Timcast IRL - Timcast IRL #995 SHADOW CAMPAIGN 2024, Voters Register With NO ID Sparking Election Fears w/Nick Freitas

Episode Date: April 3, 2024

Tim, Ian, Hannah Claire, & Serge join Nick Freitas to discuss swing states seeing massive potential voter fraud, an enormous earthquake hitting Taiwan and Trump blaming Biden for the border crisis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Shadow campaign 2024, or perhaps nothing, but we don't know. Right now on X, there are a few viral posts highlighting that hundreds of thousands of people in key states like Texas and Arizona have registered to vote without IDs. The argument is that these are likely people who are granted social security numbers for work permitting reasons and then registered to vote because these numbers are massive and strange. Now, nobody knows for sure. Some people are pushing back a little bit, but considering the volatile nature of 2024, it's good to talk about these things early and see what we come up with, what we can come up with and figure out. Donald Trump is campaigning on Biden's border bloodbath,

which is brilliant branding and marketing. And I saw one tweet where he said, November 5th will be Christian Day of Visibility when Christians make themselves visible by voting overwhelmingly. So we'll talk about that. Plus, big news, JK Rowling over in the UK, they passed this hate speech bill

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Joining us tonight to talk about this and everything else is Nick Freitas. Thank you very much for having me. Who are you, sir? What do you do? Well, husband, father to three. Former Green Beret back when I was in shape. And then I'm currently serving as a member of the Virginia House of Delegates. But other than that, I'm a pretty good person. All right. Glad to hear it. We can talk about the inner works of politics for sure. So thanks for coming by. Oh, no, my pleasure.

Hannah Clare is hanging out. Hey, I'm Hannah Clare Brimel. I'm a writer for SCNR.com. That's Scanner News. I'm really happy to be a part of that team. Ian's here. Hi, everybody. Ian Crossland. It's Ian's birthday. Happy birthday, Ian. Happy birthday. I don't normally celebrate. We should talk about tradition tonight because I don't normally celebrate days just for the sake of it. It's like if somebody does something great, I want to celebrate that

accomplishment. So I'm kind of low-key about dates. You don't want to celebrate that you've lived another year? Yeah, like I didn't do anything great today. I just slept in. Celebrate me on the today. I just slept in. Celebrate me on the days that I come in hard. We tried to wake him up for physical, for personal training. He was like, it is my birthday. I had those Yerba Mate.

I was up to like 5 a.m. I told you not to drink those. Too much caffeine. So I'm going low caffeine for now. The other night, Ian grabs two Yerbas. Yeah. And I'm like, don't drink the second one. I love them. They're amazing.

They're delicious. But it's got like, that was like four cups of coffee. I was up way too late, so I'm going to lower my caffeine intake. Who's stealing all my Yerba? Probably it was me. I drank like four of them from that. No, down here.

I have my own thing. You have a secret stash? That's hilarious. Yeah, I have my Yerba, and it's half gone. I don't know. I know it's good, but I'm going to have to-

Yeah, it is delicious. I'm going to have to walk around with a stick and wave it at people when they take my Yerba. Thank you for the happy birthday, everybody. And Nick, it's good to see you again. When we first met, you were running. I believe you were actually in the process of running for Congress when we met.

And then the second time I saw you, you were in Congress. So it's really cool. Well, I'm in the state legislature. I think the first time you had me on, it was because we had a huge dust up with the guy who's now the Speaker of the House. But him and I kind of, yeah yeah had a bit of a bit of a fight on the floor and uh but you were not in the legislature that i was oh you already yeah let's go deep man all right hey search hey ann happy birthday uh yeah let's get to it let's go

so let's just start with this story it was it was kind of hard i don't know if we wanted to lead with this because it is a bit of conjecture, but it is incredibly interesting. Take a look at this from End Wokeness. The number of voters registering without a photo ID is skyrocketing in three key swing states, Arizona, Texas, and Pennsylvania. I just really want to point out Texas, a swing state. That's crazy. Since the start of 2024, 1,250,000 people have registered in Texas without an ID. In Pennsylvania, 580,000. In Arizona, 220,000. HAVV, that's Help Assisting Voters Verification or something like that,

allows voters to register with a social security number, four digits. Illegal immigrants are not able to get licenses there, but they can get social security cards for work authorization permits. The data is publicly available. We have this tweet from Paul A. J authorization permits. The data is publicly available. We have this tweet from Paul A. Jipila. Probably pronouncing that wrong. He says 227,077 people in Texas registered to vote without a photo ID during the week of March 16th, 2024.

Nothing to worry about here whatsoever. Totally legitimate. He says to clarify, see the explanations of terms and associated columns, then see the blue highlighted row. That's Texas. The 227,000 are total transactions with 196,000 matches, 192,000 single match alive. So it appears as many as 196,000 people registered to vote without a photo ID. There were 30,000 total non-matches. That would imply of the 30,000 non-matches are people who tried to register with fake social security numbers or for whatever reason, submitted a registration form with a social security number on it, and it got rejected by the social security administration. So take a look at this. This is the website I pulled up the week ending March 16th. This is SSA.gov.

This is the Help America Vote Verification Transactions by State. And let's just make sure we have this correctly. When it says, where is the total non-matches, total number of verification requests where there is no match in our records on the name last four digits of the social security social security number or date of birth so i'll stress that again when they highlight 30 actually i just pull it up right here let's uh let's let's jump to uh texas and we can see total non-matches for texas 30 499 in one week that's like 15 times more than the next greatest. I mean, that's more than any. Tennessee has zero.

It's as many as Pennsylvania even just had registered is the amount of fraudulent attempts. They may not be fraudulent. Yeah. May not be. Many of them could be someone put their number down wrong. Okay. And it came back and got rejected. However, holy crap.

1.2 million in Texas since the start of this year. I think this is important because it may be nothing. We don't know. Scott Pressler chimed in. He says, people need to understand

that you do not need a photo ID to register to vote. In order to register to vote, you need either a driver's license or the last four of your social security number. If someone does not have a driver's license,

they use social security number. For voter registration, there is also a box that voters must check to indicate they're American citizens. As someone who registers voters across the country, I know this information firsthand. Furthermore, we are also registering a lot of Amish to vote. Amish do not have a photo ID. I'm not saying these numbers reflect Amish voter registration. The information above just serves to point to other ways people may register to vote. I have reached out to two congressmen about the issue. So before anybody jumps the gun, the first thing I want to point out is there could be a regular, say, 30-year-old dude living in the outskirts of Austin, Republican, and he's like, I'm going to register to vote. And they say, you can use your ID or your social security number. He's like, I'll use my social.

It's easier. Last forward, I've got to pull up my ID. I've got to register to vote. And they say, you can use your ID or your social security number. He's like, I'll use my social. It's easier. Last forward. I've got to pull up my ID. I've got to put all those numbers. I'll just do that. Right. So this could be totally on the level. Again, that being said, I think considering the shadow campaign Time Magazine wrote about and the fact that we're seeing these massive numbers in key swing states in places like Texas, Arizona and Pennsylvania, which is clearly here reflected.

Missouri, interestingly, has a large number as well. I think we definitely want to pay attention to this. I don't know that anyone actually caught anything, but I certainly think this should be investigated now. Yeah, this social security number. I also don't think it will be. This is what I'm wondering. If I'm in Texas and I'm like,

hi, my name is Nick Freitas, and I have your social somehow. And I'm like, and these are the last four digits of my social security number. And I vote this way. Can I do that? Is that what they're letting people do? Well, you got to understand, like in a place like Virginia, where we now have same day voter registration, the bottom line is, is that you're going to go through this process.

And unless they have a way to really check this automatically right off the bat, which quite frankly, if they show up to a polling location to do this, they're not going to be able to get that instant verification. And they may give you a provisional ballot, but then you figure all that out that gets counted in what three days later, when they've already declared the winner, they're going to come back and really scrutinize that. No, they're only going to scrutinize it to the degree that they want to scrutinize it. And that's, that's the problem with all of this. When you make it easy to cheat, it doesn't mean that everyone cheats, but enough people can cheat. And then enough other people look at that and go something is wrong

with this system there doesn't seem to be sufficient accountability there doesn't be sufficient transparency and so you you actually end up undermining the process even if you haven't done something wrong and i think it's only going to get worse especially when you look at a place like texas i mean yeah it's interesting that we live in a culture and society that says there has to be a nefarious reason that this looks out of whack. Right. Like we are aware enough now that there is there are errors that occur in voter registration and that some people may benefit from that. And I think that that fear is going to, you know, you would hope that it would drive people to the polls. So if something's wrong, I've got to act. On the other hand, you know, when you look at a number like 30,000 in Texas, when other states haven't registered anybody, it looks extremely odd, especially given the situation at the border, which Texas has to respond to.

It's 190,000. The 30,000 is just the people that came back. Right. I don't, so you're saying, Nick saying nick like because it's at a polling station they don't have enough dat time or equipment to be like to verify if i give them a social and a fake name so obviously with this with texas we're talking about march right so they're they're going to the dmv or wherever it is in order order to register each state is a little bit different on on how you're going to register but like in a place like virginia where we have same day voter registration and you can walk all the way up to the polling location, register that day and then vote, you're not going to get the same degree of verification

that you would through a regular process where you actually have adequate time. And so sometimes the way they try to do that is they'll give you a provisional ballot and you're supposed to keep the provisional ballots separate. And then you go through those after the fact, and they're supposed to go through additional scrutiny. Again, where people are losing trust with this, I'll give you a very personal case from 2020, right? This was the year in Virginia.

It's COVID. We had a special session where Democrats changed the voting laws in Virginia significantly. So bad that a judge came back after the fact and said, yeah, you probably shouldn't have done it this way, but we're not going to change anything because the votes have already been cast. We had a thumb drive in Henrico County show up with 15,000 votes, right? Which they claimed, we have all the corresponding voter ID numbers. Okay, fine. But what do you mean you mislabeled a thumb drive with 15,000 votes? Because you can vote up to 45 days before the election in Virginia.

And so there's serious questions about chain of custody. There's serious questions about potential data manipulation. And if they would have found the thumb drive had the results for different. Yeah. Well, and the, and the issue, I had a reporter come and she was so furious after January 6th.

And oh my gosh, I'm like, look, and she goes, do you really think there was voter fraud all over the place? And that guy said, I have never claimed that voter fraud cost me the election. All right. I've never claimed that. I said, but can I ask you a question? If instead on election night, I had been down and I had been down, right? Cause I was leading in the,

I was leading in the vote counts. If I had been down and then all of a sudden a thumb drive showed up in the reddest County in the district with just enough votes to get me over. So I won. Would you have read in an article about, wow, we really need to change the whole chain of custody? Well, yeah, that probably would have been. Yeah, but you did it right. You never do. This only works in one direction. And that's that's another reason why people are skeptical. Now, here's something interesting. Single match deceased. What does that mean? Single match found deceased means the total number of verification requests where there is only one match in our records on name, date of birth, and last four digits of social security number. And the number holder is deceased.

Why? If we jump over to Texas, 4,571. Now, how is that anything other than fraud? Okay, no, no, no. Hold on, hold on. Somebody registered, put it in the mailbox drop dead right there medical examiner says deceased by the time it made it to ssa verification they were like ah that person is listed as dead perhaps i'm sorry i just don't

buy that no occam's razor would suggest that people are filling out forms for dead people and also maybe that happens what 10 times right right 4 000 that seems like maybe too many well the other thing to keep in mind too is that they actively like organizations actively go to you know retirement homes they actively go to assisted living facilities and they register people who may not be fully cognizant of what is actually going on it is it is strongly possible that uh because there was there was something about um in 2020 a bunch of people on the right who of course were very concerned about the results were saying dead people voted and they did do you know what happened

people were alive voted and then died and then a month later they were like hey this person voted early and then it turns out they were actually dead. It's like, well, yeah, they were alive at the time and then died. But these numbers are very strange. Look, if you put Texas and Pennsylvania, because Pennsylvania is the next most voter registration. You've got about six times more people voted registered in Texas than in Pennsylvania, six times. But 300 times more dead people. That's interesting.

Yeah. times but a 300 times more dead people that's interesting yeah so it's in pennsylvania only 16 came back from deceased registered registrations from deceased people and what did i say 10 is like what i would expect maybe people who that that's a red flag anomaly those aren't supposed to that amount of deceased voter incomings is not i'll just say right now normal we don't know exactly what the data means it's interesting however i would not be surprised if come november they say texas went blue i mean this is what the people have been warning about for a long time and i think because we think of texas as the wild west always like no texas will never go blue ha ha ha but texas has changed a lot right especially since 2016

especially since uh covid i mean there were a large number i mean i lived in lived in Texas for a little while and I can't tell you how many people were like, oh, yeah, I just moved here from California. And that has only increased. I mean, we know that in the sphere that we work in, people who are not necessarily from Texas saw Texas as a better place to live and went. I think, of course, the voting results will reflect that. But again, these numbers don't necessarily reflect people changing this. This represents fraud.

It looks like Texas only reports every other week. Some people are pointing out that if you go to the later next week, Texas isn't there. Well, they're not the previous week either. But the week ending March 9th, 224,000 attempts and there were 4,650 registrations for deceased people now come on like so so we're saying 2 300 people dead people per week you want me to believe texas are you okay every week 2 300 people register and then croak before the social security administration can verify their ids it's a strange thing and not only did they die but it gets reported by the coroner and the data uploaded so that the ssa has the updated information already no bs yeah it's weird someone is registering dead people

i wish that we could pull like this week from 2020 you know and compare the data do you have that uh because again like the website this website from the social security administration has that data if you could do a side side-by-side comparison of of this point in 2020 versus this point you probably want to choose like another like presidential year election to get like a fair 2020 march march 24th 2020 yeah let's see if uh texas is on this list because they are they also registered 4 000 dead people 64 000 64,000, zero dead people. Zero. That's weird. What's happening? You know what, Tim, asking that question makes you a threat to democracy.

That's the real problem. What's happening is I'm thinking a lot about change of governments and how they want the civilians just keep doing what you do, civilian. You just have a new leader now. Don't even open your eyes this way. They want to change the databases and the paperwork to change who's in control without alerting. This is not an example of people voting different, in my opinion. The whole reporting

totals deceased 244. March, this is the week ending March. Let's make sure we have the date right. March 21st, 2020. And for that week, there were 224 deceased registrations that turned out to be from deceased people.

So let's go to March 16th, 2024. And the total now is 6,698. And over 4,000 are from Texas alone. I think something is up. I can't say. It sounds like it's almost dangerous to register to vote in Texas. Like it could cost you your life.

Maybe, maybe. It's the leading cause of death. Leading cause of death. Maybe the paper they use is just a very fine, sturdy and rigid. Yeah, it's got the film on it. And so these poor elderly people

are taking the thing and they're filling it out. And then as they pick it up, it accidentally, the paper cuts their arm. That's probably more likely. I thought you were going to say they're all laced with something.

So when they open them, you know, they all die. Oh, itaced with something. So when they open them, you know, they all die. Oh, it's the ink. The ink they use, perhaps. Or someone is registering, is trying to register people off a list

and they don't know these people are dead already. Yep. There we go. Or there's a really specific serial killer at Hunt in Texas who only wants to go

after people who have just registered to vote. This is like alert the FBI. This is like in a normal society. The FBI will be like, stop talking about it. In the normal society, you're like, we have this horrific anomaly on our border right now. People coming across and voter registrations going off the charts.

Send in the FBI. We need to know. We need every aspect of this covered and taken care of. If we were to do the total calculation from 2011 until today, because it allows you to pull that up, we can see that for 55 million registrations, there are 1 million deceased. And that's the entire, for 13 years, over 13 years. Now, I do want to point out this massive number right here of 367,000 in Texas, which is just absolutely fascinating. What the?

For 13 years, there have been 367. What the, for 13 years, there've been 367,000 registrations for dead people. Are people just coming across the border? Yes. And registering as a dead person and then voting, casting their vote. Well, thank God we don't have any border issues with Texas.

Thank God that's not an issue. Yeah. A state that's incredibly vulnerable to this type of fraud seems to have an issue. I, who could have forgotten? Missouri also has several thousand, which is crazy what the heck look at this for the for this doesn't even include uh include Texas because they only report every other week but 7,345

but it's like in one i wonder why somewhere it's not even listing it that's interesting Texas is not here because that number is bigger what do you say Nick no i'm just i'm just wondering why because most states have exactly what you to expect with this but there's a couple states that stand out as anomalies and and that's strange i mean i wouldn't have bet on texas and missouri texas maybe because you have you have the legal immigration issue texas texas again this is this is february here's the date february 17th you know take a look at this. Missouri had 23,000. Yeah, why Missouri?

Why? Hold on, hold on, hold on. Let's just slow down right now. It isn't, okay, we got to be wrong about something. I'll just say this. For Media Matters, matches coming in from deceased people. So these are voter registrations where someone tried to register using a social security number and a name.

And when it came back to the SSA, they said that person is dead. In Missouri, in one week, 23,253. Are you still on the 13 years? February 17th, 2024. One week. It was like a third of the registrations came back dead people. Yeah. Is this them purging the rolls?

No, this is help America vote verification transactions by state. And so, look, maybe we're completely wrong, but it says this. Single match found alive. The total number of verification requests where there's only one match in our records of a name, last four digits of the SSN, date of birth, and the number holders alive. They say total matches, the total number of verification requests. So someone is, is, is registering the vote and asking to verify the social and the socials and

the name. Look at this single match found deceased. The total number of verification requests where there's only one match in our records and a name date of birth and last for the social and the number holders deceased. This is strange. How does, how does 23,000 verification requests not strike them as odd

in one week yeah what 76 000 total 26 000 of them came back dead i can't see the numbers exactly from here 23 000 came back dead that's so ridiculous that is so you think they purge voter rolls from time to time i well i'm trying to make sense of this right because that would make sense for a huge yeah it would make sense for a huge thing if a state came by and they said okay we're reevaluating our voter rolls and we've identified all these people are dead and so we're purging we want to verify these yeah as opposed to like new voter registration um and and and i would expect states like missouri and texas to actually take that a little bit more seriously um so if i'm if i'm trying to come up with a non-nefarious

explanation for those numbers, that's all I can think of. Otherwise, it's shady as hell. It's just weird. It doesn't make sense. And again, like I said, it is- I think you have to be right on that. I think it has to be that. Yeah. It can't, I mean, hopefully, because otherwise we live in a very corrupt system and I think that's not great. It's a very depressing thing. Can I say another thing that just irritates me about this isn't, this is one of the problems with, you know,

bureaucracies in general is that even when something like this is done and let's say, let's say that the explanation I just offered is the actual explanation. And actually this is something that we would agree with, right? A state did the right thing. They looked at their voter numbers. They said,

yeah, Hey, we had a whole bunch of people on the voter rolls that need to be removed because of deaths, etc. Then put that on there, right? Like, make that obvious that that's what you're doing. Like, this is why the transparency aspect of all of this is so important is because even when a bureaucracy is doing something that you might approve of, they still don't do it in such a way to where people can actually understand what's going on. But again, we haven't verified that that's what's gone on here.

It looks like that may be the case okay the reason and so i just want to point out we're we're looking into the high number of disease and we're shocked to see it in the immediate but it may very well be the state is saying let's run these registrations and see if these people are still around and alive make sure that their date of birth name and everything comes up but it may be it is per can a state do that legally? Run your data and try and register you to vote? It can run its own rules, right? It's supposed to. Legally, what states are supposed to do is look at the voter rolls and evaluate them in order to determine that if people have died, they fall off the voter rolls.

So somebody can't, because here's what ends up happening, right? You die, but you're on a permanent absentee list. Well, now that absentee shows up to your home and somebody fills that out and sends it off. Well, that's voter fraud. And so that's why you try to keep those roles updated. It's why there's also supposed to be, you know, you have organizations like Epic, which I think is a problematic group, but it's also supposed to allow states to communicate better among themselves so that when somebody moves, you don't have absentees going to like two locations.

But like I said before, with same day voter registration, now you've got a place. Look at a university campus, right? So you don't you don't live in Virginia, but you go to school at, you know, whatever. I think we're actually wrong. I let me read this. What is HAVA? The Help America Vote Act requires states to verify the information of newly registered voters, newly registered voters for federal elections. Each state must establish a computerized statewide voter registration list and verify new voter information.

The states are required to verify the driver's license number against a state MVA database only in situations where no driver's license exists. Should the states verify the last four digits of the new voter registration social security number. The state submits the last digits of the SSN to the MVA for verification with SSA. In addition, SSA is required to report whether its records indicate the registrant is deceased. These are new registrations. Yeah, that's, hey, we gave the benefit of the doubt, right?

We didn't rush to a conclusion, but that sounds bad. Okay, I mean, it says states must submit a request for us. States must only submit a request to us for new voters who do not present a valid driver's license during the voter registration process. Straight up. These are new registrations where they're saying someone did not present an ID and Missouri kicked back 23,000 of them as deceased? Yeah. Yo! I wonder if Missouri is a hotbed for illegal immigration.

I just feel like- I think it is. I feel like even though I'm reading this from the SSA website, it has to be wrong. There's no way that's true. 23,000 deceased new registrants? Out of 68,000 total? Yeah, that's a third.

That's just like throwing it at the wall and seeing what sticks yeah in missouri though what is going on random state in the middle of the country they're trying to keep it subtle if it was in california it'd be a red flag they did it in texas because it's unstoppable it does not say this is being used for voter roll it says they're required for newly registered voters for federal elections. That's nuts. Someone either screwed up their data input on an Excel spreadsheet somewhere, or that's suspicious as hell. Maybe the newly is a typo in it to just say of registered voters. I don't think so. Because the states are required to verify the driver's license against a database.

What is it? It says already right here states must only submit a request to us for new voters who do not present a valid driver's license during the voter registration process that is all of these that are being sent to the social security administration are purported to be new registrations that's nuts dude that it's the deceased thing that i just look i don't know we're just sitting here we're reading a wet where we know reading a website y'all figure it out well how do you get the data of 23 000 dead people to even register them you've got to find that data somewhere you can't accidentally write it down on that like oops missed misclicked 23 probably

they all didn't just drop dead that week yeah so probably heard about it i think was there a mass casualty event in missouri we missed i don't think so like i heard about this phenomenon where carbon dioxide can build up the bottom of the lake oh yeah and then it bursts and sweeps over the neighboring town asphyxiating everybody could that have happened somewhere and we just didn't know what happened that's well that's what media matters will want us to assume before we before we make any other conclusions or or it could be that despite the fact that they say this on their website it's not true that's that's also true i want to not believe this data does that mean stark yeah i was gonna say is what's true better or worse because 23 000 is not well the thing the thing that again the the the reason why it's also

confusing is because you you would expect if there was if somebody is doing this right and they're actually good at it you're not going to one state and doing all of this but but again i i am i've seen plenty of incompetence in politics and so i nothing really surprises me anymore is missouri like a big swing state? No. Is it? Yeah. My thought is like, I keep saying this. I think I could be totally wrong.

Missouri, I'm not super familiar with you, but I think it's a pretty substantial agricultural state. And often you have undocumented illegal aliens. Right. People who are there illegally working on farms or whatever else. So theoretically, there could be a population that would want to register to vote that doesn't have a social security number. Hypothetically, I'm just running a theory. These are numbers from last week.

Is that right? Or these earlier in the year? So this 23,000 number is for the week ending February 17th. For one week. For one week. One week. I can jump back to February 10th. Yeah.

And take a look at Missouri. If there's any other 20,000 dead. 251 oh which okay if a like county ran their rolls that week and was purging that would a big number would make sense to me but like but that's not what the website says what the website says so what about go one week before this one too and look at missouri again this let's go to february 3rd this is a fun game yeah How many deadbeats? 402. The Missouri anomaly is insane. 402. It was 26,000. 23,000.

And three weeks later, two weeks after this. That's something wrong. Something big is going on. And I mean, Texas only. Let's jump to another week. Let's go to February. Let's go to January 27th. Do we have Texas here on January 27th?

Because here we go. 4,607. 125,000 requests. This website says these are literally new registrations. How is it possible that so many dead people to thousands are submitting new registrations? Well, and if there's like, if there's a portion of them, let's say, or like, yeah, if you write your social security number wrong and it turns out that the number you got was a dead person like way it just it would have happened 4 000 times right because it would have to match their name too in 23 000 in one week in missouri someone accidentally added a zero or something even 2 000 is a lot yeah compared to their to their other numbers it's

the same week that happened in texas but i've but but guys the important thing to understand is no one will investigate this not a single republican will ask about it and everyone will forget within one month what are you talking about this these numbers let it let them not forget this is insane this is and this is just a drop in the bucket of what's to come if we don't start making noise about this kind of thing well surge just sent me some massive breaking news i don't know earthquake in taiwan yeah 7.5 in taiwan yeah so so china has basically launched their about this kind of thing. Well, Serge just sent me some massive breaking news. Earthquake in Taiwan? Yeah, 7.5 in Taiwan. So China's basically launched their earthquake weapon. I'm just kidding.

But let's see if we can pull this one up, get the breaking news. Because there's a tsunami warning going on right now. Let's see what... Here we go. Breaking news here on TimCast. What do we have here? We've got 4X Live earthquake near Taiwan Taiwan magnitude 7.5 felt in Taipei.

Japan impacted also tsunami alert issued. I hope everybody is okay. I hope there's not going to be a tsunami. Evacuation advisory issued to Okinawa coastal areas in Japan. Okinawa encompasses the island chain south of west of Japan's main islands. Tsunami alert issued up to three meters high. Holy crap. Power outages reported in areas of Taipei.

Well, you know, the scary thing is if there was a time to actually storm Taiwan, it would be now. After a natural disaster of some sort. Right away. I mean, yeah, it's going to disable defensive capabilities. Yeah. When Taiwan China just doesn't have the capability to take a take i won i don't think so so they've got a when you look at if you judge militaries by the excel spreadsheet right like the number of tanks the number of men the number of whatever china's military looks incredibly powerful the problem is is that they run into major logistical issues when you're trying to pull off a major amphibious campaign

because Taiwan has about 150, 190,000 people in their active duty military. They have 2 million reserves, right? And that terrain is not the easiest to fight. So now you're going to have to cross 100 miles of open ocean, right? Which you're not going to be able to just do that. And now how many troops do you have to actually send over to establish a beachhead? And then you have to supply a logistical train across 100 miles of open ocean.

Yep. I mean, this is a nightmare. And the Chinese military, I'm sorry, 2 million activity personnel. Okay. You think that's all class A divisions? No, there's a lot of like conscript troops in there that aren't very good, that are not capable of conducting a complex amphibious operation. Then in order to pull it all off, you have to maintain complete air superiority in order to protect your supply lines, unless you're

going to be able to move in to do it. And by the way, the Taiwanese are going to fight, right? They're not rolling over on this. And so with minimal Us support minimal u.s support air and naval no ground troops china cannot sustain that invasion i just i don't buy it i don't buy it not to mention the fact with the currents and everything else you got to attack at certain times of the year otherwise it becomes even more difficult it is kind of funny that taiwan is actually china yeah but we call it taiwan even though it's actually china republic of the the original yeah yeah the og government yeah the grand republic of china yeah let it rain once again even though it's actually China. Republic of. The original. Yeah. The OG government. The Grand Republic of China.

Yeah. Let it reign once again. Yeah, I mean, I agree as well from an economic standpoint with China. They're not in any state to be funding a war, let alone making the stuff to have a war. It's not really in their best interest right now. If Taiwan was on the border of China,

I'd be a lot more worried about it because the logistical concept here is very, very different but 100 miles of open ocean to delance an amphibious operation sustained it is not easy and i i don't even think it would be it would be chinese if it was on the mainland already yeah the only reason oh yeah those islands are not you know we got uh four days until that eclipse that everyone's freaking out about oh really half jokingly freaking out about i guess yeah the nasa's firing the apep rockets at you know apep means right no the god of uh egyptian god of chaos that chases the sun the snake so they did it on purpose naming it that but there's all these wild conspiracy theories and then we get a 7.5 magnitude earthquake off of taiwan they're flipping CERN on. Yeah, they're flipping CERN on. Dude, the conspiracy acts must be lighting up like crazy.

I imagine at the level of government you're at, you're not with the cultists, like the crazy esoteric people that are blood met. But are there whiffs of this occult in the government, or are you kind of at the stage where it's not? One of the beautiful things about being in a citizen legislature is, so most people don't know this, like most of your state legislatures are not full-time legislatures. We go down there like 60 days during even years, 45 days during odd years, we'll hear 2000 bills within that timeframe.

And then we go home. We live in our districts. We only get like in Virginia, $17,600 a year, roughly that's your salary, right? It is not supposed to be your life, your career. You go down there, you do the people's business.

You go back to your district, you hand your constituent services. That's it. 46 out of 50 state legislatures. That's the reality. When people talk about term limits, I'm like, not term limits. I want Congress to be a citizen legislature because you don't want to pay politicians, you know, full time to do it. But what it means though, is we focus on what we're doing for that period of time and then we get back home

um but this is people that have way too much time oh my god dawdling around for years if you're going to pay politicians do nothing but sit around and dream crap up they're going to dream up some pretty stupid crap right that's got to be i think about like the kings of old the all the illuminati all these ancient or super, I just saw a video of the most valuable house on earth. It's a billion dollar home and some, I don't know, guy. I didn't get that. I don't know.

It's a two bedroom apartment in San Francisco. Can you imagine? And like during COVID, the guy was so bored. He built this underground grotto. Like these people with so much money that they can do and build almost anything within reason. Then they start to dream up crazy. Then you get into like actual God and spirituality and the occult and all that stuff.

And you're like, whoa, now I've got enough time to focus on it. I don't know. Do you get into it? Like I'm always like get into it. That's kind of weird because I kind of think as religion as a kind of kind of the occult. Like I think of God and spirituality and all that is a form of occult occultism but it's just a modern accepted occultism we call it i think there's differentiate like i'm a christian um and so i think there's a differentiation between that and what is generally associated with the

occult you know but um yeah but i don't know i i think that i i think some of the stuff when you look at like gnosticism and some of the mysticism that comes up and yeah, some of it is, some of it is rich guys with too much money and too much time on their hands. But I think a lot of the universe is more magnetic than we realize. And so a lot of these patterns play out, like getting hit by comets that are like magnetically trapped in orbit, our moon eclipsing the sun and just the right proportion where it blocks the entire thing out, heldically in position so behavior you know our brains are magnetic um they have these neural pathways and stuff and i wonder if like there is something going on there's a reason because like tim kind of brought up jokingly like april 8th they're firing these apop yeah

rockets cern's firing on we got our uh uh earthquake could be coincidence i don't really believe in coincidence i'm just checking videos while you guys are talking, just so you know what I'm doing. I'm looking at all the breaking footage, seeing if there's actually, it actually is kind of really interesting phenomenon that we are the only planet. I believe the only planet within our, certainly within our solar system,

but I think it's, it's broader than that, that, that is actually in a position to be able to have a full eclipse. And, and it's an interesting, it's again, an interesting phenomenon that the one planet that actually has people

that can observe an eclipse is the one planet that actually has the sort of full lunar eclipses. The moon is the exact right size for its distance to the sun so that it creates the eclipse. Yeah. It's held in the Lagrange point

between the earth and the sun probably where like the sun and the earth are pulling on it at equal magnitudes. And it also, like that phenomenon has also made it possible to recognize other scientific phenomenon when they looked at things like with, again, with respect to the theory of relativity

and whatnot, like if we weren't in our special position within the solar system, we wouldn't be able to do it. It's an interesting thing. Some people use it from like a design concept. Other think you know someone just mentioned in superjet don't forget the dual emergent cicada is a 221 year occurrence yeah so is that like the locust plague we have darkness yeah what are the plagues darkness locust uh river turns to blood uh death of uh firstborn measles frogs whoa we have measles yeah in chicago yeah yeah

how many plagues are we oh we had we had bubonic plague in oregon that uh yeah wow river turns to blood how much you want to bet some we're going to get some kind of like something bad's going to happen on the border or like iron there could be like an iron explosion into the into the water we're just going to do all four horsemen at once they'll do the earth will fertilize itself with iron from time to time and just spurt like iron water into the rivers and turn them red but the uh the killing of the firstborn i think a lot about sterilizing children when we're talking about that and how people what they're doing to their children at the children's behest and like is that meeting some sort of biblical prophecy of destroying your firstborn?

I think it is fascinating. It is fascinating when people make parallels between, when you look at like ancient, you know, ball worship and whatnot, it was the idea of child sacrifice for fertility or for agricultural purposes or whatnot. I mean, the Carthaginians were doing this like at the same time that, you know, they were fighting the Punic wars, but, um,

yeah, it, it, it is a, it is amazing. It is amazing and absolutely horrific what we are allowing to happen to children, um, in the name of a form of kind of self-worship that is just, you would have thought it unthinkable 20 years ago. Man, the stuff that's been going on. And I saw this tweet. They said the hour is later than you think. Like the Biden administration is actively engaging in communist policies, going after their political rivals.

The position that we are in right now in this country, it's just, I believe anything probably. I think the more I read of Antonio Gramsci and the whole concept of the reason why Marx got it wrong is because Marx thought it was economics. And Gramsci came to the conclusion sitting in a prison in Italy in the 30s that, well, no, you have to set up a complete counter culture. And that became known as the march through the institutions. He didn't coin that term, but it came. And if you look at it, I think a lot of people want to believe that there was some sort of secret force out there, where it was the KGB or whatnot that was manipulating. And yeah, you had things like

active measures that Yuri Bezmenov talks about and whatnot. But more than that, you just have a lot of people that like the explanation Karl Marx gave for everything that ails them. And it got really popular in Hollywood. It got really popular in higher ed. And now we shouldn't be surprised that it's filtered down to the rest of society. I'm going to jump to the story from the New York Post.

Trump hits Biden for border blood bath, says president allowed monster who killed Ruby Garcia back into the United States. What's going on on the border is it's a crime against humanity. There are atrocities happening where human smugglers are raping small children and delivering them into sex slavery. Customs and border protection with taxpayer dollars with smiles on their faces are taking these children, admittedly saying outright in an interview with Dr. Phil, they know that in most of these instances, or I'll just say many, that they are delivering children into sex slavery and to sweatshops, and they do it anyway.

So we were just talking about the previous segment with, uh, there's an earthquake, earthquake in, in, uh, Taiwan near off Taiwan, but the eclipse coming APEP rockets. Now we've got the cicadas coming out and I'm just like, how many plagues are we at? And, and talking about that had me really just think like, was the, was the, was the great battle of good and evil going to be something magical or was it just going to be of of this world i mean is it supposed to be that demons emerge from the from the cracks in the ground and agents come down or is it going to be that we as humans on this earth witness the most demonic and evil actions you could imagine and nothing is done about it i think it's i mean i think that's what's tragic about evil forces in the world right like they are very often happening in front of your face and it's not that there's going to be some big

you know marvel movie like effect it's that you see terrible things happen every day and become conditioned to adjust to them and I think about you know some catholic churches say the prayer to saint michael the Archangel, and there's a line in it that talks about, and those who probably are seeking the ruin of souls. And I feel like that is what we have sort of let ourselves drift into being used to, right? And we say, let live and let live, or we just become accustomed to a certain level of instability and violence. And ultimately, we are watching good and evil battle every day, except we're sort of numb and blind to it.

I can, I personalize that like hearing someone, a woman getting beaten in the house next to mine. And like, I'm pretty liberal. I'm pretty hands off with like, take care of your, your,

you and your own and I'll take care of me and mine. But at some point I had to intervene and call the cops because the guy was probably going to kill the girl. Same thing with like watching genocide happen in a country like it's like look away man and just wait for it to be done i can't but i mean what can what can we do what can you really do when when the powers that be are in control of the genocide and they want to do it and i think it's it's i not, I'm not always so concerned about the powers that be. The issue is we as humans, like that we, the people of the United States tolerate and allow customs and border protection to traffic children into sex slavery. Donald Trump can hit at Joe Biden for it all day and night, but Joe Biden's policies,

Mayorkas' policies are meaningless without the men and women wearing those badges with smiles on their faces saying the paycheck is worth transporting children into sex slavery. This, I just can't get over. Donald Trump's calling it the border bloodbath. It's brilliant branding. This is what people were saying when they started attacking Trump for bloodbath. Trump adopted it and is pushing it back on Biden. And I can respect that, you know, we want to see this through to November because things are looking good, despite the fact, whatever those voter registration things

we were looking at were. But it is shocking to me that there are human beings in CBP that don't care and they'll just do it. And I suppose I shouldn't be surprised. I don't know. People like to think that Americans are better and perhaps many of them, you know, Americans per capita are better people when it comes to individual responsibility, personal freedoms and our core values.

But you look at the history of this planet and you will see every time there is some kind of authoritarian takeover. I don't care if it's Nazi Germany or the Spanish Civil War or Russia or whatever it may be. There are people who are willing to commit acts of evil to protect themselves. I also, here's what I think. So there was a book called Ordinary Men that was talking about various SS groups and ISATS and groups and whatnot within the Nazis. And that's, that is, of course, everyone's kind of favorite one to reference. But one of the things they talked about is that, and Jordan Peterson talks about this a lot, where it's this idea that we have this idea, well, that was somebody else. That was over there.

There was something wrong with them. They were psychopaths. They were like, no, no, no, they weren't. They were ordinary people. If you are not cognizant of your own individual capacity for evil, then you're not going to actually do the correct things that you need to do in order to combat against that. The other thing that I think is important is the greatest evil is not, people have this idea, and this is kind of a leftist

trope, that the greatest evil is perpetrated for the quest for power or the quest for greed or the quest for wealth. No, it isn't. The greatest evils are always a result of somebody that honestly believes that they're doing something for the greater good. And C.S. Lewis had this quote once, I'm going to butcher it, I'm not going to get it totally right, but C.S. Lewis had this quote where he was basically saying it would be better to be ruled by greedy robber barons than it would by moral busybodies. And his whole idea was that the moral busybodies will torment you without end because they do so with the approval of their own conscience. And there's nothing more dangerous than somebody that honestly believes that I have to do this to you for your own good,

or I have to do this to this other person for the greater good. And that's what's really terrifying. The person that's greedy or the person that just quests for power, they can get a little power, they can get a little money, and they might be okay for a while. But my gosh, be leery of the moral busybody that is doing all this to save the world. There's also another component of it, which we talk about quite a bit. And that is these CBP officers took a deal with the devil. The assumption most people make when they hear about the Faustian deal is, you get offered your greatest desires.

You want it to be a rockstar? You want to be an astronaut? You want to be famous? You want to be rich and successful and everyone will love you? Then cut the deal with the devil. The reality is it's much simpler than that. The devil shows up when your child is hungry

and says, serve the army of evil and your child will know nothing but a full belly. But the devil will say, serve the army of good and you'll be fed and fed and you'll be wealthy no and you'll be like how how is any of this wrong all i've got to do is destroy the the roaches over no no that's the scary thing is that these cbp agents know when they take that child the number on their arm they are selling a child into sex slavery and you ask yourself for what, for what is it worth? Your thousand dollar paycheck must be. And the guy saying to himself, I got kids, man. I would, these CBP agents would rather transport an innocent child to sex slavers than see their own children go

hungry. That is the deal with the devil. I don't understand how we're months into this story being true and we still have people working for CBP. It's insane. Maybe many of them quit. I have no idea. We've heard so many stories about good cops quitting. We had a couple of cops on the culture war who talked about how they got pushed out

because they were good cops refusing. One guy said they tried to get him to write up a fake warrant. And he says, no, they boot him out. You don't play the game. You don't do the evil deed you're not you're out and it's no surprise we have so many bad cops the uh one of the cops we had on here this guy chris said that leftists fabricated racist posts and and and the mayor just said you're all fired don't care yeah literally don't care how is it that there could be a person right now wearing a CBP badge, knowing what they're doing. I have, I have honestly no idea.

I think, well, I'll take a crack at that. If you are, if you are a CBP agent and you're nowhere near this, this component, right? Because not everybody in CBP is doing the same job and you're in a

Bortech unit, right? Or you're doing something like that where you're going out there and you're doing your job and you think you're doing it well. And you may be frustrated with somebody else and what they're doing in the organization or the agency but you're still going to do your job and because you can say the same thing about the military you could say the same thing about you know any sort of large metropolitan police department i get where you're coming from because it's the idea of at what point does it taint you just being associated with the

organization and at what point by the same token token, you can see someone rationally making the argument that if the good guys aren't doing the job, then the only thing that's left are the bad guys. And that's the part where, my dad was LAPD for 20 years. And he got out in 2000, I think, had a massive stroke on the job and had to medically retire.

I remember getting, I remember wanting to get out of the military at that point. This was, you know, I, I'd only been a couple of years, like 98 and, um, to, to 2000. And I was getting out cause I didn't like being in a peacetime army and it was boring. And, and I was going to go be LAPD and he goes, don't do it. And, and he saw some of the changes that were happening in the department. And one of the things he told me, he goes, Nick, people get the police they ask for. And right now they are asking for a police department that wants to show up and write reports after you're hurt. Because if you try to show up and intervene, you're going to potentially lose your job.

You're going to your, again, your kids, you know, how are you going to pay your bills? How are you going to pay your mortgage? And, and there's something to that, right? You institutions, we have this idea, and I really

do think that we've grown up in some degree, I hate to use the word privilege because it's been co-opted, but there's a certain degree of complacency that comes with the sort of relative wealth, prosperity, security that we experience within the United States. And you have people that grow up thinking that this is just the way it's supposed to be. This is the natural order of things. This is about as far from the natural order of things in human history as anything. And then you have people that think that they can just throw out the underlying objective morality or the underlying objective philosophies, which made these things, the prosperity and

the security possible. And you can just kind of pick and choose like a buffet and then you end up with something like this where you've got people celebrating what's going on in the border right now because they honestly think it's a representation of tolerance yeah and it's nuts it's like this is this is not just good and again someone sees me saying like oh yeah he's a white dude of course he's a bigot. Yeah. I am worried about a bunch of people just flooding into the country because if you don't actually have sovereign borders, that's pretty damn problematic. But I'll tell you what I'm also worried about. I'm worried about

some parent in Ecuador that when they saw the DACA regulations go into place, they thought to themselves, oh my gosh, I can give my kids a better future. Well, how do you facilitate that? Do you go to a travel agent and just book a flight for your kid? No, you work with the legal organizations, you work with cartels because they're the only ones that control border access and you're trying to do the right thing by your kid

and now your kid's sold into sex slavery because we had a policy in the United States that really sounded good on paper, but that's what it produces in reality. And then when you show them the reality, it doesn't matter because the ideological train has already left the station and it ain't coming back you've lured everyone into a dangerous situation right you've put american citizens at risk because we're not enforcing border policies and we're potentially exposing their

communities to more crime than they actually need to be exposed to yes and you're also hurting children who are sent away with no one to advocate for them in fact anyone along the journey could say hey you're vulnerable and i'm going to take advantage of that oh absolutely that we know they do it we know they know they do it yeah yeah i think it always i was just gonna say but they say oh but they're fleeing something this is better for them right like how can the biden administration say knowing that this even happens to one child that this is a policy worth enforcing well they've incentivized it like they've incentivized this behavior it's not just that they allow it they incentivize it yeah when kamala harris said come uh or they were like come come to the united states

i think they claimed they made a proclamation and she said don't come yes then later she said don't come yeah but first they were saying, come. And that was disappointing. But with this privilege thing you're talking about, I feel it. Like, I'm in a land of peace. I'm like, oh, yeah, I want to be nice to everyone. I don't want to hurt anything. I don't want to kill that invading species. I don't want to, I'm talking about animals, like, well, humans are animals too, but like raccoons and shit.

Like, I don't want to kill it, but like, that's my privilege. I don't have to. I have walls. I don't have to go kill the bear because I have walls to protect me. Right. And this is what you got with like. So you're saying build 40 feet everyone should have walls access to the walls good fences make good neighbors i think that's a good thing i mean but this is what we saw with with especially i think of like east coast uh cities that were like no no the border should be open you should let them in we should all be sanctuary cities and then once the brunt of illegal immigration hit them think think about New York City. They were like, federal government, we need

support. I mean, the governor, the mayor, they have asked for support and the Biden administration has said no, and they are suffering the consequences. In fact, they're trying to hoist the effects of this onto neighboring counties around them. When it didn't affect them, it was okay if it happened to border communities in Texas and Arizona, but when it started to affect them, someone had to step in. you notice even then right it wasn't like oh gosh now we're suffering the consequences of our actions maybe we should reconsider our policies no it was hey federal government give us more stuff right it's never let's reconsider the policies and approve work permits faster yeah yeah you know make it easier for someone to stay here

don't even consider deportation yeah for the cities taking them in they in, they were instead of saying, hey, change the policy. So they stopped saying they were like, give us money to facilitate it. Yes. Yeah. Or they were going to their own citizens and saying, sorry, your kids can't show up to school today because we've got to house people that are here illegally, which is kind of a third amendment violation. Sorry, homeless people who are here.

There's no space in the shelter for you anymore. Yeah. Or your businesses are being shut down to facilitate illegals. That doesn't make any sense. And that seems like constitutional violation i don't see how there is a country like you know the polls are looking really great for donald trump with rfk jr running we'll see but even then it's going to be a a challenge if trump wins and Republicans take the Senate, the Congress, and they do have, to a certain degree, the Supreme Court, there's still going to be massive backlash. Michael

Maus pointed this out. He said, don't you think if Donald Trump were to win and try to enact this deportation that California and New York's governors would mobilize their National Guard and say no? I don't know that they would go that far. I think they would. I think in more subtle ways, they would resist it and they would do enough to actually make it very, very difficult to the deportation piece. The other the biggest thing I'm worried about is the federal bureaucracy, because people have people think that when the president gets in there, he can just fire.

You can fire people in the executive branch, right? You're the chief executive. No, you can't. Right. There's a there's a really there's a? You're the chief executive. No, you can't. Right. There's a relatively small number of people that you can actually get rid of. And you're right. You're going to have states that actually resist that, some more subtly, some more overtly. But if we can't do something to tackle the massive federal bureaucracy in the same kind of way that Javier Millet is doing in Argentina right now, if you can't do that, forget it. The bureaucracy will wait. They can last out four years of Trump.

They can slow roll stuff. You're saying Millet has the president in Argentina has way more power over the executive branch. Yeah. So he was able to cut what? 13, 14. He just cut 14 government agencies of 23 down to nine. Just got rid of 22 to 9 ministries like you're gone now 70 000 government employees were firing you that's you know that's the value of small governments man you can move real quick big governments become real untenable well that's the thing about centralization argentina had a massive one the difference was is that their their chief executive has more control over the executive branch than our president has over the executive branch that's what it comes down to let's let's jump to the story from the washington post rfk jr argues

biden is bigger threat to democracy than trump drawing criticism i love this uh sub sub title several experts and historians rebuked the independent presidential candidate for his comments in a televised interview basically what he said he said was Joe Biden's going after his political opponents with criminal charges and censoring people on social media, violating the First Amendment, which is the first. And of course. Uniparty establishment corporate press media rushes out to write stories in a way. This is the secret. This story should not be written this way drawing criticism we had over on uh when so timcast.com no longer has news uh now the former timcast team is now working with scnr.com a separate company and when timcast was being evaluated by news guard

we ran a story that said something like donald trump says x and then it was Donald Trump at a rally today said said the following. And it was like a paragraph. Trump says that when this happens, he will do this. NewsGuard asks us why we didn't fact check Donald Trump. And I said, because we're just reporting on a quote. We're not running a fact check. We're just saying Trump at a rally said he would do this thing. And I said, yeah, but the thing he was talking about was wrong.

And I'm like, well, I don't know. I'm just telling people it's what he thing. And they said, yeah, but the thing he was talking about was wrong. And I'm like, well, I don't know. I'm just telling people it's what he said. So they said, okay, you're fake news. They gave us a strike because we didn't fact check when we were reporting on a quote. But our reporting was 100% accurate. He really did say that. Yeah. Right.

And so when you take a look at the Washington Post, look at how they do this. The story should be RFK Jr. argues Biden is a bigger threat to democracy than Donald Trump. That's it. Yeah. Drawing criticism. Why? Why write a story and publish it and include your own editorial context? Because they're framing the narrative. They want to make sure that people like Ian's mom, for instance, before she actually hears what RFK Jr. had to say, she gets slammed by msnbc cnn washington post saying yes he said it but he's wrong here's why he's wrong yeah this will make a reader your average reader fire cortisol they'll be like okay i'm getting ready for conflict let's find out what

this criticism this bad bad news is and then you go into the article reading with that kind of state of mind rfk jr of course is completely correct though he did say trump trying to overthrow the election clearly is a threat to democracy but the question was who is a worse threat and what i would say is i'm not going to answer that but i can argue biden is so they're saying he said biden was well he said he could argue that he was meaning he wasn't sure but there are certainly arguments to be made here you go and then they bring up a harvard university political scientist and co-author of how democracies die instead of kennedy's comment it's a preposterous claim be a politician committed to democracy there are two cardinal rules one must accept election outcomes win or lose one must not threaten or use violence to gain power donald

trump has clearly violated both rules while president biden never has but it's just laughing that he could argue biden is worse like well that's not biden is using violence to gain power it's called the federal government going after trump trump's lawyers and other uh trump supporters that's violence this this is why i love um what was the thomas soul quote he's like the the single greatest thing about getting a degree from harvard is no longer being impressed by anybody that has a degree from harvard there you go um and and it's and it's for stuff like stuff like this. And it's always an idea of how they categorize violence. It's like, whenever I get invited to speak to students, I always ask them this first

question. I'm like, what is the one thing that is unique about government, truly unique about government? They're like, oh, voting. I'm like, you can vote right now. Oh, well, you guys have committees. You can set up committees all you want. You make laws. I'm like, you can vote right now. Oh, well, you guys have committees. You can set up committees all you want. You make laws. I'm like, we get to use aggressive violence in order to achieve our outcomes. We're the only ones that legally can do it. But they don't consider the chief executive, the president of the United States, using the federal government agencies to essentially call up social media companies. And we won't say threaten.

We'll say strongly encourage them to censor people, to de-platform people, to take down certain information. You don't think that use of coercive power constitutes violence or the threat of violence? No, of course not.

Why? Because they agree with it. And that's the part where, to your point, they want to use the title of objective journalism, but then they want to engage in editorialism. And like so many other things where they have just randomly changed the definition of a word, we all lose faith in something that we used to have faith in

because the word meant something. It doesn't anymore. We know when we see a title like this, it's like, oh yeah, it's the Washington Post and they're going to editorialize it. And I'm not going to get the truth about what was actually said. And I'm certainly not going to get, you know, a comprehensive from multiple perspective analysis of what was said. I'm already being told what to think about this.

And this is what good people think. And if you don't think this way, then you must not be a good person. It's a cult. Yeah, and it depends on compliance, right? Like, I love what you're saying. You know, if you don't think this way, then you're not a good person. At a certain point, you have to look at this other side and say, do I think I want to be

a good person under your definition, right? The people, the values that you think are good, the actions that you think are right, would I also agree with that? And I think when you start to really critically analyze the yardstick with which they used to measure character, you don't want to be a part of it, in my opinion. The word good. Who the hell thinks they have the power and authority to dictate what that means? It's subjective.

Good, the word God, it's like the same word on purpose. Well, I think that we should have a cultural standard. Like I wish that we had a strong enough cultural identity where we could all at the table be like, these things are good and these things are bad. And maybe in this room we could, and maybe generally across the political spectrum, there are topics where people would say, yes, I agree that's good. And yes, I agree that's bad. But I think really the details of this get lost. And because we don't have a

strong collective identity, we don't have a shared sense of, you know, a lot of a lot of morality is dictated by religion. You know, we're a very diverse country. And so therefore, we have to really be careful about combing through and saying, well, what what do we agree is right, wrong, good, evil, because ultimately, you know that there are good things and you know, there are bad things. But if your neighbor has a completely different definition of these things, then you could advocate for completely different policies, which is where we are now. And it might be the same definition, but the situation means like, if you get the best, there's one sandwich and we're both hungry. We both know what it means. Good is if I get that sandwich, it's good for me.

And you know, if you get it, it's good for you. So we have to fight about whose good is going to dominate. Unless we agreed that good was if we both weren't hungry anymore and could split the sandwich. Yeah, there are other- That's not fair because Ian has higher caloric requirements than you. So that's true.

Or like if it was something you couldn't split up. This is why we need sandwich equity. Yeah, that's right. Something non-fungible. I'm just saying, if there were like ways that we could agree that there were certain outcomes that are good, but if we always see our definitions of good as in conflict with each other, then we're never going to have a conversation. Well, I think there's also a difference between useful and good.

Like when we say good, there's more of a moral connotation to that. So in that situation, what we would do is there's one sandwich you're both hungry and you say, no, you take the sandwich. We would agree that it was useful that she got the sandwich.

We would also agree that it was good that you engage in a form of personal sacrifice to help somebody else. And so the term can be used both ways, but we would understand the different moral connotation associated with it. But we are increasingly, to your point, we're increasingly getting to a point where this idea of a certain degree of shared values is just doesn't exist

anymore. We literally have half the country that doesn't believe the same thing about this country, doesn't believe the same thing about how it was founded or the fundamental principles that informed it doesn't believe that on the whole it's been a force for good but but they don't believe anything yeah well i think the important thing to understand you think it's just nihilism no no no it's a cult it is it is a brain dead cult and so you take a look at what what happens to somebody when they start reading annika sparing is a really great example She reads a story about people in Long Island who have cut up two people or who are accused of. They were found in a home with blood and guts in the drains, body parts strewn across all over the house and scattered around Long Island.

And when the police arrest them for these crimes, they said they're not bail eligible and let them go what happens the left attacks her for it because she's deviating from the cult though so uh there's a viral video among the left right now massively viral where higher right chick of libs of tiktok was at university i believe and some guy in the back laughs at something she says and she goes you have a question he goes yeah how do you define woke? And she couldn't do it. She said it's like anti-normalcy and it's like didn't have a good answer. And I think for a lot of people, they can sort of understand when they see something that is woke, what it is, because it's almost a root word itself.

But they don't actually break it down. So I typically break it down. There are a lot of conservatives that define it as like postmodernist thought and blah, blah, blah. And it's like, no, no, no, that's not correct. Because when you take a look at the left as a whole, you see masking, forced vaccination, lockdown policies, pro-Ukraine war. You see, and of course the postmodernist stuff is a component of that, but these things don't have a shared ideological root. The only thing that woke is, is cult-like adherence to leftist social orthodoxy an orthodoxy of which is amorphous and has no moral framework that's why they can simultaneously say war is bad and the military machine is awful because they're funding israel and go ukraine fund ukraine you're like okay i

can understand if you're like no war but these people who are screaming screaming about Israel have an overlap with people who are screaming about defending Ukraine. And they go on their live shows and they preach this stuff. They claim, my body, my choice, but you better get the medical treatment we demand. There's no moral framework. Nothing makes sense. It is simply a swarm of bees. That's not fair. Bees are nice.

Wasps. Wasps. swarm of bees that's not fair bees are nice wasps wasps and if they and many of the people within the hive just feel in the swarm if i deviate i will be obliterated so i'd rather be in it than out of it there's no moral framework at all so i think this is a lot to do with the uh the end result of atheism without a moral framework so i'm not saying you have to believe in God to have a moral framework. What I'm saying is this country historically had a Christian moral framework. This is not, I'm not offering an opinion. I am not making a value assessment on the benefits or otherwise of religions. I'm saying a Christian moral framework gave us the

bill of rights, protected our rights, gave us property rights and a whole bunch of things. Eventually over time, you start seeing the rise of secular, uh, thought atheism. And these people like Bill Maher, who's in his sixties, believe it or not, Bill Maher still has a Christian moral framework. Although you can see it's, it's weakened. Why do I say that? He believes in free speech. He believes in the innocent until proven guilty. He's not a very bright guy. Fine. He doesn't read the news, but you can see he has this moral framework where he's like, you know, free speech, we should be allowed to speak. Well, all of these things come from a Christian moral framework. When you get the next generation who are raised by the likes of Bill Maher, they're postmodernist.

Nothing you say matters. There is no truth. There is only power and I must wield it and you must do as I say. And that's what the left is today. I think that if someone has no moral framework, that they'd be easier to teach morality than if someone has like a misaligned moral framework. That would be challenging to unlearn the code. So it's easier to teach these people that are still,

they might be 25, 28 years old, but they don't know what love is. Well, you could argue there's default liberals who are just saying, I guess, and they're marching along with the news. And now we are seeing a lot of Gen Z say they're going to vote for Trump. There was a poll that was fascinating.

65% of Gen Z, the highest percentage for any demographic saying Trump was more likely to shake this country up for the good. And that, like Gen Z, it's remarkable. So yes yes these younger people are growing up realizing what's going on and they're saying yeah i think they were lying to us and trump's probably better so it's probably true that the people who don't know anything but the clarification here is the woke these are these are people with no moral framework there There's no morality. We had Stephen Marsh, who wrote the book The Next Civil War, who repeatedly said, I don't want to hear about morality. I don't care about morality. It's meaningless to me.

And he said, children should have books teaching them how to do adult sex acts in their grade schools. Why not? And I'm like, morality comes from a logic of can we improve society? It's not arbitrary. That's why atheists like Bill Maher like the founding documents. Not all of them, but a lot of them praise things like free speech, but don't understand how that moral framework gets you these good things and how those good things make a great country. So this is real. I find this fascinating.

I wrote a paper. I was doing a college course, and it was about ethics and the intelligence community. And one of the papers we had to write was about what is the biggest ethical question facing the intelligence community. And this was at the height of rendition, enhanced interrogation tactics. And so we're writing all this, and I contact professor and i say i want to make the argument that it's post-modernism wow and he goes how are you going to sustain that i said if you'll trust me that's the argument i want to make he's like okay go for it and to your point because the the point you made about the generational component is very very important

and the argument i made was if you have objective truth and objective morality, that generally, if it's going to be objective, it has to be sourced from the divine, right? In the United States, the religion was Judeo-Christian values. And what they did is that provided an objective moral framework. So it wasn't subjective. It was, no, this is wrong or right because God says so. And we also see the practical benefits from the application. So you have a society where the overwhelming proportion of the population believes this and applies it.

So they believe in it, they believe in the benefits, and they believe in the source. I said, then when you start to get in the 60s and you have the increase of postmodernism, what you have is people that want to separate good morals from the source. Well, now you just lost the objectivity. So they're still living in the benefit of, okay, everyone culturally kind of believes in these good morals, but we don't have the source. But then you start to go into this realm of like Maslow's hierarchy of needs and self-actualization. And if postmodernism is correct, then there is no such thing as a metanarrative. There is no such thing as a objective truth.

And now all of a sudden, you removed the source. Now all of a sudden, the morals get to get redefined. And so the same Bill Maher that will just sit there and be shocked at a kid that shoots up a school because he wanted his internal pain to be felt by somebody else that was his that was just his self-actualization and bill maher looks at that kid that's wrong what do you mean it's wrong who are you to tell me what's wrong morality is subjective my morality said it was correct and the thing is is bill maher knows it's wrong but he doesn't have a intellectually consistent argument that he can make for why and this this happened fascinatingly with the gravel institute

leftist uh organization uh mike gravel was the the former senator uh some kids started using his account to tweet and generate a lot of attention they started the gravel institute and after january 6 they tweeted that it was a good thing it happened, but it was the wrong people who did it. And so naturally when the narrative came out, it was insurrection was bad. They deleted the tweet. Yeah. But you had leftists outright saying they like it.

And I can tell you this, you go to any leftist in private Antifa and say, what do you think about January 6th? They'll say they wish they did it. They wish it was them and they wish they succeeded. So that's the only issue. The only thing I question is that I do think they have a moral framework. I just think that there's no intellectual consistency to it outside of two things,

group identity, because to your point about this idea that if they deviate at all, they don't just get ostracized. They don't just get punished for it. They lose their entire identity because in order to be a part of this group, you give up your individual identity. That's not important anymore. The only benefits that you get from identifying whatever you want to or being trans or being this, you get all the benefits of being able to do whatever you want provided that you stay within the group orthodoxy. That's the cult-like behavior. And then there's this other narrative and that is the oppressor versus the oppressed that's that critical theory marxist version of it so you've got

post-modernism which doesn't provide any sort of objective moral framework in which to operate combined with critical theory which essentially says that the only moral imperative is oppressor bad oppressed good and everything is about how do you consolidate political power well if that's your only imperative then you can essentially justify anything against somebody that goes into the oppressor category on behalf of somebody on the oppressed category they can make anybody an oppressor yes they just simply decide like that hilarious article that said straight black men are the white people of black people or something like that i was always that one no i can find yeah oh my god i was like

kind of uh skeptical of christianity growing up just because i was very logical and i was like if you don't show me the data and the prove it the god thing then don't you already told me easter bunny was real i don't believe your lies i got it okay i found it straight black men are the white people of black people. I kid you not. That was actually the title of this article. They need to justify. So Pete Buttigieg is an oppressor.

Why? He says he's heteronormative. So they said he wasn't actually part of the marginalized community. Yeah, that's right. Buttigieg, I think he's gay. He is. Doesn't matter. He's cis.

Is that not cis? Cis means you're straight, doesn't it? No. On the intersectional pyramid of grievance, he doesn't have enough points. He's not grieved enough. He's a white male. Yeah, he is. But you're a white man.

He's in a position of power. I was talking to a room full of mothers and stuff like that, and they were asking, like, I can't believe what's going on in our schools, and I can't believe that we have all these kids that are now identifying and suffering from gender dysphoria and whatnot. And I said, I'm actually surprised the numbers are as low as they are. And they're like, what do you mean by that? I said, well, imagine something. I want you to imagine you walk into a classroom and you are told by virtue of your skin color

or by virtue of your gender or by virtue of your sexual attraction, you're an oppressor. Now you can't change your skin color. Like there's no change in that. You can't, you can't deal with that. So how do you, how do you move from the oppressor category to the oppressed category? I'm bi, I'm trans, I'm non-binary, I'm pansexual. You adopt as many oppressed characteristics as possible. Now all of a sudden, well, I said this the other day, I'm like, the left has no use for straight white or the left has no use for white men unless we put on a dress and then we're

the most important people on the planet they will bend over backwards to appease us once we do that yeah i mean this is what i thought about with affirmative action especially when it came to college applications right it was a joke among my friends when they were applying to college like well maybe i should just start ticking every box that i can come up with because it betters my odds, which means that, you know, especially with teenagers, you wonder how often this is a very genuine feeling or how much of it is just a fad to fit in with people around them when if you were to just be like, oh, yeah, I'm straight and white, you are suddenly not not just like not cool, but you're actively a force for harm. But just by virtue of being you.

It's a busted morality. But I would love to talk about Christian morality for a minute if you guys are into it, because I have some questions about particularly loving your enemy. I think that's a big part of Christian. And I talk a lot about pardoning people and political power, just mass pardons, forgiving those that have wronged you. A lot of the feedback is, Ian, you idiot. If you pardon these people, they're going to continue to destroy you.

So is the Christianity, is that love your enemy thing? Like on purpose to make us slaves to those that do us wrong? Or are we supposed to love our enemy? No, you are supposed to love your enemy. You understand loving your enemy doesn't mean you let them out of jail. If they're a mass murderer, you can still have love for the person that that is someone that is created in the image of God. And you desperately want them to come to a place of repentance and changing the way that they behave and the way that they treat other people. But it's also appropriate that if somebody decides to engage in that sort of activity, that they be locked up and separated from society. So there's no contradiction within

Christian morality when we say love your enemy, but at the same time that there's a moral obligation to protect society and the innocent. But there's also a really easy way to put it. Do you love your child when you let him eat ice cream all day and stick the fork in the power outlet? That's not love. Tough love. That's not love at all. Love would be saying, I want you to be better, and the best way to go about that is rehabilitation. You are going to prison for the crimes you committed. I love you, so I'm going to punish you.

Absolutely. I understand it. That's how I grew up. Well, wait a second. Wait a second. But. I understand it. That's how I grew up. Wait a second. Wait a second. But let's look at the problem because there's punishment which is harsh and doesn't come from a position of love. And there's punishment that does come from a position of love. So when I discipline my child, I don't do so because I want to cause pain. I don't do so because the punishment is what I'm looking for.

I'm doing so because if they've engaged in a behavior that I know is bad for them and bad for society, I have one of two courses of action I can take. I can either explain that to them and then I can explain why what they did is harmful to them and disrespectful or harmful to others. And then I can create an environment to where they understand. And we always, like punishment in my house was more built around the whole restitution. Like if you hurt your sister or if you did something like that, well, then it's like you have to make amends

to the person that you hurt because I wanted them to associate. You're not in trouble because daddy says you're in trouble, right? You're in trouble because you hurt another human being, right? And you need to make restitution for that. You need to make that right.

Now, I can either set that discipline up in an environment which I can control that that allows them to learn and fully grasp that lesson out of love. Or I can just let them get away with it. And one day the state will deal with them and the state is not going to be anywhere near as nice or concerned with learning that lesson as daddy is. And so that that's the important component of punishment with any Christian moral framework is this idea of about bringing about repentance and restitution. It's not just punishment for punishment. You're not seeking to see someone suffer. No, no.

Which is why we got rid of the cruel and unusual. We specifically eradicated that from our governance style. Yeah. Yeah. Technically. Yeah. That was, yeah.

I mean, it was certainly the influence behind it was this idea that there's, that there's a certain degree of punishment that is by its very nature in and of itself evil, even if it's trying to correct something that might be, you know, inappropriate behavior. Let's, let's lighten the load a little bit with very, very heavy conversation. And now let's talk about bad things that are kind of funny. We have this story from the New York post Californiaia's 20 fast food minimum wage balloons menu prices with some chains increasing costs by nearly two dollars i just all all these laws do is literally just destroy your economy okay so uh let's see what

we what we do they have the photos here there was uh there was one photo i thought they had it where the prices were uh here we go okay so they do they do have do they have the double menu okay here we go so this one's burger king a whopper meal was 1189 what is it now 1249 a texas double whopper was 15 what's it texas 1689 whoa went up by a dollar 80 that's crazy and then you look down at In-N-Out and it was a double double. It's a double meat, double cheeseburger, $5.65. Now it's $5.90. They have just increased the price of all the food because you passed a law saying you

got to pay more. You didn't change anything. In fact, the only thing that changed was they don't have the additional money in their coffers. So they fire people until they can get there. I talked to a guy, an accountant. New Jersey was raising the minimum wage and it was going up like 50 cents. And he was like, it's going to go up 50 cents and then six months, 50 cents more.

We're talking about in a year, this is going to be a 10% increase. Now, imagine you're a business and you have thin margins. Your margins could be 10%. And now you're seeing a 10% labor cost increase. So now your margin's 2%. Of course, you're going to raise your prices. But if you raise your prices, then people aren't going to shop there. They're going to say your prices are too expensive. He said, when they put in the increase, I think he said something like 20% of my clients shut their businesses down. Yeah. And it's because in their bank right now, they have $10,000 and they got to make payroll and the money comes in. And when the money goes out and there's a little bit on top,

they set up a rainy day fund. And then when they do this dramatic change, they're like, we don't have the extra thousand dollars to make payroll. What do we do? Shut her down. Take the money that we have left. We'll keep it for ourselves

and we'll try and start something else. Understaff. So we had a bill, Virginia House of Delegates raising the minimum wage in Virginia statewide. So keep in mind, the Loudoun County

is the wealthiest county in America. Oh yeah. Loudoun County is a wealthy... Lee County, Virginia, the median individual income is $18,000 a year. So they were going to change the minimum wage for all of Virginia to $13 and 50 cents an hour drastic increase.

Cause right now it's like 11. Um, Loudoun County can afford it. Oh yeah. Loudoun County doesn't care. In fact, all the legislators carrying and cheering this on are all coming from counties that are significantly wealthier than,

than the poor counties in Virginia. And when you point this out, and this is one of the things I hate, when people get up and you actually, you're supposed to explain your bill. They don't explain the bill. They give you their hopes and dreams and aspirations for what they hope their bill will do. And so this bill is going to lift people out of poverty. This bill is going to, I said, you know what this bill does? Like technically, does everyone want to know what it legally does?

You will make it illegal to offer someone a job for $13 and 49 cents an hour or less. That's all the bill does. You hope it will do all these other things, but what it actually does is make it illegal. Think about that for a second. You've got a County where the, the median individual income is $18,000 a year. We're making 1212 an hour is a pretty good gig. Nope, illegal. You can't do it. Why? Because a bunch of representatives who know this much about economics and who know it's not going to actually affect them get to go on TV and talk about how much they care about

the working poor, when in reality, they just cost their jobs, they cost their hours, or they made everything they're going to buy more expensive anyways, which will eat into the supposedly pay increase that they got. Who was the lady who said 50 bucks? You saw that in California? Oh, yeah. She's like, we'll make it $50. It's just like, okay, you'll just eradicate every business.

Make it 100 or you hate the poor. Yeah, rest in peace to all the franchisees that could never afford that. It's going to make the business, the business itself might make money, but every franchisee is just like, well, there goes my business. Bye-bye. Do you guys remember in, was it 2019, 2019, 2020 cycle? Bloomberg, I think it was when Bloomberg was, he put half a billion. And then that woman was on TV and she was like, he put 500 million into this race.

That means he could give every American a million dollars. And then the anchor was like, wow. Let me pull that up. Team, I don't think that's how this works at all. That math doesn't math. Slow down there. No, it is interesting because I think you're right. It's a political talking point for someone who is in a district where their constituents aren't going to feel the difference.

If you're representing the wealthiest county in America and now we can all say, oh, great. So we have raised the minimum wage. It's mostly to pat yourself on the back and pretend like you're doing a good thing. Yeah. Well, and the problem is, is that because of this narrative, because of the advertisers, because of the fact the media doesn't do their job, I had a room full of students coming to my office and they were FFA students, right? Future Farmers of America. And they said, what's some of the biggest legislation that's going to affect agriculture? I said, the minimum wage increase. And I asked these students, I said, how many people in the labor force, what percentage of the labor force do you think makes minimum wage?

And the average estimate they gave me was 50%. I said, it's less than 3%. And out of those 3% making minimum wage, the vast majority of them will not be making minimum wage six months from now as long as they can keep the job because that's how upward economic mobility works but if you take them out of the labor market at the very beginning because now they can't get a job or they can't get sufficient hours in the market they can't go up they can't go up right but that's okay they got a welfare check for that so it was uh mara gay from the new york times talking to brian williams this is the new york times so the uh why did they fact check i believe the uh the clip has since been deleted

by everybody i don't yeah it doesn't exist anymore but uh the wagons on that quote was let me see if i can pull up the quote uh during her discussion with williams and former new york city bloomberg's campaign blah blah blah but then she suggested that bloomberg could have given each of the 327 million americans one million dollars and still had money left over which would have been better uh better use of his cash yeah no and then uh oh what was this uh it was it was it oh brian williams i think he brought up someone saying that and said, it's an incredible way of putting it. And Gay for a part agreed. It's an incredible way of putting it.

It's true. It's disturbing. It does suggest what we're talking about here, which is that there's too much money in politics. These are the people that are at the New York Times and MSNBC. And so if you wonder why it is they lie and they're dumb, well, it's because the people they hire. New York Times editorial board member saying it is true. He couldn't know. He could have given everyone, I think it was like $1.27 or something like that. A dollar. They couldn't even buy anything off the dollar menu now.

There is no dollar menu. There's no dollar menu. Well, we always kind of in a dark humor way, these minimum wage increases should be called the no kiosk left behind bills because the more difficult you make it to hire somebody, and it's not just the wage component, it's all the different rules beating this guy. Sorry. Oh, it's all the different rules. It's all the different restrictions. Every time you do that, what you're telling small business owners is we're going to make hiring someone a bigger liability for you. So find something else. Let me just play this clip for you. But you see it as a possibility. If he wants to spend a billion bucks beating this guy, he could do it. Absolutely. Somebody tweeted recently that actually with the money he spent, he could have given every American a million dollars.

Got it. Let's put it up on the screen. It when I read it tonight on social media, it kind of all became clear. Bloomberg spent 500 million on ads, U.S. population 327 million. Don't tell us if you're ahead of us on the math. He could have given each American one million dollars and have had lunch money left over. It's an incredible way of putting it. It's an incredible way of putting it. It's true. It's disturbing. It does. It does suggest, you know, what we're talking about here which is there's too much money in politics um and it makes it difficult because what we want these people vote wow they vote they have tv shows she's right she's an editorial board member of the

new york times uh hasn't helped and they mentioned in our first article that i guess afterwards she tweeted like buying calculator brb which yep i appreciate the self-deprecating humor on the other hand you went on national television we're like and this is true i read it on the social media like and they all like the producers didn't catch it yeah there's like two producers has to go through before it gets to brian williams he reads it on the air and he's like wow and she's like yeah this really fits into our narrative nicely it's crazy how that worked out that's just so crazy that we live in this reality yeah but these are the people fact checking so don't worry but it's disturbing and true yeah i want to go to the reality where they live underground and you're

super high tech and they have like high speed magnetic rail trains and stuff i'm tired of this junk reality where idiots run the show i don't. Not everybody's an idiot that's running the show. I just see the idiocy. It was $1.53 per person. 500 million divided by 327 million is 1.53. What could you buy in today's economy for $1.53? Arizona iced tea. Yeah. Can you now?

I feel like that went up too. It's $1.29, I think. Oh, man. Yeah. Well, you have change left owner. Yeah, you could buy a dollar 53 of bitcoin which is like two dollars zero zero zero zero zero it's remarkable i do think you guys talked about kiosks in the bathroom but uh this whole raising the minimum wage is is just bringing in

the age of automation employees are going out yeah the minimum wage workers on its way out well we were talking about before i think okay again don't quote me on this, but I'm pretty sure I read something where that $20 minimum wage in California, that there was a special thing that was put in there about baking bread. And I think it was like, if you bake bread on site, you're not subject to the same minimum wage laws. And oh, by the way, Panera gave a ton of money to Gavin Newsom. The CEO of Panera is a huge Newsom donor.

This was the only way out. In fact, the bill got proposed and they got brought back to tables. They were like, except for places that you bake your own bread, you don't have to do this. Keep in mind, Panera once opened up a shop. I think it was in a New York City.

They opened up a store somewhere where you just paid what you could, right? And it was going to be this very, I was busy. Is that store still open it is not interesting it turns it turns out it turns out a lot of the the hipsters going in there decided they couldn't pay anything for the sandwich they were getting john bon jovi did that actually had a restaurant where it was a pay what you can thing and it just kept seeing the meme over and over i don't know if the restaurant's still open i should look into it so uh the latest reporting is that Panera will raise their wages to $20 an hour. But that story from Bloomberg, yeah.

How Panera Bread ducked California's new $20 minimum wage law. I love that they will do it, but they don't have to. They don't have to, but who are they going to hire? I mean, if you're an employee that's looking for jobs, are you going to go to Panera where you don't get paid? If you bake the bread and sell it as a standalone item. Oh, I was waiting for like McDonald's. Watch, McDonald's Burger King is like,

hey, would you like a roll with your meal? They're going to have like one little stove in there. But think about it. They cook one double arch roll every morning and it's 10 bucks and then they're sold out. Yeah. That's all they got to do. It's broken along with the ice cream machine.

Right. Bon Jovi's restaurant is still open because of the JBJ Soul Kitchen. It's open. It's a community nonprofit restaurant. Pay what you will? Yeah. If people can't pay,

they invite them to pay what they can. And what if that is nothing? Yeah. I think then they feed them anyway. It looks like it's a nonprofit. So maybe it's funded. So it's getting tax write off for him. It's exactly what that is.

It's not a business opportunity. No. Necessarily. Not supposed to be. No, it's just supposed to help you. We know how those go. Non-profits are great business opportunities. Yeah. Not supposed to be profitable. Just ask the Clintons. I mean, it's this is what these businesses do. You have

a company. Let's say your profits are going to be a million bucks. You start a non-profit and then right before the end of the year, you donate that let's say your profits are going to be a million bucks. You start a nonprofit. And then right before the end of the year, you donate that million dollars to your nonprofit and you pay zero taxes. Your company's net, you know, your total taxable income then is, ah, it's only $70,000 in profit. So we got to pay, you know, $20,000 or whatever in taxes. That million dollars that we had that we made, oh, that was donated to charity. Does it get stuck?

My charity that I own. that buys yachts yeah yeah it takes people on charter fishing trips that's right depending on the uh the charity they could just donate that money again there's i remember when like didn't zuckerberg give a bunch of his money to an llc and the media reported like Zuckerberg's giving all his money away yeah he was actually putting

in an LLC to protect it from taxes he's giving it all away to himself yeah that's right yeah the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

can a charity give money to a charity yes yeah do you then write that off yeah well non-profits don't pay taxes

so they don't gotta write it off so you wouldn't get a negative no no no you can't you can't they there there are tax credits where you actually get money back from the government based off of how much you you donate to something unless it's you know and but this is how grants would work right what some companies do is you got 200k in profits you give it to a charity then you as a consultant for that charity get paid a portion of that money which you then donate again so there's a there's a lot of uh dirty games people play with taxes and this is why tons of rich people have non-profits because

non-profits can basically do anything look you got you taking an uber taking an uber non-profit pays for it yeah so so if you need to put your your if you if you want operating income that's shielded then you just have a non-profit that works in a similar space that legitimately will do things right let's say uh you have a non-profit that actually uh donates food to the needy well you in the process of doing that bill like oh yeah i'm having a meeting with someone we'll put it on the non-profit and so some of your operating expenses can be diluted by these people putting it non-profits instead yeah or their

businesses and things like this is dave chappelle talked about this where he was he was talking about the debate with uh trump and hillary where trump was like yeah of course they took advantage of this stuff it makes me smart if you want to change the laws you can change but you're not going to because your major donors take advantage of all these things and they won't let you and it was like man mike that was that was one of the most stark moments of that entire debate yeah we're gonna go to super chats if you haven't already would you kindly smash that like button subscribe to the channel share the show with your friends head over to timcast.com click join us to become a member and support our work directly because this show is made possible thanks in part to viewers like you we're gonna have that members

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If I owned all white, perhaps, which I don't. There's time. You could buy All White. What is it? Next Tuesday? It's coming up, right? Wait. Wait, is it next Tuesday?

Hold on. We should just do the thousandth episode. Wait, no, no, no, no, no. Oh, okay. Wait. The Eclipse is Monday. Oh. Okay, good.

Where do we fit into the apocalypse? Just throw in an extra episode and make that one your thousand episode nine nine oh right episode nine nine nine will be during the will be on the day of the eclipse this is and it's episode 1000 the next day yeah you got to put together a new day dude it's a it's a it's a new reality the large hadron collider is going to fire up a particle is going to burst doing something to the eclipse and the rockets in the air and then the Euphrates will dry up yeah

hear about it all on our thousands episode the eclipse just stays for three days and we're like ah crap Clint Torres says howdy people

howdy Clint Jungle Run says don't call them criminal aliens call them colonists it's actually pretty good I like invaders personally but Sea Cowboy says Nick run for governor no no you totally can't make me Call them colonists. It's actually pretty good. I like invaders personally, but.

Sea Cowboys, does Nick run for governor? No. No. You totally can't make me. Oh my gosh. You can't make me. No. But thank you.

I appreciate it. I appreciate the sentiment, unless of course you realize what a horrible job that is. Stephen says, rumor is that Ian has a birthday. Happy birthday, Ian. May you have many more. Thank you. I actually got a gift.

I'm going to open it at the end of the show. And Allison slaved over a store-bought cake drawing hexagonal lattices. She did. She made a graphene cake. Out of not graphene, though, I don't think. I told her we should get an Oreo cake to sprinkle the Oreo dust and tell them it's graphene.

And then she drew the hexagonal lattices. It's really good. I don't think I'm going to eat it, though. You're just going to stare at it and praise it? Yeah, take photos of it. You can make that personal sacrifice and give others your birthday gifts. Oh, yeah. That is morally good.

Cake equity. I want cake equity for the Timcast. All right, let's grab some more. Matt says, not first, but it is my birthday today. No, it's Ian's birthday today. You'll get your own birthday. Birthday. Do you have a twin? It's a good birthday today. No, it's Ian's birthday today. No, no, hold on, it's Ian's birthday. You'll get your own birthday. Birthday. Do you have a twin?

It's a good year for birthdays. No, I don't. What do you mean it's a good year? What year is it? 2024. But is it like the year of, why did you say it was a good year for birthdays? It's a good year for birthdays.

I've been saying that for my whole life. Everyone has a birthday. What year were you born? 79. 79. Is that a, what is that, a rabbit or something? No, that's the oh god I should know

this by now the year of the monkey I thought I want to be the monkey but I think I'm the pig I think I'm a tiger no I'm the goat I'm the goat

you're the goat yeah yeah yeah I remember we talked about this before Ian takes the Ron Swanson approach that birthdays were made up by

Hallmark to sell cards yeah birthdays they're psyops get you thinking about things other than what's important the authentic hydro px says been waiting to see nick here again mta is such a great podcast if possible nick and master heinz would be great for culture war episode on the founding father's vision and how the feds messed up oh thank you yeah he's talking about the making the argument

podcast of me and christian and my wife Tina on that. Which definitely. That'd be great. That'd be great. That the founding fathers messed up? No, no, no. That the federal government messed up the founding fathers' intention. We had a whole episode once where we dedicated it to what would we change about the Constitution.

And the two things that we would change are the 16th and 17th Amendments. And the 16th Amendment, I think, just destroyed federalism. Everyone focuses on the 17th, which was the popular election of senators, but the federal income tax is what destroyed federalism in this country. I just read a lot about that today. Actually. Yeah. Nico Barney says,

Nick, at your last pints in politics at the Uville brew, I floated the idea of a national divorce as our country and culture continues to divide. Do you still think federalism is possible, even though federalism has grown too far? So yeah, the federal government. So yeah, the federal government.

So yeah, I do. And I do. And I'll tell you why, because if you look at what's actually going on in Texas right now, this is an excellent example of a quasi constitutional crisis where Texas goes down there. They start to secure the border, federal government challenges, and they come in article four, section four, we got the border. It's our authority, but then they don't do anything about it. And then Texas says, okay, fine, but we're still going to do it. Like, okay, you've got your ruling, but we don't get to submit to an invasion of our state. And you having the authority to secure the border also means you have the responsibility to do it, and you're not doing it, so we're going to do it. Now you force this issue with, is the federal government actually going to come down and expend resources preventing texas from securing their own border and that's where you get these sort of these

crisis moments where you had i think i think you had what was it an additional 24 states that actually made public statements like glenn yunkin made public statements supporting texas and their decisions sending troops we sent the virginia national guard to texas to assist with that so i i still think that I still hold out hope for this idea that the federal government, the states are going to push back against either the federal government refusing to live up to its constitutional responsibilities or overstepping its constitutional boundaries. What makes it difficult, though, is the 16th Amendment, which essentially gives the federal government the ability to extort the states with their own money.

On Red Shirt Skeptics, as Nick thoughts on Yunkin vetoing the gun control? Oh yeah, he's vetoed just about everything. There was one, like it was an auto sear bill that's already federal law that didn't really change anything. And then there was one other bill

that he let go through that didn't do much. It basically said that the problem with it is that if a school says that, hey, we're notifying you that your child might hurt himself or someone else, if you then allow that child to get access to a firearm and they hurt someone, you can be held criminally liable. There's some issues for how that could potentially be abused, but it wasn't a huge deal.

Reasonable people could disagree. But the big ones like the so-called assault weapons ban, which is the dumbest thing. Weapons don't assault people. People assault people. Right. And people think that when they hear assault weapon, they think like a belt fed machine gun. Right. You put a pistol grip on any semi-automatic rifle.

You've just made it an assault weapon. Right. That's stupid. You get a Ruger 1022, but put it in black. Oh, you got a forward grip on it. Oh, now it's become a salty, right? So he vetoed that. The other big one that was just ridiculous

was this safe storage bill. And again, this is one of these things where if the press actually did its job, people would understand how bad some of these bills are because they think, oh, safe storage. Yeah, you should keep your gun locked off so your kid can't get it. So I asked a question on the floor.

I said, okay, if your bill goes into effect and my 16-year-old daughter, who's been shooting guns since she was five, like knows how to responsibly handle a firearm, I'm away. Cops, I live out in a rural area. Somebody kicks in my door to hurt my daughter. She grabs my pistol and defends herself with it.

Am I now a criminal? The answer was yes. That's what it means. So Governor Youngkin has vetoed um all of those like all the the egregious gun bills he's vetoed so good job governor you're happy with his performances governor yeah yeah i i think look there's always going to be things we disagree with somebody on but uh he's probably going to set a record number of vetoes this year because there's a record number of stupid stuff coming across his desk and i and i think he's been very very diligent on getting rid of some of the worst stuff. So I really appreciate

it. Do you find that clarifying the bills as they're being discussed helps the governor make a better decision on his veto? Yes. Well, I think it's important. I mean, understand that when you're talking about politics, you're talking about consensus. And so sometimes people ask me, like, when you debate on the floor, do you actually think you're changing their mind? I'm like, no. Like very, very few times do we actually change anybody's mind on the floor, but I'm not speaking to them. I'm speaking to everybody that's going to watch that clip that I then push out on social media. It's another reason why people ask me why I don't do press conferences. I'm like, why would I want the Washington Post to lie about what I said

when I can go to Instagram and put it on there and get 500,000 views, which is more than the daily circulation of the Washington post. Right. So yes, it adds, it adds clarity for the, for constituents. And then it also sends the right signal to the governor and whatnot. Again,

I don't think he needed a signal for this. He knew it was the wrong thing and did the right thing. But yeah, Daniel Gagney says, happy birthday. Ian is also my birthday today. Thanks. Gagney.

What did we say? It's only Ian's birthday. Stop trying to steal Ian's thunder, everybody. HBD. It's HBC. Whenever I see your initials, I think, happy birthday, Claire. That's not what it means. All right. Max Reddick says, Tim, according to reports,

Governor Whitmer authorized criminal aliens to be sent to Livingston County, where I reside. Really concerned about how the police will handle it since residents won't put up with it look into this interesting well uh we saw what happened in staten island did you guys you guys remember that when the low when they sent buses of criminal aliens into these neighborhoods and the residents came out the cops started attacking the residents and arrested them and so it's like i bring these things up and they're people like stop breaking out the police and i'm like staten island cops attacked their own community to defend criminal aliens who are illegally invading this country i don't know what

you want from me it's just those bad cops and all of these videos all the time i get it good cops are quitting all right what do we got grab some more super jets james black says nick let's go where are you going oh let's go might actually be a reference to uh second of the 325 airborne infantry regiment oh right on that was my uh first unit in the 82nd airborne and let's go was our motto charles g says nick you should move to west virginia to represent us we are better than virginia love your YouTube shorts. I appreciate it. You know, Jason Maris, the attorney general of Virginia, he kind of put out like a funny

tweet reminding West Virginia that they're that them seceding from Virginia is not something that we we we appreciate. And we're now going to petition the federal government to bring West Virginia back into Virginia, which I think would be an excellent addition. We would love to have you guys back. I don't think we want to be with you guys. Push too hard. You may end up with an East Virginia as well.

So watch out. Although the funny thing is the story of, of how West Virginia came to be, all of the young men are conscripted and go fight. It's Virginia at the time. And then the people who live there were like, okay, I'm in favor of voting to leave. And yeah yeah and so i couldn't imagine being a young man

being told you have to go fight for your state you say yes and then as soon as you leave like okay now let's vote while they're not here and then they do and they take your home from you then people come back after fighting and they're like it's not it's a different state there is a very there is a very good constitutional argument to be made that west virginia did not legally become a state it was just convenient for the union at the time and so they accepted it but yeah and then afterwards virginia wanted it back and the supreme court said shut your mouth yeah yeah we're not giving you well there are counties in uh virginia that still have clauses in their their charters that they can go be part of west virginia they want to like i i would also point out that,

um, yeah, the, the famous song West Virginia is about Western Virginia, not West Virginia. No, no, no,

no, no. I'm just jealous. Country roads, country roads. If you listen, everything he talks about in that is in Virginia, not West Virginia.

Uh, it's actually written about, uh, Montgomery County, Maryland. Well, let's all agree. Let's all agree to not believe that.

Wow, you're trying to start something and you're wrong. So here's what happened. The guys who wrote it, who was it? John Denver? John Denver, yeah. So it was written and sold to him, I believe. It can't just be about Montgomery County because he mentions things that are not in Montgomery County.

They were driving through Montgomery County when the guy came up with Country Roads Take Me Home. And then they thought Montgomery County, Maryland doesn't really sound very country. So let's just, to a library pulled out a book on west virginia and started looking up things in west virginia and then putting those things in the song it was written by bill danoff taffy nevert and john denver the three of them i don't know i'm just learning about this as we go they they decided maryland also wants to be part of west virginia so i'm just saying yeah it's a great state well i mean you mean, you've got the panhandle of Maryland,

this thin strip that goes along. And it's all MAGA country. Yeah. They're not like Baltimore. We went to a restaurant and bar. It was really fun during COVID lockdowns. And it's like mask mandate on the door. You walk inside and everyone's just like,

nobody's wearing a mask. And they had one of those Trump flags where he's got an uzi on a tank yeah there's explosions behind him it's like writing a velocity after yeah exactly they had those two uh yeah and we were like this is my country baby all right let's grab some more super chats michael m says given the popularity of rfk if something were to happen to biden could the dnc reclaim rfk as their candidate for november probably not they don't want him yeah could they he's he's not in line he's not in line and they're probably going to be like even if he was we can't trust him yeah the ca is going to be like we killed his dad and his uncle so he's never going to work with us whoops i think it's funny that's basically mainstream accepted now like

all these prominent personalities being like well yeah you know the ca did it yeah that's wild bill hughes says dead people are moving to texas yep yep how about that they love it there's demons they're very loyal bodies of other people they're very loyal voting demographic the text vet says just saying record amount of illegal immigrants and now there's a record Demons. They're very loyal bodies of other people. They're very loyal voting demographic. The tax vet says just saying record amount of illegal immigrants. And now there's a record number of non ID vote requests. Seems odd. Certainly. I don't know what you're implying, sir.

There would never, ever be any corruption in the voting system. That's voice. The people says, don't forget about the Rolling Stone article called Biden is building a superstructure to stop Trump from stealing the the election they are telling you what they plan to do to keep trump from office yeah i love how time magazine wrote an article what was it named molly ball the shadow campaign to save the election and they literally called what they did a conspiracy behind the scenes a conspiracy was unfolding those that's what they wrote molly ball it was questionable to me yeah jennifer reams says i would like i want to thank nick for his history of rome episodes and introducing me to mike duncan's history podcasts so happy to see nick on here tonight love y'all no thank you very much yeah that was an awesome podcast man i don't know if you've ever

listened to that i don't know if you guys you knew that whole trend went around like why do how often do you think about the Roman Empire? I actually have a mug that says, yes, actually, I am thinking about the Roman Empire. But Mike Duncan did this excellent podcast. I don't I mean, his politics, I think, are crap. But 175 episode podcast of the history of Rome is excellent. Outstanding. It is. It is funny, though, because men were not shocked at all.

And it's actually kind of confusing that women are shocked but it also shows you the general oblivious nature of women in but what i mean is there's two things one they don't know what guys are they don't ask guys like what's what are you currently thinking about and the guys probably say nothing and it's because they're thinking about rome and it's like nothing relevant to say to you yeah but the the the big talking point was that uh there was that viral clip where it's a a relevant to say to you. But the big talking point was that there was that viral clip where it's a guy and his girlfriend walking in a mall and it was made by a woman.

She's like, here's what I'm thinking. She's like, making my way back there. And the guy's going, okay, two exits to my left, one to my right. There's a guy in front of me looking kind of sketchy. I better make some space. The guy's constantly thinking about safety, security, planning ahead and the woman's oblivious.

Well, that video is what the original one was like, what women think about when they're with a man they trust. It wasn't when it was just like all the time, right? Like if you're with someone who's reliable, who is worried about safety, you have the luxury of not thinking about it. And I think that that is the difference between men and women, which is that their brains are constantly. Well, if you ask a man, what are you thinking about? And he says nothing. I doubt they're actually thinking about absolutely nothing. It's just such an abstraction.

Whereas women are constantly monitoring every situation because their brains are required to do different things than men. I got in trouble with the man council because I did a reel on that where I said, all right, ladies, I'm going to let you in on something. When men say nothing, it's probably... That's an option, but it's probably not worth it. It's probably one of three categories. I said, we're either probably thinking about something like how I would occupy a Costco during the zombie apocalypse, you know, because I'd have everything. Or I'm thinking about maybe the Roman empire,

or I'm thinking about that thing you wore with the corset and the, I said, so it's one of those things, right? It's, it's, it's one of those things right it's it's it's like you know resistance rome or rated r right like those are the three that's a great category that's funny yeah the how to occupy a costco during a zombie apocalypse oh yeah down the head oh my god if only we could if we could get rid of the abc in virginia so they could actually have like you know whiskey and costco and if we could add like a firearms and ammunition section to Costco, it is the perfect zombie apocalypse. Well,

there's Costco. Are you listening? This is how you improve your business. There are some States where Walmart has booze and guns. Yeah. Oh yeah, that's true. That's true.

Yeah. I, I, where was I? I can't remember. Is it Texas? Maybe that sounds like it would check out. Maybe not though.

Texas sounds like they might have like booze laws of some sort. I't remember where i was where it was like they had booze and they had guns and i was like wow you could build like an entire city in a costco like a small village because of the high ceilings yeah yeah i mean i mean not that i'm gonna let a ton of people in there right but like you know friends and family sure again zombie apocalypse well to secure securing a costco would require a decent amount of people. Yeah. You've got rotating, you need patrol, you need, how many exits? Well, that's all about your- Six or seven?

I think it's actually fewer. Well, no, it's probably six or seven because it depends on if they got one of the tire facilities and the whole deal. You got to think this stuff through. You got to turn the roof into a chicken farm. How many guys per point of egress do you need? Well, you want to do shift cycles, right? You want to do 12 hours at a time.

But then the other thing, too, is if you can properly barricade some of those exits, you can probably get it down to like two or three. And now you're operating. And you want to hit it the right time, right? You want to hit it at the time where they have hot tubs and stuff like that. Oh, yes. You're lining there with some really nice things. I've thought about this, man. I've thought about this.

Zombies not being known for their intelligence you you could actually probably properly barricade and not have to worry about strategic attacks on your costco whereas if you were dealing with like an invasion from extraterrestrials or a foreign force you gotta guard the roof totally different scenario so after we go through our mind and we're thinking about zombies then we go but if it was aliens we have to do roof security now or do the zombies climb walls and i'm not and i'm not going for a costco when it's aliens right because they're smart enough to go for population centers right they're thinking about this they've probably been listening to this conversation we say nothing it's one of three things they're here they're doing intel right now so no but no to the costco yeah no to the costco yes where are we at

right now yeah it's funny because like i'm on my phone and my girlfriend's just like wondering what I'm doing. And then she looks and what was the last one? And the last one I was looking at was like frogs that were squeaking. Yeah. And I'm like, I don't know. I'm just like, there's nothing secret going on here. It's just like a tiny frog going.

Yeah. And then she enjoyed the frog. So yeah, we had a good time. Let's, we'll grab a couple more super chats here. Raymond G. Stanley Jr. says yeah, we had a good time. Let's we'll grab a couple more super chats here. Raymond G. Stanley Jr. Says PA recently passed automatic voter registration. Here we go.

Automatic. How's that? Like motor voter laws. Yeah. Yeah. Call me tag says Nick. You're an inspiration to countless young men trying to find their way in this crazy world. We're living in.

Thank you for all you do for this country and your countrymen. Tim and the gang. Keep up the great work. You guys do love you guys appreciate it yeah thank you here's a good one troy erickson says tim you you always say we must create culture would you co-sponsor would you sponsor a songwriting contest you could gift the winner a video and uh for their song and exposure we certainly could uh it is a challenge the the trash trash house team is basically like carter and then kent is uh carter banks for the music kent willing does all our video stuff and uh that's why it's like a song every couple of months and we we obviously like

we've done my songs a bunch and we obviously want to do more songs and more bands but it's just it's really difficult but this is a pretty good idea so i I don't know. I got to talk to Carter about it because he's in charge of all that stuff. But that could actually be pretty cool. However, I'll tell you guys right now, I guarantee that we'll get a thousand submissions and 999 will be like razor blades for the ears. It's a lot of time.

I don't mean to be a dick. It's just like, sometimes it's a diamond in the rough and you're like wow this person wrote a banger if they if they get even like some basic recording and stuff it'll be huge and then there are people who have masterful production you're like yeah it's just not good man yeah it's just not good i don't know but different strokes are different folks just because we don't like it doesn't mean it's you know it's not for other people laurel says i'm an immigration lawyer specializing in illegal aliens.

99% know they can't vote. They only break the law when there's something in it for them. Someone may be stealing their identities, but they aren't doing it themselves. I think nobody is going to submit a deceased person intentionally for verification because they know it'll get kicked back and that number is going to appear somewhere i think they've got a list of names yeah and they're just sending the forms in yeah yeah yeah well and that's that's a lot easier too to manage right trying to get a bunch of people lined up in order to go in and falsely register vote that's that's problematic

like just sitting there and requesting absentee ballots or, or registering, you know, that that's yeah. MF Damien says eclipse alignments cause gravity anomalies. Where, where this eclipse crosses paths at the 2017 eclipse is directly over the new Madrid seismic zone. Hope X doesn't mark the spot for that cutting loose. Yeah.

It's going right over Eagle pass too. Hmm. Yeah. The darkness Madrid seismic zone. He goes next it's going right over Eagle Pass too. Hmm. Yeah. Darkness. Madrid's seismic zone, he calls it. Next week's gonna be wild. Man. Let's go.

Brian Egan says, Tim, was driving today when I passed what appeared to be an active crime scene, Marshall County, Tennessee. Ton of cops, cameras, three-letter agents, no ambulance. I think they pulled a fill and found all that remains.

Well, okay. I don't know what happened. That was a long joke. To get to that punchline. That was good. We'll grab a couple more here. A couple more while we're still here. The text of that says, Nick is thinking the police, BP, etc. are the

same old guard. They aren't see reality. All the good ones quit. We're fired and have been replaced. Look at the girl victim shot and killed by the cops in Cali. That went viral today. Oh yeah. Did you see that? No,

I didn't. This is nuts. A guy, a dad kidnaps, murders his wife, kidnaps his daughter, high speed chase. The,

the, the cops are on scene and the one cops yelling to her, come to me, come to me, get out, get out, come to me. She runs runs to her the other cops shoot and kill her wow yeah what that's insane how do you accidentally shoot a 15 year old girl like that with with with and then he goes stop shooting her stop shooting her and he's like okay okay and then i guess they realized afterwards they shot and killed her geez that. That's crazy, man. But that is just, you know, it's important to mention 300 million interactions.

It's not all. Yeah, I go with the. Yeah. If you look at the total number of interactions between law enforcement and people, I mean, obviously the vast majority of them are not ending in a situation like this. I do think that you have a significant problem with respect to the recruiting and training of officers. You're seeing the same thing in the military right now. And I think it's intentional. You're watching departments because typically if you look at the military, if you look at law enforcement, you're usually getting people that are a little bit more dedicated to the concepts of law and order. They're usually a little bit more conservative or whatnot.

And I think they're actively trying to change the culture within these departments and within the military. And yeah, I think it's definitely causing problems. So I'm not blind to that going on, right? I don't believe in blindly supporting any sort of profession without understanding that people are individuals. I can respect that somebody that wants to enter a profession for the right reasons to try to protect people and they put themselves in harm's way to do so. I can respect that. But yeah, there's going to be bad people and they need to be held accountable. Because quite frankly, when you do have somebody in law enforcement or in the military that is deliberately corrupt or bad or evil at their job, it's doubly bad. Because they've not only violated the law, they've also violated the public trust.

KCB says Flipping Texas wipes out 10 deep red state electoral votes. One Rust Belt state is all Biden would need. And so, you know, we're all sitting here thinking like, look at these swing states. Trump needs to win. He's going to win. And their play is Texas. Maybe it is. And then maybe Texas and Missouri somehow end up flipping and they go, this surprise to everybody how could this have happened trump won the swing states he needed and texas

went blue missouri is interesting yeah very interesting we should keep an eye on these numbers every week man these registration numbers because those those were crazy all right my friends if you haven't already would you kindly smash that like button subscribe to this channel share the show with your friends head over to timcast.com click join us for the members only show will be starting soon and we've got more to talk about not so family friendly though so you want to put the kids to bed for this one you can follow the show at timcast irl you can follow me personally at timcast nick do you want to shout anything out no just thank you again for having me on anybody that wants to follow, nickjfratis.com. We also have our shows,

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