473 - Pete Hegseth, War Crimes, & The Breakfast Rush
63 min
•Dec 6, 20254 months agoSummary
Tim Dillon discusses a recent murder in a Long Island deli, uses it as a lens to critique American suburban decay and political dysfunction, and analyzes the Trump administration's military operations in Venezuela as performative distraction from domestic crises including the Epstein scandal and economic layoffs.
Insights
- American political movements rely on performative spectacle (military strikes, deportations) to distract from inability to deliver material policy changes or address systemic failures
- Silicon Valley tech leaders represent the only unified power bloc in America with coherent national purpose, but it excludes democratic accountability and prioritizes surveillance capitalism and planetary exit
- Suburban American culture reflects the natural state of civilization stripped of formality and purpose—characterized by consumerism, addiction, and social atomization rather than community or shared values
- Immigration enforcement and military foreign policy have become tools for cultural signaling rather than functional governance, alienating potential supporters through performative cruelty
- Mainstream entertainment and media offerings have become so disconnected from reality that drug addiction and violence appear as rational alternatives to available cultural participation
Trends
Shift from Middle East military focus to Latin America as geopolitical theater, driven by domestic PR needs rather than strategic necessityTech companies (Palantir, etc.) positioning themselves as essential infrastructure for government enforcement, gaining political leverage while building surveillance apparatusDecline of formal social rituals and dress codes correlating with loss of cultural cohesion and holiday meaning in American lifePerformative policy (visible military strikes, high-profile deportations) replacing substantive legislative achievement as primary government functionErosion of shared national purpose creating vacuum filled by either radical political factions or tech oligarchy with explicit anti-democratic ideologyFentanyl crisis and drug addiction becoming normalized backdrop to American suburban life rather than treated as emergency requiring systemic solutionsMedia and entertainment becoming increasingly surreal and disconnected from functional reality, potentially driving audiences toward substance use as coping mechanism
Topics
Long Island suburban culture and social decayFilicide (parent murder) as social phenomenonAmerican foreign policy in VenezuelaMilitary strikes on suspected drug trafficking vesselsWar crimes allegations against Defense Secretary Pete HegsethImmigration enforcement and deportation policyPalantir's role in ICE operations and deportationsSilicon Valley tech oligarchy and political influenceEpstein scandal and government cover-upFentanyl trafficking and drug policyLoss of formality and dress codes in American culturePerformative politics vs. substantive governanceAmerican political polarization and lack of shared purposeHoliday decline and consumer cultureMedia distraction and narrative control
Companies
Palantir Technologies
Data management company partnering with ICE to track and deport undocumented immigrants using AI and surveillance tec...
OpenAI
AI company mentioned as part of Silicon Valley tech oligarchy controlling American economy and pursuing planetary exi...
Twitter/X
Platform rebranded by Elon Musk as example of tech company using cultural signaling (free speech, God talk) while bui...
Greenlight
Sponsor offering financial literacy debit card and money app for families
People
Pete Hegseth
Defense Secretary accused of ordering strikes on drug trafficking boats in Venezuela, potentially constituting war cr...
Nicolas Maduro
Venezuelan president positioned as villain/boogeyman to justify military operations and distract from domestic Americ...
Elon Musk
Tech entrepreneur exemplifying Silicon Valley's casual aesthetic while pursuing radical libertarian agenda excluding ...
Sam Altman
AI executive benefiting from government legislation (big beautiful bill) while advancing surveillance and digital con...
Alex Carp
Palantir CEO and self-described long-time Democrat pushing immigration enforcement through technology partnerships wi...
Marjorie Taylor Greene
Congresswoman who appeared on show discussing immigration enforcement and border policy
Barry Weiss
CBS News editor-in-chief and friend of show, moderating town hall with Erica Kirk instead of appearing on Tim Dillon ...
Michael Dell
Dell Technologies founder announcing $6.25 billion charitable investment in children's investment accounts
Susan Dell
Co-founder of Dell Foundation announcing $6.25 billion charitable investment in children's investment accounts
Quotes
"Long Island is the natural state of life, which is why it's so ugly. We hate seeing it. We don't like seeing it because it is life in its natural state."
Tim Dillon
"The only people in America that have a national purpose are the AI people in Silicon Valley. They're fully agreed on leaving the planet, building a surveillance state, and merging humanity with AI."
Tim Dillon
"We need to start bombing someone like now. We need to pivot people's attention from the economy and the pedophile ring we're covering up."
Tim Dillon
"When reality feels like you were on drugs, why would you not just be on drugs?"
Tim Dillon
"This is what it looks like that we have zero national purpose anymore. The people that are trying to introduce a national purpose are trying to destroy half their country."
Tim Dillon
Full Transcript
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And I don't like to hear that. Now, this is as rare as you'd think on Long Island. There's actually a lot of people who do kill their parents. This is true. And it's something that, it's something that's just hangs in the air is that people kill their parents on Long Island. This is not something that's completely unheard of. Unfortunately, this does happen. And, you know, I get it. Obviously, I would never kill my parents and I would never want anyone to be killed. And I would never want anyone's parents to be killed. And I would certainly never want anyone to be killed in a deli, which should be a place of love and kind of, you know, reflection. That's what a deli is. You should be able to kind of eat and kind of reflect on your day, your week, your month, your year. The trajectory of your life, whatever. I mean, sitting in a deli should be peaceful. You should not be dealing with a guy who came into stab his parents, but just knowing a lot of people on Long Island and knowing kind of, you know, that whole thing, that whole dynamic, I'm trying to be very careful about how I say this, but I can, I can understand and I'm obviously would never condone it. Obviously, I mean, I, I don't know how many disclaimers I need here, but I think that fans and the listeners know what I'm trying to say. I understand this. I do not agree with it, but I have met enough people on that island. You know, I grew up there. I lived there for many years and I get and here's the other thing people aren't going to like, I get to do in both of them because if you kill one of your parents on Long Island, the other one will just become such a cunt. I mean, gender unimportant. If you kill one of your parents on Long Island, the other parent will become so insufferable and they will use it as a way, by the way, uh, to constantly, they, it'll be like you killed them. Like the one that survives will complain so much, not that they even love their significant other that much either. They will just use it forever. My son killed my husband. Like it will, it'll never end. It will never end. So I get having to kind of do them both to get rid of both of them because you go, I'll, if I kill one of these people, I will never hear the end of it. Just because of the types of, you know, the personality types. And now this guy, um, police said a man and woman were stabbed to death just after 9 a.m. Thursday in the deli, they had owned for decades. A man was taken into custody shortly after. And while police did not confirm the individual's identity or his relationship to the victims, friends of the shop owners said the man was one of the couple's three sons. His hands was bloody. His clothes were bloody and he was just leaning on his car. I didn't know anything that happened at the time, but he just sat on his car, said witness, Brandon James near the crime scene, the daughter, the owner's daughter was inconsolable. His friends comforted her inside the deli. Another man saw the man walk out from the back of the shop. I just seen the sun walking out. I mean, this is really, I mean, these quotes, the grammar and these quotes, these long Island goons that came barely speak. I just seen the sun walking out and he says that I stabbed my parents and that was it. He was very cool like nothing happened. I mean, what? These are the actual quotes from the article. I just see the sun walking out and he says that, eh, I stabbed my parents. And that was it. Can you believe this guy? This guy comes out and he goes, eh, I stabbed my parents. Eh. I stabbed my mama and my papa. It's so fucked up, you stabbed me to deli. 9 a.m. the smell of bacon on the griddle, the smell of bacon on the griddle. You've got a bacon egg and she's waiting for you. And this guy comes in. Because this was someone's favorite deli, you know, everyone in Long Island has a deli. I grew up with great delis. You know, they're fewer and they're few and far between now. That doesn't mean there's not a lot of delis, but the ones that I grew up with were truly great. I don't know anything about this deli and I'm sure I'll hear from friends and people. They're like, I know the people arrive into that deli or whatever or somebody will always have a beef. They'll be like, well, I actually didn't like them that much. But a Long Island deli in the morning is one of the greatest places you could ever be. A Long Island deli in the morning is one of the greatest places you can ever be because everyone really people don't go to a Long Island deli to start the day. They go to finish the day. They go to the, it's the end of the day. If you go to Long Island deli, you hit image of this deli. Let's see what this deli looks like. I'm getting hungry. Was this a, this looks like a little bit of Italian deli? Yeah. Yeah, a lot of these are Italian delis and they got little pizza happen as well. I wonder if they did, they did breakfast, of course. I think about a Long Island deli, you know, when you're in Manhattan or you're in wherever you are and you're in a place, people are getting their egg whites, turkey, hot sauce, because they're starting the day and they're going to go make a million dollars and get a wife. But Long Island delis are where you go to end the day. You get the caloric intake of the day in one sandwich and then you go sit in an office and do nothing except read comments on the internet and go insane. That's the entire day of Long Island is your life. It's actually not bad. You eat so much would you get once you have finished your breakfast on Long Island, you are done. You're done. It's two or three eggs, bacon, American cheese, salt, pepper, ketchup on a roll. Some people will do a hungry man hero that includes a hash brown and ham. That's a little excessive. In my opinion, you might get a chocolate milk, a Ronnie Brooke farms, perhaps an escalator quick and a lot of these people chased out with a SIGGI or they'll chase it with a nice big tall cup of coffee with a lot of coffee cream or you might see French vanilla French or coffee cream or a little coffee cream or a little bit of coffee cream or a little bit of coffee cream or a little bit of hazelnut or hazelnut or whatever floats your boat and then you just go sit in an office and read things on the internet that make you insane. And then you eat lunch and then you go home and you sit in your house and you eat again and maybe you go out to dinner or to a bar and drink. And this is it. So this is a holy sacrament in the morning, the big and egg and cheese in Long Island. And this guy went in and he stabbed his two parents in the deli. Mama Mia, let's watch a little bit of this news story here. Again, this is from and I had to cover this right up front and then we'll get into like, I don't know what is Pete Hegseth doing. He's killing a fisherman there in Venezuela, but we'll get into that. We'll get into that. He just wants to kill people that guy. Have you seen that guy's face? And I think he killed only two people you got here's the thing we in America. That's like a thing if you kill a few people. You got to kill a lot of people for us to turn the other way. Kill two people. We're all over that. You need to kill so many people that frankly we get kind of like, you know, overwhelmed, you know, overwhelmed if you start if you start, they started killing so many people over there in Venezuela. You could find a justification for you get overwhelmed. You go, yeah, I guess there's a reason they're killing all those people. You kill a few people. It's confusing. I'm like, why are you doing that? What's that one boat? What's that one little tiny boat that he's, is he's a, how many drugs are on that little boat? All right. Let's watch this here. Double murder Long Island place of my birth in a deli. No less. Come on. It's a long island where a man is in custody tonight accused of brutally stabbing and killing the owners of a beloved deli. It happened during the breakfast rush and witnesses. Now, by the way, by the way, so they've already they're letting you know what a big deal that breakfast rush is. He just wants to let you know. First of all, we've already moved on past the stabbing. Now we're all going, wow, it's the breakfast rush. It's the height of the morning. This is the big long island. It's about mornings and nights. The days are nothing. The days are kind of nothing. No matter how much money you have, if you live out in the hamptons of days or nothing, you kind of like wander around an empty beach and take a pill or something. And, and, and if you have no money the days are nothing because you sit in like a debt collection office and call people and threaten them. Even though you also have no money. Now, so he's saying it's the breakfast rush. There's hash browns, people run the grill. And, and this guy's going to kill people in the morning. It's crazy. Go on. He's here. Say they believe the alleged killer is the couple's own son. New sports, Paisy Chang is live in Beth Page with a horrific turn of events. Paisy. Yeah, David, it happened here at A&A, Deli and anybody who has ever been into this deli say that the owners were just amazing people. If you went in here, you didn't have enough change. You didn't have enough money. They would always just say, forget about it. Come back tomorrow. Forget about it. It wasn't a big deal. Very kind, very generous. And they are all trying to make sense of this senseless tragedy. Crime scene detectives. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. 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But I don't want to be attacked by cash Patel's girlfriend in DC. What's her name? Alexis Wilkins. I don't want to be attacked by Alexis Wilkins in DC. I don't want to be attacked by this woman. Or worse, what if she's singing Christmas songs? That's even worse. I don't want to be, you know, I'm like, I'm like, I'm eating a tiny crab cake in the corner. And then I'm, I'm, I'm, I just, it's Alexis Wilkins. I see her from the corner of the room and she makes it be line to me. I'll just face time Candace Owens and hold my phone up like across. You are repelled. All right, let's go back to this here because, but and here's what I mean. Here's my point. You can't forget where you came from and where I come from. Truly is and I and I don't say this with any joy. The worst people in the world. I mean, there is nothing. This man killed his parents during the breakfast rush. They are without conscience and they don't care. Here they are. Crime scene detectives removing evidence from A and A deli in Beth Page, a fixture in the community. Now the scene right next to bottle depot. Do you understand the hell that I come from? It is an Italian deli. It is sandwiched in between Carvelle ice cream and bottle depot, a place where you buy alcohol, you drink it and then you die. I'm telling you right now, you need to understand where I am from and we must celebrate the fact that I have crawled out of that pit, but kind of also now looking at that, strip more want to crawl back in it because I have realized meeting all the people I've met and seeing what I've seen. I've kind of realized that as bad as Long Island is, it is the natural state of life. Long Island is the natural state of life, which is why it's so ugly. We hate seeing it. We don't like seeing it because it is life in its natural state. Truly, which is like gross and cruel and that's what it is. And that's why I appreciate it now when I go back there. I appreciate it for what it is, which is the, it is just the raw state of what we've done here. This is the suburbs. This is what we've done. This is what society really, it's not like some quaint little town. It's not like a little Gilmore girls town where everybody's like knows each other and you know, everybody's, oh, I love the soup. They make it the organic grocer and we're going to go with lentil soup day. No, that's not what it is. What civilization really is is bottle depot and someone who's killing their parents in the deli. This is what America is now. It's the culmination of everything we've ever done. By the way, when you look around the America, it's the culmination of everything we've ever done. There are no surprises. Nothing is shocking. If you have even the smallest amount of intelligence, there's no, you know, there's nothing what you use. No trend. We go, how do we get here? Whoa, whoa, wow. This went left. No, it didn't. This, this went exactly to where it was going to go. This went to exactly the place that anyone could have protected it. I'm sorry, that could have predicted it was going to go. The suburban sprawl, the poison, the drugs, the alcohol, the consumerism, the food, the hatred, the division, all of it, all of it across the board. This is what it looks like. This is what it looks like that we have zero national purpose anymore. The people that are trying to introduce a national purpose are trying to, it's only about dominating the people they disagree with. The only national purpose that anyone puts forward is to destroy half their country. That's the only purpose that anyone's put forward, by the way. Everyone's like, oh, we got a national purpose. Women should have vote, kill Gays, kill up, burn them. Or the other side, their national purpose is to just infect everybody with whatever madness spell there under. So that's the problem in the body. Politics is that there are, there is no purpose that doesn't involve destroying half of the country. We, we don't have one. We don't have one on any level, by the way. There's, there's not one thing we can agree. So the only people in our society who've agreed on anything, all run AI companies. They're the, think about this. These are the only people who agree on anything. Our Silicon Valley, AI entrepreneurs, and they all agree that we should leave the planet. And by we, they mean them. And that, that's the only people that are in agreement. Everyone else is like, we just, they're at bottle depot. They're at the Italian Dally with pizza, or they're at the Carvelli scream. And if you go get a vanilla milkshake with chocolate, you bring crunchy swirl through the shake. It's unreal. But that's what I mean. You have two sides. If you have one side who wants to dominate the other side, you have, you have the, you know, both sides want to kill the other side. And then the only people who agree, the only agreement we have in our country right now is in San Francisco. Palo Alto, Menlo Park, these are the only people that have, that have agreed. And they've agreed that borders and countries are fake. They've agreed that governments have no legitimacy to tell them what to do or to limit their products. They've agreed that the earth as a planet is kind of getting old. And maybe it's time to shed that and get out of here. They've agreed that humanity itself should go away and should be augmented with superior technology so that AI doesn't defeat us. We must merge with it. All of those decisions have been made. They believe we should live in a surveillance state. And they believe that we will live in a kind of feudal system where digital money, crypto will reign supreme and that we will have sort of a digital surveillance and police state. They're, they're all agreed. They're all agreed. Everyone else fighting about abortion. They, they're fully on agreed to the left, to the right. It doesn't matter. They don't care. So they're the only people in America that have a national purpose. If you talk to the AI people, they're, they're busy. They fully have a national purpose. They have a purpose. They get it defeat China. Be the leader in AI technology, leave the planet and slave the population fully, fully on board. They have a purpose. Everybody else, bottle depot going over to the methadone clinic. This is the state of the country. It's everything that we've ever done has led to this. Every decision that we've ever made from urban planning to architecture, every level of government, state, local, federal, all of these things add up to what you're looking at right now. The strip mall where a drug addict stabs two of his parents in the deli that they own. This is a horrible story. Obviously, but everything leads to this. Everything leads to this. Let's watch a little bit more here. They were just hard working people, you know, I mean a staple like in this neighborhood for so long, like it's crazy to believe they're not here anymore. Where's my sandwich? That's what you wanted to say. By the way, I know they're dead. Where's the food? I've been standing here 45 minutes. Can one of their children fry an egg? One of the ones that didn't stab them because I've been here 45 minutes. By the way, not to be morbid, but this is such a hot topic. I guarantee you they love like Long Island. This is such an exciting did you hear? It's a big thing at the nail salon. It's going to be a big thing in the schools to teachers, little coffee, clutch, bunch of teachers get together in the break room. Did you hear this is going to be a big story. And that's what Pete Higgs at their old trying it because Maduro there is some relationship. He has to the drug dealers in Venezuela. Obviously now a lot of fence at all comes from China. Some of it comes in from Mexico. There's I'm sure there's some coming in from Venezuela. Of course there is a regime change war to capitating the government. I don't know. I mean, what are we doing? I mean, nobody knows what we're doing. I don't think anybody knows what we're doing here. Um, but I guess Pete Higgs Seth are secretary of war. Um, is kind of denying that he committed a war crime because people are now saying that top Republicans have joined Democrats and demanding answers about the escalating military campaign. The Trump administration says is aimed at targeting drug traffickers. So here's the thing. The remarks came in response. We had Washington Post report on Friday that said the defense secondary Pete Higgs had given a verbal order to kill everyone aboard boats suspected of smuggling drugs and that this led a military commander to carry out a second strike to kill those who had initially survived an attack in early September. Obviously, if that occurred, that would be very serious and I agree that that would be an illegal act representative. Mike Turner Republican of Ohio informed me about the military. Republican of Ohio informed me chairman of the intelligence committee sent out face in Asian. They got to kill people. This is what the thing is. The Epstein thing is like a, like a, it's like an albatross around their neck. You just can't get rid of it. They can't shake it. They're covering up a human trafficking ring. It is, they can't shake it. They can't shake it. So the economy is tough. There's more layoffs now. Then at any time since COVID, the economy is tanking. People feel very apprehensive about the holiday season, shopping, getting presents for their family and step by the way, stop. Then don't ears that the kids get present, stop with the adults. I'm telling you now, I'm telling you now, I used to always kind of bemoan what had happened to the holidays. And I still do people shopping sweatpants, people look like shit. Nobody dresses up. The food isn't good. No one cares. People are, you know, it's just, there's no pride in the holidays. Anyone when I grew up, my grandmother, my grandfather, there was pride in people dressed nicely. There'd be a formal dinner. People would sit there. There would be multiple courses of food and there would be discussion and conversation and prayer and whatever your rituals are. But now we don't have that. We have a lot of people sitting on a couch and snuggies and onesies and people all kind of look like they just get at rehab and they all are on pills. And they're all just kind of sitting there. They're all PTSD trauma victims. I don't know why, but they are because of traffic because they can't handle traffic. So everybody's just like sort of a trauma victim whose mind has been wiped and they're just eating like Pillsbury dope croissants on a couch from IKEA. It's filthy. It's disgusting. And I, so I've been mowing the holidays and now people are actually starting to agree with me. They're all coming around to this to go, you know, you're right. You've been saying this for years, but it's true. People are going, yeah, it doesn't feel like the holidays anymore. And I'll tell you why it's the lack of formality in the country. A lot of this is when, when finance was our industry, say what you want about the finance people, their crooks, their scum, whatever. Sure. But they were suit. The tech people are very casual and they kind of wear, they're like, what's going on? Kind of wear much more casual clothing. And that is in there. And they are the people that have the most money now and they're the most powerful and they have the political influence. And that tech aesthetic has infected a lot of the elites top tier, higher end people. And they're walking around in jeans and they're walking around without a tie and maybe no one is a blazer and maybe so. So now, by the way, it all right, get what are these people wear? This is what tech people kind of wear. I mean, they look right during hoodies, they're walking around Stanford, they're nerds, they're bumps. Fine. It's okay. Look at Basel's. Look at him. This guy's one of the wealthiest people in the entire world. And again, this outfit would be your earth science teacher. That's what your earth science teacher would look like in 2002. That's what your earth science teacher would look like. That guy's one of the wealthiest men in the world. He doesn't look at it. He looks like an earth science teacher because the tech people exude this kind of casual, because they're casually destroying everything. The whole point, they don't want to be too, they don't want to dress too formally while they're, you know, instituting systems of mass death. But they, they're very influential because rich people now are aping them and looking like them. Now it bleeds all the way down to the point where you're at your Christmas and no one is dressed up and no one looks nice. And it's a, it's a very casual and I think that that's one of the reasons the holidays have declined. And I think if you want the holidays to be better, I think you should institute a dress code. This is something that Tim Dillon shows actually talking about is actually instituting a dress code into the holiday where people actually, if you're going to be a girl, you're going to go to the trouble of cooking or catering or ordering food or whatever you're going to do. People need to show up to your house. It cannot show up in sweatpants and they cannot look like they just got out of the hospital. They cannot show up in a hospital gown and paper slippers and sit there. It's not a ward. It's a home. But you have a lot of anxiety about how much money people have right now with everything happening. I think we have it like a million layoffs. I read that last night. So here's what we can have to do. You're going to have to kill people and they and they look at Venezuela and they're a good boogie man because they were socialists. We've never really liked them from Hugo Chavez and he's coming. He's coming. So and then drugs. Well, do you want to get stabbed in your deli by your drug addict son? What? So we're going to kill Maduro. So then as well as like a good, that's a good one. The Middle East is too tricky right now. Israel and the Gaza, that whole thing is, it was too tricky and there's a lot of bad PR at in America now with the whole Middle East. So we got to stay out of the Middle East for a while. So we're going back to our old bag of tricks, which is South America. We're going back to South America now because the Middle East got too hot. When you're selling drugs on a block and the block becomes hot, it means that maybe the police are surveilling it and you got to move your operation. So what happened in the Middle East was Israel went wild. They bombed Qatar, ally, Qatar. We had to go, Hey, you guys got to chill the fuck out. Israel was at war with like seven countries. Saudi Arabia are our boy over there are the American dollar system kind of, you know, again, partially held up by the Saudi, the petro dollar. It's like the American monetary system. There's a lot of internal and external strife right now regarding the last two years in the Middle East. It's traumatic. It's traumatic. But we still need to kill people right now to just show people that we have a functioning government. We don't, there's no way to show anyone that we have a functioning government unless a guy comes on TV and goes, we're going to, we're killing someone right now. I know you're unemployed, but watch this. We're bombing about this is what people are doing. They're in their delis waiting to get stabbed by their children and they're watching Fox news and they're watching a boat blow up and they're going, we're still a functioning government. And I mean, I know it's funny, but this is absolutely true. It is right now one of the only ways to prove that we're a functioning government is for Pete Hegs had to go on TV and go, we're killing someone because of the drugs where we're blowing up about. Do we have a video of this? Can we get a video of the boat being blown up? This is how it is. This is how it is folks. Let's take a look at this. See? Look, we're a government. There it is. Boomers love this. Hey, hey, it may not rate with you. You fucking zoomer. Fuck you. Fuck you, you millennial narcissist. A boomer loves a grainy video of a boat being blown up in a country we didn't even know we were mad at. We didn't even know they were the problem. We barely have heard of them. We barely heard of it. It's like, well, the rush you craning happened. Ukraine was our greatest ally, our best friend. We didn't even heard of these people. No one had said anything because it was just Hunter Biden and people getting like contracts and all these like Nepo baby crackheads going to work at Ukrainian gas companies. I wasn't getting those jobs. You weren't getting those jobs. This was Nepo baby, political Nepo baby crack addicts having a lot of fun over there in a cave with a gun and a hooker's mouth getting money. That's why they didn't talk much about Ukraine. Then Russia invaded Ukraine in my estimation after we had kind of weirdly been obsessed with the idea of including Ukraine in the NATO and then kind of instigating a little bit. Then Russia, and again, inappropriately, if it makes anyone feel better, invaded the Ukraine. It has been a bloody horrible war, which has been eged on by financial interest. Americans manufacturers in the United States and Europe. It's ugly, but we didn't know much about the Ukraine. We didn't know that we owed them everything in the world and that there would be Ukrainian. By the way, just keep in mind, I'm not a heartless person. I feel terrible. I had a comedian on who now lives in Texas who was Ukrainian. I felt very bad about what happened. If I could wave a wand, I'd have the war not happen at all. But it was very interesting to me that there's Ukrainian flags all over Beverly Hills, all over LA, and you see them all over everywhere. And I had no idea how close of a relationship we had with Ukraine just didn't know. I did not know that. I didn't know it. I was surprised by it when I saw all of the Ukrainian flags come out. Some of these people are probably from Ukraine. I get it. I'm not like some like psycho. I just was surprised. Right now I'm surprised by how much Venezuela is a threat to us. Again, I didn't know this. I'm a relatively intelligent person. I pay pretty close attention to the news. It's my job. I had no idea that Venezuela was responsible for all of the drugs. I thought it was like, I don't know Mexico or China or like any of the countries that we had been told were, you know, you can't start bombing boats in China. 11 US warships and 15,000 troops now in Caribbean as well in tensions escalate. So here's the thing folks. A boomer likes to see a video of a boat getting bought there. And there's a narrative and he's a social and it makes sense. It fits. It's casting and it works. It works. We need a little bit of something going on and this works. It's Venezuela. It's perfect. It's perfect. Drugs are a big problem. Drug addicts are stabbing their parents in Long Island, Dali's. We know it's a problem. And this kind of allows us to do what we do. The American government, it barely functions. People got to realize that it like doesn't function really. It closes. It's, you know, the shutdown happens. You know, people are in feuds all the time. Interest groups are fighting over who owns what politician? I mean, the government is, listen, it's not to say that our country doesn't function. Our country functions. But getting legislation passed through the government, this is anyone will tell you this, it's like near impossible. Unless it's something like the big beautiful bill. Nobody even knows what that is. They just know that Sam Altman got a lot of money. A bunch of people get thrown off Medicare. Ice gets a lot of money. And some of these ice rages show barbaric and they're so crazy and he's like, 19 year old college students are being deported to Honduras and they've lived their whole life. Again, it's wrong on its face. Like it shouldn't be happening in the chaotic and sane way that it's happening. It's, you know, when you look at someone, a grandmother get handcuffed and zip tied and thrown into a car by a bunch of masked psychopaths. Not only is that wrong, but if the, if the choice becomes that or having no immigration enforcement, a lot of people are just going to go, well, we don't want to be part of this. We don't want to do this. So then you have a situation where you have people coming in. You don't know who they are because you've made immigration regulation synonymous with the zip tying children and old women and, and rushing in the high school graduations. So any enforcement people are going to go, well, we don't want to be part of that. So some of these ice rages, I just look at them and I go, long term, what exactly? I mean, now Palantir's gotten in on the game. Palantir's said, we're going to, we're going to help you deport people. This is the tech company's game, by the way. They're going to talk about God. They're going to, they're going to get on their, they're going to, they're going to do what Elon did with Twitter. He goes, we call it X now and you can say the N word and we're going to talk about God. They're going to deport people. And while we're doing all of this behind the scenes, we're going to create this digital police state and you're going to be with it or you're not. But we're going to play Kate you with things we think culturally. You feel comfortable with. The truly progressive position on immigration is extreme skepticism says Alex Carp, a long time Democrat and the data management companies chief, etc. It's great that he's a long time Democrat. You go, what's interesting about the Silicon Valley people is they're all radical libertarians. None of them actually believe in governments. None of them believe that the government should be able to tell them what to do. They're progressive, maybe on social policies and economic policy to a degree they believe like, you know, they're maybe they're like whatever, you know, pro gay marriage and there's a lot of women in leadership roles in Silicon Valley or whatever. But the reality is none of them are progressive in the sense that they believe that any entity outside of their multi billion dollar and soon to be trillion dollar corporations can regulate them. They don't want to be regulated. They don't want anyone telling them what to do. And this has been that way for a pretty long time. And they believe that the United States government tax dollars should subsidize their efforts to build a new world that excludes anybody's right to criticize it. That's what they're doing. They're building a new world that excludes anyone's right to criticize it. And here's the thing. Now now they're gone. Well, let's get into these ice raids. Let's start deporting people because what we'll be able to do is we'll be able to curry favor with the United States government and they'll help with the war. You know, they sold a bunch of tech to Israel. They'll be helping with Venezuela. I'm sure Palantin's software is helping us immigration and customs enforcement track undocumented immigrants that deport them faster. According to federal procurement, filings and interviews with people who have knowledge of the project and who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive detail. The thing is you're never going to get rid of however many millions of people are in America illegally. You're never going to get rid of them in the span of four years. So the job of any government, basically, I think is to enforce immigration. You're going to have to deport certain people. Absolutely. You're going to deport people that have committed crime. You're going to deport people that are here for a pretty short amount of time. Well you need to have some way to do it that it isn't pure chaos. And Marjorie Telegram said that on the show. The thing you don't want to do is lose the plot completely where people think that all immigration enforcement is cruelty and it's all inhumane. And because you do need to have a country, you need to have a border. You need to figure out what rights you should have as a citizen and it's harder and harder to do this if you have people living in the shadows than aren't citizens that are in some weird legal limbo. And we have an economy. We have a culture. We have all these things where it's hard to assimilate people into these things overnight. So it causes more disruption. It radicalizes people, it pushes people to the political fringes. All the things that people supposedly don't want. So what you need to do is you need to regulate immigration. You need to figure out a way that it doesn't pick. It's the biggest issue everywhere in the world right now, every single country, every western country, every European country, Scandinavian countries, the UK, it's all immigration, it's all of it. It's the biggest motivating factor that gets people out to the polls. And it has to be dealt with. But when you have this clumsy, you know, kind of somewhat insane over the top deportations, people are looking at this and going, you know, and this is what they use to Sabrina Carpenter song. Yeah. Play this. Let's see. I've never tried this one. I've never tried this one. I've never tried this one. I've never tried this one. I know you want my touch for it. It's un-serious. It's un-serious. It's childish. It's cruel. I think one of the problems with whatever the MAGA movement is involved into is it's duped their hardcore followers so much that the only thing left now is performative cruelty. And I think that, you know, when you look at everything from the Epstein stuff to this, you know, to crack down on the deep state or whatever this is, all of this stuff has, it hasn't happened and hasn't materialized. And you know, this blind unyielding support for everything is real does. And this insane pivot to Venezuela and the fact that, you know, save for a few descending voices, we might have had more of a commitment in Iran. It's un-serious. And I think a lot of people are looking at this and saying, well, the last thing we have left is performative cruelty. By the way, it's the way the Democrats are lasting. They had left was the kind of performative, woke, liberal, whatever you want to call it like that, performative, gobbledy, guck of just, you know, like, you know, this holding space crap where, you know, that's the last thing that they have left. They can't deliver any material, change, anyone's life. They can't get to anyone. Health care, they can't make anyone's life better. So they're holding space. You know, the Democrats play this game of like these performative kind of word games and land acknowledgments and these weird like, you know, pseudo prayers that they say all the time. But that's the thing with Maggie, you go, you go, wait a minute. All of this stuff seems designed to, it's designed to watch on television, but it doesn't seem real. Like you look at this Venezuela stuff, it doesn't seem real. We'll see if this sees far holds. Now they've also done good things. They've gotten rid of certain things that I think were good. I think the DEI stuff was good. I think closing the border was good. They've done some good things for sure. But a lot of people can recognize that any political movement eventually has two parts. It has the part where there's what's actually happening and then the part, it's the show, the show. And when Pete Higgs sat tweets, Franklin targets, Narco terrorists, you know, everyone knows someone with a drug problem. It's a great, it's a great narrative. We're blowing up boat. People like it. It's the holidays. It's December. It's cold. People are on their couch. They're watching TV and they see it and they're blowing up a boat. So let's watch a little bit of this to just see what we're even talking about here. Tonight, President Trump defending, striking a boat at allegedly carrying drugs to the US twice in early September. I want those boats taken out. And we have to attack on land also just like we attack on sea. And they're very little coming in by sea. I think we've knocked that over 90 percent of it. Two people initially survived and the administration says the decision for a second strike, killing all on board, was made by Admiral Frank Bradley. Today Defense Secretary Pete Higgs has said, even though he watched the first part of the attack live, he'd moved on to his next meeting before the second strike. Admiral Bradley made the correct decision to ultimately sink the boat and eliminate the threat. We have his back and the American people are safer because Narco terrorists know you can't bring drugs through the water. So you didn't see any survivors to be clear after that first strike? I did not personally see survivors, but I stand because the thing was on fire. It exploded in fire smoke. It's on fire. This is called the fog of war. Right. Right. The fog of what they loved it. Listen, it's just what we got to do as a country. It's just what we got to do. King and angry at it. We can't even get mad at it. Yes, that's a war crimes, whatever it's what we do. It's December. It's not like this. No, it's just what we're going to do. Here's a decision made to just start bombing. We need to start but something's got to get bombed. I mean, truly, when the Epson stuff's going down and all this stuff is going down, someone up there goes, we need to start bombing someone like now. We need to pivot people's attention from the economy and the pedophile ring we're covering up to then as well. Let's start blowing up boats. Who cares? They're narco terrorists. Great. We'll blow them up and it'll pivot. And even this is good. Even this like war crime thing is good. Who's what this allows us? Everyone can fight about this. It's just I live through this forever. I'm sorry that I'm not. I don't feel any way about it. I mean, you can't day in and day out. You can't consume this stuff and still care. There's no way to do it at 40. You'd have to be so crazy. You'd have to be so crazy at 40 to still have an emotional investment in that. It's just what it is. We're just blowing up. But this is what happens here. Have you not lived here? Are you new or you five? We're blowing stuff up because in narco terrorists and they're killing your family and fentanyl and crack whatever is whatever you really, you know, whatever you need to believe here. Whatever works, whatever fits, whatever narrative fits, we're going to do it. You know, it's a Bill Hicks joke where he goes. It's like he's a Hitler and whatever you need. It's like, it's just like it's just this is the game we play. This is the game we play. It's like a tried and true method and it really works. It really, really works and kudos. Forget the morality of it. It's not what we're here to analyze. That's not what we're doing. We're actually just looking at this going kudos. Good job. There's ever in there pushing this, you know your audience and you know it will work and it is working in Long Island right now and many suburbs like it. The people that whose children haven't killed them are watching Fox News and they are seeing or MSNBC by the way and they're either going, oh, criminal or they're excited. They were blowing up drug dealers in the middle of the ocean and they're not talking about Epstein and they're not talking about whatever the hell else is in these documents that may or may not come out, redact or unredacted and they're not talking as much about the economy and they're not asking to have health care and they're not asking what Palantir is doing and they're not asking why five tech guys in AI control have to American economy in San Francisco. They're not asking any of that. They're just watching a boat blow up in the middle of the ocean and good kudos. Good job. You know your audience and this is exactly what had to be done. This is exactly what had to be done. This is the type of stuff that people like. Now there's problems with like Maduro's not really. It's so interesting. We haven't had a Latin American villain in a while. So it's like hard because isn't this him dancing? Yeah. Yeah, it's kind of hard to get mad at them because they like dance. See this? Yeah, I mean, yeah, it's a little hard to get mad at him. They're dancing. Right. The Muslim like the Middle East, they don't dance. We don't see like ISIS dancing. So it's easy. But when we see him dancing, we're like, I don't know. He's not fitting into the villain role. It's the culture sexy and there's a lot of dancing and they like he's wearing a colored shirt. I don't know. It's harder. ISIS, they're all in black robes in a pickup truck with Kalishnikovs. Easy done. Done. I mean, it's like wardrobe, hair and makeup in perfect. This is a little difficult. No one's really afraid of Venezuela. They don't like that gang trendy Agua, which I imagine is no good. They don't really, they're not really like no one's going to bed in this country going. Well, Maduro and you know, he's got to go. He's got to go. So their job is to telegraph how important it is. It's the American foreign policy. They go, you don't know what we know. And if you knew what we knew, if you had the intelligence, if you knew how many boats were coming in with Venezuela and fentanyl and this guy was like stamping each boat with the M with his Maduro M before they all left Venezuela and came here, if you knew that, you would understand why we had to blow up this boat and we'll have to blow up more boats and then we'll release all of that footage to entertain you over the holidays. This is what this is what we need to do as a country. There's no, there's no other way. There's no other way to pivot peoples that you need war. You know domestic policy doesn't work because otherwise, by the way, so here this is a good, this is a good example of where this is where the country is at. Every now and then I like to check in with Jimmy Fallon's the tonight show. My colleague and I like to see where is the country at? What where is the United States right now? I think it's fair to check in. Now listen, does it have the viewership? It used to know. Does it have the cultural cache? Probably not, but it is on the biggest network and it is the big show. It's the tonight show on NBC and this one features Sydney, Swini are greatest Nazi star. So kidding, Sydney. But let's just take a look because we need to understand who the people who aren't killing their parents. What are they? What are they? What's left for them? What's let's say you're not in Long Island and you're not on drugs and you're not killing your parents in a deli during morning rush. My favorite thing, the breakfast rush because they it's such a long island. He's right. He's like, there's home fries, there's eggs going, there's bacon going. We got soft rolls. People are just trying to eat and go back to their house and go to sleep and get on the phone for an hour about the disability. People want to get on the phone for an hour. Are they going to wait on hold because they're voluntarily disabled and they got I need my money. I'm disabled. My friend got injured. He injured himself for the shopping cart in Home Depot, spent two years not working and got a settlement of like $60,000, which was much less than how he just worked. But that's not the point. The laziness, the being a piece of shit is the point. That's the whole thing about Long Island. It's like being a piece of shit is the point. What if you're just a regular person in America and you know, you're not on drugs that were shipped here by Maduro, apparently? And you're not going to kill your parents while they're making omelets. Where what is left for you? Truly. Like, this is a good question. If you're not a Nazi, if you're not far left comedy, like if you're not a radical, if you're not going crazy, if you're not some type of anti social, whatever, like if you're not totally radicalized in some sector of the internet, if you're not a furry, if you're not like a non-binary, just a, a sapio sexual furry, or you're not like reading books about Hitler, where are you? What's left for the mainstream of this country? Take a look. This is unbelievably great. OK. Ah, ah. All right, there's three of the hottest dolls right now that are attached to purses. On a libous. Yes, yes. And they're at a fast food where you take your car to get fast food even faster. A drive? Yes, with the Scottish hamburger place. Sorry, sorry. As a clown. As a clown. A clown was a mascot. A clown? Yes, yes. And they're doing, they're doing, they're doing, they're going to address them and go. Yes, but they're also doing a TikTok trend involving numbers. Everyone says it. It's not 41. Oh, I can't say that. No, no, you can say no. Go, go. So track two, so track two. So track two, I think, from what you're saying. No, I can't say that. That's the trend. We. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. There's a number. I know, is it? It's not 66. I know. I feel like I'm going to... No, you can say it. It's not 68. I know it's 67. Yes! Let's move three, let's move three, let's move three, let's move six seven. Add McDonald's. All right, all right. Serious question. Why would you not do fentanyl and kill your parents in a deli? Why would you not? When that is what is being offered as the mainstream entertainment option. Why would people not embrace a life of drugs? I mean, why if that was what was out there? Why would you not... When I watch that, I feel like I'm on drugs. I've been sober for 15 years. When I watch that, I feel as if I am on drugs. So when reality feels like you were on drugs, why would you not just be on drugs? You know, CNN is now working with our friends at Kalshi. How fun is that? I won't be impressed with CBS News with a good friend Barry Weiss, who will be moderating a town hole with Erica Kirk. By the way, how fun is that? Barry Weiss and Erica Kirk. CBS News Editor-in-Chief Barry Weiss sets her on air debut at town hole with Erica Kirk. Our friend, the great Barry Weiss, everyone. Friend of the show, Barry Weiss. I texted her the other day. I said, come on the show, come on the program. I said, we're in a top 30 in the world, really on Spotify, top 25 in this thing drops. Come on the show. Again, we'd have disagreements, but we'd have a great conversation about our country and world. And he offers out to Barry and no response, which is sad. But somewhat expected. But sad. So she's choosing to do a town hole with Erica Kirk and not moi. And that may. What about it's a town hole with Erica Kirk and then I come on right after? Dress like the president of Iran. Why wouldn't she do a town hole with me and then the president of Iran as well? On zoom. We kid Barry, friend of the show, Barry Weiss. Well, there you have it folks. I mean, here's what it is. You know, we didn't even get to Michael and Susan Dell donating his historic. Let's just get Michael and Susan Dell. Can we just finish out with Michael and Susan Dell folks? 6.2 billion here, Michael and Susan Dell. I mean, this one, huh? I mean, these two. Michael and Susan Delivert. Let's get some volume on this. This is really exciting. It is. It's a very special moment. We're making a 6.25 billion dollar investment in America's kids through our charitable funds. Next year, every American child will be able to get an investment account powered by invest America. That's right. When a child gets even a small financial head start, their world expands. The real power of these accounts is that anyone can contribute. Its relatives, friends, everyone can help shape a child. Its the eyes. It's the philanthropists, companies, community leaders, it's in the eyes. It's in the eyes. It's in the eyes. Every contribution can grow over the years, just like your child. Together, we can make possibility something every child can count on. and that's a future worth investing it. Give it up, Michael and Susan Deliver, when good people, and they had a bunch of money left over after purchasing that head for her that they were able to donate six and a half billion dollars to the children. Well, the children are our future. No one believes that, not the AI people, no one believes that. The children are our future, really, they're killing their parents and delis. So if you're gonna invest in anything, invest in a security system for the restaurant you own. Good night.