John Doyle： “The Right Exists as a Money Vacuum to Sell Hope”
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Jon Doyle is a YouTuber and political commentator. He also frequently appears as a guest commentator on the YouTube channel "Slightly Offensive" with Elijah Schaefer. In this episode, Jon talks about his new show, "Locker Room Talk," and why he thinks gamers are a political strategy.
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John Doyle is a YouTuber and political commentator.
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You can watch his show on heckoffcommy.com or YouTube.
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He also frequently appears as a guest commentator on the channel Slightly Offensive with Elijah Schaefer.
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Thanks for coming on, John. I've become a big fan of your YouTube channel.
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I see a lot of myself in you. How are you today?
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Excellent. Thank you, and thank you for having me. Very excited for this.
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Good to hear. I think you do a great job of talking to young men.
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I don't know if you know who Nelk is, but I think you're the political version of the Nelk boys.
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And it's interesting that you say that because I've heard that before.
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And as a result, my roommate and I were thinking about making a podcast specifically to try to infiltrate that sort of online bro culture.
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And it would be called Locker Room Talk for obvious reasons.
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And it would just be like guys bantering, but kind of tied back to a more fundamentally right-wing direction,
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which I would argue is like the logical result of men being allowed to be masculine.
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And the wake-up call for that was they were doing a meetup, the Nelk boys in Texas.
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And so we went just to see, you know, how many people would show up.
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And there were like 3,000 young men there with no direction, all like looking to get high and drunk and see if they could hook up with some girl.
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And I was just thinking to myself, imagine if we could channel this energy into something productive for the future of the country.
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We need to combine that sort of feeling, the bro culture, and normalize it with politics just so we can get people having these conversations.
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And one of the videos I watched of yours recently was about demoralization, particularly, I imagine, of the youth.
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And I just want to show a clip from one of your latest videos here and get you to explain it in a bit of further detail.
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The point is that in order to beat you, they have to demoralize you.
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And in order to demoralize you, they need you constantly plugged in, constantly consuming the propaganda, the fake news, glued to the screens, isolated, locked down.
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And at a certain point, literally just going outside is a political strategy because it will make you happier and it will make you more effective in the long run.
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And this doesn't mean just go crazy, Pleasure Island mode, blow off everything just to go have fun.
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But it does mean that there is something to be said about taking a few hours every week and just going and doing something that you really enjoy.
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Not just mindlessly navigating through the internet in the name of relaxation, but like really going out there with the boys and doing something epic.
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It might sound redundant, but we are the future.
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And if we're not doing well, if the boys are down bad, then we can't expect the future to be bright or for us to be successful.
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John, I want you to explain to the viewers who or what is doing the demoralizing in your opinion.
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I think that there's basically a collective, I guess you'd say, I don't want to say coalition, but that's probably the best way to describe it, of people who occupy the same fundamental narrative and agenda.
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But as far as where they physically occupy, it would be in the media, the banks, the megacorporations, the power structures in this country explicitly as far as how government works.
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And I think that they're all basically working in collaboration under the same narrative to demoralize people into submission.
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And that's kind of what I was getting at there with, you know, Donkey Kong is a political strategy because I was at an arcade and I was playing Donkey Kong, which I'm very skilled at.
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And I posted something on my Instagram story about it, like, yo, who thinks I could set the high score?
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And someone responded and they were like, John, President Trump just had the election stolen.
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The country's on fire and you're playing Donkey Kong.
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And I'm like, yeah, you're fucking right. I'm playing Donkey Kong.
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Like, what do you want me to do? Like, be depressed?
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If I'm depressed, I'm not going to want to do anything.
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I need to know that I'm fighting for something.
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And if that something can't even be Donkey Kong, then what's the point?
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And so, like, even as far as people getting locked in their houses, we know that deficiency in vitamin D is indicative of depression or can lead to depression and often does.
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It's just like being totally locked down and glued in to screens all the time, consuming constant information does over time demoralize you.
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And so there's something to be said about literally, which is kind of goes against what our business model would be.
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But we need people to disconnect from time to time and just go outside and, like, participate in their communities.
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So that's what I was trying to kind of convey to the audience.
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What's an example you can point to where it's targeted demoralization?
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In your opinion, I know you mentioned a few in the video, but just for the viewers, what's an example that you think targeted demoralization, let's say, against younger people, maybe 17 to 22 years old?
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I think that TikTok and Instagram are probably the quintessential examples.
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And Instagram, like, co-opted the format of TikTok on its own thing called, like, Reels Now.
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And, like, everything in my Explore page is, like, all, like, political and there's some, like, financial stuff in there.
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But everybody's Explore page invariably will have videos of young girls, you know, twerking or doing, like, very suggestive dances, wearing, revealing clothing.
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And that acts as a trigger for a lot of young men to then go and, like, watch pornography or to, you know, go to her page and basically, like, lust after these e-women.
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And so I think that demoralizes – everyone knows how it demoralizes women because we've long been having the conversation about female body standards and them feeling as though they have to compete with her.
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I tend to sympathize more with the young boys, which is, like, them looking at this, like, ideal woman and then being reminded of their inability to sort of interact with a woman of that caliber, so to speak, just because men tend to be much more insecure and antisocial now than probably 30 years ago.
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And I think this can be reflected throughout the culture but also just through, like, data.
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Like, if you look at the proportion of men who are just, like, not having sex now compared to 30 years ago, incel culture, all of that stuff.
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And so I think that, like, putting that in people's faces, knowing that it's for profit to either get them to subscribe to the girl or to go get ad revenue from pornography websites, it's, like, a reminder.
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Because, like, when you're watching pornography – this is a point that I made in the first video – you know that, like, that's not you.
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And ideally, you would like to be the guy in the video.
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But it's almost like a reminder to you subconsciously, like, you're there sitting in your bedroom and, you know, this guy's with the girl or something like that because you know that it's, like, not you doing it.
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And I think that sort of makes men feel inadequate and as though they aren't really capable of fulfilling their basic biological imperatives.
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I definitely agree, and I do have a problem with these forms of content, we'll call them, which is a lot of the time it can be a 35-year-old woman just standing there snapping and changing her clothes.
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And I wonder why an adult woman got to this point, but I digress.
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I think that's a good segue to corporate wokeism, especially because it always pops up on these platforms.
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You see all the trends, everybody participating in, the black square, for example.
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And it's affecting us, and it's being used in ways that have never been used before, I feel like.
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And there's a great montage at the start of one of your videos that I recall and that I marked down for us to show right here.
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Let's go ahead and play this, and we'll talk about it after.
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KOLA, after an internal memo, showed diversity training where employees were told to be, quote, less white.
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It's part of a company racism training program.
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People taking part or giving advice on how to be less white, less arrogant, less certain, less defensive, and less arrogant.
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A spokesperson for Koch said it's just part of training meant to create a, quote, inclusive workplace.
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So I think there's a lot of learning that's taking place and a lot of awareness that is happening.
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I wasn't as aware seven years ago when I had my son about the racist images in a lot of Dr. Seuss' children's books.
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Sorry, everybody's talking about this morning, that big rebrand of Mr. Potato Head.
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The classic children's toy now has a gender-neutral name and...
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John, I just did a video about Coca-Cola rescinding their diversity initiatives.
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It turns out that most of these companies have bad results, a lot of them.
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It seems like even in some cases, they're excusing the money for the ideology.
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Do you have any explanation why they go, quote, unquote, all in on this sort of stuff?
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Yeah, I think it can probably be best explained.
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Well, first, I think we have to start with the sort of, I guess you'd say, parasocial relationship
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that the right has had with free market capitalism for a long time, maybe about 40 years.
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And we often forget that this isn't just solidified under right-wing thought.
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These were debates that were had about whether we wanted protectionism or free trade or total
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And so now we're at a place where for the last 40 years, we've basically been, I don't
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want to say shilling, but shilling for the free market.
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And now it's turning out to result in these megacorporations who are serving against the
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And we're pretty confused as to why that's happening.
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And so if you think about orthodox free market theory, if someone is selling car parts or maybe
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even like they have a lemonade stand and you go to purchase lemonade and then the person
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selling the lemonade is like, well, you have to pay 10 cents more because you're white
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or here, here's this pamphlet about how you're genetically inferior.
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You're probably not going to patronize that lemonade stand anymore.
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But now what we have is such a consolidation of these corporations.
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And then also what's referred to as the managerial class.
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So you don't necessarily have bosses and employees anymore.
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You have all these people occupying middle management whose job is basically to make sure that other
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And so that presents the opportunity for these sort of mediocre people, you know, hovering
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around 110 to 125 IQ to come in and be like, well, this is what I learned in my humanities
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And this is something that I don't want to say baby boomers, but baby boomers tend to
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tend to miss, which is that there's always this kind of, oh, well, they're in college right
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And it's like, OK, well, when they get into the real world, they're going to be hired in these
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And they're going to be the ones making the decisions that will ultimately affect the consumers
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and the whole culture, whether it's with Potato Head or with Coca-Cola or with any one
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And I think a good example would even be right wing content creators.
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And this is kind of what woke me up to this is like, wait a minute, I'm not making money,
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I wonder if that translates into companies because, you know, the right always says, well,
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What if the people care more about sending a message and seeing like a tangible effect in the
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culture as opposed to like their profits, like if Facebook or Coca-Cola, their profits
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are down 2 percent, but they get like an actual, you know, result that they're looking to see
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You want to just define what you mean by baby boomer?
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And I think if people don't follow you, they're not going to know what you mean by that.
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The baby boomers would be, I think, 1945 to 1965.
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And once you get on either border, it becomes more of a cultural thing.
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So maybe he's not exactly a boomer, but culturally, sometimes he would be a boomer.
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Boomer, being a baby boomer, really, like my sister even, she's 24.
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She sometimes is a boomer because that which defines the boomer is simply an inability to
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And so even some of these libertarian types who still think we're stuck in the Ron Paul
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revolution, they just can't understand that the country has changed and the culture has
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And that's really like what defines the boomer.
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So my next question was going to be, how do we fight against corporate wokeism?
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Because if there's all these people in middle management and people are destined to go there
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to play devil's advocate, how are we going to prevent ourselves, let's say, from falling
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into this trap where we're sort of, we're trying to change a corporate landscape or environment
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And I feel like it used to be just about profits over everything.
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But now we're YouTube is choosing ideology over profits, Microsoft, everybody's doing
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So, and a lot of people even on my channel aren't really comfortable with this answer
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because the right or the dialogue on the right has been so consumed with this idea of small
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government, let private businesses do what they want.
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We know that we don't have any representation left in the culture and we know that we can't
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necessarily expect every person working for these companies to really make a stand because
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And then like, what, that you want them to go down and die on this hill and then not
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The way I see it is that we only have, I used to estimate about 10 to 15 years before things
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The only institution that we could occupy within the appropriate timeframe.
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And then also, as far as how easy it is, would be government.
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We don't have time to take back Hollywood or education.
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We don't have time to take back corporations and convince them that what they're doing is
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ultimately destructive to the free markets that foster them.
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And so what we could do, though, is win elections for the time being.
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Maybe not federal anymore, but you could win state elections.
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Like we control like what in America, 26 state governments.
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But conservatives are still complaining about their freedoms and everything.
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It's like you have the power to stop that under the 10th Amendment in terms of like COVID restrictions.
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But even with this, like if you were to, say, raise taxes specifically on businesses who
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are propagating this like neo-Marxist woke propaganda, that would eventually, I think,
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And so then this gets into the, are we ready to wield power effectively as conservatives and
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abandon this naive sophomoric idea of the power vacuum for the power vacuum's sake, which
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inexorably is filled with forces that ultimately want to eliminate your representation in that
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Or do we want to basically sit idly by and allow the destruction of our country to happen
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through this sort of corporate consolidation of this like homogenous narrative of woke?
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And if you deviate, you can't even patronize these businesses anymore.
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They literally, to borrow a term from our friends on the left, will other you in society to where
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You're with a pretty tight-knit group down there.
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Do you guys ever, I was thinking about this, the reason I asked, on the way into work this
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morning, do you ever consider the idea of maybe you should start your own political movement
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I mean, what you're saying is essentially we need to start taking things into our own hands
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And when I think about the people I'm criticizing in the government, and I criticize them for
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not being that smart, I ask myself, what's actually stopping me from doing the work?
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I think even, if I'm correct, in my state, Greg Abbott has a bill on his desk right now.
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But even if it did, I'm sure it would be the same.
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And if he signed this bill, it would allow constitutional carry in Texas, which would
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be one of the biggest victories for gun rights in the last several decades, I think.
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And a lot of people like to point to, well, Occam's razor, it's not that they're malicious,
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It's like, no, because if you assume, and I would even argue that there's more stupidity
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But if you assume there's roughly an equal distribution on both sides, why is it that the left is so much
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I think it's because the right basically exists as a money vacuum to basically sell hope to the
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American people and then not actually enact real change.
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So yeah, local government is something that I think is often overlooked.
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As far as myself starting some sort of movement, I don't think that I right now have the network
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I think that people are hesitant to take young people seriously because there's sort of this
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like, well, he's because especially adults, they either they react one of two ways.
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They either, oh, he gives me hope for the future.
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And so it's kind of like, you know, the reality of our situation.
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There is no age too young for a member of parliament here because there's so many seats for people
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There's people who've been elected at 22 here in the last couple of elections.
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I want to transition to logical fallacies because one I see in a lot of your straighter
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videos and I've experienced myself doing the same sort of thing is the appeal to authority.
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And we're seeing that a lot these days, specifically with medicine and doctors.
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While it's not about that sort of thing, it's a great example of an appeal to authority.
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Let's go ahead and play that clip, please, Justin.
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Is that just because, like, you think that they're going to help fight fires better?
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Is there something like, specifically with them cutting your jobs or something like that?
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But like, why would that compel you to support Biden over like Trump, them being firefighters?
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But what does that have to do with fighting fires?
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I am here to represent my whole family, to support Biden-Harris.
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Immigrants, GBLTQ, women, a lot of strong women.
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I'm just wondering what that has to do with fighting fires.
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I was just wondering why, like, over Trump as a firefighting union.
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It's the union that is fighting, that is supporting Biden-Harris.
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It's not supposed to be like a gotcha question.
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I'm just wondering, you know, like the UAW might go one way.
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And she literally could not understand what I was asking.
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I wasn't even wearing any, like, you know, like Space Force or anything political.
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I want to ask, are you seeing this a lot today with the doctors and the nurses?
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I mean, I see, I get these emails that are like, why can't you listen to the doctors?
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And this woman, of course, is trying to say that because firefighters, and she kind of
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says it, because firefighters are voting for Biden and Harris, therefore, I trust their
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opinion and they're so smart and better than me that they know what's right and I don't
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need an actual reason to support Biden or Harris so long as this union is supporting
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Is it just easier to appeal to somebody who's not you for your opinions?
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And that's what's so beautiful about the appeal to authority is it's like, and that's what's
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kind of tricky about it too, is instead of thinking about something and whether or not
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it's true, you just default to this expert or person, you know, this lab coat says it's
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Therefore, it must be true, which of course is fallacious because it might actually not be
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But I think this even stems back to what defines leftism.
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A lot of people think that like, you know, left versus right is just a matter of, you
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There's actually a pretty large biological component to it.
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And a lot of it is based on someone's sense of themselves.
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And there was a good philosopher who actually theorized that leftism is basically a concoction
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Do you think about like even markets, for example, versus like a leftist system of economics?
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If we're conservatives, we know that we're going to have to compete to make money, but
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we're okay with doing that because we feel as though we'd probably be held back if everything
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They're spiritually ill, which is why you look at the mugshots of the people who are fighting
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the most intensely for this cause, the Antifa people.
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They all look like they are taking SSRIs and they have mental disorders.
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It's just said to kind of analyze the mental state that you have to be in to support these
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policies and to dedicate yourself to these movements.
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And so if you are that person, you are insecure.
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Naturally, it would make sense that you default to what other people are saying, whether that's
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the media narratives, whether that's the figures that are held up like Fauci, Bill Gates.
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It is abdicating the responsibility that you have in a free society to think for yourself
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And then what you provide is sort of the militancy, like, well, I'm going to enforce this.
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And it's just it's very easy to take advantage of those types of people.
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And I think they've done that very effectively.
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What I have a big problem with is the idea that there is a lack of bias in these fields,
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whether it's like we said, the doctors or CNN or choose your firefighters.
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Even I'm sure there's probably a lot of right wing firefighters.
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Where do we go to find the last bastion of unbiased people?
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Is there a place where we can look to where people are still going to be impartial, in
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That was the last thing that I felt as though I could be proud of in this country.
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So right now I see no institution or even coalition of people in this country who I would
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If it were on my channel, I'd be like, we're going to make it.
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Along the same lines, one of the I love these four person debates that are on slightly offensive,
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A lot of laughs and lots of thinking going on there.
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One I want to reference is the one where you guys talk about something called Blue Anon.
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And I want to hammer you down and get you to tell me if this is a real thing or not.
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If you're not familiar with this, this is actually a loosely organized group of Democrat voters.
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We've also seen this as recently even inspire terrorism at the Capitol building when a Nation
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of Islam follower actually ended up killing a Capitol police officer.
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This is a very dangerous group of Democrats, politicians, and media personalities who spread
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left-wing conspiracy theories such as the Russia hoax, the Ukraine hoax, Brett Kavanaugh.
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I'm telling you, this gets a lot worse, which is why we're talking about this today.
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They've even done things like spread the fact that obesity is healthy.
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And on top of that, which we're going to find out, that's actually killed more people
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They've killed more people than the virus in the United States, and I'll explain why.
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But also, too, they've also spread the lie that we have the most popular president in
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Fit at any weight, John, I believe is the term.
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Or fat and healthy, I believe, is the other term.
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Or are we grouping together the DNC or far-left sycophants in a hilarious meme?
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So, Blue Anon was something that Elijah just threw at me.
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I had never heard of it before, but I think it's basically true, whether that's—I remember
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even saying this in my videos, like, a few years ago, that, like, you know, the—it's
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Mueller time, you know, the whole meme of, like, he's going to come in.
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That was, like, the equivalent of, like, Q on the right.
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And if you ask them about that, even the people who were posting the hardest about
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it on Facebook, if you ask them about that now, they just won't even acknowledge it.
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Or even with—you had Russiagate, you had the Ukraine thing.
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You know, he's allied with both Russia and Ukraine.
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Disregard the geopolitical inconsistency there.
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It's just, like, these people literally cannot think for themselves.
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And I don't—honestly, I don't think that that's abnormal.
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I don't even think that's something necessarily bad.
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I think that that's something that we need to kind of acknowledge and work with, because
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we tend to think that everyone wants to read the news as much as we do, or everyone wants
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to, like, really think about this stuff as much as we do.
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But it's, like, people fundamentally, I don't think, have agency.
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I think they just like to perhaps naively think that they can turn on and just trust what
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And so the problem is that our screen people are lying to achieve a nefarious agenda.
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You know, the real black pill about when this is all over and we win is that you're going
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to have these same types of people saying, yeah, you know, I guess the 2020s were kind
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of crazy, but, you know, I always thought it was all kind of crazy.
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Like, they're literally not going to be able to understand how this is different, because
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they're just following exactly what is being parroted to them by these talking heads.
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Yeah, I was going to mention Jussie Smollett and Justice Kavanaugh, and I was going to ask
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you how—why is it so much easier to jump onto these ideas?
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Is it just because it's presented in front of them more often than the other side of the story?
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And they think that those are their allies, and then we are their enemies.
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And so it's a very simple kind of like, okay, I recognize that, you know, Anderson Cooper
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and John Miller—or not John Miller, that's the Blaze guy, Don Lemon.
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And so I'm going to just listen to what he says.
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And then it's also like the—especially in school, because I just got out of high school
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It's like this is like the narrative and the teachers in agreement.
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And so to be the dissenting voice requires a level of courage that, you know, is noble,
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but really has never been expected before, at least in recent society in America.
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And then it's like the people in the middle who don't really have an interest in politics.
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They're apolitical, give or take, one or two topics.
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Those are the people whose minds are going to be shifted, and then eventually they hear
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this thing, you know, over and over again in their schools and then in the media, and
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that just eventually will crystallize as the truth.
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And then if anybody dissents against that, they're like, well, what are you talking about?
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I know so much what I'm talking about that I can't give you an example and I can't explain
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That's one of my favorite things about your videos is calling the people out for not being
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able to even articulate their opinion, even though they're so sure about it.
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You say, this is the state of discourse with white women.
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Okay, John, I asked Bryson Gray, by the way, we're behind the paywall.
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I always encourage eating, drinking, shirtlessness, only the male guests, and I want to get into
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I asked Bryson Gray the same question, what your take on is on LGBT and Christianity, and
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I want to, it's from the same clip that I asked Bryson about, actually, from one of those
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slightly offensive debates, transgenderism and LGBTQ.
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...place in the New Testament that really touches on the relationship of Christians to government.
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It says they should pray for the people in leadership so that they may live peaceful
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It means that we should be working on electing a government that allows people to practice
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whatever religion they want and to live peaceful and quiet lives in godliness and holiness.
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And the only way that we can do that is by creating a broad coalition of voters who win
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That's what we should be talking about, first and foremost, is how we win elections.
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Before we go, I'm going to go to John because John was sort of laughing during that.
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I was humored by the biblical substantiation for having more gay people in government.
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I want to know, is Christianity being watered down, are the beliefs being watered down to
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be more mainstream or to appeal to a wider audience?
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And yeah, as far as your first question, homosexuality and Christianity are fundamentally incompatible.
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And what that woman was trying to pass off is this very common leftist understanding of
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Christianity, which is that Jesus was basically this hippie who just told us to be vaguely nice
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And it's like, once you get past Sunday school Jesus, actual Jesus was like, not that nice.
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And this is even prophesied in the Bible, too, that like, not to say that we're in the end
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times, but as they approach the those who claim to be preaching the word of God will
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start, you know, widening that that, I guess, net to sort of include things that are fundamentally
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against that, which would be homosexuality and all other types of adjacent deviancy.
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And so, yeah, I think that Christianity has lost a lot of footing in the culture.
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And I think that there are some people who think that the way to get that back is by compromising
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I think that's misguided and perhaps even malicious.
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So I think that there's there's a lot of people who are kind of hungry for that that
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And I think that that would be what is necessary for the country to really make a comeback on a
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I think people are hungry for it all across the board, especially in politics.
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When I look at our politicians now, the ones that claim to be Republican or conservative
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They even what they said they stood for two years ago, five years ago, we can go back to
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They don't really stand for anything that I can see.
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I mean, there are low hanging fruits like China, but even things like censorship.
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I mean, how long has Ted Cruz been saying we have to do something about censorship and
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So I think across the board, not just in Christianity, in terms of people actually sticking up for
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what they believe in and sticking to their guns, even when it may be coming with a Twitter
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ban or if it comes with a demonetization, people still want to see people stand up for
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Because as soon as you start changing, that's when people start thinking you're weak and
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I want to transition to censorship and how it pertains to your online presence and your
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Do you have a strategy with how you combat online censorship or deranking or delisting?
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And remember, you're on the paywall so you can reveal your secrets.
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And I think we have to be if we're going to be on this platform.
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I think that I sort of have this like utilitarian view where if I can, you know, red pill 10,000
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people on this topic, is it really worth like getting banned instantly for talking about this
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Do you think we should be driving people directly to websites more?
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Like, sort of like a 2005 view I have of things where I'm waking up or I'm coming home from
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school and I'm going directly to websites instead of just social media feeds?
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I've never done that, but I think that's a good idea.
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That's probably a good way to do it without being on the radar in terms of like, even you're
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like, I direct people to my website, but there's not like things on there that are much more
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But I've always had what I refer to as the gateway drug strategy, and this is an epiphany
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I was working on research for a video on like the UN's Declaration of Human Rights, and I
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just kind of thought to myself, like, no one's ever going to send this video out.
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Like, dude, you need to see what this kid has to say about this.
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And then I realized people watch Ben Shapiro-owned compilations, not because they want to take
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notes and learn something, but because they're entertaining.
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You need to make entertaining content that is vaguely political, and that's going to
00:32:27.460
See if you can retain 10% of those people, and that's how you grow a channel.
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And so the first one that I did was after I had that epiphany, I called my buddy, and
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I was like, hey, do you want to bring a Glock into Whole Foods and act gay?
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So that's like what we did to see how people react.
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And so that video got like a couple million views, and then my channel had enough subscribers
00:32:52.740
But as far as what I really care about, that's not really it.
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And so that I do every now and then when I have the opportunity or when I feel inclined,
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because I know it's going to do well and bring that 10% of viewers around for every other
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video where we talk about more substantive and important things.
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And so that's proved to be pretty effective, I think.
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And even I remember people were posting my videos that I did in the 2020 election of
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And they were like, owning the libs compilations are back.
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I try to invite a lot of the politicians, even mayors and stuff like that, on to talk to
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They don't, the idea of actually defending one's views or even explaining, I'll give
00:33:44.880
There was a protest with two elected politicians east of here, about an hour and a half east,
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and politicians were ticketed, COVID violations, and the mayor told them to stay the fuck home
00:33:59.500
And then there's another mayor west, about an hour west of where we are in Toronto, who
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has rolled out a race-specific vaccine program.
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If you're non-white, then you can get a vaccine first.
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So it's a really sad state of affairs, but I'm triple underlining more owning.
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I want to ask you as a final question, which politicians that you, do you actually like
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or support, if any, that exist in office right now?
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And that's probably going to be about it, yeah.
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I mean, you've got to take the good with the bad, but these days, the people who are actually
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standing up, like we've discussed, and fighting for what they believe in, is forever dwindling.
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I want to give you the last word, and you're a very smart guy.
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Suggest a book for me to read, and I will buy it and read it.
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I wanted to ask Michael Knowles about a Christopher Columbus book, but he won't respond to my DMs.
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Well, I would recommend books that would probably criticize purely free markets.
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But okay, so I will say there's, what is it called?
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I think it's literally called free trade doesn't work.
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And it's a critique of basically the free trade policy that has bankrupted America specifically
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and transferred a lot of wealth to countries like China.
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And it makes a lot of really compelling arguments.
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Like, you know, we sort of have this fixation, like we talked about earlier, of like, America
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Virtually every founding father or American figure who's on Mount Rushmore was a protectionist.
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And that's how Japan rebuilt their wealth after World War II, is like, through things
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But as far as what I would generally recommend, I've been reading a lot of post-liberal books,
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sort of preparing for what's to come, since I think liberalism has basically proved to
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So that would be like Patrick Deenan, Why Liberalism Failed, James Burnham is Good, Suicide of the
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I have a book list, too, on my website that you could check out if you're interested.
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And just for anyone else watching, that's a list of books to burn, you guys.
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So John Doyle, heckoffcommy.com is the website and the show.
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You can see him on Slightly Offensive, like I said.
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For the boys, I hope we both can do something with Nelk.
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And everybody go to his website, heckoffcommy.com.