How are you doing? I

don't even have them.

white man followers on YouTube.

It's Facebook, Delegate Tom Garrett.

I think we went from 1,000 to 53,000 in like six months.

So it's either a train wreck.

It's either a train wreck and Delegate Tom Garrett on Facebook.

And why do we not care?

Uh, how many more times are we gonna have all these people voting for dead people, uh, before somebody says, uh, we should pass, oh, I don't know, the SAVE Act?

Yeah.

As long as the Democrats can get away with it.

I, I worked, uh, as an attorney, a recount, for a guy named Nick Freitas, who was running for Congress against a woman named Abigail Spanberger.

And the Department of Elections was compelled by law to give us about six, 6% of the ballots.

That's six.

Uh, and in the 6% of the ballots, we found something like 200 dead people who voted.

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will stop being afraid of china and actually put that amazing documentary you made uh um you know uh exile because every if netflix was ready to green light it if it wasn't for that episode about the uyghurs in china and you know you were talking

about well that's a great story right so they said well what are they uh so we were doing a documentary film series on oppressed minorities specifically but not exclusively religious minorities around the globe and they said can you do this thing without speaking yellow of China and my exact response was we could do this without speaking yellow of China as well as we could do a beetle stock without mentioning John And that was the end of that.

So you look like the most patriotic commercial on TV, the only anti-communist commercial on TV that doesn't have Trump's fingerprints all over it is for a video game.

We're fighting the North Koreans because that's plausible.

You know, because you can't fight the Chinese since they have 1.3 billion people who purchase product.

yeah

yeah as we talk about by to you they will do anything they can uh to further their grasp on the murder of innocence and and i could go into all sorts of theology and various faiths etc beyond christianity but i won't yeah again this is not you have the right to get an abortion in virginia through the second trimester with almost no holds barred right now and it's not going anywhere I'm pretty familiar with the composition of the General Assembly and who occupies the governor's mansion.

They love that.

My, my 501C3 invested in it," or, "My blind trust did."

Well, it, it does...

They just tailor the lie to the facts, right? So here's another one.

John McGuire, congressman of Virginia 5th, has never bought a stock in his life.

I know this because I've known John McGuire for 20 years, since well before he was a member of Congress.

Never bought a stock in his life.

He does At mutual funds in a retirement account.

Yeah

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So all the Republicans vote for a bill to stop members from insider trading, and 13 Democrats join them.

It passes the House.

Don't worry, it's not passing the Senate.

But who votes against that bill? Don't-call-me-Yevgenni-Eugene Finman votes against that bill.

But he's got an opponent, Doug Oliphant, in Virginia's 7th District.

Go find Doug Oliphant, who's just diagnosed with cancer and will press on and continue the race.

[laughs] That's true

Nah.

Um, it...

I, I...

So what I think is that every great lie is steeped in some scintilla of truth, and we live in a world now where critical theory has really taken over our educational practices.

And the, the, the scintilla of truth behind critical theory is that indeed some people, through no, um, nothing they've done, are subject to greater opportunity and fortune than others by virtue of circumstance, right? It's a mathematical thing that we don't have a say in.

Um, but they've now taken that scintilla of truth and created the lie of, of critical theory where they say, "And that's because you're white," or, "That's 'cause you're a man," or, "That's 'cause this, that or the other." Look, privilege is absolutely, positively real.

I have really in the last 10 or 15 years, and mostly so eight and a half years, become immensely grateful for my circumstance that, you know, I, I had parent privilege, and it's a very real thing.

Yeah.

yeah

and it was on the ballot that same initiative in reverse uh 15 years ago and it was a two to one against and it's likely going to be a two to one four now you could they got their fingers on all the levers of cultural control any messaging apparatus that exists which is why i started doing social media after 15 or 17 years In the political realm but any messaging apparatus that exists they got that mean from Sunday school to to graduate school from big screen to small screen from hip-hop to country they got them and and So that's your slow, but they can't do it quickly enough.

That's what frustrates them.

It is literally like a petulant child.

I don't just want it.

I'm going to need it right now.

assisted suicide you're right

well i mean and and like wait a second i changed my mind too bad you know um and it's funny but it's not funny so that's so you always need to be thinking what's the long-term play here as long as there's a church or a synagogue or a mosque a temple or what have you that says that that marriage is a tripartite contract uniting one man and one woman before the eyes of god then you haven't completely mainstreamed the the practice of you know marrying whatever and and by the way guys i don't know what the timeline is but we've already seen the you know, the minor attracted people sort of jargon introduced.

You know, have we lost this battle, or are we just spinning our

wheels? Well, we may have, because remember, Biden opened the floodgates at the southern border, and I think it was two years ago yesterday that like 10,000 people walked right past Customs and Border Patrol at Eagle Pass in a orderly single file line.

And that the federal government stopped the Texas National Guard and the Texas State Police from stopping people from entering Texas.

10,000 in one day at one spot.

And I think that was two years ago yesterday.

The game was...

even if you can't get illegal people voting which they do contrary to what the left tells you and certainly not in huge numbers i would say they're the only group with lower turnout than republicans in virginia um but um even if you can't get illegal people voting you get to count them for apportionment because in the 2020 census remember they made a big deal about counting every single person and so by counting for apportionment where you get to chicago and la And New York and places where you get people who tend to congregate, then you get to count them for the representation.

Once I get all of Georgia's and I can get into politics, then I want all the money out.

What is the winning combination for somebody here?

Well, I think you, first of all, I hate it when people try to change who they are to run for re-election.

Just tell the truth and be who you are.

If you're a voter, go vote for the person whose values most frequently align with yours, right? Don't stay home because that guy did that one thing.

um that that's a recipe for i mean i guess it's maybe a rationalization to be lazy but um you're not going to get somebody that votes like you 100 of the time unless unless you run um and so you got to show up i mean in virginia in particular it's we have the votes they just seem to sit at home on you know excuse me the first tuesday after the first monday in november so we got to get out and vote and then and then i think candidates tend to overthink things Right.

So just go be the person that got elected in the first place and it'll maximize your chances of getting elected in the second, third and fourth place.

So what do you think our voter turnout's going to get to? Do you think we make it to 50% here, even in Virginia?

Uh...

I mean, is this as bad as it gets with these senators?

Well, I mean, I, I, I don't understand a world that we can live in where somehow it's defensible to not think that you should be able to demonstrate that you are who you say you are when you go to vote.

I'm trying to figure out still how that's controversial.

But honestly, if you if you.

If you open your eyes and ears, you'll figure out exactly what it is that they want, right? I mean, they passed a bill in Virginia this year, and I think it's nationwide, that we should not have ICE at polling places.

And I'm like, why do you care, right? I mean, theoretically, if no illegals are voting, and you want open borders, shouldn't you want ICE at all the polling places? Like, that's one day that they can just go hog wild everywhere else since none of them are voting.

But no, that's a hill apparently worth dying on for the left.

You've been places where there's

Is that important to remember as you talk about people who, you know, 25, 35-year-olds don't really have a tangible feeling for September 11th, 2001?

Yeah, I think that's the most important thing to remember because that which defines you aren't the choices that you make, it's the choices that you have to make, right? These people were forced into the most unimaginably horrific situation and then had to act.

And the people whose lives they saved, we'll never know their names because they saved their lives.

by giving their own, and that's a moment in humanity.

You can say uniquely American.

That's a human moment, right? There were people risking their lives in defiance of the Nazis by sheltering those who couldn't shelter or defend themselves, and those people are heroes in the same exact way.

True, true.

And that's sort of what you were talking about earlier about the compelled giving of a government versus the voluntary giving of a community that believes in looking out for their neighbors.

You don't have a job for us to protect you in, but, you know, you can rest assured that we have something.

It's sort of the government inserting itself into the role of the supreme being.

And I mean, I really think that, and I can flesh it out, but that's a business model for the left.

Whatever you don't want to do will get done for you.

Whatever you don't have, we'll take from someone else and give to you.

Whatever needs you have, we'll meet.

I was speaking with someone close to you this weekend, and we were talking about the liberal conservative split between rural and urban areas.

Oh,

Right

... that later is used by somebody to do something wrong.

So it's the intimidation, it's the scaring people, so why on earth would any reasonable person want to be an FFL, a gun dealer, in Virginia? So too with ICE cooperation, all of the, the FOIA attacks and thousands of man-hours that they were wasting on, you know, the rural Greene County Sheriff's Office, was having the downstream effect of stopping other localities from cooperating with ICE, and the left had contemplated this.

Um, does this ruling out of Virginia, um, land in Governor Walz or Mayor Frey's lap and say, "You know, all that stuff you've been doing, you better stop"?

Uh, so yes and no, right? It would...

It's sort of like, um, looking at the weather in, um, in Arkansas the day before you are gonna live the weather in Virginia.

Uh, it's, it's, it's, it's binding in the circuit, and Minnesota's not in the same circuit.

Uh, but we've had all sorts of legislation, like, like magazine capacity limits out of New Jersey that weren't in Virginia that were sort of the, the harbinger-

Green County's sheriff is in trouble about it and a bunch of other ones because their politicians are like, we're not going to cooperate with ICE and the governor and that kind of thing.

Yeah, what the federal judge did, and this is why that pesky old constitution got in the way again, and they should be worried, given my two-pack knowledge, or lack thereof, that I was right.

Because what the federal judge said was the law that they passed that bars interaction between localities and ICE is unconstitutional and violates your constitutional rights on a number of levels, including your right to contract.

because these localities have had historically the right to contract with the federal government to do these sorts of things.

And even though we're a Dillon rule state that they've gone a little bit too far there.

But the funny thing is, Joe, I think I stood up and said this on the very clearly and I was not alone.

There were other people saying you can't do that.

He said, what if we made people feel like they had a say in the dictatorship and then and then they'd win?

What about this idea of economic D-Day? And do you think it'll have the desired effect against Iran?

So I spent 12 days doing commentary with a prominent Middle Eastern I know this issue very well.

I worked on the JCPOA.

I used to call it JCPOS under the Trump administration back in 17 on the Foreign Affairs Committee.

The Iranians have four things going for them.

The Iranians have four things going for them.

They've got an incredible willingness to let their own population suffer because the people calling the shots aren't the ones doing the suffering and they just don't care about their people.

And

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Um, look, I didn't, I, I, I don't like public office.

I don't like social media.

I do both of them.

It, it's very simple.

I ha- I was so blessed with a really good mother and father, my dad in particular, sort of.

And, and, and, and, and even though I really kind of started circling around Jesus a lot more closely the last five or six years, I believed in God my whole life, and the biblical talent says, you know, "To whom much is given and, and from much is expected." And so I may or may not be good at some stuff.

Yeah.

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... they're probably pretty good at it or else they wouldn't have been elevated to a, a judgeship.

And so the judge knows what you should know if you are going to bring a case to bar, and you have a duty ethically not to bring a case to bar where you do not feel the evidence supports the charge, right? So that's the buzzsaw that Jeanine Pirro probably ran into.

Every charge has a series of elements, right? So let me give you a stupid example.

To concealed carry illegally under 18.2308, you must knowingly concealed carry, right? So let's say that I slip a gun into Joe's backpack at the Christmas party and then call the police and say he's concealed carrying, then the police officer, pursuant to a valid tip where probable cause was present under whatever circumstance, searches and Joe's got a gun in his backpack.

So then Prosecutor Jeanine Pirro says, "Well, we're taking Joe to court, and we'll charge him with a violation of 18.2308." But then she learns that Joe didn't know there was a gun in his backpack.

She has a duty to dump that case because she doesn't want to take it in front of a judge that she practices in front of regularly because her credibility for every other case she tries is then in question.

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Um, the-

the-But what happened in, in Columbine was really a harbinger of things to come, and that had been written about by, uh, an au- an author named Bachman, who some people call Stephen King, in explicit detail, and it is alleged that the murderers read his work and saw it as an inspiration, but we won't go down that road.

But there are incident on top of incident.

Uh, July 17th is Elijah Dixon Day.

He was in a mall shooting, I believe in Ohio or Indiana, uh, a couple of years ago, and somebody started shooting up the food court, and Dixon produced a handgun at, at 40 feet, fired eight times in fif- or 10 times in 15 seconds and got eight hits, which under combat stress shows you that Elijah Dixon had also spent time training with his firearm.

There's the Clackamas Town Center shooting in Portland, Oregon, where a, a armed civilian, uh, drew his weapon and pointed it at the shooter, who immediately then retreated to a stairwell and shot himself.

And that too speaks volumes.

Wow.

Is technology just making it easier for a police officer to witness you being in public doing something? The

way they get away with it is where you would have a reasonable expectation of privacy.

right and and and so it's kind of like implied powers or the commerce clause i get it and the courts and we have you know decent bench at the highest level right now but i think the courts are going to let that sort of thing stand if it ever gets to them because you don't have an expectation of privacy when you're out driving down the road i hate the things and i don't use the h word very often right but within a constitutional context um probably they are permissible i just think that the founders were so brilliant and they missed so little but it is difficult when you're sort of peering into the future which i believe they had to do particularly when they're drafting the bill of rights

And

by the way, the data center stuff drives me absolutely bonkers too.

However, and this is the part that nobody wants to hear me say, from a national security perspective, it's like the space race.

We definitely need to have these data centers where, when I got off the plane at Dallas, going over to, what the heck is that place in Loudoun County, if you said it, but one of the little towns, and it's not even a little town, one of the places in Loudoun, and I'm like, are these all data centers? You get off the spur, and it's data center, data center, data center, data center, data center, and they want to drop a 765 kilovolt line through the middle of ruralmost Virginia, and run it all the way up towards Loudoun, not all the way there, but right up to it, from Lynchburg, where they're going to build the first small modular reactor, God willing, uh in virginia and and then you know there are people looking to build small modular reactors along that line you know why because the solar one filled the line um and and and and and it's all because of data centers so

I know that sounds harsh, but aren't we the ones that left the cookie jar there for them to stick their hands in and now we're mad that they did?

Well, so it's gotten so far beyond the enumerated powers that the founders envisioned for the federal government, right? that it's very difficult for Albert Einstein and Marie Curie even to be subject matter experts on all the things that they would need to be subject matter experts on in order to cast informed votes.

And likewise, as citizens, when we continue – so there was a bill last week where the House, not Congress, the House of Representatives voted – to no longer allow members to trade individual stocks.

They'd have to do kind of like President Trump has done of his own accord and put money into a blind trust or move it to a money manager and let them make those decisions, creating arm's length.

What it wouldn't do is control spouses, but hey, it's a step in the right direction.

And no Virginia Democrats voted for it.

Zero.

I think they're

But then I want to ask you, conceptually, isn't that why the framers made an independent judiciary? expected people like abigail spanberger and louise lucas to try to take our gun rights away from us our rights to defend ourselves so that we needed a venue to go and and litigate for them

what did ben franklin say when asked what form of government had been bestowed upon the people right a republic if you can keep it and so certainly checks and balances exist to ensure that if one group goes sideways, another group might have the means to correct them.

And Jefferson said, and I would say metaphorically, I hope, that the roots of the tree of liberty are best refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

And so that's what checks and balances are about.

We have really, I think, fallen into a collective trap where we believe that our own problems and ills can be solved, A, by taking from others, and B, by the actions of benevolent others, all of whom are apparently in the government.

And I will tell you that for those of you who put members of legislative bodies on pedestals when you become elected to a body, whether it's the House of Representatives or the Virginia Senate or House of Delegates, You spend the first week wondering how the heck you got there and the next 51 weeks of the year wondering how everybody else did.

They are people just like you and me.

Tom, what were your thoughts on it, if any?

Our friend Tom drops bombs as it was happening.

They wouldn't even let us see what was in it until Friday night when everybody else got to see it.

And then by voting on the COPS report as opposed to voting on the budget, we couldn't pull line items out to debate those line items.

Well, but I mean, you know, under the logical point that if Barack Obama doesn't want the police arresting you for it, then why is it still against the law?

So what has happened is and I'm not pro marijuana at all.

I've smoked enough marijuana to know I don't like it when I was much younger and stupider.

But.

I tell my children, you're not going to make better decisions when you've altered your mind with chemicals, period, full stop.

I don't know anybody that smokes a lot of it and reaches maximum productivity.

But that said, I don't know how you get that into the interstate commerce area where it's federal jurisdiction.

So what do I need to bring? Should I just pretend, you know, I'm just going to be, you know, the straight play-by-play guy and you'll be Keith Hernandez

What is it about the SAVE Act that these people have a problem with unless it is that they have too many constituents that are, let's just say, employing people off the book, under the table, whatever the euphemism from your youth it is?

But what we're watching right now in Virginia is Republicans carry water for Democrats, and that's what's going on with the SAVE Act.

The Democrats scream loudly enough, and Republicans think if they do what the Democrats are screaming they shouldn't do, that it's going to somehow hurt the Republicans.

It's like Stockholm Syndrome at some point.

But the Democrats have made this the hill to die on, not hyperbolic.

This is the one.

They have to stop this.

Shut the repertoire off and stop killing the pigs.

Since data centers are such a big part of the world right now, and especially the Virginia budget debate, shouldn't this be a front and center kind of story that anyone who's out there saying data centers are bad, there's a decent chance there's some CHICOM money back there like there was in the 60s when the Russians funded the anti-war movement?

You don't have enough time in the segment.

So we move away from carbon-based fuels largely because of a narrative which is largely false with relation to environmental impacts.

Kyoto and Paris accords both did not reduce net carbon emissions into our environment.

They increased them.

What they did is they reduced the heck out of them in the developing world, which starts here in the United States.

Energy is the lifeblood by which any industrial or productive society produces.

And some people make the make a bad choice of what it is they want to do about it, Tom.