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Some Christian communities in Lebanon fear Muslim refugees (11-21-24)
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America voted for normality and competence (11-20-24)
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Everything You Wanted To Know About Cottaging But Were Afraid To Ask (11-19-20)
01:00 “It always surprises me… how little compassion is shown for those forced to have sex in toilets. Being gay, wanting closeness despite a time when that was frowned on, is not a crime.” https://www.smh.com.au/national/i-took-on-alan-jones-i-survived-but-the-backlash-terrified-me-20241118-p5krn3.html
09:00 Joe Biden signs off on Ukraine using American missiles to attack Russia, increasing our risk for nuclear war
13:00 MEN who visit toilets for gay sex, https://forums.digitalspy.com/discussion/1125879/men-who-visit-toilets-for-gay-sex/p9
15:00 UCLA toilet sex, https://dailybruin.com/2007/04/25/emtheres_more_casual_sex_you_may_thinkem
16:00 How did toilet cruising work?, https://ask.metafilter.com/276076/How-did-toilet-cruising-work
17:00 Why do so many gay men still go cruising and cottaging?, https://www.attitude.co.uk/culture/sexuality/why-do-so-many-gay-men-still-go-cruising-and-cottaging-293683/
18:00 Investigation of motivational and behavioural factors influencing men who have sex with other men in public toilets (cottaging), https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8218468/
19:00 With the increased acceptance of homosexuality in the US, why is “cruising” for anonymous sex in public restrooms and parks still so popular for many gay/bi males?, https://www.quora.com/With-the-increased-acceptance-of-homosexuality-in-the-US-why-is-cruising-for-anonymous-sex-in-public-restrooms-and-parks-still-so-popular-for-many-gay-bi-males?top_ans=268693603
20:00 This Is Why Men Meet For Sex In Public Toilets, https://www.buzzfeed.com/patrickstrudwick/men-are-still-meeting-for-sex-in-public-toilets-and-the
20:40 Trump & Bibi vs the deep state, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0HcReRPJZ8
29:00 Making America normal again
39:00 Dan Turrentine posted a selfies with his wife and shocked the world, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-3GJDf-epg
41:30 Great Rabbinic Thinkers: Rabbi Samuel Mohilever (Part 2) || Dr. Marc Shapiro, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQvjLO7ckMM
47:00 Israel Update: ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE LEAK SCANDAL, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiXQJ2WnKkQ
49:50 The Morning Meeting: After Dark 11/19 | Political News: Trump Transition, Dem Realignment & More, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-3GJDf-epg
53:30 The Morning Meeting S3E10 | Trump Nominees & Democratic Chair Candidates, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MstNXQfs3vc
58:00 The better job depends upon your ego (NEC vs Treasury head)
1:02:00 How Illegal Immigrants Redistribute Political Power — Without Voting, https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/how-immigrants-redistribute-political-power-without-voting/
1:05:00 The New Election Gurus: Using early-voting data, an emerging crop of number-crunchers predicted Trump’s win long before the pollsters and pundits did., https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-new-election-gurus
1:16:00 Migrants leaving USA before Trump takes office, Haitians leave Springfield, OH
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Decoding Donald Trump’s Matt Gaetz Pick For Attorney General (11-18-24)
01:00 Global leaders scramble to align with Trump, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpuxYdWcnVA
09:50 Sean Spicer: Retribution w/Steve Bannon | Ep 325, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yrp11c8E6b8
13:00 Haredi Jews support Trump, https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/2024-11-18/ty-article-magazine/.premium/how-trumpism-reshaped-new-yorks-haredi-political-landscape/00000193-3a23-db66-aff3-7ea3a8770000
17:30 Centcom won’t pivot to asia
20:30 Our culture is healing
21:00 Sailer: An interesting side effect of Trump’s broad-based victory seems to be that it’s encouraging formerly Woke celebrities to act more decently and to regret their participating in cancel culture pile-ons during the Great Awokening.
30:50 Elliott Blatt joins to say Trump has to go on offense
51:00 Trump dance takes over sports
1:08:00 “Morning Joe” Frauds Announce They Went and Met with Trump at Mar-a-Lago, with Glenn Greenwald, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INYSrOjuH3s
1:10:00 Kip joins to discuss that the Democrats are coming back
1:14:00 Is it OK to enjoy the downfall of your enemies?
1:22:00 The Trump Picks…So Far | Roundtable: Sarah Isgur, Jonah Goldberg, Steve Hayes, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0FICEXQldk
1:23:00 Sarah Isgur always went out with guys who asked her out, including Ben Shapiro
1:24:00 Solicitor General nominee John Sauer took Sarah Isgur out to a play, https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/11/trump-taps-lawyer-who-argued-his-immunity-case-for-solicitor-general/
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Populists Win Elections, But Rarely Govern Effectively II (11-17-24)
01:00 All In Podcast on Trump’s picks, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CBMlzHo0AU
12:00 Why Populists WIN Elections But Fail to Govern, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-Jfl1MOpyI
15:00 How right was Reagan? https://www.theamericanconservative.com/how-right-was-reagan/
25:00 Vox: Want to understand why Trump won the election? Look at pop culture.
How entertainment, from Morgan Wallen to Twisters, predicted the MAGA pivot. https://www.vox.com/culture/385292/pop-culture-maga-trump-election-morgan-wallen-post-malone-twisters-zach-bryan
45:00 Amy Wax speaks at Jared Taylor’s American Renaissance conference on race realism
47:30 Anthony Cumia speaks at American Renaissance
55:50 Tim Dillon on how to become famous, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSEikSfS1j0
1:01:00 Armie Hammer is doing a podcast with his Christian evangelist mom and how he was molested as a kid
1:14:10 Three defining moments of Joe Biden’s Middle East policy, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dxXyNWYtvE
1:23:10 Hacks on Tap: Picking Through the Rubble, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEZE8tlILZY
1:33:00 Grooming gangs going strong in the UK, police more interested in shutting down speech on social media protesting groomer gangs
1:41:00 Steve Sailer, Amy Wax & Jack Posobiec, https://x.com/PassagePress/status/1856773469427700050
1:52:50 Kip joins to talk about liberal control of universities and other American institutions
2:05:40 Advice for Elon & Trump, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1PD_CY7kmk
2:08:00 Charlie Kirk explains the Trump campaign, https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1856436925063639381
2:14:00 90% of sources come from Democrat-affiliated spaces
2:14:30 How do Republicans overcome the talent disparity? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1PD_CY7kmk
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Populists Win Elections, But Rarely Govern Effectively (11-16-24)
01:00 “The Status Quo Is Failing”: Why a Harvard-Trained Docter and Ex-Democrat Chose RFK Jr., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dxXyNWYtvE
07:00 NYT: Three-Quarters of U.S. Adults Are Now Overweight or Obese, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/well/obesity-epidemic-america.html
21:00 Liberals speak a different language, https://www.ft.com/content/cd01b007-7156-4da4-8d0f-e34e9ebfcc82
24:00 Polling: What Is on the Minds of Americans | Reimagining American Institutions | Hoover Institution, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM_vJOjYd_Q
42:00 Since 2015, we’ve stopped fighting about the role and size of government to identity
1:02:00 So you want to be famous? Trump’s Cabinet | The Tim Dillon Show, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSEikSfS1j0
1:03:30 Elliott Blatt spent the day in bed
1:05:00 Elliott tries fasting
1:08:00 America loves big tits, big dicks, big portions, big cars, big homes, big screens
1:13:00 Kip joins to discuss tracking his food intake
1:32:00 Minneapolis use-of-force instructor: Officers not trained to use knee on neck, https://www.axios.com/2021/04/06/chauvin-trial-force-instructor-knee-neck
1:35:00 The Media Are The Lapdogs Of The Experts, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_cSipbwGMQ
1:43:00 Why Populists WIN Elections But Fail to Govern, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-Jfl1MOpyI
1:49:00 Reagan movie, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reagan_(2024_film)
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American culture went MAGA prior to the election (11-15-24)
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Trump Makes The News Exciting Again (11-14-24)
01:00 Senator Fetterman gets it: Trump Throws DC Establishment Into Turmoil With Matt Gaetz Pick For Attorney General, with Ruthless, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9pj-k6VKBY
11:00 Mark Halperin: We’ve never had a president like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZbfQTAr_6Y
14:00 I’m pleasantly surprised by how the election has changed the world around me for the good
Commentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSxIHrhw5Eo
24:00 Franklin Foer: Why the Gaetz Announcement Is Already Destroying the Government, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/11/trumps-cabinet-announcements-have-broken-government/680656/
42:00 Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence Terrifies the Establishment, w/ Ruthless Podcast, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpyKHb4ABuc
46:30 The New York Times will publish longer better profiles of these Trump nominees than anyone else
48:00 New York Times chastened by the election
55:30 Matt Gaetz is friendly with AOC, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSxIHrhw5Eo
59:45 Commentary: I forgot about the volume of news when Trump is president
1:02:00 Elliott Blatt joins the show to discuss making American healthy again
1:07:00 Elliott hates corn syrup, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_syrup
1:18:00 Why did America become morally flabby?
1:37:00 New Amsterdam, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Amsterdam_(2018_TV_series)
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Decoding The Trump Transition (11-12-24)
01:00 Glenn: Do you want to win more often by including people in your coalition who are prone to conspiracy theories and right-wing cultural causes? https://substack.com/@statesofexception/note/c-76869717
02:00 Joe Rogan As The Median Voter, https://substack.com/home/post/p-151525457
04:00 Video: I’m 51, never married, no kids and the reasons why., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_C7qgExFQM
14:40 Hunger games at Mar Lago as Trump staffs his new administration, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6rlQXoZxfo
21:45 I wanted Elbridge Colby, a restrainer, as Trump’s National Security Advisor, https://x.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1855675378637090883
23:00 X: It’s kind of funny that The Atlantic’s position is both “Trump is Hitler” and “we want him to wage more wars.”
25:40 Neocon Trump? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWYPEkf-ClE
34:20 Will Neocons Take Over Trump’s New Administration?, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwSHBWfchUM
41:00 Will Trump’s election unleash Bibi? https://nonzero.substack.com/p/will-trumps-election-unleash-bibi
46:40 Trump & the Jews
52:00 Trump nominates Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/12/us/politics/pete-hegseth-defense-secretary-trump.html
56:00 Trump & the economy, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6rlQXoZxfo
59:50 Why are Democrats better at raising money online?
1:01:50 Supreme Court strikes down Chevron, curtailing power of federal agencies, https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/06/supreme-court-strikes-down-chevron-curtailing-power-of-federal-agencies/
1:03:30 Why does society have to bend to accommodate the sensibilities of people who choose to become trans?
1:06:10 The argument that Trump’s immigration policy is more humane than Biden’s, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3GzAvqn0DU
1:11:20 Who will Trump pick as his AG?
1:12:30 Democratic congressman Seth Moulton speaks out against men playing in girls’ sports
1:14:30 Musa Al-Gharbi: Democrats must stop shaming voters, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAi8ZvyveD8
1:16:00 A Graveyard of Bad Election Narratives, https://musaalgharbi.substack.com/p/a-graveyard-of-bad-election-narratives
1:21:00 SMH: Yes, it’s a cliche, but an overseas holiday unlocked a New Me, https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/life-and-relationships/yes-it-s-a-cliche-but-an-overseas-holiday-unlocked-a-new-me-20241030-p5kmp7.html
1:23:00 Kip joins to discuss the plasticity of reality
1:42:00 We can count on people to follow their interests and their hero systems, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=157462
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My Hopes & Fears For The New Trump Administration (11-11-24)
01:00 I love Trump’s appointments on immigration – Tom Homan, Stephen Miller
02:00 If you harass someone at his home, you are risking your life, this woman harassing NF got away easy.
05:30 Gingrich: “Trump Is in an Unusual Position of Moral Authority Inside the Republican Party”
10:00 MK: Trump’s New Badass “Border Czar” Previews the Immigration Policy to Come, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI4BpoawE2w
13:00 FEMA withheld help from people with Trump signs, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECfvbhI6Do0&t=3935s
17:20 Israel wants to eliminate Hamas
24:00 I Can’t Believe That Neo-Con Max Boot Published The Definitive Reagan Biography, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=157841
25:00 America Rejects Bob Woodward’s Advice About Trump & Biden, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=157846
26:00 My Biggest Fears About The New Trump Term, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=157848
32:00 Richard Hanania talks to Richard Spencer, https://www.richardhanania.com/p/staring-into-the-abyss-of-maga
37:00 Some people don’t want a woman president, https://www.richardhanania.com/p/this-is-maga-country
40:30 Physiognomy is destiny
42:40 The happiest man on earth – JD Vance
44:00 It’s the institutions, stupid, https://outsidethebeltway.com/its-the-institutions-stupid/
50:30 Elliott Blatt joins the show
58:00 Nick Fuentes is confronted by a Jewish pro-Palestine activist & he pepper sprays her & pushes her down his stairs, and grabs her phone
1:03:00 The Decline And Fall Of Michael Fumento, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=53087
1:06:00 The dangers of the e-personality, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=121464
1:10:00 Kamala’s campaign paid influencers and celebs millions of dollars, https://nypost.com/2024/11/09/media/harris-campaign-reportedly-spent-6-figures-on-call-her-daddy-podcast-with-episode-failing-to-break-1m-views/
1:23:45 The source of the problem: what people fail to understand about mental illness, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhoDnp2qA24
1:26:20 When the Torah scholar is seduced by a young widow, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDyrt9HaW5Q
1:48:20 Things They Don’t Tell You About Living Alone as An Old Man!, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E8xy_79wrs
1:53:00 UN ambassador matters for people who love words, otherwise little significance or importance
1:53:50 Kip joins to discuss melancholy, living alone
2:08:00 I’m a rocket man
2:13:30 YT: I’m 51, never married, no kids and the reasons why., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_C7qgExFQM
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