Timcast IRL - Timcast IRL #659 Trump Announces He Is Running In 2024 LIVE Watch Party w/Daniel Miller

Episode Date: November 16, 2022

Tim, Ian, Luke, & Kellen join Daniel Miller to discuss Trump finally launching his bid for the 2024 presidential election, Daniel Miller's book "Texit" and the Texit movement in Texas, NYC paying massive hotel bills for migrants, and Ligma Johnson being invited back to Twitter by Elon Musk. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ladies and gentlemen, it is the night you have all been waiting for. Donald Trump is set to announce he will be running for the president of the United States 2024. It'll be happening tonight. He is going to be live streaming around 9 p.m. So we will be watching and hanging out and we will be showing to the best of our abilities whatever his speech is. Obviously, with our commentary, there's some overlap.

So keep that in mind. It might get hard to hear sometimes, but we'll be watching. We'll be talking about his announcement and discussing politics as it pertains to this major announcement. Now, it is being confirmed by NBC News that a longtime Trump advisor has confirmed to them Trump will announce he is running. Some people thought maybe that wasn't the case. Everyone kind of thought, yeah, he's going to announce and it is going to be spectacular. I have to imagine Trump is going to make this one a grand ceremony, a grand entrance. So this should be particularly fun and exciting. But in the news world, we got a couple of crazy stories. Article four has been invoked by Poland. They are convening ambassadors from various NATO countries into Poland, talk about how to respond to what is being reported as a Russian missile strike hitting Polish territory. We don't know that's the case. Some have said that it may actually have been anti anti air missiles, I believe, Ukrainian that backfired and then fell from the sky and slammed to the ground or something, but we're not entirely sure. Some said it appeared that these were a Russian strike on railways, which sounds like it may be

them trying to disrupt supply lines. Again, not a lot confirmed. The next story is just, it's so much fun. And it was a story I wanted to cover earlier, but then, you know, World War III is kicking off and I can't. Elon Musk is firing more woke employees just with without regard for their feelings, just posting on Twitter. And he even invited invited our good friends Ligma and Johnson to Twitter HQ and took a photo with him. So I think that's particularly funny. So that'll be fun to talk about. And then, of course, around 9 p.m. Eastern time. So in about one hour, Donald Trump is going to start his his his announcement and we'll have that playing.

And so we'll check all that stuff out. And don't forget to head over to Timcast.com and click that join us button. Become a member to get access to our members only show. Now, considering Donald Trump will be speaking and presenting, we don't know how long this will go. If it does go long, we likely will not have the uncensored members only show tonight because we might end up just staying live to watch Donald Trump speak. We will see. But we are launching this new cool thing where if you are a member and you comment on members only content once per week, we're going to choose five people.

We're going to hit you up and say, hey, we're going to send you something cool from the set of the show that, you know, it's just a cool little knickknack. Like we have these balloons from when Luke was stuffing his shirt with with, you know, fake gaz just a cool little knickknack. Like we have these balloons from when Luke was stuffing his shirt with, you know, fake gazungas. And then we've got real bazungas. Bazungas. Sorry, bazungas. And then we've got, obviously, those little posters that Milo made. We'll be contacting people and sending those out this week.

So if that's something you're into, then comment. And we look forward to it. Smash that like button. Subscribe to this channel. Share the show with your friends. Joining us tonight to talk about this, as well as some other really interesting stuff, there's a big lawsuit going on, is Daniel Miller. Would you like to introduce yourself? Ta-da, yes. I'm Daniel Miller, president of the Texas Nationalist Movement. And I think as the

bio tells me, as everyone does, I'm the father of the modern Texas movement. So that's a lot of pressure. I'm not going to lie. You basically want Texas to become its own country? Well, absolutely. Yeah. I mean, if anyone's familiar with Brexit, then they will understand Texas, where Texas becomes a self-governing, independent nation again. Well, right on. That'll be interesting. Plus, you guys got this lawsuit against the federal government, I believe. Well, we're suing Meta. We're suing Meta, sorry. Yeah, we're suing Facebook, because Facebook, weing Meta, sorry. Yeah, we're suing Facebook because Facebook, we've had a long battle with Facebook regarding censorship, right?

I mean, they've done anything you could imagine they were, you know, as far as censorship goes, they were doing to us first. And here recently they decided that they wanted to prevent people from posting links to textitnow.org, right, which is the main page that we have all of the text it questions. And this was a new one. They said it violates community standards, says that it's, you know, against where they keep people from posting content about organizations that incite violence or whatever, which is completely the opposite of what we're about. And so what we did was we finally had our fill.

Look, Facebook has been doing this to us for years. You know, them, Amazon, Twitter, all of them. But Facebook, we were up to here. Yeah, they want to control the narrative. And so we just said, hey, we're going after them. So we'll get into all that. That's very interesting. So it should be fun. Thanks for joining us.

Thanks for having me. Absolutely. We got Luke Rudkowski hanging out. Text it. I like it. I really like it a lot. I like that you like it. Yeah. My name's Luke Rudkowski hanging out. Text it. I like it. I really like it a lot. I like that you like it. Yeah.

My name's Luke Rudkowski here. We are Change.org. And some of you guys are a little perturbed, a little mad at me because I don't like your favorite politician. But you should know. I don't like any politician. I believe war is murder. No. I'm critical of DeSantis as well.

I'm critical of all the politicians, which everyone should be. But I believe war is murder, taxation is theft, police are gangs, and politicians are criminals. If you're with me on that, you could support me and my efforts here by getting the shirt that says that on thebestpoliticalshirts.com. And I've said many times, DeSantis, again, not a perfect candidate. No one's perfect. And there are some things that we could be critical of, just like we should be critical of everyone. Hi, everyone. Ian Crosland here.

Daniel, you have a book as well. I don't think we've talked about that yet but it's actually called text it it is and is that something some people can get somewhere well we can get into it we'll talk about it near the end we'll talk about the book later in the show and then yeah aim people towards it thank you thanks for coming man uh what's up everybody i'm filling in again today for search uh i'm really excited let's go let's get going his name is kellen my name is kellen that's right all right so uh we we do have the rumble player um ready ready to go for when donald trump begins his speech at 9 p.m we have the story from nbc news ladies and gentlemen it is confirmed trump to announce he will run for president in

2024 this is uh nb News reporting. You want to pull that one up? There you go. Trump will announce Trump has continued to falsely assert that he won the 2020 election, but that he was denied office by rampant fraud. If I'm sorry, I'm kind of I'm going to say this right away. If Donald Trump launches his 2024 campaign announcement off of 2022 complaints about fraud, I think he's going to spiral, crash and burn. I know a lot of people have people have reached out to me and said, Tim, if Trump doesn't address this stuff, it won't get resolved. And that may be. But I think that it is too esoteric and it is confusing for younger voters. I think it is Trump's revenge, Trump's retribution.

Trump 2020 is not the message we need. I think Trump needs to come out and say, Biden screwed you over and you all know it. Let me fix it. Yeah, I mean, the American people are going through a lot of problems right now, especially financially, especially when it comes to our foreign policy, especially when it comes to having a leader that can't even read his own notes at the G20 and has to go take a nap and not meet with the foreign delegations that are meeting at this prestigious dinner. Not prestigious, but you know what I mean here. If he's going to be smart here, he's going to be talking about America's problems, how he could solve it, the future, how his presidency would look like,

how he would be different than he was before. But if he does focus on the past, I do think he's going to be losing a lot of people. The Independent is reporting that he's trying to convince Ivanka and Jared to join him on this announcement. So it's going to be interesting to see who stands behind him, who's there. Candace Owens made some very interesting statements a couple of days ago saying that Trump now has someone around him that's trying to push away the populist based, trying to push away Candace herself away from Donald Trump. So it's going to be interesting who's there, what he's going to be saying, and essentially what are going to be his plans, hopefully, that he's going to be talking about and not talking about the past. Yeah, I agree. I think if he's going to come out and complain about his feelings about what

happened to him in his election and the processes and everything, he needs to display a solution immediately. He needs to come out and say, this will help us prevent this from happening again. These free software systems, for instance, voting online on a blockchain, for instance, things that are transparent, voting online on like nine different blockchains so they can all be referenced. But I have a feeling he's going to come out and complain and not offer any solutions and just get the angry people behind him again like he did last time. And if he's really smart, he's going to be talking about ballot harvesting. He's going to be talking about mail-in ballots and also talking about a plan to deal with all of that along with big tech social media censorship, which stands in the way of Republicans ever winning any kind of political office. Well, look, I mean, people, I think the biggest mistake that people on the other side of the election integrity issue have made is whether they believe the assertions or not, they have totally ignored the concerns that people have, right?

Regardless of whether the root is true or not, what they've done is instead of saying, look, I get you have concerns, and this voting issue is sort of the cornerstone of a constitutional republic. And so we need to do everything we can to shore this up, right? We go back to the DEFCON report from 2019, where they had voting village and were able to hack all those machines, right? But no one ever addressed the concerns. That's DEFCON, the hacker convention. Right, the hacker convention, right? So they showed that electronic voting machines are susceptible. And so instead of addressing those issues and saying, okay, look, we get it. Every machine in the voter village got hacked. What they did was they decided to marginalize and

essentially tell people, look, if you have any concerns about this, you're just a whack job conspiracy theorist. And so, you know, is that a running issue for Trump? I don't think so. It's always got to be about, you know, for most people about the economy. But it has, those, those issues do have to be addressed. It is one, I think what we saw in the midterms, Republicans tried really hard for the most part to focus on what the Democrats were doing wrong and things they didn't like or things they wanted to get rid of. CRT in schools was a big issue, probably because people saw Young can succeed. But if you're going after the fraud narrative, you are not explaining to people what you want to do other than we were done wrong and we want the system to correct that that injustice. And if you are coming out and just saying, hey, we're going to show up our energy policy,

we're going to lower, you know, interest rates or whatever, we're going to make the economy better, then you're ignoring another big problem. So it's kind of a double edged sword. Ballot harvesting is a major issue. Republicans thought they could they could target, target, you know, political and cultural issues and that would get them a victory without realizing the ballot harvesting operation is intense. That ballot harvesting, not fraud. There is some fraudulent ballot harvesting, but in 39 states, they're allowed to do it. I believe 13 states have no restrictions whatsoever.

And we've even heard some officials say that you can harvest as many votes as you want so long as that person signs off that you are designated to do so. And so that is a major disadvantage. If Republicans aren't tackling that and focusing on either building a ballot harvesting operation like Democrats have, then they're going to lose. If you campaign on that, people are going to say, I don't know what you're talking about. So it's difficult. I understand that. Your Republicans need is a vote by drone campaign where you designate a drone as your harvester. It comes to your house, picks it up because no one can has the time to drive for six hours a day from from giant farm to giant farm.

We just need drones doing it. Well, look, it's here's the we could talk about the election integrity issues. And that's obviously a big concern down in Texas. I mean, we're all over that. We're still dealing right now in Harris County, largest county in Texas, most populous county in Texas, dealing with just an absolute abortion of an election day, right? I mean, we've been joking and calling it East Maricopa County. So, you know, I mean, it's been horrible. But, you know, if we're talking about issues that are going to motivate voters, I mean, I just look at what's motivated our base, right? What has led the Texas issue to become the issue for 66% of likely voters, right?

If Texas was on the ballot tomorrow, 66% of likely voters in Texas would vote in favor. And the reasons are pretty clear. Number one, they believe the federal government is too big, too bloated, federal overreach, right, too intrusive in their lives. And it's the border and immigration. For 15 years, the border and immigration together as an issue have polled as the number one concern for Texas voters. When we see the same number of illegal immigrants cross the border from Mexico into Texas every month that's higher than the number of allied troops that landed on the beaches of Normandy

at D-Day, that is massive. And it goes unresolved and unaddressed and so uh if you're gonna have uh look if donald trump wanted to make some fans tonight he would come out and say i'm running for president and what i'm going to do my number one issue is to put it on the ballot for every state to determine whether they want to stay in the union or not oh geez i would love to see that i thought you were going to say he was going to come out and say build the wall well yeah i mean maybe between you know it was funny i was interviewed by the new york times one time they said do you think that uh do you think that the united states ought to put troops on the river and we said absolutely let's put them all along the red river because we're tired

of the snowbirds coming in the winter. Geography less than the Red River is between us and Oklahoma. So that's another story. Oh, I got it. I think it's also fair to ask, is Donald Trump going to be successful here? Is he going to win? Because he's facing off against Biden, who's weak. But again, is he going to deal with the mail-in ballot harvesting?

Is he going to be attacked by the establishment? Is the DOJ still going to be going after him? The Washington Post is reporting right now that the DOJ is saying that if Trump runs, this is not going to stop the Justice Department criminal probe of Donald Trump. So if the Justice Department goes after him, I see that actually lifting him up and actually helping him, especially when it comes to the popularity. And if he's running against a Nikki Haley, a Mike Pompeo, a Mike Pence, all the goblins of the DC swamp that he helped enable, then I see something that's going to be successful here. If he runs against Ron DeSantis, it's going to be a tough battle. It's not going to be an easy one. But it's not going to be a tough battle necessarily. One way, the way I look at it is Ron DeSantis and Trump in a primary will be the best possible thing

for Republicans and whatever the more liberty-minded faction is, because Trump will have to find a way to contend with DeSantis' popularity and success policy-wise, and DeSantis will have to find a way to overcome Donald Trump's gravitas, his imposing figure, his quick wit. That primary is going to make both of them very, very good. And whoever can't win it doesn't deserve to win it. If Trump goes in there and just crushes DeSantis and policy becomes completely irrelevant, then it deserves to. If you can't convince people to vote on the merits, then you don't deserve to be the nominee. But if DeSantis comes in and says

bing bang boom, here's what I've done, and it resonates with people and Trump is unable to counter that, then Trump doesn't deserve to take it. What about Carrie Lake? You guys think she's going to run for president? No. Because she just thought Katie Hobbs, who was overseeing the election in Arizona, won the election. So now Carrie Lake lost the election.

Yeah, but she's not in office she's not in politics she's famous though and she's well liked i don't think it would be good if she ran just not good for the people are going to be saying if she's never held office yeah people are going to say if she can't win a state election what makes her what makes her think that she could trump wasn't a politician before he won yeah but but trump's trump was massively famous though carrie it's true it's true but but you know i i guess we. Kerry's just kind of gone on board. It's true, but I guess we can see. I just don't like the idea of these people who lose elections just trying to up their election game.

Up the ante. Like Beto or Abrams. I was about to say, that sounds very familiar to me. I think if Kerry Lake, she should fight 110%. I believe that everybody should be protesting peacefully in Arizona. There's 1.2 million people voted for all one point two million should be out in the streets, especially in Maricopa, just because the busted up voting machines disenfranchised people. And you don't even know who left the lines, who went home because of because of the

failure of the voting process. And that benefits Democrats. So I will stress this. The difference between fraud and impropriety, the different. So fraud is initially the narrative was voting machines, stealing votes, people forging ballots and things like that. Now, it seems like people are saying the fraud narrative is ballot harvesting and voting machines breaking. And I'm like, OK, well, that's a different conversation. If the voting machines are just garbage and can't adequately handle the amount of people that are coming in to vote, then Democrats are winning because they do the early mail in votes. If the issue is ballot harvesting and it's legal in these

states, then Democrats are winning because they have found a way to just get the numbers. And it's a horrifying prospect. It doesn't matter anymore to win the hearts and minds of the people. It matters to convince someone who's not paying attention to sign their name to a piece of paper, and then you leave and they don't even know what it was about. That's scary. I was looking at Katie Hobbs' Wikipedia page, and one of the last sentences in the 2022 gubernatorial election section is that Hobbs decided not to debate the Republican nominee, Carrie Lake, to deny Lake a platform to spread election denialism. You deny a candidate a chance to speak. Is that not a form of election denialism? It's not the same thing. It's not the same thing, but what a weird sentence. Yeah, she denied Carrie an opportunity because she was going to deny

something. Let me tell you real quick. What what was katie hobbs role in the in the arizona election exactly because i've heard she's in charge of it i just want to be clear what was her role secretary of state she was the secretary of state of her own election yeah so was she didn't recuse herself yes so was brian kemp i just gotta make an excuse either of them it doesn't excuse excuse either of them but i'm seeing so many people come out and being like i can't believe something like this would happen and it's like yeah and b Brian Kemp did the same thing. But how is it legal? And we said it shouldn't have happened then and it shouldn't be happening now. But the system is just this ridiculous, stupid, broken system. So it's annoyingly frustrating.

And no, you're right. Maybe it should not be allowed. It shouldn't have been allowed back then. It shouldn't be allowed now. I mean, leave it to the global superpower to screw up the fact that you should write on a piece of paper and put it in a box and then count how many pieces of paper in that box have the same thing written on it, right? I mean, we've thrown in, we've decided to computerize our elections. We've made them all electronic, completely ignoring the fact that you have all the technical experts who come out and say anything, you know, all of these machines are susceptible, right?

And so here we are, we've overcomplicated a system that, you know, we could trace back to, you know, Athens, Greece, centuries ago, you know, 2,000 years ago, plus 3,000 years. You know, we're looking at the Athenians perfected this sort of system where they would even write on a shard of pottery, right? But here we are, we've overcomplicated it in allegedly in the world's only superpower still standing where this is supposed to be the benchmark of civilization, right? Democratic civilization. We figured out a way to screw it up, or at least the bureaucrats here here's what i want to see i want to see donald trump come out tonight and say gas prices are too

high we need energy independence and energy independence our border is porous and worse than it's ever been i want him to come out and say we need to bring jobs back we need to bring factories back we need to stop this military expansion. The war in Ukraine is not America's business. I am. That's what I want. I want to hear MAGA. I want to hear Donald Trump talk about how he wants to make this country great. I want to hear him tell a story about a nice family sitting on their backyard in a rocking chair. Dad's reading the paper. Mom's coming out with some fresh sun tea, kids are playing, and he's talking about how the working class is going to have a better chance at succeeding in this country. If it is an issue with the ballot harvesting, all that stuff, that's a matter for their strategy to win, but not to win the hearts and minds of

the people. To win the election, I get. I just kind of feel like if they come out and they don't talk about issues, they're offering up nothing of substance. You know what I mean? Look, you're talking salesmanship versus statesmanship, right? Yeah. And let's be honest. He could get up there and he could paint the prettiest of pictures about what he would

intend to do, right? The whole MAGA thing, right? Make America Great Again. But let's be honest at what the situation is. The federal government is terminally broken, right? Four years where he was going to drain the swamp, the swamp is deeper than it's ever been, right? Our lives are still controlled under 180,000 pages of federal laws, rules, and regulations administered by 440 separate agencies and two and a half million unelected federal bureaucrats, right? The federal debt has gone up to the point now that our children's children's children's children are still going

to be paying on it, right? So nothing got done. Our tax money is being taken, paid to overpaid civil servants. Most of them make more than the governor of our state, right, where that money in turn is funneled back into Democratic coffers that are out there now openly pushing neo-Marxist theory and philosophy as public policy. So he can promise whatever he wants to promise, but at the end of the day, the federal system, anything connected to it, is going to be tainted just like it is, and we might as well be tethered to the Titanic, headed to the bottom of the North Atlantic. I'm curious if he's going to be tainted just like it is. And we might as well be tethered to the Titanic headed to the bottom of the North Atlantic. I'm curious if he's going to announce, you know, $2,000 checks for everyone, just like he did last time.

$10,000. In all seriousness, I would accept if Donald Trump comes out and says, I am going to be running on one platform. Everyone gets $15,000 cash. Oh, so he joined the Yang gang. Well, Joe Biden came out and offered $10,000 to everybody in their pocket unconstitutionally, and they

vote for it. So there you go. If the system is going to crumble and fall, then Trump may as well just come out and be like, sure, I'll play. 15, 20, 30, why not 50? I need one word from Trump. Graphene. We're going to build the greatest graphene production facility on earth the best we are the best all his friends know i've been obsessively telling

his friends when they come here to be on our show tell donald trump graphene this is it this is the future we become a graphene industrialist nation do it donald this is your chance and this is it baby they leave thinking like that's cool that guy's kind of weird. Yeah, you got to be a little more specific. We also have to remember when Donald Trump was running in 2016, he was promising a lot of things. He was talking about ending the Federal Reserve. He was hinting at 9-11 conspiracies. He was hitting out of the park when it came to going at the media one-on-one. Is he going to be that same Donald Trump from 2016?

We're going to see. But I think a lot of people want solutions, not complaining. And if he's going to be complaining, he's going to lose a lot of his base. As a lot of people are already saying, hey, there's no reason I should be supporting this because this is not going to help anyone. He's just going to indebt us and rob us of our money anyway. Let's talk about the other possibility, I guess, and that's a peaceful divorce. Peaceful divorce. I like that. You mentioned Donald Trump,

you know, it would be good if he came out and announced he was going to put on the ballot secession for every state or something to that effect. Yeah, look, you know, here's the thing that I think everyone needs to kind of understand is that this idea of independence or a shuffling of the political structure has been in the wind for a long time. Look, I've personally been working on the Texas independence issue since August 24th, 1996, right? So I've been at this a long time. But what's amazing is since this undercurrent has been happening, it's not just Texas, right? Alaska has had an independence party since the 80s. The whole Joe Vogler story is pretty impressive. It should be a movie. But there's, you know, burgeoning independence movements in California, in New Hampshire,

in Vermont, a lot of other states. I mean, we're hearing talk of flex it now. But the bottom line here is simply this. The movement toward the shuffling of the political structure and outright independence is not new, and it's not rare, and it's not unpopular. I was sharing a statistic with the guys earlier that most people don't realize. There was a survey USA poll that dropped in the summer that showed that support for Texas was at 66% of likely voters in Texas. Wow. And that's not an aberration, right? So you roll it back to 2009, the Research 2000 poll, it was about 30-some-odd percent.

I like to joke that when we founded the TNM in 2005, it was polling in single digits. What is TNM? It's our organization, the Texas Nationalist Movement. But, you know, we've always polled higher than the approval rating of the United States Congress, which polls somewhere right above or below leprosy, right? I mean, they're not particularly popular. You'll get that later, the leprosy thing, right? But anyway, you know, the whole thing is that this has been a steady progression of support, a lot of it driven by a bunch of on the ground work that we've done since 2005. But obviously,

a lot of it driven by the deteriorating situation with the federal government, where more and more people feel disconnected. So the 66% was not an aberration. There was a poll done of five different regions in the U.S. They asked them whether they supported their region seceding from the union. And I normalized. So you have five different region pollings, Democrat, Republican, Independent. I normalized for state population and the numbers. And when you normalize, 37.2% of people in the United States want their region to secede.

Some more so than others, right? In the Midwest, independence, the plurality wants secession. In the South, it's the majority with Republicans wanting secession. In California, in the West Coast, it's Democrats that want secession. Well, look, I mean, the polling on this issue, the mainstream media, anytime they decide to dig off into the polling on this issue, they do something weird like that where let's look at it by region instead of by state, right, which is not the way that it works.

It doesn't work by region. Every state, as a political entity, would have the ability to put it on the ballot and withdraw, right? So 2014, during the time of the Scottish independence referendum, that Reuters-Ipsos poll did exactly the same thing. And so they lumped Texas in with the Southwest, which was New Mexico and Arizona. And obviously, New Mexico is not a state that's going to want to break away. So they did that to skew the numbers. But we got a hold of the crosstabs and the raw data and did the same thing. That was the first time we discovered that Texas was polling at 54% Republican, half of independent voters, and 35% of Democrats, right? That was the bombshell. But instead, it was 35% of people in the Southwest region want their state to leave, right? It's garbage.

So what do you do with that number? Well, pretty much what we do. So there is a process. There is a process. And what I tell people is, look, if you look overseas, we've got plenty of examples of independence referenda around the world. And that's ultimately where this is headed is to a vote. When people think of Texas, they need to think about what they saw in Scotland in 2014,

Brexit a couple years later. We're going to put it on the ballot. And last, actually last legislative session in Texas, we had the Texas Independence Referendum Act introduced by State Representative Kyle Biederman that would have done just that. It would have allowed the voters to go to the polls and look down at a ballot and answer the question, should the state of Texas reassert its status as an independent nation? That ultimately is what people need to do, is they need to be given the choice.

A good bit of the reason that we've been able to build support is because of how we've been talking about this issue to the people. This is what we ask them. Imagine right now if Texas or your state was already a self-governing independent nation, right? You had control over your own border and immigration policy, your own military, your own currency and monetary policy. You had your own military, you had your own passports, your own embassies, you had your own Olympic team. You had everything that 200 other self-governing independent nations around the world has. Okay. Fix that in your mind. And then ask yourself this, instead of talking about withdrawing from the union, imagine if you were talking about whether or not your state,

your self-governing independent nation state should join the union, knowing everything, you know, about the federal government right now, would you vote to join? Hell no. Well, it depends on it. Well, let me be the first were being invaded by like cartels, like literally like a 10,000 man cartel army with maybe they had bomb. If they're dropping bombs on cities like we'd have no choice but to petition the United States to join the union at that point for defense. Well, OK, let's just let's just be clear that any state that would be a self-governing independent nation already would already have control of its national defense. Down here, let's be honest. You're talking about the cartels, and people ask that question about Texas all the time.

We've got Boy Scout troops that are more well-armed than the cartels in Texas. I mean, that's a bit of an exaggeration, but I think you get the point. These issues that people bring up about, you know, that sort of safety and security, understand that 200 other countries around the world have already figured this out, right? They already defend themselves from attack. As a matter of fact, in the particular instance, as I talked about the border earlier, part of the biggest challenge that we have in Texas is the fact that our border is left unchecked, right? When you have sheriffs in Texas saying that the federal government has neglected

securing the border to such a point that the cartels are effectively in control of the Rio Grande River, guess what? We're already under attack and the federal government is doing nothing about it. Is it preventing Texas from defending itself? Well, I think Texas could take that step. I mean, you know, I've been very critical of Governor Greg Abbott. I know Chad was on the show not too long ago, and Chad, I've talked about this quite a bit. It's been a pretty constant refrain is we want the governor to call an invasion, to declare an invasion, which he allegedly did today, right? But he said that he was invoking that invasion clause under Article 4, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution, but he gave a laundry list of things that Texas was in fact already doing, right?

Escorting illegal immigrants back to the border, which is effectively catch and release, right? Because they go immediately back into federal custody, who then runs them through the pipeline and ships them all over the United States, gives them asylum, all those sorts of things. You know, increase the gunboats down on the Rio Grande River. We already have those, right? So he gave a big... Why doesn't he arrest the people who are traveling with him? That includes purported people masquerading as law enforcement. Well, they do that, I mean, to a certain extent, but not to the number. So you have to go back to when you hear Greg Abbott talking about Operation Lone Star,

we kind of refer to it as Operation Half Measure, right? Because Operation Lone Star started back when I think Perry, Governor Perry, started working on that issue. And he decided, well, I'm going to increase Department of Public Safety patrols up to 30 miles in from the border, right? So it wasn't border protection. It was, we're going to run traffic patrols to see if maybe we can possibly catch some of these smugglers, right? And so Abbott's program has effectively been to expand on that program, but it's not very different at all. You'll hear him say that he's put National Guard down on the border, and in fact, he has. So if they catch some illegal immigrants and then bring them to the border,

and then a couple of guys show up claiming they're with the federal government and bring them back in, what does Texas do? Say, oh, okay, all right. Well, so they get turned over into federal custody. Who's they? The illegal immigrants. So when they are interdicted by the state, they get taken back to the border, which immediately puts them back into federal custody. The federal government will put them in detention centers or in some cases put them up in hotels that they rent with taxpayer money. Then those illegal immigrants are processed out of that facility, handed over effectively to NGOs who take taxpayer money, give them funds, and then ship them around the country. So generally, you'll see that pipeline happen where they are transferred from those detention facilities

to the airports in Houston or San Antonio. They are lined up. They're given cash payments in most instances of your tax money funneled through these NGOs like Catholic Charities. They're given it in an envelope. The coyotes come out of line. They take their cut. They get on the plane and get flown out to God only knows where, right? And then the coyote pops out of line and goes back and runs the whole gamut again. And so the federal government, when we're critical about the federal government on the border, this is not just neglect, right? This is intentional, what's happening down there on the border.

They are facilitating this. And our criticism for Governor Abbott has been he has not taken strong enough measures. Look, our organization has advocated for years and years and years. What needs to happen is rather than calling up the National Guard, Texas has a three-branch military called the Texas Military Department. Two branches of it are National Guard, but one is State Guard. We've advocated that Greg Abbott and the legislature should effectively shift funds from the National Guard units in the Texas Military Department, fully fund, fully militarize the Texas State Guard, and then declare an invasion and have Governor Abbott as the commander-in-chief of the Texas military forces

deploy them down as a border protection force. And if the federal government didn't like it, they could go pound sand. And the big fear is, on their part, is that it will cause a constitutional crisis. Well, so what? I don't care about a constitutional crisis. I have a border crisis and an invasion that's happening that any sovereign, self-governing, independent nation could take care of, but we're not allowed to. But that is one of the reasons that people are clamoring to have taxed, because self-governing, independent nations get to take care of their borders. Let me pull up this story from timcast.com that should really grind your gears. New York city to house migrants in four-star hotel where rooms cost hundreds per

night how come i don't get a four-star hotel what do you know my taxpayer dollars paying for these these people this is the crazy thing about what's been going on that we've got this this massive breach of the southern border seems only to be getting worse and then even when these people come in and are shipped around the country, these cities are propping them up, putting them up, and giving them the gold star treatment. Meanwhile, you've got Americans suffering under the opioid crisis. You've got unemployment skyrocketing inflation. But it's the noncitizens who are being given all the privileges and the benefits. This is why a lot of people, like, you know, aside from Texas,

people are saying peaceful divorce or whatever you want to call it. Yeah. I mean, the term that flies around a lot is national divorce. And you see all these maps of people with different counties and the red. But that's not how this works, right? The good news is we've got about 75 or 80 years of kind of world history to look at to see how this thing goes down. And the thing that I think should motivate people is to understand that this sort of divorce that we're talking about, states withdrawing from the union, relieves a tremendous amount of the pressure, right? I mean, how many

articles have you seen recently where people are saying there's another civil war coming, right? Has it already started? But understand that when you allow states to stand up and be self-governing independent nations, they have the ability to say, let California govern California, let Texas govern Texas, let New York govern New York. And we can do like every other self-governing independent nation around the world. We can trade with one another. We can travel between one another. We can agree to defend one another when we have common national defense concerns. We can do the things that, honestly, the founders and framers probably envisioned for a union of the states much better than having to take a knee to 2.5 million unelected bureaucrats in Washington, D.C.

Texas was also an independent country for about 10 years. Five years, I think. We got a solid nine in. Nine years. Nine years? Nine years. They were their own country. And again, what New York City's doing is taking tax dollars, probably also from the federal government, and putting people in

hotels right outside homeless drug dens where the average citizen there is, of course, affected by the opioid epidemic that, of course, was engineered by Big Pharma and the regulators. Tim, I'm also seeing what you're seeing. I don't know if you want to talk about it specifically. Seeing what? What is happening

to Rumble. Yeah, Rumble's crashing. But I also wanted to let you know that The Guardian on YouTube is having a live stream of Trump's announcement as well. The Guardian on YouTube? The Guardian on YouTube. So I think also if we play their stream,

if we get in trouble and they don't, it shows a lot of hypocrisy that they're able to show the live stream and we're not able to show the live stream. I'm on The Guardian's YouTube, but I don't see it. So hold on. I'm going to find out right now the exact title and the exact channel.

It's Guardian News. It's the channel with 2.9 million followers, and it's called Donald Trump Expected to Announce Yes. So that's live right now, and that safeguards us a little bit as Rumble is down. We could watch that here. The concern here is that Trump's going to say

things, and YouTube did this. I think they did to Crystal and Sagar over at Breaking Points. They've done it to RSBN. They've done it to major I think even like ABC got hit once. I think they did to Crystal and Sager over at Breaking Points. They've done it to RSBN. They've done it to major, I think even like ABC got hit once. I think it was maybe Fox. Because you report on what Trump says, they shut you down, and it's the craziest thing. Well, you two popped us. We did.

So last session, we filed the Texas Independence Referendum Act. The committee didn't give it a hearing. Which state affairs didn't give it a hearing? So we did what was effectively a virtual hearing. We had voters submit videos in the style of testimony, and we ran it. And the whole thing was like 24 hours worth of testimony. And we streamed portions of it on YouTube as we did it. And sure enough, man, we got popped with a community strike

or one of those violations for testimony, like literally testimony of voters. And there was none of that. You know, it wasn't people talking about the vote of the law or anything else. I will stress this, though. I will file a lawsuit in 30 minutes if YouTube does that to us, because we have a contractual agreement. And this is where Alex Berenson actually won with Twitter. There's a contractual agreement that every user has with the platform they use, especially for a show like ours that is a financial contract, that we produce content, revenue is sold by YouTube, the revenue is split. If they breach that contract by suspending

our access without us doing anything wrong then i'm going to hold them personally responsible for the lost revenue and then demand an immediate uh reinstatement and uh and and at the very least you know the strike lasts about a week but i'll pursue it you know all the way to the end to get that money back the The point is this. No one here is claiming there's fraud. No one on this show. If Donald Trump makes some statement that violates their rules, it is not us doing a show and offering commentary. They can play those games all they want, but I'll sue in two seconds. It doesn't mean we'll win.

Go get them, Tiger. Well, that's what we saw. Alex Berenson got suspended from Twitter. Yeah. And they successfully sued, saying that Twitter made an agreement that he would be given notice of anything he did wrong,

and they didn't. They just removed him. And they removed him because the White House was pressuring Twitter to do so. So he got reinstated. There's also a very compelling case showing, hey, the Guardian

and the corporate media get to do this. Why can't we do this if it's really a violation of their rules and regulations? Why are they allowed to do it and we aren't? And this has been happening throughout so many years on YouTube, specifically allowing the corporate media to play by a different set of rules while, of course, hurting people that do exactly what they do, showing the same footage, showing the same kind of accounts, making the same kind of arguments, showing the same footage, showing the same kind of accounts, making the same kind of arguments, showing the same debates. But if you don't have the connections

with, of course, the establishment, if you're not the corporate media, if you're not the approved press, you get punished and dinged by it. How can a judge see something like that and say, yeah, this is accurate. This is totally okay for a multinational corporation to do on the world stage when it comes to a major information world stage when it comes to a major information highway when it comes to the public interest the public good it's absolutely inexcusable with what youtube has been doing recently and it deserves to be pushed back on i think it also is important if someone on your show starts spouting off and saying things that are violate the site's terms of service that you push back and explain that that's violating terms of service and you

can't but is the guardian going to do that is the guardian if trump says something is the guardian going to stop the stream and say trump was wrong are they going to do that we will do that and it's important that we do because people need to know what the terms of service are firstly and why things are happening the way they're happening but where do you have where do you have reporting and where do you have commentary i don't know this is all about what is this video is not private the guardian went made up they're watching the show they're like oh they're on to us they know it's no longer a secret yeah it's gone the guardian guardian just shut down the rumbles back up from what i'm seeing but why did the guardian shut down

their stream maybe they were like oh we're gonna get banned yeah i'll just i'll say this like what what youtube has done with the censorship rules has created this ridiculous media system that if we host an interview with someone and that individual says bad things, we are held responsible for it. So what, don't interview anybody ever again? Right, right. How are we going to challenge bad ideas? How can we put really bad ideas in check? We, right. How are we going to challenge bad ideas? How can we put really bad ideas in check? We can't. And when you have so much censorship, you not only destroy the narrative, but you essentially try to, of course, have some kind of psychotic mind control by not even

explaining the rules clearly. The terms and services are very vague. They're very generalized. And many times people get punished and they're not even told these vague generalized rules and they have to self-censor themselves, which destroys the discourse and destroys human progression. Human progression is on parallel with free speech. The more you deny free speech, the less humans prosper. And it's ridiculous. You know, speaking of challenging bad ideas, I want to talk about secession. I'm just kidding. That was a joke, by the way. That was nice. I do want to talk about it.

But your deadpan delivery threw me. Did you like it? Oh, wow. I'm actually very concerned about it because it's what kicked off the Civil War. The first American Civil War was a secession movement. Wouldn't it be great that it'll prevent one this time? Well, what I'm concerned about is a situation where Texas is like, we're out, we voted, we're done. And the federal government's like, nah, that's our oil.

We send it around the country. That's our Gulf we send it around the country that's our gulf that's our gulf uh our gulf of mexico access we want it and we need that mexican trade route so we're taking it back you can't walk with our property is and then there's just comes to blows other states are like hey federal government you can't just go in on a state like that they're sovereign then they join the secessionist movement something like that again and how would you avoid something like that? Well, I think what we're doing is trying to avoid that. I mean, that's why we're following a process. And this is what I tell people. You know, the good news is, is that when we woke up today,

it wasn't the 1800s, right? So post-Civil War, the world kept spinning, things started happening, and the position on this has evolved quite a bit, right? So you look at what the federal government has done literally since 1945, I'd say, you know, post-World War II. They've sent our grandfathers, grandmothers, fathers, mothers, some of the people probably watching today, our sons and daughters, I can include my son, off to fight, protect, bleed, some instances die for the right of self-determination for other people. So, you know, what we're talking about here in this process is effectively the process that we have seen the United States protect around the world, which is you put a question of this importance to the people, you let them debate the issue, and then you let them vote on it, and then you respect the outcome of the vote. Now, that being said, you know, could the federal government react poorly? Sure they could. But, you know, could the federal government react poorly?

Sure, they could. But, you know, what does that say then ultimately about the federal government, right? What does it say? Because at the moment they begin to start acting like Bashar al-Assad or North Korea or, you know, any of these other folks, I mean, they pretty well just told us exactly why we're doing, they've legitimized our position and why the people of Texas voted that way anyway. Do you think that Abe Lincoln reacted poorly when he started a war to stop the secession? Do I think he reacted poorly? Yeah, I believe Abe Lincoln probably reacted poorly. I think that probably could have been him. But here's the thing. I'm not here to adjudicate the past,

right? I'm not here to try to look back and second guess what happened in the 1800s. I'm here to try to look forward to see what Texas can do to prevent what's happening to it right now. We're about 14 or 15 minutes away from Trump making that announcement, but we're talking about censorship. So I want to pull up this story from the Post Millennial. Breaking! Elon Musk welcomes Ligma and Johnson back to Twitter. So these are two former employees. They're getting their jobs back. Congratulations to Ligma and Johnson for getting your jobs back. No, I'm just kidding.

These guys, they hoaxed the media, walked out of Twitter HQ carrying boxes, and then claimed that they had been fired. The Post Millennial now reports, in an unexpected, heartwarming move, Elon Musk welcomed back, quote, former employees Ligma and Johnson to Twitter headquarters today. Rahul Ligma and Daniel Johnson are fictitious names used by two pranksters who were able to dupe mainstream media into believing that they were woke Twitter employees who had just been fired.

Not everybody was. It wasn't just the mainstream media that fell for it. I, of course, did a report on it mentioning they thought that it was a hoax. So turns out it was. But the reason I bring this story up, while we're dealing with the insane rules of YouTube and the ridiculous policies that are that are it's impossible to adhere to. I've gotten so for a long period, I was getting I wasn't getting demonetized anymore. As soon as we get into election season, all the videos are demonetized.

And it's very, very obvious. Here's what happens. YouTube, my understanding is they use third party monetization checkers or whatever. They said that my politics talk, talking about like the polls are here and here, was dangerous or gratuitous violence. Demonetized. I then have to contact my rep at Google and say, hey, they're doing it again. And they go, oh, sorry about that.

We'll fix it. My response is no, no, not sorry about it. We'll fix it. At a certain point when you have an observable pattern of Twitter's, I'm sorry, of YouTube's contractors lying to strip ads off the content, you have got a breach of contract. And I shouldn't have to then go to someone at Google and be like, oh, by the way, your guys are lying again. Yeah. Now all my videos automatically demonetized 24 hours after the

videos get all of their hits, then they get remonetized, which of course leaves me with barely any money. My income on YouTube, by the way, it went down one fourth of what it used to be in these key particular times as my viewership has skyrocketed more than it ever has before. But my income is at its lowest that it has on YouTube. What's going on there? I mean, obviously it's just ridiculous. Instagram right now reinstated a warning

whenever you sign up to my account. Whenever you try to follow me on Instagram, at LukeWeAreChange or not, it will tell you. Do you sure you want to follow this guy? He spreads a lot of fake news. What kind of fake news am I sharing? I'm spreading memes. And one of our guests just tweeted the photo of this warning telling people not to sign there.

Really? I can't even search for you. Yeah, LukeWeAreChange on Instagram. And it wouldn't surprise me if they banned me to the point where you can't even find me. But there's a photo that I just tweeted on Twitter showing specifically, do not follow this guy. He's spreading this information. I spread memes. That's all I do.

Memes that you could interpret in many different ways. You should sue for defamation. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. Because it's... This account has repeatedly posted false information that was reviewed by independent fact-checkers or went against our community guidelines. I think you should file a lawsuit.

Let's do it. If there's a lawyer, let's do this right now. Hit me up. I know a guy. No, well, Berenson's lawyer. Let's set up the...

Let's do it right now. Luke, we are, and you don't come up, and I'm following you already, and you still don't come up. James Lawrence. We had him on the show. Hit him up.

And send a demand letter that they've defamed you. They've accused you of something that is untrue. Absolutely untrue. Because the things that they got me on are ridiculous. They got me because I showed a picture of all the jets at the World Economic Forum meeting. It was a legit photo. And they said, no, no, no, it's a fake photo because some people are sharing that

with another photo that's fake. And I'm like, what? That makes no sense at all. The fact checkers have been wrong time and time again. They are there to stifle any kind of legitimate conversations. They're there to attack comedy. They're there to go after humor.

I'm here just to make people laugh. You could interpret memes and pictures in so many different ways. And for them to objectively say, you are bad because you made people laugh or you shared a meme is absolutely ridiculous. And it's getting out of hand and it's hurting my income. And my bottom line is, of course, when people can't find me, when people are told not to follow me, this is the predomin way of of me making my income this is how i make my livelihood and you know let's show a big middle finger to instagram go on at luke we are change and and let's let's fight the algorithms let's fight all this censorship and all this bullcrap because it's more important than ever that our voices are heard because they're trying to silence us for a very

specific here's the important thing i'll add when you get they you know, posted false information or whatever by fact checkers, that's actually not what a lot of it is. Some of it's missing context, which is not false information. And if that's the case, if Instagram has flagged your account, Luke, saying you've posted false information that's been reviewed by fact checkers, you should go through your posts. Because I know for a fact, some of them were just like, this post is missing context. In which case, Facebook or Meta's automatic system assumes if you get flagged it was for posting false information. That's a huge error. They've issued a statement outside of what the fact checkers actually said.

I think you would win that. You sent a demand letter and you'd win in two seconds. Absolutely. Let's begin the process right now because it's just getting ridiculous. I've been dealing with this stuff for over 12 years now and it's only getting worse and worse and worse. And this is the way.

Well, but this is why I brought up Elon Musk. Because actually, I think it's starting to get better. Elon Musk is going on Twitter and just laughing at the woke employees that he's firing.

And he's ragging on Democrats. He's saying, Democrats won't be investigated for financial crimes. It's just, I mean, this is pretty good news. You know, there's some questions about whether or not Elon Musk can pull this off. And Twitter might actually got a business. We'll see. But hey, I'll take it.

Right. Yeah. I mean, this is why I've been so optimistic about Twitter. Again, we should be a little bit critical of Elon Musk. But at the same time, he's promising something that could change the game, that could make the world a better place just by allowing people to talk to each other, just by allowing comedy on the platform. And this is why this whole Ligma Johnson thing, brilliant, smart. It's making people laugh. It's silly. It's ridiculous. It's a pun on something that people should be making jokes about. There's something

interesting too, because I retweeted this. We have Noah Sanders just super chatted that Quartering reported Elon is offering 10% over YouTube to larger channels. I've not heard that directly, but I know he's tweeted. Someone said, someone tweeted that if Elon offered 10% more than YouTube paid to content creators,

those creators would move to Twitter. Yes, that is a fact. Elon, if you made a video page for my Twitter profile, I would upload my content there. And if you monetized it, when I post videos on Twitter, I often get more views than I do on YouTube. But there's just kind of no point. For one, my videos are longer and you don't really get anything for doing it. If Elon Musk does create a video monetization function, then it's there. People are saying that there was a live skip during my rant about censorship as well on the platform.

But I don't know. I got to fact check that as well. But if Elon Musk even does less than 20% of what YouTube is doing right now, I'm jumping because it's an alternative platform that is promising to follow basic guidelines and to just allow speech that is free, that is legal. And that is worth any amount of money. That is worth all the money in the world right now, because if I'm able to just say whatever I want, if I'm not having to self-censor myself, if I'm not having to walk this tight line, if I'm able to be my true authentic self and just speak freely from the top of my mind, that's a gift. Give me less income. Give me half of what YouTube's giving me. I'll be on your

platform immediately right now. Well, look, the same people that are doing this to speech are the same people that do it in economics as well, that love to put their thumb on the scale and pick winners and losers, right? And so, you know, ultimately what we're saying is let the marketplace of ideas prevail. Exactly. If an idea sucks, the people will let you know sooner rather than later. Yeah, stop curating and treating us like small children. That's it. Stop telling us what we should be looking at.

Stop trying to shove corporate propaganda down our throat. We don't want to watch your bull crap. We don't want to watch the woke movies, the nonsense, and all this nonsensical idiocy. We don't want any of that. We want legitimate, real, honest conversations, and that's something that we are being denied of. We're being denied the access to laugh at things in order to not make them as serious as they are. We're being denied the ability to find out what's really happening in this world so we can make the right decisions and not be heard over and screwed over by the most powerful people in this world. And we're being screwed over more and more

by these powerful special interests, by big pharma, and all these other criminals out there that profit off of your ignorance. Society is becoming dumber and more stupid mainly because of this censorship and it needs to end and it needs to end now. Rumbles crashing.

Yeah. Too many people want to be there. Or it could be a deliberate attack. Could be that, too. Because now it's like, okay, YouTube's not going to allow this. Rumble is. Let's all go to Rumble and watch this speech, as, of course, YouTube is going to be most likely censoring.

This is why The Guardian maybe just stopped their live feed. They got it up now. We got the live feed. Is that Jared Kushner over there? We're about five minutes out. It looks like Kushner. About five minutes out. Him being there.

I could tell because we just dropped 10,000 concurrent viewers. Everyone's jumping to go watch. Hey, keep watching our show, you guys. Watch both at the same time. Do whatever you want. We should lower the volume because it's coming into the headphones youtube used to have that hardcore say anything you want not anything obviously we were within the bounds of law always but just this this wild west is like 2006 you would say anything to anybody and they would say it back and you would have the most

deep intense painful enlightening conversations with people about the about real world issues about people's feelings and and it created community. It created a sense of strength. Google was so into it that they bought the company. YouTube, this is before Google owned them. And then one of my friends got banned. Warren25 was his screen name, and it was the first banning on YouTube. And I was erratic about it. There's a video, Warren25 smash banned or something, where I'm losing my mind about it um and i was concerned since once you start getting corporate conglomeration and that that the the history has shown that the company will try and take control once you start punishing people for an

expressing for expressing an opinion you're the bad guy you're the baddie okay that it's a it's a sure it's as simple as that throughout human history the people who censor other individuals they're not the good guys. They're the bad guys. Man, I can't. It looks like the Guardian take it down again. Maybe it's not down. There we go.

There we go. That's so weird what's going on with this. Well, you know, I mean, to piggyback off of what you were saying, I mean, the thing we have to remember, and there is a certain course of people out there that say, look, these guys are private companies. They can do whatever. They're not private.

But they're not. The moment they took $1 of taxpayer money, they became a public forum. Not just that. The DHS is literally telling them, you're going to ban this person, this person, this person. They're not going to be allowed to have a voice. They're making fun of Fauci here. That's a parody account. That's not allowed here. We can't be making fun of our politicians. We need to have control of

the narrative because when we do, we have control of the people. Quite literally, they're not a private company anymore when they go public. They're now a public company. Maybe we should have different laws and regulations for public social networks. You look at the way they start. There's also In-Q-Tel. The whole thing from the very beginning

stinks to my head. A lot of people are saying, Luke, they jumped you. And our viewership jumped back up. When we dropped viewers, I was seeing viewers drop and I was like, oh, it must be because people are jumping over. Not because of the secession guys on? No, it went back up, which typically means

for those people, the stream stopped working. Everyone's saying, No, no, it went back up, which typically means for those people, the stream stopped working. Everyone's saying mid-rant, I was cut off. I bet there's a lot of global madness right now because Trump's about to say something. Remember when you were talking about the CIA and you got cut off as well? Yep, and then we stopped talking about the CIA

and then we got back on, and then we started talking about the CIA again and they started coming. There's like feds who are watching the show and they have their finger on the throttle button maybe remember when I was talking about God and then you lost control of the machine like a couple weeks ago you're like I can't control this thing what's going on

like it was like two or three weeks ago I was like really intensely feeling like emotions about God or something and you're like I can't control this machine I was like get ready for it it's gonna happen more oh like the monitors flicker like some weird thing happened and then all of a sudden I was like what's ready for it. It's going to happen more. Oh, like the monitors flicker like some weird thing happened. And then all of a sudden I was like, what's going on? Also, it's official. According to the Federal Election Commission,

Trump has officially announced that he's going to be running for 2024. It's official right now. He has officially filed the paperwork to be president of the United States in 2024. Do you have that on Twitter? I'm tweeting it right now. I got a text from someone saying,

Luke's rant got clipped. That's funny. I guess you'll have to do it again. Isn't it funny, though? It's just like, at least we can laugh about it. Well, my YouTube channel is WeAreChange. That's been getting hit all the time from the very beginning. So, again, I think it's more important.

OG Demonetized. Luke was the first demonetized channel again, I think it's more important. OG demonetized. Luke was the first demonetized channel. So I think it's more important than ever to make sure people follow people on their original platforms. I had a members area for about 10 years. I know you have your members area. Mine's just lukeuncensored.com,

but it's more important than ever to go on independent websites, support your independent content creator, because if you guys don't do it, there's no other way for us to make a living out here, especially for me and myself with YouTube, automatically demonetizing everything and then monetizing it when no one's watching the videos again. It's absolutely ridiculous.

I think if you Google, you can pull up the FEC filing. Maybe not. Maybe not. I just tweeted it right now. You tweeted it? At LukeVRChange when you were saying your stuff was getting demonetized

then a day later were you actually like contacting them or was it automatic I have no one to contact there's no one to contact at YouTube for the majority of creators

is there a button that you click every time I release a video automatically demonetized and then you click review 24 hours or more

green it's good to go but then no one's watching the video right most of the money's made in click review 24 hours or more, green. It's good to go. But then no one's watching the video. Most of the money is made in the first 24 hours. Most of the views are in the first 24 hours. So that's how they get you. That's how they hit you.

Again, so signing up to TimCast.com, signing up to LukeUncensored.com. This is the way that we need to do this because there's no other way of supporting content creators because the old models are gone. uh daniel what's your website oh we got it that's right yeah i got the i got the link luke posted the image i'm going to post the link along with it of donald trump's official i'm tweeting this out uh donald trump's official fec filing is now available link at on twitter at timcast and uh there it is oh it's a similar there it is. Oh, here we go. It's happening. It's coming. Everyone's got their phones out. They're singing Les Mis. Great musical.

But it's about the French Revolution. Where's the escalator? Gentlemen, please welcome the next president and first lady of the United States of America. There we go. That was the spoiler. President Donald J. Trump, accompanied by Mrs. Melania Trump. Here we go. Look how weird it is that all the phones, the images on the phones don't line up with what's in front of them. There should be a grand entrance.

There should be more showmanship here. So he filed, I tweeted it out. You can, there it is. Yeah, he's officially announced. I mean, you don't know. He could be skydiving in through the skyline. I mean, we don't know. Could be a body double. Yeah. I tweeted it out. You can... There it is. Yeah, he's officially announced. I mean, you don't know. He could be skydiving into the skylight. I mean, we don't know. Could be a body double. Yeah. I'm hoping.

Don't assume his entrance. It could be burst out of somebody's stomach. You know, you never know. Alien style. Okay, well, skydiving's off the tape. This song is so cheap. I mean, it was probably cool when it came out, but it'sdiving's off the table. This song is so cheap. I mean, it was probably cool when it came out, but it's old. I like the song, really. I think it's a great song.

If there's one song you're going to come out to, if you're Donald Trump, this is it. That's really weird, because that's the French Revolution stuff. There he is. He's looking good, huh? Actually, yeah. He did look like he's getting younger. The first thing he's going to say is like,

they stole it from me. No, no, let's hear it. I'm excited for this, guys. This is going to be an awesome next couple of years. I'm really excited for this. He's going to let the whole song play. Yeah, how does that work? We need a WWE introduction here.

Lee Greenwood got paid. We don't need to hear the music. No more. Lee Greenwood's over there going, dollar, dollar bills, y'all. Where's the fireworks? Come on, Trump. Start talking.

It's one thing to be proud of what you've done. If you're just proud that you were born here, it's kind of like gloating. I disagree. I don't know. We're the luckiest people

on the face of this earth. Lucky, but why would I be proud? Here we go. Here we go. Sh, sh, sh. USA! USA! USA!

USA! USA! USA! Well, thank you very much. And on behalf of Melania, myself, and our entire family, I want to thank you all for being here tonight. It's a very special occasion at a very special place. You and all of those watching are the heart and soul of this incredible movement and the greatest country in the history of the world. It's very simple.

There has never been anything like it. This great movement of ours. Never been anything like it. And perhaps there will never been anything like it and perhaps there will never be anything like it again. There's never been anything to compete with what we have all done. Ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests, and my fellow citizens, America's comeback starts right now.

Two years ago, when I left office, the United States stood ready for its golden age. Our nation was at the pinnacle of power, prosperity, and prestige, towering above all rivals, vanquishing all enemies, and striding into the future, confident and so strong. In four short years, everybody was doing great. Men, women, African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, everybody was thriving like never before.

There was never a time like this. We turned the page on decades of globalist sellouts and one-sided trade deals, lifted millions out of poverty, and together we built the greatest economy in the history of the world. When the virus hit our shores, I took decisive action and saved lives and the U.S. economy. And by October of the same year, America was roaring back with the number one fastest economic recovery ever recorded. How about that? All of the incoming administration and all they had to do was just sit back and watch. Inflation was nonexistent. Our southern border was by far the strongest ever.

And because the border was so tight, drugs were coming into our country at the lowest level in many, many years. Importantly, after decades of rising energy costs, the United States had finally attained the impossible dream of American energy independence, which soon would have turned into energy dominance. For the first time in memory, China was reeling back on its heels.

You've never seen that before, because the United States was outdoing them on every single front, and China was paying billions and billions of dollars in taxes and tariffs. The farmers know that because they got $28 billion of it. No president had ever sought or received $1 for our country from China until I came along and we were getting hundreds of billions of dollars. Many people think that because of this, China played a very active role in the 2020 election. Just saying, just saying. There we go. Sure, that didn't happen. Instead of jobs and factories leaving America for China,

they were for the first time ever leaving China for America. Businesses were pouring back because of our historic tax and regulation cuts, the biggest in both categories in history, bigger even than what Ronald Reagan was able to produce, and he produced a lot. China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea were in check and respected. They respected the United States, and quite honestly, they respected me. I knew them well.

I knew them well. The vicious ISIS caliphate, which no President was able to conquer, was decimated by me and our great warriors in less than three weeks, and al-Baghdadi, its founder, was hunted down and killed. North Korea had not launched a single long-range missile since my summit with Chairman Kim Jong-un nearly three years before we developed a relationship, and that's a good thing, not a bad thing. It's a good thing. Very good thing, actually, because look at what's happening today. My opponents made me out to be a warmonger and just a terrible person who would immediately go into war.

They said during the 2016 campaign that if he becomes President, there will never be a war within weeks, and we will have wars like you've never seen before. It will happen immediately. And yet, I've gone decades, decades without a war, the first President to do it for that long a period. The President The President

The President The President The President It was at peace. America was prospering, and our country was on track for an amazing future because I made big promises to the American people, and unlike other presidents, I kept my promises. I kept them. I like it so far. This is good. Good stuff.

Thank you very much. Under our leadership, we were a great and glorious nation, something you haven't heard for quite a long period of time. We were a strong nation, and importantly, we were a free nation. But now we are a nation in decline. We are a failing nation. For millions of Americans, the past two years under Joe Biden have been a time of pain, hardship, anxiety, and despair. As we speak, inflation is the highest in over 50 years.

Gas prices have reached the highest levels in history and expect them to go much higher now that the strategic national reserves, which I filled up, have been virtually drained in order to keep gasoline prices lower just prior to the election. Joe Biden has intentionally surrendered our energy independence. There is no longer even a thought of dominance, and we are now begging for energy help from foreign nations, many of whom find us detestable. Our southern border has been erased and our country is being invaded by millions and millions of unknown people, many of whom are entering for a very bad and sinister reason. And you know what that reason is. We will be paying a big price for this invasion

into our country for years to come. Hundreds of thousands of pounds of deadly drugs, including very lethal fentanyl, are flooding across the now open and totally porous southern border. The blood-soaked streets of our once great cities are cesspools of violent crimes, which are being watched all over the world as leadership of other countries explain that this is what America and democracy is really all about. How sad.

The United States has been embarrassed, humiliated, and weakened for all to see. The disasters in Afghanistan, perhaps the most embarrassing moment in the history of our country, where we lost lives, left Americans behind, and surrendered $85 billion worth of the finest military equipment anywhere in the world. And Ukraine, which would have never happened if I were your president, are something... I agree.

I don't think we'd — I don't think the Ukraine thing would have happened if Trump was president. And even the Democrats admit that. That's something I've seen them admit over and over again. But our enemies are speaking of us with scorn and laughter and derision because of those two events. But there are many more. Even just today, a missile was sent in probably by Russia to Poland, 50 miles into Poland. Yeah. And people are going absolutely wild and crazy, and they're not happy.

They are very, very angry. Now we have a president who falls asleep at global conferences. Yep. Was held in contempt by the British Parliament over Afghanistan. Thanks to the words of wisdom, he said thank you to the wrong country for inviting him to a major summit on the environment of all things. How long do you think until he formally announces?

Soon. Well, since they spoiled it when they said the next president, when they introduced him. Oh, that's a good point. They basically already announced it. Spoiler alert. Yeah, yeah. I want to just stress to everybody who's listening that you should probably, we can't just play Trump speaking without doing a show ourselves for a variety of reasons. Yeah.

You know, so we can't just— I don't want to interrupt him. Right, right. I mean, he was—as Raymond G. Stanley Jr. just said, Trump's rolling hard 20s. So I'm like—I'm reluctant to chime in, but for us us I have questions already if you guys want to I say hear them out yeah but we can't we can't just play straight air

is it true? was the southern border the strongest it's ever been under Trump? no you know the discussion about building the wall the wall never happened there might be pieces but they're all very small. Here we go, here we go, sorry.

Let's hear it. Surrender in Afghanistan, I was pointing at you, Ian. Two years ago, we were a great nation, and soon we will be a great nation again. That's what I wanted to hear. The decline of America is being forced upon us by Biden and the radical left lunatics running our government right into the ground. This decline is not a fate we must accept.

When given the choice boldly, clearly, and directly, I believe the American people will overwhelmingly reject the left's platform of national ruin, and they will embrace our platform of national greatness and glory to America. Glory. He's nailing it. I want to hear that MAGA talk. Exactly one week ago, our citizens voted in the important midterm elections, and despite a ridiculously long and unnecessary period of waiting,

far longer, in fact, than any third world country. Just a short time ago, the Republicans won back control of the House of Representatives. Not necessarily, but most likely. We don't know yet. And it was with a great Trump-endorsed candidate, Congressman-elect Kevin They're one seat away. Kylie, who is a fantastic person. A fantastic person. And I'm very happy it was his vote that did it. But so we now won back.

This happened just an hour ago. Much criticism is being placed on the fact that the Republican Party should have done better, and frankly, much of this blame is correct. But the citizens of our country have not yet realized the full extent and gravity of the pain our nation is going through, and the total effect of the suffering is just starting to take hold. They don't quite feel it yet but they will very soon I have no doubt that by 2024 it will sadly be much worse

and they will see much more clearly what happened and what is happening to our country and the voting will be much different and Fetterman and Senate that is true, it's going to get really bad financially in the United States especially with energy especially in Europe. Especially internationally.

Are you getting ready? Yeah. He sounds tired, man. It's not the same guy. He sounds more reserved. Yeah. He's doing wispy voice. No, he's doing it right. I do want to point out that in the midterms, my endorsement success rate was 232 wins and only 22 losses. You don't hear that from the media. How much do you bench?

And an elegant press place. And I'm not going to use the term fake news media. This is going to be so much fun. So we're going to keep it. Oh man, it's been too long. You don't hear that from the media, but I think you will because people are starting to see what happened. And that's some score. And in the primaries was 98.6%, but they were still trying to blame me.

And the reason for the success and that unprecedented success rate is that the Trump administration changed our nation on trade, on securing the border. We're the strongest, safest border ever in the history of our country. On Islamic terrorism, we had practically just about, not that I can think of, no Islamic attacks, terrorist attacks during the Trump administration. And in fact, we got along very well with the various countries. Including coming up with the Abraham Accords. That's a great thing.

The Abraham Accords. I bet most of those people don't know what they are, and they're still cheering. But it's because of cutting taxes and cutting regulations at the highest level ever, and on building the greatest economy. Any time in the history of the world there's never been an economy like we had just two years ago.

Despite the outcome in the Senate, we cannot lose hope. And we must all work very hard for a gentleman and a great person named Herschel Walker, a fabulous human being who loves our country and will be a great United States Senator. You notice how the captioning comes before he says it? Oh, I wonder if they're running on a delay Will Chamberlain says low energy not 2016 Trump that's what I was just saying he sounds tired

he's just old he's old he needs age man his voice I think this is the demeanor he needed to take in the popular vote another thing that's not discussed for the house we must remember that Republicans won 5 million more votes, the largest margin in many, many years, over the Democrats.

5 million more votes. That's a big thing. Breaking the radical Democrats' grip on Congress was crucial. So in other words, because of our great congressmen and all of our great congressmen and congresswomen. One guy is not going to fix this. Yeah, that's a good word. It's a ground up movement. Because of our great congressmen and all of our great congressmen and congresswomen. That's ultimately the challenge. I mean, that's what everyone ran into. Republicans have officially secured control of the House.

Nancy Pelosi is fired. Let me double check real quick. One man's not going to solve all of your problems. That's important to understand. That's what I'm worried about, people putting all their faith into the political system and the politicians. Decision desk has confirmed the Republicans have the House.

There we go. Should we crack the Louie again? Let's win by 40 seats. If you win by two seats, be happy. But she's on her way to another country right now. But you know, that's exactly what the challenge is. But we always have known that if you have one person in a political office that can fix the situation as bad as it is, right,

then what does that tell you? That tells you that one office has got way too much power. And that, I think, is concerning. We all rate Obama the goal of his executive order. I got to throw it to Luke. Luke said that Trump was going to draw it out

and not announce immediately, and he was right. I was wrong. I thought he'd come out right away and say it. He's going to build us up. He's going to crescendo. Technically, they did say it,

though, but he didn't. He's going to crescendo it and build up, and then at the end, just hit it, which he usually does. Play Tiny Dancer. He was on time, which is also impressive because he's usually always late to his speeches. What's going on?

I think he just did it. Or he's just about to. You got Tiny Dancer. I'm going to say Eye of the Tiger, what they're going to lead out with. YMCA. YMCA. That'd be a good one. So many incredible friends and family here tonight. It's such a beautiful thing. It's people say, how do you speak before so many people all the time? If when there's love in the

room, it's really easy. If you want to know the truth. You ought to try it sometime. Together, we will be taking on the most corrupt forces and entrenched interests imaginable. Our country is in a horrible state. We're in grave trouble. Yeah, he did just announce it. This is not a task for a politician or a conventional candidate. You were busy talking. Sorry, guys.

This is not a task for a great movement that embodies the courage, confidence, and the spirit of the American people. This is a movement. This is not for any one individual. This is a job for tens of millions of proud people working together from all across the land and from all walks of life, young and old, black and white, Hispanic and Asian, many of whom we have brought together for the very, very first time. If you look at the numbers, if you look at what's happened with Hispanic, with African American, with Asian, and just look at what's happening. This is a party that has become much bigger, much stronger, much more powerful, can do much more good for our country. Orange Man back. This is a job for grandmothers and construction workers, firefighters, builders, teachers, doctors, and farmers who cannot stay quiet any longer.

You can't stay quiet any longer. You're angry about what's happening to our country. Our country is being destroyed before your very eyes. It's a job for every aspiring young person and every hardworking parent, for every entrepreneur and underappreciated police officer who is ready to shout for safety in America. When he was running during the the first term he was he was in scotland and they literally asked him about their respect texas about whether or not texas would be leaving i talk about it in the book and he said no no texas won't leave because they love

this will not be my campaign people are people are pointing out uh real uh falani says i mean it's not like it doesn't say Trump 2024 on his lectern for the entire speech. What did you think was going to happen here, Tim? The massive corruption we are up against is you, the American people. It's true. The American people, the greatest people

on earth, we love them all. He's definitely going to win the nomination. There's no one in the Republican Party that has a chance of stepping up to that guy. We were all sitting here talking about Ron DeSantis, but I've got to admit when you see Trump get up there, Milo was right. All of a sudden, it's like

I can't imagine DeSantis going up against Trump. I feel like we've got to help him at this point. I don't love politics, but we do need a better country and a better world. You're saying help Trump? Yeah. We just need to help ourselves by helping our president. Ian goes full MAGA. Trump's convinced him. I'll help Biden, too.

I'm not convinced. I want to see them on a debate stage. I want to see them duke it out. I want to see the best idea win. I want to see the best candidate win. Like real help. Like get here in person, point out his flaws to his face, humiliate him, let him humiliate me, like be a real person kind of help. That's what we need to do.

We can all get together. And we were doing that. That was happening just prior. Not just blindly support. Because the success was greater than this country has ever had. We were leapfrogging China and leapfrogging everybody else. And everybody wanted a piece of it Milo was right but just as I promised in 2016 I am your voice I am your voice

oh man I am so excited for tomorrow the Washington establishment wants silence us, but we will not let them do that. What we have built together over the past six years is the greatest movement in history because it is not about politics. It's about our love for this great country, America, and we're not going to let it fail. I am running because I believe the world has not yet seen the true glory of what this nation can be.

We have not reached that pinnacle, believe it or not. In fact, we can go very far. We're going to have to go far. First, we have to get out of this ditch. And once we're out, you'll see things that nobody imagined for any country. It's called the United States of America, and it's an incredible place. We are Americans, and we do not have to endure what has taken place in Washington, D.C.

This is our country, our government, and the carters Carters of Power they're our Carters they're not their Carters these are our Carters and we are coming to take those Carters back we have Brie Sullivan says

Ian Les Mis isn't about the French Revolution it's about the June Rebellion of 1832, he picked that song't about the French Revolution. It's about the June Rebellion of 1832. He picked that song because of the populist message of freedom. Thank you. Look how fast it's all going. I will fight like no one has ever fought before. We will defeat the radical left Democrats that are trying to destroy our country from within

and likewise protect us all. We want to protect us. We have to be protected. Really, though? From all of those nations out there that are looking to destroy us from beyond our shores. There are lots of nations that hate us gravely, and that's the problem.

When they look at us in disarray like we are right now, when we go to them begging for oil and we have more liquid gold under our feet than they have or any other nation has, and we don't use it because we're going to them. It's crazy what's happening. We can't let it continue. Joe Biden is the face of left-wing failure and Washington corruption. He had a big G20 dinner tonight. Everybody flew over to wherever they flew over, and guess what? He never showed up. They're still looking

for him. He's off book now. He's off the cuff now. Somebody turned the teleprompters off. He used to make deals for our country like you wouldn't believe. It was one, give me the next one, give me the next one. And we got him to stop taking advantage of our country. Every nation took advantage of our country. Every nation took advantage

of our country. He's better off the cuff than he is when he's scripted. And that last time he got elected day one, he got, we went on script and he was on script the entire time. It was really discerning. I thought he was going to be off book Trump, like just going full Kennedy, but because we did a great job, but manufacturers also, and we did a deal. We restructured, we restructured our terrible deal with terrible deal with Japan. And we did a deal. We restructured our terrible deal with Japan. And I did it with Prime Minister Abe, a great man who unfortunately is so sad. He was a great friend of mine, but a great man, loved his country so much. But we restructured and made it a really terrific deal. Right now, there are several NGOs, Antifa-type groups, that are convening and probably began convening yesterday.

And they're getting funding. They're gearing up. We're going to see extreme violence, like we saw the day Donald Trump was inaugurated. They went around D.C. burning things down, setting fire to vehicles, lighting garbage in the streets, smashing windows. I hope you all are ready for what this means. You mean, just so we're clear, you're talking about those mostly peaceful protests, right? Mostly peaceful. Okay, just making sure we're thinking about the same thing.

The country could not take that. And I say that not in laughter. I say that in tears. Our country could not take four more years. It can only take so much. It's all very fragile to start off with. It can only take so much. In 2020, I received the largest number of votes of any sitting president in history.

And it's unwinding. By a lot. And we will do it again, but with even more votes this time. He has said, he has effectively reinforced some of the sentiments that we were talking about earlier, which is this thing is really in a bad situation. Again, I think it probably leads to the skepticism that one guy, one office can cover it. Great people, very entrepreneurial people, and they want security. Everyone thought when I did the wall, I built the wall,

and they thought, oh, that would hurt me with the Hispanic vote. No, it helped me because they understood. They wanted safety. they wanted security they and they understood the border better than anybody else all right so uh what do you guys say he's he's going off the script he made the announcement should we get into super chats yeah i don't know when he's lying that's the problem it all sounds great and it makes me feel good a lot of stuff but i don't know if he's lying because like you just said he said the border was the strongest it's ever been in his presidency. You're from Texas, specifically said he was lying. It wasn't.

Yeah, okay, so did it improve some? Sure. But was it the strongest ever? Probably not, no. I mean, when you understand the escalation of the border crisis and how long it's gone on, it was not at levels that it is at right now. So granted, if you were to take a snapshot, say, of the last 10 years and say, you know, was it better? Yeah. I mean, across some measures, it was better. You know, he was able to do some razzle-dazzle, invoke Title 42 to immediately deport, right, instead of catch and release, to immediately deport, which the federal court overturned today, by the way. I to say to everybody um many many who tuned in specifically to watch the announcement we're gonna we're gonna go to super chats but i want to stress when we started this show i said i didn't want to hear about the past in the sense of like oh it was

stolen from me i wanted to hear about making america great trump did exactly that he said i'm gonna make america great but he didn't know he talked about unemployment he talked about not starting any wars those things i really liked he talked about how biden failed with the afghanistan surrender i like what he said he said here's what i did that was good here's what's happening that's bad and he didn't come out and say it was mine it was mine and it was taken from me i that that's what i don't want to hear and he didn't do that he came out very very serious with and and and and you know Will Chamberlain mentioned, low energy. But I think that's on purpose. Other people are commenting that Trump at his rallies is the same as he's always been high energy, you know, feisty and all that stuff.

And I've seen some of them. So I agree. I am happy to see him coming up, making this announcement on the core things that America needs to do to be better. Like I was saying, that's why I want to see, and we see it. So I'm happy. He's still not done, though. So we're going to see what else he says. I'm going to watch the speech just to get a full understanding of it.

But it could go either way. We'll come back to it. We'll keep it rolling. And just plain common sense. It's common sense. It's common sense. In two years, the Biden administration has destroyed the U.S. economy. With victory, we will again build the greatest economy ever. It will take place quickly. We will build the greatest economy ever. But he did zero detail. But he did.

No. He was at the helm when we were inflating it the fastest it's ever been inflated. He spent a lot of money and borrowed a lot of money and indebted this country a lot. The stock market was higher than just prior to COVID coming in. And we did it twice. And we will do it again.

But this time we'll do it bigger, stronger, better than anybody can even imagine. Let's see it. All I need is a design plan. And one of the beautiful things of the pause, if there is such a thing, is a beautiful thing, but one of the important factors of the pause is that we see how bad they've done. So we will be able to do it properly and it will be much easier. Everybody will agree with us because everybody sees what a bad job has been done during this two-year period

and it will be a four-year period. Everybody sees that. It will be much easier for us to do what has to be done. Behind the scenes, he better go after ballot harvesting. Or at least build that apparatus. If he wants to win, yes. We will immediately tackle inflation and bring down to a level that it was, you know, we were at zero. But actually, the best number is 1%. Do you know that? You don't want it really zero. But we were at zero. We actually got it to exactly 1%, the perfect number. One thing every economist agrees, don't have it zero, have it like at

1%. They even say one to two, but I said, let's do one. And we had it at 1% and we had it there for a long period of time. And we had it at 1%. And we had it there for a long period of time. And we had the value of the dollar we had so that this country could make a lot of money. And I fought other countries where they devalued their dollar. They devalued their currency, whether it was the pound or whether it was the yuan or the yen. And I used to fight like cats and dogs with the leaders of other countries because they were stealing from us. When they did that, they had artificial devaluations of their currency. It's a very important thing.

I haven't even heard it mentioned in two years. It's a very important thing. It's very hard for us to compete when they do that artificially. And they had to pay a big price when they did it. And they never really did it for very long i said we're not going to do business with you anymore as a country and they believed me i want to read i'm going to read a super chat joseph said super chats can pound sand as the biden administration has done very very openly and bravely because i can't imagine, let's put America last. I think it takes courage. We will again put America first.

You're here. Every policy. Thank you very much. We do love our country, isn't it? That's why we're here. I didn't need this. I had a very nice, easy life. This is something I didn't need, and a lot of you people don't need either.

But we love our country, and we have to take care of our country. We have to save our country. Every policy must be geared toward that which supports the American worker, country. The President and the President of the United States. The President and the President of the United States. The President and the President of the United States. The President and the President of the United States. The President and the President of the United

States. The President and the President of the United States. The President and the President of the United States. The President and the President of the United States. The President and the President of the United

States. The President and the President of the United States. The President and the President of the United States. The President and the President of the United States. The President and the President of the United States. The President and the Trump administration came along, and now we're losing it. They're moving back into China. They're moving back into these other countries.

It's horrible. That means low taxes, low regulations, and fair trade, much of which I've already completed, but now will even greatly enhance. Other countries should pay for the privilege of coming into the American marketplace. They have to pay to come into our country and make all of that money, take it away from us. And thanks to the Trump administration, still the best and the biggest country in the world is what we have.

We have the best and the biggest. If you remember, for many years, you can look in your projection books, China was going to take over from us as the largest economy in the world in 2018 or 2019. I said, I don't like that timing. And I was with President Xi, who's now president for life. I call him King. He said, no, no, I'm not the king. I said, yes, you are the king.

You're president for life. It's the same thing. But I said, President, President, you can't do these things. You can't. Remember, they had China 25. That means China was going to take over virtually the whole world economy by 25. I said, that's not a nice sign. I don't want that sign. They took it down. They took down the whole slogan. Probably will be coming back at some point in the near future. But I found it very insulting. I said I find that very insulting.

On day one, we will end Joe Biden's war on American energy. Oh, yeah. And you will see when that happens, you will see energy costs come down. And because energy is so big and so important you will see inflation dropping dropping dropping dropping you will see it come down it's a thing of beauty and you wouldn't think it's that complicated now what has been complicated a little bit is what's happened to so many other things I believe originally started by this energy disaster we were a dollar87 a gallon for gasoline,

and now it's hitting $5, $6, $7, and even $8, and it's going to go really bad. The socialist disaster known as the Green New Deal, which is... But that's partly because demand was near zero during COVID. But the average, I think, during his presidency was like $2.30, so it is still really, really good. So that our country can again breathe and grow and thrive like it

should. Gas went negative during COVID. They were paying to give it away. That's crazy. Per barrel. It's very much hurting our country. Germany tried it. They were up for about a year.

Remember I sent to Angela? Remember Angela? Do, remember Angela? Do you remember Angela? Nobody's remembering her now. Angela Merkel, I sent her a white flag of surrender. She said, but why, but why do you send this to me, Donald? I said, Angela, I sent it to you because this is a flag of surrender.

You're getting 78% of your energy from Russia. And when that happens, history has proven that it's not good for Germany. Just take a look over the last 150 years. It hasn't been good. What I didn't know would take place so fast. And Germany closed, as you know, all of its coal power plants. Oh, dude. Nuclear plants.

It closed everything. I got to pull up some tweets. And now they're building coal plants. And they're building them fast. And China's building a coal plant every week. Every week they open up another and then they talk about all of the things that they do environmentally. They are watching us die with the Green New Deal, with our windmills and with our solar that doesn't have the power to fire up our great factories and our great plants. They are watching us die and they're laughing as it happens.

CNN cut off Trump's audio and is just doing commentary now. National security. And that's what it is. We need economic security. The energy crisis is deliberate. That is why we will launch an all out campaign to eliminate America's dependence on China. I mean, we'll bring our supply chains, which are a disaster right now. You can't get anything. And good luck getting a turkey for Thanksgiving. Look at this.

Look at this. Let me show you guys this. I want to show you some of the media reactions. This is getting good, getting good. We will bring our supply chains and manufacturing base back home, as we were strongly doing during the Trump administration and we will systematically bring back wealth, health, and success

to the American middle class and to America. It says, Donald Trump, who tried to overthrow the results of the 2020 presidential election and inspired a deadly riot at the Capitol in a desperate attempt to keep himself in power,

has filed to run for president again. Seed. We're also hearing Fox cut out his audio and is also doing commentary over it. Foxes. I heard Fox, yeah. I thought Fox was just playing the speech. I feel very guilty. I don't want that to happen. Everyone's watching this.

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Reddit Libertarian posted this from the Washington Post. Trump, who has president fomented an insurrection, says he's running again. Mexico to give us free of charge, 28,000 soldiers. Right in your evening with all the journalists freaking out. The president of Mexico is a great gentleman, by the way. Socialist, but that's okay. He can't have everything. But he's a great man and a great friend of mine. But 28,000 soldiers while we were building the wall.

And then when the wall was finished, that's how we set all these records. The corporate media is like, this is horrible. This is the end of the democracy. Yes, he's back. Yes, I have a job. Yes, I finally have something to do. We have a million people coming in, not three or four million people. They're pouring into our country.

We have no idea who they are and where they come from. We have no idea what's happening to our country. It's interesting because I'm watching a lot of charity check it back and forth. Because I'm obviously watching to see how folks in Texas are doing. Remain in Mexico. MSNBC cut it out.

They're not even showing any of it. Remain in Mexico, which was so important. Everybody came in here. They remained here. You know, honestly, if you think about it, MSNBC would probably show it on one screen and then show just a rolling footage of the January 6th thing at the Capitol on the other side of the screen. That would be their typical MO. So, you know, maybe the fact they're not showing their all is a bit of an improvement. They terminate and they can't even leave. So now they come in here and they stay and we have no idea where they are.

They get lost. And it's very dangerous for our country. And again, I'll say, we're going to pay a big price someday for what they did. He's not wrong. Quick announcement, though. Biden said that it's unlikely that missile that hit Poland was Russian. The Polish president is also saying similar things. Unlawfully allowed into our country.

We have no choice. We have no choice. And in restoring border security, we will stop the flow of deadly drugs and horrible human trafficking. You know why they do that, though? They're looking at their real-time numbers. And they're like, okay, okay, people are leaving.

Let's start talking or something. You think of it as an ancient thing. It's not ancient. Because of the internet, human trafficking is worse than it's ever been in history. And we stopped them at the southern border, which is the number one port all over the world. Like clockwork, all of these woke media outlets are just unloading on Trump. Vice News, Trump spent years undercutting our institutions, staging attempted coups in our office.

Again, who didn't see that coming? That they would lose their minds. It would be all about the coup, the insurrection. Oh, no. One journalist said, why not have run limits? They're so mad. Stacey Abrams needs a chance.

This is amazing. The governors and mayors are supposed to ask for the help, and they would never ask for the help, and yet people are being shot and killed at random like nobody's ever seen before. And we sent in the National Guard in Minneapolis and in other places. In Seattle, we went and we were getting ready to go,

and they took over part of the city. And the governors, the Democrats don't want to ever ask to do anything because they don't want to shake things up. In the meantime, the cities are rotting. And they are indeed cesspools of blood. It was short. That's what I was thinking. It was really short. We will give our police back their authority, resources, power, legal protection, and we will give them back their respect.

Great people. And I will immediately launch a no-holds-barred national campaign to dismantle the gangs and clean out the nests of organized street crime. There we go. He's going to have to deal with the CIA if he wants to deal with the fentanyl and drugs yeah the worst criminals the worst gangs are ms-13 and under the barack hussein obama administration they were unable to take them out because their countries where they came from wouldn't take them and i learned about that and my first day i actually say but i learned about that in my first day, I actually say. But I learned about it, and I said, which country is that? And it was Honduras and Guatemala.

It was El Salvador, some others. And I said, how much do we pay them? Sir, you pay them $750 million a year. That's a lot of money. I said, all right, stop paying them. We're not paying them anymore because they wouldn't accept them. They would put planes on the runway. So when our plane would come out with these gang members from MS-13. We got that paying them anymore because they wouldn't accept them. They would put planes on the runway. Look at this one.

We got the journalist Emily Bell. A well-crafted tweet. The Washington Post wrote, The twice impeached former President Donald Trump, 76, who refused to concede the 2020 election and is a subject of multiple criminal investigations, is running again in 2024, increasing the likelihood of a potential rematch with Biden. Amazing. And I got to know all of the presidents and prime ministers. I got to know them all. And I said, all right, stop payment of the $750 million a year. They won't take them. And

you could not get anybody back in because they sent them out. They didn't just come out. They sent them out. They don't want the bad ones. They want to keep their good ones. They don't want the bad ones. These are gang members that will kill and they like using knives because a knife is more painful than a gun. You've read the stories. So how do you think they're going to twist what he's saying? They're going to say

he's racist. He accused people of being animals again. We went along and I said stop payment of the $750 million. And I get a call the next morning from the president they won't ever use the term fire up the base like they have in the past sir yeah you're not taking your ms-13 gang members back that you sent to us use it of racist dog whistles like they did before right i mean it's called out of ms-13

the caravans thousands and thousands of people in those caravans. You know, that's what they're going to do. They said, you're not taking them back. This is the same. It's going to be like a dog returning to its vomit. This is playing out. I got a tweet from you, Adrian Curry. I'm going to show it.

I retweeted that one. I still didn't give him the $750, but that's okay. Pretty smart. That's a good one. Pretty accurate. And by the way, now Biden wants to give them the $750, but that's okay. Pretty smart. That's a good one. Pretty accurate. And by the way, now Biden wants to give them $4 billion. They were happy with $750, and now they want to give them $4 billion. Somebody someday is going to explain that one to me.

It actually makes you rage with anger when you hear that. They wanted $ 750 so badly, and now they're getting $4 billion. We will wage war upon the cartels and stop the fentanyl and deadly drugs from killing 200,000 Americans per year. And I will ask Congress for legislation ensuring that drug dealers and human traffickers,

these are terrible, terrible, horrible people. The CIA? Who are responsible for death, carnage, and crime all over our country. Every drug dealer during his or her life on average will kill 500 people with the drugs they sell, not to mention the destruction of families but we're going to be asking everyone who sells drugs gets caught selling drugs to receive the death penalty for their heinous act that is insanity because not every drug is the same just like the Philippines yeah he's

not anymore blue ribbon committees we don't need any more blue ribbon committees. We don't need... I don't like to say this, and I don't even know if the American public... I wonder where he gets numbers on that, like why he thinks it's a good idea. Please don't say that, sir. That's not nice.

They kill 500 people each on average. And if you don't do this... In China, when I was with President Xi, I said, President, do you have a drug problem? No, no, no, no, we don't. He looked at me like I didn't know what I was doing. He said, no, we don't have a drug. How come you don't have a drug problem? He said, quick trial.

What is a quick trial? I sort of knew. What is a quick trial? That's where, if you get caught dealing drugs, you have an immediate and quick trial, and by the end of the day, you're executed. Nope. We don't want to be like China. Can we please not be like

the deleterious China? Literally, in his announcement, he's like, I'm going to crib a policy off the communist Chinese. And I had him stopping it. It's authoritarian. It needs to be called out and criticized. We were stopping it. That was way down that number.

But they send it in. But they don't have a drug problem. Why would he believe them? Of course they have a drug problem. No drug problem. No drug. You ask them. You got to end the war on drugs.

You ask Xi Jinping and he'll tell you for all the China. Stop the CIA from shipping in the drugs and stop the war on drugs. And then we would have less harm. We wouldn't have all these problems. But no, we've got to be like totalitarian China? That's crazy. And nobody even cares. They can do whatever they want to do and become rich.

It's a disgrace. So if you want to get rid of that and also bring down your level of crime probably 75% or 80%, that's the only answer. No more blue ribbon. I refuse to create them anymore. It was just a joke. It was New York people wanting to be on a committee for publicity reasons. No, no more blue ribbon committees. That's the only way you're going to solve the problem. And I hope politicians are listening because they should do it quickly. Joe Biden has also proven that he is committed to indoctrinating our children, even using the Department of Justice against parents who object.

It's a terrible thing. It's so sad what's happening. When I'm in the White House, our schools will cease pushing critical race theory as they were. This is why Elon wanted to buy Twitter. Because he knew Trump made it worth a lot of money and this is true twitter almost went under before trump started or if they do that they will lose all federal funding but we'll get them to interesting he makes a critical race to him yeah and i will be the president who finally fixes education in america we were doing most

of the legislation state level doesn't address it We were starting to really get it right. We will not let men, as an example, participate in women's sports. Is that okay? No men. That's not a particularly grand promise other than what he could say is, let's get the federal government out of education, and that would fix things. Yeah. That would be something. And the Department of Education.

That's politically incorrect to say. I said, that's okay. I'll say it anyway if you don't mind. We've had tremendous, tremendous problems. And, you know, it's very unfair to women. Just very, very unfair. We will defend the rights of parents. And we will defend the family as the center of American life.

There we go. That's what I said, right? I want him to hate the guy sitting with the newspaper and the mom's got iced tea. Come on. Make America great again. He should have got to that much earlier in the speech, probably before he started saying, look, I'm using the communist Chinese as a model. I guess that's what I am. I hate that thought.

But that a politician would be up saying we will defend parental rights. Of course, you're going to offend. Who would think that we even have to mention this? Who would think it even should be a subject to be talked about? We have to defend parental rights. Can you believe this? As commander in chief, I will get Biden's radical. Jeb Bush tweeted what a a low-energy speech by Donald. I did. And the first day they put it together, they signed an executive order.

That's like Richard Simmons calling you a crappy dresser. We will abolish every Biden COVID mandate and rehire every patriot who was fired from our military with an apology and full back. I don't know. China has zero COVID, so you should probably follow their model, Donald. I want you all to understand. Twitter is back, and Donald Trump is running. It's going to be a meme magic,

meme war, like we saw back in 2015, 2016. You're going to be laughing nonstop all day, and I'm ready for this. And unlike Biden possibly getting us into World War III, which can seriously happen, I will keep America out of foolish and unnecessary foreign wars just as I did for four straight years.

Non-interventionist foreign policy. I mean, that's something... We will again have peace through strength. That's all it is. As events overseas have shown to protect our people from the unthinkable threat of nuclear weapons and hypersonic missiles, the United States must also build a state-of-the-art next-generation

missile defense shield. We need it. The power of these missiles and the power of a word that I refuse to say, nuclear. We have to have it. We need a defense shield and we have to do it. And we actually have the technology and we're going to build it. Just as I rebuilt our military, I will get this done. I rebuilt our entire military, which nobody talks about. More money for the military industrial complex. When I got there, we had jet fighters that were 48 years old. I hope Jeb runs. I hope he does, too.

I want Jeb to run. Please clap. You should get a shirt made with that on it and make fun of himself. As I've said before, the gravest threats to our civilization are not from abroad yeah but from within that's a shtick none is greater than the weaponization of trump wasn't wrong about jeb bush i mean that guy that guy is uh he elicits the sort

of excitement conduct a top to bottom overhaul to clean out the festering rot and corruption of Washington, D.C.? Remember when Biden said he was going to stop Trump? He would use constitutional legal authority to prevent him from taking power? Yo, it's going to get lit. Well, let's see how that goes out. I'd like to see how that plays out. Because honestly, all they do when they attempt to screw with him that way is they just validate his position. People are pointing out, he said, the quick trial execution is a terrible thing,

what China was doing. I will tell you. That's not what I heard, but I wasn't listening. That's not what I heard either. See, that's exactly it. People were talking over him. Christopher Steele, who wrote the fake dossier, if he will lie and say that the fake dossier was true. And he refused to do it.

So it had to be really fake. And then they hired somebody, Demchenko, for $200,000 a year to focus on Trump and to get Trump and other things, including the raid of a very beautiful house that sits right here, the raid of Mar-a-Lago. Think of it. And I say, why didn't you raid Bush's place? Why didn't you raid Clinton? 32,000 emails.

Why didn't you raid Clinton's place? Why didn't you do Obama, who took a lot of things with him? We will dismantle the deep state and restore government by the people. Full back pay to people kicked out of the military over the vaccine mandates. To further drain the swamp, I will push for a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on members of Congress. It's time. Yeah, he's definitely been listening to us or people that come on the show. Term limits for bureaucrats.

And I will ask for a permanent ban on taxpayer funding of campaigns. A lifetime ban on lobbying by former members of Congress. Oh, yeah. There we go. The Press No, I see what they make. They leave the White House or they leave Congress, and they're paid millions and millions and millions of dollars a year.

No, you have to have a ban. We want a ban on members of Congress getting rich by trading stocks with insider information. Yes. Pelosi, you're fired. Many of our great members agree with that. They actually agree with that. And, of course, we will do whatever it takes to bring back honesty, confidence, and trust in our elections.

To eliminate cheating, I will immediately demand voter ID, same day voting, only paper ballots. There it is. What would that do? Only paper ballots. Stone tablets. Only paper ballots.

There you go. It's nonsense. Nope, that's exactly what he said. You can just say I saw a D when he saw an R. He can lie. And there's four people watching when it happens. And all four of them can lie. That's right.

All four of them can lie, even though they're competing against each other. Well, they're not really competing. Yeah,. It was all done by 10 o'clock in the evening. No complaints. They're not really competing. Yeah, they absolutely are. The Republicans and the Democrats are called a uniparty for a reason. Trump candidates are not the same as neocon establishment Republicans. But there was no complaints.

I'll just say it. They're supposed to be competing. Paper ballots is it. That is the only secure way right now. Period. Yep. Period. I feel like that's a physical record that exists in a box.

Unless they destroy it, it's there to check. Always. Right now, it's like, what do you do? Do you audit the code? And then who lets you do it? It's proprietary. A box full of documents is publicly owned. And they can go in and say, I want to open the box again.

Who's they, though? You can't. If you can file a lawsuit, you shouldn't have to do that. You just click a button. Look, that 2019 white paper was like, it should be the gospel. Everybody in this election business is being forced to read it. Because literally they came out and they said, all of these electronic machines can be hacked. Every single solitary one of them.

And not hard to hack them, but quite easy. And they said, here are the two things. Paper ballots, risk-limiting plots, a.k.a. making sure they're going through. He's talking about fixing the election process. But this is just the beginning of our national greatness agenda, and that's what we call it, a national greatness agenda. Oh, the NGA. Because our country can be greater than it ever was.

Our country was great. Our country's not great anymore. Oh, the NGA. The President. The President. The Press. The President. The President. The President. The President. The President. The President. The President. The President.

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The President. The President. The President. The President. The President. The President. The President so many things we can do. Many of them are not even hard to implement. The journey ahead of us will not be easy. Anyone who truly seeks to take on this rigged and corrupt system will be faced with a storm of fire

that only a few could understand. Right? I happen to have some children in the first row. I think they understand. Right? I happen to have some children in the first row. They understand. In fact, my one boy... Stand up, Eric. E-bones.

E-bones. Does anyone know if Ivanka and Jared are there? I think he got more subpoenas than any man in the history of Ivanka. He was in the middle. So unfair. That was unfortunate. Al Capone.

You all heard of the great gangster? Al Capone got far less. Billy the Kid got almost none. Jesse James, no. Eric Trump got more subpoenas. He's a PhD in subpoenas. They come from Congress. And I appreciate the job you do and the abuse that you've taken.

I really do. And it hasn't been a joyride for our great First Lady either. It hasn't been a joyride. Stand up. We need to see more accordion hands. I go home and she says, they do love her, I go home and she says, you look angry and, I go home and she says, you look angry and upset.

I say, just leave me alone. I got it. Hasn't been the easiest thing, but she's been a great First Lady and people love her. We will be resisted by the combined forces of the establishment, the media, the special interests, the globalists, the Marxist radicals, the woke corporations. Oh, man. The weaponized power of the federal government, the colossal political machines, the tidal wave of dark money, and the most dangerous domestic censorship system ever created by man or woman, the most dangerous system we've ever had. We will be attacked. We will be slandered.

We will be persecuted just as I have been. I mean, I have been, but many people in this room have been. But we will not be intimidated. We will persevere. We will stand tall in the storm. We will march forward into the torrent. And we, in the end, will win. Our country will win. We will win. My fellow Americans, we will join together and

reverse this staggering American decline. And it is staggering indeed. And we will again restore the spirit of our nation. And then we must build and raise up a legacy that will stand without equal in the entire history of the world. With your help, we will create communities where our children will grow up safe and strong, and a nation where they will grow up free, prosperous, and well.

We will reestablish the principles of hard work and merit, and end the scourge of homelessness that is plaguing our beleaguered, Democrat-run cities. We will heal our divisions and bring our people back together through incredible success. We will defend life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. We will expand the frontiers of human knowledge and extend the horizons of human achievement. There's a funny meme. It's a flowchart. Should you run for the Republican nomination?

Is your name Ron DeSantis or Donald Trump? Yes or no? And if yes, go for it. No, don't embarrass yourself. He looks like he's finishing up here. We need everyone involved. We need everyone's help. We need to look out for one another.

We need to be friends. And we need every patriot on board. Because this is not just a campaign, this is a quest to save our country. Talking about saving our country. The President. The President. The President. The President.

The President. The President. The President. The President. The President. The President. The President. The President. The President. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. I am asking for your vote.

I am asking for your support. And I am asking for your friendship and your prayers of this very incredible but dangerous journey. If our movement remains united and confident, then we will shatter the forces of tyranny, and we will unleash the glories of liberty for ourselves and for our children and for generations yet to come.

America's golden age is just ahead. And together, we will make America powerful again. Mapa. We will make America wealthy again. Mawa.

We will make America strong again. Not saying that one. We will make America proud again. We will make America proud again. We will make America safe again. We will make America glorious again.

It's like watching a porn. Come on, say it. We will make America great again. Thank you very much. God bless you all. Thank you. All right, that's it. Good song.

Orange man back. I got to say, I am very critical of Trump. He did give the plan that I was asking for earlier. He started outlining things and he talks about a lot of really important things about addressing the voting issues I thought was very good and talking about the world at a grand scale about the military industrial complex

and the, I mean, he didn't talk about Megacorps and BlackRock by name, but this is the stuff he's talking about. I've never seen, I haven't seen another political candidate do that. Maybe Tulsi Gabbard. I'm excited because the media is losing their minds and like i just i'm kind of resigned to the nonsense it's a difficult battle you got to be happy elon musk has got twitter which means we there's already been reports that

people are coming back that certain accounts that have long been banned have been reinstated so we will see what happens if he brings trump back great either way we are going to see the memes again the memes were so hilarious with the pepe frogs and the meme magic and uh i'm it's you know it's it's it's reinvigorating that old six years ago back back back in the fray it's important that we look at what was it about 58 minutes into the speech when he said that he would i thought he said he would he would arrest drug dealers and in one day have them tried and executed. But I could be wrong about that. People were saying that he commented that he saw,

he heard China did that. And it's not a good thing, but he did call for the execution of drug dealers. Yes. That I disagree with completely. I don't, I don't, I think I'm anti-death penalty.

I'm not for it. And to take Xi Jinping at his word when he was like, how do you have no drug problems in China? Like, what an insane thing to say about your country. We have no drug problems. It's like saying, we have no abuse in this country. Well, I think what we're going to be seeing in the next few weeks and months is going to be an absolute crap show, and I'm all here for it.

People in the corporate media are going to be losing their minds. People are going to be just going absolutely crazy. I'm here for all of it. It's going to be losing their minds. People are going to be just going absolutely crazy. I'm here for all of it. It's going to be a wild ride. And man, who knows what's going to happen? Will Twitter bring Donald Trump back? Will he go back on the platform? That's the next kind of battlefield that people are looking at.

And personally, I hope he does come back to Twitter. I think this discourse is going to get wild. And put on your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy ride. I found that Trump is, I don't know what's the right word, not susceptible, but he's open-minded about things. Like if he hears a good idea, he'll start to go with it. And then he'll really go with it if he really believes in it. So like graphene, for instance, or free software, two things I'm really passionate about involving the united states with being at the forefront of i think he could get on board edward super chatted trump cast ian is a dirty hippie even though i love him

that is not a lie i did shower today so uh let's read the nuked idea says nuked incredibly important info if trump loses the the nomination to DeSantis, he may run as a third party splitting the vote. That happened in 1912 with Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson. Look where that got us. Ross Perot also split the vote and helped Clinton. But we'll see. We'll see. I don't know for sure.

I could see that happening. I agree. Do they have a sore loser law on the federal level? I mean, I know in Texas they have a sore loser law. It says, look, if you get bounced out in the primaries, you can't go and run as an independent in the generals, right? Is that true? Yeah, yeah.

So we had like a situation we had down there is we had a guy named Mark Goluby. He ran for comptroller, I believe it is. He lost in the primaries, but he filed to run as an independent with a write-in candidacy for the generals for governor. So that happened. So there was a lot of pressure for people when Don Huffines lost in the primaries. And Chad, they're like, hey, once you guys run write-in candidates, you file as an independent.

You can't do that. You've got a sore loser law. It says if you get bounced out in the primaries, you can't file to run as an independent in the generals. Wow. I don't know how I feel about that, but that's an interesting thought. I think right now, I don't know how Trump implements a paper ballot.

I don't know how Trump reforms elections. I'm glad he's talking about it because if they're not thinking about this, they lose no matter what. At the very least, they should be gearing up for the practical battle of uh ballot harvesting legal lawful get out the vote operations getting low information and low propensity voters to vote then do what desantis did start cleaning things up fixing the system and stopping this rig this

ridiculous uh low low information voter system But we can't kid ourselves. The Republicans don't have a lot of institutional power to change things. That's why I'm saying they need to win first. And so get that ballot harvesting machine. How are they? What are they going to win between now and 2024? That's the question. In 2024.

So right now, what they need to do is get out the vote operations, door knocking campaigns, ballot harvesting operations where it's legal. Then when they win in Congress, at the state level, in the Senate and the federal government, and they get it all in 2024, they start issuing the hard reforms saying you can't do this, you can't do this, you can't. It's worth done playing these games. Well, look, I don't want to let this skate by because I think it would be a crime if we gloss this over. If he's talking about all of those election reforms, literally things that we agree with, right, the paper ballots, all of those things that he said he would do with elections, for that to happen from the office of the president essentially says that he is going to do the thing that we all castigated Biden for, which is when Biden and AOC and the rest of them wanted to federalize

the election system, we all went absolutely bat crap crazy. And so for him to carry out the policy he just suggested, he is going to have to literally do what we all criticize the Democrats for wanting to do, which is federalize those elections. The next president could just come in and undo what he did. Exactly. People are saying, I said something. I don't know what you mean. I said ridiculous.

That's all I said. I didn't say anything else. I said the ridiculous voting system. That's all. Of course. I don't remember. You know what he didn't mention is vaccines. He glossed over the word. No, that's not true. He didn't remember. You know what he didn't mention is vaccines. He glossed over the word.

No, that's not true. He didn't say the word, did he? He said that people who lost their jobs would be reinstated with an apology and back pay. That's pretty cool. That's amazing. He kind of right off the gate was like, and because of me, we saved so many lives during COVID. And you're like, what is he saying?

Because of you, what? Because you rushed the vaccine out? Yeah, look. What are you saying right now? No one clapped. I'm not going to hop on that bandwagon. I'm not going to hop on that bandwagon. I'm not going to hop on that bandwagon because the lockdowns were wrong. They sure did.

His administration made that ruling. I'm going to undo what I did. Come on. They gave Bill Gates a seat at the table, right? I mean, all of those lockdowns all trickled down from the federal side of this. And so I don't think he can skate by his culpability. Bill Gates was dictating policy and telling Trump what to do. And Trump listened and followed his policy. And however you feel about the COVID vaccines, right? Whatever you feel about those, understand that how you feel about them is, is

all a direct result of Operation Warp Speed, which happened under the Trump administration. So, you know, that's a conversation you can have all day long about whether or not his policies are going to be effective. But remember, it's all at the federal level. Essentially, what they're saying is we're going to do these things and we're going to do them. Hopefully you like them. But that power stays in place for the other team to be able to do it if you don't like it. Here's a good one. Leland Taylor says Trump should have ended his announcement with Elon. Here's my eight dollars there you go or just showed like eight dollars like here you go elon yeah i got something for you elon i'm back baby he had elon as an advisor at one point early on and then elon was like i'm not working with that guy yeah he's impossible well elon was pushing

for more global warming policies which is also interesting and something to keep an eye out because he wanted more of those policies for that and allegedly Trump wasn't playing ball. I really liked that Trump said he was going to, which is crazy,

declare war on the cartels. Like he was saying, MI6 is their biggest enemy. That's like Kennedy style going after the mob. Here's what we do. Voter ID, no brainer. Paper ballots, of course. Same day same day voting absolutely no early voting no mail-in voting but election day is a holiday how will democrats give

up all the power and and the way that they establish this game for themselves i don't see them changing it in any time i see them holding on to this current position yes yes you misunderstand i'm not saying democrats please give up power i'm saying this is a policy position he's running on. No different from him saying I will lower taxes. He can't right now without being in office lower taxes. He needs to win first. The election system needs to be cleaned and fixed so that we stop having Democrats exploit stupid people for easy votes and that this country returns to people who care about it. And then it becomes better for everyone across the board and we can work to fix these problems.

That means right now Republicans need to start forming organizations and dumping tens of millions of dollars into get out the vote and legal ballot harvesting operations. And then when they win, they can pass all the laws they want and clean the system up, fixing it. And Ian, just really quickly, it wasn't MI6, it was MS-13. Oh my gosh. I gotta be careful, man. MI6 is the British Intelligence. Although his visual,

that's a much better story all of a sudden. MI6, I love you. As soon as he said MI6, I'm like, what? Why is your name so similar to the cartel name? What is it, M13? MS-13. It's MS-13. Come on, guys.

You've got to diversify because if I'm getting confused in public, that's not fair. There's probably some crossover. I guess I've got to blame myself. They're not going to change the name of their national security apparatus because you made a mistake. We'll get it clear. Trump is not going to declare war on MI6. But he indicated he wanted to declare war on the cartels, MS-13 being one of them. Guys, guys.

You know what? Look. It's like a woke-up book, man. All of this. Guys, guys, you know what? Look, it's like a woke book, man. All of this, who knows what's going to happen? Trump might slip on a banana peel or something, whatever. He might get indicted. And if he does, this is only going to help him. This is the paradigm that people need to understand here.

The federal government and the corporate media will go after him, which will allow him to have more popularity. So this is the conundrum that we're dealing with, which I think people should be questioning. That I'm just saying, if all that happens with Trump is that he did this today, watching the media seethe is worth it. Well, how do you feel about what Daniel was saying about the federalization? It's going to be fun to watch.

Like the federalization of voting laws. If Trump went in and was like, I'm going to make sure that everyone has to do paper ballots, isn't that up to the states? Yes, and that's why I'm saying state level. It's going to be, I'm not saying Trump should go in

as the executive and be like, I hereby decree. I'm saying Republicans need to win, clean up this system. The fact that Trump is talking about it means they understand why they're losing. It's a good thing.

Yeah, I don't like, when Democrats tried passing that bill that would have nationalized voting laws. Very, very bad. Insane. Interesting note about that is when Ted Cruz was asked about, he was in College Station, when he was asked about the Texas issue, he listed federalization of the elections as one of his red lines that would cause him. He says, look, I get it.

I'm not there yet. But here are some red line issues. And he cited federalization of the elections. Elimination of Electoral College was another. But he cited that as one of the triggers for him to come out and support Texas. He obviously supports our right to, as do many people. But I think this election is a real interesting flex point for people. If you can't trust that your vote counts, then where is your faith? Will you vote even?

Yeah. Well, I mean, I think look at voter turnout. I know in Texas during the midterms, voter turnout was pretty doggone abysmal. I think it was 60-some-odd percent of people just didn't even vote. Yeah, a lot of independents didn't vote. A lot of people who aren't involved in politics didn't vote. It was around 100 million people that did. This country is made up

of about 330 million, some of them children, obviously, and can't vote, but still a majority of people didn't. That was cute. That's like when he was explaining red pill to me earlier. I think right my assessment right now, the economy's bad. It was good under Trump. It was not perfect, but it was better than it was.

True. We saw really great numbers, but you guys are right. He was spending a lot. There was a lot of money going out. But the point is, how does the average American feel? And they certainly don't feel good about what's happening right now. I'm not convinced that Donald Trump dragged the midterms. I think that's mainstream media BS.

Look at how they're responding to him announcing he's running for president. If they really thought he dragged the Republican Party down, they'd be saying Donald Trump, who just dragged the Republicans, risks destroying the Republican Party or something like that. No, no, no, no. They're saying he's an insurrectionist. He's old. He's evil. Here's what happened. Donald Trump won. He got, what, 90 percent success in his endorsements, more than that, like 93 percent. A lot of people are trying to claim that he dragged the party down when they just it's now announced they've won. They've won the House. Republicans did it. It was a hard fought battle where the Democrats have been operating under universal mail in ballot

rules, which is ridiculously favorable to them due to urban density and due to, you know, ballot curing and things like that. With Republicans voting in person, voting machines failing, they leave the line. It's very, very difficult for Republicans. Plus, it's harder to go door to door in a rural area than it is an urban area. With that uphill battle, Republicans still got the House. And now I heard today there was a meeting with Fauci and a few others, I'm sorry, not with Rand Paul and a few others, looking at inquiries into Fauci, the covid response. So this is a good trajectory. I think Donald Trump, based on today, is on a strong path and it's looking up. A lot of people on the left are saying, look how low energy and sad he's not going to win.

They're nuts. I'm not saying Donald Trump maintains it for the whole time. I'm not saying that he does better than he did in 2020, you know, 74 million votes or whatever. But I'm saying right now, this was the show of force we needed. He did not complain about about the election. He made a joke about it. That was funny. But he didn't waste time talking about it.

And that's what that that's what perturbed me in the past. He mentioned strengthening families. He mentioned fixing voting laws. I'm I dig it let's see let's see let's see where this goes i think ron de santa is gonna have a very very hard time going up against trump after after what we just saw it was reserved there was a little bit of humor in there he made a bunch of good points let's see if he can maintain that going into this this primary season i want to see them on the debate stage i want to see them i want to see them I want to see them. I want to see them argue. I want to see them debate

ideas. I want to see them go at each other. Let's do this. I'm so excited. We got the new space that we're getting built right now. It's a massive warehouse like building. It's a big steel building. We're going to have a big projector with big speakers and a bar and the new studio is on the second floor overlooking the space. I'm just

super excited to have this massive screen playing the debates. Ron DeSantis, Donald Trump, both of them going at it. I don't know who else could be on that stage. Who would even bother trying? Jeb Bush. I wish. One and only.

We need him. I would pay per view commentary by Joe Rogan to see Jeb Bush on that debate. You know Nikki Haley is going to be there and Mike Pompeo, probably Mike Pence. I think all of them are going to get obliterated. Oh, Pence-Trump. That's the ultimate, dude, because they got personal beef. I think DeSantis is going to give him a run for his money.

I don't think DeSantis... I think he might even take it from Trump. Maybe. I don't think DeSantis should run. I think it's super important that he runs Florida right, no matter what happens. He's so quality in that position. And with Trump announcing, why would he jab that? Look, it's the Peter principle, man. There's a

tendency that we see somebody have success at a certain level, like as governor of a state, someone that we love. Now they want to just automatically shove them to an office at that federal level. And we and we have to realize something is that a lot, if you want a politician, you know, somebody who's a public servant, a statesman, if you want that statesman to no longer be a statesman, send them to work on the federal level. Right. I mean, you know, it's like saying, Hey, look, we have this person who's a great swimmer. So let's send them over here to swim in the cesspool and they'll, they'll make the cesspool smell better. That's not how this works. I mean, you don't do that. And I agree

with you. This is part of the problem, especially at the state level. We talk about it in Texas all the time. If our politicians at the state level couldn't go any higher, how much better would they govern in the state? We need to get a countdown, 721 days until 2024 general. So I'd love to get like a digital clock just put up counting down in the background. Every episode would be hilarious. I'm excited for this. Let's do it. Primary season is going to be so much fun. The year after a presidential election is always like a downturn. Everyone's exhausted. They're tired in the political space. And then you get the next year where we're getting ready for the midterms and it's like, eh.

Then finally we had the midterms happen. But now we enter primary season. It is going to be hilarious. The Democrats are going to – it's going to look like a sitcom level bad. Then you're going to have Trump. Look, we don't know if DeSantis is going to go for it. DeSantis might actually just say not doing it because it could really, it could harm his future prospects.

But we don't know. We don't know. Oh, I was thinking I'd like to talk to Candace again. I haven't talked to her since she was on the show last time. And having just gone through what she went through with Trump, she said that he was really rude to her. She's no longer supporting him. I'm interested to get her perspective on what she thinks about the speech.

And she's probably going to give a recap, I guess, if you check out her show, The Candace Owens Show. But I'd just like to hear her personal thoughts. Her saga was pretty interesting. I mean, she kind of gave Trump a kind of softball question about the vaccine. Trump gave his answer.

She didn't even contest him. And then she even released a video saying, hey guys, please go easy on Trump. He's a little bit older. There was some fake news by the daily beast and she says that trump fell for the fake news by the daily beast and that's why trump was mad at her look what day is the the election in 2024 uh v for vendetta day is v Vendetta Day. November 5th, 2024. Guy Fawkes Day is the day. Now look, Guy Fawkes was a theocrat.

And I think, I could be wrong, but my understanding is that he wanted to install Christian theocracy in London. And that was the gunpowder plot or whatever. So I read a little bit about it. This is the Guy Fawkes mask mask like V for Vendetta. But it's come to represent whatever that was. It comes it's come to represent revolution protest.

And specifically with V for Vendetta, the people rising up against the authoritarian establishment. So I'm sure the left is going to come out and argue the exact same thing. We are the resistance. Remember, remember the 5th of November. We must stop the fascist Donald Trump. The only problem is Trump's not in power. So that analogy doesn't work as well as the people out of power saying it to challenge the machine.

But that won't prevent them from trying. No, they'll say it. These are the same people who marketed Fetterman as a legitimate guy. they'll say it. And they can say whatever they want. These are the same people who marketed Fetterman as a legitimate guy. So, I mean, you know, they'll do it. They'll try it. I'm glad that Donald mentioned the deep state. I think he said the words deep state in the speech.

Because if we're going to talk about the problem that society should be revolting against, it's, you know, like corporate collusion and stuff. Democratic and Republican freedom came before corporations existed. I want to give a shout to raymond g stanley jr because he's the one who's pointed out he said tim remember remember the 5th of november 2024 so shout out for that one dude raymond g oh man is it gonna be fun i'm excited for this year i'm just i'm just sitting there i'm i'm thinking about all of the the primary democrat debates they're gonna have the campaigning, the mudslinging. Will they debate? Each other.

They have no choice. Yeah. Who's to say? Will Biden or whoever becomes the nominee? Well, here's the thing. If Biden says he's running, there's no Democrat primary. And that's just the most ridiculous thing ever because Biden ain't there. No.

Well, he says he's running. I know. I wonder if the age of debates as we know them is over. I would like to see more of them, two people just talking. But the whole, the moderator thing, like saying, I can't talk to you. Like me and you, Tim, are going to debate. We'd be looking at each other, asking each other questions, pointing out when the other person's wrong, theorizing, things like that. The weird debate, they call it a debate, but it's like, wait to be called on and answer

a question. Isn't really a debate. So maybe we'll see more, a different different format maybe shows like this will start popping i paid my way through college with speech and debate you know i got i got hardware at the house still after all these years uh what we have are not debates we need proper debates where these guys are hammering each other on policy. Some would say master. Yes. More master debaters in office is what I'm looking for. That's great.

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Yeah, absolutely. You know, we didn't get to talk too much about it Twitter. Daniel, do you want to shout anything out? You have a book I hear. Yeah, absolutely. We didn't get to talk too much about it tonight. Thanks, Donald. Appreciate that for your timing. He didn't consult with me, by the way. But yeah, look, we did get a chance to talk a good bit about Texas tonight. And I would encourage anyone who has more questions about it to either get the book. It's called Texas, Why and How Texas Will Leave the

Union. It's been a four-time bestseller on Amazon. Or I would encourage people to go to our website, texitnow.org, the one that Facebook is putting the kibosh on. We have about the 100 most asked questions about the Texit issue, full detailed answers, the whole nine yards. And the good news is there's a place for those people there who, if they go there, they see what they understand what we're doing. They can plug into what we're doing as an organization and take Texas from theory into reality. So very excited about that. And thanks for having me. I just want to point out, I got a message from someone, apparently our viewership rivaled Fox News on YouTube. That's great. Thank you, everybody. I really do appreciate it because we're trying to displace

the corporate media even if it is Fox. Bravo. And you gotta do them by doing a better job than they do, which of course we strive to do here. I strive to do that on my YouTube channel, youtube.com forward slash we are change. I did a very interesting video about Klaus Schwab taking over the G20 and then I did a more spicy video

on lukeuncensored.com. But just check out the video right now. It's a very interesting one, youtube.com forward slash we are changed. See you there. And I my mood actually is elevated after listening to Donald speak like that. I don't agree with him on there's a lot of things and I agree with him on some things. But the fact that he's willing to get up there and do it and run for president and say those things is inspiring. Because we need more people speaking the truth or at least speaking their own perception of the truth we need that now we need it so thank you donald for doing that and everyone else that's involved with it thanks i care i want to be there i want to be part of this it's going on kyle ian goes full maga

no no i'm not saying i don't i don't adhere to political parties but i want to support brilliant genius we got to get in a tie-dye MAGA fleece hoodie. Hilarious. Bedazzled with crystals. What we got to do is make one that says, magic. Make America great, Ian Crossland. Magic. Let's make them.

It's all in your hands, Ian. We're going to print those and sell them. And all in your mind. Yeah. Tonight, it was great to meet you, Daniel. Tonight was a bunch of fun. Yeah. Thanks, guys.

I'm trying to think of a good, how can we make America great and then icy, but not Ian Crossland, you know? Let's just make a bunch of magic here and sell it. Make America great, Ian Crossland, yeah. No, but we can come up with something funny that's like a hippie pro-Trump kind of thing, you know? All right, everybody, thanks for hanging out.

Seriously, this has been fantastic. I'm really excited. Tomorrow's going to be spicy. So you know that tomorrow the media is going to lose their ever-loving mind, and we're probably going to have a lot to talk about. So thanks for hanging out, and we'll see you all then. Bye.