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00:01:02.000Now, of course, the argument from the FBI is there's no evidence of anything criminal, but I think that's letting them off the hook lightly because it's all about criminal interpretation, so I definitely want to get into greater detail as we go into the Durham Report's findings, but I do want to point out even CNN saying like, This looks bad.
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00:04:21.000So I am the co-host and executive editor of Steve Bannon's War Room.
00:04:25.000Used to be and still sort of am an investigative reporter primarily focusing on Chinese Communist Party.
00:04:31.000Infiltration, which of course dovetails with the origins of COVID, did a lot of reporting on Hunter Biden's hard drive.
00:04:37.000I like to kind of footnote a lot of the statements that people make about really the amazing extent to which the Chinese Communist Party curries influence and favor in the United States.
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00:07:29.000It goes further to say that the information was known to be rumor and speculation.
00:07:34.000Democrats planted fake evidence and then used it against Trump in order to justify their assumptions about his guilt.
00:07:40.000The FBI used that for probable cause to further an investigation without any basis at all.
00:07:46.000Within days of their receipt, the report reads, the unvetted and unverified Steele reports were used to support probable cause in the FBI's FISA applications targeting Page, a U.S.
00:07:55.000citizen who, for a period of time, had been an advisor to Trump.
00:07:58.000As discussed later in the report, this was done at a time when the FBI knew that the same information Steele had provided to the FBI had also been fed to the media and others in Washington D.C.
00:08:08.000I'd like to give you a simplified version so you can understand what's going on.
00:08:12.000The FBI says no criminal culpability for a lot of these people.
00:08:15.000I think they're saying like, you know, Hillary Clinton, nothing was overtly criminal.
00:08:53.000One by one, each of these individuals did a small thing.
00:08:56.000No single person walked into that bank, demanded money, filled a bag full of cash, and fled.
00:09:02.000But each of these individuals did one thing that, if you were to analyze in and of itself, was not criminal.
00:09:09.000But altogether, After all this goes down, the bank teller did fill the burlap sack with money, and then somebody did carry it outside, then someone else put it in the back of a truck, then someone else drove that truck away, and when the FBI comes and interviews all of these individuals, they'll say, look, I don't know any of these guys.
00:09:26.000This was just in the public, and I stumbled upon it, and the money was taken from the bank and driven to a secret hideout.
00:09:32.000What happened with the Trump-Russia collusion was that Democrats who wanted Trump destroyed, members of the media who wanted Trump destroyed, all claimed they used publicly available information to destroy Donald Trump's presidency, from the FBI claiming it was in the media so we had to look into it.
00:09:52.000But the story in the media came from speculation from people in the FBI.
00:09:57.000And I think the only reason Durham's saying it's not criminal is because he's going easy on these people.
00:10:02.000Criminal indictments are interpretable.
00:10:04.000And I think anybody looking at what these people did could say, if Adam Schiff goes on TV, and he did, and says he has more than circumstantial evidence proving this, Then there should be some kind of criminal referral.
00:10:18.000And we should not sit back and allow all of these people to destroy a presidency.
00:10:23.000Because I'll tell you where we're at right now.
00:10:25.000If nothing comes of this, if the extent of the Durham Report is, yes, they all did something bad, but it wasn't criminal, then there's no country anymore.
00:10:33.000Because what's to stop any political party from doing the exact same thing to make sure no other person can have a presidential administration again?
00:11:07.000It was carried out in an improper manner.
00:11:10.000FBI officials So people can say, well, in the Durham report, there isn't any statement explicitly saying that there was an attempt at a deep state coup.
00:11:15.000do their basic due diligence and the FBI warned the Clinton campaign of potential Russian
00:11:20.000interference during the 2016 election, but did not warn the Trump campaign.
00:11:25.000So people can say, well, in the Durham report, there isn't any statement explicitly saying
00:11:30.000that there was an attempt at a deep state coup.
00:11:33.000He's just saying that basically everyone who handled this investigation was behaving improperly
00:11:37.000because of their bias against a sitting president.
00:11:39.000Well, that's just a distinction without a difference.
00:11:42.000I don't care if they all met in a cigar room and rubbed their hands together and laughed about the fact that they were trying to subvert the U.S.' 's democracy and the fact that we had a democratic election and people chose an outsider.
00:11:51.000The fact is, what they were doing is functionally identical.
00:11:54.000They were trying to use bad evidence to attempt to remove somebody from office who hadn't committed a crime.
00:11:58.000I think to me, the most startling aspect of this whole story is that the Durham report with this Russia hoax that really was just the opening salvo of the deep states attempt to really nullify the Trump presidency.
00:12:10.000So I think it's interesting if you sort of analyze the Trump term through this paradigm, what I mean by that the first impeachment attempt, the second impeachment attempt, the fact That the people who were running, you know, PPO, the presidential personnel office, the equivalent of HR in the White House, were a bunch of Bush Romney types, were very establishment Republicans.
00:12:29.000So while it's important to focus on the Russia hoax angle of it, I think it also shows you the extent to which they were willing to go to.
00:12:38.000To thwart the Trump presidency before he even became president, right, while he was still a candidate.
00:12:44.000So you can only imagine how much they ratcheted up those efforts to go after Trump once he actually assumed office and assumed all the leverage, the powers that comes with being president.
00:12:55.000So I think it's just it's such an interesting kind of paradigm to view all of the ways that the deep state Really did go after Trump.
00:13:04.000I mean, I think he's facing so many different types of lawsuits and investigations.
00:13:13.000Well, I would say just based on the words, it's people conspiring to oppose legitimately elected authorities.
00:13:20.000So if, like, I don't know, a group of people had a plan to, say, like, disrupt a presidential administration, something like that, I mean, over the period of three years before his election, is that seditious?
00:13:45.000The left has done the same thing, except instead of laundering their talking points through groups like the right does, say the Proud Boys or Patriot Run, all these different federally incited groups, They just do.
00:13:57.000And I think sort of more highbrow, more high class through NGOs.
00:14:01.000This was three years of the FBI and Democrats and the media all working together to stop a presidential administration.
00:14:13.000That is the biggest conspiracy this country has ever seen.
00:14:18.000And the only thing The only, there's only one thing that they're claiming make, that makes it not a conspiracy is it was all an accident.
00:14:27.000Every lie from Schiff, every lie from the media, every action taken by the FBI, all coming together to create a massive Russia collusion investigation with Pulitzer Prizes.
00:14:40.000All of the reporters, all of the Democrats, and all of the Feds slipped on a banana peel at the exact same time, did a backflip, landed perfectly, and won awards for it.
00:14:59.000The Proud Boys are going to have to go back to court to argue that the text messages where they're saying, where should we meet up on January 6th, prove that they didn't have a plan for that day.
00:15:08.000Meanwhile, no one involved in this is going to face conspiracy charges.
00:15:12.000And I hate to turn this into grim cast, but it really is incredibly frustrating and disheartening.
00:15:17.000There is no punishment for what happened.
00:15:41.000If you're going to accuse Donald Trump of working for the Soviet Union, then we're going to accuse you of conspiracy because y'all did say these things.
00:15:49.000Let's just go ahead and assume you did it on purpose.
00:15:51.000Well, remember, Tim, what they're going to try to argue is that you're an insane conspiracy theorist for thinking that basically every relevant person within the deep state being tilted against Trump and trying to unseat him on bad evidence Isn't an actual coup, or is an actual coup, I'm sorry.
00:16:08.000But them believing that the President of the United States literally colluded with Russia to rig the election, and he was an asset of Putin the entire time, is just reasonable thinking.
00:16:18.000And without any evidence, they could say that on national television to the American people.
00:16:23.000Let's slow down there a second, Seamus.
00:16:24.000Do you think the Democrats did what we know they did?
00:16:35.000And by the way, I just have to say, I said, you know, a lot of my early career had to do with focusing on Chinese Communist Party infiltration.
00:16:42.000If Donald Trump's cardinal sin was, you know, collaborating with the Russian government, which we know never happened, I mean, the people who are accusing him of doing that, that is like textbook projection in the sense that all of these, I actually used to do this, this can tell you what kind of social life I have, but if you used to look at the headlines that they would write on CNN, the New York Times, Washington Post, Fun, fun.
00:17:00.000and linking him to Russia, you could basically cross out Trump and replace it,
00:17:04.000often with Democrats, sometimes establishment Republicans, and then cross out Russia and put in China, because the
00:17:31.000The president is owned by the Kremlin.
00:17:33.000And then, okay, well, maybe he colluded with them.
00:17:37.000Okay, so, well, there's no evidence that he colluded with them, but the investigation was done in good faith.
00:17:41.000Okay, well, the investigation wasn't done in good faith, and there were a lot of biases in it, and the FBI clearly played favorites by warning the Clinton campaign, not the Trump campaign, and they launched the investigation on bad information, but it wasn't a coup!
00:18:15.000Like they expressed their intent before there was any criminal accusations or any any potential wrongdoing or anything they could accuse him of.
00:18:24.000They said, we will do it no matter what.
00:18:25.000And meanwhile, in the same exact time frame.
00:18:28.000The FBI, the Treasury Department was getting suspicious activity report after suspicious activity report based off the business dealings of Hunter Biden and all, you know, dozen Biden family members.
00:18:38.000And they were actively suppressing that.
00:18:40.000These are obviously politically exposed personnel's PEPs.
00:18:42.000So they knew what Hunter Biden was doing from the financial transactions.
00:18:47.000And it just shows you it's not even a double standard of justice, because that implies that we're in the same realm of standards.
00:18:57.000Yep, and I think that there's a lot to what you're saying, Hannah-Claire, about the fact that our institutions probably will not punish themselves for their wrongdoings.
00:19:06.000I also hear what you're saying, Tim, about the fact that Trump being re-elected could mean that he actually would go after these people and they would be duly punished for their crimes against this nation.
00:20:07.000They were trying to intentionally smear Donald Trump to win an election, and they framed him as a traitor to this country.
00:20:15.000And the headlines are going to be, Donald Trump uses justice system for his own vindictive means to an end.
00:20:21.000I mean, even if we were to get some of these officials behind bars to have to publicly face what they have done to the American people, not just Donald Trump, but to the people who supported him, right?
00:20:34.000There is no way that the media lets this go, right?
00:20:39.000Even now, I mean, I think part of this time is exactly what you're saying, the timeline you laid out of being like, there definitely was a problem all the way to like, well, there wasn't anything and also we are biased and we're sort of admitting it.
00:20:50.000By now they're gonna be like, well but he just got found guilty in this case and he's being investigated over here and let's talk to Alvin Bragg and it almost doesn't matter because they were just waiting to come up with something else to try and hold against Trump and it is honestly astounding.
00:21:04.000I don't know that we'll ever see anything like it in our lifetime of someone they hate more than Donald Trump.
00:21:09.000I mean it's truly unbelievable the lengths that mainstream media and the deep state will go to fight against him.
00:21:15.000Well, I will say, I think there is someone, or more accurately, a group they hate more than Donald Trump, and that's the American people.
00:21:22.000And they see Donald Trump as representative for the actual interests of the American people, and that bothers them because they're used to seeing politicians who are only interested in representing the elite.
00:21:31.000And so, while it may be the case that none of these people face any actual punishment at any of these media establishments or anywhere in the deep state, with respect to public opinion and people waking up to their nonsense, the one thing I can say is the walls are closing in.
00:21:43.000I'm just imagining, like, High profile Democrat fundraisers holding auditions to recruit actors to play Democrats.
00:21:51.000And they're doing the interview and they're like, all right, give me populist.
00:21:55.000And they got like AOC and she's saying like, I think we should tax the rich.
00:22:34.000They have this entire idea in their heads that they're these champions for the working class and they hate everything that the working class stands for.
00:22:42.000And they'll even claim that, it's funny, it applies to other things, like they really, they like love immigration and they hate the immigrant.
00:22:48.000When you talk to people who come here from Mexico about their values and like how they feel about gay marriage and abortion, the left is disgusted by it.
00:23:09.000But you see that theory play out to I think even with the Russia hoax because I also never sort of bought what they were pushing, right?
00:23:15.000It's like, oh, because a random Facebook account that was somewhat linked to Russia shared an article that was attacking Hillary Clinton on
00:23:22.000false terms just because some random Americans read it. That now influenced their vote. They're
00:23:40.000It's like, oh, because you read an article now, your entire conviction, the reason why you support Trump, it can't be because you actually support his policies on trade and you want to take this country back and you despise Hillary Clinton to your core.
00:23:53.000It's because you read an article about Hillary Clinton actually being related to Who knows?
00:24:05.000What they argued was that non-government Russian actors spending $46,000 worth of money on Facebook ads that weren't even all targeted towards one specific party Was an act of war.
00:24:20.000We had actual elected leaders saying that that was an act of war from Russia interfering in our election.
00:24:27.000This is how delusional these people are.
00:24:29.000The best part too is if you look, I remember there was a press release that Twitter had put out probably like two years ago.
00:24:34.000They were talking about what they were doing to mitigate foreign influence and they had ranked all the different numbers of bots that they had from different countries and overwhelmingly I think it was by Like a 10% increase, or rather, like, chasm between bots from China and Russia.
00:24:51.000The Chinese Communist Party influence on Twitter dwarfed that of Russia.
00:24:56.000So it's so funny, if you want to play with this foreign influence narrative, it's like, sure, I'll take you at your word on that, even though I don't believe the American people are smart enough to be immune to that.
00:25:04.000Even if you want to take them at their word, the Chinese Communist Party, their influence still prevails over Russia.
00:25:27.000As we're talking about the Durham report, And the interference in our election and Trump's presidency from 2016 till 2020.
00:25:35.000We also get to talk about the second election interference from intelligence agencies when they sought to suppress and did suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story.
00:25:43.000Here's Elon Musk giving an interview on the matter.
00:25:45.000I mean, you know, you do some tweets that seem to be or at least give support to some who would call others conspiracy theories.
00:25:55.000Well, Yes, but I mean, honestly, you know, some of these conspiracy theories have turned out to be true.
00:26:25.000And also, what wasn't mentioned by Elon was that the intelligence agency signed off on this letter, which was then weaponized by people in the media who willfully lie to manipulate.
00:26:35.000This is, once again, a very similar story of election interference from intelligence agencies, Democrats, and the media.
00:26:42.000There is no country unless these people are criminally charged, arrested, and removed from polite society because they're criminals who engage in criminal activity.
00:26:51.000But have you considered that it's just an accident and they're sawy?
00:27:02.000See, I feel like they're not sorry, they're just like, we did some stuff wrong, and we changed our own rules so we won't do anything wrong again.
00:27:09.000But we don't know that they've changed the rules to permit them to act the way they did.
00:27:13.000They've just legalized their actions, probably.
00:27:15.000And I love this rationalization that you get from the left, where they'll say, okay, like, yes, we were vehemently wrong about this every step of the way, and we did try to ruin people's lives, and we did misinform the American people, but, like, we didn't mean to, you know?
00:27:47.000A scammer doesn't go like, okay, so like, I wasn't really a Nigerian prince, but I am trying to call you about your car's extended warranty.
00:27:55.000They just move from the Nigerian prince thing to your car's extended warranty without ever talking to you about the first thing or admitting that they were wrong, yeah.
00:28:02.000It's like, you're not a Nigerian prince, click.
00:28:04.000The phone rings again, I'd like to talk to you about your car's extended warranty.
00:28:25.000Well, and this is what's so wild, right?
00:28:27.000So over 10% of Biden voters, according to surveys, Not only did not know that the Hunter Biden laptop story was a thing, because of how suppressed it was, they said if they had known about it, they would not have voted for Joe Biden.
00:28:40.000Okay, the idea that 10% of Biden voters surveyed, if that really does apply to the rest of the voting population, would not have swayed the election.
00:29:10.000That is clear corporate interference in American elections.
00:29:14.000And I would say that that's actually more heinous than non-government actors in Russia spending $46,000 on Facebook ads, not all of which were from one single partisan perspective.
00:29:27.000On top of that, we had actual elected leaders referring to that as an act of war.
00:29:34.000So what do we call it when American corporations do the exact same thing on a much larger scale, which there's actually good polling data to indicate did sway the election?
00:29:45.000Well, and they're doing it on a much larger hundred, multi-hundred million dollar, almost billion dollar scale when it comes to groups like the Center for Tech and Civic Life, getting money from the Chan Zuckerberg initiative.
00:29:55.000When you talk about the lie that they're going to peddle, I think universal mail-in voting.
00:29:59.000I'm sure there'll be some sort of public health emergency that necessitates rolling that up, but it's interesting.
00:30:05.000So obviously, the Center for Tech and Civic Life, the Zuckerberg-funded election group, they had to sort of rebrand since they came under a bunch of scrutiny during the 2020 election.
00:30:15.000But one of their new groups, it's called the Alliance for Election Excellence.
00:30:54.000They all just simultaneously slipped on- Remember, he said he wasn't gonna give any money to the 2024 election, so I was like, yeah, me and my wife, like, peace out, we're done.
00:31:01.000But no, they just use another shady nonprofit, dark money.
00:31:42.000Like, I might actually appreciate that.
00:31:44.000If he's gonna lie about giving it to the poor, okay, well, you're a slimy guy.
00:31:47.000You're lying about giving money to the poor.
00:31:48.000If he was just honest about it, look, this horrible government that does horrible things and is gonna spend this money on nonsense isn't gonna get a penny of it.
00:32:15.000That way he can write off all of the income and then have it as a nonprofit and then keep the money.
00:32:19.000Well, fun fact, there are actually studies that show inheritance taxes increase income inequality because the lower classes inherit a larger percentage of their net worth than the upper class does.
00:32:31.000And so usually what inheritance taxes actually do is just completely screw farmers over because a person has a farm.
00:32:37.000Yeah, that's why a lot of firms go into trust, right?
00:32:38.000working on and yeah like the farm and the farming equipment are rather
00:32:41.000expensive but a lot of these people are just making a normal middle-class
00:32:45.000living and then they have to pay this insane inheritance tax before they can
00:32:48.000pass it on to their children so they end up having to sell their their land off
00:32:51.000yeah that's why a lot of firms going to trust right they do it right having to
00:32:55.000go through the process or LLCs but trusts Clever ways they avoid paying taxes.
00:33:02.000But for those who can't avoid it, or for those who don't know better than to avoid it, or even people, you know, outside of the context of farming who just have a house and they don't know how to leave it to their kids without avoiding the taxes, they end up getting screwed.
00:33:12.000Millionaires and billionaires are gonna find their way around any set of taxes, right?
00:33:16.000Just like Zuckerberg did, but poor people are not.
00:33:18.000Buying things as a rich person is not the same as buying things as a poor person.
00:34:38.000Well, you have to, because if not, they're going to use the money to fund all of these groups, like election rigging groups, whatever you want to call them.
00:34:46.000And I've always supported, that was one of the first policies that Steve had pushed back when I was in high school, watching him speak, I think at the Oxford Union.
00:34:56.000And what's so funny is, you know, put aside, I always love talking to Uber drivers, Democrat, Republican, and like, that's the one issue that they can always get behind, is that taxing the rich But actually taxing them substantively and meaningfully and making the policy so it's not just that the hyper-connected rich get, they don't have to pay their fair share, but it's everyone.
00:35:16.000But then the government gets the money and gives it to the FBI.
00:35:24.000Not the child of the sex trafficking operation, but the rest of the FBI, yes.
00:35:28.000Yeah, well, like, with the FBI, with all of these institutions, and it's not even just the deep states, the government overall, as Tim alluded to, it's all incredibly corrupt.
00:35:40.000Wealth taxes make me nervous for a number of reasons.
00:35:43.000I think, you know, in principle, my main belief, I would say economically, is in property ownership.
00:35:49.000And I don't just mean that in, like, a strictly laissez-faire sense.
00:35:52.000I think the more people who own property, the better off we are as a country.
00:35:56.000I think it gives Everyone a stake in the future, you know a country of property owners is obviously better than a country of renters I'm a very big believer in the middle class and lower class being able to own property And I think a lot has to be done in order to make that a realistic possibility for people in the future but
00:36:15.000With wealth taxes, I mean, the issue is with unrealized capital gains, you're taxing something that doesn't actually exist yet, so then someone has to sell off a portion of their company, and if it was just people who were ultra, ultra, ultra wealthy, I could sort of understand, but that always trickles down, right?
00:36:31.000Anytime the government says we're only going to tax people above a certain limit, they end up lowering that bar until eventually we're all paying that wealth tax.
00:36:38.000The initial income tax was like 3%, and it was only for the ultra wealthy, and now here we are with poor people paying 20%.
00:38:03.000We don't want to say anything, but it's not great.
00:38:05.000And they say that the investigation was done without adequate bias and they routinely ignored or rationalized evidence that undercut the premise.
00:38:16.000So the whole time they were aware that this was not worth it.
00:38:19.000And they were like, but we're going to keep going.
00:38:21.000Literally what happened was they said Trump has a p-tape and we said, care to elaborate further?
00:38:47.000Here's the story from 2018, the hunt for every Trump reporter's white whale, the elevator tape.
00:38:53.000It says, there it was, some 1,500 words into a story published in the Daily Beast, the infamous Donald Trump elevator tape, not the tape itself, but the first reference, the bombshell tape of Trump in an elevator.
00:39:03.000The Wall Street Journal, the AP, and others had chased a tape that may not even exist.
00:39:08.000A certain contingent of journalists who'd spent months searching for something worth publishing, all that really mattered was the formal unveiling of the tape rumored to the public.
00:41:12.000You could literally play the, the media was so insane, I could- I could claim there is a shocking video of Seamus Coghlan doing something somewhere, and then everyone's like, whoa, I wonder what it could be, and they imagine Seamus, like, juggling bowling pins or skydiving.
00:41:51.000I'm sorry, I'm not going to like smear you.
00:41:54.000But it really is bizarre to me, right, like running with a story like that when there's really nothing to report.
00:41:59.000And I think what we're going to see start to kind of unfold, which obviously we all know here, but obviously the Hunter Biden hard drive story in terms of the collusion with big tech and the FBI, the CIA, that letter, I think that really proves that there is sort of a merger, really, I'd call it an axis of evil between these assets of the deep state And tech platforms.
00:42:21.000But I think the third component to that really is the mainstream media.
00:42:25.000And I think we've always known they've laundered talking points on behalf of the federal government.
00:42:29.000But I think this case again, yes, it's vindication.
00:42:31.000Yes, we know Trump didn't collude with Russia.
00:42:33.000But this is like clear, incontrovertible evidence that I don't think we typically get to see it so plain front and center, at least, you know, us mere American people, us mere mortals, Non-elites.
00:42:44.000So I think we're going to start to see just like that Hunter Biden story has sort of started to unfurl and you get good tidbits every now and then.
00:42:51.000I think there's going to be a lot more coming out about how the media has really just taken, whether it's FBI, CIA, you name it, their talking points and just repeated that mindlessly.
00:45:08.000Create enough evidence of their own belief system you have to admit that their worldview is right and you have to conform to it.
00:45:14.000I think that's the the strange thing about so much of essentially content creation that gets passed off as journalism today.
00:45:22.000It's about arguing that the things you believe are wrong because my worldview is is necessitated on the fact that these things I know to be true.
00:45:30.000That Trump is evil, that he colluded with Russia, and that if we vote for him, the country's falling apart.
00:45:35.000And in reality, even if you don't like everything Trump does, he is not this, like, you know, terrible person that should send you into hysterics.
00:45:42.000Well, yeah, I mean, none of these journalists are journalists.
00:45:46.000Like, 98% of the people who call themselves journalists are political commentators or they're bloggers or something like that.
00:45:50.000They write opinion pieces or they give you your perspective about something on television.
00:45:54.000While claiming they're real journalists and you're not.
00:45:56.000While claiming they're real journalists and you're not.
00:45:59.000I am saying this, and I actually am willing to stand by this.
00:46:02.000There is a large percentage of the people who call themselves journalists who, minus running a business and producing animation, do kind of the same thing I do, which is read articles, learn about the issues, do a bit of research, and then comment on them.
00:46:18.000They don't actually go investigate issues on the ground, they don't do interviews with people, they don't try to find the truth, and, like, granted, I do try to find the truth, so that's one difference, but they will just read things online on, like, their newsfeed, or maybe they have someone who looks at articles for them, and they'll start commenting on it, but they're not, like, investigating the way you want a journalist to, they're just reading things so they can give an opinion about it.
00:46:42.000Well, I think they cherry-pick facts so that they can serve their own reality.
00:46:46.000I mean, that's the only way to describe it.
00:46:48.000They will say, well, we think there's a video of Trump, so therefore he's a suspicious character, so therefore you should trust us when we say he did all of these things wrong.
00:46:56.000I think they are completely blind to their own bias because it's so deeply embedded in their worldview.
00:47:05.000Do you think that, like, yeah, you know what?
00:47:08.000I'm actually going to Google this right now.
00:47:09.000I want to see, like, what the bare minimum is for referring to yourself as a journalist.
00:47:13.000So I could just say I'm a journalist, because, you know, I, like, I did go to the March for Life for Tim Kast and interview people and guess I'm a journalist.
00:48:18.000We have moved, one of the benefits of the digital age is how quickly we can get new information out there and the new formats that we get to discuss news and have commentary.
00:48:28.000I mean, this podcast exists essentially like Four different opinion writers talking at the same time, giving your opinion, as opposed to reading four different opinion columns written around the same time about an issue.
00:48:42.000On the other hand, we have, I think, sort of grade the classifications of news media because anyone can be a journalist and also no one truly has any journalistic ethics or obligations.
00:48:57.000I don't want to be too hard on all reporters.
00:48:59.000There are some great journalists who do fantastic work.
00:49:01.000But like, I don't think you should just be like, I'm out here with my cell phone recording the street, therefore I'm a journalist, unless you are putting some effort in, you're researching, you're trying to find the truth, you're talking to people whose opinion you don't like.
00:49:13.000I think that's what bothers me the most.
00:49:14.000So many people go into this sphere just to talk to people who they like themselves and who produce talking points similar to the ones they would produce if they were the one being interviewed.
00:49:24.000I feel like you can really cross-apply that critique to virtually every industry in America in the sense of this whole refrain of, you know, trust the experts, right, the expert journalists at the New York Times and the CNNs and the Washington Posts of the world.
00:49:38.000They're actually not our intellectual betters and superiors, and I think the house of cards, right, this ability to Enforce narratives like the Russia collusion hoax like rests on this sort of worshipping this idea that oh Because you work for the New York Times and you have journalists in your bio and you have a blue checkmark We must believe what you say because you're from the federal government and you're telling us how to mitigate a pandemic We must listen to you and what you're saying and I I think it's sort of they just want the American people again who are so dumb because they see an article on Facebook and
00:50:09.000They're just going to start supporting some candidate.
00:50:11.000But I really think they just want us to blindly put our faith in every aspect of our life, right, over our bodies, what we believe, what we think, what we eat, you name it, into our, you know, intellectual superiors, into this elite ruling class.
00:50:25.000And I think, frankly, that was what COVID proved, that this elite ruling class that is so smart.
00:50:31.000And Joe Biden, who, you know, that class of people used to mock.
00:50:34.000I always thought they'd always say, oh, Donald Trump made a fool of America.
00:50:39.000And I always like this concept of the world stage, like they care so much what their, you know, globalist brethren think of them and what America looks like.
00:50:47.000But then you take a step back and you're like, okay, well, even if I'm going to run with that paradigm, Joe Biden has made us look like a complete idiot and dismal failure on the world stage.
00:50:57.000I just want to point out, as you all were talking, I was I was doing journalism.
00:51:32.000AI-generated journalism is what it was.
00:51:36.000One of my favorite things, you were mentioning a lot of the things they were saying about Trump, when they had an anonymous source Reporting that Trump said something completely insane on Veterans Day, like, I frankly hate all veterans.
00:51:49.000It was the most absurd nonsense in the world.
00:51:53.000Like, okay, he didn't say this, and it was from an anonymous source.
00:51:56.000It couldn't help but laugh because, you know, an anonymous source only works if you're a trustworthy person, right?
00:52:04.000I have seen the stories that you guys tell when you have a named source.
00:52:09.000So no, I don't trust your anonymous sources.
00:52:12.000And frankly, I think you probably made it up yourself.
00:52:14.000Well, theoretically, if you had professional standards, you'd call the Trump White House or campaign wherever we were in the timeline and say, hey, do you care to comment on this?
00:52:24.000That's supposed to be ethical, but they probably won't.
00:52:26.000And even if they do, they'll say, you know, the Trump campaign categorically denied this while they shook in their boots because they're so scared of our amazing anonymous source who we can't tell you anything about.
00:52:50.000I am loathe to bring it up because I know we talk about a lot, but with the transgender ideology movement, people will point to the American Association of Pediatrics and say, Well they say there are certain things you are supposed to do.
00:53:00.000They'll point to all kinds of medical establishments and I think we have to look back and say why do we trust these institutions?
00:53:06.000Some of them may do good work, I don't know, but you should look into the institutions.
00:53:17.000If you just throw out the name like this is the authority Then you are either A, trying to hide the bias, or B, you are not aware of the bias, which in and of itself is dangerous if you're putting yourself in a position where you're supposed to be giving out solid information.
00:53:45.000I'm trying to think if I've actually ever unironically used it or not.
00:53:49.000You know, most of my reporting, well, I guess either comes from the Hunter Biden hard drive or publicly available data that the mainstream media won't report on when it comes to Chinese Communist Party infiltration, because usually I'm reporting on how the mainstream media is compromised by the Chinese Communist Party.
00:54:04.000It's a very good niche market, I've found.
00:54:07.000But no, it really is funny though, and like you guys are saying, people I think for the most part hate journalists.
00:54:14.000I get that whenever I'm introducing myself to people and telling them what I do for work.
00:54:18.000I have never had a positive interaction with someone.
00:54:21.000Then when they find out that I'm technically not really a journalist because it's Steve Bannon and he's great, then they're like, oh, you're normal.
00:54:33.000But my experience is, I don't know if you've ever had this happen, but if you talk to someone who is like progressive or left and who is a journalist and they like proudly introduce themselves as a journalist, like they are the bearers of truth, I find this very fascinating.
00:54:46.000Like it is definitely a cultural shift.
00:54:48.000Some people do not trust the media, and for good reason.
00:54:51.000But there are some people who wear it as a badge of honor, and that is also worrisome.
00:54:56.000Yes, and of course, I feel like we have to give an honorable mention to the fact-checkers of the world and the media matters, the media watchdog types, because they're obviously in on the same grift.
00:55:05.000But no, they attack me all the time for working with Steve, saying that I'm not actually an investigative reporter.
00:55:12.000It's like, fine, then point to one of my stories that's not true.
00:55:28.000There's obviously action occurring from my reporting.
00:55:30.000So it's just I think, you know, you brought up the transgender movement.
00:55:34.000A lot of this just, I think, has to also just do with, like, distorting words, right?
00:55:38.000Like, journalist doesn't mean what it used to mean, because definitions don't really, they're not rooted in reality, because everyone can have different, really, versions of reality.
00:55:48.000And that's, of course, amplified by the fact that if you turn on CNN, they say, oh, to a degree.
00:56:11.000And I've seen a bunch of people on the right say that journalists, as well as personalities, that I think Elijah Schaefer was saying that he's really well connected on the right.
00:56:18.000He knows a lot of people from various different groups.
00:57:54.000Now, I have seen people push back and say, don't underestimate them.
00:57:57.000They like that they're being called feds.
00:58:00.000The reality is, someone posted an image from an internal FBI report where the FBI actually warns that among the FBI, half of the agents are morbidly obese.
00:58:10.000So it's actually the other way around, and the argument is the actual white nationalists do fight and train, and so it may be real.
00:58:40.000I like when he said, where are the fat people?
00:58:42.000Funny story, I was actually walking through DC and I stumbled upon them while they were doing this.
00:58:48.000So I was being an unintentional journalist.
00:58:51.000I was doing my journalistic duties, and I had thought they were patriot-front because I have obviously been to a lot of Trump rallies and, you know, been around, and I know this isn't necessarily evidence or fact-based, but you can get a vibe from people who are there to protest for the right reasons.
00:59:06.000You know, there's just sort of a vibe to the Trump crowd or people who are there, whatever the issue is, because you can tell that they really want to be there and they're talking to other people who aren't necessarily there to attend the rally, but they're trying to sort of proselytize and, like, spread the cause and spread the word.
00:59:21.000And it was such an odd vibe, and I know that's not, again, doesn't mean much, but I had just never seen a group of people protesting, who are allegedly so patriotic, acting the way that they were, just walking in formation.
00:59:42.000Why do they have a police escort, right?
00:59:44.000Like, when I first saw a picture, someone was like, oh, it's like Charlottesville and like the Unite the Right walk.
00:59:49.000I was like, this looks way more organized than that did.
00:59:52.000Zeke Arkham on Twitter had this, his thing, and I guess he's in law enforcement, he was saying like, there's photos of them being arrested theoretically except they all still have their masks on and they're kneeling and he's basically going through being like you wouldn't let them continue to wear their masks because you have to make sure they're breathing when they're in police custody like you wouldn't have them kneeling in this position like none of this makes sense it's almost like you're waiting to hear like oh actually the whole thing was staged for a movie and they're filming it and this is what they think this is like like it it seems so strange especially since there are
01:00:23.000That was funny when Joe was like, where are the fat people at?
01:01:11.000I mean, there were federal FBI informants on the ground on January 6th, which apparently was also planned, so therefore the FBI knew about it, question mark.
01:01:20.000The thing about this is like, it's just so uniform.
01:01:23.000They all are like In the sunglasses, in the hat, in the exact same jacket, like, I just really don't think there's... it's too precise for it to seem like an organic movement.
01:01:33.000And how it just immediately hits, like, the left-wing social media machine, the, you know, blue checkmark, the angry blue checkmarks on Twitter and the mainstream media, it just... I don't know, I feel like it's not even... it wasn't even about the march itself, it's how it gets rolled out and then it's used as a pretext to start a broader narrative about how White supremacy and nationalism and xenophobia are on the rise, and so we, you know, but then they made the jump we need to crack down on, you know, random Twitter user 123.
01:02:04.000Like, I don't understand, other than the fact that it's a patriot front, like, what is the theoretical racial messaging behind this activity?
01:02:33.000I feel like the FBI's gonna come out and be like, it was actually just a drill, we were just practicing to see what would happen.
01:02:37.000The FBI headquarters was literally just, I mean, a block away from where they were marching, so... No, hold on.
01:02:42.000I'm not some kind of conspiracy theorist lunatic who's gonna say that these guys are feds.
01:02:51.000I'm not some conspiracy theory lunatic who's going to say this is Feds.
01:02:55.000The obvious explanation is these are Russian agents from the Kremlin trying to support a democracy because Putin wants to reform the USSR, yes.
01:03:04.000No, they're Soviet and they were sleepers.
01:03:08.000And when the Soviet Union collapsed, they didn't know because they were brainwashed.
01:03:13.000And then, because Putin wants to bring the Soviet Union back, he activated the radio signal Which triggered all of them into acting for the Soviet Union.
01:03:22.000Just like as a journalist, I could never say that the United States government did anything wrong.
01:03:26.000Because being a journalist means defending the United States government.
01:03:29.000Yeah, my anonymous source told me that.
01:03:31.000So you think about how insane that story is about Trump in the elevator where it said somewhere something Trump did something like that?
01:03:39.000That starts with like some rumor and then a bunch of journalists who are psychopaths chase after this insane rumor.
01:03:45.000Imagine what's going to happen when someone gets an AI generated image on their phone And they go to a journalist, and intelligence agencies will do this, and they'll be like, journalist, I can't give you the photo because I'll get arrested because it's classified, but take a look at this.
01:03:57.000And they'll show a low-res, AI-generated image of Donald Trump, you know, juggling bowling pins or something.
01:04:18.000They're gonna go, wow, maybe we should run it.
01:04:20.000And then just like BuzzFeed News released the Steele dossier, they will report, source at FBI confirms Donald Trump juggled bowling pins, and they'll just walk right into fake news.
01:04:32.000I think that we should start doing this on purpose, though.
01:04:34.000Like, you should write down a piece of paper, hold it up to a video camera with today's date, the story you're gonna tell every left-wing journalist that you know, and then wait until it becomes mainstream news.
01:04:43.000And then be like, by the way, that was false.
01:04:45.000Like, I know that sounds like spreading disinformation, but you should just point out that there are leaks, that there are people who take this information and intentionally try to paint everyone you know in a bad light.
01:04:56.000I think it's only a matter of time before those Tucker Carlson leaked videos get revealed to be deepfakes.
01:05:05.000Because I think about this, Media Matters will publish anything.
01:05:08.000And so, what someone could theoretically do is take ten real videos, make one deepfake video, give them all to a leftist organization who will publish them all, then definitively prove the deepfake one by showing a video of them making it and say, you're fake news and you make up stories, then what happens?
01:05:27.000The subject of those deepfakes can file a massive defamation lawsuit for the publication of a deepfake.
01:05:34.000And then what's gonna happen is, they're gonna say, we didn't know it was a deepfake, and they're gonna have to argue to the court, they thought it was real because of a source giving it to them, and then the argument can be made, no, they're lying, we want discovery, we think they made it themselves, and then the question is, where did they get it?
01:05:50.000They're gonna have to reveal a bunch of information, and it's gonna destroy whatever smidgen of credibility they may have had with anybody.
01:08:30.000And then the police came and it turned out that they were undercover cops, like, pretending to commit a crime to, like, try to entrap somebody or catch them or something.
01:08:38.000So we turned the feds against each other, I guess.
01:09:26.000Bud Light sales at the end of May 6th was down 27.7%, and you can see all of Anheuser-Busch's brands, ABI brands, Anheuser-Busch, InBev, have dropped.
01:11:35.000I think if Bud Light really wanted to sell their products, this is what they should do.
01:11:38.000And I know it's going to sound insane, but I think they should just start infiltrating Pinterest with like a thousand ways to cook using only Bud Light.
01:11:50.000It's cheap, you can get Bud Light, it's not expensive right now, some places you can get it for free, and you can cook it in your slow cooker, you can do all those things but you have to use Bud Light.
01:11:58.000Eventually that's the only way to sell your product, you have to pretend that you're not actually a drink, you're just actually some random ingredient.
01:12:04.000I am getting more and more angry reading about this.
01:12:07.000I am seriously pissed off reading this.
01:12:10.000Anheuser-Busch will produce bottles of the camouflage print and images of the Folds of Honor program, which provides educational scholarships for children and spouses of fallen and disabled American military service members and first responders, according to the executive.
01:12:32.000This is probably ten times more offensive than anything they could have done.
01:12:35.000They spit in your face, they mock you behind the scenes, they talk in private about how they know you're mad and they refuse to apologize, and then they say, I know, let's shove disabled military veterans in their faces as if that will absolve them of their responsibilities.
01:12:50.000This is the most offensive way, in my opinion, to respond to the backlash.
01:12:55.000Dude, well the first thing they did was bring up 9-11.
01:13:07.000We ride horses and we ride horses 9-11 army.
01:13:11.000Also this foundation I feel sad for them because they're going to also get backlash like even if they're legitimately doing trying to do good work like why would you accept a partnership with Bud Light right now like I don't care how much you think they're worth this is a bad idea.
01:13:29.000If a company wants to align themselves with Bud Light, that the only thing this European company is doing, it's not an American company, is repeatedly kicking us in the stomach over and over and over again.
01:13:41.000just don't buy their products. I mean, trying to placate American consumers. And I think it
01:13:47.000dovetails honestly, kind of perfectly with the whole Russia hoax. It's like, we're gonna lie to
01:13:51.000you. We're gonna offend you and your values for this long period of time. But you still need to
01:13:56.000like, buy into the American system. You still need to trust the authorities. You still need to trust
01:14:00.000the FBI, you still need to buy our products. We're not going to change anything. Yeah, we'll give you
01:14:04.000the Durham report will vindicate you slightly. Yeah, we'll partner with like, you know, some 911
01:14:09.000charity. But it's like, no, we're done with you. Like you said, I won't use the word but it's
01:14:15.000corporate America. They need to come out and be like, Hey, look.
01:15:10.000If they came out and were like, hey, Sawi was an accident, like our wonderful elected leaders do, and the people at the FBI, it still wouldn't do anything for them.
01:15:19.000I think these woke marketing executives, though, their brains are so infested, like they have drunk the Kool-Aid on all of these social issues, that I also think that they also don't even actually want to make money for their companies, right?
01:15:33.000Doing that is another cardinal sin that you can't engage with.
01:15:36.000And so I think these people have always used these platforms to push social agendas, so they're not gonna apologize because they're like, no, we're using this venue, this avenue, for the explicit purpose that we were hired for, and I'm sure they have CEI beyond belief in terms of their hiring processes.
01:15:54.000So you're self-selecting for these loons.
01:15:56.000They already disavowed Dylan Mulvaney behind the scenes, but they refuse to do it Up above the fold.
01:16:33.000I think people won't forget, I think you're right, but I think trying to start another campaign is only digging further into the hole, right?
01:16:40.000Like, now it seems like you are just acting in the most smarmy way.
01:16:46.000You're insulting military veterans, you're insulting the people who want to support military veterans, you're insulting your audience, and you're not making yourself more likable in the process.
01:16:54.000Like, nothing is going to repair this.
01:16:56.000The best thing they could do is to just stop talking for a while.
01:18:13.000It was an attack on American soil to be like, oh, you know what?
01:18:15.000We'll come out as like anti 9-11 or caring about the fact that 9-11 happened and that'll make up for the fact that we pissed off all of our customers and they'll start to relate to us again is insanely insulting.
01:18:58.000Some of the staff here were mentioning that they were at a local bar, and they asked the bartender.
01:19:01.000Bartender said they can't move it at all, so they took it off tap and put Coors Light in, because nobody will buy it.
01:19:07.000You can't move a product, what are you going to do?
01:19:08.000And this is what people don't realize, though, and this is part of why it's been so effective.
01:19:11.000Everyone's arguing, oh, this is such a good move by conservatives on the part of the culture war, or this is such a huge victory in the culture war on behalf of conservatives.
01:19:21.000I don't know how much of this is actually culture war in the sense that people who are invested in culture and politics are paying attention to it and strategizing, so much as it's just normal people being grossed out.
01:20:33.000And it's not so much people going, I'm insulted by the fact that this advertiser is trying to shove this down my throat and doesn't understand who I am as an advertiser or as a customer.
01:20:44.000It doesn't have to be one unanimous decision.
01:20:46.000They just all collectively decided this was too far.
01:20:48.000That they don't want to keep going with this.
01:20:50.000And they think that's something that You know, people talk about the pendulum swing and with cultures we become more progressive or, you know, whatever else.
01:20:58.000Like, this is one of those moments where I start to feel like it's swinging back the other way.
01:21:01.000We're going to start slowly moving towards center after years and years of pushing everyone to these extremes.
01:21:20.000We support asylum seekers, not on school grounds!
01:21:30.000You hear that? They're kind of just like trailing off, like muttering.
01:21:33.000Let me just say, this is, there's a few ways I see this, and this is, these kids, one, probably were told to chant this, have no idea what's going on.
01:21:40.000Two, it's like basically them chanting, thank you government for hitting me twice instead of thrice.
01:21:46.000Like, the government is forcing illegal immigrants into your schools, and you're like, that part's okay, just not in my school, please.
01:22:26.000Well, they're coming out and saying they're against that, but they still feel this need to apologize.
01:22:31.000I think you guys are all mixed up, Seamus.
01:22:32.000These are urban liberals who are standing outside, cheering for quote-unquote asylum seekers, and then being like, but like, why in my school?
01:22:44.000Maybe more like the Martha's Vineyard thing.
01:22:46.000Yeah, I feel like for me, it's like, Don't we get mad at the left when they make young children who are confused about their gender identity testify before their state legislature saying, like, if you don't allow this medical intervention to be passed then I will personally suffer?
01:22:59.000Like, don't we not like it when we use children for our talking points?
01:23:02.000Why are we bringing small children out here to say, please don't send adult, I assume they're adult, asylum seekers to our school?
01:23:10.000Like, why are they having to have this battle?
01:23:13.000Also, I mean, just the fact that you would have to preface this with, I'm not bad, I don't have the bad opinion, but I don't want them here.
01:23:21.000Well, you're gonna lose, because you're already starting from a position of, sorry.
01:23:34.000I think this story is actually a really great example of modern politics in that these urban liberals say, it's okay that the government does bad things, just please do it to other people.
01:24:12.000But you know there's like no organic support for the issue when they roll out the children.
01:24:16.000I remember they would always do the school walkouts at first.
01:24:19.000It started with the gun violence and I remember at my high school, I forgot what shooting it was, but they staged a walkout out of class except the administration like sanctioned it and literally gave them a special space to hold it.
01:24:33.000It was like, who are you walking out on?
01:24:35.000The school I work for put it on the official schedule for Exactly.
01:24:39.000And then they did the same thing with the climate change walkout.
01:24:42.000And to be frank, I think that's why they're pushing a bunch of this transgender, you know, gay stuff on kids, because I think they realized the way that they sort of mainstreamed a lot of these climate change and school shooting issues was by getting the kids behind it and having them do these walkouts and mass protests.
01:25:00.000They're like, if we can get the young kids You know, drinking the Kool-Aid on this issue.
01:26:13.000I think, again, I have to go back to we don't like it when the left trots out children to argue their talking points.
01:26:19.000So even if you're trying to say, like, this is slightly, you know, an immigration restrictionist talking point, Why are we making the children do it?
01:26:27.000We have to hold ourselves to the same standards that we hold other people to.
01:26:48.000But yeah, just No, it's just some social studies teacher who's like, I'm going to tell you about civic disobedience and we're all going to come outside.
01:26:58.000I had a teacher once who needed to get exercise so she would just turn it into a school thing where she's like, we have to go outside for science!
01:27:05.000And then she would just like walk around and get real sweaty.
01:27:07.000I'm like, we're not doing anything for science.
01:27:09.000It's like we're in a city walking around the block.
01:27:11.000At least you got to go outside though.
01:27:29.000Well, they don't benefit by sitting at a desk all day.
01:27:32.000That's not the optimal learning situation for like, what are these, middle school boys?
01:27:37.000I think that We can all agree it's good to have students get learning about the news and being engaged in cultural events, but like, I think this is some teacher saying, come on, let's organize something.
01:27:48.000I think it's, I don't know, I get frustrated with stuff like this because it will see this video and nothing will happen, right?
01:27:55.000If there are really adult men that are being inserted into the school, the fact that these kids are theoretically upset about it won't mean anything to the school board.
01:28:43.000Alright, so this is one massive problem with the discourse.
01:28:46.000Whenever anyone tries to set any standard, no matter how reasonable, they're met with a million different concerns about the level of culpability there might be for people who want to violate that standard.
01:28:58.000So, what she's essentially saying is, well, why did they flee?
01:29:33.000And then when she goes, their family's fleeing war, I'd be like, okay, well, that's not what we're talking about.
01:29:39.000I'll say, okay, ma'am, if you came to me with a family and said this family fleeing war needs a place, I'd be agree with you.
01:29:45.000But my question to you is, why do you want adult men By themselves, looking for jobs, sleeping in my kid's school.
01:29:53.000And also, since you're so enlightened and empathetic and understanding, why don't you go buy some hotel rooms for him?
01:29:58.000Why don't you take care of it instead of putting it on the children of the community by placing them in their schools?
01:30:02.000I proposed, I said, you know, let's get the Republicans on this one, a bill that says all You know, all these asylum seekers, you know, if someone comes into this country and applies for asylum, they should be placed inside the home of an urban liberal Democrat voter.
01:30:20.000Go to New York and say they applied for asylum so they get to live in your house.
01:30:24.000You voted for it, because you know what happened?
01:30:27.000These people would vote for border security in two seconds if we did that.
01:30:31.000The issue is, this video exemplifies how people in Democrat cities vote to bring in illegal immigrants and then try and force them on poor people, saying, not in my backyard, in your backyard.
01:30:45.000These people go to cities and they put them in your house.
01:30:47.000This lady who's like, their family's fleeing war.
01:30:49.000Let's get two of these adult men and put them in her home.
01:30:51.000And it's not just force them, it's then guilt and shame them if you dare to reject the, you know, hypothesis that just dozens of, you know, fighting age men should just be able to basically invade your country, invade your house.
01:31:04.000And I think immigration is one of the issues that the elites really, really, really love to lie to us the most about.
01:31:09.000And I know there are a lot of issues that could compete for that spot.
01:31:12.000But I think they just love the issue of immigration, in part because I think at their core they hate this country, they don't think there's nothing to actually being American to them.
01:31:20.000But the fact that they have the gall to stand up there, whether it's Democrats holding press conferences, you know, on the Hill saying that immigration is actually a boon to America, it's actually great for American workers, they're doing the jobs that Americans want.
01:31:35.000It's so ridiculous when it's depressing the wages of American workers.
01:31:39.000Particularly the people that Democrats purport to protect the most, minority communities, I just think they really get off on lying to the American people about immigration, and it's one of the issues.
01:31:50.000I was born and raised in Los Angeles, and I saw firsthand how hypocritical these people were when it came to not just immigration but to every issue.
01:31:58.000It was fine if it was happening elsewhere, you know, somewhere where they weren't impacted.
01:32:02.000But the second it encroached, not even necessarily in their backyard, but just a little too close for
01:32:08.000comfort, suddenly they reversed, at least in private, on the issue and they would do everything
01:32:13.000they could to make sure it didn't affect them. I mean, you can very easily predict whether
01:32:18.000someone is going to be liberal or conservative based on whether they're going to pay the price
01:32:21.000for liberal policies. And people who have to pay the price for liberal policies inevitably become
01:32:25.000conservative. And people who do not have to pay any price for it keep spouting their liberal
01:32:29.000talking points and then shaming anyone who has to suffer because of their policies for not embracing
01:32:38.000If you go to LA, and you know this as well, if you're in Beverly Hills, the town police there, or like the area police, keep that little area very nice and very clean and very tidy.
01:32:46.000You drive about 10 minutes down the street and you're on 6th Street, and it's a totally different story.
01:32:50.000Remember the guy who was cheering on on Twitter, the riots?
01:32:52.000And then once the riots started heading towards Beverly Hills, he was like, No!
01:33:45.000If this UFO was a thing that kept the show running and you guys sat me near it, I'm gonna be real mad, because I don't need this kind of pressure.
01:33:52.000Let's, uh, let's read some Super Chats.
01:34:50.000Wrath of Paul says, you were talking about bear attacks yesterday, and my first thought was I'd rather take my chances with the bears in the middle of nowhere than live among humans in some of these big cities.
01:37:05.000Eventually I'll get the Tim impression down, and then on days where you're sick, I'll just put the beanie on, and I'll... Here's my point, look.
01:37:12.000Jordan Peterson has this thing where he's like, psychologist.
01:37:15.000He's got this, like, way of speaking to him.
01:37:30.000Well, Joe Rogan's voice is, it's, it's like, I think you could probably get his cadence down, but his actual intonation, like his voice, I'm sorry, you could get his intonation too, but the voice itself is so unique.
01:37:43.000We gotta send one of these beanies to Michael Malice.
01:37:46.000Because he did that one episode where he wore the same clothes as me, and then he kept the beanie, and he hung up on his wall.
01:37:52.000Right, I literally got asked on Twitter what I like about Michael Malice, and I said that he's a showman and he's not afraid of costumes.
01:40:08.000I think Cory, but there's also... Cory's a good name, and then you got like John, Mike, Bill, and Topanga, and they're like, what was that last one?
01:40:15.000And her explanation is like, I've never really seen the show, but it's like, her parents are hippies, and let's not talk about it again, right?
01:40:20.000Yeah they're saying like she's named after like above Malibu yeah.
01:40:25.000But the thing is like some TV shows names that are in them become popular sort of trend as baby names but I don't think anybody picked up on the Topanga trend.
01:41:36.000I thought it was gonna be about, like, I thought the movie was literally a guy takes his brother to Vegas to win a bunch of money and get super rich, when it was really a guy finds out he has a brother, at one point goes to Vegas one time, gets kicked out, but then decides that he loves his brother, even though his brother is developmentally disabled, and then tries to fight for custody, but then eventually just ends up visiting him periodically, and I'm like, oh.
01:41:59.000That's not at all what I thought the movie was going to be.
01:42:01.000I read the Wikipedia summary and thought it's not at all what I gathered from that.
01:42:18.000This happens though where you'll remember a movie being about something and you remember that being the whole movie and it turns out that's just like a 10 or 15 minute sequence.
01:42:26.000Like I remember I rewatched Home Alone a couple years ago and the sequence where he's like beating up on the burglars with his booby traps I think is like 10 to 20 minutes.
01:42:33.000It's really, most of the film is just about him like running around being stupid while his parents are gone.
01:42:38.000And when he's in New York, you know, he just meets Donald Trump.
01:43:03.000There aren't that many bad people in the world.
01:43:05.000Sean Austin says, Tim, deepfake Trump in an elevator picking his nose and release it as the elevator tape ultimate troll.
01:43:10.000I saw that so I went on mid-journey and I just made Trump screaming and then Trump crying and then it's Trump holding his neck going like in an elevator and I just quote tweeted the Huffington Post thing like there it is there's your there's your I found it.
01:43:25.000I tried a couple and I couldn't get it to work because they violated the TOS.
01:43:29.000I wrote like, Trump firing a gun into the air, yelling, and it wouldn't make it.
01:43:34.000Well every time I tried to make Joe Biden or Trump, Uh, it would say rejected, and I'd have to click appeal, and then it would say your appeal has been approved, and it would make the image.
01:43:45.000And then the weirdest thing is, I tried doing some very basic images.
01:43:50.000What I was trying to do was take a picture, an existing picture, and then write something like, a woman standing in this picture, and then it would be like, rejected, this is inappropriate content, and I was like, what?
01:45:03.000You'll also notice if you go into the mid-journey rooms in Discord, there's this huge wall of text people use that lists a whole bunch of camera and file formats to force the AI to make high-resolution, high-dynamic range photographs that look really, really good.
01:45:17.000Yeah, it's crazy what they can make when you put in that massive prompt.
01:45:36.000You don't want to get sued, so Seamus put on this beanie, right?
01:45:40.000Well, as we know, news outlets have claimed Tim Pool is far-right.
01:45:45.000We can now write, Seamus Coghlan dons offensive far-right costume on air, considered deeply offensive by many, shocking display, etc, etc, and then, you know, people can start to imagine.
01:45:57.000After you tweet that out, I am shocked by Seamus Coghlan donning such a racist and far-right costume that's deeply offensive to marginalized people.
01:46:06.000Someone else can then say, summarizing, Seamus Coghlan was accused of wearing racist outfit.
01:46:40.000No one knows who wrote it or where it came from.
01:46:42.000The guy who picked it up on the ground didn't do it.
01:46:44.000And then all of these people did one little thing.
01:46:47.000So when the money is removed from the bank and then thrown into a truck, not a single person robbed the bank, no one goes to jail.
01:46:53.000This is what's happening right now in society.
01:46:55.000Journalists will say something like, I heard Seamus was racist.
01:46:59.000And then someone will write, Shameless, comma, a deeply racist individual, or a man accused of being deeply racist, comma, and then someone else will see that and be like, Shameless Coughlin is known as a deeply offensive racist who makes racist comments.
01:47:15.000They'll just keep changing the story until they make up and fabricate their own sources, and then they can write whatever they want.
01:47:22.000They can be like, Seamus, you're a controversial figure who's been accused of being a racist.
01:48:37.000AbsintheX says, Seamus, Catholic Church has commands as don't covet your neighbor's wife and things, but Exodus only says don't covet anything, so which commandment was removed so the count still comes out as 10?
01:48:50.000You're saying Exodus says... So, Exodus does list a number of things you can't covet there.
01:48:56.000But, if you actually read Exodus 20, it's a number of different statements.
01:49:01.000So, Jewish people and Protestants number it a little bit differently than Catholics.
01:49:07.000So, for example, at the end, we break up the 9th and 10th commandment into, Thou shalt not covet your neighbor's goods or covet your neighbor's wife.
01:49:15.000I'm sorry, covering your neighbor's wife is the 9th commandment, covering your neighbor's good is the 10th commandment, but yeah, there are other things listed.
01:49:22.000I guess I'm not entirely sure what he's asking, like what was... I don't know if I understand either.
01:49:30.000He's basically saying that... I honestly don't know.
01:49:35.000Some say don't cover anything, some say don't cover your neighbor's wife and things.
01:49:38.000Oh, okay, so there are a number of differences, right?
01:49:41.000So, for example, if you—and I have this pulled up here—but, you shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above, or on earth beneath, or in the waters below.
01:49:51.000You shall not bow down before them or worship them, for I am the Lord your God.
01:49:54.000I am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sins of the parents.
01:49:57.000to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me but showing love to a thousand generations of love for those who love me and keep my commandments okay so yeah that's that's compressed into you shall not make graven images the way protestants some of the ten commandments as catholics we lump Taking other gods before him as something that also prohibits making graven images and then worshipping them.
01:50:21.000So there are different ways that these things are numbered.
01:50:25.000But that's not something that people don't acknowledge.
01:50:27.000That's not a secret, I guess, is my point.
01:50:29.000We should do an episode of The Culture War with you and Ian.
01:50:31.000Because you guys were supposed to do that long-form conversation that never happened, so we should get together on that one.
01:50:37.000Alright, Noah Sanders says, where is the TimCast fact-checking non-profit company?
01:50:40.000We're all still waiting to have fact-checkers we can trust, keep up the great and hard work, in the process of filing.
01:51:10.000A lot of people are asking, you know, their members, and they were asked to update their address or information.
01:51:15.000It's because We have reached a threshold now where we have members in every different state and territory, so we have to collect that information for tax purposes.
01:51:28.000As for the fact-checking non-profit, we've got some prominent individuals who have said they're committed on donating to help fund this operation.
01:51:59.000Ben Keith says, The judge for tomorrow's Kerry Lake trial gutted Kerry's case in a ruling today.
01:52:04.000Now, Kerry's lawyer cannot question if the signature verification process was fraudulent, only if a check took place for questionable ballots.
01:52:12.000So, I think, based on what I read, Carrie Lake still has a decent case.
01:52:18.000If she can show that signatures don't match, you can make the argument that the process did not take place, right?
01:52:24.000So, Katie Hobbs, I went over this, this is really funny.
01:52:26.000So, Katie Hobbs has a guide as Secretary of State, this is from 2020, on how to verify signatures and what makes something questionable.
01:52:34.000I pulled up the New York Times, where it's like, here's 11 signatures, which ones match?
01:52:38.000And then based on Katie Hobbs' signature verification guidelines, I successfully chose the two signatures that matched out of 11.
01:52:45.000I was actually surprised I was able to pull that off.
01:52:46.000I thought I was going to get it wrong, but I got it right.
01:52:49.000Based on that information, if Carrie Lake says, here's a handful of ballots that do not adhere to Katie Hobbs' guidelines, she could argue this shows they did not signature verify.
01:53:04.000They might argue, no, it just means the verification was poorly done.
01:53:07.000I think, well, hold on, if the guideline says, if it does this, this, or this, it's not verified, and these things don't adhere to the guideline, you can argue they didn't verify it, not that it was poorly done, they just didn't even do it.
01:53:20.000I think that's what she's gonna have to argue.
01:54:01.000Lama says, hey Tim, for those of us who don't drink coffee, maybe you could start a line of teas, a fun Roberto-inspired line of teas, maybe something like Cock Teas.
01:54:12.000We are currently working on, for Casper.com, supplements, but like protein powder and MCT, so probably we're never going to do any kind of vitamins or weird brain blast stuff.
01:54:41.000And then for Roberto-inspired lines of teas, we're talking about Roberto Jr.
01:54:47.000Now, as for Roberto, the original king, maybe we'll make, uh, uh, you know, a medium roast called, like, Return of the King Roberto, you know?
01:55:31.000After he has the babies we don't want, just like with Roberto, where Roberto banged his daughter and it's because chickens do this.
01:55:37.000Okay, I'm glad you established that we're talking about chickens because if I thought we were talking about humans and you said that I would have been concerned.
01:56:10.000The Silkies had four babies, and the Cochin had two.
01:56:13.000They've just decided to take it upon themselves to make more of themselves.
01:56:18.000and uh they decided they are reclaiming the family it is it is the radical pro-family i gotta tell you it is horrifyingly magical to see the chicken with like the little chickens underneath it and then you open the thing and it looks at you and it goes like Like if you come near my babies.
01:56:41.000But you can lift up the mom and she looks around and you can see the little babies going like, and then she tries to keep them warm and stuff.
01:57:28.000I mean, I think we had several thousand of each available and then it all just sold basically instantly and we're like, oh man, and we had to like rush and try and sell more.
01:57:38.000And then I had to put in a bunch of personal money to try and cover the costs.
01:57:41.000So it is making money, but it's selling too quickly, so we can't keep up with orders.
01:57:45.000We're hoping to get to that point of equilibrium, and then it'll stabilize.
01:57:49.000But yeah, so thank you for buying Cast Brew Coffee, and the coffee shop is currently underway with A lot of work being done and it's taken a long time because inspections, plumbing, just a whole bunch of crazy stuff to get it up and running, but it's coming.
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