Tim had Auron Macintyre, from
The Blaze, as the guest.
Hannah & Phil were the co-hosts.
Auron has recently published a book, but you can
Clip Collection:
-Tim loves to inject pop culture refences, this time citing
The Simpsons for his explanation why criminals will take the easier path as Homer walks along the slope of the land, as going downhill is easier:
-While I am all for bashing the homeless, in this case, Tim misrepresents the situation. The mayor of San Jose, Matt Mahan, was having an interview on a public street, when a black man walks by talking loudly on the phone. The mayor says not to let the loud guy into a building they are next to, for some reason, & off-screen his security detail begins the altercation with him. Either cordon off the area for the interview to prevent disruption, or accept the environment you created:
Here is the video, & might I add, that the Mayor of San Jose has some terrible security:
-Tim thinks cold weather-based populations are pre-disposed to communism, as they rely upon communal living to survive, to explain why "Canada is the way it is". That must by why nations like Cambodia, Cuba, Nicaragua, & Venezuela fell to socialism; they are such frigid locales:
-Tim & the panel shows their city-slicker origins, claiming a 14 month old dog is a "puppy", & Auron states he could not use Dogmeat from
Fallout 4 as a companion because when it was hurt, it sounded like his own pet. I think this Noem situation is less that she has bad people around her, rather it is that she has only rural people around her. Also, I find this horrified reaction to shooting a dog rich coming from Tim who
left his dying cat, Mr. Bokus, outside to expire from exposure, instead of bringing it to the vet to be put down in comfort:
-Missing context for stories appears to be a running theme for this episode. Hannah & Phil seem to have not read the story they are covering, claiming that Kristi Noem's dog was "too excited that morning" which led to it being put down by the Governor, personally, for that reason. The panel seems to think this story was put out there as a way of her getting out of being Donald Trump's vice president:
Taking a look at
The Daily Mail coverage, the dog apparently killed each of the chickens, by "crunching it to death...then dropping it to attack another" which I had expected the Branch Timidians to have more empathy for considering their obsession with their own flock. Would they be as forgiving if a neighbour's dog had gotten loose in Chicken City?:
I took a look at an article from
The Guardian, as well, & I can agree that re-homing a dog you have difficulties with is possible, correct me if I am wrong, but if it starts killing livestock it is not uncommon for that animal to be put down:
-Remember, Tim thinks it is "very silly" when people say Israel has control over the United States, last episode. Now, let us discuss how there is a bipartisan effort from "Pro-Israel" politicians to impose "antisemitism monitors" in certain colleges over these protests:
-Tim does not think it very silly that "woke" members of "intelligence agencies" are organising the protests on college campuses to reduce support for Israel. Though he says this was a stupid thing to do, because it shall attract literal anti-semites discrediting the whole thing:
-After complaining about how having antisemitism monitors on campus is terrible, Tim goes on to question whether
a leader of Columbia's protests making antisemitic threats marks the point that these protests must be entirely shut down. Tim even concedes that if this is what it takes to defund universities, using these illiberal methods against illiberal actors, so be it:
-Tim continues to argue that Trump should not cooperate with the trials he is going through, because "there's no law, here":
-Tim seems to have given up making the video game they were advertising, saying it is "80% done" & just gathering dust, now. He plans to release the source code to the Discord for them to make something of it. So, you can pay to join the Discord, get Tim's incomplete projects & do the work for him. Now, if that is not a perk of membership, I simply do not know what is:
-Auron & Tim acknowledge that "freedom of speech" as envisioned by the American Founding Fathers would accommodate blasphemy laws & preventing atheists from holding office:
-A super-chatter brings up the fact that Kristi Noem's dog killed a neighbour's chickens, & bit people, the panel says this was still not a reason to put the dog down. Tim recollects how after a neighbour's dog repeatedly killed his chickens, he just got an air soft gun & dry fired it to scare it away. I stand corrected on whether he would use lethal force to defend his poultry palace.
I included the bit with Hannah talking about how lawlessness overwhelms the system, leaving the law-abiding to suffer, because it seems apt that the panel's arguments for re-homing, re-training, & getting professional help for animals like Noem's dog is the same logic used by liberals/leftists for criminals. "They just need an education, it was socio-economic conditions that caused them to do what they did", rather than the reality of some people just being ill-tempered & unable to function in society: