Boots on the Fround for Thomas Massie in Ky-04 w/ @James Li | ZFS 68

I drove ten hours from Delaware to Florence, Kentucky. No high speed rail. No public transit. Just exit after exit of McDonald's, Exxon, and Subway while billions of dollars flood overseas and our own infrastructure crumbles. I sat down with James Lee, 5149 on all platforms, for a real conversation about what this Massie primary actually means and why both of us felt like we had no choice but to show up.

Thomas Massie has a 70 plus percent approval rating. The rest of Congress sits somewhere around six percent. Yet $30 million in mostly foreign and special interest money poured into a single congressional race in Kentucky to remove one man who voted against the Iran war, pushed to release the Epstein files, and tried to hold Bayer accountable for its pesticides. The question at the center of all of it is simple. Can people beat money?

James and I break down the AIPAC money trail, Paul Singer buying Citgo a month before the Venezuela moves, AI generated attack ads, Turning Point USA flipping on Massie after Charlie Kirk called him his favorite politician, and why a win on Tuesday could be contagious across the entire country. And if he loses, what that actually means for every American who still believes their vote counts for something.

Transcript

SPEAKER_03 0:00

Welcome in to episode number 67 of the Zach Faust Podcast. I am somewhere completely different than where I'm used to being. We're in Florence, Kentucky. Uh, as creators, I think there's 20 something of us that have come to Kentucky in support of Thomas Massey. And I'm joined today with a beer by you don't even need an introduction in the social media spaces, brother. 5149 James Lee is joining me, brother.

SPEAKER_04 0:24

Happy to be here with you, Zach. We're in crack. Let's crack. Yeah, come into my camera first. Cheers, buddy. Cheers, brother. Because I've um talked to you a bunch of times, never met in person. I had to be here tonight to meet the legend.

SPEAKER_03 0:40

Where is he? Where is he? I have met the legend. I don't know who you're talking about. You can't see him because it's you're nuts, dog. So um let's focus around the topic. I I I guess because we could talk about a billion different things.

SPEAKER_00 0:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 0:53

We're here for Thomas Massey. So just briefly bring me up to speed as to why you decided to come out to Florence, Kentucky from California.

SPEAKER_04 1:01

Brief well, so yeah, I could do this briefly. I mean, it it's it's quite simple. This is probably the most important election in American history, at least modern American history. Okay, this is an inflection point. This is like the billionaires versus regular people. Right. Right? Because Massey, you may not agree with everything that he believes in, but I think that he's true to his word. You know, he says what he believes and he does what he says he's gonna do. And now you have pretty much what? He's approval rating 70 plus percent, right? Rest of Congress six, something like that. And you have 95% of foreign money coming in, 30 million dollars to try to unseat this guy. Why? Because he voted against the war in Iran, released the Epstein files, he's trying to hold Bayer accountable for pesticides, and what this is the guy you want to get rid of? This is the guy that you want to put your chips all in on. Like I'm here for it. Okay, because this is this is the future of American democracy to say, can you really survive in Congress and represent your constituents? Or is the only way to survive to serve the donors?

SPEAKER_03 2:16

Yeah, money. Yeah, and this is what this is what that inflection point kind of is right now.

SPEAKER_04 2:21

This is it right now people beat money, right? Because if he loses, it's like the money out. I'm gonna have yeah, I'm gonna have a little reckoning myself. I'm not gonna give up necessarily, right? But it is sort of like, okay, we definitely can't vote our way out out of this. And he even said that to me yesterday. It's like, if I lose, like maybe we can't vote our way out of this. But if he wins, then it certainly is a blueprint to say we can replicate this success in other parts of the country and we can actually incentivize representatives to represent right the people.

SPEAKER_03 2:52

Yeah, that and that's that's what people want. We just want politicians that actually want to do what the people they represent want. Yeah, and I think this year, at the very least, has been maybe I'm wrong. Maybe it isn't just this year, but it feels like this year more and more people are seeing that billionaire control and all of it.

SPEAKER_04 3:12

It's becoming more overt, right? APAC is a good word, overt. 10 years ago, nobody even really knew. Like they had their conferences and everything. I've seen all the clips, now they're they're popping up. But they did their thing from behind the shadows. But now it's the donors. The donors, the APAC, the Israeli lobby. Now they're overtly saying, boom, 30 million dollars, we're pouring it into this race. And this is like I like like I said one more time. This is like Massey. I think I probably agree with on some stuff, some stuff I don't agree with, but I can I know what he's all about. Like I know him. And this is the same. I came like 10 years ago, if you rewind, I was a Bernie guy, and I think Bernie had the same kind of appeal where people knew where he stood and what he fought for, and they fucked him, for lack of a better word, you know.

SPEAKER_03 3:57

I think the respect that's gained just by being a uh regular human being, yeah. Just a straight shooter, talk about normal things. Well, honestly, that's what got Trump so much pushed, is because he's the guy that I could grab a beer with. Like, he's not a politician, he's a businessman. I don't get that from Thomas Massey, but I I do get what you're saying.

SPEAKER_04 4:18

Like, he is uh Well, he ran on everything that Trump ran on, right? He ran on no more wars, right? He ran on cleaning up the food supply, he ran on releasing the Epstein. Fighting the deep state, fighting the deep state, and he's still doing it. Trump has sort of gone off in a different direction for whatever reason. I don't know if it's a honeypot situation or if it's a blackmail or if it's whatever getting paid off by Israel, but he certainly veered off, right? He was the one that tweeted out if you vote for Kalama Harris, you're you're voting for a war with Iran. And now we're at war with Iran. War with Iran. Technically a war, James. Look, I think they called it a war the other day.

SPEAKER_03 4:58

I think they've called it a war many times. Well, I mean, they changed it the we've won 18 times. We've already won 18 times the war that isn't a war for a country that isn't Israel.

SPEAKER_04 5:12

They changed the name called, you know, from Secretary of Defense or the Department of Defense to the Department of War. Yeah. So what was the calculus there, you think? Well, what do you think they were doing? And then and then go say it's not a war.

SPEAKER_03 5:28

Well, what defines war then? Because I've heard that argument is the definition of a war sending troops is that when we officially have an AR rifle cross their borders, what's the definition of war? Well, there's there's different things. We're throwing drones at them and throwing missiles at them. We're doing a blockade, we're blockading, yeah, economic warfare at the very least. So, what's war? Are we ever going to experience legitimate definition war, like people running at each other and shooting each other?

SPEAKER_04 5:57

I don't think that's modern war. That's what Thomas Massey is fighting for to say if this is a war, let's call it a war. Let me introduce the War Powers Act or whatever it is called, and let's vote on it. If we want to do a war, let's do it properly.

SPEAKER_03 6:11

Now, another thing he brought up, which I found equal parts powerful and hilarious, is Thomas Massey introduced a bill two days ago stating he was going to force APAC to register as a foreign agent. Very familiar with the JFK uh type history. But is that something you think they could actually get through Congress? Because I don't believe it could. Zero chance. There's zero chance, right? That's why I found it equal price hilarious. Because it's a great jab.

SPEAKER_04 6:39

Yeah, zero chance right now. But if he wins, I hope he does, you get a few. I think a lot of people underline they they all feel there's no reason why it wouldn't be a foreign lobby, you know, because you're lobbying on behalf of the interests of a foreign country, if any other country did that, even if it was like Chinese Americans, like oh, Germany or Australia, like well, those are yeah, those and those are allies too, right? If you talk about even non-allies, Russia, China, these kinds of countries, you wouldn't you would of course never accept that. And so here, it's like what's happening right now? It's like they're clearly all the wars that we've gotten into Iraq, Syria, Libya, whatever. You go back in time, it's all sort of related to Israel wanting to knock out the more most powerful country in the region, so then they can dominate right, Greater Israel, Greater Israel. We've talked a lot about the Greater Israel.

SPEAKER_03 7:38

Egypt, Sudan, Saudi Arabia. I don't think Sudan's involved in that, but uh Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq, Iraq, like uh even parts of Jordan, I think, are in the world. Yeah, I think it's all of almost all of Jordan. It's it's an insane map, and it's it based off that I think it's Nile to the Euphrates, is what's mentioned, like Genesis 3 or something like that. That's where I don't get this this this uh and and I guess we could shift to Israel. Do you think that a lot of the support around Israel just stems from the religious stigma of if I don't support them, I'm not a good Christian?

SPEAKER_04 8:15

Well, so I think that's part of the strategy. There's multifaceted, I mean, they have a I was talking to Joe Kent today, and he said Israel has a comprehensive strategy depending on who you are. Explain that for me. So, like if you're a Christian, right? You care about and and that's how you sort of form your opinions and your worldview, and that's what guides your moral compass. It's like, okay, if you want to be a good Christian, you have to support Israel. Those who don't bless Israel, or what is it? What is it?

SPEAKER_03 8:42

Uh those who don't I will bless those who bless Israel, I will curse those who curse your name.

SPEAKER_04 8:46

That's Genesis 12, 3, I believe.

SPEAKER_03 8:48

I think it's Genesis 12. We're talking to Abraham.

SPEAKER_04 8:50

Yes. So that's one side of things, right? But if let's say you don't care about that, then it's is is it money, maybe, right? Is it is it can we get you through some sort of like financial agreement to get you to support Israel? Or is it we bring you on a trip over to Israel? Is that what you like? Seems pretty common.

SPEAKER_03 9:07

Yeah, that's that's there were three Delaware representatives right to Israel. Like, where are you? You represent Milford Delaware. Were you learning in television? What is this trip?

SPEAKER_04 9:16

Or is it media? You you know, you you go after you know, if you want a job in Hollywood, this is what you gotta do. There's various means of influence that they have based on your particular, you know, I guess, walk of life, right? Where they can say it's good for you to support Israel, you should support Israel.

SPEAKER_03 9:37

And a lot of that probably just stems off the fact we've been saying it for so long. A lot of, I know a lot of people just say, hey, that's our greatest ally. That's the democracy of the Middle East. We have to support them. The terrorists have been terrorizing them for decades. But I think when people like you and I start looking into more of the history of things, it seems like it's been the other way around.

SPEAKER_04 9:54

Look, it it does seem like that. And that's where I, you know, a lot of people accuse me. I don't know if you've gotten the same accusations of being Israel derangement syndrome. Have you got IDS, no? Yeah, IDS. Like every and like because I'm doing a video, it's not even related to Israel. It's like I get comments like I can't wait till he ties Israel into this. Well, then it shouldn't be wait a second.

SPEAKER_03 10:19

It shouldn't be one to two layers deep to get there. Like it's like whenever I'm I'm looking into a government official or someone in the cabinet, yeah. It's like I don't have to look more than 20 minutes to find Epstein.

SPEAKER_01 10:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 10:31

Well, why why is it so close to everything? I think is where people start to raise their eyebrows. Because if it's just one thing or one war or one politician being back, that's one thing. But when you have 90 plus percent of Congress receiving money from APAC, and when you look at the the amount of influence they have and where and when we go to war, uh Trump said it yesterday that we're at war because of Israel. And I I I can't wrap my brain around why America as a whole would push against any congressman, whether it be a Rand Paul or it even be on the other side, like an AOC or a Massey, who don't want us throwing missiles at people. This seems pretty basic. But what is it about America, do you think, that we just love war and we we we validate it through like we're we're bringing them freedom. Oh, they're they're terrorists. Like, why do you think we love war so much?

SPEAKER_04 11:36

Well, that's a good question.

SPEAKER_03 11:38

And because I get the oil thing, I get why we go to war. I get they get the money involved in the geopolitics. Fair. Like, so why are we? In Iran, there's not even about that. Trump even said we don't need their oil. Right. We're trying to become the de facto oil supportive last resort for the world, which we can't support long term.

SPEAKER_04 11:57

I mean, obviously, part of it why we love war. I mean, it's it's with any industry here is like because of the industrial complex. Every industry eventually becomes an industrial complex. You have the war industrial complex, like the military industrial complex, which Eisenhower famously warned us about. But then you also have the pharmaceutical industrial complex, right? Now we're starting to see some evidence, you could say, or at least some incentive to create more and more people who are reliant on pharmaceutical drugs in order to survive, and you create conditions for that, and you start to say, Well, are they poisoning us? Is that possible? No, and then you have you know, when I looked in California, you have the homeless industrial complex. Are these people homeless because we can't solve the problem or we don't want to solve the problem? Right? Then you I think that's I think that's where you start to get into everything because we don't really have any kind of um cultural cohesion other than getting your bag, and then therefore becomes well, let's everything then becomes all distilled down to like can we make money? But then why you know it's like that that that um you know when Trump tweeted out that's like I'm gonna end your civilization, yes, and the lady on CNBC was like, Well, so he he tweeted this out today. Well how does an investor think about that on MSNBC or something like that? Yeah, yeah, CNBC CNBC, wrong letter, and it was and and and that just kind of distills down our culture. It's like, are we not gonna take a beat on like what does it mean for a civilization to end? You can go straight to the investor sentiment, right? Even if it's CMB, people are like, it's C M B C that's what they talk about. It's like okay, but it's like it's just saying you're like, oh well, you know, what is murder, you know, like this guy committed murder. It's like can we just talk about the murder? Like this dude died. Let's take a beat.

SPEAKER_02 13:42

You know, the process of the ethics, the way that we can absorb war and death, and then be like, well, hell is my portfolio going out. Exactly.

SPEAKER_04 13:49

Yeah, so it's like I get the show, CNBC. You got to talk about, you know, you're talking to investors, right? Yeah, but let's say, like, hey, this is really bad. You know, at least acknowledge, like, hey, we shouldn't be tweeting out, we shouldn't be wanting to end civilizations. This is not ideal for us, and then move on to the investor sentiment. Add a little bit of empathy to your appetite. Exactly, exactly. It they'll go straight there.

SPEAKER_03 14:12

But why like I understand, as you do at a much deeper level than I, the the the complex and and finances at a macro level for the big elites and the big companies and the contractors. But why is why is Bill a fan of the war? Why why is Mike a fan of the regular person? Why is the regular everyday American able to look at war and support it? It seems like a crazy thing to just blindly support.

SPEAKER_04 14:49

Well, that's years of propaganda. Fair. That's years and years of Iran is building a nuclear weapon, fair, right?

SPEAKER_03 14:56

Where you know that that's 23 years into the other two weeks.

SPEAKER_04 15:00

But that's I mean, I've talked to some people who are like that.

SPEAKER_01 15:03

Oh, I have too. I'm sure you have as well, right?

SPEAKER_04 15:06

Yeah, and that's because they've been fed that propaganda, and therefore that's all they consume. So they don't know anything else.

SPEAKER_03 15:13

But then what was June about? What was Operation Midnight Hammer all about?

SPEAKER_04 15:17

I thought we got rid of the nuclear facilities. Well, but they they started building it again, you see.

SPEAKER_03 15:22

But how quickly it's just I don't get it. I don't get it, James. And it seems like, and and I'd like your take on this. Does it seem like um with this war that people like Massey are avidly against, they're avidly against foreign support of any country? He's mentioned Ukraine, he's mentioned uh Israel, obviously, Argentina, others. That why are we sending any money overseas when our own infrastructure is falling apart?

SPEAKER_04 15:50

And that's the issue. That's that's I think what a lot of Americans have woken up to. That's optimistic view, right? I think you know, you're saying a lot of people still want war. I'm seeing optimism. I am seeing the shift. I am seeing the shift. There's a shift happening, right? It's like there's you know, we got crumbling bridges, hospitals are closing, right? There's there's everything is falling apart here, right? Roads are, you know, there's potholes everywhere. This kind of thing, right? You're starting to see like uh an erosion of this.

SPEAKER_03 16:19

Oi, Tiffany, we're on a podcast. Sorry she interrupted us.

SPEAKER_04 16:26

Um, we're live. We'll do it live. Uh where so I think that's the part where people are like, this doesn't make any sense anymore. You know, it's it's it's similar. So I compare it to like China. You know, I don't know if you've seen a lot of these videos coming out of China that's very propagandistic, where it's like, look at this new bridge, look at this new train station we've built, high-speed rail. There's tons of corruption happening in China. I know for a fact, I know a lot of people over there. There's tons of corruption, but they offset it with like these very visible things for the people to then say, okay, I understand there's corruption, there's corruption in everything, but at least there's some corruption happening in favor of us, right? And right now, I I I struggle this. I don't know if I can cite like a bill other than maybe the Epstein Transparency Act, which Thomas Massey worked to pass. He was one of the the the co-sponsors of it. That is like a bill that is meant to provide transparency or provide protection for the American people, right? It's always some law that was like, oh, in 1942, we passed law saying that like you couldn't like kill somebody, or like you couldn't do this, you couldn't do that. It's like, oh, you you you have certain protections of this, and then since then, nothing.

unknown 17:38

Shh. I'm so sorry.

SPEAKER_03 17:42

It's all good. We're doing it live. We're doing it live. I don't think we're live. We're not live, but but we're probably not gonna cut this part.

unknown 17:52

I've got five more minutes live.

SPEAKER_04 17:55

Do you know what I'm saying? No, no, no, no. I completely would say there's corruption everything. That's true.

SPEAKER_03 17:59

I drove I drove here 10 hours from Delaware to Kentucky. The amount of rest stops and exit.

SPEAKER_04 18:05

We've been a 45-minute high speed rail.

SPEAKER_03 18:07

Legit, no public transit to help me out. But just every exit, I'm sitting there driving, and it's like every exit, McDonald's, Exxon, Subway, Dairy Queen. Next one, McDonald's, yeah, Exxon, Subway, Dairy Queen, and just with their 200-foot signs and their wires running everywhere, just nothing looks like it's happening. And I passed like 200 of those. Yeah, you're just thinking all of these places have looked the exact same for decades and are just littered with glycipate-filled fast food. They're littered with just these, it's almost like we're in a little zoo of capitalism that we're locked into with these terrible options, and we watch our money flood overseas, and I think people just have questions of like, hey, maybe all the money we're sending overseas wouldn't immediately solve our problems. But a couple dollars toward some of our infrastructure, a couple dollars toward this wealth gap we're growing into, a couple dollars toward this weakening dollar overall, toward this economy, especially Gen Z. Like, there's no, there's nothing that the Gen Z individual I feel is looking at in this economy thinking, I can't wait.

SPEAKER_04 19:17

I think that well, that's a government, they're not responsive to the government. They're not responsive. They're not held any so, like, another example. If you live under a dictatorship and something goes wrong, it's like very obvious who's at fault. Whether they're gonna fix it or not, that's a different story, but you know who's at fault. Here, I feel like there's a lot of finger pointing back and forth. Like, Republicans are saying, Oh, the Democrats are obstructing, the Democrats are like the Republicans are obstructing, and so then there, I mean, I'm a big believer, like I truly think that there's a uniparty situation. It's there's not really like two parties, there's maybe two flavors of the same thing. It's like die coke, or sorry, it's like coke and Pepsi. It's like they're rivals, but they're also the same thing.

SPEAKER_03 19:58

What do you mean by that? Uniparty, like when you say that.

SPEAKER_04 20:01

What I mean the uniparty, it's like I'm saying the Republicans and the Democrats have the same goal. You know, they both want war in Iran. Yeah, that is bipartisan. Okay, it's bipartisan. They are both tied in with big pharma, they're both pro-corporate, pro-Israel, pro-Israel. They're the same thing. So a lot of the big ticket items that's been, I think, sort of uh, I think uh stressing a burden on this nation, they're both in favor of. Right? There's different things. There's different, like, okay, one is maybe like they got the social issues that are different, right? One is like the BLM, the the trends, and this and that. One's like, okay, conservative, family-oriented. I would argue, I don't know, man. Look at Erica Kirk. I don't know how family oriented it's going on over there, you know? And and you and then to to to once again tie back to Massey, because that's why we're here. Like, how do you not have Turning Point endorse Massey when Charlie Kirk literally said, This is my favorite politician? Okay, he said, This is my favorite politician. Yep, loves liberty, loves the constitution, and you don't endorse. What does that say about what is happening here?

SPEAKER_03 21:10

Now we talk about media. What do you think about turning point USA? Because what do you mean? Terrible. It just seems demonic. It's it's truly seems like a clear and obvious plant scenario. Like that they're there specifically to encourage the conservative base, regardless of the.

SPEAKER_04 21:29

Well, I think turning point right now is what they've always imagined it would be. It's not very successful right now, but this is what it is supposed to be for. It's supposed to be propaganda, it's supposed to be a machine, it's supposed to be a coalition builder of like it's supposed to serve the establishment. Right. Charlie Kirk started out, uh, he had different ideas, right? If you look at Turning Point Now and Turning Point when he started, turning point was like about like libertarian ideals, very much like Ron Paul kind of like Tea Party stuff, right? Small government. And then it took this like very weird, like Christian turn. And that was deliberate because of the pro-Israel thing. That was on purpose.

SPEAKER_03 22:07

Well, Christian nationalism, Zionism.

SPEAKER_04 22:10

Yeah, exactly. That's on purpose. So then now you know, I'm not saying that they killed him or whatever, but now you've eliminated the leader. I've seen a few of your videos. I don't know if that's what you think. I've seen a few of your videos on that. What I'll say is they've eliminated the free-thinking leader, and you put in a person who will basically say and do anything you want, right? If you look at Erica Kirk, I'm not, you know, it's like widow, whatever, but she literally's a tool. She'll just say whatever people want. I mean, if you look at her past, that's what she's always done. She's an actress. You know, that's that's what she does. And and and I just have to, this is a non secular, but like I can't imagine, because I was talking to Massey last night, he says he cries every day because you know, after his wife had passed. And literally a few, maybe a few days after Charlie Kirk had passed, or even that I think she described the story at that day, she's like, There's nothing, I wouldn't change anything to bring him back. Like, who says that?

SPEAKER_00 23:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 23:12

When your spouse passes away, you're like, I wouldn't bring him back. There's because everybody else would be like, I would do anything to bring them back, even for a day. She's like, No, this is what it is. I'm cool with it. I think she doesn't she doesn't pass the eye test for anybody.

SPEAKER_03 23:27

No, she doesn't pass the eye test for anybody.

SPEAKER_04 23:29

No, and that's I think so. I think turning point is back to your question. I think it's operating the way they sort of envisioned it's supposed to operate, but it's not effective in this day and age because there's so many other people who could be like, that's weird, that's bullshit. You went back on your word, and we have the platform to allow people to disagree, right? Before, if it was just one direction, like you only had a few people who could say stuff online, they could really easily control the narrative. Maybe you were thinking it, but there's no way for you to put it online and sway other people. Now you can't. You know, you've built a massive platform. I think you I don't think any establishment person like signed off and said, We're gonna help this guy out. I think you just uh built it yourself because you were saying stuff that people were thinking, right, and that resonated with people, and it's an organic audience.

SPEAKER_03 24:22

Well, there's no doubt, regardless of what your thought on Charlie was that he was the I really there's no one else that even came close in terms of conservative following, young conservative following. And he liked debate, you know what I'm saying? That was important too.

SPEAKER_04 24:40

Debate? Debate. Oh, debate, yeah. Debate. I was like debating people. No, no, no, debate you in. Yeah, tricky debate. He was genuinely enjoyed debate, or else I don't think I could anybody could do it for that many hours a day. Right. You know, yeah, you couldn't do it if you didn't like it.

SPEAKER_03 24:56

100% he enjoyed debating.

SPEAKER_04 24:57

So I think that that's that's you know, it's a shame that he's I mean, I think Massie was saying that last night he's it's just it's it's actually a detriment to to American politics that that kind of voice is not around in that type of large organization, right? He was the one in there going back to the war, right? He was in with uh in the room with Trump saying no war with Iran. This was last year when they did that Midnight Hammer, was it called? When they did that, he was like, no, no. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 25:25

So let's lighten it up a little bit and talk about Israel again. Yeah, I was gonna go straight to Bahia. I was gonna go straight to BB Nanyahoo. Did you enjoy your trip out to Kentucky?

SPEAKER_04 25:39

Oh, I did, yeah. I've never been to Kentucky before. I've been to other parts of the Midwest, never Kentucky. I haven't been to Kentucky either. It's my first time. It's a nice house, though. It's good. I mean, it's good people. People I mean, this is what like I think America's all. I made a post. I don't make this kind of post. It was like, because I went to this place that one of my followers suggested. It's called um Herb and Thelmas. And it's just like a bar burger place kind of thing. I got there kind of late because I got in late and the owner, I didn't know he was the owner at the time, but he's like, the grill's off. Sorry, closed. And I was there trying to figure out with um, there's a couple people, there's like two other people in the bar at the time just drinking. I'm like, oh, do you guys know where you know where I can eat around here? And basically every suggestion is like McDonald's, like dear boy, is like fast food. And after like five or ten minutes, I was in there. The guy was like, All right, I'll fire up the grill, I'll make you a burger. That's dope. I know. And then I ended up having like seven beers with him. That's dope. And and got to know like the whole history. And that's so I made like a pose. I was like, here, give me a shirt, I'll wear it with Massey tomorrow. But I did, I was like, Yeah, I was whipping votes. I was like, Hey, do you like Massey? Like, what's going on? And they gave me a little insight, which is interesting, in that he was there, there were older people, and he was saying, you know, we like Massey because he's a fiscal conservative and we're small business, like we like, you know, that's important to have that. But hardly anybody's with him anymore. Like, he's gone against Trump on all these things, and so it makes him uneasy that he's gone against Trump. So I was like, okay, so Trump still has a lot of sway in this area. Yeah, you know, he says he still has a lot of that cult following of like, if you go against Trump, you're going against what's good for America, which is just so interesting to me in a place like Kentucky or places like Ohio, Idaho, Arkansas, where you have such a like there's a lot of farmers, it's so agricultural, and and the one guy fighting for farmers' rights.

SPEAKER_03 27:40

Right, and no, and the guy in charge has not helped farmers.

SPEAKER_04 27:45

In fact, he's protected the pesticide, right?

SPEAKER_03 27:47

He literally protected the pesticide company, he invoked tariffs. The soybean tariffs specifically destroyed the soybean market, and now we look at this war affecting fertilizer and fuel, diesel. They're already running on tight profit margins. We already got record suicide rates amongst farmers, and now we're adding more fuel to the fire. I really worry about the food situation, not just for America, but for the world because of this war.

SPEAKER_04 28:10

Well, have you thought about the short-term paying for the long-term gain? I haven't. You're right. I haven't.

SPEAKER_03 28:16

I haven't thought about going through a short-term famine and economic crisis in exchange for Israel being protected. I haven't thought about that. You're right. I was short-sighted. Thank you for clearing me up.

SPEAKER_04 28:26

Well, that's, I mean, on all seriousness, I fear for America's downfall, honestly, because of how much we do because of Israel's interests. Like everything that we're doing is on behalf of their interests. Maybe they're gaining power in that region, but we're certainly losing power over the world. I mean, if you look at this Iran war, man, it's fucking embarrassing what's happened.

SPEAKER_03 28:44

No doubt. And anybody and anybody that views that differently is crazy. Yeah, like if you're if you haven't watched the Iran war and realize we are not as strong military militarily as we thought we were, yeah, like we cannot win this war at all. And that's why I think we have all these billionaires in China right now kissing the ring. We realize we can't do that. We're not World War II American anymore.

SPEAKER_04 29:05

No, no, it's it's it's embarrassing. I mean, even if you're a pro you're like, I love you know the US military, like what? We just we can't even enforce a major waterway, like a critical waterway, and we're just lying about it.

SPEAKER_03 29:17

We're just we've lied so many times. Yeah, it's open. We've won. They're decimated, they don't have any military power. Well, then why are we still there? Yeah, why are we still having to blockade their blockade if they have the military power?

SPEAKER_04 29:27

Why are they paying a million dollars to pass through? Right?

SPEAKER_03 29:30

Why are they in RB in they have a whole website now? They're the straight. They've complete they've created a website to enforce the tariffs and organize or not tariffs, the fees.

SPEAKER_04 29:39

Yeah, the Chinese are well, they're getting the Iranian well the Iranian, but then it's getting denominated in Chinese RB. Yes, correct. So that's also impacting the petrol dollar. So once that goes, US hegemony is gone. I mean, not that we I see the thing is like, are you cool with sort of losing hegemony? Is that bother you at all? If like the US isn't the sole decision maker of international affairs, I would love that.

SPEAKER_03 30:04

Because we talk about being because man, I served in the military, I did the thing, I went overseas, I I defended the poppy fields of Afghanistan. I was there, y'all. Like I'm a dual military kid. I traveled the country to different military bases. If we were going to vacation anywhere, it was gonna be cheap. We were driving and we were gonna stay at a military base. That's just how it was. I I'm all for the defense by offense by us having one, one of the most strategically located countries on the planet. We're ocean on each side, A. And then B, our military force keeps anybody else from trying to mess with us. I think that's extremely imperative to a strong, thriving country. But we just keep getting lied to about what we're actually using that military for. Because it seems like throughout the years, oftentimes we're PRing it as if, oh no, they want to, they hate our freedom, they hate our liberty. We gotta destroy them now. And then we bomb a kid's school and ruin lives and destroy families, destroy infrastructure, the people who are homeless, dead, still not found under the rubble in Gaza. Just it doesn't matter to us because we're not seeing it. But if anything at even the most minuscule level were to happen in southern New Jersey, we would be up in arms. We would realize how like how real what we're doing is. We're killing people. We're killing people, and we're doing it for another country's sake. That's the thing about it. And on top of that, if you talk about it, you're a big old anti-Semite. Or not patriotic or anything like that. I I I just I I I would much rather in a world where we are the military superpower that we don't try to because it seems like we're just just swinging right now. We want to maintain control, we see it spiraling, and we're just swinging. And it seems like we're just flailing. It seems like we're watching the the last final spins before the the shit goes down the toilet. And it's cra I feel crazy, and I know probably you feel crazy sometimes too, looking at it, realizing, wow, are we like, is the superpower ending? Are are we gonna fall off from being the world's number one? And to answer your question, I'm cool with that. Because you know, Denmark doesn't have the world's number one economy, but their people are a lot happier and they're killing themselves. You know, Spain's not the number one superpower, but they're not that. Every issue that we have, you could find it not being present in so many other countries that aren't the number one economy.

SPEAKER_04 32:43

That's a good point.

SPEAKER_03 32:43

We're the wealthiest country on the planet, but no one feels wealthy. Yeah. So what do we have? Who cares? Who cares?

SPEAKER_04 32:51

That's a good point. I think it's um, you know, I think it goes in cycles, you know. I think right, Dalio would agree. Right now, it's like I think we're we're living through the transition, and that's why it feels so like jarring, right? Because trend change is always really disconcerting to feel. I think we're going through that change right now, yeah. And it could be a change for the better. Like let's say we lose our world power. It's like maybe we focus on other things.

SPEAKER_03 33:17

Maybe we go more nationalistic and focus on money here. Yeah, that could be right.

SPEAKER_04 33:21

It's other countries. It's like, okay, because you had the you know, Roman Empire, whatever, and now Italy's they're still there and they got great pasta. They really care about whatever. I heard the Vatican's still doing well. Vatican's doing well, but that's a it's a small thing. But yeah, well, my point is other countries, they they have other time to think about, or they have more time to think about other things than making money or like keeping power, right? Because it's like if you're the most powerful person, you have to do everything to keep that power. But once you're not, it's like, okay, the weight's lifted off.

SPEAKER_03 33:54

It's like, okay, we're not, we don't have to worry about that anymore. Yeah, why do we have troops in 120 different countries and 200 plus bases? Like, I that's the part I don't get. If we if Germany said, hey, we're gonna set up shop in North Carolina, you'd be like, fuck, no, you're not. No, you're not. But yeah, we do it everywhere else.

SPEAKER_04 34:11

We're like, yeah, but now they're not even like they're not even allowing us to do this anymore, right? Didn't you see like a couple? It was like last week, right? We're trying to enforce the the ceasefire, or we're trying to say the strait is open, and Saudi Arabia, a couple other of those um Gulf nations said, sorry guys, you can't use our airspace.

SPEAKER_03 34:32

I did see that when we uh Operation Something Freedom, we're trying to get everybody out of the strait. Yes, yeah, that's humiliating. Yeah, British uh Britain did that too, I think.

SPEAKER_04 34:42

Those are yeah, Spain, those were our allies and said, sorry guys, you can't use our airspace.

SPEAKER_03 34:47

That means like it's already changing, and according to our media, they doubled back on it and said, Never mind, you could, but then the mission never ended up. Never we didn't do it, right?

SPEAKER_04 34:55

So I was like, did they actually actually they just thwarted us? They just said you can't do it.

SPEAKER_03 35:00

Does it feel like the rest of the world is just done with the swagger of America?

SPEAKER_04 35:06

Yes, a hundred percent, yeah, they're done.

SPEAKER_02 35:09

Like we've been the cool person.

SPEAKER_04 35:11

Yeah, just let us live in peace, you know? Let's just have harmony again, and also they they also know it's like number one hated country in the world is Israel, number two is America. Wonder why, and and I think a lot of people overseas they know that Israel is involved. And I don't want to blame everything on them a hundred percent, but they know that they're involved.

SPEAKER_03 35:38

It's America's fault that Israel's involvement is hurting America.

SPEAKER_04 35:42

Yes, so it's it's ultimately our fault. It's ultimately our fault. Absolutely, like because they're supposed to be a client state, and if you can't control, it's like if your dog is a crazy dog that's you know fucking barking at everybody, you know, attacking people on the street. That's your fault because you're the owner of the dog, right? It's your job to train the dog. Are you calling BB Netanyahu an animal? Look, that's that's to put it mildly, okay? That's that would be a generous analogy. I've often called him a dog kicker.

SPEAKER_03 36:15

I've often called him a dog kicker. A dog kicker. You heard that phrase?

SPEAKER_04 36:18

No, I don't. It's just like a person who kicks dogs. That those are the worst people. Those are the worst people.

SPEAKER_03 36:23

But this person specifically is terrible because they kicked the dog strategically. Uh so there's this old episode of Powerpuff Girls. Were you a Powerpuff Girls guy growing up?

SPEAKER_04 36:32

No, I I know of the Powerpuff. You know of them, but I don't know. Not them as a casual friend. No, I know. So there's never watched that, yeah. Oh man. I was more Nickelodeon than Cartoon Network.

SPEAKER_03 36:42

Oh, really?

SPEAKER_04 36:43

Yeah. Oh, I was a Cartoon Network head. Okay. That's probably what it said. Because then I found out later on fucking Nickelodeon was full of pedophiles. Yeah, like everybody running Nickelodeon. Literally, Nickelodeon is just run by pedophiles. Well, when their initial logo was a foot, we should have been questioning a little bit. What was an entire network where adults manage kids for a living? Nothing could go wrong. Yeah, could go wrong. That sounded like looking back, I'm like, that's bad. That's like that's how you create, even if the people, you know, that's just how you create really bad situations, right? You have all these child actors, you have adults that are making decisions for them. It's like, oh, do you want to be on the show? You know, you know, this is bad. Yeah, this is not a good situation.

SPEAKER_03 37:30

And at least the mental health at the very least. Like, have you seen Amanda Bynes now? Not ideal. Nearly unrecognized. I love Amanda Binds back now. Nearly unrecognized. You've seen her? Yeah, it's not nearly unrecognizable. It's like you got a lobotomy. It's really I know.

SPEAKER_04 37:43

It's it sucks when people like they don't, you know, some people make a full recovery. Like Lindsay Lohan, I think, is making a full recovery right now. I don't know if you've seen her lately. She looks anyways.

SPEAKER_03 37:54

You know what I did? Because she was in Freaky Friday 2. And I was like, Lindsey's still doing it. Good luck. They're still doing it. They got everybody back in that movie. They did. It was actually a good movie. Yeah, it was a decent movie. Yeah, a good movie. Not many sequels make the good list. I know. But there was this episode of Powerpuff Girls where we we were we were just in the basement talking about what was going on overseas because it seems like we we set up the scene for us to come clean it up. And that's how we run the PR. We create the problem and then we solve it.

SPEAKER_04 38:25

And in this episode We don't really solve it, but yeah, right, right, right.

SPEAKER_03 38:29

In this scenario, the the Powerpuff Girls, saviors of Townsville at all times, were getting beat by this other kid, this one boy, who started basically solving all the crimes. He was saving the town, and the town sentiment started to shift. You're like, oh, this kid, he's actually better than the powerpuff. That's crazy. We love this guy. And so the town would cheer and blah blah blah. And so it comes like halfway through the episode, and there's this dog about to get hit by a car. Dog's like freaking out, and then the boy flies in right the last second, saves the dogs. And everyone's like, ah, he saved the dog.

unknown 39:03

Great job.

SPEAKER_03 39:04

We love him. But somebody saw that he was the one that kicked the dog into the road.

SPEAKER_04 39:10

Oh what is that called? Isn't that there's a there's like a term for that? Not dog kicker, but it's like you you you basically like created created the I don't know, like a hollow hero. I I don't know. It's like, yeah, when you you when you did the crime and then you pretend to solve the crime.

SPEAKER_03 39:27

Yeah, essentially. And that's what I think false flags is going on exactly, exactly. And so you you you you have a war that obviously uh BB has been wanting fought for decades.

SPEAKER_04 39:38

If he didn't fight this war, he's in jail. Like anytime this stops, he's going to jail.

SPEAKER_03 39:41

Correct.

SPEAKER_04 39:42

So he's gonna do whatever it takes.

SPEAKER_03 39:44

And probably more will come out around how he caused these wars. And I think there will be questioning around the the the stand down orders around 2023 and the money that is flown in from Qatar to Hamas in the tunes of a billion dollars in cash reported by his own leadership, former leadership. I mean, not random people. It it does seem like they cause a problem so that we can inevitably try to solve it. And that was in this case, hey, we think they're going to attack us soon. So can you go in and just go ahead and attack?

SPEAKER_04 40:20

Right. It's always like the nuclear weapon thing, weapons of mass destruction, or you got Gaddafi back in the 80s or 90s, or whatever that was. It's like he's about to do something, Syria, Bashar al-Assad. It's the same shit.

SPEAKER_03 40:31

And it's the perfect play, honestly, because we'll never get any proof if they actually have one. You definitely don't want one going off down the street from you. And we have the military-industrial complex where we don't have to worry about like the budget, because we can just print more money, expand the budget. We have the greatest weapons, so it's not like we're gonna like run ourselves thin. I mean, maybe because there has been now talks that were. Look at the inflation, though. I mean, there's an impact for this. You can't just keep doing no economic impact on this war. What are you talking about?

SPEAKER_04 41:02

Oh no, not at all. Not at all. I could tell you didn't know if I was being statistical. I was like, wait a second. There's a little bit of impact, but it's late, but it's not we're driving around Kentucky. The gas is five bucks.

SPEAKER_03 41:14

That's crazy, right? It's five dollars here. Yeah, it's close. It's at 489. Wow, that's more than Delaware. I thought Kentucky was cheaper. Well, it's gone up a lot. Jesus. And the long-term effects of this have not hit. People do not understand the ramifications on our economy that are coming. And I wish I could grab every American by the shoulder and tell them because we love reacting to the moment the ripple effect hits us, not examining the ripple effect beginning.

SPEAKER_04 41:49

No, because people, it's hard for the people to relate to something or care about something that doesn't necessarily impact you personally. A lot of people get woken up. It's like, oh wow, all of a sudden I'm impacted or my somebody, my family, once the prices go up, or once something happened. Yeah, once you feel it, you know, it's like nobody gives a shit until like, oh wow, that happened to me or somebody I knew, and uh now they're like awake, awoke, whatever the word is, awakened to this issue. Awokened.

SPEAKER_03 42:14

I think it's a proper term.

SPEAKER_04 42:17

But it's it's really hard. I mean, that's one of the hard things that I I have to just kind of um be okay with. It's just like I'm providing so much information, guys, and people are still, you know, is everybody's going to be able to do that.

SPEAKER_03 42:28

Is that where you get your push to to keep making content that you're making? Is is your you're you're waking more people up to what's going on?

SPEAKER_04 42:34

I mean, that's my theory. It's just like, hey, if more people are knowledgeable, maybe they'll make better decisions, maybe things will change, right? Knowledge is power. That's sort of the you know, the old adage. Maybe it works, maybe it doesn't. I keep going. Uh, I mean, I think I I'll keep going as long as they'll allow me to keep going, right? I've been deflatform from TikTok, right? There's other other things that uh, you know, they could they could get rid of me, and I'm like, all right, I did my best. Yeah, you know, but I'll keep going as long as they'll allow me to keep going. Right. Right. But if they're like, sorry, you can't speak anymore, I don't know if there's anything I can do about it.

SPEAKER_03 43:12

Do you think that world comes?

SPEAKER_04 43:14

It could. It certainly could. I mean, they did it to TikTok, they're doing it to other news stations. Who knows? I mean, right now, I think Meta is being pretty, I think, laissez fair, to be honest with you, with a lot of the content. I know some people are saying meta is cracking down on this and that, but I think for the most part, they're much more loose and relaxed. Yeah, but that could change in an instant. Could it definitely, I mean, all of a sudden, boom, new regime, who knows, right? It's like, oh, somebody takes over, they hire an IDF guy to do content, and it's over, never happen, right?

SPEAKER_03 43:47

Yeah, hiring an AD IDF soldier for cyber intelligence oversight over a social media platform that could never happen to TikTok.

SPEAKER_04 43:58

So you Never know. So I'm I'm gonna be here as long as they allow me to be here. Right. And keep going as long as I'm allowed to. What's your backup plan? What if you can be a contract? Backup plan?

SPEAKER_03 44:08

No, if you can be a contractor, what you gonna be doing? You're gonna plumb?

SPEAKER_04 44:12

I'll just I'll I'm gonna open up an iced tea shop by the beach. I'll just I'll sell every variety. I love iced teas. Sell every variety of iced teas.

SPEAKER_03 44:21

That's really random.

SPEAKER_04 44:22

Yeah, it is really random. Yeah. I picked it up. I was uh this is many years ago. I was surfing in Spain. Whoa. And um fancy. It was it's hot, you know. I was surfing for a few hours and I'm like, and I had this like iced tea that they had. It's like a normal iced tea, it's not really a great iced tea, but like this is amazing. And at that point, I was like, dude, I'll just open up an iced tea shop. That's that's that'll be that's that's it. Really? And my point is like I don't like I don't desire I think notoriety or like I don't feel like I don't even like the sound of my voice that much. So like if I didn't feel compelled to do this, I would just do something else. I felt you know absolutely like I don't need to do this.

SPEAKER_03 45:05

Well, as we do do this, we're in Kentucky, and I'm gonna finish this with some stats. I got some stats for you to react to. All right, here we go. All right, so Kentucky, uh, this fourth district has a population of 760,000 individuals. Of those, 596,737 are registered voters. So there's about 160 or so that aren't 310,000 of them are a registered Republican. So they're the ones who are gonna be able to vote in this primary coming up. I wanted to know though, like in past primaries, how many people normally show up? So first I went to 2024's general election. The general election, hosted in 2024, of course, when the president is getting elected, 278,386 people showed up. The primary, though, the Republican primary prior to, which again was massy, 52,593 people showed up. So less than a fifth. But did he have a legitimate challenger or no? Not at that point. There was not a legitimate challenger by the time of the midterm, but at the primary there was. So it was kind of a shoe-in, he won by a lot, but only 52,000 show up. I anticipate a lot more are gonna show up just based off of the money, just based off of the advertising. Yes, um, but what's interesting is of the people that showed up to these polls, 63% of them are 55 plus.

SPEAKER_04 46:32

63. So that's not good for Massy because not good for Massy.

SPEAKER_03 46:37

Right.

SPEAKER_04 46:37

Because it's a there's about a 30-point difference between plus 55. I don't know if you have those. I do have that. Yeah, okay, go for it.

SPEAKER_03 46:44

Um, as of an April poll of conservatives in this district under 30 years old, he has 78.5% support. Um, so I mean that the gap between 30 and 55, I don't know where that uh where that number may be, but I mean the the drastic amount of support that he receives from under 30, while now this poll say that the over 50 demographic, older 55 demographic, is supporting Ed. This random politician who showed up out of nowhere. No one, yeah, they found him. He's not a politician. He's a he's by Trump's definition, a warm body. Right. Trump said, I want a warm body, and I found him, and he's got a big, beautiful brain. Is yeah, it's a warm body.

SPEAKER_04 47:28

Look, it's a central casting thing.

SPEAKER_03 47:29

I mean, he said that. He literally said this is central casting. It's the second time ever. He said that about Kevin Warsh, and now he said it about Edam. Like, can you stop like calling it on the nose of exactly what this is when your billionaire buddy son-in-law is becoming the chairman of the Federal Reserve Central Casting? Like, duh. Like, thanks for confirmation, brother. The money. So the money side of things, and these are numbers that I took down yesterday morning. They might be outdated by that. At this point, there's has 100% been another $3.2 million sent in and a mixture between MAGA Kentucky and the Republican Jewish Coalition. Um, but as I wrote these numbers down, the Preserve America Pact has put in 750,000. Uh, that is Miriam Adelson's pack of choice. Super American. MAGA Kentucky, which is neither MAGA or representative of Kentucky, has spent $5.6 million on attack ads against Massey. Have you seen some of the ads, by the way?

SPEAKER_04 48:29

Well, I've seen some of them. It's the most the thruple, thruple, the out holding hand.

SPEAKER_03 48:34

Just full AI slop. Even though I thought I might be crazy, and someone listening to this might be like, Zach, you're out of your mind, that's not true. I swore a year ago they banned AI political ads.

SPEAKER_04 48:46

I don't think so.

SPEAKER_03 48:46

No, am I crazy?

SPEAKER_04 48:47

I mean, I've seen a lot of AI political ads.

SPEAKER_03 48:49

Maybe it came up and it didn't pass.

SPEAKER_04 48:50

I think it's more like a disclosure.

SPEAKER_03 48:53

Disclosed. There is a disclosure at the bottom in the fine print. Yeah, but it's so small. And it's at the very beginning. You're so focused on what the hell is happening in this video.

SPEAKER_04 49:04

Yeah, you probably didn't see the beginning of the ad. Yeah. Because you're doing something and then you turn over, you're like, what the fuck is this? And then by that time, the disclosure is gone.

SPEAKER_03 49:11

And the phrasing of all the advertising, I think, is extremely uh obviously purposeful, but honestly smart. They're leaning into the Trump brand and simultaneously not even trying to brand Ed. All the ads simply end by saying, fire massey. Which I think is brilliant in terms of strategy, but clearly an obvious strategy. So back in November, Paul Singer by Sitgo.

SPEAKER_04 49:40

Oh, is that with the Venezuela thing? And he somehow like made a shitload of money somehow.

SPEAKER_03 49:43

100%. He's profited 157 million just this quarter from Sitgo. Oh, great. Because he bought it a month before we go into Venezuela. And he didn't have any knowledge of that was going to happen. No, I'm not, I'm not insinuating in any way, shape, or form he had foreknowledge of that. He just loves oil. Yeah. And he buys Sitgo, and then Sitgo receives a contract in January to refine the oil out of Venezuela. So he just happens to be in the right place at the right time, connected to Epstein, and he's funding Massey's opponent. I think that's completely normal. And we shouldn't put any side eyes or ask any questions. The people behind this, I mean Mary Maddelson I mentioned at the top, as many know, 250 milli to Donald Trump. That was his number one donor, I believe. At least individual donor.

SPEAKER_04 50:27

Well, we had an interesting revelation last night about Marianne Midelson. So you know how she is an Israeli citizen, correct? American as well, Israeli American. Yeah. She was actually born before the uh the state of Israel became a country. Oh she technically was born in Palestine. She's Palestinian. Whoa. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 50:51

That's actually so there's a lot of Palestinian money flowing. That's actually a crazy revelation. Well, on that, James, brother, we got a lot of work to do these next few days. Um, we're gonna be pushing forth, as you already have been. You were here a little bit before me, uh toward just the people having their voice heard and their voice um reciprocated in the voting system. I feel a lot of us feel that our voice does not actually perpetuate into politicians pushing for what the people want. We think Massey does that. This is our opportunity, whether we whether someone agrees with Massey or not, this is going to be proof as to whether or not people can beat money. I think Tiffany, who Tiffany Seyance put this all together, got us all here, worked her butt off to make this happen.

SPEAKER_04 51:41

Big shout out to Tiffany, by the way. Big shout out because you know she's funding this herself. Yes, because initially, I think there was supposed to be some some help involved, but then it would have violated campaign finance. So now she's doing it herself, and she's doing all this organization. This is like literally, if if she was doing this on behalf of an establishment candidate, this would be a huge paycheck. This would be like a hundred thousand dollar paycheck for her to organize this. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_03 52:06

Because as she was saying, we have 37 million followers between all of us. I mean, that's the equivalent to a Super Bowl ad. That's it's an incredible amount of influence that we're able to bring with our own voices. And if our own voices can't make an impact and we can't beat money, what does that say?

SPEAKER_04 52:24

Well, it says that you know, maybe we gotta do some things outside of voting. Maybe you cannot vote your way out of this. So Which leaves you with not many nonviolent options, unfortunately. Right. So I think that's I mean it's critically important that I think this is this is once again the bellwether, not the bell, sorry, this is the inflection point of of American democracy, whether it still exists or not. Right? If this is if if the people if Massey gets re-elected, I think this is gonna, I think this is make gonna make a huge impact on how politicians sort of calculate what they do in Congress. Because now they know that they can represent constituents. I think Lauren Boebird, she's been here and she's taking some heat now from Trump. She's making, I think she's making a political calculation that this is maybe gonna work. Because she's like, I want to get ahead of the curve here. It's like if I can show this, then I'll build a lot of political will, a lot of political capital specifically.

SPEAKER_03 53:26

I think the people are craving politicians that are willing to stick their neck out across partisan lines for the morality of the country. What's the morality?

SPEAKER_04 53:34

Just do what you I mean, you should do if you say you're gonna do something for your constituents, you should do it. At the least, you should try to do it at the very least, right? At the least. None of this, like, oh, sorry, like I had to do that. That's why we we need to get rid of the omnibus bills, we got to get rid of all that bullshit. It's like single issue, like this is what we're voting on.

SPEAKER_03 53:51

Yeah, boom. Single issue bills, term limits, age limits, get rid of corporate and foreign lobbying. I mean, there's a lot of seemingly easy things we could do to get the you know, the insider trading and all these different things that are influencing our politicians out. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 54:06

May 19th. So May 19th, Tuesday, May 19th, go vote.

SPEAKER_03 54:10

Yes. If you're a Republican registered voter in the fourth district of Kentucky, unfortunately, it's limited to only you. The weight of whatever the weight of the country, the weight of the fate of our country is on your country hands. Yes, brother. Appreciate you.

SPEAKER_04 54:26

Any last takes thoughts? You know what? It's just such an honor to sit with the legend. I've been waiting. I'm still waiting to see what you're talking about. It's a good time to do this podcast, and I'm glad we were able to do it in person.

SPEAKER_03 54:38

Well, I can't wait to come out to Cali and do it. Yeah, do it on yours. I guess this is kind of my pod. This isn't my normal podcast set. Well, look at how great the set is. It is a pretty good setup. Shout out to LJ. Shout out, LJ. Thank you for tuning in. Like, subscribe, and James can be found at 5149 James Lee, YouTube, Instagram, X. X, Facebook. OnlyFans. Perfect. I'm looking at the wrong camera. Thank you so much. Have a great one. Go freedom.