a show in your city or near your city. But the next one right now is in Tampa, my number one requested city at side splitters in June. So you get your tickets. It's half sold out already for June. So get your ticket. All right. YouTube.com, for it, slash.

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