
Elon & Trump Threaten To NUKE GOP Reps Who Support CORRUPT Spending Bill w/Ron Coleman
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With the government shut down looming, as it always does around the exact same time, and then Congress says, oh no, we don't have any time to actually do our job, so we're gonna have to leave for Christmas and just put forward a continuing resolution. Well, that's happening now. Trump and Elon Musk have basically said they will primary any Republican who supports this bill voting yes because it is full of pork and bloat and garbage. But I gotta say, one of my favorite, favorite pieces of this that's gone viral is that they're going to eliminate the word offender in legal proceedings and change it to justice involved person. Because you're a justice involved person when you punch an old lady in the face on a train and threaten to kill them. Right, that's what they're focused on. But there's also $60 billion for Ukraine. And just in general, there's a massive, massive amount of random garbage that makes no sense. Some criticism is that there seems to be a provision that would actually protect the House from investigations. So if Cash Patel or Pam Bondi wanted to, say, subpoena some House data into the J6 subcommittee issues, they would be blocked by this in this continuing resolution, though it will, it would only be temporary still. So it may be DOA with Trump basically saying he is going to primary any Republican who supports it. That's massive. It seems like X has had a tremendous amount of pressure on Trump's choices. It's resulted in him firing people before they even got hired. It's been actually pretty incredible. So we'll talk about that. And I almost thought we should lead with the other story that is California's declared a state of emergency over 34 cases of bird flu. Maybe the real conspiracy is that they're gonna jam up Trump's second term by, I don't know, a lockdown or something. But we'll get into that and a bunch of other stories before we do. My friends, you know it cast brew.com and if you go there, you can get your two weeks till Christmas. Phil's Holiday Blend. That's right, Phil Labonte on the COVID dressed as Santa Claus selling gingerbread coffee. What say you, Phil?
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Ron Coleman
Jewish?
Phil Labonte
I say what are you?
Ron Coleman
Let's just get right to it though. Let's not kid ourselves. That's what I mean. The entire chat is obsessed with the Hebraic nature of tonight's program. Here I am.
Phil Labonte
Ron's just here to sign my checks, right?
A Lot Eliyahu
He brought me.
Ron Coleman
Since when are you taking checks?
Tim Pool
I thought I saw him pulling like a big bag of gold like as.
Ron Coleman
He was walking all them shekels.
Tim Pool
Big bag of shekels.
Ron Coleman
Called him shekels. So when I saw the tweeting that Israeli flag today and he's a bigger Zionist than I am.
Phil Labonte
I wake up in the morning with a bunch of people posting pictures of me with like a yarmulke.
Ron Coleman
That was a good, that was a really. And my heart melted when I saw that. I wanted to adopt you.
Phil Labonte
The, the picture of me with the.
Ron Coleman
Amica and the pais.
Phil Labonte
Yeah. So I posted. I just like, I woke up and I'm like, I just tweeted the Israeli flag. I thought it was funny. And then I realized it generated a lot of attention and I'm like, that's what gets you paid on X. So maybe those people who are mad about it will make some money for me. But Ron, Ron's a lawyer, commentator, and he's here.
Ron Coleman
I'm here. Ron Coleman, the lawyer, commentator, podcaster, Ron Coleman. Culmination is the name of my podcast and I'm really happy to be here.
Phil Labonte
Thanks for hanging out. We have another Jew here.
A Lot Eliyahu
What's up? We're doubling down on Jews for tonight, so I know some people out there are keeping count. Add a couple of more ticks to that one. My name's A Lot Eliyahu. I'm a Fields reporter and Jewish affairs correspondent. A little bit redundant at this point. What's up, Phil?
Tim Pool
Hello, everybody. My name is Phil Labonte. I am going. I am the lead singer, heavy metal band all the Remains.
Ron Coleman
I'm a guy. I am going.
Tim Pool
I am a goy.
Ron Coleman
Have a split personnel.
Tim Pool
And I am an anti communist.
Phil Labonte
That's plural. Is out of this. Oh, we'll see. Well, you learn something.
Tim Pool
One guy goy.
Ron Coleman
You are goyish.
A Lot Eliyahu
Oh, that's gonna turn into a.
Phil Labonte
They're gonna. They're gonna make that a good meme.
A Lot Eliyahu
It's so Jewish.
Tim Pool
Tonight's gonna be a great show, man.
Phil Labonte
I do think it's perfect timing considering all the memes that both of you are here. I mean, a lot's usually here, but having Ron here is gonna be great. So let's jump into the news. We got this one from. Oh, that's the wrong one. Whoops. From CNBC. Trump joins Elon Musk in opposing House GOP's government funding bill. President elect Donald Trump opposes a government funding bill backed by Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson. Trump. Stan Trump's stance aligns Elon Musk, who railed against the proposed continuing resolution. We actually have the statement from Donald Trump right here on Truth Social. He said if Republicans try to pass a clean continuing resolution without all of the Democrat bells and whistles that will be so destructive to our country, all it will do after January 20th is bring the mass of the of the debt limit into the Trump administration rather than allowing it to take place in the Biden administration. Any Republican that would be so stupid as to do this should and will be primaried. Everything should be done and fully negotiated prior to my taking office on January 20, 2025. Elon Musk, of course, said something similar. Anyone who votes for the spending deal should lose their reelection.
Tim Pool
I love it.
Phil Labonte
Yeah, I mean, let's Take a look at some of what's in here. We've got libs of TikTok. The new congressional resolution includes funding for at least 12 new Biolabs. So that's something nobody wants, especially considering 2020. We got this one from Eddie Johnson. The woke continuing resolution bill mentions changing the term offender to justice involved individual. Oh, I like that.
Ron Coleman
Yes.
Phil Labonte
It says section 338 of the workforce Innovation and Opportunity act is amended in the heading by striking offender and inserting justice involved individual. And in the matter preceding subparagraph, the.
Ron Coleman
Irony being that that's a person who is actually conducting himself. Just pull the mic in an unjust way. That's the least. It's the rest of us who follow the law are the justice involved individuals. Yeah, it's the criminals who are the non justice involved individuals.
Phil Labonte
This is my favorite one though. Justice involved individual. It's like the George Carlin bit where he's like, we keep making words into phrases, making them longer and longer because we're trying not to offend people and all we're doing is making it more confusing. Well, I think this is based and I think the bigger picture here is that Trump has made several moves that have been not so good. Chad Chronister, he was the sheriff who arrested a pastor during lockdown because he was trying to host services. And Trump overtly said, he said, I pushed him out because I didn't like what he had done. So here we are. Now. This is a continuing resolution coming through. It is amazing to have Trump back in the seat of power. He's not there just yet, but when you had the midterms with Matt Gaetz and he was fighting Kevin McCarthy and he was saying we want single issue spending bills, they basically said, screw you, we're not gonna let you do it. And it was a war. Now that Trump is back in the kitchen, all of these people are starting to fall in line, knowing this will be the end of their career if they defy not just Trump, but basically the richest guy in the world and the popular mandate.
Ron Coleman
It's amazing. It's amazing. And people are, people are pretending to be really offended by it, but in fact all it is is a transparent version of what always happens and certainly happens in the Democratic Party. They have party. The Democrats have party discipline. How do you enforce party discipline? Shekels, money, the donors. But they musk is doing it publicly.
Tim Pool
Is that, do you guys feel like this is a positive or negative? It's my sense that this is what happens regardless of whether or not the public knows about it. And this, the fact that Musk is, is putting this stuff on X. For anyone that wants to go ahead and look and comment and have an opinion about their. Oh, it's open for, for discussion. I feel like this is a good thing. And so, I don't know, aside from people being like, well, you know, he wasn't elected, which fair enough, he wasn't, but he's just doing the same kind of activism that anyone else could do. It's just that because he's Elon Musk, he gets a lot of attention. If, if Tim does the same thing, he'll get a certain level of response and he'll be able to generate a certain amount of, of political activity just by saying we need to oppose this, blah, blah, blah. Why would it be wrong that Musk does it? And so what are your thoughts on it?
A Lot Eliyahu
I think Elon Musk's bully pulpit is a little bit more potent than Tim's because he's the CEO of Twitter. Only that his threat, his threats mean a lot more than a threat from Tim Pool. Tim Pool says, oh, I'm gonna support a primary.
Tim Pool
Forget that I. Forget that I mentioned Tim then. It's not about Tim. I'm talking about what you did to it.
A Lot Eliyahu
Look what you did to Tim. No, it's just that if Elon Musk wanted to, he could comfortably fund a primary challenger.
Tim Pool
Good or a bad thing? That's the, that's the heart of my question.
A Lot Eliyahu
When he's on my side, I think it's a good thing. When he's not, I don't, I don't know. Is that too nakedly partisan? It's pragmatism, you know.
Tim Pool
Ron, what do you think?
Ron Coleman
I think it's, you know, exactly what you guys said. I mean he, he is. I do think that it makes a difference. I'll say this much, it does make a difference. That it is now publicly again. I think the transparent aspect of it is, is a plus for American politics. It's a plus for my democracy. And it also draws on you know what, what are the two big disadvantages? Conservatives and Republicans. And to the extent that that Venn diagram has a very large intersection then great have had in messaging and in political political pressure. It has been the fact that the organs of information have been in the hands and the of adversaries. Now you have someone who is a pretty, pretty conservative who is utilizing the crowd source nature the really. I don't want to overstate the case because we were talking about the the mysteries of monetization on X before we went on. It's not quite a truly democratic, but it's as democratic and merit. Meritocratic as any as any source of news and information in world history, period.
A Lot Eliyahu
I think it also relates to money in politics. Maybe, Rod, you could tell us a little bit more about how you think that plays into this. I forgot the important case that, that precluded a lot of. I could pull it off.
Ron Coleman
Well, when I first attended the Lincoln Douglas debate. Okay, I can tell you Citizens United.
A Lot Eliyahu
That'S what I was trying to. Referencing a reference.
Ron Coleman
Okay, that's what you're referring to. Yeah. I thought you were talking about my childhood, you know, during. Shortly before the Civil War. I had to, I had to prompt them. Okay. About the Lincoln Douglas debate. That's the level of sophistication in this room, folks. Citizens United. Well, look, Citizens United. How, how is it that you think that this affects.
A Lot Eliyahu
No, because I guess the threat is down. Like he's threatening the primary and would support them with his own money.
Ron Coleman
All right, but that it has always been the case that people that, you know, that money is extremely powerful and, and, and influential in politics.
Tim Pool
I mean, when people talk about Citizens United, they get so wrapped up in whether or not it's fair and stuff. And I can't help but think about the fact that Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton when she spent a billion dollars. Barack Obama spent a billion dollars and his party is ostensibly opposed to Citizens United. Donald Trump beat Kamala Harris when she spent a billion dollars. So as much as people.
Ron Coleman
Billion.
Tim Pool
Yeah. As much as people like to go ahead and make, make hay about the fact that, that there's money in politics, it doesn't directly translate to victories. It does not. No matter what anyone says. And when you see that the massive amounts of money Donald Trump has out spent like 3 to 1.
Ron Coleman
So keep in mind though, you're talking about presidential elections and people who are nationally famous. Like Donald Trump is famous. Well, of course, keep in mind he's famous for being, for being wealthy. For being wealthy. So can't say money. Not a money, not a thing. At the congressional level, all members of Congress do is raise fund, is raise money. That's their entire political existence. And if one person can step into a district and write a seven, eight figure check or one pack, that someone who wasn't part of the political ecosystem in that district yesterday, that's a massive game changer.
Tim Pool
Yes, I don't disagree. I just don't think that the money, money is a one to one correlation the way.
Ron Coleman
That's right. It's not. And yet it's scary enough. And that's. You're 100% right. It's not. Incumbency is an incredibly powerful. Yeah. You know, and yet it scares these guys enough, just the prospect of having that influx of money. But not only that, going back to my, to my earlier point, not just the money, but Elon Musk and other. And influencers who are not as big as Elon Musk, but who are big people like Jack Posobic. Okay. They can put together a true public reaction to a political moment in a very short time. And by the way, I mean, one of the fascinating things that happened with this bill was that they tried the old midnight spring it on them and everyone just started dumping it into AI processors and boom, all of a sudden these, you know, this tool which we all agree is going to destroy our lives and our personalities and our, and our, and our careers is helping save the Republic a little bit because we're able to, you know, to get this information from this encyclopedia sized bill. So, you know, I guess cool stuff's happening.
A Lot Eliyahu
What do you guys think about Elon Musk specifically whipping for this funding bill? Like he's getting into the weeds. I don't know. Do you guys think this is below him? Do you think he's getting a little bit too involved?
Phil Labonte
It's great.
Tim Pool
Yep.
Phil Labonte
Yeah. Fantastic.
Ron Coleman
Also, this is not, this is not mere. This is this bill. When we learn what was in this bill, it was, there's stuff in there that was designed to absolutely hamstring Trump from go.
Tim Pool
Yes, absolutely. Just they wanted to build a new. Or they're going to build. And we were going to build a new stadium for the Washington football team. The commanders in a continuing resolution like that is unconscionable.
Ron Coleman
That's bad enough. That's the money stuff. And the money stuff is a disaster. And we've got a big problem with the money stuff. Yes, but they were going to make it impossible to get the data for the January six commitments.
Tim Pool
Yes, 100%.
Ron Coleman
I mean, all kinds of really subversive stuff. And by the way, the agencies are already doing this themselves and there's going to be so much unrolling that Trump is going to have to do in January, giving us perhaps reason to take another look at the lame duck period for the presidency. Because again, so much that historically depended on norms, on a certain amount of trust and statesmanship and an understanding that there's a change of government and now it's appropriate for the next president or the next House or the next Senate to be the ones to make decisions A, B and C. That's, that's out. It's, it's full scale trench warfare on every single issue. Unless you're Mike Johnson.
A Lot Eliyahu
I wonder if he's going to last as speaker because I saw the other Republicans, other Republicans were standing down. I forgot who it was specifically, but a couple of reps who were upset with him in the past, Marjorie Taylor Greene in particular. I think we're standing down. I don't know if there is a different consensus pick as speaker given how slim the majorities are in the House.
Phil Labonte
If he puts this to the, to a floor vote, if he allows this, he's going to have not just the President against him, the richest man in the world and basically the entire popular movement. Yeah, I don't. His only option right now is going to be he can maybe wishy washy say, look, I don't want to, but I think it should go to a vote and we should see how people decide and then it gets quashed. Maybe he can weasel it out that way.
A Lot Eliyahu
I wonder what the sticking points are here because otherwise this is just a.
Phil Labonte
Game of chicken until $60 billion I think for Ukraine. Right?
Tim Pool
Yeah, it's, there's, there's, there's so much stuff in it as an omnibus bill. There's so much stuff. And just to, to Ron's point, it's, it is really, really, really cool that nowadays they can stuff this thing into AI and the AI can read it and say these are the things this.
A Lot Eliyahu
Thing was probably made by. I think this thing was probably made.
Tim Pool
By AI but, but the point is like they can say, look, these are the, you can be like, you can, you can tell an AI. Hey look for these typ. AI can say, okay, I can look these here, these are the things that you're going to have a problem with. And the fact that, that they can do that in, you know, I don't know how long it took to get it, but I figure maybe an hour when they, when they toss you the bill and say we have to vote on this in the morning. And you know, some, some, you know, intern can go ahead and pop it in, you know, scan it into an AI and then the AI can say, oh hey, these are the things that, that, that you're gonna have. It's specific to the office actually. You can tell it which congressman or congressperson that, that says these are the things that I. And then the AI can Say these are the things that you're going to have a problem with in this bill. And then they can say, wait a minute, these things are just beyond the pale. That's really, really, really valuable, not just to individual congresspeople, but to the American people, like to the population, because they can then have the opportunity to put things onto X just like Musk did and say, hey, we've got a massive problem with this particular bill and they're going to, it's going to make it so that way omnibus bills are less likely to be passed and hopefully that will mean that they'll stop trying to do omnibus bills.
Ron Coleman
Cernovich made a great point earlier today. He said this, this trope that government so called government shutdowns always hurt Republicans. He said, that's 2012. Thinking you we're not there. We're not there anymore. First of all, if that's the lumps we have to take, then let's take it. We the election just ended.
Tim Pool
Yep.
Ron Coleman
Okay, we've got two years for the public to forget about the government shutdown. That was a month after the election. We can handle that. Meanwhile, we have ways of getting out messages which is the how this topic started out that we didn't have when the whole world was still relying on what did the Times say and what did Dan Rather say?
Tim Pool
Those days are over, I do admit. Like, I wonder what this particular issue right now would be like.
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Tim Pool
If Musk hadn't bought the Botx, and if we didn't have people like Vivek and like Musk, you Know, setting the, setting the alarm and saying, hey, these are big problems. Because if I understand correctly, it looks like this, you know, CR is not going to pass. And a large part of that, a large part of the credit is going to go to Musk and Ramaswamy.
Phil Labonte
Trump. Trump made the point and he's correct. All they're going to do is kick the can down the road into his administration and then blame him for all the problems. So that's why I think he's making this threat. That's why I agree with Elon being involved. He's telling him right now, you need to negotiate this, get it done. And then when I come in, then I can start with a clean slate. We could figure this thing out. But right now all they're doing is basically saying, the Biden administration is a disaster, Congress is a disaster. Let's just do what we always do and just continue resolution with a whole bunch of weird nonsense garbage. The crazy thing to me is I don't understand why they don't put like crazier things in it. You know what I mean?
A Lot Eliyahu
We might just not have found them yet.
Tim Pool
Yeah, it's like there's someone that's.
Phil Labonte
I mean, the fake. There should be provisions like Mike Johnson gets $1 million from the public treasury or whatever. Just do it. Just roll with it. Because they're going to pass it anyway. Right?
Tim Pool
Twitter user named Oilfield Rando tweeted, bad news, guys. All those AOC Bobert Sexy AI images we've been enjoying. CR makes them illegal. You can go to jail for two years for those.
Phil Labonte
Wait, is that for real?
Tim Pool
That's what he says and is going.
Phil Labonte
To ban Sexy AOC images?
Tim Pool
Yeah, I'll put it in the, in the slack. There's actually, there's actually.
Ron Coleman
That's like the bill that Ted Frank got overturned in, in California. The AI. You know, the AI political ads.
Tim Pool
Yeah.
A Lot Eliyahu
It'll be illegal for her to post selfies.
Ron Coleman
Moving forward, a California court was able to figure out that, that it's in.
Tim Pool
The slack and the actual wording, the actual language is there to. Tim, where did you post it? I posted it in the slack.
A Lot Eliyahu
Every CR has a bunch of junk included, half of which is probably never looked at a second time.
Phil Labonte
This is. This is. This is big news, guys. This directly impacts a lot. So let's read this. We have this from Oilfield Rando about the continuing resolution. Bad news, guys. All those AOC Bobert Sexy AI images we've been enjoying. The continuing resolution makes them illegal. You can go to Jail for two years for those. Thanks, gop. The Take It Down Act. Is this. Is this actually in the continuing resolution? Can you pull up the actual document and see if we can source this to make sure?
Ron Coleman
Non consensual intimate visual depictions.
A Lot Eliyahu
Ron, do they have a case against me or not?
Phil Labonte
Okay.
Ron Coleman
It says intimate.
Phil Labonte
This title may be cited as the Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Networks act. Or the Take It Down Act.
Ron Coleman
Take It Down.
Phil Labonte
It says the section 1002, criminal prohibition on Intentional Disclosure of Non Consensual Intimate Visual Depictions in general. Section 223 of the Communications act of 1934 is amended by redesigning subsection H and subsection I, inserting after G and following blah, blah, blah. Intentional disclosure of non consensual intimate visual depictions. I mean, I gotta be honest, in all seriousness, I think it's kind of cringe that people are doing this, but the idea that you can't draw a picture of somebody and share it, that they make that illegal, is kind of an absurdity.
A Lot Eliyahu
Just for argument's sake, they didn't specifically write AOC and Bobert.
Phil Labonte
Right.
A Lot Eliyahu
I think this is.
Tim Pool
No, he was. Yeah, he was pointing.
A Lot Eliyahu
This is generally trying to avoid. I think I've heard news stories of young people using faces of their classmates and putting them onto naked bodies of other people. And I think the idea here is to prevent stuff like that, like leaking fake nudes of your classmates or fake porn of people. I think is what they're trying to avoid in this. And moving forward. I don't think this is going to be the worst thing in the. In the cr. I don't know how they're going to police this.
Ron Coleman
Sun.
A Lot Eliyahu
Concentration issues with AI that we should be trying to be aware of. With this is essentially. Essentially trying to work on containing misleading AI images.
Ron Coleman
Certainly doesn't want to continue resolution. That's the. That's our real point.
A Lot Eliyahu
Sure.
Phil Labonte
Yeah.
Ron Coleman
This is not. I mean, this would be. This would be. If you want to take the position that a reasonable person could conclude that there are issues that ought to be addressed or societal issues ought to be addressed, and perhaps it's possible to do so in a way that survives First Amendment scrutiny. Unlikely. But let's say that it were.
Tim Pool
Yep.
Ron Coleman
Then you. You debate it. You take votes on it. You don't shove it into the. We're going to shut down the. The state, the federal parks, which is the only thing, frankly, that gets shut down is these.
Tim Pool
These continue.
Ron Coleman
These never shut down. The FBI.
Tim Pool
Yeah, right. The. These omnibus bills, they. They should find a way to outlaw them. You should have, you should have to vote on every law that is passed. That is what Congress exists for. That they don't vote on every single law that they want to pass, that they just shove them into one thing and say we have to pass this to spend money. It's absolutely. It is disgusting. And it makes Congress pointless and it leaves the people with no recourse, no way to actually punish their senators or their congressperson when they do something bad.
A Lot Eliyahu
And then they try to hold the American economy hostage by threatening a shutdown and the consequences to follow. I kind of hate this because it's kind of fake drama. They will pass one of these cars. Both sides just need to posture right now. Unfortunately, this is how our Congress operates. So this is the process for them.
Phil Labonte
I'm trying to find the full document, but it's very difficult.
Tim Pool
It's. Yeah, I mean, once you.
Phil Labonte
Okay. I think I found it.
Tim Pool
Good luck finding the part that you're looking for.
Phil Labonte
H304.
Tim Pool
Yep.
Phil Labonte
It's okay. Confirmed. All right. I just wanted to make sure I'm just not reading some random stuff on X.
Ron Coleman
You can trust. You can trust. Oil field random on X.
Phil Labonte
Yes. So it's right here. Pro criminal prohibition on the intentional disclosure of non consensual intimate depictions. It says consent. The term means affirmative conscious and voluntary authorization made by an individual. Digital forgery. The term digital forgery means any intimate visual depiction of an identifiable individual created through the use of software, machine learning, artificial intelligence, or any other computer generated technological means Fake nudes. That means using Photoshop.
Tim Pool
Yeah.
Phil Labonte
That's going to mean doing any kind of digital work to create an image of somebody and.
Ron Coleman
Well, and posting it online.
Phil Labonte
That's pretty crazy. I mean, look, again, it's kind of cringe that people do, but I mean.
Ron Coleman
Everyone in Hollywood does that. But that's with consent. Yeah, they're doing it for themselves.
Phil Labonte
Identifiable individual is defined interactive computer service. Intimate visual depiction has the meaning given such term in Section 139 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act.
Ron Coleman
Well, the Consolidated appropriations.
Phil Labonte
The minor portion of it I completely agree with. Right. If they're saying like you can't make images of children using digital software, like.
A Lot Eliyahu
I think it's trying to prevent convincible fake AI porn of people. So like, I agree, if someone were to make a fake porn image of you, this is how they try to battle it. Obviously this might not. This is an issue that I've learned.
Ron Coleman
To live with it. Why can't everyone else.
A Lot Eliyahu
Well, now if you have real nudes, you could be like, no, no, no, actually that was AI So we could kind of get to the singularity of.
Ron Coleman
Nudes actually assume that it's A.I.
Phil Labonte
Yeah, yeah, they say so. There's a portion about minors. Literally everybody should agree with that except for anyone on Blue Sky. They're all probably saying, no, help us. But that's fine. The involving adults gets kind of weird, you know. Look, morally I agree, like people should not be doing this, but this could be so broad as to be like, you can't use Photoshop to make an image of somebody.
A Lot Eliyahu
Like I, I guess it's a lot harder to do on Photoshop, though. Not impossible, as opposed to plugging it into one of these AI image generators. So I just go through my yearbook.
Phil Labonte
And I'm sorry, this is kind of crazy. Look, it says acceptance provided in subparagraph C. It'll be unlawful for any person in interstate or foreign commerce to use an interactive computer service to knowingly publish a digital forgery of an identifiable individual who is not a minor. If one, the digital forgery was published without the consent of the identifiable individual, 2 what is depicted was not voluntarily exposed by the identifiable individual in a public or commercial setting, three, what is depicted is not a matter of public concern, and four, publication of the digital forgery is intended to cause harm or causes harm, including psychological, financial or reputational harm to the identifiable individual.
Ron Coleman
What garbage.
A Lot Eliyahu
Ron, Do I have the first amendment right to post fake nudes of people?
Ron Coleman
Do you have the first Amendment right to post fake nudes of people? In other words, without even coming onto the use of AI could, could you do. Could you do it? That person probably actually could sue you. In California and succeed and in other states with, with a strong right of personality, I would say you don't necessarily have that right.
A Lot Eliyahu
Yeah, I think that's what they're working on here. I don't, I would never do something like that.
Phil Labonte
I mean, just. Are they. They're saying it will be a criminal.
Ron Coleman
Offense, but you have to.
Phil Labonte
I mean the shall be unlawful. Like, so what are the results? What are the ramifications of that going to be? Does it state.
Ron Coleman
I'm sure it does, but, but I just want to point point out there are so many problems here. What is depicted is not a matter of public concern. So you could argue that basically any, any way any form of any politician who's depicted is almost per se a matter of public concern. So to some extent Oilfield Random might be overshooting the mark here. What is depicted was not voluntary exposed. Okay, what was number? Number one, the first one. Digital. So published is an extremely broad word because it doesn't necessarily mean that it was, that it was put in a public forum on the Internet. It could just be sending an email. Yeah, you just be sending a text. Sending it text or a WhatsApp as.
Tim Pool
A meme you could be sending to.
Ron Coleman
Your friend and be actionable, which just like basically child porn. You know, once you. Although that, this doesn't, this doesn't refer to just having it where child porn, you can, you know, they can get you just for just having it.
Phil Labonte
So are we in agreement? Like morally we agree with it, but it shouldn't be a law.
Tim Pool
Yeah, I mean there's a lot.
A Lot Eliyahu
You can't stop the technology.
Phil Labonte
I know. Look, I'm really, I feel like I'm becoming more conservative in these past few months. And it's funny because people try to call me conservative. I'm like, I'm, I'm basically not. But the moral arguments of maintaining a sound and moral society are becoming more and more clear. When you see how the left operates and you see things like this, it's a question of if we have, if we just say outright like, look man, live and let live, do whatever you want, you end up with AI generated images of kids. So clearly we don't want that. Like obviously abusing kids is, is an atrocity. Now you've got people on the left arguing for just make them fake images.
Tim Pool
That'll.
Phil Labonte
That'll do it. That's literally an argument they're making. And we're like, no, no, no, no, no. So we agree that's the line. Like we're not going to let anybody do that. Now they're saying you shouldn't be allowed to do it for adults either. And there's a question of whether we allow it or not. I think it's kind of crazy, but I'm starting to lean towards, do we have to ban things like this now? Typically I lean towards the. We need cultural solutions. This is a cultural problem. I love how Ron Paul said of abortion, it should not be illegal to be unthinkable. And that's what we want to happen. But we're not there. So when I look at this, I'm like, we as a society should not tolerate people making AI porn images of prominent female individuals for any reason. But tolerate doesn't mean make illegal. So the question is, how do we stop people from doing it if we're trying to Be. Well, we want to be out. We don't want to lock people up in jail for things like this. It's a very, very difficult position, which ultimately I feel like I get more conservative. I'm like, society must be moral, because otherwise this degeneracy and degradation destroys society.
A Lot Eliyahu
I think it's worth considering too. Whatever means or method is used to censor this will be used to censor other information that they can call correctly.
Phil Labonte
But now go the other direction. This is the problem. It's not one way, it's not this. It's not a slope. We're on top of this peak. And if we say, if we censor this, they will use it to censor other things we wanna do. Yeah. And if we don't censor this, they will escalate the degeneracy in some disgusting direction. So there is no point in this social map where we can stand still. We're being pulled in every possible direction. How do we maintain a position where we're like, this is a good place to be. We have free speech, we can express our opinions, but we don't tolerate this extreme. I mean, look, to be honest, I could not imagine what, like, some of these female celebrities must be thinking when they see these AI images of them going out or like, aoc. Like, it's. It's horrible. We don't want a society that does that. But at the same time, we don't want to arrest people for making art and images. How do we main. How do we balance that?
Ron Coleman
It's not only that we don't want to arrest them. We don't want that to be part of our civic life. And there's also an aspect where the harder you squeeze, the more leaks out. In a time of information and data and visual, you know, richness, there's so many different ways you can. Information can be shared and broadcast and published. It's almost impossible. Even if you could roll back the extremely permissive definitions of the Supreme Court regarding pornography, the definition of obscenity.
Phil Labonte
Let me. Let me ask you guys a question. It's. Let's go back to, you know, around 1940, and you live in a small town in the outskirts of Omaha, small town of about 300 people, and your neighbor gets a photo of your wife doing something compromising and starts posting copies of them all over the town. What do you think the husband does?
Ron Coleman
Shoots him?
Phil Labonte
Yeah, something pretty extreme, like goes to.
Tim Pool
The guy posting it and probably physically confronts him.
Phil Labonte
I'm just thinking about, you know, I see people in the Chat. They're saying, the Internet's for jokes. You can't ban jokes. And I'm like, my first thought was, okay, well, then kids are not allowed on the Internet. Internet is 18 up from now on. If the idea is the Internet can contain hardcore porn and snuff, kids aren't allowed. Because the argument would then be that children walking. Imagine if a kid was walking down the street right now in your town, and there was a business that put up hardcore porn on the windows. Would anyone tolerate that? Of course not. But that's the Internet. I was on X earlier, and I was looking up. I was looking for a clip of that, that fat activist who got hired by San Francisco. And so I typed in San Francisco body positivity.
Tim Pool
Oh, good Lord.
Phil Labonte
And a bunch of porn popped up. And I was like, wow, that's pretty crazy. Like, hardcore stuff on X, Why is that? That should not happen. Why. Why would anyone tolerate children being on the Internet? The problem then becomes, even if you're an adult, imagine if you were walking down the town, walking down the street in your city, and you saw that someone put your wife's face on nude women in hardcore porn and just plastered it all over the place. The Internet. There's a difference between the Internet and real life. But real life. But the Internet has become a central place of information sharing. And so while we used to walk to the town center and go to church to communicate with our neighbors in our community, now we go on the Internet to do this. And the lanes of the Internet are spattered with porn. Imagine what someone's gonna do when their wife is being put in these images. Is a society just supposed to be like, well, that's the Internet. I guess we have no choice but to tolerate it.
Ron Coleman
It's really a problem. And as you point out, it's a social problem. It's a moral and an ethical problem. And you can't. Unfortunately, you can't put the genie back in the bottle from a legal point of view or from a technological point of view. And that's. That's. So this ubiquity is. Is. Is. Is really a challenge for the level of free speech. I mean, I. I think you made a good right turn there, and you said, let's forget about the kids, because the kids argument is kind of a little bit too easy. Let's talk about the quality of life, the quality of social and intellectual and moral experience that people have going through the day. And so much of the days of so many of us are spent on the Internet. Well, When I was growing up in New York in the, in the 70s, Times Square. Walking through Times Square was a disgusting experience because all those theaters that are now owned by Disney and that are now, you know, these beautiful, you know, presentations had all been turned into. They used to be movie theaters and they had all been turned into porn. In those days, you had to go to a movie theater or to a peep show to consume pornography. And just the names on the marquees were disgusting. And I was a teenager, and I remember really thinking, I don't want to even. I don't even. And that's a degrading experience. It's a degrading experience. And it. So, you know, the civil libertarians have done us a disservice not only by pushing the law in the direction that they did in the 60s, 50s, and 60s, because you asked about 1940, that was sort of the beginning of the end of, you know, small town America kind of, you know, morality, but by changing, moving the overton window and making so much of this to be acceptable in our discourse. And remember a couple years ago we kept. One of the big topics was kids attending drag shows.
Phil Labonte
Yeah.
Ron Coleman
All ages drag show. Why on earth is there something called an all ages drag show?
Phil Labonte
Insane.
Ron Coleman
Why are you bringing your children or permitting your children to attend an all ages drag show?
Phil Labonte
And this, this. So we go back to 2008, we go back to 2010 or whatever. You had the Prop 8 in California, gay marriage. And Republicans have been gloating for some time because there was a meme made by liberals where it was like, things that will happen if gay, you know, gay people can get married. And then it was a pie graph where it said, you know, terrorists will win. And it said there will be a pandemic and a lockdown and things like this. And the pie chart said gay people will get married. And the joke was, nothing's gonna happen. And then these things happened, so everyone started laughing. The slippery slope argument being made by conservatives at the time was, you open the door here, it's going to go in that direction. And it's a logical argument.
Ron Coleman
Almost every slippery slope argument that has been made in culture wars since before Elvis has actually proved to be correct.
Phil Labonte
Well, the logic is really simple. Conservatives made the argument that if there are two men who are married, what's gonna happen is they're gonna be walking down the street and then they're gonna argue. Well, a child's gonna ask about it, so you're gonna have to teach them in schools. What's Going on with the men walking down the street and kissing in public. And that's like, that's a slippery slope. And the liberals said, no, no, they'll be in the privacy of their own homes. Well, sure enough, now liberals are arguing just that the teacher is gay. He needs to teach his students what being gay is and show them these books. And the slippery slope wasn't a slippery slope at all. It was the logical path.
Ron Coleman
And you thought it was a math teacher is the irony is that you.
A Lot Eliyahu
Need to know that you're gay teacher. What is that even like part of.
Ron Coleman
The curriculum, regardless of what the teacher is teaching?
Phil Labonte
So my, my concern, I suppose, is the civil libertarian position, one that I've maintained for a long time, has consistently said we must defend the freedom because we fear the, the slippery slope of if we ban speech, they will use the speech bans against us for other means. And it's like, yes, and if we tolerate vile behavior, then they will push vile behavior in other areas. All the same, it goes in both directions. If we do nothing, they get worse, as we've seen with child drag shows. And if we do something, then they try to use it against us. All the same. I don't know that there's actually a simple answer. The one thing I can tell you is we need to build cultural institutions that do not tolerate this kind of stuff. It doesn't need to be illegal if society rejects it because you will be shunned and ostracized. So we should bring back shame, stigmatization.
A Lot Eliyahu
Yeah.
Ron Coleman
So in order to do that, you have to have a standard from which departure is a source of departing, departure from which is a reason for shame. What's that standard going to be? So historically, that standard was something that was set by religion. What do you do when people don't believe? So, you know, another, you know, I, I'm citing him again. You have someone like Mike Cernovich, who, you know, he lived a pretty out there lifestyle, you know, in the day he, he found religion, he didn't necessarily find God. He concluded we need this in our lives. And this is something that people who are not reactive recognize and that it's true that if you are contemptuous of a religious tradition, of the entire idea of a divine revelation of truth, like if it really offends you as being impossible to believe, then you're a hypocrite. I understand. What can you do? You don't believe. You literally don't believe it. You don't believe it. But if you can acknowledge that you Might not understand everything, that there might just be something to the tradition that you are at this stage in history, your parents, grandparents, were born into that you should at least look to it as a source of stability that enabled the values that you hold dear to have been transmitted to you. That's the starting point.
Phil Labonte
I think there's a great video. I can't remember who wrote about it. Carl Benjamin may have commented on this at some point that a constitution is what constitutes the people and most peoples. In the past, they believed their society had a constitution, social beliefs and the social moral fabric. But they didn't need to write it down because everybody agreed. And the founding fathers here were like, nah, we better write it down because we want to make sure that it's clear as crystal for legal purposes and you don't defy us. The problem now is when you get to the point where you have to write things down, your society is already fractured. The idea that we have to write down and tell people we will use force against you if you abuse children is terrifying. It means that there's a large population of evil people who would do it without the threat of force against them.
Ron Coleman
Well, I tell people, sometimes someone will say, I want you to work out a partnership agreement. And here are my concerns. And here and I. What I hear is that these are two people who don't even. Who don't trust each other as far as they can see each other. And sometimes I'll say, why are you even considering going into partnership with this person? You're. Yes, I'm glad that you came here so that if there are issues, you know, everyone's expectations are on this, are on the same page. But you have to at least start out with an understanding that it's possible that things can go wrong. But this is a person that I want to work with. This is a person that I can go to sleep at night knowing that he's my partner and he's taking care of business and he's fundamentally loyal to the partnership. Same thing with the society.
Tim Pool
I, you know, one of the things that you. One of the things your marks you made really speaks to me is the, the fact that. Or if. If someone can acknowledge that maybe there's things that I don't understand or. And that I don't, you know, don't have all the answers for. One thing that I notice a lot in the music industry is the arguments against religion or the way that people conceptualize religion. It's almost always very immature. It's. I don't need the sky, Daddy, which is. It's such a. It's such a childish way to conceptualize religion.
Phil Labonte
Whose fault is that?
Tim Pool
Pardon me?
Phil Labonte
Whose fault is it?
Tim Pool
I don't know. I think that. I don't know.
Phil Labonte
The generations that came before us did not instill the values of moral tradition in their children.
Tim Pool
Well, not only that, but it's because it's, it's, it's beyond. I do agree that's not wrong, but it's not only that, because the argument that people make is, or essentially the argument they're making is, I know everything there is necessary to negotiate the world. That's what they're saying. They're saying, I don't need a God. And because I don't need a God, you having a God, you believing in a God is silly. And from my understanding, there's no society ever in all human history, no matter how far they're separated in space or in time, there's no society that has not had religion. So for people today to say, oh, we don't need religion, or I don't need religion, it's very, very arrogant.
Phil Labonte
You were going to say when, you know, liberals, or not necessarily liberals, but atheists make the argument that, you know, I don't need a God to tell me not to kill. Cenk Uyghur was here. He made a similar argument. He's like, why would people need some kind of, like, God? Because the argument was that morals come from God. The argument in the only thing I think of when someone says that is sure for you, but what do we say to the murderers and the child rapists and the torturers, the villains? What do we say to them?
Ron Coleman
Wait, it's not only that. That's great, Jack. You're not going to go out and kill anyone. What happens when the government instructs you that it's your duty as a citizen to kill someone, and if you don't do so, you will be killed or you will be imprisoned or some of what's going to happen. And okay, maybe we're not going to ask you to kill. Maybe we're going to ask you, however, to inform on people so that they can be killed or so that they can be deprived of liberty. What's your reference? Where's the table that you go to to determine these questions of how. How do you do it? It's so easy in a sophomore dormitory discussion to talk about what you would, you know what the moral system that you've worked out for yourself. One of the hard things about moral systems that are not. But the product of your own calculation is that they will sometimes ask you to do things that you don't understand and that don't even sit right with you. And that's a great. It's a great challenge. You can study, you can, you can look at, you can try to understand why that is. In Judaism, we say that there are certain aspects, certain commands from God that we are not meant to understand.
A Lot Eliyahu
But.
Ron Coleman
Is our duty nonetheless to. So. So, so now, Ron, Very good. So let's be the Aztecs. Okay. They had a religion and.
Tim Pool
Right.
Ron Coleman
And their religion was that they would rip your heart out and sacrifice you. What? And that was the tradition they grew up in. Right. To which I respond. You're right. You see, this is. This is. You then have to take the next step and say not only you're going to have a religion, but you're going to have to be prepared to defend the beliefs in your religion against people who have different beliefs because they might want to take what you have or they, or they might want to make you live the way they want you to live. So you're going to have to not only have religion, but you're going to have to live it, and you're going to have to reckon with it. That's a gigantic. That's a very big take.
Phil Labonte
Let's jump to this next story. The Post amongst that was exhausting. Smash the like button while we're at it. And here we go from the Post. Millennial California Governor Gavin Newsom declares state of emergency over bird flu after 34 human cases. Well, here we go. On Wednesday, Newsom declared a state of emergency. In the proclamation, Newsom wrote that all residents are to obey the direction of emergency officials with regard to this emergency in order to protect their safety. The proclamation stated that avian influenza H5N1 was first detected in the US wild bird population in South Carolina. We get it. We get it. Since then, 61 dairies have confirmed positive tests for the bird flu across nine counties in Central California. Despite testing and containment efforts, dairy cows at four Southern California dairies tested positive for bird flu December 12, 2024, necessitating a shift from regional containment to statewide monitoring and response to active cases. The document noted that since March, there have been 61 human cases reported across eight states, 34 in California. Under the emergency declaration, states agencies shall enter into contracts to arrange for the procurement of materials, goods, and services necessary to quickly assist with the response to and recovery from the impacts of this emergency. All right, what's the over under on by January 20th, we're in a full blown bird flu pandemic, man.
A Lot Eliyahu
Someone get RFK Jr on this.
Phil Labonte
What do you guys think? I mean, a state of emergency of California is going to grant him some powers. Does it stop there?
Tim Pool
I do think, I do think that it would be, it will depend on the state. I think that there will be some states that'll say no, we're going to go ahead and lock down. And if that will say we need to do things similar to California. I think there are, some states are going to say, you know what, the states that didn't do that last time actually fared better in the long run. There was some problems in the beginning, but they fared better in the long run. So we're not going to do that. I think that it's going to depend. It's going to be a situation where some states will, some states won't. And then the are, then the, the fight is going to be over the narrative there because the, the states that do lock down, they're going to want to make sure that at least they have a good narrative that they can explain away why they did it. And they're going to want to have, they're going to want to have data that supports their decision. So it was the right decision because blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And they'll have their talking points. And then the states that don't lock down will say, well no, it wasn't the right decision. We did the, we made the right decision and we'll have our talking points. And then the American people are going to decide which one they prefer based on emotional reaction.
Ron Coleman
And we're living in a world now in which the presumption that an entire nation had the vast majority of people that you could trust your state and local and federal government on and your doctors.
Tim Pool
Yeah.
Ron Coleman
And the universities on matters of public health could prima pha should be trusted. That's over, that's gone. Yes, there are people who have pled their troth. They are more committed to state control of their health and well being than ever before. But there's a. And they have destroyed so much equity and trust there that the entire process that you just described is going to go, I think quite differently from the way it did last time.
A Lot Eliyahu
So I was reading a little bit more. The most severe case was one gentleman in Louisiana. He didn't die, but he was hospitalized. So far I'm reading that there is no person to person transmission. I'm saying even if this were as bad as Covid were given how much distrust there is between Americans and our health services, our public health services and our government. I couldn't imagining the American people having any sort of patience for any sort of lockdown or shutdowns Allah that we did during COVID time and I especially couldn't see it going into a second Trump administration. So whatever this is, I hope they obviously address it properly. But I couldn't imagine another full scale lockdown.
Ron Coleman
Well, I'm glad Jay Battacaria is going to be in place.
A Lot Eliyahu
Every year we have these bird flu scares, right?
Ron Coleman
That's right. For many years running. That's right.
A Lot Eliyahu
So so far it's relatively contained and hey, we need something to fear monger out. So I guess widely reported.
Phil Labonte
It's hard to know when stories are actually just a short attention span. Civilization, like society, we're looking for things to report on. This scares us because of the past pandemic. But if there was a bigger new if, if there was say like a nuclear strike from Russia in Ukraine, no one would be talking about this. The whole, the whole show would be dedicated to being like the ramifications of nuclear strike. And though it would be an important story.
Ron Coleman
The Jews, the Jews always, always, always.
Phil Labonte
You gotta, you gotta shoehorn them in somewhere.
Ron Coleman
I mean, look at the comments. That's the only, that is the only topic that's being discussed here.
Phil Labonte
No, no, just a few people.
Ron Coleman
That's right.
Phil Labonte
They like, they like saying they tend.
Ron Coleman
To be repetitive, like most dullards.
Phil Labonte
But the, but the issue I guess I'm bringing up is could this just be a nothing burger?
A Lot Eliyahu
Yeah, I think we're heading towards the holidays. People are seeing stuff in the sky where you think we're being visited by UFOs. You know, I don't know, somebody got sick. So now we're trying to fear monger a little bit.
Ron Coleman
So those 34. 34 human cases is nationwide?
Phil Labonte
No, that's 61. 61 nationwide. 31 California. You know that song where it's like, can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars? Yeah. I had this idea for a joke. Where can we pretend that airplanes. The nights die. I want to take it. And then just. AI Hayley Williams voice so she says, Cooper 10 that the airplanes of the night sky are like drones and then.
Tim Pool
Just be like, should we just monitor drones? Yeah, like straight like that.
Phil Labonte
Drones.
A Lot Eliyahu
I think it's funny. It's like somebody thinks they see, they see an airplane. They're like, oh, let me go set my drone up to go Check this out. The neighbor sees it.
Phil Labonte
Oh, crap.
A Lot Eliyahu
I think there's a drone in the air. I think I need to send my drone up to go check this one out.
Ron Coleman
So let me just be clear. I live live in. In a part of New Jersey that is situated.
Tim Pool
I didn't know you.
Ron Coleman
Between Jersey.
Tim Pool
I liked you.
Ron Coleman
Thank you. Between Newark. I don't live in the oil refinery. There are. Believe me, there are places in New Jersey you would be very happy to retire to.
Phil Labonte
Atlantic City.
Ron Coleman
That would not have been my first choice.
A Lot Eliyahu
Jersey Shore.
Ron Coleman
Anyway.
Phil Labonte
Anyway.
Ron Coleman
Anyway, I'm right basically between Teterboro Airport and Newark Airport.
Phil Labonte
Okay.
Ron Coleman
So we're used to the sounds of all kinds of aircraft. I can tell you in the last week I heard it, Mrs. C. Heard it. There were weird sounds and people friends of ours did see low flying craft in the nighttime skies of New Jersey. That's all I know. And you know what?
Phil Labonte
Were they big?
Ron Coleman
Were they. They were. They were big. Like car size.
Phil Labonte
Really?
Ron Coleman
Yeah.
A Lot Eliyahu
I think Americans are predisposed. Not Americans, people. Humans are predisposed to look up in the sky and wonder. Look among the stars. The stars, the moons, the planets, the drones, whatever's flying in the sky and wonder. I'm from New York. I never see the stars when I'm there. When I come out to here, to West Virginia, I look up and it looks like a totally different planet. So, I don't know, we look up.
Phil Labonte
There'S a fly around here.
A Lot Eliyahu
There's stuff in the air and like.
Phil Labonte
With the Potomac river, there's gy. Gyrocopter tours. And so we see weird load, low flying car siiz. Things just like zoom past all the time.
A Lot Eliyahu
And I hope the military is working on something way past our understanding, at least testing out some.
Phil Labonte
Yeah, they're actually anti gravity passenger vehicles. And the quad rotors on them are an illusion just to make it look like they're using, you know, standard fluid dynamic flight.
Tim Pool
Yeah.
A Lot Eliyahu
Instead we have the F35. Barely works. What was that jet that Elon Musk was complaining about in my cut with Doge?
Phil Labonte
Oh, yeah, he said it was awful.
Ron Coleman
Was that the F35?
Phil Labonte
No, I don't know if it was the F35.
A Lot Eliyahu
I don't remember exactly which I. I just.
Phil Labonte
I bring this up. Of course, everyone's concerned about a state of emergency because people are trying to find which conspiracy will come true to hinder Donald Trump. Nobody wants to believe that Trump's going to get in with a clean inauguration. There was some guy. There's a video Going viral where he says he's calling for 11 million people to go to the Capitol and give Trump a coronary. To peacefully force Trump to reject the presidency, which makes no sense, because then who would be president? But everybody's trying to figure out which conspiracies are going to be bird flu drones. What's going on?
Ron Coleman
Jews.
Phil Labonte
What are they going to be?
Ron Coleman
Classic Tim.
A Lot Eliyahu
Why'd you skip that one? Bird flu. Drones.
Tim Pool
He's a shill for Israel.
Ron Coleman
Of course those are all Jewish conspiracies.
Phil Labonte
No, because the drone conspiracy is that there's some secret operation going on. The bird fluid. The bird flu conspiracy is that people are dying of a disease. You have to tell me what the Jews are going to do to Trump.
A Lot Eliyahu
What are they going to do to.
Ron Coleman
Trump since they already control him, after all.
Phil Labonte
Well, then why would they stop him then?
Ron Coleman
Why would they stop him?
Phil Labonte
Exactly.
Tim Pool
Yeah. So what is it?
Ron Coleman
You never have to be consistent.
Phil Labonte
Is that a real conspiracy, though? Do people actually think that Trump is controlled by.
A Lot Eliyahu
Yes, definitely. Dude.
Tim Pool
Dude. Nick Fuentes, he's. He is all in on the. You know, Trump used to be against immigration, like illegal and legal immigration, and now he's all pro Israel and always for legal immigration.
Phil Labonte
Always.
A Lot Eliyahu
It's not only Trump, it's the Zionist occupied government, the zog. Totally under the thumb of the. And Trump too. I mean, his biggest donors were Jews. In both campaigns, the. The Adelsons Musk might have edged out, but he did it through a super pack or what have you.
Tim Pool
But how's the check?
Phil Labonte
There are a lot of weird people out there.
Tim Pool
Yeah, there are.
Ron Coleman
And they're all in the chat.
A Lot Eliyahu
You know, Elon Musk doesn't get enough credit for spending as much money as he. As he does. I feel like the Adelens, they get a ton of credit, but Elon Musk whips out 100 million. And if he were Jewish, I feel like he'd have more eyes on him.
Ron Coleman
But 100 million for him is a little bit more like, you know, through making a wedding for, you know, a middle class person. Whereas for the Adelson's $100 million, I think they might notice.
Tim Pool
Well, I mean, I don't know that. That. I don't know how much money the Adelsons have versus Elon Musk when it comes to, like, liquid cash, you know?
Ron Coleman
Yeah, I mean, I mean, we have no idea what we're talking.
A Lot Eliyahu
I was, I was hinting a little bit earlier about Elon Musk and his relationship with Trump and, And potential concerns about it. I think, you know, we like Elon Musk because he widely agrees with us. But, you know, there are some conflicts of interests with him working in government. He does have very big businesses, Obviously. Trump used to be very anti EVs, until Elon Musk became a supporter of his. And then he had a quote where he's like, well, Elon Musk is one of my biggest supporters now. I guess I got to like EVs. So their relationship is interesting. I doubt it'll last all four years of the Trump administration. I don't know if he's just trying to, like, couch Elon Musk in this Doge project with Vivek, but with how much influence he's exerting, especially with on this cr. I mean, he's somebody to have our eyes on. He thinks he's president, though. I think Elon thinks he's the Jew controlling Trump. It's Elon.
Ron Coleman
You have a problem with African Americans, obviously.
Tim Pool
Yeah, that's what it is.
A Lot Eliyahu
You just don't like South Africans like Serge.
Phil Labonte
This guy says, I don't think Trump is easily controlled. I think he can be manipulated. Maybe not easily, but he can be. And so he certainly falls into these traps where he trusts someone too much. I don't see a reality where someone goes to Trump and tells him what to do, and he just goes, whatever you say, I'll do whatever you want. That's not Donald Trump.
A Lot Eliyahu
You have to try to convince it. It's his idea. You'd have to, Right?
Phil Labonte
You can manipulate him. Trump's the kind of guy who's like, seamus made the joke when we did the Fauci. Trump cast the COVID into the fire gag. So the joke was that Foushee is making an excuse for why they made the virus. And it's a plan. Lord of the Rings, where Foushee says to Trump, do it. Cast the virus into the fires. And Trump goes, well, I was going to, but now I'm not, because you told me to. Like, that's. That's kind of the idea. You can't go to Trump and say, do it. He'll go.
A Lot Eliyahu
Now I'm doing the opposite, and easily flattered. I think if you give him a lot of compliments, tell him he's the biggest and best president that he ever had, that there ever was. You tell him that he won the previous election, that he's never lost the election, that he's been president the whole time. He'll, you know, he'll think I told him that.
Phil Labonte
I said he was the best president of my lifetime and that he never lost one. And it's. I didn't say that.
A Lot Eliyahu
But if you do say that to him, he'll give you the. He'll give you endorsements.
Tim Pool
True, though.
Ron Coleman
Yeah.
A Lot Eliyahu
So how was your experience meeting Trump when you did. Did that?
Phil Labonte
I met him a couple of times. The interview is good. But I did tell him that he's the. He's the greatest president of my lifetime. And it's not very many.
Ron Coleman
And he agreed.
Phil Labonte
He did agree. He said thank you. You know what I mean?
Ron Coleman
Yeah.
Phil Labonte
Or something to that effect. But it's true. You look at the economy, you look at the border, you look at trade policy, you look at foreign policy, it's the best we've ever had. But there's an element in this country that wants us to dump hundreds of billions of dollars in Ukraine. And they can't articulate why, other than Russia is a big country and Ukraine is a small country.
A Lot Eliyahu
So I think it was Mitch McConnell who wrote an article in Foreign Policy earlier this week, or I think it was earlier this week or late last week about why we should still be in Ukraine and supporting Ukraine. He'll argue things like that. All of our enemies are. They're all working together. It's this axis of resistance. And part of why Assad fell was because Russia's bogged down in Ukraine. And, you know, if Russia is successful in Ukraine, then it could help embolden China. How do you react to something like that from somebody like Mitch McConnell, say, one more time. Mitch McConnell argues that all the axis of resistance are allies with each other and that when Putin's bogged down in Ukraine, he, Assad, is propped up less and China's less emboldened to invade Taiwan.
Phil Labonte
And can you make that work inside? So you're saying that our enemies are united and if we withdraw from one area, they, they will become emboldened.
A Lot Eliyahu
And. Yeah, like, for example, if China sees that we retreat from helping Ukraine, then we're therefore less likely.
Phil Labonte
I think it's the actual. I think it's the opposite. I think China sees an opportunity with US Entrenchment. This, this is. This. I think this is more historically accurate. China wants Taiwan. They're going to wait until we are occupied and bogged down in a war we can't handle, and then they're going to make their move. So if we say we're not getting involved in Ukraine, who's not an ally, our concern is Taiwan. Who cares? Russia, Russia takes the Donbas region and moves into Crimea. And we're like, whatever. Not a NATO country. China is going to be like, we can't make a move on Taiwan because the US Is armed and ready. We dump hundreds of billions of dollars into Ukraine, start sending troops to Poland, and we've been doing that. And then China, what happens? A Chinese vessel drops anchor and severs to undersea cables because they create conflict and chaos there. They assist. And then when we're distracted and that pulls resources away from the Pacific Fleet, they can move into Taiwan, which they've been continually trying to do.
A Lot Eliyahu
It's going to be interesting to see how foreign policy plays out in the Trump administration, because I feel like he's neither an isolationist nor interventionist Trump, like he does in many political fields, he ascends.
Phil Labonte
So I think Trump tries to play a little close to chest. He doesn't want to know. You know, you never know which way he's going. He's going to go. He can nuke you. Or I could launch a piece.
A Lot Eliyahu
You might need another madman involved in his administration.
Phil Labonte
I certainly hope not.
A Lot Eliyahu
Well, I think he already has some of them with Marco Rubio and Mike Waltz, was it?
Tim Pool
And are you're saying that.
Phil Labonte
Yeah.
Tim Pool
That Marco Rubio is a madman?
A Lot Eliyahu
Not a madman, but more Neo Khan. People would call him a neocon. Yeah, yeah.
Tim Pool
I mean, that. That makes sense. I mean, Marco Rubio is the most establishment guy that I think I've heard Trump decide to.
A Lot Eliyahu
I think he's very hawkish still. Rubio.
Phil Labonte
Yeah. But I think Rubio has proven to Trump that he'll just do what Trump says. Yeah, that Trump's. Trump's like, listen, you're going to do the job. You're going to do what we want you to do. And then afterwards, you have a career in front of you. And Rubio is probably like, okay, it.
A Lot Eliyahu
Would be dumb politically for any of these guys to cross Donald Trump. Obviously, it's not even the Republican Party anymore. It's a MAGA party. It's the magazine, baby.
Phil Labonte
Yeah, the Republican Party was awful. I never liked him. And then Trump came in, and he is not a traditional Republican. And Bernie was trying to the same thing, the Democrats, but he wasn't willing to really try.
Ron Coleman
When push came to shove, Bernie backed down.
Tim Pool
Oh, yeah.
Ron Coleman
Every single time.
Tim Pool
Bernie is a spineless coward. He is absolutely. No matter how. I don't care if you like what he was talking about or not, it is objectively true that he is spineless and he doesn't have the guts to stand up to the Democrats at All he walked off the stage as soon as two women got up on stage and were saying this is our stage now, and blah, blah, blah. He's like, okay, fine, get out of here. You know, so the idea that Bernie is like any is a person to be emulated. That's. That's a joke in my opinion.
Phil Labonte
So he has no spine and no guts.
Tim Pool
What consists of his body, I imagine. I imagine he has like a carapace. That is, it is kind of his. His torso is actually a carapace. He's. He's a, you know, he's a bug.
A Lot Eliyahu
So. So there's not many good things I could say about Democrats, but I do think they subject the socialists in their party, subjugate the socialists in their party very well. So like what they did with Bernie Sanders and now what they're doing with AOC with these head house positions that she was.
Tim Pool
We'll see about that. Because the socialists in the party were setting the. The narrative for the Democrats for the past 15 years. That's what woke is. It's all race communism. Right. It's all just communism based on race equity is all communism. We got to bring the, the people that are. That are of the minorities, poc. They all have to be given stuff so that way we can tear the white people down. Like that was a whole. The whole deal. So I don't know that they actually do control them. We'll see. The current civil war in the Democrat Party will. Will kind of show you. But the. And it would be nice to. To see the Democrats kind of return to being, you know, marginally intelligent and to really isolate people like Hassan and the, the far left. Something about the fact that there is. There are so many Democrats or leftists that would caucus with the Democrats that will say things like they support the murder of the UnitedHealthcare CEO and. And all of the horrible, monstrous results that can come with having that sentiment being the dominant sentiment in your political party.
A Lot Eliyahu
Yeah, I think they really speak to the sentiment that many people were praising Luigi for.
Tim Pool
Yeah, that's exactly what I'm talking about.
A Lot Eliyahu
Which is so gross. I also think there's something to be said about half the people who are talking in support of Luigi online. Half of them were pos Communists, obviously. And I feel like it's dangerous to be sympathetic with people like those once you start justifying political murder. I think that leads you down, obviously a really dumb, gross, obviously immoral route. But that's the age that we're on right now. Shinzo Abe, God rest his Soul was murdered in cold blood. But the, the person who perpetrated that crime was praised and he was, you know, so you have to wonder what the downstream effects with that will be. Multiple attempts on Donald Trump's life, obviously with all the praise that Luigi has received online, although probably not as real, not as potent in real life as it is online, could inspire as others. So we could have this stochastic terrorism effect. That's the only time I'd ever appreciate and use that a phrase like that too.
Tim Pool
I thought you were going to go on it. No, I, I, I agree with you, but if you look at the politics in, in the US and, and I think that this is probably, you know, inflamed by the Internet and stuff, but there are people on the far left and there, there are far more people on the far left that are comfortable with calling themselves communists, but there is a growing faction on the far right that are comfortable, you know, doing, putting up pictures of Hitler and saying, we owe this man an apology. That was one. That was a.
Phil Labonte
No, that was a wild tweet. Six million views.
Tim Pool
Unreal. You know, I mean, I mean, look.
Ron Coleman
If know was 6 million.
Phil Labonte
It'S a good question.
Ron Coleman
Can you name all 6 million and.
Phil Labonte
Are there even that many phones?
Ron Coleman
That's right, yeah.
A Lot Eliyahu
You know, well, some people could view it multiple times and, but the, the.
Tim Pool
Point, the, the point being.
A Lot Eliyahu
What are we doing?
Tim Pool
The, the point being the, the Internet does notify. Let me get through my sentence.
Ron Coleman
Why, why should I? You had all these sentences.
Tim Pool
Never mind. There's crazies on both sides and the Internet helps them.
Ron Coleman
That's what I'm trying to say. And most of them talk about them from other countries.
Phil Labonte
Anyway, we got this story from the. Actually, I don't know if they're gonna. Let's, can we pull it up? There we go. Okay. I just want to make sure it was gonna load.
Ron Coleman
Oh, man.
Phil Labonte
The story from the Free Press. Jesse Single, Blue sky has a death threat problem. I love Blue sky so much.
Tim Pool
It's a, it's a, it's a. Yeah.
Phil Labonte
Because it basically is a vacuum cleaner or a garbage disposal for the violent, unhinged leftists. They all got mad at Elon and left and now we can sit here in peace and talk like adults. But Jesse Zingle writes it was supposed to be a gentler, left wing alternative to X. My grim experience proves that just isn't the case.
Ron Coleman
Jesse Single is one of the liberals that I have followed for many, many years and he pretty much avoids interacting with me because it wouldn't look good to his friends. But he doesn't block me either. And I often tweet him because he sometimes has good common sense. Takes, and that's the beginning of your hint into what the problem is, is that he sometimes has common sense. He is a centrist liberal and he absolutely has Trump derangement syndrome. He will rationalize things that are so preposterous. He's a liberal, but sometimes he, he can't help but notice that the emperor isn't wearing any clothes.
Phil Labonte
So he posted a couple of these from Blue Sky. Them basically saying they want to kill him, but they can't. There's another post, we're saying they want to shoot him twice. The funny thing is there's a bunch of posts from people who, conservatives who went on Blue sky and tried posting opinions and were banned for it or throttled for it. Jesse Zingle found that on this leftist, gentler, free speech platform where they actually claim free speech, there's hundreds of thousands of death threats and they won't do anything about it. I almost think Blue sky was intentionally created as a catch all for far left lunatics. So it's all on purpose.
A Lot Eliyahu
The thing about Jesse Single too, just to give people a background on him, he's a journalist who writes extensively about trans issues and that's the reason why he's getting this pushback. He's liberal in all other senses, except for the trans issue, I think, particularly with children going on puberty blockers. So the reason why most of the people who are threatening him are trans activists who are very frustrated with his coverage about how in Europe a lot of these different health and public health institutions are rolling back their puberty blocker plans. And the more he points this out, the more they call him transphobic. He's probably the number one target of trans activists because of his work in this space. He will constantly review trans activists articles using misleading science. He'll fact check the New York Times using misleading science about trans issues. So that's why he's garnered so much hate on this platform in particular.
Tim Pool
And I mean, he's doing, doing the Lord's work. Good for him for standing up about this stuff and taking the slings and arrows that he will get from the, the absolute loonies that would send those kind of tweets and which tend to be, you know, the trans activists tend to be volatile, a volatile bunch.
A Lot Eliyahu
He's liberal in every other way and he didn't toe the line on one issue. And this is the pushback.
Ron Coleman
But it happens to be an issue that is of most interest to people who are already mentally unbalanced.
A Lot Eliyahu
You know, I might be giving him too much credit, but he is the premier disinfo reporter on trans issues. Good for him. Across the journalism space, I commend Jesse Single. He'll probably never come on the show, but I'm sure he has an open end.
Tim Pool
He'll probably disavow the commendation from us. But either, either way, he's still doing good work and he's, and he takes a lot of heat and it's really, really, it's something that's very, it's very, very respectable that he continues to stick to his guns.
A Lot Eliyahu
And beyond his politics, he's willing to do journalism and he's willing to follow where that leads him. And I think that's refreshing in an era where all of journalism is tainted so much by partisan politics.
Tim Pool
I wouldn't even say partisan politics. I'd say by ideology.
Phil Labonte
What do we think happens with, like, the antifa crowd? Because they're being isolated to places like Blue sky, they're excising themselves from the conversation. They're sitting here cheering for the alleged healthcare CEO assassin. I can't imagine they maintain any kind of mainstream appeal for much longer.
Tim Pool
I think they've lost mainstream appeal.
Phil Labonte
Right. You look at John Stuart, Bill Maher and these other liberals, Cenk Uygur now going, oh, well, I'm a moderate populist and I think we should give Trump a chance.
Ron Coleman
They're no longer useful. Yeah, they were used. They were deployed at, like the essay in their time. They were, they were meant to hit the streets and disrupt, you know, the establishment and to be the leading edge of the left wing. But in a way which structurally they could be disowned when they were no longer useful. They're not being paid anymore, by the way. A good number of them are in jail now.
A Lot Eliyahu
I don't think they dispersed. I mean, I think they dispersed and are now just infiltrating different institutions. They are becoming staffers. A lot of them are becoming photographers. A lot of them are journalists, A lot of them are videographers.
Tim Pool
I think that you're talking about two distinct groups, the ground troops, the ones that are not staff, they're not staffers. They're not doing things. They're still significantly homeless, I think. Still going to be throwing fireball. Give them the opportunity. They'll still throw firearms. They still have face tattoos. They still, they're still the ones that are the real crazies. That are, you know, mentally compromised and will do antisocial acts just for the. For the fun of it. They're.
A Lot Eliyahu
I think a lot of antifa is a lot more privileged than we like to think so. And a lot of them are joining Nazi profits. A lot of them are, you know, trying to rehabilitate their image in different ways. And they're infiltrating, and they're very happy about it behind the scenes. When I think they infiltrate, I don't.
Tim Pool
Think that there are. There. I don't think you're wrong about a segment. But when I think of anti. When I think of antifa, I don't think of the activist types. I think of the ones that are actually the bot. The. The. The Molotov cocktail throwers, the ones that would. Would look to go fight the police. And. Whereas there are some. I understand the. The. The lawyers in New York that had Molotov cocktails comes to mind. They. They were essentially given a free pass, but they were two New York lawyers living in Brooklyn. So I understand that they exist. But I think there is a smaller portion that are the smart ones that are, you know, kind of giving direction than the larger portion of the. The, you know, just crazy, I mean, crazies. I mean, if you look.
A Lot Eliyahu
I think they're at Palestine marches, frankly. That's where they're.
Tim Pool
Yeah, probably. But if you look at. You look at the, you know, the people that attacked Rittenhouse, the first dude, I forget what his name was, whatever his name was, but he wasn't like Rosenbaum. Yeah, Rosenbaum. He wasn't an antifa. Antifa, but he was a useful idiot for antifa. And he was a crazy dude. And he was, you know, he'd been arrested and yeah, he's just bad news. But that's the kind of dude that antifa will have. Throw the first rock at the cops or that will, you know, throw the rock through the window because he's the one that'll do it. And he's got. Got basically nothing going for him anyway. I think those guys are more. I think those guys are more numerous than the actual smart people that are kind of directing him. So that's my take on the antifa. But I don't think that they're. I don't think they're going anywhere. I just don't think that they have the same kind of energy that they had.
A Lot Eliyahu
I'll tell you where they are. They're on Blue sky threatening to kill Jesse Singal. It's interesting now, because if we'll see all the hit pieces from the Washington Post and, you know, New York Times. So Blue sky, they have a serious threat problem. Yeah. So we'll see if it's held to the same standard that all the other platforms. It won't be, so I doubt we'll see the hit pieces on Blue Sky. Unless, Tim, if you migrated over, you know, then we might see them.
Tim Pool
No, you get kicked off like I was.
A Lot Eliyahu
That's funny.
Tim Pool
I was on there and it took like it. I said something actually positive about Taylor Lorenz. I said she was a gift, and she still blocked me.
Phil Labonte
Well, you didn't get banned, though.
Tim Pool
No, no, but I. I'm sure that I could. If I continue down that road, I will. I was. I was called a racist bigot on the first day that I was on Blue Sky. So, you know.
Phil Labonte
Well, I love that we're winning. So I'm excited for January 20th. There's gonna be a bunch of parties in. In D.C. it's gonna get wild.
Ron Coleman
You're gonna be there.
Phil Labonte
Yes, of course.
Ron Coleman
Did I know the answer? I knew the answer.
Phil Labonte
Well, we live here. Yeah. It's like all keeping it jump, you.
A Lot Eliyahu
Know, I'll be searching for Antifa right outside the gates, so.
Phil Labonte
Yeah. I wonder, do you think there's gonna be big protests on the 20th?
A Lot Eliyahu
Yes, definitely. I hope. I. I feel bad. I have a conflict of interest for my work, but I. I sure hope so. I couldn't foresee there not being protests, frankly. D.C. is such a liberal place.
Ron Coleman
All right. But I don't think it's gonna be like in 2016, you know, all it.
A Lot Eliyahu
Takes is a small group of agitators to. I remember Trump fans getting assaulted leaving some of his rallies, or I think it was the inauguration the first time. So people still believe Trump is a fascist. There was a segment of crazies, a.
Phil Labonte
Deplorable, where Trump supporters had that big gala, and Antiva was chucking bricks and rocks at us as we were walking in the building, and the cops were just standing there, and it was crazy as we're going walking on the street with a police line keeping hundreds of psychopathic leftists away. The cops are by the doors, and as we're walking in, they're just debris. Just. They're launching things at us, and the cops didn't do anything about it. And then Gavin McInnes licked the guy's face.
A Lot Eliyahu
And I also believe there's an inaugural. There's a woman's march two days before the inauguration, if I'm not mistaken.
Phil Labonte
In D.C. you know, I can respect it. But I think the issue is what they're saying online is that the Women's March did nothing. They were like, what, how many? Like 3 million people showed up in DC, walked around and left and literally nothing happened. So I'm concerned that these people are gonna be lunatics. Well, I'm concerned they are. And this time they will be angry lunatics.
A Lot Eliyahu
Yeah.
Ron Coleman
Losers, I think. So. Let me suggest though, that, yes, there, there's always going to be a percentage. And when you are doing things that are inflammatory, a small percentage will seem like a lot more of a phenomenon than a large percentage. Having said that, it seems to me that the playbook has moved away from the mass violence and there's probably a tactical reason for it. And it looks like you have an idea as to what it might be.
Tim Pool
No, I actually, I was going to ask you what you thought it might be.
Ron Coleman
I was hoping Tim would explain it. Actually. No, what I think it might be is it didn't work. At the end of the day, it. It was disruptive and that was something. But the left has learned that. The right has learned there are things. For example, January 6th, when I first saw it advertised, the idea popped into my head for a minute to go, then I said, absolutely. A trap. Yeah, absolutely. That would be insane. Because it. Because I saw what happened to Gavin McInnes. I saw what happened with the Proud Boys. All you have to do is show up.
Tim Pool
Yep, yep.
Ron Coleman
And push back and you're now the terrorist. So you don't. That's not an option. But the right has learned.
Phil Labonte
Anybody who had been watching my show would have known. So it's funny thing that happened after, after January 6th, is that I got accused of having foreknowledge that Tim Pool had been informed they were planning to storm the Capitol. Because I had said in September of 2020 that in November a bunch of right wing. If Trump loses, a bunch of right wing people are gonna like storm the White House or something. And it was speculation. I was saying, these people are pissed and if Trump doesn't win, these people are gonna go to D.C. and like Storm the White House in November. Well, I was wrong. Nobody stormed the White House in November, but people did storm the Capitol in January. And so then I was accused of having foreknowledge. My opinion on this is just. I think it's fairly obvious when people are angry and planning on protesting. And then you had Trump saying it's gonna be routed to be a big protest and we're Only an hour away. And we were like, should we get a hotel? And we actually got, we rented a hotel room in advance to do the show live from D.C. on the, on January 6th. And then as we were getting closer and closer to the date, we were having conversations about security with the barricades and the plans the city had had. We were concerned about being able to actually get down there and do any kind of show with the mass showing was expected. So we said, I don't think we can do it. We should probably just stay here. And then we did. We stayed in the, in Maryland and did the show from a normal location. But that day, doing my morning show, watching the news, it was crazy. As it was unfolding, it was a lot scarier than because you didn't know what was going on. Then someone gets shot.
Ron Coleman
We have to keep in mind there's, I mean there is a, again talking about moving that Overton window. There is now a regime, an expectation of non enforcement of the law against violent left wing protest in D.C. so when the Palestinian protesters scaled the White House fences and you know, were really extremely menacing around the area of the White House, nothing was done. They were like, no, I think there were literally no arrests there. That is the policy of law enforcement in dc. So that does, that does still pose a risk.
Phil Labonte
My, my, my real concern was that if we showed up, Nancy Pelosi would deploy belt fed 50, you know, and we'd be, I think she actually requested that. Was that the story?
Tim Pool
Yes, she did.
Phil Labonte
She requested belt fed 50 BMG or something? No, not 50 BMG. It was something else. I'm not a gun guy, so I don't know the exact ammo type you'd use for those. Butterfly trigger.
Tim Pool
Well, that, that, that's a ma deuce. That's M2. That's a cow.
Ron Coleman
Audie Murphy on top of the tank right down Krauts.
Tim Pool
She possibly could have just asked for belt fed. And that could be anything from a 556 to a 762.
Ron Coleman
Shut up. Just, just stop it. You see, you, you, you, you bring a guy onto the show and already it's with the guns. Hey, killing and the shooting and the hurting.
Tim Pool
Listen, yeah, Phil, I'm a gun guy. I can't help it, Ron. I'm armed right now. Come on.
Phil Labonte
Oh, welcome to West Virginia.
Tim Pool
Yeah, right.
Phil Labonte
Well, look, as long as the. I like to entertain the idea that the left has basically given up and they're isolated. The far corners of the Internet in places like Blue sky and they're not going to show up. We got reporting from Andy Ngo in the Post Millennial. Some antifa chick got arrested and charged and convicted. So I don't know, maybe the tolerance for this stuff has just ended. People were scared because antifa was going to burn your building down. But now that Trump won, there's a popular mandate. People feel like they're not isolated anymore. And so now they're just like, we can, we can stand up.
Tim Pool
Yeah. I have a feeling that the victories at the ballot box have made people that were a little hesitant to admit that they supported people on the right, they supported Trump. That I think that has changed the opinion.
Ron Coleman
Well, I think more than that is that it became acceptable to acknowledge that it's allowed for Republicans to win elections. I mean, I was very struck on election day and the night of election day and the next day by the corporate leaders who are associated with the Democratic Party congratulating Donald Trump. That I don't think would have happened in 2020 if he had won in 2020. He succeeded in normalizing himself as a person who is entitled to be elected president if the election.
Phil Labonte
Did you hear what he said when he did a press conference? He was like, you know, in my first term, everybody was fighting me and now they're all trying to be my friend. I guess my personality changed. I was like, wow, he's very calm when he said it, so if you.
A Lot Eliyahu
Can'T beat him, join him.
Phil Labonte
But I think it is true, he's kind of chilled a little bit. You know, he was, he was a bit more aggressive first time around and now he's.
Ron Coleman
But, you know, I also sense a real determination and focus on his part. He is so much more aware of how the game. Oh, yeah. And so I, so I, I mean, yeah, he is older, but he's. What I see when I look at him is a guy who won't be fooled again.
Phil Labonte
Yeah. Yeah.
Tim Pool
The, the fact that he has had four years where he was kind of out in the wilderness was, is a big deal. He learned, he did learn a lot in the time that he was in office, of course, but he, it wouldn't be the same had he won directly after the, directly after his first term. I think this actually is going to be better for America because of what he's determined to do. Having him had the four years away than, than the results that he would get for America had he gotten a consecutive term.
Ron Coleman
And there has been, I mean, the deep state and the, the, the cancer, the woke mind virus was given the opportunity to spread in a way that we would prefer that it hadn't. But we know where it is now. They have, they, they came out shamelessly, you know, places in government and in other institutions. I mean, the universities have lost all credibility among normal people. They're now readily identifiable and their contempt for the rest of us is open. And there's going to be a lot more popular support than there otherwise would have been.
A Lot Eliyahu
On this idea of Trump becoming normalized, I think this is in large part due to the fatigue of fear mongering and how long that could last. Four years, eight years. And then it's like, what does Trump actually accomplish that is such a big threat to our country? They say he won't leave office, but he ends up leaving office. He's going to be a dictator, he's going to start World War iii, He's gonna pull us out of NATO, he's gonna do this, he's gonna, he's gonna take away your rights. When none of this comes to fruition, I think the populace naturally realizes that the threat that he's made out to be doesn't really exist.
Phil Labonte
So I think, I think the actual challenge we have is finding our identity after a tremendous victory. The left may be so disheveled and lost in the Democratic Party, there's going to be a lot of infighting on the right over what the next moves should, should be. Yeah, that'll be interesting.
Tim Pool
I personally, I mean, I think that it is good that Donald Trump and the people that he has lined up have the incentive and have made it clear that they want to cut the government because of the, the way that the left has exerted a significant amount of control over the population is through the bureaucracy. If we can shrink the bureaucracy, if we, if we can actually make significant cuts and make, make the bureaucracy significantly smaller and take the government out of people's lives on a daily basis, that could be a very, very good start to keeping the woke mind virus out of everybody's living room and bedroom and, and stuff like that.
A Lot Eliyahu
It's extremely exciting political times because I think we're seeing a realignment in both the Republican and Democrat Party. Currently the Republican Party is all maga, but we'll see if in a post Trump world, anybody in the Republican Party will be able to coalesce the parties. And the future of the Democrat Party is really all over the place. It's whether or not they decide to go the leftist or more moderate route. There's other interests in the Democrat Party, but there are major realignments. We're also Seeing, you know, some extremes or fringes of both party kind of agreeing with the opposite side. So, for example, many leftists are agreeing with many of the libertarian types on the right. So it'll be interesting to see how this plays out in a decade, two decades and. And how the parties realign in that way.
Phil Labonte
Indeed. Let's go to Super Chats if you haven't already. Would you kindly smash that like button, share the show with everyone you know and become a member over@timcast.com, my friends, it's Wednesday. We've got tomorrow here in the studio. And then Friday, of course, we are going to be flying out to Arizona for Amfest for the final show of the year on stage in front of thousands of people. That's right. Shout out to Charlie Kirk and TPUSA for having us out for the third year. They really go. They really do go above and beyond to get us on board and make the show possible. So I really do appreciate it because it's exciting to be a part of. Exciting, exciting to be there. They have like the smoke come out and they introduce you as you walk on stage as a video playing. They really make you feel. Feel good and it's going to be fun to be there.
Tim Pool
I might wear a jacket.
Phil Labonte
A jacket? Yeah. Wow.
A Lot Eliyahu
Charlie Kirk is a potent political force. I foresee that guy running for president down the line. He is a very potent force in the Republican.
Phil Labonte
That dude's got energy.
A Lot Eliyahu
He's got something going on. He's doing a lot of things right.
Phil Labonte
Passion, passion. Smash that like button, my friends. And we're gonna read your super Chats. What do we got here? Robert Delacruz says, why is no one super chatting but you, sir, did so you were. Hal Gailey says, crime requires a victim. The left lane is for hurting the government's feelings. They love writing tickets for their butt hurt.
Tim Pool
All right, fine.
Phil Labonte
You know, I gotta. I was driving in the left lane, committing no crimes, and I got pulled over and I got a ticket and you know, the ticket was four.
Tim Pool
Driving in the left lane. I'm. I'm sorry that you got a ticket, but actually I'm happy that there are police.
Ron Coleman
As a Jersey kid, you should have known better.
Phil Labonte
I am not a Jersey kid.
Ron Coleman
Aren't you from Jersey?
Phil Labonte
I'm from Chicago.
A Lot Eliyahu
Yeah.
Phil Labonte
No, I didn't do anything illegal.
Tim Pool
And.
Phil Labonte
And this is why so many people.
Ron Coleman
You did live in Jersey, though.
Phil Labonte
Yeah. Yeah.
Ron Coleman
And yeah, I'm sure you learned what there are laws are in New Jersey. You cannot drive in the left lane.
Phil Labonte
Can't do it anywhere, apparently. It wasn't like I was driving the left lane for an hour. I got into the left lane, I was there for a couple minutes and then a cop pulled up, pulled me over and I was like, is there a problem? He's like, you're in the left lane. And I was like, yeah, I had. I just passed somebody I didn't get over. And he's like, well, you weren't there too long.
Tim Pool
Was that recently?
Phil Labonte
This was. No, this was 15 years ago.
A Lot Eliyahu
Okay.
Phil Labonte
And then they took my license from.
Ron Coleman
Me and 15 years ago. The world's completely different now. Is that how bad the Super Chats are? Is that.
Phil Labonte
No, it's Phil saying the left lane is for crime. You know, I was like, I. I too have been accused of a crime. The left lane or simply being in the left lane.
Tim Pool
We'll get there, Ron. You'll end.
Phil Labonte
All right. All right, let's go, let's go. Kieran the Meat man says we need a show with Ian and either Phil or grumpy old man where they talk about graphine and spiritual power, etc. It could be comedic gold. I feel like any podcast with Ian is a valuable show because it's entertaining. Like, there's a lot of people who hate on Ian, but they need to understand that, that if you enter into the show understanding who and what Ian is, you enjoy it. But there are a lot of people who are very serious. So when Ian asks something that doesn't seem to make sense or they don't understand it, they get angry because they want a very serious, top level, you know, Atlantic accent conversation. And then Ian might say something weird like, it feels good to stick your finger in a cow's mouth. Which is one of his most famous.
Tim Pool
Quotes on the show.
Phil Labonte
He told that to Elijah Schaefer and Sydney and it was very funny. But I agree that if you were to get Ian on a show with, you know, anybody, I think Ben Shapiro and Ian would be hilarious.
Tim Pool
Oh, that would be.
Ron Coleman
That's Matter meets Anti Matter.
Phil Labonte
Right. Could you imagine Ben just being really frustrated like Ian? Like, I don't. I don't know what to say. You know, I think that'd be hilarious. All right, all right.
Tim Pool
Ian is kind of all feeling, isn't he? Yeah, he emotes. Everything is kind of an emote.
A Lot Eliyahu
I know he has a lot of out there ideas. He's not the only one. But I will say this, he's one of the best young, youngest looking, 40 some odd year old men that I know he's 50. He's 50. And when you look at the guy, it's like, I don't know, graphene. I don't know what you're eating, juice you're drinking. But he's 44 something. Right. The first time I saw him, I thought he was younger than me. I'm 31. He looks like a. A young something. Maybe it's the genes something.
Phil Labonte
I'm not joking.
A Lot Eliyahu
He's doing a lot of things I just can't pinpoint. It's the sun. Yeah.
Phil Labonte
So you can actually look at the images of. There's a. There's a famous photo of twins. One worked in the sun and one drove a truck. And you can see, like, there's the person who worked outside. Their skin is really damaged and old.
A Lot Eliyahu
Just has this youthful glow. That guy.
Phil Labonte
All right, let's grab some more super chats. Raymond G. Stanley Jr. Says, Tim, I went to the dentist. He wanted to fix my tooth abscess or I could die. I told him to shove off. He must not know that I'm proudly mouth positive. Yeah, it's in reference to the body positivity movement. Because I was talking about San Francisco, hired that fat activist. And she says, you have the right to remain fat. And I'm like, you do, but you'll die. I think you have a right to be out of shape. Anybody wants to be. And I have a right to shame you. So be it.
A Lot Eliyahu
Raymond G. Stanley Jr. We're doubling the fluoride in your water to make your teeth better. I'm sneaking it in your stuff.
Phil Labonte
Okay, buddy Says first. Lol. Bro, you were so far from first, sixth, fifth. All right. V. Bent says, stop funding Palestine, stop funding Ukraine, stop funding Israel. I think America is best off funding America. But I have an idea, guys. I want to give Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan. I want to give them a trillion dollars. I propose this, this bill be. Be put forward by all Republican members of Congress and Democrats, if they're interested, where we pledge $1 trillion each so long as we've secured our border, got a job for all the people who are struggling to get work after we've solved the healthcare problems, after the unemployment level is stable at a certain amount, for a certain amount of years, after we've ended any trade disagreements, ratified treaties, withdrawn our troops from all these other countries, once we've solved all of our problems in this country and we have extra money lying around, maybe then the conversation can be had about whether or not we give that money away. But we cannot be a country with a Problem of crime with a problem of infrastructure failing with a porous border, that the same time as there are hurricane victims in North Carolina, we are giving our money away.
Ron Coleman
Let me just ask you a hypothetical question. What if, and I had no problem with cutting off the foreign aid and including to Israel. I think it's the worst thing for countries to become dependent on foreign aid. And it makes, it's bad for the, it's bad for the relationships, all the things. If I told you I could solve the border crisis by giving $50 million to Mexico, let's just say $50 million would, would solve that problem.
Tim Pool
How?
Ron Coleman
No, no, no.
Phil Labonte
Or okay, how about this?
Ron Coleman
Or we can spend 100 million in taxes.
Phil Labonte
Okay, here's a pitch for you. I can give you $100 or you can give me 100 and I'll sell you the Brooklyn Bridge.
Ron Coleman
I don't know. So you're refusing to accept my hypothetical. You're saying it can never be the case? No, I'm asking spending money. It's spending that's sending money.
Phil Labonte
I'm not. I'm saying if you're going to tell me for $50 million being given to Mexico, it would solve the border crisis and I say how? And you don't give me an answer, the answer will be no.
Ron Coleman
In other words, you can't answer the hypothetical. What if I said 100, what if I said $5 billion?
Phil Labonte
I maybe there's a misunderstanding. If anyone comes to me and says I propose a plan to solve this crisis, my plan involves giving X amount of dollars to foreign country, I say, and what will that do? Okay, so I don't, I don't care what you're asking money for. I'm always going to ask you, what does the money go towards. If your hypothetical is, yeah, you have a plan that we all looked and go, wow, yeah, that's going to solve the problem, right? Yes.
Ron Coleman
Then it would be worth it.
Phil Labonte
Yes.
Ron Coleman
So that's the problem when you say we need to solve all our problems before we spend a penny overseas. There are American interests that are affected by our spending overseas. Some now I think right now our spending overseas is like a drunken sailor. And the social, the, the cultural warfare and the woke crap that the State Department has been trying to import into other countries, especially countries with, with traditional cultures, is disgusting. It is. And it's the height of arrogance and ugly American. But there are smart ways to use foreign aid.
Phil Labonte
Agreed?
Tim Pool
Yeah.
Ron Coleman
Okay, we can all go home.
Phil Labonte
I believe that properly appropriated foreign aid can actually avoid war. It can stop US from needing to launch incursions into foreign countries.
Ron Coleman
Exactly.
Phil Labonte
Trade agreements, diplomacy, and the path towards wealth can be done effectively. I think that's, that's economic diplomacy. And so my point wasn't that we cut off all foreign aid, period. It's if you want to give Ukraine $250 billion. I'm sorry, not when there's hurricane victims, but if there's a proposal for a budget per year and we can talk about the number supposed to be.
Ron Coleman
And I mean, the lack of accountability to money that's gone to Ukraine is the scandal of the baby, brand new century. The blank check. It's, oh, it's just, you think it was like a Chicago school board or something, you know, I mean, all right.
Phil Labonte
Wyatt Kaldenberg says, Tim, why do so many right wing YouTube influencers act like my 1950s gossipy grandmother on her party line phone? It's embarrassing and childish. You know, I was thinking about this because I look at analytics every day.
Ron Coleman
Look at, in other words, you understood that question?
Phil Labonte
Yes. So I, I, I check analytics, I look at competition, I look at other channels, I try and figure out, you know, what generates higher view counts and what are people interested in. I want to know what's going on. However, I will only ever record a segment if I'm interested in talking about what the segment is. Because I don't write scripts, I don't pre plan arguments. I literally see stories that I'm interested in and I'll, I'll put them together and then I'll press record because I want to express myself, which is why yesterday I only had four instead of six because it was a drastically slow news day. And I was like, I'm not going to try and just press record for the sake of press record. It's not going to happen. However, many of These other big YouTubers don't have membership programs. See, as a Tim cast member, I don't really have to worry about loss of revenue from not doing videos on a regular schedule. I used to. Four years ago we launched the member program. And as I've long said, you guys as members give me the opportunity to actually try and do good work. Because before, if you got sick and you didn't produce a YouTube video, that money was just gone. And that means you can't pay the bills. That's scary. So these other YouTubers who are going full gossip, I'm not going to do it unless it's something I'm truly passionate about. You know, I was talking about the Brett Cooper contract because I Love talking media contracts. I love the inner workings of the media industry and the lying, the cheating, the stealing and all the dirty stuff that goes on these big corporate news outlets. But a lot of these YouTubers on the right are now looking at the abject failures of the Democratic Party and there's very little left to even talk about. It's Nancy Pelosi has been thwarted. Now it's serious when she broke her hip. Because mortality rates for an 84 year old who broke their hip, it's around 30% within a year. That's terrifying. I hope Nancy would be okay, but you know, she's old. That's, that's, that that's relevant, I think we're talking about. But there's no longer this big conflict. There's no more. The Democrats have tried to pull a fast one. No, they lost. They were crushed. Just absolutely crushed. So for a lot of these influencers and YouTubers who built up a political brand, what are they going to talk about? That's why I think there's going to be identity crisis on the right and you're going to start seeing people on the right choose their, their point, right, RFK. Everybody loves RFK Jr. Trump is winning. Now he's pro choice. Why are we supporting this guy? Oh, because they won. Now they can open the door to the criticisms that won't hurt their chances in the White House. Attacking RFK Jr. Before the election, you run the risk of hurting Trump. Trump's in, it's guaranteed. Now we're going to try and move RFK Jr on the issue of abortion, which means right wingers are going to start talking about right wingers more often. The left is going to get a bunch of money from corporate interests and in six to eight months they're going to invest heavily in these sophists and they're going to come back with a vengeance. There you go. Maybe I'm wrong.
Ron Coleman
I don't know.
Phil Labonte
I hope I'm wrong. I hope the right just wins and everyone celebrates. And viewership on right, right leaning channels has been way up. Viewership on left leaning channels has been way down.
Ron Coleman
Once you win, not only viewership, subscriber people are losing massive numbers of subscribers.
Phil Labonte
On the left, yeah, yeah. On the right, not so much. If you look at. So I track this stuff because this is the industry. I love looking at what people are doing. And I looked at a bunch of conservative channels and they have a slow growth since November, very small growth. On average, you'll see right wing channels, most leftist channels after November Their view counts dropped by 40%, their subscribers dropped by, you know, 80%. And they're actually weighed down. It's kind of crazy.
Ron Coleman
So that I have trouble understanding, was it a coping mechanism? And now it no longer satisfies because they lost. Why would you watch someone who's saying the same thing now that he said six weeks ago? Why were you watching him six weeks ago? Because you thought he was gonna be right?
Phil Labonte
Well, so there's a critique of David Pakman right now that I think is interesting, where Alina Habba had a mundane interview. It was boring. And Pacman got critiqued because he basically took this boring and mundane interview and then cut it and then spoke as if it was a shocking bad thing. Basically. Like, imagine Donald Trump saying, today I'm gonna go have McDonald's and then maybe see my family. And then you get a liberal going, Donald Trump, unhealthy, wasting time, taking the day off because there's nothing to complain about anymore. This is what they're doing. Yeah. Me, I'm just like, guys, it's sometimes okay just not to make the video, I guess. But I think a lot of these people are scared and desperate. I'm not as much. So, look, the other day I was sitting here, and I stayed way late, and I'd exercise, and I'm, like, sitting here. Like, there's literally nothing. What we call these days granular, A lot of little stories. Nothing really moves the needle. So what this is is news outlets have little to write about, so they rewrite existing stories, and you get a whole bunch of stories that add, like, 2% of the information back into a story we already saw. And I'm like, okay. You know, back in the day, the BBC would famously run an image on the screen saying, there is no news. And it would just show, like, the flag, the British flag.
Tim Pool
Really?
A Lot Eliyahu
I didn't know that.
Phil Labonte
Yeah, this is what I heard. But now it's like, no, no, no, no. You absolutely have to have news no matter what. Here we are.
Ron Coleman
When I was a kid, you'd watch TV until they ran out of tv, and then there would be what they called a. A test pattern.
Phil Labonte
Yes, that's right. I remember those three. In the morning.
Ron Coleman
That was it. Or they play. Then they would play the Star Spangled Banner.
Phil Labonte
Yep.
Ron Coleman
And that. That was. That was civilization's way of telling you it's time.
Phil Labonte
This is the early 90s, right. In the early 90s, you'd fall asleep with the TV on and wake up to the test pattern just showing all the colors and static. I used to try and watch Tales from the Crypt when I was little, but it would come on at like 11, and I'd fall asleep at like 9 because I was like 7 or something. And then I just wake up to the. Or whatever, you know.
Ron Coleman
Good times.
Phil Labonte
Yeah. Back in the day.
Ron Coleman
Go through the six channels that you could receive, you know, and give up on the UHF and said, okay, I guess they're gonna have to read the. Read the comics.
Phil Labonte
All right. Grofty says a chicken knows when to buck buck and when to hold the buck buck, buck. Chicken City is, I'm telling you guys, chicken citylive.com because what you got to understand about Chicken City, it's ASMR. You're at work, right? Let's say you're on the 30th floor of some Manhattan skyscraper and the only sound you hear is the hum of the air ventilation blowing over your head. And you're sitting there with bags under your eyes doing another TPS report. Man life. Then you look at your computer and a light bulb appears. You type in chickencitylive.com and the live stream pops up. And what do you hear? You hear rain, wind. You hear buck, buck, buck. And now you are in nature, and those noises are soothing to the human soul.
Ron Coleman
And that, folks, is the story behind the merger, the acquisition of Tim Cast by Chicken City.
Phil Labonte
Actually, people don't understand this. The parent company of Tim Cast is actually Chicken City. And I was difficult negotiations with Roberto, but ultimately he agreed. And our principal source of funding for everything we do is. Is the chickens. We. The super chats from the Chicken city is about $800,000 per month in super chats just for the chickens. And they are fat and happy.
Ron Coleman
It is passed through. So you know Russian, I've said. So Russia.
Phil Labonte
No, it is Soviet. Yeah, they still exist on the moon, though. But. But Trump set it up, you know, because he's been a Soviet agent since.
Ron Coleman
The 80s, so a Soviet asset.
Phil Labonte
Indeed he has.
A Lot Eliyahu
Still waiting for the P tape.
Phil Labonte
Amber Black says, is it bad I want the gripers banned from X? Only because they're so freaking annoying.
Ron Coleman
I mean, pretty annoying in the chat, too.
Phil Labonte
Well, I did a poll, though. I did a poll. So don't worry. I did a poll on X and I said, israel or Palestine? It's at 75% Israel, 25% Palestine with 17,000 votes.
Ron Coleman
17,000.
Phil Labonte
So I love doing. It's funny because that was a few weeks ago, Right? The poll just did it right now.
Ron Coleman
You just did it. Oh, because you did that once before, though.
Tim Pool
Yes.
Phil Labonte
And it always ends up with the same proportions of, you know, large support for Israel. And I think it's funny because I didn't say anything. I didn't say who you support. I just literally posted Israel, Palestine. You click on it.
Ron Coleman
Can you believe that? You do a poll sometimes and people think they're being really clever. Neither one.
Phil Labonte
I hate them both.
A Lot Eliyahu
Who cares?
Phil Labonte
That's all there. Yep.
Ron Coleman
Save yourself.
Phil Labonte
Well, Michael Malice famously adds to all of his polls a question where it's like, I can't comprehend, you know, choice choices. Yeah, yeah, yeah, good. Call him out. But it's funny because what they do is the people who. The first thing I'll say is they're liars. Largely. My position on Israel is largely, like, slightly positive. You know, it's like, I don't really know or care that much. I've been there before. It was all right. I understand the criticisms of their military actions in the government, all this stuff. I think, you know, if you want to criticize the Israeli government, fine, as long as you understand foreign policy and it's not your whole identity. And so I criticize what I call Israel derangement syndrome. And that is when someone's whole identity only exists around Israel, which is insane. For example, we had a journalist on the show, and one of our callers asked about the fentanyl crisis in West Virginia, and within 30 seconds, he was talking about Israel again. And I said, my, my guy, we are talking about West Virginia. And he tried to justify why we had to talk about Israel in the context of opiates in West Virginia. And I was just like, okay, dude, like, that's Israel derangement syndrome. Now what happens is the people who suffer from Israel derangement syndrome don't like that. They don't like that that's been identified. So what they do is they counter by saying, Tim thinks all criticism of Israel is Israel derangement derangement syndrome, to try and do an inverse. Ha, ha. Tim, Some. No, We've done a lot of shows where, like, you know, Luke's been critical of military actions by Israel. And we've had Dave Smith on and Clint Russell and Josie and. And we've talked about the libertarian positions, but pertaining to whether we fund Israel, whether their actions are justified, I think having a conversation about our military allies and the actions they take is 100% justified. What I think is absolutely psychotic is when someone then says, but, you know, Israel controls the United States. And I'm like, then why are we giving More money to Ukraine. Well, it's because Israel wants Ukraine to have the money, not Israel. I just, I just, I'm like, my dude, we have given more money to Ukraine than we've given to more money to Ukraine in two years than we've given to Israel in 50. Yeah, like the, the Ukraine. The US clearly has its interests. But largely my point ultimately is why these, these polls are funny is it's an Internet hive. And so what they'll try to do is they'll, they'll bombard people with these comments, dislikes, etc, in an effort or the chat, in an effort to convince them the audience actually supports one idea over the other. Uh, sock puppetry. Well, fortunately, I'm not an idiot, nor am I weak willed. So I don't care if the audience is going to spam, you know, anti Semitic or anti Israel things. I'm drawing a distinction between the two. I have a view on the matter that's not going to change based on the audience yelling. So what ends up happening then is I post a poll. Israel, Palestine. Look at that, 75% says Israel. I didn't, I didn't say anything about the country. Otherwise the people who are spamming and saying Jews and yarmulke whatever, are a fringe minority that are trying to play an audience manipulation game to trick these weak willed commentators into switching into a narrative about Israel and Jews that is unpopular and wrong. And a lot of these creators and a lot of these individuals on the Internet are so weak willed that the moment they see that they get 200,000 likes on one of these posts or views or whatever not likes, they immediately think, I'm gonna do more of this. And there have been a series of influencers who had good ideas and were conservatives and were on X, started posting more and more unhinged things where today you look at their profile and the only thing they've talked about is Jews. And I'm like, that is called audience capture manipulation. And those are weak willed people. Extremely weak willed people.
Ron Coleman
Tim, thank you very much. I. Here's your bison stick.
Phil Labonte
Oh, thank you. Just make sure you sign the check before you go.
Ron Coleman
Oh, no, that's, that's, that was a bison stick performance. Well, the check is of course, for the entire episode.
Phil Labonte
What people don't know is while Chicken City is the parent company of Tim Cast irl, it's funded by Mossad.
Ron Coleman
Well, of course.
Phil Labonte
Anyway. All right, let's go. Slo Slavkai says for every Hassan Piker they prop up, we'll have two Sam Hydes ready. Also, try to get Sam High to do a culture war with Dave Landau.
Tim Pool
That would be hilarious.
Phil Labonte
Heaven's me, we are trying to do more with culture war man on the street, on the ground stuff, so a lot. I actually did a video, got like 45,000, 50,000 views, I think did pretty well. We just. We just need to have them consistently rolling, so we'll figure that out. I think it's going to be good. There's a lot to talk to the regular folk about. You know, originally, Tim Cast IRL was supposed to be that I was gonna do the stuff. Yeah. The idea was I would do the morning show, and then if I got done early, I would. I built the van. The van with solar panels and everything. And then I would go to say, like a university and pull up a table and be like, let's talk about the news of the day. And the podcast was supposed to be in real life with regular people, but then covet happened. So here we are instead in a studio show with recurring guests and things like that, which is the kind of the opposite of what it was supposed to be. That being said, though, we don't do any digital interviews, so it is.
Ron Coleman
I'm glad you explained that, because I've been on Tim Cast in real life, I think, four or five times now.
Phil Labonte
Yeah.
Ron Coleman
And every time I come here, I'm wondering where the real life party is.
Phil Labonte
Because we're sitting here in front of each other.
Ron Coleman
Yes. And for us, it's real life.
Tim Pool
Yes.
Ron Coleman
But none of these people realize that just. Just as the moon landing was an elaborate hoax. We've all been in bed for hours.
Phil Labonte
We're actually in Tel Aviv right now.
Tim Pool
But of course, I thought that the. The moon landing was actually when they installed the space laser, the Jewish space laser.
Phil Labonte
Well, the. The reason why when you look out the windows, you can see frame, metal framing is because we're actually in a sound stage.
Tim Pool
Yep.
A Lot Eliyahu
In Israel, in the undivided capital of.
Ron Coleman
Jerusalem, which you can, by the way, if you climb up to the top, you can see West Virginia from here. Because the Earth is flat.
Tim Pool
That's right, yeah.
Phil Labonte
And we have a telescope. Just, you know. No, what. What's. What's the. What's the single one called on a scope?
Ron Coleman
A telescope and a binocular. So it is a telescope.
Phil Labonte
It is a telescope, yeah. Oh, okay. Like the thing the pirates would use when they go like that. That was still just a telescope. Oh, okay. Well, there you go. Telescope.
Ron Coleman
You can spy glass.
Phil Labonte
Did you guys see the flat Earthers Went to Antarctica and discovered the Earth was round. That was epic. And the guy was a lot of.
Tim Pool
Traveling to figure out that the Earth's around.
A Lot Eliyahu
I admire them for going through with it and then saying, oh, no, we were actually wrong. Instead of, oh, we did something wrong, or our measurement tools are going to be.
Ron Coleman
We got to Antarctica, where they were met by the Mossad, who paid them off to say that the Earth was round.
Phil Labonte
So you admit it.
Ron Coleman
Of course, you can't do anything about it anymore. We control everything. Even the simulation of criticism of Mossad. That's all psyop.
Phil Labonte
So there's actually no opposition at all to Israel. That's a psyop. And all support is actually a psyop. Most people just don't even know what's going on or care.
Ron Coleman
That's right.
Phil Labonte
It's a PR campaign. All right, all right, all right. What do we have here? Let's see. A Trudolph says cartoonist was killed in France for drawing Muhammad again. Or is that the old story? I'll look up if it can. I don't know.
A Lot Eliyahu
Another Charlie Hebdo type situation.
Phil Labonte
Yeah. What have we here? The realtor staff says fukink. Ridiculous. For the amount of time it took the countless numbers of staffers to write 1500 pages of ISH, they could have just written an actual budget. Doge to the moon, please. Yep. Yeah, it's on Poipus.
Tim Pool
Yeah.
Phil Labonte
Speaking of porpoises, we. We got to swim with the manatees this. This past weekend. Yeah, the Met in Florida. Tampa. Sick when we went down the next day. And they. So I didn't. I didn't. You know, I don't much care to swim with the manatees, but Richie and Allison jumped in, and we had this little guide, and this manatee was basically going to them and hanging out because it wanted belly rubs. And so when.
Tim Pool
That's hilarious.
Phil Labonte
And then when we were like, time to go, it swam over, and it wouldn't let one of the tour guides leave because she was giving it belly rubs. Yeah, it is fun. Humanities are big, doofy, slow things. They can go fast, though. But they are fun sea cows. All right, what is this? What is. Ian Slater says mazel tov for tonight's episode? Not Jewish, but have my yarmulke on standby in solidarity. Did Ben and Jerry set this up? I mean, Ben and Jeremy. Sorry, it wasn't the ice cream thing.
Ron Coleman
No, those are actually Palestinian guys. The. The Jews who hate Israel kind of guys because they. They live the.
Tim Pool
Yeah. Ben, I thought you were Talking about Ben and Jeremy, I was like, those guys are Palestine.
Ron Coleman
That's right. Yeah. No, I once.
Phil Labonte
I once met a guy who was a fan of the show, and then he asked me something about if I thought something about lizard people. He was like, yeah, I think Trump's going to win. It's really great, but I'm. I'm concerned about the, like, the Reptilians. And I was like, is this a joke? And then he started saying a bunch of wacky stuff, and I'm like, man, there are people out there who fall for anything.
Tim Pool
Yep.
Phil Labonte
That's scary.
Ron Coleman
So, I mean, but what. So what did he mean?
Phil Labonte
I have no idea.
Ron Coleman
Okay.
Phil Labonte
He thought Hillary Clinton was a lizard or something. And Trump was fighting.
A Lot Eliyahu
I don't know if he's just being derogatory, like, Chuck Schumer is a reptile, figuratively or literally.
Phil Labonte
He was talking about how he's like. Like big. And he was like, been watching Q and then started reading into it, and he's concerned that the Reptilians aren't going to let Trump win. And I was like, you mean, like, lizard people? And he was like, well, yeah. And I'm just like, it's hard for me to believe there are people out there who actually think these things that are walking around like, living a normal life. But that's the Internet for you.
A Lot Eliyahu
They all have equal say on the Internet, too. The person who you're arguing with on the Internet believes that reptiles run our government.
Phil Labonte
Yep. All right, what is this? I don't know what that means. All right, we'll read one more here. Check out Richard Barris's the People's Pundit podcast from today. He revealed that more people seem to have found spirituality very interesting indeed. Well, my friends, if you haven't already, share the show with everyone you know and smash the like button, become a member over at timcast. Com, because that members only show is coming up in a few minutes, and we're gonna reveal who really signs the checks for this show. You can follow me on X and Instagram at Tim Cast Ron. You want to shout anything out?
Ron Coleman
Subscribe to the Ron Coleman Lawyer Ron Coleman channel on YouTube. I. I'm really happy that people follow me on X, but I. I could use a little bit more love on the YouTube channel. It's not anything like Tim's, but if you're smart enough to follow it, then you might enjoy it. I. It's entirely possible that you're not. You're watching this program you've watched this long. So Maybe. Maybe you are. But all you have to do is subscribe. I don't care if you actually watch. Okay. Otherwise, though, thanks for the opportunity. You know, one more shout out. Harmeet Dhillon. Yes, Harmeet Dillon, my former partner. I say former because I have stepped back from the partnership in the Dylan Law Group, appointed by President or nominated by President Trump to be the head of the Civil Rights Division in the Justice Department. A fantastic development. Good for every American. Every American. She knows what she's doing. She knows how to do it. She's going to rock.
Tim Pool
Cheers to that.
A Lot Eliyahu
Ron, it's been awesome having you on the show and hanging out with you tonight. I wanted to say it would be cool to see if Trump tapped you as well. Not just some army Dylan.
Ron Coleman
I'm not on his radar. I'm not on his radar and I'll tell you the truth, I can't afford to work for the government any more than I ready.
A Lot Eliyahu
And maybe Harmy Dylan will be nice enough to put in a nice word for you. My name's A Lot Eliyahu. You could find me on Twitter under that name. I'm a field reporter here at Tim Cast. Check out Tim Pool's Culture War Channel. There's a video of me interviewing protesters outside of the Supreme Court on trans issues that they were protesting for getting puberty blockers to children. There'll be more on the ground reporting like that on Tim Pool's Culture War Channel in the future. YouTube.com Timcast YouTube.com Timcast thank you guys for tuning in. Phil.
Tim Pool
I am Phil. That remains on Twix where you can subscribe to my Twitter page. I'm Phil. That remains official on Instagram. The band is all that remains and we have a new record dropping July. I'm sorry, January 31, 2025. It's entitled Antifragile. 10 songs. It's our 10th record and if you want to get some previews, you can go to YouTube, Amazon Music, Apple Music, Spotify, Pandora and Deezer. You'll check out Forever Cole.
Ron Coleman
Everyone's writing that down. Good. You know, keep going.
Tim Pool
Excuse me, sir.
Ron Coleman
I'm sorry. No, go ahead.
Tim Pool
You can check out Forever Cold let you go. No tomorrow divine any of the streaming platforms. Ignore Ron.
Ron Coleman
It's great stuff. It's the best to it.
Tim Pool
Don't forget the left lane is for crying.
Phil Labonte
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Timcast IRL: Elon & Trump Threaten To NUKE GOP Reps Who Support CORRUPT Spending Bill w/Ron Coleman
Release Date: December 19, 2024
Overview In this episode of Timcast IRL, hosted by Tim Pool, the discussion centers around the contentious government spending bill supported by Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson. The episode features Ron Coleman, a lawyer and commentator, who joins Tim and Phil Labonte to dissect the implications of the bill, the involvement of high-profile figures like Elon Musk and Donald Trump, and broader themes such as government overreach, political realignment, and the challenges of maintaining societal morals in the digital age.
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Discussion: The panel critiques the CR for including irrelevant and contentious items, arguing that it serves as a vehicle for bypassing meaningful debate and oversight. Trump's statement on Truth Social emphasizes the importance of negotiating bills thoroughly before his administration takes office, highlighting a significant power shift within the GOP. Elon Musk's parallel stance underscores the growing influence of non-traditional political actors leveraging platforms like X (formerly Twitter) to exert pressure on legislative processes.
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Discussion: The conversation delves into how substantial financial resources can influence elections, particularly at the congressional level where incumbency and campaign funding play pivotal roles. The panelists argue that while money isn’t a direct predictor of electoral success, its ability to fund primary challengers poses a significant threat to career longevity within the GOP. They also touch upon the ethical concerns surrounding large-scale funding and its implications for democratic processes.
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Discussion: The panel examines the declaration as a potential prelude to broader governmental control measures, drawing parallels to previous public health crises like COVID-19. They express doubts about the necessity and proportionality of the response, suggesting that such declarations could be leveraged to implement restrictive policies similar to those seen during lockdowns. The conversation also touches on public distrust in health services and governmental actions, predicting varied state responses based on political leanings.
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Discussion: Ron Coleman critiques the bill for its vague and expansive language, which could unintentionally criminalize legitimate activities like digital art or innocent expressions. The conversation highlights the difficulty in balancing the protection of individuals from harmful fake images while preserving free speech rights. The panel discusses the potential for abuse and the challenges in enforcing such a law without infringing on constitutional freedoms.
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Discussion: The panel discusses the failure of alternative social media platforms like Blue Sky to effectively manage violent and extremist content. They argue that without robust moderation, these platforms become breeding grounds for harassment, hate speech, and conspiracy theories, undermining the principles of free speech they purport to uphold. The conversation also explores the difficulty in distinguishing between legitimate discourse and harmful rhetoric in online spaces.
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Discussion: The panel anticipates significant political shifts with Trump's return to power, predicting a crackdown on bureaucratic overreach and a potential rollback of progressive policies. They discuss the strengthening of the MAGA movement within the Republican Party and the fragmented state of the Democratic Party, which could lead to the rise of more extreme or alternative political leaders. The conversation underscores the challenges of navigating a polarized political environment and the potential for increased activism and protests surrounding the inauguration.
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Discussion: Ron Coleman and Phil Labonte debate the feasibility of legislating morality, arguing that legal measures often fail to address the root of societal issues. They advocate for cultural solutions, such as stigmatization and collective moral standards, as more effective means of fostering a respectful and ethical society. The conversation touches upon the decline of religious influence and the need for alternative moral frameworks to guide behavior in an increasingly secular world.
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Discussion: The episode concludes with reflections on the importance of maintaining democratic principles in the face of rising online extremism and political polarization. The panelists stress the need for transparent and accountable governance to preserve public trust and prevent the erosion of democratic norms. They advocate for informed and active citizenry as essential to navigating and mitigating the challenges posed by extremist groups and misinformation campaigns.
Conclusion This episode of Timcast IRL offers a critical examination of current political dynamics, highlighting the intersection of legislation, influential personalities, and societal values. Through a robust discussion with Ron Coleman, Tim Pool and Phil Labonte explore the complexities of government funding, the pervasive influence of money in politics, and the ongoing struggle between maintaining free speech and enforcing moral standards. The episode underscores the necessity of cultural and institutional reforms to navigate the fractured political landscape and uphold democratic integrity in an era of digital communication and increasing polarization.
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For more insights and detailed discussions, tune into Timcast IRL hosted by Tim Pool. Stay informed and engaged with the latest in politics, culture, and current events from an independent perspective.