New York Young Republicans Gala Ends in a Slap

It's Sunday afternoon. We did this a couple of weeks ago, just a little weekend potpourri where, you know, I'm like looking at the internet and you know, there are a few things out there that don't merit a full video, but that either fun or sad or annoying, and we can just chop it up real quick. So that sounds good.

It sounds great to me.

It's like, you know, my family, we would go out to Sunday night, Chinese food, and we'd get like the, you know, all the appetizers. It's like that. Basically.

Yeah.

Food, some dumplings, you know, some spring rolls, spring rolls.

Oh, okay.

Here we go.

We're going to start with yesterday. There was an art. It was a pretty boring sports weekend, I will say. Yesterday we had the Army, it was Goods First Thunder game. We had an Army Navy game yesterday. They invited the president to the event. And okay, an interesting thing that happened was they asked her to do the coin flip.

And we just should just watch it together.

Mr. President, would you do the honors?

Yes.

You want to see it?

It is tails

It's like a little bird

It's right there in the name it's flip. It's a coin flip You're supposed to flip the coin. He let it fall. He let the coin fall It dropped. I mean at least it tumbled bit. I don't think it turned over one time. No, it had to have turned over. Did it?

What the? I mean, it couldn't have just landed like that. I don't think it did. It was not, there wasn't much rotation. Let's put it that way. I don't know.

Do you think he had someone he wanted to get the heads or tail? I don't know why he knows how to do it.

No, I just really gentle with that coin.

All right.

How would you die? I would done the like little ping like that, right?

Not that hard.

Something you practice, I suppose. Maybe he, maybe he got a little like, um, the yips, you know, where you're just sort of anxious about the flip. You want the flip to look nice. And then you're saying like, look nice and then you're suddenly ah I think it just falls a normal person that doesn't live in his own hotel would know how to flip a coin You kind of you kind of just glossed over Spurs Thunder that was a great game amazing game

And so it absolutely needed for the NBA because the Thunder was running

I just I was worried. I'm so worried about this season It's just looking like pre-ordained but my boy, Steph castle, my boy, Steph had a great game last night.

Yeah. You can grab. When B and yo kids are gonna have something to say about it. Okay. I had one more thing on the army Navy game. Uh, this I've noticed a couple of times, but I don't think we've And what's happening over there folks? I'm a palantir. It's like a government contractor Peter Thiel started it. They do spyware

Let's just pull this up here this massive palantir ad The army-navy game I find this very gross like this is the military academies and we're having like a spyware company Defense companies contractors spyware company that has like a very, uh, uh, upfront political perspective among their leadership. Uh, they're doing ads at the game. I don't know.

I mean, they, they obviously knew Trump was there.

Right.

So they're trying to get it on his radar, but yeah, it was like, there's a little bit sort of like, uh, we're all going to be basically soldiers for Palantir down the road. Yeah. It felt like it was out of a creepy dystopian movie.

Yeah.

It's like, you know, me, Sam, I'm going to be, I'm going to be probably more pro capitalist than the median commenter on this YouTube feed. I do love capitalism, but like, it feels like that we should have some safe spaces from capitalism, the country, like a military Academy football game.

I don't know. It's like one or the other is going to advertise right there. So it's like pick your poison, right? I would feel a little bit better about draft Kings than Palantir.

I totally agree, but the draft Kings it's everywhere. Like you cannot escape the sports betting advertising at these events too.

I, that makes me uncomfortable a little bit as well. Okay. Here's one more little politics, sports tickets. So we are, we are like absolutely.

Rifling through these tickets. betting advertising at these events too. That makes me uncomfortable a little bit as well. Okay. Here's one more little politics sports take us over.

We are like absolutely rifling through these topics.

We're rolling through it. It's a potpourri. You don't have a full meal of dumplings. You take a couple of bites, then you move on. It's a potpourri, Sam. Are we at the spare ribs portion of this. Uh, we, I don't, I don't, we're at something a little gayer than spare

ribs, uh, there's a, uh, there's a little team, a Charlie Kirk. He's trying to sell himself like the new Charlie Kirk. Have you seen this fella? Brylin Holly. Oh yeah. That guy wills written about him. Over the weekend that I just you know, I just did you see it? No, I saw I gave me some prep work

But I didn't see that great. And um, it's he wrote this. This is a tweet that he posted Okay, this is one of the worst tweets I've ever seen in my life Instead of this instead of the Super Bowl I'd rather watch president Trump as a home and mass deporting illegal aliens

exclamation point mass deporting illegal aliens! It's the equivalent of like some lib being like, you know what? I really want during the super bowl halftime show, a Hamilton reenactment. It's like, Oh God, no, just watch the fucking game brought to you by Palantir. Okay.

You should feel bad watching the super bowl. You should be at not be in a soup kitchen. No, it's just like, come on. The little fucking white boy. I know He's but he's sort of notorious right for trying way too hard, right?

That's his thing He's like going around trying to beat Charlie Kirk and he's I think he had a polo shirt with the Masters logo on it When he was on his private plane, he was pictured doing that at that point I feel like part of me feels bad because he's like what 22 something like that. It's just I don't feel Your youth shouldn't be spent this way. It's just I don't feel bad Spent this way. This is this this tweet is bad across all different metrics. It's a bad tweet. It is morally reprehensible What was the rate? What are the responses? I haven't seen the response not positive. I just did the taylor swift doing the loser

The fact that you engage this stuff, I don't know Amazing you did a bad day. You did a bad tweet.

You did a bad tweet over the weekend, actually. I hadn't seen it, but it was brought up to me IRL. And an IRL person say to me, what was up with Sam's bad tweet? And I was like, I don't know what you're talking about.

There's so many bad ones.

I have no idea.

I don't know everything that he says. said that Illinois should take the high road now, uh, redistricting now that Indiana has done the right thing. It's like, let me just, the Democrats win one little battle and you're ready to just fold.

Okay.

I did see the reaction to this and I just, I feel like I need to clarify cause I think people are misinterpreting the point here. I said one state, I didn't say, Oh, Maryland should take it off and Virginia should not do it. There's people have to understand behind the scenes. These, these conversations happen like Democrats are trying to position states to correspond with other states. Illinois is supposed to correspond with Indiana. Okay. Virginia

supposed to correspond with Florida. Maryland's kind of out there figuring out what it's corresponding with. And if Indiana, which is two seats that could go Republicans, says we're not going to do it, then Illinois should say, which is one seat, should say potentially we won't do it either. It's a net gain of one for Democrats. Now let's say the reverse.

Illinois does go forward now and a bunch of the Indiana Senate Republicans are like, wait a second, what the fuck? Like actually we change our mind. Now you're in a bad, you're in a worse spot. So I stand by the tweet. The haters, I told Bill this this morning, it's always good to be flooded with hate online

every once in a while. It keeps you, yeah, that's fine. It keeps you sane. It keeps you grounded. I'm happy to take it. Okay. Which side am I supposed to do? Once for the loser? Oh, you got loser. Whatever. You're a loser. It was brought up to you in real life.

Wow.

So yeah, it's a loser mentality, uh, that you have and, um, don't like disagree. So for all of you disagree with Sam, know that you have an ally.

I let him bring it.

Fucking J.B. Pritzker man up. Okay. Don't let Sam Stein give you the air cover to win. Okay. If this squeeze now one more seat,

if I'm going with the Chinese food metaphor here, this was the worst dish.

Let's go to the Republicans. Deep pain. This one might be worse. Actually. Cause I expect you to have a bad take on this too. Um, a lot of discussion on Twitter unclear yet in the real world about the Erica Kirk Town Hall with Barry Weiss on CBS. My For You page on X,

it was just entirely Erica Kirk, like people deranged takes on all sides. Like just people have very strong views. We'll see what the ratings were for it being an actual TV. I should start just by saying, I don't like have that,

a strong views of some people in the media commentary space on what happens with CBS CBS because I've not watched CBS News outside of 60 minutes in like probably 12 years So 60 minutes does matter but I got the time I got watched the CBS Evening News What was the last time I watched CBS Evening News? They made it the announcement of the new anchor is it's Katie Turr's husband So congrats, I like Tony. I'm Katie big Tony guy

Who did he replace? I'm not really sure. I'm not 100% sure. So it's not that big of a deal. That said, so maybe it's one of those things where nobody was watching before, nobody's watching now.

But a lot of chatter about it. I had one thing in particular that caught my eye, but was there anything about the Barry Weiss, Erica Kirk discourse you want to weigh in on?

Well, two things. One is on the Erica Kirk discourse. I, you know, I I'm public with this too. Whatever people can throw hate at me all they want. I find the attacks on her and what she's doing totally uncomfortable. Like people grieve in different ways.

People want to do different things. She wants to, you know, continue the legacy of her husband. She needs to be out there. That's helping her process it fine. Who cares? Grow up, let her do her thing.

I don't care.

I will say if she's going to do that, you can criticize her takes. Cause she's had, she has some pretty bad ones.

Yeah, totally fine. But like the idea that she's like like, everybody, you don't know what you're talking about. Shut up, just shut up. So that's one, two on the Barry wise thing. Like she's obviously a dynamic figure. I would just say, look, she's now overseeing this entire news agency. I was a little bit surprised.

She took the interview. Like if I were her, I, you know, I would have, you know, I, I would have given it to someone else. Tony said any Tony. Yeah. Anyone I would have been like, I am now the manager. I need to show that I have, I need to give, get buy-in from the people. I'm not going to Bigfoot or take this interview. That was,

that's the only take I have on this. There might be some reason why she took the MMA, it was only granted to her. But yeah, that seemed like a weird choice to me.

The thing that I found weird about it was, well, I guess I'm just gonna be candid. It was Saturday night, I was a Tipitinus. I live in New Orleans. It was at eight o'clock on Saturday night, I wasn't watching this town hall. Like, okay, like the only people watching it were 80. All right, so network TV on Saturday night at 8 p.m. I think is when it was aired. I'm not 100%

sure because I was at Tibetina's enjoying Dragon's Milk. It was a good show. So I've seen a couple of clips though, and I saw the Sunday morning clip of Barry talking about the interview. So this is a meta take here. It's me commenting on Barry commenting on her interview. Let's watch Barry. I think the thing that was baffling for many of us

that watched that, I mean, I remember watching it and thinking, I can't understand this. What does this mean? She was able to explain the distinction between forgiveness as a personal choice to almost let go of something,

to not let it be this anvil around her, and forgiveness in the mode of her faith, and to make a distinction between that and her desire for justice, which is quite different. It doesn't mean that she forgives the, like, it doesn't mean that she does not want

this alleged murderer to be held accountable. And I think that's the really, really important distinction.

Here's the thing that I, you know, it's like, take the interview, I'm fine, whoever, I don't really care who is doing the interviews for CBS. But you do the interview and then afterwards, rather than like being an analyst who like is saying like she has some good points, she had some bad points, it's like, it's doing this thing where like you're puffing yourself up like you're a Don King, Don King promoter for your own work and you're just like so amazing. I just I had to bear witness. I got to bear witness to this historic moment and historic

moment where Erica Kirk taught the world how to handle something I don't think people could understand which is that you can forgive somebody and also want the justice system to work. And I'm like that's the most anodyne take in the world. That's like that's one of the first three things you learn about when you learn about Jesus. Like you know it's like the good, it's like oh she did the golden rule. It's like it's great. It's praiseworthy that she did it. But like this notion that like what we saw

was something that nobody could possibly behold and that Barry Weiss was like navigating the Amazon and found this remote culture of Christians. And here's what the Christians do out there in the woods. They forgive people. It's like, okay.

That caught me a little. I want a little bit more balanced analysis of the interview, I guess.

Yeah, and it suggests that the stuff you got from the interview wasn't... I mean, it's a good interview. It's important, I suppose. But it's not like a high profile. I don't think it's like...

People aren't going to remember this, you know, what's happening with the for you page What's happening with the algorithm? Oh, it's awful. Why are you algorithm want us to know to see every terrible opinion about Erica Kirk?

Do you think I don't know in this morning? It was every I mean I Woke up. It was all the bond issue, but it was like the most grotesque Horrifying stuff from that shooting. And corpses all over the place, you know, 10 minute long segments of people like sniping at each other. It felt like we were in some sort of, you know, movie, like some horror show movie or some like video game reenactment. And I was just like, you know, if you're just an average kid

hopping on this platform, like that, that I just like, there was just, it is wild west shit and it is rewarding bad actors and it's people need to get people need to go to the following page. Get off the for you page. It's bad.

Bad.

It's really bad.

Um, I should say you, you already talked, um, to bill this morning about both the Brown shooting and the Bondi shooting and again, and I think again, that's just another Was one of the reasons I was like so annoyed by getting this town hall I pushed it by face Oh, it's so much. It's just like we're in this That is you know some news judgment

But there are no new that's a problem. There's no new judge There's no one judging the news on on this platform, which is the biggest purveyor of the news. It's just, hey, whatever people are spending their most time on. And of course, they're going to watch horrific gunfights and dead bodies all over the place.

I mean, we're primal people. And it's like, I don't know. It felt very raw and kind of irresponsible, frankly.

You sent also the story about the girl at Brown that had been shot in a school shooting already and she was then at Brown and was going to be at the area where the Brownship

was.

Yeah, it's unbelievable.

Anyway, this is why on my Jubilee video, people are like, why did you argue about guns? Why did you choose guns? It's one of the topics with talking with the kids about. The reason is because I'm like, I just think it's crazy that we've now just decided, it's kind of like, okay, well, now that, you know,

now that we didn't solve this after Sandy Hook, what's the point of talking about it anymore? I kind of feel like maybe we should talk about it a little bit. If somebody, if there's a kid that is in college, it's been in two school shootings now and it's this, she's not the first one, but it's just,

no, yeah, this is not the first. And I've always people in my applies being like, well, these are two gun free

zones. Like, of course there's going to be shootings there. basic research about gun violence and educate yourself before doing this. I want to take you over to the New York Young Republican Gala. Yeah, I followed these guys around for a while. This is like a mega youth group.

Maga unlike cocaine youth group.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, like they're like the mag. I was I ended up not happening when I spent a decent amount of time with them because I was pitching kind of a broader project before I got, you know, kind of busy making a hundred videos a day for the YouTube, um, uh, about this group, because they're really important because like, people do forget this, but there was a moment in time between the January 6th insurrection and Trump announcing, he's going to run again.

We're like most of the right wing institutions were kind of like, we just want to move on to DeS Yeah. Like, you know what I mean? Fox was for it. Rupert was for it. Most of the young college Republican groups were more DeSantis like, you know, the New York young Republicans were the first group to be like, we are endorsing

Trump again after the insurrection. And they, they kind of made they're like mag on cocaine. That's their that's their deal. They had their gala last night There you go, so I mean obviously there's some trolling elements to like, that's the type of folks that you're getting out there. Yeah. I mean, this, this, this is just them trying to like, be, you know, the most Trumpy, most, you know, provocative people in the room. And of course there's a little New Yorker mentality, obviously,

like they don't give a shit. They want to like fight. But it's a cult. It's very cultish, right? It's a cult. I will say there was one sign from outside that these internal MAGA tensions are existing now, like even in this place where it's like you're self-volunteering to be the most MAGA. Yeah. Outside the event, there was a guy protesting. He appeared to be a left-wing guy wearing a Nazi costume, protesting New York Young Republicans, accusing them of Nazis. This is like a pro tip, like as a protester.

Like don't, you don't, even if you're making fun of Nazis, you're really dressing like a Nazi, it can send some mixed messages. So just, just a little pro tip for protesters out there. I wouldn't wear the Nazi garb myself.

It's when you're taking the troll in a touch too far when you look in the mirror and you got a swastika on exactly

So you get the guy in the Nazi suit then hands one of his swastikas To a New York Young Republican attendee gala attendee who's a grouper So Nick front is type who takes the swastika and it's like you're right. I am a Nazi Okay, basically He holds it

Yeah, and then

Another New York Young Republican kind of a portly fella comes out and I guess he is an anti-groper So he's a mega anti-groper. So there you go. And and let's see what he does to the Groyper guy. Are you? You invited him to your fucking club. I can get the fuck out of here.

You gave him a ticket to your fucking club.

Whoa.

Whoa.

OK, let's get the fuck out of here.

Let's leave. Bye. Have a good day. Bye.

Bye.

Bye.

There you go.

There you go. I gotta tell you, I chuckled in bed this morning. Watch that. You love to see that shit. I mean, this is so these people are so it's like tough to know who to root for sometimes, but in this one, I I'm rooting for the, uh, the slapper.

The slap.

Yeah.

Um, so you're not violence is sometimes the answer for you then, Sam,

that's what you're saying.

No guns.

Yes.

Slapping. Yeah, I can get down with slapping. Sure. Open hand slapping. Um, all right. My final topic for you. We've actually said we've been, we've been banging through. This is the dessert. This is your, uh, fortune cookie. Um, and, uh, this was from TMZ. Tekashi six nine caught a stray shot for being a snitching Mexican and a lace front wig during 21 savages three hour interview.

And now he's clapping back. I have no idea what any of that means. Like that just completely went over my head.

Well, is it TMZ headline Takashi 69 caught a stray shot for being a snitching Mexican in a lace front wig during 21 Savages three hour interview and now he's clapping back

a lot of numbers.

A lot of numbers in that headline. I would not have gone with that headline if it were us, but you know, the fact that you, it caught your attention, maybe we should put like a bunch of weird numbers and names in our headlines.

I wonder what he's saying now that he's clapping back. It did. I did click and but then it was too confusing to regard it. It's like, what, who are these people? Um, all right. Anything else? Catch your eye. Any other Pope?

Nah, man, I got to go watch some football.

Yeah.

Your kids sound like, sounds like your dad down there. It sounds like you're doing a great job.

There's chaos back there.

Right.

I thought I said, Harry, I got to go do some YouTube. I thought I said, Harry, I got to go do some YouTube.

Get out right here. We'll see you soon.