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podcast. What's going on everybody?
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Thanks for tuning in to another episode of coffee and California
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politics. How is everybody doing this
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morning? Who everyone's coming?
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I Roland's all fired up this morning and I don't blame you
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because it's going to be a fiery show this morning.
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We're talking a lot about what happened this past week.
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In terms of the inflation reduction act, as well, as what
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is going on with the FBI raid, all of that stuff and my
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thoughts on it. And why were in such like a
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precarious? Position here in America.
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I think a lot of people are kind of, really kind of fired up
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about what's going on and I don't blame you.
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I don't blame you for the reason for being fired up.
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I think this is really kind of a scary moment in our American
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history. I think we've really come to a
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point Tim pool. Kind of said it, we've crossed
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the Rubicon of, if you don't understand the reference it
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Rubicon has to deal with Caesar and Julius.
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Caesar, what happened? After that?
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Clay was there's no turning back after this.
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But first, a couple announcements, the new product
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drop this week was don't eat the bugs, which is someone, but, you
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know, some people were asking me what's the reference to don't
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eat the bugs. They didn't, they didn't really
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quite understand it, but if you've been following what's
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been going on and a lot of people kind of pushing, like
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Nicole Kidman has been pushing, you know.
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Hey bugs are delicious. Everybody should be eating bugs.
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And then you have articles about how eating a pound of Of you
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know, bugs is somehow the same as eating a steak or something
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like that. Which it's not because they
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don't contain the same vitamins and minerals.
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So there's this weird kind of obsession with eating bugs and
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they want people to eat the bugs and it's sort of.
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Well, you know what? If the elite want to eat bugs,
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go eat bugs. That's all IQ.
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No, stop telling us to eat bugs. I still want to have a
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hamburger. I still want a mistake.
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Might have a stake today for dinner.
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In fact, just in honor of the whole don't eat the bugs.
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So let people know that you don't you should.
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Eat the bugs. Don't eat the bugs.
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Don't let them force you to eat the bugs, you know?
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And they always say, oh, people in other countries, eat bugs.
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Now, you know, if that's their main source of protein, I can
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guarantee you. That that's not their first
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choice of protein. Yes, I want to say, we want a
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noodle shirt. There already is a noodle shirt
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but I'm working on a new noodle shirt.
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I think you guys will like it. It's just, I'm kind of tweaking
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really, what kind of design I I want for the noodle shirt but I
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think you'll like it when I come out with it.
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I've been working on all weekend.
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Haven't found the right artwork that I need for it yet.
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So yeah don't eat the bugs stop. You know there's a difference
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between like eating chapulines which is you know like a
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delicacy to as an appetizer if you want to munch on them
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because they're deep-fried or something like that but if
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that's your main source of protein, don't eat the bugs.
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Also tomorrow night. We're going to Layla from
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propaganda fluent. She's going to be on.
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We're going to talk a lot. About.
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Well, I mean it's really kind of pertinent right now.
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What's going on with how they're framing, what happened with the
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FBI raid? What's going on?
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How the media kind of gaslights you were in talk a lot about
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propaganda and language. And this is something that I've
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talked about before, specifically, with that book
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that we went over, don't eat or don't think of an elephant.
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Now, I'm thinking don't eat the elephant.
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Don't eat elephant either, don't think of an elephant.
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She, she was someone who actually Reached out to me and
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said, hey, I actually read that book and I got a lot out of it
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and she's very good at this. She pays attention to a lot of
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this stuff. She talks about on her lives.
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A lot, very smart girl. So I'm excited to have her
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around. We're going to kind of dissect
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different propaganda how language is used how you can
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take control of the language, which is really important
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because propaganda, you know, everyone always thinks it's such
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a bad thing like propaganda and this side and the other thing,
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but language is very powerful. Right?
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Language is very powerful. The left has figured out How to
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use language? It's no secret that the left is
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absolutely figured out how to use language to get their goals
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accomplished and to get people to sign with them.
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So we're going to talk a lot about that tomorrow at 8:00
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p.m., we're fixing up some of the technical issues that we had
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last week. You know, apologies of people
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were tuning in, it was kind of a weird getting through.
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That probably need some software and Hardware, it updates and
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stuff like that. But anyway enough of the
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announcements. Let's get into really the Crux
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of what today's episode. About is about which is that the
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lines have been drawn, right? The lines have been drawn
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because we've seen in this past week, probably some of the most
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harrowing stuff that most Americans didn't think was going
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to happen. And this is sort of built up to
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where we are at today, the build back better Bill, they're
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calling it. The inflation reduction Act is
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basically the bill back better bill has now been passed, and a
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lot of people looked at the numbers and they looked at how I
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In a lot of these numbers were 300 billion dollars for their
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hundred billion dollars for climate initiatives which we all
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know that it goes to some of these groups that end up doting,
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back to Democrats, whatever any of these climate initiatives
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mean and then we see that I 80 billion dollars to go to the
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IRS. Now keep in mind their annual
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budget is 12 billion dollars, right?
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And now you're going to say over the next year, 10 years, they're
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going to 80 billion dollars. They're going to bring on a tee.
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7 more Auditors and they try and say, oh this is because we
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want to go after the rich. Nobody under 400 is going to
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see any more audits or anything like that.
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When in reality there are numbers out there that those who
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are under 25 actually get audited the most five times more
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than most people and people over 400 dollars are not
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necessarily going to feel the pain of more Auditors.
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There's a difference. It's who can withstand being
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audited. Can avoid being audit all
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together and they've determined that the middle class is getting
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away with a lot of things. Right?
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They've determined that the middle class is the one area
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that they can. Really squeeze more pennies out
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of that. They can squeeze more of the
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taxes out of because those people don't necessarily have
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the means to hire CPAs and tax attorneys and create tax
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shelters and do all these things to protect their money.
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There's a bajillion Holes believing good friend of mine is
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a tax. Attorney took a couple of years,
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taking an llm and tax law is super complex to know all this
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stuff that's why tax attorneys get paid a lot of money.
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So if you ever want to be an attorney tax attorneys, make a
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lot of money because they learn about all these laws, and they
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learn about how to well advise your clients to best avoid
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paying taxes. So people who can afford tax
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attorneys and CPAs. Those are the people who are
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going to get away and I'll go and worry about more of these
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Auditors but the people who are going and going H&R Block or
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going to wherever TurboTax and stuff like that and getting
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their taxes done, those are the people who are most vulnerable
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to this and those are the under 400 that's under the 200
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those people are most likely going to see more Audits and
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whether or not they are Justified.
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It doesn't matter because a lot of times people get audited and
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they find out it's not justified, it was nothing wrong.
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They still have to go through the process and the government
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doesn't care because they have unlimited amount of resources
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where they can go after you, you don't have an unlimited amount
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of resources. So you have to sort of make a
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determination of. Do I go forward with fighting
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this or do I just settle and some people are just going to
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settle whether it's right or not.
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Because they just want to pay them off and it's sort of like
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the mafia. It's almost like the mafia in a
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way where they say, look, you can pay us this money or we're
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going to put you in prison. Basically, you know that's
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basically how it is is the IRS has all the power.
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Either you're going to comply with them or you can try and
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fight them with more attorneys, which again, tax attorneys are
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very expensive. So, you see this bill that has
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been passed and you go, how is any of this going to help the
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middle class, right? And now they've weaponized.
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Open eyes the IRS to go after people.
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And it wasn't that long ago, that President Obama weaponize,
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the IRS to go after conservative political action committees.
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And this there is a precedent for whoever is in charge to
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weaponize the IRS and these federal agencies under the
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executive branch to go after political opponents.
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And that's why I think a lot of people are kind of when they see
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this and they see 87 more Auditors.
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And that's a lot of Auditors and that's a lot of staff.
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To go after people. A lot of people look at that and
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go. That's kind of terrifying for me
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as someone in the middle of class.
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Am I going to be audited? Is there a higher chance or a
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higher probability? That I'm going to be on it that
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they're going to start squeezing money out of people?
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Is it going to be more that they can squeeze money out of people
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and go after people that they don't agree with that.
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There are now all these Auditors basically, a bureaucratic Army
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of pencil pushers who can go after you and kind of ruin your
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life or wipe out your life. Savings just to make them go
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away and they can get their pound of Flesh and get out.
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That's why I think a lot of people are terrorized or really
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terrified of. Is this idea that there is now,
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this bureaucratic Army of IRS Auditors, that are going to be
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coming after more people. There's only one reason why they
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want to hire more people is because they want to go after
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more people because they obviously have this in mind.
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They're not getting enough money out of the American people and
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that people are cheating. And, of course, all the people
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who are like, oh well, if Not a tax cheat.
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You see this on Twitter, the people who were like sticking
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their nose up going. Oh well if I'm you know, if
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you're not a tax cheat then what are you worried about?
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You shouldn't be worried about anything.
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Well, okay, one either you have a good CPA or tax attorneys who
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are advising you and that's great for you that you can
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afford that while also or sometimes people get audited for
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no reason at all some people they the IRS makes a mistake,
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they think you need to be Audited.
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And then all of a sudden they turn out the and I go oh wait,
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you didn't do anything wrong, but you spent thousands and
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thousands of dollars defending this or settling it anyway, so
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that argument is so so idiotic to me that oh, well, you're not
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a tax cheat. Then obviously, you shouldn't
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have anything to worry about. That's not what I'm worried
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about. I'm worried about this enormous
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bureaucratic Army that all of a sudden is going to start going
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after more and more people, and scrutinizing, every single thing
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that you do and seeing if they can push you, Do a little bit
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more and pay a little bit more because obviously, where they're
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not bringing enough. They're not going to bring
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enough. Now bring in enough Revenue to
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fund all these projects. Obviously, we're 30 trillion
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dollars in debt and yes, I must say.
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I have an excellent CPA. I do not want to go through a
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lot of there are good CPAs out there.
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I will say that. We have a CPA that we work with
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are very affordable. Go find a good CPA.
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It's like two hundred, four hundred dollars a year, probably
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the best kind of You can go get. So and people who believe in
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that the statist government is going to protect you or has
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there that they're infallible, this is always the argument from
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the left, it's always the argument that the government is
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infallible. They're going to do everything
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correctly that they're never going to make a mistake.
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And if there's a mistake it's usually on you and it has
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nothing to do with the agency itself.
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And that's what I can't stand is that the base premise of your
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argument. Is well the government's
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infallible when you give government more power, they're
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going to use that government power for good.
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That's always what they do. That's not what they always do.
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That's not what they always do. They always seem to take this
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power and then once they have this power, they figure out how
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to abuse it and they figure out how to hurt political enemies or
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political opponents because nobody wants to give up more
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power. Speaking of political enemies,
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did you know that you could be deemed and this is why I
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actually have this mug today, not the normal California
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underground mug, which you can get in the store, tidied it up,
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make it look real pretty fixed up the logo.
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So, if you want to get e, California, underground mug, you
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can go in my store, so little plug there.
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But you could be deemed, a domestic terrorist for drinking
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out of a mug like this. Correct.
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Because the Gadsden flag has now been deemed by the FBI as a sign
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that you might be a domestic terrorist.
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Okay, so this mug right here that says, Don't Tread on Me
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bright, yellow, get it from Bass Pro Shops.
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It's but, I mean, Bass Pro Shops as a whole line of don't tread
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on me stuff. They have coolers, they have all
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sorts of things. You can get the don't tread on
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me flag on, but guess what? If you buy that you might be a
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domestic terrorist or if you get the Betsy Ross flag or if you
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get anything that has to do with the Revolutionary War.
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Wow. So who is that going to affect?
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Let's put it this way. Who's that most likely going to
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affect that? They're going to call them
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domestic terrorist conservatives Libertarians Trump supporters,
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most likely their now deeming to meant domestic door-mart.
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Most likely, they're going to deem domestic terrorist.
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That's really the plan is that they've Now set a lie in.
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This is part of this whole episode today.
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They've put a Line in the Sand That we are the good guys.
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The state is the good guys. We're here to save.
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You give us all the power and money and we're here to save
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you. And those other people talking
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about Liberty and freedom. They're the bad guys.
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They're the domestic terrorist. Remember January 6 rent.
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Let's show you some scary footage of like the one time.
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Someone broke a window. Oh my goodness.
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Let's show you that footage over and over and over again.
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And show you that these people are the bad people and that
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we're the good people and that you should always trust us.
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The big state is governed And to do the right thing.
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So now you have the FBI who has deemed mugs like this, just
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displaying a mug like this. Making you a domestic terrorist,
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which I'm going to take a sip of coffee anywhere.
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Funny enough. I'm also drinking Black Rifle,
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coffee coffee or die, which has the snake on it.
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I just realized that nice little nice little connection there but
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drinking that mug makes you a domestic terrorist and now you
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have the IRS with 87 more auditors.
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Who have the power to go after people, they can look at your
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social media, they could look at this video and say, hey, he has
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a don't tread on me mug, he's wearing an American shirt, guess
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he's a domestic terrorist. Maybe we should take a look at
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his taxes. Maybe we should take a look at
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his business. Maybe we should take a look at
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everything. Maybe we should make it to the
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point where he just kind of, gives up and goes away and goes
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away quietly. And that, that's one way to do
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it is to get people to just quietly go away.
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Or quietly go along with our agenda.
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And then obviously the most shocking thing, this week that
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is really drawn A Line in the Sand is the FBI FBI raid of
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Merrill ago. When I first heard it I was
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stunned that they are rating and the more this comes out that it
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had nothing to do with really anything everyone.
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Thought it was January 6 and that Trump was being arrested.
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And of course, everybody believed that this was At the
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walls were finally closing in, on Donald Trump.
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We're not to be true, it had something to do with National
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Archives. And he wasn't properly storing
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the National Archives even though they looked at those
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boxes a week before and he said, and they told him, hey, just put
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a padlock on this. They came back.
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There was a padlock on the boxes and they decided for nine hours.
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We're going to Rifle through everything from your safe which
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is secure area. You should need a warrant for
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that all your private items. Milania's wardrobe for some Odd
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reason. So we got some perved up, FBI
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agents who want to go through, milania's close whole bunch of
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things and now we have the FBI going after a former president
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and likely let an even more, I would say more likely.
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Now, after that FBI raid, more likely that he's going to be the
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2024 candidate because if you didn't galvanized him enough
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already rating his residence and Through his wife's
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undergarments, probably is going to piss off that guy.
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You don't think he's going to get a little angry that you went
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through all that stuff and he feels like he's going to, he's
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being targeted and singled out. And if they wanted to Galvanize,
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people to get behind Donald Trump, they may have just done
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exactly that. They may have gotten more people
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to say, you know what, they really do fear Him, they really
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are scared that he's going to win and 2024.
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And that we have to get to this guy before he announces.
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He's going to run for president because if he announces, he's
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going to run for president, then the B Administration can't
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really do anything because we'll look improper.
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I mean, it already looks improper, right?
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It already looks incredibly improper for them to go after a
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former president. They've never gone after a
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former president, and I think Dave Smith said it perfectly, he
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tweeted out this week. Hey, I'm fine.
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If the FBI wants to go after. Who committed crimes, well then
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they got a lot of backlog to do because they should be going
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after Obama. They should be going after
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George w-- Bush. They should be going after
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Clinton. They should be going after
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everybody because everybody committed a crime of some sort
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or another that presidents were just getting away with.
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But regardless, it's been about seven years.
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They still haven't found enough stuff to arrest Donald Trump.
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You don't think they would find. The easiest reason to rest
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Donald Trump, if they had even a shred of evidence, but the
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scariest thing about About this and going back to those people
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on Twitter who are Laden that. So if you're not a tax cheat
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then what are you worried about? You shouldn't be worried about
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any of this stuff. Those same people are cheering
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that the FBI is being used against political opponents.
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They are absolutely giddy over the fact that he's having his
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stuff rated that he is being having his civil rights.
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His constitutional rights violated through prosecutorial
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misconduct. There is so much.
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Kind of Celebration Jubilation from people on the left on
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Twitter, you have Eric swallow. Well, who responds to Steven
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Crowder? When Steven Crowder says, This
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Is War sleep. Well, meaning that This Is War
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because you've thrown you've kind of thrown down the
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gauntlet, it's the left in the stateís have thrown down the
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gauntlet and what do you think? People are going to do just
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going to sit by and not do anything.
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And you have Eric swallow who just laughs?
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You just goes hahahaha, Liz, long tweet.
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This is ha ha ha. But when you see Representatives
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laughing about this, taking Glee in this, that the fact that
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Donald Trump had his residence raided by the FBI, when you have
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people saying it's about time. This is, this is what needs to
00:19:49
be done. This is where we're at, in a
00:19:52
very dangerous part of history, and this is what I'm worried
00:19:55
about. Donald Trump is probably already
00:19:58
pissed about 2020, I can guarantee he's already.
00:20:01
I can guarantee he's pissing, he not probably he's absolutely
00:20:04
pissed about 2020. What happened in 2020?
00:20:07
If he runs in 2024 and he wins which he has a good chance based
00:20:13
on the polls in especially if Biden's running.
00:20:15
It looks like there's a good chance he could win again.
00:20:18
You don't think that Donald Trump is going to go into the
00:20:21
federal government scorched Earth and just absolutely
00:20:25
obliterate these Apartments and absolutely tear down a lot of
00:20:30
these apartments. You don't think he's just going
00:20:32
to go in and start firing people left and right.
00:20:36
I heard something that he wanted to go in and to fire tens of
00:20:39
thousands of people on day one and just absolutely gut the
00:20:43
federal government at least the executive agency, he wants to
00:20:46
absolutely gut it. And you aren't worried that
00:20:51
you've created this precedence. Now of going after former
00:20:54
presidents, what happens? If Biden Illusions and Donald
00:20:57
Trump gets into office. You don't think the Donald Trump
00:21:00
Department of Justice is going to all of a sudden, go look at
00:21:04
the bite and family connections with China and everything that's
00:21:07
going on. He's absolutely going to look at
00:21:10
Biden. He's going to look at his son
00:21:12
Hunter. He's going to look at all of
00:21:13
this stuff and people are going to say that he's weaponizing the
00:21:17
doj against them and by wow. Well, guess what?
00:21:20
They did the same thing to him just this year, two years
00:21:23
before. So you've set the precedent Set
00:21:27
that you've thrown down the gauntlet.
00:21:29
And here we are. And here we are, where we've
00:21:33
created this point in you. I guess, you could say we've
00:21:36
crossed the Rubicon. We've crossed the Rubicon.
00:21:40
There really is no going back now.
00:21:42
And that's the scary part of American History, is that the
00:21:45
federal government has declared war on people, who disagree with
00:21:48
it, they've gotten too powerful. They've gotten too centralized.
00:21:52
They've got too much money. They've got too many people and
00:21:55
they believe that they can just get away.
00:21:56
With anything and everyone's just going to have to deal with
00:21:59
it. And that's what's really scary
00:22:00
is that they've reached this Pinnacle of power where they
00:22:03
just don't care, they don't care.
00:22:06
Any ramifications, you're either in the club or you're outside
00:22:09
the club and that's where we're at.
00:22:12
And that's why they don't want Donald Trump to win again
00:22:14
because he's not in the club. And if he's outside the club and
00:22:18
he comes into the club, he's going to start tearing down
00:22:20
parts of the club. Excuse me, let me take a sip of
00:22:25
coffee right now. Woo.
00:22:29
So a lot of people are saying, well then what can we do?
00:22:32
Obviously, a lot of people are saying all this time for
00:22:35
revolution, no calls for violence.
00:22:37
The last thing you want to do is go to the streets and protest
00:22:43
violently because the media is going to spin that up and say,
00:22:47
look at these Trump supporters, who are upset that they rated
00:22:50
their their presidents. Yep, I have covid know.
00:22:54
Monkey pox. I'm don't have.
00:22:56
Yeah, the coffee mug has an extremist.
00:22:59
That's where we're just talking about been sleeping with air.
00:23:04
Conditioning is drying me out at night.
00:23:06
Anyway, what was I saying? No calls for violence.
00:23:13
Obviously, everyone's just got to remain calm and I'm going to
00:23:17
tell you the thing that's going to really work.
00:23:19
And I've been advocating it for four years and it's not like I'm
00:23:25
advocating this and it's a kooky crazy idea that people People
00:23:29
are going to be like afternoon file, you're a domestic
00:23:32
terrorist, we can all be just this whole live.
00:23:37
We could start pointing the fingers at whose domestic
00:23:39
terrorist based on everything based on what they determined is
00:23:42
a domestic terrorism. The trick to pushing back is
00:23:48
really Get involved in your local elections.
00:23:52
Why? Because we have given to the
00:23:55
federal government way too much power, too many people have
00:24:00
believed in too many. People have been sold a bill of
00:24:02
goods that the centralized federal government is the way to
00:24:07
solve everything and that is the scariest proposition that the
00:24:13
founders themselves. Probably did not like that.
00:24:17
The central government was going to solve everything.
00:24:19
The central government was created to provide some
00:24:23
cohesiveness to all the states if there were some big issues
00:24:27
that they wanted to solve in terms of defense of the country,
00:24:33
all of that. But now we've gotten to a point
00:24:36
where everybody thinks oh I'm going to send my congressman to
00:24:40
Congress and they're going to solve stuff.
00:24:42
You know, you have the Congress people or walking through the
00:24:45
streets of Compton or whatever. Going.
00:24:47
Hey look, this is my this is The neighborhood and I'm going to go
00:24:51
Congress and I'm going to fix it.
00:24:53
No, you're not. You're going to go to Congress
00:24:55
and you're going to vote on federal stuff.
00:24:57
You have really no control over what's going on.
00:24:59
In the streets of Compton who does have control of what's
00:25:02
going on in the streets. Compton your LA County
00:25:05
Supervisors, your city council members, maybe assembly person
00:25:09
can help out but there's local elections and local officials
00:25:13
who actually do what they need to do.
00:25:16
And more importantly we have gotten so Far away from the
00:25:22
intent of this federalism, sort of system that the founders
00:25:26
created, they created a federalism system.
00:25:30
So that when the federal government got to powerful the
00:25:34
states could kind of keep it in check and that's why the
00:25:37
founders created This brilliant system of checks and balances
00:25:41
correct. If you look at the Constitution
00:25:43
there are checks and balances everywhere.
00:25:45
Okay? The federal government doesn't
00:25:46
get to decide everything if And side note, we're about 15 states
00:25:51
away from the convention of states were very close.
00:25:54
I think in my mind to getting to a Convention of States, if you
00:25:56
don't know what the convention of states is Article 5 of The
00:25:58
Constitution allows for a Convention of the states to come
00:26:02
together and start proposing Constitutional Amendment best
00:26:05
part is that most of these states are coming.
00:26:06
Together are very conservative, very red, so you can get a lot
00:26:09
of these Constitutional Amendments proposed, the people
00:26:13
still have to vote on it and comment and I'll have to still
00:26:16
pass, but either way, there are checks and balances that are The
00:26:19
constitution for the states and the federal government they have
00:26:23
eroded over the years and specifically around the turn of
00:26:29
the 20th century. They have eroded that sort of
00:26:33
system they have eroded that because they've passed things
00:26:37
like the 17th Amendment, which again gets rid of the state
00:26:42
legislators electing Senators. If you didn't know that before
00:26:46
the original intent it was this was the way for over 100 years.
00:26:49
Ears that the state legislatures would pick the Senators.
00:26:54
Why? Because they wanted to have the
00:26:56
state, legislators have a say, in federal government, they
00:27:00
would send their representatives from the state legislators.
00:27:03
And the state legislators would say hey this is really important
00:27:05
to our state. We're going to send our Senators
00:27:07
and they're going to Advocate on our behalf and whenever
00:27:10
legislation comes up that's going to hurt our state.
00:27:12
Guess what? Those senators are going to push
00:27:14
back on it, that was the way to keep the States involved in the
00:27:17
federal government. They cut that out.
00:27:18
Now it's Direct Vote. I've advocated for this a while
00:27:22
you probably heard me. Go wonky on this and nerd out on
00:27:24
the 17th Amendment, but that's one way they did it.
00:27:29
The income tax, the Federal Reserve, they've created a
00:27:32
consolidation of power and then after World War Two, they
00:27:35
created even more of a consolidation of power made the
00:27:38
federal government even more powerful because the federal
00:27:41
government used to be a sleepy sort of backwoods town.
00:27:45
Do you see was not what it is today?
00:27:47
120 years ago It was Shores the city of central power, but you
00:27:52
had all these states were doing their own things and they had
00:27:55
their own sovereignty really. But that's the point that I'm
00:27:59
trying to get at is there was this incredible power of the
00:28:02
states. There was this incredible power
00:28:05
that the idea was it was going to filter down to the people and
00:28:09
that the people would really keep the federal government in
00:28:12
check. We've let that go, we've let
00:28:15
that go because we believe that, oh, if every four years, we show
00:28:18
up and vote for a president, that's Going to solve
00:28:20
everything, that's not going to solve everything.
00:28:23
You know. Is it a big gesture of where,
00:28:27
the country is going? What kind of leadership we want
00:28:30
may be sure that's what we vote for, we vote because the people
00:28:33
say, we don't like the direction, the country is going
00:28:35
in. So we elect this new person
00:28:37
who's going to lead us in a different direction, but we've
00:28:40
gotten down this path and it's the most destructive of all and
00:28:45
we've all kind of fallen asleep at the wheel where Federal
00:28:50
government is not supposed to solve everything and we've got
00:28:53
to stop pretending like it does. And they want you to not pay
00:28:56
attention to the local stuff they want you to not pay
00:28:59
attention because they think you shouldn't pay attention to
00:29:02
what's going on at the local level.
00:29:04
Don't worry about what your County Supervisors doing.
00:29:06
Don't worry about what your assembly members doing here.
00:29:09
Look at the pretty shiny object. Over here in Congress.
00:29:12
Look at the fancy ad that we put out.
00:29:14
Look at all this stuff. Isn't that great and fantastic.
00:29:16
Oh no no no don't pay attention. Who were running for governor or
00:29:19
four. For sheriff or County
00:29:21
supervisor, or your local DEA. Don't look at the fact that most
00:29:24
of these DA's in California that are being propped up by George
00:29:28
Soros and those who want to get rid of Law and Order don't know.
00:29:31
No, don't look at that, look at that.
00:29:33
Look at the shiny object, over here.
00:29:35
Oh, don't you want to run for president?
00:29:37
Or don't you want to see who's running for president?
00:29:39
Look at pay attention to that, pay attention to that 24/7.
00:29:44
When reality, that's where the real power resides, because the
00:29:48
stronger you make your locality, Is and the stronger localities
00:29:51
can come together and just basically give the middle finger
00:29:53
to the federal government, the more, the federal government
00:29:56
becomes illegitimate and becomes less of a factor in our daily
00:30:00
lives. So that's really what it comes
00:30:02
down to is we just have to stop pretending that the federal
00:30:06
government is in will be this be all and end all because that's
00:30:10
what they want. They want a centralized
00:30:12
government where all the power resides with them.
00:30:15
They don't want you to have the power to determine your local
00:30:18
issues. They want to Be able to push
00:30:21
everything through federal government.
00:30:22
They want to pretend they can solve everything and they want
00:30:25
you to believe that somehow this big statist enormous size
00:30:30
government that is 30 trillion dollars in debt is going to come
00:30:33
and save the day every single time but the lines have been
00:30:37
drawn more. All the stories of the lines.
00:30:39
Have been drawn by this Administration.
00:30:41
Whether they want to admit to it or not, whether Karine Jean,
00:30:46
LaPierre, whatever name is wants to pretend or her.
00:30:49
Bad acting pretending they didn't know what.
00:30:52
When will it happen? Like she gets out there the next
00:30:54
day after the FBI, Mara Lago Ray and she's like, I don't even
00:30:58
know what do you guys kind of like the man in the mara?
00:31:00
Mara Lago raid. I didn't, I don't even know.
00:31:03
I don't, I don't know what, you're, I don't know what you're
00:31:05
talking about. Like, of course, you know what
00:31:08
they're talking about? What do you not follow the news,
00:31:10
it was the top news story for the last 12 hours.
00:31:14
But they're they've they've ridden, they've kind of put the
00:31:16
Line in the Sand. Obviously, Joe Biden's, not in
00:31:19
control, but they put a line in the sand that we don't like
00:31:23
people who don't dis, who don't agree with us.
00:31:26
That people that disagree with us and we're going to come after
00:31:30
you. Whether it's through the IRS,
00:31:32
whether it's through Auditors, whether it's the FBI because if
00:31:35
they can go raid the home of a former president, Don National
00:31:41
Archives stuff. What do you think they're going
00:31:44
to do to a person who just drinks coffee out of a?
00:31:48
Don't tread on me mug? What do you think they're going
00:31:51
to do? They're going to try and push
00:31:53
you to just comply and just go along the way it is.
00:31:58
I say change things at the local level, protect yourself,
00:32:02
insulate yourself. And that's basically where we
00:32:05
have to go because the power comes up from the people and the
00:32:07
people have really been asleep at the wheel for a long time.
00:32:10
So, excuse me, With that said, let's get into comments and
00:32:19
questions. Who voice is really scratchy
00:32:23
today. I don't know what happened.
00:32:25
Does it work on the same state level can the local city county
00:32:28
override what the governor orders they can.
00:32:32
There's this idea of nullification, right?
00:32:36
I could always get into nullification one way or there,
00:32:38
maybe I'll do a show on nullification be really
00:32:40
interesting. Nullification is the idea where
00:32:43
a state or Local entity just kind of looks at the government
00:32:48
above it, in the Federalist federalism Society system.
00:32:52
And says now we're not going to do that.
00:32:53
So we're going to nullify it. That's really kind of
00:32:55
nullification Thomas Jefferson was a fan of nullification where
00:32:59
he would say States. If they don't agree with
00:33:02
something, just don't enforce it, right?
00:33:05
And that's kind of what we're seeing now with the to the, to
00:33:10
government Governor's that come to mind.
00:33:12
First off, we're Kristi, noem and Governor interesting.
00:33:14
It is now. Kristi noem was an OG.
00:33:16
She was the original governor. Who said, look, I'm not going to
00:33:22
listen to any of these Federal, edicts, South Dakota's going to
00:33:26
stay wide open. They didn't see people dying in
00:33:30
the streets and that was it basically, she Nola fide.
00:33:35
What the federal government told her to do, the scientist does
00:33:39
sort of the same thing. If you watch the Santas, you
00:33:42
know, that he looked at the federal government says, no,
00:33:44
that's What we're doing in Florida so we're not going to do
00:33:46
it. That's nullification on a more
00:33:49
local level. You saw, even here during covid,
00:33:53
you saw, what county was that there was a county that
00:33:57
unanimously voted not to listen to anything.
00:33:59
That noodle said, they didn't impose a mass mandate they
00:34:03
didn't shut down any of their businesses.
00:34:05
There was a small City that did the same exact thing.
00:34:07
They did the same thing where they just said we're not going
00:34:11
to do it. El Cajon out here in San Diego
00:34:13
County the mayor. I'll wet or is it bill?
00:34:16
It's not. Is it Bill Webb?
00:34:17
Yeah. I think it's Bill.
00:34:17
Webb basically said, look I'm not going to enforce any of this
00:34:21
and that's how you can really insulate yourself from this
00:34:25
stuff. Is that counties and cities can
00:34:27
really just kind of give the middle finger to their states
00:34:29
and to the federal government up?
00:34:31
That what we're not going to do it and then they'll try, and
00:34:33
obviously bribe them with losing money, but Bill Wells.
00:34:39
Thank you. Somebody said Bill Wells, I
00:34:41
thought Bill Webb is somebody else.
00:34:45
But you can insulate yourself here in California, which is
00:34:49
kind of shocking. A lot of people think that know,
00:34:53
a lot of people think that California just went completely
00:34:57
cuckoo and off the rails, but there were a lot of counties in.
00:35:01
There were a lot of loss smaller municipalities, who said, look,
00:35:05
we're not going to do it. We're not going to force it.
00:35:07
I believe of the second time around Coronado, Richard Bailey
00:35:11
here, in San Diego. The city of Coronado on the In
00:35:15
San Diego, which your belly came out.
00:35:17
The next time that they were trying to enforce Mass like the
00:35:19
second time around. And he said, nap, I'm not going
00:35:22
to force it. I'm not going to make Coronado
00:35:24
police enforce it, nobody's gonna force it.
00:35:26
We're not listening to it. So that's how your local
00:35:30
communities can really push back.
00:35:32
And they don't want you to kind of get involved in that because
00:35:35
the more people are at the local level, who can give the middle
00:35:40
finger to the federal government, then they really
00:35:44
Can't do anything. They really don't have as much
00:35:47
power, but the problem is people kind of, keep looking at the
00:35:51
federal government thinking that their congressperson or that
00:35:55
they're, I don't know their congressperson or Senator or
00:35:58
going to magically fix things. And any person anybody running
00:36:02
for congress or anything like that, who says that they're
00:36:05
going to fix things here locally, which is a local issue.
00:36:08
When they go to the federal government, they're either one
00:36:10
or two things. Either they're lying to you to
00:36:12
get their Vote or they're promising that they're going to
00:36:14
get More pork out of the federal government, which you shouldn't
00:36:17
be voting for more part. Anyway, so that's when people
00:36:20
say like, oh, I'm going to fix this.
00:36:21
I'm going to fix that. I'm going to be, you know, bring
00:36:23
all the time. Going to fix the homelessness
00:36:24
here in California. Okay.
00:36:26
Well, then why are you running for congress?
00:36:28
Run for governor, run for State Assembly rate, run for state
00:36:30
senate. Those are the things that you
00:36:33
can really make an impact, otherwise you're just kind of
00:36:35
selling us a bill of goods, but yeah.
00:36:39
It can happen and we saw examples of what it means.
00:36:42
When you start to nullify what the federal government is doing.
00:36:45
And that's why I think we're really at a dark precipice or a
00:36:48
scary precipice right now. And yet people like Templar
00:36:51
saying, we're at Civil War, you've heard the libertarian
00:36:53
party, talk about a national divorce.
00:36:56
They've been talking a lot about that.
00:36:57
That's sort of what they've been.
00:36:59
You know, that's a new phrase. They've been throwing out there.
00:37:01
I don't know if it's new, but it's something that they've been
00:37:03
talking a lot about that. We need a national Wars that
00:37:08
states really just need to get away from the federal government
00:37:10
and start our own federal government or not even have a
00:37:13
federal government. All maybe they just say, we're
00:37:15
going to be our own thing. It's because of stuff like this.
00:37:20
It is really because it's not like this.
00:37:22
And they just say, look, we're going to we're not going to
00:37:26
listen to you and we're not going to abide by you.
00:37:28
So we're going to go do our own thing.
00:37:29
So who makes a decision, those decisions, locally County board
00:37:32
of directors School boards. Well it depends, you know,
00:37:35
countywide issues County Supervisors.
00:37:37
Has school boards have to do with what's goes on with your
00:37:41
school. So people who are really upset
00:37:44
about what's going on in their particular School running for
00:37:46
school board, you know, run for school board.
00:37:50
It's definitely a position that is attainable.
00:37:53
It's definitely winnable if you do your play your cards, right?
00:37:56
You could definitely win, and you can definitely be on school
00:37:58
board. And you would have a direct say,
00:38:01
yes, Ellen, see, National Cherry, Angela McArdle, you
00:38:04
she's a fan of national divorce. I see her say that a lot on
00:38:06
Twitter. But that's how these people
00:38:11
really have powers school board. If anything going on with the
00:38:13
schools, go to your school board county issues.
00:38:17
You go to your accounting, anything in your city, go to
00:38:21
your city council. A lot of these cities are run by
00:38:24
City council's, And the mayor and City councils have a lot of
00:38:27
power. I support Camille's idea, which
00:38:30
is withdrawal, kids from public school and bankrupt them.
00:38:33
Yeah. Until we really kind of topple
00:38:36
public education and make it Kind of crippled not nothing's
00:38:39
going to really, you know, nothing's really going to change
00:38:43
with public education. Well, National divorce would be
00:38:49
tricky without any sort of struggle and you know that
00:38:53
they're going to, they're not going to let States go away, go
00:38:59
away quietly. You know, they're not going to
00:39:00
just let Texas leave the union because they need taxes.
00:39:03
The federal government needs Texas, they're not going to let
00:39:06
a lot of other states. Just all of a sudden start
00:39:08
leaving the union because otherwise you're not as
00:39:10
powerful, you know, it does make it a little bit scarier that if
00:39:15
those red. Dates do leave, then you lose
00:39:17
that representation and all of a sudden before, you know it, if
00:39:21
all those states are leaving in the federal government that
00:39:23
you're left with, like California is going to be all
00:39:27
Democrats, that's kind of scary. But, you know, something needs
00:39:32
to happen and it but my suggestion is, it has to be on
00:39:35
the local level. And that's where things change.
00:39:41
Texas. Can leave the union legally.
00:39:42
It's in their constitution, I've heard that before.
00:39:45
For I've never actually seen whether or not because I think
00:39:48
that was part of their deal to the Republic of Texas to join
00:39:52
the union was that they if they ever wanted to leave, they could
00:39:56
I think they should split California, California might be
00:40:00
too big for its own britches or try and fix Californian.
00:40:03
So, who knows what else you guys got?
00:40:07
What is going on? Do you think now after this FBI
00:40:15
raid? Um, do you think it's more
00:40:17
likely, that it's even more likely that Donald Trump runs in
00:40:21
2024? Do you think it's more likely?
00:40:23
And then just two scientists will stay in Florida.
00:40:25
Continuing being a badass government.
00:40:29
Any you can leave but not without a fight.
00:40:31
I'm paraphrasing Ulysses S Grant quote, agreed on, splitting
00:40:34
California, California does have so much potential which is why I
00:40:38
really started this podcast and the show is because I believe
00:40:42
there still is a lot of potential here in California,
00:40:47
you know, they always like to brag where their seventh
00:40:50
whatever largest economy in the world.
00:40:53
Cool, I think it's that way. Despite what For Nia does.
00:41:01
And I think it could be even higher up if it actually did, if
00:41:05
it actually realized its potential.
00:41:08
And there's only so much, you can continue to really stifle
00:41:10
the people here in California before.
00:41:13
As we've seen, people are leaving in droves by the
00:41:15
millions, to get out of California and go other places.
00:41:20
Sorry to those other states where everyone is leaving to
00:41:22
like Idaho and Arizona and Nevada but I think there's a lot
00:41:26
of potential left in California. I think there's a lot of
00:41:28
potential and maybe California is really where a change in
00:41:33
politics in a way of thinking about politics is changed and
00:41:37
that kind of filters to the rest of the country.
00:41:40
We need to get rid of the top two shearson.
00:41:42
Go back to equal representation on the ballot.
00:41:46
Yeah, I mean that's that's one way to fix it.
00:41:49
I mean, the real issue is that a lot of times you know the oh
00:41:54
there's no opposition party in the state of California.
00:41:57
That's really it the Democrats run everything, there's no
00:41:59
opposition party and the GOP here as hard as they want to
00:42:06
work as much as people say, you know, everyone's doing a good
00:42:10
job over there. The truth is, there is no
00:42:13
opposition party in the state of California.
00:42:16
There just isn't, there's nobody, who can stand up to the
00:42:18
Democratic party. And until more people start to
00:42:21
organize and create an opposition party, then there's
00:42:27
there's nothing really that you can do you have to kind of
00:42:30
organize and get more Independence over to one side of
00:42:33
the other. So just changing the top to
00:42:35
Sears two-tier system is not really going to.
00:42:38
I mean, it will help because you're going to guarantee,
00:42:40
you're going to get a republican, it doesn't change
00:42:42
the fact that that that that District might be
00:42:45
overwhelmingly. Overwhelmingly Democrat because
00:42:50
you have to change the voter registration.
00:42:53
So yeah. That's the bottom line.
00:42:58
You could have equal representation and have one
00:43:01
Democrat and one, Republican run in every California race.
00:43:07
But if the Race is, you know, 7030 in favor of Democrats.
00:43:12
It doesn't really change anything, you really have to
00:43:15
change really the voters themselves and that comes from
00:43:19
having an actual opposition party that's worth paying
00:43:22
attention to so but there's possibilities.
00:43:26
I think there's still a possibility.
00:43:30
Yeah, I think there's there's changing demographics.
00:43:33
I think the Latino vote going more conservative, can
00:43:37
definitely help kind of Swing California.
00:43:41
I think there's a lot of things. I think there's a lot of
00:43:43
potential and I think a lot of people just need to organize and
00:43:45
focus on better Solutions. Not just saying we're not
00:43:49
Democrats. That's what always frustrates me
00:43:52
about Republicans and California is a lot of times.
00:43:54
They just kind of always point to how bad Democrats are you go?
00:43:58
Okay, well what are you going to do for me?
00:44:03
And most of the time they just go.
00:44:04
Well, I'm I'm not that guy and you go.
00:44:09
Cool doesn't really change. I'm not going to vote for
00:44:12
someone just says, I'm not that guy.
00:44:15
So you have to create Solutions so and California.
00:44:19
Republicans are just not that they're just not creating
00:44:22
Solutions. They're just constantly
00:44:23
complaining about whatever noodle does.
00:44:27
What do you think of New York, mayor, threatening Abbott to
00:44:29
send buses to vote? Well, it's Funny because they he
00:44:35
sent them to New York. And now New York is complaining
00:44:39
that they don't want them because they can't handle them
00:44:41
but I guess it's fine to just leave them in Texas.
00:44:44
I guess that's that's his argument is that we don't want
00:44:49
them here in New York because it's a drain on our resources.
00:44:52
But so I guess it's Texas is problem because they're on the
00:44:55
border, they should just accept it and do anything with it.
00:44:58
It's funny because that's kind of proving their hypocrisy.
00:45:01
They're proving the point which Is.
00:45:04
Well, yeah, I mean, it's a drain on resources, you know, and not
00:45:09
to mention Dave Smith again. He had a whole great podcast
00:45:12
about the open border argument and all that and just go listen
00:45:18
to it if you can. Someone said, where does the cow
00:45:23
Publican Stan? Are you working forward?
00:45:24
Yeah, actually things are happening with the Cal Poly can
00:45:27
thing and we're going to, we're going to kind of we're moving
00:45:31
forward on the Republican thing, so don't worry about that but
00:45:35
we're moving forward. I can tell you that right now
00:45:37
and as soon as there's more news will definitely let you know
00:45:40
what's going on. Tttt to.
00:45:49
Excuse me. What is the name of the podcast?
00:45:55
You just talked about. Oh, Dave Smith part of the
00:45:57
problem. He's a Libertarian.
00:46:00
But he's a mises caucus guy, hit a really interesting, you know,
00:46:05
I think his argument in the way he phrases his libertarian, kind
00:46:11
of stance on, because a lot of Libertarians are very like,
00:46:13
well, it's open borders. Let's just, you know, we should
00:46:16
just believe in open borders. And Dave Smith is very good at
00:46:20
saying, well, we can't have open borders because As we have open
00:46:26
borders because right now we have a welfare state and with
00:46:30
this welfare state in the way it's going.
00:46:33
You're forcing taxpayers, which is in voluntary transaction.
00:46:38
And the idea is, you shouldn't be forcing people to do.
00:46:42
He you shouldn't be forcing people to engage in voluntary,
00:46:46
actions and voluntary transactions.
00:46:49
And if you're forcing people to Odd-eyes, those who are coming
00:46:54
across the border and an open border, sort of society, then
00:46:57
you're kind of taking their property.
00:47:00
One argument I've heard, which is, you know, if you want have
00:47:04
open borders and you got to get a rid of welfare, make it a true
00:47:07
capitalist Society. People want to come here and
00:47:10
they want to be of use and they want to be part of, they want to
00:47:14
be part of our economy and they want to make themselves useful,
00:47:17
great. They can come and do that but
00:47:21
you know, just allowing open Or welfare.
00:47:24
So yeah. Dave Smith's not an open border
00:47:27
guy and he pointed out how it's funny that because he's not open
00:47:30
border the extreme arguments. Well then I guess you don't want
00:47:34
any immigration, you racist. And that's we live in such a
00:47:39
binary world. And I think he's right about
00:47:42
this, we live in such a binary world.
00:47:45
Where people think, if I don't agree with one thing, I must
00:47:49
agree with the extreme of the other.
00:47:52
If you believe, if you don't believe we should have open
00:47:54
borders. Then I guess that means you're
00:47:56
This Racist. Who doesn't want anybody to
00:47:58
come? No, I think there should be.
00:48:02
If you're going to have a welfare state and you're going
00:48:04
to get allow people have access to it and taxpayers who are
00:48:08
funding and funding Public public roads, public parks
00:48:12
Public Schools, footing the bill for the ER, and all that stuff,
00:48:18
then there should be some limits.
00:48:21
So Yeah, he does have a great new on Stan's worth listening.
00:48:27
He had a debate, I believe it was with Spike Cohen about it.
00:48:32
So I agree with his stance. I agree with his stance that
00:48:36
that's the more logical stance. I also like the Dave Smith is
00:48:40
like he's a Libertarian but also he knows that like you're not
00:48:44
always going to get the utopian libertarian idea past like
00:48:51
Shore. He loved like complete like
00:48:54
anarcho-capitalism sure that's his grip but if your choice is a
00:48:59
more restrictive border to protect and like make sure we're
00:49:04
not a drain on society or open borders, well then he's going to
00:49:10
go with the Lesser which is more restriction.
00:49:13
You have to listen to it. He does a better job of
00:49:15
explaining his point, then I do, but he's a very good podcast,
00:49:20
Dave Smith part of the problem. Very good and he's not a typical
00:49:25
libertarian. I guess you would say he's not a
00:49:27
Lola batarian who's just all about philosophy.
00:49:29
Anyway, we kind of got off-track about Dave Smith, great
00:49:33
podcaster, and all that stuff anymore question, we got about
00:49:37
questions comments, chiming in. What are people pissed off
00:49:40
about? Obviously the FBI raid?
00:49:47
What what happened with Donald Trump?
00:49:48
I think it absolutely means he's going to run again.
00:49:54
You and stay for a writer, should be a combo podcast, you
00:49:59
and steak for breakfast, right? Steak and eggs for breakfast,
00:50:04
that's an aggressive breakfast. I always feel like.
00:50:06
If you're starting the day with steak, you better have a hell of
00:50:09
a day planned. If you're starting the day with
00:50:11
steak, because I always look at like to me steak is always the
00:50:15
end of the day. You had, you had a good day at
00:50:17
work. It's a hard day at work and with
00:50:20
steak. Reward yourself with steak which
00:50:23
I think I'm going to do today. I think I'm pretty convinced.
00:50:25
I'm going to have steak today. Don't eat the bugs and thank you
00:50:28
to someone who did just add, the don't eat the bugs, T to their
00:50:33
wish list. I saw that thank you for doing
00:50:35
that. It also comes in different
00:50:39
women's tank tops, crop hoodie, all that stuff.
00:50:43
So it's not just the T-shirt. If you want to look through the
00:50:44
store, there's there's all these different options steak for
00:50:47
breakfast is a podcast. It is a podcast steak for
00:50:50
breakfast. Interesting.
00:50:54
It's about yeah, don't eat the bugs more of the story.
00:51:00
Oh, they're saying team up with them.
00:51:02
Got it. Okay, so there's a podcast steak
00:51:05
for breakfast and we should team up and do a combo Morning
00:51:09
podcast. Got it, okay.
00:51:11
I thought he was saying have steak for breakfast and then do
00:51:15
this podcast and thank you again as someone who just added the
00:51:19
item steak and bucks. No.
00:51:23
No I think I'm ready Mi ah go push some people over the edge.
00:51:27
I wasn't going to vote for him. I'm definitely thinking that now
00:51:29
my reason for not voting for him is because of Julian Assange.
00:51:35
Yeah. I mean I look Trump wasn't
00:51:37
perfect in his first term. That's for dang sure.
00:51:40
He wasn't he wasn't perfect. There was a lot of things that I
00:51:43
disagreed with a lot of things, I wasn't super crazy about, I
00:51:48
think there's a lot of things he could have gone farther on.
00:51:50
I think he took advantage of the fact that he thought he was a
00:51:53
shoo-in. For a second term, which is a
00:51:56
problem. When you assume that you're
00:51:58
going to get a second term, you should never assume you're going
00:52:00
to go second term. Don't do that, you know because
00:52:05
you're not guaranteed a second term so you might as well just
00:52:07
act like you only have one term and he should have known that
00:52:10
they were not going. They're going to try everything
00:52:12
in their power to make sure he didn't get a second term.
00:52:16
And he should have just assumed this is my shot.
00:52:18
I have four years to get this done and just do the most stuff
00:52:22
I can. And not, you know, try and go
00:52:27
easy on everything, I should just go for it and then the,
00:52:30
it's one of those things where the more you do it, the more
00:52:33
bold you are, you probably end up with more support because
00:52:36
people will be like, wow, he's actually really fixing things.
00:52:39
It was sure I like Teddy Roosevelt when he first was
00:52:43
brought in when he had to take over for McKinley and no mandate
00:52:46
wasn't voted in by anybody, but he just kind of wine.
00:52:49
And just said, look, I'm just going to do stuff and I'm going
00:52:51
to piss a lot of people off. And here we are.
00:52:55
I'm just going to do it and guess what?
00:52:56
He was more loved and he was even more popular and he won in
00:52:59
an absolute landslide in the next one.
00:53:01
So Trump could have been a little bit more Teddy Roosevelt,
00:53:05
where he just went in and really bull in a china shop and just
00:53:07
kind of did a lot of things to really clean out the federal
00:53:11
government and do that stuff. Yeah, he needs to audit the
00:53:14
Federal Reserve, I'd love to see him audit the Federal Reserve.
00:53:18
It's crazy. We had a presidential candidate
00:53:20
talking about auditing. The Federal Reserve never
00:53:22
thought I would see that. In Our Lifetime.
00:53:24
It only takes someone like Donald Trump to talk about
00:53:26
auditing the Federal Reserve and we had a president.
00:53:29
The sad thing is we had a president who on The Campaign
00:53:31
Trail said he wanted to audit the Federal Reserve never
00:53:34
actually did. So he's got to be careful, you
00:53:38
know, I hope he understands what he's getting into.
00:53:41
If he's gone scorched Earth, deep States, not going to take
00:53:44
it Lane laying down, abolish the Federal Reserve.
00:53:47
Yeah, let's do it. We got a lot of things.
00:53:50
We got a lot of crusty layers. Going on in the federal
00:53:55
government that we need to get rid of a lot of rot and Decay
00:53:58
going on the federal government. But that said, I do, you know,
00:54:04
someone asked me the other day said, would you would you want
00:54:08
Donald Trump to run again? I was like, well, look if it's
00:54:11
Trump or DeSantis, I'll likely support them because you know at
00:54:16
that point what you know, what are my choices either by 10 runs
00:54:20
again or noodles is going to run for Resin or Kemal is going to
00:54:24
run for anything. I'm not going to I'm not going
00:54:27
to support any of those cats but yeah.
00:54:35
But I think it's interesting. Better you start by auditing
00:54:38
exposing other shading and get the public support to abolish
00:54:41
it. People are asleep to the Federal
00:54:42
Reserve. Yeah, I think it's important.
00:54:46
You want to lay that out. I think a lot of these
00:54:49
governments should go through an audit.
00:54:53
It was something that John Cox brought up in the governor's
00:54:55
race that he, he proposed to do with.
00:54:58
If he won the recall was that he wants to do a kind of remember
00:55:04
it now. Is it is it like a by means?
00:55:07
Means-tested audit, where you, excuse me, where you go through
00:55:15
item by item and you go program program and go is this needed.
00:55:20
Explain to me why it's needed and if not we're going to cut it
00:55:22
so California could definitely use that.
00:55:25
That's for sure. I'd rather just Santa's but
00:55:28
Trump has the numbers. I'll take it at this point.
00:55:29
Yeah I mean know what you're never going to get a perfect
00:55:32
candidate. You know, you're never going to
00:55:33
get the perfect candidate who is going.
00:55:37
Going to accomplish all of your goals, you know, but then again,
00:55:41
look at it, you know, we're coming back to what I was
00:55:46
talking about is the lesson of this show in particular, one
00:55:51
president is not going to be perfect and is not going to
00:55:54
solve everything, right? They may help a lot of the
00:55:57
federal government, but in reality we should stop idolizing
00:56:02
the president, and we should stop putting the president on
00:56:04
some sort of pedestal. Where bye Somewhat like we think
00:56:09
they're going to be king and they're going to just decree
00:56:11
everything in solve everything. They're not like we saw what
00:56:14
happened with Trump. Four years came and went in the
00:56:17
blink of an eye. You know, the last year I think
00:56:19
was really a wash. I would say it's like three
00:56:21
years because covid, really kind of hampered his final year.
00:56:24
He wasn't able to do anything or just covid 24/7 and his final
00:56:28
year and then he tried to run and campaign and people were
00:56:32
like, oh my God, how dare you run forever and look at all
00:56:34
these people. But we got to get past this, we
00:56:38
got to get past this idolization of one person who's going to run
00:56:42
for president and pretend that's going to solve all of our
00:56:45
issues. It really is, you know, it
00:56:48
really does come down to if you want things fixed on the local
00:56:51
level. If you want someone to push back
00:56:53
on the federal government, you're gonna have to start
00:56:55
getting involved in the local stuff and it requires paying
00:56:58
attention, your local stuff and does, require researching your
00:57:01
local stuff. And just require getting to know
00:57:03
who those candidates are, which is one goal of the podcast that
00:57:06
I do. We We do it every Thursday
00:57:08
night. We try to have guests on as many
00:57:11
candidates as possible to let people know that these people
00:57:13
are running and they have real goals and real solutions of what
00:57:16
they want to do, when they're elected to assembly, when
00:57:19
they're elected to supervisors, they want to let people know,
00:57:23
this is what I want to do and you know, it's not sexy, maybe
00:57:26
it's not sexy to a lot of people because it's not natural
00:57:29
National politics. In National politics is always
00:57:32
the sexy thing. But in reality, that's the stuff
00:57:36
that's going to make a difference.
00:57:37
That's the stuff you're going to see in your day-to-day life.
00:57:41
Where you go. Huh, this changed.
00:57:43
I'm glad we got this person on school board.
00:57:46
I'm glad we got this person on County Supervisor.
00:57:48
I'm glad we did this because that changed everything and ever
00:57:53
since then, everything's been way better or hey, we noticed we
00:57:57
got a new mayor and it's a little bit cleaner in our city,
00:58:00
we There's more police, we noticed that crime is going
00:58:03
down, we noticed the city council, is taking more action
00:58:06
on this stuff, you know, that's the sort of stuff that you're
00:58:09
going to see in your daily daily lives.
00:58:11
And if they agree with you and they don't agree with the
00:58:13
governor or the federal government, they may just say
00:58:15
you know go pound sand like they did during covid.
00:58:18
So yeah we do have to get past this whole idolization of like,
00:58:22
well, you know, they're not perfect.
00:58:23
And whoever 504 is not going to be perfect, right?
00:58:28
Nobody move over for president, is going to be perfect.
00:58:31
It's never going to happen but you shouldn't be looking at
00:58:35
idolizing the present anyway. Maybe the silver lining of Biden
00:58:40
running and being president is showing you that the president
00:58:45
doesn't have to be is not this Godlike figure.
00:58:50
It can be an inept senile old man.
00:58:54
And that's just the way it goes. Like sometimes you get an
00:58:58
in-depth senile demented old man who has no idea what's going on
00:59:03
and he's the president of the United States.
00:59:05
And he's not the first bad president, United States, we've
00:59:08
had bad presidents, and we've had sort of unable or incapable
00:59:13
incompetent presidents before, but it is something to think
00:59:18
about that. Don't idolize focus on your
00:59:22
local stuff. So, Hi.
00:59:26
Miss all these comment. As you said, it's a figure out
00:59:28
the destruction. The importance of local
00:59:30
government. Yep.
00:59:32
Concentrate on community. How about Trump DeSantis have
00:59:35
Trump deal. International issues, dancing.
00:59:37
Now, I don't like the whole. I don't like the whole Trump.
00:59:40
DeSantis ticket. I don't like that ticket.
00:59:44
I think if Trump is going to run, let Trump run for
00:59:46
president. And I think let the scientists
00:59:51
win this year. When his re-election, He gets to
00:59:55
be governor for four more years 20:28.
00:59:57
Comes up is another presidential run.
00:59:59
He can run then, but I think he does more good setting.
01:00:02
The example, as a governor of a populated, well, populated state
01:00:06
in a very big state and kind of saying this is how governor
01:00:09
should run. I think that's how it should
01:00:10
stay and set the example, I don't think it makes sense to
01:00:14
have him as a vice president because they don't really do as
01:00:18
much as you think they do. Did you do we need to band
01:00:27
together? Let them divide us.
01:00:30
Local politics biting is the modern-day Woodrow Wilson, which
01:00:35
is funny because Woodrow Wilson and the end of his presidency
01:00:38
actually was incapable of serving and then his wife sort
01:00:42
of took over. If you don't know that story, go
01:00:45
look it up. You can look it up to the fact
01:00:46
that she was Woodrow. Wilson's wife, he was bedridden
01:00:50
and I think he had a stroke and he couldn't speak.
01:00:53
You can do anything. He was, he was he was bedridden.
01:00:56
And so she basically was running the government kind of telling
01:01:03
his advisors and his cabinet like what Woodrow Wilson said
01:01:06
when it was really what she said.
01:01:08
So he was actually the first in comment, really the 25th 25th
01:01:12
amendment should have been used against him.
01:01:14
I don't think that when it was the 25th at that point probably
01:01:18
no actually, no, the 25th was not around at that point because
01:01:23
it wasn't even prohibition won't had happened.
01:01:26
So yeah, not looking for Perfect protection.
01:01:32
Just someone, I was going to. Who do you think is a good VP
01:01:35
for Trump is, they allow him to run?
01:01:38
I mean, Kristi noem would be great.
01:01:39
I love Kristi noem, I think she would be a fantastic choice.
01:01:43
Well spoken, easy on the eyes, female governor.
01:01:48
She has the credentials of saying, look, I didn't lock down
01:01:52
when they did the whole covid thing which would be interesting
01:01:55
because Should be running on the ticket and bragging, or boasting
01:01:59
that she didn't shut down, which would be in contrast to when
01:02:03
Trump was in president in 2020. So yeah, it would be interested.
01:02:09
But I like Kristi noem, I think she would be great if he I think
01:02:11
she needs to be put on National platform.
01:02:15
So I don't know if she can run again or if she's turned out or
01:02:18
something like that, but I think Kristi noem would be great.
01:02:24
Waste of resources and BP. Yeah, keep keep the Santa's as
01:02:29
governor of Florida you know don't don't waste them as VP
01:02:33
either he runs for president or stay as VP or stay as governor
01:02:36
of Florida. No one would be a good VP but I
01:02:40
also like, I was governor I do too and I don't know if she's
01:02:46
turned out or not, I don't know. I, if she's done or like, maybe
01:02:50
she's coming up on being done. I like her as Governor to I
01:02:53
think she should stay. As Governor.
01:02:55
So I think she has a legitimate shot to maybe run for president
01:03:00
someday. Who knows?
01:03:02
I don't know if the timing lines up with Kristi noem to run for
01:03:05
president because DeSantis is the clear front-runner, he's
01:03:08
young. She's kind of younger too.
01:03:11
So, be interesting. I think it does.
01:03:15
Santa is gnome ticket, would be fantastic, that'd be great.
01:03:22
We're still feeling the effects of Wilson.
01:03:23
Yeah, we are Ben Carson BP and maybe Ben Carson wouldn't be
01:03:28
bad. That's what's happening with Joe
01:03:30
Biden? Yeah, Joe Biden's doing her best
01:03:32
to keep good old Joey moving Probation is when our government
01:03:38
poison. Its own people, interesting take
01:03:44
easy on the eyes. Well, I'm saying she's a
01:03:46
good-looking woman and looks matter, looks matter in
01:03:49
politics. So, No, I'm trying to go through
01:03:54
the course to keep out illegal despite passing by a voter
01:03:57
measure really turned me off of her.
01:04:02
Sorry panel was easy on the eyes too but she was a hot mess.
01:04:06
Yes, I repel was not. We need a Latino conservative
01:04:10
cat. Yeah, I thought am I thinking of
01:04:16
Maria Salazar down in Florida. I thought she would be a good
01:04:19
choice for a VP, but there's a lot of stuff.
01:04:23
She wasn't really conservative on.
01:04:25
So and there's a lot of stuff. She kind of, I think Tucker
01:04:30
exposed her on something, and I kind of turned me off on her
01:04:34
Maria Salazar but there's choices, there's absolutely
01:04:36
choices. I mean, if Murr if Myra Flores
01:04:39
Wins again. Hopefully she wins again if she
01:04:42
wins that District. Again should be a good VP
01:04:44
choice. I don't know if she's old enough
01:04:47
to be president though. So we're just we're speculating
01:04:51
now. We're just playing politics
01:04:52
baseball. So, there's a lot of choices and
01:04:57
I think that's the the good thing if you're a republican, is
01:05:02
that your bench is a little deeper than the Democrats right
01:05:05
now. I just don't see it.
01:05:06
The Democrats have a really deep bench and I think they know they
01:05:09
don't really have a deep bench, like, what are they gonna?
01:05:11
They can't go back to Hillary. Hillary is not liked.
01:05:14
Bernie Sanders will never win a general election.
01:05:16
He's too far left. Biden is not able to do anything
01:05:21
at this point. You can barely put Jacket at
01:05:25
this point. So really, I mean, they go down
01:05:29
the list, Kamala is not very popular noodles.
01:05:34
They're gonna get noodles to run, like I don't think so like
01:05:38
noodles can run and people say, oh he's attractive, which makes
01:05:42
me gag in my mouth to people are like I least oh hi I'm going on
01:05:45
Gavin Newsome. I'm like okay gross.
01:05:50
So they don't really have that deep of a bench.
01:05:54
And the people they start to get into you look and go they can't
01:05:57
win a general election. Like noodles is not going to win
01:06:01
a general election. The only reason call got the VP
01:06:07
position, she checked the boxes as far as looks and minority
01:06:10
even though she was the worst presidential can form a sentence
01:06:12
to save her life. Yeah.
01:06:15
Oh, good. Quite yeah.
01:06:16
Myra wasn't born. Here does not disqualify her.
01:06:20
Excellent point. Yeah, I think that might
01:06:23
actually disqualify her. Yeah, mmm.
01:06:26
Damn doll. He's not going to win dolls.
01:06:31
Not gonna wind up, Brian doll. He's not going to win at this
01:06:34
point. I think, Brian Dolly has
01:06:36
basically just accepted the consolation prize of being
01:06:40
nominated, as Republican Governor, a republican nominee,
01:06:43
for governor. And That's about it.
01:06:48
I don't think he's putting up much of a fight.
01:06:50
He put out a tick-tock. somebody sent to me, and I was like,
01:06:55
Cool. You sent out of tick-tock, we're
01:06:59
less than three months away from the, the race from the election.
01:07:03
And I haven't seen one ad. Like most people don't even know
01:07:08
that there is a Governor's election that year.
01:07:11
The people think that the recall was last year, that was it,
01:07:13
people don't even know. There was a there's a
01:07:14
gubernatorial election going on. If noodles gets presidency
01:07:19
Mexico's about the see a lot more Americans truth.
01:07:22
I hear you on that, I'll be looking up the listings down in
01:07:25
Baja be like okay so what can we buy and Bob looking governor of
01:07:33
caramelize a huge conservative? Oh Mark Robinson.
01:07:37
Is that who it is? Noodles isn't going anywhere.
01:07:44
I'm sorry. Noodles is not going anywhere
01:07:46
Brian doll. He's not going to beat him.
01:07:47
So, That's just that Mark Robinson.
01:07:50
Yes, Mark Robinson is he's, he's of Firebrand.
01:07:55
If you ever watch any of his videos that man passionate,
01:07:58
that's for sure. I'll cross that border illegally
01:08:03
Mexico, owes us one and the Vienna and a lot of people come
01:08:09
across border or not from Mexico.
01:08:12
I've talked about this before. It's not everyone always likes
01:08:15
to just paint a broad brush and be like all these Mexicans
01:08:18
coming across the border. It's not Mexicans like it's a
01:08:21
lot of people from Guatemala Ecuador.
01:08:26
El Salvador, like that's where there's a lot of these refugees
01:08:29
are coming from. It's Mexicans, right.
01:08:32
It's you know, a lot of Mexicans are getting very upset that
01:08:37
they're getting stuck in Border towns like Tijuana.
01:08:41
And that Tijuana is basically saying we don't have the money
01:08:44
or the resources to do anything, or help you.
01:08:47
So stop coming, like, stop coming here and setting up camp.
01:08:51
Yeah, they're coming from all over to like, you know, Ukraine.
01:08:56
There was one day we were coming back from Tijuana and we saw
01:08:59
probably a handful maybe 50 to 100 ukrainians just hanging out
01:09:04
about 100 yards from the border just waiting to Somehow get
01:09:09
across so it's not I always like to make that distinction is not.
01:09:14
Everyone says it's like Mexico and Mexicans it's not you know
01:09:20
it's not just Mexico to doing that.
01:09:22
Yeah, Jorge Ventura is fantastic.
01:09:25
He's really great on the ground reporting.
01:09:28
He always a really, really good stuff always if you don't follow
01:09:31
him go look, you know, is not his name is right up there.
01:09:35
Horray, Ventura TV at your Jorge Ventura TV.
01:09:38
He does great on the ground reporting, check him out.
01:09:42
So it's but it's not always it's a lot of other people are coming
01:09:48
as well through the border and I forgot what we were talking
01:09:51
about. So if noodles becomes president
01:09:53
we're moving to Mexico, I don't think noodles has a chance of
01:09:57
becoming president. I think he he would not win in
01:10:01
swing states. He wouldn't wing, it went in
01:10:02
Arizona, he wouldn't win in Florida, he wouldn't win.
01:10:06
I mean, if you look at the the luck, Carol map and you look at
01:10:09
all the swing States and see which states, you wouldn't have
01:10:11
a chance, you wouldn't win Ohio, you know, what do you in North
01:10:15
Carolina? Probably not like, a lot of
01:10:19
people just look at California, be like, I don't want what's
01:10:21
going on in California to happen here in my state and in the
01:10:24
country. So a lot of people just kind of
01:10:26
reject them, so I don't think he has a chance at winning, he's
01:10:29
going to run because it's his ego.
01:10:31
So anyway, that's it for today. We went a little over because we
01:10:37
were chatting about And stuff like that and yeah tomorrow
01:10:41
night we're going to have Layla from propaganda fluent.
01:10:44
She's going to be on we're going to talk about all sorts of
01:10:46
propaganda language, all that stuff and how they're trying to
01:10:51
and how to kind of cut through propaganda.
01:10:53
And also how can we use language to also achieve our own goals
01:10:59
which I think is very important in politics and stuff like this
01:11:02
is that you have to learn how to use language and yeah it's going
01:11:07
to be very Ting podcast. So she's going to be on tomorrow
01:11:11
night. Thank you to everyone who picked
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up the, don't eat the bugs t-shirt, don't eat the bugs, you
01:11:17
story, don't eat the bugs, eat steak and said have yourself a
01:11:20
nice juicy marbleized ribeye steak.
01:11:24
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01:11:27
I am more marbleization. The better, the more fat in that
01:11:31
state. The better go eat a nice steak,
01:11:33
don't eat the bugs. So, yeah, and we do this every
01:11:36
Wednesday at nine. A m-- coffee, Calvin posix, we
01:11:39
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