THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 63 — Matt Gaetz’s Future?Jussie Smollett’s Jailbreak? War fever with Russia?
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Okay, Jack and Blake are with us. Who wants to take this first? Lots of Attorney General news. Who wants to break it down for our audience? Blake, you go first. What are you talking about?

Oh, man, it's wild. And we do have Tyler here. He just flew in. Man, so I guess summary, in case anyone was under a rock today, you know, we warned people last week not every Trump pick was going to get through because he was doing what we wanted. He was pursuing an aggressive strategy. He was saying, like, you know, he was going for it all with all of his picks. He was not making safe ones. He wasn't worried about batting 1,000. And so...

He nominated Matt Gaetz last week for Attorney General. I think a lot of us were excited about that. We thought this is a guy who will have the right energy for what we need at DOJ. But it was not to be. He did pull back. He withdrew his nomination for Attorney General. It makes him, I believe, tied for the third shortest cabinet candidate.

nomination in history. There was one person who was nominated for Secretary of War more than 100 years ago who was nominated for one day. I don't know the details on that, so I have to go look that up. And then also, Bernie Kerik was nominated the same number of days. And then I believe he had to withdraw due to Bush's pick for Homeland Security, and he had to withdraw. And instead we got, I believe, Tom Ridge, which forced us to endure 20 years of Tom Ridge as like a

presidential nominee contender but now we have to see who's my governor the whole thing it was the whole thing it grew some ghastly so now we have to ask ourselves who is the next next ag of the united states that is the question jack why don't you break down um your opinion on all of this look so my opinion on all of this i'll put it this way when when matt gates's name came out

I said, wow, because even go before that, right? So even before that, we were all saying, so Donald Trump is one. We've got the majority. We've got the Senate. We've got the House. And people are all looking around saying, OK, what do we do now? We've got this mandate and people are putting together their short lists. Obviously, in terms of the cabinet, the probably the number one most important pick for the cabinet is the attorney general. There was no question.

And people were putting together their short lists. People were putting together the who's who. People were flying down to Mar-a-Lago. Charlie, you and I were there. And we saw people doing the interviews. And Matt Cage's name was not on any of those lists. This was a total...

out of right field surprise pick. It was something that took DC by absolute storm. It was something that took, I think, Trump world by absolute storm. And you saw everybody line up behind it because we said, you know what? This is the kind of guy who's a pit bull. This is the kind of guy who absolutely can do the job, knows what needs to be done, and has the guts to do so. But I do think that there was that question in the back of all of our minds

that voice in the back of our mind saying, wait a minute, guys, we have to live in reality. And we know, look, okay, we've got a bunch of really, really good senators elected. We flipped a lot of great seats, but at the same time, 50 votes is a tall order in the United States Senate.

And a lot of us were thinking, is it possible to get him over that finish line? And we knew that we could lose three. But as it turns out, it turned out and I figured those three would be Alaska, Maine and Utah. The Mitt Romney clone who just got elected in Utah. But as it turns out, it was four. The magic number we needed was three. But we ended up with four because Mitch McConnell was a hard number.

which came out in Jonathan Swan and a bunch of people, and Charlie, you had tweeted about this as well. So the idea being that, for people who have been in DC for a long time, for people who have been in the business, or people who, by the way, have been in the MAGA movement for a long time, we know that things don't just magically appear for us. You gotta work for it, you gotta fight, and MAGA does not take days off. This movement does not take days off.

And so essentially it's like, okay, that's where we are, but we're in a much better position than we were beforehand because now we've already gone through the process. Now we've already seen, you know, where the, uh, where the, where the sleeping snakes are in the, in the field and we can determine which way to go forward. And by the way, I know for a fact, and Charlie, I know, you know, as well that these are, uh,

These are all discussions and thoughts that President Trump himself and his team have had all along while looking at this.

Yeah, and so the question is who's next, and there's a lot of names being floated there. I do want to say, though, that the deputy attorney general that has been nominated, Todd Blanch, is terrific. This guy, when he represented Donald Trump personally, remember, in the civil trial, Todd Blanch left his very, very high white shoe law firm, you could say. Is that the right way to...

word it, white shoe law firm, Blake. Is there some sort of saying? Yeah, yeah. For like top law firms, that's kind of the slang term for it. So, and he represented Donald Trump

in that criminal trial and was amazing. And he's a total fighter. He lost a lot. In fact, let me read this to you. Blanche left the law firm that he was at just to be able to represent President Donald Trump. He was a partner at Calawander, Wickersham, and Taft,

which has 400 attorneys and five offices and does $600 million a year in revenue. He left that because if you're to represent Donald Trump, you're not allowed to be at any of those law firms. He doesn't care. He said, I wanted to represent Donald Trump. And so following that,

the May 30th conviction on 34 felony accounts. Blanch stated that to Trump's defense team, obviously plans to appeal the verdict. So he has demonstrated that he is loyal to the president and what he wants to do with the attorney general's office, we shall see. But I think that's a very important name to consider. And you got to give, look, Matt Gaetz made this decision himself.

I know Matt very well, and I've kind of been seeing his name throughout this process. And Matt was like, look, there is an immovable block of five or six senators. I'm not going to have the president spend all of this political capital if we can't move these senators. And I think he deserves a lot of credit for that. Tyler, your reaction? Yeah, I mean, I was a little bit I was hoping that what we had discussed before was going to happen, where this would go, it would force a vote.

And for sure, I think this was going to be one of the first confirmation processes. Usually, I think AG would probably be up there. So I'm wondering if a little bit of strategy changed a little bit within Trump world and thinking that this may have impact on other parties.

confirmations. And so maybe there, you never know what kind of horse trading is going on in the background with some of these things. It's likely that there was some significant horse trading going on, which is, which is good for other appointments, cabinet appointments here. And I'm sure that that's part of the process was like, Hey, look, if you,

You pull out now, figure it out. You know, we'll sail some of these others through, which is good. But at the same time, you know, we just put up at Turning Point Action, Charlie, and you know this, and we're going to be going very hard on this, tpaction.com slash no excuse, which gives all of the voting records for every single one of the Republicans who voted to confirm all of Biden's appointees.

And so it's just good for the general public to know the more educated that the public is on these issues, on specifically which appointments that were approved by Republicans in your own home state, that gives you the wherewithal to call them, to talk to them, to create a hubbub, to get on X and other places and talk a lot more about this because it is without reason to approve some of these, like Mayorkas, for example,

but not be in the saddle for Donald Trump's appointment. Tyler, can you pull some of those up, by the way? So what Tyler's talking about is going to be one of the most ambitious grassroots efforts that we've ever done at Turning Point Action. And it's not an election-focused one. It's about confirmation, which, by the way, 501c4 exists to help do lobbying of officials.

And we are going to be directly lobbying people from senators from Idaho, senators from South Dakota, senators from Arkansas, senators from Mississippi, senators from Kansas. We are going to be involving the grassroots in holding these senators accountable. So, Tyler, let's drop some of these these votes. They're quite remarkable.

Yeah, grassroots lobbying, Charlie, is completely within the wheelhouse of every 501c4. And every 501c4 that we have on our side should be doing this work and reminding people of this. So, yeah, again, it's tpaction.com slash no excuse. You can also find it. We're going to be putting this on our cabinet website, which is tpaction.com slash cabinet, which you can track all the cabinet appointments there.

And then also we have this new campaign that's coming out that we'll talk a lot more about, about getting all of Trump's mandate appointments through. But again, you can go to tpaction.com slash no excuse. And if we look just for example, let's just take a look at some of these bad ones. Merrick Garland had quite a few people that voted for Murkowski, obviously, you know,

You know the the typical Murkowski Collins, so we won't mention them because we'll just assume they voted for every bad person But Joni Ernst in Iowa Chuck Grassley in Iowa Jerry in Kansas Mitch McConnell obviously who couldn't you know get through his his press conference today Senator Bill Cassidy in Louisiana Tom Tillis in North Carolina James Langford in Oklahoma Oklahoma's

arguably the deepest red state that we have in the country. And James Lankford was all about Merrick Garland. So Mike Rounds in South Dakota, John Thune in South Dakota, John Cornyn in Texas, Mitt Romney, obviously, Shelley Moore Capito in West Virginia, Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson. I don't think we have a problem with Ron Johnson on any of the appointments, but he voted for them. And then you look over at Mayorkas,

You had Dan Sullivan from Alaska voted for Mayorkas. You had Shelley Moore Capito also again voted for Mayorkas. I mean, there's just a lot if you go through all this, a lot of people who are not very friendly to us in any kind of way and have done a pitiful job in their positions that have all voted. So you can go to tpaction.com slash no excuse and

to follow along and use that information. We're going to be actually organizing email and call systems that come out of that so we can make it easy to say, hey, all of you voted for this person. Why won't you vote for President Trump's appointment?

So, I mean, this is perplexing to me. And Jack, I want you to build this out. Why is it that so many of these red state senators are willing to vote for Joe Biden's nominees, but they drag their feet for Donald Trump's nominees?

Well, it really is amazing, Charlie. And you've got to go into the primary process for all this because, look, here's what the dirty little secret is. When we say rhinos, when we talk about a rhino, you have to understand the psychology of a rhino and what the makeup of a rhino is. So a rhino is an embarrassed Democrat.

And a lot of the Republican senators who currently sit in the Republican caucus, let's not name names right now, but let's just say that I know them very, very well. A lot of them, and you see this, by the way, in pretty much every red state, they're embarrassed Democrats. What do I mean by that? That they personally are Democrats. They have the belief structure, the ideals, the ideology of a Democrat and Democrats.

They also have the financial backing of whatever corporate interests are in their state. And so they will know that they have to be registered as a Republican if they want to run and win, kind of like you have to be registered as a Democrat if you want to run and win in statewide California or New York. And so what will happen, by the way, the DA, Nate Hockman, who just got elected in

L.A. County, a great example of this, where he was a Republican who had to leave the party and run as an independent so that he could get elected in that state because they just won't do it. Well, the flip side also exists, boys and girls, and it exists within our red states because you have all of these, I don't know, it was that guy, Dade Phelan from Texas, who ran the false impeachment on Republicans.

on Paxton and some of these other guys where they just sit there and they are essentially Democrats, but because they live in a state where you have to be a Republican to get elected, then you go and run as a Republican. And every once, you know, John Tester was doing this for years, by the way, and he finally got called on it because you'll do a video, even though, you know, he writes Democrat, um,

Every four years, you'll make a video of yourself shooting a gun, wearing a cowboy hat or driving a tractor or something like that. And then you just walk back to Washington, D.C. and do whatever big business, whatever your corporate interests want you to do. And then they'll come around, come primary time, and they'll say, you got to reelect me. Well, I'm the Republican. I'm fighting for you and I'm pro-Trump. But when it comes down to issues like this, when it comes down to issues that actually matter,

matter that could actually shake up the system in Washington, D.C. That is when they show their true color. So I'll put it this way. Donald Trump just got a lot of clarity. He just he paid a high price for it. But he got a lot of clarity as to what's coming out of the United States Senate Republican caucus.

All right, so now let's go around the horn, guys. Which do you think, Blake, is going to be the toughest confirmation that is looming? Obviously, you know, we can condense the list down. This will be an interesting thought crime panel discussion. Do you think the most difficult will be Bobby, Tulsi, or Hegseth? Which of the three, Blake, do you think will be the most difficult? I have a strong opinion on this. I will go last. Blake, go first. What feels weird to me is...

I guess intuitively to me, it feels like Hegseth should be the toughest one. That's how it feels it should be to me, given...

I feel like we've sort of... It is weird to pick a TV host to run DOJ... Or not DOJ, DOD. And rationally, it's one where you would probably want the highest standards. The stakes are really high. It's an enormously complex organization. It's almost like being the CEO of a company with 3 million employees. It's very huge. Whereas DNI, or Director of National Intelligence...

you can, you know, you're just sort of sifting information. You're like preparing digest for the president. That said, it just does seem like the narratives have decided to solidify on, uh, on RFK as the toughest one. The reason I think I am going to go with him actually being the toughest one. The reason I'm going to say that is, uh,

RFK is the one where actual money is at stake, where you have very large industries with many billions of dollars that are 100% not going to want RFK in that job, and they'll go all out. They will research. They will bring up every single piece of

you know, bat of, you know, hit piece material. They can, they might, they might like break the law. They'll like break into a psychiatrist's office to steal his, like his medical records or something. Like I, I've heard of that happening before. I can see everything being on the table because of the amount of money being involved. And you don't quite have the same kind of stakes there for DOD or for DNI. And so I would guess that RFK is going to be the toughest one, even though it doesn't make a ton of sense to me.

Jack, which one do you think will be the most difficult? And then I will close. Okay, yeah. So, well, I mean, Tyler, that's...

No, Blake, I just want to say that I agree what you're saying about Pete, that he seems to be the one that currently seems to be more of, has an easier path, or at least seems to have an easier path than the others at the moment. RFK, of course, that's going to be a knockdown, drag out fight. You've got billions of dollars on the line when it comes to pharma, when it comes to GMOs, et cetera, et cetera. I honestly think it's going to be Tulsi because the Tulsi fight has already begun.

Nikki Haley and everybody was laughing about Nikki Haley. Oh, ha ha. She's putting out this little statement on her podcast. Nobody listens to and she's going after, you know, Tulsi. She's got sour grapes and she's jealous and all this because she got passed over. Look, look, listen to what Nikki Haley was saying in that.

These statements regarding Saudi Arabia, regarding Iran, regarding different peace deals, things that Tulsi has weighed in on in the past, stuff that she may have said when she was a card-carrying Democrat, by the way, before she had her conversion, before she came over as a Republican, they are going to use, just like...

like in miranda writes anything you say can and will be used against you and so they're going to bring all that up and then keep in mind folks you've got the war party out there that is

looking at billions of dollars coming down to the very end when it comes to the Ukraine war, when it comes to Israel-Gaza, when it comes to so many other things around the world. And so they want one of their people in there. And certainly, by the way, the intel community does not want someone up there who's actually going to declassify things and tell the truth about various operations that have been going on because the DNI actually does have budget oversight for the other agencies.

specifically for the National Intelligence Program, the NIPF. So the NIPF, which is the National Intelligence Program. No acronyms. I'm acronymed out. I'm acronymed out, Jack. I can't. We literally talked about it. Charlie and I were chatting about this. Charlie and I were literally chatting about this all day, and I go and drop one on him. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

It is just, I, it is, it is what people that are not qualified to be in charge of things. They do this to try and intimidate you as if they are. It is the Intel budget. That's what I'm talking about. It's the Intel budget. So it's, it's sort of like it decides what programs get funded, where at what agencies that's called the NIPF and the DNI does have to sign off on that. So that's a huge,

huge piece of it. And look, if she sits there and starts asking questions about, hey, what's going on with this? What's going on with that? That's going to lead to a lot of answers that people do not want out there. Tyler, which of the three do you think are the most is going to be the hardest? You know, I actually think I have a different take. I think RFK is it. I think RFK is going to be the toughest. And here's the reason why RFK was banished from the Democrat campaign.

circles because of the amount of... There's one thing that you can do that will tick off the Democrats more than anything else based off of their infrastructure that they have in the new Soros arrangement with everything else, with Arabella, and that is to fundraise away from other Democrats.

And so I actually think that there is the largest ax to grind and there's the most hatred and vitriol out of anybody, including Matt Gaetz, is actually for RFK. So getting him across the finish line would be massive, would be huge, because the Democrats are being told from the people who hold their purse strings that RFK is public enemy number one and this should have never happened.

Okay. Any thought there, Jack? Well, one thing I'd like to throw out is, you know, do we think, and sort of a question for the bunch, do we think that someone like Tulsi or RFK, who Tulsi was Democrat until five minutes ago, RFK is currently a card-carrying Democrat, do we think there's any possibility of Democrat votes coming over for them

you know, you look at something like a Bernie Sanders who Tulsi was instrumental towards in 2016. You look at someone like a John Ossoff who's in a state that Trump won decisively and he's up for reelection in 26 or even someone like John Fetterman who's trying to play this game of like, oh, I'm a moderate, I'm based Fetterman or whatever. I'm not saying that it's that I think it's going to happen, but I think I also think why not target three or four and see what happens. Yeah, I think it's highly unlikely. My belief.

My belief is this. I think Tulsi is by far the hardest. And hear me out. That Bobby Kennedy is going to be tough. However, he is so well liked by the base. Tulsi is too. But Bobby will get like fever pitch support from the base. I think Tyler agrees that there's Bobby energy that doesn't exist of all the other three. Secondly, with HHS, it's going to be a fight. There is a ton of money there. But

of of the three i'm not going to say it's going to be easy of the three the keeper of secrets tulsi gabbard is going to be the biggest fight you think about pete hagseth okay so with pete hagseth he'll make the military less woke he'll make it more lethal in some ways

neocons will be okay with that, right? It's not, and he will only be able to do as much as what the president does, right? And there's not like mass amounts of like institutional long decade disruption to their plans that Pete Hegseth can do that the president is not already determining, right? Because the president every single day is dictating the cadence of

the foreign policy okay now pete will be able to you know by the way a lot of senators are coming out in support of pete a lot mark wayne mullen like he's he's gaining a lot of momentum on the hill more so than the other nominees now by the way i love tulsi i was just with her today like i'm 100 behind tulsi however let me build out the case bobby is interesting

I think Bobby is going to do very well in his confirmation hearing. He'll have depth of knowledge. And what is their excuse for Bobby going to be? That he's a vaccine skeptic? Okay, I think he'll actually be able to explain that pretty well. But with Tulsi, think about it. What Tulsi could do at the head of DNI? We're talking about fulfilling the promise of the JFK files. We're

We're talking about finding out potential foreign involvement in 9-11 beyond what we know, like Saudi intelligence, et cetera, which Jack, I know you've been very interested in throughout the years. We're talking about getting to the baseline of the origins of COVID. We're talking about the origins of Russiagate. The keeper of secrets, if I had to say where they're going to fight the highest, is the intel community.

Does anybody disagree with that assessment? I'm not saying anyone is easy, but I think the easiest will actually be Pete and the hardest will be Tulsi. Feel free to disagree, guys. Well, and it would be fitting, too, if Tulsi got through, that the former congresswoman who looks most like an X-Men would release all the information about aliens. Wait, which X-Men? Storm. Well, no. She has the white. Oh, no, no, you're right. It's a...

Rogue. That's Rogue, yeah. She doesn't look like Rogue. Oh, she has the white streak. Oh, kind of. Rogue's like a southern girl. You guys don't understand your X-Men lore. You're getting it all wrong. She's all of them folded into one, okay? Ah.

Wait, wait, wait. Here's a piece of it that I'd love to throw out, by the way, though, and I'd love to get into that later. But, you know, Charlie, not only would she declassify that, she would declassify the wiretapping that's going on currently in the U.S. government, or, by the way, the wiretapping that goes on when one of our friends, when we say, oh, we want to look into...

Jack Posobiec and Tyler Boyer and Blake Neff and maybe even Charlie Kirk. And then you say, we can't touch that. So I got to call GCHQ or I got to call DGSE or call up. These are the five eyes partners in the English speaking world who can come around and say, well, you can look into them. And so you tell me what they're up to. And then I'll make some like fake FISA case against them. Look, do we...

Did we learn nothing in 2016 and 2017? No, I don't think so. So remember what they did to Flynn. Remember they did the Carter Page and George Papadopoulos. If you think that kind of stuff, inserting people, people being inserted from the deep state into into the administration or having the FBI run these operations on people inside the White House itself, if you think that they just stopped and they went away, like, is it your first day here? I'm confused.

Yeah, and so, Blake, what do you think of that assessment? Again, I think Bobby's going to be a fight, but I think

I think Bobby and Trump are creating a very close relationship, what I'm seeing. And I think Trump is willing to go to the mat for Bobby for multiple reasons. And again, I am totally on board for Tulsi. Again, I'm trying to help her any way I can. But I think Trump looked to Bobby at an inflection point where that endorsement really, really made a difference. Remember, that was the day after the Democrat convention. It was at the Turning Point Action event in Arizona. There was a lot of momentum that came after it.

So, Blake, what do you think of that assessment? Yeah, I think that makes sense. And I think, bigger picture, Trump does care, kind of in this very direct businessman way, about delivering on overt promises that he made. And, you know, he very much considered that a priority with his first admin. Like,

Like, you know, really saying promises made, promises kept. Here's how I delivered on all the things that I said I would do when I was running. And I think he probably views this RFK thing the same way. You know, he had a businessman's deal. If you endorse me, I will let you take charge on this specific agenda.

And I've talked to people who are just like, oh, well, RFK is served. He's not useful anymore. Cut him loose. Like, what sort of, like, weird HBO poisoned brain you have where it's just like, oh, use them and throw them away. That's not how Trump operates. Trump does consider it...

It's not that he'll it's not that he like is incapable of saying, oh, this person, it's not working out. We have to pull it. But this was a direct promise he made. He got votes. He maybe won the election because he made this promise. And if he breaks it, it's like what other deals can he propose for the rest of the next four years? He's a guy who breaks his deals. So I think you're very strong. You're very correct. He will go to the mat for RFK.

I just, I personally wonder, will that be enough? Will you just run into that brick wall where you're going to have, you know, 15 Republican senators who say, sorry, Pfizer says it's a no-go. We're not going to let it go. And then where do you go from there? Tulsi, I understand your argument, but I think about the fact, like,

Meghan McCain has already endorsed Tulsi. I think that is easy to make fun of. Yeah, I think that actually could go a little bit of a ways where you'll have a few of those voices who will say, wait, guys, this this Russian asset thing people say is dumb. She is literally a serving member of the United States Armed Forces right now. Like if you think she's a Russian spy, why isn't she being investigated? Why isn't she undergoing a court martial? Oh, everyone knows this is BS. This is just a thing they made up.

And I think there's room for that narrative to expand and spread. Like people are going to go, okay, this is a woman who was a member of Congress and like she ran for president as a Democrat. She didn't win, but this wasn't considered a manifestly insane treasonous thing. Um,

And combined with the fact that, as I said, DNI, there's not as much money invested in it. And like if they if they scuttle her, you know, Trump could easily just install someone else who might have the same agenda. I think she has better odds than Charlie rates it as. But I can understand the argument. Yeah. And I'll just kind of give my take on Tulsi. I actually think that they're mishandling the Tulsi situation.

You know, from a typical Saul Alinsky playbook type of an angle. I think that you brought up, Charlie, I could be wrong. We'll see. But I think that the opening is there to try to attack RFK and

from a Linsky type perspective but there's less of that with Tulsi and I think that entire you're right I mean make the enemy live up to it's a book of its own rules type thing because the left way it's a good game on healthy eating and on against corporate farming now now I will say though Tyler Bernie Sanders Ron Wyden they tend to be against the Intel agencies but there's not a lot of those Democrat senators though not a lot

Yeah, there's not. I mean, we'll see. I mean, and I could be totally wrong here. I could, you know, here's again, this is where I just always look to, like, where are the purse strings and who poses the greatest threat to the purse strings within the Democrats? This is the reason why Bernie is.

endorsed Hillary ultimately and this is why Bernie endorsed Joe Biden and this is why Bernie endorsed comma I mean it was a leisure firm with comma but is that ultimately his access to the left's data and money pool and yeah specifically act blue and all of that even though he may not you know subscribe to every element of it is dependent upon his willingness to play ball on these things and again I you know that's why I think all these are going to be difficult with Democrats because

The real question is Republicans and see if we can overcome and who can't get bought off by, you know, the center left joint in D.C. So, well, there's there's a ton, too. And by the way, you know, just to say Chelsea is is personally my favorite pick out of any of the cabinet thus far.

And just as I say, as a guy who was in the Intel community and understands how much reform is actually needed there, and I don't know anybody else on the scene that's actually going to be able to do anything like she would. I mean, go in there and actually start shaking things up in the 18 agencies. That being said, yeah, no, Tyler, what you were saying as well about the way it's being managed. I mean, Tulsi is someone who what is the main thing that?

that beyond her service and beyond her record, what is the main thing that people know about her is she is fantastic on camera. She is fantastic in interviews. She is fantastic. I mean, why not have Tulsi Gabbard go out there and respond to this latest, the long term,

the long range missile thing in Ukraine. Why not have Tulsi Gabbard respond? You know, Putin just gave this huge speech throwing down in Moscow talking about, hey, if you want a war, you got one. If you, you know, we've got these long range missiles or I guess it's medium range ballistic missile with hypersonic glide, et cetera. Have Tulsi be the person responding on all of these various things. Empower her to actually be, and she could sit with, you know, sit with Mike Waltz and figure out what they want the response to be. And then could actually be in a sense sort of

setting it up so that's almost like she's doing the job already. And I think she would get a lot of support, maybe not so much just on the inside game, but you've got to build up the outside game. And you're right, Charlie, she doesn't have that kind of Bobby Kennedy energy. But if you put her out there and actually have her start giving statements, she's going to be someone that's going to break, break,

out of the sort of MAGA silo and our silo is bigger than it's ever been but she's going to reach out to Independence she's going to reach out to women there's so many people are going to want to hear what Tulsi has to say I think it would be a media strategy for her could be helpful if now you know if if done properly if done properly so I think we've we've glossed over something that's important what what's next for Matt Gates

Matt Gaetz resigned from the current Congress, right? So he resigned from the Congress of 2023 to 2025. That Congress hasn't ended yet, and the next Congress is the one that he was elected to. So maybe this is a Blake question. Blake, does that resignation count for the session that he was just elected for or no? I don't even know how that works. Wow, I've never thought about that, I guess not.

You get what I'm saying, right? I get what you're saying. I...

I wonder if it's like you'd probably have to get into the technicalities. Like he sent a letter to the governor saying he was resigning effective immediately. Maybe they that like technically exclude like that essentially is announcing he's forfeiting. Ah, we got him back. Charlie is back. I've been answering this question. It's very simple. Yes. If Matt Gaetz wishes he could he can easily resume the next Congress. He resumed. He resigned from this Congress.

Just then tell DeSantis to cancel the special election. Very simple. It's still within the window. Candidates have not yet been filed. Until candidates are filed for that special election, the governor has the ability to cancel that special election. He has like a week and a half to decide. Oh, that was simple. Yeah. I mean, in his resignation letter, he said he did not intend to take his oath of office. So I guess it would just depend on him. I do not think he's going to. I don't think he's going back to Congress. I don't think he's going back to Congress. So, I mean, it doesn't look like it, but.

We could force him. We could grab him, put him in the van, drive him. He'll wake up in Congress. Welcome back. Kick him out on the steps. You have to go back. I mean, we might need to vote. The way these things are looking, it's very close. But assuming he doesn't go back to the House, some people have brought up he could be appointed to the Senate vacancy, but you would need DeSantis to go along with that.

And there might be a lot of people who want that Senate seat. And he also just might not want it himself. DeSantis will not give that to him. That's not happening. The story was always that he wanted to run for governor when DeSantis was headed out. And there's no reason he still can't do that. That's only two years out. So...

By the way, but if DeSantis gave, and they've had a good relationship, they've always maintained a good relationship, even with the primary being notwithstanding, that if DeSantis appointed Gates to the Senate seat, then that would clear the governor's seat for the 26 race. So DeSantis could kind of, could then maybe maneuver to get one of his people over there.

Very true. Of course, a common sense, yeah, is the reason he would want the Senate seat to be open is that DeSantis himself would want to get into it. Some people have even said he might, you know, appoint his wife, Casey. And, you know, there's like it's like Star Wars. Only like five families are allowed to hold offices. The biggest sign that you know that that Matt's not going back to Congress, you want to know what it is?

Ginger posted on Instagram the end of it. So when the wife says that it's over, it's really over. Right, everyone? Yeah. I need to talk about one of our partners. Okay. Let me go to one of our partners here on Rumble. Okay.

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more than welcome to continue and proceed. What is blue sky? Somebody fill me in on this. I'm hearing about this a lot.

Oh, this is great. So Blue Sky is... Let's see. Actually, let's bring it up on the other laptop so people can look at it. One of the things that's great about this is I guess there's no intellectual property at all in terms of how you make a website because Blue Sky just looks exactly like Twitter. It uses the exact same logo except it's a butterfly instead of a bird. I don't know if people can see this easily. And...

It, like, has the exact same feed structure. As far as I can tell, it even, like, uses, like, the same icons. Like, oh, you got replies. You have your re-skies, re-

In fact, I think the lingo term they're going with instead of tweet is I've read this. It's skeet, which one is exactly like tweet and to look it up on Urban Dictionary. There is a gross meaning of that that we're not going to talk about here.

But it's all just 100% the exact same thing as Twitter, except what it is is it's Twitter for people who miss old Twitter. Not really old Twitter when it was funny in 2015 when Trump was taking it over, but oppressive Stalinist Twitter in 2020. People who are mad that when people say things that I don't like about vaccines or about elections...

It makes me so mad. I just want to go to a place where it can be censored. And so it's censored Twitter. It's maximum censorship Twitter. There's a great post by Nate Silver that he just made today, actually. You guys can put it up there. I would join Blue Sky if it was like 2012 to 2015 Twitter. But the people going there seem to think 2019 to 2020 Twitter was good when it was the most miserable place on Earth unless you happened to fit within a very particular language.

And that's the thought he's had. It's thought a lot of people are had having, uh,

One of the funniest things is all these libs are joining Blue Sky. One of the funniest examples of this is all these sports journalists are joining Blue Sky because they're all ideological screamer people. And the athletes are not. The athletes are just staying on Twitter because Twitter is bigger and more popular. But these are all zealots, so they have to go to Blue Sky. And I guess I should explain the reason they're doing it is because...

They've decided that Musk is to blame, like, you know, the evil orange Hitler came back. And it's because there wasn't enough censorship on Twitter. They could have censored this. So now they're finally voting with their feet. And it's all these like, you know, the Steve Stephen King, Boomer, Lib, resistance types who are mad. And one of the funniest things that's happening is there's sort of a left wing, real raw news conspiracy thing that thinks like,

Musk stole the election by having Starlink satellites. Yeah. Blue and on, like they stole the election with the Starlink satellites and they're all getting banned. And this guy, because they auto ban all the election deniers. Yeah. Yeah. And so, uh, I think, and I think, um, uh,

who had the Babylon B guys set up over there and they started posting some articles and like every single one of their posts got taken down on blue sky. But, um, one of the interesting things, I don't have any at my fingertips and I don't know any that I can actually mention here in polite comment, polite company with, because thought crime is of course a family show, but there have been some, um, there've been some really funny anons, um,

going over and brigading Blue Sky. And basically what they're doing is they're going over there and pretending to be leftist and just saying like the craziest stuff.

to troll them and let's just mess with them and see how they respond and see how they react to things. I think there was one that was like, I'm a proud trans woman and I'll use the bathroom wherever I want, not just whatever room it is, wherever place I'm standing in, I'm going to use the bathroom right there and how dare you tell me otherwise. And they're going up against these like,

you know, like like Rob Reiner and Mark Cuban type people. They're like, wait, what are you talking about? They don't and they just don't know how to respond to it whatsoever. This is similar to for for those who are familiar with their with their deep lore of the movement. It's similar to back in the old days when 4chan used a brigade tumbler in like the the game of the Gamergate era and some of that stuff. And it's just been it's been absolutely hilarious.

Let's go to Jussie Smollett in the time we have remaining, guys. So what is the news with Jussie Smollett? I definitely want to hit this. This is MAGA country. The juice is loose. Juicy Smollett, as Dave Chappelle called him. So Jussie Smollett, that was five and a half years ago at this point. It was early 2019, I believe. As everyone remembers, Jussie Smollett was...

attacked by guys wearing MAGA hats who said, this is MAGA country, and they hung a noose around his neck and did all this bad stuff. And it was all transparently fake. It was some bizarre attempt to boost his career by being the victim of a hate crime.

And Kim Fox, the DA or whatever they call it in Chicago, dropped all charges against him for extremely obvious politically motivated reasons. So they appointed a special counsel who investigated it, charged him. He was convicted in 2021 and sentenced to 150 days in jail.

He never served a single day of that, even though many people have gone to prison for lesser things, in my opinion. He never served a single day. It's been winding through the extremely glacial Illinois justice system for three years now, and the Illinois Supreme Court says, actually, it's double jeopardy that they charged him through a special counsel after DA Kim Fox dropped the charges because in the process he forfeited some $10,000 bond or whatever, like...

And so it was double jeopardy, they say. So the juice is loose. He is an innocent man, just like another famous person with juice as a nickname. And it's pretty wild. And I do think there's actually a serious takeaway here, which is it was always, to me, inherently ridiculous that Smollett...

He gets charged just for filing a false police report. Like he called like, and you know, it's a 150 day thing. He was basically doing a blood libel against half the country. Like if we believe the concept of a hate crime exists, a crime like motivated by hatred against another group of people, what is not, what is more fitting than you make up a completely insane salacious allegation against a group of people to encourage hatred of them?

I think faking a hate crime should actually be a serious thing. Like,

federal government comes in, charge him with a civil rights offense and say, you're going to jail for five years, 10 years, because it is not acceptable to defame a group of people like this. That's my take. He could, he could have started race riots in Chicago. Yeah. He literally could have started race riots. This is what would start like pogroms against Jewish people is they would say like, Oh, we found evidence that the Jews did this evil thing. And then they would murder them. That's what they would do in Russia. That is how bad stuff starts. Yep.

This is not a, okay, it is funny because he is specifically a stupid and ridiculous person. But what he did was really bad. Really, really bad. And I think a good thing for whoever the next AG is following up on Gates is we should treat faking a hate crime is, it is the real hate crime, as it were. Mm-hmm.

It should get the correlated punishment. All right, this is one of my favorite clips ever. By the way, I knew this was fake as soon as, because I know Chicago very well, as soon as Jussie Smollett said that these guys were walking around in negative 10 degree weather. If you've ever spent time in Chicago when it's negative 10 degree weather, no one is gallivanting around, you know, saying this is MAGA country on the way to Subway. And I know the neighborhood, it's right near Streeterville. This did not happen. Play cut 74.

They took our beautiful bench. This is where we waited for Jussie to come before we attacked them. So we got here with 10 minutes to spare, and we had to plan our escape route to survey the land. His building is actually right here, right above the stairs that we're going to attack him at.

We made sure we got there at 2:00 a.m. sharp. - On the dot. - On the dot. We had no phones because he did not want us to bring any phones. He said, "So we don't lose them." I don't know if that's really the reason, but you can deduce your own reason. So 2:00 a.m., he was nowhere to be found. He was not there. So we were like, "Damn, what do we do?" We didn't have no way of contacting him. He had no way of contacting us. So we waited here for about, what,

- Four minutes. - It was about four minutes. - Four minutes. - But it felt like forever. - 'Cause it was cold as balls. So I saw him out the corner of my eye and I was like, "Okay, that's him, let's go." Gotta go get this Empire . Yeah, that's him. That's him, it's that nigga. - Yeah, that's that nigga. - It's that nigga. - Get that nigga. - Oh, he's moving fast, come on, let's get him. - Get that nigga. - Let's get him. As we crossed the street, we said hey to get his attention.

"Hey, . Hey!" He turned around, looked at us, and that's when we started yelling the famous slurs he wanted us to yell. "Hey, aren't you that empire ? Empire , . It's MAGA country." And then he said, "What did you say to me?" And then that's when I threw the first punch at him.

I held the blow because I didn't want to hurt him, of course. So I made it look real. This is so good. But I held it. Then we started tussling, moving around. And then I threw him to the ground. He wanted it to look like he fought back. That was very important for him because he said, hey, don't just beat my ass. Make it look like I'm fighting back and whatnot. So we did that. And then I threw him to the ground. And while-- after I threw him to the ground,

He had no bruise. I wanted it to look more real. So then I threw him to the ground. After I threw him to the ground, I used my knuckle and gave him a noogie. So I went like this. - Gave him a noogie.

- I gave him a nugget. - Why did I do that? To give him a scar, to give him a mark, to make it look real, like he really did get his ass beat. After I did that, I fake kicked him. I don't know what he was doing. I wasn't paying attention. - That's where I came around with the bleach, the infamous bleach in the hot sauce bottle, poured it on his shirt. Then I finally put the rope around his face. I did not put it around his neck. I just placed it on his face, and that's when we took off.

Charlie, isn't that like right by Trump Tower? Isn't that like right over... It's a little ways away. It's about five or six blocks north, but it's the general area. Remember, you can walk around there pretty...

I know the street that that happened. I know, like, I've been there many times. And yes, you can, not only can you walk around there, this is right near the Gold Coast neighborhood, a little bit south, actually, like Streeterville River North. And like, okay, the idea that, you know, anyone back then would wear a MAGA hat. Now, mind you, I might believe the MAGA hat portion of this in 2024, now that we've brought the MAGA hat back. But the MAGA hat was like verboten back when this happened.

Well, and like everything about it is you just remember it takes me back to the UVA story. Remember the Rolling Stones story about the assault at UVA? And like the details in these stories are so ridiculous and everyone would believe them. So it's like, okay, that they would recognize this guy in the street at 2 a.m. Yeah.

while wearing their MAGA hats at 2 a.m. when it's 10 degrees out, as one does, and then just like, yeah, let's assault this guy. What are we going to assault him with? The noose that we're carrying around at night. And the bleach that we are also carrying around in Chicago in the middle of the night for some reason. And...

It was probably in a Kirk's hot sauce bottle. It could be. It probably was a Kirk's hot sauce bottle. Did we verify which hot sauce this was? Ooh. That they poured out? Keep in mind, Kamala Harris, I believe, still has her tweet up about what happened to Juicy. She does. And I don't think she's ever even... She was never even asked about it. Who?

who has the tweet up comma oh oh yeah sorry this woman who ran for president once it was uh it was donald trump is the president donald trump you know what's crazy about this entire thing 2019 everyone forgets this it was never reported on there were aggressive antifa people outside threatening people in washington dc that walked out of the trump tower out of the trump hotel

Every time they walked out of the Trump hotel threatening, I, I, I've, I witnessed it numerous, numerous times. And this was just before COVID happened and,

Charlie, you remember all this when things were going on down there. You could not come out of there and walk safely out of there because it wasn't that dangerous because they wouldn't actually do it. But they would actually threaten you for wearing a MAGA hat. It was the opposite. It was literally the opposite happening. No one ever reported on it. People got assaulted all the time, got pushed around. They would get in your face. They spit on you. They do all sorts of things.

nothing ever was done about it. And then meanwhile, this guy just makes stuff up that if something that never happened and it never would happen, it's crazy. I totally agree. All right. I got to dash in just a second here, but, um, and I think if you guys can keep on going, that would be great. Um, but are the one other, one other topic here, I do want to kind of introduce guys, um, which I think is important very quickly. Um,

is kind of around what we spoke about earlier with the administration. Anything that you guys are seeing on the Democrat side or on a subversion side, Jack in particular, that we have to watch out for for undermining Donald Trump's agenda and marching orders for our audience before I sign off?

I mean, subversion. Yeah, there's there's all sorts of subversion. There's no question about that. I'm not saying it's on the Democrat side, but no, it's it's it's Republicans. It's establishment types getting into the admin. Look, we won the war, but can we win the peace? Right. So we won the battle. We won the big fight. We won the election. Great. Awesome. But now the peace comes. And Charlie, you've been down there doing the yeoman's work, of course.

really trying to fight this out because look, if we don't have the right people in the right positions come January 20, come January 20, then all of, all of the gains that we have put together could all fall apart. And, you know, think about all of the threats that happened in 2017, just,

People do not remember that 2017 as a year was a year of pure hell. It was a year of hell. It really was. The entire establishment came after every single person associated with the Trump campaign, every person that they were looking at, that they were going after. They had a special prosecutor that went after Jeff Sessions was like sucking his thumb in the corner, crying about this and all of which all of which happened unexpectedly.

under the guise of the Trump administration, a lot of which, by the way, was a response. This is such an important lesson. You're exactly right. Keep going, Jack. Just finish it off because they're going to try to do the same thing over and over again. Yeah. Yeah. So this idea that like, oh, we're just... And you saw what just happened in Gates. That's real power. Okay. That's real power.

And MAGA is going to come up against that the same way we did in 2017. And you notice that, that in 2017, there were certain initiatives that never fell through or that never kept up. Steve Bannon was bounced from the White House. A lot of good people were bounced from the White House. And you got people like H.R. McMaster in there. You have the Trump.

the town drunk you got uh general kelly in there and you go look at this guy so again you know we saw so much subversion even from people who quote unquote look good on paper that eventually turned around and started stabbing field john john kelly was running around talking about nazis and hitler in the waning days of the election of 2024 just a couple weeks ago and this was a guy who was homeland security uh secretary and a guy who was chief of staff

of the White House. So don't sit there for a second and tell me that, oh, we can just bring in anybody off the street who's spent enough time in Washington. And by the way, John Kelly, when I was at Guantanamo, he was the South Com commander. So he came in a number of times, right? He was part of the system. I met him a bunch of times down there.

But it doesn't matter when you're part of the system, you're part of the system. And MAGA is not part of the system. MAGA is trying to take over the system. So you're going to see this. It's like it's like an immune response. Right. You're going to see this immune response. And I hope people can just wake up, just wake up and realize you've got to get ready for that before it comes.

Okay, so Tyler is here. Blake is here. Myself, Charlie had to run. He's down there in West Palm. I'm going to be in and out a little bit. I have a War Room hit coming up, but I will be coming out.

But we got Tyler, man, we and Blake as well. We've got to talk about this stuff with Russia. This was the big one. And before the Gates news came out and this like hoax story about Trump, you know, maybe having a heart attack or something was totally fake. That came out of some like fake pool at Mar-a-Lago, which is just ridiculous, redonkulous, actually. Tyler, did did did Ukraine get nuked last night? What's going on?

That was about as close as the report was of what was going on at Mar-a-Lago. So the answer was that Ukraine got nuked and Donald Trump had a heart attack simultaneously. So that's what was coming out, actually. But you have more of the intel on exactly what happened and can get into the specifications. But look, I'll tell you right away, I mean...

This thing is escalating quickly and it's at the cost of America. It's at the cost of the entire world for the Russian people, for the Ukrainian people, because Joe Biden is not staying on his meds and not getting enough rest. And there's a little bit too much Jill going on over there, I think. And hence, they're trying to escalate real quickly. This is their last chance at World War III.

you know, over the course of the next couple months. And they're seeing it slip away from them very quickly. And so, hence, we have, you know, an obvious response for the Russians after...

what Joe Biden came out with last week. It always disturbs me. It always disturbs me when people in DC or in the defense establishment or on Twitter, or I guess on blue sky now when they're very cavalier about the risk of this blowing up, we're like, Oh, do we just say it's like, it would be irrational for Russia to do something. Wait, everyone's 100% rational. Do we, do we have to get a blue sky now to see, uh,

War response who I'll see if like I'll see if like vinbin is on blue sky doing like deranged Jack for so big has to have a blue sky account just to follow What the warmongers are doing? Yeah, we should have done it. We shall I'll put in a put an add-on on it. We should I'll use my blue sky account and then at the start of the second

We should have created a Jack. Wait, wait, wait, Jack is a non-webcast. Wait, wait, Tyler, what makes you think I don't have add-on accounts on Blue Sky already? Sorry, go ahead, Blake. I was saying we should have had Charlie create a Blue Sky account and then we should have had to make one post, which is that like only, you know, like,

trans women are men or something and just see how long it would take him to get banned. - Let me tell you a story about Charlie Kirk. I've watched Charlie, one of our earliest campus things that we did was we were trying to flip the student government at University of Oregon, his pride and joy.

And Charlie was, this was early in the days before it was like everyone in the world knew who Charlie was. And he was bobbing up and down, walking through the campus, like campaigning. And he got exposed like within five minutes. It was like not even close. This was like five seconds. That would be Charlie Kirk's, you know, his entire blue sky experience.

It would be not even within a few minutes. Holy cow. This is what Vindman is saying over on Blue Sky, which one of the funny things about Blue Sky that I forgot to mention with Charlie is you'll totally see libs who think like, this is our secret clubhouse where we can just say things and no one will know. That's what I'm saying. For all I know, Vindman also tweeted this. That's why we need Jack. It's funnier to have Jack on there than Anon because the Jack Anon account...

on there just like just tracking and responding yeah yeah basically like a like a like a trans dem but anyway alex vindman right below his post saying five years ago today i justified in congress heroically against trump he says he says that biden lifting the restrictions on the long-range missiles so we can you know lob rockets at kursk is not a big deal a

especially as Trump will likely cut support. The most meaningful action Biden can take is to push as many resources as possible before January 20th. Empty the stores. Send everything.

Every single weapon the US has, it's all going to tiny man in Kiev. This is getting all of it. Obviously a bad idea. It's truly insane. The thought experiment I like to tell people to do is think of the most deranged warmonger you've ever met if you're in DC or if you've been out in the political world. There are those lunatics who are like, we should do a nuclear first strike because they can't hit us back. There are people who think that way.

Russia has those people too, probably more of them. A large share of Russians are inebriated on cheap distilled spirits at all times. And there are people in Russia who think we're the biggest country in the world. We can survive anything. We can beat America. Americans are weak. They won't be able to shoot back. They're lame. They're pathetic. There are people who think that way. And

All these people are like, we need regime change in Russia to get rid of Putin, who is Hitler. It is very bold to assume the person who would replace Putin, if you took him out now, would be more hinged than Putin is. He could easily be substantially less hinged than Putin. Could be. And...

They are just very quietly doing this because it's out of the news cycle. We're having more coverage on the transition. We're having less coverage on politics generally. A lot of people are tuning out. But there are these tedious, obsessed people like Mr. Vindman and his weird wife and his weird relatives who just, they want...

forever and they'll do their best to hand off as big a war as possible to Trump because we know Trump's disposition. He doesn't like to start wars, but he also doesn't want to like take a loss or seem like he's weak. So I think they may even realize if we can make this war as big as possible, Trump will feel somewhat committed to the status quo because he can't come in and immediately look weak by scaling things back. And it's very sinister what they're doing. And,

It's very dark to think of how many thousands of people are going to die because these lunatics are worked up about stuff they read on Blue Sky to think that, oh, we need to send every single weapon in the U.S. arsenal to this kind of failed state in Eastern Europe. Makes me feel nuts. Getting my audio is being funky. No, it's completely nuts, but at the same time, we have to remember that...

like you say, they have been using these weapons for a long time, these hypersonic missiles, by the way, which what was really interesting was I was talking on human events earlier today about IOC dates, and so that's initial operational capability. And so the fact that Russia did use a hypersonic glide vehicle, it seems, I should say, hypersonic vehicle,

We don't know if it was actually glide or not. That this was... The idea being is that this is a medium-range ballistic missile or even intermediate range, not intercontinental ballistic missile, which have never been used before, by the way, in a combat situation between two countries, even though a lot of ICBMs... So, like...

They are also dual use in terms of the space program because that's literally how powerful they are. So a lot of the Elon Musk stuff that you're seeing, the Starship and some of those launchers, they can even, you know, the Falcon Heavy and different stuff, they could potentially also be used as an ICBM. And as people know the original history of the space program, that's actually how the rockets, the V2 and the Saturn V, et cetera, were created, were part of a war program.

We don't have time to go down that entire rabbit hole right now, Project Paperclip. But point being is the United States apparently had been monitoring these hypersonics, but didn't actually know that it was ready to go yet because they said, well, wait a minute, the Russians haven't actually tested this thing. So we don't know if it can actually work. And Putin said in his video, he said, look,

um this was the operational test of the hypersonic missile and it passed with flying colors so even he kind of admitted that they hadn't done the testing on it and this was an operational missile but something that was being intended to you know send a message Etc Etc to the West to say basically look you know either either we can do peace or if you want a war we'll give you a much wider Warren a lot of the hardliners look

Here's the thing, too, and Tyler, you kind of mentioned it, Blake, you mentioned it, where a lot of the hardliners in Russia right now are saying, wait, why should we take peace when we're winning? Why should we take a peace deal when the U.S. just said they're not going to give the Ukrainians any more dollar bills? Why don't we just take all the rest of the territory from the border of Ukraine all the way out to the Dnepr River, maybe even Odessa? Why not? So the hardliners are sitting there saying, don't take the deal. Keep going. That's the real danger.

Yeah, I mean, look, here's one thing I know about the Russian people. They are fully behind Putin. They are 100%, 1,000% dedicated to Putin. The entire country trusts his judgment and their strategy of what they're trying to do. I mean, and look, to this point, and again, I don't want to get too deeply into this and start a debate and all this. This is just observational from what I've heard from my Russian friends that,

I still have over there and even Ukrainian friends that are over there is they, you know, Russia has been very clear about what they want. They want a specific piece of Ukraine. They have continued to just pummel that specific piece of Ukraine. And, you know,

They've kept everything else pretty darn stable with how they've interacted with the rest of the world. They've kept everything pretty stable with other bordering countries that they've had. I don't see them unrelenting without some kind of...

you know, peace brokering that's going to come from only a guy like Donald Trump at this point. And, you know, they're going to probably want, you know, the U.S. to go to the table for some of their interests. And, you know, whether or not the U.S. has, you know, any interest in doing that, that's going to be, you know, a art of the deal type of a thing. I think there's going to be a lot to gain in this future Trump presidency, both in the Middle East and

with Turkey and with so many other things that we've discussed before. But, you know, I have significant trust that the president's going to be able to have the wherewithal to come out with a good deal that's best for us and probably deescalate where we're going. But what Biden's doing right now is clearly not going to help. It's going to escalate. We're getting nothing out of it. In fact, it's costing us billions of dollars. It's

Yeah, if we had elected Joe Biden for another four or Kamala Harris, Kamala Biden for another four years, it would have been it would have cost us it would have bankrupt the country would have probably spun into like massive debt and not to mention probably entered into World War Three. And so I'm just very bullish on the outcomes here. I think that it's going to be a very positive outcome that's going to hopefully deescalate, save lives.

And, you know, that may mean that, you know, Russia has a little bit more influence over Ukraine, which they always have basically anyways. You know, now they're just continuing to add to the rubble by providing more weapons to throw at Russia and

And forcing Russia to respond even more where they're trying to, you know, Russia ultimately wants to rebuild some of these places that they want to control. So, you know, prolonging that doesn't seem like the best move for the people of Ukraine. Doesn't seem like the best move for the people of Eastern Europe. And certainly not for us as Americans who pay for all this. Or I guess we don't really pay for it. It's made up money.

Yeah, exactly. All right, guys. Well, I think that's that's about the time we could we could go in and debate that forever. But shout out your your socials and let people know where to follow you. Yeah, you can follow me at Tyler Boyer and you can't follow me anywhere because social media is bad.

Blake is a TikTok star. Don't let him get away with that one, folks. Blake has got a massive TikTok addiction. Oh, whatever. No, a girl messaged me this week on Instagram, I think. It's like, hey, is Blake available? And I said, I don't know. I said, slide into his DMs. Non-existent DMs. It's not possible. They can't find me. I will stay. All right, guys. All right, guys.

So that has been this week's Thought Crime Thursday. And remember, go out there and commit more thought crimes. Thought crime is death.