On this episode of Pushing buttons, Luke and Ian are joined by Carrie Wendler to discuss all of the absurdities of the modern condition. They discuss a woman who was found not guilty of a crime at Mar-A-Lago, a Florida woman who claimed to have been off her meds, and a man who said that Ron DeSantis was like Hitler.
00:00:17.000And I was surprised to hear it until I read further and it said, by reason of insanity.
00:00:22.000And then I thought, is Trump derangement syndrome becoming an actual diagnosis?
00:00:27.000Because I remember that big story about Trump anxiety disorder.
00:00:31.000And now you have this lady who actually like attacked a Well, the reality is she was literally off her meds, but I think it's interesting considering just how insane many people have become.
00:00:43.000And the crazy thing to me about everything happening is, particularly with the medical narrative going on, if you understand my reference, the gaslighting.
00:00:51.000That Joe Biden can come out and say, we're gonna stop the spread, we're gonna slow the spread, and now here we are today, and it's just... The gaslighting is insane.
00:00:58.000As if people can't remember what was said five minutes ago, or they just keep accepting what the media tells them when the story changes every day.
00:01:37.000I was radicalized by Ron Paul and have evolved since then.
00:01:42.000I found my way to a news organization called the Antimedia.org where I was editor-in-chief for years until we were banned by Big Tech in 2018.
00:01:51.000And I'm still just making my dissident videos out here advocating peace and freedom and challenging the establishment and the government at large.
00:02:01.000Crazy talk, you crazy conspiracy theorist.
00:02:04.000It's really nice to have my anti-statist friend here, Carrie Huidler.
00:02:09.000That's why I decided to also wear my anti-statist t-shirt today that says, War is Murder, Taxation is Theft, Police are Gangs, Politicians are Criminals.
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00:02:21.000It used to be my tagline when I used to play video games.
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00:02:27.000It started very interesting conversations.
00:02:29.000Sometimes eight-year-olds would be like, oh yeah, definitely.
00:02:32.000Sometimes other police officers that are playing with me would be like, okay, we're gonna get angry.
00:02:36.000And it was interesting debates and conversations.
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00:03:12.000Also here in the corner pushing buttons, very delighted to have a lovely lady in the studio with us and happy to fuel my own personal anarchist fires as I learn about all this stuff.
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00:05:23.000Now let's get into that first story from the Daily Mail.
00:05:26.000Connecticut opera singer, who rammed through Mar-a-Lago security blockade and narrowly escaped Secret Service bullets in January 2020, is found not guilty by reason of insanity.
00:05:38.000Hannah Romhild, 32, was found not guilty by reason of insanity on Tuesday.
00:05:42.000Her attorney said she had a history of mental illness and had stopped taking her medication before she drove through the Mar-a-Lago security blockade.
00:05:49.000She must undergo psychiatric treatment and counseling and take medications with monthly blood tests to confirm compliance.
00:05:56.000She pulled her rented Jeep into the parking lot of The Breakers, a luxury hotel, and began dancing on her car and making obscene gestures.
00:06:04.000She led police in a dangerous chase, where police and Secret Service fired at her vehicle as she swerved checkpoints.
00:06:10.000She then drove to the airport to pick up her mother.
00:06:12.000Okay, before being arrested at a nearby motel.
00:06:15.000So I don't know if this lady was actually motivated by anything political, but seeing stories like this, I have to wonder.
00:06:21.000I was on Twitter, and I saw some people making posts about how their therapist had said this, that, or otherwise, and I thought to myself, it's kind of weird that all of these like Democrat personalities have therapists, right?
00:06:31.000Is there something to this that people with Trump derangement syndrome, they need someone to help them think properly?
00:06:39.000Or maybe a medication to help them think properly?
00:06:42.000I think when you live in the military industrial complex, in the empire, the heart of the empire, it's hard not to go crazy.
00:06:48.000Particularly when I lived in LA for like eight, nine years, I thought I needed a therapist.
00:06:52.000It wasn't until I started speaking my mind on the internet fluidly, daily, Monday through Friday, that I stopped feeling the need to look outside for help, because I'm finding it Yeah, if you live in major city areas, the likelihood of you having mental health issues actually goes up dramatically compared to the suburbs.
00:07:10.000But with this particular story, who said it doesn't pay to be crazy, right?
00:07:15.000I mean, she got off, had all of her charges dropped, but on a serious note, there is a mental health crisis.
00:07:20.000That this country is dealing with, that it's getting worse by the day, and there has been a lot of circumstantial evidence suggesting that it's because of social media use.
00:07:34.000But I think it's fair to say a lot of people are losing their marbles, losing their minds.
00:07:38.000There's a lot of doctors easily prescribing SSRIs, easily prescribing addictive painkillers to individuals that have an effect on their life.
00:08:36.000When you look at what the corporate media feeds into people's minds, it is absolute trash and garbage.
00:08:42.000It is some of the most destructive, negative, low vibrational thinking that you could have in your existence.
00:08:48.000Jammed down your throat by Dr. Fauci, by Anderson Cooper, by all these smear merchants saying breaking news, fear-mongering, you're supposed to be afraid because of this today, you're supposed to give up your rights because of this today, you're supposed to live in your pod, eat the bugs, be in the metaverse, because it is good for you.
00:09:05.000And then people are following those orders, doing what they're told, and they're learning that they're miserable?
00:09:11.000Well, I don't think there's anything wrong with therapy whatsoever.
00:09:14.000I think, and this might be a controversial opinion, but I don't think there's anything even wrong with being emotional.
00:09:19.000I know there's a big backlash against the left because they're so emotional.
00:09:23.000I would argue they are emotional, but it's unmitigated reactive emotion.
00:09:26.000Being human, You're going to have emotions, but I think the issue here is really that people don't have a container to hold their emotions, and therefore they act out in ways like this, and you end up with chaos all over the place.
00:09:36.000In fact, I think the solution to that is to be more comfortable with emotion, to be able to better feel it, and hold space for yourself and, of course, others.
00:09:44.000But I think it's people's inability to do that that leads to this chaos over emotional reaction.
00:10:13.000I don't know why you would be on them.
00:10:14.000But I think, obviously, they're overprescribed.
00:10:17.000And I think that's ultimately an attempt by people and their providers to just numb it out instead of just building the inner resources to be able to sit with it.
00:10:24.000And there's a ton of stuff in our society that incentivizes avoiding feeling, avoiding expressing your emotions, avoiding dealing with any kind of hardship or any kind of hard truth realities as they're giving everyone medals, as they're congratulating everyone and denying them the basic truth of this world that it is difficult.
00:10:55.000They don't know how to deal with those emotions.
00:10:57.000They go online and they're consumed by the algorithms that control them or by other adult content, especially young children are doing this that they shouldn't be watching that rewires their brain to be working in such negative, horrible ways that creates destructive relationships and disharmony in people's personal lives.
00:11:16.000I think A lot of people over the past seven years, you know, since the start of the media's obsession with Trump, have been dealing with an ever shifting news landscape that keeps changing its opinions and mocking people when they don't know exactly what the new narrative is.
00:11:32.000So if you take a look at like, I don't know, Joe Biden comes out and he says, if you get the vaccine, this is Joe Biden saying this, it's going to stop the spread of COVID, paraphrasing.
00:12:20.000You look at the news about Trump and the media lies every single day and it's escalating and getting worse and worse and all the lies.
00:12:26.000And they've still been lying about the guy even though it's been, you know, a year or a little bit longer than a year since he was in the office or just about a year since he was in office.
00:12:35.000They keep lying, but you can't have these different things be true at the same time.
00:12:41.000But if you try and speak out, you'll be attacked for it.
00:12:43.000Seems like there's three types of insanity.
00:12:45.000There's the people that believe that the narrative shifted without questioning it.
00:12:48.000That's a type of insanity, just going with the flow.
00:12:50.000Then there's the people that question the change in the narrative and call it out and get called insane.
00:12:55.000And then they start to go insane because they're like, why am I being attacked for questioning this?
00:12:59.000Then there's the people that see it all and think it's all crazy.
00:13:01.000Those people are just considered insane.
00:13:05.000I mean, I tweet about this stuff, and I actually have, like, prominent, politically homeless journalists responding to me saying, like, well, the new narrative is this.
00:13:17.000You know, particularly talking about vaccines.
00:13:18.000Here's the new narrative, and I'm like, how did we shift in three months, dramatically, on whatever the narrative is currently?
00:13:28.000And so I think what happens is when you have people like this woman, she goes insane.
00:13:32.000I mean, granted, she was on meds, got off her meds, that I get.
00:13:35.000But there are a lot of people like this that are angry and insane, and it's because how do you vent your frustrations with an ever-changing world?
00:13:45.000You have a worldview but it's not solidified because people keep changing and lying.
00:13:49.000I think Yuri Bezmenov talks about this, demoralization.
00:13:52.000Eventually people are just like, I can't tell what's real anymore because the news is changing what they said a month ago and then they...
00:14:01.000And they drive a car through a checkpoint screaming and dancing and making obscene gestures because they're just their brains erupt.
00:14:07.000In a sick society, mental illness is a by-product of it.
00:14:11.000And someone said today, and I tweeted this officially, saying that the bankers will ensure that we stay in debt.
00:14:16.000The pharmaceutical companies will ensure that we stay sick.
00:14:19.000The weapons manufacturers will ensure that we keep going to war.
00:14:22.000The media will ensure we are prevented from knowing the truth.
00:14:25.000The government will ensure all of this is done legally.
00:14:28.000And I think we're living in this kind of society that That's okay.
00:14:31.000No, it's just, to speak to the gaslighting, especially when it comes to the media, let's just say, let's just say that everything they report now is completely accurate and true and vetted and they're being completely honest.
00:14:42.000just to speak to the gaslighting, especially when it comes to the media, let's just say
00:14:46.000let's just say that everything they report now is completely accurate and true and vetted
00:15:03.000Even if they were telling the truth right now, because of the history, how could you possibly shame someone for having hesitations?
00:15:08.000I think it's because you're showing that you're free.
00:15:12.000You've exited the cave where the silhouettes are dancing, and some of these people are aware they're being lied to, and they don't have the courage to do what you've done, so they would rather stand with the mob and say, no.
00:15:57.000And there are people trapped inside scared to come out and find that, yo man, it's freeing, right?
00:16:04.000The funny thing about this, there was this post that went viral during Trump's first campaign and it was someone took a coming out story about a guy who was gay And they changed gay to Trump supporter.
00:16:16.000And it was funny because it went viral because all the Trump supporters were like, wow, this resonates with me.
00:16:21.000Because the person was saying things like I wasn't being true to myself, I was hiding who I was, I was scared that if I told people the truth about what I thought and what I felt, they would attack me and they would smear me.
00:16:29.000And then it ended up getting picked up because Trump supporters resonated with it when it was applied to their views.
00:16:36.000I think that was a big thing that the internet helped make.
00:16:39.000It's one of the reasons why censorship is so big.
00:16:41.000It's one of the reasons why they're trying to ban everybody.
00:16:43.000Because community is important, to tell you.
00:16:46.000When you hear that voice on the other side of the wall of flame telling you, hey man, we're all chilling, it's fine.
00:16:51.000Just, just jump through and like, we're partying!
00:16:54.000And then people go for it, and they're like, this is so much better.
00:17:09.000Your metaphor goes right up along mine.
00:17:10.000Whereas if the government was like an abusive father in a relationship and like beating up the kids, you and your siblings, and then one night there's a fire in the house and the dad's like, come on, we got to get out.
00:18:20.000If you know that the narrative is bunk on a lot of this stuff, On policy especially, on mandates.
00:18:27.000But you keep just agreeing with whatever it is Fauci says next, even though if we were to play every soundbite from every interview, it would be the most nonsensical garbage you've ever heard.
00:18:37.000If you're gonna go along with that, you are willfully lying.
00:18:41.000Yeah, so I was talking about this on the way home last night and we came up with the conclusion that it's probably that they have too much sunk into this.
00:18:48.000This is very much a sunk cost fallacy application because they've wrapped their whole identity into following the leader and to, I guess for lack of a better expression, following this mass formation psychosis thing where they have one leader.
00:19:12.000They lack their churches, whatever it used to be.
00:19:14.000They're like, I have to follow someone.
00:19:16.000I don't really even have any friends, which I think is part of the reason that they need some form of therapy, even when they may not necessarily just because they lack friends and any kind of social life.
00:19:26.000And they end up being like, OK, I can't change my views.
00:19:31.000This has to be true or else what am I standing for?
00:19:34.000Well, if you've invested years into this, and now you're starting to recognize that Fauci has flip-flopped every day, non-stop, I feel like people's brains are just like, at this point, just a mishmash of broken reality.
00:19:48.000I get like war weariness from the insanity of 25, 21 years of conquest and pharmaceuticals making people psychotic.
00:19:57.000I'm interested to know your perception on this.
00:20:01.000Over the last, I don't know, how long you were with Animedia?
00:20:12.000What was your observation of people going, I don't even know if you think people have gone crazy, but people's mental state over the last decade?
00:20:19.000Yeah, you know, I think there's always been issues.
00:20:22.000I think the people really losing it now, it didn't just come out of nowhere.
00:20:26.000They probably already had Struggles and things they were dealing with and then it became much more exacerbated like I think if you're a generally well-grounded person Which I don't know.
00:20:35.000I don't know how common that is, but I think in general if you have inner resources You might be frustrated.
00:20:40.000You might be scared, but I don't think you can go to the to the spiral some people have fallen into.
00:20:46.000Because I really see, it gets to the point where people are, I mean, you can cite CDC data and people will still tell you you're crazy and you're selfish and you're propagandized and you're literally citing their authority and they'll still, they can't even register for that.
00:20:59.000Steven Crowder got a strike on YouTube for citing the CDC.
00:21:06.000When it comes to the modern vaccine narrative, I'm just like, I don't even know what YouTube's rules are at this point.
00:21:12.000Because I listen to Dr. Fauci and I'm like, well, if I say that, YouTube bans us.
00:21:15.000Because YouTube says you can't say that, but Fauci's saying it.
00:21:18.000So I'm like, I don't even know at this point.
00:21:19.000The pressure is reaching that point where, you know, we're saying like, listen, we want to be reasonable people.
00:21:27.000We want to talk about what's going on.
00:21:29.000But when YouTube outright says you cannot discuss things that they themselves discuss or CNN discusses, they give Crowder a strike over it.
00:21:37.000I'm like, yo, you're asking for people for their brains to just explode because you're backing people into a corner and sooner or later, they're going to say, I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore.
00:21:49.000It's like, uh, given if, if, if YouTube were, I don't like the metaphor sword fight, but if, if YouTube, and then they give you like a plastic sword, cause you're not allowed to say the stuff they say.
00:22:17.000I saw somebody get banned, I think Carl Benjamin, off of somebody else's.
00:22:22.000So what'll happen is that rather than target the channel that makes the bannable offense, they target the individual that started the channel.
00:22:28.000So then if they start a new channel with a completely different theme, they'll whack-a-mole it?
00:22:33.000The channel doesn't ban any terms and conditions.
00:22:35.000So we saw recently Ethan Klein of the H3 podcast and he announced he was deleting several episodes, two episodes he had with Jordan Peterson.
00:22:59.000And that's, that's the political landscape.
00:23:00.000But what's happening is someone went on his YouTube channel from a really old video and they mass-reported it, and he got a strike, which took his channel offline for a week.
00:23:10.000He needs to make sure people are paying the bills.
00:23:14.000Now, I think his reaction to this was really, really bad.
00:23:16.000What he ends up doing is saying, I'm gonna go back and delete past episodes, which can probably get me another strike.
00:23:22.000What people need to understand about YouTube and censorship and all that is that I've got, we've got Timcast IRL, where it is a variety of people, but includes me talking about news and politics.
00:23:35.000I have youtube.com slash Timcast News, which is me monologuing.
00:23:53.000Cause if someone on one of your shows, like a guest does something that has happened, that doesn't make sense for you to have any kind of issues.
00:24:30.000Even Klein has long been a comedic edgelord where he said offensive things, and that's why they're going after him.
00:24:35.000But the reason he's taking down these podcasts, in my opinion, with Jordan Peterson, is because...
00:24:41.000They can go to a three or four year old video, get it flagged because YouTube changed the rules later on, and then his whole company gets shut down.
00:24:50.000So his response to all this was, I'm taking it all down.
00:24:54.000He's been losing subscribers for whatever reason, I don't know, I think this may be related to it because he did this thing with Hasan Piker, the left-wing streamer.
00:25:01.000They did his collaboration and then he lost a ton of, he gained a bunch of subscribers and lost a ton of subscribers.
00:25:06.000I wonder if in his mind he's thinking, Yo, I don't care about politics.
00:25:29.000He nuked 8 million views off his channel, and in my opinion, it's because the culture war is escalating.
00:25:35.000The left, and probably the right, will go after his old videos.
00:25:38.000I'd be willing to bet there are people who are going to start flagging his content because he's announced he's doing left-wing content with his son.
00:25:45.000And you could never appease the mob so no matter how many times he apologizes there still clips of him saying some absolutely absurd stuff in the name of free speech that people are going to bring up and use against him the strategic move that should have been done here is build your own platform build up your own website build up.
00:26:02.000Your own subscription model have an alternative to YouTube because all the writings were on the wall even in 2008 I remember making videos in 2008 being like hey YouTube it's not going to be a space that is going to be respecting free speech and we're going to be seeing this platform restrict speech more as we go on and of course this is why I built my website my email list and if even if they do take me down fine I have alternatives I have Other ways of even getting payments.
00:26:30.000There's ways that we have moved away from this big system.
00:26:34.000And I think YouTube recognizes that they're not the all and be all right now.
00:26:40.000That there's alternatives and a lot of people are exploring those.
00:26:57.000The establishment, desperate, and the elites, the billionaires, many of these ultra-wealthy individuals, they desperately want to be back in that world where there were five channels, they all marched in lockstep on all the news stories, they all backed up the government and the major corporations, they could easily snap their fingers and get us involved in a war and say Iraq like the New York Times did, and now it's difficult.
00:27:18.000Now some random dude in a beanie screams at a camera for a few years and people watch the show and how do they get rid of it?
00:27:35.000If they go too hard, then people revolt, and they'll just make new platforms.
00:27:39.000Then the establishment is playing whack-a-mole, game of cat and mouse.
00:27:42.000They'll go after, you know, Gab, and accuse him of all this other, you know, nonsense, try and get him banned, and then Gab builds their own infrastructure.
00:27:58.000And in that regard, I will say I'm fairly optimistic that authoritarianism will not be able to prevail because there's nothing they can do to silence us.
00:28:06.000They can shut down our Twitters, but then Getter pops up.
00:28:09.000Getter might get crushed, but then people will go to Gap.
00:28:28.000I mean, we look at the latest statements made by the President of the United States.
00:28:32.000He was begging social media companies and the corporate media to start Censoring quote misinformation all in the name of keeping everyone safe.
00:28:40.000Dr. Fauci on the World Economic Forum also on his Zoom call was saying we need to fight disinformation for everyone's health.
00:28:47.000People are understanding what's going on here.
00:28:49.000The German government is even proposing on banning telegram.
00:28:53.000I love telegram I have a lot of fun on telegram it's ... one of the platforms that has truly risen and has allowed ... people to talk to each other without any algorithms without ... any central controllers without anyone dictating what ... you can and cannot see people are having real honest civil ... discussions for the German government that's a big no no ... no no we got a band that we can't allow the plebs to talk ... to each other.
00:29:14.000Dare they share ideas and have informed consent about the decisions that the plutocrats and billionaires make for them.
00:29:21.000Obviously, it's ridiculous to portray this concept that they're caring for us by limiting our speech.
00:29:28.000That's a ridiculous concept and a concept that has been used historically to oppress people, enslave them, and to murder them.
00:29:34.000That's the true lesson of history that we're learned here.
00:29:37.000So this is why they're still trying to censor speech in my opinion.
00:29:40.000Less that it's... I used to think that the goal was to censor the speech and be done with it.
00:29:44.000Now I'm starting to think the goal is to take control of the world's governance with a corporation, and then censoring the speech is a byproduct of that, or is a step on the way towards it.
00:29:54.000I would argue that they already did it in some ways.
00:30:25.000I could be wrong, but my understanding was they flooded people's feeds with negative information to see if they would get sad, and it worked.
00:30:33.000Yeah, it was psychological experiments on unsuspecting Facebook users.
00:30:36.000I've been talking about this for a number of years now, and this is what they were doing openly, admittedly.
00:30:41.000Testing and manipulating people's emotions with the algorithm, seeing how they could change their emotional state.
00:30:48.000And if they're doing that with emotions a couple years ago, I think this was over 10 years ago.
00:30:51.000What do you think they're doing now on such a complex level with the algorithm only gaining and becoming more stronger?
00:30:58.000So if they can make you sad with the algorithm, imagine what else they could make you do if they tweak the algorithm in different ways.
00:31:10.000Oh, dude, that's creepy, but it's true.
00:31:13.000Yeah, if you look at everything the establishment pushes, it's pushing a system that de-incentivizes the family unit, that perverses people's own sexuality, that bastardizes any kind of semblance of love and respect and harmony for the fellow human being.
00:31:27.000If you look at every aspect of it, it's to destroy families and the future of this country.
00:31:32.000So going back to the Ethan Klein thing with Jordan Peterson, a lot of people on the left and the right made this about tribal politics.
00:32:19.000I think he should have stayed true to himself, and he would have been a hero of those he long stood for.
00:32:24.000But I want to throw it to you, Carrie, because you work for anti-media, and there was something that I think was missed by Project Veritas.
00:32:31.000And I could be getting the story wrong, so again, you should fact check me on this one.
00:33:15.000I could be wrong, but I think I remember seeing that Google had blacklisted us, which makes sense because we could never get accepted into Google News.
00:33:21.000We'd apply and apply and we couldn't get in, even though other independent media outlets could.
00:33:26.000This actually reminds me, because we were talking about gaslighting and the way the media operates.
00:33:31.000So after the 2016 election, the Washington Post came out with an article about all the misinformation, and it was all spread by, you know, Russia.
00:33:39.000Russia was behind it, and all these news outlets were spreading misinformation to benefit Russia.
00:33:43.000And we were put on a list made by an anonymous group.
00:33:56.000But it's crazy, though, because I was, I worked for an organization called the Anti-Media.
00:34:00.000Like, I was clearly, I had already made, I had already broken ties with the mainstream media, and I came from the left.
00:34:05.000I was a, you know, pretty mainstream Democrat, voted for Obama, and so I went through quite an evolution away from that.
00:34:10.000But even then, seeing my name on that list from an authority figure, the Washington Post, I was like, wait, Am I in some way supporting Russia?
00:34:18.000And I'm like, this is driving me insane because I'm so actively, I mean, we wouldn't even quote RT unless it was like a Russian general.
00:34:25.000You know, we were so careful about not being aligned with state or with governments, with state-sponsored media, with really being accurate.
00:34:33.000And then, of course, I was angry because I was like, how are you gaslighting me this hard that I'm questioning my own integrity and my own practices when I know them better than any person at prop or not, any anonymous person?
00:34:43.000Um, but it definitely, when the bans happened, it was, it happened right after Alex Jones.
00:34:48.000So I don't know if you had a specific question, but it was... No, no, it's just what happened.
00:34:51.000Well, I think it's important to also understand, you were deplatformed on many different social media organizations.
00:34:57.000Can you tell us how you were deplatformed, how you dealt with it, where you are now?
00:35:01.000Yeah, so it's interesting because we actually had a Facebook representative working with our page.
00:35:06.000And this is back when Facebook was really big.
00:35:08.000It was still one of the major platforms.
00:36:23.000And even right now, it's really difficult for people to get started on YouTube because they want to make sure there's a very narrow path you can walk.
00:36:38.000You have absolutely no chances of making it.
00:36:40.000What they're doing right now is they've isolated, they've secretly, in my opinion, based on the data, quarantined channels like this one and many others.
00:36:49.000Now, I think we were quarantined for some time, but we had that lifted for some reason.
00:36:54.000I think, you know, we are on the edge of what they find tolerable.
00:36:58.000And I've often explained it as a pressure release valve.
00:37:01.000If they ban too many people at once, everyone just jumps ship and goes somewhere else.
00:37:05.000But if they want to control people's thoughts, what they'll do is, they'll ban some, and then make sure channels like this one remain so that people won't leave the platform, and they can keep feeding them a narrative.
00:37:16.000So I've talked about this in terms of effective censorship versus what a lot of these companies have been doing, saying that if you give people clear rules and understanding, they'll follow it, but if you ban them outright, You make them jump ship to other platforms where they maintain and push and double down.
00:37:59.000To put it simply, I think the reason anti-media gets banned, the reason why Alex Jones gets banned, the reason why they're going after Crowder is because they have the road they've paved, and if you walk off of it You're out. What gets me is that you got banned on Facebook
00:38:19.000and then later in that same day on Twitter That makes me think that it wasn't someone at Facebook
00:38:24.000called someone at Twitter and was like hey that it was somebody
00:38:27.000Above both organizations was like it's time That's what it makes it seem like but that's and that's the
00:38:32.000thing is I can't claim anything with certainty I'm not going to because I don't know but they had started
00:38:37.000working with the atlantic council I think it's called the Digital Forensics Research Lab, and they were supposed to be analyzing social media and helping platforms like Facebook and Twitter weed out anything that could threaten democracy and hurt the integrity of elections.
00:38:49.000And that council was connected with Henry Kissinger, who of course is also a very big fan favorite of We Are Change when we were conducting interviews of him.
00:38:56.000And obviously that didn't play a role in us getting hit on Facebook and YouTube and Twitter and all that other stuff.
00:39:01.000Last year, by the way, the Facebook page that I run on We Are Change got a strike because we posted a screenshot of the CDC website talking about breakthrough cases.
00:39:13.000It's not even just walking the tightrope.
00:39:19.000Even if you regurgitate the narrative back at them, they still have the indecency to try to destroy your livelihood, take away everything you worked so hard for, All in a moment's notice because you're not helping the multinational corporations.
00:39:33.000You're not helping the special interests.
00:39:35.000You're not helping the billionaires class.
00:39:36.000You're not helping Henry Kissinger, Bill Gates, and all these other people push their agenda onto everyone else.
00:39:42.000So it's becoming sick and twisted to such a degree that you can't even talk about the official story anymore.
00:39:48.000Well, and it's so telling, too, because the things we care about, the things that we covered—war, empire, police brutality, mass surveillance—these are things that, to many people on the left who are principled, this is not taboo to discuss.
00:40:01.000We're not talking about things that are out—we weren't, you know, we weren't— We weren't noticeably right-wing in any way, so all I'm left to believe is that whoever made these decisions didn't like the lens we were framing it in.
00:40:13.000It wasn't that we were against the empire.
00:40:15.000It was that we were framing it through an anarchist lens that was completely outside the realm of political solutions, like voting or something that people would consider acceptable.
00:40:22.000We were advocating an overhaul of the entire thing, and I'm left to—I mean, again, I can't say with any kind of certainty, but it seems like that was the issue.
00:40:30.000I want to address one of the superchats before we move on to the next segment.
00:40:35.000Normally we would just save it to the end, but people have pointed out that Ethan Klein has very, very offensive shows where he makes racial slurs and he says things like that and homophobic slurs.
00:40:47.000And I don't think that changes my point.
00:40:48.000I think my point is, him getting rid of the Jordan Peterson episode is because he's scared of the left going after him and getting him banned.
00:40:54.000So he's siding with them in hopes that it protects him and they won't go after him.
00:40:58.000The metaphor again is like if a doctor is like, hey, you have an infection, we're cutting it off.
00:41:02.000And you're like, ah, and then you start looking around at your body.
00:41:04.000You're like, that might be an infection.
00:43:31.000He would have made a big deal out of it.
00:43:32.000But also, everyone's talking about him now, which also achieved the goal of getting attention for this, which could have been something that he was seeking, potentially.
00:43:38.000And if he removed a bunch of ones, it wouldn't be... Now he gets to do... He can remove a video every two weeks and stay in the limelight.
00:44:10.000He's so irrelevant, I forgot the guy's name.
00:44:15.000But these people lie Non-stop, then they go on their TV channel.
00:44:20.000That's that's dropped in ratings by 90% and they're they're yeah reliable sources I think I love the irony of the name right imagine imagine a fire department called like flaming fire truck I don't know if I'd want them to come but the fire is free Tim a fire truck on fire is is the best way to explain what reliable sources on CNN means.
00:44:41.000It is one of the least reliable sources, and now they're going to be telling us that they're making this, you know, anti-disinformation show.
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00:45:02.000You know, Part of me is frustrated that we talk about CNN because when I learned that their ratings were down by over 90% and they were getting between like 70 and 100,000 in the key demo, I was like, wow, we should just not talk about them anymore because they're irrelevant.
00:45:16.000But they still do have institutional authority.
00:45:19.000YouTube props them up, puts them on the front page, and then you get a hundred million plus YouTube views.
00:45:24.000So we need to make sure we're calling out all of the lies and manipulations from CNN.
00:45:29.000This is like Ian doing anti-drug commercials.
00:45:48.000They have been lying to the American people nonstop, 24-7, fear mongering.
00:45:53.000And they're losing the audience because the audience understands, like, hey, I don't want to be spoken down to.
00:45:58.000I don't want to have my thoughts controlled.
00:46:00.000I don't want to have my perspectives limited to what you want me to think.
00:46:03.000They're the perfect representatives, they're PR for the special ruling elite, and they're nothing else but that.
00:46:08.000I get angrier and angrier, you know, seeing what these people do.
00:46:13.000And maybe there's a lot of people who watch this and don't understand why I would be so pissed off at the things CNN does or MSNBC.
00:46:23.000And you know, just watching Rachel Maddow on the verge of tears when the Russiagate scandal was proven, the Russiagate thing was proven false, she was almost crying.
00:46:31.000I think I totally understand why so many people were laughing and so happy to see that pain.
00:47:02.000When you look at this picture of these dudes, I see airbrushed photography, really bright light coming from the left, shadow on the right to make them give this angelic glow.
00:47:29.000I think it's probably still on YouTube.
00:47:30.000And then fast forward to the Trump years, and he's having a tantrum meltdown because Donald Trump didn't thank John McCain in the NDAA spending bill.
00:47:38.000Are you going to talk about indefinite detention built into that bill?
00:47:40.000You're going to talk about the billions of dollars spent on Empire?
00:47:50.000Like, you know, we get wrapped up in so much of this culture war stuff, even talking about CNN.
00:47:53.000I wonder if that's what keeps us safe on YouTube.
00:47:55.000Because if we started talking about the NDAA, indefinite detention provision, and Obama and Biden killing kids, and the corruption, and we start getting deep on foreign policy, I bet then they would nuke us instantly.
00:48:05.000Yeah, that would be an example of not playing ball.
00:48:07.000Right now we're actually playing tennis with CNN, talking about how bad they are.
00:48:15.000But I do wonder, like, who do they think this is for?
00:48:18.000Like, benefit of the doubt, they just have poor strategy and they think that they're going to actually reach people mired in disinformation.
00:48:23.000Like, benefit of the doubt, they're really doing—they think they're being really honorable journalists and they're trying to stop the spread of misinformation, but in reality, who's going to watch this?
00:48:32.000It's people who already agree with them, so that kind of just serves intentional or not.
00:48:36.000To deepen the divide and deepen the polarization where the people watching the show can be like, ha, look at those idiots.
00:48:40.000Look how stupid they are that they would believe that I'm better than them.
00:51:51.000I don't know, but I have to imagine, you know, I've gone to, I've been in a lot of airports and whenever I would go in, they would have CNN on.
00:51:57.000And I don't mean like, they do these, they used to do this deal.
00:52:02.000I mean, like, I would go to a lounge for, like, the United Lounge or the American Lounge, and they would have three TVs, and they'd be playing, like, CNN and maybe sports, and I'd be like, can you turn that off?
00:52:25.000So we actually, you know, Timcast IRL gets, we do the two hour show and it's close to like half a million in the key demo within two hours.
00:52:36.000So if we were, I don't know, after one hour, it's actually like two thirds of the views of the first hour and then it goes down.
00:52:42.000So we're probably getting like 250 to 300,000 key demo viewers in one hour.
00:52:47.000And if you look at that, we're half of Carlson.
00:52:51.000We're around half of Henry or Laura Ingraham or Gutfeld, which makes sense, but we're like at or twice as much as what CNN and MSNBC get.
00:54:55.000And even then, they still weren't getting the engagement and the reach and the shares that people like, that the anti-media was getting.
00:55:01.000Not just us, but a lot of independent news organizations.
00:55:04.000And that was being, not only having huge followings, but also being propped up by these institutions.
00:55:09.000Anderson Cooper, Mr. Vanderbilt, had a special deal with Facebook that literally was making sure that they had Facebook-exclusive content available to everyone, shoving it down their throats, shoving it down their algorithms, and they were playing it in my newsfeed, everyone's newsfeed, and they stopped that partnership because no one was watching it.
00:55:27.000No one wants to watch deep state television.
00:55:29.000No one wants to watch something that disrespects their intellect.
00:55:33.000in the basic understanding of human life.
00:55:35.000And I remember there used to be a time a few years ago where I would just have CNN on because they weren't as sensationalistic, they weren't as bombastic, they weren't as crazy.
00:55:44.000But still, back then, even a few years ago, I would have it on because they would have, you know, good breaking news coverage and I was monitoring the news and it was somewhat okay, still kind of low vibrational, but not as bad.
00:55:55.000Now, I literally feel sick watching them.
00:55:57.000I literally feel nauseous and I'm like, I can't, this is absolutely a weaponized infotainment that's meant to hurt people in so many extensive ways.
00:56:10.000Terrain theory of disease, Luke, your body is mirroring the neurons of the people you're watching.
00:56:15.000So when you watch one like Brian Stelter, and he's all stressed out and hates his life, that you're going to start, your body is going to start mimicking that behavior of stress.
00:56:23.000Maybe not necessarily, but that's the theory of like terrain theory of disease is involved with that and mirror neurons and things like that.
00:56:51.000A bunch of truckers blocked both directions, the Canadian U.S.
00:56:54.000border, so that it was difficult to enter and difficult to leave because Canada is going to be imposing a vaccine mandate where if you are a U.S.
00:57:02.000citizen, a trucker, you can't enter Canada unless you're vaccinated.
00:57:06.000And if you're a Canadian trucker and you enter and you're not vaccinated, you have to quarantine.
00:57:11.000So naturally people are protesting, and at a time when there's already shortages, at a time when the policies in this regard have already failed, it seems like... I'm sorry man, I know people don't like hearing it, but...
00:57:25.000It's almost intentional gutting of the system.
00:57:27.000Because you know truckers aren't going to go for this.
00:57:29.000And you know without them, you won't get food.
00:57:32.000It's like they're trying to destroy the economy on purpose.
00:57:35.000It's like they're trying to have something like a great reset.
00:57:39.000It's like they're trying to destroy the current system that we're living under in order to rebuild back a new one that works in their favor.
00:57:47.000And I think chaos is the name of the game.
00:57:49.000I think that's what they're trying to achieve.
00:57:51.000There's always this kind of prevailing idea of order out of chaos.
00:57:54.000And if you look at a lot of the moves that governments have been making throughout human history, those are the moves that they're making.
00:58:45.000People are taking dumps in their water and then claiming they're not, and I'm just like, you know, let me just say, people underestimate how clowned out the clown world is.
00:58:56.000There's a video I tweeted about, you know, some person saying their pronouns are clown and clown self, and I'm like, yeah, that about explains it.
00:59:04.000Well, you know, I'm thinking about the bombing of London.
00:59:07.000You brought this up last week during the Blitzkrieg.
00:59:43.000They put us under lockdown, everyone panics, begins to go nuts, then they take us out, dry us off, put us back in, and then we swim for 60 hours.
00:59:50.000Yeah, if this was a real emergency, we wouldn't be waiting for authority to give us the go-ahead.
00:59:55.000Well, to play devil's advocate, and I'm not saying that this is what I believe, I'm just saying, like, is there any other reason why they would be doing this?
01:00:02.000I absolutely believe there are people in power who are doing this for control, for authority, but I'm wondering, like, Aren't there people in positions of power who genuinely believe in themselves and are just as caught as people watching MSNBC and genuinely believe that this is going to work?
01:00:18.000Through their arrogance and their certainty about their version of reality, they think that if they do this, they are going to get people to get vaccinated.
01:00:24.000I'm not saying it's right, but is it possible that it's not always sinister?
01:00:27.000It's not always nefarious and manipulative.
01:00:30.000It's actually just people who are also programmed.
01:00:32.000Well, then we got a problem because there's a zombie horde taking over and they're marching through the streets.
01:00:45.000Twitter creates fertile ground for the refuse of the far-left broken ideologies.
01:00:51.000Jack Dorsey, having created Twitter and now following people who are trapped in the sewer of Twitter, he begins drinking his own refuse and believing his own insanity.
01:01:01.000And then his opinions get shaped, thinking this is reality, when in reality he made a big toilet.
01:01:06.000A big toilet for people to take dumps into with their garbage ideas.
01:01:09.000He absorbs those garbage ideas, thinks they're real.
01:01:12.000So what we have is, there's a possibility that there is a cabal of powerful individuals who are pulling the strings with big corporate donations, with lobbying and things like that.
01:01:22.000And I think that's true, obviously, to a certain extent.
01:01:24.000But it's entirely possible that crackpot idiots on CNN follow other crackpot idiots, and they recycle information, playing a big game of telephone, and then, here's what happens.
01:01:36.000Somebody writes an article and they're like, I need clicks.
01:01:38.000So they're like, I think Trump is a fascist.
01:01:41.000So Trump, is Trump behaving like a fascist?
01:02:27.000So now they're screaming, Bill Maher brings it up, that Democrats were polled and they were asked what the likelihood was, percentage-wise, of needing hospitalization if you get COVID, and they said 50%.
01:02:41.000Republicans and independent voters got it right, 5%.
01:02:44.000But these are people who believe each other, hyping each other up, constantly one-upping garbage fake news until they're like, lock the whole country down, burn it to the ground, otherwise everyone dies.
01:02:55.000They are running around screaming, the sky is falling, and for some reason we've been listening to them and arguing with them instead of just excising them from political discourse and saying, do whatever you want, I'll be over here living.
01:03:17.000But for this type of policy to be implemented because of popular support, people have to say to themselves, the vaccine mandates worked so great that we have to implement more vaccine mandates.
01:03:27.000And I think it's pretty clear to the average person paying attention that they absolutely did it.
01:03:31.000I mean, there's even Trudeau and Fauci coming out on record saying that these mandates, these vaccine mandates, Aren't about health.
01:03:37.000They're about convincing other people to take the shot.
01:03:40.000So this kind of fervent policymaking that clearly is disrupting the economy clearly is going to have negative effects when already the store shelves are barren in some places when already the supply chain has been disrupted asking for more supply chain disruptions is literally creating chaos.
01:03:56.000So I'm sticking to what I personally believe in.
01:03:59.000That's my personal feeling and I could be wrong because I don't think it's idiots leading the herd.
01:04:03.000I think it's Uh, you know, a few powerful people creating the idiots that are bringing them along, but there's not a lot of them, uh, still when it comes to the bigger official story of COVID, which is breaking.
01:05:48.000And maybe he's just so far gone that he thinks that's acceptable because I know there are a lot of people who feel that way.
01:05:52.000But he was dealing arms to the Saudis for years, and it's been well documented how their human rights track record and what they do in Yemen.
01:07:40.000So there could be a Star Wars movie here with me and Putin being on opposing sides and then my family helping take down the Soviet Union, which of course is the evil empire which Putin was a KGB agent of.
01:08:25.000I find that watching CNN trying to think your way out of the psychosis doesn't work.
01:08:30.000It's like no thought is the way to get away from that stuff, which is why I usually turn off the TV and step outside or something.
01:08:37.000If you turn the TV off and go outside and ignore the mainstream media and just say, like, tend to your goats or chickens for a week, when you turn the TV on, it'll be like watching Saturn.
01:08:50.000Because the news changes so rapidly these days.
01:08:53.000Like, if you listen to Dr. Fauci, I mentioned this, you know, a while back.
01:08:58.000He'll come out and he'll be like, you don't need to be wearing two masks.
01:09:02.000But then three days later, he's like, you should be wearing two masks.
01:09:06.000And then you get one person who watched one story, and then didn't see the update, and the other person who sees the update, and now they're arguing online about who's right and who's wrong.
01:09:14.000And it's like, I bet you could spend seven days away and miss the news cycle changing three times and come back and not even know it changed.
01:09:51.000When there are people on Twitter tweeting at me being like, uh, duh, the vaccines do X. And I'm like, that's not what Joe Biden or Fauci or the CDC director said three months ago.
01:10:04.000I understand science changes, But isn't it a bit too rapid?
01:10:08.000Because if it is changing this rapidly, then there's no plan, and it's very likely to change again.
01:10:17.000You have to be traumatized to believe the official story, and there's a lot of people who are traumatized that the corporate media and the politicians scare the crap out of every single day, and that's the only way that they could get them in a state that's irrational, not paying attention, and has them going along with The big overlord state saying we will protect you when of course they're doing the complete opposite of that.
01:12:40.000Now, I think it's fair to say, okay, maybe they got it wrong, but at a certain point they should be like, it's probably going to change.
01:12:46.000We don't know for sure, but everyone's so Sure of themselves.
01:12:51.000Yeah, they didn't know that had waning immunity.
01:12:53.000So how did they know anything else surrounding this?
01:12:56.000Yeah, exactly the same thing pretty much.
01:13:00.000But the official story has changed so many times that these bureaucrats have flip-flopped so many times.
01:13:07.000It's difficult to even understand where we're at right now.
01:13:10.000And I think the strategy that they're implementing right now is let's just spin people around so they get confused that don't know what's going on.
01:13:16.000And it's all going to be scary unless you just obey us.
01:13:19.000That's the policy that they have implemented because it's only going to be a certain time now where people are going to be like, OK, I'm going to stop spinning now.
01:13:27.000I'm going to start paying attention to what's going on here.
01:13:32.000And I think this larger mass awakening is happening, and it's going to have some very severe effects on our society and our political system.
01:13:39.000This is why the Democrats are giving up COVID, in my opinion, right before this upcoming election, because they can't win with this policy that has destroyed people's lives and only enriched the billionaire class.
01:13:51.000I don't think people want to accept that when I say, not everybody, just there are some people who don't want to accept, when I say that the country is breaking apart or that states are breaking apart, I don't see that as a bad thing.
01:15:44.000Anyway, speaking about this specific topic that we were just talking about, it's also important to note that England is looking at getting rid of their health pass.
01:15:53.000They're looking to get rid of their vaccine passport system, which soon will be implemented.
01:15:57.000This is a huge shift in the narrative As of course there's major scientific studies there's a lot of information coming out that clearly is disrupting this entire official story of what they've been telling us from the very beginning so this whole narrative is collapsing this there's a lot of important reasons to be extremely optimistic I've been talking about this weeks ago I'm saying with this latest variant there's a big probability even according to the World Health Organization that announced
01:16:24.000that this is going to be the end of COVID potentially in 2022. So there's a lot of
01:16:30.000mainline institutions, there's a lot of mainline doctors talking about what we were talking months
01:16:34.000ago, and there's this meme going around that I tweeted that specifically shows, you know,
01:16:39.000the talking points that this administration and that these authorities had from the very beginning.
01:17:18.000We're here to point out that there's elements of people making fun of what we've been told and exaggerating it because it's already been exaggerated to such an extensive level that it's hard for people to pay attention to even what's going on.
01:17:32.000Yeah, well, you said that in 2022, we might see the end of COVID, according to the World Health Organization.
01:17:37.000I would point out that maybe not the end of COVID, the end of COVID hysteria, but that the virus itself, I've heard that it supposedly will be endemic, meaning that we're just going to live with the thing, the coronavirus.
01:17:47.000one theory out there. There's another theory that this latest variant is
01:17:52.000spreading so fast that it's going to create natural immunity. It's less
01:17:56.000severe, less people are gonna end up in the hospital, so everyone's going to get
01:18:00.000it because of how fast it spreads to everyone and then essentially it will
01:18:03.000kind of die out and phase out from here because everyone will have immunity.
01:18:06.000Or just live with us forever as we're immune.
01:18:08.000But when you look at coronaviruses, there's usually a specific trend of how they kind of operate, of how they
01:18:14.000infect people and how they stop infecting people based on those mutations.
01:18:18.000So if we're following the basic procedures of how previous coronavirus, SARS and MERS, have affected the world, it's logical to believe that this is going to happen here.
01:18:26.000Dr. Fauci has a different story saying there's going to be another variant that's going to be really bad.
01:18:31.000But of course, he, of course, has an invested interest in keeping this storyline going because his entire career is made On the severity of this sickness so obviously has a conflict of interest again.
01:18:43.000These are some of the debates happening within the scientific community that I think are extremely important right now and I think are important to pay attention to because if this is the case there's going to be some significant political changes in our society when we come to the end of this and people feel bamboozled.
01:19:00.000I hope that we can, as a species, learn to kind of live maybe in a more coherent manner with viruses in general.
01:20:19.000This is something that of course cats have as a mechanism for their survival when they kind of have this virus that's in poop that makes rats love them.
01:20:27.000So there's elements of this, according to some medical studies, highlighting how there's similar effects on the human brain that cause women and men to be impulsive, causes them to also be affected by this in a very negative state.
01:20:40.000But again, viruses are something that we have been dealing with from the beginning of humanity.
01:20:46.000It's something that, of course, is not going away.
01:20:48.000And I think there's a lot of important learning lessons from everything that happened within the last two years that we should really Learn from and not repeat those mistakes that were made.
01:20:58.000I remember when I was growing up, I had a lot of important learning lessons.
01:21:02.000Like, what was the most important one?
01:21:28.000You guys know exactly what I'm saying.
01:21:30.000And I might even make my own learning lessons about this.
01:21:34.000Well, speaking of learning lesson, if we're going to move on, I just want to say before that, I know I think this all started because of a comment that said it's really cynical to talk about how everything's falling apart.
01:21:42.000But speaking of lessons in history, I just want to point out, I do see how it can sound cynical and it can often be depressing.
01:21:49.000And there is often a sense of hopelessness.
01:21:51.000But if you do look at history, regimes fall.
01:21:56.000I'm sure there are some exceptions to this, I don't want to say always, but the grand scheme of history and all of the empires and all of the authoritarians who've ruled over people, eventually it falls.
01:22:23.000A lot of arguments against anarchists in the Second Amendment is, are you going to allow people to have nuclear weapons?
01:22:29.000Well, literally, there's private individuals and corporations creating weapons that are even far more superior and more powerful than nuclear weapons.
01:22:36.000That specifically is artificial intelligence.
01:22:38.000And that's happening right now with collusion of the state.
01:22:41.000Let me ask you, what's scarier for you?
01:22:44.000The fact that certain states have nuclear bombs, warheads, or the fact that private, unaccountable individuals can post your web browser history?
01:22:56.000I mean, I gotta be honest, I'm not worried about nuclear war.
01:22:59.000I'm honestly not super scared about, I don't like the spying or anything, but I'm sure there's a lot of people who are like, you know, look, people cheating on their wives is a good example.
01:23:07.000Yeah, Facebook knows if you're cheating on your wife.
01:23:10.000Young women who are pregnant don't want their parents to find out or their boyfriends to find out.
01:23:42.000Did someone walk in and they're like, what?
01:23:45.000I don't remember the exact details of this, but this was a mainline story even before Edward Snowden came out saying, hey, the NSA are doing this.
01:23:54.000This is how they got... TSA agents also have an extremely horrible record of abusing their power with individuals that they have to engage with and act with.
01:24:06.000I think you were talking about a lot of those stories, Carrie, when you were working in alternative media, specifically the stories that have been significantly underplayed but are significant to our way of life.
01:24:17.000Which one was, do you think, in your opinion, one of the most kind of egregious ones when it comes to government abuse of power?
01:24:24.000Abuse of power in general or surveillance?
01:24:30.000Well, I mean, obviously what Snowden cracked open with all of his—I don't even want to say leaks, because he was so careful about releasing it.
01:24:37.000But nonetheless, I'm actually looking it up, and apparently it was Snowden who said that the NSA would intercept nude pics.
01:24:44.000Yes, yes, he said that he confirmed it, but there's even before that I was even before that mainline articles talking about this which Again is just I mean imagine imagine having a private moment where you were loved on and then there's fat cat bureaucrats Becky's siphoning through all your private, most intimate moments, and they're using it for their own bastardized way.
01:25:56.000I'm just like, I look at this and it's like...
01:25:58.000All this says to me is that the government failed.
01:26:01.000Despite all of their efforts and all of their claims of certainty that they knew exactly what to do to fix it, here we are.
01:26:07.000And this is just like an advertisement against government policy to see this guy just saying, no, this is as far as we've gotten.
01:26:13.000And despite all of this, no, we're still in stage one.
01:26:16.000It's been two years and we're still in stage one.
01:26:20.000Two weeks to slow the spread, but there's some good news here.
01:26:25.000There's some really good news here because this is Dr. Fauci saying it.
01:26:28.000The guy flip-flops and is wrong on almost everything, which means he's probably wrong about this as well, which means we're probably closer to the end than the actual starting point.
01:26:37.000But for again, Fauci, a lot of invested interest.
01:26:40.000He's one of the few bureaucrats that actually makes more money from his side hustles than he does from his government job.
01:26:45.000His government job pays him more than any other bureaucrat in Washington DC.
01:26:51.000There was recent financial transactions that were released showing that he has at least 10 million dollars in assets.
01:27:00.000And this is a man who's been working for the government almost his entire life.
01:27:04.000Where has those millions of dollars come from?
01:27:06.000Well, of course, those are important questions that a lot of people should be asking.
01:27:09.000He has a lot of connections to a lot of very powerful individuals.
01:27:13.000And of course, as we know, everything that the United States has been involved in has been a big business against the American people.
01:27:19.000But how do you see this kind of unfolding, Kerry?
01:27:23.000How do you see this COVID landscape, this Dr. Fauci landscape moving from this particular moment in time?
01:27:30.000Honestly, I mean, it's just my opinion.
01:27:33.000I thought Hillary Clinton was going to win in 2016.
01:27:35.000So, you know, take it for what it's worth.
01:27:36.000But being from Los Angeles and having spent a lot of the pandemic there, I think it's going to be very difficult for the federal government, even for state governments, local governments to keep enforcing this because people are burned out.
01:27:48.000And Los Angeles is one of the most compliant places in the country, as far as I could tell.
01:27:52.000And it's policy-wise and just the people in general.
01:27:54.000But even at this point, there are people, they can't do it anymore.
01:27:58.000Even people who got vaccinated, and now they feel that they were misled.
01:28:01.000I don't want to say lied to, because sure, the science changed.
01:28:03.000But there are people who feel that even though they followed all of these protocols, they followed all the policies, they obeyed, they did what they were told to be good people, and still it hasn't been resolved.
01:28:14.000I'm telling you Los Angeles is such a liberal place and I left for six weeks in the fall and I came back and there was way less compliance like there were people in stores not wearing masks and nobody said anything whereas before I left that you didn't see that that wasn't a thing and I know that people are burned out because of what I'm seeing in Los Angeles where it's heavily liberal and people really had good intentions about stopping this part of the pandemic and doing everything they could to end it.
01:28:37.000I have a friend who got vaccinated and Now he's being told, well actually it doesn't work, you have to get another, and he's not doing it because he felt he did it for the sake of doing his part in stopping the spread.
01:28:49.000He took one for the team and now they're not going to convince him to do it again.
01:28:52.000But the problem is if you trust the science and if the official narrative is, the statements from the CDC and all that, is you need to get your booster, then who are you to challenge the system?
01:29:04.000If you're doing your part, why would you stop now?
01:29:06.000Now, I will always stress, you know, get your advice from trusted medical professionals.
01:29:39.000Right and it's weird because I remember that talking point it was we have to not overwhelm hospitals and I'm looking at this just as I'm looking at this article and it's like you guys have had two years and you haven't been able to get hospitals the resources they need and I'm supposed still supposed to take your advice and listen you not even advice commands and those obey your commands when you couldn't even solve the initial problem that all this was for and you've had all this time.
01:29:59.000I think, you know, one thing I feel like we should probably mention more though with all of this is as much as policy-wise, I think our position is very clear.
01:30:08.000It's very libertarian or even anarchic for you guys.
01:30:12.000I also think it's important to point out there's probably really serious long-term health effects for COVID that aren't even being picked up right now.
01:30:18.000And so I say this because, you know, it's now been several months for us, but I still feel a presence from having COVID.
01:30:25.000I can feel it in my back from time to time.
01:31:32.000I just don't want to get lost in being upset about policy to make it seem like we would downplay the sickness.
01:31:40.000We talk about how you probably won't be hospitalized, you'll probably get better, but there are long-term effects and I think that's a fair point to make.
01:31:47.000And I think that's what's so frustrating for some people, at least.
01:31:50.000Like, someone like me, like, I took it seriously.
01:31:54.000And yet I'm still thrown into this category of just a crazy QAnon right-wing Nazi Trump supporter, when in fact, like, I've never said that COVID wasn't serious.
01:32:01.000It's not going to be as serious for some people as others.
01:32:05.000I lost my sense of smell, but other than that, yeah, I was really tired, and my fever never went above 99.
01:32:10.000So, like, people have different responses.
01:32:12.000It's not to say that not—I'm not saying that everybody is going to be fine, but some people are going to have a terrible time, and it's important to be considerate of others.
01:32:19.000The opposition is to these top-down mandates that, even if they did work, I wouldn't support them because they're mandates, but add on that they're not even effective, and I think that's where so much of the frustration comes from.
01:32:29.000The answer, just really quickly, is personal responsibility.
01:32:32.000If you're vulnerable, you should take extra measures to protect yourself.
01:32:35.000This is why I've always been talking about terrain therapy, early treatment, something that, of course, you could be doing.
01:32:41.000This should be a big wake-up call to a lot of people saying, hey, I'm going to take my life, my health into my own hands, and I'm going to make sure that I'm the best, healthiest version of myself because There is something.
01:33:31.000I prefer to wear a seatbelt. New Hampshire, no seatbelt laws. Are you serious? Yep, absolutely.
01:33:36.000No helmet laws either. Live free or die. It's your choice as an individual. The first thing
01:33:42.000the free-staters do, they're like all in favor of banning seatbelt laws. Absolutely. I bang the
01:33:46.000gavel. It's like there's... Hallelujah.
01:33:49.000Thank goodness that we live, we have a place in America where we have still some semblance of personal responsibility in your life, your life being in your own hands.
01:33:57.000The funniest thing I saw in New Hampshire though was a man, huge muscular guy, no helmet, riding a big Harley, but with a big mask on.
01:34:11.000What he wants to do, it's his personal responsibility, and I'm not even going to judge him.
01:34:15.000Until he gets thrown off his bike and breaks his skull, and then we have to have 15 EMS workers come out and waste hospital space to heal this dude that could have worn a helmet.
01:35:09.000I mean, are you going to start policing obese people from eating cheeseburgers because they weigh down the system and hurt the medical institutions?
01:35:16.000Obviously that's an incredulous kind of move that the big state control psychopaths want to have over your existence.
01:35:25.000If someone wants to win a Darwin Award, this might not sound like the nicest of things, let them win the Darwin Award!
01:36:15.000Ian, with respect, this is a good point, because people need to understand our lines for what we tolerate are... they change from person to person.
01:36:23.000Like, what should the drinking age be?
01:36:27.000I've actually seen a lot of... there's an advocacy group saying it should be 18, because they're adults.
01:36:32.000And that by making this three year gap from 8 to 21, you actually increase the risk of someone who lives on their own getting alcohol poisoning and not seeking treatment.
01:36:41.000But everybody's got a different idea of where that appropriate line is.
01:36:44.000So that's why I always lean more towards get the government out of it.
01:36:47.000to a certain degree unless typically when kids are involved to a certain age like don't deal
01:36:52.000drugs to kids but if you're an adult i think you should be able to imbibe or partake as you see fit
01:36:57.000the problem is when you decide ian this guy should have to wear a helmet because he's going to clog up
01:37:01.000the system if he gets injured where do we draw the line should we just be like don't let him
01:37:05.000ride the motorcycle dude don't let him hit the cheeseburger yeah
01:37:25.000No, I'm not trying to prevent the accidents.
01:37:27.000I'm trying to prevent the clog to the system.
01:37:30.000And people with helmets on will still break their legs and arms and could still get knocked out and get road rash and will still be in the hospitals.
01:37:36.000So, my thing is, hey, I'll tell you what's easier, Ian.
01:38:37.000There was a company who created the three-point seatbelt and then gave it away for free.
01:38:41.000And then, I don't know if this is true so you guys can fact check me, but I was told that there were insurance companies lobbying for seatbelt laws because it won't change the amount of accidents, but it'll reduce the amount they have to pay out if people are wearing seatbelts.
01:38:52.000So they were very big advocates for forcing it.
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01:40:04.000And I'm like, it's an interesting point.
01:40:07.000To what degree of severity of pandemic would we all kind of be like, okay, shut it down?
01:40:12.000With COVID, we're not that scared of it.
01:40:14.000Democrats are, so their tolerance has been met.
01:40:18.000For me, if it was airborne Ebola, I'd still err on the side of let people take the risks they want and I'll go hide in the woods to stay away from airborne Ebola.
01:40:24.000I think the point is more people wouldn't want to chance it.
01:40:27.000I think there would be a lot more voluntary compliance and measures taken because the risk would be so blatant and obvious.
01:40:34.000Yeah, I think a lesson I've learned from this is you really don't have to force people to take precautions during a pandemic.
01:41:12.000That they're going to allow teenagers to drive trucks because they need more drivers.
01:41:16.000I think that's what bothers me is that they're about to step into automated industry.
01:41:21.000So that entire industry is those people, 16-year-olds that are getting jobs now, probably in a decade aren't going to have those jobs anymore.
01:41:26.000Maybe this is time to phase out actual human truckers.
01:41:28.000And I was going to say, one of the things that we were just looking at was the case of a 23-year-old driver who came down a hill too fast and ended up killing a few people.
01:41:37.000I guess they lightened it a little bit, but that's crazy.
01:41:40.000But there were a lot of people who commented saying that they were truckers, and they agreed with the sentencing because he's responsible for that rig, and if he doesn't know how to use it, he shouldn't be driving it.
01:41:48.000He could have taken off ramps, from what I heard, and he chose not to take two off ramps.
01:41:52.000But the issue, I guess, that people were bringing up is...
01:41:55.000If you take a job driving a truck and you get into an accident, we understand it's an accident, but if you choose to arm yourself with a gun, as is your right, and then you accidentally discharge it hitting people, you are still going to go to prison.
01:42:09.000And I'm like, that's actually a fair point.
01:42:11.000Like this guy chose to get behind the wheel of a rig that he didn't know how to handle and then killed people.
01:42:16.000If you don't know how to handle your weapon and you go out, hey, you're responsible for what comes out of that, out of that gun.
01:42:20.000You're responsible for what you hit when you're in a massive truck like that.
01:42:23.000So it's an interesting point because initially I was like, this makes no sense.
01:42:42.000Chris Stark says dirty jobs and how it's made should be required learning in schools so that upcoming generations and kids and teens get a real grasp on how things work.
01:42:51.000Also bring back civics and acts social studies.
01:42:54.000Mike Rowe didn't voice how it's made, did he?
01:44:13.000Yeah, I would disagree with the commentator and I would just be like don't don't rely on the state to educate your children And don't expect them to do a good job at it I think I think they're being figurative like people should have their kids watch these shows.
01:44:27.000Oh, well about the civics education though because Because I was thinking about that.
01:44:30.000Yeah, which is, as far as I know, civics education hasn't gone away.
01:44:34.000I know that, I mean, I'm not a child, but when I was in school we learned all about how the government works and people have been learning about this for generations and yet we ended up here.
01:44:42.000So I'm not sure that teaching people how the government functions and how to participate is necessarily a guard against tyranny or authoritarianism or all the ways things have gone sideways.
01:44:54.000All right, Madison Lynn says, Luke, beautiful eyed POC Luke, have that shirt as a hoodie.
01:45:00.000Damn right, we already do have it as a hoodie on thebestpoliticalshirts.com and there's multiple options, women's shirts, regular shirts, you name it, we got it.
01:45:09.000They're going to mention that people think they're a leftist because they have, quote, people are gangs, until they explain that they're anti-state.
01:45:37.000Well, I did drink a ton of water and I feel a lot better, but I think it might have more to do with the fact that I may already have proper magnesium and that was too much.
01:47:09.000Q is a, yeah, it's one of the leading firearms companies in the United States, and it's not The Conspiracy Theory, it's a gun manufacturer that does really well-made firearms.
01:47:23.000I own one of their Sugar Weasels, which is a very fun pistol that is really cool to shoot in 300 blackout.
01:47:35.000Alright, let's let's grab some more instructor uber says hey Tim you're hiring security I have seen it.
01:47:40.000I have seven years of armed experience including leadership and canine handler.
01:47:45.000so we we have security we're getting even more security and Yeah, a lot of people based on like the vlog and other things that happen a bit like why don't you have security?
01:47:57.000It's like we do but what you need to understand is that I guess we're getting to the point where I didn't think we needed, like, armed guards standing checkpoint in our acre-long driveway and things like that.
01:48:28.000Self-defense is definitely where it's at.
01:48:30.000And being facetious, obviously, we should get security.
01:48:32.000When we were building Mines, we learned pretty quick that you think you're building one thing, but then immediately we needed all these bug testers and beta testers.
01:48:40.000So like, we weren't building a beta test company, but we found out after we started that that's what we needed was a bug.
01:48:46.000And so similar with security, when you're doing like a media company, it turns out it's a huge part of the organization.
01:48:53.000There's a lot of crazy people out there.
01:49:02.000My understanding is they waited until our guests were arriving and then tried coming at the same time and then tried claiming they were invited in, which is a complete lie.
01:49:52.000And so I'm like, this shouldn't have happened, but we didn't, you know, this person basically waited until our guests had all arrived when we had a group coming in and then walks in when everyone was, you know, occupied.
01:50:06.000And it shouldn't have happened, but it did.
01:50:08.000And so now we have increased security 10x, and the police are involved, and this guy is going to get the full brunt of whatever there is, because when we get swatted, when we get death threats, when we have people here who are actively getting death threats, and then you think you're gonna come on here to try and get yourself promoted and lie about what happened, we can't tolerate that.
01:51:06.000I noticed that you were mentioning, Lydia, that in, like, Frederick, the stores were empty.
01:51:09.000Yeah, so one of the things I saw was that there were a bunch of empty shelves.
01:51:12.000I went into, I actually tweeted about it, and then that day I went into Walmart and I saw just there was no meat, there was no chicken, there's almost no produce.
01:53:47.000Zypho says, Tim, did you know that the Militia Act of 1792 required gun ownership and to be armed when traveling away from home for all adult males?
01:54:34.000My criticism was California doubling their tax rate to pay for it, which would just drive rich people away from the state, and they would have no funds to pay for it.
01:54:41.000I think, realistically, we as a nation will struggle to implement something on a mass scale.
01:54:47.000I think idealistically, wouldn't it be great if we could have a functioning medical system universally for everybody?
01:54:53.000The problem is, as Ian mentioned, you can't because people don't take care of themselves.
01:55:12.000I mean, the medical industry and the food industry are so intertwined now after, what was it, the 1910, they signed the, some act got signed in 1910 where the medical industry basically, they started to do away with homeopathic medicine.
01:55:25.000And the Flexner Report, it was the name of the report that got issued.
01:55:30.000If you go to feed someone sugar and then give them Prozac to counteract the negative things, like, that's the same industry, basically, essentially.
01:55:37.000Because, basically, if you try and do universal healthcare, a leak will spring up in your boat, and you'll stick your finger in, and another leak will pop, and you'll keep trying to plug all the holes, which you can't do.
01:55:47.000So, ultimately, you just need decentralization.
01:55:50.000Yeah, I don't think you can allow actual freedom.
01:55:52.000I think that centralized healthcare is going to require a great deal of authoritarianism that we don't want.
01:55:57.000Especially in a country of 330 million people, it's not going to work.
01:56:02.000And the thing too is the healthcare system is already so corrupted.
01:56:06.000These interests have already overtaken Congress.
01:56:08.000Like, who are you expecting to do this in a way that isn't built on a bedrock of cronyism and corruption, that isn't really looking out for people's best interests?
01:56:16.000So the idea is really nice, but pragmatically and realistically, I don't think everybody in America is going to reelect progressive-only politicians who are going to scrap the entire system and then build a brand new one, which would already have its own issues because of the centralization.
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