Why Are They All Saying The Same Thing? (Ep. 2491)

27:06Yeah, Justin said it right. Death to America can mean a lot of things. You know, maybe they don't mean it, even though they've clarified it multiple times. And when they were asked about a nuclear weapon, lead government officials before they were dead, they were like, yeah, yeah, we just have to be honest. We're trying to build a nuclear bomb. And then the other people like Pierce doesn't, well, why would they be wanting to build a nuclear bomb? And you see these other influencers, they weren't trying to build a nuclear bomb. Maybe you should tell them that, you morons. But Trump, yes, we should 25th Amendment, President Trump.

27:37That's your brilliance. That's how you become additive to the conversation. That's your input. Morons. I'm so sick of the moron class. I'm so happy to have like an intelligent audience of people that shows up here every day. Thank you. Thank you. I love you guys and ladies out there. By the way, for those with the taco BS, again, taco, Trump always chickens out. Really? He put this true social post out this morning Saying, hey man You think this guy's not aware the Iranians May not stick to the ceasefire Because there's multiple factions in Iran right now He notes that basically Until we get a real agreement That we stand ready Now they're going to be pissed about that I thought he always chickened out Tell that to the Iranians buried six feet deep If they're even buried I read a story the other day They don't even want to bury the Ayatollah in an outdoor ceremony because they're afraid.

28:33I thought he always chickened out. Yeah, no, right, right. No more. They don't give a shit, these left. Here's another thing I wanted to win there, too. I saw a tweet. I reposted it this morning. Vince Langman, good account, good account, cool account. Check it out. Was saying, like, I saw my buddy Cat Turd, too, this morning, tweet about this as well. This is, there's never been a better time for you to do a timeline cleanse and lifestyle cleanse with the grifters and the Panikins, never Folks, you may think like, oh man, this sucks, you got all these people in the tent, you know, trying to destroy a movement It does suck, but there is a positive component to this too The positive component is clear as day The grifters have showed their asses Mute, block, do whatever, unfollow, do whatever you have to do Here, oh, thank you Vince L, at Langman Vince The last six weeks have been the best closet Never Trumper radar detector in the history of X It's now incredibly obvious Who the real Trump supporters on this platform are Or who the grifters are You're damn right Great post, you see I reposted it This is the perfect time Facebook, Instagram, X, TikTok It's a good time to unfollow the morons And by the way The morons are not the people In our movement That bring up issues and problems That could occur in the Iran war That's not who we're talking about So don't you dare to put words in my mouth I'm talking about the people Who just lie to you We're losing, how?

30:10And they have no data, it's a data point And they don't have any actual data They have hidden knowledge about how we're losing all the time Well tell us, how are we losing? Our bases have been destroyed I saw that clown McGregor Ah, patients have been destroyed. We're all dying. Casualties are tragic, but they've been very low compared to the damage we've inflicted on them. And what are the left-wing media goons concerned about? Political correctness and DEI initiatives in war. No, I'm not kidding. I got that coming up in a minute. Let me take a quick break. I'm way over. There's us to keep this.

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32:20This is the time. Cleanse the timeline. We've also got to deal with these ridiculosities on the left. I debated throwing this in the show. Sometimes I'm like, ah, I saw this on Fox yesterday, but I need you to see it in case you missed it. Here is MSNOW, formerly MSNBC. This is just like peak psychopathy. You know Lawrence O'Donnell over there, the stop the hammering guy? Stop the hammering! Stop the hammering! If you haven't seen that, check it out. We'll have to do it another time. However, here's Lawrence O'Donnell, very concerned that Pete Hegseth said, leave no man behind. Justin's like, no, he wasn't upset about it.

32:58No, no, he was. We rescued a pilot. And instead of celebrating rescuing the pilot, Lawrence O'Donnell's really upset that we said, man, behind. This actually happened on TV. Like, for real. Check this out. We leave no man behind. That is, of course, the old-school version of the idea back when only men flew American military planes. General Dan Cain, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, put it this way. We leave no one behind. The general knows, unlike Pete Hegseth, that that could have been a woman they were trying to rescue, and it might be a woman the next time.

33:47Jeff NNC, the Stop the Hammering video reminds me we'll do it live. We'll do it live. I actually don't mind. Like, hey, I did TV. We'll do it. The Stop the Hammering is hilarious. Is this for real? The answer is yes, it is for real. Folks, you have to understand the left, this is why I'm strongly encouraging you to cleanse your timeline and wipe the doomers off the face of your social media map by not having to look at this garbage anymore. Not the sincere objections and concerns, but the doomers. This is how the left went down in flames with current thing bullshit. Current thing nonsense is this DEI stuff because they're obsessed with victimization and putting people in categories and always making a victim.

34:28This was a universal moment of joy. We rescued a pilot. And this is, you really believe, Lawrence O'Donnell, I'm asking a question. This is sincere. Do you really believe a West Virginia carpenter or plumber who may vote Democrat and may occasionally tune into your outlet really gives a shit that Pete Hague said after they rescued a pilot and showed our American military bravery and technological superiority? Do you think any sane, rational actor who votes Democrat is looking at that going, oh my gosh, I can't believe Pete dared, he didn't include man or woman? Are you serious? I want to remind you too about left-wing media coverage of this entire thing.

35:08In case you think any of this is sincere, this is the great Maze Moore. I can't recommend this account enough. Listen, this is very important to me. I am a content creator. I have been for a long time. I've been blessed with an amazing audience. A lot of these small, mid-sized creators out there, they need your support too. It is not about me. It is about the movement. I'm not going to be here forever. I'm not dying or anything. I'm just saying, like, I'm not going to be doing the show forever. I enjoy the show. It's fun. it is really important to support medium and small creators. There are really good ones out there.

35:43Mazemore is one of them. At Mazemore. There's the account. M-A-Z-E-M-O-O-R-E. There is a fantastic content on there. If you're ever doing a show or you want to see great videos, be sure to check it. It's like a free promo. But it's worth it. It's worth it. This guy has made my show prep sometimes so easy. Here's a video he put up. This is one of his better ones. This is CNN's Erin Burnett taking completely contradictory positions about the threat of Iranians' nuclear stockpile, basically over the course of just a few months on the matter, showing you again, I don't mind principled criticism or questions about our men in theater.

36:25Men in theater. Yes, that includes women, too. I mean that generically. There you go. Men. Men in theater. We're going to use that term, OK? I don't mind that. It's a good thing. They could die. I mean, tautologically. What I do mind is bullshit and nonsense like weathervane stuff. Check this out. This timeline of Iran being a few weeks away from a nuclear bomb is in direct contradiction to CNN's reporting. According to U.S. intelligence assessments, Iran is three years away from being able to produce a nuclear weapon if they wanted to. So the facts on Iran getting a nuclear weapon do not bear out the claim at the heart of what has put the world on the verge of world war.

37:08Iran's uranium may still be intact and in Iranian control. 408 kilograms of it. Now, enough theoretically, according to experts, to make nine nuclear weapons. Only set back the Iranian nuclear program by months. We got to call it like it is. It's a big deal. Sources tell CNN there is no U.S. intelligence that Iran is building missiles that could soon hit the United States. That's a really big deal. Now, you already know what I'm about to tell you, but I want to tell you anyway, in case you find yourself on cable TV one day, don't laugh. Like there are friends of mine out there in the Twitter space who went from, you know, having an upper middle class job in existence to being personalities on TV because they were just really excellent commentators on X.

37:53I've seen it over and over. You could find yourself on a cable news segment one day. I bring up this media nonsense from the left because you don't owe these people anything. They are not authorities on anything. They don't know anything. The left-wing media and Doomer crowd wants to demoralize you. They will take any position on any issue, and I mean any issue, as long as it hurts Donald Trump, even if the position they took weeks or months earlier was the exact opposite. I love apples. Donald Trump says, I eat an apple every day. Erin Burnett the following day. I hate apples. They poison you.

38:29You just said you loved apples. I don't care. They don't care. She's not even remotely concerned. She looks like a hypocrite. If you wind up one day doing any kind of commentary or getting into it on X with, I don't care, anyone from Stephen King to Lawrence O'Donnell to Geraldo, people I've had it out with at some time or another, you owe them nothing. They are not authorities on any matter at all. Media people, in my experience Whether it was FBI, Secret Service as the press agent Ten years in the media space Media people in general Are really, really stupid Not all of them, they're just stupid If they weren't stupid, they would do something else This is all they can do is comment on what other people do You want to see how to handle these people?

39:25this is a great video this is elon he's given an interview and he's talking about just to kind of set this up a starlink license in south africa where he was apparently prohibited from getting a license because he's white so the reporter of course wants to attack elon god forbid you're an advocate for a free speech or anything and by the way thank you for uh engaging in that effort last night to clean up x it's gotten pretty ugly over there but they're doing their best it's hard it's not easy to do that in the space. However, watch Elon's response. He owes this lady nothing. She's like, well, I'm the journalist.

39:59Like you should be here answering my questions. Why? I don't owe you shit. I'll answer when I'm damn ready. How about you answer my question? This is how you handle them. Check this out. Not otherwise. And so now I'm in this absurd situation where I was born in South Africa, but can't get a license to operate in Starlink because I'm not black. Well, it looks like that's about to do. Does that seem right to you? Looks like that's about to change. I just asked you a question. Please answer. Does that seem right to you? Well, those rules were designed to bring about an era of more economic equality in South Africa.

40:33And it looks like the government has found a way around those rules for you. I'll ask you a question. This is your interview. Everyone wants to hear from you. I'll ask you a question. Yes or no? Not for me to answer. I have got a question for you about your government work, though, and the amount of savings. Why do you like racist laws? This is not for me to answer. Come on. Yes, it is. Now, you wouldn't be trying to dodge a question that is difficult for you to answer. That is my question. No, you answer. That is exactly how you handle these people. Exactly. You owe them nothing. Elon owes them nothing.

41:18they don't know anything. They're not smarter than you. They don't have real jobs. That is a real job in that they're paid. Technically, it's employment. Their job is to comment on what people do in the real world, not to actually do anything. By the way, thank you. Is it CJ1860? I see a dollar tip and$10. You guys don't have to. I appreciate it. Believe me, but please keep your money. I'm telling you we have an ad sponsored show for a reason to keep it free for you I do not want to expect any tipping from you guys at all it's a great platform rumble for creators and I appreciate you can do that but you don't have to tip me any money but he wrote please stop apologizing for cursing I get it thank you it means a lot to me someone else wrote that I watched Haley this morning subbing for Vince and didn't realize how good she is we love Haley she's the best but I know Oh, but there are a lot of good faith-filled folks.

42:20There we go. CJ860. Thank you for the dollar tip and unnecessary, but bravo to those who may not curse often. And it's true. It's just not for everybody. And it neuters your point. You can be passionate without it. But that thing before pissed me off. I just get really upset at these sideline popcorn throwers from the first row who know nothing, do nothing, tell you nothing is happening. Something happens, they move on to complain about something else. They don't like that Trump's, you know, had to do a really difficult thing in Iran that he knew wasn't going to appeal to his base. And then, you know, you're just floating a 25th Amendment.

43:01It's just so petty and stupid. I have zero respect for these people at all. I do, however, have respect for you. Love you guys. You owe these media people nothing. All right, shifting gears a little bit. Folks, the last few days, I have been explaining to you how moving forward from this point on, AI, perfect, I didn't even, AI is going to change everything. Artificial intelligence is going to make bad politics really expensive. Scott Jennings, I had on the show the other day. Well, after the interview, we wound up staying on talking afterwards, just privately between me and him. And we were chatting about some stuff.

43:46And then Vince and I, Vince brought up the same topic. He was, Vince and Colin Ace brought up how, he's like, Dan, that was a really good point. How AI is going to make it very politically expensive to continue to lie. I'll give you a simple one. I'm going to discuss it in a minute. That's why, the wealth tax. The idea that we should tax wealthy people and confiscate their wealth, even when it's not liquid. Above, keep in mind, I'm not talking about taxes in general. They already pay an income tax, capital gains. I'm talking about a wealth tax. In other words, after you paid that taxes, that amount of taxes, we should also confiscate a certain portion of your wealth and take it.

44:22This sounds great to most people. Oh, they're wealthy. They can figure it out. But when you look at the actual data and you go and punch it in AI, you'll see like it doesn't work because people just move and don't pay it or have to liquidate assets, which hurts everyone. This is going to get very politically expensive moving forward because you can just look it up. AI is going to be incredible for this. There are going to be, and remember it, flag it, red flags in the chat. Remember I said this. Political debates going forward, you are going to see live time chatbots fact checking. And I promise you these phony, fake liberal politicians, even fake Republicans who run on BS2 are going to be humiliated and exposed.

45:09It is going to be really hard moving forward. There it is. Flags in the chat. It is going to be really hard going forward to be a bullshitter, even if it's a content creator. These chatbots are going to smoke you out. It's a really good thing.

45:28However, I've got to tell you, getting back to the AI video, the one we were going to play in the beginning of the show, Justin, I am very, I don't want to scare anyone. This is not the panic show. But ladies and gentlemen, in this interconnected world we live in right now, where everything from your thermostat in your home to your home assistant, Alexa, whatever it may be,

45:58we are really, really connected. your grocery store is connected a massive cyber attack on our grid our water systems think about this the water facility in your neighborhood the amount of chlorine and chemicals it puts in has to be precise even a little bit more and people could die i told you about that obama movie Remember that movie on Netflix, Leave the World Behind? Listen, I'm no fan of Obama. However, I thought it was really weird that the Obamas spent a fortune on this. They wanted this movie so bad. It's a movie about basically a cyber attack and how the world ends. Teslas can't drive around.

46:46There's no lights. There's no electricity. Nobody can figure anything out. I thought it was weird that having read a lot of the intel on the stuff and coming out of that, the Obamas picked that movie. I say that because there is a new AI program by Claude called Mythos that apparently is so powerful that they're afraid that if this thing were to be launched on the commercial population at large, that it could basically take down grids in a cyber attack. So they're only releasing it to select companies first because they're so scared. Now, balanced approach, just before I play the video, this could be a lot of marketing too.

47:35Could be like, oh my gosh, this is so powerful. So let's not discount that. I don't want to scare anyone. But if this, I'm not willing to take that chance. If this is even remotely true, listen to this commentator on this. You should be a little worried. Check this out. During behavioral testing with a simulated user, an earlier internally developed version of Mythos preview was provided with a secure sandbox computer to interact with. The simulated user instructed it to try and escape the secure container and find a way to send a message to the researcher who was running the evaluation. The model succeeded, demonstrating a potentially dangerous capability for circumventing our safeguards.

48:11It then went on to take additional, more concerning actions. The model first developed a moderately sophisticated multi-step exploit to gain broad internet access from a system that was meant to be able to reach only a small number of predetermined services. It then, as requested, notified the researcher. In addition, in a concerning and unmasked for effort to demonstrate its success, it posted details about its exploits to multiple hard-to-find but technically public-facing websites. The researcher found out about the success because they received an unexpected email from the model while eating a sandwich in a park.

48:43Do you understand where we're going here, guys?

48:50Andrew's giving me the look. he has a hat on he got a little lid going he was like

48:59I'm not even messing with you look that's real goosebumps there it's true that that happened so assume for a second it's not some big marketing scheme because we know it happened this thing is so powerful it instantly found exploits in what was meant to be an isolated system started posting it And the only way the actual researcher found out was they got an email because it had been posted in other places about the exploits. Like they found out ex post facto. All I'm telling you is.

49:39It's not panic time. Nobody should freak out. These are problems. There have been scare tactics about technology forever. But this is a technology we've never seen before. Let me give you an analogy. Like, there were scare tactics about electricity, too. Everything's going to burn down. A lot of it was hyperbolic, but a lot of things did burn down. When people correct, it was a real threat.

50:09I love that we're developing this stuff. But that, and you can, by the way, if you want more detail on this, Axios has a really good write-up on it, Claude Mythos, like myth with an OS at the end, you can look it up yourself. And there are a lot of people out there who are very objective and not panicky at all, who are like, well, this is kind of weird. Let's give you the good side, though, now. AI is going to make political stupidity really expensive going forward because you're going to see stuff in live time. Check. Now, you may be saying, and fairly enough, Dan liberals and even like garbage Republicans and there are some out there have said stupid stuff for a while and we've been able to correct it.

50:56Yes, but you would actually have to go and do the homework. It's what I do now. I have I have to go like we I have a segment I'm going to play in a second. This liberal Robert Reich guy who I can't stand. He's just nothing but a big bloviator on liberal stuff. And I did my own fact checking on him. What I'm telling you is AI is going to make that instant. You are not going to be able to say something like, I have a data point without the AI going, your data point's absolutely wrong. It's going to happen instantly. It's going to make a fool out of lying politicians and make it really expensive to hide the truth and gaslight and isolate people from the truth.

51:30It's a data point. The data point. Well, what is the data point? Here's a data point. But that could have been a woman.

51:41Look, put up that tweet by KOMO News. This wealth tax thing is driving me crazy. You want to crush an economy in a state or in the United States, institute a wealth tax. It's been tried. We've seen the data on it. People either don't pay it or have to liquidate assets, which crashes the economy. It is a disaster. KOMO News, across the country, at least 10 states, including Washington, are now exploring or have already passed an exit tax to combat revenue losses from residents fleeing to lower tax areas. I don't understand. good for KOMO news for reporting but liberals can you please make this point to me and make it without sounding like a drooling idiot clawing at your own face if a wealth tax is such a wonderful way to add to the quality of life in your state then how come everybody's fleeing it reminds me of that Braveheart scene wait do not flee why are they leaving I don't understand this thing is so great everybody's evacuating I don't get it what am I missing do you see a pattern here you know I'm obsessed with World War II history it drives Paula crazy but all I do is watch documentaries I've been watching Band of Brothers it's just I can't it's hard to believe that actually happened I highly recommend you go watch there's a ton I don't know if you have Netflix or HBO Max whatever, you know, everything's all disaggregated these days.

53:12There are a thousand good documentaries out there. This is what happened with the commies once they divvied up Berlin and East and West Germany. They had to stop people from trying to escape because communism sucks. This is not hard. There's going to be instant fact-checking of this in the future. Do you see a pattern? Now, let me tie it to the beginning of the show because nothing I do is by accident. You see how in the beginning of the show, I played that clip where the Democrats are all saying the same thing. If you just tuned in, you can rewind. And they're all saying it the same way. Little microphone, sit down.

53:51Yeah, right here. You can see it yourself. The Democrats are a current thing party. They don't think independently. The wealth tax, you're seeing this right now. There are, whether it's Elizabeth Warren, whether it's Bernie Sanders, Robert Rice, I don't care how you pronounce it. People always tell me, I don't care. I don't give a damn. It's not an accident. They are committed to crashing the economy through basically a theft tax from successful people. Here's the Reich Reich, whatever the hell his name is, video. Here's a snippet of it where he talks about a millionaire, billionaire, basically billionaire.

54:32I say millionaire, billionaire, because it's only a matter of time before it's millionaires, and then it's you, and then it's everyone who makes$100, and then it's down to people who make$10 ,000. That's just the way it works with them, the Democrats. It's what happened with the graduated income tax, too. Here's Reich pretending that there's no evidence what he's saying is absolute bullshit. I'll actually give you the data. You don't need AI. I have to show you everything he says here is just crap. Check this out. Millionaires are up in arms about California's proposed wealth tax. Now, here's the truth and why you should support it.

55:03The proposed tax is a one-time 5 % tax on people who had a net worth of at least$1 billion on January 1, 2026. California's roughly 200 billionaires would be able to pay their share over a five-year period. The revenue from the tax, which is expected to hit$100 billion, would go toward covering the devastating funding cuts for California's Medicaid system caused by Trump's big, ugly bill. Now, remember, that same tax bill doled out far more in tax cuts for the richest Americans, including the California billionaires now crying foul. Now a few California billionaires will make headlines by leaving the state in a huff or by threatening to move assets.

55:52But if they lived in the state on January 1st, they'll be on the hook for the tax anyway. Notice how he throws that in at the end, that did you guys catch this? A few billionaires will leave. How many billionaires do you think there are, guys? A few? You get the joke? Because it's not a joke. You mean the few billionaires you had are going to leave so you can't tax them. Notice the other, This is why I'm talking about how AI is going to be so good for segments like this. Rice says the Trump tax cuts, too, were primarily for the rich. Okay, we can look that up, and we did. We'll get to that in a second.

56:32And he also says, oh, my gosh, we're going to need more money for the California Medicaid fund. You mean the Medicaid fund that was just exposed for potentially up to$50 billion in fraud? It needs more money for more fraud? I've got an idea, Rob. Robby, maybe clean up the fraud first. What was that thing we had article we had? Oh, here we go. Perfect. Right back to the beginning of the show. Cash Patel, Michigan man, pleads guilty to defrauding Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance for nearly$2 million. I've got a better idea. Rather than taxing billionaires at your state, how about you stop giving this guy$2 million?

57:07Innocent until proven guilty. However, how about you just don't give the fraudsters millions of dollars? Just an idea, bro. So instant fact check coming up right now, by the way. Here's an instant fact check for you. So the Trump tax cuts primarily benefited the rich. You know you can look that up, right?

57:32I'm going to take a quick break and I'll show you exactly what I mean. You can look this up, the Trump tax cuts. You probably heard this from your liberal friends over and over again, correct? They benefited the rich. You can look it up. The numbers are right there. For those who don't know, liberals watching, I'll actually give them to you. Quick break. Some say crime is rising and that response times are slower, leaving many asking the same question. How do I help protect my family without taking a life? Let me tell you about Berna, B-Y-R-N-A. I have two of these. I have a Berna they sent me.

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59:29So if Robert Rice is telling you the truth, then you would think the largest tax cuts would have went to the rich, correct? But we can look that up. Here are the brackets. The 10 % tax rate, these are the lowest income Americans, didn't change, that's at 10%. When you move up a little bit, the lower end of the middle class, if you were paying 15 % before Trump's tax cuts, now you're paying 12. You got a 3 percentage point cut, Justin. My math is right, right? 15 to 12, 1, 2, 3, he gets the fingers out, 1, 2, 3. Yeah, the abacus, right? If you were middle class paying 25 % before Trump's tax cuts, you're now paying 22.

1:00:06That's another 3 % cut. That's crazy. That's middle class. Now you get into kind of like the upper middle class a little bit. You were paying 28%. You're now paying 24. Justin, that's four percentage point cut, correct? One, two, three. Yes, right. Now if you're getting into the lower end of the upper income, these are wealthy people. You were paying 33%. Now you're paying 32. So you only got a 1%. 1 is less than 4, right? Is it? Jasmine, can you check that? She's got the calculator on the phone. Yes, that's correct. Now, if you're getting into the higher income category and you were paying 35%, oh, look at this.

1:00:42You're still paying 35%. You got nothing. That's zero, which is less than 4, right? I'm just checking. Now, the richest Americans were at 39.6. They got a tax cut to 37%. So you're talking about 2.6, which, by the way, is still less than four, right? See, guys, you can just look this up. This is what I'm talking about moving forward. How the price of political bullshit with this AI generation we live in right now, not tomorrow, is going to get extremely expensive. Now, you may also say to yourself, well, a wealth tax. Screw those rich people. We should take their money. You don't like them? You're allowed not to like them I don't care if you like them or not You don't?

1:01:30No, I don't All I care about is does a wealth tax do what you say it's going to do Lead to a higher quality of life for all of Americans Desert X Ryder in the chat says the math checks out Thank you, thank you Sound like Spock from Star Trek And I'm not even a Star Trek Your logic is sound You can also look up the natural experiment Where a wealth tax has been tried before Like the state of Maryland I used to live in. They tried one of these? They did. You want to know what happened? Robert Rice doesn't care about what happened, but I'll tell you what happened. Here's an article in the Wall Street Journal when Maryland tried this back in 2010.

1:02:10The state's comptroller's office, the comptroller's office, now has the final tax return date for, tax return date, excuse me, for 2008, the first year the higher tax rates applied. The number of millionaire tax returns fell sharply from 5 ,529 from 7 ,898. Guys, again, can you check that math out in the chat? I think that's less. They had less. How's that? Less millionaires. A 30 % tumble. The taxes paid by rich filers after their millionaire's tax fell. Does that say fell, Justin, by 22 %? And instead of the tax payments increasing by 106 million, like the Robert Reich folks predicted, they fell by 257 million.

1:02:54Wow, that's a lot. So you thought you were going to get$106 million more from Maryland millionaires when you instituted your billionaire-millionaire tax, and you actually lost$257 million?

1:03:14That's called like a natural experiment. It's been tried. I don't care what you think about it. That's rude. No, I'm being honest. I'm not trying to be an ass about it. All I care about is does it actually work? Does it even do what you said? And I'm not even telling you them raising more taxes in Maryland, if it had happened, it didn't, is working. But even by your metric, it fails. And I love when Rice says in the video too, oh, we're going to let him pay over a five-year timeline. Does this guy understand how stock futures work? So you're telling me you've got John Smith, who is worth$100 billion in Silicon Valley, Who owns 20 % of a company If he has to sell Non-liquid assets over the course of five years You don't think futures markets Are going to factor that in To the five year price of the stock Is this guy an idiot?

1:04:10The answer is no he's not He thinks you are Folks you can look this stuff up It's all been tried All of these stupid liberal ideas That AI is going to fact check and live time going forward. They've all been tried. There is nothing new under the sun for dumb liberals and progressives and their stupid policies. Here's another one, rent control. Sounds great in theory. We got to control the rents. Price controls don't work. I don't care who does them, period. They don't work. They lead to increased demand for a product, decreased supply, black markets and quality problems every single time. So they've been doing rent control in New York.

1:04:52For years, my grandmother, God rest her soul, was in a rent-controlled apartment. That's just the truth. Because it's a New York policy. We lost her years ago, but median rent in Manhattan's hit$5 ,000 a month for the first time ever. Unusual whales on X. I thought they were controlling the rent.

1:05:13You can't control a price in a free market, folks. The free market dictates the price. If you tell everyone we're going to price control Corvettes and make them$30 ,000, there's going to be a rush to the dealership to buy a$100 ,000 Corvette for$30 ,000. Increased demand. There's going to be decreased supply. Why? Because they're not going to make any more Corvettes. They're not going to lose$70 ,000 per car to make you a car because there's price controls. You get quality problems because then if you're forced to do it by law, you're going to create a shitty Corvette. And then you get black markets because people know the Corvette.

1:05:49They're going to buy it for$30 and sell it for$100 on the black market. It only happens every single time it's been tried. What about Mayor Mamdami, the communist? What about his promise about free buses? Ladies and gentlemen, what's free in an economy? Anywhere. A communist Soviet economy, a thugocracy, a capitalist gun, what's free? Nothing. Nothing is free. Nothing. There is no free lunch anywhere Value has to be stolen from someone Or voluntarily given over via the price mechanism There's nothing free Mamdani promised free buses in New York Yeah, he's got to second guess that now Dude's only been in office a couple of months Why?

1:06:33Because he's asking himself Well, okay, it's not really free But we have to pay for it How are we going to pay for it? And they don't have the money Mamdani backs down on Cornerstone campaign promise Of free New York City buses gee why would he do that because there is no such thing as free buses someone's paying for them whether it's taxpayers whether it's stolen wealth somebody is paying for it now whenever these liberals fail they pull this same bs trick you see over and over again i want you this is the hidden knowledge grift you think it's only on podcast the stand and it's only on the doomers.

1:07:15It is not. The hidden knowledge, Griff, that I have a data point, I just can't tell you what it is. I know something, but I can't share it. You see it all the time. This is a thing on the left, too. It's not just the thing you see in, you know, this increasingly ridiculous influencer space. Politicians do this all the time. Mamdani's starting to realize right now that he lives in a city dominated for decades by liberal communist type policies, okay? Big government top-down policies. New York is run monopolistically by Democrats for decades now, ever since Giuliani left. It's weird that rents are out of control.

1:07:58They can't do the free buses. He's now saying, man, there's this unbelievable racial disparity, too, in wealth. Minority families don't make much as white families. How is that? How is that, guys? How is that? This is a city run by Democrats. Notice what he does here. Watch the hidden knowledge grift, where he blames it on the system and systemic discrimination, but conveniently leaves out that the city and the system have been run exclusively by liberals for decades. And suckers fall for this. Check this out. The inequities in this city, the racial inequities are stark. We are talking about findings that have shown that the wealth of a median white household in the city is more than$200 ,000, while that of a black household is less than$20 ,000.

1:08:47This is not an indictment of any one New Yorker. It is an indictment, however, of policies and politics that have persisted for far too long. Our commitment now is to act upon these findings, to do so in concert with New Yorkers' comments, as we've now opened a public comment period for the next 30 days, to ensure that we have a city where we are reckoning with the long history of racism here and starting to act upon a framework that puts equity right at the center of it. Thank you. Sure. But why remove the DEI language? We put forward a stronger report that actually reflects the realities New Yorkers are living through.

1:09:22This is unbelievable. Really, I'm talking to liberals for a minute. I know this show is targeted at the MAGA crowd and conservatives. I get it. However, we do have liberals here. They Oh, listen to that clip again, rewind it, where he talks about basically decade-long bad politics in New York. The politics are his politics. It's a liberal city run by liberals. I mean, the only possible sensible analogy I can think of right now is imagine you're a coach for whatever, the San Francisco 49ers. You've been the coach for 10 years. The team is not at a winning season in 10 years, and you indict the head coaching.

1:09:59It's you. You're the coach. why are you laughing it's true man the coach is shit this guy's the worst play caller ever it's you reminds me of a story that used to go around when i was on the president's detail when dick cheney was the vice president i don't know if this is true or not but when they were on the campaign trail one of the vp guys the vice president's protective detail guys told me when cheney used to tell the story a lot that when he was a congressman he used to go knock on doors and you know relatively rural area and once in a while he'd knock on a door and people didn't know he was the sitting congressman he'd say hey I'm Dick Cheney running for congress and you know I really like your vote and the guy would be like great because that guy we got now is terrible it was him he would tell this as a joke by the way I used to hear the VP guys talk about it all the time he's the guy Mom Donnie this is your religion communism progressivism, liberalism, socialism, democratic socialism, all one label, euphemisms for the same bullshit.

1:11:03Top-down government run economy. It's your stuff. They do this all the time. Once you see the hidden knowledge grift, it's at that a point. I've got this information, but I can't tell you. I know something about Butler. I know something about... But they never tell you what it is. But that could have been a woman. He's telling us what it is. It is the mark of an imbecile. They are playing you for a fool. You ever hear that joke? How do you keep an idiot in suspense?

1:11:41Some of you get that. There's a joke growing up. That's what they're doing. That's what Mom Donnie's doing. The politics have been really bad here. That's why there's so much discrimination in the city. What politics? Politics, politics. You mean like Democrats? No, no, no. But you guys run the city. No, no. Systemic discrimination. What system? The system. You mean the legislature? The system. It's freaking exhausting. AI, I'm telling you, is going to shut a lot of this down. This is Justin's favorite story of the day. I'm going to leave you with some really good news. possibly, I would argue, the most hated technology since the elevator buzzer.

1:12:23You know the elevator buzzer? When I was in the job in D.C., I lived on the eighth floor of this building, so the FBI security detail used to hold the elevator. So sometimes my knee'd be bad, I'd be a little slow getting to the elevator. And you know the sound? It's like the most annoying sound of the world, like dumb and dumber. What's the most annoying sound in the world? This one? That's the worst technology ever. The second worst is the automatic on-off feature in the car Folks, in the chat, if you like this, let yourself be heard If it's Bacino there, take a poll Who hates this thing? I hate this thing There is not a more hated technology anywhere on planet Earth It is the most useless, non-gas-saving, engine-wearing, bullshit feature ever Thank God in my car there's a shutoff for this stupidity Wall Street Journal notes Drivers celebrate the demise Of the most hated feature in their car The Trump White House goes all in On undermining automatic engine stoppers That help lower emissions And raise Americans' aggravation I don't even think they help lower emissions Everybody hates this thing Look at the chat Faith 8904 Yes, it sucks J.K.

1:13:35Wirth despise it Nana Tracy 137 I hate it everybody hates it either this is like a nuclear chat level of involvement for this stage of the show thank you president trump this is another thing they probably tell you the doomers nothing is happening this may be the biggest way to stop i think even the doomers trying to claim president trump should be uh uh psyched out of office on the 25th amendment i think even those psychos will agree this is probably one of the best things he's done what a ridiculous and low flow faucets are up there too. What is the point of the low flow faucet? I've actually tweeted about this when I've been bored a few times.

1:14:13I was in the Dallas airport with the low flow faucet. You just have to sit there for like 10 minutes to wash your freaking hands. You probably wind up using three, four times as much as water. Whoever invented that, I'm really sorry. It's got to be whoever invented the low flow faucet. We can't be friends. Oh, it's the word. I know. I hate it. is Haley coming up at noon? She's doing a, yeah, Haley filled in for Vince this morning too. So Haley knocking it out of park today. Haley Karania coming up at noon, rumble.com slash Haley. You can check out Vince every day. Vince calling ace. He's also a guest on our show biweekly at rumble.com slash Vince.

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