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Timcast IRL #294 - WWE's John Cena Apologizes To China In Creepy Video, Gets SLAMMED w/Scott Horton

Timcast IRL

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News, Society & Culture

4.57.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2021

⏱️ 138 minutes

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Summary

Tim, Ian, and Lydia join libertarian commentator, author, and host of the Scott Horton Show, Scott Horton, to look at John Cena's ill-advised apology to China for calling Taiwan a country, the media's new struggles to rationalize their response to the 'lab leak' theory that they said was a conspiracy theory, the censorship that has resulted from the 2016 election, the Abraham accords, and the woke infiltration of the Federal Reserve.

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0:00.0

So John Cena really stepped in it.

0:02.0

Apparently he was doing an interview and he referred to Taiwan as a country, which he

0:06.4

probably knows almost nothing about and this trigger a major backlash in China.

0:10.8

You see, WWE, NBA, a bunch of American companies have been expanding into China making tons

0:16.8

of money.

0:17.8

And so they're very concerned about losing that money.

0:20.4

We saw this with the NBA, with LeBron, with Steve Kerr, with Mark Cuban.

0:24.2

Now it's WWE.

0:25.2

So John Cena puts out this very weird video where he's trying to speak Mandarin, apologizing,

0:30.6

saying he just didn't know that Taiwan is not a country.

0:34.4

The interesting thing about this is that well to Americans, Taiwan is.

0:38.8

And there's serious questions about the lengths Americans are willing to go to do something

0:42.3

about China and what it could ultimately lead to.

0:44.3

And there's fear of war and something called Thucydides trap, which we reference a lot

0:49.7

actually, which means if you're not familiar, as a rising power comes to display,

0:55.2

the reigning economic power, war breaks out.

0:58.6

And that's something we really don't want.

1:00.2

We've got a couple other stories.

1:01.4

Rand Paul is calling our Republicans to leave Twitter because these lefty personalities,

1:06.2

these Democrats have been mocking and encouraging.

1:09.8

Essentially, these attacks by praising the guy who attacked him.

1:13.6

Caused very serious injuries to Rand Paul.

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