WEBVTT - Part Two: Pete Hegseth's Fascist Book 'American Crusade' 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:03.760 Also media. 0:00:05.120 --> 0:00:06.880 All right, listeners, update. 0:00:07.280 --> 0:00:10.640 I went over to Elizabeth the not so Dying Squirrel, 0:00:10.840 --> 0:00:12.760 and she's scurried. 0:00:12.280 --> 0:00:14.120 Away and welcome to behind the bastards. 0:00:14.120 --> 0:00:16.400 But to the sipe, yeah, what a funk off. 0:00:16.960 --> 0:00:19.600 You're gonna do a good You're gonna do a normal intro. 0:00:19.560 --> 0:00:22.800 Some of us professional someone. 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:27.560 Just to say, maybe I was right not to smash 0:00:27.600 --> 0:00:31.120 her with a rock and to feel sadness on the inside, 0:00:31.120 --> 0:00:32.040 and maybe she's. 0:00:32.159 --> 0:00:35.000 To evaluate her with myself. So I just said, if 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:37.800 she's suffering, you should smash her with the rock. That's 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:39.000 the humane thing to do. 0:00:39.800 --> 0:00:42.520 You know, Well, in that case, I mean smash We're 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:43.800 we're all suffering in a. 0:00:43.720 --> 0:00:47.080 Way, and are we not all praying. 0:00:46.760 --> 0:00:49.440 For begging to be smashed the rock? 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:49.920 At the end of the. 0:00:53.080 --> 0:00:55.760 I hope Elizabeth and not so dying squirrel scurried away 0:00:55.880 --> 0:00:56.880 and now is like. 0:00:57.000 --> 0:01:00.120 You know, I hope she's fine now an acorn if 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:03.680 you're not. If something's not fine, you always have rocks. 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:07.120 A big enough rock can stop anyone's pain. You know, 0:01:07.360 --> 0:01:08.480 that's about rock. 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:11.120 I always have my phone that can call you who 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:12.119 has rocks. 0:01:12.280 --> 0:01:14.679 I've got thoughts. I got so many rocks. 0:01:14.440 --> 0:01:16.640 I'm not throwing a rock at Elizabeth. 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:19.240 You don't throw the rock. That's not nearly like. That's 0:01:19.280 --> 0:01:21.840 the odds of you missing and just injuring the animal. 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:23.119 You know, that's just inhumane. 0:01:24.040 --> 0:01:26.760 Carry I've been carrying around the same rock for for 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:30.280 twenty years, and I'm shocked. I'm shocked how easy it 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:33.640 is to get a rock onto I mean, I mean, Jimmy. 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:36.399 You're very experienced killing, like we've we've established that on 0:01:36.440 --> 0:01:36.759 the show. 0:01:36.840 --> 0:01:42.600 Start this shit again, Okay, listen, I can't afford this anymore. 0:01:43.040 --> 0:01:47.600 This has followed me. I just got back from my 0:01:47.640 --> 0:01:50.720 book tour and these accusations have followed me around the country. 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:55.160 That's right, that's right. I've been yeah, yeah for those 0:01:55.240 --> 0:01:57.520 for those deaths, and fuck what was the town I 0:01:57.520 --> 0:01:58.600 made up? You killing people? 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:03.520 And oh my god, I can't forget. I can't at 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:09.880 me all the time. Unbelievable. There's so many people who like, 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:13.640 I've signed a book and then they've leaned in conspiratorially 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:16.720 and said, I'm okay with what you did in Grand Rabbids. 0:02:16.960 --> 0:02:17.520 Good. 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:19.720 You know there's sickos. 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:22.760 We're manufacturing consent so that when you do have to 0:02:22.840 --> 0:02:25.720 kill somebody, everyone's like, it's fine for Jamie to do this. 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:27.320 This is a psychological experiment. 0:02:27.360 --> 0:02:29.120 I'm giving you a get it out of jail free 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:29.639 card here. 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:32.640 Look, and now I feel like I shouldn't even say it, Like, 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:34.440 but how easy it's. 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:36.080 Take out the jewelry pool. It's gonna be like a 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:40.560 fucking Luigi situation. She must have had a reason. 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:45.600 Look in his defense, I mean, Louis. The Luigi defense 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:48.560 is you're honored? Will we put this hotty behind bars? 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:51.639 I think not Rod, He's too He's just simply too. 0:02:52.360 --> 0:02:55.480 Are you not foaming? Are you not foaming? Come on, 0:02:56.320 --> 0:02:59.080 I just I've been bringing I've gotten a rock, like 0:02:59.120 --> 0:03:01.280 a rock that could proble probably do some damage through 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:05.120 like airport security all the time. It's really just. 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:07.919 Because the rocks don't set off the metal detectors. I 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:10.600 don't think there's specifically a rule against taking a rock 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:13.120 on a plane, because like there's gym girls. You know 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:16.440 it's I think it's probably fine to take a big 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:17.280 rock on a plane. 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:19.600 You know, I can I can confirm you will not 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:21.440 have a problem with the rocks. 0:03:21.480 --> 0:03:24.240 You know what, I'm a company money to book like 0:03:24.600 --> 0:03:27.280 twenty different flights in the course of like two weeks 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:30.080 and just repeatedly take flights with larger start with a 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:31.640 small rock, and just to go up by like a 0:03:31.680 --> 0:03:34.200 half inch diameter each time and see at what point 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:35.920 they're like, you can't take that on a plane. 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:39.960 I bet my guess is they'll be a point where 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:42.320 they'll be they'll ask, and then there's going to be 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:44.680 a point where they say we cut off, and then 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:46.520 you should, and then you should just be like, where's 0:03:46.560 --> 0:03:49.000 the rule? Yeah, where's the r It's like airbud, what's 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:51.600 the rule that says a dog can't play basketball? What's 0:03:51.600 --> 0:03:53.600 the rule that I can't have a rock on a plane. 0:03:53.600 --> 0:03:55.000 It's a souvenir you can't. 0:03:55.760 --> 0:04:01.840 It's a souvenir rock from wherever I found it. So, Jamie, 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:03.800 this has all been fun. You know, it's not going 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:06.240 to be fun with the rest of the Returning to 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:09.000 Pete Hegseth's Fascist Manifesto. 0:04:08.560 --> 0:04:11.800 I cannot believe. I've thought for sure we were you 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:13.960 were finishing the book, but it was just starting. 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:16.760 No. No, there's so many there's almost a normal book's 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:19.000 number of words in this book, or roughly a normal 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:20.919 book's number of words in this book. Shocking. 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:24.080 I feel like they're they're like, really, you know, pamphlety. 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:26.880 I mean, you know, actually I happen to agree. You know, 0:04:26.920 --> 0:04:28.920 some of the some of the quotes on the back 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:31.120 of the book. One of them stated, this is this 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:33.880 is Pete Hegseth's Raw Dog, which, since it came out 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:35.679 a couple of years before your book, was a weird 0:04:35.720 --> 0:04:39.200 statement to make. But you know, it is true that 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:43.400 publishers who commune regularly with the sacred spirits of the 0:04:43.400 --> 0:04:47.080 Oracle of Delphi have been awaiting your book for generations. 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:50.120 You know, it's it. Look, I realized that it was 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:52.120 fulfilling your prophecy of sorts. 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:55.640 Yeah, there are references to Raw Dog, and oh fuck, 0:04:55.880 --> 0:04:57.200 it was going to be a great joke. I forgot 0:04:57.200 --> 0:05:00.320 the name of the oldest story ever, fuck with the 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:03.280 with the fucking the monster and the guy with the sword. 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:05.440 God damn it. 0:05:05.440 --> 0:05:07.839 What's the oldest book in the world. 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:12.200 Yeah, like the oldest like proper no idea, not novel. 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:15.040 Uh, you're talking about the epic of. 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:19.719 Gilgames Gilgamesh, God damn it, Jesus Christ. 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:23.760 Okay, so what were you what were you gonna say, 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:25.280 Robert about the epic. 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:27.440 Of I was going to say there were references to 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:29.680 raw Dog and the Epic of Gilgamesh, but I forgot 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:31.400 the name of the Epic of Gilgamesh, and I just 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:33.040 ruined the whole bit. It's fucked. 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:35.640 It's okay. I fact checked it for you. 0:05:36.240 --> 0:05:40.040 Thank you, thank you, Sophie, Jesus Christ. Oh God. 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:42.560 Technically it was a poem, but you know, yeah. 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:49.400 It's a poem. Whatever, it counts. Just like Pete Ra 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:52.680 raw Dog, Yeah, the American Crusade. 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:55.400 I love a good name competition. It would be it 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:57.400 would be great if there was a right wing book 0:05:57.400 --> 0:05:59.000 that couldn't use the title raw Dog. 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:01.039 I was just thinking how funny it would be if, 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:03.680 like you get made Secretary of Defense next and like 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:06.560 journalists at like New York Magazine are like quoting from 0:06:06.680 --> 0:06:09.159 Raw Dog to try to determine how you'll run the military. 0:06:11.680 --> 0:06:13.240 A bunch of woke bullshit. 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:16.280 We really don't know where she's gonna go. Actually, this 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:21.320 is this is anybody's game. Impossible to predict your policy 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:23.320 on Iran based on this hot talk book. 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:26.840 Look, there's a I think some of my policies are 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:30.360 in there. My international policy remains absolutely inscrutable. 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:32.159 I know, and you do spend there is that weird 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:33.839 chunk in the middle of Raw Dog where you spend 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:37.120 forty pages arguing in favor of the littoral defense ships 0:06:37.600 --> 0:06:40.000 that the US Navy was building for a while, which I. 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:43.279 Think that when you read it it sounds out of context, 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:45.279 but when you read it, it actually makes quite a 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:46.599 lot of sense. Why it's there. 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:48.960 They are the hot dogs of the sea, a lot 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:49.920 of sailor seas. 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:52.479 That's exactly it. 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:02.520 So we're now seven minutes in. Pete's next chapter is 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:08.200 called twenty twenty Death, Divorce or Dawn, which I do love, 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:10.880 like for a man who's been divorced this many times, 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:13.280 Death divorce or don Right, that's him talking about the 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:15.800 different paths the country could go down. We can either die, 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:18.800 we can have a national divorce, or we can have 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:22.559 a new Dawn. Right. So it opens with him talking 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:24.720 about how much he regrets that he was a never 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:27.600 Trumper at one point, or he was almost a never Trumper, right, 0:07:28.160 --> 0:07:30.200 And this is a necessary mea culpa from a guy 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:32.880 who was on record as when Trump first started running, 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:35.920 he was backing Marco Rubio, right, and heg Seth was 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:38.640 a more mainstream Republican in this period, although he is 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:40.640 still very he's always been very far right. He just 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:42.520 didn't think Trump could win. And also Trump was like 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:44.520 a weird New York real estate guy, right, he didn't 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:46.960 seem like a real conservative because he's not right. 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:49.239 He's a politician, he has to hedges bets. 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:53.600 Yeah, he's just a dick and a fascist. Anyway, his 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:55.880 journey is one we've seen a lot of Trump's inner 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:56.600 circle go on. 0:07:56.760 --> 0:07:56.920 Right. 0:07:57.400 --> 0:07:59.160 The reason why they've been able to go from this 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:02.280 guy should never could absolutely never be president, be a 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:05.880 disaster to uh, you know what, maybe he's the savior 0:08:05.920 --> 0:08:08.920 of the people. Right. The reason that they went through 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:10.760 that is because the only thing any of these people 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:14.640 Pete included, believe is that, like, I should be close 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:17.800 to power, right, And yeah, so you just kind of 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:20.360 have to know if you're in Pete's position, where you 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:22.640 have some documentation as being on the other side of things, 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:25.200 you have to like explain how you turned around to 0:08:25.240 --> 0:08:28.120 licking the boot right. So here's what he gives is 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:31.360 his first conversion moment. My first conversion moment was watching 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:34.800 a televised Trump rally in April twenty sixteen in southern California. 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:36.880 The protests on the street were so fierce that Trump 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:39.080 and his staff had to leave their cars walk along 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:41.360 a highway to be escorted into a back entrance of 0:08:41.360 --> 0:08:44.800 the venue. Helicopters followed as every moved, and leftists were delighted. 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:47.520 What was he talking about that was so controversial? America? 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:51.360 Make America great again? Build the Wall America First. Outside 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:54.040 the arena, the left wing protesters seethed with rage. Many 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:58.280 of them waved Mexican flags and confronted police. Now, there's 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:01.160 no reason to believe that this actually had an impact. Pete. 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:04.559 The reason he brings this up is it fits established narrative, right. 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:08.440 I like pethe yeah, I like that, But it fits 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:11.079 the narrative that like, we're only fascist because of the 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:13.920 radical left right, that's what made us be fascist. 0:09:14.000 --> 0:09:14.160 Right. 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:17.320 And obviously Pete's documented history shows this. This is a 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:20.440 guy who always wanted politics and always had really regressive 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:24.000 right wing views that he largely used to attack people 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:26.240 he thought were less than him. 0:09:26.440 --> 0:09:29.480 I like, I just just I mean, where do you 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:31.560 in southern California do you think he was when you 0:09:31.600 --> 0:09:33.280 saw when he saw this? Do you think he is 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:34.960 like Disneyland. 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:39.880 He's hammered it not very farm Probably he's got a 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:41.200 puke on a roller coaster. 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:45.720 He's in the fast pass line for Great Thunder Mountain. 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:47.360 He's like, you know what I'm going to give. 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:51.880 So one thing I do believe is when Pete asserts 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:54.840 that Trump taught him how to wage political combat, which 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:56.960 is accurate from what we can see, right, because this 0:09:57.040 --> 0:09:59.160 is a guy who failed to get a start in 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:01.880 politics because he didn't really understand what Trump did, right, 0:10:02.160 --> 0:10:05.000 And Trump proved you don't have to pretend to be respectable, 0:10:05.000 --> 0:10:07.120 you don't have to pretend to be nice. You can 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:10.280 be you can lie and cry havoc, and people who 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:13.240 are just as shitty as you will hate whoever you're 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:15.640 yelling at, because their lives are only filled if they 0:10:15.679 --> 0:10:18.960 have hate, right Like that, That's what Trump understood, and 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:20.920 that's what Pete learns from him. And I do think 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:23.760 he's being accurate here when he says that Trump taught 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:26.080 me how to fight in the political sense, because there's 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:28.160 absolutely no evidence he knew how to do it previously. 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:31.960 I find it interesting that Trump credits him for giving 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:35.480 him a Trump spine, and he writes that Trump taught 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:37.760 him how to quote live the lyrics of my favorite 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:41.680 rock band, I feel safe inside the violence right of 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:45.560 the political arena. Right, that's that's a And now I 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:47.680 bet you're wondering what song is that from? 0:10:47.920 --> 0:10:49.360 Right, I'm scared to know. 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:52.920 It's from the Ever Clear song Santa Ana wind which 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:56.000 is very much a Southern California tune about being the 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:57.360 kind of person Pete hates. 0:10:57.679 --> 0:11:00.480 Yeah, his favorite band is Ever. 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:05.080 Clear, Ever Clear right, which is fascinting, particularly weird because 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:08.960 the lead singer ever Clear, Art Alexakis, describes himself as 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:12.440 a left wing Christian who despises conservative Christianity and wrote 0:11:12.480 --> 0:11:14.400 a song called Jesus was a Democrat? 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:19.720 Has he listened to the listened to the very Clear? 0:11:20.840 --> 0:11:23.640 Also not a Santa Ana Windes. Not a song about 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:26.640 like fighting, really like, that's not what it's about. It. 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:31.120 It's about living in southern California. It's about the Santa 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:31.800 Ana Winds. 0:11:32.480 --> 0:11:36.760 Really good, a trump spine just to stack a diet. 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:42.080 Come again, folks, don't make art, you know, burn, Go 0:11:42.080 --> 0:11:45.160 go out there right now and you know, destroy a 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:49.480 bunch of vinyl records, you know, annihilate human culture. I'm 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:50.920 on the AI team now there's no. 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:55.959 Disco demolition the people. I think people should always make art, 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:58.680 especially if you're bad at it, because if you're bad 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:00.600 at it, keep bad, keep it. 0:12:00.720 --> 0:12:03.760 You're gotta say that, Jamie, until we get until we 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:07.000 get the fascist leader who's like holding up raw Dog 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:09.320 and he's like this, based on this book, we have 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:11.000 to expel all the immigrants. 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:14.560 So many of his You should know better than anyone's history. 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:18.040 His greatest monsters were failed art. Is just keep making 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:21.480 the bad art. If George Bush had just painted his 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:23.560 damn landscape. 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:24.760 You're right, you're right. I mean that. That is my 0:12:24.880 --> 0:12:27.520 actual stance is that we need a whole government department 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:32.160 that like provides fake fans to untalented conservatives who want 0:12:32.200 --> 0:12:35.520 to succeed in Hollywood. Oh yeah, everyone loves your TV show. 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:38.360 They can't get enough of it. Don't try going out 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:40.560 to any of the regular conventions. Go to this one 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:43.040 that we're putting on. Your fans will all be there. 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:45.440 I would be a crisis actor in that department. 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:53.800 It's just it's mission critical, Yeah, honestly, just some soft reinforcement. Yeah, 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:56.760 just like like an elite military corps who show up 0:12:56.760 --> 0:12:58.800 at the stand up Nights that these guys put on 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:01.520 and are like they have like a Navy seal hell 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:03.800 week boot camp for how to pretend to laugh at them. 0:13:04.040 --> 0:13:06.840 Although when you put it like that, they are kind 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:07.520 of doing that. 0:13:07.840 --> 0:13:10.520 Yes, no, this would be protecting the nation much more 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:12.520 than any military action in my lifetime. 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:17.079 Yeah, like, we have to keep selling out those men 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:20.240 and women as long as I promise to never run 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:21.160 for office. 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:23.680 Oh my god, you had to listen to Michael Knowles's 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:30.280 stand up, like my country is a pus our bravest soldiers, 0:13:30.320 --> 0:13:31.720 our bravest soldiers. Yeah. 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:34.480 So it's like this whole chapter is like, I mean, 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:37.520 it's so diabolical where he he's acting like a rom 0:13:37.559 --> 0:13:39.520 com character who's like and I could really be my 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:42.040 full self now I can just be awful. 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:45.160 I could be like this song I clearly don't understand 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:48.200 because Trump taught me how to be racist and not 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:49.280 feel bad about it. 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:49.839 Now. 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:52.160 The next few pages of Pete's book are accounting of 0:13:52.200 --> 0:13:55.000 Trump's rise to be leader of the Republican Party, and again, 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:57.280 this isn't really worth going over. We all know what happened. 0:13:57.320 --> 0:14:00.240 What is interesting is the account that Pete gives this 0:14:00.360 --> 0:14:03.240 of his own first attempt at getting into politics his 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:07.120 twenty twelve Senate run in Minnesota. I A, which is 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:11.640 not what it's called. During Yeah, Minnesotia. During the Senate run, 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:15.120 he attempted to defeat Amy Klobachar. I say attempted because 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:17.599 he failed. He blames his loss, and he does not 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:21.320 succeed in getting the Republican nomination, right, he loses the primary. 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:23.680 He doesn't even get to go up against Amy. He 0:14:23.680 --> 0:14:26.600 doesn't even get to get Kloba charted. 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:30.160 I don't know, Jesus, they shocked that one. 0:14:30.200 --> 0:14:32.000 That looked they can't all be winter, they can't all 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:35.960 be winner. Cloba shocked. Yeah, that's got that's better. So 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:38.640 he blames his loss on the Star Tribune, which he 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:43.040 calls Minnesota's communist paper of record. Weirdly, and here's what's weird. 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:44.920 It's like so I look into him, like, oh, so 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:47.400 they must have like said, don't vote for Pete. Hegseth Right, 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:51.280 it's the opposite. They described Pete as a picture perfect 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:53.480 outsider who seemed like he had a really good chance 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:56.840 at winning the GOP candidacy because like, oh, he's a veteran, right, 0:14:57.120 --> 0:15:00.360 maybe he could probably win. You know, that's that's old 0:15:00.520 --> 0:15:02.400 electorally so miserable. 0:15:02.440 --> 0:15:05.560 When any type of fascist calls a centrist paper radical, 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:09.760 You're like, I wouldn't you wouldn't it. Yeah, it was 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:12.560 like now ultimately serving your project. 0:15:12.280 --> 0:15:15.680 Phrasing the Star Tribune because they're their analysis was just shitty, 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:19.320 like wells of veterans will probably win, right, discounting the 0:15:19.320 --> 0:15:21.720 fact that Pete hag Seth can't do anything right. That 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:24.360 like he's he sucked at the last time he ran. 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:27.120 At this point, he's had two different like NGO's that 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:28.760 he's been a part of, and he spent all the 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:35.000 money on drugs and partying. You know that veterans, Yeah, yeah, 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:37.760 veterans could be some of the most fucked up people 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:40.480 in the country. You know, often in a you know, 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:43.720 I've I've so I started doing drugs with was a 0:15:43.760 --> 0:15:47.720 traumatized veteran. Actually, he would have been a really good 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:52.320 Minnesota Senate member, but you know, he's to get involved 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:56.240 in the Minnesota Senate. Yeah, man, can you imagine our 0:15:56.240 --> 0:16:02.240 buddy greasy will in the Senate. I would vote for 0:16:02.360 --> 0:16:11.240 him in a heartbeat, oh man. So yeah, So he loses, 0:16:11.280 --> 0:16:13.160 and again he's angry at the Start Tribune because they 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:15.440 describe him as a really good candidate. And he's like, well, 0:16:15.480 --> 0:16:17.600 this is why I lost, because like, no one likes 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:21.240 the mainstream media. And when they said that I, you know, 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:23.880 was good, that that doomed me, right, that doomed me 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:26.560 to my voter base. Right, it's their fault. They destroyed 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:31.640 me by being nice to me. The reality is Pete's 0:16:31.640 --> 0:16:34.440 campaign was doomed from the start because he's bad at this. Right. 0:16:34.520 --> 0:16:37.960 He's again, he can't he can't Pete. He can't run 0:16:38.000 --> 0:16:41.920 an he can't run a charitable organization funneling money into 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:44.840 right wing politics because he's too fucking corrupt. Right, he 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:47.200 never had what it took to build any kind of 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:50.600 independent support or power. He's not very disciplined. Again, he's 0:16:50.720 --> 0:16:52.080 hammered half the time here. 0:16:52.440 --> 0:16:56.120 He was like, doesn't it it sounds like that he's 0:16:56.200 --> 0:16:59.560 like wasted money that was supposed to go to veterans before, right. 0:16:59.840 --> 0:17:02.880 Well, it was supposed to be used by a veterans organization. 0:17:03.040 --> 0:17:05.280 Is what right wing politics this? They were not helping 0:17:05.359 --> 0:17:09.520 vests somebody like ultimately, they were trying to push more 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:13.400 support for the surge in Iraq, right, and then attack Obama. 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:15.040 You know, like, I'm not saying it was. I'm not 0:17:15.080 --> 0:17:19.200 saying like, oh, it's a shame he wasted that money, right, 0:17:19.600 --> 0:17:24.280 it's theoretically yeah. So I want to quote from an article, 0:17:24.320 --> 0:17:26.240 another article I found on the Star Tribute in the 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:29.560 wake of Pete's defeat, and this is them talking about 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:32.960 it just kind of summarizes what an incoherent messis candidates. 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:33.240 He was. 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:36.520 So this is right after he loses the primary. Although 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:38.600 heg Seth had previously said he would not run in 0:17:38.640 --> 0:17:40.640 a primary if he did not win his party's endorsement, 0:17:40.680 --> 0:17:42.919 he sent out a cryptic email to supporters Wednesday that 0:17:43.000 --> 0:17:45.800 raised serious doubts about that pledge. The email was titled 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:47.760 the Fight Continues and did not say he planned to 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:51.080 support state Representative Bills, who decisively won the GOP nod 0:17:51.080 --> 0:17:53.920 at the state convention on Friday. Now, this all led 0:17:53.920 --> 0:17:56.240 to days of speculation that he was going to run 0:17:56.359 --> 0:17:59.000 against the GOP candidate who had been endorsed by the 0:17:59.080 --> 0:18:01.320 Ron Paul organization. And it was the kind of thing 0:18:01.320 --> 0:18:04.320 where like they just wouldn't clarify what that message had 0:18:04.359 --> 0:18:07.959 meant for days until eventually, like they're basically cornered and 0:18:08.000 --> 0:18:09.760 forced to say like, no, I'm not really going to 0:18:09.880 --> 0:18:15.000 run like it was just a narcissist who could only 0:18:15.080 --> 0:18:18.000 respond to losing with sad bluster, even though he had 0:18:18.000 --> 0:18:22.679 been out organized and out fundraised and very obviously beaten. Right, right, I. 0:18:23.240 --> 0:18:26.639 Love a good refuse to give up. Well, obviously needing 0:18:26.680 --> 0:18:27.320 to give up. 0:18:27.320 --> 0:18:32.800 Obviously, right, It's beautiful stuff. So in his book years later, 0:18:32.960 --> 0:18:35.880 Pete would insist that he was glad now he's glad 0:18:36.000 --> 0:18:38.600 that he didn't win, and he says specifically, I'm glad 0:18:38.600 --> 0:18:40.959 that patriots didn't vote for me then, right, because they 0:18:41.000 --> 0:18:43.080 were right. I was still a Rhino or Republican in 0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:45.119 name only at that point, right, I didn't really know 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:47.280 the way. You know, I hadn't accepted Trump as my 0:18:47.320 --> 0:18:48.360 word savior. 0:18:49.240 --> 0:18:50.919 People were thinking about of that yard. 0:18:51.160 --> 0:18:53.560 It's good that they wonn't because I wasn't. I wasn't 0:18:53.680 --> 0:18:54.760 enough of a fascist yet. 0:18:54.840 --> 0:18:56.200 Yeah, cope. 0:18:56.240 --> 0:18:58.760 So we conclude this chapter with another rant that the 0:18:58.800 --> 0:19:01.560 American left is an exit sestential threat to freedom. Then 0:19:01.560 --> 0:19:04.159 we have the obligatory call to violence that he swears 0:19:04.240 --> 0:19:07.000 isn't a call to violence if left to succeed, and 0:19:07.040 --> 0:19:09.760 turning it in it the United States into something else. Then, 0:19:09.800 --> 0:19:12.520 as strident as it may seem, divorce is imminent. If 0:19:12.520 --> 0:19:14.480 they turn into King George the Third, find me a 0:19:14.480 --> 0:19:16.760 town square in Lexington or a bridge and conquered to 0:19:16.800 --> 0:19:20.160