Timcast IRL - Timcast IRL #1109 Trump Announces NO TAXES ON OVERTIME, Says NO MORE Debates With Kamala w/Joel Valdez

Episode Date: September 13, 2024

Tim, Hannah Claire, & Ian are joined by Joel Valdez to discuss Trump vowing to end taxes on overtime pay, corporate media claiming Kamala won the debate against Trump, PolyMarket showing Kamala with a... 75% chance to win the 2024 election, and a viral song attempting to mock Trump backfiring as Trump supporters embrace it. Hosts:  Tim @Timcast (everywhere)  Hannah Claire @hannahclaireb (everywhere) Ian @IanCrossland (everywhere) Guest: Joel Valdez @realJoelValdez (X) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Donald Trump has announced a new policy position, no tax on overtime. It's brilliant. I support it. Every single libertarian in the country is probably clapping and they support it because they're getting rid of taxes. So Donald Trump says no tax on tips. Nice has no tax on overtime. I'm a big fan. It's a big move. I wonder how long until Kamala Harris adopts the same position. But interestingly, while the political class does keep pushing that Kamala Harris won the debate, I don't think they're asking themselves what it means to win the debate because they're looking at decorum, they're looking at behavior, they're looking at Trump's attitude. And certainly I would agree if that's the metric. However, CNN ran a flash poll
Starting point is 00:00:40 that found when it came to issues of the economy, people who favored Trump lightly favored him more afterwards on the economy. Now, Kamala Harris wants more debates. And Trump said no. Interesting question. Does Kamala want more debates because she did so well? She wants to keep battering Trump or does she want another debate because she missed her opportunity to articulate an economic position and Trump realizes he can't give her that opportunity. So we're going to talk about that. The betting markets, wow, Polly markets got a 74% chance for Kamala, but Nate Silver's got 60% for Donald Trump. Yo, we're in the final stretches, 54 days to go until the election. And then I got to give a shout out to Matt Walsh. He's doing the Lord's work.
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Starting point is 00:02:24 So casperoo.com. Also head over to timcastcast.com click join us or sign up to become a member and support our work directly. We will have a big update for you next week on our lawsuit against the Kamala Harris campaign. It is in it is ongoing. There have been some moves, but I got to let the lawyers do their thing. Trust me when I say we're going very, very fast relative to how these things normally go. But I want to make sure you know that we have not stopped our efforts there. If you'd like to support us, TimCast.com, become a member, but also smash that like button, subscribe to this channel, share the show with all of your friends. Right now, joining us to talk about this and everything else is Joel Valdez. Thanks so much for having me. Hey, everyone, my name is Joel Valdez. Thanks so much for having me. Hey, everyone.
Starting point is 00:03:05 My name is Joel Valdez. For those who don't know me, I am a pro-Trump MAGA operative in Washington, D.C. For the past four and a half years, I served as communications director for the great Congressman Matt Gaetz of Florida. And as of this week, I'm starting as senior advisor for Congresswoman Lauren Boebert. So glad to be back on TimCast. Thank you guys for having me. If you want to follow me, at real Joel Valdez. So glad to be back on TimCast. Thank you guys for having me. If you want to follow me, at RealJoelValdez, and happy to be back on the show.
Starting point is 00:03:29 Yeah, man. Congrats on the promotion, dude. That's fantastic. I am Ian Crossland, internet video gamer and streamer, also musician, actor, social media developer. I'm really happy to be back. Good to be here, too. Yeah, it's fun to have you, Joel.
Starting point is 00:03:42 We had your new boss on earlier this week. She watched the pre-show for the debate with us. So I'm glad you could join us in our new studio. I'm Hannah Clare Bremlow. I'm a writer for SCNR.com at Scanner News. Check out all their work at TimCastNews on the internet. Let's get started. Here's the big story from Reuters.com. Trump says he will end all taxes on overtime. I love where we're going. Trump says no taxes on tips. I agree. Kamala Harris comes out and says, oh, yeah, no taxes on tips, too. So Trump tries to undercut her by saying, oh, yeah, no taxes on overtime. She's going to have to come out and entertain
Starting point is 00:04:16 the same policy. Trump's not going to come out and say 20 percent off taxes, we are looking at market competition towards the end of taxation. Is he going to, I wonder if he's going to keep one-upping Kamala or she's trying to copy him. So he keeps one-upping her until he gets to the point where he goes, okay, fine, flat tax, flat sales tax, no income tax. That's where we're going. I love where this is going. It's eventually going to have to get to that point where abolish the federal income tax or abolish the IRS. I think these sound like great ideas, and I think we're on that path. At a rally, he said, quote, as part of our additional tax cuts, we will end all taxes on overtime.
Starting point is 00:04:54 Your overtime hours will be tax free. That's the right move. It is. That's incredible. But do you think Kamala Harris will now rip this policy off? Yep. I think that's her signature move right now. And it's interesting because she in no way is ever setting the trend. He is always leading.
Starting point is 00:05:12 She is always following. That should tell you right now, for someone who took forever to release her policies, she should really just admit that she will do whatever Donald Trump tells her to. Yeah. Also, he wants to get rid of taxes on Social Security, too, right? That was another. I see. I saw a super chat already.
Starting point is 00:05:27 He's talked about that before, I think. So these are while you're pulling that up. I imagine this is overtime. This is just income tax. No more income tax on your overtime. Not that the company doesn't have to pay payroll tax or anything. This is from a few days ago, actually. Trump also promised to end taxes on Social Security.
Starting point is 00:05:43 I knew I'd seen that somewhere. Jeez. And it makes sense. promised to end taxes on Social Security. I knew I'd seen that somewhere. Jeez. And it makes sense. It's insane to tax Social Security. Doesn't make any sense at all. Unemployment, too. You pay taxes to make sure that you get to receive unemployment. And then when you receive unemployment, you're supposed to pay taxes on that again, on something you've already paid taxes on to get. Doesn't make sense. It's a double dip. Agreed. It makes no sense. So Trump is leading the charge on getting rid of people's taxes. And I think it's fairly obvious when you cut taxes, the economy improves, generally speaking. Yeah, I think it's what voters need to hear right now, that there is a potential for relief to come because so many people are struggling economically,
Starting point is 00:06:18 struggling to keep up with inflation and also to keep up with the demoralization. Right. If you feel like you're being told by the government, oh, but buying power is up, but you're saying, well, I am still paying a ton for everything and it seems to only be getting worse, hearing that someone actually wants to make your life easier is what you need. I think this would cost the government a bunch of money
Starting point is 00:06:39 because they're not going to be taking in income tax on overtime, but it would save the citizens a lot of money, which then could incentivize them to spend it in other realms where they're going to be putting the money back into the government through other forms of taxation. I guess that's the plan. I don't know what his numbers are and how much he intends for the government to lose in the immediate and then recoup in the long run. I can just tell you this, that I used to have to work overtime all the time. So working out of O'Hare, you had what's called mandatory overtime. So as part of the union contracts, if you're working, there was the morning shift and the night shift. So this is ramp, this is loading planes, pushing back planes, things like that.
Starting point is 00:07:17 You get in at 1.30, you're out by 10. But if your plane is delayed, you have no choice. You are required by your contract to stay. We call it mandatory overtime. And some people like it. We don't meet at most people hated it. And that's why we hated working the night shift. But the morning shift was five 30 until one. So for a lot of people, it's like, it's pretty brutal to have to choose five 30 in the morning. If you want to work one 30 and then work tonight, you're going to get hit with overtime. I got to tell you, if I had been working
Starting point is 00:07:48 and Trump came out and said this, I'd have been like, that right there, nothing else matters. That got my vote as well. Yeah, I mean, Trump is consistently proving that he's the change candidate in this race. Absolutely. And it also, I think, reaffirms
Starting point is 00:08:01 that he is the leader of the Republican Party because Trump comes out with a brilliant policy followed by members of Congress introducing legislation almost immediately. I think when President Trump first said no tax on tips, Congressman Matt Gaetz introduced legislation that followed it immediately with the Social Security. I think it was Congressman Thomas Massey introduced the Senior Citizens Tax Elimination Act so that there is an elimination of the unjust double tax, which Congresswoman Boebert's also a co-sponsor on.
Starting point is 00:08:30 And so it's great to see that President Trump leads the charge. We have members of Congress backing him up and, you know, neocons in shambles. I got a question about this. Is it no tax on the, just because of overtime, time and a half. It's basically what you're getting, time and a half. So you get paid $10 an hour, you're going to be getting paid $15 for your overtime hours. Is this just tax-free on those extra $5, on that extra 50%?
Starting point is 00:08:50 It's tax-free on the whole $15. Wow. Yeah, because he said overtime hours. He didn't say overtime pay. So imagine this. You're making, at this point now, I think, if you're, actually, I'd be interested to check in with my old jobs and see how much they're paying now. Because when I was there, if actually I'd be interested to check in with, uh, my old jobs and see how much they're paying now. Cause when I was there, it was like 10 bucks an hour. You were
Starting point is 00:09:10 loading planes. You're getting 10 bucks an hour. You do overtime, you get 15, but who cares? Because they're like, but you're getting taxed on a percentage. So it's just, everybody rolls their eyes. Like, thank you for the extra $10 to make it so I can't get home and go to bed. And I got to wake up in the morning. And what I would add is when I worked at the airport, I like to do four shifts in two days. Get in at 5.30, leave by 10. Be there the whole day because then you can get as many hours as you can in.
Starting point is 00:09:37 And then you have the rest of the week for whatever other projects you're working on, whatever you want to do. But you always get hit with that mandatory overtime. If you're getting 10 bucks an hour and then you're only taking home $8, but now they say, but don't worry, if you work overtime, you're going to be getting basically double your pay because now the whole $15 is not going to be taxed at all. People are going to be begging for overtime.
Starting point is 00:09:58 It's a good point because Trump says the people who work overtime, some of our hardest workers, but this is going to incentivize overtime. That's great for the economy people can be working more now there is alternatively it could be bad you know i could be bad because now they're going to be companies that say why pay why hire another staffer if maybe it's okay it's 10 bucks an hour for for employee a but i need someone who can work a few hours at the end of the day. I got to hire another employee $10 an hour. Whoa, whoa, whoa. I just have one employee work extra overtime, and he's going to make more money than if I paid him anyway.
Starting point is 00:10:34 So it could have a perverse incentive where companies actually want to hire less because people are willing to work even longer. Yeah, yeah. I think you really want to incentivize more employees is what you want. And a lot of companies, from what I know, are having trouble hiring. One of the reasons they have to ask for extra overtime right now from current workers is that they do not have people applying to fill openings that they have. So while it could incentivize them to just continue to extend overtime hours for already overtime workers, I think you might see people who are
Starting point is 00:11:05 not that interested in going to the job market right now start applying with more vigor. Because if you are able to say, okay, I'm going to work this many hours a week, but all of my overtime is actually going to be tax-free, you ultimately earn a lot more in the long term over the course of a year. And I think people want that right now. Also, I'm wondering about people now that are on salaries and if they're going to end up feeling like they're getting screwed. Now they're like- It'd be interesting if people start calculating it's better to work hourly than to earn whatever the salary wage is because there are, I mean, I know a lot of hourly workers who earn more than other friends who have salary jobs just because the hourly offers more benefits and overtime like
Starting point is 00:11:45 you don't get overtime salary uh overtime flex time you can sometimes pick up more shifts like with your salary this is what you're earning and that's it yeah i want to see this this proposal somehow incentivize more workers as well so like the company although the the the income is going to be no income tax on overtime the company maybe has less payroll tax if they have more employees. Or like a diminishing return on their payroll taxes the more employees that they bring in and keep under the overtime threshold. Because the government might be like, well, we're going to receive more money from your company if you have two employees working 40 hours than if you have one employee working 80. So we're going to incentivize you through tax reduction to hire more employees. Interesting. It's possible. I mean, that's, this is a challenge with any kind of announcement of a policy like this. The details are not yet
Starting point is 00:12:35 clear. And part of that is because, you know, unless it's done through executive action, it's going to have to be done through Congress. And that's always sort of a deal making process. I feel like Joel can attest to this. If there were a bill that said we don't want to tax overtime anymore, you know, somebody would tack on some kind of irrelevant proposal. How did it work the last time when they you said that they were doing the social security, they didn't want to tax Social Security or they what was it they wanted? As of now, it's just a bill that's been introduced by by Thomas Massey. So I'm not sure if it's gone through a committee vote or if it goes straight to the House floor. There's a few different procedures. But I know that as of now, it's just a bill that's been introduced.
Starting point is 00:13:11 Just a single issue bill? Yep. Okay. So they could do that with something like this as well? Yeah. I'm not sure what appropriate committee they're going to vote publicly. And so sometimes they don't want to do that. Sometimes they do some funny business to make sure that that bill doesn't see like, oh, well, I'm on the committee for this thing.
Starting point is 00:13:45 And we got sent a bill that meant that overtime hours wouldn't have been taxed. And I voted against it. I didn't want it to reach the rest of the chamber. Like, that doesn't seem like it would bode well. I can't think of a district in America where people would be like, we don't care about that issue at all. I think most Americans would be impacted by this. Yeah. Well, I'd love to see it put up for a vote.
Starting point is 00:14:09 We'll have to stay watching them closely. It's just hard. Like, how would you message on the opposite of that? It would just be like, I could have helped overtime workers, and instead I chose not to. Yeah. Well, that's why they love their poison pills. The argument would be like, it's going to bankrupt this government program, which is going to end up costing seniors their Social Security because we're not taking enough income tax now because we're losing it to this free money. Social Security is going to die anyway. So that one doesn't inspire me, at least.
Starting point is 00:14:33 I'll never get, I mean, probably Joel too, will never get Social Security. So it's a dying institution for most Americans. Current seniors, I feel awful for them, right? They shouldn't be double taxed on Social Security. But it's not an institution that's sustainable. So I think if you tell younger voters, oh, well, it could potentially harm Social Security, they'd be like, well, that's new. Well, if there's another presidential debate, I'd love to see how Kamala would respond to that. There's got to be another debate. Trump, what is he doing? He's got to go for it and he's got to
Starting point is 00:14:59 chill out and just relax and talk about stuff like this. This is the kind of stuff he should have brought up in the debate. No tax on overtime. Like control the debate with the comment, with the statement. I'd love to. That's a good point. I'd love to be in a presidential debate. So I can just be like, I want to abolish social security. Just that.
Starting point is 00:15:16 There you go. I will touch it and I will take from it and I will shut it down. So what you would just like scale it out, just phase it out over the next 20 years or something. Yep. It's a, it was a, it was a bad idea idea and we can clearly see why it was a bad idea it takes four workers to sustain one recipient and so what we're basically saying is we should sacrifice the young for the sake of the old that is that is a ridiculous thing for society on its face it's like i'm gonna pay in taxes and insurance or whatever into this insurance program and then
Starting point is 00:15:44 when i retire i'm gonna recollect all that as my retirement. But they don't account for the inflation and the deep reduction of value of the money. Well, the common man doesn't understand. If I put $10,000 in over the course of 40 years, in 40 years, that's probably worth about $2,000. It was a game where they decided, look, population's expanding, right? So let's just, instead of having to save for retirement or have a family take care of us, let's just make the expanding generations pay for it. Sooner or later, you they must have been assuming at the time, like, look, people are going to keep it, keep having kids.
Starting point is 00:16:12 So long as they have three kids, we got nothing to worry about. And now they're having one point six kids. And now they're like, OK, it's going to implode. And all these politicians are like, I will not touch your Social Security because I don't want to lose the senior vote in the most important voting bloc. It's OK. So old older people are going to keep voting to take from the young while young people struggle to buy homes and get and get off the ground. And the older voters are going to be like, don't know, don't care. I want it. It's mine. And I'm going to keep voting for it. And the Simpsons made the joke in like 1992 when Abe Simpson is making fun of people. I think he's making fun of young people
Starting point is 00:16:47 being like good for nothings. He's won everything for free. Then he runs into the Social Security office and goes, I'm old. Give me it. I deserve it. It's mine. It's like that.
Starting point is 00:16:54 That's how I feel about it. It's sad to think about elderly people going bankrupt and living on the street because they don't have any income at all. And this is a perverse system that told people, don't have a family. Don't have kids. Don't'll be fine government will pay for it we will by force make young people pay the bills of people who didn't have families that's insane i love this idea of seeing you on the presidential debate stage if we ever saw a potential president pool who'd be your running mate uh that you wouldn't see a president if i ever had a campaign
Starting point is 00:17:22 it would be intentionally just to say things that are unpopular, but I think people need to hear. Yeah, but that's that Warren Beatty movie, and he won. What was that movie called? I don't remember. I get the whole youth vote. They're like, how much money do we get back? I'll be like, well, I guess if we eliminate Social Security, you're going to get back, what, 7% to 12%. You wouldn't have a VP?
Starting point is 00:17:42 I'd have to be AOC, dude. He's got to vet a bunch of candidates. You don't know who's trendy at the time. I don't want to be president at all, so I can't even think of who a VP would be. You could skate the best. Well, if the whole point is just sending messages that are disruptive, Michael Malice is always the go-to as someone we need in a position of press authority. So press secretary was great for the Libertarian Party.
Starting point is 00:18:04 It crossed my mind when I was watching that debate that if you were, I told you this before the show, if you had been on stage in Trump's position instead of him, and you were just able to actually explain that some of the problems, like when Kamala was like, they were like, Trump, why didn't you vote for her border bill that put all these extra border agents on the border? And he ended up just defending his rallies and being like, people don't leave my rallies. I don't even want to hold on. People don't ever leave my rally. I'm like, dude. She got him.
Starting point is 00:18:26 She got him. Let's literally talk about why you voted against or why you pushed to get this vote shot down to get all these border agents in there because it was going to let more illegal immigrants come across every day or every month or whatever. Here's my answer. Well, with all due respect, it's not that I control Congress or the Senate. I simply made a few phone calls to members of Congress and asked them what they had thought about. I gave them my opinion. And my opinion was that this bill actually codified an increase in unchecked, unvetted border crossings. And I made phone
Starting point is 00:18:56 calls to members of Congress and asked them, why are they calling it a border security bill if it's going to bring more people in? I mean, if it's bringing more people in, Kamala's, you know, the Biden administration, we should be supporting this. That's simple. The American people want to board a security bill that's going to restrict and reduce the amount of illegal immigrants. And that's it.
Starting point is 00:19:14 Do you guys remember off the top of your head how many more immigrants it was going to allow in every month? It was like thousands per day or something. It was 5,000 illegals every day. And it was going, that that was that many more people were just going to be allowed it was an amnesty bill it wasn't a security bill no it was a total amnesty bill and and the problem is politicians and i think you know look trump can do whatever he wants there's a you guys can insult me and tell me i'm wrong all day next i ain't never
Starting point is 00:19:37 gonna run for office in my opinion however which i am entitled to i think the problem with a lot of politicians is they'd say something like that that was an amnesty bill. That would have granted, instead of just saying, well, I wouldn't characterize it as me shutting the bill down. I mean, I'm a private citizen. I was calling a few people and asking them their thoughts. But I think the problem with the bill is that it created a provision. The provision increased the amount of illegal immigrants that they were going to allow in every day. The number should be zero. If you come to this country, you got to come in legally.
Starting point is 00:20:08 It means you come to our borders, you come to our embassies, you come to our consulates, you fill out the paperwork. Their border security bill is what they called it, but it allowed up to 5,000 illegal immigrants to cross the border without being vetted at all. And they called that a reduction. So let me just put it this way.
Starting point is 00:20:22 Well, also Kamala Harris said on the debate stage that he killed the bill because of politics. If you don't want to give him a win, but it was it was because of politics. It was because of policy. If we want zero people crossing our border illegally and we have 10,000 people crossing and you come to me and say, let's set the number at 5000, I'm going to say, no, the number is zero. And Kamala's bill was was 5000. Kamala's basically asking America, like if you were a city, to say we're okay with, you know, 15% violent crime every year.
Starting point is 00:20:49 Like that's the strangest thing. It was saying a certain amount is okay, and I don't think that's what any American would want. That's why the bill is bad. You can call it a border security bill every single day, but the reality is it was okaying a certain amount of crime in America at a time when Americans, one of their top issues is crime. okaying a certain amount of crime in America at a time when
Starting point is 00:21:05 Americans, one of their top issues is crime. There was a lot wrong with that bill. It was 5,000 illegals every day, increasing green cards by 50,000 a year, work permits for adult children of H-1B holders, immediate work permits to every illegal alien released from custody. Like, that's just crazy. That is a total amnesty bill. That is not border security.
Starting point is 00:21:28 Illegal immigrants that are being released, they were going to give a work permit to every illegal alien. And then they, what's the right word for this? They dissolve the asylum claims so there's no enforcement action against these people now, which is effective amnesty. They say, come here, here's a work permit. You have a court date in one month. A week goes by and they say your court date's been dismissed. Have a nice day,
Starting point is 00:21:49 which basically means they're here with a work permit with and they can't be deported. They're basically giving them amnesty. No, it's not border security. It's literally the opposite, literally an authorized invasion of the country. Let's talk about the latest forecasts. So the big news right now is Kamala Harris wins. She won the debate. But you've got to ask yourself what it means to win the debate. So, of course, you've got the Kamala Cope. That's what I call it. The anti-Trumpers who are posting laughing emojis being like,
Starting point is 00:22:19 everybody knows Kamala won. Dude, just because your friends at the New York Times said she won doesn't mean it's true. The first thing I would say is on the surface, everyone's going to claim their person won. I think it's fair to say that Kamala was was better prepared than people thought. I think it's fair to say that she goaded Trump and actually got him off kilter on many points. But I'm not sure that in the end, Kamala actually is the winner in terms of tangibles. So you ask yourself what it means to win a debate. Ian, do you think Kamala won the debate? No.
Starting point is 00:22:49 You don't think she won the debate? No, I don't think either of them won that debate. They both look like idiots in my mind. Not idiots. They both look like bitter people with no plan. So are you going to vote for either of them? No. No, that was disgusting to watch.
Starting point is 00:23:00 So here's pineapple. What is it? Are you wearing pineapples? Yeah, Richie Jackson gave this to me. That's pretty cool. Thanks. I don't know what that is. I'm kind of Trump won't he wearing pineapples or yeah richie jackson gave this to me that's pretty cool thanks he's right i don't know what that is i'm kind of trump won't text your pineapples i hope not i think it's a lamp so the goal is something you how you convince ian crossland to vote for donald trump and this is this is the point i think that what ian is saying has actually been reflected by many of the the surveys and the polls that were done
Starting point is 00:23:23 new york times all the people saying undec. I think I think they had a couple people said Harris, but then most of the panel just said, I don't know that anybody, anybody won. And I'm going to tell you this. That means Trump won. You want it? And I know all the liberals and leftists are going to be like, cope, cope and see. Dude, you can you can tell me whatever you want. If you ignore the facts, it'll be your detriment in 54 days. The reason Trump won, if that's the case, is Trump didn't have to win. So in the debate, Kamala goads Trump. Trump makes mistakes. We get out of this with people saying, I don't know who won. That was ridiculous. Well, Trump didn't need anything. Kamala was already failing, calling herself the underdog. Kamala needed the opportunity to prove that she had something to change, and she did not.
Starting point is 00:24:07 Trump could have gone up there and done the chicken dance for an hour, for all anyone cares. As long as Kamala articulated her plan and helped people understand what she would do that was different, she would have won. She did not. She answered her questions as insults to Donald Trump, and Trump responded to the insults, and all anyone saw that didn't know anything about politics was two people yelling at each other. I think the problem is the media is looking at this like sports, right? They think if Kamala gets Donald Trump flustered,
Starting point is 00:24:33 she gets a point. So she does it twice. She gets two points. If he doesn't do it to her, then, you know, he doesn't get any points. But both candidates went in with different objectives. And I think her campaign really miscalculated by trying to make Trump look bad. That's why they wanted the mics, right? They said, no, you know, the American people deserve to hear what he's saying, however deranged it is. They wanted him to be this caricature that they have created of him. But Donald Trump is a known quality in American politics. I mean, he launched his campaign for presidency, what, the first one eight years ago. He's been on the scene for over a decade. He's been a public figure for way longer than that. And so if he looks brash, if he looks like he's getting angry, it doesn't make a
Starting point is 00:25:12 difference. She had to prove that she was a personality and be someone with policies who understood them. And she did neither. I'll tell you quick. I got I got to read this point just before. So put it back in that this from the liberal patriot who writes, there are clearly reasons for concern besides the data noted above. And so I'm jumping down, mind you. He says polling right after the debate found that Harris did little to improve voter confidence in her ability to handle the all important issue of the economy. A CNN flash poll among debate watchers found that before the debate, voters trusted Trump over Harris on the economy by 16 points. And after the debate, they favored Trump by 20 points. Furthermore, if you look at the crosstabs, working class voters before the debate favored Trump over Harris to handle the economy by 29
Starting point is 00:25:56 points, an advantage for Trump, which increased slightly to 32 points after the debate. Not exactly what the Harris campaign had in mind. So if you want to talk about who won, you can sit here and say Trump got mad and got flustered and Kamala sounded better. Dance all the way to November for all I care. Because when it comes to the economy, stupid Trump won. I got like if Harris acted like she acted at that on that, I'm not even called to debate because they weren't debating anything. I didn't even hear them debate any ideas. If she acted like that in the room with Xi Jinping, she'd be laughed out of that room and just totally ignored in the future. Well, how about this? She goes to Ukraine to talk with Zelensky. Three days later, Russia invades. Well, and I like what you're saying.
Starting point is 00:26:39 It wasn't really a debate. It was sort of a parallel interview of both of them. I mean, occasionally they would be asked to comment on the other one's response. They would, you know, they would want to, but the moderators would be like, Tim, here's one question on this issue. Now, Joel, here's a different issue that we're going to pivot to. Daniel Turner talked about this last night. We used to have dates, multiple debates, and they were thematic, economy, national security, whatever the next one was. And this time it was sort of like, we don't know if we'll see Kamala Harris again, so we might as well try and ask them a bunch of stuff. You're both wrong. It was clearly a debate. It was the Trump-Muir debate. Muir got some good jabs in against Trump, but I think Trump
Starting point is 00:27:14 countered pretty well. And also Kamala was like, I thought that was one of your best tweets. They are invading our country over. He said it like seven times. I'm like, oh my God, enough already. I get it. Yeah, they are. One or twice. And that it like seven times. I'm like, oh, my God, enough already. I get it. Yeah, they are. One or twice. And that's it. Kamala needed to make the case for herself on the debate stage. And even even more important, she needed to separate herself from Joe Biden because Joe Biden was already on the path to being destroyed. Fifty state loss against Donald Trump. And I think The New York Times put out a piece where they said that undecided voters had said that Kamala wasn't able to separate herself from Biden on issues like the economy and the military. She said I mean, she straight up said that she was proud of the botched Afghanistan withdrawal. She's proud of this record inflation. And so if she wasn't able to differentiate herself from Joe Biden, I think that's that's that's the biggest loss for her. Because people know, people lived under a Trump presidency. They know what to expect with Donald Trump in the White House.
Starting point is 00:28:10 And I mean, we kind of know what to expect with Kamala Harris in the White House as well. And so if you're, I mean, if you're just comparing those two, I think Trump has the upper hand. Well, it's important to note, Harris is not Biden. And for Trump to even intimate that she is, is ridiculous. Your vice president has no authority over what you do as the president. I mean, they're backup. Biden says that she's the last one in the room after all the major decisions. But he's still making every decision.
Starting point is 00:28:34 She doesn't make any of those decisions. Three years insisting that was the Biden-Harris administration. This is one of the, I mean, this was not true of the Obama-Biden administration. They really just called it the Obama administration. Also true of the Trump mean, this was not true of the Obama Biden administration. They really just called it the Obama administration. Also true of the Trump Pence administration. It was really just the Trump administration. But Biden's White House has gone out of their way time and time again to make sure her name is included on everything. And I think that is partially on her camp's insistence, but also because Biden used her as this token hire to say, I am promoting,
Starting point is 00:29:03 you know, a diverse woman who's going to rise to the ranks and do whatever. But that ultimately means that she asked to have responsibility for his legacy. And on stage, she's saying, I'm not Joe Biden. But then she will try and take credit by saying, well, we are really proud of what we were able to do this, that and the other. She is a we when convenient. She's tied to Biden when she thinks she can win American voters. But when they don't like Biden, she's not a part of that at all. That's disingenuous to me.
Starting point is 00:29:28 Same thing on the southern border. They named her the borders are immediately. And now that we've seen the border just totally destroyed under their administration, now all of a sudden she had no involvement in the mainstream media saying she had no involvement. I think this is the clip. I could be totally wrong, but I'm going to play it anyway. So, you know, whatever. Good evening. I'm William Worm. Before we begin, we have just received word that Squiggly Miggly will not be attending tonight's debate due to the fact he blew his head off with a 3D printed shotgun. We want to remind the audience to please not talk out loud, to not applaud. You're just wasting time.
Starting point is 00:30:02 Now, our first question tonight goes to Mr. Frog. Mr. Frog, why are you so evil? You have one second to respond. Hello. Time's up, plus you're wrong. The next question is for our beloved and highly intelligent president. Why are you so amazing? You have unlimited time to respond.
Starting point is 00:30:19 So everybody was sharing this clip being like, this is what the debate is. Yeah, it did feel like that at times i felt like the fact checks on trump many of which were incorrect uh were so obviously like it was so obviously against trump and to kamala's benefit they did ask her the occasional tough questions which a lot of times she either avoided answering or stumbled through uh but it is striking when you say the cnn moderators were better you know know, like partially because everyone just watched Joe Biden self-destruct. But they interrupted less than the ABC moderators. The most shocking moment of the debate was when Trump was asked if he still thought he lost 2020 because he said, I lost by a whisker.
Starting point is 00:30:58 And he was like, no, I was being sarcastic. And Muir goes, well, I didn't take it that way or something like this. And it's like that. Nobody asked you. But that was the moment where he like moment where the facade was completely gone. We're fact-checking. Not anymore, you're not. Now you're giving your opinion
Starting point is 00:31:14 as a random guy that no one asked. Yeah, they fact-checked him saying that babies could be terminated after birth. They're like, no, they can't. And he was like, okay. They fact-checked that people weren't eating cats and dogs. And that was that. But they didn't fact-check Kamala Harris when she kept saying that he was like okay they fact-checked uh that people weren't eating cats and dogs and he was that was that and but they didn't fact-check kamala harris when she kept saying that he was tied to 2025 project 2025 or the which is not or the very fine people hoax they didn't fact-check
Starting point is 00:31:34 that oh no she told lie after lie the american yeah they the the fake news media they think that the american people are stupid when they try to do these fact checks against president trump but kamala told lie after lie she falsely said that not one member of the United States military is in an active duty combat zone. Not true. Kamala Harris also said that she did not support a government takeover of health care. She does. She said she denied support for fracking when it was brought up in the debate. She does, as well as mandatory gun confiscation. She said that's not true when President Trump highlighted her support for defunding the police. I mean, the list goes on and on. And they didn't, of course, they're not going to bring any of this up. Yeah, that's the
Starting point is 00:32:12 whole point of the debate. That's why she wants another one now. I mean, it's so fascinating that before her team would not commit, they acted like Trump asking for multiple debates was kind of rude and crazy. And now they're like, we want another debate and he's being unreasonable. I mean, it's just such a, like. But Trump said, Trump said, let's debate on Fox News. That he should definitely debate again. Why won't she do it?
Starting point is 00:32:32 He should debate her again. He should talk policy. He should just ignore the banter. I don't know if he can do that. That's my concern. That's why as an independent voter and like an undetermined, like watching him just get defensive
Starting point is 00:32:42 about his, people don't leave my rallies. No one has ever left the trump rally ever it's interesting what the they're still they're still there of course they leave from time to time the thing is you're it's interesting because that obviously made a huge impression on you but like i remember that i also remember him talking about a lot of his issues i remember getting more policy from him he talked about the border he talked about you know gun control he talked about being pro-fracking He talked about the border. He talked about, you know, gun control. He talked about being pro fracking. He talked about business stuff. She would give these platitudes like,
Starting point is 00:33:09 well, I'm for an opportunity economy. And then she would never really explain it. And the other part is that she spent a lot of time talking about Trump. I mean, really, most of this, like if you remember, Trump was like, you, I put these tariffs in, they were good. It's going to help us on the world stage. It's good for our economy, whatever. You guys left them in place, even though you attack me over them. That was one of the only times the moderators were then like, yeah, do you want to explain why they're still there? She completely ignored that, wouldn't talk about it at all. I mean, to me, Trump has an established legacy. He's already been president. His campaign has had policies out for a long time. She just released her policies. This
Starting point is 00:33:45 is her first major media moment to explain them. And she just didn't. That's that's crazy to me. So let me let me jump to this right here. We have the polymarket numbers. Kamala Harris has a 75 percent chance to win the election, according to polymarket. And it looks like they've got around 27 or 28 million dollars on the line right here. Actually, I don't know. What is this? $200 million bet on popular vote winner? Is that what that means? I don't know. Yeah, looks like $200 million has been on this. Oh, because of the no side? Well, I don't know how this stuff works, but I'll tell you this. If you believe Polymarket, you can make that wager. you believe nate silver there's free
Starting point is 00:34:26 money waiting for you i am not telling you to make bets i am not giving you advice i'm just saying this is what we would refer i mean if nate silver is correct as an individual expert using a forecasting model and he says trump today has a 60 chance to win uh you're ev positive 60 chance to win 75 percent uh uh or you know a four four times your money all he's got to do to win is look like a good guy trump he's got to look like a good guy that doesn't get upset if he gets freaked out and angry he's gonna lose i disagree he can get angry if it's for the right reason maybe you're right get the behind me satan if you use anger to propel you forward yeah but if you're getting taunted by the person across from you know that's that's
Starting point is 00:35:04 right but but if his anger is and he had this at across from you, no. That's right, but if his anger is, and he had this at the debate, I don't know if, I think he had a good amount, if his anger was, let's say she says Trump's rallies, people are leaving early, and then Trump got angry and went, excuse me? How
Starting point is 00:35:19 dare you bring up something so inconsequential when the American people are suffering right now? The cost of gas is through the roof, Eggs are through the roof. Milk is through the roof. And you're talking about rallies, insults. This is insulting. Yeah. And then immediately offer the solutions to the people suffering. That anger lights people up. I also think he could have gotten angry about the fact that she's being flippant about his rallies when a Trump supporter died at one of his rallies in Pennsylvania. I mean, she is pretending like that didn't happen, which is amazing. And frankly, the ABC moderators let her.
Starting point is 00:35:49 He was the only one to reference the assassination attempt, which I think is a major issue. I mean, she is protected by the Secret Service. Doesn't she care that they failed? Apparently not. And that should be telling. Do you think that on the economy, Trump is better than Kamala? Ian? Yeah, I don't really see any plan that
Starting point is 00:36:06 she has at all he at least is talking about some like at the debate he didn't really get specific i want specifics but i've heard him talk to elon musk about bringing him in to fix a lot of bureaucracy which on that elon musk call which was pretty promising um i know he did put the tariffs on he really stuck it to a lot of foreign countries with he's talked a lot about nato paying their fair share things like that those good things i mean they'll they'll bring money in in the short term so they look like they're they're at least stemming the bleeding of our economy but if you really want to fix the economy you need a new fuel system i haven't heard him mention hydrogen fuel once that's it you're never going to get ian to vote for you
Starting point is 00:36:43 unless you bring up no if you're going to talk about doing the thing that we did the last 150 years and it's going to work, you're wrong. We need something new. The American, the American people aren't listening for numbers and statistics and debate. Trump dominates on the economy issue. You go to the,
Starting point is 00:36:57 you go to the grocery store, you go to the gas pump and you see that everything is expensive and it's, this is the worst time to be making good money in America. And they had great times under President Trump. And that's all people need to hear. Or that's all people need to remember. Maybe if it's an emotional thing. But when he's just like, everything is horrible.
Starting point is 00:37:16 He won the coin toss. So he wanted, I'm going to take the last word. His last word was, everything sucks. And everything's bad. And she's horrible. Amen. That's the energy you want to leave everybody with? Give me a hopeful vision
Starting point is 00:37:30 of the future, bro. Incorrect. That's why you take the last word. His closing message, which he repeated three times, and I'm saying that he repeated it three times because he could have
Starting point is 00:37:39 clearly articulated it better, was, why isn't she doing it now? His closing statement was not about what you're saying. He said, she offers you this, she offers you that, it all sounds nice, better was why isn't she doing it now his closing statement was not about what you're saying he said she offers you this she offers you that it all sounds nice but she believes in things that the american people do not his closing statement was about her it should have been about him and his
Starting point is 00:37:54 vision no not about complaining government accountability she's currently in the executive branch and she's saying everything is fine when american people know it's not nobody even left wing even left wingwing analysts afterwards were saying that was the stronger... Sorry, Hannah Claret. All the bills that are going through, she's the one stamping. Two of them, yeah. She's in two parts of the government.
Starting point is 00:38:16 You're saying she's part of the executive and the legislative branch, and she still is telling Americans that we're wrong. She did take a tie-breaking vote, the Inflation Reduction Act, that that screwed our country and she was the tiebreaker on it i'm sorry to interrupt what you were saying no you're fine i'm just saying that like even left wing analysts in mainstream media afterwards were saying you know obviously they're praising her everything that they can but i watched three different networks talk about this and every
Starting point is 00:38:40 single one was like but when we got to closing arguments and he said, why she's already there, why hasn't she done anything about it? It's difficult to refute that point. I mean, I think a lot of Americans and of course, you know, everyone has their perspective. I'm not trying to tell you that, you know, you know, obviously I respect your opinion, but I think that a lot of Americans have that question when it comes to Kamala Harris. You can't be both the vice president and also say, well, I have nothing to do with this administration, and so therefore I'm going to be a fresh face. Fact check. Yeah. 33 tie-breaking votes as of September of 2024. You take the last statement in a debate. It's not to leave a poison
Starting point is 00:39:16 pill for everyone about your enemy. It's about to give people hope about you. That's the reason you speak last, is to get them remembering you when they walk out, remembering the things you said when they walk out, not to be thinking about her. He is big boy politics, D. Come on. I mean, well, I'll concede a point to Ian. I definitely would have liked to hear about the future in his closing remarks, but I think everything that he said, he completely nailed it on the head. And I think that his closing statement won him the debate. No, I think- Oh, I totally disagree. It made me disgusted. But Ian, you got his closing statement wrong. You mischaracterized it. Pull it up. We should watch it. It's disgusting.
Starting point is 00:39:50 It's pointless. He just argues and complains. I'm getting like an 80% quote. He said, you believe in things the American people do not. Things like stopping fracking and she talks about this and that thing and this thing and it sounds good, but why haven't you done it now? That was the message that he was sending.
Starting point is 00:40:09 Now, what he needed to add to it, and I would agree with this, is he should have said, he could have been more articulate. He could have said, Kamala Harris keeps promising all of these beautiful things. She says, going to do this for you, that for you. The question is, why hasn't she already done it? If she can, she could have. She won't. Here's what I'll do. I will unleash American energy. I will produce so much energy in this country, your gasoline costs will go down. Your heat will go down.
Starting point is 00:40:34 Your bills, they will go down. Your phone bill, your health insurance will all follow suit. Your groceries will go down. Your wages will go up. And we start with energy. Should have said that. Yeah, he should have for sure ended the debate with a positive message about what he's going to do. It was zero of that, unfortunately.
Starting point is 00:40:49 But asking for Trump to give a perfect performance does not mean that he didn't perform well. I mean, I would have taken a 40 percent ending. His closing statement was a zero. It was a bitch fest. Oh, I totally disagree. I don't think he noticed. He didn't make any statements. He complained about the girl.
Starting point is 00:41:04 That was a terrible move. He said under me, we'll do all kinds of stuff. But what has she been doing? I any statements. He complained about the girl. That was a terrible move. He said under me, we'll do all kinds of stuff. But what has she been doing? I mean, I think this is the thing. Like if the objective of the debate for Trump was to stay cool, talk about the policy, like maybe he could have done better. He did talk about some stuff. He landed some some funny blows on Kamala.
Starting point is 00:41:21 Kamala had a bigger burden. She needed to define who she was. She needed to show that she understood policy and she had a plan for the country. She did not do that. And that's why I like the closing statement. I like that he was like, she's already in the White House and she's not doing anything. If she has all of these promises, which she has failed to tell us right now, why hasn't she carried them out? I think that is something voters are really considering when they look at Kamala Harris. They already know Trump and he's promised optimism. He's promised hope for years and years and years. And in this case, I think it makes sense to hold her to the fire. Why didn't he
Starting point is 00:41:52 drain the swamp? You want to talk about people not doing what they say they're going to do? I mean, that's why he said, I need more time. There's actually an answer to why he didn't drain the swamp. I just don't think you want to accept it. Well, the answer is he didn't know how. That's half the answer. It is. He brought on people that he didn't realize were bad and made a mistake. He totally failed in that regard. So hold on. Would you consider failure experience? Yeah, sure. Colin Harris has a lot more experience from failing. That's a good point.
Starting point is 00:42:18 I also don't think she's going to drain the swamp, right? She never said she was going to. That's the thing, though. If you want someone who said, I'm going to try the swamp right she never said she was going to that's the thing though like if you want someone who said i'm going to try and do these things versus the person who's like i think everything in washington is perfect the way it is i would still want the guy who my my my point is on draining the swamp donald trump brought in bad people and regretted it later and fired a bunch of them and so many people would would jokingly refer to this as he drained a lot of the swamp, but the swamp monsters were still there. The water came down. We saw the swamp monsters and he didn't get rid of them.
Starting point is 00:42:50 Hopefully, now that he's learned from this, the next time he will. But voting for Kamala Harris is a guarantee that that never happens. Well, I do agree with that, actually. She's very tied in with the bureaucratic empire. And I'm letting you guys know i really want some positive change in this country and i would really love to see someone empower our industrial base but i'm just calling this objectively as i saw it what about rfk jr i love the guy would you would you would you support rfk jr i do support rfk jr you do he said to vote for trump i know and he said a trump victory is an
Starting point is 00:43:19 rfk victory he says you vote for trump and we're going to make america healthy again so i gotta tell you bro i don't think i understand you have a social argument, concerns about the divisive nature of where this country is. But I feel like mathematically you can you can you can call Trump every name in the book. But RFK Jr. has asked for your help. I know. Got to do it. So what do you think of RFK's endorsement of Trump? I know it's a couple weeks ago. I think it's great. Got to unify. I was kind of worried about RFK remaining on the ballot to split up the vote in some way. But I think his movement and our movement align very much.
Starting point is 00:43:59 And I'm glad to see we're all on the same team. I think Ian really didn't like the presidential debate because they didn't bring up graphing enough. They didn't bring it up at all? They didn't bring up graphene at all. If Donald Trump— Oh, Joel's calling you out, Ian. If the whole— I'm going to let you vote, Ian. No, no, no, listen, listen.
Starting point is 00:44:10 If the debate went exactly identically in every way, but right at the end as he's saying, why hasn't she done it? Why hasn't she done it? And why won't you talk about graphene? Thank you, everybody. Goodbye. Ian would be like, it was the greatest debate ever. Donald Trump won the debate.
Starting point is 00:44:22 Yeah, yeah, yeah. It would have been great if he talked about industry. Yeah, I mean, obviously that's a bit silly if he just said the word graphene but I mean I would have lit up if he had uh just to make that noise known by the populace I I propose this to you uh sir Crossland you should continue to criticize Donald Trump in the exact way that you are and then vote for him because RFK Jr. has made the public statement and has asked for your help. And outside of the statement, I genuinely believe RFK Jr. is the guy. He is like when we talk about seed oils, we talk about environmental toxins, we talk about radiation, all this garbage.
Starting point is 00:45:00 Him being a part of the Trump team is one of the most important things of our generation. Yeah, there's other people, too, that are very behind. Tulsi Gabbard. Robert Malone. Oh, absolutely. Brett Weinstein. These brilliant people that I highly respect are in support. They're doing that rally on the 29th.
Starting point is 00:45:18 I didn't know about that. Yeah, the Save the Republic rally. So I'm just saying, if you don't like Trump, that's totally fine. And I understand a lot of people don't like Trump, that's totally fine. And I understand a lot of people don't like the guy, but vote for those that are around him. And I got to say like RFK Jr. for the most, because he's a he's a he's a liberal guy. And he's called it the censorship, the war machine, the pharmaceutical industrial complex. And the you know, when he talks about the environmental diseases and chronic illness, he's not pointing to, you know, a guy that we're mad at.
Starting point is 00:45:49 He's talking to a state of emergence in this country where we became negligent, allowed phthalates, PCBs, plastic, all this garbage in our surroundings and our food that's poisoned people. And he wants to solve that problem. And it's one of the only times we've actually gotten a real chance at having someone come in to deal with this. Then you've got to throw in Elon Musk's Department of Government. What is it? Doge. Yeah, Doge. Urban Efficiency. Efficiency, that's right.
Starting point is 00:46:13 Doge. It's like, be mad at Trump. Get mad that he was too flustered or he got easily goaded. But the people around him is a gift. Yeah, this is what we're at. We're altering the world order into a new world order of some sort. We're creating a new world order and we got to talk. I feel like we could do an entire episode on how we can craft a better world order than what we've got that's better than
Starting point is 00:46:34 bricks. Because if we don't, bricks is going to take over. I agree. I think Trump's coalition right now is one of the most epic things you could have ever asked for. You've got. Talk about coalitions. If Joe Biden could put on a MAGA hat, I think Ian. Oh, dude. What's he thinking? I'll get you that.
Starting point is 00:46:51 He loves Trump. He's campaigning for Trump. He kept the hat. He did keep it. I think he can't stand his VP or something. So check it out. There's speculation that. So he releases a letter on Twitter that he's dropping out. Let's dedicate some time to this. Okay. So Joe Biden wears a Trump hat, keeps the Trump hat, and everyone's, and the White House
Starting point is 00:47:14 says it's because he's trying to show unity or build unity. But there's some speculation, and I think it's wishful thinking, but speculation. So when Joe Biden drops out of the race initially, it was through a Twitter letter. And the conspiracy theory was Biden did not release that letter. He had been saying the whole time up to that point, I will not drop out no matter what. Then all of a sudden, without a video or a public statement, a letter appears. The conspiracy theory was that staffers uploaded that to his account without his permission or knowledge to force him. Because now you can't go back. What are you going to do? Come out and claim that a Kamala or the or the Obamas secretly did this? Nope. You're out. It was a coup. And he went on to say later that he was upset about it.
Starting point is 00:47:57 He didn't want to drop out. He thought he could win. There's speculation now that he put the Trump hat on because he's out. He knows he's out. He has no reason to benefit any of these people. He's been on the beach now for how long? People keep posting these photos of him on vacation and they're like, this guy's checked out. He's no longer president. He like he is, but he's just basically in his mind saying, you pushed me out, you shut me down. I just don't care anymore. He must feel a certain level of betrayal from the Democrats and these Democrats that he has considered his friends and allies for years. I mean, I was listening to a New York Times analyst talk about this afterwards. And she said that there was actually it was it was a New York Times interview with a senior executive with for
Starting point is 00:48:42 the DNC. And she said that she saw Biden's letter go out on on July 21st. And she was like, oh, my goodness, it's happening. And then there was like a hour, 30 minute delay before he released a statement endorsing Kamala. And she said before during that time, she was actually kind of nervous because it was like he hasn't endorsed Kamala. This is throwing us into chaos. And, you know, I could understand where if the drafted letter was written by someone who didn't have authority and they kind of forced his hand by releasing it, why there would be a delay and then a separate endorsement of Kamala. Why? Because it could have all been one statement.
Starting point is 00:49:18 Well, there is a known history of the Bidens hating Kamala Harris going back to the 2020 elections when Kamala first went for the jugular at Joe Biden on the debate stage, pretty much calling him a racist. She did. And I think I remember reading after that, how Jill, after that Jill Biden just totally was on the war path against Kamala Harris. And these are, you know, these are the top politicians in the country. There is no optic that will go unnoticed or unthought about. So putting Joe Biden, putting on a MAGA hat is a significant stab to Kamala Harris. Is it? It really is. Charlemagne, the God called him the
Starting point is 00:49:57 donkey of the day for doing it. Democrats were pissed off about it. They scrambled to try and claim that was no big deal to nobody. He says unity. No, I think that was a... He was a screw you. Yeah, I wouldn't call it an endorsement. I think it was a... I'm done. I'm done with this. Could you imagine some people were tweeting, and I know it's wishful thinking, the October surprise is actually
Starting point is 00:50:18 Biden coming out saying, vote Trump. That would be hilarious. Or if he withdraws his endorsement from Congress. Then they might say that he has adventure. What if he's like, you know from Congress. Then they might say that he has a venture. You know, I... Yep, yep. Biden's too old.
Starting point is 00:50:29 Wouldn't that be funny, though, if they're like, actually, he's senile. We must remove him right now. Yeah, yeah. 25th Amendment right now. But what if he just, like, says, actually, I've been thinking about it. You know, this process wasn't right. You know, she didn't win the primary. I can't, in good faith, continue to endorse Kamala Harris, who otherwise is a lovely lady, I'm sure.
Starting point is 00:50:45 You know, what if he just sort of turns tides and starts starts just not being pro-Trump, but being subtly anti-Kamala? It'd be funny if he comes out and he just says, if you take a look at my political positions from the 90s, you know, some 30 some odd years ago into the 80s. I mean, we're going almost 40 years ago. I kind of agree with Donald Trump on most of these things. The only reason Joe Biden, like Joe Biden's politics now are what he's being told to say. All this progressive stuff. Now, if you go look at Joe Biden when he was half this age or whatever, he should be endorsing Trump. He's hardcore.
Starting point is 00:51:21 He was hardcore in the 90s. Like, he was real anti-drugs. I mean, he signed that drug law, the kind of dumb drug law in the 92s like he was real anti-drugs i mean he signed that drug law the kind of dumb drug law on the 1992 i think it was or something 94 um is it is it common joel for staffers to control candidates twitter accounts tell us mr comms guy i mean it depends on the dynamic of your um just how you have your communications strategy set up. I know when I was on the Gates team, I primarily managed his official at rep Matt Gates account.
Starting point is 00:51:55 That was where we put all of our congressional news out. The at Matt Gates account that he controls, he totally controls that. I don't have any passwords or anything. So everything you see from that account is him. Same goes with Lauren Boebert. I primarily am controlling the rep Boebert account, which is where we push out that news. And she controls her own account. It could be different for other people.
Starting point is 00:52:18 I think it should be federally mandated that it says on the account if it's controlled by staffers firstly so that you can't run a coup against the candidate some of them do say that in the bio some of them will say like this is yes some of them do have a um i forget who has this i think chip roy has like a chip roy press office title uh i think it'd be helpful to know that some staff are putting up but ultimately when you know if a congressman is signing off on a tweet, that's you know, that's their voice, too. Yeah, but Ian's right. It should be a law that any material representation must be like if the account is run by multiple people, then you should not you should not be able to as a politician say that it's you when it's someone else. Especially like what we're looking at Biden, like someone if that truly is the administrative state was in there. And I'm just saying his staffers might've been contacted by like deep, deep, deep state being like, you're going to be putting this stuff out now. And Biden's no longer with us anymore.
Starting point is 00:53:10 And they're like, okay, we're going to do what we're told because that's why we're here. We're learning. And we're with you. Who knows? But I don't want someone to run a social media coup on my candidate, basically. So I need to know that someone else has access to that account. It's the point. And I think that's what they did is they ran a social media coup on Biden.
Starting point is 00:53:28 I don't know. I can't prove it because I can't tell if he controlled that account or someone else did. But the stuff that was coming out of that did not sound like the words coming out of his mouth. Oh, I don't think he runs his official his accounts at all. I mean, Trump, I don't think he runs his accounts. Trump 100% runs his accounts. I think it would be even difficult to replicate
Starting point is 00:53:44 his random capitalization. Like he is making it so that he is a unique voice only on his platform. But that was not the case with Biden at all. I think there was even a case where Corinne Jean-Pierre clearly tweeted like something she meant to be from her account that was actually delivered from the Biden account. But, you know, the day and age of social media is fascinating. And it is also interesting to sort of contrast the presidency with especially Congress, because there are so many young people coming up who are aware of how influential social media could be. I mean, this is one of AOC's big wins that she established a voice on social media that people really felt resonated with who she was. I think other staffers are able to do this, but not all of them have have the same tenacity for it. It would be great if there were visible short term consequences to being stupid and being wrong. So, you know, Karine Jean-Pierre says insane things every day and I don't even know
Starting point is 00:54:35 why anyone bothers to pay attention. And then you get poor Ducey over there asking real questions. And then she just gives a nonsense answer. And all the other corporate press just clap. And I'm like, in governance, the problem is someone will propose a policy and we don't know what the ramifications are going to be. Just sounds right. If there was a way to actually run a simulation before doing it, that would be great. And I started thinking, like, what if that's the real purpose of the simulation that we're in? It's the most one of the most inconsequential things ever. It's a session of Congress and they're like, I've got a bill proposing a tax on imported cheeses from Europe. Well, we need to see what it's going to do before we vote yes on it.
Starting point is 00:55:10 So the entire universal span of our existence right now is actually just a three-minute AI button press in Congress where they're trying to see what happens with this one particular tariff. I've actually thought that when your body dies, that you get to, time speeds up and you get to see the rest of reality play out as if it was programmed
Starting point is 00:55:29 by your behavior up to that point. So like, depending on what you do in your life, you're going to see the result of it play out really quickly afterwards
Starting point is 00:55:35 and you'll be like, oh, well, I didn't like how all that turned out. I'm going to try that again kind of thing. I don't know if that has to do with the policy or anything, but my statement also.
Starting point is 00:55:44 Sort of like you are the supercomputer witnessing your own program. I don't know if that has to do with policy or anything, but my statement also. Sort of like you are the supercomputer witnessing your own program. I don't know if I trust the AI that much right now. We should have AI. Altman's AI or Elon's AI? I'm just saying the issue with Congress is they say, hey, we want to ban this thing, and they don't actually know what that's going to do. So perverse incentives is the best example of these mistakes
Starting point is 00:56:02 that government often make. Shout out to Chris Ruffo, who offered five grand for evidence of people eating cats in Springfield, Ohio, to which I pointed out, all that's going to happen is some Haitian dude's going to be like, dude, quick, get a cat. We're going to get five grand. Like, they don't care about the news. You're a good point. You make a good point about AI. And a useful function for AI would be to run simulations on outcomes of policy, like supercom computations and
Starting point is 00:56:26 stuff like that on quantum computers. That'd be great to be able to watch like 7,000 potential outcomes of one vote. Or if members of Congress could just read the bill. What a crazy concept! Or not be paid by taking lobbyist money to make decisions on their behalf. Or they weren't allowed to sneak unrelated additions into any. Yeah, let the bills be single subject bills and pertain to the actual germanity of what they're talking about. Did you guys ever, with the Gates office,
Starting point is 00:56:53 I don't want you, you can't speak for Matt, obviously, but did you guys ever like regret pushing McCarthy out? Absolutely not. Absolutely not. Now, he was a liar. There was nothing that could be trusted out of his mouth because he was owned by the special interests and the lobbyists. And he had repeatedly made these promises that were broken and we weren't going to tolerate it if we had something to do about it.
Starting point is 00:57:19 Was it where his hands tied and he just had no, he's like a cog in a machine of, and it's like, you're in that position now, you're going to do what you're told kind of thing. McCarthy? Yeah, and the new guy. What's the new guy, Mike Johnson? Well, I think if you're in government, you have a responsibility to do what you said you were going to do when you got elected. And I don't remember him going up on a campaign stage
Starting point is 00:57:37 and said, I'm going to do the bidding of the lobbyists from now until forever. Wouldn't it be funny if he had, though? He was just like, I'm here for the lobbyists. What was the fallout afterwards i mean you know were you guys were were the congressmen who who really pushed against uh the speaker ostracized in any way did you see that the movement had some support were they i mean they they were calling for gates to be kicked out of the republican party
Starting point is 00:58:04 some even throwing that's obviously died away i mean like today as it's like immediately I mean, they were calling for Gates to be kicked out of the Republican Party. Some even throwing. But that's obviously died away. I mean, like today as it stands. But like immediately after we kicked him out, I mean, lots of people were calling for him to even be expelled. Matt Gates. I mean, he wasn't. So what were the consequences today? Like there is a new speaker now.
Starting point is 00:58:20 Do they do this? Is this something that comes up a lot? Are people unwilling to work with certain congressmen because of this tie to trying to oust the last speaker? No, I think it's kind of exposed this Wizard of Oz mentality that these past speakers have been going through. You know, like Paul Ryan had no heart. Then you got Kevin McCarthy, who has no brain. And now we have Mike Johnson, who has no courage. And it is frustrating to when you don't have the votes to get a genuine person who will
Starting point is 00:58:55 be a change agent in those positions to just have, you know, someone who kind of turns out to just be another disappointment. But, you know, at the end of the day, we were facing an option between keeping this, you know, lobbyist puppet in office and not fighting our battles, or we could try something new. And we decided to try something new because we told our constituents that we were going to be fighting for the promises that we had told them that we got from the January fight, which were
Starting point is 00:59:27 single subject spending bills, um, and a lot more, and they didn't live up to that. And they thought that they could, you know, push us around and, um, you know, keep pushing the deadline for, or I'm sorry, keep moving the goalposts for things that needed to be done up until, you know, the end of the year when they should have been working on it all year. And, you know, we weren't going to have it. So you mentioned before the show about the continuing resolution bill that had the there was something attached about that Massey was talking about. What was that? Yeah, there's a bill called the SAVE Act that was attached to the CR or was supposed to be attached to the CR, which actually was passed a few months ago.
Starting point is 01:00:10 I think over 221 members of Congress voted in favor of it, including I think five Democrats. I might be wrong on that, but there were definitely Democrats who joined in on the bill. And that was kind of like the shiny object for people to vote for the CR. And the Save Act's good, And that was kind of like the shiny object for people to vote for the CR In the save acts good
Starting point is 01:00:27 but it you know it it wasn't going to be implemented in time for November and You know like President Trump said on true social if there weren't absolute assurances that we were going to get election security should vote no on it and We you know it did it look like eventually both sides Said that they weren't going to vote for it let's jump to this next story ladies and gentlemen it was an effort to insult donald trump instead it turned into a based meme you guys ready for this one oh yeah here we go in springfield they're eating the dogs the people that came in they're eating the dogs, the people that came in. They're eating the cats.
Starting point is 01:01:07 They're eating the pets of the people that live there. And this is what's happening in our country. And it's a shame. They're eating the dogs. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. They're eating the dogs. Oh! And this is what's happening. Dogs, dogs, dogs, dogs. All right, I think we made our point with this. Oh, that's so brilliant. Brilliant work.
Starting point is 01:01:55 Redheaded Libertarian says, the guy who originally mixed this having a meltdown because it's not pro-Trump and he's literally a socialist. Well, it's our song now, comrade. And so this guy, he changed his name to Benny Johnson Can Eat Ish, and he says, I updated my display name. It's stuck like this
Starting point is 01:02:12 now, and it won't let me change it back. WTF. If you're reading this, F Trump, I'm literally a socialist. This is not a pro-Trump song. And he locked his account. Megaphonics music. I gotta say, dude, you are super talented. Regardless of all that you're great they don't get it they they they don't understand them like it's funny yeah it's
Starting point is 01:02:32 it's a it's a it's okay i don't get beat i don't understand why they think this is supposed to be like haha look we're making fun of trump they don't they fundamentally do not understand trump or his supporters i know this. I was thinking this. I was trying to find out a good way to put it in writing. I figured I'd just say it on the show. If you make fun of me, but you do it in a really great way, I'm going to love you. If you do it in a really terrible way, you're forgotten. That's it.
Starting point is 01:02:56 This guy did it in a great way, and everyone loves him for it. That's all. Yeah, but it's Trump supporters who like it. He doesn't like Trump. Because they see reality. Not all Trump supporters see reality, but a lot of the reason people are supporting Trump is because he was red pilling the world in real time in like 2016 and 17 talking about the administrative state. And what these midwits don't understand is that your run of the mill average person collects
Starting point is 01:03:19 information peripherally. This means that with a song like this going viral, this post on Reddit Libertarian's Axe account has nearly a million views. No one's going to run a fact check on this. There's going to be some random guy hanging out with his buddies, and someone's going to play it, and he's going to hear in the background while he's watching a football game, they're eating the dogs.
Starting point is 01:03:39 Whoa, they're eating the dogs. And then he's going to be like, later on he's going to be like, I heard that they were eating dogs. That's it. And people are going to be like, yeah, I heard the same thing. What's this Trump eating the dogs? And then he's going to be like, later on he's going to be like, I heard that they were eating dogs. That's it. And people are going to be like, yeah, I heard the same thing. What's this Trump eating the dogs? And then people will look into it.
Starting point is 01:03:53 Well, that's also a win of Trump's from the debate. Like he was driving the narrative and continues to drive the narrative after the debate because, you know, some of the commentary world, the news pundits are talking about, you know, the minor details of who won the debate. Meanwhile, you know, regular folks that I talk to, they're talking about psycho migrants eating dogs in Springfield. They're talking about illegal gang, illegal Venezuelan gangs taking over apartment complexes in parts of Aurora, Colorado. So, you know.
Starting point is 01:04:20 Definitely drove more attention to Springfield, Ohio. I think the news media was just about ready to smother that one. And now, you know, at least I know a number of reporters who have been like, I'm headed there immediately, which for better or worse in the town. But, you know, it makes it so this is a conversation of like, that's a crazy thing for Trump to say. But why would he say it? And I think the impact of crime by illegal immigrants in this country is actually undeniable and a concern for for a lot of Americans. This is doesn't even make Hassan look bad. Right. So someone most watchable Hassan clip. Right. Somebody who doesn't know politics just sees a dude cheering. Yeah. Like I could I could send this clip to someone and say, look how excited Hassan was that Trump brought up the serious problem in Springfield, Ohio. And he's going, yo! And you could argue that that was complimentary, that he's cheering Trump on. I just read this from ABC News that Ohio is sending troopers and $2.5
Starting point is 01:05:14 million to Springfield. The governor was on Fox News today being like, there are very serious problems. And he said, well, you know, like, I think he was deferential on the pets thing, but he said they can't drive cars. The driving laws in Haiti are way different. And so these people come here. There's 15,000 of them. And the law says if you're 18, you can get a driver's license, but they don't know how to drive and they're crashing their cars. Dude, the problems are massive. And the media is going like, I got to point this out.
Starting point is 01:05:43 He put Pepe in it, too. What did you think was going to happen? Exactly. Anyway. A dancing frog, dude. Come on. A couple of them. And anyway, the governor is like, we've got to send in all the troopers and this money
Starting point is 01:05:53 because these problems. The crazy thing to me is that when Trump says they're eating the dogs, the media just says, well, we asked a bureaucrat. He denies this. And they don't even look into the city at all which is which is laden with crisis so they're it's it's i'm still wondering what's happening in springfield what's happening in spring sounds like a simpsons episode they're eating the dogs there's a video of a woman crying saying that she found a decapitated dog we don't know like where these people are from or how she's
Starting point is 01:06:19 crying being like y'all are making fun of it you're making jokes about it and we're suffering we're scared yeah no there's a bunch of videos of locals being like i seen'all are making fun of it. You're making jokes about it. And we're suffering. We're scared. Yeah. No, there's a bunch of videos of locals being like, I seen it. They're rounding up cats. And the biggest thing is like 15,000 Haitian migrants have arrived in Springfield pretty rapidly. Springfield is what? Less than 55,000 people. So it's a big, it's a big boost on their population.
Starting point is 01:06:39 And I think about three years, they have temporary protected status under the Biden administration. There are local resources now being diverted to support them. Like there's a Haiti community center that's specifically to help the refugees, which, you know, I don't know if they are technically refugees or what their claim was when they arrived. But it's causing this relationship with the town where the people are struggling. And I do not think the claim that all immigrants assimilate apply here. It seems like there is a divide between this growing population of people who come from a different culture and who are maybe not aware or abiding by all of the laws of the area. And then the locals who feel as though this is not something that benefits them. I mean, DeWine, the governor of Ohio, just asked for additional support from the federal government because of this result.
Starting point is 01:07:31 You know, I know the idea that like we would say, oh, they're eating the dogs freaks people out. It's the flashiest way to do it. But in some ways, I'm glad that's how Trump put it, because I don't think you can just say that immigration has no effect or only has a positive effect on America. It can have a negative effect when there's no cultural assimilation and there's no real investment in the nation. If you're a population living somewhere, but lawlessly, that's not great. Yeah. And you also have residents who are going to town meetings on camera, voicing that they've seen firsthand of these migrants, you know, taking geese out of ponds, seeing, you know, people's pets going missing. And then there's a weird barbecue
Starting point is 01:08:11 happening in the alley. So you have people that are just totally not connected to politics now coming to their, you know, representatives and saying, what the hell's going on? And the people have have amnesty. All the immigrants that are doing this are like, they have temporary protected status. They're allowed to be here. So they're not illegal. On the other hand, I don't think that's exactly the immigration system we want for for the president to say, well, these people now are granted an ability to stay here. This is small town, Ohio. I'm from a town of 50,000 people in Ohio. This is like exactly what I grew up in or Cuyahoga Falls.
Starting point is 01:08:44 Twenty five years ago, Can you imagine? Springfield is just outside of Dayton. Okay, so it's west, northwest Ohio. I grew up in Cuyahoga Falls, 45,000 people. It was the exact same size apparently as Springfield. I don't know, square kilometer or whatever, but importing
Starting point is 01:08:59 15,000 people from another country that have a different culture? In like three years. That would have completely disrupted our city. No one was eating your pets under President Trump, Ian. Just walking around. I could go to the park, leave our back door open, ride my bike alone at 10 o'clock, 9 o'clock at night.
Starting point is 01:09:20 If there were dudes walking around from a foreign country that didn't speak my language, it would have changed everything. Crashing cars too. So even if we get, if, even if we want to say, fine, I don't care, drop the dog thing. The governor is talking about this. The locals are talking about this. They don't know how to drive cars. And he says they don't have driver education. So there's crazy videos of them crashing because they just don't know how to drive. Man, it's hard. I think, for people outside of it to visualize how that can change a society when a fourth of your people don't speak the language
Starting point is 01:09:53 or are from outside of the country. Not that they all don't speak the language, but within a three-year period, how absorbent. Yeah, a lot of the residents are talking about the wait times at hospitals and for medical services. I mean, separate from the more like spicy headline making topics, it's a very difficult thing to drop on a small town in America that might be already struggling economically. And that's what the Biden administration did because they do not care about middle America. He said, I'm going to grant them status and that's it.
Starting point is 01:10:22 You guys have to deal with it. And the town, I assume, did the best they could. But it's not as easy as just saying, well, you live here now. And so everything is fine. It's sort of the opposite of that. Thinking about them driving and crashing. No, he's thinking about voting for Trump. What's the traffic?
Starting point is 01:10:38 What's the traffic? Yeah. Did you hear him talk about deportation? I wish they went deeper on that in the debate. A little bit. He said local police. But once again, I agree with you that Kamala goaded Trump and Trump started getting too involved in these like talking about the election was a mistake. He did correct that and said that's
Starting point is 01:10:54 old news when he thought that was good. That was a good move to. But he did roast a little too long on it. Yeah, he needed he had a great opportunity. I think I think he missed a great opportunity. But it was his it was it was it was Kamala's Kamala needed the opportunity. I think he missed a great opportunity, but it was Kamala's. Kamala needed the opportunity. Trump didn't. And Kamala did not. You bring it home. I think she's talking to people,
Starting point is 01:11:12 in this instance, about immigration and deportation. She seems to be talking to people that don't understand what's happening or they're just hearing about it in the news. And he's talking to the people that are directly being impacted or involved with people in their neighborhood that are creating gangs or new, weird, not weird, but new cultures of like strange, you call it whatever, weird, strange, just different cultures.
Starting point is 01:11:37 It's a bigger deal than it seems, especially for little kids, man. I mean, people are posting videos from Haiti where they're eating cats and, and these are all over the internet. And so the assumption is here, I'll tell you this, how are you supposed to find evidence that they're eating cats? They ate the cat. Like what, what is the evidence? Like you find a cat skeleton buried somewhere, I guess, maybe, I don't know. It's in the garbage. They threw in the garbage, the garbage is taken out. So I don't know what these people are going to expect to find. We know that there are videos out of Haiti where they eat cats. You put 15,000 Haitians in this town, it seems like it may, it's reasonable to assume it may
Starting point is 01:12:13 have happened. I don't know. Is it just a common food there? They eat them like we eat pigs kind of thing? It depends on what you read. But if you Google search and you set the time frame for only before August, you'll see a lot of stories about how it's a rarity. It's like a traditional thing. Some people do it because they're desperate, but usually that's not the reason. It's like they might cook a cat for a holiday. I don't know how much of that's true, though. But before the controversy, you can find tons of stories about Haitians eating cats. Man, in the United States, it's like taboo to eat dogs and cats. You just don't do it here.
Starting point is 01:12:46 Yeah, because they're our friends. Well, the thing is, there are reports that they're stealing pets of people in those towns. But here's what I would say. I think that's where it gets confusing to people, and it sounds crazy, right? Cats are let outside. You have a cat, you open the door, the cat goes off. So what if, here's the reasonable assumption, if Haitians do eat cats, you know, from Haiti,
Starting point is 01:13:10 not like somebody who's born in America and is Haitian, okay? There's a woman who made a video where she says she's Haitian, but she's from America, and she's like, her dad, like, talked about this stuff. It's crazy. So let's say there's a cat walking on the street. They walk up to it, they catch it, and they snap its neck, and they go, hey, we got a cat. They eat it.
Starting point is 01:13:29 That was someone's pet. They didn't go and steal it from someone's house. It was a cat walking around the neighborhood that they just thought was an animal, a wild animal. So when we see complaints from locals about ducks and geese being taken, there's a video, there's a photo. It's not from Ohio, but it's a guy carrying a goose. We don't know exactly what the context is. But if it is reasonable to assume that they do take ducks and geese, then what's the difference of them grabbing a cat off the street? Or not even the street, like a tree. They're walking through the park and they see a duck and they see a cat and they're like, here you go, meat.
Starting point is 01:13:56 I think if you've got people who grew up in a society where they hunt for food and they eat whatever food they can get, or they have different traditions. I don't understand why the media wants to play this. Well, I do get it. They're lying because they're trying to cover things up, but it's silly. It is not unreasonable to say a foreign culture that has reports of eating cats comes to the United States and doesn't understand our norms, our laws,
Starting point is 01:14:19 whatever, eats cats. Yeah, and three years without, I mean, indoctrination takes decades to learn to really, it's not like they come here and start watching the news and start to immediately all learn everything about American culture. You get here and you're like, where's little Haiti? I need to go hang out with people that speak my language. Let's get started.
Starting point is 01:14:36 The governor of Ohio said this. They first bring in Haitians. And then when other Haitians come, they say, I want to go where I fit in. And so they move to this area. That is a problem. And it inhibits assimilation and it makes the lives of the migrants worse off. But let's jump to this next story. This is a big one. The Telegraph says the conservative Michael Moore taking on the crazy diversity industry. I'd like to give a shout out to Matt Walsh. He is doing the Lord's work. I'd like to give a shout out to the Daily Wire crew and everyone who worked on What
Starting point is 01:15:07 Is A Woman as well as Am I Racist? It is some of the greatest and most important activism, some of the most effective and brilliant activism, and Matt Walsh deserves some kind of like, I don't know, independent media Emmy equivalent or whatever. Check this out. Riley Gaines says several interviewees from Matt Walsh's new film, Am I Racist, have deactivated their X accounts since the trailer went public. As always, sunlight is the best disinfectant. And he says, folks, you're welcome. But now we have a statement from Robin D'Angelo, PhD. She basically wastes time explaining what happened. We don't need to
Starting point is 01:15:42 hear it. But here's where it gets interesting. It seems like she may be lining up a fraud claim. And I noticed this right away reading her statement. She makes reference to receiving money, $15,000, to participate in a film called Shades of Justice about efforts to address racism in the United States. They plan to interview anti-racist activists, authors, and thought leaders in service of supporting the cause of racial equity. They offered between $10,000 and $20,000 for an interview. I said, let's meet in the middle with $15,000 and agreed to participate. When she arrived, she says a few things felt off. The groups did not make eye contact with me, and the interviewer who was introduced as Matt appeared to be wearing an ill-fitting wig.
Starting point is 01:16:21 Matt presented himself as someone new to anti-racist work and seemed earnest, and his questions did not come across as adversarial. By the end, however, things got weird. She basically goes on to explain the scene that everybody's seen already, where she pays reparations to the black producer, Ben. She tries to make it seem like Ben is a victim when the producer of the film is clearly in on it with Matt. Here's where it gets interesting, though. She does go on to criticize Matt, but she brings up how it was misrepresented. It was a different film. And I wonder if she's trying to present some kind of fraud claim. Now, so I've had some conversations behind the scenes asking some friends of mine who are lawyers what they thought. None of this is by means legal expertise or anything, just some I'm curious. And I want to say something I want
Starting point is 01:17:05 to, I want, I want to opine on there. When you, when you get those Borat style mockumentaries, my understanding is he doesn't pay anybody, but I don't know for sure. My understanding was that he just goes and says, Oh, we're filming a video about this wacky guy who moves to America. You want to be in it? General release. And we'll film you. What Robin is claiming is that it was a different film name and they materially misrepresented what was being requested from her and the reason why they were giving her money. So I'll totally break, I'll phrase this another way. Imagine you were offered a role in a movie and they said, Ian, we want you to be in a commercial for the Super Bowl where you are going to, I don't know, cut your nose hair or something using someone's scissors or something like this.
Starting point is 01:17:55 Let's say you agree to be in that commercial. You film a bunch of different scenes. They pay you money. And the commercial that airs says that you have AIDS. You have HIV, and it shows you sitting in a chair and it's playing sad music. This actually happened once. There was a woman and she was a model. This is a famous story. And they asked her to take a picture. And what she didn't know was that they ran it as an advertisement where it was her and a husband. And there were little kids who were disgustingly ugly and they were advertising plastic surgery doing it's a film called Shades of Justice.
Starting point is 01:18:46 We're going to pay you fifteen thousand dollars in exchange for your interview, which is legal consideration, but misrepresenting it. The first thing I thought when I when I read this was I wonder if she wants to sue for fraud or she's trying to make make that the claim. As an actor in that situation, I would feel defrauded for sure. If they paid me and used me to promote some message that I didn't agree to, yeah, hopefully there would be a legal system in place to help me against a company that would do that kind of thing. I'll say a couple things on top of that, though. If she did sue The Daily Wire, they'd make substantially more money. They may be counting on these people suing.
Starting point is 01:19:26 But also, it may actually just be that they never misrepresented anything she said. Everything she said was her own words. And so she may not have any claims at all. And I have to imagine the Daily Wire had strong legal go through everything. I'm just saying it sounds like she wants to take the angle that she was that they committed fraud against her. I wonder if they actually created a company the show was it called shades of shades of justice was the film that film so they didn't actually put out a film called shades of justice but if they like created an entity that then paid her and so it was on the
Starting point is 01:19:57 table like that they had a company made just for the purpose of owning this movie that that or if it's actually daily wire saying that they were a different company misrepresenting the company and i got anger that would have been a different story i gotta be honest though uh if they reached out if the daily wire reached out to uh robin d'angelo and said we're working on a documentary film called am i racist where we explore racism we talk to academics she that that name is not bad that she would have said okay that's a good point yeah she would have said, okay. That's a good point. Yeah. She would have been like, oh yeah. Wow. And it was like asking the question of like, what is racism?
Starting point is 01:20:28 Are people actually racist? And we want the academics to explain what that is because a lot of people don't think they are. That would have worked out just fine. I'm sure they wanted her to have that guard down. I think that she was talking to some kind of an ally. I was going to say, as long as it wasn't the Daily Wire that reached out, she would have not said yes to that.
Starting point is 01:20:42 Am I racist? A film title she might have gone for. Or if she said yes, then she would have been very defensive against the Daily Wire that reached out. She would have not said yes to that. Am I racist? A film title she might have gone for. Or if she said yes, then she would have been very defensive against the Daily Wire and wouldn't have done some of the ridiculous things on camera. But Matt Walsh literally walks in the room and she doesn't know who he is. When she says ill-fitting wig, I'm like, you thought that later. You didn't know it was a big wig. That's the vibe I'm getting, too.
Starting point is 01:20:57 And I think it's interesting that she is like he did appear to be in earnest. I think he was in earnest. I think Matt Walsh is someone who is intellectually curious. Like, I think he really did want her genuine take and response, which is which is also interesting. Like you were asked questions that someone really did want the answer to. It wasn't like a gotcha prank. And then he like, I mean, I guess she had to pay the producer, but it's not like he
Starting point is 01:21:19 it was humiliating. If these are your values, I would assume. I don't know. I just got to say as well, though, Matt Walsh is a master of deadpan. So she may be, maybe thinks it's an earnest because he's just so like deadpan. You just can't read him at all. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:21:33 He's just like, so am I racist? And it's just like, you don't get to read. He's just Matt, Matt should let up. Matt, do you play poker?
Starting point is 01:21:40 Matt would be a great poker player. He'd be sitting there stone face. And they'd be like, I have no idea. He's a really unique guy. Because at first I'm like, oh, he's just like your normal average guy, but that's what's unique about him
Starting point is 01:21:51 is he's so, almost like blends in to the background. And I think he does that maybe by choice. That's kind of his... I just, I can only imagine the things that Matt Walsh has seen that has brought him to a point where he is unfazed by all of these things before him. Yeah, what was his childhood like? I don't know anything about it. I don't know. I
Starting point is 01:22:08 want to hang out with them and know. He saw great combat, conflict and war. And now it's like nothing, nothing gets him going. He's just like, okay. Was he just on Reddit for like eight years when he was younger? And now he's like, nothing can faze me. I just found out recently he's younger than me. Oh yeah. I'm older than Matt Walsh by three months. He's very adult. It's the beard. And the kids. I'll never have a Matt Walsh beard. I'm excited. This is coming out to... Oh, did it come out today? We gotta watch this.
Starting point is 01:22:34 This week, right? I think today is a Thursday previews and then tomorrow is the movie. So I can't comment too much on it until I see the movie, yeah. You can already tell it's gonna be massive. They're running TV commercials for it. It's's in theaters i'm super excited for this one it's gonna go korean barbecue and then watch the movie that sounds like a good idea it's gonna make her way more famous that's for sure robin d'angelo i think a lot of people didn't know who she was this i am so proud of the
Starting point is 01:22:59 daily wire i can't this is exactly what i've been talking about the whole time about how you win a culture war. You, so far what I've seen from the trailers, they have just presented them as they are, but with an authoritative tone of how silly are they? Because you want to, you want people, you want to create an atmosphere where everyone thinks, oh, of course I'm not stupid like they are, but you don't accomplish that by being so overt. Like you see that show, The New Norm, we roasted several times where they try and do these shows that are just on the nose.
Starting point is 01:23:32 Actually, Daily Wire was accused of this with the Mr. Bertram or whatever that show was called. They said all of, or Lady Ballers, they say all of the jokes are too on the nose. It's like you're literally just saying this is a bad thing. This is masterfully done in that Matt Walsh, in earnest, asking
Starting point is 01:23:50 them questions, makes them look stupid. And it makes them the butt of the joke without directly saying they're stupid. I'm just wondering, am I racist? Genuine question. I wonder about that. What is white supremacy? Have you given Serge reparations? No, I never did.
Starting point is 01:24:06 He's African American. I want to repair his microphone. That'd be a nice place to start. It's not broken. Serge made a choice. Look at that haircut, man. Serge made a creative decision. Is it even cut? That hair is just like a bush. Just a wild South African bush growing wild.
Starting point is 01:24:22 I think you're bullying our only African American employee in the room. I love his hair. No, he's beautiful. That's called positive discrimination, Ian, so you're racist. You're right. I was discriminating about how awesome his hair is. That actually is. To these people, this is the crazy thing. That's considered a bad racist thing.
Starting point is 01:24:38 No, you can't even say Asians are good at math. It's a compliment, but it's a racial stereotype, and it's wrong. Not all Asians are good at math. Yeah, when people are like, ooh, I love black women. That's like a racist... Technically, it is a racist comment. Like, if you're like, I like this particular race of woman or creed of woman
Starting point is 01:24:54 or whatever, like, quit being so racist. I... Sometimes you're just chemically drawn to things. I'm good at math. Well, that goes without saying. I don't know, you know. I don't know. That's how the business works. I gotta... Maybe you guys can say this. What is white supremacy? Well, in goes without saying. I don't know. You know, I don't know. That's how the business works. Maybe you guys can say this. What is white supremacy?
Starting point is 01:25:08 Well, in the literal sense of what most human, rational human beings think it means, it's people who believe that white racial genetics and ethnicities are superior to other races. Of course, to these people, it literally just means Western civilization. That's what I'm wondering. And so I got to ask someone that's in this state of mind, this weird thing. What is it? Okay, well, let's break it down. I don't think Robin's taking questions now, though.
Starting point is 01:25:31 Yeah. Seems like she might be taking off. Let's break down the reality of it. Everybody knows what white supremacy is. And the quote-unquote anti-racist authors know exactly what white supremacy is. They decided to use the phrase white supremacy different to how it normally is used in an effort to manipulate people of weak will. So the technique is take a phrase that is obviously a bad thing that everyone hates, apply something else to it, and then you can demonize that thing. So for instance,
Starting point is 01:26:02 what they're talking about is Western civilization. They say being on time is white supremacy. They say saving for the future, I'm not exaggerating. They say saving for the future is white supremacy. Anything that is a component of meritocracy is white supremacy. So, basically, white supremacy means bad thing. I can guarantee meritocracy is not, if they said that they're wrong, because Genghis Khan was all about meritocracy. I know, and they're racist. And I've told this story many times. The guy in North Dakota who said that, he said, scheduling is white supremacy.
Starting point is 01:26:35 It's colonial thinking to me. And I was like, what? Because I had a meeting. I have a meeting in three days. I got to leave. And he goes, that's colonial thinking. The white colonial settlers brought schedules to the United States. Native Americans just woke up when they needed to. And I was like, Asians had time. Like I'm, I'm, I'm part Korean. Like my people had a sense of
Starting point is 01:26:54 time and set schedules well before the white people came. And he goes, well, but we all know the white settlers went to Asia and gave those ideas. And I was like, China invented the compass 1000 years before you, dude, you are nuts. And I said, I got I sorry, I was like, somewhat jokingly, but like, somewhat seriously. And I said, I will not sit here because I was at a table full of people and have a white supremacist tell me that he is better than my my people and my ancestry or whatever. But this is the funny thing. They're literally just white supremacists. And I mean that literal sense. They are white people who think they are superior and they're guilty about it. I'm not exaggerating. It's not meant to be cute. When people like Robin
Starting point is 01:27:35 D'Angelo give money to a black man, she's literally saying it's because I'm better off than you are. So you need this. That is the mentality they possess. Instead of being like, I don't know, Will Smith's worth hundreds of millions of dollars. He doesn't need anything from me. I don't care about his race. He's a very smart, talented, and wealthy individual. They don't. They say, nope, nope, skin color.
Starting point is 01:27:59 That's white supremacy. It's them. There you go. Yeah. Racial supremacy in general. Just like thinking you're racist is just like thinking well i gotta tell you dude koreans are very racist in what way they literally believe they're the supreme race now it's yeah and uh at the younger generations don't hold these views but uh there's there's
Starting point is 01:28:20 there's a actually a deep historical reason for it so So, you know, Japan, of course, just brutalizes and rapes the Koreans quite a bit. I'm 5% Japanese, by the way. Ask me how that happened. That's awesome. And not in that context, Jeezy, and calm down. So anyway, basically, the Japanese are very ethno-nationalist and racially supremacist.
Starting point is 01:28:44 They believe Japanese people are superior, blah, blah, blah. Or at least they did to a great degree hundreds of years ago. So when they enslave and conquer parts of Korea and basically control Korea, the Korean response was, no, no, no, we're actually the superior race. They needed morale to counter the conquest of the Japanese. And so they built within their own culture that they were actually superior. And so now they very much think they're superior. But again, the younger generations don't hold those views.
Starting point is 01:29:15 The older generations tend to. So white supremacy is probably an extension of Roman supremacy because the Romans were a lot like that, too. They were brutalized by their neighbors until they decided they're going to stop being brutalized and now they're going to become the great ones. The conquerors. I would have believed Korean supremacy when Gangnam Style dominated the world in 2012. Yeah, but that was orchestrated intentionally. By who?
Starting point is 01:29:35 What was that guy's name? Scooter something? Yeah, he publicly talks about this. Taylor Swift guy? Was it Scooter Braun? It might have been. I think I met him okay maybe it wasn't him all i know is i was at like google world or whatever it was called and they talked about how they intentionally gangnam style was a psyop is what you're saying uh it was a marketing campaign by international outlets that they wanted to they wanted to isolate a song that
Starting point is 01:29:59 they saw like macarena that could be a bop, like a bop. And so they worked a big marketing campaign to make it a meme. And they nailed it. Yeah, they did. It was great. Nailed it. It was like, I must talk to them and see how they start.
Starting point is 01:30:12 No, I fell for it. Yeah, yeah, seriously. Yeah, the story was that they were looking for us. So I could be wrong about this. It's been a decade plus since I heard the story, but I was at a Google event and the guy there, I thought it was that Scooter guy.
Starting point is 01:30:24 I could be wrong. Maybe it's not. It was the guy who found Justin Bieber. Was that him? Yeah, event and the guy there, I thought it was that Scooter guy. I could be wrong. Maybe it's not. It was the guy who found Justin Bieber. Was that him? Yeah, Scooter Braun. Oh, I think this was him. Again, public enemy of Taylor Swift. Totally, totally could be wrong. But I'm pretty sure he told us this story
Starting point is 01:30:34 where it was, they had found the song. They knew he was very popular in Korea and they felt like it could be like a Macarena. And so they said they wanted to do a big campaign to push it. And Psy said something like, if you can make me big in America, you can keep all the money. And they were like, no, no, no, no, no, no, we can't do that. We can't do that. You're going to get paid, but we're going to make this huge and we're going to make a lot of money off it. And so the long story short of it is it was a big marketing campaign. It was totally
Starting point is 01:31:03 inorganic. It was intentionally made to go viral like Justin Bieber, right? They found him on YouTube or whatever. Oh, you know, and like, I don't know much about that story with Justin Bieber, but I'm pretty sure it was like he was already assigned talent and they just pretended like they found some kid on YouTube. Is that what it was? Do you know anything about it? I've heard that he was discovered on YouTube, but actually he was already in talks with talent agencies and stuff i've never really known for sure what the origin story he basically got like adopted by usher and then was suddenly you know on his way to pop star and p diddy search is saying yeah i don't know why i'm allowed to talk about pop culture it's it's great stories
Starting point is 01:31:41 so uh you know gangnam style appears on red Reddit and then makes it to the front page of Reddit and then they it just keeps popping up on social media and it goes viral you're ruining Joel's faith in pop culture seriously no the problem is Not Paul Baji is the best Psy song and they didn't promote it
Starting point is 01:32:00 so Americans don't even know it and it's way better than Gangnam Style I'm not kidding Not Paul Baji look it up And it's way better than Gangnam Style. I'm not kidding. Not Paul Baji. Look it up. It's a way better song. And then what did they promote? They promoted what, like Daddy and Gentlemen.
Starting point is 01:32:12 And those are good. Like Psy is good. But not Paul Baji is his best song. I defy anyone to challenge me on that. And it's just that it wasn't a big promotion for them. So it never really got big. Yeah, the singles they lined up, they were like Psy's back size back with the new song you know i got it for my daddy or whatever and then gentlemen and i was like they need they needed to do napo budgie i gotta we're gonna go
Starting point is 01:32:33 to super chats almost immediately but joel i gotta ask you about your big promotion here because you've just changed kind of roles we're going from matt gates office to lauren bobert's office what's the what's happening man and what what's the plan? What's going on? Yeah, I mean, Lauren Boebert is already a star in Congress. I'm hoping to make her a superstar. You know, I've had... Is that how you pitched yourself? You're like, look, you could be a superstar. No, no, I mean...
Starting point is 01:32:56 Just like stop talking. No, no, I was more humble than that. I've known Congresswoman Boebert now for, I think about two years now. I mean, I see her all over the place when I'm traveling with Matt or Matt Gates or I'm with them in the Capitol building.
Starting point is 01:33:14 And, you know, I think we've we, serving in Matt's office, I think we made huge strides from where he was in 2020 when I joined to 2024. And, you know, I kind of felt, you know, four and a half years, I thought it was graduation time.
Starting point is 01:33:30 And Matt, obviously, he's a friend of mine. I'm always going to be a loyal soldier of his. So if he ever needs anything, I told him when I was departing, you know, anything you need, I'll still be there, still be in the fight. But I've always been inspired by Matt and Lauren, and I wanted to join her fight. And we'd always been having some conversations about what her goals were for Colorado.
Starting point is 01:33:51 She's obviously switching districts from Colorado's third to the fourth. So she has these big plans to make sure we end the year strong, representing the third district and moving on to represent the fourth. And, you know, I just, I'm very driven by being inspired by people's vision. And I was really excited by her. Do you get focused more on like the federal promotion of her in the federal role or on state tactics? What do you mean?
Starting point is 01:34:18 Like, you really, it's, or what is it you focus most on like promote, like making her famous? Is that really what it's about? Is like more coverage on what she's doing holistically no i think she she she does that all by herself naturally um i think some of these uh some of these newcomers in congress who shot to stardom immediately that's just their um their natural charisma i'm there to help maximize their message and their vision um and i've done that in many ways with Matt on the federal level and in the local level. But I actually, when I was meeting with Lauren these past few months,
Starting point is 01:34:51 I wasn't totally aware of these major accomplishments she had been doing locally. And she had been without proper comms professionals for a while, and I thought this would be a great time to jump in. A lot of people like to disparage her, a lot of the mainstream media, a lot of these losers on social media. But I thought if you had someone like me on your team, we could push out the great things that you're doing on the ground, but at the same time, let's take advantage of the things
Starting point is 01:35:23 that people care about nationally. Let's figure out a way to get your voice in there because she's an important one alright we're going to go to super chat so smash that like button subscribe to this channel
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Starting point is 01:35:53 And I imagine it will be quite enjoyable. So that's youtube.com slash Timcast, but we'll grab your super chats now. T-Bomb says, members only, 7 days to die server starting up this weekend info and discussion in the discord are you kidding me have you played seven days dude
Starting point is 01:36:09 it's awesome it's like Minecraft but it's zombies fighting zombies building defenses it's amazing it's great did I ever tell you my video game idea we gotta make it so the idea is every week you build defenses
Starting point is 01:36:24 you collect materials and it's kind of like GTA. And then we pick a day like Friday, maybe Sunday at like 7 p.m. a disaster happens. And you never know what the disaster is going to be. So it's like the whole week you're collecting ammo, you're getting food, you're getting money, you're buying stuff, you're driving around. And then Saturday we give you like a hint. And it's like get prepared. And then Sunday there's a countdown. And then right at we give you like a hint and it's like, get prepared. And then Sunday, there's a countdown. And then right at seven, it could be a flash flood.
Starting point is 01:36:49 It could be an alien invasion. It could be zombies. It could be like the military. Imagine this, you're playing and then all of a sudden the countdown starts and it says half the players will be government. Half the players will be revolutionary. Bang, and then just boom, everyone just switches.
Starting point is 01:37:02 And now it's like, survive. Every time, you told me this a few times and it makes me think of seven days because every seven days there's a blood moon and the zombies go psychotic. So you should check it out because it might give you
Starting point is 01:37:12 more inspiration about this game. I've had this idea for a decade plus and it came from the corrupted blood incident in World of Warcraft where a plague spread accidentally in the game and virologists,
Starting point is 01:37:24 epidemiologists or whatever tracked the data from it because it mimicked real world pandemics and so i was like what if we made a game that simulates a disaster every week and then you track the data on how people respond to say a flash flood an earthquake of volcanic eruption a meteor strike imagine you're playing and you build this big fortress and you're like dude i, I am so ready. And then the meteor hits right into your base and you're dead instantly. And you're like, oh man, I didn't get to play. It's like, you died. You know? So I
Starting point is 01:37:51 pitched this. Vice was interested. One of their executives was like, we could probably do that. And we started, we worked on it a little bit and it never went anywhere. Someone else should make it. Or maybe that's close enough to what seven days... You could mod it. You could mod the server and make it do crazy, crazy every seven days some crazy shit just it. You could mod the server and make it do crazy, crazy, every seven days
Starting point is 01:38:06 some crazy shit just goes down. That'd be wild. And then basically release the data on how players responded. The goal is survive. And then it would be like
Starting point is 01:38:14 37% of players became mass murderers and started stealing and looting. I tell you, man, people think about zombie pockets, but the zombie dogs are no joke
Starting point is 01:38:22 because they are fast and small and hard to hit. Don't tell the Haitians. All right. John Enyart says, first, first, super chat, longtime viewer. No tax on overtime would be amazing since I work 10 to 30 hours of overtime weekly. That's what I'm saying.
Starting point is 01:38:38 That's what I'm saying. Ben Hickson says, Australia is putting for a misinformation bill where the news media is excluded and harm includes efficacy of preventative health measures in Australia in Australia. Search misinformation bill Australia 2024. Wow, that's crazy. All right. Kalashnikov says this sounds like early steps in a negotiation process. If the Kamala campaign really wants a debate, Trump will appear like he's not interested until they get desperate enough to accept on his terms.
Starting point is 01:39:08 Imagine hosted by Fox. They would never do it. Yep. Let's go. We'll grab some more super chats. Kyle Lipka says Trump not wanting another debate seems like bait for an overconfident Kamala campaign to finally agree to a Fox debate with Trump by a Trump biased moderators where he can maybe hammer her on economics unhindered. Trump made a good point. He says when a when a fighter loses the championship match,
Starting point is 01:39:34 he immediately demands a rematch. The winner says, I won. And so Kamala immediately coming out and being like, I want another one, I think suggests they know she didn't get the economy stuff. And that's what she really needed and so while she may have go to Trump Trump may have slipped up he's like well she missed where it mattered don't give her and now he knows they're going to correct for this and he doesn't need to give her the opportunity he can say he did the debate and he can go oh yeah you know I guess she she did well didn't she but I'm better on the economy and she will never get a rebuttal yep let's go.
Starting point is 01:40:05 Jason Dixon says, Tim, will you please play the Eating the Cats song? I'd also like to see you dance to it in your chair. Well, I was head bobbing. That was great. He mentions his cast, but it's mostly about dogs. Yeah, it's mostly dogs. I think it's funny that he was like,
Starting point is 01:40:17 I'm making this so that Trump looks bad. Did you not watch it back afterwards? It's so funny. It was so good. All right. Nicosia Connection says, Rip Faye the Swan. Did you not watch it back afterwards? It's so funny. It was so good. All right. Nicosia Connection says, Rip Faye the Swan.
Starting point is 01:40:31 Faye was the mascot of the town of Manilas, New York, outside of Syracuse. She lost her life and was eaten by Burmese migrants. Her babies were fortunately recovered. Syracuse, New York is David Muir's hometown. You can't make this stuff up. Wow. That's crazy Tyler Bratton says at the LP convention Trump promised to end the income tax and replace it with tariffs did he I don't know I don't remember that that's a that's a big deal
Starting point is 01:40:58 I still want to know which uh libertarian he would name to his cabinet I can understand why he's not you know declaring who right now, but it would be interesting which cabinet position he thinks would be best suited for a libertarian. What if he said Dave Smith? Would you vote for him? If Dave Smith was like, yeah, I'm 100%. Yeah, Dave Smith deserves to be. I want him in office. So if Donald Trump said he's going to bring Dave Smith into his cabinet, you'd vote for Trump? If Dave Smith was like, yes, I'm doing it. Yeah. Like if Dave walked up,
Starting point is 01:41:28 they shook hands and Dave was like, I'll do what I can. Oh yeah, you're voting for a coalition at that point. I mean, you're still voting for a coalition. I actually think it's reasonable that Trump, that could actually happen. Like in terms of things that are within the realm of possibility, that is one of them. Granted, it's probably a long shot. But I don't, like, I'll put it this way. If prominent Trump personality forces were like, Dave Smith's popular, prominent, he's friends with Brogan, he's got moderates, he's not a big Trump guy, but if you promise to bring him in and he agreed, you're going to win several more percentage points for moderates.
Starting point is 01:42:03 Easily. I mean, yes. I think it's more a question of would Dave do it? Yeah, that's the question. He could have had the LP nomination for sure. It's easy for Trump to promise a cabinet position to anybody. I mean, what about someone like Rand Paul? Oh, like the libertarians all said at the convention,
Starting point is 01:42:19 if Trump brought Rand Paul in, they all vote for him. They were just like, if he brings in Rand Paul, then we're voting for him. Rand's great. Yeah, he is. Yeah, he is great. Get him as close to the White House as possible. Yeah. All right.
Starting point is 01:42:32 Common Sense Fishing says, being a fellow business owner, Tim, I'd have thought you'd have known that the company pays the same amount no matter what. The taxes come out of employees' pay, so no way that companies can abuse this for overtime what do you mean no i was the one that was asking that question you know you didn't say anything about i was wondering if the company's payroll taxes are going to change if they're well i i was saying that a boss is going to be like oh that must have been you because what i was was, if I have 12 hours that need to be filled in one work day or whatever,
Starting point is 01:43:07 and I can get one person to work the whole time, why hire two people? Because it costs you more to have two people, doesn't it? Just in general? It depends on how you're scheduling them. If you're paying overtime, you're paying $5 more per hour. However, you could arguably pay less because it's tax-free. So instead of paying two people at $10 an hour, you tell the one guy because it's tax-free. So instead of paying two people at $10 an hour,
Starting point is 01:43:27 you tell the one guy, I'll give you $9 an hour, but the overtime work you're going to get is time and a half tax-free. And so you figure out the mathematical equation to where you're actually getting one guy to work more for less. There it is. But I don't know if that ultimately checks out in the end. Roger Johnson says,
Starting point is 01:43:45 oil field automation worker here. You are not an admin. If you are not an admin ornament, is that what you're saying? Or management. Oh, okay. I see. It's a typo.
Starting point is 01:43:57 And actually go out and do physical or computer programming. Your employer is required to pay you straight overtime. Hmm. Well, there you go. Seductive Rue says, requesting prayers for my cat, Archie. Vet diagnosed him with kidney disease,
Starting point is 01:44:11 says he only has a few months left. He's only four years old, no idea the cause. They'll tell you that, man. Healthy diet, get him on some organic foods. I looked into stem cells. It's not cheap. It was like $4,000 or $5,000 for the operation. Yeah, stem cells worked wonders.
Starting point is 01:44:26 It's hard to tell because we changed his diet right at the time. But I tell you, man, you get him on some really good organic meats, you'd be shocked at how healthy that cat can become. There's also kidney transplants. So a cat that is on death row, you know, these cats that are in shelters that are kill shelters or whatever, they will say, if you take this cat, they will put one of his kidneys in the other cat, but you have to adopt the other cat. So it saves two lives. That's the deal. So that's an opportunity. Also, Archie, if Archie wants to live, he's going to live.
Starting point is 01:44:54 So give him the love. And do not take him to Springfield, Ohio. All right. Roger says, on Indeed, it says a ramp agent in Rockford makes $19 an hour. That sounds about right, but Rockford's pretty far from O'Hare. I'd imagine that the wages, because this was 20 years ago when I was working at O'Hare, being paid $10 an hour. I have to imagine it's 20 today.
Starting point is 01:45:20 You know? Let's go. SD says, Tim and Kira, I absolutely absolutely appreciate your work godspeed in the coffee shops i live in baltimore but we'll definitely make it a point to uh to get to the coffee shop weekly to be with individuals that have free thought again thank you the real thing that we're excited for and maybe you know i've been saying this but it's it's it's i i'm you know i'm trying to manage too much the second floor of the building we want to be a private club. The problem we have right now is the way the city and the state view the building is that there's only one floor. There's three floors, but they're all considered one open structure.
Starting point is 01:45:55 So if you have stairs and it's open and it's a public accommodation, you have to have a way for handicapped people to get up those stairs. The elevator we have is from the 1900s, one of the oldest elevators in the country. We don't want to replace it. To custom mill all the parts to get it up to code would be absolutely insane. We're talking hundreds of thousands of dollars. Or we can do a $50,000 replacement and get rid of a historic elevator in one of the oldest buildings. We don't want to do that either.
Starting point is 01:46:18 So we were like, let's just call the second floor private and the first floor. And they said, actually, the way the building's designed, the second and the first floor are one unit. And the second and third floor aren't even separated by a wall, just stairs, so it's all one unit. And we're like, what? There's a door. The first floor, there's a door you have to open.
Starting point is 01:46:37 The door doesn't mean anything. You actually have to close it off. So we're like, so we wanted to open the private club first while we're waiting for the coffee shop, but it's a historic building, it's hard change and it's just been you know it's funny because contractors are like look it's a city and the city's like no it's not it's not us and we're like okay whatever have you looked into those uh stair elevator things can you use those yeah but uh the the there's yeah it's like a track you install but then we're modifying a historic building once again and we run into the install but then we're modifying a historic building once
Starting point is 01:47:05 again and we run into the same problems so we're like then how do we just get this going and they're like you're almost there and we're like oh okay yeah i i can't believe it dude but now i can probably make assumptions as to why the previous owner sold the building i think they just don't i think i think they don't want the building to change the historic building they're like use it as i don't know i don't trust. I am kind of pissed off because I keep saying like, dude, we could rent a strip mall storefront for a couple grand and have the coffee shop open in a month. That's a good point.
Starting point is 01:47:32 So I'm like, whatever. But it's, the work is happening. That's all I can say. The work is happening. It's like no one's, it's not like people aren't just sitting around. It's just annoying. And the building is there.
Starting point is 01:47:43 It's right next to Mamba Collectibles in Martinsburg. Shout out to Mamba. Play Commander, Magic the Gathering on Saturdays. In the meantime, go to castbrew.com and get a bag of Graphene Dream. It's really good. Easy on the stomach. Yeah, we need to actually... We never really...
Starting point is 01:47:58 You know what? We never formally launched the competition. Well, I'm winning regardless. You are actually... It's me versus... Oh, yeah? No, because... It's hard to beat Graphene Dream. Well, because... I'm winning regardless. You are actually. It's me versus, oh, yeah. No, because. Hard to beat Graphene Dream. I wrote a song about it, actually.
Starting point is 01:48:10 It's on my YouTube channel. Well, because people bought the Graphene Dream and then reported it. It's actually one of the best blends that we have flavor-wise. Excellent. And so it started to sell more and more and more. Like, I always mention this. When we first launched, Rise of the Birdo Jr. was going to be our flagship product.
Starting point is 01:48:30 And that's why we put the rooster on it. Appalian nights was just my choice i like dark roast and i thought appalachian night sounded cool and then once people everyone started buying roberto jr and they get a little bit of appalachian nights but then once they bought it they were like this is the best coffee i've ever had and then appalachian nights became number one no matter what we promoted something similar happened with graphene dream, where we were like, Ian's got coffee. People were like, oh, I'll try it. And now it's selling a lot because people are like, actually, this is delicious. This is super good. Excellent.
Starting point is 01:48:51 I'm going to pivot into Appalachian Nights for my next couple weeks, I think. Do you guys make them with like K-Cups? Yep. Yeah, we got K-Cups. We got whole bean. We got ground. And we are going to be launching protein bars. Cool.
Starting point is 01:49:05 I've got one right here. And they're based. So, like, where are the ingredients? I don't know. There's like five ingredients. It says time pool on it. There's a misprint. That's funny.
Starting point is 01:49:14 Yep, they're all misprinted. This one is vanilla coconut. Yeah, I only really like the sweet and salty. Which are phenomenal. So I told Mark Loebliner, I was like, I want a protein bar and I want nothing in it. I was like, give me whey protein, peanut butter, and coconut oil. And he was like, you're going to need a little bit more than that, but we could do that.
Starting point is 01:49:31 And so Mark got the formulating, sent me a package, and my mind was blown. I gotta say, the sweet and salty one melts when you have a sip of coffee with it. It is so good with coffee. You should sell them at the coffee shop for sure. They go great with the coffee. Are these still in production? These are production samples.
Starting point is 01:49:48 We have some more coming. But the ingredients, so there's one that's like double chocolate, and it's got a lot of ingredients. There's like erythritol sweetened chocolate. I'm not a big fan of that, but some people are down with it, and it tastes really good. Sweetened salty is the best. The ingredients are peanut butter, whey, coconut oil, fiber, and like peanuts.
Starting point is 01:50:06 Which is amazing. You got to get it RFK approved. That would be so funny. We'll sell them in little glass, you know, little glass cases. That way there's no plastic. Oh, yeah. I'm kidding, by the way. We can't do that.
Starting point is 01:50:18 Are you going to launch with like one flavor or do a limited, like a small one? I think we have four or five flavors. Because the only one I've tried is a cake. Is it cake batter or birthday cake? Yeah, birthday cake. It tastes like birthday cake, but I don't like that stuff. I think I got one of those here too. Try the sweet and salty when you get a chance.
Starting point is 01:50:33 Get like a hundred of them or like 200 of them or something. The reason why I think the sweet and salty is the best. He's about to live off of that. So good, dude. So the chocolate and the sweet and salty are the best. And it's because it's the flavors are normal. The vanilla coconut is good, but it's coconut flavor. I like that there's bits of – it seems like there's bits of coconut in it.
Starting point is 01:50:52 Actually, I don't think it's coconut flavor. I think it's actually coconut. The birthday cake one is birthday cake flavored, and that's why it's like, well, it tastes like you're eating a protein bar. But the sweet and salty one tastes like you're eating peanut butter. Yeah. Like peanut butter with peanuts in it. And I'm like, oh, they got allulose in them too. Sweet and salty one tastes like you're eating peanut butter. Yeah. Like peanut butter with peanuts in it. And I'm like, oh, they got allulose in them too.
Starting point is 01:51:11 Allulose is a sugar that your body does not use. Is it right for monk fruit? Is that correct? Allulose is the sugar of monk fruit. I don't know that we're using monk fruit derivative allulose. Yeah. All right, let's grab a little bit more here. Steven Schalk says, if you're making less than 85k a year you're probably being ripped off if you're on salary man i know a lot of people that
Starting point is 01:51:32 are frustrated with being on salary that work 80 hours 100 hours you never know when you're gonna be asked to stay another couple hours it's like just depends on the job i guess because if the job just needs to get done then it doesn't really matter how long you work. Then salary makes sense. Let's go. Michael Cavanaugh says, my small town, Perkins, Georgia, has a community well that has failed. And we are trying to raise funds to get drinking water back to about 100 people. Any donations are appreciated. Go fund me.
Starting point is 01:52:01 Search Perkins community well. Holy crap, dude. I hope it works out. That's crazy. I'll take a look at it and try and figure out the... Is it a GoFundMe, you said? Perkins Community Well? Is it GiveSendGo? It's GoFundMe.
Starting point is 01:52:14 Perkins Community Well. Let's get this thing built. We got to call Mr. Beast. Yes. Perkins Community Well, GiveSendGo. It does not want to show me the results. No, it's GoFundMe, not GiveSendGo. GoFundMe. I don't like GoFundMe.
Starting point is 01:52:33 They're racist. GoFundYourself. I'll have to search for it. It doesn't come up on Google. Yeah, I don't see it. Yeah, they're anti-trucker and they're racist. I found it. It's on GiveSendGo.
Starting point is 01:52:45 I'll send you a link. Oh, it is GiveSendGo. Oh, GoFundMe, sorry. Oh, why do you guys keep saying that? Because it's the one we all like and prefer. So it's our default. I got to tell you guys, people keep saying like, you know, GoFundMe and all that. And I'm just like, I don't want to promote GoFundMe.
Starting point is 01:52:58 They've done a bunch of things where they've backstabbed and sabotaged people. And it's not okay. All right. As the world crumbles says, how do you win a debate if you're in office now? Was she arguing with herself? Yes. Indeed.
Starting point is 01:53:16 Do you think there will come a point in the next six weeks or however much time we have before the election where she just outright is like, Joe Biden did a bad job? Or do you think she's always going to attack to a like, trying to avoid talking to about him position? Avoid.
Starting point is 01:53:30 I think that the numbers start to dramatically move far apart. I feel like they're, you know, I've been seeing consistently they seem neck and neck. But, you know, she's on a clear downward spiral. Maybe, maybe. Or if he comes out against her in any way, maybe. It would make her look kind of hypocritical because she did praise him and her sort of eulogy at the DNC. On the other hand, maybe that's what the crowd wants. Maybe Democrats want Joe Biden to be the bad guy now.
Starting point is 01:53:56 I don't know. Sometimes they eat their own. Ron says my town is full of Kamala signs. The town over the town I visit every other week, all Kamala. All she had to do was not look like an idiot and Google the media. Social media feds will get her over the line. Someone tweeted at me. I love when people are doing this now. Someone tweeted at me because I like the signs that are, they were Biden-Harris and they just cut off the name. Someone sent me one where it was like they cut but kept the E in Biden.
Starting point is 01:54:19 So it's like a little red symbol. And then so it's like this triple equal sign and then Harris, like the time that it took to just go around this one thing is so funny. So please send me pictures from your town only if they are formerly Biden Harris signs. Those are the best ones. All right, let's go. Juice says if the tax is changed,
Starting point is 01:54:41 so there are no tax on overtime, this non, this non-tax share would go in the investment fund. This money would always be yours, not state. I don't know what that means. Barrett says, you need to be pressing on Israel-Palestine. It's an issue that carries far down ballot and, if argued properly, will pull tons of votes from Dems. Indeed, it will.
Starting point is 01:55:03 Yep, but the average voter is, it's a fair point to the other guy. They might just be thinking like, I don't know, Trump looks dumb. They might, they're not going to think a lot, but I think anger plays better than condescension when it comes to a bad economy. So the average person just being pissed off and frustrated because they can't pay their rent sees Kamala going, well, me, me. And they're just like, she's just smug right now while we're suffering. And she's holding the keys. Trump's yelling at her. Give me Trump. Anger plays better no matter what the anger is about. All right, what do we got? What is this? Stephanie Hill says, OK, she did great that one time,
Starting point is 01:55:42 but if that's normal, why was the debate first time we've seen it? And how long did she have to prepare to be that good? You know, I don't know. Maybe she's good in all the debates. Doesn't doesn't matter. Trump needs to do better. You know, but I think he did well. Austin Patterson says, why do most GOP people cheer when celebrities endorse Trump and then boo when celebrities endorse Democrats like the Taylor Swift thing? I don't understand why you ask that question. It is kind of an assumption that most of them do that, but some people just are in a cult.
Starting point is 01:56:13 Why do people cheer when celebrities endorse Trump and boo and they don't? Because they like Trump. It's like it works the other way, too. They make fun of Kid Rock and Hulk Hogan when they were at the at the RNC. And then, you know, when when they have the rumor of Beyonce, they're thrilled. I mean, I think the media is is overstating how freaked out, quote unquote. I've seen these headlines like MAGA is melting down because Taylor Swift endorsed Trump. She's endorsed Democrats for years.
Starting point is 01:56:42 People aren't that surprised. It's not it's not groundbreaking. I thought it was really annoying when everyone was like FJB. Joe Biden's terrible. Forget Joe Biden. Screw Joe. And then Kamala Harris is now the nominee. And they're like F Kamala Harris.
Starting point is 01:56:56 Screw Kamala Harris. It's like they just took the chip out and put in the Kamala Harris chip like NPC alert. You've got to be careful. You don't become that no matter what side. I feel like that's not true. And you're just saying that it happened overnight when Kamala got the nomination. It was disgusting. Kamala cast 33 tie-breaking votes. And if not for her, Biden could not sign. No one even mentioned her name until she was a candidate. It was gross that people like
Starting point is 01:57:15 immediately just all this focus went. It was like, now I must hate this thing. Like, obviously. The political sphere for which I occupy and the people I follow had been talking about Kamala. Joe Biden as the president and the front runner in the campaign was central focus. But Kamala got a lot of attention. We made fun of the way she spoke all the time. Kamala Harris got like no media attention until about three months ago. She got more attention as the as the front runner for the Democratic Party. That is true. But to make the argument that she wasn't she wasn't getting apt criticism from the right is silly. It was just the same criticism for Biden just got they unplugged Biden and plugged in Kamala. It was really obvious that it's like NPC alert. It can happen to
Starting point is 01:57:53 anybody. I feel like we talked about Kamala a lot because there was always this debate of if Biden was going to make it. And then the next thing was, well, do they give it to Kamala? No, they don't like Kamala. And she's bad on a lot of issues. I mean, she was like she didn't pursue interviews. She wasn't putting herself out there, which seemed to be the Biden-Harris campaign or White House strategy. Right. Very. They were actually very inaccessible to the press, both of them. But but people were critical of her before because they always was the borders are ability. She had dominated news cycles as the borders are. When she went down and said,
Starting point is 01:58:27 do not come, do not come, and then Trump goes, I'm going to come. She said tons of viral memes roasting her and mocking her. I think you just don't pay attention to what's going on. No, I do. So when she takes front and stage
Starting point is 01:58:37 as the Democratic nominee, you're like, why is everybody mad? It's like, dude, we've been making fun of her and criticizing her on these things the entire time. She's the VP. Barely. She would have no weight. And then all of a sudden, I mean, dude, we've been making fun of her and criticizing her on these things the entire time. She's the VP. Barely.
Starting point is 01:58:45 She would have, like, no weight. And then all of a sudden, I mean, obviously she's a nominee, so there's a new spotlight shined on her. But it's just, you can see the whole, like, I'm supposed to dislike the opposing candidate mentality. And it can become very disturbing. You are just so out of touch, Ian. Well, not really. I think she just sucks. I'm very aware.
Starting point is 01:59:06 She just sucks. It's easy to go from Biden sucks to Kamala sucks because they both suck. But like the idea that Kamala isn't casting the tie-breaking votes on the Inflation Reduction Act, which was a huge deal, the argue that when she was named border czar and then was doing these interviews where she was like, well, I've never been to Europe and was constantly in the press as a source of ridicule, but you aren't paying attention. So all of a sudden, when the media starts talking about it, she's the front runner for the Democrats. You're like, why is everybody mad, bro?
Starting point is 01:59:33 People have been criticizing her for things the whole time. Everybody deserves legitimate criticism. It's when people just turn the vague, I dislike the opposing candidate criticism on the new candidate. Yeah, she's the vice. She was going to be the VP again for Biden's second term and then fade into the distance. No one cared. No one was going to talk about her.
Starting point is 01:59:50 That's not true. They talked about her nonstop. No one talked about Kamala Harris nonstop three years ago, dude. No one cared about Kamala Harris two years ago. It was only until like three months ago that she's got any obsessive media attention. How much do you want to put on that? How much money? Okay, that's hyperbolic.
Starting point is 02:00:04 Of course, some people talked about her once in a while. Maybe every three or four weeks she'd get an article that we'd even see. And so now you're conceding the point. And now people are talking about her like she's been bad the whole time. Okay, maybe she has, but where was that criticism a year and a half ago? It was everywhere.
Starting point is 02:00:20 It was not. It's also hyperbolic. How much do you want to put on that? Everywhere you lose instantly. It's not everywhere.'s also hyperbole. How much do you want to put on that? That it was everywhere you lose instantly. It's not everywhere. I will do Google searches and I will select month by month and I can do this and I can pull up all the news cycles she's dominated. I'm talking about Twitter. I'm talking about commentators on Twitter that I know personally that are like, now
Starting point is 02:00:36 I must dislike this one. Right. I said, who's it going to be? Let's find out. So you're talking about a handful of people that you personally follow, but you're criticizing literally every single one. And the people that listen to this show, people that all of a sudden it's like, now we'll slip out that name. Like, dude, just be critical for specific reasons, yes.
Starting point is 02:00:53 But don't just criticize someone because you want them to lose. I remember the cycle when she said, Russia is a big country and Ukraine is a small country. And that was wrong to invade. Like, she had so many news cycles that we criticized her over that she was in the press. Now that she's running for the president, she's dominating that news coverage. Sure. But the criticism people have over her is the legitimate criticism. And it's worse than Biden for the obvious reason of Biden could not sign these bills
Starting point is 02:01:19 without her casting the tiebreaking vote. She's in the Senate and in the executive branch. She was giving a layup to Biden that he would not have gotten were she not the tiebreaker. But we're going to the members only show. So smash that like button, subscribe to this channel, share the show with your friends. Head over to TimCast.com right now for that members only uncensored show, which is going to be fun and not so family friendly. You can follow me on X at TimCast. Once again, smash that like button. Joel, do you want to shout anything out? Well, thanks for having me back on the show.
Starting point is 02:01:45 I've been looking forward to this for a long time. I know personally from having put Matt Gates and Lauren Boebert on to Timcast that the Timcast audience is super loyal. Everyone in the chat, they're dedicated patriots, and they have a lot of powerful insight to say. So it's interesting to learn from the audience and to come on the show and feel its impact. It's great. So if you want to follow me, I'll be posting behind the scenes stuff of what's happening on Capitol Hill at Real Joel Valdez. But yeah, just thanks for
Starting point is 02:02:14 having me back on. I will corroborate what you say. The people in the chat are brilliant. A lot of the people that watch the show are really tuned into what's happening. And I appreciate you all in the chat putting up with my dissonance. That is a big part of what I enjoy to do is shake you up, shake myself up in the process. Yo, I've been streaming like a fucking madman the last two weeks. I've been going eight hours a day. It's epic. So come join me on my YouTube channel X and Twitch, where we'll be playing video games nonstop, dude. I'm just pouring myself into it. It's fucking great, dude. It's really nice. It's actually very, very good. It's very fun. Other than that, I've been playing a lot
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