Trump's Hitlist Grows: USAID, Dept. of Education, CIA, and... Gaza?

Summary

Podcast Summary: "Trump's Hitlist Grows: USAID, Dept. of Education, CIA, and... Gaza?"

Louder with Crowder Host: Louder with Crowder
Guests: Gerald Morgan, Josh Firestein, Dave Landau
Release Date: February 5, 2025

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1. Opening Skit and Light Banter [00:07 – 02:18]

The episode begins with Stephen Crowder sharing a satirical story from Dr. Hoffman's book, "Pretty Stories and Funny Pictures," humorously critiquing societal attitudes towards obesity. Gerald Morgan and Josh Firestein join in, setting a light-hearted tone before delving into the episode's main topics.

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2. Eliminating Federal Departments: Education, USAID, and CIA [02:18 – 07:00]

Josh Firestein initiates the discussion by advocating for the defunding and elimination of several federal departments, emphasizing the Department of Education. He states:

"I believe it is a completely irrational and illogically untenable situation to look at our Department of Education and advocate more resources being put into it." [51:14]

The conversation highlights the inefficiency and high costs associated with the Department of Education, USAID, and the CIA. Dave Landau and Gerald Morgan concur, expressing support for reducing federal expenditures and increasing government accountability.

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3. Critique of Congressional Commentary on Elon Musk [05:45 – 09:03]

The hosts turn their attention to recent comments made by congressional members, particularly focusing on Jasmine Crockett's derogatory remarks about Elon Musk's intelligence. Josh Firestein quotes Crockett:

"This dude is probably one of the most unintelligent billionaires I have ever met or seen or witnessed." [07:01]

The panel critiques the disrespectful nature of these statements, arguing that such rhetoric undermines constructive political discourse. They also discuss Crockett's controversial personal actions, linking them to her professional demeanor.

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4. Exposing Child Predators: The Predator Sting [08:51 – 32:35]

A significant segment features an exclusive portrayal of a child predator sting operation. Douglas King Jr., referred to as the "Long Island Predator Poacher," interacts with a fictional predator named Amir, demonstrating how such operations lead to arrests. The hosts emphasize the importance of these stings in protecting children, highlighting their effectiveness and the necessity for vigilant law enforcement.

Douglas King Jr. remarks:

"Abigail. No, no, no. We have your picture. We have your penis picture." [28:46]

The segment serves as both an exposé and a deterrent, showcasing the consequences predators face when caught.

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5. Trump's Middle East Policy and Gaza Occupation Proposal [37:57 – 44:09]

The discussion shifts to President Trump's Middle East policies, specifically his controversial statement regarding Gaza. Donald Trump is quoted proposing:

"The US Will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it, too." [39:09]

The hosts and guests debate the feasibility and implications of U.S. occupation of Gaza. They list potential pros and cons, ultimately expressing skepticism about the plan's viability and the regional instability it could provoke.

Gerald Morgan summarizes his stance:

"This is no way to make a life. You're telling me that some hill over here because people 100 years ago, 500 years ago, lived there that are your relatives and that's why you want to stay there? No, I'm sorry." [45:25]

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6. The War for Oil vs. War on Terror: Historical Context [48:22 – 49:37]

Josh Firestein frames the ongoing conflicts as primarily driven by oil interests rather than genuine security concerns. He asserts:

"It's a war for oil so Dick Cheney can give money to his rich friends." [48:31]

The discussion critiques past U.S. interventions, labeling them as financially motivated rather than ethically driven, and emphasizes the need for transparency in foreign policy decisions.

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7. In-Depth Analysis: Department of Education's Inefficiency [50:00 – 62:56]

A comprehensive critique of the Department of Education is presented through the "Three Key Facts in Three Minutes or Less" segment by Josh Firestein:

1. Creation and Purpose: Established in 1979 under Jimmy Carter, the Department significantly increased federal involvement in education, shifting from a state-centric advisory role to substantial funding responsibilities.

2. Financial Burden: Since its inception, the Department has consumed over $2 trillion (not adjusted for inflation). Firestein highlights inefficiencies, such as:

   • "In 40% of all high schools in Baltimore, there was not one high school student who passed the basic math exam." [60:16]

3. Deteriorating Outcomes: Despite massive funding, standardized test scores in math and reading have plummeted to their lowest since the 1990s and early 2000s, respectively.

Gerald Morgan and Dave Landau concur, arguing that state-level control would better address local educational needs without the bureaucratic overhead.

Josh Firestein concludes:

"People know that our educational system is broken. They know that our health care system is broken." [62:44]

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8. Closing Remarks and Final Thoughts [62:56 – 67:32]

As the episode winds down, the hosts briefly touch upon lighter topics, including the new Jurassic Park trailer, before reiterating their stance on federal inefficiency and the necessity for governmental restructuring. They encourage listeners to engage in discussions and remain informed through additional content available on their platforms.

Stephen Crowder humorously concludes a segment with a cameo from Miller's voice actor:

"This is Dr. Henry Loomis, this is Zora Bennett, our mission specialist." [67:32]

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Key Takeaways:

• Federal Departments: Strong advocacy for defunding the Department of Education, USAID, and the CIA due to inefficiency and high costs.

• Political Discourse: Criticism of disrespectful and non-constructive comments by congressional members toward business leaders like Elon Musk.

• Law Enforcement: Support for sting operations targeting child predators as effective protective measures.

• Foreign Policy: Skepticism towards President Trump's proposal to occupy Gaza, highlighting potential regional instability.

• Education System: Detailed critique of the U.S. Department of Education's effectiveness, urging a return to state-controlled education to better address local needs and reduce federal spending without corresponding educational outcomes.

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Notable Quotes:

• "I believe it is a completely irrational and illogically untenable situation to look at our Department of Education and advocate more resources being put into it."
  Josh Firestein [51:14]

• "This dude is probably one of the most unintelligent billionaires I have ever met or seen or witnessed."
  Jasmine Crockett, quoted by Josh Firestein [07:01]

• "The US Will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it, too."
  Donald Trump [39:09]

• "It's a war for oil so Dick Cheney can give money to his rich friends."
  Josh Firestein [48:31]

• "People know that our educational system is broken. They know that our health care system is broken."
  Josh Firestein [62:44]

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This episode of "Louder with Crowder" provides a critical analysis of federal inefficiencies, particularly within the Department of Education, discusses controversial political statements, and explores significant foreign policy proposals. The panel combines humor with serious discourse, aiming to inform and engage listeners on pressing political and social issues.

Transcript

[Stephen Crowder]

Well, kids, here's another story from Dr. Hoffman's Pretty Stories and Funny Pictures book. This one is the story of Augustus who would not have any soup.

[Gerald Morgan]

Okay.

[Stephen Crowder]

Augustus was a chubby lad. Fat ruddy cheeks. Augustus had. Ooh, that's fat shaming. Well, it gets better. And everybody saw with joy the plump and hearty healthy boy. See, it's not fat shaming after all. He ate and drank as he was told and never let his soup get cold. But one day, one cold winter's day, he screamed out, take the soup away. Oh, take the nasty soup away. I won't have any soup today.

[Josh Firestein]

I don't.

[Stephen Crowder]

Something's wrong with the soup, I guess. Next day. Now, look, the picture shows how lame, thick and lean Augustus Gross. Look, see, this is. This could be marketed.

[Josh Firestein]

Yet.

[Stephen Crowder]

Though he feels so weak and ill, the fellow cries out, still not any soup for me. I say, oh, take the nasty soup away. I won't have any soup today. Now, you know, this is either some really, really horrible soup or a terribly effective, very marketable weight loss. The third day comes. But what a sin to make himself so pale and thin. Yet when the soup is put on the table, he screams as loud as he is able. Not any soup for me. I say, oh, take the nasty soup away. I won't have any soup today. This is just terrible. Look at him now. The fourth day has come. He scarcely weighs a sugar plum. He's like a little bit of thread. And on the fifth day, he was dead. So, gallon of milk a day. You kids remember that? Gallon of milk a day.

[Josh Firestein]

Click Rumble Premium and join now for 99 annually or $9.99 a month to get the entirely ad free experience and exclusive content from Lotto with Crowder, Nick DePaolo, Mr. Guns and Gear, Donald Trump Jr. And an ever expanding roster of content creators. And free speech. It's all right. I am glad to be with you. I just got to tell you, today we're going to be talking about defunding, killing, if you will. The Department of Education. Yes, I'm pro that we're going to be talking about the art of the deal as it relates to Gaza. A little iffy. The US Aid fallout is continuing. This man is delivering on his promises. But I'm excited about something here. This is an exclusive to us, and I say this without a hint of hyperbole. It is the best child predator sexual criminal sting of all time. You couldn't sketch it out funnier than this. And it has a happy ending. Okay, just to be clear, I couldn't stop. I couldn't breathe this morning. So I guarantee you, at some point during that segment, the people out there undercover, they're doing the Lord's work. You will see if you're watching on YouTube this. Head on over to Rumble. It's a live show, weekdays, 10am Eastern. And by the way, some people are saying on the app, the Rumble content is locked. No, it is not. All the free content is still free, just like on YouTube. Download the app. It's the easiest way to stay in touch. You get notifications every time. We are live. Let me ask you this question of the day. What would you cut in the federal government? Like, what would be next for you? What would you get rid of? What would you axe? What would you give the boot? I say everything. Captain Morgan, CEO, how are you?

[Gerald Morgan]

Good. How are you?

[Josh Firestein]

Good. And Josh Firestein, you are here, sir. I am here in Spokane, Washington, comedy clubs.

[Dave Landau]

That's this weekend? Friday and Saturday.

[Josh Firestein]

This weekend, four shows.

[Dave Landau]

Come on.

[Josh Firestein]

You guys saw the Predator Sting, right?

[Gerald Morgan]

Yes.

[Dave Landau]

Has nothing to do with my show.

[Josh Firestein]

Was it.

[Gerald Morgan]

It was awesome.

[Josh Firestein]

Am I overselling it?

[Dave Landau]

No, no. It's funny.

[Gerald Morgan]

It really is.

[Dave Landau]

Yeah. I thought it was fake at first.

[Josh Firestein]

Okay, a little teaser. The phrase. Actually. This phrase actually takes place. I wasn't gonna do nothing. I was just gonna tell her, like, to stay in school and stuff.

[Dave Landau]

Stop smoking cigarettes.

[Josh Firestein]

Yeah, yeah. Drink milk, don't play with blasting caps, you know? Good.

[Dave Landau]

So drink milk, don't end up on.

[Josh Firestein]

The side of one. Yes, yes, it is.

[Gerald Morgan]

Just.

[Josh Firestein]

I'm looking forward to presenting this. And it's all supported by viewers like you. Thank you, Muck Club Rumble Premium. Okay, so the two dumbest broads in Congress, they were doing what dumb broads do the last couple of days. So it's time for the most recent installment of who did it Worse. All right, first up is the broads. Lindsey Graham or just the voice of Kennedy. Well, he's Senator.

[Dave Landau]

I like Kennedy.

[Josh Firestein]

I like omelets and I like sex.

[Dave Landau]

Who doesn't?

[Josh Firestein]

Dude, what are you talking about? Yeah, break a few eggs for six for omelets? I don't know. He's just. He's. I like him. He's just has a lady Lane voice. All right, and we're talking these broads. AOC Cortez, to the uninitiated, not the Kunki Store. No, dumb broad. She had these comments or thoughts that turned into semi comments on wealthiest man ever, Elon Musk.

[Kennedy]

This dude is probably one of the most unintelligent billionaires I have ever met or seen or witnessed.

[Josh Firestein]

Which, you know.

[Kennedy]

You can probably even glean that from watching these people on tv. Anyways, all of that is to say is that they don't do their homework. Clearly. Like they're putting 19 year olds in at the Treasury. This dude is not smart. And, and the danger in not in the lack of intelligence and the lack of expertise that Elon has. I mean this guy is one of the most morally vacant but also.

[Josh Firestein]

Just.

[Kennedy]

Knowledgeable about these systems.

[Josh Firestein]

Thank you for the six second pause.

[Kennedy]

We really know of ignorance of words, but the point is, is that what that means is that they're going to hit a button. Inevitably they are going to hit a button and things can go sideways.

[Josh Firestein]

Are they going to hit a button?

[Dave Landau]

It's very important to hit a button.

[Josh Firestein]

How about you ask me a question about how unintelligent he is? So next up will be Jasmine Crockett, but she is questioning the intellect of Elon Musk. Look, he may be on the spectrum like many geniuses as far as social skills. There's a lot on which I disagree with Elon Musk. But it's really hard when you're making the case that someone is an idiot if you're. It's hard if you're making the case sounding like an idiot. Yeah, that makes it exceedingly difficult. And just to prove my point, I've transcribed it. So this is. She says this dude is probably one of the most unintelligent billionaires I have ever met, seen or witnessed. Ha ha ha. Which, you know, you can probably even glean that from watching these people on tv. What. Anyways, all of that is to say is that they don't do their homework, clearly. Like they're putting 19 year olds in at the Treasury. This dude is not smart. And, and the danger in. Not in the lack of intelligence and the lack of expertise and that Elon has. This is not right for me to do because you shouldn't pick on someone who's functionally retarded.

[Dave Landau]

Which I think she's doing.

[Josh Firestein]

She is. She. Look, yeah, there are people I disagree with who are smart. She is not one of them. And Ilhan Omar banged her brother. Let's go to Jasmine Crockett in.

[Dave Landau]

At their wedding.

[Josh Firestein]

Yes, exactly. For a visa. You know, she's looking out for the interests of Somalia, which I think she. We should go back. Comment below if you disagree. Jasmine Crockett, she went on CNN to spew this racist diatribe and I just. She's one of those women Who? You have no idea what she looks like when she's not playing professional dress up. I mean the caked on layers of lead paint and the corset. She goes home, she doesn't change into sweats, she pulls a ripcord just here. She is being racist.

[Ilhan Omar]

The coddling is for the white boys. That's what's happening right now. I am tired of the white tears. Listen, if you are competent, you are not concerned when I walk into Congress every single day. You know why I don't feel away and why you can't make me doubt who I am is because I know that I had to work 10 times as hard as they get into the seat. When you look and you compare me to Marjorie Taylor Greene or me to Lauren Boebert, there is no comparison. And that is the life that we have always lived. So the only people that are crying are the mediocre white boys that have been beaten out by people that historically have had to work so, so much harder. This is why they don't want us to have education.

[Josh Firestein]

Well, I know it's hard to see through your lenses of racism and you're so nearsighted. Maybe those mediocre white boys didn't grow up in the lap of privilege like going to a $20,000 per year private school, then a $55,000 a year Rhodes University in Tennessee. Getting your law degree from University of Houston and basically getting a million dollars for your first campaign from Sam Bankman fried this whole act of hers. The medio white boys in the struggle that I have had this entire time where I didn't go to the 30k a year private school, it was 20k. I had to watch. I had a best friend, they was twins, they had to share a Mercedes on the sweet 16. They had their own. There was littering, there was talk back. We had truancy officers.

[Dave Landau]

Does she know that Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene aren't white boys? Yeah, I know those are weird things.

[Josh Firestein]

She brought.

[Dave Landau]

See these white boys and here's a couple ladies. I'm not gonna mention any boys.

[Josh Firestein]

Well, here's the thing. Either this is all an act and it's disingenuous or these very, very expensive schools and institutions have failed her.

[Gerald Morgan]

That's true.

[Josh Firestein]

Because I'm not able to understand what it is that she's attempting to articulate.

[Gerald Morgan]

I would just like to do one thing. I'd like to flip something that she said. Can I, can I just for a.

[Josh Firestein]

Second, please do flip it.

[Gerald Morgan]

Now. This is her speaking, not Me? Because otherwise you're gonna fit me for a frickin hood. I'm tired of black tears. If you're competent, you're not concerned. All these mediocre black boys. Can you imagine a white politician saying that?

[Josh Firestein]

Especially if he spelled black boys with two eyes.

[Gerald Morgan]

That's already been taken.

[Dave Landau]

Somebody clipped Gerald, by the way.

[Gerald Morgan]

Not me. Can you imagine, though? Can you imagine people's minds just going, what?

[Josh Firestein]

Yeah. Not to mention she co authored the We Was Kangs bill. Now she was. I know the whole thing. Now we teach Ebonics. And it's a vernacular. It's its own language. I don't buy it. Okay? I like English. I think it should be our official language. She doesn't speak it very well. Let's go to usaid. We talked about it yesterday. The meltdown continued. We'll get to the Department of Education, which I believe we absolutely should defund. I will make the case. But right now, the theme, the meltdown is Elon Musk is president. And no one elected Elon. They had a rally.

[Ilhan Omar]

This is why I'm not gonna be able to preach, because I probably won't be able to stop cussing. So let me tell you something, Mr. Trump. You gonna learn a few lessons from us.

[Josh Firestein]

No, I won't. Probably not.

[Dave Landau]

That guy behind her, I seen him in mash.

[Ilhan Omar]

You and your little friend off of Twitter, y'all about to find out.

[Josh Firestein]

All right, we have convened here in the right place. The Treasury Department. We have got to tell. She's getting her dryer steam cycle. Nobody told you? You can get all of our private information.

[Dave Landau]

Oh, you want to use our money.

[Josh Firestein]

To go to Mars? No, we want to use our money right here in Washington D.C. in this country. We cannot allow Elon Musk and a small group of people to secretly, behind closed doors, take away our privacy, take away our dollars, take away everything we have.

[Gerald Morgan]

We are going to fight this fight.

[Josh Firestein]

I am going to stand with you in this fight. And we will win. We will win. The guy with the cane, it's very intimidating when the war cry involves the inability to mobilize your own arm. We will win.

[Dave Landau]

You gotta know what your body looks like, too. I know with my body, I can't put my arms above my head and not show my belly. I know, it's embarrassing. Don't do it.

[Josh Firestein]

He doesn't know where his body is in space. Oh, privacy they care about. Freedom of speech they now care about. Okay, not when you were jailing Americans without due process. And of course, violating Americans privacy Whether it's data mining or the Patriot act, all of which the left has supported, or until they claim that they oppose. And just to be clear, these people are really, really, really mad that tax dollars could be used to audit the professional auditing agencies. I want to be really clear about that. They want to audit Doge, where the government is spending your money. This is their civil rights cause that the government should not be accountable to anyone. The Daily Beast. They even did a hit piece on the Doge team. It's unmasked Musk's secret Doge Goon squad, who are all under 26 as opposed to the people on your side who are all over 85.

[Dave Landau]

Look at those goons. They look so dangerous.

[Gerald Morgan]

Some of the smartest people.

[Dave Landau]

Look at this highly diverse group of goons.

[Josh Firestein]

Yes, this is. They're terrified. Like we said, USAID is the first stone we turned over. Okay? This is why they're terrified of us going into the Department of Education. This is why they are terrified of us looking into the CIA, the FBI. Insert any government bureaucracy here. You want to talk entitlement? How about the entitlement of knowing that there's half a trillion dollars a year in fraud, having done nothing about it and feeling as though you have the right to never do anything about it? That's their position. They haven't proposed, just to be clear, some other kind of efficiency mechanism or auditing tool. They have not. They've just said no, your tax dollars to us never in supply. We never answer to you. Do you understand it? Comment below. Do you despise the left enough? It's not a legitimate party in this country at this point. So this is just the start of it. Let's go through a couple of examples. Donald Trump delivering exactly on his promises. President Trump Tuesday. USAID said that all the direct hire employees globally would be placed on leave, excluding some like key core positions. And you know who isn't mad about this? The supposed USAID recipients in Africa. Yes, I support the lady. Trump should cut everything. Cut everything completely. He shouldn't even make it 90 water. Whatever this. He should cut it it completely. We don't need. Rather goes to other individuals, but not us. Please cut it completely. I didn't understand it fully though he did go on to say boomale, boomale, boom.

[Dave Landau]

I agree. I think that was MC Baba. MC's money went to. Was those music videos.

[Josh Firestein]

Someone super cut MC Baba to Chuck Schumer.

[Dave Landau]

Yes.

[Gerald Morgan]

I want it before the end of the show.

[Josh Firestein]

The music moves through me. It's your wedding's worst nightmare.

[Gerald Morgan]

All right, Gerald, a little bit of a note on usa. Apparently this came out about Politico. Politico, I think received 8.1 million million in government funding. And also of note, apparently Politico just missed payroll.

[Josh Firestein]

Really?

[Gerald Morgan]

Yes, apparently due to a technical glitch. They said to their employees, they're like, hey, sorry about that. So let me just get this straight. USAID closes down, all this government funding stuff stops happening and immediately Politico has a technical glitch with payroll for the first time ever.

[Josh Firestein]

Think about it. We've been fact checked by Politico wrongly.

[Gerald Morgan]

Yeah.

[Josh Firestein]

American tax dollars were going to Politico's propaganda a lot.

[Gerald Morgan]

I mean, a million seems like a lot of dollars.

[Josh Firestein]

I know that's a rounding error to those in the federal government, but let's move on to the next one. I'm happy about this because remember I said this with Kerry Lake, with Donald Trump Jr. I believe Marco Rubio, with Rand Paul Vivek. Any candidate who does not promise to completely disband or at the very least at a foundational level, restructure our intelligence agencies, our three letter agencies. As someone I cannot vote for said that for a very long time, that was a closed handed issue for me. We're seeing that. And right now, President Trump just offered to buy out the CIA.

[Gerald Morgan]

All of it.

[Josh Firestein]

Yes, I know what you're thinking. The entire workforce. And by the way, that of course is designed to craft or to create a work environment that will match the policy of the Commander in Chief.

[Gerald Morgan]

Right.

[Josh Firestein]

So far. Just to give you an idea, 20,000. This doesn't include the CIA. 20,000 federal employees accepted buyouts from Donald Trump's first offer. And they are, they are continuing. They're going to keep coming.

[Gerald Morgan]

I think it's a fantastic idea. Anybody who doesn't want to be there, fantastic. You worried that we're about to come after you because of what you've done? If you broke the law, we're still coming. Guess what? But if you just don't like it, fantastic. There's the door, right? We don't want to be here.

[Dave Landau]

You left on your own terms. You get a severance or as the.

[Josh Firestein]

Left refers to it, a violation of fundamental human rights. We really need to understand what a fundamental human right is. It's not Internet, it's not even health care. And it's certainly not a cushy job at the CIA with a laptop loaded with child pornography. 6,000 gigabytes, terabytes. That story that came out, there was more Than you need no one brought up on charges. Just to be clear. And by the way, we do have an exclusive leaked phone call of how this proposal with the CIA initially played out.

[Dave Landau]

Hello, Central Intelligence, how may I direct your call?

[Josh Firestein]

I want to talk to the boss.

[Dave Landau]

I'm sorry, sir, I need an extension. Number?

[Josh Firestein]

I don't have a number. Just put me through to whoever's in charge over there.

[Dave Landau]

I'm sorry, sir, but sir, I was saying I'm sorry, but sir, what are you. Are you pressing buttons?

[Josh Firestein]

Operator.

[Dave Landau]

Sir, I am the operator. No, sir.

[Josh Firestein]

Sir, you have two days. It's what I voted for. Now I won't be able to operate my iPad with a wet finger. I should have thought this through.

[Gerald Morgan]

Didn't.

[Josh Firestein]

Here's another1 the FBI now has agreed to turn over the files on. I know what you're thinking. A few. Because we've been told there are a few bad people at the. A few bad apples.

[Dave Landau]

Just a couple.

[Josh Firestein]

Yeah. It's not rotten to the core handful. 5,000 employees who worked on the January 6th case. What? 5,000 employees? Just a couple. Isn't it crazy to think of how many more employees there were involved than people actually brought up on any type of charges in January 6th? That's like how many? How many employees? Can we do the math? How many employees per person?

[Stephen Crowder]

3.

[Gerald Morgan]

There's about 1500 J6ers. About 5000. So you're looking at a little over three point something people per J6er.

[Josh Firestein]

And as far as violent J6ers, you're talking very, very low triple digits. If that. So, wow, you think the government is looking out for you? They can mobilize all of their resources when it comes to falsely prosecuting you.

[Dave Landau]

Every person prosecuted had at least five, four, at least four employees working on their case.

[Josh Firestein]

Think about that.

[Gerald Morgan]

By the way, you said this and it just stuck with me. They agreed to turn over the files. I'm sorry, The President of the United States. You don't agree to do it. You do it. Yes, it is your job. You don't get to agree to turn over files.

[Josh Firestein]

Right. And by the way, the FBI, you know, these agencies who love spying on you and love, by the way, operating in the dark and violating your fundamental privacy rights, you know, actual rights, your right as a citizen, a law abiding citizen, to privacy. They're actually now suing to prevent the information from being released. And they are whining about how their privacy rights are now being infringed upon. Here's Andrew McCabe, professional pussy whining about it on CNN.

[Andrew McCabe]

Thousands of agents who did nothing other than respond to the orders of their supervisors and of people at headquarters who likely sent them leads to the field offices where they work to conduct some investigative activity and maybe even execute a lawful search warrant or arrest warrant signed by a federal judge. So the idea that these people are essentially being virtually rounded up now, submitted, being demanded to fill out what I'm told is a 12 question survey, which is mostly yes or no answers, identify themselves as people who are. Who may be targeted for some sort of retribution or punishment. It's absolutely disgraceful.

[Josh Firestein]

By the way, I answered more questions on the warranty quality survey on my latest Ryobi Power washer with the warranty card.

[Gerald Morgan]

Yeah.

[Josh Firestein]

12 questions. You could. You could do that on a smoke break.

[Gerald Morgan]

Yes. I was just doing my job.

[Josh Firestein]

So am I. That's the movie. The.

[Dave Landau]

The salaries of 5,000 agents.

[Gerald Morgan]

Yes.

[Josh Firestein]

Are tax dollars.

[Gerald Morgan]

Yeah.

[Josh Firestein]

Not to mention the committees, the withholding of evidence, the false prosecution, and not to. Hey, you know this. Lives lost. Lives lost. People killed themselves because they thought their life was over. You know why? Because they were told that their life was over.

[Gerald Morgan]

Yeah.

[Dave Landau]

More people killed themselves than the number of questions that they have to answer.

[Josh Firestein]

That's.

[Dave Landau]

Jeez. And they're complaining about it.

[Josh Firestein]

12.

[Gerald Morgan]

12.

[Josh Firestein]

I just love that. That would be the tipping point for somebody if you're like, I don't know if I can handle just one more 12.

[Dave Landau]

A whole dozen.

[Josh Firestein]

What, this? I mean, you could even do that in a large font and fit it on one page.

[Dave Landau]

Question how he got paid to answer those questions.

[Josh Firestein]

Yes, they were on the clock.

[Dave Landau]

Either yes or no. You don't have to provide details.

[Josh Firestein]

No, the good news is President Trump's ag pick, Pam Bondi, was just confirmed yesterday. 54 to 46.

[Gerald Morgan]

Yeah.

[Josh Firestein]

And by the way, Fetterman, who. Not necessarily the friend that people make him out to be, he was the only Democrat voting for this. So in that case, credit where it's due is crazy.

[Gerald Morgan]

Tends to lean towards us right now.

[Douglas King Jr.]

Yeah.

[Josh Firestein]

Except for voting. Voting against, you know, providing care to babies who've survived.

[Gerald Morgan]

No, no, no, he doesn't.

[Dave Landau]

Wearing a suit to the inauguration.

[Gerald Morgan]

Yeah.

[Josh Firestein]

Oh, come on. Fetterman. B. As Fetterman does.

[Gerald Morgan]

What's his excuse?

[Josh Firestein]

It's like the worst. It's like the worst outfit gimmick of all time. Like, Tucker Carlson had the bow tie for about 15 years. You know, Eddie Murphy had the leather suit for his. He thinks that basketball shorts from dicks is like, this is gonna Be good for me.

[Dave Landau]

He'd look better in a dress.

[Josh Firestein]

Yes, he would.

[Gerald Morgan]

He's like, I had a stroke. I'm like, that affects your ability to put on pants or someone to put pants on for you.

[Dave Landau]

I don't know how to use a belt cables.

[Josh Firestein]

So many holes.

[Dave Landau]

That shirt has too many buttons.

[Josh Firestein]

That sounds like him. It seems like something he would. Let me ask you this. Is anyone surprised by this? Is anyone surprised by this? And let me ask you this. Has any president kept their promises to a greater degree than nominee Trump and President Trump? I can't think of any. And believe me, it's not lost on me. Egg on my face. I was not a fan of Donald Trump in the 2016 primaries, and I was holding my nose in that election because I thought he was a lifelong Democrat. I liked his first term on most things. This is a whole new beast right now, this first term. And I honestly. You know what I think? And I always hate to think this way because you always want to prevent damage before it takes place. I don't think this could have happened without the four years of Biden. I think he needed. President Trump needed those four years to simmer in rage. And he was basically radicalized by the left, as the left sees it. Radicalized. You know, believing in your.

[Dave Landau]

I think we the people.

[Josh Firestein]

Yeah, were. I think so.

[Dave Landau]

I think a lot of people needed to see, like, oh, yeah, crap. You know, like, this is. This is serious.

[Josh Firestein]

Without Carter, you would have no Reagan. Without Biden, you would have no President Trump. But here's the thing with, with Biden, that also changes the legacy of Barack Obama. Have you not. I've noticed a lot of people who are younger going back and saying, you know, I really, I got all swept up in the hope and change. But after Biden, it forced me to take a second look at the Obama legacy. And did you know that he. They'll go through the deportations, they'll go through the invasions of privacy, they'll go through the wars.

[Dave Landau]

But did you know he did that Weaponize the irs.

[Josh Firestein]

Weaponizing the IRS was the first one to do it. Yeah. So comment if you, if you have. I think it's okay. I don't think you need to feel guilty. It doesn't mean that I ever wanted Biden to win. But I think if Donald Trump, you know, had been. Well, if he had won that last election, I think he would have governed from the center, center right, sometimes center left, and kind of gradually really just served out his last years. Now, this is a guy coming in with a purpose. I don't think we've ever had it in our lifetime, and I don't know that we'll ever see it again. This could be the most consequential presidential administration. This is not hero worship. I mean, historically. I mean, as far as impact could be the most consequential since our founding or since the Civil War. I genuinely believe that may be the case. Now for some fun. Everything's looking up. Things are looking up.

[Gerald Morgan]

Yeah.

[Josh Firestein]

President Trump. Okay, that's. That's. But there's. There's always going to be evil in the world. We know that evil will always live amongst you. However, every now and then, evil gets exposed, and I don't think there's anything, to be clear. More evil than a child molester? No, than a sexual predator.

[Gerald Morgan]

Wood chipper against children.

[Josh Firestein]

Yeah.

[Gerald Morgan]

I think pretty much it's.

[Josh Firestein]

Or, you know, like, in Russia, they stab themselves 36 times in the back.

[Gerald Morgan]

30.

[Josh Firestein]

A legitimate execution.

[Gerald Morgan]

Yeah.

[Dave Landau]

Yes.

[Josh Firestein]

Preferably on a very large table.

[Gerald Morgan]

A judge bought that and said, there you go.

[Josh Firestein]

There you go. They don't get everything wrong in Russia. So child molesters. Okay. Evil exists, but so does justice. And right now, in a mug club exclusive, I will tell you this. Seldom is justice so satisfying and funny. This is an exclusive. All right. There's nothing I can add to this. This is. And we are proud to bring you the very first catch by the Long island predator poacher, and I hope the first of many to come. They should almost all be done like this. Don't drink from your wonderful girthy mug as you are watching this. I urinated myself laughing. This is the Long island predator poacher, Douglas King Jr. Here.

[Douglas King Jr.]

Abigail. No, no, no. We have your picture. We have your penis picture. I'm from Hong Kong, Long Island. This is just for safety purposes. The first thing is, like, how old is Abigail? She said she was 13. Okay. Appreciate her, by the way. I'm sorry. I'm Douglas. I mean, I want to not knock some sense into this.

[Josh Firestein]

Yeah.

[Douglas King Jr.]

No, it's good at you. But I'm. Because I'm a father, I'm like, you know what? Let me just give in in a way so that she thinks I'm meeting her.

[Josh Firestein]

Yeah.

[Douglas King Jr.]

Oh, you are meeting her.

[Josh Firestein]

Yeah.

[Douglas King Jr.]

You want to have car sex or get a room?

[Josh Firestein]

Like.

[Douglas King Jr.]

Yeah. You said that.

[Josh Firestein]

I did.

[Douglas King Jr.]

You also sent her. It looks like a porn video. Oh, yeah. You also said things like, I'll eat your. And like, sucking in 69. Like.

[Josh Firestein]

Yeah.

[Douglas King Jr.]

I would have tried this to, like, Say, listen, you're doing the wrong thing and go back to school. Look, stay in school, stuff like that. You, like, answer for like nude pictures, right?

[Josh Firestein]

I did.

[Douglas King Jr.]

She's only a couple years older than your 10 year old daughter, right? Right. Has anything ever happened with your daughter or like, anything with like, with you, like, in her maybe?

[Stephen Crowder]

Oh, no.

[Douglas King Jr.]

Okay. I appreciate your honesty. For real. I get like, other people would see this and think like, you're attracted to minors.

[Josh Firestein]

No.

[Douglas King Jr.]

Yeah. Everything's voluntary. You can leave whenever you want. Kind of seems like you wanted to go through with it. I didn't. I really didn't. Honestly, like, that's why the first. That's why when I said, but you are here too, you know. Yeah, that's.

[Stephen Crowder]

That is true.

[Douglas King Jr.]

It's like, well, I see my penis. You know, it's. And it's not yours, but, you know, it's a penis. I don't even want to deal with a minor. No, of course, but like, you know, you are here in an effort to, you know, deal with a minor. Let me just leave. Can we go back on the sidewalk? Thank you. This is Amir. Amir, you're not going to ask any miners for nudes anymore. That's you're done with doing that. I never. I. You're not gonna ask minors for nudes anymore? You're not gonna try to like, talk to them sexually and meet up with them for sex and all that stuff? You're not gonna send penis pictures anymore either. Okay. There you go.

[Josh Firestein]

And happy ending. Amir was arrested in Long Island.

[Gerald Morgan]

Yes.

[Josh Firestein]

Just so you know, all of the evidence was handed over digitally and with printouts. And this is a man, Amir, who is a mechanic who also happens to be a content creator.

[Gerald Morgan]

Yeah, he had a YouTube channel, I think.

[Josh Firestein]

I'm guessing it's going dark for a little while maybe. So to watch the full catch completely uncensored, follow this gentleman on X at pp longisland.pp long island. I just. It was. I was gonna tell her, like, to stay, you know, stay in school, stuff.

[Gerald Morgan]

Like that, you know.

[Dave Landau]

Nah, I wouldn't bullshit you.

[Josh Firestein]

Nah, I wouldn't bullshit you. I was gonna tell her, you know, stay off drugs. Here's my dick. Nah, look at me.

[Dave Landau]

I got short sweat shorts on and blue my hair. I'm a good guy.

[Josh Firestein]

He's like, it's a penis. I mean, it's not your penis. Which, you know, means he's not like, y. You know, it's not my penis. The objects in here may be smaller than they appear. You know, it's not actual size. It's more of a, like, effigy. Yeah, like, it's like it volunteers for my dick is tribute.

[Dave Landau]

I was just showing her the dangers of a penis.

[Josh Firestein]

That's right. Yeah, yeah. Like, hey, you see one of these? Don't touch that. Stay away. Don't dance. Don't touch that. Let me meet up with you, we'll talk about it.

[Gerald Morgan]

Yeah. You are here.

[Dave Landau]

Yeah, yeah, I just got a euro across the street. It's a good.

[Josh Firestein]

Yeah, you know, well, maybe, you know, we'll have a euro. We'll talk. Park member will play identify the penis.

[Dave Landau]

Why do you play a little pocket pool?

[Josh Firestein]

Yeah, yeah. You know, stay in school.

[Gerald Morgan]

I'm glad. I'm glad he stayed. Got arrested. But I was like, huh, this guy's an idiot. He could have left it. He tried to leave and he's like, yeah, just maybe we'll walk back over here and I'll talk more about how you tried to meet up to have sex with a minor on camera.

[Josh Firestein]

Yeah.

[Gerald Morgan]

I would go, well, for you.

[Josh Firestein]

I would feel bad for him if he wasn't the worst among us.

[Gerald Morgan]

Yes, I know. I don't feel bad at all.

[Dave Landau]

Oh, no.

[Josh Firestein]

Cause it is so embarrassing. It's like embarrassment by proxy.

[Dave Landau]

The only person I feel bad for is his actual daughter.

[Gerald Morgan]

Yes.

[Josh Firestein]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Dave Landau]

They got a.

[Gerald Morgan]

What a piece of crap.

[Josh Firestein]

I mean, it's just. It's just when you're caught dead to rights, like, just. Just fess up and just hold out your hands for the cuffs and go.

[Dave Landau]

Well, it's like one of those things where I think in the moment, you think, well, shit, if I run away.

[Gerald Morgan]

Yeah.

[Dave Landau]

They're gonna know I'm guilty.

[Josh Firestein]

Right. Plus that guy can't run.

[Dave Landau]

Yeah. Plus he's. He has my penis.

[Josh Firestein]

Yeah.

[Dave Landau]

He has a picture of my penis on those papers. Maybe if I grab those papers.

[Josh Firestein]

Yeah.

[Dave Landau]

The record they have from the phones won't exist.

[Josh Firestein]

He's like. Never seen that before in my life. Just a picture of him in the mirror.

[Gerald Morgan]

Yeah.

[Josh Firestein]

Oh, that penis. Yeah, that's mine. The one attached to me.

[Dave Landau]

My other thumb.

[Josh Firestein]

Yeah. Yeah. I thought you meant another penis.

[Dave Landau]

No, this penis I was holding for a friend.

[Josh Firestein]

Yeah, that's right. Hey, what's your student loan situation like? You staying in school? Cuz that's my thing.

[Dave Landau]

I wanted to get out here and warn you because these parents aren't paying attention to their kids. Where's their parents?

[Josh Firestein]

I'm a parent. Yeah.

[Dave Landau]

I'm fucking kid.

[Josh Firestein]

I'm concerned. I came here, there's no crossing gun. I mean, I was amazed at how nobody stopped me when I took out my penis. So really, it's the fault of society.

[Dave Landau]

What's in the bag there?

[Josh Firestein]

Lubricant? Stick of butter? Lipstick? Quiznos. All right.

[Gerald Morgan]

Literature on how good school is for you.

[Josh Firestein]

By the way, Nick Depala is one of the funniest bits ever on To Catch a Predator. I think you can listen to it on Spotify, wherever you get podcasts. He's one of the funniest men alive. That's one of his funniest bits. The point is, there are a lot of creeps out there, and there's no better reason to get a stop box to make sure your firearm is nearby but safely secured. Almost there. Finnegan, this is so dumb.

[Dave Landau]

What's the problem? It's just a plastic box.

[Josh Firestein]

No, that's actually a stop box.

[Dave Landau]

Dropbox.

[Josh Firestein]

Stop box.

[Dave Landau]

Hot box.

[Josh Firestein]

Stop box.

[Dave Landau]

Botox.

[Josh Firestein]

Stop box.

[Dave Landau]

Smallpox.

[Josh Firestein]

Stop box.

[Dave Landau]

Chop box.

[Josh Firestein]

Stop box. Would you shut up? I'm trying to focus.

[Dave Landau]

Should we help him?

[Josh Firestein]

No, actually, he's our. He's our control study. He's the perfect person to see how child resistant the stop box is.

[Dave Landau]

Oh, okay, so it's, like, super hard to get into.

[Josh Firestein]

It's not. Not if you're a responsible adult. And it's your own box. Look, Finnegan, give it here.

[Gerald Morgan]

See?

[Josh Firestein]

Stop box. It's American made. Prevents unintended access to your firearms. But it's mechanical. It doesn't use batteries. So you don't have to, like, do a biometric safer combo at four in the morning with gang rapists standing at the end of your master bedroom. Hmm. Why am I. Keep this with me?

[Dave Landau]

Hey, Finnegan, think you can open this bottle of meds for me?

[Josh Firestein]

Yeah. Super on the right track. Stopboxusa.com Crowder I do, by the way, I love this. I actually did. True story. Have. I can't see it with the light. There you go. Push it down. Film open. I had one of those biometric safes.

[Gerald Morgan]

Yeah.

[Josh Firestein]

And there was. There was someone that was actually rattling doors at one of my. I was in a townhouse. Did not work. At three in the morning.

[Gerald Morgan]

I love the beep. I'm like, yeah.

[Josh Firestein]

So I got one of these before they became a sponsor. And it's really easy to do. You can set your own combination. It's mechanical, no batteries. It's a great way to prevent unintended access. Lightweight. Go to stopboxusa.com Crowder and right now, there's actually a buy one, get one free. 10% off.

[Gerald Morgan]

So buy one, get one, and 10% off. That's. That's pretty good.

[Josh Firestein]

Yeah. Okay. Don't oversell it.

[Gerald Morgan]

No, I just read it. I was just kind of surprised.

[Josh Firestein]

It's quite useful. And I don't trust the biometric safes.

[Gerald Morgan]

No, you could travel with that.

[Josh Firestein]

I went to your house. It was out of battery. I know.

[Dave Landau]

Plugged in and open. You're like, well, I have to leave it open.

[Josh Firestein]

Yeah, I have to leave it open. So I have to put it up on a shelf and a whole thing, and then I wrap it in Saran Wrap, and then I just can't access it.

[Dave Landau]

Well, you get the wrong biometric safe, you got to get the one that you have to spit into.

[Josh Firestein]

Yes, exactly. Yeah. It also talks dirty to me now.

[Gerald Morgan]

Jeez.

[Dave Landau]

Spitted.

[Josh Firestein]

Remember they wanted to have biometric guns. That should be where I could only. Oh, yeah, yeah. That works great with sweaty palms, blood, and an adrenaline dump.

[Gerald Morgan]

Yeah. In the middle of the night.

[Josh Firestein]

Yeah. Oh, cool.

[Dave Landau]

Now someone's gonna cut off my thumb and steal my gun. Sick.

[Josh Firestein]

He just created a new crime market. Okay, Art of the deal. Now, I'm going to tell you this. I have mixed thoughts, and I want to be clear about that. I want to be clear with you when I don't have a finalized opinion, meaning there could be some data presented that may sway me. But I'll give you my thoughts and hopefully you guys can kind of have a conversation here in the comments section. By the way, best way is to download the Rumble app like we told you. Download the app and right there you'll get notifications whenever we're live. Rumble owns live. And of course you get to keep watching. If you're a rumble premium member, $99 a year. You can get it for 99amonth and a wonderful mug as you join the club. But download the app, that's the best way. So I want to see some conversation about this because this is one that it seems like left right across the board, people just disagree. So the best part, though, before we get to the Gaza potential deal in Donald Trump's the President's Middle east policy day, let's call it. Was this exchange with a reporter.

[Donald Trump]

Go ahead.

[Josh Firestein]

Expectation from you. Do you have any plan to change Afghanistan situation? Are you able to recognize Taliban? Because I'm an Afghan journalist and separate women. Any comment about Afghanistan? What's your future plan? What Afghan people, especially Afghanistan.

[Donald Trump]

I have a little hard time understanding you. Where are you from? Actually, it's a beautiful voice and A beautiful accent. The only problem is I can't understand a word you're saying, but I just say this. Good luck. Live in peace. Go ahead, please.

[Gerald Morgan]

That's awesome.

[Josh Firestein]

I love how he added, live in peace. Peace.

[Gerald Morgan]

Peace be with you.

[Josh Firestein]

And you know what? We're in the era where no one's going to say that's racist. I didn't understand her either. Okay? That's what happens. Just like they probably don't understand half of my French Canadian family. It's fine. All right. She makes no sense. But Tuesday, back to the policy. Donald Trump met with Israel Prime Minister Netanyahu and he made this pretty, pretty wild statement regarding Gaza.

[Donald Trump]

The only reason the Palestinians want to go back to Gaza is they have no alternative. It's right now a demolition site. This is just a demolition site. Virtually every building is down. They're living under fallen concrete. That's very dangerous and very precarious. They instead came can occupy all of a beautiful area with homes and safety, and they can live out their lives in peace and harmony instead of having to go back and do it again. The US Will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it, too.

[Dave Landau]

A job.

[Donald Trump]

We'll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site. Level the site and get rid of the destroyed buildings. Level it out. Create an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs and housing for.

[Josh Firestein]

It's probably limited to people of the area. It's not that big.

[Donald Trump]

Get a real job. Do something different.

[Gerald Morgan]

So, by the way, did you see Netanyahu's posture? Like, change? I would be willing to bet a lot of money that that was the first time Netanyahu.

[Josh Firestein]

Yes, absolutely.

[Dave Landau]

He turned to the ground.

[Gerald Morgan]

You got to do what?

[Josh Firestein]

It's kind of, you know, it's sort of. Okay. We're going to. Yes, yes, yes, yes. What? What?

[Dave Landau]

What?

[Josh Firestein]

And this, of course, has, like I said, all corners of the Internet are up in arms here. Different opinions. People not. And Gerald and I had the exact same sort of initial reaction. We compared notes today where I first heard this. I said, that's a terrible idea. I don't. And then I thought, like, okay, I could see the reasoning. I still lean towards probably not the best idea. And so I think it would be helpful right now. Let's do this with you. A pros and cons list on the occupation of Gaza. You know what, Josh, will you do the honors here? Yeah. You have better handwriting than all of Us, thankfully.

[Gerald Morgan]

Yeah.

[Josh Firestein]

And, Gerald, I think we can kind of talk through this. And of course, those in chat will talk through it. Let's start with the cons. Okay, so the very first con, it's Gaza, obviously. Boom, boom, boom.

[Gerald Morgan]

I think that's a difficult one. That's a difficult one, that one. Location, location, location, it matters.

[Josh Firestein]

Second con, it's gonna anger probably most of the Middle east and could lead us into a global conflict.

[Gerald Morgan]

It's never gonna be a really safe place.

[Josh Firestein]

I think a third con, that would require a bunch of U.S. troops, resources. That's not necessarily a good one.

[Gerald Morgan]

Yeah, you suck. No, I don't like deploying US Troops to a place like that. And that's really. I don't think there's any other way to make that happen.

[Josh Firestein]

Right. And I would say probably the final con is US Occupation. It's. It's never actually worked in the Middle East. That's a con.

[Gerald Morgan]

It's been tried.

[Josh Firestein]

Yes. There you go.

[Gerald Morgan]

Not. Not the best idea.

[Josh Firestein]

Let's go through the possible pros, though. And that was my first thing was like, all con, con. And then I thought, well, there could be some pros. I mean, what do you like? The first pro is it couldn't, it could be argued, provide a legitimate foothold for the United States in that region, which is kind of important.

[Gerald Morgan]

It's nice to be closer to home whenever things go down. And they tend to happen.

[Josh Firestein]

Yes, they do. That's a pro. Yes. Another pro. You know, it would also be next to kind of our only ally in that.

[Gerald Morgan]

And we wouldn't fire rockets at them.

[Josh Firestein]

We wouldn't. Which would be a good. That's a pro for Israel.

[Gerald Morgan]

Huge pro for Israel. Israel, they would love that.

[Josh Firestein]

I think Israel might be more into this than most Americans, to be clear.

[Gerald Morgan]

That's true.

[Josh Firestein]

And that's. No, it's not talking about the Jews running the media. I'm just saying, like, look, we have to make this decision based on what's right for the United States, not necessarily for Israel. I think a pro, you could argue, provide more stability for the immediate area. Don't you think?

[Gerald Morgan]

I think that's absolutely true.

[Josh Firestein]

Okay. Anything else?

[Gerald Morgan]

I haven't gotten it right. Right at all.

[Josh Firestein]

Yeah. Anything else?

[Gerald Morgan]

I think it'd be a better life for the people, you know, in the economy of Gaza.

[Josh Firestein]

Like, potentially a better economy.

[Gerald Morgan]

Look. Look at the last decades.

[Josh Firestein]

Yeah.

[Gerald Morgan]

You know, of what we've been doing here. It's. It's not working.

[Josh Firestein]

Yeah. Less. Less bombs and tunnels. More like Sandals Resorts or Schools. Yes.

[Gerald Morgan]

Or playgrounds.

[Josh Firestein]

Yeah, perhaps. Or club meds that are playgrounds that.

[Gerald Morgan]

Are not used to fire mortars.

[Josh Firestein]

Yes, exactly.

[Gerald Morgan]

I just need to clarify. Or schools.

[Josh Firestein]

And you know, the pro. I mean, the, the Jews don't seem to hate the idea, so for them, that's a pro. Jews, like you can write that down as a pro. Jews likey.

[Gerald Morgan]

Jew likey.

[Dave Landau]

Happy Jews.

[Josh Firestein]

Happy Jews, happy shoes.

[Dave Landau]

It looks like we're five to four.

[Josh Firestein]

I mean. Yeah, but the cons are really big cons.

[Gerald Morgan]

They're really, really.

[Josh Firestein]

I mean, it's Gaza. That's like five cons. Yeah, double. Double con.

[Gerald Morgan]

I mean, if it's like the art of the deal kind of thing, great. If it's like an actual plan to, to go in there, I'm like, this is gonna be really dicey and I'm not sure. Yeah. I'm not for colonizing.

[Dave Landau]

It could upset the rest of the world. Not just.

[Gerald Morgan]

Yeah, yeah.

[Josh Firestein]

Not just the Middle East. It could upset, you know, like, like the Swedes.

[Gerald Morgan]

They could get pissed.

[Josh Firestein]

Yeah, they could.

[Gerald Morgan]

And then IKEA doesn't ship any goods to the us.

[Josh Firestein]

I'm sure there are a few German stragglers who wouldn't be thrilled about it. Yeah, I'm keeping my eye on them.

[Gerald Morgan]

Argentinians.

[Josh Firestein]

Argentinians. That's true.

[Gerald Morgan]

Argentinians that might have a problem with it.

[Josh Firestein]

Yep. Perhaps some, some sympathizers in the Vatican.

[Dave Landau]

The smell.

[Josh Firestein]

Yeah, yeah, the smell.

[Gerald Morgan]

Wait, what?

[Dave Landau]

Yeah, it's not great.

[Josh Firestein]

What if. Okay, if it's the art of the deal, if it's the art of the deal where they're proposing, maybe the United States going in just to kind of clean house and give it to Israel, that's maybe a potential middle ground. What's your final opinion, Gerald?

[Gerald Morgan]

So look, I commented on this. They've never gotten it right. The world is basically approaching this problem from the same direction they've always approached it from as some kind of two state solution that's never ever going to work because the other state wants to destroy Israel and it's always going to want to destroy Israel. This place has been a hellhole. And it's primarily in my opinion. And you can argue with me on this if you want, because the people elected Hamas, you can say it wasn't a legitimate election, fine. But it seems like for all intents and purposes, they elected Hamas. Hamas is a terrorist organization that doesn't care about them. It cares about destroying Israel. Period.

[Josh Firestein]

Period.

[Gerald Morgan]

Period. Doesn't matter what Israel does.

[Josh Firestein]

Right.

[Gerald Morgan]

Having the world on notice that the status quo is no longer acceptable. I think it's fantastic thinking about this from a different perspective. Absolutely. And by the way, I'm sorry, I don't care whose ancestral homeland it is. It's hell. Go find somewhere else to build a community. If you're in Palestine or Palestine person right now, Palestinian, and living in Gaza, go somewhere else. This is no way to make a life. You're telling me that some hill over here because people 100 years ago, 500 years ago, lived there that are your relatives and that's why you want to stay there? No, I'm sorry. This. This is never going to work. And if you really do care about your family and you care about having peace and tranquility, something different needs to happen. Happen.

[Josh Firestein]

Well, certainly something different in not simply using it for destruction. That is. That is the problem with Hamas.

[Gerald Morgan]

And if that was the case, then it would be fine, stay there, everything's great. But that's never been the case.

[Josh Firestein]

I don't know the solution on this, to be honest. I'd love to hear your comments. And I think. Here's the thing. I think both positions are tenable.

[Gerald Morgan]

Yeah.

[Josh Firestein]

The what?

[Dave Landau]

I got another con. It's expensive.

[Josh Firestein]

It is expensive.

[Dave Landau]

A lot of our money. I don't want to send my money.

[Gerald Morgan]

What if.

[Josh Firestein]

No, that's resources in there.

[Gerald Morgan]

What if there's, like, a way to make it public back?

[Josh Firestein]

Yeah. Booty, booty. What if we do a little plundering.

[Dave Landau]

A little plundering in the.

[Josh Firestein]

I don't think America should go anywhere unless we have a little plundering.

[Dave Landau]

Little Hamas tunnel.

[Josh Firestein]

Plunder. A little. Little plundering.

[Gerald Morgan]

Is there oil in Gaza?

[Josh Firestein]

I don't think there's a whole lot of oil, but, you know, there's probably, like, some shrapnel. Oh. Or make Israel pay for it. Or make Israel pay for it.

[Gerald Morgan]

We've given them enough money. They should start sending some back to us.

[Josh Firestein]

Like Mexico with the wall. There we go.

[Dave Landau]

Exactly.

[Josh Firestein]

Yeah. I lean toward no. No, but if there's some real. In other words, if there's some really convincing data, economic data, that it could be a net gain and would check all the boxes, I'd be open to hearing it, but my instinct is no.

[Gerald Morgan]

My instinct is also no. But we'll see with some of the details. You know, who is probably willing to come to the table now. Literally everyone.

[Josh Firestein]

Yes.

[Gerald Morgan]

What? Okay.

[Josh Firestein]

All right.

[Gerald Morgan]

Fine, fine, fine, fine.

[Josh Firestein]

Yes.

[Dave Landau]

I'm sure Egypt isn't keen to the idea of us being next door.

[Gerald Morgan]

Yeah.

[Josh Firestein]

But right now, I Bet you Denmark is like, okay, we weren't serious about Kremlin. We get it. You take it. I get it. We don't need a McDonald's going up in our capital now. It's just stupid. And thank you. Thank you, Josh. Appreciate it. And you know the handwriting. Not that great. Mine. No, mine is worse.

[Dave Landau]

It's hard to do. Leaning over and quickly.

[Josh Firestein]

Yes, it is a smiley face. I do appreciate it.

[Gerald Morgan]

The heck was the. Any.

[Josh Firestein]

Nope.

[Gerald Morgan]

Any hole will do.

[Dave Landau]

It's a hell hole. But hey, any hole will do.

[Josh Firestein]

That's true.

[Dave Landau]

I mean, I guess I nailed it.

[Josh Firestein]

Lot of holes. Ask Shia LaBeouf. Now, for context as to what's gone on over there the last couple years, you all know that I have been remarkably consistent as it relates to wars being supportive of legitimate wars that are obviously where the American interest is at stake. And of course, opposing wars that don't actually involve.

[Gerald Morgan]

No, no, no, no, no.

[Josh Firestein]

All the way back. Not.

[Gerald Morgan]

I don't think that that's true, Stephen.

[Josh Firestein]

What do you mean? Gerald?

[Gerald Morgan]

We have to do this again, huh? Tim, roll it.

[Josh Firestein]

No. And look, let's just call it what it is. It's. It's a war for oil. Yes, it's a war for oil. That's what it is. It's about. They're going to this war on terror. It's about oil so Dick Cheney can give money to his rich friends. And you know what? If we. Osama bin Laden wasn't even there. He wasn't even there. He had nothing to do with. And then Saddam Hussein. If we moved to green energy, God forbid, solar, wind.

[Gerald Morgan]

There you go.

[Josh Firestein]

We wouldn't even need to be killing people. Killing innocent brown people because of Islamophobia, but really in search of more oil.

[Gerald Morgan]

It's a religion of peace, for crying out loud.

[Josh Firestein]

Yeah, George W. Bush, skull and bones. Well, that's not fair. There's a neocons. It was a different political paradigm.

[Gerald Morgan]

Matters.

[Josh Firestein]

Hey, this just came in from Mission Control. I guess Chuck Schumer supercut to MC Baba.

[Dave Landau]

It was great, but it wasn't enough.

[Josh Firestein]

It wasn't enough.

[Gerald Morgan]

It's a super quick cut. So.

[Josh Firestein]

Always leaving. Always leaving them wanting more, says MC Baba. Of course, I'm translating from. But I understood the intent. Let's move from. What are you, Helen Keller's interpreter? Helen Keller's a myth.

[Gerald Morgan]

I know. That's what I mean.

[Josh Firestein]

Actually, I think we have a three in three on Helen Keller. Let's move from Gaza to something that we can actually control here in the United States. And I think that should primarily be the focus of this administration, improving lives for Americans in ways that are rightfully under the purview of the American federal government. And a big part of that is downsizing. So, yes, I have no problem with this. I have advocated for it for a long time. Ronald Reagan campaigned on this, and then the Department of Education only grew. And I will tell you this. I believe it is completely irrational and illogically untenable situation to look at our Department of Education and to advocate more resources being put into it. If you are results oriented in any way, if people say you have to look at the empirical, you have to look at the data, there is no case that can be legitimately made to argue for the Department of Education as it currently exists. And yesterday, President Trump pledged to work with Congress and teachers unions to try and close the Department of Education. And on the Education Department. Why nominate Linda McMahon to be the Education Department secretary if you're going to get rid of the Education Department?

[Donald Trump]

Because I told Linda, linda, I hope you do a great job and put yourself out of a job. I want her to put herself out of a job. Education Department. So we're ranked number 40 out of 40 schools, right? We're ranked number one in cost per pupil. So we spend more per pupil than any other country in the world. And we're ranked at the bottom of the list. We're ranked very badly. And what I want to do is let the states run schools. I believe strongly in school choice, but in addition to that, I want the states to run schools and I want Linda to put herself out of a job. I think I'd work with Congress. I think we'd get. Look, we'd have to work with the teachers union, because the teachers union is the only one that's opposed to it. Nobody else would want to hold her back. But we have to tell the teachers union we're rated last in the world.

[Josh Firestein]

Everything he has just said is correct. And this is the perfect time to actually introduce you to. Many of you have subscribed and followed it. You can listen to it wherever audio podcasts are available. The show that we have that accompanies this, three in three, and the first one we ever did was on the Department of Education. It's three key facts in three minutes or less. Anywhere podcasts are available, you can go to 3keyfacts.com so that you can look, you can peruse all of the references. It's a place to start on some key issues. So I'm just going to, I guess in video form. Present that and then we'll expound upon it because we have a longer show here. So key fact number one is the creation of the Department of Education. So the federal Department of Education as we know it today was created in 1979 under Jimmy Carter, significantly increased the federal government's role in funding public education. So prior to the federal Department of Education, the federal government largely played an advisory role, while the funding for public education, it came almost entirely from state and local governments. Key fact number two, the cost of the Department of Education is astronomical. In total, the federal Department of Education has spent over $2 trillion since its inception. Not accounting for inflation. Also, key fact there, Noodles, you pointed this out. They also probably need to lose their funding for spelling education wrong on their own website. On their own website. On their own website.

[Dave Landau]

We didn't even.

[Josh Firestein]

So, as a matter of fact, just so you know today, because you'll see these stickers out there when you know school, when the Air Force has to host bake sales for their bombers, and schools get the funny. Okay. Over $2 trillion today, the Department of Education's discretionary budget is the third largest of the federal government. The only ones that are larger. Department of Defense, Department of Health and Human Services. Key fact number three, you have the founding, you have the amount of money, which is insane. That brings us to the results. Even after the trillions of dollars in federal funding, the results, the standardized results of students have remained almost entirely unchanged since 1979, when the Department was founded. And even worse, there's new data emerging that today shows a negative trend. With standardized math scores at their lowest since 1990, reading scores at their lowest since 2004. That's three in three. Three key facts in three minutes or less. And you can go download those. There's the party switch myth. Three minutes. Abortion, taxes, immigration, the assassination attempt on President Trump, the gender wage gap. You can go and download those wherever audio podcast exists. So let's expound upon that. Now. The founding. And this is what you cannot argue $2 trillion and worse results and say.

[Gerald Morgan]

Put more money into it and not adjusted for inflation. That's.

[Josh Firestein]

That's not adjusted for inflation. We'll go through these, these again and kind of add some. Some cont. So in 1973, the Supreme Court did affirm that education is a state's right. Okay. San Antonio ISD vs Rodriguez, Supreme Court wrote, though education is one of the most important services performed by the state, it is not within the limited category of rights recognized by this court as guaranteed by the Federal constitution. And by the way, each and every One of the 50 state constitutions establish some kind of public education system. So again, before the trillions of dollars, your parents still had access to public school.

[Gerald Morgan]

Yeah.

[Josh Firestein]

And the results were better. We've spent more. Results are worse.

[Dave Landau]

That's what my dad thinks. He's smarter than me.

[Josh Firestein]

Yes, because he most likely is. If you compare that generation, on average, they may not be as informed in modern issues like technology. Right. Things change. But as far as baseline education, yes, they were. They received a well balanced education. Let's go get into the cost and the waste. So from 1980 to 2021, that's about $2 trillion. And you wonder, okay, where is this money going? Like in 2019, the federal government wasted billions of dollars on grant programs. Billions of dollars. To give you an idea, 2024, the Department of Education received $268 billion in federal funding. That's 4% of all federal funding, student loans. To give you an idea, over the last 25 years, they went from generating $114 billion in income to the government to costing the government $197 billion.

[Gerald Morgan]

Well, that just keeps going up when they try to forgive student debt.

[Josh Firestein]

Exactly. Yes. There's been money that's been wasted. Things like DEI administration. You look at the students, the teacher populations. Right. You look at the student to teacher ratios, and these aren't good. But if you look at other private schools, for example, in New York Catholic schools, they have a larger student per teacher ratio, more students per teacher, and they perform better. Right. The school district administrations in general, they grew about 87%.

[Gerald Morgan]

Yeah. Even though the, even though there's only 9% student growth.

[Josh Firestein]

Yes, 9% student growth. But way larger administrative growth in the school library porn sections grew by 69%. 79% of school districts with more than a hundred thousand. A hundred thousand students have a chief diversity officer. The other 21 are in black neighborhoods.

[Dave Landau]

To be clear now, no need for that.

[Josh Firestein]

This is where you're looking at the fraud. Because you, you can't really put a number on the DEI propaganda and social engineering until you do some digging, then you can put a number on it. And you can certainly look at the system and say, well, this system is broken.

[Gerald Morgan]

Yeah, yeah.

[Josh Firestein]

And part of the foundation right now of this system is we've gone away from merit based, we've gone to dei, we've gone to identity politics, any way that you slice it. And this is where you can have Mark Cuban come on and say, actually, diversity makes us better. Okay. $2 trillion, not adjusted for inflation. Worse results.

[Gerald Morgan]

Yeah.

[Josh Firestein]

Let me ask you this. What does it take? What does it take? That's how you know that leftism, progressivism is a religion. It's dogmatic. Where when faced with irrefutable evidence, this is one of those subjects. There is no argument to be made that the Department of Education has improved education at all. They still say, more money, please, more money, please. Let's go to the performance, by the way, to give you a little. Get a little more granular. Since the founding video standardized test scores, they haven't gotten better. Like I told you. Math lowest since 1990. Reading is the lowest since 2004. And so wait, if the DOE is the third largest budget and we spent 2 trillion math tests, it sucks.

[Gerald Morgan]

Yeah, that's the right conclusion.

[Josh Firestein]

Lowest scores, some cases, 35 years. Let me give you a specific example. So that's the empirical. Let me give you one example. 2021, Illinois received $7 billion in federal funds for schools this be, I think dispersed over three years. You guys have the references there. In 2023, Illinois had zero students proficient in reading in 32 schools. Zero students proficient in math in 67 schools. She's $7 billion, two years later, zero even passable in basic reading and math in dozens of schools. I know you're saying that's an outlier. Okay, again, the meta analysis looking at, from a bird's eye view, 2 trillion. It's bad across the board.

[Gerald Morgan]

Yeah.

[Dave Landau]

Could have used that money to cheat instead.

[Josh Firestein]

Yes, exactly. You know, like they do in India where they have people come in, take their tests in degree mills so they can get an H1B. 2023, Maryland received $350 million from the Department of Education. Zero students in 40% of Baltimore High schools passed the Maryland state math exam.

[Dave Landau]

What?

[Josh Firestein]

In 40% of all high schools in Baltimore, there was not one high school student who passed the basic math exam. Wow.

[Gerald Morgan]

Dang.

[Josh Firestein]

And it starts at the top.

[Dave Landau]

And then they get a diploma.

[Josh Firestein]

Depends.

[Gerald Morgan]

They just hang out for a while, do a couple.

[Josh Firestein]

Depends on the color of the skin, on the gender. And it starts at the top. And you know, I would say the top is pretty bad, considering the Department of Education cannot even spell the word education. Yeah, I jumped the gun.

[Gerald Morgan]

You could admonish me, educate.

[Josh Firestein]

So this is. And whatever, you guys can jump. You guys can comment. Anyone out there go to public schools? I went to public schools in Canada.

[Dave Landau]

I did.

[Josh Firestein]

They were much better than here. I didn't realize that in the United States you had to go to one public school because we were allowed to go to any school. If we were able to get on a bus or our parents would drive us, the schools were better. The United States, we should be the best at everything. We have the resources to, we have the ingenuity to, we have the people here who can make it better. They're just not allowed to. If anyone can, can make the case as to why American students, why the United States is better off with the current Department of Education as it exists, please reach out, because I have never heard it. No, not anything even remotely convincing.

[Gerald Morgan]

No. I mean everybody out there freaking out about this. Like this was a state issue for a very long time. It needs to go back to being a state issue. If for only because we understand bureaucracy, it's going to slow things down, it's going to cost money and it's also going a one size fits all solution. And that's not going to work in these communities. In different states across the country, there are different needs in different districts. And a state can address that a lot better than a federal program. By the way, certain states kind of lead the way in this anyway. Texas being one of those states. Second thing is you should be able to spend your dollars, your tax dollars in Texas through property taxes that go to funding the schools. You should be able to spend those dollars as a student, wherever you want to go. And by the way, don't tell me that's just gonna benefit the white communities and people that have privilege. No, it's gonna benefit people that are stuck at one of those 32 high school in Illinois that can't pass the reading Test or the 67 that can't pass the math test.

[Josh Firestein]

Yeah.

[Gerald Morgan]

Or Maybe it's the 40% of people in Baltimore, 40% of people in schools in Baltimore that can't pass the state proficiency test in math. You can get out of those places. Not just be, well, you live here, so you gotta go to that school. You're screwed.

[Dave Landau]

Just look at it economically.

[Josh Firestein]

Yeah.

[Dave Landau]

If you're in a poor neighborhood, you got a poor school. A lot of places that property taxes, taxes or taxes are levied for their school system. So if you can have the choice to take the same amount of money and go to a different school, wouldn't that be better for a minority?

[Josh Firestein]

Of course. Yeah, you would think so.

[Dave Landau]

I mean, I'm not, I mean, I just look at it economically, but that's how it ends up being usually.

[Josh Firestein]

It also makes, this really, makes it really clear to me, you know, you've seen with the left and engineering as far as gender relationships and trying to say that men and women are the same and interchangeable. This really makes sense when you think about the fact that our government, our media, our entertainment industry has constantly vilified those in business. The business owner, the wealthy person is the bad guy.

[Gerald Morgan]

Right.

[Josh Firestein]

Every single time they show up in a film, it's the dad who's a dick who only cares about money. You know why? They are deathly afraid of being the only entity of this size, being the federal government, of being treated exactly like a business. And that is precisely what we need anywhere else in a business. If you walk in, Gerald, CEO says, hey, we really need increased funding in, I don't know, advertising, whatever it is increased funding for. I go, okay, what do we spend? Last year we spent a million dollars. Okay, what do we have to show for it? Well, we have this amount of revenue, 1.2. Okay, so it's a net positive. And can you tell me how this will benefit us in the future? Whatever it is? What is this employee provided? Okay, what's the cost? What's the cost analysis here? Or if you came to me though, and said, hey, we need more money for new equipment. I said, well, how much have we spent? And you said, $2 trillion. And I said, what do we have to show for it? He said, well, remember how we used to have hd? We don't have that anymore. Yeah, remember how we used to be able to do. We don't have that anymore. Yeah. We actually have fewer viewers, fewer subscribers, less ad revenue, and lower quality video. I would say, well, maybe it's time to make a change. The only place that doesn't exist and they are deathly afraid of any type of change is in the federal government. Nowhere else could this exist in nature. Yeah, it is. It is a hemorrhaging of resources. And the worst part is we're hemorrhaging the resources. The left wants you to turn a blind eye, and it's harming kids. It's harming our children. They are. We live in an era where information and education has never been more accessible, regardless of social status, wealth and people are dumber, just like we've never had more access to healthy food and information regarding healthy habits. Exercise, eating, sleeping, and we're fatter with a lower life expectancy. How do we get here? And at what point do we say, okay, 2 trillion, not adjusted for inflation. It's not working. Hey, our approach to health is not working. The only way you can make the case for the current Democrat Party in Progressivism is if you believe that change is evil and that more money solves a problem, you have to start with that as the premise for how you approach any problem. No change. We can't do that. That's evil. And more money will always solve the problem. We've seen the opposite in reality. I don't know what it takes. And I think you're going to see the pendulum swing more in the direction of the right. Because people know that our educational system is broken. People know that our health care system is broken. People have bitched for a very long time, said, hey, no one does anything about it. Well, guess what? Now we are. And the good news is it really can't get all that much worse. $2 trillion and worse results. Are you clear? Nothing else matters. That's it. It's done. You can say whatever you want. You can argue $2 trillion and we're shittier. You get nothing. By the way, join Rumble Premium. We're gonna continue talking about this and more. I don't know that there's much more to say. None of this happens without you. Including, by the way, the three and three show that you can listen to on audio. We always want to provide you with different rungs in the ladder place to start. And I know it's like drinking from a fire hose. Sometimes there's so much information. When there's so much, sometimes there's no information out there.

[Gerald Morgan]

But we did have one thing we wanted to maybe take a look at. Like the new Jurassic park trailer just dropped. No, no, I think. I think we should. Because it's Jurassic World rebirth. We love Jurassic. We love Jurassic Park. You love Jurassic Park.

[Josh Firestein]

The original Jurassic Park.

[Dave Landau]

I like the Jurassic Worlds.

[Josh Firestein]

No, it's not.

[Gerald Morgan]

Jurassic World was okay. The one where they tried to save the dinosaurs that ended up eating everybody. That's not okay. Just gas em and let it be over with. But there apparently is a need for.

[Josh Firestein]

The Jurassic Worlds were so bad, they are an affront to our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

[Gerald Morgan]

Wow. He interesting.

[Dave Landau]

Hey, now, Chris Pratt's a Christian.

[Josh Firestein]

He is.

[Gerald Morgan]

He is an outspoken Christian, which is like, look, look.

[Josh Firestein]

He can atone. He can atone for his sins.

[Gerald Morgan]

He will. You gotta see it. It just dropped.

[Josh Firestein]

We're gonna watch it now, Tim.

[Gerald Morgan]

Let's play it.

[Josh Firestein]

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