Foreigners Are Taking Over American Government & It Needs To End

Summary

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Louder with Crowder: "Foreigners Are Taking Over American Government & It Needs To End"

Date: May 21, 2026
Host: Steven Crowder team (Steven out; Gerald, Lane, Josh Fierstein, Irish, Hayley)
Notable Themes: Immigration and American governance, constitutional requirements for office holders, demographic changes in the US, criticism of Hollywood and comedians, the US-China dynamic, and media propaganda.

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Overview

This episode centers around growing concerns (from the hosts' perspective) about the increasing number of foreign-born individuals in key American government roles and local politics, and the broader implications for American culture and policy. The discussion is punctuated by both humor and harsh rhetoric, typical of the show's style. The hosts critique specific political figures, comment on demographic shifts (focusing particularly on Muslim and Indian communities), react to proposed constitutional amendments, and discuss propaganda—particularly about China and America's global standing. The episode closes with a critical look at Hollywood and the comedy world.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Nancy Mace’s Proposed Constitutional Amendment

[09:18]–[16:26]

• Main Topic: Rep. Nancy Mace’s proposal to block non-natural-born citizens from serving in Congress or as federal judges.
• Host Take:
  • While skeptical of Mace’s motives ("attention seeking fraud" – Gerald, [12:06]), hosts support the underlying goal.
  • Reasoning: They argue American law and policy should be shaped by those “steeped in Americana.”
  • Critique of opposition: “It's not anti-immigrant... It's saying that if you're coming to this country and you want to serve in these positions...Let's just make sure you have a little experience first…” (Gerald, [14:53])
  • Examples: Current federal judges appointed by Biden (Ana Reyes from Uruguay, Araceli Martinez Olguin from Mexico) cited as problematic due to issuing injunctions against Trump-era policies.

2. Demographic “Takeovers,” Clustering, and Community Power

[19:13]–[27:46]

• Narrative: The hosts describe examples where Muslim and Indian Americans have won elections or clustered demographically:
  • Cities Named: Hamtramck and Dearborn, Michigan; Edison, NJ; Richardson, TX; Frisco, TX; College Station, TX.
  • Claimed Consequences: Erosion of “Americana,” weakening of traditional culture, and potential shift in local laws (mention of "Muslims only community" and “Sharia courts” [21:57]).
  • Notable Quotes:
    • “It's not just they're like, hey, I want to be around my people...I think it's that they want power...” (Gerald, [24:01])
    • “If you go out to certain neighborhoods in Texas or Michigan, you just don't feel like you're in America.” (Lane, [26:27])
    • “You have to keep a baseline percentage of the native population for America that is white, European. So when people come in from other cultures, you become that...Once that gets diluted, you lose the entire identity of what the country was in the first place.” (Lane, [27:46])
  • The hosts maintain a distinction (“not racism, not white supremacy”) but strongly advocate for sustaining a Euro-American majority and cultural dominance.

3. Cultural Assimilation and the American Fabric

[25:34]–[28:34]

• Argument: Hosts approve of immigrants who assimilate and adopt "American" values.
  • “If they do, eventually they get subsumed into the American culture and they are just like you…there’s no discernible difference.” (Lane, [25:34])
  • Praise for Dinesh D’Souza, an immigrant "who by all means has adopted America in every way."
• Conclusion: Judges and politicians should be "steeped in Americana," understanding "what it is to be an American" ([28:01]).

4. Expanding Amendment Requirements to More Government Roles

[28:01]–[29:20]

• Hosts support extending natural-born citizen requirements to roles beyond president and vice president, describing it as "not unreasonable" ([28:01]), and cautioning against the left’s “American dream” counterargument.

5. Local Identity, Power Dynamics, and Social Commentary

[29:20]–[30:07]

• Concerns: Emergence of "Little India" or "Little Islamabad" as counter to American identity.
• Rhetorical Question: “Would you let communists just move in and do this?” ([29:59])
• Sarcasm: The only reason "communist" communities don't thrive is because "they'd all be dead within a year." ([30:07])

6. Segment: Critique of Hollywood, Comedy, and Cancel Culture

[33:13]–[44:49]

• Chelsea Handler Roast Controversy:

  • Handler’s criticism of jokes about lynching and rape at Kevin Hart’s roast leads to debate about boundaries in comedy.
  • “She’s mad because she can’t ruin their lives. Like, I'm trying to ruin their lives and they think they’re invincible.” (Josh Fierstein, [34:22])
  • “Don’t go to the roast, Chelsea. Maybe you’re the problem…” (Gerald, [36:35])

• Supergirl Actress Millie Alcock:

  • Alcock’s comments about the discomfort of being a woman in the superhero space met with derision.
  • “Look, we don’t care if you’re a girl playing a girl character...Just stop with the yapping.” (Gerald, [41:01])
  • The hosts argue that superhero movies are “a blessing,” and actors should express gratitude, not complain.

• Blockbuster Losses & Genre Fatigue:

  • Extensive listing of bombs, primarily in DC and Marvel’s superhero portfolios, used to illustrate Hollywood’s alleged cultural and business decline.

7. Propaganda, The US-China Dynamic, and Tim Dillon’s Comments

[48:32]–[62:44]

• Critique of Tim Dillon and “US in Decline” Narrative:

  • Claim: A spate of recent opinions (notably by Tim Dillon, also Tucker Carlson) reflect propaganda that advances the notion “America is done/finished.”
  • Dillon’s metaphor: “We are not the high school bully anymore, we're the weird kid who may have a gun...We're a pedophile who may have a gun.” ([54:46])
  • Hosts deride this as self-loathing, unpatriotic, and naive about China's own severe issues.
  • “Tucker's kind of going off the rails...he provides no evidence...” (Gerald, [58:53])
  • Lane explains that all of China’s decisions are “based in their competition with us.” ([57:39]), and that China sees itself as the “Middle Kingdom” ([58:12]).

• China’s Youth Unemployment & Social Problems:

  • Official youth unemployment: 16.3%; real estimated number: 40%. Comparison to US made.
  • “Lying flat,” “rat people,” and “let it rot” online movements discussed as evidence of disillusionment among Chinese youth ([61:03]).
  • “[Chinese youth]: Wake up at noon, don’t leave the bed, only move to order takeout…Why should I...work for you or risk my life for you?” ([61:03])
  • Lane notes Chinese authorities censor these expressions online.

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Notable Quotes and Memorable Moments

• On Nancy Mace’s Amendment:

  • "It's not anti-immigrant. It's not anti brown person bad. Right. It's saying that if you're coming to this country and you want to serve in these positions... Let's just make sure you have a little experience first in what it means to be an American." — Gerald, [14:53]

• On Demographic Shifts:

  • "[Indians and Muslims] want power, they want to be able to do what they want to do... I don't know if every single one of them wants to subvert the United States, but I know the leadership does." — Gerald, [24:01]

• On Cultural Balance:

  • "You have to keep a baseline percentage of the native population for America that is white, European. So when people come in from other cultures, you become that." — Lane, [27:46]

• On Comedy Roasts:

  • "She's mad because she can't ruin their lives. Like, I'm trying to ruin their lives and they think they're invincible." — Josh Fierstein, [34:22]
  • “Don't go to the roast, Chelsea. Maybe you're the problem, Chelsea.” — Gerald, [36:35]

• On Hollywood Fatigue:

  • "Look, it's fun to play Supergirl. I hope you come out and watch it...That's it. Just shut up. You could double the revenue just by doing that." — Lane, [42:41]

• On China & Propaganda:

  • “We're not the bully. We are not the jock. We are not the quarterback. The American quarterback century is over...There's a new Chinese kid in school and he's kind of American looking, he's kind of ripped, but he's also Chinese and he's hot. And people want to him...We look a little older... We're a pedophile and we may have a gun.” — Hayley quoting/echoing Tim Dillon, [54:46]
  • "Every decision [China] makes is how they can gain leverage...So the idea that we just need to come to the table with them and things will be all right is just asinine on its face." — Lane, [58:14]

• On Chinese Youth Disillusionment:

  • "Wake up at noon, don't leave the bed, only move to order takeout…Spend 10 plus hours doom scrolling in the dark. No sleep, son, no plans, no ambitions, just pure NPC hibernation." — Chinese Social Media User (described by Lane), [61:03]

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Important Timestamps

• [09:18] — Discussion begins on Nancy Mace's constitutional amendment
• [19:13] — Local “takeover” examples: Hamtramck, Dearborn, Edison, Frisco, etc.
• [25:34] — Discussion on assimilation vs. cultural “takeover”
• [33:13] — Chelsea Handler and roast controversy segment starts
• [41:01] — Millie Alcock / Supergirl segment
• [48:32] — Segment pivots to Tim Dillon, US-China, and propaganda narratives
• [54:46] — Quoting/extending Tim Dillon’s comparison of the US and China
• [61:03] — Youth “lying flat” in China; social media trends of disaffection

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Tone & Style

• Politically incorrect, irreverent, often blending serious political and sociocultural points with crude humor.
• Rhetoric intentionally inflammatory and highly critical of progressive positions, mainstream media, and left-leaning celebrities.
• Occasional moments of self-awareness and self-deprecation in interactions (e.g., playful jabs among hosts).

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Final Notes

This episode advocates for stricter limitations on immigrant involvement in government, expresses skepticism about unchecked demographic/cultural change, critiques “woke” Hollywood, and pushes back on narratives of American decline—especially those they see as promoted by media figures like Tim Dillon or Tucker Carlson. The hosts’ tone is confrontational, combative, and laced with sarcasm but consistently reiterates that their position is about protecting American identity and not about racism or supremacy—even as some rhetoric (about maintaining a “baseline” of white, European heritage) may be interpreted otherwise.

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For in-depth opinions, clashes, or punchlines, see quoted timestamps above. All advertisement or promotional sections have been omitted from this summary.

Transcript

[Josh Fierstein]

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[Gerald]

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[Lane]

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[Irish]

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[Gerald]

some people did something I will just say I have no interest in commenting about my personal life.

[Irish]

Then will you tell all your friends oh my. Married her sibling this song was super necessary this song was super necessary and will you tell all your friends Elon married her sibling this song was super necessary this song was super necessary let's go. Don't bother trying to explain it to me I know exactly what goes on with your bro. How about I'm here fact checking your sound I'm here fact checking your next step and keep the details covered to get a visa you don't brother that Will you tell all your friends Omar married her sibling this song was super necessary this song was super necessary and will you tell your friends Ella marry her sibling? This song was super necessary super necessary this song was super necessary let's go flipper height.

[Gerald]

Irish why are you dodging these questions? These very stupid questions? You understand what no comments mean? Just in case you claim the song's misinformation here's a pic of the marriage certificate.

[Josh Fierstein]

Yeah.

[Gerald]

No one never asked and you will never tell but we know the truth

[Irish]

is that you honeymoon with your bro.

[Gerald]

Just in case you claim the song's misinformation here's a dick of the marriage certificate. Yeah, snowfl. Never ask and you will never tell them we have all the receipts that show you share the same name. Just in case you claim the song's misinformation here's a pic of the marriage certificate. Yeah. No one ever asked and you will never tell them we know the truth

[Irish]

is that you, honey when with your bro and all this is super gross. And all this. You two wed and consummated unholy matrimony. Only thing worse than Hezbollah is terroristic and zest. You too. Wet and consummated unholy matrimonial grandkids will look like they're from the movie Dalabora. You too. Wed and consummated unfoli matrimony. Your grandkids will look like they're from the movie d'. Al. Yes.

[Gerald]

Click Rumble premium and join now for 99 annually or $9.99 a month to get the entirely ad free experience and an ever expanding roster of content creators and free speech. Good morning. Turns out Nancy Mace doesn't get everything wrong. And that's a weird way to start the show. I know, but I do it on purpose because I'm very surprised that Nancy Mace actually said something that I agree with. We have a fantastic show for you today. She's talking about people who weren't born in this country, serving in Congress and other roles. We will talk about all of that and also get to our Hollywood minute about women. I'll keep it vague. We love women. It's just these women in Hollywood are very easy to kind of point out and go, yeah, we don't really like you and we don't really like your movies, and that's why you keep losing money. But please, do me a favor, keep talking about it, because it's going to make it all better. And speaking of which, Tim Dillon, look, he's a comedian. I get it. There's a lot of stuff that he does that's comedy. We're not going to comment on that. What we are going to comment on is the fact that he's not the cool kid when it comes to geopolitics, and neither is China, and his opinion just kind of sucks. Okay, totally fine for him to have it, but it's really stupid. And it's not just Tim Dylan. It's a bunch of other people out there that seem to have this same opinion that started expressing it recently. I don't know, maybe it was just kind of this coincidence. Maybe not. But either way, we've got Lane the Brain in my chair over there. How are you doing, sir?

[Lane]

I'm here.

[Gerald]

You've got some opinions on that segment with Timmy Boy? I do.

[Lane]

So if I get a little inflamed, I apologize. But this is a subject near and dear to my heart.

[Gerald]

It really is. I watched it, too, and I thought, yeah, so we'll share in our rage against all of this stuff. Mr. Josh Fierstein. How are you doing today?

[Josh Fierstein]

I'm good. I'm a little inflamed.

[Gerald]

Are you?

[Josh Fierstein]

But my wife says it's not from her, so we'll see.

[Gerald]

They make ointment, she swears.

[Josh Fierstein]

Maybe it was a weird toilet seat. I don't know what happened. They used a Porta Potty.

[Gerald]

Wrong. You just can't sit in there forever. It's called doomscrolling for a reason. Saturday, May 30th at the Roxy Theater in Muskogee, Oklahoma. Go and support live comedy and specifically support Josh Fierstein. And fun fact, he loves mashed potatoes.

[Josh Fierstein]

Love mashed potatoes.

[Gerald]

It's one of your favorite food.

[Josh Fierstein]

I wasn't going to bring this up, but if you want to bring mashed potatoes to the show, you should bring smoked meat also. It's Oklahoma.

[Gerald]

You have some.

[Josh Fierstein]

You guys have extra smoked sausage and a bowl of potatoes.

[Gerald]

Somebody do this for me. Just get, like, the mashed potatoes that you can just add water and stir, because there are some that are amazing. They blow your mind. Like, I could live off of those if everything in the earth, like, dies.

[Josh Fierstein]

Yeah, so do raccoons when I throw it in the garbage.

[Gerald]

No, I can't. Listen, I'm not even kidding, okay? We're gonna do this. Just remind me to do this. We're gonna bring, like, really good, like, homemade mashed potatoes and instant mashed potatoes, and I guarantee you, you're gonna be like, wow, that's actually much better.

[Josh Fierstein]

Well, you said you could live off of it.

[Gerald]

You. I could literally.

[Josh Fierstein]

How about this? You bring your little sack potatoes.

[Gerald]

I don't prefer it.

[Josh Fierstein]

I'll bring. You bring your little ore. Ida.

[Lane]

Whatever. However you say.

[Josh Fierstein]

You bring a little sack potatoes, and I'll make mashed potatoes and we'll come in and see.

[Gerald]

No, I think yours are gonna be better. That's not the point. The point is these are so much better than I expected. And somebody as a fan, just bring them and maybe, like, you know, like. Like that. I don't know. Not during the show.

[Lane]

Josh, do a blind taste test on potatoes. We have to do a blind test test with you between a good wine and a Kirkland wine.

[Gerald]

Oh, I could easily nail that in a heartbeat. We should do it in a heartbeat. I am one of those Psalms jokes on you. It's R.C. coleman. Oh, no. Who knew? It's like the Pepsi Challenge or something like that.

[Josh Fierstein]

Bathtub wine.

[Gerald]

No, it's just I'll have to be the determining factor on what a good wine is. So there is a level, and we'll figure this out. But which of the podcast bro for you, question of the day has been the biggest disappointment lately. And listen, I understand there's a lot of different opinions. Besides. Yes, of course. Besides me.

[Josh Fierstein]

Oh, Chad is in full agreement.

[Gerald]

Oh, come on, Chad.

[Lane]

Come on.

[Josh Fierstein]

I got your back, Gerald. These guys are incorrigible.

[Gerald]

I can't win everything.

[Lane]

Okay?

[Hayley]

All right.

[Josh Fierstein]

Stop being so mean to Gerald. It's hard for a gay guy to get along here.

[Gerald]

Come on, guys. It's almost as if I'm not the CEO of this company. We Love each other. We have fun. They do this to me literally all the time. You think this is just something that happens on air. It's not. And we'll have something fun for you next week that will probably piss me off even just a little bit more. So I know. I know what these guys. I know what they're up to. When they don't want me to hear about something, I know something is in the works. It's always like that. Okay, let's get going here. China continues to prove that it is the master of cybernetics and AI technology.

[Josh Fierstein]

Oh, yeah.

[Gerald]

Yeah.

[Josh Fierstein]

Smooth little Shirley Temple there, huh?

[Gerald]

I can still do it. Yeah.

[Irish]

Oh, damn, they're back.

[Gerald]

Eff it.

[Josh Fierstein]

Now that's the appropriate reaction. Show's over, everybody.

[Gerald]

No, get up, get up. He's gonna dance with the robot, right? This is all a trick. No, they're gonna do it. He should have moonwalked off with it. Oh, he should have.

[Lane]

Goodbye.

[Gerald]

Dragging a dead robot off.

[Irish]

Why?

[Gerald]

Why did the robot give up on life? I understand giving up on the dance. Like, but the robot isn't advanced enough to just, like, get up and walk it off.

[Josh Fierstein]

Batteries got knocked out, I guess.

[Irish]

Oh, man.

[Lane]

Because none of it is AI. There's a dude controlling.

[Gerald]

You saw the controller?

[Lane]

Yeah.

[Josh Fierstein]

Do you guys remember when the Jabberwockies used to be good?

[Gerald]

Well, but it did. It ended its performance like the real Michael Jackson, guys. So, I mean, it stays true to life, white, lifeless and frail. Funny, the same thing happened with the missiles they gave to Venezuela.

[Josh Fierstein]

Yikes. The shame.

[Gerald]

Chad actually wants to get in on this.

[Josh Fierstein]

They're calling him the Biden robot.

[Gerald]

That's actually true. That's the pre programmed walk like Biden. Right. I just. I love how it just gives up. Like, I know it's not AI. It's not, you know, like, just acting on its own, truly. Right. It's just being controlled by it.

[Libsyn Ads Host]

Just.

[Gerald]

It's just like. Just give up. I'm just gonna lay here.

[Lane]

I would, too, after that performance. I sympathize a little bit.

[Gerald]

Or like, as the guy with the remote control, don't walk to the stairs twice. What in the world are you doing? All right, well, look, it'll get better and then they'll take over our lives and we'll just have to figure out how to knock them down, I guess, and they'll give up. So that's fine. Just put stairs everywhere.

[Lane]

Every time we show a video like this, we're put on a list for our future AI Overlords go Back and cross reference and before they murder us.

[Gerald]

That's why I talk nicely to them. So that at least I have some balance anyway. So let's. Let's move on.

[Josh Fierstein]

Come after me. Come after me.

[Gerald]

You want them?

[Josh Fierstein]

Yeah, I want them. I want that smoke. I got a hose.

[Lane]

I got hose, too.

[Gerald]

That a reference to.

[Josh Fierstein]

No, I'm just saying water and electronics don't mix. Oh, so I'll hose them down.

[Lane]

It's science.

[Gerald]

Why. Why didn't we think of that? The entire Terminator series would just go right away. Ah, crap. You don't have to find like a tank of random lava hanging out at a foundry. Plot of War of the World. Yeah, that's aliens though, over there, I guess.

[Josh Fierstein]

Signs.

[Gerald]

Yeah.

[Lane]

Bacteria.

[Gerald]

War of the World. It's whatever. It's all the same. Okay, I don't want to bring up Nancy Mace any more than I have to, because I think she's an attention seeking fraud and I don't like her positions on just about anything, but when she does something right, we'll call balls and strikes here. She proposed a constitutional amendment to prohibit people who are not born citizens from serving in Congress, becoming federal judges holding Senate confirmed positions. Now, those things sound to a lot of people like, oh, my gosh, I can't believe it. Right. People are freaking out on the left, and some people on the right, too, but mostly on the left. This is Alex Cole, who said Mace is betraying her. So the Constitution already lists the requirements for Congress. Nancy Mace is arguing with a document she swore to uphold. Republicans spent years insisting that the Constitution is sacred. Now they're proposing edits every time an immigrant succeeds. It's not really about immigrants succeeding. It's about the idea that she proposed an amendment.

[Josh Fierstein]

Yeah. Now do the Second Amendment.

[Gerald]

There have been a few. Sometimes we make good decisions, sometimes bad. Sometimes we outlaw alcohol and then go, what the hell were we thinking? Let's do this again, guys.

[Lane]

Also, what was the 13th Amendment?

[Gerald]

I don't know.

[Lane]

The Civil War? It's almost. We couldn't vote. Alex Cole couldn't have voted before a constitutional amendment. God, these people are so retarded.

[Josh Fierstein]

Yeah. Don't they want to codify Roe v. Wade? And they want to change the Second Amendment. They want to change the First Amendment. They want to change all these amendments.

[Gerald]

I love the fact that we can call for an amendment to the Constitution. It's not changing it in a way that was not foreseen by the founders. It's almost like they put it in there. Like you could do it and then did it immediately.

[Josh Fierstein]

It's like the word amendment has a definition.

[Gerald]

It does, it does. But just so you have some context here, like why this is a big deal and it may sound like it's coming out of left field. It's really not. There's a reason for this and I'll get to that. But right now, in the 119th Congress, so the current session, that would affect in the house, 17 people and in the Senate too. Now, I know one of the arguments they're going to use. Well, they're idiots. They don't know that there's four GOP in the House and one in the Senate that would be affected. No, I understand that as well. And the rule still applies. Are we fine now? Even if it hurts me, I still think it's the right thing to do. We've been talking about this even before Nancy put this out again. I think it's an attention grab for her. I don't think she's serious about it. I don't think she's the right person to get this thing done. But it is a good policy. We'll tell you why. Federal judges that were enjoining Donald Trump, just to give you a couple of examples of why maybe it would be important to have somebody who's been steeped in Americana before they go into serving this country, making laws, interpreting laws for this country. Judge Ana Reyes. She immigrated from Uruguay. She's the first female Hispanic lgbtq. Do we know which one? Probably the L. Federal judge appointed by Biden.

[Josh Fierstein]

Nice. The first Dorta judge.

[Gerald]

Yeah. Dorta issued nationwide injunction against Trump's ban on trans service members. Ah, fantastic. She understands. How about this one, Judge? Oh, man. They did the phonetics and I was fine before that. Araceli Martinez Oldgin. That was the last part. The part. Okay, so Judge Araceli Martinez Olguin, immigrated from Mexico, appointed by Biden, issued nationwide injunction against Trump's ban on taxpayer funded lawyers for migrant children. Listen, I don't think these people really get what we're saying. It's not anti immigrant. It's not anti brown person bad. Right. It's saying that if you're coming to this country and you want to serve in these positions. That's fantastic. Let's just make sure you have a little experience first in what it means to be an American.

[Josh Fierstein]

Yeah, we're not interested. Not interested in you bringing your country here. You left that place. Leave it there. We have a different way of living here.

[Gerald]

Exactly. I wouldn't expect to be able to Go and do that somewhere else. Either we make fun of people who move from one state to the next. They're called carpetbaggers when they're looking for a Senate seat or a House seat in another state, because they don't understand the local community. And that's an American citizen. There's far less difference about that person than somebody moving from Uruguay to the United States and immediately becoming a judge.

[Lane]

Hillary Clinton was born in New York, raised in New York. She represented those people.

[Gerald]

I don't know what you're talking about, but listen, in other words, just so you understand this, we should not let people like this write our laws and dictate to us our policies.

[Josh Fierstein]

Today, I introduced a resolution to impeach Donald J. Trump.

[Gerald]

The last time the Alien Enemies act was invoked, it was used to detain and deport German, Japanese, Italian immigrants during World War 11.

[Josh Fierstein]

Today, I am preparing two articles of impeachment against Secretary of Defense Pete Hexett.

[Gerald]

Donald Trump raping children.

[Josh Fierstein]

Why is he smiling? Of Donald Trump threatening to kill children.

[Gerald]

Those who fight against trans people are just jealous of the freedom that they have taken to be fully who they are.

[Guest Commentator]

YouTube dragged its feet before taking any action against conservative commentator Steven Crowder, despite being informed of Crowder's two year homophobic harassment campaign against journalist Carla Mazzell.

[Gerald]

First off, it was Carlos. And it wasn't just two years. It was a lot longer than that, obviously. Listen, some people in Congress are not fond of this proposal. So today we have an old frenemy of the show, the one and only Senator Mazie Hirono, here to talk about it. All right, Senator Hirono, good morning. How are you?

[Josh Fierstein]

Wait, you're not Stephen.

[Gerald]

No, no. Sorry, sorry. Stephen is out today, but we wanted to talk to you about this recent thing with Maisie.

[Josh Fierstein]

I heard the only person who is out in that studio is you.

[Gerald]

Oh, come on. No, Senator, I'm literally right, right here. I'm sitting right here.

[Josh Fierstein]

Out of the closet.

[Gerald]

Senator, please.

[Hayley]

Can we.

[Gerald]

Can we keep this mature?

[Josh Fierstein]

Does Stephen like mature women?

[Gerald]

That is not why you're here.

[Josh Fierstein]

Where is Stephen?

[Gerald]

He's not here today.

[Josh Fierstein]

Okay, I'm not hearing an answer to my question.

[Gerald]

Fine, fine. Listen, he's out because he's getting the rods taken out of his chest when he had surgery a few years back.

[Josh Fierstein]

He can put his rod into my chest and then he can put it in my local.

[Gerald]

No, no, no, no, no. Hey, this is pointless. Tim, just cut it.

[Josh Fierstein]

Tell Stephen I'm horny.

[Gerald]

Every time. Why do we keep doing that it's so uncomfortable.

[Lane]

Who's booking her?

[Josh Fierstein]

I. I thought that was you, Lane. No, usually you're the guy that books these people. I don't know.

[Gerald]

It's Noodles the Hammer over there who does it. He does it to make fun of me. I'll never. Attaboy.

[Josh Fierstein]

I don't know, but I kind of want some loco moco right now.

[Gerald]

I don't even know what that is.

[Josh Fierstein]

Oh, it's like rice Salisbury ste a fried egg and gravy.

[Gerald]

Well, that's not how she meant it.

[Josh Fierstein]

No, I think she wanted the gravy, and I think those eggs are fried. Okay.

[Gerald]

Those eggs aren't over right into that.

[Josh Fierstein]

And she's definitely over easy.

[Gerald]

I hate life sometimes. All right, all right, let's get this. Let's get this thing back on track. We're talking about a takeover here, people. They're coming to take us. All right, so let me give you some examples of why this could potentially be a problem. And this is a strategy, not just a random happening. An occurrence like this isn't something where it's like, oh, well, there's just kind of like a one off. What you have noticed, what I have noticed, what many people around the country have noticed, especially lately, is that there seems to be this idea that if you come to the United States as a group of people, and typically it's the Muslim and Indian communities, you come here, you congregate together, you kind of make sure that you all live in the same area, you get some power there. Then you start electing your people to whatever city offices that you want to control. Then you start changing laws and doing what you want. Now think about that on a state level, right? Not just the community level. And then think about that on a national level. That's exactly what we're talking about. And when these things happen in states, they can get congressmen, they can get senators, they can get people in these positions as judges because they're putting people in power that will do their bidding. So here's a couple of examples of community takeovers that we're seeing around the country, some that you're already familiar with. Hamtramck, Michigan, Muslim majority population, 20, 21. They elected an all Muslim city council, all Muslim, and elected a Muslim mayor. Do you remember that video that we showed you? I think it was from Hamtramck or Dearborn, one of the two where the guys just went into the shop and said, you have to have halal.

[Lane]

That was in Houston.

[Gerald]

Was that Houston that did that? I'm sorry, I couldn't believe. Wow, Houston, I'm almost. That even makes my point more for me. I thought that was coming out of these places, but it's going okay.

[Josh Fierstein]

Well, to be fair, I'm sure that stuff is happening in Hamtramck or at least happened for. I don't think it's happening anymore. I think that town is so taken over, you know, I don't have to do it anymore. And also there's no one in the, in the gas station going like, whoa, look at this crazy crap. Let me record it real quick.

[Gerald]

No, yeah, it's true. 100%. So Dearborn, Michigan, 2020 became majority Muslim per the census. And 2021 elected their first Muslim mayor. Edison, New Jersey, Indian population swelled to 47%. 47%. 2021, first Indian mayor elected Democrat. Let me go to Texas. Texas is a hotbed for this right now, surprisingly so. And Texans have really been asleep at the wheel. But you're starting to see more national coverage. You guys remember the Muslims only community at Epic City? They renamed it the Meadow. Oh, that's nice because that makes it better. Like all of a sudden I won't be able to search it and go, ah, what was that city's name? It was Epic. But this metal thing looks really nice. Must not be the same thing.

[Josh Fierstein]

Isn't that where Bambi lives?

[Gerald]

That's so sweet. The Meadow. Evidence of Sharia courts. Dallas based Islamic tribunal was discovered to claim to exercise jurisdiction over all aspects of Muslim life. Richardson, Texas elected first Muslim mayor in 2025. And one that you guys have heard a lot about right now with different videos that have been coming out. 40 in Frisco, Texas. 40% of Frisco ISD students are Indians. 40% of Frisco ISd students are Indians. Only 30% white. There's a lot of neighborhood clustering that's going on there with some schools. We had to look this up. Reaching almost 90% Indian.

[Irish]

What?

[Gerald]

An entire school, almost 90% Indian.

[Josh Fierstein]

Gerald, what does that do to their football programs?

[Gerald]

Kills.

[Josh Fierstein]

It's a serious point though. Like Texas is known for their football program. Like people have moved their families here. They've like their lives are football and they're hoping their kid can be part

[Gerald]

of a good football program.

[Josh Fierstein]

So they moved to Frisco when kids were little. Now 10 years later, their kids are in high school and guess what, Cricket? They better try soon.

[Gerald]

Well, then you go down to College Station, Texas, right? That's the home of Texas A and M for most of you who Are college football fans the highest concentration of H1BS in the United States? Did you know that 7 out of 100 workers are H1BS for College Station? This is what we're talking about.

[Josh Fierstein]

I've seen that neighborhood. I don't think there's a lot of need for foreign workers.

[Gerald]

I don't think so. I mean, you've got tons of students at that university. A little over 100,000, I believe, last time.

[Lane]

If you look at any of these countries where this migration is coming from, and again, I don't want to say, well, shoes on the other foot, but can you imagine any of these countries if an all white community took over? First of all, it would be the nicest city in the country.

[Gerald]

It would probably, yeah.

[Lane]

But at the same time, there would be upheaval in those societies. We would be what, colonizing them. We will be taking over their culture. We would be exploiting the native population.

[Gerald]

It'd be whitewashing. There's a term for it. Yeah, we do the white flight thing pretty well. We move out of areas that we don't want to be in at a certain point, for whatever reason, right or wrong, doesn't matter. And that's what's happening here. We move out to the suburbs. Well, Indians and Muslims are following. And it's not just they're like, hey, I want to be around my people. I think that may be a small component of it. I think it's that they want power, they want to be able to do what they want to do. And I don't know if every single one of them wants to subvert the United States, but I know the leadership does. In a lot of these cases, they don't have the same values that we have. And that trickles down for sure. You live in that, you're steeped in that. You start to think that way. You start to look at the world that way. When you listen to the imam praising, well, not really praising, but basically saying you're not a terrorist. If you go and attack a concert of people and they go home to home and start killing people randomly, whether they cut babies heads off and put them in the oven or not, raped women, randomly shot people on the street, you're not a terrorist. If you do that, you're actually fighting against the occupation because the concert goers were the ones that were keeping you down. That's the kind of rhetoric you hear in mosques across this country. And can you blame people for being like, whoa, whoa, whoa, in a Christian church, you're not going to Hear that? I would imagine if you're Hindu, you're not going to hear that as well.

[Josh Fierstein]

If you did say it in a Christian church, if you heard it in a Christian church, you would definitely hear it again on cnn when they do that.

[Gerald]

Yes, exactly. In the undercover expose of the real threat to America, white supremacy. Because Christians are going to kill everybody.

[Lane]

And this isn't about whether it's in private life or public life. This isn't about one Indian family moving into the neighborhood. Because if they do, eventually they get subsumed into the American culture. And they are just like you.

[Gerald]

They really are.

[Lane]

There's no discernible difference. Like, look at a family like Dinesh d'. Souza. No one has a problem with him for being Indian because he had. He by all means has adopted America in every way that you possibly can.

[Gerald]

Yeah.

[Lane]

Same in government. If there happens to be one Indian representative from, or one, you know, Cambodian representative, Japanese from any district, it's not a big deal. It's when you start building on that and refusing to assimilate and adopt the cultural values that you, you should be subsuming or should be absorbing. You're subsuming that culture into your own and taking it over. Because whether it is overt or covert or for whatever reason, it is happening. And if you go out to certain neighborhoods in Texas or Michigan, you just don't feel like you're in America.

[Gerald]

Right.

[Lane]

And now you. And now you have people in government that are going to actively facilitate that, because that's just the tribalistic nature of how humans operate. So. So whether it is their meaning to do it or whether it's happening as a byproduct, it is happening and it's destructive for the American fabric as a whole.

[Gerald]

And I don't want this idea to be co opted and taken over by actual racists and white supremacists because they will. They're gonna use this Mexican white supremacy. Yeah, well, it's the black face of white supremacy. I understand it's a little bit hard to follow here, but I mean, that

[Josh Fierstein]

is a good point. Especially in a place like Texas where a lot of these cities are. Where people are different. In Texas, Yeah. White, black, Hispanic, even Asian. You've been here for a while. They have a Texan culture.

[Lane]

Yep.

[Gerald]

Yeah.

[Josh Fierstein]

And you become Texan Indian, is not it?

[Gerald]

No, no, no. And I have Indian clients. Very different. In the business, the wine business that you guys know that I've run. I've had Indian clients that I loved. I had Indian roommate or not roommates. Right down the hall in the dorm. Friends of mine, I grew up with a lot of Indian kids around me. Not 30 or 40 or 50%, maybe 5 or 10%, but they were good friends. Sure, because they were Americans. There was never any question about the fact that they were Americans and loved being here, even if their father and mother came over. And they are the first real generation of born citizens here in the United. They loved being American. There was never a question.

[Lane]

You have to keep a baseline percentage of the native population for America that is white, European. So when people come in from other

[Gerald]

cultures, you become that.

[Lane]

They're forced to become that. Once that starts getting diluted more and more, you lose the entire identity of what the country was in the first place.

[Josh Fierstein]

Right.

[Gerald]

And the representatives that we have, the judges that we have, the people that are going and making and interpreting our laws, should be steeped in Americana. They should understand what it is to be an American, not come from a country, even if they fled that country for some good reason, and then keep that kind of love for some of the things that they brought over here or not have an understanding of it at the very least. This is not unreasonable. This is the same standard as the President and the vice president. Why is it so hard for us to see that that probably is a good idea to expand a little bit and do it through a constitutional amendment, do it through the right process.

[Josh Fierstein]

You're right. It's not unreasonable. But what the left will do is they'll use the example. They'll go. They'll go. Well, you just don't. You don't want an immigrant who came here as a child and adapted to American culture and just didn't have anything, and now they're in Congress. Isn't that a great. Isn't that a great American story, the American dream? Like that's.

[Lane]

Yeah.

[Josh Fierstein]

No, first of all, second of all, we're also talking about the billionaire, right, who moved here from India, the cartoonish billionaire, Sri Tanadar, who moved here and then got into a position of government in a state, in a city that is run by people just like him, with the interest just like him that have nothing to do with us.

[Gerald]

Yeah. I don't want little India. I don't want little Islamabad. I don't want any of those Littles anywhere in this country. Yeah, exactly.

[Josh Fierstein]

Islamabad doesn't want Islamabad.

[Gerald]

No, they tell you, I don't want any of that. I want America. I want America. I think this is a really good idea for us to start talking about as a country and understand, this isn't about racism. This isn't about white supremacy. This isn't about any of that stuff. It is that this is happening. And in a lot of cases, this is a strategy that they are using to be able to come in and get exactly what they want in this country. We finally have to wake up and make sure that we take this threat seriously, for example, and then I'll move on. Would you let communists just move in and do this? You think that'd be a good idea? How about you got some socialists, they all band together, they start living in the same place and they just develop this socialist. We would all go like, no, no, no, that's not American. What are we doing? You're starting to see that right now. You wouldn't do that.

[Josh Fierstein]

Honestly, if a group of socialists or a group of communists started their own little community, Montana or Dakota, by themselves, they'd all die. They'd all be dead within a year.

[Gerald]

That's why they come into places that are already successful and try to take those over so they can live off of the success.

[Josh Fierstein]

You have to seize the means of production because you cannot make the means of production.

[Gerald]

Yeah, I like it. All right, but listen, foreign or not, I'm gonna nail this. Practice this in the mirror. Foreigner or not, everyone can benefit from keeping their crypto secure here.

[Josh Fierstein]

Yes, Gerald, they got me.

[Gerald]

What?

[Josh Fierstein]

My crypto. Somebody hacked me and I lost everything.

[Gerald]

Was it in a Rumble Wallet?

[Josh Fierstein]

No. Sorry for your loss. That's it. I'm freaking out here, Gerald. You give me a card, it's worth any money.

[Gerald]

Listen, I wish I could help you, man. That's why you use a Rumble Wallet. It's secure, end to end encryption. You can bypass all the big banks and dive into crypto safely and easily. Use the Rumble Wallet.

[Josh Fierstein]

Sounds pretty cool, actually. Yeah, that's great living, great information for me to have two hours ago. Thanks, Gerald. What am I supposed to tell my wife now?

[Gerald]

Don't worry. Got you covered there, too.

[Josh Fierstein]

Deepest sympathies. You know, you're such an arrogant prick. Just a smuggler. I'm keeping it, though.

[Gerald]

Hey, Josh, stolen scripto. Seriously? Download the Rumble Wallet and step away from big banks for good. Go to wallet.rumble.com today and you can also support your favorite creators. Step away from big banks.

[Lane]

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[Gerald]

Click the link in the description. Don't go to that wallet.rumble.com thing. Just click the link in the description so they know it came from us.

[Lane]

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[Gerald]

Do it now. Okay.

[Josh Fierstein]

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[Gerald]

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[Josh Fierstein]

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[Gerald]

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[Lane]

I can handle her it.

[Gerald]

So that's a no from Lane.

[Josh Fierstein]

I got it.

[Gerald]

Fantastic. Here, I'll get some of it. Women are at it in Hollywood again. And that brings us to our entertainment minute. You guys know Chelsea Handler, right? Don't say who. Handler complaining about jokes told by Shane Gillis and Tony Hinchcliffe at at Kevin Hart's recent roast.

[Guest Commentator]

Now, I knew enough about like Tony Hinchcliffe and Shane and their backgrounds. I had girls ex girlfriends blowing up my DMs that had dated Shane and were telling me stuff about him.

[Gerald]

So reliable sources.

[Guest Commentator]

I was like, oh, these guys are pretty bad. It's just everything we know, that they're racist, that they're bigots, that they're sexist, you know, that they think they're like invincible.

[Gerald]

The invincibility thing is like, really, they think they're invincible. What do you mean? Like there's like thanos or something like that before the final episode. Like, yes. That's your biggest gripe.

[Josh Fierstein]

She's mad because she can't ruin their lives. Yeah, like, it's ridiculous. Like I'm trying to ruin their lives and they think they're invincible.

[Gerald]

It's funny.

[Lane]

Canceled for an Asian joke.

[Gerald]

That's right.

[Lane]

We all forget this.

[Gerald]

We. I think we all do forget this. By the way, I love how she's like, yeah, they're all dish. They both ended up blowing up my DMs. Really? What new information did they tell you? No new information at all. It's everything we already knew. Well then what are you talking about, well, they're racist. They're this. It's like, okay, if that's already public information, why is it important that they were doing that? It's not. That's the whole point. She's a very self important person. But she also did happen to go off and look, whether you like roasts or not, whatever, you know what you're getting at a roast by these guys. Okay. But she went off on two specific jokes.

[Hayley]

I mean, did you like this they

[Gerald]

were saying up there at all?

[Guest Commentator]

Like, I mean, it was ick. It was gross. I don't find those jokes to be funny. Jokes about lynching black people. That's worse than rape. Like, you're not joking about rape, are you?

[Josh Fierstein]

Joke is saying some people rape you.

[Guest Commentator]

You know, you can't do that, but you can say lynching. But there was so much disgustingness that I knew it was going to be such a, like, gross vibe that I would be able to elevate it. And Kevin didn't deserve that. He deserved, like an elevated roast.

[Gerald]

So let me. Because it's short, she's roasting Kevin. So, Josh, tell me how a roast works. If you're gonna roast, say me, wouldn't you have to talk to, you know, me about said roast and say, hey, we'd like to roast you. Would you like to, you know, participate in something like that? Wouldn't that. I mean, you invite them to it at the very least. Yeah.

[Josh Fierstein]

If I'm gonna advertise it as a roast on television, if I was just gonna come talk shit, then I would

[Gerald]

ask you just come roast me. But that's not what they do.

[Josh Fierstein]

I just come in there and go, hey, Gerald, your head looks like a giant.

[Gerald]

I don't need you to roast me. Why? Why are you roasting me now? No, no, that's not a. Keep going. That's a. Let's move on. Kevin Hart was a part. Like, he knew.

[Josh Fierstein]

Yeah.

[Gerald]

What was coming.

[Josh Fierstein]

Yeah. Paid for it.

[Gerald]

He deserved an elevated roast. Then he should have picked different people.

[Josh Fierstein]

You know, this is Kevin Hart and Shane Gillis started comedy together.

[Gerald]

Yeah.

[Josh Fierstein]

They've known each other for years and years and years.

[Lane]

Yeah.

[Josh Fierstein]

He's gonna be there and he's gonna say racist jokes to his black friend.

[Gerald]

Yes, of course. That's what's going to happen.

[Hayley]

Yeah.

[Josh Fierstein]

Don't go to the roast, Chelsea.

[Gerald]

Don't go to the roast. Maybe you're the problem, Chelsea. But she did have to make an important concession.

[Hayley]

When you see black people laughing at that, does it make you go all right, whatever.

[Josh Fierstein]

Or do you think to yourself, what

[Gerald]

the are they laughing at that for?

[Guest Commentator]

I mean, I'm not here to tell black people what's funny about black jokes. Like, no, I'm not here in the world to do that. Like, I know enough to just. That's my opinion. Black people are allowed to do whatever they want. If Kevin thinks that's funny, he thinks that's funny. I don't think it's funny.

[Gerald]

Black people are allowed to do whatever they want. I'm not here to tell black people what's funny. I'm here to tell everybody else what's funny. But black people, gosh, I don't want to get canceled in this industry. So, my God, they can do whatever they want. Seriously, I don't understand that. It doesn't make any sense to me. No else doesn't understand it. Gillis, he responded to her complaints saying, this is a big moment for Chelsea. Glad she's capitalizing. Good for her. We are all rooting for her. Anyway, come see me July 17th at the Football stadium in Philly. I think she's playing in Schenectady.

[Josh Fierstein]

I don't think she's playing anywhere.

[Gerald]

I know.

[Lane]

Didn't you make the point that you can't joke about rape?

[Gerald]

But she said people don't joke about rape. And I'm like, they kind of do. They kind of do.

[Lane]

Aziz Ansari's bit about walking with dinosaurs and rape is one of the greatest bits I've ever heard. It's.

[Gerald]

Yeah, there's not a whole lot of funny bits about lynching. But if you got a black friend, I mean, who else are you going to try the material out on? Right? Am I right?

[Josh Fierstein]

I mean, it's a roast. It's supposed to be. Of course it's supposed to be appalling. It's supposed to make you go, oh, my God, I can't believe he said that.

[Gerald]

And more like that, Josh, like you

[Josh Fierstein]

pointed out, if they. If Gillis and Kevin Hart grew up doing comedy together, I'm sure this is the first time.

[Gerald]

Yeah.

[Josh Fierstein]

That Kevin Hart's ever heard him do a racist joke. Right. Yeah, he's known. If I don't. I think Kevin started before him, I'm pretty sure. But, yeah, They've known each other for years in Philadelphia, and it's like, they.

[Lane]

They.

[Josh Fierstein]

Whatever. I could go on.

[Lane]

Yeah.

[Josh Fierstein]

It's like, yeah. Criticizing comedy, but it's also that this is ridiculous.

[Gerald]

Yeah. Can we just not listen to Chelsea. Chelsea Handler anymore?

[Lane]

Is there a financial incentive for people like Chelsea Handler in this, you know, feign outrage at everything crowd.

[Gerald]

Yes, of course.

[Josh Fierstein]

I don't know, actually, because she. Yeah, she kind of made her bread already. Like, she had a very successful show, Chelsea Lately, which, which featured only a few black comedians over the, I think 10 year span. Even though she told the other comedians that, like Tony Hinchcliffe, who's launched many black comedians, that they don't like black people. People. But she's already made her bread and I think that she doesn't have anything in the works. I. I don't know if she's touring. I don't think she's doing anything.

[Gerald]

I think this is how you try to stay relevant. Well, she is touring.

[Josh Fierstein]

Is she touring? All she's doing is complaining and being a. Ah.

[Gerald]

In that order horizontally. I mean, you know, and whatever. We do have that shirt, the Louder Crowder shirt. Don't be a. Yeah, but we did.

[Josh Fierstein]

We cover last week and she's just being a.

[Gerald]

A little bit.

[Irish]

Bit.

[Josh Fierstein]

Yeah. Okay.

[Gerald]

A little bit.

[Josh Fierstein]

Yeah. She likes to have a lot of sex.

[Gerald]

They all get confused. But anyway, nobody needs to be listening to this person. Hopefully she'll just go away. Somebody who won't. Millie Alcock.

[Josh Fierstein]

I'm sorry, what?

[Lane]

How many of them say that one more time?

[Gerald]

Just some of them. Or Millie Alcock. I don't know. It's a L, last word. A L, C, O, C, K. Millie.

[Lane]

A million. Alcock.

[Gerald]

I don't make up the names. Okay. You may remember Millie not saying the last name again. She complained about the backlash she faced while playing Supergirl in the upcoming movie, and she told this to Vanity Fair in March. It definitely made me aware that simply existing as a woman in that space is something that people comment on. We have become very comfortable having the weird. This weird ownership of women's bodies. She says, I can't really stop them. I can only be myself. Well, you're Supergirl. You're supposed to be able to stop a lot of stuff, but I guess not. But she actually did another interview and she told Variety about her previous comments, the one that we covered when they were made, the one I just read to you. I didn't even say men. I said people. And they got so angry. I was like, you're proving my point. You're proving my point. Well, she's back claim complaining this time about her critics because the people that didn't like what she said or thought it was stupid or thought it was distracting from the fact that you're supposed to be promoting a movie, not complaining about the fact that people act weird in some kind of space that is constantly dominated by men because it's superheroes. But it is also the one place that we're like, yeah, if a woman has superpowers, that's awesome. I can go with this. Let's see what happens. Here's what she said. I guess women know that this is just how it's always been, unfortunately. And it's from a lot of people whose profiles have no photo, who are burner accounts or someone's name. And then dad of four, Christian, which is hilarious to me. Me. But I mean, whose opinion do you really care about? If you're pissing the right kind of people off, you're doing okay. Look, we don't care if you're a girl playing a girl character. That's fantastic. It's what we want. Just stop with the yapping. But luckily, there's a solution. Is that. Is the tape, like, made out of kryptonite? Oh, that's okay. Yeah, I guess.

[Josh Fierstein]

Well, I think killer, actually.

[Gerald]

I just weakened.

[Lane]

You want to kill her?

[Gerald]

No, no. He said it would if it was kryptonite.

[Josh Fierstein]

And you're like, christian, dad over here.

[Gerald]

Yeah, that does sound like my profile. Come to think of it, you have

[Josh Fierstein]

a picture on your profile, which I do.

[Gerald]

Yeah. I don't have that.

[Lane]

Talking about, like, the Twitter eggs. No, it's people like this show. It's nerd rock. It's critical drinker people with millions and millions of viewers that actually have sway over people going to see these shitty movies. And they're like, oh, I don't understand why these people don't just shut up and promote their movie. It would be so easy. Look, it's fun to play Supergirl. I hope you come out and watch it. It'll be a lot of fun.

[Hayley]

Done.

[Josh Fierstein]

That's it.

[Gerald]

Just shut up. You could just.

[Lane]

You could double the revenue just by doing that.

[Josh Fierstein]

I think they're trying to get the sympathy.

[Gerald]

It hasn't worked for five. Who from? I'm sorry, from who? Not for.

[Josh Fierstein]

I don't know. We weren't going to see it anyway. I mean, I might see it.

[Gerald]

I mean, it's one of those movies that if it's on, I might watch, I'm not going to the theater to see it. I doubt that I'll even look for it. But if it's. If it's on and I'm like, oh, I haven't seen that. Because sometimes you run through all kind of the new movies that have come out and you're like, I haven't seen this one. Well, let me go back to her comment. But, I mean, whose opinion do you really care about? I don't know. Apparently you care about a lot of these opinions because you've made these comments. If these opinions didn't matter to you, if it truly didn't matter to you, you don't see a guy going around as much going, I don't really care about these opinions. What you see is him putting his head down and doing his work. And when he does and he complains like this, we call him to the carpet, too. This is not about being a woman. This is about doing something that is counterproductive. And we've seen it over and over and over again in Hollywood, coming out, making these claims, saying stuff that isn't true, complaining, whining, trying to change stuff around. The Snow White drama that we found out about, and the movie tanked after that. It was one of the oldest classics that Disney had, and you couldn't make it good because the lead didn't want to just close her mouth or promote the movie if she was gonna open it. That's the kind of stuff that pisses us off.

[Lane]

Whose opinion do you care about? The audience?

[Gerald]

Yes. The people that pay your salary. Do you think it just happens to

[Lane]

live the life that you do?

[Gerald]

Yeah, absolutely. And remember, she should remember. Sorry. That superhero movies are no longer guaranteed blockbusters. It used to be if you got cast in one of those, it was a golden ticket. You were gonna be a part of a very successful movie, even a franchise. Go back to Wonder Woman 1984. In 2020, it lost $100 million. Some say that's a lot. The Marvels in 2023 lost $237 million. The Flash in 2023 lost $200 million. Joker, Foley, Ado 2024 lost 150 to $200 million. We're not sure yet. The losses keep growing. Superman 2025, Superman man lost $42 million.

[Lane]

And that was a critically acclaimed movie.

[Josh Fierstein]

Everyone's like, this is awesome.

[Lane]

And still. Because the fatigue on these, on the genre and the people in the genre is so over.

[Josh Fierstein]

One thing we're overlooking here is that four out of five of those were DC movies.

[Gerald]

Oh, we're not overlooking that.

[Josh Fierstein]

Okay.

[Gerald]

Yeah,

[Josh Fierstein]

they weren't Marvel. One of them was a Marvel movie.

[Gerald]

I was just gonna let that.

[Josh Fierstein]

The DC movies kind of suck.

[Lane]

But what Marvel's better Marvel movie that's made money that.

[Gerald]

I don't know.

[Lane]

It's budget. I would Be surprised to know, or I would be curious to know, because I don't think.

[Gerald]

I don't even know what the last Marvel movie was.

[Josh Fierstein]

Might have been. Thunderbolt.

[Lane]

Thunderbolts.

[Gerald]

I don't.

[Lane]

Maybe it did.

[Gerald]

No, I don't think they did. I don't know.

[Josh Fierstein]

They did it. They did a. They did a fun little, little thing where they changed the name of it.

[Gerald]

Yeah, yeah.

[Josh Fierstein]

A little promo where they called Thunderbolts and they've got

[Lane]

care about Florence Pugh and nobody cares about Florence Pugh.

[Josh Fierstein]

Well, I don't know who that is, but exactly. Yeah.

[Gerald]

One of the things we just have to remember is that it is a blessing to be able to get that kind of a role. The sense of entitlement by so many people in Hollywood right now. That's why when Top Gun Maverick came out, it was so refreshing. I think it was at the very beginning of the movie, right before the movie actually started, Tom Cruise came on the screen and thanked the audience for coming to see the movie.

[Josh Fierstein]

Oh, that's cool.

[Gerald]

It was awesome. And then the movie was everything that movies hadn't been for so long. It was pro America. It was fun. There were no, like crazy lgbtq, aip, whatever's trying to be be shoved into this. It didn't make men look stupid. You had dumb guys, you had jocks, you had smart guys, nice guys. You had great characters all the way around. But it was started with a guy coming out and saying, hey, thank you for coming and supporting this movie because he knows the audience pays for it. Nobody else pays for this stuff. You start losing money for long enough and I don't care how much you're trying to use as a write off, eventually it just stops. That's the way that this stuff works.

[Lane]

Thunderbolts lost 50 to $100 million, I think.

[Gerald]

Not surprised at all.

[Josh Fierstein]

Well, I didn't think it was very good.

[Gerald]

Oh, the other.

[Josh Fierstein]

That's the. That's the last one, Fantastic Four. I think that did really well.

[Gerald]

It did. I think it did.

[Josh Fierstein]

And I actually liked it, so I did too.

[Gerald]

I thought it was good. I mean, it could have been better, but I thought it was good. But look, these movies typically have very masculine ideals to them, and that's great. This was something for guys, mostly guys. Now there's. There's certain female characters, mostly because guys wanted to watch, you know, female characters. Don't talk to Steven about the she Hulk card in the 1991 Marvel Series 2 set. It's a little bit of a sore subject when he gets back, but nonetheless, it had some female characters. It had some male characters, but it was a very masculine idea and they have very uninformed takes that should just go away in Hollywood and in performance. Just stop. Nobody likes this. Who's keeping this alive? Is it us reporting on it? If so, sorry. Hopefully, though, this is telling people, like, hey, we just don't want to see that anymore. And I'm not going to pay to go see their movies or the shows or tune into the stuff that they're on. I just would rather focus on other stuff. Hopefully that is what you do. Before we move to the next story and get Tim. Sorry, not Tim. Talking about Tim Dillon. You're Tim. You're another Tim. You're not Tim Dillon and you hate Tim Dillon. Not that Tim.

[Josh Fierstein]

I don't like this Tim.

[Gerald]

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[Josh Fierstein]

I do.

[Gerald]

Is that okay? I don't know where to go from there. Yeah, yeah, I do. Just. Just admit it. All right, so final ish segment of the day. There's a lot of propaganda right now and we're not really sure sometimes what's paid propaganda, what's just coincidental propaganda, or what is somebody's just normal opinion about a situation, a country, a proposal from the United States on what it should do domestically, internationally. Sometimes it just seems like these things start popping up in weird places. And when you see it pop up in the future, one place that you hadn't seen it before, it makes you kind of stop for a second, go, wait a minute. Why is that happening? Okay, maybe people get new information, maybe they change their minds, maybe they have a little bit of an epiphany on something and they start moving a different direction. But then you start seeing the same nonsensical points being made by other people, and then you start seeing those nonsensical points all pointing in one direction. And it's always the United States bad or United States done or United States cooked. United States can't win a war and they start getting picked up by foreign media and run in those very countries that are our adversaries. And you really start to wonder where this is all coming from. Is this paid? Is this organic? I don't know. Some of this seems very much like it is paid, that it's not organic. I don't have receipts, so I'm not going to say it. But it does strike me as odd. There's all kinds of propaganda. Whether you're paid or not. It doesn't mean that they aren't happy to use you, the audience, wittingly or unwittingly to accomplish their goals.

[Josh Fierstein]

And what American is this helping

[Hayley]

besides the war, the industrial war complex?

[Gerald]

That's what our president's up to.

[Hayley]

And it's baffling and it's sick and it feels like he's just been compromised by Israel, by this dark government over there.

[Gerald]

They're not trying to create a crisis that will affect the whole of the trading system of the world because China depends, you know, on trade and it doesn't want to break the system.

[Josh Fierstein]

Armen.

[Gerald]

So the Islamic regime right now is literally, literally broadcasting Tucker Carlson interviews in, in Persian on their 24 hour news channel.

[Hayley]

Just thinking about, can you imagine President Xi coming to America and being horrified at the state of our children. First of all, all these kids sound like. Kids are like, yay, yay. Our children would be like, hell yeah. The sound that our children would make are over medicated little piglets

[Gerald]

like Tim Dillon. Hey, Tim, do me a favor, can we go to the camera? Maybe that would show a gun to the head of the parents of these kids if they stopped jumping or something equivalent. This is something you see straight out of North Korea. And by the way, kids jumping up and down.

[Irish]

Hey, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Gerald]

They were told to do that. They were told to do that. Don't you understand that you can tell kids to do stuff and they'll do it and you can find a bunch of kids to be able to go out there and look good and jump up and down.

[Lane]

They're also waving American flags.

[Gerald]

Yeah.

[Lane]

They are generally banned in most facets of public life usually. So the. We'll get into it.

[Gerald]

Can we click that, by the way?

[Josh Fierstein]

What he said, make kids look good.

[Gerald]

No. Why would you do that?

[Josh Fierstein]

No reason.

[Gerald]

And listen, I understand that Tim Dillon is a comedian. That's Fanta. We're comedians. I'm not a comedian, but this is a comedy show that has a lot of stuff that is very serious. And when we transition into the series, you know it and you hold us to account for it. We put our references on the website every single show, so you can go and check out if what we are saying is true. So we understand how to go back and forth. But when comedians start talking geopolitics in a way that is not really obviously comedy, you start to go, wait a minute. Is this person trying to get across a serious point now? And has veered away from comedy and is now using comedy as a tool within this larger picture? That's what's happening with Tim Dillon, which is why it's fair game for us to criticize his opinions about the world, because they're moronic. He argued that America can't survive an open competition with China.

[Hayley]

People are basically saying that the inevitable reality is that we will be in a conflict with China. We will not survive it. We probably won't win, by the way. And if we win, what does that even look like?

[Gerald]

What do you mean, what does it look like?

[Hayley]

Deal with it. This whole idea that we're against China or anti China is itself a lie. That. I mean, the Steve Bannon people will talk about how dangerous the CCP is, and they might be right. There's no option. We have no option. We have no option. There is no option to start telling China what to do. That's not gonna work. We can't beat Iran.

[Gerald]

So we won't survive. We won't win. And if we win, what does that even look like? What do you mean, what does it look like? What does winning always look like? And we won't. We won't even be able to win. You don't think. And why is that? Oh, because we can't beat Iran. Do you understand what's happening in Iran? Right. Right now, Iran is getting the minimum capabilities of the United States in a lot of ways. You don't think that we could overnight go into that country and start changing things very quickly? Do you want to see the 82nd Airborne deploy over there and have boots on the ground? We're trying not to do that. We're trying not to put all of our eggs into that basket. But do you think if we focus the full brunt and might of the American military on Iran, that they could stand up against us? It wouldn't come without a cost. But do you think they would win? Do you think we really can't beat Iran? Well, that's your jumping off point for everything else. We can't even beat Iran. So all of this other stuff and then you compare China to America going completely off the rails.

[Hayley]

We're not telling China to fuck off. We're done with that. Let me help everybody. We're done with that. We're not the high school bully anymore. We're not. We're the weird kid who may have a gun. We are not the high school bully anymore. We're the weird kid that may have a gun and is not hot, but it's not terribly ugly like you might them. That's who we are. We're the weird kid that knows how to get drugs who may have a gun. And you could see yourself. We're not the bully. We are not the jock. We are not the quarterback. The American quarterback century is over. This is not Top Gun. We are not Tom Cruise. You need to wake the up. There's a new Chinese kid in school and he's kind of American looking, he's kind of ripped, but he's also Chinese and he's hot. And people want to him. You know why? Because we've hung out behind the Dairy Queen too long doing drugs with our friends. We look a little older. We have wrinkles in our face with a college kid who keeps going to the high school parties. We're a pedophile and we may have a gun.

[Josh Fierstein]

Like projection.

[Hayley]

This country is a pedophile that may have a gun who knows how to get drugs and you have to deal with that person. But there's a new kid on the block, and yes, he put a bunch of Muslims in a concentration camp, but no one gives a shit because he's got that beautiful, clear, light complexion and he knows all the answers in math class and he's who everybody wants to hang out with right now.

[Gerald]

Does that seem to make sense to you? That they're the cool kids on the block? Lane, you brought this clip to my attention. Unfortunately, you've been watching a little bit more of Tim Dillon than I have.

[Lane]

Yeah, well, I. Before. Before we get into that, I wanted to back up to the last clip because I think we skimmed over the part where he said that we can't tell China what to do, that we're not actually against the ccp. That where, you know, some. We have this like a. I don't know, what's the relationship where the bird eats off the hippo and they both symbiotic.

[Gerald]

Yeah.

[Lane]

What he fails to mention there is everything they do is based in their competition with us.

[Gerald]

Yeah.

[Lane]

Every single decision that they make is based on how.

[Gerald]

What is that? What is that like, for the ccp? Isn't there a name for it? Like, where they. They not just hedge money or anything like that, but they're, like, the center of. And everybody else just kind of revolves around them.

[Lane]

Sorry, I lost my train of thought

[Gerald]

a little bit there. I kind of screwed you up. My bad.

[Josh Fierstein]

That's okay. I'll fix it.

[Gerald]

No, you can't admonish me. It's not my fault you screwed up Lane's train of thought. Well, no. So what you're saying is it's always looked at through the lens of competition with the United States. States. Right. It's not like they're just over there doing their thing and they're completely happy to do so and leave us out of it.

[Josh Fierstein]

Yes.

[Lane]

So in that first clip, what he is saying is that we are not actually against them. We need to work with them. We have no other choice. Do you think that unabated China would be doing what they are today, or do you think they would have already moved on Taiwan? Do you think they would have taken over the whole South China Sea? Do you think they would have stopped unfettered trade to us through the Pacific? Yes, they would have done all of these things. So clearly, we have a leveraged position over them, or they're leveraging it where we can actually dictate what they do. So it's very stupid to make that claim on its face. Second off, like we. Like you were mentioning, China sees itself as the center of the. The center of the world. Right. The Middle Kingdom. Jungkook.

[Gerald]

Middle Kingdom. That's what I tried to. Yeah, right.

[Lane]

Jung, the Middle. That's literally what that symbol means in their country. So what they do, every decision they make is how they can gain leverage or how they can gain market share or how they can gain advantage vis a vis the United States.

[Gerald]

Yeah.

[Lane]

So the idea that we just need to come to the table with them and things will be all right is just asinine on its face. But I don't think he really thinks about any of this. I think he's on TikTok or he's listening to whatever information he's in, taking all the time. I really don't know where they get this position from.

[Gerald]

Yeah.

[Lane]

I'm curious to know how they've developed this position or why they're so comfortable in exposing or expositing on this position when they have no idea what they're talking about.

[Gerald]

I mean, it's the same kind of position that Tucker Carlson has right now. And it's evolved.

[Josh Fierstein]

It's exactly.

[Lane]

It's Tucker's position exactly.

[Gerald]

Yeah. And that's one of the reasons I was so surprised by this, because I'm like, I think Tucker's kind of going off the rails quite a bit. And we can see that. And that doesn't mean you disagree with everything that he says. It just. He provides no evidence for anything that he says. I've never seen him cite any sources that he's done a good job of showing to his audience and making sure that they can see it. He just says. And that's a fact. It's just a fact that China is bigger than us right now and that we couldn't take it. So I'm not surprised that people like Tim Dillon are picking that up and running with. With it. But they have no basis for what they're actually saying. They're just thinking it. They're vibing it all, and it's totally fine. And just trust me, bro, it's there. We don't ask you to trust us. So let's go through a little bit of claim truth, and you can kind of jump in as necessary here to illuminate some of the points. So first claim is China is the cool kid. Here's the truth. Not so much. Not really. A little bit. That's not the cool kid. Nobody calls a cool kid that name. Youth unemployment. Right now, the official number that they're giving US is 16.3%. The estimated real number is 40%, compared to the United States of 9.5%. Lane, do they always give us the accurate numbers to tell us what's going on in the country? No.

[Lane]

And for a couple years, they stopped reporting the statistic altogether. So I figure out how to change the definition so they didn't have to report actually how many youth were unemployed. They just stopped giving a figure on it for about a year and a half, two years.

[Gerald]

Does that make the problem go way? No.

[Lane]

Doesn't it?

[Gerald]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Josh Fierstein]

Remember when China had zero cases of COVID for, like, six months?

[Gerald]

Yeah. Like what? They didn't die of COVID We shot them before they could die of COVID Problem solved.

[Lane]

We preface this with not saying. Everything in America is going swimmingly and we can't improve that. Our economy's. That's not what we're doing. You can criticize and be critical of America when appropriate. That's part of being an American. That's part of the First Amendment. And you should Exercise that. Right. But to do so by propping up our foreign adversary at the United States expense is very strange. Especially when there's plenty of other countries you could pick from to look towards for good examples. So it strikes me as nefarious, if not just dim witted.

[Gerald]

Yeah, absolutely.

[Guest Commentator]

Well.

[Gerald]

And young Chinese are so dejected in China. You think the problem's bad here. And it is. They have started lying flat, let it rot and rat people movements.

[Chinese Social Media User]

You know when your friend says he's taking a gap year to learn stock trading and lock in in to become a millionaire, Saying that this is their year, but ends up doing absolutely nothing and procrastinating the entire. Well, if you thought that was bad, this trend on Douyin pretty much just accepts all of that last part. And no, it's not about actual rats on the subways of New York. This is people in China calling themselves rats in the most self aware way possible. Wake up at noon, don't leave the bed, only move to order takeout. Spend 10 plus hours doom scrolling in the dark. No sleep, son, no plans, no ambitions, just pure NPC hibernation. Why should I, a person with no mortgage, no car loan, no offspring, work for you or risk my life for you?

[Gerald]

Who's he talking to? Lane?

[Lane]

So when he says the capitalist, he's referring to the Chinese government, the Chinese society. That's a cool kid.

[Gerald]

That's supposed to be the cool kid. Lying flat, staying and doom scrolling for hours and hours and hours and hours every single day.

[Josh Fierstein]

Looks like he has a learning disability.

[Gerald]

He might, I don't know.

[Lane]

But that's not a unique video. You know, there was large groups on Chinese social media that were the rat people, that were the lying flat people. But they get removed because it is not cohesive towards society. So those get wiped from Douyin, they get wiped from WeChat. But you can still find hundreds of thousands of those videos out there. So he is not unique. In that case.

[Gerald]

Well, look, and we've gone just a couple of minutes long, we're going to continue this segment in Rumble Premium. If you are not a member, make sure that you sign up. Sign up today for Rumble Premium. $99 annually. You get this fantastic mug right here with both our logo and Rumble's logo on it. Or $9.99 a month if you just want to give it a try and see if they admonish me more in Rumble Premium or more when we're live and free for everyone out there. It's probably a little bit of both. And Tim takes some liberties. But hey, support us. We thank you for that. If not, we are going to send you on to Hayleya. Did I get it right? Care?

[Lane]

I don't think so.

[Gerald]

Sure, We're gonna send you on to Haley. Okay. And by the way, than.

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