Elon Musk Notices Something About the Cali Election No One Noticed

25:00But now it appears that Steve Hilton, who was leading on election night for governor. Now he has magically dropped also to, well, he dropped to second place. Pratt is now out at third place. But before we show you that, one more time, Gavin Newsom on his little plan.

25:18Gavin Newsom:But there is a break the glass scenario. And there's many people that have a deep understanding of what it would look like if Democrats were locked out. And we're gonna do everything to make sure that doesn't happen. I'll leave it then. So again, if you're a journalist out there, what you might wanna ask Gavin today is what is that break the glass scenario that you were talking about to make sure that Democrats win? And what is that deep understanding of what you guys would do? I suspect nobody will ask him those things. That's what I would do. But now here are the updated numbers as they've come in.

25:49And yeah, so Xavier Becerra, Democrat, about 1.8 million votes. Steve Hilton, just under 1.8 million. So it's a 27 to 25.9 difference. billionaire who the socialists supported and also threatened to kill him. If he acted like a billionaire, he got 21.5, and that's what 72 % of the vote counted. So again, it just, days later, election day. It's one of those things, if you just wanna think back, I remember when we did, when I was in maybe fifth grade, we did like a mock election, right? And I remember when the parents came in, it was like a parents' day thing, and they had a voting booth set up that was a real voting booth.

26:32And you'd pull the lever and the curtain would open and you could go in. And I remember going in with my dad and we went through all the different people that we were gonna vote for. And there were a few people, it was president, let's say, and governor or whatever. And then there were a few things we didn't and they had a card and my dad read to me the card and asked me about the issues and blah, blah, blah. And then you pull the lever and the curtain opens and you walk out and you feel that you've done something, but it all happened on a day. And if you would, if in 1988, if you would have told people, well, actually election day is gonna be election week and things are gonna change drastically in that week and no one's gonna know what's legit or anything else.

27:11Everyone would have said you were crazy. You would have said this is banana Republic level stuff. You would have said, oh, this is what happens in some South American country where there's some dictator who doesn't really wanna lose or this is kind of North Korea. Yeah, Kim Jong-un gets 99 % of the vote again. Anyway, here is Steve Hilton on how absolutely ridiculous the California situation has become. Are you saying that you still don't know who is in the race because they're still counting ballots? Well, it'd be lovely if someone could explain how the process works, because to most people, it seems completely insane.

27:46Yes, still counting ballots. There's two things going on here. You've got the late arriving mail ballots. It's allowed to you're allowed to vote by mail. And as long as you post it by Election Day, they count it up to seven days after Election Day. That's next Tuesday. So that's one category. But the bigger category is the fact that you've got still millions of ballots in these vote centers that are sitting there right now in boxes not being counted. This is so profoundly absurd. So you get that? So the mail-in ballot gets counted for seven days after election day. That's tomorrow. Election day was last Tuesday.

28:24So that in and of itself, what you're doing is you're baking in fraud. You're baking in the ability or the perception of fraud. That's not good. And even if it's only the perception, that's not good. Because again, if people don't have faith in the system, you don't have a system at all. That's number one. And then there's millions of votes in these boxes. Why couldn't they get to these votes? So it's either that they're fraudulent and in on it and breaking glass, as Gavin Newsom said, or the less cynical version would be they're Democrats. And they are just incompetent buffoons who can't do anything.

28:56Here's Steve Hilton. It's typical of California under Democrat rule. They can't build a bridge. They can't clear the homelessness. They can't run an election properly. Last week, I actually put forward a plan to try and accelerate this process by surging people to these vote centres to get a quick result. But look, the most important thing is that actually we're very confident now that we'll be in the top two. There's not really any realistic possibility for the billionaire climate fanatic Tom Steyer to catch up. That means that in November, Californians will have a real choice. Another four years of this insanity that's given us the highest cost of living in the country and all the other problems we see, or a new direction towards common sense, lower taxes, cutting the bloat in our government.

29:41That's what I'm offering. And we're gonna be able to present that choice to voters now in November. We're very confident of that. Okay, so he said a couple of things there. I mean, first off, he's acknowledging, look, these people do nothing, right? So we shouldn't be surprised that they don't do elections, right? So in some sense, that's not saying it's like stolen or fraudulent or anything. It's just, you are all incompetent. You have set up systems, whether it's this late mail-in check-in or the ballots that haven't been counted, and the bridges that go nowhere and the railways that go nowhere.

30:08Everything you do is pretty awful. So in some sense, he's saying what I've tried to say here, which is we don't know exactly what they've done here, but they're just sort of incompetent and that's not great. Now it's interesting, he's saying that Tom Steyer, who's now 30, he's down by like four percentage points beneath him, that it sounds like he'll be out and it'll be the two of them. Now let's go on the assumption that's right. Well, what happens now if Cali, if nothing gets cleaned up in Cali from now till November? and then in November, it's election day and Becerra on election day is down by, let's say one and a half points.

30:42And you know you're not gonna find the result that night. So everyone goes to sleep at about midnight Pacific time and they're like, well, Hilton's winning. And then what will likely happen? Six days later, Becerra will be up by five points because his mail-in ballots will come in that much more. Break the glass, you think that's what Gavin Newsom was talking about? It kind of feels that way. Again, that's not smoking gun. I've got the evidence right here. And sir of the jury, here I am with the evidence. It's not that. But it's just like something is just awful about all of this. And it does not have to be this way and shouldn't be this way.

31:17Here's a sheriff of San Joaquin, California, talking about just how profoundly absurd the California voting system is. The way the voting system is structured, we see quite a few flaws. You're able to register and cast a vote if you don't live in in the country as evident of his brother in Pakistan I think we have some evidence of two or three other people out of the country that are voted is that correct yeah approximately two or three other people out of the country as well as people residing outside of the district the online voter registration system it seems to be an honor system anybody can put information in there to to register to vote all you have to do is click a box and say that you're not lying.

32:01And then you'll get an email from the secretary of state or something in the mail saying, thank you for registering to vote. And there you are. Once you're on the voter rolls, anytime an election comes around, guess what? You get mailed a ballot, right? You get mailed something to vote. So we found that a little bit problematic. Okay. You don't even have to be in the country to vote. And there were several people that did that. You don't have to be in the district if you're talking about a local election to vote. there is an online voter system that all you have to do is say, yes, I am me. I can't imagine anyone would take advantage of that.

32:35Again, all of these things don't point to some sort of coordinated mass conspiracy other than it's just all these data points that when you start looking at the picture, you go, something is really wrong here. I mentioned last week, I personally know someone who left California years ago, who happens to live in Florida right now, who got mailed their ballot in Florida. Even though they now have a Florida ID, they were asked to mail in a ballot in California. Something is very wrong with all of this. This was going super viral over the weekend. And if you wanna just like really, if you wanna do a little of the dancing with conspiracy stuff right now, check this video out.

33:19This is from 16 years ago in 2010 on the then-known TV televised mental institution known as MSNBC. Four weeks after the attorney general election, due to a surge in mail-in ballots, a woman named Kamala Harris became attorney general. Isn't that curious? Four weeks after the November 2nd election, California finally has declared a winner in the attorney general race. Harris finished so close to her Republican opponent that it took a month to finish counting every vote. She won by less than one percentage point. Isn't that something? Like, without even doing, like, the full conspiracy on that, like, did they push her over knowing that eventually they'd move her for Senate and then, you know, like, putting aside all of that stuff.

34:09She got in after a month-long election. And, of course, it's always the Democrats. It's always the Democrats. My buddy Stephen A, I thought, had quite an indictment of what's going on in California, knowing that there aren't enough Republicans there. So if any of this stuff is even as close as it is, it's mostly because people are turning on the Dems. A message has been sent. And that message has been sent. It's very, very simple. If people in a blue state like California are entertaining seriously about putting Republicans in charge gubernatorially and mayorally, could you imagine what other states in this union are contemplating doing?

34:58Could you imagine what an indictment that is against Democrats everywhere? Let me tell you something right now. If Hilton wins the gubernatorial race and Pratt wins the mayor's seat in New York, Gavin Newsom has no chance at the presidency in 2028. OK, so to clean it up for him, he obviously meant Pratt wins the mayor's race in L.A., not in New York. Now it looks like Pratt will not even be in the race. And who knows what will happen with Hilton? So they have one more day for those mail-in ballots. Would it shock you if I'm doing this show literally 24 hours from now and the news is just like, well, it turns out that the mail-in ballots and the rest of the stuff was counted.

35:48And yeah, billionaire Tom Steyer, who the socialists want to kill, but they supported, he has now taken out Steve Hilton. Would that utterly shock you at this point, knowing what just happened with LA? And again, even if that doesn't happen, Pratt's out in LA at this point. And if Hilton moves, let's assume Hilton moves forward, We could end up in the exact same situation in November, right? Like this is not good for democracy, but you gotta give the devil his due and the Democrats are quite good at destroying things and that seems to be what they are doing. Guys, let's talk about moist lips because you know, for years, the skincare industry has sold women overpriced creams filled with ingredients you can't even pronounce and most of them don't even work.

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37:38And there's a whole bunch of change there. So before we do that, let's throw back to an oldie but a goodie. You can probably do it by heart yourself. 2020 Donald Trump calling out Leslie Stahl on 60 Minutes about Hunter Biden's laptop. You know, this is 60 Minutes and we can't put on things we can't verify. You won't put it on because it's bad for Biden. We can't put on things we can't verify. You know what you told me a long time ago when I asked why you keep saying fake in the media? Yeah. You said to me, I say that because I need to discredit you so that when you say negative things about me, no one will believe you.

38:17I don't have to discredit you. But that's what you told me. You've discredited yourself. You told me that. Leslie, you've discredited yourself. When you say that you're not going to cover Biden, you're going to ask him what flavor ice cream he has. Okay, instead of why did Hunter get three and a half million dollars from Moscow? Okay, so there's a couple of things here. To the backdrop of that, let me just make sure I get this correct. Donald Trump just recently, within the last year or something, won a lawsuit against CBS Paramount because of the way they edited that Kamala Harris video. That was with Lester Holt.

38:49So he, and of course what he was saying about the Hunter Biden laptop was right. Again, why, I'm not a wizard. I don't have a magic eight ball, but why is it that when the Hunter Biden laptop stuff I was covering it. Something was very odd to me that you couldn't send it in a private direct message on Twitter. New York Post's Twitter account under old Twitter, this is pre-Elon, got taken down and it all turned out to be true. I assure you guys, you probably don't wanna see them. There are all sorts of videos and pictures on X now of Hunter Biden doing all sorts of crazy things, okay? But in any event, what this all led to was, about a year ago, Barry Weiss, formerly of the New York Times, who said the place had been completely overtaken by the progressive maniacs, then created the free press.

39:35She gets the nod to take over CBS News. She's now running it and she's a year in and she's starting to clean it up. They have all gone partisan lefty. I think you can objectively say that, right? Is the New York Times lefty? Is the Washington Post lefty? ABC, NBC, CBS, are any of them on the right? Are any of them objectively on the right? Could you say that Fox is on the right? Obviously, but none of the mainstream outlets, they all go one way and that's because they control the culture, right? So she got the nod to fix it, to fix it so that perhaps people would tune in again and not think that they're a bunch of propagandists.

40:11And my hope when she got the job was that if she fixes it a little bit, that the other guys might go, you know, boy, maybe the country isn't all a bunch of progressive lunatics and for no other reason than self-preservation perhaps will tick back to the center a little bit so that people will pay attention to us again. Anyway, she brings in the new executive producer of 60 Minutes, this guy, Nick Bilton. They have a meeting with Scott Pelley and a bunch of the employees. Scott Pelley basically throws Barry Weiss under the bus and Nick Bilton under the bus, and he gets fired. You're not allowed to, especially in a room with a whole bunch of other people, undermine your boss.

40:48You will pretty much be fired from any job. Anyway, Scott Pelley is now a martyr. and here he is talking about newsrooms and his situation. When I saw Nick Bilton's email, and then saw him reading to my brokenhearted people off his phone, I felt that somebody had to stand up for the broadcast, not just the broadcast, but the people. There are people in that room who go to war zones when they are pregnant.

41:30Newsrooms are sort of like the military or the police or the beautiful people at the FDNY down the street. It is a life-threatening job in many instances.

41:48I got like probably five, six million dollars to sit there and occasionally I take my glasses off and I put one in my mouth and stare this way and made it look like I was thinking nobody's gonna pay me for that. Come on, man. And so why did he get fired? Well, listen to the quote. He's at the meeting. Barry comes in to fix the thing. You may not like it. She's the boss and and she brought in a new boss for your specific program. Well, what did you say about her? She is murdering 60 Minutes. She does not love this place. She was brought in to kill it, and that's exactly what she's been doing, Pelley said of CBS News Editor-in-Chief Barry Weiss.

42:27She has no qualifications for her job. So it does not matter what Scott Pelley, the journalism he's done in the past, it does not matter what he thinks of all of those people. None of that matters. Someone was brought in, you work at a place, right? Like you work at a place. If the guy doing the fries at McDonald's starts talking to all the other employees, the guy pushing the slop bucket and everybody, you know, the boss over there was brought in to murder this place. He's gonna be fired. If these guys do it to me, they're gonna be fired. It has nothing to do with anything other than perhaps Scott Pelley.

43:05When she came in, you might've wanted to give her, you might not like some of the changes she's making. That's life, I suppose. But you might want to sit there and stay quiet and push where you can, as opposed to undermining her. You create a situation. She would look like a complete idiot. And every executive there would look like a complete idiot if you have one of your hosts allowed to do these things. Anyway, here's Scott Pelley explaining to us that 60 Minutes was never left-wing in the first place. What was the feeling about that particular opening salvo to the team? Uh-oh. she, I am told, said something to the effect of, why do you think the country thinks you're biased?

43:48But she didn't offer any kind of a metric. You know, what's your metric? Why do you think so? Do you have a poll? Is there market research? What are you talking about? Because we certainly didn't believe that. Okay. Well, I just asked the guys. We showed a poll a couple days ago about trust in mainstream media. We'll pull that up in just a second. But again, dude, even if you disagree with her, what you would want to do, she didn't walk in. I just have no doubt. You know, I've had my issues with Barry over the years. I know her a bit. Sometimes I think she's good, sometimes not. Okay, fine. It doesn't matter.

44:22I don't work for her. But you work for her. So what you might want to do is if she comes in and she's changing some things, you might want to play ball as long as you can and register your complaints. if you're being told to lie on air, let's say, or fabricate a story or whatever, you can register that with HR. Like you create a case, but once you go in, she was brought in to kill this place. You gotta go. Do we have that? Yeah, look at this. We showed you this last week. Americans trust in mass media, and that would include 60 Minutes and CBS News, 1972 to 2025. I mean, look at those numbers absolutely dumping out.

45:00The question that was asked in general, how much trust and confidence do you have in mass media, such as newspapers, TV, and radio, when it comes to reporting the news fully, accurately, and fairly? A great deal, a fair amount, not very much, or none at all. And you can see clearly people do not trust mainstream media. You're part of mainstream media. Barry could have just pulled up her phone and said, you know, when we had Leslie Stahl interview Donald Trump and she was running cover for the Hunter Biden laptop story, that was a real problem. And it did so much damage to this freaking institution, as you like to call it, that it's somewhat irreparable.

45:38Anyway, here's Trump on Pelley. I think Scott Pelley's got his own problems. He's terrible. Look, Scott Pelley's a stiff and he's afraid. And he's part of this gang of crooked, stupid people that don't care about our country. Yeah, I don't know, I guess, fully how Trump saw this years ago and he woke so many of us up to it. I think most people, well, it's what I always say. It's like they could have been pretty bad, but you couldn't be wholesale bad. Most people live their lives, pay attention to this stuff, don't pay attention. They don't wanna get lost in a lot of this, in the minutia of this, and people have real things to deal about in their day to day.

46:13So the mainstream media could have been really bad, but the mainstream media lied about so much with the punctuation being COVID. I think that was the straw that finally broke the camel's back for everybody. And the twisted part is you guys have created a much worse situation now, because now nobody trusts you. huge swaths of people have moved over to the online world. And the online world, and I say this with humility or irony, I suppose, in some sense, the online world can only be trusted as far as you trust someone that you're watching, and you have to get a track record on them. And a lot of the people are total propagandists and awful, particularly the ones that came from mainstream media, like Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly.

46:51So the whole information ecosystem is extremely poisoned right now. And if you'd love a perfect example of that, But here's Don Lemon. Now, of course, as you know, Don Lemon, very similar to Scott Pelley, was just paid to be in that chair. I think he was on at eight or nine, I think it was 9 p.m. CNN for all those years. A certain amount of people tune in no matter what. You could have Don Lemon sitting there, you could have Fozzie the Bear, or you could have, give me somebody that's culturally relevant, Alf.

47:27I'd watch the news, I'd watch the news. But the point is the chair is just worth something. The slot, the time slot is worth something. Don Lemon then was a terrible, terrible, quote unquote journalist while he was there. He gets fired and then of course what happens? You get fired from CNN, you end up as an MS Now contributor. Here's Don Lemon on Scott Pelley on MS Now. The irony in all this is a Jim mentioned after a few years ago, I forgot Barry Weiss. She owned a journalistic outlet called the Free Press. Right. And when you think about what is the irony in that. But look, I think that Jim is right in this moment.

48:04This is a very dangerous moment. We should all be a Scott Pelley. Scott Pelley should be an example to us. We should all support him. His story is our story. If we lose the First Amendment, the freedom of the press, it is over. Hey, before your Q3 call, I've got the campaign brief ready. built from last quarter's data and the competitive landscape. Great. Did you include the differentiation angle the CMO asked for? Already in there. Three angles no competitor's using right now. Just need your approval. Approved? Thanks. Oh, agents, where would we be without you? Hmm, somewhere with a lot more tabs open.

48:40Create your first Monday agent in minutes at monday.com. I'm Don Lemon. Meaningless phrase, meaningless phrase, Meaningless phrase. We're all Scott Pelley. His problem is our problem. He pees three times at night. That's my fault. Like, come on, man. It's just all terrible. It's all terrible and nothing. Oh, and it's also funny because, did you note, there were three boxes there. The other guy, Jim Acosta, is another guy that got fired from CNN for being a terrible journalist. And if you get fired from CNN for being a terrible journalist, you end up on MSNOW. It's like the minor league for morons.

49:15Go. As Don was saying, make no mistake. They don't care about the ratings. They don't care about making money. This is an ideological and partisan political project on the part of the Ellisons, the Trump friendly Ellisons who now control Paramount, who, by the way, are trying to take control of WBD and CNN and turn it into this giant media conglomerate that will essentially act like a state media organization in support of Donald Trump. Jim, Jim, get a mirror. You guys have completely controlled the media. The left has completely controlled the media and every Republican is a racist and a bigot and all of the awful things and Trump derangement syndrome and you've glazed everyone on the left.

49:59So your implication, I mean, it's just nonsense that Barry Weiss, a lifelong liberal from the New York Times, she came in to make CBS more of a Trump friendly outfit. Like it's just absurd. Maybe she came in to make it a little more centrist. I think you can agree with that. And also to increase its ratings, perhaps by being a little more truthful, those would be things that would work. But it's the exact same thing, guys, as the late night comedy shows, right? You have Stephen Colbert, you had Stephen Colbert, you have Jimmy Kimmel, you have Fallon, you have, who's the other loser on, no one even knows his name, that guy.

50:35No, who's the guy on before Fallon or after, no, after Fallon, the guy that nobody watches. We never know, John Oliver, no, NBC, Seth Green, Seth Meyers. Right, nobody even cares about these people. But the point is they all have the exact same political outlook. So what you might want to do if you were a wizard would put on somebody with a different political outlook and see what happened. And oh, you know what happened? Fox did just that. They put on Greg Gutfeld at night and he's got freaking two writers. And I just did the show on Friday. They have the worst craft services table you can possibly imagine.

51:07This thing's not blowing the budget out. No offense, Greg, I love you. and I love doing the show, and Greg is an absolute joy as a host and gives you room to do all those things. But the magic of Greg's show is not that it's the most bells and whistles and everything else. The magic of the show is that he's just the counterpoint, so people are tuning in. Okay, there's another guy who's been a counterpoint for a while, and it's only because the liberals went so insane, which of course is Bill Maher, and it is time for Mondays with Bill Maher. Here, Mondays with Maher, here he is explaining to dingbat Connecticut Senator Democrat Chris Murphy that perhaps there's been something a little rotten at 60 Minutes for a while.

51:52What do you think of the shakeup at 60 Minutes? Big controversy. Yeah, I mean, listen, you're watching a censorship state be created. Trump is using the powers that he has available as President of the United States to install only friendly ownership at the big media companies. He's using regulatory powers to punish people who oppose him. That's a big charge that you just made. That 60 Minutes itself and CBS itself is now completely MAGA. I don't see it that way. Well, it's kind of what you said. But what the allegation is, is that they are killing stories that would be embarrassing for the president.

52:25So it's hard to know what you're missing in a censorship environment. But I've seen ones that are not very favorable to the president. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. I don't know if I would have noticed any different if I hadn't been reading about it. This is where Bill, I think, as time continues to go on, we'll just find more and more sane people on the right. And Goldman, he doesn't even know what he's talking. Wait, Goldman? Is that his name? Chris Murphy, sorry. They're all interchangeable, all of them. I have flat hair and I'm a white guy. I'm a Democrat and a pandering buffoon. That's me, it doesn't matter.

52:59Is my name Dan Goldman or Chris Murphy? Same difference. Chris Murphy is like, dude, again, why didn't you say anything when they were completely and obviously partisan left. That is the issue. It's not that you guys want places of journalism where people are free to do. If you wanted places of journalism where people are free to do journalism, then Leslie Stahl, perhaps in that Donald Trump interview, might've paused it for a second and said, Mr. President, you're making some serious allegations here. Guys, can anyone give me some insight on this Hunter Biden laptop story? And then that might've been an act of journalism.

53:33She went out of her way to act as a lawyer, in essence, for the Biden family and the Democrat party. But let's connect all this to this Graham Plattner story because this guy out in Maine, everything about him seems fraudulent. He's like Bernie on steroids. He's had a Nazi tattoo for 20 years that he claims he didn't know was a Nazi tattoo. Now there's a whole bunch of stuff coming out about some of his previous relations and some apps he's been on and a bunch more. And it's putting the Democrats in an interesting position because as I often point out, the Democrats only care about power, right?

54:06There is no sensible policy there. Look at Gavin Newsom. We played you the video twice. Gavin Newsom, basically, I care about power, so I will make sure that we will remain in power. So the Democrats are really up against one on this one because now there's a whole bunch of crap coming out about this guy. They called us all Nazis for 10 years, then backed the guy with the Nazi tattoo. Turns out the Nazi isn't so friendly to women. I can't believe it. And they're in a tough bind because they don't know what to do. If they get rid of him, it's not throwing him under the bus. If they get rid of the guy, they gotta start over and then they're really behind the eight ball.

54:40So listen to this from CBS. For the second time this week, Democratic Senate candidate Graham Plattner is facing another major controversy just days ahead of the main primary he's poised to win. On Thursday, the New York Times reported allegations of Plattner's unsettling behavior towards women he dated, including one claim that he was physically abusive, which Plattner denies. According to the Times, Platner's then girlfriend, Lindsey Feifeld said that while they were dating a decade ago, he regularly grabbed her by the shoulders, sometimes hard enough to leave marks. During one argument, he twisted her arm behind her back, shoved her into a bedroom and held the door closed.

55:17Now, I have a feeling that no matter what happens here, it probably won't hurt him because all they want is power. And they don't really care about women. Like if you were a Democrat and five years ago, or what was it, seven years ago, Me Too and Believe All Women. They never believed any of that. What they thought it would do was hurt people that they wanted to hurt, right? But now they have one of their guys. And if, by your rules, I never believed in Believe All Women. It's an absurd thing to say. It's like saying Believe All Men. It just makes no sense. You have to believe people on their merits and their track record and with proof, right?

55:49But you guys are the ones that push this on all of us. And now there are multiple women coming out saying this guy was physical towards them and you guys are pretending it didn't happen. So it was like everything else, whether it's BLM or the Hamas protest now, everything that you people do is a lie in the quest for power. Here's a edit of Graham Plattner saying that there won't be any new controversies and, well, life, you know. I'm wondering, are there other skeletons from your past that still may emerge in this race? Uh, no. But the GOP is going to dig up everything and more that they can. Yeah.

56:31And probably lie at some point. Is there something new you want to get ahead of? No. People have to take you at your word that that's true and that there's nothing else. Is that what you are saying? Yes. Well, this is very interesting because he kept saying there was nothing new, nothing new. Then this story drops multiple women. something seems weird here again. Why is it that they even said the best guy to put up in Maine would be a guy with a Nazi tattoo? Even if the argument was, all right, we're gonna put up a guy with a Nazi tattoo, how stupid would he have to be to not know what the tattoo was?

57:09Like that's the claim. Not only does he have a Nazi tattoo, he's obviously a moron who's never seen a Nazi movie, right? To see that you would have the SS insignia on the hats, sometimes it's on the lapel, you know these guys, if they were all gay, they would put it, they liked a little, they were like workers at Fridays, you know, just, oh, I have a little Nazi tattoo here. And here's Scott Jennings explaining the absurdity of this whole person. Well, as far as I know, of all the names you just mentioned, only one person had a Nazi tattoo and has chosen to lie about it, and that's Graham Plattner.

57:43I mean, he roots for American military deaths, he's mocking rape victims, he demeans rural Americans, he's been abusive to women. I mean, this is what Democrats are signing off on. This is their most celebrated Senate candidate in the country right now. You know that feeling. Too many updates, too many meetings, too many things falling through the cracks. Monday.com was built for that gap. The AI work platform designed from the ground up for people and agents to work side by side and deliver more together. Drafting the brief, flagging risks, running a competitive scan. Your agent can do it all.

58:19And the best part, anyone can build one, even you. Try it. Create your first Monday agent today at monday.com. Right. Why is it you guys are so attached to him? Well, you went all in and now you just care about power. But if you cared about any of your principles, I'm not talking about my principles. It was your principles that was me too. It was your principles that was believe all women. And then women come out and say, oh, he would hold me by the shoulders and I'd have wounds and he was verbally abusive and all this stuff. And you guys simply don't care. Here's an example of that. Ro Khanna, who for a while was trying to pretend he was a moderate, but has become every one of the worst things that progressives are.

59:03Here he is. He believes in respecting women. But gosh darn it, I'm going to campaign for Graham Plattner. Now, no one should make excuses for his past relationships. some of which were toxic and volatile, and no one on our side should attack the women who came forward. You know why? Because Democrats believe in respecting the equality and the dignity of women, and we always will.

59:41and we reject unequivocally misogyny we reject it but you know who else rejects it Graham Plattner no you don't reject it you fraudulent scumbag and that's what you are you don't reject it because when women come out and say things your rules when women come out and say things about the guy that you're literally campaigning, standing at a podium for supporting. You don't, we respect, we're Democrats, so we respect them. You don't respect them. You don't respect them at all. And then I love before that, he says, don't attack the women. Well, they went from believe all women to don't attack the women.

1:00:21Do you see how insane this is? So anything that they have to do to get power, they will do. Here's Texas Representative Veronica Escobar saying exactly that. It does not matter what this guy has done. he's a Democrat. We support him. I'll start with you because he's a member of your party. Does that concern you? Of course. Of course, it concerns me. But I will also say what concerns me even at an even greater level is Susan Collins getting reelected. I'm someone accused Donald Trump of rape. That network paid 15 million dollars in a defamation. He was guilty by a I would be real careful. I'd be real careful about telling that.

1:01:01It is incredible how much cover and comfort they give to a convicted felon and to someone who's who's been a Jew, an adjudicated case of. And again, and again, I just want to make clear here, this was a civil case. It was not a criminal case. So he wasn't found guilty. Holy sheep shit, Dana Bash did something right. I can't believe it. You know, anything can happen in life. Yes, he was not convicted by a group of his peers for rape. He was not, fact. The fact that she thinks that, whether she thinks it or she thought, who knows, you never know what these people, do they think they can just get away with it or do they actually believe it?

1:01:41But here, as you know, from December 24 from Fox, a US appellate court upholds Trump verdict in E. John Carroll defamation case. A Trump spokesman denounced the decision as part of a political weaponization of our justice system. So he was found guilty in a civil trial of defamation. He was not found guilty in a criminal trial of rape. So she just completely lied. But the point is, what she's saying is, it doesn't matter whether she's lying or not. Doesn't matter whether Plattner grabbed this woman. It doesn't matter if he actually has Nazi leanings. It doesn't matter if he was on an app for underage kids to hook up or any of these.

1:02:15It does not matter because Susan Collins is a Republican and she's scary. She's scary. Occasionally though, the Democrats who literally lie about absolutely everything with no exceptions, occasionally they say something true really by accident. And here is James Carville who was once, I mean this guy was once the, really the thought leader of the Democrat party. It was Bill Clinton and Carville was his man underneath that. And here he is fully admitting, yeah, if a Republican had a Nazi tattoo, he wouldn't be so nice about it. But what would you say to a Republican who says, James, if there was a Republican combat veteran who had a Nazi tattoo, a Totenkopf tattoo, you wouldn't be so forgiving?

1:03:01What would you say to that? That's true. I would say you're exactly right. If that person was a four-time combat veteran, I'd say I'd never vote for him or maybe it's her now. We have women in combat. but you know, you can't, but I wouldn't vote. I wouldn't vote for, I think the greatest danger we face right now is some Donald Trump. You get it? The ends justify their means. Nothing they have ever said about women or believing women or anything else is true. And he flat out admits it. If a Republican, he'd never vote for a Republican, obviously. But in essence, what he's saying is if a Republican did the exact same thing that Plattner has done, he would be trying to destroy him for that.

1:03:43and instead he's supporting him. And why is he supporting him? Because he has Trump derangement syndrome. And if you wanna see a video that perfectly encapsulates Trump derangement syndrome, how progressives have completely lost their mind, how reality has been twisted, how up is down, left is right, cats or dogs, et cetera, here is a woman being asked about Plattner's Nazi tattoo. This is incredible, watch this. A token code tattoo, the Nazi tattoo, how do you kind of... Somebody said that they talked to somebody who had seen one of those or wore one of those and it was silver and it didn't even occur to him that it was the same thing.

1:04:24I think people are making as much of it as they can because they don't have a lot of substance around anything else. And if they did, we'd hear about it, believe me. They are trolling for dirt. What if he had like an Israeli flag tattoo or something, would that be a deal breaker? For me? Yeah. Honestly, yeah. That would be the general? Yeah, because I don't support genocide and he doesn't either. And that would show that he was being inconsistent. And he's been very consistent about that. Straight across the board. That may be, I mean, you know, when I say like this is the clip of the year or something, like that brain broken witch.

1:05:04She thinks that the Israeli flag tattoo is worse than the Nazi tattoo. The Nazis, which killed six million Jews. How many people total died in World War II? I think it's about 20 million overall. In Gaza, before October 7th, there were 2.2 million people. We just checked. There were about 2.1 million people. Under 100 ,000 people died. probably at least 60 % of them were Hamas fighters. 85 million people died in World War II, Jesus. I was really off on that. If they would have given up the hostages, it was a country trying to save its people who were brought underground into the most unimaginably evil, medieval torture tunnels that you can possibly imagine.

1:05:50And the second they got their people back, thanks to Donald Trump, the war ended. You remember that? Remember that? It was the only genocide in history where the people who were purportedly being genocide were the ones that were extending the genocide. Only genocide in history where the Arab brothers of the Palestinians, like the Egyptians, wouldn't open up the door and everything else. But it just goes to show how brain broken. Oh, on top of the fact, does she not know what the Nazis did? The Israelis support genocide, completely absurd. If the Israelis wanted genocide, they could have done it on October 8th.

1:06:20Might've saved them a hell of a lot of pain actually. And they would've had to make some pretty horrible decisions related to their own people. But I think you can make a military argument for having gone in way harder in the first week. That's a sidebar on all of this. But the Israelis wanted genocide and the Nazi guy with the Nazi... Oh no, the Nazis had nothing to do with genocide. Like brain broken, ridiculous drivel. As long as we're talking about Israel, there are some updates on the Iran war, which got a little bit hot as of last night before we get into the... Well, get you caught up on the last 12 hours or so.

1:06:53So here's Trump, one more with Kristen Welker, on the ceasefire negotiations and where Iran is at with or without the nuclear situation. How close are you to making a deal? Are we talking about days, weeks, months, Mr. President? I think we're very close. We have a couple of points. They don't even seem like big points. They've conceded the fact that they will not have nuclear weapons. We had a clause in there that we will not develop nuclear weapons. And everybody was very happy with it except me. And I said, well, what happens if they not develop, but they go out and purchase, they acquire? I want to put the word if they buy or purchase or acquire, you've got to have that in there too, because that's not developing.

1:07:37So they don't have the right to develop or purchase, acquire or buy. Have they pushed back against that? Is that one of the sticking points? A little bit. And then they didn't. OK, so there is Trump. Again, this is yesterday morning. There's Trump basically saying, we're getting close. It's not that they just can't build them. I wanted to add some stipulations. Okay, there's some back and forth. And then last night, somewhat out of nowhere because the ceasefire pretty much has been holding. There's been fighting between Israel and Lebanon. If it's not even Lebanon, it's Hezbollah, which is running Lebanon, a terrorist organization that's running Lebanon that's funded by the IRGC.

1:08:14But the Iran, Israel and American portion of the war had wrapped up until last night when Iran decided to shoot a ballistic missile at northern Israel. Here's Trey Yinkst on Trump's message after Iran did that. I just got off the phone with President Trump to get his reaction to the ongoing missile attack. As I was speaking with the president out the window, I could see some of these incoming missiles headed toward the northern part of this country. The IDF says they were able to shoot down the majority of the incoming fire, but the president telling Fox News it's certainly not going to help negotiations.

1:08:47I asked him if he had a message for the Iranian regime. He said, what I would suggest to Iran, you've shot your missiles. That's enough. Get back to the table and make a deal. President Trump indicated in our conversation that negotiations with Iran were progressing toward a possible agreement as early as Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday of this coming week. All right, so you have to question what Iran's angle here is, right? So if the negotiations are happening, did they feel, oh, we could throw a couple of rockets in knowing Israel has to respond as any sovereign nation, you throw rockets into their nation, they're gonna fire rockets back at you.

1:09:21Was there hope, okay, we're getting close on the negotiations, we don't really like the negotiations, let's get back to the war and drag Trump back into that because he doesn't want, you know, he wants this thing to wrap up cleanly. I don't know that any more than you do, but it's like, you just have to think, like, what are they trying to do? Here's a bit more on Trump's, what appears to be Trump's position right now, this is from the Financial Times. Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will have no choice but to accept whatever deal the US negotiates with Iran, Trump said, because the US president calls the shots.

1:09:49He won't have any choice, Trump told the Financial Times in a telephone interview. I call the shots, I call all the shots, he doesn't call the shots. Trump spoke shortly after Iran launched a salvo of ballistic missiles at Israel in the most serious breach of the ceasefire that was struck in early April. The US president separately told Fox News that he would instruct Netanyahu to refrain from taking retaliatory action against Iran, a position at odds with statements from the Israeli military. That's an interesting quote from Trump because you have these ding dong, the Tucker woke right people who are always telling you that Bibi is running Trump when it's obvious.

1:10:24Like if Trump, at the end of the day, if Trump says we are not gonna do anything, they ain't gonna do it. Now, some of this could be posturing, right? Some of this could be Trump and Bibi working on the DL, like you do what you gotta do, I'll say something publicly, we just don't know exactly. But Israel did as again, any sovereign nation, you'd have to. Canada shot rockets to Detroit, what would we do? Mexico shot rockets to El Paso, what would we do? If we shot rockets into Mexico, like you do every version of this, every nation exists with the, I would say the sacred contract that it must defend its citizens.

1:11:01This from the Israeli Defense Forces, the Israeli Air Force struck military targets belonging to the Iranian terror regime in Western and Central Iran a short while ago. And we'll get you basically caught up here. This from Breaking 911. Explosions are now being reported in the Iranian capital of Tehran. That was last night. And then Trump, after this tit for tat, Trump, both sides, Israel and Iran, are looking to do an immediate ceasefire. Final negotiations on peace are proceeding, subject to ignorance or stupidity getting in the way. The blockade will remain in place in full force and effect until a final deal is reached.

1:11:33Things should move quickly. Thank you for your attention to this matter, President Donald J. Trump. And then one more to really put a button on where we are at right now. This from the Kobisi letter. Breaking Iran announces that it is halting its military operations against Israel after several attacks by both sides. Details include the IRGC warned that any further strikes by Israel in Iran or Lebanon would trigger a far stronger and more forceful response. The move comes hours after President Trump said Israel and Iran must immediately stop shooting. Trump announced that both sides, Israel and Iran, are looking to do an immediate ceasefire.

1:12:07So the point on all of this is, it seems to me that Trump will be able to get the Israelis and Iranians to pretty much stop shooting at each other. The real issue is Hezbollah and Lebanon because Israel has 300 ,000 citizens that have evacuated the North and they've been under rocket fire since October 8th. The border was safe. Israel knew they were putting a whole bunch of rockets on the other side, but nothing was going on there. There was no territorial argument or anything else until October 8th. So Israel has to deal with that just like any other country would. So I think it seems to me that they're gonna disconnect.

1:12:42Israel will deal with Hezbollah and hopefully the Iran thing will calm down. But let's bring the show sort of full circle and get to something that I think maybe is, not maybe, something that is absolutely more important than whether you agree with this decision or that tax policy or this or that or other things, which is that as we roll into this 250, I keep saying there's gonna be a burst of patriotism in this country. And the silver lining to what the Democrats are doing right now is that they've gone so off the rails that I don't think it works for most nominal Americans. And I mean nominal in the best sense, like just the guy that doesn't really care about all this stuff, that's just trying to live his life.

1:13:21They see the communism, they see the jihad, they see the anti-Americanism, they see all this stuff and they just don't like it. So they're going down that path And the rest of us just have to figure out a way to put some policy agreements aside and figure out what a prosperous future for this country is and be proud of this country. And what's interesting, although not surprising, is there is a massive pride gap in America right now when it comes to Republicans and Democrats. Here's Bill Maher covering that. What about the bigger issue? The bigger issue of, there is a, it's Pride Month, but a different kind of pride, pride in the country.

1:14:01There's a big pride gap. Like 38 % of Americans report feeling proud. That's not a lot. But it's only 18 % Democrats, 68 % Republicans. Should Democrats feel prouder of this country and show it both really and politically? I mean, you're talking to two people who've served their country for most of their careers. So I can't deeply... I'm not talking about you. I'm talking about - I care deeply about our country, and I'm very proud of it. But I also think that we're in a difficult spot, and we need to do better.

1:14:39Thank you for that nothing statement there. Okay, so first off, the overall number, only 38 % of Americans, according to this study, are proud of America. Let's say the poll is really off, and it's actually, let's throw in another 20%, and it's 58%. That would be way too low. everyone that lives in this country should be, no matter, I almost did it. I almost dropped the F-bomb, but I didn't. Everyone that lives in this country, whether you like Trump or don't like Trump or anything else, should be deeply proud of our history and of our founding and of our freedoms and all of those things, right?

1:15:12So 38 % is embarrassing. And if it was 20 points higher, it would still be too low. 18 % of Democrats. So that means that more than four out of five Democrats that you will meet on the street are not proud of this country. That is a huge problem that is bigger than the political machinations of the day, right? That is an existential problem for the survival of the nation if a generation and another generation goes by, right? That's that. And 68 % of Republicans, that actually seems low. I don't know who would be a Republican right now. Like, you know, I guess it's like the Tucker crew would not be proud of America or something like that.

1:15:52but at least 68 % is doable, right? Like you could function as a society, basically seven out of 10 of Americans think that we're pretty decent. You can kind of make that work. You'd like it to be nine out of 10, right? But you can basically make that work. You can't make it work over time with 38 % overall and one political party that has 18%. And that might be a little high to be quite honest. I like how the two of them were like, well, we're Democrats and we're okay. You go to a lot of empty parties, don't you? All right, that is our program for today. Hey, I thank you for watching. Don't forget, if you wanna see me live, this is your last chance to get tickets Thursday night.

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