Timcast IRL - Timcast IRL #1044 French Parliament DISSOLVED After Right Wing Populists, Le Pen WIN w/Cliff Maloney

Episode Date: June 11, 2024

Tim, Hannah Claire, Phil, & Serge are joined by Cliff Maloney to discuss French Parliament being dissolved after massive right wing victory in EU elections, German conservatives securing a massive win... in elections, Joe Biden's approval rating dropping to record low, and John Fetterman saying his stroke made him ditch progressives. Hosts:  Tim @Timcast (everywhere)  Hannah Claire @hannahclaireb (everywhere) Phil @PhilThatRemains (X) Serge @sergedotcom (everywhere) Guest: Cliff Maloney @Maloney (X) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 A massive wave of right wing populist victories in the EU is causing chaos, Politico says. AFD in Germany came in second place. And in France, the victory of Marine Le Pen's populist party was so pronounced that Macron has dissolved French parliament. Many people suggest that the victories we're seeing in Europe are a sign of things to come in the United States. Donald Trump will win in a landslide victory. They say, well, you know, don't count your eggs before they hatch. We'll see how things go. But this is tremendous news for Europe.
Starting point is 00:00:28 The people of Europe are furious over the failed policies that we've seen so far, these globalist policies, international policies, and immigration policies. So, of course, people are voting, and they're winning. Now we're going to see what happens. There are also riots happening in France, and some people are trying to act like that's related. But I've got to be honest, French people just riot. It's kind of the thing they do.
Starting point is 00:00:48 And they're riding over a motorway. So, you know, it is what it is. But we'll talk about that. Then we got Joe Biden's approval rating hitting a new low, which is shocking. And Donald Trump's polling seems to be stable, although the media keeps trying to claim that his polling is getting worse. Relatively stable. You know, Biden's got some Trump's got some Trump has one poll putting him up six. He's doing well with independents.
Starting point is 00:01:10 But of course, the media is reporting. And we got this breaking audio showing Nancy Pelosi saying she's responsible for the security issues of January 6th. And then John Fetterman says that almost dying has cured him of progressivism. I'm not kidding. That's basically what he said, his near-death experience. After it happened, the progressivism left his body. So we're going to talk about that. But before we do, head over to TimCast.com, click join us to become a member, because we're going to have that members-only uncensored call-in show coming up
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Starting point is 00:02:08 I mainly focus on door knocking for America first and libertarian type Republicans. And this cycle, I've been tapped to run the ballot chasing effort in Pennsylvania, something called the PA Chase. Going to match the Democrats at their own tactics, hire 120 folks and try to run up the score and mail in ballots. Having a lot of fun doing it. Sounds good. All right. Should be fun.
Starting point is 00:02:28 Phil is here. He's alive. I lived. How you doing? My name is Phil Labonte. I'm the lead singer of the heavy metal band All That Remains. I'm also an anti-communist and a counter-revolutionary. How you doing there, Hannah Clare?
Starting point is 00:02:37 I'm good. Phil's here, so I won't be filling in for him on tour this summer. I know everyone is sad about it. I'm an amazing metal singer. No, I'm just kidding. I'm Hannah Clare Brimelow. I'm a writer for SCNR.com. That's Skinner News. I'm an amazing metal singer. No, I'm just kidding. I'm Hannah-Claire Brimelow. I'm a writer for SCNR.com. That's Skinner News.
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Starting point is 00:02:55 Here we go. Here we go. This story from The Guardian. EU elections. Macron to dissolve French Parliament after crushing loss to far right.
Starting point is 00:03:05 What I love about this is that basically the far right are people who are like, we should have checks on immigration. And that's basically it. All of these lefties are coming out saying the issue of immigration is helping the far right win. And it's like, what is the far right promoting? No war, working class jobs and controlled migration i'm like that's that's not far right that's like centrist the far right is them saying hey we shouldn't
Starting point is 00:03:31 encourage people to take treacherous journeys and risk their lives to come to a country where we don't have the tax base to support them they're like crazy get out of here all those issues are blue collar issues right but that's the problem when they they designate that far right as this you know that's the evil well when all those things line up with working class folks, it's just they're losing the battle on defining the far right. Yeah, I think so. I think that's what's most interesting about sort of the rise of an interest in protecting individual nations in Europe, because Europe is to scale so much smaller than America. I mean, we are used to all the states having to have the conversations about immigration.
Starting point is 00:04:06 But could you imagine if every state set their own immigration policy? That's effectively what Europe has to deal with. And especially with the EU, if the EU rules them in a way that says like, well, we set the immigration policy and your countries have to deal with it, of course, you're going to get people who are saying,
Starting point is 00:04:22 well, then you're sort of abusing us and we don't want to put up with this anymore. It seems inevitable to me, but I guess I'm not a progressive from Europe. The idea that any of this is, quote unquote, far right is ridiculous. The only reason it's called far right is because the phrase far right has been has been programmed into people or conditioned into people to for them to think people have been conditioned to think the term far right means just evil, bad, right? There's no context.
Starting point is 00:04:51 It doesn't matter what the policy is. It's far right. It means bad thing. Argument over. And this goes to show you, again, this is something that we reiterate on the show all the time. The left doesn't have an argument. The left has emotions.
Starting point is 00:05:03 The left doesn't make arguments. They don't try to make arguments. It's fire. Yeah, it's my hair's on fire. I'm upset. You know, they're screaming fire in a building or there's this big thing to be afraid of. But in this case, they set the fire and now they're like, you guys want to put out this fire. That's crazy. It's keeping us all warm. Like, well, well, talking about fire does not want to be put out. It resists. It expands. I mean, it's mean, it's mindless expansion of chaos just spreading and destroying. Let's get a little context here. So this is France's president, Emmanuel Macron, has been accused of gambling with French democracy.
Starting point is 00:05:34 Oh, heavens. After announcing that he will dissolve parliament and call snap legislative elections in the wake of his allies crushing defeat to Marine Le Pen's far-right national rally in Sunday's European Parliament elections. On a night that saw far-right parties make significant but far from conclusive gains in Europe, the RN won about 32 percent of French votes, more than double the 15 or so scored by Macron's allies, according to projections, with the socialists just behind at about 14 percent. The first round of elections for the National Assembly will take place on the 30th of June and the second on the 7th of July. Macron announced an address to the nation in a huge gamble on his political future three years before the end of a second term as president. Now, some people are actually saying it's the honorable move to make that by doing this, it's actually allowing Marine
Starting point is 00:06:18 Le Pen to come in and win political power. I don't see it as a gamble. If they have an election now, Marine Le Pen wins. That's kind of the idea. So I ain't mad at Macron. I'm not an expert on French politics. I also want to stress, too, a lot of people don't seem to understand. So there was an election in the European Parliament, which is basically like Congress. And it's not really the same because Europe, these are very strongly, the people, these countries have their own cultural identities. In the United States, we have states. There's state legislatures and representatives, and then there's the federal level. EU is effectively their version of the federal level Congress, and so they win in France. Macron then says, okay, we're going to have an election here in this country for our single French parliament, which we are expecting now the far right to win.
Starting point is 00:07:11 Which is interesting because Marine Le Pen, I'm pretty sure she's anti. She wants out of the EU. She wants what they call it, Frexit. Yeah. French exit. I don't think they'll get it, but it's starting to look like the, I don't know, the belt is buckling under the girth of the gluttonous global elite. And that's it. There you go. I mean, look, there was a time when countries were trying to be more independent.
Starting point is 00:07:43 And that all ended, I think world war ii right and now it's like ever since it's like the un and now there's the eu it's like we're trying to make all these different countries across the world enter into these um i don't i don't want to call them packs for these organizations that are super national right and essentially it's my opinion that like tim said it's just you know the, the global elite or the power brokers trying to consolidate as much power as they can. They want to they most of these organizations, the U.N., you know, the EU and stuff, they would like to have the ability to veto any of the individual nations laws, not their votes in the EU or whatever, but their individual laws in the nations. There are definitely people in the UN that would love to be able to veto, you know, American state laws. But they I mean, obviously, we have the ability to stop them. But that's the
Starting point is 00:08:38 that's the ideal. And that's the goal. And that's part of why you see all of the i believe part of the reason why you see all of the the uh um ecological stuff the the uh the word is slipping it's the dumbest thing that i'm i can't find the word green new deal there you go thank you very much is that the word yeah well no it's not the green new deal it's the uh environmental there you go yeah but i i think we're at a breaking point because you see it i think some say the country's getting too big, right? Eventually we'll have some sort of breakup. Are you talking about population? No, I'm just saying, you know, with one government, right? Like as these different world governments are coming together, I shouldn't say one world government, but you know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:09:14 When these NATO groups and, you know, I mean, even the hatred for like the World Economic Forum, you know, people, I think normal folks, you get to a point where there's two, I don't want to say too many people, but you don't want to just have one set of rules, right? When we talk about a national divorce, or we talk about like, you get to a point where maybe the guys in New York City and the kids in Alabama that are working a blue collar job are not going to agree on all the same policies. And I think that's what you're seeing. And if you're a Democrat, or let me just say that the globalist elite type in the US, and you look and see these national elections, I mean, the trend is coming towards the populism. It's coming towards that.
Starting point is 00:09:51 Are you pro-national divorce? Yes. Overall? Peaceful national divorce, yes. Not possible. What I'm saying is, is that a goal that you have? No, I just think it's inevitable. I do.
Starting point is 00:10:03 I think at a certain point, we get to that. No, I hope we don't. I don't think it's inevitable. I do. I think at a certain point we get to that. No, I hope we don't. I don't think it's possible. Peaceful? Not possible. You might be right. Even if it's not peaceful in the U.S., I think there is a reason. Las Vegas ceases to exist overnight in a national divorce.
Starting point is 00:10:17 If national divorce is a 25-year process of careful negotiations between corporations and state governments, then perhaps call it whatever you want. But if we get any kind of short of like anything less than a decade, and it's going to just be abject chaos. Yeah, no, I'm not, once again, I'm not advocating for it. I just think at a certain point, the debt gets so high. The, like I said, the laws for everybody being, you know, one size fits all. I just think there's too much pushback. Well, I agree. But that would be more indicative of when the system comes a crashing down.
Starting point is 00:10:53 No one's going to be happy with what it looks like. I think, you know, if you look at the fall of the Soviet Union, people need to you can look to history because history rhymes and then figure out what's coming next. The same thing I would say is true for the EU in a different sense. The EU being relatively young, should this movement we see, and we have another story that we'll pull up in a second with Germany, should this movement result in states, countries breaking away from the EU, they're still in a position to sustain themselves much better. But with Brexit, I think they tried to make Brexit as painful as possible because once they took back control,
Starting point is 00:11:28 they were like, let's burn it to the ground, make everyone feel the pain. I think the same thing's true with Biden in Afghanistan. But Europe, it's a lot younger. The United States, man, we're 250 plus years.
Starting point is 00:11:39 We're looking at if the dissolve happens, you've got sheer dependencies and it's going to be worse than the Soviet Union. But what's likely going to happen is there's going to be a regional factory for, I don't know, insert meat processing plant company.
Starting point is 00:11:55 And they're going to be like, okay, our state has just broken away from the union. Our headquarters is in a unionist state. They're not calling us and telling us what's going on because we have a regional manager who lives in our state he he's fled he does he's not here anymore so what happens who's your boss well a guy shows up with a group of other dudes armed
Starting point is 00:12:17 to the teeth and they say we want to talk to the boss of this this meat processing plant and he comes down and he's like look man i have no idea what's going on. Like, here's what's going to happen. We're in charge now. You answered us. I'm going to give you my phone number if we even have phones. So here's how you contact me. We're going to make sure
Starting point is 00:12:31 the supplies keep coming in and you can keep doing your job because the people of our home, they need food. Okay, I'm the boss now. And they go, you got a boss? And that's how you get oligarchs. One by one, guys with guns
Starting point is 00:12:41 just go and start securing different buildings, taking them over. Food's got to come from somewhere. Water got to come from somewhere. A national meat processing plant is not going to dispatch PMCs to Nevada to secure the property. It's just going to break. And then it's going to get real interesting. Las Vegas, y'all are in trouble.
Starting point is 00:13:01 People who live in Las Vegas are in deep trouble because if national divorce does come, Vegas doesn't have anything. Nevada does not have anything. A lot of sand. A lot of sand. And the desert reclamation of Vegas is a product of tourism. Luxuries are not going to exist in a national divorce circumstance. Y'all just go hungry. But then, of course, I imagine the people who live in Nevada are going to be hungry
Starting point is 00:13:25 and they're going to not want to give up their homes and they're going to want food. So what does that mean? It's going to mean conquest. It's going to mean they're going to go out looking for food and they're going to find it and they're going to take it however they have to. Water, too. California? Oof, SoCal, you're in trouble. Colorado River? Oof. That water's going sour real
Starting point is 00:13:41 quick. I do think, you know, a major American city, especially like Nevada or maybe even Phoenix, to a certain extent, I'm not a geographic expert here, team, but they have benefited from the fact that we encourage interstate commerce and we encourage development that allows people to live where they naturally wouldn't have settled. I think in contrast, Europe, because they are all actually their own countries and have their own economies, it's much easier for them to come to the realization that they could break away. I mean, there are parts of Europe that have different challenges, but for the most part,
Starting point is 00:14:14 Americans, businesses, in my opinion, American businesses and American state governments are used to a certain amount of interdependency where that wasn't always the case in Europe. The story I was told from the Spanish activists was really interesting, how the EU just basically mutilated them. They said, so this is what the activists told me when I was in Spain back in 2012. They said before the EU, the currency was the peseta. And you'd wake up in the morning, you'd go to the local coffee shop or whatever, you'd grab a newspaper, one peseta.
Starting point is 00:14:44 You'd cup of coffee, one peseta. You'd sit down, you'd eat, you'd drink, you'd read. No big deal. Then overnight, seemingly overnight, they switched to the euro. The only problem is one euro was three peseta. You'd walk into the store, newspaper, one euro.
Starting point is 00:15:00 Coffee, one euro. And you're like, that's three times increase. So what happens is Germany says, we're going to cut you a big fat loan to normalize your economy so that your people can afford it. Now, Spain is in massive debt to Germany. Basically, Germany ends up gaining majority control by offering up these loans to these countries that could not handle it. Greece is in crisis. So a lot of people are very upset. And I think the EU is ripe for dissolution, especially if Marine Le Pen wins. Let's jump to this next
Starting point is 00:15:30 story. This is from Politico. German conservatives first, far right and AFD second in EU election. Alternative for Germany beats Chancellor Olaf Scholz's social Democrats who had their worst result in a national election in the party's history. There's a crazy thing in the story that there was one guy. Let me see if I can find this. He was convicted for saying everything for Germany. I guess it's not in here. I think it's in the New York Post story. But it's a crime in Germany to say everything for Germany. It's pretty wild. When you try to take over Europe, laws reflect that kind of ambition after you lose. So this is very similar to the French story.
Starting point is 00:16:12 AFD, which is considered the right-wing populist party, isn't doing as well as Marine Le Pen, but they say, The conservative alliance of the Christian Democratic Union and the Christian Social Union finished first in Sunday's European election, winning 30.2% of the vote, according to a projection from German public television. While the conservative victory was expected, the real race in Germany was for runner-up. The far-right Alternative for Germany party was projected to finish second with 16%, a gain of five points, compared to the 2019 EU election. If the result holds, it will be seen as a big success for a party that has been beset by scandals in recent months. The party's top two candidates for EU election were implicated in a series of sensational allegations of misconduct involving
Starting point is 00:16:53 suspected espionage, potential Russian influence. Yeah, I don't believe any of it, to be honest. Most recently, the party's lead candidate, Maximilian Krah, was forced to stop campaigning after he defended members of Hitler's Waffen-SS as not automatically criminals. Oh, heavens. One of the party's national leaders, Tino Truppala, called it a historic result. Across Europe, far right, nationalists and populist parties are projected to make sizable gains. Nigel Farage is running, too. So it just looks like I think when you have unfettered immigration, illegal immigration, and you've got these insane videos of I mean, I hate to say it, but there's crime. People are terrified of the crime. And sooner or later, there is a majority that will vote the majority.
Starting point is 00:17:40 I've been saying this to progressives. I remember I having a conversation like 10 years ago with some progressives and i'm just telling them like you do realize unfettered immigration mass influx of non-citizens results in a majority backlash conflict and chaos right if you have immigration slow measured allowing people to assimilate everything goes smooth you bring in five million people in four years and then you will get a massive whiplash. There you go, Donald Trump, he's coming. And it's all because a lot of governments, the people in governments, are essentially ashamed of their own countries and ashamed of their own, the fact that they have a successful Western country,
Starting point is 00:18:24 and that the rest of the world doesn't have the same kind of success. There's different countries with different government types and different cultures, and you're going to end up with different results. That's why you have – that's why different countries are good. And, like, the idea that we should get rid of that, should just homogenize the whole world and have one country with one, you know, the global government and one law for the whole world. It's absurd. It's ridiculous. It will only ever be tyranny. Yeah, of course. Because has to be what we're seeing in numerous countries have tried multiculturalism is that two groups that don't like each other will end up fighting. So a tyrannical force then comes in and tells both of them to sit down and shut up and takes from them. You have a country of a shared culture, free speech. You mostly get along.
Starting point is 00:19:10 You have multiculturalism. You're going to have some people being like, that's blasphemy. You've got kids who are being charged with felonies for riding scooters on pride flags in Washington. I got ideas about that. You see this with like Minnesota has laws on the books about female genital mutilation, right? Like that wasn't just something that was born of the Scandinavian population that settled there. I mean, the other part is that there is nationalism or populist parties on the rise in like Italy, in the Netherlands, in Greece, like it's happening, Greece, not as much, but like Netherlands, Finland, it's happening all over the place again, because ultimately I think it's this waking up of being like instead of being told for generations, we need to be welcoming, you need to be tolerant. Those are good values. On the other hand, people are turning around saying, like, I think I need to put my family and my citizens and my neighbors first and realize that the thing that we have built for generations is special and worth protecting. If a government makes promises and then they don't actually result in the result or don't
Starting point is 00:20:08 produce the results they promised, then the population is going to be like, we want a new government. It's the biggest failure of virtue signaling politically, I think, ever. This whole border issue, multiculturalism, you're 100 percent right. That's real good. Until these folks right now, they still have sex. And by the way, I have no idea about this election. I guarantee you the Social Democrat platform is not combating the idea that they need to close their
Starting point is 00:20:29 border. Right. And I think you're seeing that in the States. And I think until those people in the party realize the virtue signal is not going to win elections, that normal people are waking up saying, hey, you know, you're right. Five million people over a year, we might have an issue here. There's too many things that have to happen. We have to develop this out. We have to do it timely. And it's crazy because the left still has that narrative and it still works for a lot of the base. Not to turn them out, but I mean, they control that narrative and they're not open to the idea of saying, listen, there's this rise in populism. And when I say populism, I mean, being proud of your own country, right? Being able to say, yeah, America first, not because you hate other people, but because
Starting point is 00:21:08 you want to have a great place to live. You want to have a great country. But I think until that bow breaks, and it's happening now, I think across the country, across the world, there's still that sect and they're going to eventually realize you cannot win the election when you're pushing this idea that we have to have open borders all the time i i wonder do leftists not have like a sense of nostalgia like honest question they're afraid of being called a bigot they're afraid there's so much like the past is bad yeah any anything anything because the uh leftists are thinking that i mean you look at the french revolution they they restarted their calendar you look at that china they restarted their calendar there's a when there is a new, when there is a socialist kind of government that left this idea,
Starting point is 00:21:50 they always want to start over with a day one. And that's happened on a ton of stuff because they look at the past and they see any of the failures. And they're like, this is all because of capitalism or whatever the organization was, monarchy or whatever. All of the bad things. We have to wash all of that away, wipe it all away, and we have to start fresh day one. New man. And that's what it really goes to. It's restarting everything.
Starting point is 00:22:13 They want to restart man. I think to the past, and I remember all the good stuff. I don't really think that much about the bad stuff. I mean, like, we want to get rid of it. We want to remember the good stuff, and we want to make more good stuff. Good thing is a good thing. I wonder if like you, because you're mentioning that the things that we have built over generations are good things. I remember waking up on Christmas Eve. It's the it's it's sunrise. Candles are, you know, they're out. But the Christmas lights are on
Starting point is 00:22:43 and we're running to get the presents. And then I remember going to the breakfast place, and they got the buffet with all the French toast sticks. That was fun and good. I want to share those fun and good things with other people. They want to destroy those fun and good things. And for what, though? They're not replacing it with anything. They just want chaos and instability. And America, I find this particularly interesting because I think Americans take for granted the regional culture that we have.
Starting point is 00:23:07 And part of that is historic immigration. Part of that is just the fact that different people started doing different things. Like one of my favorite stories that I could be telling wrong. Somebody's happy to fact check me on this one. But I had heard that the origins of Father's Day, which is, I think, coming up this Sunday, was actually from West Virginia. That there had been a town, a mining town where there had been a very significant collapse. And so lots of, you know, fathers, grandfathers died, and a church started it as a way to sort of like help kids whose fathers were gone.
Starting point is 00:23:35 And I think that's really interesting. Right now, Father's Day is something we're all used to, people might argue it's corporate, whatever else, or maybe we're not supposed to talk about fathers because that's a gendered term. I don't even know what it is. But these are customs that we developed because we had values that we wanted to reflect and pass down to our children. And I think that is something that if you look at everything in the past as if it were a threat to you now, you're never able to move forward and see what you're taking with you to build a better future. So this is funny because Wikipedia says Father's Day was founded in Spokane, Washington in 1910. Sonora Smart Dodd, who was born in Arkansas, it celebrated blah, blah, blah.
Starting point is 00:24:17 But then down here it says a Father's Day service was held in 1908 in Fairmont, West Virginia after a mining disaster killed 361 men. 250 of them were fathers. So would that not... Leaving around 1,000 fatherless children. Isn't that crazy? They had a lot of kids. They had a lot of kids.
Starting point is 00:24:35 Four kids. All right. They say it did not have repercussions outside of Fairmont for several reasons. Among them, the city was overwhelmed by other events. The celebration of Independence Day, July 4th, with 12,000 attendees. Some virginia local is giving me propaganda they're claiming father's
Starting point is 00:24:48 day i like it i'll say it's a west virginia thing yeah but i just mean like ultimately we we want to take things and make them good to continue to have a structure and a culture and i think that when we don't allow other nations to do like when Americans say like, well, why would the EU not welcome all kinds of, you know, immigrants? They're so bigoted and backwards. We're taking for granted that they have their own unique cultures. Like, do you remember the Slovakian prime minister, Robert Fiku, who had this attempted assassination? This was a couple of months ago. He's considered a left-leaning populist and at one point he had gotten in trouble because he had said to the eu well we only want to welcome christian migrants because we are a christian nation and they were like bigot bad person but it's interesting because if that's part of the
Starting point is 00:25:34 fabric of your of your culture like why wouldn't you prioritize you know there's there's another phenomenon too that people are are not well people have people probably aren't thinking of. And that's the fact that like a lot of the cultures that are going, or other people that are going into Europe have a very different culture. And the Europeans,
Starting point is 00:25:55 they don't have the backbone to stand up to them. Right? So like, well, the people do, but the governments don't. So this effort by the people to change their government is literally an effort for them to protect them.
Starting point is 00:26:09 Because if the government doesn't, if you don't have a government that can stand up to the whims of new populations, so if you get a lot of Muslims that want Sharia or want stuff like that, those things are abhorrent to Western civilizations, Western laws. You can't have sharia law in a western country if you don't have a liberal government that's got the the backbone to stand up and say no we're not going to have those kind of we're all like tim said we're already having that stuff kind of here with the whole lgbt stuff you'll see the same thing in europe with a lot of a lot of islam and stuff because the islam people, they won't tolerate the stuff that the liberals will. So the liberals have to at least have as much backbone as the people that are coming in.
Starting point is 00:26:52 And if they don't, the people that are coming in are going to take over. They're going to change it. And it's a really simple analogy. If I got a house and I invite you over and on every Friday night we order pizza and wings and then you say I don't want pizza and wings I'll say then you can leave because Friday is pizza and wing night we've been doing it forever me and the homies we get together we order pizza and wings and we play xbox split screen from back in 2006 on our old garbage backlit tv and if you don't like it you can leave and I can't imagine like you do this thing
Starting point is 00:27:25 because it's fun to do. It's fun with your friends. You enjoy doing it. And then what? You invite some people over and they're like, no, we're only going to we're here now. And so now you have to do what we want to do. It's like, no, you get out. This idea that liberals have where it's like anyone can come here and anyone can do whatever they want. And then we're going to change the fabric of society for them, too. Instead of putting Merry Christmas up everywhere, we're going to change the fabric of society for them too. Instead of putting Merry Christmas up everywhere, we're going to put Happy Holidays. And I'm like, why? I got no beef. They can celebrate Hanukkah, Kwanzaa,
Starting point is 00:27:51 whatever they want to do. That's absolutely fine. But if we traditionally in this town celebrate Christmas, why should we change that? They can come and celebrate with us and they can do what they want to do. Like they can have their celebration when they want to have their celebration
Starting point is 00:28:04 and we'll do ours. I think this is what's happening in Europe is that people remember growing up as kids. They remember the things that they liked and they want to transfer down to the kids that they're having if they're having kids. And there are people who come in who don't share those things. And then their local towns say, well, look, 30 percent of the population here, they want to celebrate, you know, this different holiday. So they voted and we have to accommodate them. So we will. And that takes away from the traditions that people know, love and enjoy for no reason. Cultural traditions like celebrating a holiday, bring people together with shared experiences, helps strengthen a community,
Starting point is 00:28:38 which you need to survive. That's what humans are. Why change all of that for someone else who's coming here? It's look, the who are coming to the United States, they're guests. Asylum seekers, they call them. Okay, well, the ones that actually are, I say this. I got a spare bedroom. I'm going to let you stay in it. And Friday is pizza and wings. That's it.
Starting point is 00:28:58 You have no say in the matter. I'll share my pizza with you. Right. Instead, they're coming in and being like, I want tabbouleh. And I'm like, dude, come on, man. I got no beef with tabbouleh. You know, it's good when it's good. But we do pizza and you. Right. Instead, they're coming in and being like, I want to bully. And I'm like, dude, come on, man. I got no beef with to bully. You know, it's good when it's good. But we do pizza and wings on Friday.
Starting point is 00:29:08 I think one of the challenges if you're asking people, you know, I'm I'm pretty anti-immigration. I think that's pretty clear to everyone. But if you're asking people, so you have whatever amount of net migration, you're saying, please come to our country, respect our laws, and we'll try our best to help you acclimate to our culture. If we're saying, but actually, we don't care about our culture and we'll try our best to help you acclimate to our culture. If we're saying, but actually we don't care about our culture and we're kind of getting rid of it and we'll really do whatever you're wanting. Like you're actually not giving anyone who immigrates the tools to
Starting point is 00:29:32 become a part of your society. And I think that is, you know, it's this weird challenge between being like, well, we thought we were so welcoming that we just do away with everything that made us a country, which made them want to come here in the first place. And so now we don't know what we're doing. And we're all kind of fighting for a power structure. Like, it's not good. Yeah. And I think what Phil said, you know, there has to be somebody willing to push back, right? Whether it's government, whether it's the community, whatever it is, your government has to have the backbone to defend you. And when you say like, happy holidays, a great example, it's like, somebody has to make a choice, right? At some point, it's like, all right, we're putting up the sign in the town square, you know.
Starting point is 00:30:06 And the argument from the wokesters is always like, oh, well, come on. Like, we want to be – it's like, no, somebody has to sit there and they have to feel enough pressure, whether it's from, you know, some government edict or not. Look at the Pride Month stuff. When they put up, you know, they don't do that in some of these countries. Oh, yeah. See the corporations? It's like, why? Because when somebody makes a choice and the motive's there and there aren't enough people or governments or whatever pushing back, they're never going to stop.
Starting point is 00:30:31 But it's that choice. The worst thing about it is that if we were like, it's Taco Tuesday, and it's like, this is what we do at work on Tuesday. We just order a bunch of tacos and stuff. And, you know, because we like it. We like it. And a lot of people need to understand this, that like tacos, burritos, as it's tex-mex it's not mexican food yeah so so now that you understand that it is american to a certain degree but anyway my point is i'm kidding uh my
Starting point is 00:30:52 point is happy holidays it's like saying it's food day happy holidays it's like you're not celebrating anything at all there's no celebration it's just like you're doing a thing so imagine you had taco tuesday but some people came over your house and you're like's just like, you're doing a thing. So imagine you had taco Tuesday, but some people came over to your house and you're like, no, from now on, we're doing food Tuesday. It's like food.
Starting point is 00:31:10 It's like, well, we eat food all the time. We celebrate things for various reasons, but today's Christmas. They take the fun out of everything. They take the detail. Everything has to be vague to try to fit into a box.
Starting point is 00:31:20 Because why? Because that box doesn't offend anybody. No, they want to get rid of Christmas because of the culture. Right. A hundred percent. They're anti-S anybody. No, they want to get rid of Christmas because of the culture. Right. They're anti-Santa. Well, because Christmas offends non-Christians, right?
Starting point is 00:31:31 It's always about how do we not offend? No, it's not the offense. It's the fact that Christmas brings people together. Well, hold on. Christmas doesn't offend non-Christians. It offends communists. I know a lot of I know people who are Muslim, they're just like, that's great, that's awesome that you celebrate, I don't celebrate that. And then I
Starting point is 00:31:51 know people who are Jewish, oh, that's, you know, I'm Buddhist, I know a Hare Krishna guy, they're not mad about it. It is communists who are very, very upset about it. And partly because it brings people together, it forms communal bonds, and it is a tie to the roots of your moral foundation that they need to destroy absolutely and so those communists though i would agree with that but that's what i'm saying the communists then go and pressure the corporations right you're offending people you know you can't say happy you have to happy holidays that's what you have to say right it's all these pressure points but yeah it does go back to that it's a great point the more the more the left can destabilize your your, the more they're going to because that's their access to power. When they can destabilize the society, then you have rifts in society and you have people that have tensions and stuff.
Starting point is 00:32:34 They can find those tensions and they can pick at them and pick at them. It's the dialectic. You know, it's the whole like look for the problem and pick at the problem because essentially the the idea in the ideologically informed leftist i understand your perspective and some people don't don't consider the leftist to be all that philosophical or whatever there is a core of it that comes from philosophy and it is that they believe the perfected society exists and all of these bad things have wrapped up around it and the more they pick the bad things away the more that you'll be able to expose the good thing inside.
Starting point is 00:33:10 It's literally the dialectic. You present the synthesis or you present the opposite and it comes to a deeper understanding. And that's what they're doing. They're trying to pull the parts of society apart to be able to say we can get to the good in the center. The creamy nougat, the core of the society of chocolate. It's exactly the truth. Let's jump to this story from the Post Millennial.
Starting point is 00:33:32 Breaking Joe Biden approval rating hits all time low of 37.4%. It's a sad day indeed for Joe. Old sleepy Joe, that video resurfaced where he did the cornholio hands. Do you guys see that one? I did. Great. Cornholio hands. Okay. For those that don't know, it's a reference to Beavis and Butthead, where Beavis, upon having a consuming psychoactive stimulants of some sort, because it wasn't just coffee, one time he ate pills, would pull his shirt over his head and then put his hands out like this and start walking around with his hands up. So this is an actual phenomenon that happens to people with dementia.
Starting point is 00:34:05 They begin to experience what's called called cornholio hands, where their arms are at a 90 degree angle and they walk around going like this. Biden is doing this. And this was two years ago. Then you watch that interview with him when he's talking about Ukraine. And he's like, Ukrainians.
Starting point is 00:34:22 I've authorized them. To use these missiles only. And it's just like, wow, this guy is gone. They got to be pumping him full of the crazy. That meme is true. That this debate, when he debates Trump, we are going to see the Manhattan Project of psychoactive stimulants. And his eyes are going to be wide open, his pupils fully dilated, and he be like it's gonna be nuts adderall joe oh no no no no no they're gonna adderall uh adderall's already like four different meth salts they're gonna come then you got modafinil you know what that is no
Starting point is 00:34:57 modafinil or is it that's the that's the actual drug name right because because the brand name i think is provigil you don't need to sleep. They give to, like, astronauts and snipers. Yeah. You take it, you don't sleep. You don't need to sleep? It takes away the... You need to sleep, but you take it, and then you're awake. And, you know, they got all sorts of
Starting point is 00:35:17 crazy stuff. They're cooking up in those labs that they're going to IV right into. He's going to have his hand hidden the whole time, and there's going to be, like, a tube going to, like... That's the only way they're going to pull it off. But anyway, this is I think 538 was mentioning this. Yeah. Five thirty eight average has Biden an all time low of thirty seven point four. That's crazy because 538 heavily favors Democrats. They say, according to 538 senior editor Nathaniel Rakich, his approval rating is at an all-time low. The lowest record approval rating for the president comes amid the ongoing crisis on immigration.
Starting point is 00:35:50 Surprise, surprise. In a recent poll, 62% of Americans have said they would approve of mass deportation efforts in the U.S., including a majority of Hispanic voters. The border continues to dog Biden. Yada, yada, we get it. It's a top issue among voters. This is despite him taking executive action on the border, which reportedly will not stop at least 1.5 million illegal immigrants. Well, let me give you some,
Starting point is 00:36:11 let me enlighten you on that one. It'll stop zero because they've created exceptions for all of them. And apparently the instructions from CBP is to do nothing. So even though Biden claims that he came out and did this, the actual legitimate response is keep doing exactly what you're doing. I think the left has an information problem because they're used to being able to solve these so-called problems where they're polling horribly by just relying on the mainstream media,
Starting point is 00:36:38 right? And so now that these things get out with alternative media and people are videoing these people crossing the border, right? It's like, what are they going to do? They put this press release out and they think, oh, it's, you know, there's a problem at the border, but Biden's handling now he's put something out. People aren't stupid. And I just think that they're pushing back. And what I love is his numbers with black Americans, Hispanic Americans, you know, across where even suburban women are moving away from Biden. It's because it impacts everybody that's here. Like you said, the people that aren't guests, the folks that are here, this hits everybody. And I just think with the disbursement of information
Starting point is 00:37:11 that we have now, there's just no way to hide from it. There's no way to hide from it. And you're creating an incentive now when they say, oh, the first so-and-such. So everybody's rushing to the border like, oh, we got to get here. Like that is not going to help. Do you get the sense that people,
Starting point is 00:37:24 do you get the sense that there is a lot of a lot of are there? Do you get the sense that there are still a realistic or reasonable amount of movable votes, people that will actually change? I do. I don't think it's what people think in terms of swing voters. I think what has happened is I think there are a lot of people that reluctantly voted for Biden. There's people that reluctantly voted for Trump. I mean, you know, we don't think of it that way, but I think in some of these blue collar areas, I mean, a state like West Virginia, right? Philly suburbs, Western PA, a lot of these old school Democrats that, you know, Obama almost broke them, but they still, you know, Hey, I'm in a working class Democrat family. I
Starting point is 00:38:04 grew up Democrat. We're Democrats. Then Trump came along and they were thinking about it. Right. And I just think now you talk about his his mental acuity. I don't think in the last six months it has been the same deterioration. I think it is. It is just off the charts. And I really think that this first debate is going to be the final straw. His approval rating is going to go to one. Could you imagine if he walks out there with the Cornholio hands
Starting point is 00:38:31 and his eyes squinted, and then all of a sudden his back just straightens out, his hands come down, his eyes open wide, and he says, I'm here to debate Donald Trump and save this country from this man that's just pure, articulate genius? That would be, what are the odds on that? For a dollar bet, you win a million bucks? Something like that. A trillion.
Starting point is 00:38:49 I think this is becoming the thing that mainstream media is trying to point out. I watched this clip on Morning Joe where they have Biden being interviewed in Normandy, and he's like, you know, he's got this weird whisper now. He's like, you know, we can never, we have to stay and support our allies. They want to act like he's acting very serious, but actually he's just sort of like losing his voice and mind. But the next segment, they were like, well, Trump at this rally told this story about a shark attacks and it made no sense. And he's clearly losing his mind and this, that and the other, like because Biden is actually not doing well. And it's not even to be mean, like he does not seem to be performing
Starting point is 00:39:27 at the level that he was during the 2020 campaign. He does not seem to be performing at the level that he was, you know, even two years ago. They are now trying to shift the narrative to be like, well, Trump is the one who's losing his mind. And I don't know how you feel about this. I wonder if during the debate, the strategy from Biden's team is going to be just try and make Trump mad and have him talk about his record.
Starting point is 00:39:49 Because I think the most powerful thing Trump could do is to push Biden on where we are as a country under his leadership. I think my advice to him is to be the Trump of 2016 in the debates, not the Trump of 2020. Shut up. Let Biden talk. Yeah. I mean, he doesn't say anything. My favorite Biden quote is, what do you talk about when you got nothing to say? He said that when he was like running for president in 08.
Starting point is 00:40:08 And now it's like every time you watch Joe Biden, he's not saying anything. Like even as he's stumbling, I don't mean like, you know, he's having gaffes. If you listen to what he's saying, he's like not even putting coherent thoughts together. Trump could be like, I agree with you, but it would be funny for Trump to be like, you know, I got a question for Joe. What is Bat Kef care? Bada Kef, that's what he said he was going to work on, and I'm curious what he's doing with it. And then they're going to be like, what? And he'll be like,
Starting point is 00:40:31 don't ask me. I don't know. Biden said it. And also, I'm curious about treating that shop under pressure. That was a big one. Nexnel-Ressent, also a very big one. We thought Kefefe was bad, but now we've got him verbally. Kefefe was funny, because that was clearly just sausage fingers on the iPhone. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:40:46 Taking a crap and he's like, what am I doing here? You know, it's funny as there's this tweet from this woman and she's like, even though they've now confirmed the Hunter Biden laptop is real and that it's actually his laptop, serial number and everything. We still don't know chain of custody. So it has all the hallmarks of a Russian disinformation campaign. What? And I was thinking about it, and I'm like, there is more evidence that Joe Biden pooped his pants than the Hunter Biden laptop is part of a Russian disinformation scheme. Like, we have a video of Joe Biden making an awkward movement, which doesn't prove he pooped his pants. It is evidence. There's literally nothing about the Hunter Biden laptop being Russian disinformation.
Starting point is 00:41:23 It's literally just his laptop with all of his stuff on it. That was admitted into evidence during his trial. Do you think that the stress that Hunter Biden's trial is adding to Joe Biden is increasing his mental decline? Because I've heard that with dementia patients, that when they're experiencing stress, when they're out of it. I think he's completely aloof. I don't think he's really aloof in anything that's going on. They say he talks to Hunter every day. Yes. That's what I'm wondering. I think he's completely aloof. I don't think he's really looped into anything. Well, no, no, no, no, no. Under every day.
Starting point is 00:41:46 Yes. I'm wondering. But while you are correct, Anna Claire, there is a certain point where when you lose cognitive function, it's Joe Biden sitting there in his chair and they're like, Joe, the jury has begun deliberations. And all Joe hears is and he's just like, so you can't really stress a guy out if he can't hear or understand what you're saying, you know? Interesting. Let me make my – go ahead.
Starting point is 00:42:10 I'm sorry. A good example is if you ran to someone and screamed that there was like a sulfur hexafluoride burst from a main and we fear that the contamination is expanding, the average person is going to be like, do I run, climb? I don't know what to do. Like, am I stressed? You're sounding stressed. I think I got to X-stress. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:42:37 You go to Joe Biden, his cognition is so low. It's just you can't stress him out unless he gets ice cream out of his hand. That's what would happen. If he's got an ice cream in his hand, you take it from him, and then you're really driving him into the gutter. Yeah, my prediction, I'll make it here on your show, I think he craps his pants at the debate, and they use that, maybe not literally,
Starting point is 00:42:55 but I think they use this debate as the reason to get him off the ticket. Now, he's going to have tons of legal problems, you know, who is the Democrat, how do they get ballot access, etc. But I'm telling you right now, guess what? Guess who does well in the courts? Democrats, right? I think they will push this.
Starting point is 00:43:08 And I just, I don't think he's going to be, I hope he's the guy for the record. I hope he's on the ballot. You're supportive of Joe Biden being the Democrat nominee. I do not think he will be. So I was talking about this last year, the scenario where Joe Biden is doing a rally in California and he's like, oh, we're going to bring America back. And then he just grips his oh, we're going to bring America back. And then he just grips his chest, keels over. Gavin Newsom throws off his jacket, rolls his sleeves up,
Starting point is 00:43:31 starts doing chest compressions, saves the president's life. He was having an episode, they call it. It wasn't a heart attack. It was a cardiac episode. And Joe Biden then incapacitated says, you know, Gavin Newsom, you know, what a good guy. He goes on this press tour where they're like, you saved the president's life. And that's how they get in Gavin Newsom, right? Kamala Harris comes in as acting president, but says she does not want to run again. She's not seeking, you know, I cannot campaign because I'm here to help this country as acting president, as my duty, and I will hand the torch over to someone else. What if at the debate, the same thing happens with Joe, but it's Donald Trump who throws his
Starting point is 00:44:09 jacket off, saves Joe Biden's life, and they're like, Donald Trump just saved the president. Well, it reminds me of this argument that everyone is saying he should pardon Hunter. If Hunter Biden's convicted, Donald Trump should pardon him. Yes. It'd be really fascinating. Just as I have said in the beginning, I think Biden's convicted, Donald Trump should pardon him. Yes. It'd be really fascinating. Just as I have said in the beginning, I think Biden's best political move would have been to pardon Trump on the things he could. And when people say, oh, well, the state
Starting point is 00:44:32 issues, like, all right, we'll talk to the governors in those states that are part of your, I just think it's such an easy political move. I mean, what are they going to do? They put Trump in prison for a couple months? I mean, is that the best thing they're going to get out of it? Why wouldn't you take the political points as Biden and just pardon the guy? I mean, I think the best thing they're going to get out of it? Why wouldn't you take the political points as Biden and just pardon the guy? I mean, I think he gets two or three points from doing that.
Starting point is 00:44:48 I think those people I'm talking about would be like, man, it's way too late now. But I just think it was one of the biggest missed opportunities. You think he nets two or three points? They'd say he's very magnanimous. They would say he's magnanimous. Do you think he nets two or three points? I think Biden gets back some people. I think it's a political whim for him if he was going to do this.
Starting point is 00:45:05 Now he's eight months too late. My dude. Have you looked at what the left behaves like nowadays? If he pardoned Trump, if Biden pardoned Trump, I think that would probably be the thing that would get him ousted the most quickly. But the Democrats would be like, you did what? I do. Like, see ya. I felt like
Starting point is 00:45:25 when he campaigned in 2020 he was sort of signaling that he was going to be a one-term president that he was sort of the last of the old guard of democrats and he was ready to usher in this new era of democrat leadership like i felt like he signaled that way uh and so i think if he really honestly had only been planning to serve four years. He could have pardoned him. And then, you know, Democrats collectively would have won points. But it would go against the narrative that everything Donald Trump does is so bad. We must take desperate steps to stop him before he, you know, I don't know, ends the world or whatever they think Donald Trump is going to do. It would be it would have been interesting. But I think he only would have done it if
Starting point is 00:46:05 he wasn't running for reelection. You think that he would have, I think he only would have pardoned Trump if he wanted to be a one-term president. Oh, I don't think that, I think that's a, that's a, I mean, I think it's a silly notion. I think that I honestly think the Democrats are far too aggressive and far too, too believing of like they're drinking their own Kool-Aid. Like they believe Donald Trump is a threat. So, yeah, a lot of people are suggesting jail time is is the goal.
Starting point is 00:46:31 There's a bunch of pundits that are popping up in news articles saying for the crimes that Donald Trump is convicted, you have to have jail time. We're talking about 34 felony convictions. There's no scenario where you give someone anything else. And the reporting is that prosecutors are going to seek jail time. And also, back to the Biden pardoning thing. Biden, I'm sorry, I lost what I was going to say. Go ahead, I'm sorry.
Starting point is 00:46:59 Biden pardoning? Yeah, Biden was talking about Biden pardoning. Boosting his polls. I think it's a really interesting concept. I'm glad you brought it up because the question is, what was the function of Biden's presidency? Right. If it was for the Democrats to sort of regain the White House and then potentially, you know, stop electing old white men and have a new, more colorful leadership or whatever, like then he could have done a lot of things differently if he was only planning on being a one term president. But I really think that Biden or Biden and the structure that is propping him up is power hungry and they wanted to stay in the White House.
Starting point is 00:47:34 And I think that changes the way you behave. You're not not acting for party anymore. You're acting for self. And I think the Democrats care about keeping power, period. Now, if that means Biden gets one term and they realize we can't keep power with this guy, we're going to move to somebody else. Or if they think he's our best shot, they move in that direction. But these folks are serious. I mean, they said they were never going to impeach him. They impeached him. They said they're never going to charge him with a crime. They charged him with a crime. They said they never convicted him. They convicted him.
Starting point is 00:47:57 They said, oh, there's no way they're going to put him in prison. They're about to put him in prison. And I think each of those points, polling might tell me I'm wrong, i i think each of those points polling might tell me i'm wrong but i think each of those have backfired on the democrats and have helped him at each way along now their base gets riled up don't get me wrong but i think i mean look at how much money trump's raised right i i just think it's 400 over like a week 400 million dollars is that but but that includes big donors making pack like uh all in. Yeah, yeah. Bundled money. There was a ton of money to collect there. I think it was.
Starting point is 00:48:28 I think Trump said it was 400. Right. I could be wrong. I'm not sure. But even still, like, at that kind of money that fast. I mean, Hillary Clinton spent a billion to lose. Barack Obama spent a billion. I don't know what Joe Biden spent, but the Joe Biden campaign in 2020 was weird.
Starting point is 00:48:44 But I don't think Trump has spent close like Trump. He spent his own money on this stuff or I don't know his finances. And he says a lot of stuff. So I'm not going to go ahead and make comments about what actually happened. But I know that he didn't spend nearly as much money as Clinton or Obama did. And a lot of that reason is because of the way that because the amount of coverage that he got from the news. But having 400 million dollars, you know, tucked away to to run ads and use packs. That's he already had 400 million in cash.
Starting point is 00:49:12 Oh, it's an additional. He raised this. Yes. So so there was 141 million in direct donations, 25 percent new donors, 100 million from Miriam Adelson commitment to helping Trump get elected. And then I think. have you found that yet? So in February 2024, he was saying he had 400 million dollars in cash. In May alone, they raised 141 million. But that doesn't include Miriam Adelson. And Trump, I think, made the claim at one of his rallies that they had hit some number close to that or something. But if we don't have that, we'll just say maybe I'm wrong on that one.
Starting point is 00:49:47 But I'm wondering if the Miriam Adelson came in during June or May because they raised the Miriam Adelson came right after the conviction. Conviction. Yeah. So people were saying Trump raised 200 million because he had 100 million in donors, like literal people going to the website donating. And then you had Miriam Adelson being like, I will commit 100 million. But she wants the West Bank annexed, by the way.
Starting point is 00:50:05 But if you look at trends, I mean, I have to tell you, like, the 25% number of new donors, that is, like, mind-boggling. People making their first-time contribution. The guy's been the president. He then lost in 2020. Like, it's not like he's new. Do you know how many new donors Joe Biden is getting? People that are, like, inspired and that are stepping up and saying, hey, you know, I'm going to come in and help this guy. So I look at it as an opportunity.
Starting point is 00:50:26 Then those people may have came here for 10 bucks, but guess what? Now they're, I want to give, right? They're going to keep getting asked. And so I think that to me was the craziest. Yeah, the big dollars are great. But when you start locking in new people, I had plenty of people that are not really political texting me. They're like, this is BS.
Starting point is 00:50:42 You know, I can't believe they're doing this to him. And they're not political people, but I just think they've had enough. June 6th. So this was reported on June 6th. Let me see if I can get a better date. Washington Digest was reporting the $400 million. Trump announced at his campaign, at a turning point action event in Phoenix, Arizona, that they had raised $400 million since the New York City guilty verdict. So that likely includes the Adelson numbers. Let's jump to this story from ABC 3340. That's a big number. Fetterman says stroke gave him freedom to distance himself from progressives.
Starting point is 00:51:17 Very liberating. This was a meme. This was a meme that Fetterman was this progressive guy, suffered a stroke, and then it snapped him out of it. And then he became sort of just like this normal Democrat. And now he's saying it's true. This is absolutely wild. I mean, hey, shout out to Fetterman. So Fetterman explained to Bill Maher on a show real time what prompted him to separate himself from progressives. Fetterman has repeatedly distanced himself from fellow Democrats in recent months during the show.
Starting point is 00:51:52 Maher asked him why he tends to diverge. He said, I think there's a big difference between an old school liberal and a woke person. You say progressive Democrat. How do you describe this? Maher asked. I've been saying that for years. Fetterman agreed. I didn't leave the label. It left me. Oh, he's pulling the left left me. He credited his recovery from his stroke for giving him freedom to speak his mind. And in the near death experience taught him he no longer wants to be afraid of it. If there's any kind of blowback, quote, there's not going to be any kind of way how the Democrats are going to be the right side with Israel throughout all of that. And a new Democrats would continue to peel away and kind of walk away from standing with Israel on that. Maher then asked how some liberals came to support Hamas when they'd historically been strong supporters of Israel. And Fetterman acknowledged many Democrats have begun to overlook what Maher calls a
Starting point is 00:52:38 gender a gender apartheid in the Middle East. There are no rights for women and they certainly don't embrace the LGBTQ lifestyle, Fetterman said of many Middle Eastern countries. Queers for Palestine blocked the pride parade in Philadelphia, and I just never saw that on the bingo card. You know, we all did. We all, we saw this coming because I think it was in, I don't know, the UK counties or whatever. It's like Birmingham, maybe in the UK or something. I don't know. But there was this big story six years ago where a bunch of LGBTQ activists showed up to a bunch of Muslims who are protesting LGBTQ curriculum in schools. And you've got women in full, like, niqab, is that the right word?
Starting point is 00:53:18 There's a couple different, burqa, niqab, I'm not sure which one. Niqab is the full covering, right? And there's like women fully covered with gloves on. And there's LGBTQ protesters showing up being like, we're doing this for you. And they're screaming like, no, degeneracy and like other really bad things at these people. It's like it was plainly obvious to everybody that the whole conservative religious institution of islam is not going to abide by the lgbtq stuff fetterman saying i didn't send the bingo card that explains why he was a progressive for as long as he was and then he saw the bingo card and now he's figured it out the only thing the jews and and is like religious muslims like actually religious muslim Muslims have in common
Starting point is 00:54:05 is they're not really all that fond of the West and they hate the Jews. Like the idea that you can have a population in your society that's dictating religious laws in a liberal society. It's like we were talking about earlier. This is not gonna work right you're not gonna have a situation where the population is gonna say okay we're okay with lgbt
Starting point is 00:54:32 stuff or the incoming population that has committed religious goals right or committed religious convictions they really believe their religion and and fair enough but like you're not gonna get them to say oh well we believed our religion before but now that we're inside this geographic area we're going to go ahead and loosen up that stuff because we're here they're not going to they're going to ask for the the area that they're in to change because they've already started changing it um there's talk about uh sharia uh patrols and stuff like that. You hear about that in the UK. I've heard that that's happening in New York right now.
Starting point is 00:55:09 I've heard that, too. What I actually was thinking when you're talking was there are cities that have been asked for permission to play the call to prayer because they have such a significant Muslim population at this point, which is interesting, right? Like maybe it's up to the city to decide whether or not they want to do that. But again, if theoretically the city was a Christian nation, that's not something that's traditionally there. So the society is changing to accommodate this cultural practice. I think Fetterman's comments are really interesting because what he's saying is like, I am not going to go along with what my party is saying. And especially for, you know, a pretty new member of the government, that's unusual, right?
Starting point is 00:55:50 That usually there's a period where everyone's sort of falling in line and wanting to curry favor with the more senior members. And so in some ways, you know, I feel like I did give Fetterman, I feel almost bad that I gave Fetterman a hard time because for a while there, he was just like really out of it. It did not seem like he was going to be able to stay in office at all. And now he seems to be becoming sort of the most interesting part of Congress. Definitely the most sane Democrat. One thing on this, I call these privilege point debates and I love watching them. Right. It is. It is. That's always my my asterisk there.
Starting point is 00:56:21 But privilege point debates are what I would call these. And as a white male, I sit back and let these groups argue it out with each other. But like, yeah, the Philadelphia parade, I mean, when those two groups are going at it, they're trying to tell and signal to each other, what is the priority, right? What is the priority of our virtue signaling groups and who gets to be the standard bearer? And they go where there's attention. So it's a jealousy thing, right? No, you guys can't have this parade. You know, this is higher on our priority list, the virtue signal.
Starting point is 00:56:48 We must have this as the priority. And I just like to sit back and let them argue because most people were like, wow, this is insane. I mean, you're making me think of all the protests where you see, you know, pro-Palestine people clashing with Pride March people. And you're like, you would have thought you were all the same team,
Starting point is 00:57:03 except I never thought you were the same team, but you guys sort of did, and now you're fighting. Like, interesting. Just against the West, that's it. Mm-hmm. Fetterman's funny, though, in PA, my home state of PA. People always ask, you know, how'd you guys elect John Fetterman? And it's like, the one thing he has going for him, and I can get in trouble for saying
Starting point is 00:57:17 this, is he is, like, a very normal guy, and I don't mean that, like, mentally. I mean, he just interacts. He's a normal guy, and that's kind of his shtick that's why that's why he does the hoodie and the shorts oz comes in from uh new jersey they got snooki to do the video blew up oz whatever oz didn't want to do ballot chasing that's for another day my little plug there but fetterman i think it's funny to see this break between like the whole donor class right and the activist class and he's just like to hell with you guys i'm doing my own thing. This is a mistake that the people on the right made with Fetterman. They started
Starting point is 00:57:50 attacking him for the way he dressed in his campaign. I said, you will lose because of this, because there's going to be some blue collar Democrat guy who wears a hoodie and shorts and is going to be like these stodgy uptight dudes are insulting me. It's the same thing with Trump and the well done steak with ketchup. Donald Trump orders a 30-day dry-aged steak, probably a $120 steak, by the way, and then he says, I want it well done with ketchup. And the media took the bait, and they mocked and belittled him and laughed at him. And I knew that there was some middle-class dude who had just got back from his local Save- on or whatever with a couple of t-bones frying them up on a pan looking at the tv looking down at his food looking at his kids and being
Starting point is 00:58:29 like what are you what are you yelling at me for yep he's like well i mean it's medium well but still you know like it's like small things like that you pair that with oz in the grocery store that he like had this big gap where he talked about was it crudite i don't even know i don't know what that is yeah Yeah, Crudite. That should tell you about my upbringing. Yeah, and it's like all my buddies. He was making Ratatouille, which again. Right.
Starting point is 00:58:52 That's what he said. Yeah, he was making Ratatouille. All my buddies. Art by Disney. All my buddies outside of Philadelphia are like, what the hell is that? And I'm like, I don't know. And they ran with that. But it goes exactly back to it. Yep.
Starting point is 00:59:00 Fetterman connects. He does. Even if you think he's crazy, he connects with people. And listen, you need to understand the depth of human consciousness on average is relatively low. People are just thinking like the average person is just thinking about what they need to get through the day. They're not sitting there having some deep moral philosophical conversations over tax policy and the percentage increase in the interest rates,
Starting point is 00:59:25 all they're doing is saying, look, man, I come home from work. My kid says, dad, I'm hungry. I say, we're going to go grab some food. I am tired. I am filthy. And the cheeseburger costs five dollars. OK, I vote for people so they can figure that thing out while I'm building houses, while I'm fixing toilets. Society runs because of these people and they don't want to have those big debates. So Fetterman shows up and says, I got cheeseburgers. And then you get Oz and he's like, crudite in my fine suit.
Starting point is 00:59:53 And $5 for a cheeseburger for your four-year-old, you're going to spend, you know, the kid's going to eat half of it maybe. But still it's an exorbitant amount of money and the average person is struggling. So if you seem like you're above that struggling so if you seem like you're above that like if you seem like you're you don't understand can't relate you're done what's what's the the bill gates thing wasn't he in an interview and someone was like well how much does
Starting point is 01:00:15 milk cost he was like i don't know it's no idea no they asked hillary that they asked hillary that like during the 16th like what's what's a carton of eggs cost? She had no clue. I have no idea. There you go. Because I have chickens. Here's our elitist here. Because I have chickens. So I just, we have like 140 eggs downstairs. I'm so sick of this chicken.
Starting point is 01:00:34 Really? You're my new egg guy. I'm going to have to buy my eggs for you. You have a carton on your way out. Because we got a city full of chickens. So I can't tell you how much they cost because we just have an infinite supply. They make more of themselves
Starting point is 01:00:42 and they make more eggs. And then sometimes the eggs become more of themselves. All you got to do is protect them. That's right. We got to put a little fence around them, and then, you know. The Roosters do a good job, though. I think the, so the first time I ever heard of Fetterman was, I'm going to totally be clear of how much estrogen I have right now.
Starting point is 01:00:59 First time I ever heard of him, he was on a relationship podcast with his wife, and they were talking about how they met, like giving their love story. And this was, I think, it was either in 2019 or 2020 and so they think he really did lead a lot of people do this when they're about to enter you know another level of politics that they sort of soft launch with like a book or they've got a documentary or like whatever uh but it was really interesting because it definitely led with like a i am just a local boy who does these things and I support my wife while she does whatever.
Starting point is 01:01:27 Like it was much more about being relatable or about the relationship as it was in its current state than about, you know, seeming like it was an insight into sort of a glamorous lifestyle that you're not a part of. The guy got elected to the U.S. Senate. He looks like Uncle Fester
Starting point is 01:01:41 and I don't think enough people give him credit because it's like, he pulled it off. He's a genius politically. I mean give him credit because it's like he pulled it off he's a genius politically I mean people like think oh he's this he's only said stroke a genius in the chatter he he attached himself to Wolf who when when he so he's lieutenant governor right so he attached himself to this rich kind of stuck up democrat very like old school liberal and keeps his mantra and that's how he. And that's how he got funding. That's how he got through. And I mean, it was crazy. And then for him to jump in, I mean, nobody thought he could win a U.S. Senate race. And I just I get in trouble. I give him credit because he pulled off a win. OK, can I ask you a question about the vice president's candidates? Because I have heard,
Starting point is 01:02:20 you know, there's a short list of programs theoretically on it, Marco Rubio, J.D. Vance. And one of the things that I have heard is one of J.D. Vance's appeal is that he is from, you know, Appalachia, grew up with this crazy childhood. You know, he is more relatable to a lot of Americans than someone else. Do you think that's an appeal that works for conservatives too? Or do you think it's just about winning, you know, conservatives? Is his effect only appealing to conservatives when they see it from a Democrat? I think J.D. Vance would be an amazing political choice. I happen to agree with him on a lot of ideological positions too. But I do think that, yeah, it's a political calculation, right?
Starting point is 01:02:55 I mean, a lot of people are pushing for Tim Scott or Ben Carson. Doug Burgum is in consideration because he comes with hundreds of millions of dollars. So I think there's different reasons. But, I mean, I think the number one reason you pick somebody like a J.D. Vance is I do think he connects not just with conservatives, but with those folks who care about putting food on the table for their kids. J.D. Vance, I mean, you know, read his book.
Starting point is 01:03:17 Watch the movie. I mean, it does connect. He had a tough life, you know, and I think when you look at those things, I think those stories and focusing more on those issues than like the policy issues of trying to pick somebody that, oh, well, Tim Scott is his policy record. No, what's the story and how do you connect with people? So that's why I think J.D. would be a great choice. It'd be interesting.
Starting point is 01:03:37 Let's jump to some boring foreign policy and then make it not so boring, I guess, because Russia is sending a naval fleet to Cuba and people are concerned about Cuban Missile Crisis 2.0. This is basically part of Russia's threat to the West because of what's currently going on in Ukraine. And I love this because the way the media is reporting it, Russian military exercise in the Caribbean. Here's what to expect. That's interesting. The media could have absolutely pounced and made a story about World War Three, Russia, keep it. They don't want to. Now that it's coming home, now that the funding into Ukraine is coming home to roost, the last thing the corporate press wants is to scare the
Starting point is 01:04:19 American public who has blindly supported this. I'm talking to you, Harry. We all know which Harry I'm talking about. Blindly supporting Joe Biden, who is is sleepwalking us quite literally into World War Three. Russia's not playing around. And so the headlines are very, very light. Just military exercises. Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. Well, and they have to keep up this narrative that Biden is really put Putin in his place and he's very good at can you imagine those conversations with joe biden these foreign leaders look i don't care if you hate donald trump i don't happen he doesn't even pick up you can't imagine that biden picks up the phone i mean if anything just having trump being able to have a conversation you know some people are like he's going to fix all this and he's going
Starting point is 01:05:02 to end at day one but just having the ability to call them and say, listen, let's talk about this. Let's figure out how we get to a solution or listen, here's what's going to happen. Joe Biden doesn't even have the ability to pick up the phone and call them, let alone. So he's strong. What does he talk to? Well, here's the story. Three Russian ships and a nuclear powered submarine are expected to arrive in Cuba this week ahead of military exercise in the Caribbean. While the exercises aren't considered a threat to the U.S., American ships have been deployed to shadow
Starting point is 01:05:27 Russians, U.S. officials told CBS News. The Russian warships are expected to arrive in Havana on Wednesday and stay until next Monday, Cuba's foreign ministry said in a statement. A U.S. official told CBS News national security correspondent David Martin, the U.S. intelligence community has assessed that the submarine in the group is nuclear powered, but it isn't carrying nuclear weapons. We have no indication and no expectation that nuclear weapons will play or play will be at play here in these exercises or embarked on those vessels. I mean, you wouldn't really know, would you? Like they're not going to tell you they're doing it. But I certainly think that when the American people start to see these kinds of things happening more, because it ain't just here. We got this from the Daily Mail. Putin's new threat on the gateway
Starting point is 01:06:10 to the Mediterranean. Russia announces joint Navy drills with Egypt near crucial Suez Canal trade route. Instability is coming. Now, I don't think most Americans care about the Suez. But if these ships in any way cause any kind of problem, a lot of people are going to be asking why Russian warships are off the coast. Now, the inverse may be true. This may be a ploy to actually blame Russia for a major attack on the U.S. as a casus belli for the U.S. to directly intervene in Ukraine? I mean, the U.S. is... Jesus. The idea of the U.S. directly intervening in Ukraine is horrible. And if a Russian ship fires on an American vessel and then the U.S. says,
Starting point is 01:06:53 Russia has declared war on us, we have to stop them now before it's too late. We're deploying troops. We've already got troops in Poland ready to go. We've been saying for two years, where's the off-ramp?
Starting point is 01:07:05 Two years now, where's the off-r Two years now, where's the off ramp? How do we stop the escalations? And there has been zero, zero pullback. It's all been escalation for two years. It's not getting any better. If this doesn't stop, if we don't get the off ramp, if we don't have a legitimate way for the U.S. to stop funding Ukraine and stop having American military weaponry being fired
Starting point is 01:07:27 into Russia, we are going to end up in a conflict with Russia. That's why I think that Joe Biden's comments in Normandy over the weekend were so, they are something you need to take note of. The fact that he was like, well, we never abandoned an ally. You know, in this case, he's talking about two different skirmishes happening on geopolitical fronts. Joe Biden is not prepared to end anything, no matter what any international governing body decides, no matter what the people in America wants. He is signaling that he is going to continue to fund conflict abroad. And I don't think that that is actually a well thought out policy. I'm not worried about some major strike. I'm worried about what you said, which is a slip up,
Starting point is 01:08:04 right? When you start to put yourself in a position where if something happens or some mistake, and I'm not even saying that it would be intentional, but we could easily spin it that way. And I just think, you know, this is a nuclear world we live in. And when you put yourself in a dangerous position or when you allow things to happen because there's no plan, there is no off ramp. There never was. I mean, even from the right, these people that are supporting this money to Ukraine, it's like even they can't tell you what the solution is going to be or how we get there. Even if Trump gets in, right, they're not
Starting point is 01:08:33 really putting that out there. And I just think we're putting ourselves in a position where bad things can happen. They can happen quickly. And what are we going to do if all of a sudden something happens and we're like, oh, Russia's to blame. That's the narrative. Now we're in nuclear war. It's horrible. Yeah. I don't think we go to nuclear war right away. But this could be exactly what the deep state, the military machine is looking for.
Starting point is 01:08:57 Russian ships come our way. We say, no, everything's fine. And then, I don't know, Gulf of Tonkin. You don't need much. The U.S. can literally just say, oh, we're under fire. And then Joe Biden comes out, mumble something. And then next thing we know, U.S. troops are in Ukraine. Pushing it to the border of Russia, U.S. weapons firing into Russia, and then Russia actually sends some ships. And then I think Hawaii is a major point of risk alaska as well
Starting point is 01:09:26 because china has already sent you know uh strike groups off the coast of hawaii and alaska yeah there's i mean there's there's military bases on all of the hawaiian islands um to some degree and some are larger and that's what it is it's our pacific military 100 yeah oh absolutely i mean and the thing is people people talk about um you know it being bad that the u.s is doing that and blah That's what it is. The Russians will come in. Some other big power is going to look for that little spot in the center of the biggest ocean on the earth because that is extremely valuable. For that matter, could you imagine a national divorce scenario? What would happen to Hawaii? I mean, yeah, definitely. It would definitely not be.
Starting point is 01:10:19 The restoration of, who was it? King Kamehameha was the, yeah, the restoration of the Kamehameha bloodline. I would not recommend being in Hawaii during the national divorce. Or Alaska. Yeah. If you're up in, like the natives in Alaska, they don't have a thing. I think the rest, we talk about national divorce
Starting point is 01:10:36 and I say this all the time, I think what the rest of the world will do, should a, you know, should there be a national divorce or some kind of civil conflict in the U.S. that would stem from an attempt at a national divorce, it kind of civil conflict in the U.S. that that would stem from an attempt at a national divorce? It's totally unpredictable. And I think it's almost a guarantee that it's chaos. Agreed. How it goes, whether it be like whether it be India and Pakistan say, OK, well, the U.S. is out here. We're going to just start shooting nukes at each other. And that's it.
Starting point is 01:10:58 So it could be something like that, like something we don't even think of. Two small countries that have beef now that have backing by two larger countries we have no way it is the the possibilities for everything to go terribly wrong are almost infinite do you think the average person in the rest of the world thinks that america would potentially split up or do you think it's it seems impossible to them i think to the average person it probably seems impossible to them um but then again i I think they look at Joe Biden and they're probably just as confused as looking at him. And they can't even think past that. Our media is always talking about how divided we are. You know what translates to another country.
Starting point is 01:11:34 I just wonder what the impression is. I think that other countries, I want to say no, because I think that people look at the U.S. and think of the U.S. as kind of a special country, whether whether they look at it as a good thing or a bad thing, they think that it is unique. And whereas I'm not so sure. Well, I guess I think that people from other countries that have or other places that have seen that kind of strife are probably more along the lines of, well, why wouldn't it? You know, we've seen crazy things. We've seen, you know, our country or neighboring countries. There's been conflicts and et cetera, et cetera. Those, those kinds of things are normal in, in global history. So I imagine there's a significant portion of the U S of the world
Starting point is 01:12:13 population that, that would be like, well, why wouldn't it? It's ridiculous to think that it wouldn't because that's what happens because honestly, that is what happens historically. I go back and forth. Cause again, I think the media does a pretty good job of saying America's conflict and chaos and different world leaders and this, that and the other. On the other hand, if you told me that Australia had split up, I would be like, what? No way. You know, there's a certain level of like you just expect certain large countries to stay as they are forever. But we know that border shift and, you know, political powers change maps all the time. My fear is that in the event of a national divorce, Canada will conquer us.
Starting point is 01:12:46 It wouldn't actually be Canada. I'm not worrying about that. It would be China via Canada. Yeah. They would send another balloon over and it would take seven days to be like, what is it? I was about my house for three hours, that balloon. China would show up. Your house specifically? Well, I'm right at Whiteman Air Force Base, a nuclear base. Interesting.
Starting point is 01:13:02 China would immediately contact West Coast states, offer them aid and assistance in any kind of conflict, a nuclear base. Interesting. Good. China would immediately contact West Coast states, offer them aid and assistance in any kind of conflict, which they would gladly accept. When Xi Jinping showed up in California, oh, they could not roll out the red carpet fast enough. Clean the streets. Oh, they cleaned everything up. So if conflict really did happen, China would be like, of course, we'll support you. And then California, Oregon, Washington become vassal states of China. Alaska likely as well. I mean, either, like, Russia
Starting point is 01:13:28 can easily take back Alaska. And I'm talking about a national divorce scenario where federal forces, national military are split, weakened. That's a whole, instantly becomes World War III. As Phil was saying. So, you know,
Starting point is 01:13:44 just hope everybody is uh i think lots of chickens think that energy is going into this election you guys probably think this too but you know i feel like so many people outside of america but especially americans are like we are on the brink of something crazy and it feels maybe more tense than other years um i don't know how you feel about it because you're kind of on the ground with all this stuff. I just think that you hear the it's the most important election of our lifetime every time.
Starting point is 01:14:11 It always is. I do believe that this is going to be the election that I just think it'll be such a signal of where we're going to go. And I think even for those that aren't super pro-Trump, you just can't be in support of the current regime is like this, like, you have to want to protest against it.
Starting point is 01:14:29 You have to want to push back. And I just think this trial, once again, when he goes to jail, if and when he goes to prison, I think that is going to be, once again, you know, the next moment that we will all remember. And I just, I think it's going to help him. We've had so many of those moments, the conviction, history being made,
Starting point is 01:14:48 the indictment, the mugshot. You're living through history, ladies and gentlemen. And it's pretty wild growing up. It's mostly ancillary history. You know, when you're reading about these major historical moments, they skip over a whole lot, you know? It'll be like,
Starting point is 01:15:05 this thing happened, and then this thing happened, and it's like, yeah, those were three years apart. People lived those three years. They were chilling. The American Revolution took place over 20 years.
Starting point is 01:15:16 So there was a kid who was born two years in the Revolution who fought in the Revolution. You know, that's pretty wild. So we live most of our lives, like, you know, Desert Storm in the 90s, and, you know, for people who are younger than that, they weren't alive. 9-11 is a, you'll get very little out of the 90s. I mean, there's some
Starting point is 01:15:50 pics of the 90s, you know, I mean, Bill Clinton scandal or whatever, and Kosovo, Desert Storm, etc. But then 9-11 is a major. So when you're reading like, here's the 90s, it's going to skip over several years and hit 9-11. Then it's going to skip over several years and like, you know, President Obama's elected. These past seven, eight years, it's going to be just like 12 pages per year where everything else gets right, where everything else is a paragraph. Especially this year, especially this November. There's going to be 12 pages based on just the week of the election in general. Because I don't think people realize, you know, they were talking about in 2020, like right-wing groups showing up with guns at various polling stations to watch and things like this. None of that happened.
Starting point is 01:16:36 I'm pretty concerned about what the right and the left will do this election. Because especially with the narrative around ballot stuffing and things like this, you're going to have like every ballot box everywhere is going to have two or three dudes standing there election, because especially with the narrative around ballot stuffing and things like this, you're going to have like every ballot box everywhere is going to have two or three dudes standing there watching everybody filming everything. We are not going to know who won the election. I guarantee you until at least five to six days after. We are never going to know who won the election. Yes. But I'm telling you, like the the idea that these things are won and this is something that I don't agree with. Right, but it is the current rules we have. You have to know that these are going to go to the courts for so many of these different rule changes, and they're going to be fought again.
Starting point is 01:17:14 And I just think that people need to be prepared for that. We will not know on the night of the election. We'd love to know. But I do think it will take at least four or five, maybe even a week, to actually have them declare a winner. I don't know about that. India just had an election, and they have a billion and change people, and they knew the answer in like 17 hours. Which makes me think, you know, maybe it's everybody else who's acting up. You mean outside of the U.S.?
Starting point is 01:17:42 I mean, just like the idea that a billion people and they're like got it we're good don't worry about it i'm like if you get there's a billion people you can get a bunch of people counting too so you know and and to be fair the general idea is you have a county of a thousand people and there's 10 people watching the ballot they all come in and then that one county just says okay it's 400 here and 200 here because not everybody votes submit that and it goes up the chain and then you easily get your results with by the end of the day because it's decentralized, massive computing power. In the United States, for whatever reason, the computers can't pull it off. They don't want to. It's literally because the government doesn't want to.
Starting point is 01:18:19 Yeah, but what happens is they batch it. So, look, I've kind of gotten wonky just going through the primary. It was in April. Right. We got a little bit of an example of this. So in Pennsylvania, there's 50 days of mail-in ballots, right? 50 days, which to me is nuts. I grew up, there was one election day, right? But the problem is when they change the rules in a lot of these states, they don't say your ballot has to be in a week beforehand and then they can count them. And then on election night, you just have the total and you match that to the election day votes and then you announce it. And so what happens is they batch them in different groups.
Starting point is 01:18:48 They're like, hey, listen, these came in, but they didn't have a date on them. These came in because they're in an envelope, right? They have to be sealed, signed. And these are millions of ballots now. We're not talking about, you know, absentee ballots or military ballots. So when you have a huge batch of these ballots that have no date, then this batch has no year. And then this batch, you know,, then this batch has no year. And then this batch, you know, this is no month, no year. This isn't signed. This wasn't signed by a
Starting point is 01:19:10 witness. So what happens is not that they're counting them and then not reporting it. They hold them. And this is why Republicans go nuts, as they should. And then they wait to see what they need. And then if they want, Democrats are ready to go to war. They are ready to take it to court. So they push all of them to be counted because they win so heavily on the mail-in ballots. And so the courts just, they don't want to disenfranchise voters, so they do it. And so that's why you get these situations where they're not reporting out. And Republicans, and I'm guilty of this, you know, after 2020, we said, well, we don't want to do the mail-in stuff because there could be fraud. After 21, we said, let's do it in the courts and fix it.
Starting point is 01:19:46 22, they said, let's do it through legislation. And 23, they looked in the mirror and said, holy cow, we got a problem. And so now, I mean, that's like what I'm doing is in Pennsylvania chasing these ballots. We're hiring 120 full-time ballot chasers. But I need to tell people you are still going to have the law in this country, the judicial system is going to have to make all these decisions and we got to be prepared for it i worry about the violence not just with the the election i worry about when he goes to jail you know you get some of these trump
Starting point is 01:20:13 supporters that want to show up and they want to make a statement and i'm i'm calling for peace but i do think it is about to hit some sort of tipping point how do you get involved with all this sorry just based on what what Biden has apparently just said, I think we can expect something serious. Take a listen to this. She knows so long as she was denied, our freedom can never be secured. Let's hear that again.
Starting point is 01:20:36 She knows so long as she was denied, our freedom can never be secured. Sick. So like, I feel like we can pull up one of these every single night I just saw this from Nick Sorter just now she no long
Starting point is 01:20:52 our freedom can never be secured yeah why does that feel like he's telling us I can take your freedom away at any point whenever I feel like it like your freedom's not secured. This is very dark, Joe Biden. I just don't think they can keep him out there. I mean, I just
Starting point is 01:21:09 it's such a liability for him to do any live event. When's the last time he did a press gaggle? This debate is going to be epic. And it's going to, like, think about that. When is the last time he did a gaggle? I mean, he just did, like he was walking past reporters and talked to them. No, like a legit gaggle. He hasn't done one in, like, the White House press room in forever.
Starting point is 01:21:26 I can't even remember the last years. The debate. Trump's going to say something like, look, you know, when I'm elected, we're going to secure the border. Day one, we're going to start deportations at local level. The police are going to come in. They do a tremendous job. We've got to give our police some support. But on the border, I'm going to instruct CBP.
Starting point is 01:21:42 We're going to start turning people away. And then they're going to say, President Biden, how will you handle it? He's going to go, you know, Trump and the rapists. And then the media is going to report in a cutting response. Joe Biden slammed Trump's claim that Mexicans were rapists and called for humanity. Because what the media does is they translate the gibberish into what they want him to have said or they got the transcript from the deep state saying here's what we wrote for him he didn't say it but you know and then you look at the white house transcript and they they scribble out it like they just change it instead of being like this guy just
Starting point is 01:22:19 slurred on his word they'll say inaudible but they act act like, oh, it's a mic issue. There was wind. Inaudible. I mean, it was inaudible. You're not totally wrong there. I'd go with indecipherable or perhaps incoherent. It's crazy. Incoherent. Yes. So how'd you get involved with what you're doing? Were you inspired by Joe Biden's words, I assume? Not quite. Ron Paul actually back in the day kind of woke me up a little bit as a math teacher.
Starting point is 01:22:44 I said, you know what, this guy in the Fed kind of woke me up a little bit as a math teacher. I said, you know what, this guy in the Fed, he's got something he's talking about. But I worked for Rand and then after the 2016 race, jumped over to Trump and decided I wanted to start door knocking because I felt like that was the only place we could compete when it comes to money. And pretty much from 2016 through 2022, just been trying to elect America first libertarian type Republicans at the state level by using these door knocking programs all that changed in 22 because in Pennsylvania I mean we were we were having races where we'd have trouble because of this Fetterman Nas thing down ticket because nobody was focused on the mail-in ballots right
Starting point is 01:23:20 hired zero ballot chasers in Pennsylvania Democrats hire about a hundred every cycle and so we just said, enough's enough. Charlie Kirk, some people from Trump's team came to me and said, look, PA's your home state. You've already got a group there, Citizens Alliance of Pennsylvania. They said, can you take the ballot chase effort and just run it for the state? Bring all your door knockers into Pennsylvania, deploy there, knock 500,000 doors, target the Republicans who have requested. And that's the biggest problem.
Starting point is 01:23:48 He's got to win PA to win the White House. I believe that. I think the Senate race can be flipped. And to me, I mean, the one thing we need to do is be able to compete with them at what they do, which is knock on those doors and chase the ballots. So how do you guys recruit door knockers? So we have people right now on the ground for a lot of Freedom Caucus types. They're out there knocking. And so we have different projects at different times. So we'll bring a now on the ground for a lot of Freedom Caucus types. You know, they're out there knocking. And so, you know, we have different projects at different times.
Starting point is 01:24:06 So we'll bring a lot of them in. But PHAs.com, people can apply. We've already had over 400 people apply. And it's not a fun job, right? I'm not like, I don't try to do the rainbow story about it. It's horrible. People are slamming their door in your face. But Democrats, they don't care.
Starting point is 01:24:21 They just hire these people and you push through it, right? Because it's difficult. But it is one of the worst gigs in the world. We put them up in houses. We give them gas cards. These are patriots that want to do, they have to be ideologically aligned. If you're not ideologically aligned, no one would want to do this, right? Now, the Democrats pay a little better so they can get some folks to just get out there.
Starting point is 01:24:38 But that's the point is you got to feel like you're part of it and you got to push, you know, to really want to be part of it. But yeah, 500,000 doors and it's September 1 through election day. So about a little over 60 days, 50 days of the election in Pennsylvania. So it's absolutely insane. Do you think that conservative people are likely to volunteer for these things or do they think default, oh, the only way to support politicians I want to see elected is with my dollars? No, I think you'd be surprised how many people, I mean, the conviction even itself, look, people look at the fundraising, you should see the interest we're getting. People are like, look, we want to get out there. A lot of people,
Starting point is 01:25:16 they say, where do you find these guys at? And it's like guys and girls are either taking a gap year from college or they just graduated or they're working a job that's not meaningful to them. And all of a sudden it's like, wait, I can go flip Pennsylvania and try to win this thing. So it's interesting to find the motivations. But to me, the ideological folks, that has to be the part of it. But I think I got to go out there and raise $3 million to pull this off, right? And we're doing it.
Starting point is 01:25:41 We've raised over a million and a half. But I do think it's about the party not adapting, the party not wanting to figure out what they need to do. And I think it's malfeasance. How do you not hire a ballot chaser when that's the number one reason you lost the last four years of election? Have you received pushback? Or have you received significant help from the GOP? So, yes, under Laura Trump, it's been much better. I will say that. Trump himself in the last two months, you know, has been coming out. We're supporting the chase. You know, we're supporting all these ballot efforts in these certain states.
Starting point is 01:26:12 That's a big deal. Yeah. Because when I got into this, you know, and I said this to the guy's attorney point, I said, look, if we're going to do this, I said, I can't have us do all this work. And then Trump's like, do not vote by mail. He's been great. He's embraced it. This is why I have hope. In Pennsylvania, we lost by 80,000 votes. like do not vote by mail. He's been great. He's embraced it. This is why I have hope. In
Starting point is 01:26:25 Pennsylvania, we lost by 80,000 votes. There's roughly a million Republicans that did not vote in 2020. But even more than that, we lost by 80,000 votes. In PA, 140,000 Republicans requested a ballot and let it sit on their dining room table. So it's really like, I don't want to say this is the thing, but the solution is there. Go go bang on their door and when bob answers the door you say bob did you send your ballot yet oh no i'll get to that every 24 hours we get the data of who's voted this is why the democrats are ahead so you go back in a week bob your balance not in yet how do i get you guys to stop coming go back in a week send your dang ballot in so the democrats have mastered this idea within bob here i dang ballot in so the democrats have mastered
Starting point is 01:27:05 this idea with him bob here i got a pen for you they have mastered this idea of annoying the voter and i hate to say it but it works right you gotta fight fire with fire we can't just make the excuse of oh we want to vote on election day of course we want to election those aren't the rules we have to adapt don't don't don't the ballots come um postage paid get to put a stamp on it i'm pretty sure they're prepaid. And one of the big reasons we saw a lot of ballots that were only Biden was that this is exactly what you're describing. They say, OK, here, Biden, go, get out. They didn't know or care about anything else.
Starting point is 01:27:34 They're just like, I did it. I signed it. Have a nice day. Well, and here's the thing that I think is fascinating. We care about our ballot. I would say some of us would give up blood to get in the way of the ability, that civic right to vote. Democrats aren't made that way. I hate to say this, right?
Starting point is 01:27:48 But a lot of them, it's like, all right, listen, what do I get to get you to stop annoying me? Send the ballot in. You know, here's the ballot. They would trade so much. It's like a weird cultural thing. The last note on this, when you have 1.5 million people that have voted for Joe Biden in 2020 in PA by mail before the last seven-day window. Talk about the resources you're spending. Now, all of a sudden, you're only targeting another million voters, where the GOP is still targeting 2.5 to 3 million. So you're spending
Starting point is 01:28:16 twice as much on mail, twice as much on digital ads to target folks. And so the whole cultural thing, whether it was intentional by the Democrats or not, I think it was, but they realized that they could make these rule changes and the culture within their own party would benefit from it. That has to stop this cycle. Do you think – so when you're talking about people have to have the ideological fire basically to chase something, this is one of the things that I've always think the Democrats sort of have cultivated their own natural advantage. They tend to be controlling of academic institutions. So they get the, you know, new voters, the 18 year olds, but they also have the college age students, they have the grad students, you know, who get summers off and things like that to sort of be on the trail with this ballot harvesting effort. I wonder if one of the interesting things, like I've heard Scott Pressler talk about, he's setting up at like gun shows and being like, you guys are here. Please let me register you to vote.
Starting point is 01:29:09 Do you find that you tend to get people from, you know, is all of your recruiting online or do you ever set up at like college campuses or gun shows or whatever the equivalent is? Yeah. So Scott is a patriot and he's like literally moved to Pennsylvania. God bless him for doing that because we need him on the ground. He does a real work. We're partnering with him with early vote action, partnering with Turning Point and our group Citizens Alliance. And there's different stages, right? Right now you have to request a ballot. So he's out there registering voters, requesting for those low propensities. And then our phase, phase two is the chase, right? Actually going to the door of the people that have requested it. The point I'll make though, because I get a lot of pushback from folks that say, well, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh are just
Starting point is 01:29:47 going to cheat and they're going to do what they do. There are Republican votes in Republican counties where Republican clerks count the votes. They're at like 70, 75 percent turnout. Just get those up to 90. Pennsylvania and Pittsburgh are already maxed for the Democrats. So for those that say, oh, 110 percent, that's not true. That's not true. That's a good point. What happens is they've maxed it. They're already at their max capacity. So there's all this room in the tomato soup. You know, we got the two blueberries in our tomato soup here in PA. There's so much room for us to just turn those out. And who's counting the ballots? Good guys. So to me, it's like when I got into this, if those numbers didn't
Starting point is 01:30:25 line up, I'd have been like, you know, I really don't want to spend my time on this. There is a path to victory that involves just targeting Republicans, not going into Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. It's almost a guarantee. Well, I mean, it's yeah, it's almost a guarantee that Joe Biden will not get the number of votes that he got last time just because there isn't there aren't extra votes, first of all, and he's done a bad job. So like if there were other votes that he got last time just because there isn't there aren't extra votes first of all and he's done a bad job so like if there were other votes that they could round up maybe but like because of the fact that i think that's something we've neglected to at least or at least i've neglected to to uh you know identify is that because they do have such a good game of get out
Starting point is 01:31:00 the vote they maxed out they're not gonna's not going to be like a significantly larger amount of people that will vote for Joe Biden. This one, it's like whatever he got last time, that's the top that he can get the very, very top. And the the high likelihood is that he's going to be at least a little lower, probably significantly lower considering the performance. And I do think that there is probably still the phenomenon of I don't want to admit that I'll vote for Trump to a vote. The secret Trump voters?
Starting point is 01:31:28 I still think so, because there's a lot of people that are really, really not into, you know, telling people. The Israel thing really blew up in the Democrats' face. And the conviction, in Pennsylvania alone, after the conviction, just since then, Republicans are up nearly 4,000 net voters across PA, just since then republicans are up nearly 4 000 net voters across pa just since the conviction i am i'm 100 sure that january 6th is a bigger issue for people to get over to say that they're going to pull the the lever for trump then the the indictments then anything post january 6 is just what happened on january 6 they're like I don't like that. I think they forgot. Agreed. Most people are first order thinkers. And like I said, you're going to get a guy who says, I fix water heaters.
Starting point is 01:32:12 Okay. Appliances. These are the people who make society function so that you can live in your house so that you don't die when it's too hot or your grandparents don't die when it's too hot or too cold. And they're just thinking, look, I'm going to go there. I'm going to go to work. I'm going to do my job. I'm going to help make sure that I'm being the backbone of this country and I'm going to come home and expect my groceries to be affordable. And they're going to say, but January 6th, what? January 6th, Trump instruction. Look, man, I can't afford gas. I don't care. That was years ago. Give me gas.
Starting point is 01:32:42 I think that's true. I think that's why the Biden campaign focuses so much on, you know, the past, right? They don't want him to talk about the way the country is right now. They need to be like, well, Trump did this bad thing one time a long time ago and whatever else to maintain, to basically deflect from everything that's going on right now. I think it's so interesting to hear you say that, you know, Pennsylvania is up so far in terms of voter sense of the conviction, because I do think that in some ways that to me, obviously, with the amount that the Trump campaign raised was this big call to action. It's sort of how do you get, like you were saying before, Bob to turn in his vote? Well, that seems like a very
Starting point is 01:33:21 dramatic step for New York to take. If you're a Pennsylvania voter and you, if you were sympathetic to Trump at all, you might say, well, I have to do something now. I don't know if you feel like that with the Congress. I think everything, all the moments of history you're mentioning, I think everything has trended in the right direction for Trump, at least over the last six to eight months. I just don't see anything that is like a Biden win. And when the numbers are where they're at and the trends are going in the direction they're going, I just, I don't really see, like, I mean, it's really up to Trump to keep it clean, keep it tight, rock the debate.
Starting point is 01:33:55 And I just, I mean, if the election was held tomorrow, I think Trump wins in a pretty large fashion. Well, Virginia's a toss-up now. If Virginia's in play, there's no way that Joe Biden could be president again. Unless, for some reason, Texas and Missouri go blue. Are you concerned at all about the effect of RFK on the election? I am.
Starting point is 01:34:12 I am actually very concerned. I think he helps Trump much more than people think with the right demographic. I think there's a weird sect of certain voters, but not in states that matter. I think the old school, right? Let me talk about like, you know, my family, like pipe fitters, steamsters outside of Philadelphia, lifelong Democrats. Some have broken off, some haven't.
Starting point is 01:34:33 There's a population, I'd say, of 70 plus white women that I think will not go with Biden. They can't do it. He can't put a sandwich together. And so what they're going to do is they're going to, they're looking for an alternative. Now they've been brainwashed to hate Donald Trump, right? But RFK provides an alternative. His battle is going to be the same thing every third party or independent has. You got to be able to prove that you have a shot. And they're doing everything they can, which of course they do, you know, to keep him out. But if he can prove he has a shot, I think that he, let's say he gets 8% in a state like PA or a state like Arizona or Wisconsin.
Starting point is 01:35:11 I just have to think that that split is, I just can't think that that split hurts Trump. I just have to think it's going to be like 5-3, which is a two-point swing to help Trump. Most of the polls that include Kennedy show Trump way up. Right? So we're going to go to Super Chats. If you haven't already, would you kindly smash that like button, subscribe to the channel, share the show with your friends, head over to TimCast.com, click join us to become a member and support our work directly because this show is made possible thanks in part
Starting point is 01:35:37 to viewers like you. Good job, guys. We're going to read your Super Chats. And then the members-only show is coming up at 10. You don't want to miss it. Shane H. Wilder says, So Europe is starting to lean right. You knew I was going to laugh at that.
Starting point is 01:35:52 I guess. I don't know. Europe is starting to lean. I'm pretty sure that by saying it that fast, it's less effective. Are you saying that means everything I say on this show is less effective because I speak so quickly? I speak fast. This is good feedback for me. One like equals one let's go, Brandon.
Starting point is 01:36:08 That does better than saying smash that like button. And one Timcast membership is 100 let's go, Brandon. Let's see if that one works. Timcast.com. Uncensored members show. You're going to call in and talk to us 10 p.m. Shane H. Walter says, so Europe's starting to lean right and France disbanded parliament. To me, this should be a good thing. The earth is healing.m. Shane H. Walter says, so Europe's starting to lean right and France disbanded parliament. To me, this should
Starting point is 01:36:25 be a good thing. The earth is healing. Correct. Are there any downsides to this? Are we upset about anything?
Starting point is 01:36:32 Anyone? Not in this room. Other rooms are upset about anything. Yeah, did you see the videos? There are videos of French.
Starting point is 01:36:39 Of women crying? Yeah. Yes, they're doing the Trump thing. Oh, gosh. There's like one, there's like a woman on the ground and
Starting point is 01:36:43 she's like staring at the floor. There's a video where there's a bunch of French people in a room and you can hear the Trump thing. Oh, gosh. There's like one, it was like a woman on the ground and she's like staring at the floor. There's a video where there's a bunch of French people in a room and you can hear the announcer announce that they've lost. They go, oh, and then they pause for a second.
Starting point is 01:36:52 Oh, it's just hilarious. Someone needs to make a compilation video of all of the weird woke cultists panicking every time they lose. It's going to be like two hours long. It was fun to watch. I mean, it was short, but 2016, that was while they were crying at the javits center but the ben rhodes uh interview after hillary lost was one of my favorite pieces of political can you believe it's been almost 10
Starting point is 01:37:14 years that's crazy it's crazy eight years ago my favorite my favorite memory after that i was doing a lot of campus work back then recruiting these door knockers and the campuses that would host these like sit in with us in peace and like they would have therapists they provided and that's when i was like there's something going on in this country one of the fraternities at my school got in trouble because after the election they put they like had a big trump banner and they got told they had to take it down but like the multicultural student center was allowed to keep their like well also i don't remember what the slogan was at the time but like we're all in this together thing up but there's no bias you know everyone's treated equally barrett 1313 says can confirm tim does know how to play poker he's a
Starting point is 01:37:54 luck box but can play allison is not bad either allison's nickname at the poker table is the manslayer that's true yeah because i guess guys think, you know, women, she's going to call and play weak hands, and then she always has the best hand. And so I'm like, as soon as I see her make a bet, I'm like, I'm folding. Because she's going to have aces or something. And then she uses that to make sure she plays well. And then she ends up winning tons of money from these men. They call it the manslayer.
Starting point is 01:38:22 But Luckbox, good Sir Barrett, what you're basically admitting to is that I have successfully fooled you and I am better at poker than even you were willing to admit. For those that don't know, Luckbox refers to a person who just gets lucky all the time
Starting point is 01:38:36 and just always makes it and they've got a bad hand and then they just play it and then all of a sudden they hit it. But depending on how you're playing, when you're playing poker, I'm not going to show when I'm bluffing unless I want them to know that I bluff them to piss them off. If I have a good hand and I don't hit and I make a continuation bet and I win, I'll just throw the cards in the muck. Nobody knows what I had. Then when I have a bad hand
Starting point is 01:39:00 that I play for odds and I get lucky, I make sure to flip it over and show everybody because they're like, this guy keeps getting lucky. Then when I have a bad hand or my hand for odds and I get lucky, I make sure to flip it over and show everybody because they're like, this guy keeps getting lucky. Then, when I have a bad hand or my hand doesn't make it, I can make a big bet and they go, he's getting lucky again. They throw their hands away. So, it's the name of the game, brother. Kyle says, my favorite congressman, Thomas
Starting point is 01:39:17 Massey, is now following me on Twix. I'm very excited about it. What did y'all think of his interview with Tucker? I only saw bits, but very impressive. I saw the whole thing. There's nothing that I strongly disagree with. Like all of his criticism of AIPAC and stuff is cool. Like all of his criticism of Israel's fine.
Starting point is 01:39:34 Like all that stuff I agree with. I don't think we should be giving them money. All of his criticism of the deep state here. That was the most important stuff, I thought, personally. The criticism of the U.S. government. And then all the stuff about the Tesla and his house and stuff. I thought all that stuff was just cool as hell. I think he's one of the most underrated
Starting point is 01:39:52 in terms of people not knowing his story. When you watch the Off the Grid, Matt Kibbe documentary, and just when you really dig in, he's a very unique guy. Being an MIT grad, his wife, by the way, she's the brains. Rhonda is the brains in the family. His marriage is the most mind-blowing part to me. They're high school sweethearts who both got into
Starting point is 01:40:08 MIT, which what are the statistics there? They let him like, from Kentucky, and then they're like, great, good times Northeast, we're going back to build this farm or whatever, and then they have all these kids. What a cool life, man. And then people that deliver pizza call him dumb. Incorrect.
Starting point is 01:40:23 I just mean, again, what are the odds that... Nothing wrong with delivering pizza. There's nothing wrong with it. I just don't understand. I don't know where I would be without our DoorDash guy. I delivered pizza. I've done that. I know.
Starting point is 01:40:35 But at the same time, I'm not calling people dumb. I would put it this way. I would put it this way. People who deliver pizza are the backbone of this country, and these gender studies liberal arts grads call them dumb. Fair enough. We can insult them. That's fine.
Starting point is 01:40:48 The best part, to me, the best part of the entire interview was when he tells the stories of, like, the AIPAC guy. He's like, oh, yeah, you got a guy. You got a guy assigned to you. And, like, when he tells the stories to Tucker about, like, how the inner workings are, I just, I think they're're the more with alternative media and the ability to tell their stories. I just think so much of Congress is a protected class. I mean, even how they have the cameras, you guys remember when there was no speaker and like they changed the whole camera set up and like they gave them freedom. And now, now we're back to the staged downward angle because there's nobody in the chamber and they give their fierce speeches and we're going to
Starting point is 01:41:21 send the Democrats. And then they say the Republican republican and they all go to lunch yep right and i just think when massey tells those stories it kind of humanized it a little bit so we get to peek behind the curtain let's go read some more all right what have we robert g smith says howdy people howdy steven says says le pen is to france what trump is to the u.s all I can say to them electing her is vive la France and make France great again. Mifga. There you go. Doesn't roll off the tongue. But she hasn't been elected.
Starting point is 01:41:54 It's a European Parliament one. So we're waiting for the French parliamentary elections that are going to be on the 30th and very well Marine Le Pen's party may win and we'll see what that means for her. What have we here? Jennifer Benj says, our local skate park,
Starting point is 01:42:09 airborne skate park and shop in Corbin, Kentucky is facing imminent closure because they can't recoup operation costs. I hope this super chat will bring in more Kentucky skaters to help. P.S. Get well soon, Phil. Are you well already?
Starting point is 01:42:22 I don't know that I'm well, but I'm getting there. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. Right on. Do skate parks charge admittance fees? I'm sorry, I'm so ignorant of the culture. There are private parks where you pay per session, so they do a morning session. I don't know
Starting point is 01:42:35 the modern prices, but it used to be like $20 to skate for... $500 under paid inflation. Yeah, $500. It's like four hours for the morning session, and then the afternoon session, or you can buy an all-day pass for slightly cheaper. Okay. Airborne skate park and shop.
Starting point is 01:42:51 Let me Google that. Reminds me of skiing by the lift ticket. That's the only—we're so New England right now. We're like, is this like skiing? Did you ever go to Mount Tom? Yeah, I did. The Alpine slide? What?
Starting point is 01:43:04 Oh, yeah. Oh, my gosh. Phil and I are from New England. Hopefully there's a huge New England contingent watching TimCast right now. Any of your friends get injured on the Alpine Slide? Not that I can remember. I had to get stitches. You did?
Starting point is 01:43:15 Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. That's funny. The brakes? Maybe we can sponsor Airborne. Did you grow up skating? A little boonie sponsorship. My one thing I have to admit, especially with Tim here, my dad actually at 56 years old, he can drop into a half pipe still.
Starting point is 01:43:31 It's pretty crazy. Yeah. I don't know if I should be proud of that or embarrassed, but it's pretty awesome. I'm a little afraid to admit this, but I watch every skate here. I'm like, man, I really want to try dropping into a little one, but I'm afraid I'm going to break my neck. Me too. Because I'm old. We had an amazing session today with Special Mike.
Starting point is 01:43:47 He landed a front, this is wild, on the quarter pipe into bank, front side 360 nose whip. It's just the board spins 540 degrees while the body spins 360, and then you land going backwards. It was wild. Is that the clip you showed me? Did he show you that? No, you were playing something.
Starting point is 01:44:04 No, no, no, no. That was actually one of the guys doing construction. Really good. Nollie backside 360 blunt over the spine. Then he does axle fakie
Starting point is 01:44:13 and then fakie big spin blunt over the spine. Then a backside boneless to tail. Really good run. He's super good. He took his shoes off and skated barefoot
Starting point is 01:44:22 on the carpet board. Saw that. That's where the board has carpet glued to the top of it. And he was shredding. So we're going board has carpet glued to the top of it. And he was shredding. So we're going to film with him.
Starting point is 01:44:28 His name's Corey. He was really good. Polly Pura says, where is Ian? He's here. He'll be on tomorrow. He's back for only a few days. So I think he might be on this week a couple times. That's, you know.
Starting point is 01:44:43 And then maybe he'll pitch his coffee. I got to talk to him and Alex about their contest because we set up the contest for him. We haven't yet started it. But if you go to casper.com and you buy Ian's Graphene Dream and anything else and use the code VOTEIAN, you get the other one half off. And then if you buy Alex Stein's Primetime Grind and any other product, you get another,
Starting point is 01:45:04 it's buy one, go one half off. And that's vote Alex and vote Ian are the promo codes. And then we're going to pit them against each other in an epic battle of you know, I don't know. So Alex said the money that he gets from his coffee is going to a cat sanctuary. A cat charity.
Starting point is 01:45:20 Think of Dallas. We think we know which one we're doing, the one that he recommended. Is Ian going to donate to like a dog sanctuary? I don't know. It's up to Ian. I don't know what Ian is. Maybe like graphene research. Graphene research.
Starting point is 01:45:31 Ian promises to buy stock in a company that produces graphene with all of his proceeds. It's less charitable. He's just buying stock. But you'd expect him to do it. Well, sure. I like the idea of being on brand and character. I mean, we'll see. I think someone super chatted about the coffee.
Starting point is 01:45:49 Where are we at? What do we have? Greg Duvier says, Tim, I've never voted in a primary election before. That ends tomorrow in North Dakota. I will be voting for Dr. Rick Becker. He's up against three rhinos and has been endorsed by Ron and Rand Paul, Vivek, Massey, and Gates. All right, hold on. Hold on. Who sent that in? Greg Duvier.
Starting point is 01:46:07 That's somebody giving me a softball. It's gotta be. Greg Duvier? I'm running Rick Becker's campaign. This guy's being nice. That's my big shout-out to Rick. He's in North Dakota. If he wins that seat, he holds it for 20 years. He's the next Rand Paul, Ron Paul guy. Great, great patriot. Started the Frederick Bastiat
Starting point is 01:46:24 Caucus when he was in the State House, so he's a little bit of a nerd, but really, really good dude. And the establishment just spent about $2 million in the last two weeks trying to take him out. That's the game. By the way, anybody out there who thinks, oh, I want to be a freedom fighter, I want to run for Congress, that's the number.
Starting point is 01:46:40 If you don't have $2 million you can put in or you have a close network, do not run for Congress. I'd love for you to run for state house. That's where you can win. What does that investment get you? Like insider trading information that you can legally exploit? I'm sure once you get there. No, but the truth is, listen, when you go to run, like the establishment, if you're really running a campaign as an anti-establishment candidate, they have money.
Starting point is 01:47:02 They typically, their playbook is they'll put $2 million against you in the final week to two weeks of the campaign. And you just can't compete. Everybody's worried about making dinner for their kids, right? These aren't like deep thinkers. I'm not calling the voters out, but when they spend $2 million in broadcast television and there's 10 mailers a day for 14 days in a row calling you a monster. It's tough to combat. Really? So let me clarify. If you run for Congress, they will spend $2 million calling you a monster. Correct.
Starting point is 01:47:34 They will basically run commercials with your face on it to the tune of $2 million. Frankenstein level. And no such thing as bad press. So if someone were to run for Congress simply to just get their name out there, they're going to get a free $2 million ad buy with their name on it. If they're competitive, yes, they will come after them with everything they have. No wonder people go into politics. I don't recommend it.
Starting point is 01:47:57 I wouldn't. Well, I mean, you look at Congress, a lot of people in Congress, like go into Congress, and they'll be in there for a little while to build themselves a name and then they'll go ahead and get out and get some kind of cushy job. Politics or government is oftentimes a road to other employment. Tazewell says, has Cliff ever been told he's a Shane Gillis doppelganger? Oh my gosh. I get this question probably three or four times a day. And for those that know Shane, he's from Pennsylvania. Are you older than him? I think he's two years. I'm 33. I think he's 35. Ah, so you look like him. Yeah. Because he's older. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:48:30 I said that the joke was when you ask your mom for Shane Gillis and she says we have Shane Gillis at home. Shane Gillis light. He's a big butt light guy. That was a funny meme someone posted about Chris Carr who writes for Scanner and he comes on his periodical show. Executive editor, yeah. Yeah, they said it was a meme where someone posted about Chris Carr, who writes for Scanner, and he comes on the show.
Starting point is 01:48:46 Yeah, they said it was a meme where I was like, Mom, I want Jack Posobiec, and we have Jack Posobiec at home, and it's Chris Carr. What do you guys think? Do I look like Shane Gillis for real? I'm sure people will say yes. Are you great value Shane Gillis? Tell me about grilled cheeses. I'm making them at night. You better believe it.
Starting point is 01:49:04 All right. Let's see. Co-Chisel says, hey, yo, much love all. The district sleeps alone tonight. And I'm reading that because for some reason I was just playing it the other day, that song. We were playing it as we were skating. So whoever. It's a good song by Post Service.
Starting point is 01:49:21 It's an oldie. Jonah Watkins says, graphene dream came in today. Solid eight out of ten. And I didn't even ish, Graphene Dream came in today, solid 8 out of 10. And I didn't even ish my pants after drinking it, making it a 10 out of 10. Good stuff. Well, that's Ian's Blend,
Starting point is 01:49:32 his low-acidity coffee, designed to work with your gut. Not low-acidity coffee. Orson Exodus. Oh, man. I don't know. Yeah, Ian was, we were talking about,
Starting point is 01:49:43 what do you want? You know, with Alex, I think we told him we were doing double caffeine. We just asserted to him, we're going to make a double caffeine coffee for you, Alex. It's fairly obvious. Not that he needs it, but it represents his brand. And then Ian was like, you know, low acid. And some other weird hippie stuff where he's like probably eating lentils or something.
Starting point is 01:50:00 I don't know. Lentil flavored coffee. Dude, it's like the only thing he eats. Really? It's like every night he's making lentils. I don't know. I mean, they're good, man. I'm't know. Lentil flavored. Dude, it's like the only thing he eats. Really? It's like every night he's making lentils. I don't know. I mean, they're good, man. I'm not complaining.
Starting point is 01:50:09 I'm not criticizing lentils. Yeah, you do it right. And he's good at it. I don't know what he puts in it, but he makes some good lentils. I think when you make it 80 times a year or a month, breakfast, lunch, and dinner, then, you know. You can perfect it really well. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:50:30 Lumbernumbers says, I take modafinil for narcolepsy miracle drug i had no energy or will to live before i started taking about 15 years ago that's what i've heard people go to sleep and their brain doesn't enter rem sleep or anything so they're not really getting the deep sleep or whatever you get and then they wake up feeling like they didn't sleep at all. And so they give you a modafinil and then you can go to sleep, but then you're getting the sleep, I guess. Yeah, because REM is the restorative sleep. You need it for your body's correct function. That was crazy. I think that's one of the things that we actually don't talk enough about as a culture, the effect of sleep and how important it is for your overall health. You know what I want? I wonder if they make sleep chambers like sensory
Starting point is 01:51:10 deprivation chambers, but not really where it's like I saw this ad for an airport as an airport thing where you lay down inside of it. You've seen those and you pull the thing down. And I'm like, I wonder if they've got something you just buy your house, but it's better than that. And then but what it needs is, it needs to have a sun lamp slowly start sun rising at the right time for you. Because the, I always, I lose it when like, I go to a friend's house and they're blackout curtains or whatever.
Starting point is 01:51:37 Like I get if you work night shift and trying to sleep, that's fine. Get a sun lamp. Because when the sun starts rising and the light comes in while you're asleep, it starts affecting your hormone levels as you're waking up. And I know too many people who wear blindfolds and black out their windows and they don't understand why they can't get good sleep and they're tired all the time.
Starting point is 01:51:55 And I'm like, okay, well, look, always talk to your doctor. But I'm telling you, it's because if I'm at a hotel with blackout windows, I'll sleep forever. I just, I can't, I don't wake up. The sun is up, I'm up. Yep, me too. And a lot of people screw up their hormone cycles. And I'm not talking like testosterone or whatever.
Starting point is 01:52:13 I'm talking like your general body hormones when you're hungry, when you're not hungry, when you're tired, because the light's not coming in. So people in Alaska have blackout curtains because there's like summer is all day. And then you have sunlamps because, and this is why people in Seattle get seasonal affective disorder because it's always cloudy.
Starting point is 01:52:27 You need light. You need sunlight. You need blue light. And you don't want the blue light at night, but you want it in the morning, you know, when you wake up. But I would love to get, like, a chamber you can sleep in. And then at the right time, the sun, the lights start turning on me like LED strips. Then you wake up. You open it up.
Starting point is 01:52:44 And then. Your comment about society, not talking about it i uh i got invited to this really cool event that peter teal put on where they just like it's kind of like a guided conversation but they allow you to pick certain topics and i was like fascinated because i'm like this blue collar kid coming in here there's a lot of like big wigs but the two topics that like the whole thing i was surprised everyone talked about was sleep and the ability to live you know eternally like those are like the two things that like these you know they're like diving in and spending all this money just trying to figure out those two things and it just it was fascinating to me that that was like the topics that are of interest yeah i just googled that i found it sleep isolation pods
Starting point is 01:53:24 they're soundproof you go inside and it's got lights and everything, it's exactly what I described, wow that's amazing I was actually going to say you should ask Joe Rogan because that sounds like a Joe Rogan contraption to be honest with you you know what I heard is that sensory deprivation tanks can give you the equivalent of 8 hours of sleep in 2 hours
Starting point is 01:53:39 I don't know that that's true but I've heard that basically, because when you're sleeping your brain is actually maintaining a certain level of activity because of threats. Crazy thing. I was reading how if you sleep in hotels a lot, you're only getting half of your REM and deep sleep because you're in an unfamiliar place. And there's this instinctive thing that humans do where their brains don't fully go out when you're in an unfamiliar place because of potential dangers so you have to be familiar with where you sleep to get good sleep so your body's accustomed to it it feels safe and then you can shut down sensory deprivation shuts everything out and so apparently you go you
Starting point is 01:54:18 zonk out in one of those and a couple hours later you feel like it's been eight hours i wonder if that means that i can't get a get a full night's sleep on a bus because we'll get on the bus for like a month. I wonder if it takes, like how long it takes to actually get used to it or if over time, because I've done so many tours. What's the same bus?
Starting point is 01:54:33 It is. I wonder if your brain knows this is my bus. Like it's the same bed. You know what I mean? I do about 200 different hotel rooms a night or a year, 200 nights. So that it's funny you say that because like I never, you know,
Starting point is 01:54:45 I've been doing it for like two, three years now with fundraising and just recruiting. And that makes a lot of sense. Now that you say it like that, you know, you need that awareness of the same place. Maybe a good pillow would, uh, great sense of familiarity. I know that Mike Lindell just sponsored us. Uh, you know, so mypillow.com promo code, Tim,
Starting point is 01:55:04 take that Jack Pasobe. Cause itow.com promo code Tim. Take that Jack Posobiec. Because it's the only promo code now. Yep. He's going to come in here with a bi-pillow and we're going to have a second bi-pillow. Not Tanya.
Starting point is 01:55:12 Not Poso. It's Tim. T-I-M. That's it. You know, I was thinking it'd be funny if we did like a pillow off where like he came here
Starting point is 01:55:19 and said promo code Poso but it's not fair because it's like my show would probably do really well and his show would probably do really well so it wouldn't really work. Do it here and then do it on his show. We're just doing it because he came on the side. But it's not fair because it's like my show would probably do really well and his show would probably do really well, so it wouldn't really work. Do it here and then do it on his show.
Starting point is 01:55:28 We're just doing it because, you know, he came on the show and he's a good dude and, you know, they're doing a new promo and they asked us if we'd be interested. And we might. We're looking for sponsors for the events that we're doing. And so this is a trial run to see if it works. And then when we do, like, the monthly events at the Martinsburg building, we need sponsors. We're setting up RNC shows and it's so insanely hard because we had to be there all week. The RNC is all week, ridiculously expensive. And so we're like, we need multiple
Starting point is 01:55:57 sponsors. Like we need, yeah, otherwise it's just too expensive to pull off, but we're going to do it anyway. We're going to do it. And it might be, you know, we might come in slightly less. You know, we're not going to make money on it, but we want to be in. We want to be there. Not the DNC because we don't have a death wish. So, yeah. Let's see. We'll grab some more super chats.
Starting point is 01:56:21 Trident54 says, wouldn't it be hilarious if the Fetterman shift was just an Elon troll? He gets a beta neural link for stroke recovery and Elon is controlling his mind and actions. That's my fear about Neuralinks. I mean, that'd be an interesting use, but somebody else controlling your mind via a computer? No thanks. Tim, you were talking today about the green scooters that stop. Lime scooters. Yeah, the lime scooters.
Starting point is 01:56:41 Yeah, they won't drive over the pride mural anymore. There was that kill switch, whatever it was, the kill switch bill they were trying to put through. I don't know if that actually passed or not, but you know that's coming to cars. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, of course. 100%. All right, Thomas Tegroen, is that how you pronounce it?
Starting point is 01:56:56 Probably not. Says, Phil, Divine is one of your best songs, but nothing tops that one you sang that went, it's been two weeks since you looked at me, cocked your head to the side and said I'm angry. That song saved me. That was you? No way.
Starting point is 01:57:13 I love that band. Okay, I love that band. And I appreciate the kudos about Divine as well. There are a lot of songs titled Two Weeks, huh? Yeah, yeah. So, whatever. I'm going to type in Two Weeks lyrics and see who wins. Grizzly Bear. I wonder wins Grizzly Bear I wonder who
Starting point is 01:57:27 Grizzly Bear is that's a good song too two weeks by Grizzly Bear yeah save up all the days a routine malaise just like yesterday when you're titling songs
Starting point is 01:57:35 is this something you have to consider the fact that there are other songs with that name or just do it anyways no you don't worry about other songs with that name
Starting point is 01:57:43 because you the topic of the song tells you one thing that i learned from uh well not learned but one thing that jamie josta from haybreed told me that i have since embraced no matter what you want to name the song you always name the song whatever is the most audible articulate word in the chorus or phrase in the chorus because they're going to come up to you and they're going to say that anyway. So you can name it whatever you want, but they're going to come up and be like
Starting point is 01:58:09 the one with the memorable chorus. This happened with the movie Edge of Tomorrow. They put the posters up that said live, die, repeat. And then everyone started calling the movie live, die, repeat. I thought it was live, die, repeat for the longest time. And I love the movie. Yeah. All right, everybody.
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Starting point is 01:58:56 PAHaste.com, anybody that wants to help out, whether you want to sponsor a student door knocker or if you want to come out and chase ballots with us. And that big shout-out to Rick Becker, tomorrow's primary in North Dakota. I know we've got thousands of people in North Dakota watching the show right now, but Rick Becker, America first, liberty-minded patriot. Thanks for having me, guys.
Starting point is 01:59:14 First of all, thank you very much to everybody that sent me well wishes over the weekend. Thursday was rough, but it was really, really nice to see all you people sending me get well soon and stuff. I am philthatRemains on Twix. I'm PhilThatRemainsOfficial on Instagram. The band is All That Remains. We're going to be on tour this summer with Megadeth and Mudvayne on the Destroy All Enemies tour starting August 2nd, finishing up September 28th, I believe.
Starting point is 01:59:39 The new single is Divine. It's available on Pandora, Spotify, Apple music, uh, Deezer, Amazon music, you know, the internet. Also, we have a new song,
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