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This is the weirdest thing.

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I criticized Donald Trump.

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I referred to him as a developmentally disabled individual.

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I argued with Joe Roden that ivermectin did not work.

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You know,

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you say you don't think either sides will ever meet in the middle.

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They're never going to agree.

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We're talking about the fact that there's a

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top-down approach by Republicans like Donald Trump.

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Can I ask you the question again?

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Can you answer the question and allow it to happen,

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foment violence in this country?

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Can you answer you're running cover for it.

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If you are only getting sound bites on.

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Shorts,

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TikTok,

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Instagram,

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you're gonna think I'm sitting here banging on the

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table with a hammer screaming the end is nigh,

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which is just not true.

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From Jubilee Media,

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this is the Surrounded podcast.

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I'm Paris Rose filling in for John Regalado,

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and we've got another follow-up episode for you today.

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And quick reminder,

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we have new releases every Sunday.

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be sure to like,

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subscribe,

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Thanks so much.

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All right.

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Well,

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hello,

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Tim.

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Good to see you again.

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Likewise,

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thanks for having me.

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Well,

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thanks for jumping into the circle to debate 20

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progressives and thank you for joining us for this round of podcast.

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So I'm really curious,

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what made you interested in joining the show?

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Have you done anything like this before?

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I mean,

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I've done debates.

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Uh,

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we,

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we've done,

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um,

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a show we have called the Culture War where we'll have,

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you know,

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54 or 5 people up on stage and then we let the audience kind of interact.

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I don't know,

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I've,

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I've,

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obviously,

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I've seen the Surroundings before and,

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uh,

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I thought it's a great opportunity to

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dispel some misconceptions,

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have a conversation,

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meet some new people.

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I think

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we accomplished all of these things.

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Whether or not anybody agrees with me,

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you know,

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you got to hear me a bit,

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I suppose.

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Now for those of us who don't know,

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can you give us a little bit more about your background and how you got into politics?

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I've always been,

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since I was a kid,

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uh,

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the internet got me involved in politics just cause,

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my family had the internet before I was born.

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We had CompuServe on DOS.

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Most people probably know,

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don't even know what that means.

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But,

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uh,

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getting on AOL when I'm like 9 or 10 and playing video games,

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news headlines every time you log in.

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And so I just started paying attention and reading news at a very early age,

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right around the time I was 1314,

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I started listening to punk music,

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mostly pop punk,

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which then turns into

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real punk,

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which is very political.

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And then with the,

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the Iraq War,

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the protests,

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you know,

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growing up in Chicago,

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we're just surrounded by it the whole time.

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So I started paying attention quite,

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quite a bit.

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And I actually worked for a handful of big nonprofits when I was,

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2021 years old,

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actually fundraising for,

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say,

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the ACLU Greenpeace and all that.

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So then by the time I'm

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and Occupy Wall Street is happening,

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I'm down there,

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I'm filming

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There you go.

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From there it's uh working for Vice,

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working for ABC

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then eventually starting my own company and launching my own podcast.

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I think a lot of people might recognize you from Occupy Wall Street in in that era.

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I know you haven't watched the episode yet.

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You haven't seen any of the clips.

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So,

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we're gonna get into that today.

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I really want to start with one of your surrounding claims,

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which was the United States is tracking towards civil war.

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Because that one got everyone in a tizzy.

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So I'm going to play that clip

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and see how you guys interacted with Costanza.

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I don't want to live in a country where people

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are attacking each other without trying to understand each other.

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Right,

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but the rhetoric that you're spewing is leading towards that.

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You want Trump

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again,

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which means the rhetoric that you're spewing online,

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the political

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commentary that you're spewing online

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teasing.

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I don't want Donald Trump.

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Will they,

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won't they,

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will they,

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won't they?

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I don't want Donald Trump for a third term.

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but I would,

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I would prefer,

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you know,

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JD Vance,

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maybe Rubio,

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that's still MAGA

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and indeed,

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and understand that Trump won the plurality of the vote in 2024 and

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he has a large support base despite his polls being very low.

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and we'll see what happens with the Republican Party in 2026 and 2028.

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But you can't just

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wish away the existence of a polar of a of a another political faction

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with a polarized worldview compared to yours.

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I do not see a reality

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where Republicans accept the worldview of the of the

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progressives who are gaining ground in multiple places,

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namely in New York,

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and I don't see the progressives accepting

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the,

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the Trump worldview as you've described it.

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that we're not going to

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it is because people like you and the reason we don't accept it is people like you.

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in that clip,

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you said you don't see Republicans accepting

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the progressive worldview and vice versa.

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So what specific trends make you think that divide

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is becoming irreconcilable rather than just another cycle of,

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political polarization?

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if we go back to 2021,

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the issue of immigration

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is particularly pronounced even today,

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I'll just preface this by saying,

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we had the ICE

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shootings in January

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2 people died.

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And neither side is going to accept

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what that was.

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If you go back to 2021,

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we saw a very,

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heated circumstance where

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the Texas State Guard

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was in a physical confrontation with

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federal authorities under the Biden administration.

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The Biden administration had filed a lawsuit

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to allow them to remove the physical barriers

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from the southern border to allow people to illegally enter the country.

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the entry of,

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non-citizens,

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outside of a port of entry is actually a violation of,

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of codified US law.

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For the Biden administration to use federal law enforcement to remove the barriers

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allowing these people to come in

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would be to facilitate a criminal activity.

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Whether or not you believe those people deserved asylum after the fact is,

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is different.

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So you have armed Texas State Guard

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in a standoff with federal authorities in 2021.

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Now I can't say

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fortunately since then,

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we have seen things calm down in that capacity a little bit.

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it's pretty shocking.

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When you're you're coming off January 6th,

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and then 7 or 8 months later,

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you have the Texas,

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Texas deploying State Guard,

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you had multiple states deploying National Guard to other states,

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specifically to confront federal authorities.

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But now we're still dealing with,

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Trump has largely secured the border,

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but now you have ICE and CBP going through various cities.

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They're arresting people.

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We had a viral video just recently where a woman was trying to board a plane,

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I believe it was in Denver,

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and she was,

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she had overstayed her visa,

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so she was illegally remaining in the country.

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CBP or I believe it was a CBP,

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it might have been ICE,

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they arrest her,

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and the narrative that we get from the progressives

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is that she was here legally

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and she was being kidnapped.

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And the narrative that we get from the conservatives is that

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she had overstayed her visa,

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was here illegally,

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and was being deported.

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I'll just say this.

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Obviously I have my biases,

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when you look at the facts of the case,

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the woman,

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came here,

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overstayed her visa by about a year,

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and was

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being arrested and deported for overstaying her visa.

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If you don't like the laws of this country,

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then Congress needs to change those things.

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But to characterize it as a legal individual

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being kidnapped is,

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it's hyperpartisan.

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And so ultimately it doesn't matter if,

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if my,

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if I'm correct or incorrect as to the assessment of what happened.

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What matters,

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what matters is

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two factions,

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as it's described by uh Stephen Marsh and various other academics and journalists.

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multicultural democracy

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and a constitutional republic

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existing within the borders of one country.

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These are diametrically opposed worldviews as to the structure of governance,

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as to the,

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the moral framework of,

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of our judicial system.

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They're never going to agree.

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It's,

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it's not possible.

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This,

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this divergence started

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20 or so years ago.

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You could argue it,

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it started in academia in the 60s and 70s,

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but becoming pronounced with political factions

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in the late 2000s and the 2010s,

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I don't see a reality where

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You are going to convince

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an American constitutional republicanist

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that we should abolish the Senate the way the DSA is proposing,

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and I don't see a scenario where you're going to convince

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Democratic Socialists of America or Progressives

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that the founding of this country was

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legitimate.

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The worldviews are just

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the antithesis of each other.

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Costanza,

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your opponent,

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you know,

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she suggested that.

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Commentators like you are contributing to this polarization.

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You know,

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you say you don't think either sides will ever meet in the middle.

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They're never going to agree.

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Do you think political commentators have any responsibility

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to lower this temperature and work towards

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this middle ground?

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I don't think that that is possible.

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So she is absolutely correct when she says,

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I as a political commentator contribute to the atmosphere in this country,

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but

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I'll put it like this,

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this is the weirdest thing.

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I criticized Donald Trump as I,

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I do fairly often.

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I mean,

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I voted for him,

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I,

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I wanna see him succeed,

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but I absolutely

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Uh,

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ragged on him over the Iran war and things of that nature,

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and the media still characterizes it as though I'm a,

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a hardcore mega far-right Trump supporter,

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despite the fact

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I referred to him as a developmentally disabled individual

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in a more crass manner,

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and they still refer to me as like some far-right die-hard Trump guy.

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I guess cause I voted for him.

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If I go on my show and I say something like,

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I don't think we should have initiated this war with Iran,

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I don't think Trump is legitimately trying to solve this problem.

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If

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If

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taking those positions

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never reach the progressive audience,

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then the only thing they have is,

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is assumptions about me based on fake content they've seen from somewhere else.

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So let,

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let me,

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let me phrase it like this.

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Well,

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I certainly think I have opinions,

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biases,

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and I am going to say things that they will not like.

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I think the reality is to use,

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uh,

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this,

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this,

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this surrounding.

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As a perfect example,

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there was one individual who claimed that I was shoving ivermectin up my,

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you know,

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I'll,

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I'll refrain from being too uncouth.

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But I have never promoted ivermectin one time.

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In fact,

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I argued with Joe Roda that ivermectin did not work,

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and to this day I've maintained,

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I do not believe there's

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conclusive evidence of this.

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Why is it then

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that these progressives come in

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under the assumption

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that I would be,

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say,

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promoting ivermectin or something of that nature,

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because they don't actually know who I am.

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And so I would say this,

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while,

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while every political commentator contributes to the atmosphere,

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there is a surface level to the way social media algorithms work,

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that's making sure

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these young people,

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not necessarily all young,

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but these progressives,

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are never going to actually watch my show and

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hear my real opinions on what's going on.

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Instead,

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what they're going to get is

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some other progressive commentator cherry-picking the most

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shocking thing they can out of context

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to try and generate views.

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There's a really funny example of this.

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There's a series of videos on YouTube that are titled

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Joe Rogan Shocked,

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and what they'll do is

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they will edit a fake clip of any political commentator.

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Put a clip of Joe Rogan being shocked in front of it,

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and they get millions of views from this.

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And there are people who genuinely believe

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that I was sitting on Joe Rogan's show talking to

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him about immigration in the UK which never happened.

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But if your worldview is built on social media

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algorithms convincing you this is what I believe,

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you're gonna come into a debate

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totally confused,

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thinking that I believe incorrect things.

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Well,

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I think another issue that the progressives were having

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with you is feeling that you weren't taking accountability.

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They were saying that

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they felt like you were really fueling this fire of there's gonna be a civil war,

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there's gonna be a civil war.

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And so,

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kind of what you're saying,

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they already have this idea of you that you are MAGA no matter what you say,

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even if you call out Trump,

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they feel like no matter what,

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you're MAGA.

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So,

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you know,

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what has to happen

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for you to say,

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you know,

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I was wrong,

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the country isn't headed in that direction at all.

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I take those words back.

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Well,

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it's fascinating because my,

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my actual position is that we are in a period of civil strife

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for which the next phase would be civil war.

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We have no guarantee that this actually would lead to a civil war.

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The civil rights era in the 1950s into the 1960s was considered

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a period of civil strife that did not result in civil war.

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So what I would argue is they're mischaracterizing my opinion

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because they don't actually listen to what I say,

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nor actually watch my show,

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and they're being fueled by grifters who are

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trying to make money through shock content.

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That's definitely a possibility

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for sure.

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I'll stress it again.

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Every single time I've done a

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I've done a show talking about the prospect of civil war,

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it's been in reference to articles from the mainstream press,

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from The Atlantic,

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The New York Times.

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I've never just fabricated a whole cloth and argument

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that I think we're drifting in this direction.

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My show is based on pulling the top news stories of the day,

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and then we opine on them,

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either on my morning show where I do it as a

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monologue or with Tim Cast IRL with 3 other guests.

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So if the New York Times writes an article saying,

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Barbara F.

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Walter,

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former CIA warns the US is headed towards civil war,

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and then we opine on that.

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That is not to say I decided to push this narrative,

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but again,

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these people don't actually look at what I'm saying,

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and I'm not trying to blame them.

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I think that the mechanisms of social media,

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the monetization structures result in this.

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But every single conversation we've had on this,

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I have said,

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There is no guarantee we actually go into a civil war.

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For all we know,

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this is just one hot moment,

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it's a blip on the radar.

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Things will calm down.

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If you are only getting soundbites on shorts,

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TikTok,

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Instagram,

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you're gonna think I'm sitting here banging on the

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table with a hammer screaming the end is nigh,

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which is just not true.

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Yeah,

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I do think that's an issue with

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whatever.

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Whoever

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side you agree with

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that

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social media is just feeding you what you want to hear,

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what you want to see,

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and people are only watching clips

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just to reconfirm and validate what they already had in mind.

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So

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I do feel like we are stuck there.

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Let me give you a good example.

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I think one of the individuals said something to the effect of,

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you have 40 videos talking about civil war.

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I would just like to stress,

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we have 1570 or so episodes of Timcast IRL.

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Or if he's talking about the inclusion of my morning show,

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interview show,

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and Timcast IRL,

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we're looking at somewhere around,

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in just terms of full podcast episodes,

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perhaps around 4500.

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But if we're looking at

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every clip,

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every segment we produce,

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because we produce about from Timcast IRL,

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which is a 3 hour long show,

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we will produce 5 segments from the show that are between 10 and 20 minutes long.

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Now we're looking at around 30,000 different clips.

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I think 40 is a rather small percentage if that's the case.

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Yeah,

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I mean,

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whether you

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think it's we're heading toward,

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we're in a political strife right now,

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we're headed toward a civil war,

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we're headed toward a revolution.

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Do you feel like

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something is necessary

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for change at this moment?

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Or do you feel like,

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you know,

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a revolution wouldn't be helpful,

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civil war wouldn't be helpful?

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What are you none of it's helpful.

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I had a gentleman,

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a liberal on my show and we we were debating the issue.

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And,

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and,

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and again,

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it's always from the pretext of Tim Poole saying it's gonna happen.

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And then as soon as I clarify,

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no,

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I'm saying,

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you know,

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we had a former CIA,

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uh,

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uh,

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analyst.

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She wrote a book about this,

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Barbara F.

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Walters saying

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that in her experience tracking all these other countries,

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the United States is in a similar vein.

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All of a sudden they're like,

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well,

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what am I supposed to debate now?

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But,

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uh,

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what I,

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what I always say to them is,

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let me ask you this question.

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They always say it's not possible,

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a civil war can't happen in the United States.

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And I say,

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OK,

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fine,

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yeah,

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whatever,

561
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whatever you think.

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But let me ask you this question.

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Do you believe Donald Trump will use the military

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to round up

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migrants in this country?

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To which,

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at the time,

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the answer was,

569
00:15:05.550 --> 00:15:05.700
yes,

570
00:15:05.760 --> 00:15:06.580
I do think he will.

571
00:15:06.660 --> 00:15:06.820
OK,

572
00:15:06.950 --> 00:15:07.060
well,

573
00:15:07.230 --> 00:15:07.980
Trump actually did.

574
00:15:08.110 --> 00:15:09.670
Marines were deployed to California,

575
00:15:09.870 --> 00:15:11.060
they went to marijuana farms,

576
00:15:11.080 --> 00:15:13.380
and they were pulling migrant children working

577
00:15:13.380 --> 00:15:15.460
on marijuana farms from those farms,

578
00:15:15.510 --> 00:15:17.860
as well as arresting older individuals for

579
00:15:17.860 --> 00:15:19.500
deportation who were working on those farms.

580
00:15:19.590 --> 00:15:20.220
So that did happen.

581
00:15:20.270 --> 00:15:21.810
The question I have for the progressives is,

582
00:15:22.150 --> 00:15:24.380
will you do anything about it?

583
00:15:25.370 --> 00:15:26.850
And invariably the response is,

584
00:15:27.010 --> 00:15:27.520
yes.

585
00:15:27.970 --> 00:15:28.080
So,

586
00:15:28.170 --> 00:15:28.520
so this is,

587
00:15:28.570 --> 00:15:29.390
this is my point.

588
00:15:29.770 --> 00:15:30.000
We had a,

589
00:15:30.050 --> 00:15:33.640
we had a narrative in 2024 that Donald Trump would use the military against,

590
00:15:33.770 --> 00:15:33.880
uh,

591
00:15:33.970 --> 00:15:35.110
migrants in this country

592
00:15:35.290 --> 00:15:36.000
that were here,

593
00:15:36.130 --> 00:15:36.210
uh,

594
00:15:36.290 --> 00:15:36.480
uh,

595
00:15:36.810 --> 00:15:38.030
that were not authorized to be here.

596
00:15:38.050 --> 00:15:39.710
I'm trying to be light in my political language.

597
00:15:40.250 --> 00:15:43.950
And the response from progressives is they would do whatever they had to,

598
00:15:43.970 --> 00:15:45.430
to stop Trump from doing that.

599
00:15:46.290 --> 00:15:46.430
Well,

600
00:15:46.480 --> 00:15:47.380
I don't know what

601
00:15:47.520 --> 00:15:49.020
you can do to stop

602
00:15:49.160 --> 00:15:50.900
a marine being deployed

603
00:15:51.040 --> 00:15:52.130
to California

604
00:15:52.240 --> 00:15:54.420
to physic to to assist physically

605
00:15:54.560 --> 00:15:55.630
in the apprehension

606
00:15:55.800 --> 00:15:56.160
of these,

607
00:15:56.240 --> 00:15:57.140
of these immigrants,

608
00:15:57.880 --> 00:16:00.560
unless you're referring to some kind of violent escalation.

609
00:16:00.760 --> 00:16:01.190
So again,

610
00:16:01.320 --> 00:16:01.470
my,

611
00:16:01.520 --> 00:16:04.740
my perspective on this is not based on what I think I would do,

612
00:16:05.000 --> 00:16:06.310
or anyone in my neighborhood would do.

613
00:16:06.690 --> 00:16:08.740
It's based on what we see from the willingness

614
00:16:08.740 --> 00:16:11.470
of conservatives in terms of the use of,

615
00:16:11.490 --> 00:16:11.690
uh,

616
00:16:11.770 --> 00:16:13.260
legitimate government power,

617
00:16:13.530 --> 00:16:15.320
whether it's used legitimately or illegitimately,

618
00:16:15.370 --> 00:16:15.840
I'm saying,

619
00:16:16.010 --> 00:16:17.230
federal law enforcement,

620
00:16:17.410 --> 00:16:18.590
duly sworn in

621
00:16:18.690 --> 00:16:20.710
and dispatched by the president versus

622
00:16:21.010 --> 00:16:22.640
what progressive activists,

623
00:16:23.080 --> 00:16:23.360
organizations,

624
00:16:23.410 --> 00:16:25.190
NGOs are willing to do to counter that.

625
00:16:25.710 --> 00:16:25.910
The,

626
00:16:25.970 --> 00:16:27.640
the argument ultimately becomes this.

627
00:16:28.570 --> 00:16:32.120
You either get what the progressives would view as a fascist dictatorship,

628
00:16:32.450 --> 00:16:33.230
a revolution,

629
00:16:33.650 --> 00:16:36.070
or what the conservatives would describe as the

630
00:16:36.210 --> 00:16:38.520
dissolution of our borders and a communist revolution.

631
00:16:39.410 --> 00:16:39.990
If

632
00:16:40.330 --> 00:16:41.270
nobody fights.

633
00:16:41.610 --> 00:16:43.920
So if the conservatives simply just say we're

634
00:16:43.920 --> 00:16:45.530
gonna turn everything down and we're gonna stop,

635
00:16:45.650 --> 00:16:46.160
and we're gonna,

636
00:16:46.290 --> 00:16:49.070
we're gonna let them do what they're doing as they march to the streets,

637
00:16:49.290 --> 00:16:49.960
as they,

638
00:16:50.090 --> 00:16:50.240
you know,

639
00:16:50.370 --> 00:16:52.940
shoot and kill individuals like Aaron Danielson or Charlie Kirk,

640
00:16:53.280 --> 00:16:54.360
well then the end result,

641
00:16:54.530 --> 00:16:55.950
based on that arithmetic is

642
00:16:56.330 --> 00:16:57.050
you will get a,

643
00:16:57.130 --> 00:16:57.280
a,

644
00:16:57.330 --> 00:16:58.650
a democratic socialist,

645
00:16:58.810 --> 00:17:01.160
ultimately a socialist or communist revolution in this country.

646
00:17:01.500 --> 00:17:03.440
And from the argument of the progressives,

647
00:17:03.580 --> 00:17:06.599
if Trump is going to deploy the military to round up his political enemies

648
00:17:06.770 --> 00:17:07.560
and arrest

649
00:17:07.859 --> 00:17:10.040
migrants with the use of military force,

650
00:17:10.300 --> 00:17:11.770
then you'll get a fascist dictatorship.

651
00:17:12.900 --> 00:17:14.010
Now you can choose to fight,

652
00:17:14.300 --> 00:17:15.640
in which case you'd get a civil war.

653
00:17:15.740 --> 00:17:17.050
So I don't know what will happen.

654
00:17:17.130 --> 00:17:18.310
It's entirely possible

655
00:17:18.730 --> 00:17:18.930
that,

656
00:17:19.060 --> 00:17:19.329
uh,

657
00:17:19.619 --> 00:17:19.770
you know,

658
00:17:19.819 --> 00:17:19.930
I,

659
00:17:20.020 --> 00:17:23.210
I don't think we're gonna have a communist revolution or a fascist dictatorship.

660
00:17:23.280 --> 00:17:23.720
I think

661
00:17:24.140 --> 00:17:24.690
both of the,

662
00:17:24.780 --> 00:17:26.240
of the politically entrenched

663
00:17:26.460 --> 00:17:28.079
view it a bit more

664
00:17:28.980 --> 00:17:30.760
extreme than I think what we're actually witnessing.

665
00:17:31.060 --> 00:17:33.370
But I do think we are facing a dramatic transformation.

666
00:17:33.800 --> 00:17:36.970
And I don't know how it can be reconciled with the current

667
00:17:37.280 --> 00:17:39.800
existence of two distinct body politics.

668
00:17:40.160 --> 00:17:40.700
That is,

669
00:17:40.960 --> 00:17:43.590
Zoran Mamdani engaging in foreign affairs when

670
00:17:43.590 --> 00:17:45.320
he threatened the arrest of Netanyahu,

671
00:17:45.840 --> 00:17:47.390
overtly violates the Logan Act.

672
00:17:47.480 --> 00:17:50.500
Of course we're not going to see any law enforcement pertaining to the Logan Act

673
00:17:50.810 --> 00:17:51.950
against the mayor of New York,

674
00:17:52.080 --> 00:17:52.550
but it's

675
00:17:52.980 --> 00:17:53.300
pretty

676
00:17:53.400 --> 00:17:54.550
crazy to see a mayor.

677
00:17:54.980 --> 00:17:57.160
Threatened to arrest a foreign dignitary,

678
00:17:57.250 --> 00:17:58.550
which it's very strange.

679
00:17:58.690 --> 00:17:58.920
I don't,

680
00:17:59.010 --> 00:18:00.120
I don't see how with New York,

681
00:18:00.290 --> 00:18:00.770
Colorado,

682
00:18:00.890 --> 00:18:02.300
the rise of the DSA,

683
00:18:02.810 --> 00:18:03.000
I mean,

684
00:18:03.050 --> 00:18:05.440
the DSA is talking about abolishing the Senate,

685
00:18:05.810 --> 00:18:07.880
which is firmly in the Constitution and

686
00:18:07.880 --> 00:18:10.510
can only be abolished if the Constitution itself

687
00:18:10.770 --> 00:18:11.160
is,

688
00:18:11.370 --> 00:18:11.640
is,

689
00:18:11.770 --> 00:18:11.840
uh,

690
00:18:11.890 --> 00:18:12.160
uh,

691
00:18:12.550 --> 00:18:14.000
removed as the supreme law of the land.

692
00:18:14.770 --> 00:18:15.800
You have a

693
00:18:16.090 --> 00:18:17.640
political faction saying they wanna do that.

694
00:18:18.590 --> 00:18:18.660
No,

695
00:18:18.750 --> 00:18:20.480
I wanna uh kind of stop you there because I,

696
00:18:20.510 --> 00:18:21.490
I wanna move on

697
00:18:21.640 --> 00:18:23.300
to another claim that you had.

698
00:18:23.350 --> 00:18:25.920
I think it really will tie in to what you're saying now.

699
00:18:26.270 --> 00:18:26.420
Um,

700
00:18:26.520 --> 00:18:30.610
this claim of yours was that the mainstream political left commits more violence

701
00:18:30.750 --> 00:18:32.370
than the mainstream political right.

702
00:18:32.590 --> 00:18:32.660
Um,

703
00:18:32.750 --> 00:18:32.810
so,

704
00:18:32.830 --> 00:18:35.210
I'm gonna play a clip from a conversation you had with Mason.

705
00:18:35.310 --> 00:18:36.010
I think

706
00:18:36.190 --> 00:18:37.580
it really ties into what you're saying.

707
00:18:38.280 --> 00:18:40.020
There seems to be like a broader implication

708
00:18:40.020 --> 00:18:42.230
with your prompt that there's this domestic threat

709
00:18:42.390 --> 00:18:44.730
from mainstream left politicians

710
00:18:44.950 --> 00:18:46.260
like do you really think Hillary Clinton's

711
00:18:46.260 --> 00:18:48.150
like leading the Vanguard Revolution Party?

712
00:18:48.270 --> 00:18:48.610
Like

713
00:18:48.850 --> 00:18:50.060
what what what is your take?

714
00:18:50.390 --> 00:18:52.510
When you look at the violence that we do see

715
00:18:52.750 --> 00:18:53.700
uh there's it's it's.

716
00:18:53.850 --> 00:18:54.570
It's from,

717
00:18:54.670 --> 00:18:54.730
I,

718
00:18:54.830 --> 00:18:54.940
I,

719
00:18:55.030 --> 00:18:56.830
I describe it as from blunt to acute,

720
00:18:56.910 --> 00:18:57.650
which is

721
00:18:58.110 --> 00:18:59.120
with the fringe extreme right,

722
00:18:59.140 --> 00:19:00.130
you'll see extreme,

723
00:19:00.430 --> 00:19:00.570
uh,

724
00:19:00.750 --> 00:19:01.340
mass shootings.

725
00:19:01.390 --> 00:19:01.690
You'll see,

726
00:19:02.010 --> 00:19:02.150
you know,

727
00:19:02.230 --> 00:19:04.300
someone will show up and unload on people,

728
00:19:04.390 --> 00:19:05.060
things like that.

729
00:19:05.270 --> 00:19:05.820
On the left though,

730
00:19:05.870 --> 00:19:06.730
you'll see riots,

731
00:19:06.750 --> 00:19:08.860
vandalism that you don't see from the right,

732
00:19:08.990 --> 00:19:09.440
but

733
00:19:09.750 --> 00:19:11.650
The point I'm making is that when you break down

734
00:19:11.670 --> 00:19:15.010
the ideology that motivates individuals that commit political violence,

735
00:19:15.310 --> 00:19:17.620
there is more often an overlap

736
00:19:17.620 --> 00:19:20.130
between what the Democratic Party espouses ideologically

737
00:19:20.350 --> 00:19:23.710
and what we see in street level violence as well as maybe assassinations.

738
00:19:23.790 --> 00:19:25.460
What is what the Republicans would espouse.

739
00:19:25.750 --> 00:19:25.940
I mean,

740
00:19:25.990 --> 00:19:27.370
I couldn't disagree more.

741
00:19:27.510 --> 00:19:27.610
What,

742
00:19:27.670 --> 00:19:30.100
what ideologies that the Democratic Party is promoting

743
00:19:30.100 --> 00:19:31.420
that leads to these types of violence?

744
00:19:31.550 --> 00:19:34.860
Anytime you see an act of violence that's typically attributed to the left,

745
00:19:35.110 --> 00:19:35.980
it is immediately condemned.

746
00:19:36.110 --> 00:19:37.450
By every Democrat politician,

747
00:19:37.610 --> 00:19:39.840
you couldn't point to one that actually endorses that

748
00:19:40.010 --> 00:19:42.480
where you have somebody like Donald Trump who's literally the president of the

749
00:19:42.480 --> 00:19:46.790
United States saying that we should call for the death of congressional members

750
00:19:46.890 --> 00:19:48.600
who are fulfilling their civic duty and saying,

751
00:19:48.730 --> 00:19:48.960
hey,

752
00:19:49.130 --> 00:19:50.070
maybe you shouldn't,

753
00:19:50.090 --> 00:19:50.260
uh,

754
00:19:50.330 --> 00:19:52.760
fulfill illegal orders if you're in the military

755
00:19:52.890 --> 00:19:54.800
and Donald Trump's asking for them to be put to death.

756
00:19:54.970 --> 00:19:57.000
How is that not inciting violence?

757
00:19:57.100 --> 00:19:57.120
No,

758
00:19:57.250 --> 00:19:57.440
that is,

759
00:19:57.490 --> 00:19:58.530
that's absolutely terrifying.

760
00:19:58.600 --> 00:19:59.630
I completely disagree with that.

761
00:19:59.810 --> 00:19:59.890
My,

762
00:20:00.010 --> 00:20:01.770
my point more so is that when you see,

763
00:20:01.890 --> 00:20:02.250
say,

764
00:20:02.640 --> 00:20:04.660
The George Floyd or the BLM riots,

765
00:20:04.870 --> 00:20:05.940
you end up with

766
00:20:06.110 --> 00:20:08.500
Biden and Kamala themselves promoting fundraisers for

767
00:20:08.500 --> 00:20:10.180
those accused of committing these crimes.

768
00:20:10.510 --> 00:20:10.930
So

769
00:20:11.070 --> 00:20:15.010
you drew a distinction between what you called acute violence

770
00:20:15.230 --> 00:20:17.450
on the right and more sustained violence

771
00:20:17.750 --> 00:20:19.830
like riots and vandalism on the left.

772
00:20:19.990 --> 00:20:22.750
So why do you think that distinction matters?

773
00:20:22.910 --> 00:20:24.570
There are very few

774
00:20:25.150 --> 00:20:26.450
high profile

775
00:20:26.590 --> 00:20:28.890
right wing attacks relative to left.

776
00:20:29.870 --> 00:20:30.620
One is too many.

777
00:20:31.090 --> 00:20:31.200
Uh,

778
00:20:31.390 --> 00:20:32.470
so you see somebody,

779
00:20:32.620 --> 00:20:33.160
um,

780
00:20:33.530 --> 00:20:33.680
you know,

781
00:20:33.770 --> 00:20:34.950
go into a church and,

782
00:20:35.050 --> 00:20:35.160
you know,

783
00:20:35.290 --> 00:20:35.680
shoot up a,

784
00:20:35.770 --> 00:20:35.800
a,

785
00:20:35.890 --> 00:20:36.960
a black congregation.

786
00:20:37.920 --> 00:20:38.840
And I call that acute,

787
00:20:38.960 --> 00:20:39.460
meaning

788
00:20:39.880 --> 00:20:41.350
it is a singular instance of some of

789
00:20:41.350 --> 00:20:45.530
the most extreme violence and most detestable and evil

790
00:20:45.720 --> 00:20:46.540
that we could see.

791
00:20:46.800 --> 00:20:47.630
We want those to stop,

792
00:20:47.650 --> 00:20:48.260
obviously.

793
00:20:48.640 --> 00:20:52.420
On the left you'll see something like 3000 instances of

794
00:20:52.600 --> 00:20:53.800
people getting punched in the face,

795
00:20:53.920 --> 00:20:55.150
bashed over the head.

796
00:20:55.450 --> 00:20:56.140
Fires set,

797
00:20:56.250 --> 00:20:57.350
buildings destroyed.

798
00:20:57.790 --> 00:20:59.150
So blunt is,

799
00:20:59.380 --> 00:21:00.790
you get a lot of a little bit,

800
00:21:01.100 --> 00:21:04.480
which these stories typically don't individually make national news.

801
00:21:04.730 --> 00:21:07.010
And then with what we would call right-wing,

802
00:21:07.170 --> 00:21:07.750
you get

803
00:21:08.170 --> 00:21:08.960
rather extreme,

804
00:21:09.050 --> 00:21:10.710
a guy showing up with a gun and shooting a lot of people.

805
00:21:10.930 --> 00:21:11.120
However,

806
00:21:11.200 --> 00:21:11.440
there's a,

807
00:21:11.490 --> 00:21:12.440
there's a more important distinction,

808
00:21:12.490 --> 00:21:12.880
which was the,

809
00:21:12.970 --> 00:21:13.080
the,

810
00:21:13.170 --> 00:21:14.490
the core of the claim,

811
00:21:15.090 --> 00:21:15.750
is that

812
00:21:16.090 --> 00:21:18.500
I don't believe it's meaningful to tell a voter,

813
00:21:18.760 --> 00:21:20.400
the right is more violent.

814
00:21:20.840 --> 00:21:23.350
Because if we look at the Cato Institute

815
00:21:23.450 --> 00:21:24.400
or even the FBI,

816
00:21:24.870 --> 00:21:26.620
They're not referring to Charlie Kirk,

817
00:21:26.710 --> 00:21:29.420
they're not referring to Steven Crowder or Ben Shapiro.

818
00:21:29.690 --> 00:21:34.530
They're referring to an unnamed Grand Dragon of the Klan that no one's ever heard of.

819
00:21:34.990 --> 00:21:37.050
In one particular instance that got a lot of attention,

820
00:21:37.300 --> 00:21:39.290
I believe it was the Cato Institute that claimed

821
00:21:39.510 --> 00:21:39.930
a,

822
00:21:39.950 --> 00:21:43.610
a white supremacist who punched his wife and got arrested for it was an instance

823
00:21:43.750 --> 00:21:45.380
of white supremacist violence.

824
00:21:45.890 --> 00:21:46.000
Well,

825
00:21:46.090 --> 00:21:46.480
look,

826
00:21:46.730 --> 00:21:49.480
if the Republican Party says white supremacy is bad,

827
00:21:49.650 --> 00:21:52.750
and Charlie Kirk was kicking out white nationalists from his events,

828
00:21:52.850 --> 00:21:54.520
and Nick Fuentes was barred from,

829
00:21:54.660 --> 00:21:54.670
uh,

830
00:21:54.770 --> 00:21:56.150
he was barred from the RNC,

831
00:21:56.370 --> 00:21:57.040
from CPAC,

832
00:21:57.130 --> 00:21:58.510
from all these organizations,

833
00:21:59.010 --> 00:22:01.410
it's not meaningful to a voter to put

834
00:22:01.610 --> 00:22:04.280
those ideologies alongside the Republican Party.

835
00:22:04.730 --> 00:22:06.520
So when we talk about left and right,

836
00:22:06.850 --> 00:22:09.400
by all means you can include whatever elements you think are left and right,

837
00:22:09.490 --> 00:22:11.320
but I think when we're coming to a midterm in voting,

838
00:22:11.880 --> 00:22:12.250
We,

839
00:22:12.520 --> 00:22:15.120
we want to draw the distinction between the mainstream

840
00:22:15.320 --> 00:22:18.700
liberal and left and the mainstream conservative and right,

841
00:22:19.040 --> 00:22:19.910
in which case,

842
00:22:20.680 --> 00:22:22.630
You see almost no violence.

843
00:22:22.940 --> 00:22:23.070
There,

844
00:22:23.200 --> 00:22:23.430
there's,

845
00:22:23.520 --> 00:22:24.230
there's zero

846
00:22:24.380 --> 00:22:27.580
instances of Charlie Kirk's supporters following his death going around

847
00:22:27.750 --> 00:22:28.670
smashing windows,

848
00:22:28.800 --> 00:22:30.200
setting fires or murdering people.

849
00:22:30.440 --> 00:22:30.750
In fact,

850
00:22:30.840 --> 00:22:34.130
there's an estimate of between 24 and 34 murders

851
00:22:34.280 --> 00:22:36.830
that took place following the killing of George Floyd,

852
00:22:37.040 --> 00:22:40.140
who was not even a prominent political activist.

853
00:22:40.640 --> 00:22:42.390
It is an objective fact,

854
00:22:42.480 --> 00:22:42.990
and this is what's,

855
00:22:43.040 --> 00:22:44.030
what's fascinating to me in,

856
00:22:44.080 --> 00:22:44.980
in the whole debate.

857
00:22:45.560 --> 00:22:47.350
When you look at just news articles.

858
00:22:47.850 --> 00:22:48.060
So,

859
00:22:48.160 --> 00:22:48.310
uh,

860
00:22:48.480 --> 00:22:48.870
my company,

861
00:22:48.940 --> 00:22:50.580
we did an analysis tracking just

862
00:22:50.800 --> 00:22:51.310
ABC,

863
00:22:51.400 --> 00:22:51.990
New York Times,

864
00:22:52.080 --> 00:22:52.470
NBC,

865
00:22:52.560 --> 00:22:53.180
CBS,

866
00:22:53.400 --> 00:22:57.710
and we found over 465 instances of high profile,

867
00:22:58.000 --> 00:22:59.870
what one could describe as terrorism

868
00:23:00.200 --> 00:23:02.500
over the past 10 years coming from the left,

869
00:23:02.680 --> 00:23:03.620
and one

870
00:23:03.720 --> 00:23:04.270
coming from the right.

871
00:23:04.360 --> 00:23:04.490
Now I,

872
00:23:04.600 --> 00:23:05.860
I wanna clarify what that means.

873
00:23:06.240 --> 00:23:10.060
I'm not talking about fringe anti-government communist revolutionaries,

874
00:23:10.360 --> 00:23:14.310
and I am not talking about fringe white nationalists and ultra-nationalists.

875
00:23:14.680 --> 00:23:17.170
I am talking about individuals who are motivated by an

876
00:23:17.170 --> 00:23:20.990
ideological cause espoused by the Democrat or Republican Party.

877
00:23:21.400 --> 00:23:21.590
That is

878
00:23:22.440 --> 00:23:23.060
who comes out

879
00:23:23.200 --> 00:23:24.760
and says Elon Musk

880
00:23:24.960 --> 00:23:25.150
is,

881
00:23:25.240 --> 00:23:25.550
is,

882
00:23:25.640 --> 00:23:25.830
is,

883
00:23:25.920 --> 00:23:26.550
is bad,

884
00:23:26.760 --> 00:23:27.720
he's got to be stopped,

885
00:23:27.880 --> 00:23:29.070
he should not have this money,

886
00:23:29.160 --> 00:23:32.700
and then people take guns and go and unload on Tesla vehicles.

887
00:23:32.960 --> 00:23:35.260
That is motivated by an overlapping ideology.

888
00:23:35.560 --> 00:23:38.430
But we have not seen free speech activists wearing Charlie Kirk

889
00:23:38.430 --> 00:23:42.100
shirts going around and shooting up campuses or setting fires.

890
00:23:43.800 --> 00:23:46.420
Would you say that one of the biggest,

891
00:23:46.640 --> 00:23:46.910
uh,

892
00:23:47.000 --> 00:23:49.690
riots in modern history was at our nation's Capitol

893
00:23:50.080 --> 00:23:51.030
on January 6th,

894
00:23:51.160 --> 00:23:51.230
uh,

895
00:23:51.360 --> 00:23:52.950
where government officials.

896
00:23:53.170 --> 00:23:55.500
And police officers and anyone who got in their way

897
00:23:55.720 --> 00:23:58.710
were under attack by the right and then pardoned by Trump.

898
00:23:58.890 --> 00:24:00.260
So do you feel that,

899
00:24:00.520 --> 00:24:00.710
you know,

900
00:24:00.800 --> 00:24:04.700
him pardoning those people kind of embolden the right and

901
00:24:05.030 --> 00:24:06.740
has been one of the most violent

902
00:24:06.980 --> 00:24:08.950
riots in our modern history?

903
00:24:09.200 --> 00:24:09.270
Well,

904
00:24:09.360 --> 00:24:10.680
the January 6th was not.

905
00:24:11.050 --> 00:24:12.560
One of the most violent riots in our,

906
00:24:12.650 --> 00:24:13.380
in our history

907
00:24:13.610 --> 00:24:14.560
by the numbers in

908
00:24:14.760 --> 00:24:15.050
modern,

909
00:24:15.130 --> 00:24:15.750
in modern.

910
00:24:16.010 --> 00:24:16.040
No,

911
00:24:16.130 --> 00:24:16.200
it,

912
00:24:16.410 --> 00:24:17.150
it still isn't.

913
00:24:17.250 --> 00:24:17.710
First of all,

914
00:24:17.730 --> 00:24:20.120
obviously January 6th is abhorrent and it's,

915
00:24:20.690 --> 00:24:21.280
I think if you,

916
00:24:21.370 --> 00:24:22.560
if you line up,

917
00:24:22.730 --> 00:24:22.920
uh,

918
00:24:23.050 --> 00:24:24.430
if you compare January 6th

919
00:24:24.580 --> 00:24:27.160
to 90+% of what we've seen from progressives,

920
00:24:27.220 --> 00:24:28.240
it's just worse.

921
00:24:28.610 --> 00:24:28.680
Right?

922
00:24:28.770 --> 00:24:29.190
You had,

923
00:24:29.330 --> 00:24:29.480
uh,

924
00:24:29.610 --> 00:24:30.790
an estimate of,

925
00:24:31.250 --> 00:24:32.600
I think you had between 1000 and

926
00:24:32.600 --> 00:24:34.480
2000 individuals who actually entered the building.

927
00:24:34.860 --> 00:24:37.890
You had an estimate of around 800 to 1000 who

928
00:24:37.890 --> 00:24:40.690
were engaged in some kind of violence against the police.

929
00:24:40.980 --> 00:24:42.090
All of that is very,

930
00:24:42.160 --> 00:24:42.830
very bad.

931
00:24:42.940 --> 00:24:46.880
I don't think when you compare this to what we've seen going back 10 years

932
00:24:47.060 --> 00:24:47.770
in modern history,

933
00:24:47.900 --> 00:24:48.310
it's

934
00:24:48.880 --> 00:24:50.140
It's gonna fall somewhere,

935
00:24:50.400 --> 00:24:50.550
uh,

936
00:24:50.640 --> 00:24:52.390
in the middle of the bulk of the riots,

937
00:24:52.480 --> 00:24:52.940
if we're just,

938
00:24:53.040 --> 00:24:53.190
uh,

939
00:24:53.270 --> 00:24:53.430
uh,

940
00:24:53.660 --> 00:24:54.270
comparing riots.

941
00:24:54.320 --> 00:24:56.590
But the reason why I say it's worse is because it was at our Capitol,

942
00:24:56.680 --> 00:24:58.030
it obstructed our,

943
00:24:58.100 --> 00:24:58.310
our,

944
00:24:58.380 --> 00:25:00.020
our constitutional processes,

945
00:25:00.320 --> 00:25:01.470
and that makes it substantially worse.

946
00:25:01.490 --> 00:25:02.590
In terms of damage,

947
00:25:02.880 --> 00:25:03.600
violence,

948
00:25:03.880 --> 00:25:04.580
injuries,

949
00:25:05.240 --> 00:25:06.150
it's actually not.

950
00:25:06.200 --> 00:25:06.300
In,

951
00:25:06.400 --> 00:25:06.790
in fact,

952
00:25:06.960 --> 00:25:07.110
uh,

953
00:25:07.280 --> 00:25:08.430
one thing that's often overlooked,

954
00:25:08.480 --> 00:25:09.010
which is

955
00:25:09.820 --> 00:25:12.020
I find it to be frustrating is the M29

956
00:25:12.180 --> 00:25:14.210
insurrection that we saw in DC.

957
00:25:14.660 --> 00:25:15.950
We had several 1000

958
00:25:16.340 --> 00:25:17.440
far leftists

959
00:25:17.940 --> 00:25:18.960
beating police,

960
00:25:19.180 --> 00:25:20.230
over 100

961
00:25:20.660 --> 00:25:21.720
federal officers

962
00:25:22.020 --> 00:25:22.680
injured.

963
00:25:23.020 --> 00:25:25.540
They tore the barricades down at the White House,

964
00:25:25.740 --> 00:25:28.070
threw firebombs on the White House grounds,

965
00:25:28.260 --> 00:25:30.240
and set fire to Saint John's Church.

966
00:25:30.500 --> 00:25:33.560
The president was forced into an emergency bunker where he,

967
00:25:34.060 --> 00:25:34.130
I,

968
00:25:34.260 --> 00:25:34.330
I,

969
00:25:34.460 --> 00:25:37.770
I would describe it as embarrassingly pretended like he wasn't.

970
00:25:38.200 --> 00:25:40.800
But he was called in the media bunker boy,

971
00:25:41.080 --> 00:25:43.420
having been forced into the emergency bunker.

972
00:25:43.720 --> 00:25:45.200
Now nobody breached the White House,

973
00:25:45.520 --> 00:25:47.830
but they did set fire to a historic American church,

974
00:25:47.880 --> 00:25:48.700
which is terrifying.

975
00:25:49.040 --> 00:25:50.470
Had they actually breached the,

976
00:25:50.560 --> 00:25:50.710
the,

977
00:25:50.760 --> 00:25:51.510
the fencing,

978
00:25:51.800 --> 00:25:54.070
we would call that one of the darkest days in American history.

979
00:25:54.400 --> 00:25:54.470
Now,

980
00:25:54.560 --> 00:25:55.420
now the question is,

981
00:25:55.640 --> 00:25:57.940
why did we not get any hearings on this?

982
00:25:58.320 --> 00:26:01.480
There were substantially more injuries on that day than we saw on January 6th,

983
00:26:01.600 --> 00:26:02.350
but don't get me wrong,

984
00:26:02.390 --> 00:26:03.760
it's not to excuse January 6th,

985
00:26:03.840 --> 00:26:04.860
it's all bad.

986
00:26:05.080 --> 00:26:05.660
It's just,

987
00:26:05.840 --> 00:26:06.710
for whatever reason,

988
00:26:07.370 --> 00:26:08.160
Progressives

989
00:26:08.490 --> 00:26:09.420
don't care

990
00:26:09.620 --> 00:26:11.880
about the M29 insurrection at the White House.

991
00:26:12.140 --> 00:26:12.950
I'm going to stress this.

992
00:26:13.130 --> 00:26:14.510
They ripped the barricades down.

993
00:26:14.610 --> 00:26:16.790
They threw firebombs on the White House grounds

994
00:26:16.930 --> 00:26:18.640
and set fire to the church across the street.

995
00:26:18.730 --> 00:26:19.870
This was terrifying

996
00:26:20.050 --> 00:26:20.680
for me and my,

997
00:26:20.700 --> 00:26:20.960
my,

998
00:26:21.050 --> 00:26:22.390
my friends and family who live

999
00:26:22.560 --> 00:26:23.720
just outside of DC,

1000
00:26:24.090 --> 00:26:25.400
but it's remarkable that

1001
00:26:25.600 --> 00:26:27.180
the Republicans don't seem to care

1002
00:26:27.290 --> 00:26:29.040
and the Democrats don't seem to care and the progressives,

1003
00:26:29.090 --> 00:26:29.280
I think,

1004
00:26:29.550 --> 00:26:30.150
supported it.

1005
00:26:30.570 --> 00:26:31.590
Now as for the pardons,

1006
00:26:31.800 --> 00:26:33.640
there's a very important distinction here.

1007
00:26:34.630 --> 00:26:38.530
What we were looking at with the criminal charges on January 6th is,

1008
00:26:38.830 --> 00:26:39.030
first,

1009
00:26:39.070 --> 00:26:40.860
let me just say anybody who attacked a cop,

1010
00:26:40.950 --> 00:26:41.730
tore the barricades down,

1011
00:26:41.750 --> 00:26:43.090
and stormed the Capitol deserved prison.

1012
00:26:44.110 --> 00:26:45.010
And they got it.

1013
00:26:45.220 --> 00:26:45.490
In fact,

1014
00:26:45.620 --> 00:26:49.560
many of these people got solitary confinement on and off for 3 years.

1015
00:26:50.040 --> 00:26:53.950
The question that I ask for anybody who's concerned about those pardons is simple.

1016
00:26:54.500 --> 00:26:56.050
How much time in prison

1017
00:26:56.400 --> 00:26:57.550
should an individual

1018
00:26:57.670 --> 00:27:00.700
who rioted at the Capitol and attacked a police officer get?

1019
00:27:01.070 --> 00:27:02.010
This is not a gotcha.

1020
00:27:02.320 --> 00:27:03.490
This is not a,

1021
00:27:03.750 --> 00:27:05.330
it's a legitimate question.

1022
00:27:05.800 --> 00:27:06.570
Now I think

1023
00:27:06.870 --> 00:27:08.570
reasonably what I would argue is

1024
00:27:08.870 --> 00:27:12.100
if you were one of the leftist rioters at the White House on May 29th,

1025
00:27:12.190 --> 00:27:12.860
2020.

1026
00:27:13.220 --> 00:27:15.730
And you were one of the people who injured one of these officers,

1027
00:27:15.980 --> 00:27:17.960
I would argue that a year or two in federal

1028
00:27:17.960 --> 00:27:21.280
prison probably is enough time for the crime you committed.

1029
00:27:22.070 --> 00:27:23.220
For the J-6ers,

1030
00:27:23.470 --> 00:27:26.450
you had individuals who actually never even fought police,

1031
00:27:26.590 --> 00:27:28.380
who got 1 to 2 years in prison.

1032
00:27:28.790 --> 00:27:29.990
So herein lies the problem.

1033
00:27:30.270 --> 00:27:32.680
The Capitol Police set up offices around the country,

1034
00:27:32.950 --> 00:27:35.420
they wrongly raided innocent individuals' home.

1035
00:27:35.470 --> 00:27:36.520
There was a woman in Alaska,

1036
00:27:36.830 --> 00:27:40.270
they raided her home and and arrested her even though she was not even in the Capitol,

1037
00:27:40.670 --> 00:27:42.360
only to later realize their mistake.

1038
00:27:42.750 --> 00:27:44.980
Now you had hundreds of those cases.

1039
00:27:45.500 --> 00:27:47.650
So the challenge presented on the right

1040
00:27:47.860 --> 00:27:48.730
is that first,

1041
00:27:48.770 --> 00:27:52.240
the rioters who attacked police were already in prison for 3 years,

1042
00:27:52.610 --> 00:27:54.030
probably long enough.

1043
00:27:54.460 --> 00:27:57.600
The rest of these people who got misdemeanor trespass charges,

1044
00:27:57.780 --> 00:28:00.660
some were put in solitary and some were in prison for over 1 year.

1045
00:28:01.100 --> 00:28:02.160
My opinion is

1046
00:28:02.460 --> 00:28:04.360
when you have a process this tainted,

1047
00:28:04.580 --> 00:28:06.010
the pardons are warranted.

1048
00:28:06.340 --> 00:28:08.670
And if there is a complaint over some of these bad

1049
00:28:08.670 --> 00:28:11.730
people being parted to later on got arrested for other crimes,

1050
00:28:11.860 --> 00:28:12.680
the issue is

1051
00:28:12.820 --> 00:28:15.960
when you blanket over 1000 to 2000 people,

1052
00:28:16.220 --> 00:28:18.670
some of whom were peaceful and entered the building

1053
00:28:18.820 --> 00:28:21.170
from the other side where there was no riot.

1054
00:28:21.620 --> 00:28:24.520
You've created a serious conflict in this country

1055
00:28:24.820 --> 00:28:25.770
to lower the temperature,

1056
00:28:25.900 --> 00:28:27.420
I believe a mass pardon is warranted,

1057
00:28:27.700 --> 00:28:30.530
just like we saw in the early days of this country.

1058
00:28:31.290 --> 00:28:32.390
When there were many individuals

1059
00:28:32.570 --> 00:28:33.840
who fought in an early war,

1060
00:28:33.890 --> 00:28:34.760
I believe it was Jefferson,

1061
00:28:34.930 --> 00:28:36.120
issued a blanket pardon

1062
00:28:36.370 --> 00:28:39.150
for a bunch of farmers who were rebelling against the government,

1063
00:28:39.410 --> 00:28:40.360
the argument being,

1064
00:28:40.830 --> 00:28:41.000
OK,

1065
00:28:41.090 --> 00:28:42.040
we've arrested these people,

1066
00:28:42.130 --> 00:28:43.310
we've taken from them.

1067
00:28:43.930 --> 00:28:46.550
If we are going to lock up thousands of people,

1068
00:28:46.690 --> 00:28:48.650
you are going to turn the temperature way up.

1069
00:28:48.890 --> 00:28:50.790
I would make the same argument for those

1070
00:28:50.930 --> 00:28:52.570
on May 29th and 2020

1071
00:28:52.770 --> 00:28:54.360
that had they been in prison and many

1072
00:28:54.360 --> 00:28:56.670
of them in solitary confinement for three years,

1073
00:28:56.810 --> 00:28:58.490
I would also advocate for their release.

1074
00:28:59.640 --> 00:28:59.830
Well,

1075
00:29:00.040 --> 00:29:01.620
where do you draw the line between,

1076
00:29:01.960 --> 00:29:02.110
you know,

1077
00:29:02.160 --> 00:29:04.420
a politician expressing support

1078
00:29:04.670 --> 00:29:06.440
for a movement or

1079
00:29:06.680 --> 00:29:08.070
a riot insurrection

1080
00:29:08.240 --> 00:29:12.180
and then being responsible for the violence committed by the people

1081
00:29:12.400 --> 00:29:13.330
in that movement?

1082
00:29:13.640 --> 00:29:13.730
Yeah,

1083
00:29:13.800 --> 00:29:13.990
I don't,

1084
00:29:14.080 --> 00:29:15.180
I don't hold any of these,

1085
00:29:15.240 --> 00:29:15.590
uh,

1086
00:29:15.680 --> 00:29:16.100
uh,

1087
00:29:16.320 --> 00:29:16.470
you know,

1088
00:29:16.740 --> 00:29:17.550
all these Democrats,

1089
00:29:17.600 --> 00:29:17.710
you know,

1090
00:29:17.800 --> 00:29:19.340
Elizabeth Warren being a great example.

1091
00:29:19.760 --> 00:29:21.540
She is allowed to express her opinion,

1092
00:29:21.800 --> 00:29:23.260
and I appreciate that she does.

1093
00:29:23.360 --> 00:29:26.640
She holds no responsibility if someone who agrees with her worldview

1094
00:29:27.000 --> 00:29:27.950
decides to be violent.

1095
00:29:28.370 --> 00:29:30.840
Because all of these Democrats have denounced violence,

1096
00:29:30.930 --> 00:29:32.030
and I'm glad that they do,

1097
00:29:32.330 --> 00:29:36.470
and I don't respect Donald Trump coming out and threatening the death penalty,

1098
00:29:36.770 --> 00:29:36.880
uh,

1099
00:29:37.130 --> 00:29:37.720
against these,

1100
00:29:37.810 --> 00:29:39.600
these Democrats who are saying do not,

1101
00:29:39.730 --> 00:29:39.840
uh,

1102
00:29:40.010 --> 00:29:40.200
you know,

1103
00:29:40.290 --> 00:29:41.730
do not obey illegal orders.

1104
00:29:41.930 --> 00:29:42.560
There are a lot of,

1105
00:29:42.700 --> 00:29:43.040
uh,

1106
00:29:43.410 --> 00:29:44.120
political arguments,

1107
00:29:44.210 --> 00:29:44.640
but I,

1108
00:29:44.730 --> 00:29:47.720
I don't think this country has served with what Trump said.

1109
00:29:48.020 --> 00:29:48.120
Uh,

1110
00:29:48.210 --> 00:29:48.880
that being said,

1111
00:29:49.460 --> 00:29:50.880
The point I'm making is that

1112
00:29:51.490 --> 00:29:52.540
mainstream

1113
00:29:52.780 --> 00:29:55.450
run of the mill conservatives and moderates are not picking

1114
00:29:55.450 --> 00:29:58.760
up guns and Molotovs because of the things Republicans say

1115
00:29:59.100 --> 00:30:00.020
for the most part.

1116
00:30:00.310 --> 00:30:01.690
January 6th involved,

1117
00:30:01.740 --> 00:30:05.250
I think there were a couple of individuals who were arrested on gun possession in DC.

1118
00:30:05.700 --> 00:30:08.210
Most of them did not have firearms or explosives.

1119
00:30:08.740 --> 00:30:09.930
But then we see with the left.

1120
00:30:10.850 --> 00:30:12.350
I mean you can see the motivations

1121
00:30:12.620 --> 00:30:14.260
for the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

1122
00:30:14.650 --> 00:30:16.480
By all means there are many people who are

1123
00:30:16.480 --> 00:30:18.520
claiming that Israel or the government killed him,

1124
00:30:18.610 --> 00:30:19.000
but

1125
00:30:19.170 --> 00:30:20.680
if we're going just by positive evidence,

1126
00:30:20.770 --> 00:30:22.450
this is a guy who said he was hateful,

1127
00:30:22.650 --> 00:30:23.480
and so he killed him.

1128
00:30:23.820 --> 00:30:27.470
I think a better example is the he wasn't necessarily tied to the left,

1129
00:30:27.760 --> 00:30:28.660
progressives or

1130
00:30:29.060 --> 00:30:32.540
Tyler Robinson was motivated according to the evidence released by

1131
00:30:32.740 --> 00:30:34.650
by uh Charlie Kirk having spread hate.

1132
00:30:35.300 --> 00:30:35.910
To put it simply,

1133
00:30:36.020 --> 00:30:39.400
if you are in a relationship with a non-binary individual,

1134
00:30:39.820 --> 00:30:39.930
uh,

1135
00:30:40.080 --> 00:30:43.800
a claim Charlie Kirk is a is is spreading hate and then decide to go and end his life,

1136
00:30:44.020 --> 00:30:46.610
I don't think we can say that person is a moderate or conservative.

1137
00:30:46.660 --> 00:30:46.810
This is,

1138
00:30:46.900 --> 00:30:47.280
this is,

1139
00:30:47.420 --> 00:30:48.890
this is an ideology that is,

1140
00:30:49.140 --> 00:30:50.010
let me put it very simply.

1141
00:30:50.920 --> 00:30:54.110
If all Tyler Robinson ever said was this man

1142
00:30:54.110 --> 00:30:56.150
spreads hate and that's all we knew about him,

1143
00:30:56.520 --> 00:30:56.960
I could say,

1144
00:30:57.040 --> 00:30:57.570
OK,

1145
00:30:58.160 --> 00:31:01.870
AOC said the exact same thing in the halls of Congress after Charlie was murdered.

1146
00:31:02.240 --> 00:31:02.910
That is an

1147
00:31:03.160 --> 00:31:04.290
ideological overlap.

1148
00:31:04.400 --> 00:31:07.790
I'm not suggesting AOC wanted Charlie Kirk dead or advocates for violence.

1149
00:31:08.160 --> 00:31:10.420
I am saying that when Charlie Kirk came out and said

1150
00:31:10.600 --> 00:31:12.360
we should defend free speech,

1151
00:31:12.640 --> 00:31:14.460
no one showed up and shot

1152
00:31:14.840 --> 00:31:16.220
an Antifa protester

1153
00:31:16.400 --> 00:31:17.630
for advocating against it.

1154
00:31:17.760 --> 00:31:19.300
We don't see those instances.

1155
00:31:19.520 --> 00:31:20.940
So I'll put it like this

1156
00:31:21.400 --> 00:31:23.240
the George Floyd riots or the BLM riots,

1157
00:31:23.520 --> 00:31:24.320
however you want to describe it,

1158
00:31:24.360 --> 00:31:27.260
in 2020 were considered to be some of the worst riots we had seen

1159
00:31:27.400 --> 00:31:28.740
in 50 years.

1160
00:31:29.160 --> 00:31:33.460
There's an estimated 24 to 34 deaths depending on how people want to calculate

1161
00:31:33.990 --> 00:31:34.390
these murders.

1162
00:31:34.520 --> 00:31:35.350
One was

1163
00:31:36.080 --> 00:31:36.510
David Dorn,

1164
00:31:36.560 --> 00:31:37.750
a retired police officer.

1165
00:31:38.260 --> 00:31:41.320
He went to his friend's pawn shop and took a bullet to the chest.

1166
00:31:41.700 --> 00:31:44.410
These were rioters that were out in the street for an ideological cause.

1167
00:31:44.460 --> 00:31:46.420
I know many of them were just exploiting that cause,

1168
00:31:46.580 --> 00:31:47.440
but here's the issue.

1169
00:31:47.780 --> 00:31:51.250
As many of these individuals set fire to buildings and were arrested for it,

1170
00:31:51.580 --> 00:31:53.220
Kamala Harris and Joe Biden,

1171
00:31:54.420 --> 00:31:55.360
Personally

1172
00:31:55.540 --> 00:31:57.930
solicited donations on their behalf.

1173
00:31:58.250 --> 00:32:00.820
Now you've got to hold people responsible

1174
00:32:00.980 --> 00:32:02.960
if they are providing money

1175
00:32:03.300 --> 00:32:04.970
for those who committed these crimes.

1176
00:32:05.060 --> 00:32:06.170
And absolutely

1177
00:32:06.620 --> 00:32:06.810
when,

1178
00:32:06.900 --> 00:32:08.600
when you have people on the right

1179
00:32:08.780 --> 00:32:11.250
that were advocating that people who are beating

1180
00:32:11.250 --> 00:32:12.810
cops on January 6th shouldn't go to jail,

1181
00:32:13.100 --> 00:32:14.730
they should be called out all the same.

1182
00:32:15.320 --> 00:32:15.820
But

1183
00:32:15.920 --> 00:32:17.680
I will just stress in this capacity,

1184
00:32:18.040 --> 00:32:18.940
we have,

1185
00:32:19.080 --> 00:32:19.230
uh,

1186
00:32:19.320 --> 00:32:22.660
some 465 tracked incidents over the past 10 years,

1187
00:32:22.880 --> 00:32:24.220
and a consistent

1188
00:32:24.360 --> 00:32:25.830
defense from Democrats

1189
00:32:26.120 --> 00:32:27.750
over the individuals accused.

1190
00:32:27.960 --> 00:32:30.750
While I'm not going to accuse any Democrats of coming out and saying explicitly,

1191
00:32:30.870 --> 00:32:31.710
go be violent,

1192
00:32:32.040 --> 00:32:34.020
we have numerous instances where they have,

1193
00:32:34.160 --> 00:32:34.280
they have,

1194
00:32:34.400 --> 00:32:35.580
they have a famous quote,

1195
00:32:35.920 --> 00:32:36.580
It is,

1196
00:32:37.120 --> 00:32:39.310
respect the diversity of tactics.

1197
00:32:39.870 --> 00:32:41.410
And what that means is

1198
00:32:41.710 --> 00:32:41.860
the,

1199
00:32:41.950 --> 00:32:44.700
the surface level term that most people would take it to mean is

1200
00:32:45.030 --> 00:32:47.460
if somebody is going to engage in violence.

1201
00:32:48.030 --> 00:32:50.090
For the benefit of a left cause,

1202
00:32:50.310 --> 00:32:51.650
we have nothing to do with it,

1203
00:32:51.790 --> 00:32:53.180
and we are going to stay out of it.

1204
00:32:53.890 --> 00:32:54.260
At

1205
00:32:54.370 --> 00:32:54.920
worst,

1206
00:32:55.250 --> 00:32:59.270
what we see in these protests are that organizers who claim to be peaceful

1207
00:32:59.570 --> 00:33:03.840
will instruct their facilitators to respect the diversity of tactics,

1208
00:33:03.890 --> 00:33:07.760
which means stand down and allow them to be violent.

1209
00:33:07.970 --> 00:33:08.630
It's their

1210
00:33:08.790 --> 00:33:09.730
diverse tactic.

1211
00:33:09.850 --> 00:33:10.510
We don't see

1212
00:33:10.690 --> 00:33:12.150
any of that among conservatives.

1213
00:33:12.370 --> 00:33:12.800
I hear you.

1214
00:33:12.860 --> 00:33:16.240
I kind of want to pivot a little bit into our next clip

1215
00:33:16.360 --> 00:33:17.880
for the next your next claim.

1216
00:33:18.170 --> 00:33:22.120
It was that the Democratic Party has embraced authoritarianism.

1217
00:33:22.630 --> 00:33:22.860
Um,

1218
00:33:23.030 --> 00:33:26.020
because I also think it ties in nicely to what you are talking about.

1219
00:33:26.150 --> 00:33:27.920
You had a conversation with David.

1220
00:33:28.270 --> 00:33:29.570
Support to recognize that

1221
00:33:29.670 --> 00:33:31.900
a simply I condemn is not sufficient when

1222
00:33:31.900 --> 00:33:34.410
the Republican Party has created a permission structure

1223
00:33:34.710 --> 00:33:36.350
for individuals to go out and do violence

1224
00:33:36.590 --> 00:33:36.890
against,

1225
00:33:36.990 --> 00:33:38.380
I'm about to tell you with impunity.

1226
00:33:38.460 --> 00:33:40.400
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is a good example.

1227
00:33:40.690 --> 00:33:40.850
Trump

1228
00:33:41.110 --> 00:33:41.250
administration.

1229
00:33:41.740 --> 00:33:42.480
The Trump administration,

1230
00:33:43.500 --> 00:33:43.680
you know,

1231
00:33:43.700 --> 00:33:45.280
they lost in the courts 10,000 times,

1232
00:33:45.340 --> 00:33:45.530
right?

1233
00:33:45.780 --> 00:33:46.370
That's not true.

1234
00:33:46.540 --> 00:33:46.970
It is true.

1235
00:33:47.180 --> 00:33:48.450
Politico actually released a report on it.

1236
00:33:48.540 --> 00:33:48.570
Yeah,

1237
00:33:48.660 --> 00:33:49.570
they lost 10,000 times

1238
00:33:49.730 --> 00:33:50.510
like 10,000

1239
00:33:50.700 --> 00:33:52.320
murdered numerous American citizens,

1240
00:33:52.380 --> 00:33:54.450
and guess what happened to the individuals that carried out those killings?

1241
00:33:54.500 --> 00:33:55.080
What happened to them?

1242
00:33:55.140 --> 00:33:55.530
What happened to them?

1243
00:33:55.580 --> 00:33:57.050
Have they been prosecuted in any investigations,

1244
00:33:57.140 --> 00:33:57.530
do you know?

1245
00:33:57.780 --> 00:33:59.000
I believe they have not.

1246
00:33:59.540 --> 00:33:59.920
Why?

1247
00:34:00.370 --> 00:34:02.200
It's almost as if when you commit violence,

1248
00:34:02.690 --> 00:34:04.150
you're going to be protected.

1249
00:34:04.330 --> 00:34:05.080
That's what's going on.

1250
00:34:05.130 --> 00:34:06.550
That's why Christie No went out and said

1251
00:34:06.650 --> 00:34:08.040
that Alex Freddy was a domestic terrorist.

1252
00:34:08.130 --> 00:34:09.590
That's why Stephen Miller said the same thing.

1253
00:34:09.690 --> 00:34:11.800
And everybody in the entire Republican Party apparatus is

1254
00:34:11.800 --> 00:34:14.219
echoing those talking points because whenever there's violence,

1255
00:34:14.429 --> 00:34:14.679
they,

1256
00:34:14.770 --> 00:34:15.489
they don't condemn it.

1257
00:34:15.510 --> 00:34:16.400
They condone it.

1258
00:34:16.530 --> 00:34:16.710
They,

1259
00:34:16.810 --> 00:34:18.679
they congratulate it and they pardon it.

1260
00:34:18.889 --> 00:34:22.080
Law enforcement duly elected by a by a population that voted in

1261
00:34:22.080 --> 00:34:24.550
plurality for ICE to go out and engage in these kill American

1262
00:34:24.690 --> 00:34:25.080
citizens,

1263
00:34:25.210 --> 00:34:25.760
which sometimes,

1264
00:34:25.810 --> 00:34:25.960
yes,

1265
00:34:26.050 --> 00:34:26.630
absolutely.

1266
00:34:26.730 --> 00:34:27.040
And oh,

1267
00:34:27.090 --> 00:34:28.920
they voted for ICE to kill American citizens,

1268
00:34:28.969 --> 00:34:29.280
really?

1269
00:34:29.489 --> 00:34:29.800
Yes.

1270
00:34:31.370 --> 00:34:31.560
Do you,

1271
00:34:31.650 --> 00:34:31.840
do you,

1272
00:34:31.929 --> 00:34:32.120
do you,

1273
00:34:32.219 --> 00:34:32.280
the,

1274
00:34:32.400 --> 00:34:33.159
the average Republican,

1275
00:34:33.250 --> 00:34:35.159
I don't think they're that who said the average Republican would vote,

1276
00:34:35.250 --> 00:34:36.520
but do you not believe that there are people in

1277
00:34:36.520 --> 00:34:38.409
this country that would vote for ICE to harm people?

1278
00:34:38.929 --> 00:34:39.310
Is that your,

1279
00:34:39.449 --> 00:34:40.199
is this your argument?

1280
00:34:40.330 --> 00:34:41.810
Do you believe this is terrible.

1281
00:34:42.460 --> 00:34:45.800
So you think not a single person in this country wants to harm illegal relevance.

1282
00:34:45.820 --> 00:34:47.000
We're talking about the fact that there is

1283
00:34:47.000 --> 00:34:49.679
a top-down approach by Republicans like Donald Trump.

1284
00:34:49.889 --> 00:34:50.800
Can I ask you the question again?

1285
00:34:51.090 --> 00:34:51.610
Can you answer?

1286
00:34:51.770 --> 00:34:53.150
Can you answer the question and allow it to happen,

1287
00:34:53.290 --> 00:34:54.120
foment violence.

1288
00:34:54.280 --> 00:34:54.550
Can you,

1289
00:34:54.639 --> 00:34:55.940
can you answer you're running cover for it.

1290
00:34:56.070 --> 00:34:56.429
Can you

1291
00:34:56.909 --> 00:34:57.170
actually,

1292
00:34:57.190 --> 00:34:57.750
you just did.

1293
00:34:57.870 --> 00:34:57.940
No,

1294
00:34:57.990 --> 00:34:58.340
I didn't.

1295
00:34:58.470 --> 00:34:58.540
See,

1296
00:34:58.590 --> 00:34:58.890
I'm,

1297
00:34:59.190 --> 00:35:00.420
I'm pointing at ICE violence.

1298
00:35:00.470 --> 00:35:02.050
You're saying that people vote for it or whatever.

1299
00:35:02.150 --> 00:35:03.630
You don't think that there are white supremacists

1300
00:35:03.630 --> 00:35:05.610
voting for ICE to go and harm migrants.

1301
00:35:05.630 --> 00:35:07.260
Are you saying that white supremacists voted for

1302
00:35:07.260 --> 00:35:08.740
Donald Trump so they could kill migrants?

1303
00:35:08.790 --> 00:35:08.940
Yes,

1304
00:35:09.030 --> 00:35:09.480
I am.

1305
00:35:10.470 --> 00:35:10.620
OK,

1306
00:35:10.710 --> 00:35:12.210
good to know that white supremacists make up part of

1307
00:35:12.210 --> 00:35:14.060
the Republican Party and Donald Trump's doing their bidding.

1308
00:35:14.310 --> 00:35:14.460
Yes,

1309
00:35:14.550 --> 00:35:14.620
I,

1310
00:35:14.950 --> 00:35:15.020
I,

1311
00:35:15.110 --> 00:35:16.430
I certainly believe they do.

1312
00:35:16.560 --> 00:35:16.880
OK.

1313
00:35:17.270 --> 00:35:18.620
So here in this clip,

1314
00:35:18.790 --> 00:35:18.980
David,

1315
00:35:19.010 --> 00:35:23.330
your opponent argued that Republicans have created a permission structure

1316
00:35:23.550 --> 00:35:24.830
for political violence.

1317
00:35:25.030 --> 00:35:26.380
So what's your response?

1318
00:35:26.430 --> 00:35:27.140
I know we've been talking.

1319
00:35:27.350 --> 00:35:27.580
About this,

1320
00:35:27.630 --> 00:35:28.940
but what's your response to that?

1321
00:35:29.190 --> 00:35:31.140
And not only in this debate?

1322
00:35:31.430 --> 00:35:31.540
Well,

1323
00:35:31.840 --> 00:35:32.980
it's actually the best argument.

1324
00:35:33.190 --> 00:35:33.380
The,

1325
00:35:33.510 --> 00:35:38.610
the right doesn't engage in street level vigilante or um terroristic violence.

1326
00:35:39.110 --> 00:35:40.210
They vote for it,

1327
00:35:40.470 --> 00:35:43.930
implement a system by which they can engage in the violence.

1328
00:35:44.880 --> 00:35:45.030
Uh,

1329
00:35:45.410 --> 00:35:46.520
Democrats do the exact same thing,

1330
00:35:46.620 --> 00:35:46.850
which is,

1331
00:35:47.010 --> 00:35:47.160
which,

1332
00:35:47.330 --> 00:35:48.110
which is my counter.

1333
00:35:48.370 --> 00:35:48.630
And,

1334
00:35:48.730 --> 00:35:49.090
uh,

1335
00:35:49.570 --> 00:35:50.520
under Barack Obama,

1336
00:35:50.610 --> 00:35:52.330
we saw substantially more deportations.

1337
00:35:52.410 --> 00:35:53.920
There were different kinds of deportations,

1338
00:35:54.010 --> 00:35:55.070
largely at the border,

1339
00:35:55.410 --> 00:35:55.590
but,

1340
00:35:55.650 --> 00:35:55.800
uh,

1341
00:35:55.890 --> 00:35:58.470
we also saw the indefinite detention provision

1342
00:35:58.730 --> 00:36:01.190
under the National Defense Authorization Act under Barack Obama.

1343
00:36:01.410 --> 00:36:01.480
To,

1344
00:36:01.610 --> 00:36:03.150
to claim that the Republicans

1345
00:36:03.450 --> 00:36:04.320
are unique,

1346
00:36:05.290 --> 00:36:06.030
is silly.

1347
00:36:06.330 --> 00:36:07.960
But if you want to argue that the,

1348
00:36:08.050 --> 00:36:11.250
the structure by which people can vote to empower an executive,

1349
00:36:11.490 --> 00:36:13.520
who will then dispatch law enforcement

1350
00:36:14.010 --> 00:36:14.440
controlling the.

1351
00:36:14.820 --> 00:36:16.830
Having a monopoly on violence and harming people,

1352
00:36:17.100 --> 00:36:20.400
I think we all agree we have concerns about an unaccountable police force.

1353
00:36:20.780 --> 00:36:20.980
I have,

1354
00:36:21.060 --> 00:36:22.010
I have a few counters.

1355
00:36:22.180 --> 00:36:23.840
I think that when I pointed out

1356
00:36:24.220 --> 00:36:26.600
there are white supremacists in this country,

1357
00:36:26.820 --> 00:36:27.970
ultranationalists,

1358
00:36:28.020 --> 00:36:28.650
and even,

1359
00:36:28.940 --> 00:36:29.090
you know,

1360
00:36:29.180 --> 00:36:32.190
non-white individuals that do want

1361
00:36:32.380 --> 00:36:33.810
ICE to kill migrants.

1362
00:36:34.690 --> 00:36:35.310
The way

1363
00:36:35.610 --> 00:36:36.750
this man acted,

1364
00:36:36.970 --> 00:36:38.800
he immediately said it's not true,

1365
00:36:38.890 --> 00:36:40.080
and people around me laughed,

1366
00:36:40.250 --> 00:36:41.520
and my only thought is,

1367
00:36:42.410 --> 00:36:43.720
No matter what I say,

1368
00:36:43.920 --> 00:36:45.390
they will claim the inverse,

1369
00:36:45.850 --> 00:36:49.320
because even when I say something they should completely agree with,

1370
00:36:49.450 --> 00:36:51.370
they act like I'm wrong.

1371
00:36:51.890 --> 00:36:53.630
There are people in this country that have gone

1372
00:36:53.650 --> 00:36:56.270
on social media and they do every single day

1373
00:36:56.530 --> 00:36:57.880
saying they want

1374
00:36:58.390 --> 00:36:59.820
machine guns on the border.

1375
00:37:00.050 --> 00:37:00.690
They want

1376
00:37:00.810 --> 00:37:02.310
ICE to mow people down.

1377
00:37:02.450 --> 00:37:04.510
You see that they're voting for Trump.

1378
00:37:04.650 --> 00:37:05.440
Now that being said,

1379
00:37:06.230 --> 00:37:07.330
There's a distinction between

1380
00:37:08.090 --> 00:37:11.980
Whether those people are just going to talk big online and have horrifying views

1381
00:37:12.090 --> 00:37:15.410
and whether or not we'll actually see that implemented in terms of law enforcement.

1382
00:37:15.770 --> 00:37:16.540
I just think you,

1383
00:37:16.610 --> 00:37:18.870
you have a serious challenge in a few capacities.

1384
00:37:19.290 --> 00:37:19.840
Alex Peretti,

1385
00:37:19.930 --> 00:37:20.320
for instance,

1386
00:37:20.450 --> 00:37:21.230
was armed

1387
00:37:21.530 --> 00:37:22.060
and,

1388
00:37:22.090 --> 00:37:22.320
uh,

1389
00:37:22.530 --> 00:37:24.920
had shown up to confront federal law enforcement.

1390
00:37:25.010 --> 00:37:26.350
This is not a protest.

1391
00:37:26.730 --> 00:37:29.720
This is a federal law enforcement enforcement operation.

1392
00:37:29.890 --> 00:37:32.020
You run very serious risks

1393
00:37:32.200 --> 00:37:33.830
because we are not talking about,

1394
00:37:34.170 --> 00:37:34.280
say,

1395
00:37:34.330 --> 00:37:36.320
a police line outside of a building.

1396
00:37:36.910 --> 00:37:39.230
Which is community response or riot control.

1397
00:37:39.590 --> 00:37:41.090
We are talking about an individual who said,

1398
00:37:41.150 --> 00:37:43.480
I am going to obstruct federal law enforcement

1399
00:37:43.830 --> 00:37:46.030
actively pursuing lethal threats.

1400
00:37:46.430 --> 00:37:48.340
This does not justify anything the cops did.

1401
00:37:48.390 --> 00:37:51.210
I think the police in that regard made terrible mistakes.

1402
00:37:51.590 --> 00:37:52.140
However,

1403
00:37:52.880 --> 00:37:55.360
This is a guy who showed up armed to confront federal law enforcement,

1404
00:37:55.440 --> 00:37:56.820
which resulted in a tragedy.

1405
00:37:57.200 --> 00:38:00.140
I'm shocked that you would find progressives advocating

1406
00:38:00.160 --> 00:38:02.830
for the right to carry a concealed weapon

1407
00:38:03.270 --> 00:38:04.670
to confront federal law enforcement.

1408
00:38:04.720 --> 00:38:06.620
I'd imagine the progressive argument would be,

1409
00:38:07.160 --> 00:38:08.910
we should have gun controls and permits,

1410
00:38:08.930 --> 00:38:10.200
and you shouldn't be able to conceal your

1411
00:38:10.200 --> 00:38:11.390
weapons like this or something to that effect,

1412
00:38:11.480 --> 00:38:11.780
but

1413
00:38:11.960 --> 00:38:13.820
I certainly understand there are many on the left that

1414
00:38:14.200 --> 00:38:15.060
do agree

1415
00:38:15.280 --> 00:38:15.390
with,

1416
00:38:15.440 --> 00:38:15.590
uh,

1417
00:38:15.680 --> 00:38:15.830
you know,

1418
00:38:15.920 --> 00:38:16.590
having guns.

1419
00:38:17.090 --> 00:38:17.990
And I also think

1420
00:38:18.160 --> 00:38:21.710
you can't simultaneously argue for democracy

1421
00:38:21.890 --> 00:38:25.150
and then condemn the result of your democracy.

1422
00:38:25.530 --> 00:38:29.400
Donald Trump won the second biggest issue according to Gallup

1423
00:38:29.640 --> 00:38:32.410
throughout the 24 cycle was illegal immigration.

1424
00:38:32.850 --> 00:38:35.760
This helped Trump secure the plurality and win,

1425
00:38:35.970 --> 00:38:38.030
and he didn't just win the presidency,

1426
00:38:38.250 --> 00:38:40.380
but the Senate and the House.

1427
00:38:40.530 --> 00:38:41.630
The Republicans took.

1428
00:38:41.950 --> 00:38:42.940
Everything

1429
00:38:43.270 --> 00:38:46.140
and the second biggest issue was immigration.

1430
00:38:46.630 --> 00:38:49.860
So if you believe in democracy and the right of the people to vote,

1431
00:38:50.070 --> 00:38:51.340
and when they do,

1432
00:38:51.630 --> 00:38:54.330
they say please enforce the law against

1433
00:38:54.710 --> 00:38:56.670
people who have come to this country illegally,

1434
00:38:56.910 --> 00:38:58.620
you can't come out after the fact and say,

1435
00:38:58.860 --> 00:38:58.980
well,

1436
00:38:59.030 --> 00:39:01.310
you've done it wrong and you've created a permission structure

1437
00:39:01.580 --> 00:39:04.780
because unfortunately that permission structure is part of your democracy.

1438
00:39:05.320 --> 00:39:05.550
All right,

1439
00:39:05.640 --> 00:39:09.070
but do you think that political leaders have any responsibility,

1440
00:39:09.540 --> 00:39:10.660
especially when

1441
00:39:10.880 --> 00:39:13.220
extremists interpret their messaging as

1442
00:39:13.400 --> 00:39:14.420
we're gonna get them,

1443
00:39:14.600 --> 00:39:17.420
these illegal immigrants are the worst of the worst,

1444
00:39:17.560 --> 00:39:18.630
they're criminals,

1445
00:39:18.720 --> 00:39:22.340
and so they're taking that messaging and they're committing acts of violence

1446
00:39:22.520 --> 00:39:23.090
and then

1447
00:39:23.880 --> 00:39:24.150
I want,

1448
00:39:24.240 --> 00:39:25.700
I want to say that it's on a

1449
00:39:25.800 --> 00:39:26.740
bigger scale,

1450
00:39:26.880 --> 00:39:27.840
but there are small.

1451
00:39:28.160 --> 00:39:29.490
instances where people are saying

1452
00:39:29.740 --> 00:39:32.000
he looks like he's an illegal immigrant and

1453
00:39:32.000 --> 00:39:34.810
they're harassing people and there's even many fights.

1454
00:39:34.900 --> 00:39:34.970
Now,

1455
00:39:35.020 --> 00:39:35.750
this is not on a,

1456
00:39:35.780 --> 00:39:37.290
this is not a huge issue,

1457
00:39:37.500 --> 00:39:39.250
but if none of that is getting denounced,

1458
00:39:39.300 --> 00:39:42.730
maybe Trump is not seeing these side little issues happening,

1459
00:39:43.020 --> 00:39:44.810
but if he is and he's aware

1460
00:39:44.930 --> 00:39:46.200
that his messaging is that

1461
00:39:46.420 --> 00:39:49.170
these illegal immigrants are the problem,

1462
00:39:49.300 --> 00:39:49.970
they are dangerous,

1463
00:39:50.060 --> 00:39:50.410
we need

1464
00:39:50.600 --> 00:39:52.640
out by any means necessary.

1465
00:39:52.810 --> 00:39:54.620
Do you feel like that he has

1466
00:39:54.800 --> 00:39:58.540
any responsibility to condemn people who are taking it upon themselves

1467
00:39:58.760 --> 00:39:59.030
to say,

1468
00:39:59.100 --> 00:39:59.270
hey,

1469
00:39:59.320 --> 00:40:00.740
I think that person's illegal

1470
00:40:00.840 --> 00:40:02.370
and attack them or harass them?

1471
00:40:02.560 --> 00:40:02.740
I,

1472
00:40:02.800 --> 00:40:05.860
I don't think we've seen any substantial incidents

1473
00:40:06.280 --> 00:40:09.710
where a private individual has confronted a man wrongly,

1474
00:40:09.800 --> 00:40:11.300
accusing him of being an illegal immigrant.

1475
00:40:11.440 --> 00:40:11.550
I,

1476
00:40:11.650 --> 00:40:13.260
I do agree it does happen.

1477
00:40:13.400 --> 00:40:15.620
There have been a few videos where there's a,

1478
00:40:15.800 --> 00:40:15.950
you know,

1479
00:40:16.000 --> 00:40:18.470
you'll see like a guy yelling racial slurs or something.

1480
00:40:18.870 --> 00:40:19.160
And,

1481
00:40:19.190 --> 00:40:19.320
you know,

1482
00:40:19.390 --> 00:40:20.450
at another guy or,

1483
00:40:20.550 --> 00:40:20.900
you know,

1484
00:40:21.230 --> 00:40:23.960
migration-based slurs at an individual.

1485
00:40:24.350 --> 00:40:26.100
But we have not had an instance,

1486
00:40:26.230 --> 00:40:26.270
uh,

1487
00:40:26.400 --> 00:40:26.410
uh,

1488
00:40:26.830 --> 00:40:28.010
the example that I use would be,

1489
00:40:28.080 --> 00:40:28.140
uh,

1490
00:40:28.270 --> 00:40:29.260
Aaron Danielson's,

1491
00:40:29.290 --> 00:40:29.300
uh,

1492
00:40:29.430 --> 00:40:29.840
murder,

1493
00:40:30.230 --> 00:40:33.940
in which a man named Michael Reinold with a Black Lives Matter tattoo on his neck,

1494
00:40:34.230 --> 00:40:36.100
walked up to a Trump supporter who was minding

1495
00:40:36.100 --> 00:40:38.330
his own business and shot him twice in the chest

1496
00:40:38.470 --> 00:40:40.660
for no reason other than he was a Trump supporter.

1497
00:40:40.870 --> 00:40:43.050
So I absolutely believe

1498
00:40:43.630 --> 00:40:45.420
political leaders must condemn.

1499
00:40:46.210 --> 00:40:49.140
Immediately individuals who act in accordance

1500
00:40:49.140 --> 00:40:51.170
with their ideology to violent ends.

1501
00:40:51.880 --> 00:40:55.030
And do you think the right has been condemning individuals like that?

1502
00:40:55.200 --> 00:40:56.240
It hasn't happened.

1503
00:40:56.520 --> 00:40:57.290
Maybe I'm wrong.

1504
00:40:57.560 --> 00:40:59.870
I read hundreds if not thousands of articles,

1505
00:41:00.000 --> 00:41:00.110
uh,

1506
00:41:00.240 --> 00:41:01.350
I read hundreds of articles a day,

1507
00:41:01.450 --> 00:41:02.640
maybe thousands per week,

1508
00:41:02.960 --> 00:41:04.830
and there have not been any

1509
00:41:04.950 --> 00:41:06.350
notable instances

1510
00:41:06.520 --> 00:41:09.420
where a private right-wing individual has engaged

1511
00:41:09.440 --> 00:41:12.300
in lethal force against a person wrongly

1512
00:41:12.520 --> 00:41:13.020
for being,

1513
00:41:13.120 --> 00:41:13.190
uh,

1514
00:41:13.280 --> 00:41:13.860
uh,

1515
00:41:13.960 --> 00:41:14.020
uh,

1516
00:41:14.040 --> 00:41:15.110
perceived as an illegal immigrant.

1517
00:41:15.160 --> 00:41:16.660
It just doesn't happen.

1518
00:41:16.840 --> 00:41:17.260
And

1519
00:41:17.480 --> 00:41:19.220
I think it's very easy to just say,

1520
00:41:19.400 --> 00:41:20.320
it shouldn't happen,

1521
00:41:20.720 --> 00:41:21.540
nobody should do it.

1522
00:41:21.850 --> 00:41:23.520
And any right-leaning individual,

1523
00:41:23.770 --> 00:41:24.200
nationalist,

1524
00:41:24.370 --> 00:41:25.120
American conservative,

1525
00:41:25.170 --> 00:41:25.630
libertarian,

1526
00:41:25.650 --> 00:41:26.370
or otherwise,

1527
00:41:26.690 --> 00:41:28.680
who believes for a second they should engage

1528
00:41:28.680 --> 00:41:29.760
in violence against someone they think is,

1529
00:41:29.810 --> 00:41:30.640
is an illegal immigrant,

1530
00:41:30.810 --> 00:41:32.590
they would be wrong for doing that.

1531
00:41:33.210 --> 00:41:34.310
But it's just not happening.

1532
00:41:34.450 --> 00:41:34.640
And,

1533
00:41:34.730 --> 00:41:35.360
and that being said,

1534
00:41:35.450 --> 00:41:39.120
the amount of assassinations we see from progressives is also very small as well.

1535
00:41:39.430 --> 00:41:42.820
We have a couple individuals politically targeted just in the past couple of years.

1536
00:41:42.870 --> 00:41:44.130
I mean they've tried to kill Trump,

1537
00:41:44.430 --> 00:41:49.180
but it's not like we are seeing people go out every day and murder individuals,

1538
00:41:49.790 --> 00:41:49.980
you know,

1539
00:41:50.030 --> 00:41:52.890
on strong pronounced national level issues.

1540
00:41:53.310 --> 00:41:54.100
So I would just say,

1541
00:41:54.890 --> 00:41:58.120
We get massive riots from left aligned progressives,

1542
00:41:58.290 --> 00:41:58.440
uh,

1543
00:41:58.490 --> 00:41:58.680
uh,

1544
00:41:58.770 --> 00:41:58.960
you know,

1545
00:41:59.130 --> 00:41:59.200
uh,

1546
00:41:59.290 --> 00:42:00.080
liberals.

1547
00:42:00.330 --> 00:42:01.030
We see this

1548
00:42:01.370 --> 00:42:02.390
all the time,

1549
00:42:02.730 --> 00:42:03.910
and on the right we don't.

1550
00:42:04.170 --> 00:42:04.280
Uh,

1551
00:42:04.370 --> 00:42:05.190
we don't see,

1552
00:42:05.410 --> 00:42:05.800
uh,

1553
00:42:06.240 --> 00:42:08.030
Dave Rubin leading marches,

1554
00:42:08.190 --> 00:42:08.360
no,

1555
00:42:08.490 --> 00:42:08.720
he,

1556
00:42:09.250 --> 00:42:09.880
we don't see,

1557
00:42:10.050 --> 00:42:10.210
uh,

1558
00:42:10.380 --> 00:42:10.600
uh,

1559
00:42:10.810 --> 00:42:10.960
you know,

1560
00:42:11.050 --> 00:42:11.970
Steven Crowder

1561
00:42:12.210 --> 00:42:15.240
organizing big rallies where people firebomb buildings or,

1562
00:42:15.310 --> 00:42:16.790
or vandalize cars.

1563
00:42:17.010 --> 00:42:18.700
But we see this from the left

1564
00:42:18.840 --> 00:42:19.370
regularly.

1565
00:42:19.410 --> 00:42:20.360
We call it riot season.

1566
00:42:20.410 --> 00:42:22.510
I've covered riot season for 15 years.

1567
00:42:22.650 --> 00:42:24.600
Every single year there's a riot season.

1568
00:42:25.040 --> 00:42:27.740
Some kind of left aligned violent group goes out,

1569
00:42:27.760 --> 00:42:30.710
and I've been documenting it for 15+ years.

1570
00:42:31.000 --> 00:42:32.100
So I'd appreciate it

1571
00:42:32.400 --> 00:42:32.700
if,

1572
00:42:32.800 --> 00:42:33.070
uh,

1573
00:42:33.560 --> 00:42:34.630
anybody who engaged in these,

1574
00:42:34.760 --> 00:42:35.070
in these,

1575
00:42:35.110 --> 00:42:35.380
these,

1576
00:42:35.400 --> 00:42:35.460
uh,

1577
00:42:35.510 --> 00:42:35.630
uh,

1578
00:42:35.800 --> 00:42:37.670
these tactics would be condemned.

1579
00:42:37.960 --> 00:42:39.180
But what I would argue is,

1580
00:42:39.520 --> 00:42:41.370
back to the point being made by this individual,

1581
00:42:41.680 --> 00:42:44.710
the best argument is that the right uses

1582
00:42:44.960 --> 00:42:48.260
what would be described as legitimate democratic authority

1583
00:42:48.600 --> 00:42:51.270
to empower law enforcement to engage in violence.

1584
00:42:51.910 --> 00:42:52.420
That being said,

1585
00:42:52.470 --> 00:42:54.540
the Democrats do the same too,

1586
00:42:54.630 --> 00:42:56.060
so we can condemn all of it,

1587
00:42:56.190 --> 00:42:58.040
but you can't just pick and choose which party

1588
00:42:58.230 --> 00:42:58.970
at the time.

1589
00:42:59.630 --> 00:42:59.780
Well,

1590
00:42:59.950 --> 00:43:01.970
you also mentioned how Trump has,

1591
00:43:02.390 --> 00:43:02.510
you know,

1592
00:43:02.630 --> 00:43:04.260
white supremacists and ultra

1593
00:43:04.470 --> 00:43:05.790
white supremacists

1594
00:43:05.950 --> 00:43:09.090
backing him and supporting him and identifying with

1595
00:43:09.300 --> 00:43:10.530
his movement or the MAGA,

1596
00:43:10.630 --> 00:43:11.460
the MAGA movement.

1597
00:43:11.830 --> 00:43:14.260
So even if they're a small minority,

1598
00:43:14.700 --> 00:43:16.240
do you feel that Trump

1599
00:43:16.400 --> 00:43:19.920
or Republicans have a responsibility to,

1600
00:43:20.110 --> 00:43:20.300
you know,

1601
00:43:20.430 --> 00:43:22.370
denounce these extremist groups that

1602
00:43:22.490 --> 00:43:23.530
identify with it?

1603
00:43:23.550 --> 00:43:25.210
And if they since they haven't,

1604
00:43:25.550 --> 00:43:27.740
is that encouraging these?

1605
00:43:28.320 --> 00:43:29.030
I haven't,

1606
00:43:29.200 --> 00:43:29.910
from what I know,

1607
00:43:29.970 --> 00:43:32.180
I haven't heard Trump denounce

1608
00:43:33.080 --> 00:43:37.080
the KKK or these Christian white nationalist groups or the Proud Boys.

1609
00:43:37.200 --> 00:43:39.430
And you do a simple YouTube search of the

1610
00:43:39.430 --> 00:43:42.140
compilation of Trump denouncing white supremacy because I believe

1611
00:43:42.440 --> 00:43:44.470
there's like an 1 hour and 40 minute

1612
00:43:44.470 --> 00:43:47.340
compilation showing Trump repeatedly denouncing white supremacy,

1613
00:43:47.560 --> 00:43:48.460
white nationalists.

1614
00:43:48.600 --> 00:43:49.790
Perhaps my favorite quote of all.

1615
00:43:50.010 --> 00:43:50.790
Time is,

1616
00:43:51.090 --> 00:43:53.130
there are very fine people on both sides,

1617
00:43:53.170 --> 00:43:55.240
and I am not talking about the neo-Nazis and

1618
00:43:55.240 --> 00:43:58.080
the white nationalists because they should be condemned totally,

1619
00:43:58.290 --> 00:43:59.920
which is a direct quote from Donald Trump,

1620
00:43:59.970 --> 00:44:01.860
I believe it was 2017

1621
00:44:02.050 --> 00:44:02.850
when he said that.

1622
00:44:03.170 --> 00:44:05.270
So I want to look into this last clip,

1623
00:44:05.450 --> 00:44:07.420
and it's an interaction that you had earlier

1624
00:44:07.740 --> 00:44:10.240
about fascism and is Trump a fascist,

1625
00:44:10.290 --> 00:44:11.600
so I want to play that back.

1626
00:44:11.930 --> 00:44:13.320
I think we should just get to the heart of it.

1627
00:44:13.830 --> 00:44:15.050
Donald Trump is a fascist.

1628
00:44:15.230 --> 00:44:17.610
He has Nazis in his administration.

1629
00:44:17.870 --> 00:44:19.290
His entire messaging

1630
00:44:19.470 --> 00:44:22.220
was resonating with Nazis from the very beginning.

1631
00:44:22.770 --> 00:44:23.430
Donald Trump,

1632
00:44:23.670 --> 00:44:25.940
when rallying for 2024,

1633
00:44:26.230 --> 00:44:28.580
had a massive rally in Madison Square Garden.

1634
00:44:28.670 --> 00:44:30.140
What was the significance of that rally?

1635
00:44:31.120 --> 00:44:31.660
You tell me,

1636
00:44:31.960 --> 00:44:32.070
yeah,

1637
00:44:32.200 --> 00:44:33.070
it's the same place,

1638
00:44:33.330 --> 00:44:35.120
same date as the Nazis

1639
00:44:35.320 --> 00:44:36.470
in the 1940s.

1640
00:44:36.970 --> 00:44:37.630
Literally,

1641
00:44:37.930 --> 00:44:38.590
um,

1642
00:44:39.250 --> 00:44:40.450
Donald Trump said that,

1643
00:44:40.550 --> 00:44:40.880
uh,

1644
00:44:41.160 --> 00:44:43.320
immigrants are poisoning the blood of America.

1645
00:44:44.180 --> 00:44:45.410
And their varmint.

1646
00:44:45.750 --> 00:44:46.760
Who also said that?

1647
00:44:47.020 --> 00:44:47.560
You tell me.

1648
00:44:47.850 --> 00:44:48.250
Hitler.

1649
00:44:49.080 --> 00:44:49.680
Literally

1650
00:44:50.360 --> 00:44:51.980
Donald Trump has openly

1651
00:44:52.240 --> 00:44:54.140
said things as dog whistles,

1652
00:44:54.280 --> 00:44:56.150
so you may say that it's not mainstream,

1653
00:44:56.280 --> 00:44:58.550
but the entire ideology of the right

1654
00:44:59.010 --> 00:44:59.860
speaks to those people.

1655
00:44:59.920 --> 00:45:00.340
Let me ask you,

1656
00:45:00.360 --> 00:45:00.470
what,

1657
00:45:00.680 --> 00:45:01.890
what do you mean by fascist,

1658
00:45:02.280 --> 00:45:02.430
uh,

1659
00:45:02.630 --> 00:45:03.030
far right,

1660
00:45:03.120 --> 00:45:03.830
authoritarian,

1661
00:45:04.040 --> 00:45:05.030
ultra nationalistic.

1662
00:45:05.750 --> 00:45:06.880
14 sins of fascism,

1663
00:45:07.120 --> 00:45:07.200
all that,

1664
00:45:07.290 --> 00:45:08.800
but there's a specific definition of fascist.

1665
00:45:08.920 --> 00:45:10.160
Do you just mean that

1666
00:45:10.410 --> 00:45:11.550
he's he's an authoritarian?

1667
00:45:11.930 --> 00:45:12.160
No,

1668
00:45:12.330 --> 00:45:14.400
I mean that he meets all 14 tenets of fascism.

1669
00:45:14.610 --> 00:45:17.280
So when Santana called Trump a fascist,

1670
00:45:17.370 --> 00:45:19.220
you immediately asked him to

1671
00:45:19.450 --> 00:45:20.580
define the word.

1672
00:45:20.760 --> 00:45:25.110
Were you trying to clarify his argument or did you find this label to be unfair?

1673
00:45:25.250 --> 00:45:25.320
Oh,

1674
00:45:25.390 --> 00:45:25.480
no,

1675
00:45:25.570 --> 00:45:25.680
no,

1676
00:45:25.770 --> 00:45:26.720
I clarify,

1677
00:45:27.130 --> 00:45:31.430
and the reason why is because there's like 3 colloquial definitions of fascist,

1678
00:45:31.730 --> 00:45:34.800
and I don't want to improperly argue what he may not be arguing.

1679
00:45:35.210 --> 00:45:38.300
So there's one very prominent argument that fascism

1680
00:45:38.300 --> 00:45:40.570
is the lucrative merger of corporation and state.

1681
00:45:41.320 --> 00:45:42.150
If that's the argument,

1682
00:45:42.200 --> 00:45:44.390
you're referring to crony capitalist structures,

1683
00:45:44.440 --> 00:45:47.580
which sometimes progressives do because they're anti-capitalist.

1684
00:45:48.000 --> 00:45:50.390
But it seems like he was arguing something different.

1685
00:45:50.480 --> 00:45:53.250
I did not quite grasp which position

1686
00:45:53.560 --> 00:45:55.100
he was actually taking on,

1687
00:45:55.280 --> 00:45:55.550
uh,

1688
00:45:55.880 --> 00:45:56.990
what it means to be a fascist.

1689
00:45:57.240 --> 00:45:57.470
One,

1690
00:45:57.920 --> 00:45:58.780
argument is,

1691
00:45:59.280 --> 00:45:59.430
uh,

1692
00:45:59.630 --> 00:45:59.900
natio,

1693
00:46:00.080 --> 00:46:00.210
you know,

1694
00:46:00.280 --> 00:46:01.750
ultra-nationalist doesn't really mean anything.

1695
00:46:01.800 --> 00:46:02.950
You're either a nationalist or you're not,

1696
00:46:03.000 --> 00:46:03.110
it's,

1697
00:46:03.200 --> 00:46:04.120
it's rather binary.

1698
00:46:04.400 --> 00:46:04.820
So,

1699
00:46:05.040 --> 00:46:05.710
it would be,

1700
00:46:05.760 --> 00:46:06.380
uh,

1701
00:46:06.760 --> 00:46:10.190
traditionalist nationalist is one definition that people use for,

1702
00:46:10.320 --> 00:46:11.070
for fascism.

1703
00:46:11.810 --> 00:46:12.080
So I'm,

1704
00:46:12.170 --> 00:46:12.550
I'm,

1705
00:46:12.740 --> 00:46:14.810
I think that might be what he's,

1706
00:46:14.930 --> 00:46:16.110
he was trying to accuse

1707
00:46:16.250 --> 00:46:16.950
Donald Trump of.

1708
00:46:17.290 --> 00:46:18.320
I just think for the most part,

1709
00:46:18.450 --> 00:46:19.950
people say fascist to mean,

1710
00:46:20.210 --> 00:46:20.440
you know,

1711
00:46:20.740 --> 00:46:21.590
bad guy,

1712
00:46:21.870 --> 00:46:22.840
authoritarian.

1713
00:46:22.970 --> 00:46:23.080
I,

1714
00:46:23.170 --> 00:46:24.220
I would also add,

1715
00:46:24.370 --> 00:46:24.560
uh,

1716
00:46:24.810 --> 00:46:27.380
Trump did not say that immigrants are poison in the blood of America.

1717
00:46:27.490 --> 00:46:27.680
I mean,

1718
00:46:27.730 --> 00:46:28.750
these things are fabricated.

1719
00:46:28.850 --> 00:46:29.910
He did mention

1720
00:46:30.050 --> 00:46:30.760
criminal cartels,

1721
00:46:30.810 --> 00:46:31.480
gang members,

1722
00:46:31.650 --> 00:46:31.730
you know,

1723
00:46:31.810 --> 00:46:33.320
rapists are poison in the blood.

1724
00:46:33.730 --> 00:46:35.440
I think if you misinterpret his intention,

1725
00:46:35.530 --> 00:46:36.620
you could try and liken him to be,

1726
00:46:36.730 --> 00:46:36.830
to,

1727
00:46:36.890 --> 00:46:37.530
to be like Hitler.

1728
00:46:37.770 --> 00:46:41.000
I also think it's silly to claim that because he had a rally at Madison Square Garden

1729
00:46:41.210 --> 00:46:42.390
on a particular date,

1730
00:46:42.570 --> 00:46:44.280
it was significant because the Nazis did as well.

1731
00:46:44.370 --> 00:46:44.710
I,

1732
00:46:44.890 --> 00:46:45.610
I'm not gonna

1733
00:46:45.850 --> 00:46:46.270
claim

1734
00:46:46.410 --> 00:46:49.920
Tony Hinchcliffe is a Nazi for having a show at Madison Square Garden.

1735
00:46:49.970 --> 00:46:50.790
I think that's,

1736
00:46:51.090 --> 00:46:51.990
that's a silly,

1737
00:46:52.130 --> 00:46:52.330
uh,

1738
00:46:52.610 --> 00:46:53.160
comparison.

1739
00:46:53.870 --> 00:46:54.020
Well,

1740
00:46:54.310 --> 00:46:57.610
what definition of fascism do you use and

1741
00:46:57.910 --> 00:47:00.900
which parts of Trump's record do you feel clearly

1742
00:47:00.900 --> 00:47:03.690
fits that definition or clearly does not fit it?

1743
00:47:04.120 --> 00:47:04.230
Yeah,

1744
00:47:04.390 --> 00:47:04.500
I,

1745
00:47:04.590 --> 00:47:05.660
I don't think it does.

1746
00:47:05.790 --> 00:47:06.210
I think,

1747
00:47:06.280 --> 00:47:06.850
um,

1748
00:47:07.270 --> 00:47:11.750
I think the way most people try to use fascist is just going to be flat authoritarian,

1749
00:47:11.810 --> 00:47:12.210
which

1750
00:47:12.430 --> 00:47:13.530
just doesn't really mean much.

1751
00:47:13.870 --> 00:47:15.380
But I think when you go to the next level,

1752
00:47:15.630 --> 00:47:16.820
the next layer of the definition,

1753
00:47:17.030 --> 00:47:19.430
it's a reference to traditionalist nationalism.

1754
00:47:19.950 --> 00:47:21.260
So if you take a look at the fascists,

1755
00:47:21.310 --> 00:47:22.700
which was Italy largely,

1756
00:47:23.020 --> 00:47:24.770
They wanted strong national identity,

1757
00:47:25.060 --> 00:47:27.000
they wanted a strong ethnic identity,

1758
00:47:27.220 --> 00:47:30.610
and it was based on a traditionalist worldview,

1759
00:47:30.740 --> 00:47:31.170
so

1760
00:47:31.460 --> 00:47:34.010
aligning with more conservative values than progressive.

1761
00:47:34.330 --> 00:47:37.360
Typically what we saw with the communists would be,

1762
00:47:37.610 --> 00:47:41.530
I would describe as uh authoritarian globalist progressivism.

1763
00:47:42.090 --> 00:47:44.540
People like to claim that communism on a surface,

1764
00:47:44.570 --> 00:47:44.840
they'll say,

1765
00:47:44.890 --> 00:47:44.960
oh,

1766
00:47:45.010 --> 00:47:45.320
it's uh,

1767
00:47:45.410 --> 00:47:45.720
it's,

1768
00:47:45.810 --> 00:47:47.320
they want everything owned by the people,

1769
00:47:47.590 --> 00:47:48.670
that's not actually

1770
00:47:48.970 --> 00:47:49.990
how it's used,

1771
00:47:50.130 --> 00:47:50.240
uh,

1772
00:47:50.330 --> 00:47:50.680
uh,

1773
00:47:51.050 --> 00:47:52.900
colloquially by people who are making the argument.

1774
00:47:53.290 --> 00:47:54.720
So if you're trying to understand what

1775
00:47:54.720 --> 00:47:56.590
someone is saying when they're saying fascist,

1776
00:47:56.780 --> 00:47:56.880
right,

1777
00:47:56.970 --> 00:47:58.030
they're saying they want,

1778
00:47:58.410 --> 00:47:58.560
you know,

1779
00:47:58.650 --> 00:48:00.160
marriage to be between a man and a woman.

1780
00:48:00.720 --> 00:48:01.020
They're,

1781
00:48:01.120 --> 00:48:03.450
they don't like LGBTQIA.

1782
00:48:03.720 --> 00:48:04.950
They want secure borders,

1783
00:48:05.080 --> 00:48:06.580
a strong national identity,

1784
00:48:06.880 --> 00:48:09.290
and if you take that to its extreme,

1785
00:48:09.880 --> 00:48:12.020
You can accuse someone of being a fascist if they

1786
00:48:13.120 --> 00:48:13.950
polidify this,

1787
00:48:14.000 --> 00:48:15.750
if they turn it into a party

1788
00:48:16.040 --> 00:48:19.780
by which corporations adhere to the party's message with single party control.

1789
00:48:20.040 --> 00:48:21.590
We don't really have that with Donald Trump,

1790
00:48:21.720 --> 00:48:21.940
and,

1791
00:48:22.040 --> 00:48:22.230
uh,

1792
00:48:22.440 --> 00:48:24.840
Donald Trump actually is very pro H-1B,

1793
00:48:25.120 --> 00:48:28.300
much to the chagrin of the conservative base and Trump's own supporters.

1794
00:48:28.760 --> 00:48:30.550
He's been a big fan of,

1795
00:48:30.680 --> 00:48:30.980
you know,

1796
00:48:31.480 --> 00:48:31.550
he,

1797
00:48:31.600 --> 00:48:31.670
he,

1798
00:48:31.760 --> 00:48:34.160
he's the one who ignited Operation Warp Speed for vaccination.

1799
00:48:34.360 --> 00:48:35.870
His supporters aren't big fans of that.

1800
00:48:36.360 --> 00:48:37.380
So I think when you look at,

1801
00:48:37.720 --> 00:48:37.870
uh,

1802
00:48:38.120 --> 00:48:38.920
Trump supporters,

1803
00:48:39.560 --> 00:48:40.070
I can actually,

1804
00:48:40.200 --> 00:48:42.000
I'll just throw it to Vox.com,

1805
00:48:42.200 --> 00:48:46.240
who wrote in 2016 that Donald Trump was the moderate candidate at the time.

1806
00:48:46.600 --> 00:48:47.020
And,

1807
00:48:47.040 --> 00:48:47.190
uh,

1808
00:48:47.280 --> 00:48:50.660
he's often compared to Bill Clinton's policies of the 1990s.

1809
00:48:51.040 --> 00:48:51.310
In fact,

1810
00:48:51.440 --> 00:48:54.150
much of what Trump says about border security and illegal immigration

1811
00:48:54.440 --> 00:48:55.180
is just,

1812
00:48:55.480 --> 00:48:56.190
to be honest,

1813
00:48:56.480 --> 00:48:58.290
a rip off from Barack Obama and,

1814
00:48:58.400 --> 00:48:58.590
you know,

1815
00:48:58.720 --> 00:49:00.260
Hillary and Bill Clinton going back.

1816
00:49:00.640 --> 00:49:02.190
What changed in the Democratic Party,

1817
00:49:02.240 --> 00:49:03.120
where their rhetoric shifted,

1818
00:49:03.170 --> 00:49:04.380
I'm not entirely sure.

1819
00:49:04.720 --> 00:49:09.070
But a lot of what Trump says is just 90s and 2000s Democratic Party rhetoric.

1820
00:49:09.410 --> 00:49:09.720
So I,

1821
00:49:09.810 --> 00:49:11.870
I don't think I would take that and claim he's a fascist,

1822
00:49:12.010 --> 00:49:12.800
because if you did,

1823
00:49:13.050 --> 00:49:15.120
you'd have to argue that Bill Clinton was too.

1824
00:49:15.520 --> 00:49:16.430
I don't think that's true.

1825
00:49:16.730 --> 00:49:16.920
OK,

1826
00:49:17.050 --> 00:49:19.120
so you said that you don't remember this

1827
00:49:19.120 --> 00:49:22.270
quote of Trump saying that immigrants are poisoning,

1828
00:49:22.570 --> 00:49:22.800
you know,

1829
00:49:22.890 --> 00:49:23.650
the blood

1830
00:49:23.850 --> 00:49:24.840
of America.

1831
00:49:25.870 --> 00:49:27.090
But even if you

1832
00:49:27.750 --> 00:49:28.940
don't think that happened,

1833
00:49:29.070 --> 00:49:30.700
do you feel like his rhetoric,

1834
00:49:30.790 --> 00:49:35.670
even saying and speaking really broadly that immigrants are the violent ones,

1835
00:49:35.790 --> 00:49:37.330
they're the ones committing crimes,

1836
00:49:37.510 --> 00:49:40.740
do you feel like that rhetoric is dangerous and dehumanizing?

1837
00:49:41.070 --> 00:49:41.300
You see,

1838
00:49:41.350 --> 00:49:41.620
this is,

1839
00:49:41.710 --> 00:49:43.100
this is the problem is that,

1840
00:49:43.190 --> 00:49:43.540
uh,

1841
00:49:43.870 --> 00:49:44.140
you know,

1842
00:49:44.470 --> 00:49:48.140
specifically Donald Trump referred to MS-13 as animals.

1843
00:49:48.670 --> 00:49:51.770
What we ended up getting from a variety of large corporate news outlets

1844
00:49:51.950 --> 00:49:53.980
was that instead of quoting him,

1845
00:49:54.190 --> 00:49:57.090
they paraphrased that Trump called immigrants animals.

1846
00:49:57.350 --> 00:49:58.020
This is where this,

1847
00:49:58.100 --> 00:49:59.250
this rhetoric emerges.

1848
00:49:59.590 --> 00:50:00.840
If you go to Donald Trump,

1849
00:50:01.310 --> 00:50:02.880
you walk up to him and look him in the face

1850
00:50:02.990 --> 00:50:03.340
and say,

1851
00:50:03.450 --> 00:50:05.340
how do you feel about immigrants to this country,

1852
00:50:05.390 --> 00:50:06.100
he'll say they're great,

1853
00:50:06.190 --> 00:50:07.340
we love our immigrants,

1854
00:50:07.510 --> 00:50:08.260
we want to bring in more,

1855
00:50:08.310 --> 00:50:09.140
but they got to come legally.

1856
00:50:09.230 --> 00:50:09.660
In fact,

1857
00:50:09.860 --> 00:50:11.070
that's a quote from Trump.

1858
00:50:11.510 --> 00:50:12.970
He said at almost all of his rallies.

1859
00:50:13.240 --> 00:50:15.110
What ends up happening is Trump will say,

1860
00:50:15.340 --> 00:50:17.900
you've got rapists and cartel members and coyotes.

1861
00:50:17.950 --> 00:50:19.520
These criminals can't be allowed in this country.

1862
00:50:19.590 --> 00:50:21.820
They're animals and they're poisoning the blood of this nation.

1863
00:50:22.670 --> 00:50:24.730
And I don't think any reasonable person

1864
00:50:24.890 --> 00:50:26.650
would disagree that a

1865
00:50:26.950 --> 00:50:29.180
child sex trafficking cartel member

1866
00:50:29.350 --> 00:50:30.990
is poisoning this country

1867
00:50:31.110 --> 00:50:32.060
and they should be arrested.

1868
00:50:32.470 --> 00:50:34.220
It's a problem then when people for

1869
00:50:34.220 --> 00:50:36.530
political reasons misrepresent what Trump said.

1870
00:50:36.830 --> 00:50:38.660
The best example possible I believe was,

1871
00:50:38.750 --> 00:50:41.800
would be what's now known as the very fine people hoax.

1872
00:50:42.430 --> 00:50:43.420
It is remarkable.

1873
00:50:43.550 --> 00:50:46.260
I had on a liberal journalist from Brooklyn.

1874
00:50:47.040 --> 00:50:47.150
Uh,

1875
00:50:47.240 --> 00:50:48.580
I believe this was last year,

1876
00:50:48.880 --> 00:50:49.700
who still,

1877
00:50:49.720 --> 00:50:51.460
after 10 years,

1878
00:50:51.840 --> 00:50:57.350
did not know that Trump condemned neo-Nazis and white nationalists back in 2017.

1879
00:50:57.910 --> 00:50:58.820
Because what happened was,

1880
00:50:59.080 --> 00:51:01.430
when Trump said there are very fine people on both sides,

1881
00:51:01.480 --> 00:51:04.190
and I am not talking about the Nazis and the white nationalists,

1882
00:51:04.430 --> 00:51:05.910
because they should be condemned totally,

1883
00:51:06.240 --> 00:51:09.460
media outlets cut the back portion of his quote off

1884
00:51:09.640 --> 00:51:11.670
and ran a fake version

1885
00:51:11.840 --> 00:51:13.620
to manipulate people into thinking

1886
00:51:13.830 --> 00:51:16.430
that he was suggesting white supremacists were somehow good.

1887
00:51:17.010 --> 00:51:17.160
You know,

1888
00:51:17.210 --> 00:51:17.240
I,

1889
00:51:17.370 --> 00:51:18.920
I would argue with many of these progressives,

1890
00:51:18.970 --> 00:51:21.240
and the reason why I think it's important to come and sit down in these,

1891
00:51:21.330 --> 00:51:22.270
in these debates,

1892
00:51:22.730 --> 00:51:23.430
they don't

1893
00:51:23.560 --> 00:51:25.000
actually know what Trump said,

1894
00:51:25.050 --> 00:51:27.150
they don't actually know what I believe.

1895
00:51:27.490 --> 00:51:30.350
They assume that because I voted for Donald Trump,

1896
00:51:30.490 --> 00:51:32.160
I agree with everything he's done.

1897
00:51:32.370 --> 00:51:33.200
I'm pro-life,

1898
00:51:33.290 --> 00:51:33.950
which I'm not,

1899
00:51:34.090 --> 00:51:35.120
I'm pro-flat tax,

1900
00:51:35.210 --> 00:51:35.990
which I'm not,

1901
00:51:36.230 --> 00:51:37.320
or that I'm anti-immigration,

1902
00:51:37.410 --> 00:51:38.270
which I'm not.

1903
00:51:38.730 --> 00:51:38.920
They,

1904
00:51:39.050 --> 00:51:39.440
they,

1905
00:51:39.730 --> 00:51:42.750
if you only follow the likes of CNN or MS now,

1906
00:51:43.410 --> 00:51:46.960
You are not getting accurate representations of what Trump is actually saying.

1907
00:51:47.050 --> 00:51:47.600
And don't get me wrong,

1908
00:51:47.690 --> 00:51:48.990
if you're watching Fox News,

1909
00:51:49.170 --> 00:51:50.630
you're getting the inverse problem.

1910
00:51:51.050 --> 00:51:52.890
But I think what we see here politically,

1911
00:51:52.930 --> 00:51:54.520
and we can go back to 2016,

1912
00:51:55.330 --> 00:51:56.960
9 million individuals

1913
00:51:57.180 --> 00:51:58.820
who voted for Barack Obama

1914
00:51:59.260 --> 00:52:01.770
chose to vote for Donald Trump over

1915
00:52:01.940 --> 00:52:02.770
Hillary Clinton.

1916
00:52:03.060 --> 00:52:04.400
I was a Bernie supporter,

1917
00:52:04.620 --> 00:52:06.780
and when Bernie was iced out from the DNC,

1918
00:52:07.140 --> 00:52:08.330
and it happened twice by the way,

1919
00:52:08.580 --> 00:52:08.890
I said,

1920
00:52:08.980 --> 00:52:10.160
well then Trump's my guy.

1921
00:52:10.380 --> 00:52:11.770
I'm not gonna vote for Hillary Clinton.

1922
00:52:11.820 --> 00:52:12.970
I think she's a terrible candidate.

1923
00:52:13.060 --> 00:52:14.010
I think she's a warmonger,

1924
00:52:14.130 --> 00:52:16.010
not that Trump's earned any Brownie points in that regard.

1925
00:52:16.450 --> 00:52:17.520
But then with 2020,

1926
00:52:17.810 --> 00:52:20.240
when Bernie Sanders has another opportunity and I fully backed

1927
00:52:20.240 --> 00:52:23.650
the Democratic Party with maximum donations on numerous occasions,

1928
00:52:23.890 --> 00:52:24.790
what did they do?

1929
00:52:25.050 --> 00:52:28.870
They coordinated everyone to drop out to make sure Joe Biden got the nomination,

1930
00:52:28.890 --> 00:52:29.160
and I said,

1931
00:52:29.180 --> 00:52:30.620
I'm not voting for these people.

1932
00:52:30.850 --> 00:52:32.600
This is not a legitimate primary process.

1933
00:52:32.770 --> 00:52:33.580
I wanted

1934
00:52:33.710 --> 00:52:34.480
Bernie Sanders,

1935
00:52:34.570 --> 00:52:35.320
we didn't get it.

1936
00:52:35.490 --> 00:52:36.120
I'm done.

1937
00:52:36.290 --> 00:52:36.440
And,

1938
00:52:36.490 --> 00:52:37.520
and I'll fully admit I'm not a big fan.

1939
00:52:37.630 --> 00:52:38.770
of Bernie these days.

1940
00:52:39.220 --> 00:52:40.010
Come 2024,

1941
00:52:40.060 --> 00:52:42.560
I vote for Donald Trump because of his first term and because

1942
00:52:42.780 --> 00:52:45.230
we were living under a nightmare administration

1943
00:52:45.540 --> 00:52:45.900
in with,

1944
00:52:45.930 --> 00:52:46.770
with Joe Biden.

1945
00:52:47.000 --> 00:52:50.040
I don't think Trump has done everything perfectly these days,

1946
00:52:50.300 --> 00:52:50.450
but,

1947
00:52:50.540 --> 00:52:50.950
uh,

1948
00:52:51.260 --> 00:52:51.410
you know,

1949
00:52:51.460 --> 00:52:51.510
I,

1950
00:52:51.620 --> 00:52:52.650
I think it's still the,

1951
00:52:52.740 --> 00:52:53.200
the,

1952
00:52:53.470 --> 00:52:54.560
it's still been the better choice.

1953
00:52:54.710 --> 00:52:55.170
Overall,

1954
00:52:55.340 --> 00:52:58.760
do you feel like debates like this spend too much time

1955
00:52:59.110 --> 00:52:59.300
You know,

1956
00:52:59.390 --> 00:53:04.450
arguing over intent and not enough time discussing the impacts of

1957
00:53:04.750 --> 00:53:06.570
these kind of messages and,

1958
00:53:06.830 --> 00:53:06.980
you know,

1959
00:53:07.080 --> 00:53:08.400
the power that they can have.

1960
00:53:08.750 --> 00:53:08.860
Well,

1961
00:53:08.990 --> 00:53:09.150
look,

1962
00:53:09.270 --> 00:53:10.050
one guy

1963
00:53:10.390 --> 00:53:14.100
showed up with a beanie in his back pocket because I think too many of these young

1964
00:53:14.100 --> 00:53:18.100
people are just trying to get notability on social media in any way that they can.

1965
00:53:18.690 --> 00:53:20.710
And I don't feel that it,

1966
00:53:20.730 --> 00:53:21.040
uh,

1967
00:53:21.330 --> 00:53:23.670
it serves the betterment of mankind

1968
00:53:24.010 --> 00:53:26.800
to just be enemies for the sake of being enemies.

1969
00:53:27.170 --> 00:53:27.660
So,

1970
00:53:27.970 --> 00:53:28.320
in essence,

1971
00:53:28.340 --> 00:53:29.320
I would agree with you.

1972
00:53:30.210 --> 00:53:32.990
Many of these conversations aren't genuinely trying

1973
00:53:33.010 --> 00:53:34.480
to understand the issues at hand,

1974
00:53:34.770 --> 00:53:36.700
they're just trying to clip farm

1975
00:53:37.170 --> 00:53:38.990
so that it can look like they're standing

1976
00:53:39.010 --> 00:53:41.620
up to a representation of what oppresses their,

1977
00:53:42.130 --> 00:53:43.190
their tribe.

1978
00:53:43.610 --> 00:53:44.390
We see this

1979
00:53:44.570 --> 00:53:45.830
in every political group.

1980
00:53:46.170 --> 00:53:46.320
You know,

1981
00:53:46.370 --> 00:53:49.290
my most viral clips are when I'm debating someone and angry.

1982
00:53:49.810 --> 00:53:51.310
And uh that's

1983
00:53:51.450 --> 00:53:55.090
0.001% of the content that I produce.

1984
00:53:55.300 --> 00:53:55.450
You know,

1985
00:53:55.530 --> 00:53:55.840
for instance,

1986
00:53:55.890 --> 00:53:57.750
we had Brian Shapiro on several times,

1987
00:53:58.050 --> 00:53:58.950
and though we disagreed,

1988
00:53:58.970 --> 00:54:00.470
we were laughing the whole time.

1989
00:54:00.770 --> 00:54:01.010
Cause I,

1990
00:54:01.100 --> 00:54:01.240
you know,

1991
00:54:01.290 --> 00:54:01.360
I,

1992
00:54:01.450 --> 00:54:02.590
I've come to realize this and,

1993
00:54:02.610 --> 00:54:02.720
and,

1994
00:54:02.770 --> 00:54:03.050
and I,

1995
00:54:03.130 --> 00:54:04.120
I agree with the assessment.

1996
00:54:05.000 --> 00:54:05.190
You know,

1997
00:54:05.240 --> 00:54:05.350
I'll,

1998
00:54:05.440 --> 00:54:07.380
I'll get frustrated or angry when someone,

1999
00:54:07.600 --> 00:54:07.830
uh,

2000
00:54:08.080 --> 00:54:08.470
lies,

2001
00:54:08.600 --> 00:54:10.040
misrepresents facts or otherwise,

2002
00:54:10.520 --> 00:54:12.740
but I'm just sick and tired of these

2003
00:54:13.080 --> 00:54:14.990
angry clips that get produced,

2004
00:54:15.120 --> 00:54:15.310
you know,

2005
00:54:15.360 --> 00:54:16.700
we're all angry all the time,

2006
00:54:16.880 --> 00:54:18.910
and I don't feel it's actually helping any

2007
00:54:18.910 --> 00:54:21.030
of us understand how to solve these problems.

2008
00:54:21.120 --> 00:54:21.500
So,

2009
00:54:22.120 --> 00:54:22.630
in the future,

2010
00:54:22.680 --> 00:54:24.160
I'm gonna try to avoid

2011
00:54:24.630 --> 00:54:25.770
instances where an individual,

2012
00:54:25.910 --> 00:54:26.350
actually this,

2013
00:54:26.440 --> 00:54:27.460
this happened on the show,

2014
00:54:27.840 --> 00:54:29.430
when the dude began to do his performance,

2015
00:54:29.520 --> 00:54:30.900
I just got out of the chair and walked off.

2016
00:54:31.160 --> 00:54:33.230
Waited for him to finish and then came back and sat down.

2017
00:54:33.540 --> 00:54:34.380
You wanna do a,

2018
00:54:34.460 --> 00:54:38.000
a clip farming thing where you put on a beanie and then just insult me,

2019
00:54:38.360 --> 00:54:39.440
do it on your own time.

2020
00:54:39.620 --> 00:54:40.560
If you wanna have a conversation,

2021
00:54:40.670 --> 00:54:40.940
I'm here,

2022
00:54:40.980 --> 00:54:41.600
I'll sit down.

2023
00:54:42.320 --> 00:54:42.430
Well,

2024
00:54:42.560 --> 00:54:42.840
lastly,

2025
00:54:43.010 --> 00:54:44.020
before we wrap up,

2026
00:54:44.080 --> 00:54:44.830
you said that,

2027
00:54:44.920 --> 00:54:45.070
you know,

2028
00:54:45.120 --> 00:54:46.700
you can't only get your news from Fox,

2029
00:54:46.770 --> 00:54:48.350
you can't only get it from CNN.

2030
00:54:48.720 --> 00:54:51.570
Where do you recommend people getting their news and getting their information?

2031
00:54:51.760 --> 00:54:53.120
Because like you said,

2032
00:54:53.360 --> 00:54:56.190
a lot of it is just clickbait and just looking for,

2033
00:54:56.360 --> 00:54:56.630
you know,

2034
00:54:56.930 --> 00:54:58.430
vari variety.

2035
00:54:58.680 --> 00:54:59.340
And so,

2036
00:54:59.430 --> 00:55:03.380
where are people supposed to get their news and information that they can trust?

2037
00:55:03.480 --> 00:55:04.350
That's a big challenge.

2038
00:55:04.480 --> 00:55:04.590
I,

2039
00:55:04.640 --> 00:55:04.750
I,

2040
00:55:04.880 --> 00:55:04.990
there,

2041
00:55:05.080 --> 00:55:06.230
there is no one location.

2042
00:55:06.320 --> 00:55:06.870
You can't,

2043
00:55:07.080 --> 00:55:07.230
you,

2044
00:55:07.320 --> 00:55:08.590
you can't even just look.

2045
00:55:09.170 --> 00:55:09.660
If

2046
00:55:09.800 --> 00:55:13.900
someone did an analysis on my shows and found that there is a theme

2047
00:55:14.290 --> 00:55:15.390
to the shows that we produce,

2048
00:55:15.480 --> 00:55:16.440
the content that we cover,

2049
00:55:16.660 --> 00:55:17.110
obviously,

2050
00:55:17.240 --> 00:55:19.150
cause there are things that I care about and things that I don't.

2051
00:55:19.240 --> 00:55:21.020
If I cared more about

2052
00:55:21.350 --> 00:55:21.950
the World Cup,

2053
00:55:22.100 --> 00:55:24.910
we would have produced a dozen big breaking news around the World Cup,

2054
00:55:24.960 --> 00:55:25.220
but

2055
00:55:25.360 --> 00:55:26.670
I'm focused on electoral politics,

2056
00:55:26.800 --> 00:55:27.660
cultural issues,

2057
00:55:28.040 --> 00:55:28.780
sometimes movies.

2058
00:55:29.040 --> 00:55:32.060
So my recommendation for people is check out Allsides.com,

2059
00:55:32.590 --> 00:55:34.460
because all they do is

2060
00:55:34.800 --> 00:55:35.820
show you a story.

2061
00:55:36.170 --> 00:55:37.910
And different articles from left,

2062
00:55:38.230 --> 00:55:38.760
lean left,

2063
00:55:38.890 --> 00:55:39.080
center,

2064
00:55:39.130 --> 00:55:40.110
lean right and right.

2065
00:55:40.530 --> 00:55:41.310
It's imperfect,

2066
00:55:41.530 --> 00:55:43.600
because what constitutes right wing or left wing is,

2067
00:55:43.650 --> 00:55:43.880
is,

2068
00:55:43.970 --> 00:55:45.130
is fairly nebulous.

2069
00:55:45.530 --> 00:55:47.230
But if you get your news

2070
00:55:47.520 --> 00:55:47.830
through,

2071
00:55:47.930 --> 00:55:48.080
uh,

2072
00:55:48.210 --> 00:55:48.560
all sides,

2073
00:55:48.580 --> 00:55:49.430
you can see

2074
00:55:49.570 --> 00:55:50.460
when it's a left

2075
00:55:50.730 --> 00:55:52.680
interpretation or a right interpretation,

2076
00:55:52.930 --> 00:55:54.180
and then read them both.

2077
00:55:54.490 --> 00:55:58.360
And they may that still may not guarantee you're getting accurate information.

2078
00:55:58.490 --> 00:55:58.600
I,

2079
00:55:58.730 --> 00:55:59.600
I like to read left,

2080
00:55:59.730 --> 00:55:59.960
center,

2081
00:55:59.980 --> 00:56:02.160
and right on every story to see what I may be missing.

2082
00:56:02.780 --> 00:56:02.890
Uh,

2083
00:56:03.020 --> 00:56:05.890
I would just stress that the difficulty for most people is,

2084
00:56:06.140 --> 00:56:06.250
you know,

2085
00:56:06.490 --> 00:56:07.610
every day when I'm going through the news,

2086
00:56:07.630 --> 00:56:10.280
I'm actually checking source material to verify claims.

2087
00:56:10.540 --> 00:56:12.160
It's not something the average person can do,

2088
00:56:12.270 --> 00:56:12.800
so

2089
00:56:13.260 --> 00:56:15.730
I don't even believe that there's a news service that can get it right,

2090
00:56:15.820 --> 00:56:16.050
but I,

2091
00:56:16.180 --> 00:56:17.450
but I think all sides,

2092
00:56:17.540 --> 00:56:17.610
uh,

2093
00:56:17.700 --> 00:56:18.840
gets as close as you can.

2094
00:56:19.340 --> 00:56:19.530
All right,

2095
00:56:19.620 --> 00:56:19.730
well,

2096
00:56:19.860 --> 00:56:20.050
Tim,

2097
00:56:20.260 --> 00:56:24.560
thank you so much for joining us today and thank you everyone at home for watching.

2098
00:56:24.820 --> 00:56:27.350
Be sure to tune in to the next surrounded episode.