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is up everybody? Welcome to a brand new

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2:01

you. Oh, very cool. Very

2:03

cool. All right. So, uh, all

2:06

right. Let's get into some stuff,

2:08

uh, for today's episode. Now, uh,

2:11

typically on the show. It is a

2:13

rule of thumb that we both try

2:15

our best to live up to, that

2:18

we act as if Canada

2:20

does not exist. Good

2:22

policy. just

2:24

a common -sense policy. It's a matter

2:27

of survival. Okay,

2:29

but in all seriousness, we

2:31

don't talk too much about

2:34

Canadian politics don't

2:36

care. Yeah, obviously. There

2:38

will be things sometimes that kind of

2:41

break through. Obviously, the most notable stuff

2:43

would be like when the trucker protests

2:45

were going on during COVID, we did

2:47

a lot talking about that. I mean,

2:49

obviously, this is our neighbor to the

2:51

north, and it was a very interesting

2:53

dynamic. I mean, really, debatably,

2:57

like the largest

2:59

freedom protests in

3:01

modern America. Sorry,

3:03

there I go again, making it American,

3:05

but in recent history. And

3:07

of course, the government crackdown of that. Like there

3:10

have been things that are kind of interesting. And

3:13

I do want to just preface

3:16

by saying that, you

3:18

know, I don't know that

3:20

much about like Canadian internal

3:22

politics. And it is difficult,

3:25

even though Canada is our

3:27

neighbor, there is

3:29

a distinct culture, there is

3:31

a different um politics up

3:33

there than there is down

3:35

here nicer people dumber politics

3:37

that's how i would sum

3:39

it up yeah and there's

3:41

some connection between those two

3:43

by the way right like

3:45

there's almost like um you

3:47

know a weakness that comes

3:50

along with the the kindness

3:52

there uh but anyway what's

3:54

so if you guys aren't

3:56

paying attention evidently um or

3:58

not evidently the the liberals

4:00

had a big victory Yesterday

4:02

and this is there's several

4:04

things that are kind of

4:06

interesting about this I again

4:08

Obviously neither one of us

4:10

are nearly as fluent in

4:12

Canadian politics as American politics

4:14

And I know I have

4:16

been accused before and it's

4:18

probably true to some degree

4:20

that I'm somewhat guilty of

4:22

Making everything about America Um,

4:25

you know, there's a reason for that

4:27

though. I mean, largely, I think it

4:30

makes sense. Um, you know, I focus

4:32

on the country that I live in

4:34

and honestly, even when I'm focusing on

4:37

like Israel, Palestine, it's because the country

4:39

that I live in is so implicated

4:41

in this, in this conflict. And that,

4:44

you know, like it's a, you know,

4:46

it's a number one that just makes

4:48

sense to me. America

4:50

is what I really care about. I

4:53

have two little children and I do not

4:55

plan on leaving this country So like my

4:57

children are going to grow up in this

4:59

country and what I care about much more

5:02

than anything else is What kind of country

5:04

they're growing up in? It's

5:06

I remember it. Noam Chomsky had this

5:08

old line He was something like which

5:11

I always thought was he was talking

5:13

about how there and this is all

5:15

true by the way, but that there

5:17

was like a You know, there was

5:19

during the Cold War, there was a

5:21

ton of like Soviet propaganda about how

5:23

racist America was. And we're talking like

5:25

right in the aftermath of World War

5:27

II. So like late 40s, early 50s.

5:30

And they would talk about, you know,

5:32

segregation and how horrible Americans treat black

5:34

people in the deep South and things

5:36

like this. Now, okay, all of that

5:38

was true. You know what I mean?

5:40

Like they weren't making it up. It

5:42

was a real thing. But you could

5:44

also like look at that and be

5:47

like, really, Joseph Stalin? Like that's

5:49

your deal is that you're focusing on how

5:51

as you're, you know, like throwing people in

5:53

gulags, you're talking about how awful it is.

5:55

It's like. There's an interesting

5:57

game that people can play where they

5:59

always want to focus on the crimes

6:02

of others rather than the crimes of

6:04

their own society and therefore somehow kind

6:06

of like, you know, skirt their own

6:08

responsibility. You see this all the time.

6:11

Almost everybody I've ever debated on foreign

6:13

policy is guilty of this. It's all

6:15

day they want to talk about Hamas

6:18

or Hezbollah or Vladimir Putin or, you

6:20

know, these horrible crimes that other governments

6:22

commit. And then you've got to

6:24

sit there and be like, yeah, but like, Okay,

6:26

but what is our government done? So

6:29

I do think as a general

6:31

starting point, it's good to focus

6:33

most on your own society. But

6:36

then on top of that, you know, we

6:38

just happen to live under the world empire.

6:40

Like our government happens to be the most

6:42

powerful government that's ever existed. So it just

6:44

makes sense. In this

6:46

case, with these

6:48

Canadian elections, I really don't

6:51

think I'm being American centric.

6:53

or I'm overplaying how much

6:56

of an impact American politics

6:58

had on this result. And

7:01

I do think it's something

7:03

that is important enough to

7:06

think about. And

7:08

when I say this, literally,

7:12

including the biggest

7:14

campaign ads and

7:16

the victory speech,

7:19

we're all about Donald Trump.

7:23

And so essentially, from my

7:25

understanding, is basically this. The

7:28

Liberals have dominated Canada,

7:31

Canadian politics, for quite a

7:33

while now. And of course,

7:36

Justin Trudeau was like the

7:38

poster child of this. He

7:40

was their Obama, down

7:43

to the blackface. They were basically

7:45

the same. And

7:47

this was essentially everything Everything

7:50

that you could think of

7:52

during the rise of what

7:54

is now known as wokeism

7:57

in America, a social

7:59

justice warrior kind of Democrat type

8:01

shit. Canada was

8:04

always a couple clicks to

8:06

the left of us on

8:08

that. You know, like if

8:10

we were the transgender kind

8:12

of stuff that really rose

8:14

up over the last 13

8:17

years or so, 15 years.

8:20

Canada was like straight up, you

8:22

know, they were having you know

8:25

the bill c16 that Jordan Peterson

8:27

rose to fame opposing was like

8:29

mandating speech like mandating that you

8:32

have to call trans people by

8:34

one of their 72 different, you

8:36

know genders or whatever they had

8:38

a there were incidents that I'm

8:41

sure you remember One comedian who

8:43

got fined like 300 thousand dollars

8:45

for making an offensive joke. They

8:48

were always like They were, you

8:50

know, several clicks woker than America

8:52

ever got. And this

8:55

just kind of persisted. And

8:57

it was really, it seems like

9:00

COVID kind of broke this. And

9:02

that COVID really gave the conservatives in

9:05

Canada like a lifeline because, you know,

9:07

the liberals were in charge and they

9:09

mismanaged everything. And this old and it

9:11

really looked to a lot of people

9:14

and I've heard from a lot of

9:16

Canadians that like they really thought the

9:18

liberals were done and That they were

9:20

gonna come back and the polling seemed

9:23

to back that up and then of

9:25

course Trudeau resigned in disgrace and it

9:27

seemed almost like in a very similar

9:29

parallel to America in the same way

9:32

that Obama kind of seemed

9:34

like almost you know this rock

9:36

star political force that was like

9:38

so popular and now you see

9:41

Obama today and everyone just kind

9:43

of looks at him as like

9:45

a scammer like it's it doesn't

9:47

have that same like aura anymore

9:49

and it does seem at least

9:52

according to certainly the campaign ads

9:54

and the victory speech last night

9:56

that what really happened here was

9:58

that there was a reaction to

10:01

the stuff Donald Trump's doing. And

10:03

this is something that I've been reading

10:06

a bit about this this morning. And

10:08

again, I'm really approaching, compared to other

10:10

issues that I talk about, I'm just

10:13

much more of a novice on Canadian

10:15

domestic politics. Not

10:17

that I'm an expert on

10:19

other things, but I have

10:21

a much deeper understanding of

10:24

some of these other topics.

10:27

But basically all these Canadian journalists

10:29

that I'm reading today, they're

10:31

all saying it's not even the tariffs.

10:34

It was the 51st state thing.

10:38

And that really struck a nerve with

10:40

a lot of Canadians. And you know

10:42

how these elections work, you know, it's

10:45

like if you move the middle a

10:47

few clicks, that's the difference. And people

10:49

in the middle seem to really respond

10:51

poorly. to the idea that even though

10:54

he's kind of hiding behind the joke,

10:56

but then keeps saying it and then

10:58

says he's not joking, they really did

11:01

not like this idea that they were

11:03

getting bullied by this new American president

11:05

and being talked down to in this

11:08

way. And look, feel

11:10

however you feel. I'm

11:12

not necessarily saying that there for Donald

11:14

Trump shouldn't do something he's doing. I

11:16

mean, I kind of am saying that,

11:18

but it's quite possible. that

11:21

this behavior from Donald Trump just took

11:23

our neighbor to the north from actually

11:25

moving in a much more positive direction

11:27

and sent them back into the opposite

11:30

direction that even Donald Trump would want

11:32

to say. So I do

11:34

just think, just to start off, I

11:36

think there's something, and I'll let you

11:39

jump in here, Rob, and give your

11:41

thoughts, but there is something in politics,

11:43

this is something I've noticed a lot

11:46

over the years, where almost everybody, almost

11:48

everybody has a... has

11:50

a real issue. They

11:53

have trouble taking into

11:55

account in their worldview

11:57

that no matter what

12:00

political goal you have,

12:02

there will almost certainly

12:04

be a counter reaction

12:07

to that. And

12:09

it's some political equivalent of

12:11

Isaac Newton's laws of physics.

12:14

Every reaction has an equal

12:16

and opposite reaction. it

12:20

never seemed to me that

12:22

in the years of like,

12:25

like, woke insanity, that

12:27

any of these like, young social justice

12:29

warriors ever thought to themselves, like, there's

12:32

gonna be a snapback to this. Like,

12:35

if we push this much radical change

12:37

this quickly, there will be a counter

12:39

movement, there will be a resistance to

12:41

this. And I think that's true for

12:43

liberals and conservatives, left -wingers and right

12:46

-wingers. But I just think

12:48

it's a very because it's like it's a

12:50

higher order of thinking It's much easier to

12:52

just think about the policy. You're trying to

12:54

get into play right now This is also

12:56

something I've been thinking about because I'm getting

12:59

ready to do an immigration debate at the

13:01

Soho forum coming up in a couple weeks

13:03

and It's one of my you know one

13:05

of the things I think about a lot

13:07

with immigration for people who I advocate for

13:09

like open borders You're like well, what do

13:12

you think the reaction to that would actually

13:14

be like you know like Have

13:16

you thought that through? Have you considered

13:18

that? But it does seem to me,

13:20

and at least, again, this is what

13:22

I'm reading from Canadian journalists and pollsters

13:24

and stuff, that it does seem that,

13:26

like, that's what we just saw in

13:29

Canada, was that there was a counter

13:31

reaction to Donald Trump's tariff policy and

13:33

51st state rhetoric. Any thoughts

13:35

on this, Rob? Feel free I think Canada can

13:37

vote in whoever they want, because they're going to

13:39

end up under Donald Trump's role anyway. So, you

13:41

know, what does it matter? 51st

13:43

state. I

13:46

think I listen. I don't love

13:48

Donald Trump's tariff palace policy. But,

13:51

you know, if Donald Trump's lunacy

13:54

pushes other countries to elect leaders

13:56

to try and, you know, be

13:58

more at odds with Trump, whatever.

14:02

Yeah. And Donald Trump does have a way

14:04

of bullying people. And I'm not. Listen, I'm

14:06

not forecasting this to be a win, particularly

14:08

in our trade with Canada. I think we

14:10

get a lot of cheap energy from them.

14:12

And that's where. most of

14:14

the, uh, Canada trade surplus

14:16

comes from. And so I don't know that,

14:18

uh, pushing for a change in arrangements with

14:21

Canada is even a win for our country.

14:23

Uh, but the way those idiots up there

14:25

want to vote and bring back to do

14:27

or whatnot, because they're annoyed with Trump, it's

14:29

just, uh, it's not on my

14:32

list of, uh, criticisms of Trump. Well,

14:34

look, I certainly understand that as, as

14:36

I prefaced at the beginning, Canada is

14:38

not that important. But

14:40

it does it does suck for the decent

14:42

people under up there that they're gonna have

14:45

to live under this government again Although you

14:47

know that is that is the way it

14:49

works. By the way, did you see this

14:51

is a kind of separate point from Canada

14:54

Canada? It's like Trump

14:56

just has a different strategy for

14:58

playing the game and so to

15:01

say hey if Donald Trump had

15:03

more diplomacy Look at what

15:05

would be going on in other countries. It's

15:07

like, you know, so he might, he might have

15:10

lost the Canada. He might win another one. I

15:12

don't know. It's, uh, no, that's, that's a fair,

15:14

that's a fair point. Um, on the tariff stuff,

15:16

did you see this rub that, um, and I

15:19

didn't even have this on my list of things

15:21

to talk about today, but it just popped into

15:23

my mind as we were talking about the tariff

15:25

stuff. Did you see the, the back and forth

15:27

between, uh, Bezos and the Trump administration on what

15:30

Amazon's doing here? You know, I got to say

15:32

this, uh, Look,

15:36

when it comes to

15:38

like Jeff Bezos versus

15:40

Donald Trump, my dog

15:42

in the fight is like, I

15:44

tend to want to side with

15:47

Donald Trump, generally speaking. I don't

15:49

like Jeff Bezos and I really

15:51

don't like him as a political

15:53

figure. I think the Washington Post

15:56

was tremendously degraded under his leadership.

15:59

But essentially what happened is like,

16:02

Amazon said that they're going to

16:04

basically show you in the price

16:07

what part of it is from

16:09

the tariffs. And then the

16:11

White House is flipping out about how this is an

16:13

attack on the Trump administration and all of this. And

16:15

I'm just looking at it, I'm like, I just really

16:17

don't see how the administration has a leg to stand

16:19

on here. That just seems

16:21

like a totally reasonable thing for Amazon

16:24

to do. If you're enacting a policy

16:26

that is forcing their prices to rise,

16:28

for them to just point out, This

16:30

percentage of it is because of the

16:32

tariff policy like they're putting a tax

16:34

on the stuff that we're selling to

16:36

you. So we have to raise our

16:38

prices. I mean, I don't know what's

16:40

the counter to this. I'm just like

16:42

that seems totally reasonable. It'd be like

16:45

objecting to like somebody breaking down the

16:47

tax on your bill of anything. Would

16:49

we do that with lots of different

16:51

bills and I don't see any like

16:53

if you were furious at a hotel

16:55

for saying like. Oh, the room is

16:57

250 bucks plus $30 in tax. And

16:59

you were like, just say $280. You're

17:01

not allowed to say that or whatever.

17:03

You know what I mean? It's like,

17:06

this just seems silly. So

17:08

I actually have a bunch to say

17:10

on this. I was talking to a

17:12

buddy of mine this morning and I

17:14

do think that there's a great opportunity

17:16

in the market right now for someone

17:18

to create a Amazon like website that

17:20

only sells American made products and gives

17:22

consumers an opportunity to know that things

17:24

are made in America. Now

17:26

when it comes to Amazon letting

17:28

you know the price increases because

17:30

of tariffs, first is I

17:32

think the regime did quite well with Amazon

17:35

and that it disguised a lot of the

17:37

inflation that would have existed in the market.

17:39

by being able to make use of cheaper

17:42

foreign labor and importing goods that otherwise would

17:44

have increased more substantially in price, and they

17:46

might be cheaper goods, they might be goods

17:49

that don't last as long, and they

17:51

aren't of the same quality, but I believe

17:53

that foreign manufacturing has helped the regime

17:55

disguise what would otherwise be a larger tariff

17:57

problem. Right in terms of them turning around

17:59

to Amazon and saying that this is

18:01

what like they were They didn't quite use

18:04

the word treason, but they were using

18:06

it was pretty strong language Yeah, very aggressive

18:08

language of them undermining the regime I was

18:10

reading this book for a while and

18:12

it didn't really quite grab my interest But

18:15

it's called propaganda and it was from

18:17

like Freud's I think son or grandson is

18:19

Edward, Edward Bernays. Yeah. So I read it

18:21

on plane rides over the course of

18:23

too long for how short of a book

18:26

it was. But there was one piece

18:28

in there. This was prior to the Donald

18:30

Trump terrorist where he was taught where the

18:32

author was talking about how to sell

18:34

the American public on the tariffs are bad.

18:36

And one of it was like a

18:38

department story that had dual pricing of like

18:41

the with tariff pricing. And I was almost

18:43

surprised that a brand hadn't done that

18:45

yet. And that this is a very good

18:47

way to educate customers or the voting

18:49

public for, Hey, here's the cost of tariffs.

18:52

And this is what this is now going

18:54

to cost you. I'm surprised that somebody

18:56

hasn't done that sooner. I

18:58

think Amazon is, you know, people are

19:00

trying to complain. Oh, well, why didn't

19:02

why didn't they do that during Biden's

19:04

inflation? Well, too, that's not

19:07

just Biden's inflation. A lot of that

19:09

came from Donald Trump's policies during COVID

19:11

of shutting down and sending money to

19:13

consumers. That wasn't just Biden. And

19:15

this someone has to fact check me

19:17

on. If you're in the business of

19:20

cheap goods, I don't know that inflation

19:22

is definitely bad for your business. Like,

19:24

I don't know that Amazon is killed

19:26

by inflation because they're the provider of

19:28

the cheaper goods and services. They might

19:31

actually pick up customers and make better

19:33

use of the supply lines today. I

19:35

don't know that. So in other words,

19:37

then advertising something that actually affects their

19:40

business model, which is tariffs. Yes. Not

19:42

the same thing as them advertising. price

19:46

increases because of inflation. I don't

19:48

see them being as... That to

19:50

me is not a consistent criticism.

19:53

And I think just a... point on it,

19:56

the Donald Trump administration criticizing them for

19:58

pointing out, hey, this new policy from the

20:00

government is increasing your cost of goods seems

20:02

like fair play to me. Yeah, there's there's

20:04

a lot of interesting points there. And

20:07

you know, and on that point about whether

20:09

a price inflation actually helps Amazon, I mean,

20:11

I guess we'd need Gene Epstein or Bob

20:13

Murphy, maybe to like school us on on

20:16

one of these. But I will say,

20:18

I know this is somewhat anecdotal, but I

20:20

think it gets to the point. But like,

20:22

I know In my town where I live,

20:25

I know there are three, you

20:27

know, what you would call mom and

20:29

pop stores that have been here for,

20:31

I believe, all of them were around

20:34

at least 30 years that have closed

20:36

in the last two years. Like, I

20:38

knew that there was like a shoe

20:40

cobbler and there was a toy store

20:42

and a bookstore. All of

20:44

them closed in the last few years. And

20:46

so I do think it's like, yeah, I

20:49

think that's who really gets screwed. by the

20:51

price inflation is like we all kind of

20:53

know like you know there are these kind

20:56

of like nice little neighborhood stores that just

20:58

don't have the economies of scale of these

21:00

giant you know uh companies and they got

21:02

to charge a few bucks more for every

21:05

product and typically people kind of know that

21:07

but they like supporting their local store and

21:09

they think it adds to the charm of

21:11

the town or whatever but when you have

21:14

areas of high price inflation like when people's

21:16

like you know If your mortgage is going

21:18

up and your energy costs are going up

21:20

and your car payments are going up and

21:23

your groceries are going up, it

21:25

just puts a lot more people are like, yeah,

21:27

if we got to get toys for the kids,

21:29

I'm going to order them on Amazon because they're

21:31

just going to be cheaper. You know, it's like

21:33

you got to find ways to cut where you

21:35

can and you could directly see these small businesses

21:38

just like could not. You know

21:40

figure out a way to make that

21:42

work and so at least in that

21:44

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21:46

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21:48

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21:50

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22:51

All right, let's get back into the

22:53

show. You

22:55

know, your example or your point

22:57

about like a department store doing

23:00

it or something like that is

23:02

that you're right. I completely agree.

23:04

It's almost surprising more haven't done

23:06

it. But Amazon doing it is

23:08

just so devastating because it is

23:10

like the biggest goddamn virtual store

23:12

that almost everybody uses now. And

23:16

Look again, it's like I don't know.

23:18

I think the administration is in a

23:21

weird spot where they're just basically going

23:23

like don't let people know about this

23:25

bad economic policy Don't let them know

23:28

that this is the reason prices are

23:30

going up, but I don't know that

23:32

to me seems pretty Pretty weak. It's

23:35

just a really weak argument. I don't

23:37

understand what like it. I'm just saying

23:39

like If you were going to make

23:41

this argument, wouldn't you also have to

23:44

say that it's, again, they didn't use

23:46

the word treason, but I, you know,

23:48

they did use very strong language. And

23:51

it was like, would you say the

23:53

same thing about a hotel, every hotel

23:55

room I ever got, or I think

23:58

just about all of them, they always

24:00

show you what the tax costs, you

24:03

know, are they also, you know,

24:05

like in defiance of the state

24:07

government or something like that, because

24:10

they're letting you know that this

24:12

part of the price. is artificially

24:14

imposed by the government? Are they

24:16

not allowed to let you know

24:18

that? Even if you defend the

24:21

taxes on hotel rooms, that

24:23

is still what's accounting for this raise in

24:26

pricing. And so why should we not know

24:28

this? Is your argument somehow

24:30

that this is a good policy? He's

24:33

bragging on one hand about the

24:35

revenue that it's going to generate,

24:37

but then you're not allowed to

24:39

point out where that generated revenue

24:41

is coming from. Like

24:43

this is just too nutty to

24:46

me. I don't know. So I

24:48

just really it's just one of

24:50

those things where it's like It

24:52

just seems like a really bad

24:54

fight for the administration to pick

24:56

especially when over the years when

24:58

Donald Trump was trash and Bezos

25:01

he was doing it from the

25:03

position of having the you know

25:05

the The moral high ground you

25:07

know trash in the washington post

25:09

for running all these articles about

25:11

the russia gate nonsense is totally

25:13

just humiliating i mean all of

25:16

us washington post in the new

25:18

york times you know we probably

25:20

give um we probably give over

25:22

the years we've given like cnn

25:24

and nbc more shit because they're

25:26

they're so much more egregious in

25:29

the way that they would cover

25:31

it but the washington post in

25:33

the new york times just totally

25:35

i mean like um severely

25:39

degraded their own reputation on

25:41

the Russiagate stuff. Just

25:43

totally, you know, like they ran with the

25:46

story too. And never, then it was such

25:48

an opportunity for either of those papers to

25:50

blow the lid open on the whole thing,

25:52

you know, and just be like, yo, this

25:55

is all, this is all complete horseshit. It

25:57

was all right there in front of us.

25:59

There's no reason why me and you could

26:01

do it and nobody at the Washington Post

26:04

or the New York Times. could other than

26:06

they didn't want to. But so when Donald

26:08

Trump was trash and Jeff Bezos for running

26:10

a fucking propaganda rag, he was doing it

26:13

with the moral high ground. But now he's

26:15

trashing them for letting the consumers know where

26:17

the increase in prices come from. I

26:20

don't know. I can't really get

26:22

behind that just seems too too

26:25

ridiculous. I don't know. Okay.

26:28

All right, moving on to the let's

26:31

get into this, because this is an

26:33

interesting topic. There were

26:35

articles of impeachment

26:38

were introduced against

26:40

Donald Trump. Shocker.

26:45

This is it. It

26:47

really is. I don't know, Rob,

26:49

it's I'm curious to get your thoughts on

26:51

this, but I find this kind of there's

26:54

a lot of things that are hilarious about

26:56

this. And before we play this video, I

26:58

just wanted to be clear. I'm not going

27:00

for the cheapest joke here alone. We

27:03

will probably cover that too. But

27:06

there is a broader point to this. But

27:08

I guess I would just preface, even before

27:10

we get into this, this video. There

27:15

is an unbelievable dynamic that's

27:17

been at work between like,

27:19

you know, you have the

27:21

corporate media and the Democrat

27:24

Democratic Party, basically one, you

27:26

know, apparatus. and

27:28

verse Donald Trump. It's basically

27:30

been going on since 2016.

27:35

It is amazing, amazing,

27:38

the ability that the

27:40

Democrats and the corporate

27:42

media have to snatch

27:44

defeat from the jaws

27:47

of victory. It's

27:49

like as soon as Donald Trump does something

27:51

where you're like, oh, he played it bad

27:53

there. This is a weak move for him.

27:55

They go, hold my beer. We

27:58

will overdramatize this and make complete

28:00

fools out of ourselves while doing

28:02

it to the point that he'll

28:04

start looking better Like it's just

28:06

always the dynamic constantly And so,

28:08

you know, we were saying like

28:10

yeah, you know the way Donald

28:12

Trump is going about these deportations

28:14

Sure does seem to be like

28:16

the dumbest way to do it

28:18

It sure does seem to be

28:20

the way that's gonna get the

28:22

most pushback and the least amount

28:24

of illegals actually deported Like what

28:26

the fuck is the strategy here?

28:28

But then there's this. It's like

28:30

to introduce articles of impeachment over

28:32

the case of a guy. It

28:35

just seems to me to

28:38

be like, look, dude, I

28:41

don't know how to say this.

28:43

If tone deaf was a clip,

28:46

the clip we're about to

28:48

play is the personification of

28:51

tone deafness. Just nothing it's

28:53

unbelievable. You like literally the

28:55

What is it? I sent

28:57

the in a video. It

28:59

was from chief nerd great

29:01

Twitter account to go follow

29:03

But he he posted this

29:05

and just said this is

29:08

not a Saturday night live

29:10

sketch It is here's the

29:12

video of a Democratic rep

29:14

Shiri Thanadar Thanadar on why

29:16

he's introduced articles of impeachment

29:20

This is Congressman Shreed Thanedar.

29:23

Donald Trump has already done

29:25

real damage to our democracy,

29:27

but defying a unanimous 9

29:29

-0 Supreme Court ruling that

29:31

has to be the final

29:34

straw. It's time we impeach

29:36

Donald J. Trump. The

29:38

court said the wrongfully deported

29:40

Kilmer Garcia must be allowed

29:42

to return and receive due

29:45

process. Trump ignored it.

29:47

He ignored the Constitution. He

29:50

ignored the very checks and

29:52

balances that keep our democracy

29:54

intact. This isn't an

29:57

isolated incident. It's part of

29:59

a dangerous deliberate pattern. That's

30:02

why today I introduced

30:05

a resolution to impeach

30:07

Donald J Trump, outlining

30:10

seven articles of impeachment.

30:14

Article one. obstruction

30:17

of justice and abuse of executive

30:19

power. I'm sorry, we have to

30:21

pause for a second. Who is

30:23

this burn victim Spock who talks

30:25

like he's an Indian Muppet and

30:27

don't you need to speak English

30:29

well to serve in our government?

30:32

What county does this guy represent?

30:34

How is this possible? Rob,

30:37

how insane is it that like you

30:39

just can't make this up? Look, I'm

30:42

sorry. Again, I'm not. I don't even

30:44

know what he's saying, all I'm hearing

30:46

is, only cash! You

30:49

buy two Slurpee, you get three Slurpee

30:51

free. But

30:54

genuinely, is there

30:56

no democratic strategist who went,

30:59

hey, if we're

31:01

gonna impeach Donald Trump

31:04

over the issue of

31:06

immigration, where he

31:09

is objectively Popular

31:12

like he's got the support of the people over

31:14

and and this is the big immigration fight and

31:16

we're gonna impeach him over the issue of immigration.

31:19

I Don't think this guy should be

31:22

the front man Like come on dude.

31:24

I mean, I'm sorry I'm not trying

31:26

to be insensitive and I'm not trying

31:29

to be like a dick and I

31:31

don't like you know, I do not

31:33

Look I do not like the Some

31:37

of the kind of like excesses of

31:39

bigotry in the right -wing reaction to

31:41

some of this stuff But at the

31:43

same time it's like dude come on

31:46

like it's not just first of all

31:48

and this is just whatever we're comedians

31:50

We're allowed to fuck a big jokes

31:52

about this shit. It's our only area

31:54

of expertise. This is where we've been

31:56

We can make jokes about this, but

31:58

it isn't objectively just hilarious accent. Okay,

32:00

but all right, whatever I

32:06

don't know what he said. It's

32:09

just so crazy to me to

32:12

have a thick accent and then

32:14

be leading the charge about immigration

32:16

and impeaching the president who was

32:18

elected with a popular mandate to

32:21

crack down on immigration. It's

32:23

like, dude, do you not see the

32:25

optics here? It's like, how do you?

32:27

I'm sorry. But I don't know. This

32:30

is how I always felt. But if

32:32

I wanted to say, go move to

32:34

Japan and I um let's just say

32:36

the Japanese government or the Japanese culture

32:39

allowed me to move there like I

32:41

there was a legal pathway where I

32:43

could go live there now and I

32:45

wanted to live there because I thought

32:48

it was a better place to have

32:50

a life for my family and my

32:52

kids I'm going in there and I

32:54

barely speak the language I've

32:56

learned it a little bit but I still have a

32:59

thick, thick American accent. And then the

33:01

Japanese people overwhelmingly were like, hey look, you

33:03

came here illegally and that's fine. There's a

33:05

whole lot of people who came here illegally

33:07

and we do not allow that. Like we

33:09

get to choose who comes and doesn't come

33:11

and we want the people who came here

33:13

illegally to get out. And someone was like,

33:15

I think it's really wrong the way they're

33:18

going about doing this. You should lead the

33:20

charge against this. I'd be like, no dude,

33:22

I can't lead the charge against this. Like

33:24

maybe I'll support you and your effort if

33:26

I don't agree with the policy. But like,

33:28

obviously, I can't be the one to do

33:30

that because you guys just let me in

33:32

here. Like what this is crazy. It's

33:35

absolute madness. And it

33:37

really does. It

33:40

kind of it just gets

33:42

to like the fact that

33:44

there's a much bigger picture

33:46

here, especially when it comes

33:48

to immigration more broadly. And

33:50

the reason why like Immigration

33:52

has become one of, if

33:55

not the biggest issue across

33:57

the West, not just in

33:59

the United States of America.

34:01

This is all throughout the

34:03

West. Immigration is one of,

34:05

if not the biggest issue,

34:07

and there's a reason for

34:09

that. When you kind

34:12

of zoom out and you

34:14

look at it, look,

34:18

for many years in America,

34:20

obviously, As people kind

34:22

of know, like the caricatured version

34:24

of American history is this kind

34:27

of like, we're a nation of

34:29

immigrants. We're all descendants of immigrants.

34:31

And there is some truth to

34:33

that. Like there were huge waves

34:36

of immigration into America. But

34:38

you know, like the truth is

34:40

that if you actually look at

34:43

American history, it's much more like

34:46

It's much more like a chart

34:48

that ebbs and flows like there

34:51

were big waves of immigration and

34:53

then there were there were periods

34:55

of time with very low numbers

34:58

of immigration and essentially pre Before

35:00

1965 I believe is 65 double

35:02

-check me on this, but I

35:04

believe in the immigration act

35:07

in 1965 is what

35:10

really altered the way

35:12

immigration is done. It

35:14

used to be before that

35:16

period that the government explicitly

35:19

gave favor to European and

35:21

Christian countries that were immigrating

35:23

here. And this is part

35:25

of the reason why we

35:27

had giant waves of immigration

35:30

from Ireland and Italy and

35:32

places in Europe and not

35:34

from South America. That

35:37

changed in the mid 60s. And

35:40

now, again, you'd have to go

35:42

check the numbers, but for a

35:44

long time now, I mean, immigration

35:46

is overwhelmingly, I mean, I think

35:48

it's 80 plus percent is like,

35:51

you know, from third world countries.

35:53

And it's, you know, brown people of different

35:55

types. Now, I'm

35:58

not nothing against brown people, nothing against

36:00

third world countries. I'm just saying like,

36:02

this is how the immigration policy changed.

36:04

And the thing about it is, right,

36:07

is that the

36:10

American people never

36:12

supported it, ever.

36:15

You know, in 1965, I know that

36:18

Ted Kennedy, I believe, was one of

36:20

the people leading the charge for the

36:22

65 Immigration Act. And the way he

36:24

sold it was by explicitly saying that

36:26

this will not change the racial composition

36:28

of America. That was how

36:30

he sold it in the mid -60s.

36:33

Now, he was lying through his teeth.

36:35

That's not actually what ended up happening.

36:37

But I'm just making the point that

36:39

there's never been a time where there

36:41

was a vote on this or where

36:43

the American people were asked and said,

36:45

like, hey, do you wish to radically

36:47

and drastically change the racial and cultural

36:50

composition of the United States of America?

36:52

And if they ever had been, it

36:54

would have been a very resounding no.

36:56

And that's why Ted Kennedy had to

36:58

sell this as it's not going to

37:00

be that. Because look, think about

37:02

it like this, right? So

37:05

in the year, we're talking about

37:07

the 60s here, okay? So in

37:09

1960, the country, the

37:11

racial dynamics of the country, where

37:13

the country was 90 % white,

37:16

9 % black, 1 %

37:18

other. Something right around those

37:20

numbers. I may not have that exactly right, but it's very,

37:22

very close to that. And okay,

37:25

you essentially had a biracial...

37:27

not a multiracial country a

37:29

biracial country and what is

37:31

what do we all know?

37:34

Like what is the biggest story

37:36

of the 1960s? Civil

37:38

rights movement, right? I mean

37:40

like it was already in

37:42

that environment There were major

37:45

conflicts and problems that were

37:47

a result of having a

37:49

biracial country. No, that's

37:51

not to blame anybody. But it's not

37:53

to say like, and by the way,

37:55

the black people are the victims in

37:57

this scenario. I'm not blaming them for

38:00

the racial. I'm just saying it is

38:02

something that comes along with having more

38:04

than what, but with having a non

38:06

homogenia. What am I saying? You

38:09

know, with. Yes, there you go. You

38:11

know what I'm saying? There are issues that

38:14

come along with that. And then if you're

38:16

talking about drastically changing the rate, there's issues

38:18

that come along with that. And the people

38:20

never supported this. No one ever

38:23

said they wanted it. And in fact,

38:25

we've seen just over the last four

38:27

years how unpopular huge amounts of unfettered

38:29

immigration is. And just

38:31

in terms of the optics, I'm not

38:33

even talking about the case. I mean,

38:35

we could get into that. You could

38:38

give your thoughts on that. But just

38:40

in terms of the optics of like,

38:42

Having somebody who speaks like a foreigner

38:45

Lecture you about how the president who

38:47

just won every swing state and the

38:49

popular vote Can't go through on his

38:52

immigration policy. It's just like dude look

38:54

there is There's a lot of dynamics

38:56

going on here. There's a lot happening

38:58

but on top of all of that

39:01

right like you could look up the

39:03

the like census

39:05

projections and stuff like that and like

39:07

america i think is supposed to be

39:09

a majority minority country in the next

39:12

like couple decades and i think ultimately

39:14

we're we're going to be a majority

39:16

hispanic country that's a big change you

39:18

might be all for it you know

39:20

you might think that's great and maybe

39:23

there's an argument for why that's a

39:25

good change i don't know to be

39:27

honest with that argument is but like

39:29

maybe you think that's that's a good

39:31

thing but it is a drastic change.

39:35

And for all the people who scream so much

39:37

about democracy, yeah, it says

39:39

sometime between 2041 and 2046 is what

39:41

Natalie just put in the chat. And

39:43

that's, but this is not that far

39:45

off in the future, you know, as

39:47

you get older, you realize like, oh,

39:50

that time creeps up pretty quickly. But

39:52

like, even if you think this is

39:54

an overwhelmingly good thing, if

39:56

you believe in democracy or whatever, as

39:58

many people claim to, I'm just saying

40:00

the people don't want it. If there

40:02

was a referendum on this tomorrow, it

40:04

would be an 80 -20 issue easily.

40:07

You know, like it is not, there has been

40:09

no point where the American people have said, this

40:11

is what we want. And

40:14

so while you're doing

40:16

this, okay, and

40:18

this is true, like all across the

40:20

West, I don't think

40:22

there's any population in the West,

40:24

any white population that's like has

40:27

a sustainable reproduction rate. Like

40:29

it's all fall, you know what I mean? And like, okay.

40:32

Feel however you feel about that

40:34

again as the example that I

40:37

used to use all the time

40:39

was like if you went if

40:41

you go to Italy and you

40:44

were to say hey guys I've

40:46

got some fantastic projections, okay Italians

40:49

listen up Look in the next

40:51

30 years This isn't gonna be

40:53

an Italian nation anymore Italians will

40:56

be the minority here. It's gonna

40:58

be a mostly French nation Isn't

41:01

that awesome? I think

41:03

most Italians would go, no, we

41:06

don't find that awesome. We don't

41:08

wish to be France. We wish

41:10

to be Italy. And that doesn't

41:13

mean they're racists. It doesn't mean

41:15

like they hate French people or

41:17

anything like that. It just means

41:19

that like it's a very normal

41:22

human reaction to be against that.

41:24

And what you're seeing here right

41:26

now, and this is a huge

41:28

factor in American politics, is that

41:31

like, There okay at the same

41:33

time as we're looking down and

41:35

getting closer and closer to the

41:37

projections of this drastic change There

41:40

was like from the entire establishment.

41:42

There was this rise in like

41:44

anti -white Racialism we're like it

41:46

in all of like Hollywood in

41:49

corporate America in academia Everything was

41:51

about demonizing straight white men. We

41:53

had these kind of like Piper

41:56

affirmative action DEI policies that are

41:58

just openly saying hey, we're we're

42:00

going to through the force of

42:02

law We want to see more

42:05

women of color in positions of

42:07

power We want to see more

42:09

black people in positions of power

42:11

more Latinos in positions of power

42:14

more gay people more trans people

42:16

like with the force of law

42:18

behind it Translated you know in

42:20

plain English everyone except straight white

42:23

men We want to give favor

42:25

to. While your demographic, which

42:27

is used to being the majority, is

42:29

getting smaller and smaller and smaller. Now

42:32

again, to the point that I made

42:34

earlier, could you have predicted that there

42:36

might be a counter reaction to that?

42:39

a movement that opposes that might

42:42

rise up? And I

42:44

guess essentially what I would

42:46

say is that all of

42:49

this, all of this stuff,

42:52

Whether it's like the

42:54

declining birth rate or

42:56

unfettered immigration, these are

42:58

all policies. This

43:01

didn't just happen. These are

43:03

because of specific policies that

43:05

were enacted intentionally by politicians

43:07

that all of this is

43:09

happening. And there was never

43:11

a vote on it. Never

43:14

a vote. In fact, every time there's

43:16

a referendum at all, it goes completely

43:18

in the other way. It's Donald Trump.

43:20

Donald Trump winning you know like demonstrates

43:23

this even people who didn't like Donald

43:25

Trump very much just like I'm gonna

43:27

vote for this guy because fuck you

43:29

know I don't like and so like

43:32

I just I'm almost like I'm I'm

43:34

like floored by the optics of this

43:36

video about introducing articles of impeachment to

43:38

Donald Trump It's just like bananas to

43:41

me the like this is why I

43:43

said it's like if tone deafness was

43:45

a video clip it would be this

43:47

it's just like it Read the room

43:49

man Like, have some understanding of the

43:52

optics of all of this, even if

43:54

you're for the policy. I

43:56

don't know, Rob, anything you want to jump in there? It's

43:59

the same shenanigans where, you know, you

44:02

can make the argument, for example, when

44:04

Donald Trump starts telling Amazon that

44:06

they're not allowed to give consumers

44:08

information, that that's

44:10

somewhat authoritarian. But then

44:12

when the Democrats come around and they go

44:15

listen voting public, you can't have the person

44:17

that you voted in. Yeah. And after all

44:19

these trials and a month after the election,

44:21

we're going to try and impeach them. That's

44:23

also cartoonish. And the reaction

44:25

you're going to get to the Democrats

44:27

once again, trying to not allow him

44:29

to actually orchestrate his presidency and smorgasboggin'

44:31

him down with this nonsense, it's worse.

44:33

It's what I was talking about the

44:35

other day. The Donald Trump administration throws

44:37

bullshit at you and then all of

44:40

a sudden the Democrats and the leftist

44:42

media throws even bigger bullshit at you

44:44

and you're not even sure who to

44:46

be more annoyed with. Stepping

44:48

in now with what Donald Trump's done,

44:50

there's nothing that should be impeachable. There

44:52

should be no conversation about impeachment. You

44:55

know, it's funny. I was going to send this to you

44:57

as a topic yesterday because I came up with Chuck Schumer

44:59

that he wasn't going to rule it out, but I was

45:01

like, all right, they're not really talking about it. It's not

45:04

even worth discussing. This is the first I'm

45:06

seeing if someone actually putting it forward. So

45:08

I think conversation from the Democrats

45:10

about impeachment and impeachment right now

45:12

is lunacy. And then the fact

45:14

that this guy is a congressman

45:16

who barely speaks English or doesn't

45:19

articulate it well for me to

45:21

be able to follow him, the

45:23

optics of that seem unless. I

45:25

don't know. Is this guy, did he cure

45:28

cancer in his region? And so he's the

45:30

immigration story of why we need more immigrants.

45:32

Is there some storyline I don't know about

45:34

how this guy is the savior of Illinois

45:37

or some area where he cured the poor

45:39

and that this is why he's the person

45:41

to lead the charge? Or does

45:43

this guy somehow have a job in our government

45:46

and doesn't speak English? Right. Right.

45:48

Yeah. And I'm leaning toward the latter,

45:50

although please prove me wrong if there

45:52

is some story like that. But, um,

45:54

yeah, you know, and of course, like

45:56

this isn't in a vacuum. I

45:58

mean, Donald Trump

46:00

got impeached twice in

46:03

his first, uh, in

46:05

his first term over

46:08

just like pure bullshit,

46:11

like pure bullshit. And there's things that Donald

46:13

Trump did in his first term that you

46:15

could argue were impeachable offenses. But

46:18

the two things he got impeached

46:20

for were not them. I mean,

46:22

it's just it is insane like

46:25

he got impeached for What they

46:27

called a quid pro quo with

46:29

Zalinsky and the only problem with

46:32

calling it a quid a quid

46:34

pro quo was that he didn't

46:36

get anything He didn't get anything,

46:39

you know a quid pro quo

46:41

means I give you something if

46:43

you give me something He

46:46

never got anything he he basically called Zalinsky

46:49

and kind of like, you know It was

46:51

a little like mob type shit like he

46:53

was like, oh, you know I want you

46:55

to look into the Bidens and maybe you

46:58

don't get these this weapons package that I

47:00

was gonna send to you and then Zalinsky

47:02

never looked into the Bidens and Donald Trump

47:04

gave him the weapons So like there was

47:07

just absolutely nothing there by the way is

47:09

it fucking crazy that that story gets buried

47:11

when it's like oh the story is that

47:14

There was a civil war on the country

47:16

on Russia's border and Donald Trump poured weapons

47:18

into it. Hey, how'd that end up working

47:20

out? Oh, yeah, Russia invaded.

47:23

Not so good. But that's the

47:25

story there. Not that he for

47:27

a second asked for the very

47:29

real fucking corruption to be investigated.

47:32

Like it's just whatever is nuts. And

47:34

then the January 6th thing was just

47:36

ridiculous, just totally ridiculous. And

47:38

so now you're gonna, you're gonna impeach the

47:41

guy or you're gonna, you know, I don't

47:43

think this is actually gonna, you know, take

47:45

off, but you're introducing articles of impeachment over

47:48

this. You know, the guy just got back

47:50

in. He was enjoying

47:52

record high approval ratings. His

47:54

numbers are coming down now. And

47:57

you think rather than let him

47:59

continue hurt himself, this is your

48:01

play. It's just, it's

48:04

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into the show. I

49:37

was just gonna say, in those calls, he

49:39

was slick enough to say, can you investigate

49:41

crimes? You can say, can you create a

49:43

crime? Can you fabricate evidence? And

49:46

then if you flash forward to

49:48

the fact that the Biden administration

49:50

actually ran five court cases against

49:52

Donald Trump, which goes beyond just trying

49:54

to investigate crimes. I mean,

49:56

what they did to Donald Trump was

49:58

a lot dirtier and it was with

50:00

our own court system. So

50:02

I have the lunacy of that particular

50:04

claim against Donald Trump. And he did

50:06

the same thing also in Atlanta where

50:08

he was like, can you look in

50:11

and find me the votes? He wasn't

50:13

the George's great votes. He was saying,

50:15

can you go look this over? I

50:17

think that there was voting fraud here.

50:19

Yes. And I just need you to

50:21

find this. You could argue, certainly, that

50:23

both of the phone calls were inappropriate.

50:26

But there's nothing criminal in either of them,

50:28

you know? And like, you could argue like,

50:30

you're getting into a gray area. When you

50:33

know, it was like, uh, it reminds me

50:35

of the, um, do you remember the scene

50:37

in a wolf of wall street where the

50:39

FBI guys come on his boat? And

50:42

he's talking to the FBI guy and he's like,

50:44

uh, he's like, oh, you know, it's crazy. It's

50:46

like my, my broker has started $200 ,000 a

50:48

year. And you know, if you ever wanted to

50:51

do it, like I can, I can give that

50:53

job to anybody I want to. Like if you

50:55

wanted to get out of being in law enforcement

50:57

and get into that, you could, you could start

50:59

making money right away. And he was like, did

51:01

you just attempt to bribe a federal officer? And

51:03

he's like, no, no, no. If you read the

51:05

law, that actually is not, then he's right. That's

51:07

not actually bribing an office. You know, like now

51:09

you could argue, like you're kind of brushing up

51:11

against it a little. But but it's very clearly

51:13

not a crime like they don't get him for

51:15

that in the movie because that's not a crime

51:17

You could say to somebody like hey Pete This

51:19

is what you make working for me and that's

51:21

what you make working for the government. What do

51:23

you think? but that'll try to even come that

51:25

close if we're being honest and Yeah, just in

51:27

you know again with all the other stuff taken

51:29

into account by the way the other thing which

51:31

I thought was fascinating about the little detail We've

51:34

talked about over the years that it didn't come

51:36

out till years later But when

51:38

Donald Trump made that phone

51:40

call to Zelensky, the

51:43

FBI was investigating Hunter

51:45

Biden and partially dealing

51:47

with his business in

51:49

Ukraine. So it's not

51:51

like to say that it was like

51:54

on its face corrupt to ask for

51:56

an investigation into the shit our government

51:58

was investigating to. So it's

52:00

clearly they thought it warranted an investigation. And

52:02

how amazing is it that there was not

52:05

one leak by the FBI? You

52:07

know, all these leaks, all

52:09

these, you just can't help it. Everything gets leaked,

52:11

but not that one. That one,

52:13

they kept quiet the entire time. I

52:15

also don't think Donald Trump has done

52:18

anything blatantly criminal in terms of not

52:20

acting quick enough to bring people back

52:22

that the Supreme Court asked him to

52:25

try and bring back. I don't think

52:27

there's any. The Supreme Court. Yes, it's

52:29

not like the Supreme Court said, you're

52:32

in violation of the law, he needs

52:34

to be brought back right now, and

52:36

it has to happen. It was much

52:39

vaguer than that, right? I remember you

52:41

- We're kind of a step away

52:43

from this conversation in that, I

52:46

don't know that I'm going to speak

52:49

with the most clarity on this, but

52:51

Donald Trump seems to be escalating these

52:53

court cases in a way that you

52:55

might have courts mandating something from him.

52:57

And then he defies courts. And then

52:59

we have a new conversation about what

53:02

happens if the president is openly defying

53:04

courts. And we might get

53:06

there. And that that might become a conversation,

53:08

which is almost along the lines of what

53:10

was taking place the last time of what

53:12

happens if the president does break the law.

53:15

And, you know, if if there's presidential immunity,

53:17

what happens not that Donald was doing this,

53:19

what happens if he decides to predator drone

53:21

a political opponent. And then the conversation was,

53:23

well, there is a mechanism for that, which

53:26

is impeachment. So all of

53:28

this seems very preliminary because Donald

53:30

Trump, I don't think, has actually

53:32

defied a court order yet to

53:35

have to start having the conversation

53:37

about the criminality of the president

53:39

and whether or not, I guess,

53:42

there should be an impeachment charge.

53:44

This is just nonsense that's coming

53:46

far too early. Yeah,

53:49

no, 100%. But I guess

53:51

I just can't get over

53:53

the... the optics of

53:55

having this guy lead the charge and,

53:58

you know, just to be, you know,

54:00

as we talked about, um, a

54:02

few months back character on an Indian

54:05

version of Sesame Street. I can't believe

54:07

that this is a real guy. He's

54:09

got a job in government. It's unbelievable.

54:11

And right. That's unbelievable enough, but that

54:13

he's doing this on the topic of

54:15

immigration. Like I just don't listen to

54:17

be clear. We talked a few months

54:19

back when, uh, Vivek Ramaswamy had that

54:21

viral tweet. that really seemed

54:23

to lose him a lot of

54:26

favor amongst his base. And

54:28

he was out of those shortly after. We don't

54:31

know for sure if those two things were related,

54:33

but it certainly seems like they might have been.

54:36

And I did think, while I thought

54:38

that Vivek missed the mark a little

54:40

bit on that tweet, I

54:43

did think the backlash he received

54:45

was unfair. And

54:47

some of it was just straight

54:49

out like, bigoted. And

54:51

I don't like, uh, um.

54:54

Is the back of the question? Oh,

54:56

yeah. I just wanted to make sure it wasn't coming

54:58

through the mic. I'm not, I'm not hearing it at

55:01

all. Um, but so like,

55:03

I did think it was unfair, the

55:05

backlash he got. And like, personally, like,

55:07

as I've always said, I'm not a

55:09

racialist. I don't really like racialism. Um,

55:12

I also, I'm just not pretending it's

55:14

not a factor. It doesn't exist. I

55:16

think it's stupid. But look, I don't

55:18

want if there's any movement. that

55:21

doesn't have room for the vape Ramaswamy

55:23

or segar and jetty or someone like

55:25

that then fuck that i don't want

55:27

to be a part of that and

55:30

i think those guys are like those

55:32

guys have been goddamn heroic on so

55:34

many fucking issues and so like i

55:36

i think it'd be stupid to like

55:39

you know base things off of like

55:41

race or um you know not even

55:43

nationality because they're both american but you

55:45

know what i mean like ancestry or

55:48

whatever but there's just something about

55:50

having this thick of an accent and leading the

55:52

charge against immigration restrictions and i understand you could

55:54

say technically no he's talking about violating the court

55:56

but like yeah but what's the whole policy actually

55:58

over it just seems to me like even you

56:00

know like i mean you know like when you

56:02

were uh when you're younger sometimes people live with

56:04

like a bunch of roommates or something like that

56:07

right like you'd have a place that has like

56:09

six people living together like a big apartment with

56:11

a bunch of people living in it that's almost

56:13

like Like if one of the rooms opened up

56:15

and then you asked, you were like, you know,

56:17

the rest of these guys have been living here

56:19

for three years. And then you were like, Hey,

56:21

can I rent the room? And they go, okay,

56:23

sure. We're going to need a security deposit or

56:26

whatever. Come rent the room. And then you got

56:28

in there and you moved your stuff in. And

56:30

like the first day you were like, guys, we

56:32

got to do something about these pictures on the

56:34

wall. And I don't like the TV over there.

56:36

I want it to be over here. When you

56:38

just immediately kind of being like, be like, Hey

56:40

dude, you know, like you

56:42

just got here. We've all been

56:45

here for a while. Actually, how about

56:47

you adjust to the way we do

56:49

things? and not start like lecturing everybody

56:51

else about adjusting to the way you

56:53

do things. To me, that is like

56:55

basic decency and courtesy. Like,

56:57

I would just think it's crazy. It's the example

56:59

of me, me, you know, going to Japan and

57:02

then lecturing everybody about how they have to be

57:04

more inclusive for white English people or something. Like,

57:06

what the fuck? This is

57:08

crazy. And I just see

57:10

if he makes more sense. Yeah. Yeah. Here,

57:12

let's go back to the clip. to

57:18

unlawful deportations, Trump

57:20

defied court orders. Article

57:24

two, taking away

57:26

Congress's power of the purse,

57:29

Trump dismantled agencies

57:31

and froze funds

57:33

without permission from

57:35

Congress. Article

57:38

three, abuse of

57:40

trade powers and international

57:43

aggression. He imposed

57:45

damaging tariffs and threatened

57:48

military invasions of our

57:51

allies. Article

57:53

4, violation of First

57:56

Amendment rights. He

57:58

has retaliated against journalists,

58:02

attorneys, and critics for

58:04

exercising their right to free

58:06

speech. Article

58:09

5. creation of an

58:11

unlawful office establishing the

58:13

so -called Department of

58:16

Government Efficiency, DOGE, and

58:18

giving Elon Musk unconstitutional

58:20

power over our government

58:22

and personal data. All

58:26

right, he's making a little bit

58:28

more sense than I was giving

58:31

him credit for, but to me,

58:33

all these things are political, and

58:35

I don't think Donald Trump has

58:38

exerted more... Executive authority than previous

58:40

presidents particularly in the fact that

58:43

other presidents have actually engaged him

58:45

or without bombing the Houthis right

58:47

now without congressional approval But they'll

58:50

never go after that because every

58:52

president does it it's so much

58:55

more of a serious crime and

58:57

a serious violation of the Constitution

58:59

That and especially if you really

59:02

wanted to play that card dude,

59:04

they acknowledge on the signal chat

59:07

That this this operation is not

59:09

time -sensitive that we don't have

59:11

to do this right now from

59:14

the defense secretary's mouth aka Translation

59:16

we could go get congressional approval

59:19

for this But we don't want

59:21

to as it like there's I

59:23

mean this is crazy, dude Say

59:26

he's sharing data with Elon Musk.

59:28

This is an impeachable offense. This

59:30

is just nutty absolutely nutty And

59:33

it's just politically speaking, it's the

59:35

dumbest thing, the dumbest thing that

59:38

the Democrats could do. You

59:41

know, Rob, is on the

59:43

case. Yeah. There

59:46

you go. All right, let's get we're gonna we're

59:48

gonna have to wrap up there We will be

59:50

back with a brand new episode tomorrow. I got

59:52

Dave DeKamp returning to the show tomorrow Very excited

59:54

for that. We'll get into obviously a lot of

59:56

foreign policy Conversation and I'm sure

59:58

we'll bring up the I

1:00:00

just suggested what Donald Trump

1:00:03

maybe should be impeached

1:00:05

for. Sure as hell ain't this stuff.

1:00:07

All right, thank you guys for watching. Hope to

1:00:09

see some of you guys out San Diego this weekend.

1:00:11

Have a good one. Peace.