On this week's episode of The Blaze, Jason Whitlock is joined by The Blaze's own Delano Squires to discuss the latest in the ongoing saga of Joe Biden's presidency and the potential 25th Amendment. Plus, a new poll shows that 55% of Americans don't think that Kamala Harris is ready to replace Joe Biden as the next Democratic presidential candidate.
00:00:00.000So a couple days ago, 25th Amendment was trending on Twitter.
00:00:25.000And considering the ongoing chaos that is the Biden administration right now, many people are still wondering if this is the moment That they finally hand off the mantle to Kamala Harris, because everybody expected it.
00:00:38.000You know, even before the election, everybody was like, how long is Joe Biden gonna last?
00:00:42.000And then a bunch of people said, you know, as much as I want to believe he wouldn't last a term, he'll probably make it to the end of a term, and then maybe he won't run a second term.
00:00:49.000And then there was a period where he said he wasn't gonna run a second term, and then he's like, no, no, I'm gonna run a second term.
00:03:27.000And I mean, I think a lot of the issues that we talk about are issues that can be come at You know, from a number of different perspectives.
00:03:33.000And I tend to write a lot about family and faith and education and social issues, issues in the black community.
00:03:42.000But I'm trying to approach them oftentimes from a biblical Christian worldview.
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00:05:27.000I really love the framing because I don't think anyone was fine with Trump overthrowing the government.
00:05:32.000I think that's just a very unfair way to look at what was happening.
00:05:36.000But let's move forward to why Joe Biden's being criticized in the first place.
00:05:40.000We're going to talk more about what's going on with Afghanistan.
00:05:43.000Biden versus reality from the Daily Mail.
00:05:46.000President falsely stated that the U.S.
00:05:48.000has no troops in Syria when there are 900, and the Afghan military had 300,000 troops in a series of lies and bungled statements in an ABC interview.
00:05:57.000Biden said there was no way to leave Afghanistan without chaos ensuing.
00:06:00.000But six weeks ago, he said a Taliban takeover was highly unlikely.
00:06:04.000doesn't have a presence in Syria, but 900 troops remain.
00:06:07.000The president took questions from the media for the first time in over a week on Wednesday in an interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos.
00:06:14.000Yeah, but was he actually making himself available to all press?
00:06:18.000In one bizarre moment, Biden seemingly brushed off Afghani stowaways so desperate to flee, they clung to departing U.S.
00:06:26.000And now we've got the White House chief of staff, who apparently is not doing interviews, but is getting criticized because he's tweeting a bunch of far leftists on social media.
00:06:33.000You got Jen Psaki on vacation, Kamala Harris says I don't want to be talking about this stuff.
00:06:37.000Man, what's going on with this administration, dude?
00:06:45.000I mean, this week has been rough for the Biden administration and just us as, you know, as a country, regardless of how you feel about the war, a lot of people feel like, you know, one, we should have gotten out of there, but not in the way that we left and certainly shouldn't, uh, have left people who helped us, uh, behind, but even more importantly, definitely not leaving Americans behind.
00:07:08.000We've got 15,000 Americans still in Afghanistan.
00:07:11.000And this is one of the things I kind of, you know, when Biden said that, I think it was Biden who said this right in the interview with ABC that there's 15,000 Americans that are still there.
00:07:20.000They can't get them out because they can't get to the airport.
00:07:22.000And that kind of like, I had this moment where my heart kind of went like, boom, boom, like big, because I was like, You know what's going to happen in the next couple of months.
00:07:30.000The Taliban's not going to be like, oh American, right this way.
00:07:41.000I'm hoping the Taliban is more scared.
00:07:43.000Of losing any kind of international recognition, which I don't think they're going to get in the first place.
00:07:48.000And considering the stuff we're already seeing out of there, it really does feel like they might try to be like, no, no, Americans, we're being peaceful, you can go.
00:07:56.000But I don't see them getting the recognition.
00:07:59.000I guess one of the things they're saying now is that the U.S.
00:08:01.000has accepted Saudi Arabia, and they basically want to do the same thing.
00:08:46.000Whether or not it's intentional, but it's really, really mad.
00:08:49.000Dude, watching the people fall from the airplane was really, really guttural because I remember watching the people fall from the World Trade Center.
00:08:56.000They were hanging out the window and they jumped out because they didn't want to burn to death.
00:09:01.000And it's like bookends to this stupid 20 years.
00:09:21.000It's three, and it says, you know, like, Biden, Trump, Obama, and they're all pointing at each other, and George W. Bush is painting the picture.
00:09:35.000Halliburton was either chairman of the board or the CEO or something.
00:09:38.000I'll give Biden this respect because he said this in his speech that he didn't want to pass this failure off to the next presidency because that's what Obama did.
00:09:47.000Obama got it from W. Bush and he promised he was going to end all of this stuff and instead we got more troops.
00:09:53.000And I think one of the big reasons was he didn't want it to happen under his name.
00:09:58.000He didn't want the failure to be on him.
00:10:22.000But do you think Obama didn't want the failure to be on him?
00:10:26.000Or do you think he was afraid that if he pulled out of Afghanistan, we may end up getting an attack on our soil, so he'd rather fight them there than fight them here?
00:10:36.000I don't believe that because there was this report came out a long time ago that said one of the main drivers of terror in the U.S.
00:10:46.000operations in the Middle East over the past several decades had created the anger and animosity which resulted in the targeting of the U.S.
00:10:55.000funding of the Mujahideen and then meddling in these countries and Iran and things like that, you end up with groups saying they're going to come after us.
00:11:01.000Staying in Afghanistan I suppose it makes sense, though, because they're so preoccupied fighting us over there, they don't come over here.
00:11:09.000But I think that we had the Patriot Act.
00:11:13.000To still then be worried about it just goes to show the security measures were probably pointless.
00:11:18.000So one thing that this entire saga, particularly over the last week, has made me think about, and I hope it makes other Americans think about, is that democracy is not the natural order of things.
00:11:34.000It doesn't necessarily work in all parts of the world at all times with all people.
00:11:40.000And I hope it's made Americans rethink what we call oppression.
00:11:45.000Because real desperation looks like somebody hanging on to the landing gear of a cargo plane from Afghanistan to wherever they were going.
00:11:55.000Not, you know, some Hollywood actress who's pampered, who, you know, somebody writes the wrong name on their Starbucks cup and they say, oh my gosh, I'm so depressed.
00:12:04.000Or not some athlete who sees a police shooting 4,000 miles away and they don't have the facts and they say, oh, my people are so oppressed.
00:12:14.000Because when life really gets that difficult, you see what desperation will drive people to.
00:12:21.000And I hope it makes us reassess how we use language.
00:12:25.000I'm tired of living in hyperbole nation where everything has to be catastrophized.
00:12:29.000It's like, no, we can deal with our issues.
00:12:31.000Without using the same words to describe light inconveniences here that other people use to describe actual tyranny over there.
00:14:02.000We have no way to maintain our air force because we don't know how to do this.
00:14:05.000And the other was, they abandoned Bagram overnight.
00:14:09.000And so all of a sudden, the security forces are waking up one day with nothing, and they're like, that was an abrupt, massive shift overnight.
00:15:42.000This is like a deep spiral into madness for me.
00:15:46.000We're out though, you know what I mean?
00:15:47.000So as much as I can be really upset with the images we're seeing and now the potential of these 15,000 Americans, I still think it was right to get the troops out.
00:15:56.000And so it's a challenge because if you knew beforehand that Biden was a moron, and we did, And that this would probably be seriously screwed up, and we could all assume that.
00:17:38.000Because I mean, it's easy to say that you bring the troops home.
00:17:41.000Everybody says, yes, we can focus on our domestic problems.
00:17:43.000But as you see, whether it's the influence of China or other countries growing in other areas people start to say okay These other countries are not doing the same thing.
00:17:55.000They want to control parts of Africa and the Caribbean Latin America, what is America going to do and how would we feel as a country if?
00:18:05.000China let's say China's influence grows to the point where they are basically everywhere But you know Mexico US and Canada is that something that our politicians would want to live with?
00:18:17.000It's easy to talk about, you know, sort of a non-intervention as a, you know, political exercise.
00:18:24.000But again, when you see the influence of those countries growing, whether China or Russia, whoever it is, is that something that we can live with?
00:19:01.000I mean, you look at what's going on, what happened in Cambodia, you look at what happened in Southeast Asia, all across these countries, it was a nightmare.
00:19:56.000If the U.S. doesn't have any kind of international presence, do we just wait until China surrounds us?
00:20:02.000So so ultimately, I just add one more fun final point to that. The U.S. was expanding and
00:20:06.000surrounding everybody else. They viewed us the way we view them right now. Interesting.
00:20:11.000The the way you described it as you were talking about, you know,
00:20:16.000Russia's expansion, I said that's the culture war we're fighting.
00:20:21.000The The groups that are influenced by Marxism and leftism of one sort or another are always looking for territory to capture.
00:20:32.000And unless, you know, there's pushback from everyday citizens and a lot of people look to the Republican Party, I don't know that they are astute enough to understand the game that's being played.
00:20:42.000I say that because oftentimes they mouth the same slogans, they chant the same things, they seem to have the same worldview, they don't understand how they're being used.
00:20:51.000And unless there is a pushback in 20-30 years, There will be no space left.
00:20:58.000Everybody will either have to be, you know, trading Bitcoin and doing uncancellable jobs, right?
00:21:04.000So if you, you know, if you trade options or if you are investing, it doesn't really matter what your politics are.
00:21:12.000But if you have a job in the private sector and you're one of the people who says, no, I don't want to fly the flag.
00:21:18.000I don't want to put up the state party's official slogan.
00:21:23.000You're going to find life very, very difficult for yourself.
00:21:25.000That's a good point, actually, trading, you know, because it's just you log in.
00:21:30.000But then what happens when your bank bans you?
00:21:32.000When your credit card shuts down and where your social credit score drops below a certain level.
00:21:37.000Yeah, I mean, conservatives better start opening some banks and libertarians.
00:21:43.000So I think indicative of a vulnerability in the In a system of centralized banking that any one person would ever have the power to stop other people from banking.
00:21:53.000I think this is where the vaccine passports are going.
00:24:17.000But now we're being told he's got to have booster shots, right?
00:24:19.000So when you combine that with the four cities that are doing the vaccine mandates, And with the boosters, I think they're saying now that with the booster, the effectiveness goes back up to like 84% or whatever.
00:24:30.000Is this gonna be a never-ending thing now?
00:24:33.000Where it's not just a vaccine passport, it's your up-to-date medical card?
00:24:40.000Once you open the door to that, asking for your ID and for proof of some kind of medical history, at what point do they just start adding more and more things to it, like outside of disease?
00:24:48.000It doesn't make sense because if it's a virus that's mutating and it's also in the animal population, you can't kill it with a vaccine.
00:24:55.000So why would you chase trying to kill something you can't kill?
00:26:22.000And nobody would ever trust either the elected officials or the public health bureaucrats because it was clear that they were using this virus for partisan means.
00:26:31.000One, to get obviously to get Trump out of office.
00:26:34.000And two, to, you know, sort of bring onto themselves a certain power that obviously they don't want to give up.
00:26:42.000And you can see that hypocrisy all throughout last year.
00:26:45.000People saying, you know, kids can't go to school, but their kids are having in-person instruction in private schools.
00:26:51.000You know, saying again, you can't meet, you shouldn't get together with your family for Thanksgiving or Christmas.
00:26:58.000But, you know, them allowing, you know, people, as I said, to cram the public square.
00:27:05.000Last year, I want to say it was August, the church I was going to in DC sued the city to allow it to meet outdoors socially distanced, masked, on its own property, and they weren't allowed to do so.
00:27:23.000At the same time, the city issued a permit for the sort of march on Washington, but they had like 10,000 people, you know, downtown.
00:27:32.000And when I saw that, I was like, nobody's gonna listen to these people anymore.
00:27:35.000And I think once the public health officials and the elected officials, who constantly flouted their own rules, Once that became public, they lost the most precious thing that they needed to manage this pandemic, which is trust.
00:27:51.000And I don't think they'll ever get it back again.
00:27:52.000It's true, but if you look at New York right now, man, these businesses are saying, you know, we're just following orders.
00:27:58.000And I mentioned this before, I'll say it a million times, because this is one of the craziest things.
00:28:03.000I've never thought I'd see something like this.
00:28:05.000Bill de Blasio's mandate means every business in New York must terminate any employee who has a disability barring them from getting vaccinated.
00:28:14.000And there's a lot, there's a lot of different, you know, illnesses or ailments or disabilities you could have that make it impossible for you to get this.
00:29:11.000So for a lot of conservatives who may not have been as open to assertions from their left that the police are heavy handed and particularly in communities of color, they are getting a taste of what that feels like.
00:29:26.000So when you're at a game and you're supposed to be masked outdoors and you're not and the cops come and enforce it and you say I don't want to wear a mask and then next thing you know you're on the ground and being tased now you can get a sense of what other people were saying and I think what you're going to end up seeing is sort of a coalition building of folks on the right, who are typically pro-police, but are definitely anti-government lockdowns and mandates, along with, you know, folks who may be on the center left, who say the police have had expanding powers and too much authority for a lot of years.
00:30:05.000And I think you're going to see that coalition sort of form pretty soon.
00:30:26.000And you had videos of some conservatives throwing the thin blue line flag on the ground and then stomping on it in the dirt in front of cops.
00:30:35.000All of a sudden, churches were being shut down, cops were defending it.
00:30:38.000You had the mayor of New York paint Black Lives Matter on the street without approval from the city, just taxpayer money, and 27 cops defending it.
00:30:58.000You know, Michael Malice has a pretty bold, we'll just call it bold, quote where he said, I'm going to paraphrase it because I don't know specifically, but there is no law so depraved a cop will not enforce it up and to executing innocent children.
00:31:46.000And now you've got, whether or not people are right or wrong in their decision, they make a decision, and the military says, bye, you're out of the military.
00:31:52.000Now you've got an increasingly woke, authoritarian kind of military.
00:31:57.000Then you will get a cop who will gladly enforce.
00:32:01.000What Michael Malice is saying, as the way I interpret it, is it's not about cops as the individual.
00:32:05.000It's about the institution and what they will come to represent should things get to that point.
00:32:22.000They'll say, look at the head of the FBI, not FBI, the ATF.
00:32:27.000He wants to ban AR-15s and anything with a capacity over 10 rounds.
00:32:35.000I think I've learned a lot and have to have had to go back and rethink what it means to be an American, what our founding documents mean, what the Second Amendment means.
00:32:54.000But Tyranny really is not something we've had to think about as a country legitimately for a pretty long time.
00:33:02.000And as I said, on the left, tyranny and particularly, and I'm thinking, you know, particularly, you know, in African-American community, we'll say, you know, police brutality, police overreach, tyranny to us is assault on our physical bodies.
00:33:20.000For conservatives, a lot of time, tyranny means the IRS is coming after me.
00:33:27.000I think we're starting to see more people wake up and say, you know what?
00:33:31.000The government is inserting itself into our personal health decisions.
00:33:34.000It is trying to control how we educate our children.
00:33:38.000It is trying to control whether and how and where we make a living.
00:33:43.000And eventually people are going to get tired of that.
00:33:45.000And the same military folks who may get purged, that's how you get people who are disaffected and become more radical than they otherwise would have been if our government would just let us live like free people.
00:33:57.000Well, speaking of what's going on in politics and, you know, elaborating on this segment, we have an article here from The Blaze.
00:34:06.000Will Joe Biden and Ibram Kendi save Novaks blacks from jab crow attacks?
00:34:22.000So it articles about a couple of things.
00:34:25.000One, I started off thinking about Ibram Kendi and his assertion that any policy that produces disparate or inequitable outcomes is in and of itself racist.
00:34:38.000So if there's a particular public policy and it impacts black and Hispanic people more than whites and Asians, then that policy is racist.
00:34:47.000But then I also thought about how Joe Biden at one point called a proposed law in Georgia that would require, among other things, would require a valid ID to vote by mail.
00:34:59.000He said that that law made Jim Crow look like Jim Eagle.
00:35:03.000And I said, oh, OK, so I could see these two partnering up and saying that vaccine passports Particularly the New York City policy pushed by de Blasio, which which would have a disproportionate effect on black communities because only is less than 40 percent of black New Yorkers are actually vaccinated.
00:35:22.000I expect Ibram Kendi and Joe Biden to both say that jab crow.
00:35:27.000is totally unacceptable in America in 2021 and that this policy that is going to produce disparate you know racial outcomes is in and of itself racist right and Ibram Kendi if he did that that would mean he would be calling some of his biggest supporters on the left racist the people were pushing this And I'm just curious as to whether or not these two will stand on principle or whether they will sacrifice, you know, their sacred cow of racial equity.
00:36:51.000But if they can make vaccination into a white evangelical conservative issue, then it's a lot more palatable for people to say, we want to enforce vaccination with vaccine passports.
00:37:03.000This is crazy too because for a long time they were saying they wanted to roll out the vaccine program based on race.
00:37:08.000They wanted minorities to get access first because they were under vaccinated and people were like, that to me was kind of a, so I'm very much philosophically behind universal health care.
00:37:20.000I just don't know if we can Possibly do it, right?
00:37:23.000But the idea that we could pay lower rates, save trillions of dollars because everybody's pitching into a functioning system, it sounds brilliant, right?
00:37:31.000Until you learn that what does the government do once they have the ability to regulate health, they do it based on race?
00:37:37.000Nah, I don't think that's a good idea to give the power to the government into things like that.
00:37:42.000So one of the things, I talk about in the article, right, is, you know, when I get serious and I get past the sort of tongue-in-cheek stuff about Jeff Crow, is this is actually a perfect example of why Ibram Kendi's philosophy of anti-racism and racial equity will never work because what you've seen in this rollout is to your point whether people agree with it or not an emphasis on providing vaccine access to low-income black and hispanic communities
00:38:13.000all out public awareness campaigns to get those communities vaccinated, making the vaccine free to everyone, putting, you know, vaccine centers right in the heart of communities.
00:38:23.000In the neighborhood I was living in in D.C., there was one by the grocery store that they're at CVS is all over the place.
00:38:30.000And you still see different rates by group in terms of vaccination.
00:38:35.000So one of the things I talk about is a principle I call the Squires principle, because that's what people do.
00:39:07.000What they can't do is guarantee that we're going to reduce diabetes and hypertension by 75%.
00:39:13.000Because that has to do with how people eat, how they exercise, and how they rest.
00:39:18.000Now they can do things on the periphery, but ultimately the more policy requires individual agency, the less successful it's going to be from the government's perspective.
00:39:28.000Well, so you still have the black community less vaccinated than other racial demographics, even with all of these programs.
00:39:41.000Part of it, and I know people who work in government don't like to hear this, but sometimes people don't want the things that you want to give them, for one reason or the other.
00:39:49.000Because as adults, as rational adults, People make decisions they may say the risk of me getting COVID and a serious bout of COVID and you know the worst type of symptoms is not worth me you know taking this particular vaccine.
00:40:04.000Now we may agree with the decision or not but it's their decision but that's something that the left has a hard time with right?
00:40:09.000They think if we think it's social good everybody else should and instead of trying to Persuade.
00:40:52.000Except I've worked with homeless shelters, and you know what you get most of the time when you go to a homeless person and offer them a shelter?
00:41:27.000And so the left just assumes every homeless person is actually just a down-on-their-luck, you know, out-of-work, laid-off guy holding a sign saying, we'll work for food.
00:41:44.000And then they don't because they're not actually addressing the community's needs or desires in any meaningful way other than just some bland policy position that doesn't solve the problem.
00:42:38.000Or it's culture is probably a better, like, familiarity probably is a better way to put it.
00:42:42.000So I know in the beginning, a lot of the talk around, quote unquote, vaccine hesitancy was around, you know, you saw articles on the Tuskegee experiment and the history of black communities with the health care professions.
00:42:53.000I'm not saying some of that doesn't exist.
00:43:18.000No, these people, they must be vaccinated.
00:43:20.000And that's why you see, actually this morning, this was going around on Twitter, Ari Melber was quoting the Notorious B.I.G., a song from way back.
00:43:30.000He was talking about, you know, what's beef and Talking about you'll end up in the ICU and Ari Melba was trying to link that to not getting the shot because if you don't get the shot and you get COVID, you may end up in the ICU.
00:43:40.000And a lot of people, you know, who I follow on social media were like, what is this guy talking about?
00:43:45.000I mean, you know, to appropriate Biggie's lyrics to push, you know, your particular agenda is not something that is going to convince anyone.
00:43:56.000Again, I can't answer for why everyone chooses not to do it, but to your point, people should consult their medical professionals, and they should make a decision that makes sense for them.
00:45:17.000Brown announces COVID-19 vaccine mandate for Oregon K-12 teachers and staff.
00:45:23.000K-12 school employees in Oregon must be fully vaccinated by the fall, and healthcare workers will no longer be able to test for COVID-19 weekly as a vaccine alternative.
00:45:31.000So there's a couple of things here that are big.
00:45:33.000One, they used to say, if you don't have the vaccine, you can get a negative test.
00:45:56.000I mean, across the country, if you've seen an uptick in homeschooling across the board, I think you're going to see that continue because Again, last year we were all dealing with COVID.
00:46:09.000Everybody sort of went through their stages.
00:46:10.000There was a period of time where people were sanitizing their groceries when they came from the store.
00:46:14.000But now I think we have a better sense of the virus.
00:46:17.000We have a better sense of the different treatment options.
00:46:21.000I don't think parents are going to stand for another year of distance learning, universal masking, mask mandates.
00:46:37.000I think their governor just relaxed some of the graduation requirements in terms of literacy and numeracy in the name of equity.
00:46:46.000Again, it's always in the name of equity.
00:46:49.000And this doesn't surprise me in the least bit, but it's so curious and I try not to be a conspiracy theorist.
00:46:55.000But when you see the emphasis on our COVID response being basically one of two things, masks and vaccines.
00:47:04.000Where's the discussion of, you know, longer term solutions, you know, diet, exercise, other, you know, healthier lifestyles, therapeutics, different treatment options.
00:47:15.000It's as if the elected officials and the commentators think it's either you wear your mask, you get vaccinated, or you're going to end up in ICU and you're going to die.
00:47:24.000And I feel that's a really bad way to have this discussion nationally.
00:47:28.000There was a crazy thread on Twitter where some person claiming to be a pharmacist, I don't know if they were, said that they refused to fill a prescription for Ivermectin.
00:47:37.000And they didn't know what the prescription was for.
00:47:40.000And then they said they called the doctor to verify, and the doctor said, you know, I'm the doctor, you're the pharmacist, you fill it.
00:47:45.000And again, I'll say, Ivermectin's not FDA approved.
00:48:01.000But to see people on Twitter as pharmacists, or at least claiming to be saying that they would reject any prescription they disagreed with.
00:48:08.000I was like, man, didn't we have this conversation long ago about birth control?
00:48:56.000We had our daughter in a public charter school for about a year in D.C.
00:49:00.000We decided to go in a different direction.
00:49:03.000We love the flexibility that it offers.
00:49:05.000We love the We love the ability to make our home the center of productive activity, productive economic activity, spiritual activity.
00:49:15.000So, you know, the ability to spend quality time with our children, particularly when they're young, to pour into them our values, our worldview, and to really teach them, because we believe that education is equal parts scholarship and discipleship.
00:49:29.000And when you look at the left and some of the crazy things that go on in schools,
00:49:33.000I think every parent should ask themselves, do I want these people discipling my kids?
00:49:37.000So I think, again, I'm a huge fan, a huge proponent of home education for very principled reasons.
00:49:44.000Because I think this is where the right gets it wrong on school choice.
00:49:52.000I think education is the responsibility of parents.
00:49:55.000They may delegate that responsibility to schools in loco parentis, but the schools think in loco parentis is Spanish.
00:50:05.000They think it means these parents are crazy, so it's our turn to take over, as opposed to Latin, which means in place of parents.
00:50:11.000And I think parents need to take that authority back and they need to understand that they are in control of the education process and not and not the schools and the admins which are becoming increasingly partisan from the schools of education that train teachers.
00:50:27.000to the actual admins on a local level, down to the classrooms where teachers are expressly saying, we are looking to train, you know, the next generation of activists.
00:50:38.000And for me, when I look at a lot of these larger urban school districts that in many respects, honestly, are failing our kids, and particularly low income kids, I'm asking myself, you know, what's the point of, you know, Helping Jamal be an activist if he needs Karen to write a sign you know so to me again as I said this is where parents can take some control but in order to do that we need to talk about other issues and some of those have to do with family and family formation.
00:51:09.000My wife and I can do what we're doing now because we're married, right?
00:51:41.000I think a lot of people who might have, you know, not grown up with religion don't understand the power of a church in the sense of you see people.
00:51:51.000I mean, you go there, and then you see your neighbors, and, you know, my experience is always like, people would be talking before and after.
00:51:58.000You needed help with something, people would be there for you.
00:52:01.000Some young men would, you know, some dad would be like, oh, my kids will help you clean out your garage, won't you boys?
00:52:05.000And they'll be like, yeah, and then they'll go.
00:52:13.000I just saw a meme and it's like, it's like a New York subway ad or something where it says bad and it shows two faces talking to each other.
00:52:20.000Then it says, uh, or it says like worse.
00:52:33.000You know, so our buddy Luke, who's been on the show quite a bit, he made a video a long time ago on his YouTube channel where, uh, I think it's called Just Keep Going, Got Nothing to Lose, where he said, you know, he's lived in New York his whole life and every day he goes on the train and he realized that none of these people ever talk to each other.
00:53:22.000So, so I actually, um, I wrote an article for The Blaze last week that talked about, you know, family in this way.
00:53:28.000It talked about, it actually linked together a story about Nick Cannon and his views on marriage being Eurocentric, um, critical race theory and some of the crazy stuff going on in schools.
00:53:39.000And then COVID, because imagine you're a woman who's about to have, you know, either you've, you've had a child recently, or you're looking to go back to work.
00:53:49.000And your employer is saying, you know, you have to take the vaccine.
00:53:52.000So if you're pregnant, you're like, I don't know if I want to take it.
00:53:54.000Feeling the pressure to take the vaccine or lose your job potentially.
00:53:58.000That's that's a that's a pretty difficult decision to make.
00:54:02.000And the point I was making an article is that, you know, when when couples, again, have the benefit of marriage where, you know, they are, as I said, pulling together in the same direction for their Mutual benefit and the benefit of the children it gives them options You know a wife could tell her husband.
00:54:21.000You know I'm tired of whatever was going on at my workplace For one reason or the other and they have options that you know other other families don't have so I was making you know the case for marriage as as not just a social good, but also a You know, a very sort of practical arrangement.
00:54:41.000That's not typically how I make the case about marriage, but it also does have practical benefits.
00:54:45.000And I think you've seen that during the pandemic.
00:54:47.000And we have a lot of activists who want to disrupt that.
00:55:14.000But that's why I'm a big believer in worldview.
00:55:18.000Regardless of what it is, you should know what a person believes because that'll give you an understanding of why they believe what they believe.
00:55:25.000So when Marx talks about abolishing the family because he understood that the family is not just where children, you know, receive their moral instruction, but is also a vehicle for passing down private property.
00:55:37.000And he wanted he wanted to take the kids from their parents and dedicate them to the state.
00:55:47.000Black Lives Matter, you know, has a similar vision in their Black Villages principle.
00:55:54.000Before they took it off their website because they started to get a lot of heat for it, they talked about wanting to disrupt the nuclear family requirement that, you know, requires mothers to do X, Y, and Z. At no point did they talk about fathers or husbands.
00:56:09.000Because in their world, those people don't exist.
00:56:11.000And that's why I would make an argument that, you know, BLM is only interested in black men to the extent that their, you know, dead bodies help further their political goals.
00:56:22.000And that's not the type of organization I would... There's under no circumstance would I, as a black man, get behind any organization that says that they want to disrupt the nuclear family.
00:56:38.000And once they started to grow in prominence last year and people started to pick up on it and and some people would ask them questions, particularly on the conservative media side.
00:56:47.000Now, they never got asked questions from Don Lemon or Roland Martin or any of the other media that they did, you know, sort of the corporate legacy media.
00:56:59.000But once they started to get those questions, they scrubbed it because they knew that that was a very, very unpopular take.
00:57:06.000But I think people should understand that that organization, you know, those principles were a reflection of their worldview.
00:57:14.000And that's why I ask people all the time, if you start an environmental organization and then I go to your principles and you never mention the environment, that should be a red flag.
00:57:22.000So when you say you're against police violence and in your 13 principles, You never mentioned police, violence, men, boys.
00:57:31.000It's all about, you know, being queer-affirming, transgender-affirming, woman-affirming, black families and black villages that erase husbands and fathers.
00:57:43.000That should have been a red flag to people, but for whatever reason, you know, our society just, they take whatever the top line is and they run with it.
00:58:03.000Let's swing it back to schools real quick.
00:58:05.000We have this story that's been going around.
00:58:07.000Utah teacher no longer employed after advocating vaccination and telling students she hates Trump.
00:58:13.000Alpine School District said that kind of behavior will not be tolerated.
00:58:18.000The video of her sharing her opinions in front of a class at Lehigh High School on Tuesday was shared widely on social media.
00:58:23.000And by Wednesday morning, the second day of the new school year, Alpine School District in Utah County confirmed she wasn't employed there anymore.
00:58:30.000Spokesman David Stevenson said in a statement that he cannot comment on personnel matters and would not say whether the teacher was fired, only that she wasn't working there now.
00:58:38.000She had originally been put on leave Tuesday while the district investigated.
00:59:19.000And I'm like, man, I would have killed to have had a teacher debate me or argue with me about politics in school, treating me like an actual, you know, like human being instead of just, no, shut up.
01:00:30.000Like she didn't, she didn't say shut your mouth, stop talking.
01:00:33.000She, she actually engaged the student and they had like, she wasn't talking over.
01:00:36.000I mean, there's a bit of like argument and stuff, but I'm like, Man, I'd love to be in a classroom where the students are being like, here's what I think, and then she's like, well, I don't think.
01:00:46.000That sounds like a good thing for these kids to see that and to see these people challenging it.
01:00:50.000Granted, I still think maybe at the end of the day, teachers shouldn't be going to classes to argue politics with their students, whether it's for or against them.
01:00:59.000It wastes everybody else's time to sit and listen to that.
01:01:02.000And so as much as I would have enjoyed arguing with the teacher and her engaging me, I think the kids are there to be like, look, we're going to talk about math and everything.
01:01:10.000You can talk to your parents about the political stuff.
01:01:12.000You can set up, you can go in and talk to the teacher after class if you really want to shoot politics.
01:02:37.000And again, that's one of the big things that I think may draw people to home education, is because in many respects, everything that we've seen play out in the last year, I think has been a struggle over authority.
01:02:53.000Where we see the state set itself up against citizens who say, my job is essential.
01:03:00.000If you, Mr. or Mrs. Governor, are drawing a check during the pandemic, why should I have to forego my pay?
01:03:06.000When you've seen churches and local governments get into struggles over whether churches can open, right?
01:03:34.000And I think For whatever reason, parents have accepted that that is the natural order of things in college.
01:03:40.000But when schools start doing that with kids as early as three and introducing them to things that their parents don't necessarily know about.
01:03:49.000In many school districts, if a child sort of exhibits signs of not even gender dysphoria, if the child says, I'm questioning my gender, The schools will allow a child to socially transition.
01:04:04.000They'll use a different name, different pronouns in the school.
01:04:07.000But then, not only will they not tell the parents, when the parents come around, they will call Jimmy Jimmy in front of his parents.
01:04:16.000And I think when you start to open those types of doors, all different types of things can come through.
01:04:22.000We had a woman on the show, she was showing us a bunch of books, the Critical Race Applied Principle books, and one of them was, it was called, was it Not My Idea?
01:04:37.000It's this little girl who looks like she's six or seven years old, and she says, like, one day, mommy was watching a video on the computer of a policeman, and then when I came up, she covers it, and, you know, something like that.
01:04:47.000And then, you know, later on, there's this—they show this picture called the Whiteness Contract or whatever.
01:04:52.000It's a contract with a devil tail, and it says you'll steal from your neighbors and whatever.
01:06:38.000Well, you can tenderize it and you pulverize with policy and you tenderize with culture.
01:06:44.000And really what the left is trying to do in terms of their tenderizing is marinate us in these things.
01:06:52.000And they want to get the kids in as young as possible, you know, because when you're being marinated, you know, the spices and, you know, the aroma and it smells good and you think it tastes good.
01:07:03.000But those fibers that have been so tough and so unforgiving for a long time are being sort of broken down.
01:07:12.000And that's how you get people who are open to ideas, whatever the transgression is, because left is all about subversion of any sort of social norm.
01:07:21.000And I think that's what you're seeing.
01:07:22.000And that's the reason why they think it's appropriate to have RuPaul on a show for kids that's, you know, from two to seven years old.
01:07:31.000We cover the story Australia is building alternative quarantine hubs with relocatable cabins, they call it.
01:07:39.000And so the idea is that, oh, the hotels weren't working, so we're going to build a hub for people to quarantine in, and we're going to have color-coded communities so that we know what area they're in.
01:07:48.000And we had people on Super Chat saying, oh, come on, Tim.
01:07:52.000We tried quarantining people in hotels and it wasn't working, so we're just making something more efficient.
01:07:56.000And I'm like, yeah, that's called incrementalization.
01:07:59.000It's where they're like, you are now defending the camp because it's within your reasonable boundaries.
01:08:04.000And the funny thing is, I've long explained the function of moral manipulation through what's called It's resetting a person's boundaries, right?
01:08:15.000So the way I describe it is, imagine there's a scale of negative 100 to positive 100, and then you're at zero.
01:08:21.000Negative 100 means you absolutely despise a person to the point where you would physically harm them, and positive 100 means marriage in a family.
01:08:59.000So this is how they incrementalize you, right?
01:09:02.000If three years ago they announced, we're going to be building a major quarantine camp with relocatable cabins to house high-risk populations, people would be like, what?
01:09:11.000But you start with the hotels and then you go, oh no, the hotels, it's such a disaster.
01:09:16.000And then people go, well, just build a place then.
01:09:24.000If Trump was building the hotels, it would be a very, very different reaction than if Biden builds them.
01:09:31.000So I think what you described is sort of the Overton window put into practice for people.
01:09:37.000And I think a lot of us have been moved in one direction or the other.
01:09:43.000And you can see, it's almost like for some people, they have a desire to be controlled by the government.
01:09:49.000It's like they're looking, well, And I found this, particularly after people started getting vaccinated, where I would hear people say, I'm fully vaccinated, but I'm double masking while I'm riding my bicycle and nobody's around.
01:10:49.000They've definitely taken a harder shift now, I'd say, over the last seven years.
01:10:55.000But you had critical thinking capabilities, seemed like a smart guy, and so you were just sticking to your principles and what you think makes the most sense.
01:11:02.000Uh, when we talk about the leftists and the socialists, I don't think, you know, critical thought extends very far.
01:11:11.000There are some people I've met who have been fairly smart and are just wrong, but there's a lot of people who just, I got to pull up this story.
01:11:23.000Socialist magazine Current Affairs fires staff for trying to organize workers co-op.
01:11:29.000How many times do you need to see these stories to realize that these leftist institutions, that magazines or media publications, they claim to be progressive or have socialist values, And then the moment someone tries to unionize, which is like a core tenet of, you know, labor rights, they fire these people.
01:11:48.000You know, the funniest thing about it is, is like, for me, they would call me right or far right or whatever.
01:11:52.000And I'm like more power to my staff if they, I don't care or whatever.
01:11:56.000Like, I really don't understand why, you know, the Young Turks did it.
01:11:59.000They had that story where like some guy was trying to unionize and Cenk Uygur's like screaming at him, like slams papers on the ground.
01:12:04.000And I'm like, you guys are the progressives who advocate for this.
01:12:09.000So let me just read a little bit and then we'll dive in.
01:12:11.000The founder of the socialist magazine Current Affairs has reportedly effectively fired several staff members after they tried to organize a workers co-op, former employees claimed in a letter on Wednesday.
01:12:22.000The letter, which was addressed to comrades by several employees of the print and digital magazine that focuses on topics from a left-wing perspective, said they had been effectively fired by the founder, Nathan J. Robinson, who has also authored a book, Why You Should Be a Socialist.
01:13:19.000I mean, as someone who has some experience working in government, unionization is a tricky issue because in some respect, yeah, you know, collective bargaining and the benefits of being in a union, but oftentimes it makes doing work somewhat more difficult, which is why I think one of the reasons you see a lot of left-leaning institutions fight against charter schools is because Charter schools typically don't have unionized teachers.
01:13:50.000The teacher unions don't have as much power over charters as they do over government schools.
01:13:54.000So, I mean, I could see how it gets complicated.
01:13:59.000An employer might feel like, you know, if their staff unionizes that they are going to lose some power, which they very well might.
01:14:07.000But the irony, the delicious irony, Is that this happens all the time with the left.
01:14:13.000I think you've seen it with defund the police.
01:14:17.000I'm thinking my mind always goes to Seattle where the mayor allowed, you know, radicals and anarchists to take over, you know, part of her city.
01:14:28.000And she said, you know, Chop Chop Chaz is a summer of love.
01:14:33.000Until a member of the city council marched them to her house.
01:14:37.000Then she shut it down like the next day.
01:14:39.000You see this all of the time where it's like they make rules for the little people to follow that they don't want to follow themselves.
01:14:47.000And I think that is one of the fundamental flaws and weaknesses of that particular line of thinking, that worldview, is that it's always going to eat itself.
01:15:04.000Because as much, I think, look, I can favor certain economic policies, but I really do think, well, I'll put it this way, idealistically, I'm pretty left libertarian.
01:15:14.000Realistically, I'm kind of like centrist, like moderate liberal type.
01:15:17.000Although that's politically homeless at this point, because I don't know what makes sense.
01:15:21.000But, you know, when I'm thinking about a union forming, I'm like, yeah, I don't care.
01:15:26.000If they come and they're like, hey, we want all these things, I'll be like, is it possible?
01:15:30.000I don't know why I need all that power or why I need to be debating people if, like, this is what they're looking for.
01:15:35.000Now, I can certainly understand when they bring in external unions and then they just, you know, can meddle in the affairs and all that stuff that I get.
01:16:06.000She had amassed a pretty impressive real estate portfolio.
01:16:10.000I mean, the leaders were living pretty high on the hog, and it just goes to show you that capitalism in our country, as imperfect as it is, and really a lot of it is corporatism, but for the sake of argument, Capitalism is so powerful in this country that even Marxists can find a market and make money off it.
01:17:13.000And that's part of the reason I wrote the article, because I would be truly curious to see whether he would take such a principled position, or any of his acolytes, not just him.
01:17:24.000He may not do it, but to see anyone who believes in his version of quote-unquote anti-racism, I would love to see them actually take that principled step and say, we said that any policy that has disproportionate impacts on different ethnic groups is racist, This one has it.
01:17:40.000We're calling it racist and we stand by it.
01:17:42.000Imagine getting to stand up at a press conference and say, we warned you.
01:18:01.000And I mean, talk about strange bedfellows.
01:18:02.000If Ibram Kendi ends up being the patron saint of the right's anti-vaccine mandate push, right?
01:18:10.000If he is on a stage with Ted Cruz and they're both saying, we're both against vaccine mandates, we may be against them for different reasons.
01:18:54.000Granted, I do think her words were, you know, poorly, poorly chosen.
01:18:57.000But in terms of Biden's speech, Cassandra Fairbanks, a good friend of mine, said she actually thought it was a good speech because he said things that needed to be said.
01:19:03.000Like we shouldn't be, you know, passing the buck on this war.
01:19:06.000We shouldn't be sending our kids to go fight this.
01:19:09.000But when you're speaking on principle, You will often find that the people who follow you get mad because they might be speaking on a tribe for tribal reasons.
01:19:16.000So, you know, following someone like Mike Cernovich, he's criticized Trump a lot.
01:19:22.000And the Trump supporters get mad at him like, oh, what happened to you?
01:19:25.000I'm telling you exactly how I feel as I've always done.
01:19:28.000So if Kendi and his other critical race theorists were actually functioning on principle, they'd have come out in two seconds and been like, no way.
01:19:38.000And I mean, I know there are all different types of policy areas, you know, social, domestic, economic, political, that a person like Kendi could apply, you know, his principles.
01:19:52.000If Black Lives Matter was really an honest slogan and an honest organization, they would plant themselves in front of every Planned Parenthood in the black community.
01:20:01.000Which Planned Parenthoods typically target communities of color and the same people who will say we're against liquor stores and the people pushing cigarettes in low-income black communities, for some reason they don't take that same approach when it comes to Planned Parenthood.
01:20:21.000Candy wouldn't do that because in New York City, and a lot of people don't know this, about half of all of black women's pregnancies end in abortion in New York City.
01:20:32.000So half of all black babies are aborted in New York City.
01:20:35.000If you want to talk about something that's systemic, there it is.
01:20:38.000But again, His anti-racism is only useful to their position to the extent that it furthers their political goals.
01:20:45.000So certain things they'll say, you know what, we'd rather talk about these 19 police shootings a year than talk about, you know, street crime or abortion or the state of urban education.
01:20:57.000You know, those are different issues for a different day.
01:21:17.000And so that's why, for me, I always question, I think, like, how do I put this?
01:21:26.000I mean, someone really has to be doing a number on you for you to think that it makes sense to give 90% of your political support to a party whose central policy, or one of them, I'd probably say the top three, is to keep your population at exactly 13%.
01:21:46.000That's what I was thinking when you started talking about it.
01:21:47.000I'm like, Planned Parenthood's been around for a long, long time.
01:21:50.000What is it, a hundred years or something?
01:21:52.000And I was looking at a map from Planned Parenthood, and they do have a bunch of minority area centers.
01:21:59.000And I'm thinking, I wonder what the population size would have been for the black and Hispanic community if Planned Parenthood wasn't doing that.
01:22:11.000And I mean, again, the Democrats talk a good game about race, but you know where their policy priorities lie, because every time a Supreme Court nominee comes up, they don't ask them their views on Brown vs. Board of Ed.
01:22:27.000They ask them their views on Roe vs. Wade.
01:22:30.000So that is one of their central policies.
01:22:33.000And for whatever reason, you know, black leaders don't question it.
01:22:37.000And so I always ask people, I say, do you think the position of most black Americans would be the same on abortion if it was Republicans who were pushing it?
01:22:46.000If Ted Cruz was the one saying, no, we need more abortion clinics in Houston and Dallas, do you really think that black voters will respond the same?
01:22:52.000And I've yet to get a good answer to that.
01:22:54.000But that's one of those things where, for me, when I write, part of what I'm trying to do is recapture some of the territory that the left has taken while some of the leaders in my community, quote unquote, have been asleep at the wheel.
01:23:08.000That's a strategy for conservatives, I guess.
01:23:11.000Just come out and be like, you know what we thought about it?
01:23:22.000If you want teenagers to stop doing something, just get their parents to do it and say, hey, look, we're getting tattoos all over our face.
01:23:52.000Now people, let's say, you know, black voters over 65 who are still heavily church-going, I could see that.
01:24:01.000So, I mean, you saw that in the Democratic primary, where Biden captured South Carolina, you know, on the strength of a lot of older black female voters, many of whom are churchgoing.
01:24:12.000The younger demographic, that is a lot less the case.
01:24:15.000So you can see that shift in the civil rights movement from a faith-based movement into a more sort of secular, secular humanist movement.
01:24:26.000BLM has nothing to do- And not Marxist.
01:24:31.000So I think for younger generations that's less the case.
01:24:34.000I think in many respects the church has a lot less influence in the black community than it used to.
01:24:41.000I would actually take a more controversial position on why that is because for a lot of people they think of the black church as primarily a service provision organization.
01:24:52.000It's basically the NAACP but with a sort of you know a spiritual twist to it.
01:25:00.000I would argue that the black church has lost a lot of its significance because it stopped preaching the gospel and it's losing people because As more and more black folk got, you know, became more economically independent and more upwardly mobile, the need for a service provision organization went away.
01:25:21.000And the church's relevance has waned a lot since, you know, Dr. King's age.
01:25:25.000But I'm sure for a lot of Democratic pollsters, they still think that the church is the way to go.
01:25:29.000But in 50 years, I would be curious to see, you know, what that looks like.
01:26:22.000And that's why you see, you know, the sort of political partisanship almost take on a religious feel.
01:26:30.000Now, I would sort of make the argument tongue-in-cheek that for the right, that looks a little bit more Catholic, small c. So where you have a figure like Trump, who almost functions as a Pope, The things that he says to some of his supporters, that he says from his office, you know, ex-cathedra, are almost like the gospel to them.
01:26:50.000And on the left, I would liken that more to a more Protestant, small P type of religion, because there's always something to protest.
01:26:58.000There's always environmentalism, it's racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, and that desire to find something to give my life some meaning.
01:27:12.000You see that playing out in our day-to-day discourse on politics and in every other area.
01:27:54.000And I think having a robust First Amendment where people can come and debate and discuss issues, whether they have the same worldview, the same political ideology or not, that's something that we need to have a healthy functioning republic.
01:28:09.000Was that Frederick Douglass said that?
01:28:16.000I'm not sure if he was the first person to say it, but he's probably the most famous person to say, talked about the three boxes of liberty.
01:28:51.000And I think a lot of people in America do, and one of the examples I often use is Bill Maher.
01:28:55.000Bill Maher very clearly holds values that are rooted in a Judeo-Christian moral framework, notably the right of the innocent to be... you're innocent until proven guilty, which is rooted in Blackstone's formulation, which is rooted in the story of Sodom and Gomorrah.
01:29:08.000If there's but one righteous person, I will not destroy the city.
01:29:12.000But the woke don't have that moral framework.
01:29:14.000They have a lack of a moral framework.
01:29:16.000And so I was I've been thinking about this for a while, you know, about why it is that they're so diametrically opposed and what the factions really are.
01:29:23.000And I'm like, well, they don't have a moral framework at all.
01:29:56.000As I said, it's just that religion may be a religion of self.
01:30:00.000It may be a religion of scientism or safetyism.
01:30:04.000But the way that the woke sort of framed their arguments, oftentimes in a religious, you know, with religious language, slavery and racism as original sin, right?
01:30:17.000Talking about issues like reparations as it relates to paying off a debt, which again draws on some, you know, Christian language in terms of what believers believe that Christ did on the cross, right?
01:31:05.000I thought you were the wrong Hispanic guy in the office.
01:31:09.000Oh, and now I have to get, you know, smacked on the hand by HR.
01:31:13.000So they believe in some of the same principles in terms of sin and offense and atonement.
01:31:21.000It's just as I said, their God is never satisfied.
01:31:24.000And I think you see that saga, that cosmic saga is playing out in our politics on a day-to-day basis.
01:31:33.000It'll be interesting in 10 years when these kids either... I hear a lot of stories that young kids are anti-woke because they're telling their teachers... Who wants to be like their teacher?
01:31:43.000The teacher comes out and the teacher's a loser.
01:31:47.000The kids don't view the teachers as cool.
01:31:50.000I mean, I think, I mean, there's always I learned this, you know, taking engineering like there's always, you know, you swing a pendulum one way, it eventually is going to swing back.
01:32:00.000I'd be curious to see what that looks like.
01:32:03.000You know, where the kids take on a certain anti authoritarian strain.
01:32:07.000Sometimes it's hard to see that because when I see kids who are four and five years old, when as soon as they get out of the car, the first thing they're doing is reaching for their mask.
01:32:30.000But a lot of our kids are being conditioned in the same way that adults are.
01:32:37.000And I hope what we don't end up seeing is an even larger increase in anxiety and depression and neuroticism and all the other things that we've been seeing play out for, you know, the better part of the last 20 years.
01:33:16.000My hope is that eventually people's eyes will open So whether it's foreign policy in Afghanistan, whether it's people who were saying defund the police last year, saying refund the police this year, all of these issues, the socialist who fires all of his employees and want to unionize.
01:33:37.000What I'm hoping is that people see that the people that we think are elites and the smartest people in our society have no idea what they're doing.
01:33:47.000And honestly, in many respects, like we were talking about homeschooling, nobody has done more to advocate and advance the cause of school choice and homeschooling than the teachers unions.
01:33:56.000They have done a way better job of promoting homeschooling than any GOP politician ever could.
01:34:02.000So when you see how not just corrupt, but incompetent the leadership class is, It'll make people say, you know what?
01:36:41.000Leguma Thigayen, I think I'm pronouncing that right.
01:36:46.000Fear not comrades, the magical unicorn gumdrop rainbow and fairy Marxist utopia is at hand.
01:36:51.000Dear leader, Kamala shall lead us to the glorious victory over vile specter of the working class white people, capitalism, rape culture, cis-heteronormative patriarchy, and male privates.
01:38:46.000I don't know, but it's hard to believe the government oversight is this bad.
01:38:49.000I, you know, but Biden... So incompetent.
01:38:52.000Maybe that's, that's the grand conspiracy was they were like, we need to be believable when we, when, when, when we script so bad, we have to go back in.
01:39:10.000And there's no, there's no, there's no central force in the decision-making process.
01:39:15.000So there was, I think it was Millie who said, when they said, why didn't you evacuate people through Bagram Air Force Base, which is a military installation.
01:39:23.000And he said, I was ordered to guard the embassy.
01:39:26.000So somebody told him to do something else.
01:39:48.000Some people are saying I'm shilling for the deep state by saying that there's sometimes reasons for intervention, which I'm like, I'm not necessarily saying it's a good thing.
01:40:05.000I think you made a good point about About how if we just sat here and never got involved that some some authoritarian government would surround us and then we basically be starved out from siege warfare economically.
01:40:16.000And so like we got to we got to instill what I want to do.
01:40:19.000My goal is to instill these values of freedom that we have in the United States across the world to every human to give them all access to running water, Internet, electricity, transportation, food, shelter.
01:40:32.000I don't know that we can do that politically.
01:40:34.000We definitely I don't definitely don't think we can do it through like a Democrat Republican
01:40:51.000But what I heard you say just now, you talked about, you know, food, shelter, running water.
01:40:55.000I hear resources, not necessarily the values of freedom, because someone who make the argument that a central government, right, a socialist government would provide those things.
01:41:06.000But so they don't I don't necessarily see having those resources be being provided in every country as necessarily being linked to our understanding of freedom.
01:41:22.000But someone would, as I said, make the argument that you don't need a free market economy.
01:41:27.000You don't need liberal democracy in order to provide water, food and shelter to your citizens.
01:41:32.000And in fact, They may say you can provide those things more effectively through a centralized planned government than you can, you know, free enterprise.
01:41:40.000Yeah, we'd like to use the military to build solar-powered water condensation across the world in like desert tribes and cities and houses and stuff like that.
01:41:49.000But forcing freedom, I mean, good point.
01:42:27.000Swingdip says, just saw your Nollie hardflip rewind video.
01:42:31.000I had no idea you could shred like that.
01:42:32.000When will we see a Tim Pool skate video at the compound?
01:42:35.000I mean, in one of the vlogs, I did a hang 10 hardflip, and you can look hang 10 hardflip up on YouTube from my buddy Brett Novak's channel.
01:43:04.000And it's not like the greatest skateboarding in the world, it's just a few like little, you know, silly tricks I was doing.
01:43:08.000That's how the value of producing a lot of work, if you want to be successful, because the stuff eventually, if you keep making work, one will break you through.
01:43:28.000Something new, something fun, but I was skateboarding the other day, too, because some of the guys out here, we got more people working, and so we've got some skateboarders, and it's a lot of fun.
01:43:52.000Well, we called out to people we knew had experience.
01:43:55.000You know, Jack Posobiec, he served, but he wasn't in Afghanistan.
01:43:59.000And Forrest was an army ranger in Afghanistan, and I was like, these would be perspectives that I think would be good, you know, to have on and talk with, so.
01:44:07.000We were hanging out outside and talking about post-traumatic stress and he had a very insightful comment about it that a lot of soldiers in combat, combat's the most real thing you're ever going to experience.
01:44:18.000Everything else dies away and you just see what's happening.
01:44:22.000You see your buddy freaking out and you push him on the ground and get the job done.
01:44:26.000And then when you come back here and you see people talking past each other, afraid to be honest, Mike Sullivan says, with all due respect, Tim, you say that at least we are finally out?
01:44:36.000We now have twice the troops in the country we did a month ago.
01:44:58.000I think it's good that we're making moves to get out, and we should.
01:45:02.000But the problem is Biden screwed it up so bad, it almost feels like it's on purpose, to be completely honest.
01:45:07.000Because now you've got people being like, Like, okay, okay, can we at least stabilize it and then leave maybe in a month or a couple months?
01:45:19.000You know, maybe what happens is Biden resigns in disgrace, or his 25th amendment did, and then Kamala Harris is like, I will not be the one to see these innocent people suffer!
01:45:29.000And then, you know, you get more troops and more troops and more troops.
01:45:33.000We've got the Milton Islamic Caliphate now is building up there, what are they called?
01:45:37.000The Caliphate of Afghanistan or something?
01:46:18.000And the other one's got like a little brown spot.
01:46:21.000And we've got 12, no I think we have 11 more eggs in the incubator right now starting a new cycle which is a really bad idea because winter is coming which means we're gonna have to keep them, we're gonna have to build a heated indoor space for them.
01:46:33.000But that would be fun, not hard to do and we could film it and it'll be fun and Chicken City's gonna end up with like, what is that gonna give us, like 21?
01:46:56.000You could hold them, but for the most part they'd, you know, get away from me and now they're adult chickens and there's only one, Vanessa.
01:47:03.000She'll walk up to you and she'll hang out and you can actually very slowly pet her.
01:47:06.000The rest of them just, like, scream and run, and Rooster will run up and go, like, in your face.
01:47:11.000But, because we hatched and are raising these now, they're probably gonna be very, very human-friendly.
01:47:26.000The last of my kind says, had a scary moment.
01:47:29.000I live just outside the city limits of Houston, and city workers went door to door passing out vaccine info, but I overheard them reporting over radio which houses were vaxxed.
01:47:41.000I mean, I'm not necessarily surprised, but...
01:47:45.000Alright, Nathan O'Connell says, with the executive branch in shambles, do you think the next move is to quickly pass a bill through to nationalize police force?
01:47:52.000Any form of wrong think will get you in a camp or in jail.
01:47:56.000Last ditch effort to hold onto power coming up next.
01:48:00.000They need a lot more before they can do something like that.
01:48:02.000Maybe the Delta variant, maybe the, was it Lambda or Epsilon?
01:49:16.000So look, I'm saying, Biden coming out and saying we should leave is a good thing.
01:49:20.000Whether or not he actually can pull it off is entirely different.
01:49:23.000So, I can't blame the guy and say he did it on purpose, I can only say he's a bumbling moron who made everything worse, and he can go down in history as being just that, a bumbling moron, and that's all he will ever be.
01:49:34.000Although maybe it was on purpose, I honestly don't know.
01:49:37.000If I had evidence to suggest it was, I'd absolutely be talking about it.
01:49:41.000ZLVXC says, my older brother was supposed to go to college tomorrow, but his flight from Southwest got canceled without warning.
01:49:54.000You know, like we have someone coming in every day.
01:49:56.000We had one instance where someone checked into the flight, got to the gate with a ticket, and they said, you're not checked into the flight.
01:53:21.000We can withdraw the carbon from the atmosphere and repopulate the ocean with iron fertilization.
01:53:26.000There's a lot of... Technology is really awesome right now.
01:53:29.000You know what bugs me a lot about the climate zealot types is that they're missing one of the bigger pictures in this.
01:53:36.000with the pollution is that it's the destabilization of the ecosystem balance.
01:53:40.000Meaning it's not about whether the planet gets too hot.
01:53:43.000It's about whether or not we've produced, you know, point one percent more waste
01:53:49.000product of this particular element, which is causing a change in density in this
01:53:53.000area, which then creates a ripple effect.
01:53:55.000And so what happens is they talk about like, oh, climate change.
01:53:58.000Conservatives are like, you know, what are you talking about?
01:54:00.000And then we have people like Chris Martinson on and he's like, he's a doctor.
01:54:04.000of PhD. And he says, people have noticed there's no more bugs hitting their windshields.
01:54:07.000They did a study and found that over 20 years, substantially less bugs are in the air hitting windshields, which suggests a die-off in the population, potentially.
01:57:22.000Ryan says, in regard to Tim's point about some people may be more comfortable in a sleeping bag under a bridge, freedom, like a shopping cart, no effects, is a real state of mind.
01:57:51.000And their lights in the car, and I'm like... I was in a Dodge Neon, and I was wearing, like, normal clothes, and then, like, I immediately put my hands up, and they walk over and they're like, unlock the car!
01:58:00.000And I unlock the car, and they open it, and they're like, get out!
01:58:01.000And I get out, and they're like, what are you doing?
01:58:17.000I'd park on the side of the road, put the driver's side seat down, and then cover myself with a blanket so that they couldn't see human when they looked at it.
01:59:06.000But it was, uh, I was told it was the hotel lobby that tried to make, that made it illegal because they want you to pull over and go inside a hotel.
01:59:55.000Johnny Knoxville says, I don't think it's the real Johnny Knoxville, Tim, the far left will try and make life so miserable for those not vaccinated that they cave in and get the shot.
02:00:19.000And you can wait months for a lawsuit to go through?
02:00:22.000So, again, I'm curious to see, you know, whether the vaccine mandates, the vaccine passports, which a lot of people called early on, by the way, and they were called conspiracy theorists.
02:00:34.000Whether that red pills a lot of people I think at the very least what it'll do is that it will increase the contempt that a lot of people have for their government Because it's some people will say you know what I can't afford to lose my job.
02:00:48.000I can't make that choice off a principal But while I'm getting this jab or I'm showing my passport or I'm showing my papers, it's going to make me hate the people in charge.
02:00:59.000And I don't think we've really wrestled with what the long term consequences are for that.
02:01:06.000You know, best case scenario, it makes people take local politics a lot more seriously.
02:01:12.000Worst case scenario, it could end up radicalizing certain people and making them go from saying, I'm switching from one party to the next, to saying, I want to be done with all types of government altogether.
02:01:24.000Yeah, I think a lot of people are starting to feel that way.
02:05:03.000Pat Monette says, my band used to park at hotels and sleep in the van overnight and then wake up in the morning and eat the complimentary breakfasts.
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