Timcast IRL - Timcast IRL #545 - Elon Says Twitter BREACHED Contract, Twitter May be SABOTAGING Deal w/Brandi Kruse

Episode Date: June 7, 2022

Tim, Seamus of FreedomToons, Luke of WeAreChange, and Lydia host commentator and newscaster Brandi Kruse to discuss Elon Musk's hesitation to buy Twitter, the Washington Post's suspension of a reporte...r over a mildly-offensive joke (but not a false, edited story), the Uvalde mother who says police threatened her for speaking out against them, the lawmaker suggesting an insane tax as a form of gun control, skyrocketing gas prices, once again, and Biden flailing as he resents being compared to Jimmy Carter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Elon Musk is threatening to walk away from the Twitter deal, but it's a little bit more complicated than that. In a letter sent from his lawyers to Twitter, they say that Twitter has breached their contract by not providing Elon Musk with the appropriate data on spam bots. Twitter responded saying, we have been very cooperative in sharing data as per the terms of the contract, which is legalese for we're not giving him the data he specifically requested. I think Twitter is sabotaging the deal. This note apparently came from their top legal department.
Starting point is 00:00:32 It's Vijay Agade, who's their head lawyer, who cried reportedly upon hearing that Elon Musk would be buying the company. I think it's highly possible that Elon, in order to secure the money for the purchase of Twitter, needs this data. They know if he gets it, he can buy it. So they're like, we're going to do the deal, but they're not giving him the information. So this is where things get interesting. Elon Musk is threatening to walk away.
Starting point is 00:00:53 Many people on the left are cheering for this, but they're also arguing that Elon Musk never intended to buy the platform. I don't think so. We'll go into this, but I think it might be sabotage. It is a crazy news day, my friends. Milo Yiannopoulos is now interning for Marjorie Taylor Greene. Okay, that's going to be a fun story. And then we have the Washington Post suspending veteran reporter Dave Weigel for retweeting somebody who made a joke about women. Wow, the corporate press is imploding in the same vein. Taylor
Starting point is 00:01:22 Lorenz is being roasted. She's being accused of lying in her story, claiming she reached out for a comment, but she didn't. We've got to talk about how the mainstream press lies about this stuff. There's a bunch of other news we might not get to. Gas prices at another all-time high at $4.86. Be still. Wow, guys, calm, calm. I hope we can get through this one. It's going to be scary.
Starting point is 00:01:44 Well, joining us to talk about all of this is Brandi Cruz. Hi. Thanks for having me. It's nice to get a break from Seattle. Absolutely. Well, thanks for coming. Who are you? What do you do?
Starting point is 00:01:54 Who am I? I'm the human to two dogs and a cat, the girlfriend to a really sweet man. And secondary to that, I am host of the Undivided podcast. I am a survivee of the mainstream media. I left in November after 10 years as a journalist in the most soul sucking place to be a journalist in the country, the city of Seattle. I'll fight anyone who wants to argue with that. You might, if you're not familiar with me, I was there through the 2020 stuff. You might have seen my crew be mobbed out of CHOP, the Occupied Protest Zone. You might have seen my awesome security guard disarm some rioters of stolen police rifles,
Starting point is 00:02:34 shoot a roogie. And then I decided to leave after the November election for a variety of reasons. But I launched the Undivided Podcast, which I call political commentary for the anti-fringe. Cool. Yeah. Thanks for hanging out. Luke is back! How in the world are you still living in Seattle? Welcome back! Beautiful and amazing human beings.
Starting point is 00:02:56 It's good to be back. Of course, the Bilderberg meeting was happening in Washington, D.C. As soon as I heard that, I dropped everything I had, had a friend drive an RV up, drove up here, and of course I had to cover that event. And it was absolutely crazy. Linda's already grabbing the microphone. I know.
Starting point is 00:03:08 I turned you down. I don't speak up. I turned you down. Darn it. There's also some strange guy sitting across from me. I don't know who he is. Lots of things are going on. Things are getting very intense.
Starting point is 00:03:16 And, yeah, if you want to support me, you can on BillGatesMeet.com. That's an official website that I have commemorating this awesome shirt. Yes, if you go to BillGatesMeet.com, you could go there and check out the video that I did about the infamous pregnant woman meme that we have decided to digitize and put a picture of Mr. Bill Gates himself on there. I don't think it's working. BillGatesMeet.com. Did you not set it up right? It's set up. I was just working for me. Meat like meat or meat like meet you? Meat. M-E-A-T. There you go. Yeah, Oh, did you not set it up right? It's set up. I was just working for me. Meat like meat or meat like meet you?
Starting point is 00:03:45 Meat. M-E-A-T. Like the fake meat that he keeps promoting. Oh, I see. I see. The Bill Gates pregnant man meat. I've been very busy. Things have been very crazy, and I think they're only going to get a lot crazier from here,
Starting point is 00:03:57 so it's good to be here. Yeah. We got Seamus. Brandy, great to have you on. Luke. I'm Seamus Coghlan. I already used to be on all of Freedom Tunes. We just launched a website. What are you on. Luke. I'm Seamus Coghlan. I run YouTube channel called Freedom Tunes. We just launched a website.
Starting point is 00:04:07 Why are you here? Luke. Why are you here? Luke, I'm here because you got scared and ran away. I don't know. Someone couldn't handle the cold weather. I don't know what you're talking about. The old man retired to Florida.
Starting point is 00:04:18 Now he's back. But you know what they say, out with the new, in with the old, I guess. You look older than me. Great to be back, everybody. We're happy Luke's here. So I run a channel called Freedom Tunes. We upload a video every week, sometimes twice a week. We also just launched a paywall, freedomtunes.com.
Starting point is 00:04:32 Become a member. For five bucks a month, you'll get an extra cartoon each week, plus behind-the-scenes content, and you will be helping fight the establishment by supporting independent content. So Luke came up and took the Ireland artwork and put it in the garbage. He literally did, which a fan spent quite a lot of time making, Luke, and you disrespected him as well as an entire nation of people.
Starting point is 00:04:50 It smelled like potatoes and whiskey, to be fair. I understand. I didn't know what to do with it, and clearly it was in the wrong position. It was in the wrong place. It was in the wrong place. Neither of those things are bad smells. Yeah, exactly. No, he was getting hungry sitting there.
Starting point is 00:05:04 It smelled like chickens, too. Anyway, wish me luck corralling this crazy crew tonight. I'm very excited to have Miss Brandy over from the left coast. Stoked to hear about Seattle. Hopefully, I'm sure it can't be any worse than D.C., right? Are you stoked to hear about Seattle? Yeah, well, okay, it's just far away. Far away, okay?
Starting point is 00:05:19 I want to hear something different. But I'm excited for tonight. Let's get into it. Before we get started, head over to TimCast.com and become members to help support our work as members who get access to exclusive segments from this show. We're going to have a members-only show up at 11 p.m. tonight.
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Starting point is 00:06:13 CNN reports Elon Musk threatens to walk away from Twitter deal. Interesting choice of headline based on what the story is. It's a lot bigger than that. They say, Elon Musk issued his most direct threat yet to walk away from his purchase of Twitter on Monday, openly accusing the social media company of breaching the merger agreement
Starting point is 00:06:31 by not providing the data he has requested on spam and fake accounts. In a letter to Twitter's head of legal policy and trust, Vijay Agade, Musk alleged that Twitter is actively resisting
Starting point is 00:06:41 and thwarting his information rights, as outlined in the deal. This is a clear material breach of Twitter's obligations under the merger agreement. And Mr. Musk reserves all rights resulting therefrom, including his right not to consummate the transaction and his right to terminate the merger agreement. Now, Twitter apparently issued a response saying that they have been very, very cooperative in sharing information as per the terms of the agreement. That just says to me that they're not giving him what he wants. Now, a Wall Street Journal story said that Musk had stated he needs the data in order
Starting point is 00:07:17 to secure financing. I'm wondering if the people backing this deal, the 19 investors, outright said, we want to know how many spam bots are on this platform before we give this money. Because if it turns out it's twice or three times or even four times as high as Twitter remarked, we're going to see our value plummet. Could you imagine if you invested a billion dollars in Twitter and then the next day they're like, here's the disclosure. It's actually five times more spam bots. There's going to be, you know,
Starting point is 00:07:47 20% the company is just going to drop by that much value. So they're saying no. I don't know exactly. But it seems to me like they're trying to stop Elon Musk. That makes the most sense, not that Elon Musk isn't trying to buy it. Or, Tim, it could be the Twitter employees who want to continue to work from home and only want to work two hours
Starting point is 00:08:04 out of the week or whatever they're doing. Because again, there's a huge disconnect between the employees at Twitter, the whole establishment that is Twitter that has used this kind of information highway for political purposes. Twitter is extremely biased.
Starting point is 00:08:18 It has been using its platform for political purposes, for corporate purposes, for the benefit of a lot of powerful people who wield that power. And I think the bigger core issue here is that probably Twitter has something to hide that they don't want the general public to know. It could be the number of fake accounts because there could be a lot of governments, a lot of corporations, a lot of celebrities propping up spam bots, propping up narratives and agendas
Starting point is 00:08:39 in such an artificial way that it would shock the entire system if people would find out. But it's fascinating and also not surprising how the mainstream media, and you mentioned that headline, is choosing to spin it because you've given two now really legitimate reasons why this is on Twitter's end because Elon Musk is asking for information. If they give him the information and it's under 5%, then he'll have no excuse but to move forward with the deal. And so I just, I laugh this article's from AP.
Starting point is 00:09:07 It says that this has led some experts to question whether the billionaire wants to use his loud complaints to negotiate a lower deal price or even walk away entirely. He's asking for the information. If it is what they say it is, give it to him and then he won't walk away. Yeah, release it. Make the internet more accountable, more transparent. Why should powerful people use fake accounts in order to promote illusions that aren't real reality? That's an important aspect here because we have to understand here,
Starting point is 00:09:32 governments have been creating fake accounts to push war narratives. Exactly. Well, it's also to manufacture consensus, right? And we saw this with a report that we were talking about a week or so ago, that about half of Joe Biden's followers are fake, which is hilarious, right? Because we're almost certain given how coherent sounding the tweets are that Joe Biden is not running that Twitter account. So you have a non-president running a presidential account being followed by a bunch of non-followers. I don't get the why even if Twitter is admitting that it's under 5%, it's admitting there's some number of bots. Why
Starting point is 00:10:02 wouldn't Twitter purge any bots? Because if you can identify the bots, you know how many you have. I think they did. So the day after the deal is announced, we see progressive and celebrity accounts drop dramatically. Oh, they whined about it too. And libertarian and conservative skyrocket in following count. My personal view of this, it is probable. I'm not saying I have evidence or anything. I think what may be happening
Starting point is 00:10:26 is that Twitter often talks about the health of the conversation. There's a law on the internet that any sufficiently unmoderated platform will become right-wing. I think Twitter was becoming dominated by
Starting point is 00:10:41 the right, so Twitter intervened and started suppressing right-wing voices and creating fake accounts to make it seem like the left was more prominent than it was. That's my thought on what may be. Because then, the day after the deal is announced, it just flips. And they said it was organic. There's no way Katy Perry's 200,000 follower loss or whatever, it makes no sense. People are like, I'm a follower of Katy Perry.
Starting point is 00:11:06 But now that Elon Musk might buy the platform, I'm out. I don't buy it. No. And you got how many more followers in three days? 100K. 100K. They were unbanning people. They were unbanning people who had been long since banned.
Starting point is 00:11:17 So I think they were manipulating something. Let me read what Twitter wrote because we have this over at the Daily Mail. It says, quote, Twitter has and will continue to cooperatively share information with Mr. Musk to consummate the transaction in accordance with the terms of the merger agreement. We believe this agreement is in the best interest of the shareholders. We intend to close the transaction, blah, blah, blah. Look at that first sentence. Twitter has and will continue to cooperatively share information.
Starting point is 00:11:42 Notably absent from that statement was was we have complied with Mr. Musk's request to provide the data requested to help facilitate the transaction. That statement, as they published it, says to me they're denying Elon Musk the information and they're using weasel words trying legalese to make it seem like they're actually complying. Lawyer talk. I hate lawyer talk. I hate people who talk in these kind of weird, vague terms because you know they're up to something. They're trying to be nefarious in some kind of way. And, again, Musk is claiming here that they're withholding the data, that this is clear material breach. And there's a $1 billion clause.
Starting point is 00:12:17 Whoever walks away from this deal is going to have to pay for it. So this is going to be very interesting. I think this is going to go to court. I don't see any of these kind of companies walking away. I see a lot of posturing because I do think the scary things in the closet of Twitter are absolutely terrifying. And if we did find out what was happening, I think people's jaws would just drop to the floor because there is a lot of potential. It is ripe for abuse. It has been abused. What we know publicly probably is still just scratching the surface to the bigger agendas and the bigger games that are being played that we don't even know about. There was a report back in, I think, 2012, leaked information showing that the U.S. Air Force was trying to buy sock puppet accounts so that they could use them in foreign countries to create the perception of popular narratives. So if you look at countries, it is believed that they were doing this in Libya. I remember during the Arab Spring, particularly during Libya, it was interesting because some of my hacker buddies said, how come so many Libyans speak North American dialect English? On Twitter, they were noticing.
Starting point is 00:13:19 And the response was, many of these people who are on Twitter are on Twitter because they were Western educated before going back to Twitter, which makes sense. Yeah. One of the first countries that started doing this is Israel. They started openly talking about this. This was in the early 2000s. There was mainstream news articles about literal government Israeli employees that were sitting there behind a computer sending out particular narratives, sending out particular arguments.
Starting point is 00:13:40 And also Cass Sunstein, Obama's information czar, even talked about how he is going to be utilizing the Internet as a way to make people look crazy who criticize the government, create fake accounts to promote fake theories in order to destroy any legitimate criticism of government. Cass Sunstein, Obama's information czar, looked that up. I remember confronting Cass Sunstein one-on-one face-to-face about this, and he said, I never wrote this. I never did this. The document literally has his name. It's published in peer-reviewed journals. And they were lying through their teeth. They were talking about this in the Obama era. What are they doing now? Man, you can only imagine. So if, let's operate on the belief that Twitter is trying to kill the deal with Elon Musk. Do you think it would be because they are trying to hide what would be revealed
Starting point is 00:14:26 if it went to Elon Musk or because they want to continue to control the narrative on Twitter? Why not both? Or both. Yeah. Or they just don't want to work. I want you to pick one.
Starting point is 00:14:34 Because Elon Musk wants people to work, wants people to come into the office. He's going to change the culture and it could be that these employees are like, well, we don't want to work. Are you crazy? You saw what Elon said to Tesla the other, last week or whatever, that everybody has to come
Starting point is 00:14:47 in for a minimum of 40 hours. Otherwise, we'll assume you've resigned. I'm sure all the Twitter employees saw that and immediately started screaming and crying and rolling on the floor. We have to work! I feel unsafe here. This doesn't work. No, he said if you want to work from home, you have to also work
Starting point is 00:15:03 from the office for a minimum of 40 hours a week. So the suggestion being any overtime you can do at home. But this is a big story. I mean, Elon Musk uses Twitter in a very specific way. Now, Twitter is claiming that there's only 5% accounts on that entire platform that are fake, that are spam accounts, that are propaganda, government accounts, corporate accounts, whatever it is. Musk is claiming that it's over 50%. Now, that's a huge number. That's going to change the evaluation of Twitter, but also make people think,
Starting point is 00:15:32 maybe what I'm seeing online, maybe what I'm seeing in the algorithms isn't really reality. And the way that Elon Musk has been harnessing Twitter recently is absolutely amazing. I've been critical of him with Neuralink, artificial intelligence, him trying to connect human brains to the internet. But when he called out the DOJ for not leaking the Epstein-Galane list, holy cow, did he send an important message to the power establishment that he's not playing and he's willing to reveal information to the general public that would open people's eyes about what really happens behind the true seat of power. Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to take you into a time machine to the year of 2012.
Starting point is 00:16:08 Ars Technica reports, Reddit founders made hundreds of fake profiles so site looked popular. In its early days, Reddit was built on lies. Sure, lots of code, but some lies. Here's how it works. You make a social media platform, but nobody's using it. You then need to convince people it is a place to communicate and share ideas. So what do you do?
Starting point is 00:16:30 You operate hundreds of fake accounts. And whenever you get one person to join, you respond to them. You upvote them. You follow them. They all of a sudden feel like, wow, I'm getting a lot of engagement on this platform. Imagine this. You create a social media app. You market it to high schoolers.
Starting point is 00:16:48 When they sign up, you give them 1,000 or 2,000 fake followers. Those high schoolers are not going to go to all their friends and be like, I got 2,000 followers on Luke Chat. And they're going to be like, you have 2,000 followers? Yeah, because I'm famous. And then these other kids are going to be like, I want to be on Luke Chat and be famous. They all start signing up. You've got to talk about Bill Gates only. You give them all fake followers. Then they're going to be like, you're still doing TikTok?
Starting point is 00:17:12 Dude, I've got 10,000 followers on Luke Chat. And they'll start switching over and you will fake the community. That's what these companies do. That's the low level. That's a small level of what they're doing. What governments are doing, it's even far more sinister, far more complicated, especially when it comes to galvanizing people's political opinions.
Starting point is 00:17:29 Because when you're able to show a majority of people that this is what the herd thinks, this is what the herd is, people are going to go along with ideas if they think a lot of other people believe them. And you could do that politically, you could do that socially, you could do that with culture. And I think that has been slowly happening ever since social media started to be used. Because we're talking about just a few years ago. It was declassified.
Starting point is 00:17:52 It came out that Facebook was talking about engineering people's emotions through their algorithm. They were experimenting on people. Exactly. They were unsuspecting people that weren't participating in a project, didn't know they were participating in a project, but they were testing if they can make people sad, if they can make people happy.
Starting point is 00:18:07 That is godlike power and authority that is absolutely unaccountable, crazy. This is what Facebook was doing years and years ago. What's Twitter doing right now with its information highway? I mean, man, I don't even want to speculate. You know Facebook, their algorithm knows when you go to the bathroom. They know when you poop. They know your friends that don't even want to speculate. You know Facebook, their algorithm knows when you go to the bathroom. Yep. They know when you poop.
Starting point is 00:18:27 They know your friends that don't even have Facebook. Twitter makes me sad already. Yep. I don't know if they have to do an algorithm to make me sad. Twitter already makes me sad. And I cannot look at you because I just get a pregnant Bill Gates looking back at me. He's making eye contact with you right now. I cannot pay attention to anything you're saying.
Starting point is 00:18:43 But that's technically not pregnant Bill Gates. That's just Bill Gates' gut. Well, no. We put his face on there. I know. right now. I cannot pay attention to anything you're saying. But that's technically not pregnant Bill Gates. That's just Bill Gates' gut. No, we put his face on there. I know, I know. But it was a picture of him with a big belly and the blue shirt. That's why we like Elon Musk. He tweeted this image.
Starting point is 00:18:59 Not this image exactly, but the pregnant emoji. So he's playing, and again, Bill Gates is attacking him through secret organizations and nonprofit organizations that are trying to also pressure Twitter and advertisers to make sure that they're going to pull their money if Elon Musk does buy it. There's a lot of things that could happen with Elon here, because if, let's say, 50% of the accounts are fake, he's going to be laughed at. Like, oh, they got the best of him. They stole money from him, and Twitter's going to lose popularity, he's going to be laughed at. Like, oh, they got the best of him. They stole money from him.
Starting point is 00:19:25 And Twitter's going to lose popularity because people are going to be like, no one's using it. So this is make it or break it when it comes to Twitter. So Elon Musk is making a very big move here, a lot of money. He's putting his money where his mouth is. Will Twitter give the information, give up the data? That's another question that we need to ask ourselves. I want to i want to jump to this uh story here this is breaking news cnn recently announced they're not going to
Starting point is 00:19:50 be saying breaking news but this one is from cnn business the washington post suspends reporter david weigel over a sexist retweet okay now before we get into this i would like to shout out senator ben sass who said that weirdos are running the political space. It's an algorithm driven by rage. And he's half right. But he's not completely right. There are weirdos running things. But it's not the French.
Starting point is 00:20:15 This is becoming mainstream politics. Don't believe me? Dave Weigel retweeted a joke on Twitter. He's probably sitting on the toilet. He's probably like, look at this phone. He's like,weeted a joke on Twitter. He's probably sitting down in the toilet. He's probably like, look at this phone. He's like, it's a joke. Oh, what's that? That's funny.
Starting point is 00:20:30 Retweet. Anyway, what was I doing? And then all of a sudden, a bunch of women at the company start freaking out, saying he's sexist. And now he's suspended from his job. This is a guy who's reported on Seth Rich. He's report, I mean, this is a high profile political reporter with 600,000 followers who's been suspended for retweeting a joke
Starting point is 00:20:49 on Twitter. He didn't say anything to his coworkers, just retweeting it. This is Twitter being the real world. I can't imagine what it's like
Starting point is 00:20:58 to work at the Washington Post. Oh, and also, don't forget, we got this story about Taylor Lorenz lying about these YouTubers. So here's, I wonder if they have the joke on, you't forget, we got this story about Taylor Lorenz lying about these YouTubers. So here's... I wonder
Starting point is 00:21:06 if they have the joke on... You looked that up, but this is my first response to this. From all the treachery, from all the horrible things that the corporate mainstream media has done, WMDs, banker bailouts, lying through their teeth, putting innocent people at the fray because they smirked,
Starting point is 00:21:22 lying, libeling, destroying people's livelihoods, going to grandma's homes because they opened up a Facebook page, doxing individuals. This is what you punish them for? A retweet of a joke? Are you kidding me? This shows you the fake nonsense bull crap that is really happening behind the corporate media.
Starting point is 00:21:40 I mean, you worked in the corporate media. You probably know PR and HR and all this other stuff that happens behind the scenes. But why do you think this happened? Why would they suspend him? Why would they punish him? Yeah, was it really the outcry or is it them just trying to outwoke the wokeness?
Starting point is 00:21:54 Well, you know, to me, and do you want to read the joke? Well, I want to... No, we cannot read this on air. It's far too long. It actually says why she did it. Oh, I was like, you can't? It actually says why they did it.
Starting point is 00:22:02 So the joke was, quote, every girl is bi. You just have to figure out if it's polar or sexual. He retweeted that. Felicia Sanmez had recently had a discrimination lawsuit against the paper dismissed. A decision her attorney has said
Starting point is 00:22:17 she plans to appeal. There it is. So they're trying to protect their bottom dollar. I mean, that's what it comes down to. But to me, what Felicia did and her name, name of course has to be felicia what felicia did after this is worse and when you're talking about the actual culture of a newsroom and having worked in mainstream media newsrooms can be very challenging places to work but i and i've worked in really toxic ones but if i had an issue with something that a co worker tweeted, and I'd had co workers who had issues with something I tweeted, they walked across the room, and they told me about, they picked up the phone, or they sent a
Starting point is 00:22:53 text. So Felicia gets on there and shames publicly, her co worker for retweeting this. And then I don't know if you guys saw this. Jose Del Rio, he also works for The Washington Post. He called her out on it on Twitter. And he's basically like, hey, you know, said essentially what I said is if you have a problem, like, go talk to him. But this is toxic to be calling him out on Twitter. So he's since deleted all that. And I feel so bad for this guy. He he put out a tweet saying last night I came under an unrelenting series of attacks intended to tarnish my professional and personal reputation.
Starting point is 00:23:26 The cause, some tweets I sent calling for compassion within our workplace. And so he talked about all the attacks and he briefly deleted his Twitter account, took it down over it. And he works at the Post. So you made a very good point about the fact that if you were working at a news outlet, what you would do is speak to someone who said something offensive to you. Unfortunately, I, and this is just my own perspective, they haven't said this, but I would venture to guess that their goal was not to have any kind of problem solved. It was just to grandstand in front of the public and virtue signal and show everybody how put upon they are having to work
Starting point is 00:23:56 for this news network, how difficult their life is. The question is, would you rather have a coworker who retweets offensive things in their off time or a co-worker who will smear you in front of the public without ever having a conversation with you about it prior? That's what I'm saying. She's worse. I got a better one for you. Or would you rather have a co-worker who fabricates the news? Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to pull up this story from newsdiffs.org. Our good friend Dave Weigel deserves to have been fired five years ago, not suspended over a sexist retweet.
Starting point is 00:24:27 Why? Because Dave Weigel effectively fabricated a story about Seth Rich, essentially accusing Kim.com of trying to hack Gmail to plant false evidence. News diffs shows that the original article on May 24th, 2017 was edited November 18th, 2017 and completely changed. I'll give you the simple version. First, the image I'm showing. The green is the latest. The red is what removed. What Weigel was trying to insinuate was that because Seth Rich's Gmail account received an alert from Mega.com, that means in all likelihood, Kim.com was trying to hack the email to plant fake evidence. In reality, people on 4chan had posted that they signed up, they put Sethridge's Gmail into Mega to see if they would get a ping back for an existing account. This triggered a
Starting point is 00:25:18 welcome email to go to the email account. And then the Washington Post fabricated a story. I reached out to Dave Weigel for a comment. He didn't correct it until several months later without notice and without an editor's note or a correction. The story just changes completely. See, they don't fire people for things like this. Now, what's fascinating about this is think about how this impacts things like Wikipedia. This story will be used as a factual reference to Kim.com hacking Gmail or trying to
Starting point is 00:25:48 and they'll cite the Washington Post who six months later will change the story but Wikipedia won't change. These people are... What's the right word? I feel like evil
Starting point is 00:26:00 is going easy on them. Den of scum lords. So you know what, Dave? Dave, you should have been fired for this. Your institution is garbage. Taylor Lorenz deserves to work for the Washington Post, and everything coming their way, it's exactly what you deserve.
Starting point is 00:26:17 Jeff Bezos is a scumbag. He bought it. Congratulations on your trash investment. Yeah, I would argue one of the signs, and one of the most obvious straightforward signs of a failing system or society is that the mainstream institutions are no longer operating in accordance with their purpose.
Starting point is 00:26:31 So the dominant media culture in this country has been pretty dishonest for a very long time. This is not a recent development. But the fact that somebody who works for the media, which is purportedly there to expose us to important truths, would not get in trouble for publishing a story which had fabricated information in it or tried to insinuate things were some other way than they were in reality. The fact that that's acceptable, he doesn't get in trouble for that.
Starting point is 00:26:53 But he does get in trouble for this retweet shows not simply that it's the case that this institution is no longer operating in accordance with what its purpose should be, but also we can detect what its new purpose is or what they are attempting to go for, which is to promote a woke left-wing narrative. And because he failed to do that, he was fired. Well, it's all fruit from the same poisonous tree. I mean, it all has to do with that obsession with virtue signaling. I mean, that's why their reporting is so bad.
Starting point is 00:27:20 That's in part, that's why their reporting is so bad. And that's why they would fire him over something like this. I got to read you some of this article. You guys are going to laugh. All right. So here's what happens. Mega.co.nz. That's Kim.com's website.
Starting point is 00:27:34 You may know Kim.com from Mega Upload way back in the day. So this is Mega.co.nz. It's a New Zealand top level domain, the.co.nz, right? So here's what he writes. This is the original article. The latest revelation that a hacker from New Zealand may have been trying as recently as this week to hack into Rich's email offered fresh evidence the conspiracy theory is false. .com, it seemed, may have been willing to create a fake archive of emails from Rich to prove his role in the DNC leak. He changed to say,
Starting point is 00:28:07 someone may have been trying to hack into Rich's email, offered fresh evidence the conspiracy theory is false. The family worried that.com or someone eager to prove him right may have been willing to create a fake archive of emails from Rich or crack a password to see whether Rich had passed on documents with a mega account.
Starting point is 00:28:23 Just because the email came from.nz does not mean a hacker from New Zealand. But instead of issuing a correction, an apology, and retracting the article, they stealth edited it six months later. They say nothing. Now, if you go back to the article, it's all cleaned up. These people are scumbags. Well, that's like that Elon Musk article that was just like it was new york times right where it talked about tried to somehow tie him to like the racist uh history of of south africa and it was really odd i mean they totally went through and scrubbed it and rewrote it so it
Starting point is 00:28:57 was softer because the way they had written that article initially about elon musk made it seem like he was his family and he was like racist and all this stuff and then they rewrote it in a way that distanced him from South Africa and from apartheid. And this is the crazy thing. These are the authoritative sources. These are the sources that big tech social media runs in their algorithm.
Starting point is 00:29:17 YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, they promote these accounts, these individuals, these lying scumbags and they get no accountability, no transparency and this is the only time that they get punished for retweeting a joke? It's a joke in itself, and it's sick, and it's a sad joke. No corrections on this article. I have it right here. Here's the actual argument.
Starting point is 00:29:36 It stands now. It says May 24, 2017. But as I showed, news diffs, which I believe is defunct, showed that it was edited in November of that year. Here's the best part. A couple other mainstream reporters retweeted the story as fact. They retweeted the story right, and Kim.com did do this. And when I reached out to them, they effectively told me to screw off. One guy, I think he worked for BuzzFeed, a year later said, I must have missed this. Sorry, I'll take
Starting point is 00:29:59 the tweet down. That's what they do. A year later, they publish conspiracies, lies, and fake news, and then no one fact checks them. Here's what they do. A year later, they publish conspiracies, lies, and fake news, and then no one fact checks them. Here's the best part. NewsGuard. We use NewsGuard on all of our sources, right? Yeah, we like NewsGuard, but here's the funny thing. If the New York Times says it's true, NewsGuard just assumes it is. And then if you get evidence proving New York Times wrong, they'll say you lied because these people are all in one big circle of jerks where they give each other awards for fake stories like Russiagate and then never investigate and never give the awards back.
Starting point is 00:30:34 They do a lot more sicker stuff behind the scenes, but that's another story. Family friendly show. I'm not going to go there. I knew some journalists. A lot of them are just drug addicts, pill poppers, manic depressants, and just absolutely insane people that will do anything for a buck. Essentially, the corporate media is PR for the establishment. This is the perfect representation of it. This little drama thing shows you the perfect representation
Starting point is 00:30:54 of our current media state that is filled with absolute nonsense. And that's what it is. And I think these stories need to be proliferated. I think we need to talk about stealth editing. I think we need to continue to remind people that, hey, when you're watching the news, you're watching an agenda. You're watching something that rich people only want you to understand and know. Just think about what is okay at these newsrooms.
Starting point is 00:31:14 A stupid joke is a suspension-worthy event. Publishing fake news, don't worry about it, we'll sweep it under the rug. Ruining a child's life just because you smirked. Intentionally suppressing the Epstein story. Exactly. Having victims come forward in the 90s to you, say, hey, there's this powerful man on an island doing unspeakable things
Starting point is 00:31:33 to me and all these thousands of children, and just looking the other way and not reporting on it. Absolutely disgusting behavior. Writing the story, making the story, editing the videos, and then not publishing it when you have according to cbs news according to the project veritas people like bill clinton that you got him when it comes to this bigger uh story surrounding a mr epstein again lots of
Starting point is 00:31:57 bombshell stuff that that could help humanity but the reason we can't have nice things is because of the corporate media yeah that's my perspective yeah Well, I want to make a point here. There's this old idea or this line from Solzhenitsyn, you know, the line between good and evil runs across every man's heart. One thing I would like to impart to anyone in the mainstream media, if they happen to be listening or would take any of what we're saying seriously, is that if you want to talk about combating misinformation, right? Well, the war between misinformation and truth also runs across everyone's heart. Everyone's capable of lying for their agenda. Everyone ideally should want to tell the truth for their agenda. Unfortunately, it's not the case. If you are so concerned about misinformation and disinformation spreading, and you think that there is just a flood of unfounded conspiracy theories and people don't trust the mainstream media like they shouldn't,
Starting point is 00:32:43 so the traditional gatekeepers are gone, Maybe don't stealth edit articles that were promoting misinformation as if you were telling the truth the entire time. If you are concerned about the fact that public trust in the media has eroded, you need to look in the mirror and figure out ways to improve. It's not our fault. It's not as if the media was doing a great job and then people started making a living in making a career out of working in alternative media. You guys dropped the ball. Now people are looking to other sources and you're jealous of the other sources and you're
Starting point is 00:33:14 hating them instead of trying to figure out what you're doing wrong. One thing I want to say about Jeff Bezos, I'm going to make a prediction. I think he's going to say something about all this. I think he's going to say something negative about his own paper about this. He's been a little – he's been kind of – I mean, he said the things about the White House, about inflation. The Elon Musk comment was pretty interesting as well. Yeah, he's been saying more things that surprised me on Twitter than he has in a long time. And so I'm going to make a bet that I think he's going to say something negative about his own paper about all this.
Starting point is 00:33:43 I hope he does. He should. He should. He's probably going to be partying, taking think he's going to say something negative about his own paper about all this. I hope he does. He should. He should. He's probably going to be partying, taking steroids and just hanging out and not caring. Let's talk about some narratives real quick. We have this story from Newsweek. Uvalde mom who saved kids from school shooting says police threatened her. Have y'all seen the video of the mom who went in the building giving an interview and explaining what happened?
Starting point is 00:34:06 I will tell you this. The conclusion is simple. Either intentionally or inadvertently, police helped the shooter in Uvalde. That is not being disputed right now. So when people came out and slammed the police because they were standing in the hallway for 70 minutes.
Starting point is 00:34:22 At this point, everyone said it was incompetence. These people are cowards. But then when this mother says the police actually stopped her inside and they tried stopping her while she was already in the building, you have to wonder if there were people in the building trying to get in the classroom, this mother, and the police not only were not going in, but they were even stopping her and others. And this only ended because I believe it was a CBP tactical unit that defied orders and just breached the building.
Starting point is 00:34:49 The cops there, I would presume, were just accidentally helping the shooter. Heaven forbid they knew it was happening and said, no, no, we're going to let it roll out. I'm going to totally reject that. I don't think that that is what happened. But I do believe that it's gross incompetence. I am someone, anybody who's watched me knows that I'm very pro- pro law enforcement, pro good law enforcement, as I think we all should be. But I don't think there's any excuse for what happened. I'll also note the U.S. marshals lied about this. They blatantly lied about it.
Starting point is 00:35:15 You know, they denied handcuffing any parents, even though immediately there were videos of handcuffed parents on the ground. This is May 27th, 8.58 a.m. U.S. Marshals official Twitter handle. Additional U.S. deputy marshals were asked to expand and secure the official law enforcement perimeter on the ground. This is May 27th, 8.58 a.m., U.S. Marshals official Twitter handle. Additional U.S. Deputy Marshals were asked to expand and secure the official law enforcement perimeter around the school. Deputy Marshals never arrested or placed anyone in handcuffs while securing the crime scene perimeter. That's a lie. They tasered parents. Right? This is the insanity.
Starting point is 00:35:38 Also, why give them the benefit of the doubt, right? We shouldn't. Benefit of the doubt about what they're saying number one and and two this entire saga and event uh i think it's possible they were waiting for the shooter to to run out of ammo and they were lying through their teeth about every aspect of this it's not out of the realm of possibility to say that they were aiding and abetting at this point when we know all the details here because how long what's the time frame here why are there so many unanswered
Starting point is 00:36:03 questions about this very specific event and and this mother came and said some very important things that contradicted the official police story once again they can't get that story straight they keep lying through their teeth and when you look at their actions they arrested handcuffed parents tasered parents pushed them away set up a blockade and they told everyone on the news there was no active shooter. It wasn't an active shooter information. What information did they have that provided that information since there was kids inside of the school literally calling them and with the dispatchers, with their radios were telling them it's still an active shooter situation. Children needlessly died because of these police officers' direct intervention that killed children.
Starting point is 00:36:44 This is not the truth. There was one child shot, bled out, died. Specifically. After 40 minutes. After 40 minutes. There was another officer that allegedly said, say something. If you're in the room and you need help, said something, the killer shot them. This mother came out and she said two very important things.
Starting point is 00:37:01 One, that there was an active shooter situation that was going on for a lot longer than the police said said it was and two when she first came in there she said that there was no police officers inside but they did try to stop her outside so what in the world were they doing why would they give the orders not to go in when specifically they were getting information from the radio saying it was still active they said they said that they thought it was not active what evidence did they have giving that information they won't provide that they there needs to be some serious questions there needs to be some accountability put these people on a stand right now so we found out so we find out what happened because the blood on those children's hands i mean they're responsible for it whether you like it or not and this this whole back to blue crowd needs to really understand
Starting point is 00:37:41 the true realm of what happened here because it happens a lot. Real quick, the threat was that she said if she spoke up, she would be charged with obstruction of justice. If she spoke up outside in the moment? After speaking critically about the incident to the media, Gomez and an officer threatened to charge her for violating probation on an unrelated charge for obstruction of justice. Disgusting abuse of power. I mean, that right there shows you that they're trying to cover up and silence critics of them. Pathetic punks abusing their power. Fire all of them right now. All of them
Starting point is 00:38:10 should be fired. And they should be disgusted for their behaviors. Disgusting. I want to be very clear about the back, the blue crowd. I believe that the way that this is handled absolutely was a travesty and a tragedy. I don't believe there's any excuses for what happened. They had a drill. They had a drill practicing this weeks tragedy. I don't believe there's any excuses for what happened. They had a drill.
Starting point is 00:38:25 They had a drill practicing this weeks ago. I don't believe there's any excuses. And they had an AI program that they literally had trying to prevent this. They were training inside of that school days before this shooting. March.
Starting point is 00:38:36 Yes. March. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Days. March 26th. They were training to prevent and stop a mass shooting. And then their plan in action
Starting point is 00:38:43 was stand outside and attack and taser and handcuff parents? This is... What? I just want to make clear that I'm making a distinction about intent. I don't believe there's any officers that had the intent to allow someone
Starting point is 00:38:56 to kill children intentionally. I just want to make a distinction that I don't believe that that's what happened. I'm not saying that I don't believe that their actions led to kids dying that shouldn't have died. So if the cops are there, they have protocol to storm the building,
Starting point is 00:39:08 even if you're a single officer, that's what the protocol said, and they all stand outside for, what was it, 70 minutes? I think you can argue what you mean by intent, but yeah, they were okay with him doing it. That's the thing. they were okay with it absolutely it's a fact like you you can't stand outside hearing the gunshots go off like they did
Starting point is 00:39:31 and be like and pretend it's not an active shooter situation and lie through their teeth about it my point is they're standing outside hearing the gunshots for 70 minutes and they were like no yeah that means they were fine with what was happening inside. Now I understand there's going to be like, we can get to a semantic argument, what it means to be fine. I'm not saying they were like high-fiving each other. I'm saying they were like, it is preferable for me to stay here than do anything to help these kids. Well, when it comes to a business that opened up when Walmart was allowed to be open months before that, they were tough guys. They came in there. They shut down grandma's small business. A kid wasn't wearing a mask in there. They shut down grandma's small business.
Starting point is 00:40:05 A kid wasn't wearing a mask in school. They dragged him out of school, handcuffed him, arrested them in many instances. A parent had a baby that wasn't wearing a mask on a plane. They were all tough in that time. But when it came to children, children losing their lives, calling them, talking to them as it was happening. This is what you have to understand here about this event. were calling 9-1-1 they were talking to their dispatchers dispatchers were telling them hey there's kids inside they're bleeding out they're dying they're still being continued to shot and the your decision is like oh it's not an active shooter situation
Starting point is 00:40:37 we're not we're just going to stand back here well it's in dispute that the 9-1-1 dispatch calls were making it to the officers my understanding is do that. My understanding is that is in dispute, and there was some belief that the guy who's now in hiding didn't bring his communications in and wasn't relaying it. I'm just saying what I know and what is and is not confirmed, but I do agree. We're probably semantics. I think we're in the same position that where I stand on this is
Starting point is 00:40:57 officers could have saved children's lives and didn't. Now, whether anyone wants to put intent on the officers, I just am not in their brain. And I don't believe that anyone would intentionally. The police officers felt that it was preferable to remain outside while they heard the gunshots and children being killed. They preferred that. You can't assume what they did because we don't know what they did.
Starting point is 00:41:20 That's why I'm saying. Because they're lying through their teeth. But you're saying, well, they didn't want to get hurt. We don't know that. We don't know what they did because they're lying through their teeth but but you saying well they're they didn't want to get hurt we don't know that like we don't know what happened to be clear that's what i'm saying is i'm not in their heads and neither are you so absolutely not but i know they're liars a lot of this story is has has changed right my understanding is that cbp the tactical unit that actually went with the shields were defying orders was that is that still yes that's an officer that showed up there and then him and his buddy they, they had a shield that they used specifically, but they waited 30 minutes. They were given orders.
Starting point is 00:41:49 They got there, and they were told to stand down. They stood down for 30 minutes. Then after those 30-plus minutes, this is the official story. Again, everything should be questioned because these accounts have been contradicted multiple amounts of times. But the current story is that they waited 30 minutes, and then after 30 minutes, then they decided to disobey orders and then go in with a number of officers and a SWAT team. Who was giving orders to allow the shooter to kill people? Well, isn't it that guy that is now in hiding?
Starting point is 00:42:15 Is that who it was? I think so. I think he was the commander. So there was a protocol. A single officer was supposed to storm in. At least that's what I read. And again, the story's changed. But my understanding was, in March, they had done drills. The protocol was you actively engage,
Starting point is 00:42:29 even if you're by yourself. And it said something like if the officer goes down, another officer who arrives will have to just go in. Yeah. Which means there was a commanding officer giving orders to multiple agencies saying, no, let the shooter keep killing children. So the New York Times got its hands on the actual training manual. And in there, it basically tells officers, you are going to have to engage in sustained and yes, sacrificial engagement with the shooter. And so basically, the training said, yeah, you might have to die because these are innocent lives at risk.
Starting point is 00:43:01 And so, yeah, again, I mean, I don't know how anybody can make an excuse for what has happened and what happened. And I agree with you that we can't at this point believe anything that is said about it from the official source because so much of it has been proven to be incorrect. They have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in that small town on riot gear, SW they posted pictures, which they scrubbed on their Facebook page, by the way, of them standing tough and strong with all of their AR equipment and all their body armor. But again, where did all of this money go to? Where did all this training go to? They had direct training in that specific
Starting point is 00:43:36 school, and there's still so many unanswered questions that we don't know about. Why was that door open? What happened? Was there a shooting before? Now they're saying it was closed. How did he get in there? Where was the school resource officer? How did saying it was closed. How did he get in there? Where was the school resource officer? How did he get the truck? How did he get the guns? Exactly.
Starting point is 00:43:48 Where did he get all that money from since he, of course, was allegedly poor, working at a fast food joint? I mean, there's so many serious questions here. Some people have sent credit cards, but the ammo. Didn't he have like 600? An 18-year-old getting credit cards? It's going to be difficult, especially with no credit score. So real quick., I'm sorry. How many rounds did he have?
Starting point is 00:44:08 Was it 600? I have no idea about that. I'm questioning everything about this. Anyway. Well, my friend Allie Bradley, who used to work at Fox with me in Seattle and is an independent journalist now, she was down covering immigration at the southern border when this happened, so she was one of the first people on scene. And she spoke to the shooter's grandfather for an extended period of time
Starting point is 00:44:26 and actually got some insight that no other outlet had about where he might have afforded those firearms. So he had no expenses in his life, zero. He didn't pay rent. He didn't pay his phone bill. He didn't pay anything. And he had been working the fast food job and also working for his grandfather, didn't have to put out a dime for anything at 18. So I think a question for me is how long had he been saving and then also the grandfather told Ali Bradley that some of
Starting point is 00:44:52 his equipment that he used for his work, some heavy duty equipment and stuff like that, had gone missing. So I think there's a possibility based on that that the kid stole it, sold it, had been saving money because he wasn't doing anything with his life and people in the comments are saying a thousand six hundred rounds
Starting point is 00:45:09 a thousand six so so what was he using five five six so what are we looking at five five six is that that's about about a dollar a dollar around depends where you get it you could get it for 50 cents but i want to i want to point out i think i have an answer to this a lot of people pointed out that four years ago it was reported that a couple of kids, teenagers were arrested for a plot at the school. However, it was reported these kids were not the same kid here. It was different people. They said the attack was planned for 2022. Here's what I think. It's possible those kids weren't the only ones planning it and that they got caught and didn't rat out their
Starting point is 00:45:45 buddies or buddy or whoever else what i'm surprised about is if you have a bunch if you have if you have a couple kids who four years prior say in 2022 we are planning this there it is dude gets a job at 16 he has no expenses he works fast food and puts all the money in the bank account all of a sudden he's got enough money for this stuff, right? After two years. It sounds like he ordered the weapon before his birthday and then had it delivered so he could pick it up two days later. I think it's possible this kid was in on that plot from 2018 and they just didn't catch him. So why didn't police, knowing that,
Starting point is 00:46:19 have any kind of surveillance precautions considering they had arrested kids planning this four years ago? Yeah, not only that, but there was a lot of warning signs. There was the torture of small animals. There was the cutting of self, like any hallmark signs of a troubled person who's going to lash out and hurt other people. There was a lot of that. Where did our multibillion-dollar NSA spying organization go to that tracks, trace and databases almost every single thing we do to the point where NSA agents have collections of people's personal wiener art that they,
Starting point is 00:46:53 that they are known to share and trade with each other. Where is the vast surveillance state that promised that would keep us safe from terrorist attacks and mass shooters that would prevent them. If we just give them a little bit of our money, if we just give up a little bit of our Liberty, if we just give up a little bit of our liberty, if we allow them to look in our phones, if we allow them to look in our laptops, if we allow them to look into every personal detail of our life.
Starting point is 00:47:13 Where is the national security surveillance state when we need it, supposedly, that was supposed to stop all of these? They're nowhere. He posted pictures of dead cats in a bag. Exactly. What other proof do you need that this was a troubled, crazy individual that has a history of self-harm and the ability to harm others? Well, let's talk about what the government promises. We have this story from CBS, how one lawmaker wants to curb gun sales, a 1,000% tax on semi-automatic weapons.
Starting point is 00:47:40 Before we read the news, I'd like to give a shout-out to our good friend Michael Malice with this quote. All I'm asking for is the right to the same weapons that I paid for the Taliban to own. Bravo, good sir. I completely agree. And the Ukrainians and the Mexican cartels. And let's forget all the dictatorships in Latin America that we financed and we funneled money through, through Iran-Contra. I could keep going, by the way. Let's do a skit where
Starting point is 00:48:05 it's like a guy talking to Obama and he's like, Mr. President, did you give a bunch of those a bunch of these high-powered rifles to cartels? Yes, I did. Can I have one? No, you can't. Yep. That's it. That's an Obama. Very quick. Very good. That's a very good Obama. But again, the U.S. government literally is one of the chief
Starting point is 00:48:21 exporters of weaponry on the world. But also... Not for us, though. Yeah, yeah. But not just the Afghanis. Let's not forget ISIS, radical jihadists inside of Syria that literally had the latest U.S. technology, gear, weapons, bullets. They had that truck from Detroit or whatever. Toyota trucks that were given to them. Radical Islamists were armed to the teeth.
Starting point is 00:48:45 Yeah, muhajir in the 1980s. Let's talk about this news story. CBS says, One House Democrat has a novel idea for curbing the sale of automatic weapons like AR-15s, blah, blah, blah. The proposed bill places a 1,000% excise tax on any type of semi-automatic firearm,
Starting point is 00:49:00 pushing up the price of the military-style weapon beyond the means of many potential buyers. Fake news, CBS. I just want to shout out when these journalists write garbage nonsense military-style. Hunting rifles are identical. It's just ridiculous nonsense. But I just want to mention right away,
Starting point is 00:49:17 if you increase the cost of these weapons by 1,000%, crime will get worse. Because all of a sudden, your $500 handgun is a $5 5 500 handgun and boy can people make money off that also it mentions many potential buyers will be priced out well that's a convenient way of saying that these rich political leaders who are proposing these kinds of things will still have armed security who work for armed security organizations that can afford this kind of thing they'll be able to purchase these weapons to protect their
Starting point is 00:49:44 families you will not be able to. And what they're saying is because it's a revenue measure, it can bypass the filibuster and get past the simple majority. Yeah, they think they can do it via reconciliation. I will say, kudos to them. I'm shocked they hadn't thought of this earlier.
Starting point is 00:49:56 It's actually kind of ingenious because they're not actually preventing you from buying any sort of... They're not taking your rights away for weapons, but they're making it more expensive. They did this already with the NFA. So this is just them saying, let's apply to standard semi-automatic weapons the same rules that apply to select fire rifles. Well, and you talked about this a couple episodes ago with the 72-hour waiting period for background checks.
Starting point is 00:50:19 If you just get rid of that and you extend it, you can prevent people from owning a firearm just by saying that. So this is a very, it's a little little ingenious i'm surprised they didn't do it doesn't mean i think it's a good idea but you know i thought about when it comes to just gun control and all that stuff and what democrats would do i've said two things on twitter i don't want to hear democrats talk about gun control in seattle at least in washington state until they do two things acknowledge that it was wrong for uh up at CHOP to hand stolen rifles out of the back of a trunk of a car, which they never condemned. And then, two, until they stop cutting deals with people who commit gun crimes in Washington State.
Starting point is 00:50:57 There's so many people who commit crimes, actual criminals commit crimes with a gun, who then get a sweetheart deal, some plea deal with prosecutors, and then politicians turn around and say that they want gun control. The only thing I have an issue with in that story about CHOP was the stolen part. I think people have a right to keep and bear arms. If they had legal weapons and they were handing them out, I don't see an issue. I think there are issues with political extremists who are armed and killing kids like they did in chop but i think i think we have a problem with the over regulation of weapons as a as a pathetic attempt to stop people from getting on which it clearly doesn't do what i'm saying is if you've got this guy raz simone
Starting point is 00:51:34 the warlord of chop who's opening up the trunk of a car handing out rifles to people who didn't look 21 to me and you don't have politicians in the city of Seattle condemn that, yet at the same time they're pro-gun control, that's ridiculous. I make this point all the time, but Luke just made it earlier, that the M1A is banned in Maryland, but not the SCAR-20S. For those that are familiar, they're basically the same caliber weapon, but one is like an older, one's a newer. Actually, let me put it this way. The people who know nothing about guns, to regulate them is their Achilles heel.
Starting point is 00:52:07 Thirty six states have permitless open carry. Twenty five of constitutional carry. Florida is set to be the 26th. And all of that expanse of gun access is happening because the people arguing against it are like, we got to ban the AR-15. And you're like, it's meaningless. It's not going to happen. Fine, whatever. As they're arguing for more weapons for Ukraine, by the way.
Starting point is 00:52:26 Yeah, exactly. No, no, no. So I just want to make this point. They don't know much about guns, but they know one incredibly important instrumental thing, which is that guns allow you to protect yourself. That is why we see this constant cycle. All right, this has begun probably two, three years ago, and expect to see it continue to repeat. They riot.
Starting point is 00:52:44 They say it's okay for them to burn down your city and threaten your life. Riots cool down. We need to take your guns. We need to take your guns. Then they riot again or they threaten to riot again. Then as soon as that calms down, they need to take your guns, right? Just a couple weeks ago, they were threatening insurrection over the Supreme Court potentially overturning Roe.
Starting point is 00:53:01 And then they're going to ask you, why do you need an AR-15? Well, because the dominant media culture and virtually every political leader in this country who aligns themselves with the status quo and isn't trying to get themselves in trouble, all the big tech companies sanction your violence against me. So yes, I do want to be able to protect myself and my family. Before the show started, I actually posted a meme of Fidel Castro. And there's the question, what can you do with a population after you disarm them? And then Castro's laughing down there, anything I want.
Starting point is 00:53:33 And that's the story of history. That's the story that has happened throughout all of written, recorded history that we need to understand here. I think it's important for people to be able to defend themselves because who are you going to rely on? The Uvali Police Department to be there for you during critical moments and times? No, they're going to arrest you, handcuff you if your child's getting shot.
Starting point is 00:53:53 Oh no, no, no, no, no. Your ability to defend yourself is absolutely crucial and important and it terrifies people that you could defend yourself, that you could stand up for yourself and this is why they're putting out all the stops trying to take away that ability from you. So I want to make two points about that. So what we saw at Uvalde is basically what gun control advocates push for without realizing it.
Starting point is 00:54:13 They want to put you in a position where the police spend their time and energy disarming you and preventing you from protecting your loved ones while maniacs still run around committing heinous crimes. And that's exactly what's going to happen if there's more gun control, just like there is in Chicago. Exactly. That is what happens. Exactly. In Mexico. That is what gun control does. Also, they constantly point to countries like Australia, and they'll claim, look, the gun ban in Australia worked. Well, not really. Gun crime was plummeting at an identical rate before the gun ban.
Starting point is 00:54:38 But this is even more important. But hold on. But now do Venezuela. Now do Mexico. Exactly. Also, as soon as the Australian gun ban occurred, they said, look, Australia isn't a tyrannical nation as if our argument is it would happen overnight. But then after a couple of years, look, under the COVID regime, Australia has literal concentration camps. They are concentration camps. If you are placed in a holding facility without a trial. Without due process. Without due process and you are forced to stay there in a camp, that is a concentration camp.
Starting point is 00:55:09 They literally have those in Australia after banning guns because you can't do that to an armed population. The definition of a concentration camp, I believe it's from the Holocaust Museum camp was a place where people were held without due process, without charge or trial. So when the government comes and takes people and puts them in a secure facility where they're not allowed to leave, that was the, the base definition.
Starting point is 00:55:34 So there were indigenous people in Australia who are rounded up under COVID suspicion and sent there. And they were trying to escape climbing fences. I want to pull up a couple images for you guys so that you can, cause I'm going to assume a lot of people don't know a whole lot about guns. And I'm not going to pretend to be a gun expert here. But take a look at this image right here.
Starting point is 00:55:50 This is the, this looks like a hunting rifle. That's the way that it's often described by people on the left. They say, they say, oh, you know, take a look at this.
Starting point is 00:55:59 It's a hunting rifle. That's what you should have. Let me show you this image right here. Ooh, that's a scary assault weapon. Look at that. It's got the pistol grip and that scope on it. Oh, man. Oh, geez. Yeah, the first one is the M1 Garand, literally used in war.
Starting point is 00:56:12 The second one is a 450 Bushmaster hunting rifle. They have no idea what they're talking about. Again, I'm not going to pretend to be an expert on this one. I can just point out right away that they have no idea what they're talking about. Here's the best part. Someone in the super chat said, hey, Tim, pull up a Ruger Mini 14. Functionally the same as an AR-15, but they don't want to
Starting point is 00:56:28 ban that one. Oh, I'm sorry. That's a hunting rifle. You know why? Because it's got a wood stock with a rifle grip. These people have no idea what they're talking about. But you know what? As I sit back and they regulate things that make no sense, I'm like okay, whatever dude. I want to point something out to you guys. When
Starting point is 00:56:43 I saw this meme and they were like, it showed a picture of what looked like a bunch of M1s and it was like, these are weapons made for hunting. And then it showed a bunch of pistol grip rifles that these are made for killing people. And they were talking about gun control and saying, see, this is why we should get rid of these. I'm like, do you think that bullets intended for
Starting point is 00:57:05 humans work on big game or deer? Do you think that a deer is a large, larger creature than a human? Okay. So it stands to reason that typically you will want something more powerful for hunting, right? As opposed to combat. I love it when I'm talking to people and I'll show them, you know, like the ammo we have when we go to the range or whatever. And they'll see a 9mm round or a polymer tip 450 Bushmaster. And I'm like, which one's the weapon of war? And then people don't know how I'm trying to trick them. So they typically will be like, it's going to be the little one, isn't it? And I'm like, yes, because the big one is for killing deer, which are bigger than people.
Starting point is 00:57:42 So when they talk about you should only have things for hunting. Oh, okay, great. Now we're going to some lunatic who's going to go out with slugs. 41 mini slugs in a KSG-25. These people have lost their minds. Well, they never had them in the first place. This stuff riles me up, and I'm not even a gun expert, mind you. I'm sure you guys in the chat can correct me on a lot of this stuff and talk about how it's even worse than
Starting point is 00:58:00 I'm saying. Biden says you just need a shotgun, right? A 9mm will blow the lung out of someone. We went to the gun shop the other day and they had a... You didn't invite me? I'm offended. You weren't here. I was getting a 12 gauge and they have a 12 gauge with a rotating
Starting point is 00:58:15 magazine tube. It has four magazine tubes. I think it holds 25. And the guy at the shop was like, oof, your shoulder's going to be hurting after this one, man. And I'm like, yeah, I know, but it looks cool so I want to get it. And then I'm like, isn't it funny that Joe Biden is telling people to get shotguns, which are harder to use? They have no idea they're talking. Like, I'm reluctant to talk about what would
Starting point is 00:58:39 actually happen if some of these crazies decided to use hunting weapons. These people are so dumb. They keep regulating things that make guns more dangerous. You know, exactly. They go off. But you know, you don't need you don't need X amount of rounds. You don't need an AR-15. How do you know? Have you ever hunted in your life? You ever spoken to a hunter? Dude, basically, I don't know a single person who hunts and is in favor of gun control. I'm sure there's some somewhere. Well, they're called FUDs. Unbelievably rare. Well, also the 10th in Washington State, they banned high capacity magazines, which they
Starting point is 00:59:10 said at 10 rounds, which for anybody who knows guns isn't really high capacity. It's low capacity. When you buy a weapon, it comes with a 30. An AR-15 will come with a 30 round mag for a 5.56. Yeah, 10 rounds is not high capacity. But, you know, there's an argument. I have a friend who survived the Vegas shooting. So and i just had her on my podcast the other day and you know we had a nice conversation about where she's at and what she went through and i can't even imagine
Starting point is 00:59:32 or put myself there and she was one of the people who got through this 10 round high capacity magazine and one of the points she brings up is well if you're you know people say you need to defend yourself in your home you don't need you shouldn't need 10 bullets it's like i probably would need 10 yeah it's like i can't hit anything. It's like, I probably would need 10 bullets. I can't hit anything. I don't want to risk needing 11 or 12 bullets. I'm not a gun person. I don't own any guns, but we have
Starting point is 00:59:53 guns in our home. There's so many unanswered questions about that Vegas incident that, again, was brought up initially, was one of the largest mass shootings, and then the corporate media just dropped it, stopped talking about it, didn't even care afterwards it's absolutely daunting i mean same thing with with kenosha yeah they're like not a terror attack everybody move on yeah doesn't matter it doesn't fit the narrative doesn't fit the agenda we can't emotionally manipulate people
Starting point is 01:00:17 to get what we want out of this so we're just going to drop it and not talk about it that's essentially what happened here i remember also seeing a meme earlier showing showing MS-13 gangbangers talking to each other. And one of them is like, hey, are we going to the drive-by shooting today? And then the other MS-13 gangbanger looks at the other guy and says, I can't. I didn't get my gun permit today. I can't do that. So this is how people think the laws are going to work here. They're going to be affecting the people who don't respect the law in the first place.
Starting point is 01:00:42 No, it's going to affect law-abiding citizens. Anybody who's paying attention knows this is just about disarming the population. It has nothing to do with preventing any of these shootings or crime or anything like that. And, you know, it's crazy because now they're coming out and there were like 10 mass shootings over the weekend. And I was like, oh, now you care about Chicago?
Starting point is 01:01:00 Yeah. Please, dude. Exactly. Chicago, the gun-free zone, the place with so much restrictions on people's ability to defend themselves where criminals know that there's going to be people there who can't do anything
Starting point is 01:01:10 if you put a gun in their face because they can't defend themselves when they attack them so then you watch these videos out of Brazil man it's crazy yeah where like there's that viral video where the guy walks up to the group of women and he's got a gun and he's like shaking at him and this woman just pulls out a gun and shoots him and he just hits the deck i watched uh man i watched these another
Starting point is 01:01:29 video where these three guys break into a house and you can see the guy like sleeping in his bed watching youtube or something like he fell asleep watching youtube videos and then all of a sudden you see this woman just walk up with a revolver bang bang and the dudes jump out the window yeah i mean what better way to to be able to protect yourself than be able to have a firearm? What you're going to do by taking firearms away from individuals is making them potential future victims. I just want to make one more point. Brains have just been completely, you know, rotted away at by gun culture and all the action movies. Basically have all of the opinions they have about guns based on action films. Like, they really think you just point at the person, pull the trigger, you're going to hit them every single time.
Starting point is 01:02:16 And so that's why they ask questions like, why would you need 10 rounds or more? Look, if someone breaks into your home, your adrenaline is going to be pumping. In the dark. In the dark. It's going to, like, you're going to be shaking. Even if you're well trained your adrenaline is going to be in the dark, in the dark. It's going to like you're going to be shaking. Even if you're well trained, it's going to be a difficult situation. So to sit there and go, why would someone need more than 10 rounds? I think.
Starting point is 01:02:32 What is it like? Police officers only hit their target something like 30 percent of the time and these situations and they train more regularly than your average citizen. How many conversations have you at home had where someone was like, why didn't they shoot the gun out of the hand? Yes. Or this is my favorite. This is my favorite favorite why didn't they just shoot him in the leg what what and hit a major artery hey i write and kill him that's why i love when they make the mainstream reporters go do the assignment where they take the the training and they have somebody like shoot him with a fake gun it's like oh you're dead because you didn't act fast enough when i was uh beginning my career in seattle i covered crime and justice before i switched over to politics and i made a point before i talked about any use of force i would have that use of force done i mean short
Starting point is 01:03:12 of being shot like when um eric garner was it killed by new york police uh in a in a chokehold so i let some police officer on camera choke me in an lvnr a lateral vascular neck restraint choke me unconscious to see what it would be a lateral vascular neck restraint, choke me unconscious to see what it would be like. And I got to say, I would rather that happen than pepper spray or anything like that, because that's much worse than being choked out. But I think it would be good for reporters. It should be kind of standard in newsrooms to make them go through some of that training that police go through before they talk about it. You know, things like that, like shoot them in the knee. Well, I think there are plenty of police officers who would volunteer to choke a reporter out.
Starting point is 01:03:47 That's what I was going to say is I'm sure that the Lakewood Police Department, they asked me for that video. I don't know where the video went, but City of Lakewood, they jumped at the opportunity to do that. They could stream this on YouTube. We send super chats in. There's another very dangerous attempt at gun control. You see, here's what's happening.
Starting point is 01:04:06 If you go over to gasprices.aa.com, the national average gas price is $4.86. You see, gas is going to be so expensive, you can't afford the guns. So there you go. No, in all actuality, yo, gas prices are nearing $5. This is apocalyptic. But wait, it's okay. Joe Biden is allowing solar panel imports, and he has said that this is a robust recovery.
Starting point is 01:04:33 Where are those solar panels coming from? Are they coming from China? China, and where's China getting the minerals? Oh, yeah, China. Yeah, and where's China getting the minerals? This is the big caveat. Where's China getting the minerals to produce those solar panels? Do you know?
Starting point is 01:04:46 Anyone here? Is it Xinjiang? No, no, no, no. It's another place that we left a lot of weaponry in. Afghanistan. Afghanistan. Yes, there you go. It comes all full circle here.
Starting point is 01:04:57 What do I win? The Great Reset. The destruction of your country. Yeah, the internal domestic destruction. But again, when we look at what the government has been doing here, these prices, we're just going into peak driving season. These prices are going to go up. The demand is going to go up. It's summer, dude.
Starting point is 01:05:14 Yeah, with these prices, everything else is going to go up. It's not just paying at the pump. It's not just paying for gas. Your groceries, every other item is going to rise in price because of this domestic energy policy that is shooting itself in the foot and is literally creating this financial havoc that we are dealing with. Some people call this the Great Reset. Some people are saying that we need to destroy the old in order to build back better.
Starting point is 01:05:39 Those are the talking terms of the Biden administration, not mine and a lot of other globalist and World Economic Forum types, they're the ones talking about this. Obviously, what's happening here to me is absolutely deliberate. We are seeing the financial destruction of the United States from within the inside, and we still don't even know the actual numbers
Starting point is 01:05:57 of the secret Federal Reserve bailouts that are bailing out all the big corporations that have friends within their government. So things are scary. Things are absolutely terrifying, especially when you look at the financial situation. I just want to say gas prices are high in part due to Joe Biden intentional climate change actions. That's just not even up for dispute. Yeah, because it's more environmentally friendly to import energy from Saudi Arabia
Starting point is 01:06:23 than it is to produce it domestically here in the United States. And we get to prop up a murderous dictatorship that keeps assassinating children in Yemen. Whatever is happening after the fact, it is a fact that Joe Biden said he was campaigning on climate change. He was going to reduce carbon emissions, all of that good climate change stuff. He shut down Keystone. He banned permits on certain federal land recently banning in the gulf and a bunch of other areas stopping exploration stopping discovery this is
Starting point is 01:06:50 deliberate and this is stated intentionally because of climate issues and environmental issues and now gas prices are going up partly due to that there is a spike coming because of ukraine that's a fact especially with europe and especially with us having to help protect Europe and do what we can in terms of their energy. We are being hit by that as well. But if you're wondering why it's getting so crazy, Joe Biden's going to try and blame Vladimir Putin, but gas prices were going up well before Putin. But the problem is the mainstream media believes what Joe Biden says on it. If you watch the mainstream media, you think what's happening right now, what's been happening for the last three months is because of Ukraine. Right.
Starting point is 01:07:27 That's what they're doing. It's terrifying. Well, I mean, the problem is people believe in the mainstream media about anything. Yeah, but there's a lot of Americans who believe the mainstream media. The journalists, I don't think, believe Joe Biden. Well, then why are they putting it out there? Because they're liars. Oh, God.
Starting point is 01:07:40 Because they're liars. Yeah, they lie. That's why. They're like, oh, Joe Biden lied again. Run it. That's it. Well like, oh, Joe Biden lied again. Run it. That's it. Well, have you seen his Twitter account lately? It is like every day he's blaming someone else for inflation and gas prices.
Starting point is 01:07:53 It was meat producers, oil producers, Republicans, Trump, Ukraine, Putin. It's a different thing every day. I was saying this, that Joe Biden is a sacrificial lamb. They knew that it was going to be really, really bad, so they needed someone to run who's not going to win again. They needed a Buchanan or somebody. And they could blame it on him being old and having cognitive decline. But they won't even admit that.
Starting point is 01:08:18 Not yet. Well, this is a part of the game. We're arguing about that, not the larger destruction that's happening within the United States. Two weeks ago, the New York Post had a very eye-opening article that was titled biden praises high gas prices as part of an incredible transition uh so this is this is his own words and this is the transition that we're going through right now because this is deliberate this is what they've been talking about planning instituting and doing for a very long time they don't want you having freedom of mobility they don't want you driving. They don't want you having freedom of mobility. They don't want you driving cars.
Starting point is 01:08:46 They don't want you having freedom in your own personal individual life. And what better way to do that than to take it away from individuals by making it too expensive and only allowing the super rich individuals like John Kerry to fly around in their private jets and to lecture everyone about how we need to stop over-consuming and have Bill Gates buy out the media to promote his fake meat because red meat is somehow bad for you when the scientific data specifically especially when it comes to beef liver highlights the exact opposite of that and i keep going i'm about to explode only because this is a part again i think this is all deliberate i i saw a meme and people are like when you know after 9-11 we said oh, we didn't. We changed the entire way that we board planes.
Starting point is 01:09:26 And I responded, it was like, no, only for poor people. Like if you're rich, you get expedited or you get TSA pre. If you fly on a private plane, there's no security. I recently flew on a private plane. It was fantastic. It was the first time I've ever flown. And it was a gift. I got lucky because someone happened to go in the same way as me.
Starting point is 01:09:43 And they're like, come on, take a ride. And I was like, okay. And we walk into the airport. And they're like, come on, take a ride. And I was like, okay. And we walk into the airport, and they're like, hey, I'm your captain, right this way. And we just walk straight through. It's like 10 feet from the door to the door to the tarmac. You walk on the plane. Not a big plane. It was very cramped.
Starting point is 01:09:56 But, you know, the rich people, they don't got to wear masks. They don't have to deal with the blue glove TSA agents patting you down, putting their hands where they have no business placing those hands in there. Yeah. You know? Was it Elon's plane? Did you get a massage? Was there a massage table in there?
Starting point is 01:10:11 I need to know. It's way too small for that. Okay. So, you know, look, I'm looking. Not if you're, you know, Mr. Epstein. Let me tell you guys something. You know how much it costs? So we looked into this.
Starting point is 01:10:22 From D.C. to Austin, round trip, private jet. Just the base lowest rate. How much do you think it costs? $10,000. How much do you think it costs, Luke? Private jet from where? DC to Austin, round trip. $15,000, $20,000?
Starting point is 01:10:39 $20,000. $55,000. Oh, my gosh. It used to be way cheaper a year ago, two years ago, but the price of fuel has skyrocketed, and there's a shortage of pilots. It's $55,000, and people do it all the time. They do have these things where they do these pools where you buy like a percentage of a fleet, and then you can use it,
Starting point is 01:10:58 and then you've got to spend a couple grand per flight or whatever. But that's how much it costs, and guess what? Part of the reason it's so high is because the demand from the wealthy they are willing to spend that to to avoid the blue gloves going up and then them you know open your buttocks and these are the uh often the elites who are telling us how important these security measures are i'm glad you brought this up luke biden talking about an incredible transition because it's interesting i thought we were going to see a return to normal because that's what he promised. But one of my favorite things about this is here we see
Starting point is 01:11:28 that as is the case with transgenderism, transition is just a euphemism for mutilation. Fair point. Another aspect of this that I think is worth entertaining and talking about is that the same time that he announced and made this very important, incredible transition
Starting point is 01:11:44 statement, he also announced the plan to set up more bike lanes, especially in city areas, and set up more speed cameras. What is that going to do? This is going along with the UN 2030 vision, the World Economic Forum, Build Back Better. This is everything that they've always been talking about, dreaming about. And one of their key plans is to eliminate people's ability to travel, people's ability to have a car. And I think this is the larger plan because this is all for allegedly global warming. No, it's really about subjecting human beings to slavery and controlling every aspect of their existence.
Starting point is 01:12:15 What better way to do that than even controlling their ability to move around? They want you living in those cities. This is a part of a larger agenda that has been building up for a very long time. And there has been a huge attack on people's ability to be able to drive. You have to deal with inspections. You have to deal with regulations. You have to deal with so many regulations against diesel, so many environmental regulations. But when we look at the people hurting the environment, they're the ones getting a lot of the support, a lot of the tax money, a lot of the government socialism that goes directly to them.
Starting point is 01:12:46 Everyone else gets screwed. It's paying the ultimate price. And I think this is only going to get worse. And I think this is not an accident that this is happening. I think this is deliberate lockstep and barrel. Every step of the way, they are pushing for humanity's total enslavement. And taking away people's ability to drive is going to be one of those key elements that they need to get rid of. Well, Biden is furious that he's trailing Trump in the polls, erupted over being kept out of the loop on baby formula,
Starting point is 01:13:11 and is trying to avoid being compared to Jimmy Carter. No, he's like worse than Jimmy Carter. Don't worry, Joe, we won't compare you to him. You're worse. Absolutely. Notice they didn't have to keep him out of the loop on like adult diapers, right? He knows what those numbers are at. Yeah, he's like, what's the stock on adult diapers, man?
Starting point is 01:13:27 Well, there's actually some very interesting comparisons to Jimmy Carter's administration, to the Biden administration, especially to what happened in the 1970s, especially with what happened geopolitically, with a lot of very similar troubles that people had to deal with then that people are also dealing with now. And I think, especially if you look at the baby formula shortage, another problem of too big government, it's WIC program, it's overproduction, it's overreliance on one particular corporation that probably has ties to the government. Again, a lot of these problems go directly towards the central planners that think that they could control every aspect of your existence. And because they do, they make a lot of problems for you. I think these problems are deliberate, and they're only going to get worse from here.
Starting point is 01:14:08 Do you guys want Trump to run again? Man, I kind of do, because I'm not so convinced DeSantis is going to clean house. You know, so, like, a couple months ago, I was saying I would prefer DeSantis because he's younger, he's got more tact and everything. But just with how crazy things are getting, I'm kind of like, I think DeSantis would get in and try and hold on. I think Trump will get in and just clean house.
Starting point is 01:14:31 He's going to fire everybody. I have the opposite approach. I have no trust in Trump at all. I think he was totally infiltrated and totally acted for the deep state and made the situation worse for a lot of people. Operation Warp Speed is one of the hugest scams. So much scams that were run on the American people. So many mistakes. That's just my perspective. I just, 2024 is going to be fascinating because do you think Kamala Harris, because Biden's not running again, right? No way.
Starting point is 01:14:59 There's no way. There's no way. They pretend he is. They would have to announce within the next few months if that's the case. Because they've got to start lining up the primary pool for next year. Yeah, but you don't think – they're so identity obsessed. You don't really think Democrats would allow anyone to challenge Kamala Harris, do you? I don't know. You look at her poll numbers. She is extremely unlikable.
Starting point is 01:15:19 But who wants to be the Democrat who tries to push out a woman of color? Well, here's a woman of color. Here's a question though. It depends on whether the mainstream media feels and the DNC feels that this candidate who's running against Kamala is useful to them because if that's the case, then all the horrible things Kamala has said and done
Starting point is 01:15:38 are going to be fair game and the media is going to allow people to discuss them. I see maybe even Michelle Obama, Stacey Abrams who's a Bilderberg member by the way. I see all even Michelle Obama, Stacey Abrams, who's a Bilderberg member, by the way. I see all of them making prominent moves in this. Pete Buttigieg, I think he's also going to be another prominent individual that they're propping up here as well. So I think we're going to keep an eye on all of them. But I think the United States is a sinking ship. And I don't know who would want the job at this juncture, because you're literally going to
Starting point is 01:16:04 be in charge of something that people are not going to be happy with in the near future. If Pete Buttigieg can give birth, he can save the country. Pete Buttigieg doesn't have the X factor. He doesn't. Gavin Newsom looks like a mannequin. Oh, not Gavin Newsom.
Starting point is 01:16:22 Michelle Obama, but she's apparently never going to do it. Washington Governor Jay Inslee. He got like 1% the first time around, right? Whitmore. She's very popular in Michigan. Whitmore? That California guy. What's his name that eats at that very
Starting point is 01:16:38 fancy restaurant? Gavin Newsom. Yeah, that guy. He looks like a mannequin. He's very pointy. Too much Botox. Sharp. He looks like he's made of plastic. Buttigieg has a lot of CIA connections.
Starting point is 01:16:49 I still see him being promoted and prompted up, and I think he's going to be a contender. At least he can string a sentence together. Yeah, well, he's young and trendy, and he doesn't have the X factor, but I do see him being promoted prominently in the next upcoming election that's how i just see it sorry i derailed the conversation no no no it's fine
Starting point is 01:17:09 um it's fine we're we're in a huge mess with with this administration and who's going to come clean up the pieces absolutely no one and you need to be personally responsible for yourself and my opinion my perspective and i might be wrong and it's okay if I'm wrong, is that if you believe a politician's going to help you out, you have victim mentality. No one's going to help you out. No one's going to come and save you, except you yourself. Someone is going to help us, and it is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Starting point is 01:17:37 AOC is criticizing Democrats' refusal to use the word Latinx, despite divide over the term. Many Democrats worry the term Latinx alienates voters of Latin American descent. AOC, don't stop. Don't stop. Keep on going. Tell them all to keep
Starting point is 01:17:52 saying it. Please, please. Your advocacy is so important to helping Republicans win in the midterms. Didn't she just come out as Native American? Yes. She's transracial. So this is the thing about Latinx. I've said this before. Part of the reason the left feels it's so important for folks to start using this phrase is because to name a person or group of people is to assert ownership over them.
Starting point is 01:18:14 And that is how they view the Hispanic community. They believe that they're their owners and handlers, just like they feel they're the owners and handlers of every single other minority group they claim to speak for. Now, the Latino community does not use this phrase. They don't like that phrase. The polling has made it perfectly clear. But these leftist colonists are going to do every single thing they can to force their bizarre gender ideology onto this culture. I think they know that they have to work their way in there and really destroy the Hispanic understanding of family life by subverting their understanding of gender roles because they know that given the Catholic culture of many of these nations, they are likely to be more socially conservative in the future, and they could even become Republican voters. And I think that's the fear. So they need to do every single thing they can now to subvert that culture as much as
Starting point is 01:19:09 possible. That's what this term is about. Well, you look at destroy their understanding of sexual relationships, destroy their understanding of the differences between men and women. You look at South Texas and things are not looking good for Democrats. Latino voters are voting Republican. You look at Florida. Yeah, November is going to be wild.
Starting point is 01:19:25 Do you think that, I mean, seriously, when churches get torched or when the Holy Mass is interrupted over Roe being overturned, how do you think a Mexican Catholic feels about that? How do you think that voter bloc is going to respond? They are going to do everything they can to strip these cultures of their identity. It's going to be interesting. I mean, I think there's going to be a lot of surprises before November. I think there's a lot of more instability than we even realize right now.
Starting point is 01:19:53 I think financially, this is going to be the bigger kind of picture here that's going to affect a lot of people's decisions, especially at the voting booth. But it's really just fascinating that there's so many problems, there's so many things going wrong, but we're talking about Latinx? To me, this is just crazy. August is going to be lit. August? Oh, yeah. So we're going to be getting
Starting point is 01:20:16 into the fall harvest season. So we're going to be running low on food. There's not going to be new food, or it's going to be seriously depleted because of the lack of fertilizer in spring. There's going to be new food or it's going to be seriously depleted because of the lack of fertilizer in spring. There's going to be diesel shortages. No diesel means even if they have the food, they can't bring it to you. It's going to be $10 a gallon in California and probably in a bunch of other places.
Starting point is 01:20:36 We're about to break $5 a gallon as it is. But hopefully AOC keeps criticizing Democrats who don't say the word Latinx. Yeah, keep it up. Maybe, Tim, we could solve all these problems by calling people Latinx. Is it Latinx? Latinx. I don't even know how to pronounce it. I don't even care how to pronounce it.
Starting point is 01:20:56 Like Latino, Latina, Latinx? I want to make sure I pronounce it correctly. I just want to make sure you don't pronounce it. I don't want to pronounce it. It's a horrible term. We had a progressive on this show recently, and when I asked him why the Green New Deal had a bunch of stuff like free college for marginalized people and health care,
Starting point is 01:21:11 he's like, because that's who's affected first. And I'm like, that doesn't solve anything having to do with the climate crisis. It's like, we want to solve climate change, so we're going to give college to minorities. I'm like, what does that do about carbon emissions? Nothing. But you can't point that out because then you're racist. You to minorities. I'm like, what does that do about carbon emissions? Nothing. But you can't point that out because then you're racist. You're racist.
Starting point is 01:21:28 I guess. You're racist against the latinks. There was a meme I saw and it said, when gas prices go up, they show like a wind turbine and it's like, the price for running the wind turbine didn't. And then I just responded with like, they use petroleum-based lubricants. What are you talking about? Of course the the prices went up the price for everything goes up i don't know what they're what they're doing i can only say this the one thing that it seems to be
Starting point is 01:21:53 is that the country is being gutted and burned to the ground deliberately on purpose not by accident they try to make it look like it's an accident they're like oh no it's just incompetency well i mean the actions they take that are burning the country down are completely deliberate. Absolutely. But I would assume the path to hell is paved with good intentions. Absolutely. I think there's an element of that as well. But I think there's also just organizations being like, well, let's make these people believe that they're doing the right thing.
Starting point is 01:22:17 Let's push this agenda here. Let's actually rearrange things in a way that's going to work out for our personal benefit. So I do see people kind of waiting behind the scenes, pushing a lot of these agendas and narratives that do play a bigger role that we don't even realize immediately. But then later down the line, we're like, hey, we're looking around like, hey, there's only bugs to eat here. Hey, we only have a pod. Hey, we only have a VR headset. Hey, hey, we can't go out of our house.
Starting point is 01:22:40 We don't have a car. We can't afford a car. We can't even drive a car. So I do see this kind of larger element that we're slowly creeping into, which is a technocratic nightmare. And I think it's worth calling out. I think this news,
Starting point is 01:22:54 especially with Elon Musk and Twitter, is a lot bigger than we even realize. I think there's a lot on the line here. Let's just say it's not a boring time to be alive. It's very interesting. And I think it's only going to get a lot more interesting. Speaking of... There's this point you made earlier, Tim,
Starting point is 01:23:09 that the road to hell is paved with good intentions, and in many ways that's true, but bad intentions don't pave the road to heaven. And we do live in a culture, unfortunately, where many of those at the top really do have very bad intentions, and it might not necessarily be that it's their goal to destroy the system,
Starting point is 01:23:24 but they do want to enrich themselves at the expense of everybody else and they also want to hook their friends up and demolish whatever part of the culture it is that happens to bother them and that's going to have consequences that not even they realize it's going to get really bad so let's use the last few minutes for super chats to talk about this technocratic hellscape oh boy just have some fun because earlier earlier today I went to this AI and I asked it to make images of Donald Trump, Joe Biden,
Starting point is 01:23:50 Nancy Pelosi. So we pulled it up again and before the show I asked this AI to generate some images for me. And I'm going to show you these images because they're hilarious and I hope you guys enjoy them. It's from the new Avatar movie? Yes. So I said I would like to see an image of Tom Cruise.
Starting point is 01:24:06 And this is what it gave me. For those that are only listening, it'll only be a few minutes, but I'll describe it. It is an orange background with a blue-skinned man that could kind of look like Tom Cruise. It looks like Adam Driver. Jake Dillon. Yeah, it does. Look at those teeth. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, he's got a bunch of teeth.
Starting point is 01:24:19 He's got too many teeth. Freaky. Yeah, a lot of teeth. I mean, kind of a babe, though. He's like a model-looking kind of guy. All right, let's go to the next one. I said Bill Clinton. a babe, though. He's like a model-looking kind of guy. Alright, let's go to the next one. I said Bill Clinton. Alright, you guys ready for this? Here's AI. It looks like Guy Fieri.
Starting point is 01:24:32 Yeah, Bill Clinton's about to take us to Flavortown. He said Bill's about to go to Flavortown Island on a private jet. On a private jet to a private island. You guys ready for this one? An AI generated Bill Gates. Here we go. I asked for this one? An AI-generated Bill Gates. Here we go.
Starting point is 01:24:47 I asked for that one. I don't know what this is. Yeah, what's the Bill portion of that? Is it like St. Peter? It's like the Kremlin or something? It's not a person. No. Because I don't know.
Starting point is 01:24:57 Who's next? You guys ready? Jeffrey Epstein. You guys ready for AI-generated Jeffrey Epstein? There you go. That's about right. I mean, it's pretty close. That's probably what he looks like now
Starting point is 01:25:06 after the reconstructive facial surgery. They were trying to figure out how to do reconstructive facial surgery, so they ran it through the AI and they made this. Somewhere in the world right now, there's a guy looking exactly like that. Be like, they're on to me. Are you guys ready for the best one?
Starting point is 01:25:18 This next one is the best. Which one is it? Donald Trump Jr. Are you guys ready for this? I'm warning you now, you guys are going to lose it when you see an AI-generated Donald Trump Jr. Are you guys ready for this? I'm warning you now. You guys are going to lose it when you see an AI-generated Donald Trump Jr. You ready for this? Here you go.
Starting point is 01:25:31 What on earth? What is happening? It's the spoon that gets me. It's got a spoon. Okay, first of all, it looks more like Alan West than Donald Trump Jr. Yeah, it does for smooth skin. There's something wrong with the chin, but it is a black man with a spoon in his mouth. Yeah, I don't understand.
Starting point is 01:25:47 And like a sushi, sashimi napkin bib? Is it just like he's rich, he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth? Is that what we're seeing? I don't know how this is happening. Are we sure we're not looking at Hunter Biden's art? I don't know. That's kind of what it looks like.
Starting point is 01:25:59 All right. Now, this one might scare the children. This one's going to scare the kids. Nancy Pelosi. Yeah, but she always does. Yeah, she does. True. kids. Nancy Pelosi. Yeah, but she always does. Yeah, she does. True. Here's Nancy Pelosi.
Starting point is 01:26:08 Skin suit. I think she looks better here than she does in real life. It looks like a Nancy Pelosi skin suit. Look at that hand. Look at the eyes. It's like, what is this? What is going on? That is so creepy.
Starting point is 01:26:23 AI will not be taking over anytime soon. All right. All right. Now for the people on the show. You guys ready for a good one? Luke Rudkowski is first. Here is AI-generated Luke Rudkowski. Sort of got the eyes right.
Starting point is 01:26:35 Yeah, but like... The nose should be a lot bigger. It's like you and Brandon Ruth combined. Probably, yeah. I don't understand. Like, the hair is wrong? It's not bad. All right.
Starting point is 01:26:44 Who's next? It's Adam Driver. The next one,. The hair is wrong? It's not bad. All right, who's next? It's Adam Driver. The next one, I think, is Seamus in about two years from now. I think it's me about now. You guys are going to love Seamus. You ready? You ready for Seamus? Seamus in two years.
Starting point is 01:26:59 I can see it. It looks like Fat Bastard. No, I think it looks kind of like me. I really do. I can see it. I see it. It looks like Joe Biden. No, but it's got like Thanos' chin.
Starting point is 01:27:07 Yeah, and Joe Biden. It's those two things. It's like Joe Biden and Thanos combined. Yeah, exactly. That's Seamus. Who's next? Lydia. Lydia's was just like an AI.
Starting point is 01:27:16 Yes. I look like the lady from The Closer. And like one of your eyes is smashed. Yeah, creepy eyes. Yeah. But this is kind of weird because it just looks like a badly drawn person no it looks like a demon trying to disguise itself as i know it does yeah all right and now for the best one timothy pool are you guys ready for this here we go it's literally a swimming pool that's what they that's what the ai made the ai literally just made a
Starting point is 01:27:43 swimming pool i wish there was a beanie on it. It's the Timothy pool. Nope, that's it. Just like Bill Gates, if your name is a common noun, you cannot be AI generated. What if you put an E at the end of the pool? So if you follow my Twitter, twitter.com slash timcast, you can see where I made an AI generated image of Joe Biden sniffing a little girl. Joe Biden and Donald Trump fused together as one person. That's the worst thing I've ever heard.
Starting point is 01:28:09 And a couple of bonus Joe Bidens. Yeah, that was fun. The Joe Biden sniffing the little girl is my favorite. But it's weird. It's just his face is smashed, and there's not really a little girl. It's like a weird mashed-faced pig-looking thing. Yeah, I won't be able to sleep tonight if you show it again. I don't want to see it again. No, it's creepy. It's like a weird mashed faced pig looking thing. Yeah, I won't be able to sleep tonight if you show it again.
Starting point is 01:28:25 I don't want to see it again. No, it's great. It's on Twitter. Nancy Pelosi was good. Actually, maybe I can pull it up if I just go to Twitter. Oh yeah, you know what? I'll just pull it up. We're on Twitter. Let's see what we got here. There we go. AI. Joe Biden
Starting point is 01:28:42 sniffing a little girl AI generated image. What? Look at this! Oh man. So AI-generated image. What is happening? Oh, man. So the AI created that image. Yes. Made it. An AI made this image. Wow.
Starting point is 01:28:52 Yeah, here's a couple of Joe Biden bonuses. He's melting. Here's Donald Trump and Joe Biden fused as one person. That's actually pretty legit. That one's good. It's pretty good. Here's Nancy Pelosi. Dude, why are her hands
Starting point is 01:29:05 Always weird in these She looks great I don't know dude She needs all the hands To hold all the money She's getting from the stock market That's true That's true
Starting point is 01:29:12 Here's Joe Biden AI And then the Donald Trump AI Yeah what's with like His hand on his shoulder Like that What's happening Frankly Frankly
Starting point is 01:29:20 Wow You talking about me It's like they were at the Madam Madam How do you say that? The sauce. And then it melted. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:29:28 That's exactly what it looks like. All right, everybody. I don't like that. That's AI, but we're going to- You should have the AI draw a super chatter at some point. The AI what? Draw a super chatter. You know?
Starting point is 01:29:44 Oh, like one of their names? Write a super chatter know right or one of their names but the issue the issue is that unless they're really really famous it just gives you random images like i don't know i think i thought luke and i looked pretty good you look pretty good too bro i was a swimming pool look great looking good yeah all right everybody if you haven't already would you kindly smash that like button subscribe to this channel share the show with your friends, and become a member at TimCast.com. We're going to have a members-only show coming up at 11pm. You don't want to miss it. Let's read the
Starting point is 01:30:11 superchats from all of you guys. What do we got? Alright. Lethal5670 says, Have you heard much on the Dems' proposal for a 1000% tax on AR-15 style weapons? Yes, we talked about it. Matthew Hammond says, please make Milo your press secretary,
Starting point is 01:30:28 Marjorie Taylor Greene. All right. Michael Alio says, now that Luke is back, I can finally stop puking. Good. Finally. And I can start.
Starting point is 01:30:38 Oh, wow. Raymond G. Stanley Jr. says, Luke didn't waste a second switching his background. In fact, before the show, we were hammering. There's a little confrontation that happened. It was great. They were boxing. We had to, you know, I had to fight for this.
Starting point is 01:30:53 I had to fight for all this, but I got it, and I won. I wouldn't go that far. It was definitely a fight. It was a competition. At some point, I just decided to let you have it. There was a physical altercation between me and someone on this show. I don't know who he's talking about. That's right, Luke hit a woman.
Starting point is 01:31:08 That's exactly what happened. I am a black belt, so it's gone well for you. Alright. What do we get? Dominic Camerata says, who's this Luke? He him? Okay.
Starting point is 01:31:28 A. Jones says, I'm afraid if y'all get swatted again that Roberto will fail to keep his cool. Roberto is off at Freedomistan. Roberto Jr. Yeah, Roberto Jr. We sent him to boarding school. Roberto was sent to the penal colony for abusing women.
Starting point is 01:31:43 Australia. Well, Freedomistan. All right. Bryce E. says, it's $5.20 for a gallon of gas by me in Wisconsin. It's $4.79 here. Wow.
Starting point is 01:31:55 It's like six in Seattle. Yeah, dude. Yikes. Raymond G. Stanley Jr. says, Tim, my Marine Corps has become a corporate shill. All Americans
Starting point is 01:32:04 should be proud every day. The bent knee speaks volumes of the leaders. Admonish them. That's what my brother said, yeah. OMG Puppy says, it is not just that Twitter serves the Democrats. It is also used by the NED and CIA for international operations, color revolution, etc. Absolutely. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:32:25 Many documented cases. Economic hitmen, stuff like for international operations, color revolution, etc. Absolutely. Yeah. Many documented cases. Economic hitmen, stuff like that. Oh, yeah. Yeah. In QTEL. Sam Whitehurst says, watched a clip of Ben Shapiro talking with Neil deGrasse Tyson about trans people in sports, and he was literally shaking when answering the question. I used to admire him, but I found many of my heroes will lie to save face. neil degrasse tyson i mean he's never been that good to be honest like just
Starting point is 01:32:50 listen to what he says and you're kind of like dude i think twitter really was bad for neil degrasse yeah yeah saying a bunch of really dumb things salty duckling says i'd like to welcome back my favorite decaf russian It's even better than my favorite. No, I can't say that on Twitter. You cannot say that? Well, I just want you all to know it is a slur against my people. That's right. Whisper it to me later, Seamus.
Starting point is 01:33:15 And I'm Polish. No, I think that's what he was saying. Decaf Russian? Yeah, I think it's a... How dare you? I love it. If I would get offended, I would be offended. There was nothing decaf about you tonight.
Starting point is 01:33:28 Don't worry. That's true. There was not. Okay, so what is this? Someone just posted the lyrics to Smash Mouth. So don't delay. Act now. Supplies are running out.
Starting point is 01:33:38 Allow, if you're still alive, six to eight years to arrive. And if you follow, there may be a tomorrow. But if the offer is shunned, you might as well be walking on the sun. That's what it feels like. We're all melting. Well, there you go. Thanks for the smash mouth. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:33:51 Always valuable. Smash mouth. A lot of people saying, Luke is back. Luke is back. What is a Luke shaft cam? That's such a great question. I've seen it mentioned.
Starting point is 01:34:03 I'm assuming it is what I think it is. Welcome to our chat. I'm sorry, Brandy. Our chat is highly inappropriate. No, please describe to me what a... No! It's like a... Oh, it's like a flagpole.
Starting point is 01:34:14 Ian Shaft. Yeah, it's exactly the same. Our chat's a wonderful place. I think you might be too wholesome for this chat. You are too wholesome. I love the chat room. Are you writing it down? Yes, I'm going to take that.
Starting point is 01:34:26 What is a shaft cam? Yeah, go ahead and look it up. You don't want to look that up. Don't look it up. Don't do it. I'm not going to Google that on your iPhone. I'm blushing. I'll fill you in after. Luke is definitely blushing. I love it. The chat is blowing up with people
Starting point is 01:34:43 laughing. Oh, man. Oh, that was good. I've never been called wholesome. I like coming here. I'm wholesome here. Yeah, it's really bad here. Waffle Sensei says,
Starting point is 01:34:54 the Uvalde cops are just a result of a castrated nationwide police force who is so afraid of stepping one toe out of line that they were more afraid for themselves than these children's lives. It's too late. Cops should go. go where different jobs different jobs richard adams says great journalism about seth rich subject there is a difference between negligence and enabling by
Starting point is 01:35:16 the way the shooter was in contact with the fbi in uvalde i think that was buffalo those uh those uh retired fbi agent that was on the forum that was in communication with them. Yeah, I heard a rumor that the Uvalde shooter was speaking to someone they could not identify. There was rumors that they were on the same chat room. I haven't seen that verified yet. We got lots of crazy stuff out there. Don't believe
Starting point is 01:35:37 everything you read. Heyman says you cannot buy guns on credit. False! You absolutely can. I do it all the time. Why would you not be able to? In fact, I only buy on credit. False! You absolutely can. I do it all the time. Why would you not be able to? In fact, I only buy on credit. I just pay it off after every period or whatever. Let's see. A Baked Cup
Starting point is 01:35:54 says 1,600 rounds and magazines for all of them. That's a lot of money. Not to mention a $700 optic and two 2K rifles. I mean, yeah, even if he was saving up that much money, I don't think... Even if he was saving all his money, I don't know how he gets to the truck the truck was like 60 grand wasn't it yeah it was a an expensive truck especially now if you could even be lucky enough to get a truck uh because you know it's very difficult to even do that now i didn't realize he had bought a truck
Starting point is 01:36:17 yeah he did yeah expensive yeah nathan bacon baby says, please use that Daily Wire ad money to have makeup artists get everyone on a show done up in high-quality Star Trek costumes. Maybe try to see each other with them as soon as you go live. That sounds highly ridiculous and very expensive. And I think it goes well beyond
Starting point is 01:36:39 the amount of money we would have got paid from the Daily Wire. Really Now says, Military here, if you're a victim, you flee. If you're a responder, you eliminate the threat. It's that simple. If you hear shots that's not barricaded, it's active. Of course.
Starting point is 01:36:55 Wow. That guy says what I wouldn't give to see Luke and Brandon Tatum in the same room with a running camera. Holy hell, Luke, we've missed you. I missed you guys too. It's fine. I've been watching the chat room. You guys are on fire., Luke, we've missed you. I missed you guys, too. It's fine. I've been watching the chat room.
Starting point is 01:37:07 You guys are on fire. I love it. It's awesome. People want that Luke Shaft cam. Oh, my gosh. I haven't seen those comments today, actually. Oh, I saw many. Oh, my gosh.
Starting point is 01:37:17 Okay. Anyway. We will explain that to you in the non-family-friendly version over at TimCast.com at 11 p.m. I'm looking forward to it. It's going to be great. Brandon Freeman says, bots on Twitter and fake accounts. Remember AshleyMedicine.com. It was hacked and almost all the female user accounts were fake.
Starting point is 01:37:38 Some operated by employees. What's happening on Twitter isn't reality. It's like a bunch of fake leftist accounts arguing with conservatives just to keep conservatives entertained and on the platform. I mean, yeah. It's pretty entertaining. Raymond G. Stanley Jr. says, Tim, why go conspiracy when you preach Arkham's Razor? Arkham? That's a good razor. I like that. Arkham's? Was it like the Joker will escape? Yeah, I think so.
Starting point is 01:37:59 Something like that. All criminals will engage in recidivism? Something like that. What do you mean, good sir? What do you mean? Arkham's Razor. I need to know more. Arkham's Razor.
Starting point is 01:38:10 Poison Fist said, where's the dashboard cams, traffic cams, body cams, school CCTVs, or citizen phone footage? We only have 10 seconds. Filet-O-Fishy AF. Though 10 seconds more than we have of Adam Lanza. Crazy. Let's see. Now there are eggplant emojis, so I imagine I've got my answer about what the chef cam is. Got it.
Starting point is 01:38:36 Eggplants. Enjoy. Let me drink some water real quick. I got nothing to say about that. Luke, provide comment. No comment. Yeah. Don't know what to say about that one.
Starting point is 01:38:52 But very creative commenters. I love the entertainment value of it. That's a great place. Absolutely. That guy says, Tim, your Alec Baldwin logic, whereas dozens of mistakes would have to be conducted in succession to make Alec innocent. What if you applied that
Starting point is 01:39:08 same logic to you, Valdi? Where would that lead you? It would lead to a psychopathic murderer who bought guns and then went and shot people. I mean... The thing about Alec Baldwin was that we know he had the gun. We know he was manipulating the gun. We know there was a live bullet in the gun. We know he pointed the gun. And I'm saying all of those
Starting point is 01:39:24 things are literally true. Then how could you argue it was an accident? It's the inversion of a conspiracy theory. It's like the Alec Baldwin story was literally the media making up a conspiracy theory. Alec Baldwin was handed a gun that he was supposed to have checked that someone else was supposed to have checked. And he pointed at a woman, pulled the hammer back, releasing a live round, killing her after having a dispute with her over pay or something like that. Or something like that happened. And to believe anything other than just that story right there would be to be making it into a conspiracy theory. We'll see.
Starting point is 01:39:56 All right. What do we got? More superchats. Ian Hall says, to the point, you are the militia. Prepare and be ready that is true sergeant buck says seattle is a lost cause at this point speaking as a near seattle native inslee thinks restricting magazine size to 10 rounds will do something he's only harming law-abiding gun owners that is true and correct like anybody who's got an illegal weapon and planning to commit a crime
Starting point is 01:40:24 is going to care about breaking another law, especially something like that. So dumb. Guardsman Norheim of the 10th First. Isn't, he says, isn't this why, isn't, well he says, isn't the why can Ukraine get guns argument a little weak considering they are actively under attack from Russia? Luke? get guns argument a little weak considering they are actively under attack from russia luke well the aspect here that we have to understand here is that a lot of these weapons are being sent not tracked we don't know what hands are going into and you could bet your bottom dollar there's going to be a lot of black market firearms after this conflict uh if it ever ends because this conflict might not end so obviously i understand your point but the point is more kind of nuanced here,
Starting point is 01:41:05 saying specifically you want those people to have guns but other people not to have guns based on your own kind of political ideology that doesn't really stand behind a virtue because people should be able to defend themselves no matter what the situation is. So that's just my perspective and comment. All right, let's give some more. We got some more super chats. We got so many super chats. We have so many of the best super chats. All right. Let's give some more. We got some more super chats. We got so many super chats. We have so many
Starting point is 01:41:27 of the best super chats. Everybody agrees. Hybrid says, I'm so glad I can stop puking. Welcome back. Everybody was just vomiting all over their keyboards every night.
Starting point is 01:41:36 They couldn't help it. I just watch the show. It's just so good. I can't stop. I promise it's no joke. The pandemic is over. Tyrant Hunter says, Hey, if they make guns hard to get, I'll just befriend some cartel members and get some of our guns Obama gave them.
Starting point is 01:41:51 There you go. There's always one way to do it, I guess. I don't think that'll work out too well for you, though, to be honest. Stim Bucket says, teaching is the answer, not tyranny. Accurate information is almost always better than regulation. No taxation without transparency. Were you looking up something to show Luke? the answer not to tyranny accurate information is almost always better than regulation no taxation without transparency were you were you looking up something to show luke oh somebody wants a brandy foot cam oh even better you don't my feet are not nice welcome to our chat chris larson says the
Starting point is 01:42:19 largest producer of eggs in the u.s wasiously burnt down recently, making it the 19th food producer to burn down this year. So the important thing here is you need to look at every year the amount of food processing plants or related plants had suffered some kind of incident, and I don't think the numbers this year are remarkable. I think what people are doing is they're noticing
Starting point is 01:42:40 and then being like, whoa, this looks crazy and it's like, it was also crazy in 2013. But I mean, I do think it's fair to point out that regardless of whether it's normal or not, these things are going to have a very serious impact on the already strained food supply. I'm going to have to see what Tucker Carlson said about that
Starting point is 01:42:56 because he mentioned it shortly after we talked about it, and I forget what he concluded, so I'll check it out. Seamus pot of gold cam. Yes! Yeah. so i'll check it out shameless pot of gold cam yes yeah all right nate says tim if that is the definition of concentration camp wouldn't that make aoc correct about what you said about the border no because people choosing to come to the border to go into a camp is different from being taken from your home without due process. Someone trying to enter a jurisdiction illegally and then being detained is breaking the law. Being detained is part of due process. Being in your home and having medical agents show up and say, you're going to the camp,
Starting point is 01:43:38 there's no charge, no trial, we'll let you know when you can leave. That is being rounded up for a concentration camp. All right, where are we at? I can't read this one. Tufel Hundengrunt says, If you are old enough to be drafted, you are old enough to drink, smoke, vote, drive, have sex, and own any firearm. Yes. And if you're not old enough to have those things, 21,
Starting point is 01:44:03 then you should be able to vote. So raise the voting age. How about that? J.W. Dickison says, Pour one out for hero, Paul Hardware's Twitter handle dog that he and his wife rescued long ago was finally let go. Oh. Freeman Dye Free says, The two-way community doesn't properly address the Commerce Clause.
Starting point is 01:44:22 It wasn't intended to give broad federal regulatory power and led to the birth of the atf oh that sucks balian says tim i live i live in alaska and we use 556 to hunt black bear bro that's right i'm not saying that people don't use 556 or nine millimeter to hunt i'm just saying you have hunting rounds for bigger game and when the left tries making that argument they don't know what they're talking about michael best says hello from auburn washington i listen to both brandy and dory monson daily which keeps me sane in this state full of crazy happy to help do you know who dory is yeah he's a good friend of mine he's a conservative radio host in seattle and sometimes i fill in for him do you also know jason rance he's i do yeah jason's a dear friend of mine
Starting point is 01:45:08 yeah we've had him on right yeah yeah yeah he's great he's right i like reading his articles oh yeah ethan reed says i think it's i think it's reed does the fn scar 20s you speak of not have a folding stock i think with a folding stock it would be be illegal, but you can own a, what is it, IWITD-12 rotating mags on shotguns are supposed to be on that list. Look at it on MSP license port. I live in West Virginia, good sir. I don't live in Maryland, so I don't got to worry about any of that stuff. Backbald, oh, says, wait until you guys find out about pistol braces versus stocks. Yes.
Starting point is 01:45:48 Well, I know all about them. Joe Biden was recently trying to make those regulated under the NFA. The idea is there are pistols that have braces that you can put on your forearm. So when you're holding it, it's easier to shoot. But some people, and they shouldn't do this, put it up against their shoulders like it's a stock, as if they're using a short-barreled rifle. That's a no-no maneuver. You can't do that. I don't know how that works, though.
Starting point is 01:46:12 Is that illegal to just do the maneuver? Like putting a brace into your shoulder? It's all kind of arbitrary in how they want to enforce it. It's all up to the federal bureaucracy. That is so well and efficient. Said no one ever. Waffle Sensei says, remember when conservatives used to say, if you have nothing to hide, then you have nothing to worry about.
Starting point is 01:46:32 How the F did that work out? Now the machine is built to turn on its own citizenry. Yeah, well, you know, you got to pay attention, I suppose. How do we pronounce this one? Amal Antra, him, says, I'm in Washington State. I decided to get a 458 SOCOM, and now I can put 10 rounds in all of my 30 5.56 mags.
Starting point is 01:46:55 Yeah, they work for that, right? 450 and 458 fit in 5.56? We have to look that up. You don't know? I don't know. What do we got here Ethan Reed says I meant IWI TS 12
Starting point is 01:47:12 not on the list when booked when looked last interesting well I don't care for Maryland anyway so Sarah Hunter says if only we had more laws against rape we would never see another assault ever again ban ramp ban rape why have we not banned that what the heck and murder If only we had more laws against rape, we would never see another assault ever again. Ban rape. Why have we not banned that?
Starting point is 01:47:28 What the heck? And murder. Murder should be illegal. Yeah. But for some reason, people keep doing it. They see these people violate all these laws to commit a mass atrocity, and they go, do we need more laws? Yeah. FlutzQ says, so an assault weapon is an item used or designed to cause physical damage
Starting point is 01:47:46 physical trauma which is used to cause physical damage bodily trauma so it does mean something so long as you are illiterate assault doesn't mean anything
Starting point is 01:47:55 it's a completely meaningless term they're like it's a weapon of war whatever dude it's funny because it's like what do you think
Starting point is 01:48:03 these weapons were for like of course they're used for hurting people brunch sunday yeah just to you you fire at the pan or something no idea when you're when you're cooking dinner pirate torres second half says i have a friend that was born with one arm he uses a semi-auto 12-gauge shotgun. He delivers pizza with a manual transmission car, too. Yeah. You could do it. Sounds like an interesting guy.
Starting point is 01:48:32 Christopher says Luke is going to be the new Alex Jones in 15 years. Oh, Lord. I mean, if we're talking 15 years, he'll be the old Alex Jones then. New Alex Jones now, though. Yeah. That's a compliment. he doesn't love it mike williams says the second amendment doesn't grant americans the right to keep and
Starting point is 01:48:51 bear arms it does acknowledge americans have the right at birth and makes it clear the government doesn't have the right to infringe on that god-given right that is true it says the right the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed because it already exists. It's just, I suppose if you're illiterate, you would use the, you would say well-regulated militia, which has nothing to do with the statement the right of the people to keep and bear arms
Starting point is 01:49:14 shall not be infringed. It's clearly saying, yes, a well-regulated militia defends the state. Therefore, the right of the people to keep arms can't be infringed
Starting point is 01:49:24 because the people have to be armed to form the militia. But I suppose too many, the right of the people to keep arms can't be infringed because the people have to be armed to form the militia. But I suppose too many people are illiterate or just lying. Texas Fox says gas prices,
Starting point is 01:49:32 natural gas prices are up by over double this year. Heating and cooling homes will get expensive. Oh yeah. Install your solar while you can.
Starting point is 01:49:40 Here's a funny thing. Solar panels are basically a net negative but they operate off the grid, so when you get solar on your house, you're utilizing more energy than you're going to get back, but you have it for your house
Starting point is 01:49:53 if the power goes out, right? That's how it works. Jeffrey Grajic says, Mexico has some of the strictest gun laws. Mexico has one of the highest yearly gun fatalities. Mexico has exactly one gun store. More gun laws? They has one of the highest yearly gun fatalities. Mexico has exactly one gun store. More gun laws? They have one gun store? I'm not aware of that. I think they do.
Starting point is 01:50:11 One? And where is it? I'm not sure. It's in the middle of the desert. It has like three guns in it. Wherever the cartel is. Yeah, where did Obama set that up? There's probably a line of government officials there asking for a handout just to get to the next door. Brian Mrozenski says gas in northern Illinois is $5.55 in my area.
Starting point is 01:50:33 Yo, that is insane. I found this great title from the LA Times. There is only one gun store in all of Mexico, so why is gun violence soaring? Such a great question. I wonder what conclusion they reach. Damian Masters says, JB is using the Defense Act for an electricity shortage. Are we having brownouts or blackouts or something?
Starting point is 01:50:54 Gas sure is high, though. Come August, there's going to be no diesel. So you know what I was saying? It's like whoever manufactures electric big rigs, I imagine their stock is going to skyrocket. You know what I'm thinking? Here's my prediction. August is going to come. Diesel is going to be
Starting point is 01:51:12 through the roof, if not just in shortages. I mean, because we already see some places that don't have it. Joe Biden is going to invoke the Defense Production Act or something and say, we've got to get $100 million to these companies that make electric trucks. But we got to get we got to get baby formula and food on the table for mom, pop. And then he's going to sign something and then money is
Starting point is 01:51:32 going to be infused into these companies and their stocks to go up. Well, Biden was in Seattle not too long ago and he said that he wants all military vehicles to be electric. Great. So I wonder who's going to get the money on that. Tesla. Could you imagine Tesla designing these military rigs? Ooh, they'd look cool. They would all look weird chrome. Like they're totally visible on battlefields
Starting point is 01:51:54 and provide no strategic advantage. But they're really good. I don't know. Those batteries, would that be, like what would happen if it blows up? Dangerous. A lot of fire. I mean, these are lithium-ion batteries, aren't they?
Starting point is 01:52:07 If they get punctured, they're going to... That would be nuts. Alright. WFalcon says, Luke and Shim, peak Timcast. Keep up the good work, guys. I guess we kind of work well together every now and again.
Starting point is 01:52:22 I don't know. Maybe we could do a little less. I do carry the team, but we were left together for a reason. C. James says, check out engine number one. Environmental activists are taking board seats in oil companies at a time. We can least afford it and dictating policy, and they're gloating about it on Twitter. Let's get a bunch of vegans at the board of the meat processing plant. Perfect. And then they'll be like, we're going to put soy
Starting point is 01:52:45 in all of the beef instead of beef. And then you're eating soy. Just a stye says, Tim, please stop promoting green energy. One wind turbine uses 80 gallons of PAO synthetic oil, which is based on crude. And that lubricant has to be replaced once a year.
Starting point is 01:53:01 Green energy is a lie. Crazy. Yeah, I talked to a Build-A-Burger member that's an up-and-coming politician from Europe just a couple, just yesterday actually at the airport. And she told me, Europe, we want Europe to go fully green. We support a carbon tax. We are not going to use fossil fuels anymore. And I'm like, this is what you want? This is what you're pulling for and advocating for? She's like, yep, that's it.
Starting point is 01:53:24 I'm like, okay. Wow. Legama Thagayan says, Biden says shotguns are okay because they don't look so scary. Thank God these psycho shooters don't use more shotguns. The ease with which they could wipe out rooms and hallways full of victims and responders
Starting point is 01:53:40 without training, optics, or even aiming. Yep. That's scary. But, you know, Biden says people should have them because they don't know what they're talking about it's so weird yeah sleeping earthling says how good the country was doing under trump and luke says he wasn't good what desantis is the media's choice that's why he is getting so much attention he is a paul ryan interesting i would disagree on that i think florida's doing pretty all right DeSantis is the media's choice. That's why he is getting so much attention. He is a Paul Ryan. Interesting. I would disagree on that.
Starting point is 01:54:08 I think Florida's doing pretty all right. Florida's doing really well compared to a lot of other places. American Gun Chick says, Handgun rounds are horrible fight stoppers. Perps walk through handgun bolts like nothing. Ask a rapper. Even heart shots have 10 to 30 seconds to continue hurting folks. Under 10 rounds is effing stupid.
Starting point is 01:54:30 So then what would you want? Would you want like buckshot or something? Like if you're in your house. And you can't have more than 10 rounds? No, no, no. I'm saying if you're in your house and you're like a Glock 17, 9mm frangible hollow point or something. If someone's going to be able to move through them
Starting point is 01:54:46 and still cause damage, what would instantly stop them? I feel like buckshot would be good only because, especially if you're dark, you have a better chance of hitting them. Yeah. If it's in the dark. We'll have to ask an expert. Someone who is properly trained on close quarters combat.
Starting point is 01:55:02 Home defense. Josh Branson says, cast. Kamala will have to run against a on close quarters combat. Home defense. Josh Branson says, cast, Kamala will have to run against a gay trans furry woman in the DNC party. Eventually. But I mean seriously
Starting point is 01:55:14 because no one wants to, you know, we just saw that Dallas drag kid show. Disgusting. Where they were grooming children. And Shoe on Head was like, leftists, stop being scared
Starting point is 01:55:26 to call this out because you're worried about being called a reactionary. But they defended it and they yelled at Shoe on Head about it and they were like, nothing's wrong here. But maybe we'll talk about it
Starting point is 01:55:36 in the after show because that stuff is not family friendly. Bonker says, 1,000 AR rounds weighs almost 27 pounds. Not an easy thing to be running through a field to a school caring when he was a scrawny high schooler. 1,600 weighs almost 50 pounds. Yeah, we got one of those cases with 1,000 rounds in it all in the plastic.
Starting point is 01:55:54 That's hefty stuff. Matthew Waddle says, Tim, which is it? The road to hell being paved by good intentions or Hanlon's razor? Could be both. Incompetent people with good intentions do really horrible things it's a deadly combination and malicious people with good intentions like I suppose it's paradoxical but you could people who just genuinely want to cause pain to others but think that what they're doing will ultimately be good crazy
Starting point is 01:56:21 all right falcon laser says brandy what does the average seattle voter think the documentary be good. Crazy. All right. Falconlaser says, Brandy, what does the average Seattle voter think of the documentary Seattle is Dying? How many are actually happy with the condition of the city? Well, Seattle is Dying was done by Como News, which is the ABC affiliate. I thought it was really good. Of course, the progressive crowd thought it was exploiting the homeless and was cruel. So I would say the average Seattle crowd looked down on Seattle is dying as like a piece of right wing
Starting point is 01:56:53 propaganda because Como is owned by Sinclair. But I do think there's a tide turning. The city has gotten so bad with homelessness, with crime, with drugs, with mental health issues that you're starting to see maybe a little more political will. I know our new mayor has taken a different tune. So it's promising. So let's see. People are talking about the AI stuff. That was good fun. Kind of gross.
Starting point is 01:57:24 Terrifying. Good fun. Kind of gross. Terrifying. But good fun. One evil chef says, Tim, Tesla did make an electric semi-tractor. Fact check it. Yeah, I heard about that. I was hearing about that. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:57:36 Maybe it's a good idea. I don't know. Sergeant Bucks is a brick, a car, and a pointed stick are all assault weapons. Assault weapon is meaningless. It means nothing. Cornelius Buttknuckle says, put my username into the AI image generator. No, thank you. Maybe.
Starting point is 01:57:55 Good on that. Dung is Fun says, if they raise the legal age to use a rifle to 21, that means anybody under the age of 18 cannot use the rifle in the military. How does that make sense? They will let you use it while you're in the military, but not when you leave. There you go. David Sanchez says, for your gun doc, you should talk to U.S. historian David Barton. He's very informative and would be a great guest on here. Shim would love him.
Starting point is 01:58:20 Love y'all. We will check that out. Ethan Lurker says, Tim tim the agency that collects on us individuals is the fbi if someone in the nsa collects on anyone inside the u.s it will lead to them being imprisoned the document ussid sp0018 outlines what nsa can collect on and how they are processed interesting what is this? Joe Westcott says, Tim, say hi to my wife, Kristen.
Starting point is 01:58:48 Hello. Hi, Kristen. Cosmic Surgeon says, Tim says Occam's razor and standalone complex in the same video. Yeah. I don't understand. That makes perfect sense for sure.
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