Well, I wanted to stay out of the presidential election. It's gross because I feel like I had to. I felt like, this is so nuts. This is so nuts. When that Tim Walsh guy, that guy, it's so nuts that that guy was going to be the vice president. You're telling me. You're telling me. You're telling me this whole thing is fake? Then you're telling me you don't care if someone's a liar? [00:00:15] You don't care if they lied about their military rank where they served. You don't care if they lie about being an assistant. You don't care if they lie about Tiananmen Square. There's too many things. This is so crazy. You would get fired if you were an assistant manager at an oil changing company. [00:00:31] Last week, Joe Rogan admitted that one of his biggest factors in shifting his support to Trump and ultimately endorsing and supporting Donald Trump was Tim Walz. Now, during the campaign, vice presidential hopeful Tim Walz faced some backlash over his claims regarding his military record. [00:00:50] It first started with his claim made in a video posted by the Kamala Harris X account back in August. Take a look. I'll take my kick in the butt for the NRA. I spent 25 years in the Army and I hunt and I gave the money back. And I'll tell you what I have been doing. [00:01:05] I've been voting for common sense legislation that protects the Second Amendment. But we can do background checks. We can do CDC research. We can make sure we don't have reciprocal carry among states, and we can make sure that those weapons of war that I carried in war is the only place where those weapons are at. [00:01:22] Now, walls served in the National Guard in Nebraska and later Minnesota for 24 years, reaching the rank of commander sergeant major and was deployed to Italy. He decided he decided to leave the National Guard in 2005 to pursue a [00:01:38] political career by running for Congress. A few months later, following his resignation, his unit was deployed to Iraq and as we've previously reported, this was met with backlash from the Trump campaign and JD Vance accusing walls of stolen valor and abandoning his unit. [00:01:56] - Take a look. - I also think it's dishonest something. Again, if you guys ever get an opportunity to ask Tim Walz or Kamala Harris some questions, he made this interesting comment that the Kamala Harris campaign put out there, and I bet they were regretting they put it out there now because he said that we and [00:02:13] he was making a point about gun control. He said we shouldn't allow weapons that I used in war to be on America's streets. Well, I wonder, Tim Walz, when were you ever in war? When was this? What was this weapon that you carried into war, given that you abandoned your unit [00:02:29] right before they went to Iraq, and he has not spent a day in a combat zone? What bothers me about Tim Walz is the stolen valor garbage. Do not pretend to be something that you're not. And if he wants to criticize me for getting an Ivy League education, I'm proud of the fact that my mama supported me, that I was [00:02:44] able to make something of myself. I'd be ashamed if I was him, and I lied about my military service like he did. To be clear, JD Vance was a combat correspondent, which is essentially just a reporter on the battlefield. [00:03:01] He was not an active combatant. But nevertheless, Walz also received backlash for claiming he was in Hong Kong and China in the spring of 1989 during the protests in China's Tiananmen Square, something he had claimed many times in the past. [00:03:16] In a 2019 radio interview, Wallace stated I was in Hong Kong on June 4th, 1989, when of course Tiananmen Square happened and I was in China after that. It was very strange because of course, all outside transmissions were blocked. [00:03:32] Voice of America. And of course there was no no phones or email or anything, so I was kind of out of touch. It took me a month to know the Berlin Wall had fallen while I was living there. However, contemporaneous newspaper reports first resurfaced by the Washington Free Beacon. A conservative news outlet placed walls in Nebraska around that time. [00:03:50] An issue of the Alliance. Times Herald, dated May 16th, 1989, features a photo of walls touring a Nebraska National Guard storeroom. In the photo's caption, the paper notes that walls will take over the job [00:04:06] of staffing the storeroom from from a retiring Tiring Guardsmen and will be moving to Alliance, Nebraska. A separate newspaper article about Walz's planned trip to China, published by a Nebraska based outlet in April 1989, reported that he planned to travel [00:04:22] to China in early August of that year, and when asked about it during the vice presidential debate, all Tim Walz had to say was he he misspoke and he was a knucklehead. However, going back to Reagan, it's ironic that these are the things that made him get involved in the election and endorse Trump, who is a notorious liar. [00:04:41] Here are just a few of his most obvious ones from this campaign cycle. Take a look. In addition to Aurora, Colorado, there's a place called Springfield, Ohio that you've been reading about 20,000 illegal Haitian immigrants. Residents are reporting that the migrants are walking off with the town's geese. [00:05:01] They're taking the geese. You know where the geese are? In the park, in the lake, and even walking off with their pets. In Lancaster, they found 2600 ballots. All done by the same hand. [00:05:17] The radicals, because they're willing to kill the baby in eight months, nine months, or even after birth. If you remember the former governor of Virginia where he said, you kill the baby after the ninth month or even after it's you set the baby aside and [00:05:33] you have a conversation with the mother. The transgender thing is incredible. Think of it. Your kid goes to school and comes home a few days later with an operation. The school decides what's going to happen with your child. [00:05:52] There are so many more, and we've compiled a list of the most egregious things that Trump has said and done over on our Trump library. Get it, John? You get it. I don't like it. Library like where you get the books, but it's live. [00:06:08] Like he's not telling the truth. Lie. Are you saying librarians lie or have you become a right wing grifter. I don't know. Continue. - What do you make of the story, John? - Yeah. Nothing good. So, look, if I were trying to be as charitable to Joe Rogan as possible and [00:06:28] probably far more charitable than I was to him on TDR when I talked about this, I would say I don't think that's why he endorsed Donald Trump, because if one were to take seriously that Joe Rogan, a, you know, close to billionaire, [00:06:46] he's got hundreds of millions of dollars. Who talks about politics on like, a weekly basis to an audience of millions of people. If his actual reason that he had thought about and then put into action reason to get involved in politics and endorse the president is that the couple [00:07:02] of petty rhetorical slip ups or even lies. Let's say you think they're lies. If Tim Walz is why he had to endorse Trump when Trump is not just the biggest liar in politics, but has told more lies than maybe all [00:07:19] of the rest of the politicians combined. Vicious lies, and not just in general, lies we cataloged on TDR this morning. The dozens of lies he said to Joe Rogan's face on his show, or just the lies that Trump has said about the military. [00:07:34] Like he's more bothered by Tim Walz leaving the military after two and a half decades than Donald Trump avoiding service because of his fictional bone spurs. I simply I don't want to insult Joe Rogan by implying that that can be true, because that would be too horrible to imagine. [00:07:54] So clearly, that wasn't actually why Joe Rogan did this. And maybe in the future he can be a little bit more honest with his audience, because that can't be the explanation. It's far too stupid. Yeah, I think there's some truth to. [00:08:09] Joe Rogan has had some positions that he's held over the years that the Democrats have changed on, but I don't think this idea that the Democrats pushed him away. And certainly this idea that Tim Walz was the catalyst for him supporting Trump. [00:08:27] I don't think there's any truth to those parts. And as everyone kind of tries to figure out, oh, does the left need their own Joe Rogan? They're kind of putting him up on a pedestal and whitewashing who he is. They're kind of forgetting who he is and how he behaves. And while there's some things that he has supported for years, like [00:08:44] marijuana legalization, he's not this like he was never this firebrand progressive. He was just kind of like a libertarian ish guy who liked to have long, unwieldy conversations on YouTube. That's it. Like, don't don't overcomplicate this. [00:09:02] He's a guy who already had name recognition, had access to a wide array of extremely popular celebrity guests, many of them in the sports world that boosted his show. It's nothing, really that he did or stances that he took. [00:09:18] It was just name recognition coupled with name recognition and getting into the podcast game way earlier than many other people. That led them to building up this massive show that people think they need to replicate. [00:09:34] No, the pieces are there. You just don't need to be as crazy as him. Part of it's just the entertainment factor that other shows don't offer because it's kind of out of his mind. Yeah, yeah. And look, I think you sort of sketched out some possible explanations [00:09:51] he could provide for why he decided to endorse Donald Trump. But to be clear in that video, he's not doing that. He's not even saying, oh, they love the trans too much or whatever. He's not even doing that. He's saying it's Walz's lies, these specific lies. And that is like as terrible as saying I'm going against the Dems [00:10:10] because they like trans people or whatever would be like, at least that fits into the propaganda of the MAGA movement. To say that you genuinely think Tim Walz is too much of a liar, not Donald Trump with his 32,000 adjudicated lies or whatever. [00:10:27] Not J.D. Vance, who's like, oh, the reason I turned from thinking Trump was potentially Hitler to the guy who should be president is, it was the media. They bamboozled me. And finally I saw through their lies. Like, if you think Tim Walz honestly, Harris is a bigger liar than Walz is [00:10:45] the most honest person out of those four. How could you possibly see it any other way? It is so strange. It doesn't make sense. We're not going to be able to comprehend it. It's just another instance of him just kind of shooting from the hip, [00:11:01] not being consistent, not being accurate. Kind of par for the course with that show. But thanks for watching the video, guys. We also love it if you hit the join button below, because that makes you a member. And members allow us to be independent, honest. We can be as progressive as we want, no corporate media influence. [00:11:17] And that's all because of you guys. We love doing the show with our members. 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