In this week's show, the crew talks about the chaos in the White House, a possible Chinese invasion of Taiwan, and why Joe Biden prefers to sleep at home. Plus, the latest on the Black Swan Event.
00:00:34.000doesn't have 30,000 troops stationed in Taiwan.
00:00:36.000But certainly people in Chinese media and pro-Chinese Communist Party are acting like, oh, oh, they've accidentally revealed that they've invaded Chinese space.
00:00:45.000OK, well, this may have been Senator Cornyn slipping on a banana peel and accidentally starting World War Three, because China says that would be a declaration of war.
00:00:55.000They would invoke the Secession Act and immediately invade and destroy U.S.
00:01:05.000At a time when there's chaos in Afghanistan, and the U.S.
00:01:08.000is looking particularly weak, and then this happens, well, this happened probably because China's taking advantage of the fact that we look weak.
00:01:16.000They've also issued a statement through their state media that, to Taiwan, when they invade to reunify with military force, the U.S.
00:01:33.000We got really interesting news that following these stories, Palantir...
00:01:38.000announced that they're going to be investing 50 million dollars in gold in case of a potential black swan event.
00:01:45.000So when there's a company that does like data analysis and their name is effectively like a fantasy is based on a fantasy seeing stone and then they're like there's gonna be a black swan event maybe so we're buying a bunch of gold and our clients can now pay us in gold I'm kind of like What did they just see in their data?
00:02:04.000So, I don't know, maybe I want to buy some gold.
00:03:18.000I mean, that's something a lot of people were, you know, wanted to politicize it.
00:03:22.000But, you know, oh, what about you and golfing, et cetera, et cetera.
00:03:25.000But it's like, You're the guy who's there now.
00:03:28.000That picture that came out, you know, it wasn't even the situation, it was Camp David and he's just surrounded by nothing, right?
00:03:34.000He's just sitting there in a room by himself.
00:03:36.000I don't exactly think that inspired confidence.
00:03:39.000I don't know, and people are questioning the...
00:03:43.000The amount of chaos in the White House right now, the lines of communication, by the way, between the White House, the Pentagon, the State Department, it's completely frayed at this point.
00:03:54.000Yeah, you had a source, you were tweeting about this.
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00:04:37.000So my military experience is 3rd Ranger Battalion I was a team leader there and so I I got to see Afghanistan pretty close You were trying to teach some of these guys weren't you?
00:04:47.000There were definitely times where many different groups within the military had the opportunity to teach different levels of the Afghan people.
00:04:55.000And yes, there was a time where I was actually trying to teach the Afghan Special Forces.
00:05:25.000I am in the corner pushing buttons as always.
00:05:26.000I'm very excited about this because we got the expert on China, we got the expert on Afghanistan, we got the Navy and the Army representing.
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00:08:01.000But we're tracking this, trying to figure out where the holes are, because there's, you know, Nando's in the UK, this restaurant shut down 50 locations due to the chicken shortage.
00:09:52.000Yeah, I mean, you don't usually see the CCP's and their mouthpieces being so publicly, um, I would just say, you know, trading barbs back and forth, especially in with, you know, kind of operating within the news cycle as we are right now.
00:10:09.000So this is definitely something new for the CCP.
00:10:11.000This is not something that you even four years ago, five years ago, you would see them doing.
00:10:16.000Only it's because now, and I think with Xi Jinping and his new thrust for a more aggressive China on the world stage, a more, you know, we're not going to be this.
00:10:29.000We don't want to be viewed as a third world country anymore.
00:10:31.000So for years and years and years, we were told China is still developing.
00:10:34.000China is still, you know, we're bringing our people out of poverty.
00:10:39.000But then if you just look, I believe yesterday, the Financial Times actually had the story up that BlackRock came out and said that they want to increase their investors' exposure to China.
00:10:50.000They want people tripling their investments in China.
00:11:11.000That's essentially what BlackRock is saying, right?
00:11:13.000And now China, they are now using this opportunity as a way to shrug their shoulders off of sort of what Tony Blinken or Joe Biden might call the international rules-based order.
00:11:25.000Think about how long it's been that China's been effectively just telling us to shove it.
00:11:28.000everything else and they're saying we are not going to be pushed around by you anymore.
00:11:44.000So they're dumping all this pollution, they're producing massive amounts of carbon, while the rest of the world is like, hey, we're gonna stop.
00:11:49.000Hey, we've got these protocols, we're all gonna agree to, and China's like, nah, no thanks.
00:11:53.000Or they say they will, and then they start building more coal power plants.
00:11:56.000You've got really dumb leadership in the West, where they're like, it's okay, guys, China said they're on board with our programs, and then China's just laughing, like, why would we ever actually do what we said?
00:12:07.000And it's been happening for a really, really long time.
00:12:09.000That's a really good description, especially if you're going to go into Afghanistan later.
00:12:12.000But starting with China, like, as a country, they take themselves seriously.
00:12:17.000There's another thing that China has that America doesn't have right now is that America is going through some sort of identity crisis where it can't figure out whether itself should exist anymore.
00:12:26.000I mean, it's going through internal mayhem.
00:12:34.000If you're thinking about yourself as two players on a chessboard and you're watching your opponent run into dismay, if not aiding it somehow, or at least Prodding it along.
00:12:45.000You could say that one way or another.
00:12:47.000You could ask questions of international influence and terrorism and you could go all down those roads.
00:12:52.000But instead of just accusing China of participating in domestic terrorism, within the world stage, they will make an agreement that they know they won't follow because they don't respect you as an interlocutor.
00:13:05.000Right, so what essentially you're talking about is this idea that, you know, I don't think China... China knows that it's not into their best interest to get into a shooting war with the US, right?
00:13:16.000A kinetic warfare is not something that would be really beneficial for either side, and so...
00:13:20.000That what is the most effective tool of their international foreign policy for their interests is what you would call strategic neutralization.
00:13:32.000so upset, so divided, so screaming at each other, so tied up in chasing its own tail in internal domestic tensions, That we are unable to make a stand on the world stage.
00:13:45.000And we said that I came on here and said that for a year on this show, and I've said it elsewhere.
00:13:49.000And then you look at Afghanistan, see, we're so busy.
00:13:52.000And I mean, it's almost a cliche right now.
00:13:54.000But you've got General Milley talking about white rage, and we need to focus on critical race theory, etc, etc.
00:14:01.000And then meanwhile, it's like you can't even conduct a basic evacuation operation.
00:14:06.000of your own or not even before that I'm getting ahead of myself. You can't even conduct a safe
00:14:10.000withdrawal of your own forces, right? You didn't know that alone that you attacked, which then set
00:14:16.000up right. This was supposed to be withdrawal. This wasn't supposed to be an evacuation operation.
00:14:20.000It's only be we're only talking about evacuation because it was a failure. So for China, this is
00:14:26.000exactly what they want. Now they get to backfill us in Afghanistan. Now they get to go after the
00:14:41.000But I think that you will see Taliban attacking China's One Belt One Road infrastructure within or you know, Maybe not specifically Taliban, but other extremist elements over there within five years.
00:14:55.000That's just the history of the region.
00:14:56.000That's the history of the peoples of that region.
00:14:59.000You do not see occupying nations occupying forces doing well in that part of the world.
00:15:04.000And there's a lot a lot of history behind it. I have a kind of a caveat.
00:15:08.000Unless China does manifest the oppressor oppressed narrative within the
00:15:27.000The language is already invested in the system, and they already have the easy example of, well, America's the big bad.
00:15:34.000Why wouldn't China motivate that cultural aspect?
00:15:39.000Remember, the current CCP was created by Mao.
00:15:44.000Maoist China was This idea of manifesting the political disdain of the people for their own government.
00:15:51.000Now you just use China doing that on the world stage, manifesting countries or pseudo countries against ambiguous ideas like the West, like rule of law, like America.
00:16:25.000But even then, I think it's something more, they said, like, we acknowledge the will of the Afghan people rather than we recognize the Taliban as legitimate government.
00:16:34.000So, I think it buys them a couple years.
00:16:36.000Obviously, it's in their best interest, Taliban's interest, to receive if they can get any kind of deals with China, if they can get banking, if they can get all this.
00:16:44.000Because, of course, you're seeing a lot of the international community trying to shut down any aspect of the Taliban getting into the finances of the government of Afghanistan, being able to use any of this stuff.
00:16:55.000And so, for China, it creates this sort of wellspring for them of having That ability to not have to use the international system because they can just go through China.
00:17:05.000So China's, as you say, they're trying to set themselves up as we are the benefactor to go against the big bad of the West.
00:17:12.000And I do think that'll buy them some time.
00:17:14.000But there's just 2000 years of history of Afghanistan being a graveyard of empires.
00:17:19.000Not to mention, if they're going to try and make it seem like, oh, the West is bad, they're the real enemies.
00:17:25.000They're also trying to make the world think that we've lost our power.
00:17:40.000Robert Tabor, the classic War of the Flea.
00:17:43.000I'm not an expert on his work alone, but the introductory paragraphs are, insurgency is prolonged political warfare, creating the spirit of revolution which runs on the idea that it could happen.
00:18:02.000Which is the Chinese puppet of what that attaches themselves to movements like the Nation of Islam then enters Western countries and uses that as a backdoor road into pushing more disdain for Western values.
00:18:19.000And then the real question, though, is what happens if, and they are talking about setting up an Islamic Republic, or I believe the Islamic Emirate, I think is the official name.
00:18:49.000Nowhere near as populated as Afghanistan, but it's massively bigger than Afghanistan.
00:18:54.000And you have 1 million Uyghur Muslims, also Sunni, by the way, who are kept in concentration camps by your same benefactor.
00:19:03.000Essentially, once you see these narrative conflicts, these contradictions, I think, are what will eventually cause problems in this relationship.
00:19:13.000Because China is going to say, well, we're here to help you.
00:19:16.000OK, but what about our, you know, our friends, our brothers that are within your land that you are oppressing so that you can build your pipelines across Pakistan?
00:19:24.000You know, I've heard some stories about what China is doing, and I kind of feel like the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan would not mind.
00:19:31.000So I don't know if you if you've heard these stories that when they harvest organs from the Uyghurs, they can then sell them to Arabic nations who need organ transplants that are halal.
00:19:44.000So, essentially what I'm saying, though, is that you will still end up getting breakaway groups, right?
00:19:52.000You're still going to end up getting a group there, and this is the nature of radical Islam, is that you will have a group that says, how dare we be in bed with these guys?
00:20:32.000Um, look, I you know, I'm sort of like the proverbial, I don't think we're going to go to a shooting war with Taiwan anytime soon over Taiwan anytime soon.
00:20:43.000That being said, it's possible, right?
00:20:45.000I don't think it's in China's best interest.
00:20:47.000I don't think it's in our best interests.
00:20:51.000The we the axis of the elites between the CCP and the 1% in the West.
00:20:57.000We want you to become the consumer nation.
00:21:00.000They want the West to be the consumers of the world.
00:21:03.000Our inflated consumer values, our dollars, we want you to buy our TVs, we want you to buy our iPhones, everything that's made in China, you are to consume that and be happy.
00:21:40.000And then so for China's perspective, again, it's it's similar to the to the Taliban, in a sense, there's that phrase that's been going around this week, you know, you have the watches, but we have the time, right?
00:21:50.000So it was 100 years for Hong Kong, and they 1897 to 1997, right?
00:21:57.000And that handover of Taiwan is seen, by the way, as the end of the British Empire.
00:22:03.000Many people see that as the end of the British Empire, as the symbolic act that, okay, we are no longer this international empire.
00:22:33.000And and so and you better believe that a lot of the companies from Vegas are all still operating in Macau, which means they're all tied in with CCP as well.
00:22:40.000And so you've got a situation where, you know, to the CCP's perspective, they want to assimilate Taiwan through osmosis.
00:22:51.000Isolate them throughout the world, cut off their trade, cut off their finances, right?
00:22:55.000So if you land, I've been, you know, I've been in Taiwan, I've been on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, actually, and, you know, looked across, you can't see it, but, you know, and so when you land in the Taipei airport, you know, usually when you land somewhere, there's, you see, what's the first thing you see is advertisements, right?
00:23:11.000You see advertisements, usually banks or some kind of real estate or something like that.
00:23:15.000In the Taipei airport, there's none of that, right?
00:23:17.000There's just a couple pictures up of Taiwan from like the local, you know, Ministry of Tourism, and that's it.
00:23:22.000So there aren't those huge international brands playing in Taiwan the way that you'd see everywhere else.
00:23:30.000That's because of economic isolationism.
00:23:33.000That's Beijing going around telling everybody, you don't do business with this island because we want their only economic, social, and cultural vector to be through us.
00:23:44.000And if you want access to our markets, if you want access to be able to sell, if you want all the deals that we can offer you, right, you have to cut off Taiwan.
00:23:54.000And that's why, if you go back to the 1970s, that is why The US government recognized the government of Beijing for the first time for all those years throughout the Cold War.
00:24:06.000And it was Carter who eventually switched that over, which then had the after effect of changing the seat at the United Nations, which was controlled by Taiwan, the Republic of China, which was and is the legitimate government of China prior to the CCP.
00:24:22.000Then that seat at the UN Security Council went to Communist China.
00:24:33.000The title of the Black Swan event is most often attributed to Nicholas Nassim Taleb.
00:24:39.000Now, he is both an economist, he's a professor, he's an author, he's kind of one of those autophages, he's accomplished many things.
00:24:49.000But he wrote a book called The Black Swan, and the idea of a black swan event is something, it is a large event, a large catastrophic, or a large event of very effective proportions, whatever, that either A, could not have been predicted, or B, if it would have been predicted, it wouldn't have happened and therefore would never have been noticed.
00:25:11.000And so he, when he opens up, I think it's when he opens up his book, The Black Swan, he's using the example of 9-11.
00:25:20.000So if a person had, if anybody in the airports had said, it's strange that these people have these items and just simply taken them.
00:25:46.000I'm not going to use the word cascading failure because I'm not going to be specific on that one.
00:25:50.000But you might be correct in the sense of that one where Well, there's that story of, um, it's a Jose Melendez Perez was the, was the one TSA agent, um, who had been, I think it was, um, he was a Puerto Rican, uh, served in, I think Vietnam.
00:26:04.000And he was the one who stopped, um, Oh, what's the guy?
00:26:07.000Muhammad Al-Qahtani, who was supposedly the 20th hijacker, um, in, from coming through in Florida.
00:26:14.000And because he just ended, I always remember the story because it was like, He just seemed, he just says that he seemed off to me, right?
00:26:20.000This guy got put in secondary screening.
00:26:23.000And, you know, because he didn't, he wasn't able to answer the questions when you come in, you know, Hey, where are you going?
00:26:30.000Didn't have good answers to the questions gets put into secondary screening.
00:26:33.000And then Jose Melendez Perez goes to see him and says, Look, this, this guy's got military training, I can see he's got like a military bearing to him.
00:26:40.000And you know, like, you kind of know, if you've been in the military, like, hey, this guy's got, you know, and something seems off, his story seems off, he doesn't have a return ticket.
00:26:49.000And they said, Hey, man, these, these, this guy's a Saudi, you got to be, you know, got to be PC, you got to be careful.
00:26:55.000And Melendez Perez says, I don't care.
00:26:58.000I, this guy, Everything that I'm supposed to do says this guy shouldn't be allowed into the United States, so I'm going to send him home.
00:27:06.000And he did send him home, and he was supposed to be the muscle man for United 93.
00:27:13.000So that's why United 93 only had four hijackers as opposed to the others that had five.
00:27:18.000And he was supposed to be the one that was doing crowd control for the passengers as the other guys flew.
00:27:23.000And then what Melendez Perez didn't know was that waiting to pick up Muhammad Al-Qahtani in the parking lot of the airport in Florida was Muhammad Atta, who was the lead hijacker.
00:27:40.000Because one guy just did what he was supposed to do, just did his job.
00:27:44.000So here's what I ask from the New York Post.
00:27:46.000Palantir buys $50 million worth of gold bars to counter Black Swan event.
00:28:26.000And it's basically like, you know, you think of any online database where you're going through files and then things are linked to each other.
00:28:36.000Well, this is, it's multimedia and one thing can pop up to another.
00:31:42.000Well, I mean, that that makes sense as to why they were because I mean, from what you're saying, that's why they're buying gold, right?
00:31:47.000Because it's it's yes, there's a black swan event, but it'll be tied to economics, it'll be and obviously you would buy gold as a hedge against fiat.
00:31:54.000So the idea that yeah, and that it now it may also be though, that there's they're not quite sold on crypto yet.
00:32:02.000And they're thinking that look, you know, we kind of went through the pandemic.
00:32:05.000And And you know, there, you know, there were times where crypto seemed like it was people were using it as a store of value.
00:32:11.000But other times where it was seemed like it was crashing along with the stock market, because there's less speculation in crypto as well.
00:32:17.000And so it's not an awkward crypto Twitter, by the way, you know, it's all the crypto bros out there.
00:32:23.000But I'm just talking about how it went last year.
00:32:26.000And so you've got to think that that from Palantir's perspective, they want to go with the more traditional store of value that people have run to in a crisis, and that's gold.
00:32:34.000What would be a Black Swan event that would hit the economy in such a way that they would need $50 million of gold bars?
00:32:42.000They could print $120 trillion tomorrow.
00:33:05.000Was it the fact, well, maybe the thing in that one would be, was the Black Swan event at, the thing that contributed to what we call the Black Swan event of 9-11 was the towers coming down.
00:33:14.000But the things that contributed to that are all of the subsequent, or all the preceding events that no one predicted.
00:33:20.000No one thought anyone was going to hijack a personnel carrier and crash it.
00:33:26.000So maybe the formation of the Federal Reserve was the black swan event.
00:33:29.000I'm pretty sure they had done drills specifically mentioning this.
00:33:36.000It's been a long time since I've read a lot of the news.
00:33:38.000I just mean to say that it was a failure on the part of the government.
00:33:42.000It's kind of like when I mean, certainly hijackings had taken place.
00:33:46.000But it's when Biden says, we planned for every contingency.
00:34:04.000Because we're like, okay, well, we I mean, anybody who's been there knows has some expectation that as the as America recedes, somebody is going to fill that void.
00:34:13.000And if it's not the Afghan military, the Afghan government, At the time, it's going to be somebody else.
00:34:24.000The Black Swan event was that they precipitated on across the country so quickly.
00:34:30.000And so that's kind of the multiple layers of failures of the relationships with the local people, not on the individual level, but on the state level.
00:34:47.000So I read a bit about Afghanistan and what, I can't remember, I don't know who wrote this, they said that the US pulled air support.
00:34:56.000And as soon as that happened, that's the centerpiece of American military strategy.
00:35:00.000So they give the Afghan security forces, you know, these air capabilities, but then Biden's like, we're pulling support and we're out.
00:35:06.000Well, there was actually an interesting, and it kind of ties into what you're saying, there was an interesting angle to that, because it was something along the lines of, and I don't want to get this wrong, but the idea was that we were maintaining the Afghan Air Force, and they didn't have the capacity to, there I am using buzzwords capacity, the capacity to maintain their own Air Force.
00:35:27.000So when we pulled our contractors and essentially our mechanics for their Air Force, rather than having, you know, it's like, It's like you teach a man to fish, right?
00:35:40.000You know, that the minute we pulled those mechanics out, they didn't have an air force anymore.
00:35:45.000Is that because in the 20 year training that we were training militants, but not engineers?
00:35:51.000Well, we were training the arm- I mean, I won't, you know, put words in your mouth, but we were training armed forces.
00:35:56.000It wasn't- I wasn't- Not mechanics, though?
00:35:58.000I was not- I was- I was in Ranger Battalion.
00:36:00.000I was not in charge of understanding the relationship.
00:36:03.000Why didn't you train them better, Forrest?
00:36:55.000We have to figure out the terms on which we're going to leave.
00:36:57.000Maybe us, we who are seen as the powers that be, the generals, are like, well, we're only going to be willing to pull out when it looks good for my political career.
00:37:12.000You saw that thing from Matt Zeller, where he was on MSNBC and he said that he told them over and over again, plan for this, but they were more concerned about looking bad than actually solving, you know, planning for the problem.
00:37:44.000I'm going Yeah, no one wants to be a tabbed ranger who never got to go overseas and has to go home and visit his family and run into his uncle, who's annoying as possible, who was in the National Guard and he's got three deployments under his belt.
00:37:58.000No, that's 100% true, but it's that mentality that drives a lot of this decision making, too.
00:38:44.000It's constantly in a state of upheaval.
00:38:46.000Right, so if you're going to look at countries like China, America, Russia, Germany, Great Britain, Mexico even, Afghanistan culturally does not have the unity that even America has in our own fractured nonsense.
00:39:04.000So for them as a culture, some of it is still very much so, I'm really only loyal to my tribe, which makes sense, but they don't have the kind of trickling up effect of at least some sense of loyalty, or some sense of unified cultural identity.
00:39:21.000There are a lot of spurious connections between them, but there's not a single unified cultural identity in there.
00:39:26.000Some of this is because of things that we just don't understand in the West, and some of them are things that are a little bit more nuanced than just tribalism.
00:39:34.000But there are issues within the Afghan culture, which he saw, because we spent 20 years and a lot, well, we spent all this time and money building an Afghan military, and as soon as they saw the Taliban coming, they're like, ah, you know, here's the guns, we're good.
00:39:50.000The second layer is that so much of the American military's leadership was more concerned about the opinions of people that don't even like them or are actively working against them.
00:40:00.000They're so worried about American news agencies writing hit pieces on them because then their political career is done.
00:40:08.000Because once you get past a certain level in the American military on the officer scale, you become an inherently political position.
00:40:15.000I mean, at this point, you become an officer, you're a politician.
00:40:18.000at this point, it's if you get that that first, I mean, you become an officer, you're a politician.
00:40:23.000Exactly. Well, I don't even know what the lieutenant looks like
00:40:26.000anymore. But I would expect because if you're going to be if
00:40:28.000you're going to put that much investment into it, you're half
00:40:30.000to being at least hoping to look far enough in that you're going
00:40:33.000to go on for like a colonel and move your way up there.
00:40:35.000And then the third part that comes into this one is the American cultural issue of we didn't, as a culture, come to terms with what we were trying to accomplish there, nor did we as a culture believe in our own values enough to try to transpose them into this country.
00:40:53.000If we think certain things are good, like we're not even going to use representative government as a value, we did not pass that on to the Afghan people or they did not root it in.
00:41:05.000So when you're talking about Afghanistan as a multi-layered problem, you're dealing with bureaucrats making rules of engagement, For the people who are on the ground, in the words of a good friend of mine, you have people who are non-threats.
00:41:20.000And what I mean by non-threat is that they have no strategic value.
00:41:25.000If an opposing force were to encounter them, they wouldn't even take them seriously.
00:41:30.000Right, so this person is so disconnected from the American military, the concept of war, but somehow they're being allowed to make rules of engagement for Navy SEALs, Army Rangers, Delta Force guys, where now you've got the guys who signed the paper, chose to do it, and don't get me wrong, those people are responsible too because they listened about leadership if they did, when they did, if they did.
00:41:52.000And it's not just a blanket statement, or the leadership is bad, because you're your own person.
00:41:58.000American rugged individualism begins at the person, and the American military gave that up as the American culture has been giving that up.
00:42:06.000So layer one, Afghanistan was never going to become a glorious utopia.
00:42:11.000Layer two, the more concerned about what my American constituents are going to say.
00:42:16.000And then layer three is on a cultural level, we gave up the fact that I as an individual, it's my responsibility, if I'm the one carrying the firearm, I am the one who's responsible for it.
00:42:28.000And it's not that the people on the ground gave that up, it's that their political leadership took that from them.
00:42:35.000Going back to Nicholas Nassim Taleb, if you want to read three books of his, Black Swan, Anti-Fragile, Skin in the Game.
00:42:44.000Skin in the Game means if I'm the guy on the ground, I know that I can make decisions because I know that if I'm looking at a combatant or non-combatant, I can make that decision.
00:42:53.000If my leadership does not believe that I can make that decision, but instead puts rules of engagement, which I don't even get to engage that part of my mind, then they have failed.
00:43:03.000The apparatus that is the American concept of war failed in Afghanistan, which is no surprise why China would be willing to push it.
00:43:09.000Yeah, this is also covered in the concept of the strategic E4.
00:43:13.000The idea that when you look at some of this stuff from a fourth generation warfare perspective, the idea that optics are warfare, right?
00:43:22.000So suddenly an E4 tip of the spear, right?
00:43:26.000You're thinking, oh, well, I'm the bottom of this echelon.
00:43:28.000I have this whole hierarchy above me, giving me the rules of order to making these strategic decisions, giving me commander's intent.
00:43:35.000But instead, because you're the one who's there, and then you've got someone on the other side that's taking your picture or that's portraying your actions or misportraying your actions, right?
00:43:45.000You are now the face of US government policy.
00:43:47.000You're the face of the, you know, or in their terms, the way they would like to portray it, of course, as the as the evil Western occupying empire that is Crushing their land for 20 years and let's face it if you were you know if you were someone in Afghanistan who's 18 years old right now, right?
00:44:04.000You don't know what 9-11 was that's like something you read about you know or maybe you saw a video of but you just know that you've been growing living in a country your entire life as you've been growing up and seeing foreign soldiers walking around occupying your country telling your government what to do and then you've got Some people saying, oh, just go along with them, even though they don't speak your language, they don't have your values, they don't share your religion, they don't share your culture.
00:44:26.000And then you've got another group that says, no, follow us, let's get rid of them.
00:44:30.000Let's talk about the rules of engagement, though.
00:44:33.000I'm assuming you probably have experienced things where it's like, it makes no sense.
00:44:41.000Forrest Cooper, Team Leader 2013, was explained that I have to tell the people that I'm in charge of, I'm a team leader, I'm in charge of guys, I have to explain to them that in the event there is a man standing in his doorway with a belt-fed machine gun shooting at your people, we are not allowed to return fire with effective weaponry because there's the possibility that somebody might be standing behind him in his house.
00:45:37.000So let's, let's, let's make another very important distinction.
00:45:40.000When your job is you are in a special operations unit and you're tasked with performing things like a night raid where you go, we're going to go after perfect, most famous night raid ever going after Osama bin Laden.
00:45:55.000So if they had told the guys going after Osama bin Laden that you're not allowed to shoot unless you're being shot at.
00:46:03.000Okay, think about that dynamic really quickly.
00:46:07.000You're being employed by the American military to go after a specific target, but you're supposed to also act like you're a beat cop in Chicago, and you're not allowed to actually engage with the targets that you know are armed and preparing to fight against you until you have some sort of checkmark from somebody else who has no skin in the game that confirms that you have received effective fire from somebody.
00:46:30.000We were looking at this graph the other day that Lydia had pulled up showing the different jobs by political affiliation.
00:47:07.000I know that I can make this shot at this yardage and I know that I am not being shot at right now.
00:47:12.000I am fully trained and confident in that ability, have the equipment and the situation that presents it.
00:47:18.000If I even completed that, then I would go home from the mission and have to face lawyer, well not lawyer, but I have to face an entire effectively court appearance overseas by Americans basically trying to figure out whether or not they can throw me in.
00:47:32.000Is this like Does this happen where someone will... And by the way, you've got, you've probably got three or four activist JAGs looking to make rank that look at you and say, aha, we've got a situation where somebody broke the rules.
00:47:43.000They're not looking at what your mission was or what your objective was or what the context of that particular objective was.
00:47:51.000They're looking at how can I make rank as a JAG, that's a military lawyer, by going after somebody, prosecuting them and winning.
00:48:09.000Like if there was going to be a firefight, and the guy with the machine gun was going to mow down three of your guys, and then they were going to mow him down, but you prevented that by sniping the guy.
00:48:18.000How'd you know he was going to attack your people?
00:48:41.000Remember, there was even... I mean, it goes even further than this with... I don't know how much we can talk about the... I don't even know how to say it, but the...
00:48:52.000Basically, there was a situation where there would be underage boys on on and around US military bases.
00:49:00.000And I'm trying to be very YouTube friendly with this.
00:49:03.000And we know and there are specific terms for that.
00:49:05.000I have no idea whether YouTube has an issue with the Afghani terms for that.
00:50:16.000And you, because you understand that you need to integrate your forces so that they can work well together, otherwise it's just going to be two completely useless bodies.
00:50:24.000Well, one's going to be very useful and one's going to be very lost.
00:50:45.000You know, I went to ranger school, I know how that works.
00:50:46.000But so in that one you have and you're working with you're working with a you have a host nation cohort and you know, they're Participating in not just casual corruption like issues where it's not just money being exchanged But many many worse things and instead of being able to say this is not that what we're gonna represent to our country we're not gonna this because they're definitely they're an inherently a reflection of on you and If the Americans protect the people who do the bad things, then they are in part and parcel responsible for it, at least within the cultural concept.
00:51:23.000And so when you as a commander say, we're going to put a stop to this in this connected force, and you get sidelined because it wasn't politically operative or optimal, that's what you're dealing with.
00:51:40.000War is messed up for a lot of reasons.
00:51:41.000And so you talk about the PTSD ramifications of that, you talk about the 22 veteran suicide a day, that obviously this is something that's driving, you know, and you're right, by the way, that that is the different cultural values.
00:51:54.000It is a very Western cultural value that if you see something like See something, say something.
00:52:09.000We would encounter villages, towns and areas where a person would be targeted.
00:52:15.000Our person would be targeted because he was 100% confirmed being a bomb manufacturer intended to do harm on whoever, right?
00:52:26.000And they have their little compound with their walls, and in that compound, they're building explosives for the purpose of maiming and killing American soldiers and Afghan citizens.
00:52:37.000Their neighbor will know about it and say, it's not on my property, so I don't care.
00:53:13.000My friends who are from there have said similar stories where, you know, I was hanging out in an apartment and my friend told me that she's like, hey, you know, the apartment next to this one, you know, back in the during the Soviet Union, there were two neighbors and they were feeding with each other.
00:53:25.000So the person who lived here just called the Communist Party and said they were badmouthing the party.
00:53:28.000And a day later, their apartment was empty.
00:53:36.000You're talking about an American value, at least a Western value, is this idea that we know our neighbors and we at least hold them to a certain level of accountability.
00:53:44.000To some extent, at least to some... I mean, that might... Yeah, like, if you're in the US, right, and I see my next-door neighbor, like, beating their dog or something, or their kid, or whatever it is.
00:53:56.000Yeah, you are going I mean, nine times out of 10, someone in the US is gonna say, all right, I'm gonna pick up the phone and do something about that.
00:54:12.000Because then you run into the Minneapolis problem of, well, they didn't have a Black Lives Matter flag outside their house, so let's burn it down next time.
00:54:19.000Well, you've seen the riots in Hamburg during, I think it was the G20 or whatever.
00:54:22.000All the windows are smashed out except for one.
00:54:33.000I've been studying a lot of war history, and a lot of times it's like, you know, the army goes into the city, they kill most of the male fighters, and then they rape the women and pillage and burn the city.
00:54:44.000This doesn't always happen, but it was pretty frequent, like normal.
00:54:47.000The commander would be like, okay, he lets his troops pillage, because if he doesn't, they're going to mutiny and kill him.
00:54:51.000But we've gone the opposite direction with the Geneva Convention and the American military, prim and proper, taking Make sure you don't upset your foes before you kill them.
00:55:42.000Why do I have to pay the family for the door?
00:55:44.000Well, because you did damage to the property.
00:55:46.000Like, we were going after him because he was facilitating, insert one of these issues, he was doing one of these things.
00:55:53.000Like, we didn't just go after him willy-nilly because his name is whatever.
00:55:56.000It's, you know, you go after a guy, he's building bombs, he's facilitating fighters, he's in, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, uh... Recruiting.
00:56:02.000Recruiting, he's, whatever, I mean, you could figure out any of the answer.
00:56:05.000So you go into the village, you have your target structure, you hit the building, And then afterwards, you're like, well, now we have to pay the family for the door.
00:56:16.000American police don't, if they kick a door down, they don't pay for the door of American citizens.
00:56:21.000American police and military differences.
00:56:24.000There's a lot of big ethical and moral questions that arise from what's going on in Afghanistan.
00:56:28.000And the first is, you know, you mentioned the horrible things that they do.
00:56:31.000They have this really disgusting practice that we can't really talk about on YouTube, but it's, it's child abuse.
00:56:36.000And, and actually that, that's one of the things just to get into the more complexity of it.
00:56:41.000That's one of the things that the Taliban was against.
00:56:44.000And so one of the ways that they originally, Mullah Omar and Kandahar were raising, were rising to power was because they were, were essentially, they would find out about stuff like that going on and then execute people in the streets.
00:56:56.000And so people would say they were so sick of it.
00:56:59.000They'd say, okay, well, let's go for this extreme reaction.
00:57:07.000being in this foreign land where a bunch of people don't like them, as you pointed out.
00:57:10.000They don't speak the language, don't even look like you.
00:57:12.000They're a bunch of imperial, powerful troopers who come in and tell you how to live and what you have to do.
00:57:18.000And there are people who are there who are like, no way.
00:57:21.000They were going to resist by any means necessary.
00:57:23.000The problem I see is, I don't think we should have been there.
00:57:25.000If we wanted to go after Al-Qaeda, that I understand, sticking around for nation building and occupying this country.
00:57:30.000Results in people resisting you, and for all of the really horrifying things I would personally wish they were not doing, I don't know if that is justification for the U.S.
00:57:40.000being the world police for every single issue like that, because if we were going to go into every country where they had a problem like that, we'd be occupying, you know, North Africa for everything that's happening, like with the slave trade now in Libya.
00:57:51.000I could sit here for hours and tell you about, you know, country after country that's conducting some kind of moral atrocity, and there's always going to be a Rwanda out there.
00:58:00.000If we're gonna go after somebody, though, we better go after them.
00:58:28.000Because if it was, if we're talking about like 2001... It's like Jawbreaker, Anaconda, like some of those really early... And I was really young.
00:58:37.000And I will not pretend to be the most astute historian in American military history, because, especially when you look at the Global War on Terror, it gets bigger the more you look into it.
00:59:59.000So if I put a checkpoint out here, I can also watch how people move around that checkpoint, or maybe if that checkpoint is so that they can't come into the embassy, that's pretty straightforward.
01:00:09.000But I'm going for a segue here, so did you ever force people, was there ever a policy where it was like people could not freely use services anywhere during these operations unless they had ID to prove who they were or what they were doing?
01:00:58.000There was a ton of vetting that went into this, there were biometrics that were conducted, and that even with all of this vetting that was done, you still had a massive amount of what were called green on blue attacks.
01:01:11.000And you cannot talk about resettling Afghanistan refugees in quote unquote refugees in the United States without
01:01:19.000Confronting that very real fact that even the people who were vetted in many times this is what talk about stream
01:01:36.000That's, that's, that's the enemy, right?
01:01:39.000But green is the sort of, you know, you're a host nation, national, you're host country national, or, you know, you're so you're someone who's working for us in a in a contractor capacity, you're a civilian capacity, you're not, but you're not, you know, one of our one of our allies in uniform, right?
01:01:55.000I know a guy who got, you know, the defect.
01:01:57.000He got shot in the cafeteria as he was waiting in line to get chow one day, right?
01:02:45.000And by the time I was more involved, by the time I spent more time in Kabul, most of those checkpoints within the city were run by Afghan nationals, which there was easily examples of layers of corruption there.
01:03:12.000I know you want to segue, but you got to hear this one, because it talks about the moral differences, right?
01:03:17.000So he would say, in the United States, we consider it corrupt if you are a government official and you give jobs to your family.
01:03:26.000In Afghanistan, you are considered corrupt if you're a government official and you don't give jobs to your family.
01:03:32.000So, now what we have here in the US, in New York, is substantially worse than any kind of checkpoint or, you know, I guess general search in a designated area.
01:03:45.000We have, you can't enter buildings without an ID, alright?
01:03:49.000So I actually, I don't know if you guys saw, I was on Fox News earlier, and for those listening and watching the clip, they'll probably put a clip up of it, because I did, you know, as I've been mentioning for the past couple of days, I did a bunch of phone calls, I called the city, And what's happening in New York is substantially worse than a military occupation.
01:04:08.000You have to fire your employees if they have a disability, barring them from vaccination.
01:04:28.000How does it happen that in our own cities, You know, you can't even, you can't even shoot at a guy if he's got a machine gun pointed at you.
01:04:36.000But in New York, they can straight up say the ADA is in the toilet, we can do whatever we want.
01:04:40.000It's a million times, well... There's a lot, there's a lot worse with actual military conflict.
01:04:45.000But I tell you, man, the Nazis, they went after the disabled first.
01:04:48.000And now we're at the point, we're watching this in four cities.
01:04:50.000You got LA, SF, New Orleans, and New York.
01:04:54.000You are getting to a situation in the United States where it's really amazing, and you could get into the moral and ideological implications of why this is, but it is medical apartheid.
01:05:09.000You are having people that are being told because of their personal decisions or their personal medical history that they are no longer allowed to participate in society And those same people are also, if you watch certain other media, a lot of mainstream media now, they are being demonized, they are being otherized, they are being labeled, and they are being more and more, when I say demonized, I really mean that because the President of the United States just gave a speech today, Joe Biden gave a speech today talking about how it's the unvaccinated's fault that all this is going on.
01:05:45.000It is your fault You are the reason that this pandemic is still going on.
01:05:52.000And those governors that are standing in the way of masks, that are standing in the way of mandates, they need to stop and they need to get with the program.
01:05:58.000You know what word I like that everyone seems to be using now?
01:06:17.000Of groups of people, be it because they have personal medical issues that aren't necessarily disabilities, but they have to make hard choices, or because they have just personal choice.
01:06:28.000And by all means, I'm sure that people can argue.
01:06:30.000You want to make an argument and say, well, your personal choice is bad for us.
01:07:21.000The New York Post reports in the lawsuit filed on Tuesday in Staten Island Supreme Court that businesses argued the mandate violates their constitutional rights and unfairly targets certain establishments because churches, grocery stores, schools, offices, and medical facilities do not have the same strict requirement.
01:07:34.000Additionally, the mandate does not make any allowances for people who cannot get the vaccine or already have antibodies from having the virus.
01:07:41.000It makes no exception for people allergic to the ingredients in the vaccines, have religious beliefs against them, or have pre-existing conditions.
01:07:49.000So, uh, one of our friends made a phone call and asked a restaurant if they would bar someone with a disability from coming in.
01:07:56.000As you guys know, I talked about how I made this phone call.
01:07:58.000And they said, I'm sorry, regardless, if you don't have the vaccine, you can't come in.
01:08:02.000And he said, what about a Jewish person?
01:08:08.000Like, if they were instructed, you know, because of their religious beliefs, they couldn't.
01:08:11.000And they were like, oh, absolutely not.
01:08:12.000They wouldn't be allowed in the establishment.
01:08:14.000Their religious beliefs do not give you any kind of exemption from this.
01:08:18.000Well, and by the way, you know, as, um, you know, as the, uh, the category token Catholic on the, on the podcast and since no shim cast tonight, unfortunately, but, um, and really just for Christians as well, though, that they, that, so in, in the Catholic faith and in the Christian faith, uh, abortion is obviously something that's completely against our religion.
01:08:42.000It is, I mean, it is, uh, throughout the Bible, et cetera, et cetera, not to get into all that, but it is a hundred percent against.
01:08:49.000A lot of the vaccines used aborted fetuses in their development.
01:08:54.000And so a lot of people have looked at that in good faith and say, look, this is just against my religious beliefs to use something that benefited and was created through abortion.
01:09:05.000That this is something that is completely against our religious beliefs, it's something that we believe in our core, and it's something that we completely reject.
01:09:11.000And it goes deeper, too, because you're using the term anathema, and that term has a long history.
01:09:16.000I mean, being Catholic, I would figure the history of the term anathema is to be cutting you off from the source of salvation.
01:09:45.000And your parallel to it, though, is very important here, because you're also now dealing in major cultural differences that we're starting to see on the metaphysics level.
01:09:55.000We believe in a difference between positive and negative rights.
01:09:59.000So a negative right is such that I cannot impose on something to you.
01:10:11.000A negative right to life means I can't kill someone.
01:10:14.000A positive right to life means I'm obligated to try and save you if I see you dying.
01:10:18.000Yes, and we don't believe in the same positive rights.
01:10:21.000As in, I don't have to go out of my way to prevent you from something, right?
01:10:27.000But what you're seeing, especially in this example, is that people are viewing the conscious decision not to get the vaccine as a violation of somebody else's negative rights.
01:10:41.000You're seeing this in the light, but this is nothing new.
01:10:44.000This is nothing new. We've been seeing it on the colleges for years. You know, silence is violence.
01:10:59.000I probably said it 500 times over the past couple of years.
01:11:02.000Yeah, once these kids get into the real world, however, I want to be fair to myself and say, I still have always said, but maybe what happens is they graduate college and get jobs here and the companies just do what they want, I guess.
01:11:14.000They get jobs in HR and then they control your company and then they tell you who that you can and cannot hire based on race and gender or whatever Ibram X. Kendi says today.
01:11:23.000Well, I wasn't, I wasn't actually going to go into this, but you just gave us a good way to put in it, put it out that when you said it is your connection from the source of grace, right?
01:11:37.000So these government leaders, political leaders, establishment leaders, they view the power of government and good society as being on the side of grace as, but that's why the term the cathedral is used so often.
01:12:55.000Now you're looking at early stage issues with that, where they... Are you saying that the problem that you have with their belief system is that they believe it so wholly?
01:13:03.000They believe in the holiness of the state so well?
01:13:06.000Or is it the fact that they believe it itself, or is it the belief?
01:13:10.000Is it what they believe, or that they believe it?
01:13:13.000Because I would say something like, I believe that Insert some easy one.
01:13:22.000Okay, so and I believe that with absolute conviction that for me to just go murder out of greed or whatever is wrong.
01:13:30.000Okay, so I believe that with absolute conviction.
01:13:33.000Am I wrong because I believe it, or is my belief wrong?
01:13:37.000So is their belief in the cathedral, the new inquisition, non-Catholic church, but the new inquisition of the state as being holy, Is that's, I think that's where it's wrong that they view themselves wrong.
01:13:54.000Well, no, it's not both wrong because I can't fault them for believing something, but I can say that their belief is wrong.
01:14:00.000They believe that the government is telling them the truth.
01:15:04.000And so they are making government in this case, the state and writ large, the overstate where you, if you combine academia and some elements of the corporate sphere in this, That they are then enforcing that through what you just said in New York.
01:15:36.000And Polymath says there are two options.
01:15:38.000This is a rhetorical game and people like Colbert are so frightened by reality that they retreat to this harmless rhetorical marshmallow happy land where nothing means anything or two.
01:15:48.000They're serious and they think we should kill Trump supporters.
01:16:02.000They have this belief system in the power of this, not just the power of the state, but the grace of the state, the grace of the overstate.
01:16:09.000And so the Taliban refuses to believe in the grace of the state.
01:16:13.000Trump supporters refuse to believe in the grace of the states.
01:16:16.000But it's, you know, it's like one of those logic equations where that doesn't mean that they believe the same things as the Taliban.
01:17:20.000And the one thing I've said over and over again is that for some reason the mainstream news cycle is not talking about the food shortage, of which there is one.
01:17:28.000And maybe for the most part you don't notice because a shortage of food in certain areas just means you eat something else because we still have a lot of food.
01:17:35.000Or also it could just mean you're paying more and slowly starting to notice.
01:17:39.000Maybe you see Joe Biden increase food benefits because prices are going up.
01:17:45.000And the reason I bring this up is After I showed the 16 articles saying things like Nando's closes 45 restaurants, Rogue Valley restaurants facing food shortage, Burger King, Popeyes say labor shortage, and food shortages are causing prices to increase, understaffed Colorado restaurants, so it's not just food, it's also labor, I then show this.
01:18:04.000The one thing you know I love to cite, particularly over the past week, How would you rate the condition of the national economy right now?
01:18:10.000Democratic voters say 57% fairly good.
01:18:14.000I did a Google search for food shortage and it's page after page after page all in the last week of all these localities saying we have shortages of this that or otherwise.
01:18:24.000Chinese food restaurants across the country have been reporting it in various jurisdictions but because CNN doesn't say it It must not exist.
01:18:33.000And that is the cathedral, the religion these people follow.
01:18:36.000How could anyone who watches the news, legitimate news, with a critical mind, believe the economy is going well?
01:18:45.000We had 4 million resignations in April.
01:18:48.000They're calling it the Great Resignation.
01:19:41.000The moment Joe Biden gets elected, it was a little dip after election day.
01:19:47.000But after Joe Biden is inaugurated, The Democrats who felt the economy was very bad plummeted, and the Democrats who felt the economy was good skyrocketed.
01:19:56.000Simply by virtue of having a different president, all of a sudden the economy was good.
01:20:00.000I gotta say, I don't think any of those numbers have any value.
01:20:02.000It sounds like they're just voting whether or not they like the president.
01:20:46.000This kind of explains some of the reaction that you got to that, right?
01:20:51.000This where it was a visceral, emotional experience that they had when he was elected, versus a lot of people who looked at it and said, Oh, you know, I didn't vote that way.
01:21:04.000I guess we'll have somebody else in the office for a term.
01:21:06.000I'd have to imagine it must be like being Catholic and seeing the devil literally rise from the ground.
01:21:13.000Yeah, well, the conservatives view a separation of church and state as in I recognize that I have my religion and then I have, well, maybe not all.
01:21:21.000But there's the idea of the separation of church and state can collapse in two different directions.
01:21:26.000You can either have the church become the state and eat the state where you saw a lot of the conflicts in the medieval ages as they're prescribed by non-literate historians.
01:21:36.000And then you have the communist example where they dissolve the church and take on its authorities.
01:21:42.000What is the difference between the church and the state?
01:21:44.000The state is the sword, the church is the pulpit.
01:21:46.000So the church tells you what is right, but does not have the ability to enforce it with the sword.
01:21:51.000The state has the sword, but does not have the ability to dictate to you what is right.
01:21:55.000Because the state, the sword is only there to Honor contracts and protect rights not dictate morality.
01:22:05.000So if I go to a pastor and a pastor says tithe or don't cheat on your wife or some sort of positive thing like you know what if you need if you want to do some good here's a here's some charity you can participate in that's different than the state coming to you and saying You're going to do what we tell you is good, or we'll use the sword against you.
01:22:25.000And so you're talking about this Pope nature.
01:22:28.000Yeah, these people don't believe that the economy is bad because their savior is there.
01:22:34.000Because Joe Biden's not... But even when Trump was president before COVID, there was still, it was over 60% in... Oh, I'm sorry, that was Obama.
01:23:10.000There was a little drop off, which is kind of hilarious, but a little one.
01:23:12.000So if we're using this as a measure of statistics, it's a set of facts, not evaluations, how do we evaluate the decisions of the people who... What are we trying to evaluate here?
01:23:19.000And then COVID happened it hits the bottom and then Biden gets elected and goes right back up
01:23:24.000So if we're using this as a measure of statistics, it's a set of facts not evaluations
01:23:28.000How do we evaluate the decisions that people who what are we trying to evaluate here? Are we trying to evaluate the
01:25:41.000Like, what I mean by that is... I mean, like, if I'm going into a corner store, or like a bodega or something, are they really gonna sit there and be like... I don't think you need it for that.
01:25:49.000Not for that, but for like a sit-down restaurant.
01:27:38.000We just watched the American government, so great and powerful that it be, accidentally lose a bunch of belt-fed machine guns, night vision equipment, silencers, suppressors, rifles... Blackhawk helicopters?
01:27:51.000Did the Taliban have to pay a class 3 tax?
01:29:15.000So we shot a Barrett M82 and the origin, a friend of mine who's a gunsmith this week informed me on the origins of the Barrett M82.
01:29:26.000So back in the days when the Mujahideen were fighting against the Russians, The Americans created the Barrett M82 to use a common anti-vehicular round that had been around for a while, which was the .50 caliber round.
01:29:39.000And they put it into a sniper rifle that was semi-automatic.
01:29:43.000So you have to pull the trigger and then pull the trigger again.
01:29:48.000You have to pull the trigger to shoot your round.
01:29:51.000And the advantage of that firearm was that it could be used to take out certain Russian helicopters that were So that kind of gets ingrained in the cultural history of the firearm.
01:30:06.000And then a couple of years later, a decade and a year later...
01:31:29.000So if he were to come here to the Cast Castle and find out that Mr. Timothy Poole owns a Barrett, then he would say, oh, well, you must be shooting at helicopters, aren't you?
01:31:41.000That's the only thing you can do with them, right?
01:31:42.000Because that's the only thing you use it for.
01:31:44.000Well, shall we go to Super Chats, my friends?
01:31:46.000If you haven't already, please smash that like button, subscribe to this channel, share the show with your friends, and go to TimCast.com, become a member, because we're going to have the members-only segment coming up around 11 or so p.m., but let's read.
01:32:32.000All right, Shock Trooper 333 says, Hey Tim, missed you yesterday, was busy.
01:32:36.000I was deployed to Bagram Airfield for the end of the EVAC OFS, Operation Freedom's Sentinel.
01:32:42.000Trump's EVAC plan in Bagram was simple.
01:32:44.000All contractors were airlifted out months before we did.
01:32:47.000So this, by the way, this and so I want I want people to know this.
01:32:52.000Shout out to my friend Raheem Kassam, who had a huge scoop today, National Pulse, that back in June, the State Department actually canceled Trump's evac plan for Afghanistan that they had put in place.
01:33:06.000This was something that they had done prior to Obviously, the election.
01:33:18.000Huge scandal, by the way, because then you've got, you know, Austin and Millie.
01:33:22.000Millie, who, by the way, is considering, you know, possibly putting in for retirement after, you know, with maybe like, say, a month post evac once this is all cleaned up.
01:33:31.000They just realized that you saw that press conference today.
01:33:34.000They looked like a deer in the headlights of realizing that so you've been checkmated by the Taliban,
01:33:40.000Basically, it's like it's like you're playing chess and you just like play to
01:33:59.000That has to make split decisions and has to deal with, you know, you go into a building under night vision and you're suddenly faced with a crying child and a woman.
01:34:10.000But you know there's a guy that just ran into that room with a gun and you're the one making the decision.
01:34:17.000In the long, long before time, when there was a problem in the village, they would take a goat and put it on the field and say the goat did it?
01:34:28.000I just told you what to do and how to do it, and that guy signed the paper.
01:34:30.000You're the one who did it, so... Right.
01:34:33.000All right, we got an important one here.
01:34:34.000Robert Pointer says, Hey Tim, James Lindsay just put on an article where he discusses the
01:34:38.000Tim Pool gap. Put this to bed, which is the chicken and which is the egg of wokeness,
01:34:43.000culture or academia? It's hard to understand what you mean by culture or academia.
01:34:49.000I will say academia is not the progenitor of wokeness, in my opinion.
01:34:54.000I do believe it is a contributing factor, but let me explain.
01:34:57.000Critical race theory has been around for a long time.
01:34:59.000Critical race theory ideas have been around for a long time.
01:35:02.000And there's a reason that I, on this show, draw a distinction between critical race theory and wokeness.
01:35:07.000Because wokeness encompasses a whole bunch of other things, notably that Democrats think the economy is good.
01:35:12.000There is this weird cult Now, critical race theory became a component, critical race applied principles became a component, because certain people who followed these things saw what they could exploit and latch onto.
01:35:30.000And academia and these academics are basically small little parasites that jumped on its back and are now slowly crawling to its brain to try and control the beast and guide it in a certain direction.
01:35:41.000So the argument was because I was talking with James Lindsay, Helen Pluckrose, and Peter Boghossian.
01:35:46.000They were the people who pulled off the Sokol Square hoax where they hoaxed these academic journals.
01:36:51.000It's born out of algorithms fed to children.
01:36:54.000Children get these insane ideas from academia, but from a whole bunch of other places.
01:36:59.000To put it mildly, I think academia played a very outsized role, probably the largest role in the development of a lot of wokeness, but wokeness itself, I believe, is a product of algorithms telling you, if you want clicks, combine as many rage-bait words as possible.
01:37:14.000Like Vice's article where they said, trans women of color being attacked, you know, being subjects of police brutality, it's inseparable for the cause of Black Lives Matter.
01:37:21.000You put all those things in one link and then Google shows it to you if you search for each and any one of those words, which means, If you have a community that cares about police, a community that cares about Black Lives Matter, a community that cares about trans issues, they will all search for one word and get a different word, but get the same article.
01:37:38.000So all of these companies were incentivized to jam all of these words, creating a prominent critical race theory and intersectionality, of which many academics now found themselves reaping the rewards of.
01:37:50.000But critical race theory has been around for decades, And it wasn't prominent in the mainstream until algorithms and social media made it possible.
01:37:57.000And then people like Jack Dorsey hooked his mouth up to the toilet sewer line and started guzzling down his own refuse from his platform.
01:38:04.000And he went from the guy who said, free speech wing of the free speech party.
01:38:10.000The company said, free speech wing of the free speech party.
01:38:13.000And then they plugged the sewer line into their own mouths, gargled down the garbage produced by their trash network, and now they all believe insane things.
01:38:21.000But to Jack Dorsey's credit, he tweeted out Rothbard's Anatomy of the State to the shock of many libertarians.
01:38:28.000I would disagree a little bit because I would move the chains back just a little bit further and I would say wokeness is a natural extension and a natural outgrowth of materialism.
01:38:40.000And materialism arose because of the attacks on traditional morality in the West.
01:38:46.000That once you remove that, and you only make the material world the only thing that matters, that all of these things then arise.
01:39:29.000If you had a traditional moral base in this country, or in the West, or a classic moral base, you would reject that stuff out of hand, and it would remain relegated.
01:39:38.000So, ten years ago, this stuff was laughed off.
01:39:40.000and say, oh, that's silly. And if the academies believed in what they claim to believe, they
01:39:44.000would have been a bastion against wokeness. Instead, they became an incubator for it.
01:39:49.000Ten years ago, this stuff was laughed off. And when the culture war started ramping up,
01:39:54.000I believe the Gamergate may have been the first major instance of the culture war. Many
01:39:58.000people said, oh, you're online too much. This is meaningless. What they didn't understand
01:40:02.000is that children were put in a rage bait incubator where they got either the anti-SJW side or
01:40:36.000You have to put the pronouns in your email block now.
01:40:38.000And now companies are mandating it, not because these kids went to college.
01:40:42.000A lot of people go to college and complain about this stuff.
01:40:45.000But kids who grew up on Tumblr Our, you know, otherkin, they believe they're actually mystical dragons trapped in the body of an owl that was transported to a human body in alternate dimensions.
01:42:50.000They published the unredacted... There was... I'd have to go back and look at it, but there was something that they published had enough of identifying information... From the printer, I think.
01:43:01.000It was from the printer and they were able to... They looked up who logged in and used it.
01:43:06.000They were able to find... Yeah, they were able to find it was her.
01:43:45.000And the amount of trillions and trillions of dollars that we have literally under our feet, or not even under our feet, in the vast wastelands of the northern tier of our country that no one is using.
01:44:00.000That there is no, it's literally a wasteland.
01:44:02.000I mean, I could show you a picture, you would think it was Afghanistan.
01:44:04.000If I showed you this picture, but it's, you know, parts of Alaska, parts of Montana, et cetera, Canada as well, by the way, that no one is using, that wildlife doesn't care about, that we are not allowed to touch.
01:44:15.000And so the reason that it matters is because we're beholden to so much of this international economy because of our stupid policies here at home.
01:44:27.000If we weren't tied into the international oil market, why should we care what OPEC talks about?
01:44:31.000Because we could have energy independence.
01:45:53.000Third time asking, perhaps I will rephrase the question.
01:45:55.000Tim, ask Forrest about the H&K MP7, how it pertains to the history of recoil magazine, and what they had to do to overcome the cancel culture.
01:46:19.000Now, this is one of those things where I actually get to claim both diplomatic immunity, and I wasn't there, and I kind of don't know about it, because it was like that magazine that came out right before I discovered it.
01:46:31.000But as far as I understand, some people were frustrated that somebody said, the MP7 is for the military, not for you.
01:46:37.000Now that can be interpreted something like that.
01:46:39.000I'd need to read the article again and go back and... It was like an opinion...
01:46:44.000Someone was doing a review of the H&K MP7.
01:46:48.000H&K, Heckler & Koch, if you're familiar with the company, is notorious for making one thing for the government and something else for the people.
01:46:54.000Their entire business model is like, hey, we made it for the Navy SEALs.
01:46:58.000We'll sell you a non-Navy SEAL version for like seven grand.
01:47:06.000But that's what people like to rag on them for that one.
01:47:08.000So, a very early edition of Recoil had a review of the MP7, and as far as I understand, somewhere in that somebody claimed something that it was, well, it's only for the military, not for civilian population.
01:47:26.000Now, one, I cannot verify it because I don't have it in front of me, but it's a conversation I can have with the other editors.
01:47:33.000Two, that's not the position of the company.
01:47:37.000So I don't know what happened, and this is a long time before me, but if you're familiar with any controversy that's happened about Recoil Magazine, that was 10, maybe 15 years ago, with a lot of differences.
01:47:50.000That was before Ian came on, Ian Harrison's the lead editor, and that guy is somebody where you follow into battle.
01:49:25.000So, Bonnie Rotten is an adult actress who has changed her opinion over the last couple years from being pro-gun control to being pro-Second Amendment rights.
01:49:40.000And even in that, and if you want to call yourself, you're going to be in 58.
01:49:46.000So you're going to be not in the current magazine that's coming out for recalls, got Bonnie Rotten on the front.
01:49:53.000And then the one after that, or yeah, in 58, which is the magazine you're going to be interviewed in that.
01:49:59.000Can we put Tim on the cover with a throne, like the Game of Thrones throne, but made out of guns?
01:50:24.000Alright, Mike G says, Black Swan event equals the massive market correction confirmed by JP Morgan that is coming, aka to the mother of all shorts, that we apes have been talking about for months.
01:50:38.000Stoned Krampus says the Black Swan event will be the mother of all shorts from GameStop, short selling.
01:50:43.000Super Stonk has the receipts and a DD.
01:50:45.000I actually can throw out that, uh... I agree with that, actually.
01:50:52.000The White House official that sends me stuff from time to time was actually watching the show earlier, and they texted during this and said the Black Swan event is the Biden administration.
01:51:05.000They also wanted me to say that going, the Pentagon right now, the Joint Chiefs, is basically like the intro of Benny Hill, if you just play that over and over.
01:51:29.000If you are purchasing firearms for the first time, start with making sure you have at least a handgun and a carbine that are finished, which is a joke because you're never done building your first gun.
01:51:44.000But I do not think it is wise to go out and just say, I'm going to buy 30 of the cheapest Insert gun now and then use that in the future to sell it because first of all you're dealing with legal issues because the idea of purchasing firearms to sell them there is some legality to that and it's muddy and I'm not going to say it's an easy explanation.
01:52:07.000You could be purchasing a firearm every month for 30 years and then in 30 years you intend to put it all together into an estate and sell it as a group fine.
01:52:16.000So, are guns as an individual item an investment?
01:52:20.000Yes and no, and it's not a financial decision that I would have authority over.
01:52:24.000However, if I had bought 100,000 rounds in 2015, I would have made a lot of money in 2020.
01:52:28.0002015 I would have made a lot of money in 2020.
01:52:32.000Or, you know, or, or, you know, depending on what the market is looking at right now,
01:52:38.000there are times where you can buy a firearm in 2019 and sell it in 2021 for a profit.
01:52:44.000So are guns themselves a good investment?
01:52:46.000On the first question, yes, for the sake of your investing into yourself.
01:52:50.000You're figuring out what it takes to become lethal, knowing that you have rights and responsibilities.
01:52:56.000It builds character, it builds self-responsibility, or self-sustenance, for lack of better words.
01:53:02.000It builds autonomy, and those are things worth investing in.
01:53:06.000So, now that I'm your life coach, Go buy guns, do the right thing, participate in culture, and then if you want to buy a collection, yeah, you can figure out ways to make money, but it's not as easy as it sounds.
01:54:17.000Reach out to, if you're still listening, reach out to info at recoilweb.com and we'll get connected and perhaps we can do some, we can see what you're doing.
01:54:36.000They're doing counseling or something?
01:54:37.000No, they're kicking you out of the military.
01:54:39.000Or you're being faced with a choice, basically.
01:54:41.000Is that a medical discharge, or is it dishonorable, or what?
01:54:44.000It'll probably be a medical discharge.
01:54:46.000It'll probably be either medical or administrative.
01:54:50.000Or maybe even something as simple as early retirement.
01:54:54.000I mean, depending on where you are in your career.
01:54:57.000Think about the kind of people who will be in the military who are just like, sure, fine, whatever, I don't care, and don't ask the questions.
01:55:02.000I again, like I just said before, you know, I talk about this every day with people in the community.
01:55:09.000You know, people are saying like, hey, I wanted to serve for another 10 years, another 15 years.
01:55:17.000I've got 10 years behind me or however much experience behind me, but I don't want to do this.
01:55:23.000And so you're going to lose all of that human capital because of this.
01:55:27.000Look at it in comparison to also what a lot of veterans are feeling with Afghanistan right now.
01:55:32.000I invested, I myself invested deployments into Afghanistan.
01:55:37.000When we saw pictures and videos of the embassy, I knew that area.
01:55:42.000And the government that employed people like us to go out there, You're I mean, my inbox right now of people who either situations like that or even, you know, worse talking about, you know, my someone I the one I got today was, you know, there I think it was there.
01:56:01.000I don't want to get it wrong, but it was there.
01:56:04.000Their daughter in law's brother had been killed there, you know, when he had like a five month old kid at home.
01:56:10.000Right. Yeah. I mean, it's those those stories. 11 years and 11
01:56:14.000years and 10 days ago, 11 years and 10 days ago, I had a team
01:56:18.000leader and a friend get killed. Yeah. Now. You know, I'm this is
01:56:23.000no longer this is not for me to carry on them as if like it adds
01:56:28.000Because one of them I got along with and one of them I didn't.
01:56:31.000And it's not like it was, you know, whatever.
01:56:33.000But what I'm saying there is, yeah, there's the tragedy of their, like, what about their sacrifice?
01:56:38.000We're still starting to get back into that muddy of, it's kind of an emotional argument.
01:56:42.000Because some of us went to war to go see what it was like and see for ourselves firsthand instead of being told by a news apparatus.
01:56:49.000But the other part about it is, yeah, some of us know interpreters that their family, their lives are in jeopardy right now, that we worked with them for years and we don't know where they're going.
01:57:00.000And this is something that I want to, you know, I don't want to.
01:57:03.000I mean, I think you're OK to say that, though.
01:57:10.000And this is the last part about it that I'll kind of go into this if I can is, you know, to you who are veterans out there who reached out to your friends or to you who are not veterans and reached out to the people you know who spent time in Afghanistan, like collectively thank you.
01:57:24.000Because this weekend was hard for a lot of people.
01:57:28.000Because I met, I got phone calls from the wives of friends who are Hardened veterans who have spent 15 years in harsh combat saying, I don't know how to talk to him right now because he doesn't know how to talk about it right now.
01:57:42.000Because we all went through this emotional week and we're still going to go through it because we don't have, suddenly we don't have the tools where we can do anything about it.
01:57:52.000I can't get on a helicopter and be like, I can't just say one more deployment, we'll go help those guys out, even though that may not, may be misguided, whatever.
01:57:59.000Well, that's what they're doing, right?
01:58:03.000And that's where, that's where I would personally come down on, by the way, any administration that had conducted this in such a way that was number one, obviously it's chaotic and ridiculous in what they're doing, but also number two, when Biden comes out and says, Oh, well, there wasn't any other choice.
01:58:21.000There wasn't any other way to do this.
01:58:23.000It's just have a little bit of an outlet for the people that did serve and give them something to show that you understand what they're going through and so that they feel that they have a space where they can come into and have these discussions, you know, something they can fall back on and say, you know, we served for this purpose.
01:58:45.000This is why we put in those deployments, put in that time away from family, away from however many life events that we had to skip over, the sacrifices that were made both in time and blood and treasure, that it was all for what?
01:58:59.000And Joe Biden says, well, you know, there wasn't anything else we could do.
01:59:02.000Yeah, part of the hardest thing for me is that I don't get to go back.
01:59:04.000As far as I know, there's not really any clean avenue.
01:59:08.000If I were in a situation where I decided I wanted to go back to Afghanistan, I can't.
02:01:49.000Yeah, Gina Carano tweeted, you are not alone.
02:01:53.000But I tell you this, man, with what's going on in New York, the Nazis went for the disabled first.
02:02:00.000The Nazis claimed that Jewish people had typhus and that's why they needed to be separated and marked.
02:02:05.000And so whenever I bring these things up, you know, first people go, oh Godwin's law, I don't care, I'll violate Godwin's law, which of course for those unfamiliar is that all internet arguments eventually devolve to the point where someone accuses the other person of being a Nazi.
02:02:16.000And I tell them, do you think that when the Nazis rose to power, they immediately just snapped their fingers and said, here are the trains, everyone hop aboard?
02:02:22.000Or do you think it was, oh, we have to do this because, you know, for this reason, and oh, there's there's disease, we have to, oh, I'm sorry.
02:02:29.000And then they were just escalating and ramping up the rhetoric and the other and so anathema tization
02:02:34.000This is the point I was making earlier this week when Arnold Schwarzenegger was doing whatever podcast
02:02:41.000He was on and he said screw your freedoms right screw your freedoms
02:02:44.000And I made the point of saying that oh did you know I like to do like historical context for people that Arnold Schwarzenegger's
02:02:50.000father Right not someone who's like you know
02:02:55.000His father was a member of the Brownshirts, a card carrying member of the Nazi Party of Austria, and that eventually served in in the Wehrmacht and was actually wounded in the Battle of Stalingrad.
02:03:06.000So he was he was a decorated member of the Nazis.
02:03:13.000My post was banned from Instagram for saying that because it said that I was posting about extremist organizations, even though Even though I was simply making a point about Arnold Schwarzenegger and his father, Newsweek comes out, fact-checks the whole thing, and said, to be clear, Arnold Schwarzenegger's father was definitely a Nazi.
02:03:34.000Now, to be fair, to be fair, I will not condemn someone for the sins of the father.
02:03:39.000Nor will I. I'll condemn them for their own sins of saying, screw your freedom.
02:03:47.000To add some utility to Godwin's Law is, if you are dealing with the situation where it is the Nazis, ask yourself, was it wrong because the Nazis did it, or were the Nazis wrong because they did it?
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02:06:00.000And they also had optical citrine, I believe it is, or sunstone, that when you put it over, when you look through it, everything doubles and you can spin it and the image moves.
02:06:18.000We're gonna start doing vlog- we're ramping up to the point where we're doing vlogs every single day, so we've added a whole bunch of people, and, uh, it is not a personal vlog, as some people have tried to argue, because I'm not gonna be at it all that often.
02:06:29.000Though I'm in it a lot now, it's basically just the house, and everybody, and, you know, I'm available probably only a few minutes every day to pop in when I do, so we'll see.
02:06:37.000One of the things we're planning right now is we're gonna make- we're gonna take fungus bread, With a mushroom.
02:07:52.000He was like, oh, you'd have to destroy so much meteorite to do that.
02:07:56.000And I was like, okay, okay, I won't buy...
02:07:59.000Tens of thousands of dollars a meteorite to craft a sword.
02:08:01.000So before I go, I know we're trying to wrap up here, but my favorite author actually was knighted by the Queen and he made his sword out of a meteorite so that she can knight him.