On this week's episode of What's Going On: AOC tweets about hate crimes, Elon Musk says "Stop hitting me, I'm really shy" and the far right is in an uproar. Joe Biden launches a government anti-terror agency, a woman who sows disinformation is appointed to the Department of Homeland Security, and the House of Delegates in Virginia elects a new Speaker.
00:00:52.000Congratulations Joe Biden on launching a government anti-terror Department of Homeland Security quote-unquote disinformation governance board being run by a woman who sows disinformation.
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00:05:00.000Let's get started and talk about this first story because it's Friday, the story is stupid and funny at the same time.
00:05:06.000We have this tweet from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who said, Tired of having to collectively stress about what explosion of hate crimes is happening because some billionaire with an ego problem unilaterally controls a massive communication platform and skews it because Tucker Carlson or Peter Thiel took him to dinner and made him feel special.
00:05:25.000To which Elon Musk responded, stop hitting on me, I'm really shy, and a blushing emoji.
00:05:33.000Michael Malice, you can see under here, says he ratioed her in minutes.
00:05:36.000And then the response to him was, so you don't know how the ratio works, got it, and she got ratioed.
00:06:51.000It's funny how it's, you know, Russia's coming out saying that they want to de-nazify Europe or something like that.
00:06:57.000And then you think about the similarities between the woke cult, critical race, identitarianism, all this stuff, and it's like, yeah, I understand the similarities.
00:07:26.000And part of why he's so interesting is because when you look at his personal life, you see how unbelievably poorly conducted it was.
00:07:32.000And it's just the case that when people don't want to live properly, they'll try to create philosophies that justify being a bad person, basically.
00:07:45.000Where he went into the, the, like, the personal lives of, like, Jacques Rousseau and Karl Marx and pretty much all these intellectuals.
00:07:52.000They weren't, I mean, predominantly left-wing, but he wanted to say, like, okay, how well have these people actually lived out their own philosophy?
00:07:59.000I mean, you read about Jacques Rousseau and the kids that he fathered and immediately threw into some of the worst orphanages in Paris where they basically died of starvation and neglect.
00:08:07.000And then Karl Marx, who always said within communism, the last phase of capitalism is people will actually pay their employers to work.
00:08:15.000And that's crazy because that doesn't really happen, except in Karl Marx's personal life where he actually had a servant that he didn't really pay and repeatedly, you know, I won't say raped, but repeatedly had an affair with, right?
00:08:32.000He actually had the manifestation of the last phase of what he said capitalism would bring about.
00:08:36.000Yeah, well, and this is why you have to be extremely suspicious of people who harp on and on about how they love humanity in this abstract sense.
00:08:43.000Because very oftentimes they're trying to overcompensate for the fact that they treat everyone in their personal life like absolute garbage, which is fundamentally the only way you really can love humanity is by treating those around you well, instead of throwing vague platitudes out there about how much you want world peace and end poverty, etc.
00:08:59.000Somebody posted a photo of Antifa marching, and they were like, why wouldn't anyone want to be Antifa?
00:09:05.000And I'm like, are we doing this again?
00:09:20.000There are probably some, you know, some guys, I'm not saying literally everyone, but you look at Antifa, they tend to be, It tend to be what they call the laptop class.
00:09:30.000They get money from sitting around complaining on the internet, either for writing for BuzzFeed or something.
00:09:34.000You're really subtweeting me here, man.
00:09:36.000And I'm just like, well, look, it's one thing if you are part of the laptop class and you advocate for the workers and you recognize the value of hard work and you're not saying, give me free stuff while I smash your windows.
00:09:47.000It's another thing when you don't do any work and then say, I'm the workers of the world.
00:10:16.000Now, AOC was a bartender, and everybody makes fun of her for that.
00:10:19.000That was the most productive thing for humanity she ever did, was attending bar.
00:10:23.000And look, I'm not saying that pejoratively.
00:10:25.000I'm saying, I have bartenders that I know that are really good friends, and they are providing a product or service through voluntary cooperation within the marketplace.
00:11:31.000These colleges are just Oh, one of the biggest eye-opening events for me was, I kind of went to college late in life, I was out of the military already, I was like 30, I was in an English class.
00:11:44.000I was in an English class at Northern Virginia Community College, and then all of a sudden, the professor pulls out the Communist Manifesto for us to read, because nothing screams English literature like a book written by a German Communist.
00:11:57.000He comes back the week later and asks the class, like, what do you think of capitalism?
00:12:01.000The student raises his hand and goes, well, I think capitalism is what's destroying this country.
00:12:06.000I'm like, look, just real quick, can you tell me what you think capitalism is?
00:12:11.000And he proceeds to go out, well, capitalism is this, you know, this rigid class-based structure where the people that – I said, no, no, no, I didn't ask what Karl Marx's caricature of capitalism is.
00:12:19.000I said, can you actually give me the definition?
00:12:22.000The professor looks over and goes, well, can you?
00:12:24.000I said, yeah, it's a form of economics where people exchange goods and services voluntarily and property rights are respected.
00:13:36.000There's always an action that we have to actually look at and observe to determine how, you know, because Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, some of the greediest people on the planet, if you actually look at the definition of greed, Which is, I want things without actually having to work for those things.
00:13:53.000I want to be able to take those things from an authoritarian standpoint.
00:13:56.000That's far more greedy than, hey, I want some stuff, so I'm gonna go ahead and produce a bunch of goods and services that people will voluntarily exchange with me on.
00:14:04.000I would agree, Ian, that any system, when it becomes unfettered, is going to be problematic.
00:14:08.000I think the problem is they fail to see that these flaws of human nature are going to exist within any system.
00:14:15.000Like you said, when you have a greedy communist dictator, I think that's a lot more dangerous than a private individual who happens to be greedy.
00:14:22.000Like you said, what they will refer to as greed isn't always necessarily greedy.
00:14:42.000Greed is relative to the system you've set up it to exist within.
00:14:45.000Well, I don't know if I entirely agree, but even if everyone is greedy, I don't think any system's gonna work if everyone operating within that system is vicious.
00:14:54.000Like you said, Nick, so greed is more the intention, but you're saying it's the outcome that produces the problem.
00:15:06.000The question is, does the economic system you have adopted, what does it encourage or what does it incentivize?
00:15:11.000Within a capitalist system where essentially I have to protect your property rights and we can only engage in exchange if it's voluntarily and theoretically to mutual benefit, well then now I have a positive incentive structure.
00:15:21.000So even if I am really greedy, if the way that I actually get the more money or the more stuff that I want, if the best way for me to do that is providing as many people as possible So there's another example of this, in a certain sense.
00:15:33.000Even if I have a negative intention, I have an economic system that fuels that intention
00:16:00.000He got a bunch of Trump supporters to go out and clean up garbage, and the communities were like, thank you so much for cleaning up and making our neighborhood nice.
00:16:25.000So, you know, in looking at AOC's complaints about capitalism, it's like, shouldn't the attitude when a big business is like, we're going to make a billion dollars by curing diseases.
00:16:38.000Now, I think the real criticism is when these companies don't cure the diseases and when these companies start to, when they say, well, we don't want to cure it because these people are customers and we want to keep making money off it.
00:16:49.000The issue is AOC sees that and says, that is all of capitalism.
00:16:54.000And it's like, no, that is a corruption of the system that we need to deal with.
00:17:00.000These offshore bank accounts is another one, because you can't really call it stealing if they set up a loophole for themselves legally and then take the money and put it somewhere where it's not supposed to be.
00:17:31.000And she said, I think if we close the loopholes, it would be 20 to like 25 to 35%, which is actually lowering the tax liability for the wealthy.
00:17:40.000But I think a lot of these people on the left are actually concerned about the corruption and manipulation of the tax system, as opposed to how much they're actually paying.
00:17:50.000So, like, maybe if we can have that argument and be like, yes, figure out a way to make sure those who are supposed to pay taxes do pay them, and we can lower the taxes?
00:18:33.000Because they want the argument of the rich aren't paying their fair share because now they haven't defined what that is.
00:18:38.000And they're also ignoring the fact that the wealthiest, whatever, half of the country, the wealthiest 10% of the country pay the vast, vast, vast majority of taxes, especially at the federal level.
00:18:50.000With all the loopholes, with everything, they pay the vast majority of it and they pay a higher percentage than what they actually control within the economy.
00:19:30.000I'm here to say, stand alongside me, brother, and let's figure out how to make this easier for Americans to create businesses.
00:19:38.000You know, the way I see it is, If somebody says, you know, if AOC came to me and said, I think, you know, I just got my paycheck and these taxes are insane, I'd be like, let's work together on a solution.
00:19:49.000I'm glad you're finally seeing the problem we're seeing.
00:19:53.000If somebody is an activist and they're going off the rails and then something happens to them where they start to realize, I'm not going to rag on them.
00:19:59.000I'm going to be like, come over and have, let's, let's do this.
00:23:13.000And you can see, you've got these little stick figures.
00:23:17.000People in 2008 who were left of center and stayed where they are became centrists, and by 2021, in that same position, are now considered right-wing.
00:23:26.000This is factually true and correct, and the media is desperate to debunk it.
00:23:57.000Republicans are far right, and the middle of the road people are center right.
00:24:02.000The Democrats have moved somewhat to the left, meaning the center is still the center, but the Republicans have stayed where they are.
00:24:07.000Ah, you see, the Republicans have always been far right.
00:24:10.000The argument from the Washington Post is that, well, the Democrats did move far left, but you see, the baseline was always far right.
00:24:19.000So the Republicans actually are far right.
00:24:21.000My attitude is the Washington Post and other media outlets are trying to create this narrative where they've pinpointed where Democrats, Moderates, and Republicans are, then taken the Overton window and shifted it so it puts the conservative in the far right quadrant and puts them as centrists.
00:24:39.000You can get rid of the underlying graph and we can clearly see that Democrats have shifted far to the left.
00:24:47.000It doesn't matter what you think of conservatives.
00:25:48.000And our culture overall has moved very swiftly and very far to the left.
00:25:53.000I can't hear another Analysis completely lacking in self-awareness from some lefty about how being on the left is just the normal default position and therefore moderate and everyone to the right of them is far right.
00:26:06.000I think everyone, anyone who isn't on the far left recognizes that too.
00:26:10.000And so they're just speaking to their own echo chambers because I've never heard a conservative or moderate person say anything along those lines.
00:26:16.000Basically everyone agrees the left has gone further to the left and everything else has too.
00:26:19.000So one of the things they're saying is someone posted this tweet and they were like Mitt Romney, who was the presidential nominee for Republicans in 2012, is now considered on the left of the Republican Party, and we nominated Joe Biden.
00:26:34.000The Republicans have gone far right, blah blah.
00:26:37.000It's like, Mitt Romney is not called a leftist or a left-leaning person.
00:26:41.000He's called a rhino and an establishment shill.
00:27:10.000I think it's a stark admission from the left.
00:27:14.000Well, here's the other thing that I love, right, is that as soon as, when they are our Republican nominee, or were the Republican nominee, the left says they're racist and they're bigots and they're horrible human beings.
00:27:25.000Like, I'm old enough to remember Mitt Romney being the worst, you know, racist on the planet.
00:27:31.000And I remember the same thing about John McCain.
00:27:33.000John McCain was every Democrat's favorite Republican until he got the Republican nomination.
00:27:38.000And then Keith Olbermann's on the TV going, he needs to suspend his campaign right now and get the white supremacist under control within his own party.
00:27:45.000So the bottom line is that I don't care who we run on the Republicans.
00:28:52.000But none of those are why they didn't like him.
00:28:53.000They didn't like him because they were told not to, and now they're being told to like him, so they go, remember the good old days when Bush was in power?
00:28:58.000I remember the good old days of the protests against George W. Bush, and then Barack Obama was like, listen here, I'm going to be president, and we're going to end these wars.
00:29:08.000And then it's like, I vote for you, sir.
00:32:21.000And what shocked me was when he went in there, it was one of the biggest areas where I thought, oh my gosh, I can't believe how great he is, was on foreign policy precisely because I always found myself in this weird place where you got one people over here that's like, let's invade everything, right?
00:32:35.000And then you got another group over here like, you should never go to war for any reason whatsoever.
00:32:40.000I'm like, actually, I think there's actually kind of a good middle ground here.
00:32:43.000And Trump really did take that position where it was, He would kick your ass, but he wasn't just going to do it arbitrarily.
00:32:51.000I mean, he had a perfect excuse if he wanted to escalate with what happened with Iran and the bombing at the Iraq embassy.
00:32:58.000He had a perfect opportunity to be able to really double down on that.
00:33:00.000And the fact that he came back, he goes, I'm not going to drone strike somebody and kill a bunch of innocent people in the hopes that I'll get a couple bad guys.
00:33:08.000Two, it's actually counterproductive on a practical level.
00:33:11.000And I'm sitting here going, if you would have told me this would have been Donald Trump talking this much common sense on foreign policy five years ago, I would have said you were nuts.
00:34:01.000But let's talk about what's going on with Joe Biden's Ministry of Truth.
00:34:05.000Speaking to reporters in Williston, DeSantis started the discussion about the board by saying he honestly thought it was just a belated April Fool's joke.
00:34:13.000They're actually going to create in the Department of Homeland Security a Bureau of Disinformation.
00:35:01.000So, depending on which way you're looking, it's the six and the nine thing, where people are looking both ways.
00:35:06.000The government can use whatever justification to claim something is fake news and then eliminate it.
00:35:11.000They shouldn't be allowed to do that under the First Amendment.
00:35:13.000I'm willing to bet they get sued into oblivion and this gets struck down by the Supreme Court.
00:35:17.000Oh, I think this goes more back to what was being discussed before.
00:35:20.000That's the whole idea of self-censoring.
00:35:23.000It's not that they're going to come out and put you in a gulag under the Bureau of Misinformation.
00:35:29.000What's going to end up happening is that there's going to be a strong motivation for people to not go against whatever the government line is.
00:35:36.000Nobody put any Twitter, Facebook, Executive, Instagram, nobody put any of them in jail over COVID information.
00:35:43.000They just did enough threats I'm going to tell you exactly what it will be.
00:35:50.000Open up your ears, good friends, because let me predict the future.
00:35:54.000In one year, one year's time, we'll be in the throes of a presidential primary, potentially two, if Joe Biden is not going to be running again.
00:36:03.000YouTube will come out and say, any story in the news that goes against the narrative from the Bureau of Disinformation will be considered fake news and removed from the platform.
00:36:16.000Because we want to maintain integrity, we are turning to the experts at the Disinformation Governance Board to make sure false narratives spread by Russia aren't allowed.
00:36:26.000And then we won't be able to share certain stories because a story will come out saying Hunter Biden punched a baby and we'll be like, look at this video.
00:36:34.000But the Bureau of Disinformation will say, that's not true.
00:36:43.000Just like those experts from the intelligence agencies who told us that the Russian, or I'm sorry, that the Hunter Biden laptop story was just Russian disinformation.
00:36:50.000You mean the woman who's literally running the disinformation governance board?
00:36:55.000From Fox News, Biden's disinformation director referred to Hunter's laptop as a Trump campaign product and helped push disinformation by claiming that intelligence officials said it was a Russian collusion hoax or something.
00:37:09.000It's exactly what we can expect from a regime like this.
00:37:11.000However, I do agree with you that the more serious problem is people tend to self-censor.
00:37:16.000And so, look, I'm not the first to point this out, but if we had a media which was completely bought, sold, and controlled by the government, we really wouldn't expect the messaging to be any different than it currently is.
00:37:27.000They all hold the one hegemonic narrative.
00:37:30.000They're going to gaslight you and lie to you and try to shut down any information to the contrary.
00:37:34.000And even when that information gets out there, which it happens to from time to time because of the internet and the fact that we have widespread access to misinformation.
00:37:42.000We heard about Hillary Clinton's emails.
00:37:43.000We're hearing a little bit about what might be going on behind the scenes at Twitter.
00:37:46.000Project Veritas does a fantastic job exposing political leaders and organizations the left is sympathetic to.
00:37:51.000And yet, even with that information, they just say, That's A, Russian disinformation, or B, a discredited conspiracy theory, or C, you're a bigot if you repeat it.
00:37:59.000And so people shut up and don't say anything.
00:38:01.000And so they don't really need this ministry of truth, to be honest.
00:38:05.000Project Veritas puts out a video showing a human being say something malicious or nefarious, and then these fact-checkers are like, it was deceptively edited.
00:38:14.000site but there's a video of them doing it with the thing that i get really worried about this we had
00:38:18.000a uh... we had a bill someone brought where they wanted to
00:38:21.000they wanted to incorporate a class within public the public school system
00:38:24.000that would help children identify fake news and misinformation
00:38:29.000right and and me my colleagues look at it like this is like some big brother
00:38:32.000crap right here don't know what we're gonna have a list of groups that will
00:38:35.000come together and you look at it like oh it's the virginia education
00:38:37.000association the national education system
00:38:39.000it's one left wing group after the next determining helping these kids differentiate between
00:38:44.000true information and and misinformation and that's the part that scares me to so many the issues
00:39:41.000I think part of the reason they're setting this up is because they are panicking.
00:39:43.000They see that people are able to access this information.
00:39:46.000And so even though they've repeatedly lied, it's possible that they're starting to get worried that because they've lost their credibility, people are going to stop believing them.
00:39:53.000I would also say, piggybacking on your comments about the public school system, the fact that the government is sort of left alone with everyone's children for eight hours a day.
00:40:00.000It's such a bizarre societal shift that we almost never talk about on the right, that people are expected to have their children educated by complete strangers.
00:40:13.000You wouldn't let someone who you didn't know, who you weren't at the very least aware of their lifestyle choices, let alone someone you might admire enough to allow them to form the mind of your child, have eight hours alone with them per day.
00:40:24.000And yet not only do we do so, but it is considered a right for teachers to be able to have access to your children in this way and even have secret conversations with them about sexuality.
00:40:52.000I got a bunch of people angry because I said, I think a lot of parents don't care about their kids because they send them off to institutionalized learning facilities where they don't know the teachers and then just don't even know what their kids are being told or taught.
00:41:18.000So maybe I see that like my parents cared about what we were learning and they talked to us.
00:41:23.000And I look at these parents where it's like, I'm in Florida and my kid goes to school and I got no idea what's happening out there.
00:41:29.000Imagine if you took your kid, went up to a random house, knocked on the door and said, can you watch my kid for the next 8 hours every day for the next 12 years?
00:41:38.000This is why I go back into the whole social conditioning of something.
00:41:42.000If your parents went to public school, and then you went to public school, and now you have your kids and you send your kids to public school, this is just something you do.
00:41:50.000There's a certain degree of social inertia with respect to some of the decisions we make and we think if it was good
00:41:55.000enough for My parents good enough for me
00:41:56.000Then it's good enough for my kids without recognizing that no
00:41:58.000The window is shifted a little bit with respect to what they're talking about to your kids
00:42:03.000Because your kids might come home and maybe they'll be able to do the math that they were supposed to learn how to do
00:42:09.000or maybe They'll be able to understand some of the you know, the
00:42:12.000science that was supposed to be taught But they're definitely gonna understand various left-wing
00:42:15.000concepts of gender identity Yep, and whether it was naive of the people at that time or
00:42:20.000whether there was some legitimate reason They believed that the public school teachers who are going
00:42:26.000to be left alone with their children or the children are gonna be left alone
00:42:28.000With had values that were roughly similar to their own So they weren't going to have to worry about their child's mind being malformed in some serious way.
00:42:35.000But of course, that's not something that you can ever trust strangers to not do.
00:42:39.000And Tim, you mentioned that people wouldn't go to a stranger and say, here, have my kid for eight hours.
00:42:51.000I heard consumerism defined in a very interesting way a couple of years ago, and it was basically that it is The act of outsourcing more and more things from the household.
00:43:02.000And there are a lot of things that it does make sense to outsource.
00:43:04.000But then there are certain things that it's very strange to do that with.
00:43:07.000And I would say the education and formation of your children is one of them.
00:43:11.000And yet we've done it in the most cynical, capitalistic, assembly line sort of way that would make even the most Sociopathic robber baron blush, and it's completely championed by the left.
00:43:25.000Back in the day, I'm talking about a thousand years ago or thereabouts, if you had the money, you could send your kid to be educated in Venice, Italy, by the most intelligent scholars of the time.
00:46:24.000She says, Biden's Minister of Truth, force away, lock us down.
00:46:28.000This is what we want to be criticizing.
00:46:29.000This lady is the definition of unwell.
00:46:33.000She's supposed to be this disinformation person, you know, executive director.
00:46:37.000Whatever the government says, whatever the authority says is true, that's her attitude.
00:46:40.000She tweeted, long story short, I think we as a country might be too free-spirited, to put it diplomatically, to comply with social distancing recommendations unless they're forced upon us.
00:47:12.000So, she was saying this, again, under the Trump administration.
00:47:16.000Because I used to have this theory where it's like, okay, you know, leftists think they're always going to be in power, and when they're in power, they want all these new government powers and authorities and whatnot because they trust their own people to do it.
00:47:28.000But one of these days, they're going to get somebody that they recognize, oh, this is the problem because I don't want this guy having this much power.
00:47:35.000And I've come to the realization that they seem to like it.
00:47:59.000Well, I would disagree to some extent.
00:48:01.000I hear what you're saying, but I think the reason that they support it is because all of the people forcing their worldview onto everyone else who has any level of power right now is on the left.
00:48:09.000And so what they appreciate is the fact that people who would not obey them are being forced to by the state.
00:48:15.000And so ultimately, because as soon as you have someone like Elon Musk come in, And who is you know, potentially going to be the owner of Twitter here and Simply says I'm just not gonna bully the people you want me to bully they completely lose their minds So it's not so much that they like having decisions made for them though.
00:48:34.000I think there's an element of that there I think they love making decisions for you They're the most conforming anti-conformist Well, not only did you tweet this authoritarian nonsense—she has several tweets like that—she's also outright spread disinformation herself, where she said the Hunter Biden laptop story was a product of the Trump campaign, things like that.
00:48:56.000So are we really supposed to assume that they have the best intentions?
00:49:01.000I think, as I stated earlier, if you create a store called, like, Swords and Things, I would assume you're selling those things.
00:49:09.000I would not assume you're trying to stop those things from being sold.
00:49:12.000So when they create the Disinformation Governance Board and put a woman in charge of it who sows disinformation, I think the purpose is entirely clear.
00:49:19.000Just lying to us about what they're trying to sell to the American people.
00:49:22.000She must have a bunch of self-hatred, because when she's saying, force me, lock me down, that's really disgusting and masochistic, like self-hate type of thing.
00:49:31.000I don't know, some people are into it, you know?
00:49:33.000Maybe she's like, you know, daddy government.
00:49:36.000Not to the, maybe, yeah, but that's masochistic.
00:49:39.000To have this kind of psychopathy and power is devastating.
00:50:36.000Again, the thing that blows my mind about all of this is that there's this overwhelming faith in government power in order to achieve certain positive ends.
00:50:45.000And again, going back to Thomas Sowell, because I do that regularly, It's this whole idea of the government doesn't deal in solutions, the government deals in trade-offs.
00:50:52.000But if you've built in your mind that really what this is about is government wielding power to compel people to do the right thing, and really this is just a question of getting the right people in the position to be able to wield that sort of authority, well then this kind of makes sense.
00:51:05.000If you understand that people are fallible, therefore the people in political power are fallible, then you're a lot more cautious about them having this kind of authoritarian power over things.
00:51:14.000And it is amazing to me That we are not that far away from when you had legitimately, you know, we still do have violent communist governments that are suppressing speech, suppressing their own populations, and doing so through propaganda, government-controlled propaganda.
00:51:29.000And to think this is an okay idea, and then it's coming from the left, right?
00:51:34.000The very people that used to, like, stick it to the man?
00:52:00.000Oh, man, don't play it at all, though.
00:52:01.000Saying them in Congress or a mainstream outlet so Disinformation's origins are slightly less atrocious
00:52:07.000Fake accent It's how you hide a little idle lie
00:52:11.000It's how you hide a little idle lie It's how you hide a little idle lie
00:52:14.000When Rudy Giuliani shared that intel from Ukraine Or when TikTok influencers say COVID can cause pain
00:52:21.000She put that on TikTok, that CCP tech.
00:52:23.000She put that on TikTok, and I, you know, I saw this video.
00:52:26.000I did say I was gonna defend her, and I will, but when I saw this video, I thought to myself, I think there's something about left-leaning millennials where they never grew up.
00:52:36.000Voldemort's the, you know, everyone's Voldemort.
00:52:38.000And they post these videos on TikTok as if they're children.
00:52:42.000Like, I'm sorry, ma'am, you're in your late 30s, and you're heading up a government institution, and you're singing Mary Poppins.
00:52:51.000I just, I feel like these people are children.
00:52:54.000Yeah, I mean they reject adulthood, they reject responsibility ultimately, and I think that's... Well, I think that's a lot of where the gender insanity comes from as well.
00:53:02.000Part of becoming an adult is being firmly rooted in either your masculinity and your femininity, and if you are called to marriage, starting a family, having children, but they completely reject that responsibility, and so they start to reject the concept of gender altogether.
00:53:16.000I'm gonna defend this woman, because my point is that... Not gender sexuality.
00:54:15.000If I saw... If this video came out today, and it was on TikTok, I'd be like, hey, keep it up guys, you know, keep working hard, keep practicing, keep writing.
00:54:23.000One day, you're gonna hit that number one, you know?
00:54:25.000I would encourage young people to do good stuff.
00:56:16.000I think there's something, I think there's something of a generational difference here too, with respect to what, what one generation tends to think as this is something that discredits a person versus what a younger generation thinks discredits a person.
00:56:28.000So I think some of this is a misread of how you're going to influence your audience with respect to how to think about her.
00:56:36.000So I see this and I'm like, she's actually a pretty good singer.
00:56:39.000This doesn't strike me as, oh, well, gosh, that's why I have a problem with her.
00:56:43.000It's not because she's the authoritarian czar of a government disinformation.
00:57:07.000Okay, there was one thing that was done with that whole thing that I did think was funny, and that was they showed her dancing and then the thing said, when you're first in line for the bread line.
00:57:14.000That makes it funny because she's, you know, she's a socialist.
00:57:27.000This clip from the Daily Caller, and I think the clip Jack Posobiec pointed out, it's like, guys, you're reaching.
00:57:32.000Dude, yeah, but that first one wasn't reaching where she's like Rudy Giuliani is a political political politics crap.
00:57:39.000Well, she was spreading She was spreading misinformation in that little cutie Mary Poppins song She was singing and that was directly relevant to the job.
00:57:46.000She is now going to be that was more practical and real quick I think people saw that and Criticized it which was warranted and then grabbed other stuff of her singing as if it was bad that she's saying no, no Yeah Also, I mean, we understand the concepts of information and misinformation differently than the left does, and that is to say we understand these concepts correctly, because we understand that the purpose of information is to help a person form their worldview so that they can know the truth.
00:58:11.000The left sees information, the value of information, as anything that helps them reach the end of bringing their political worldview to fruition.
00:58:19.000And so to them, misinformation means anything that gets in the way of the social order I'm seeking to establish, which is why they were constantly saying that they were trying to crack down on misinformation, even though the things they labeled as misinformation were then revealed to be true, and they never walked their policies back.
00:58:34.000I just want to point out, I think it's funny, like, you know, that we're all here, like, this lady's spreading dangerous disinformation, and then Ian's like, she's singing from the chest, her shoulders are crunched up.
00:58:44.000Ian's getting to the heart of the problem, he'll be better.
00:58:47.000No, I think, I'm just saying, like, Ian, Ian, you took theater, so he's singing from a different angle from us, where ours is purely political, and he's looking at her performance like, no.
00:58:55.000No, her shoulders, it's like, relax your shoulders, you know, let your head fall back, and keep your chin low.
00:59:01.000So to your point, we were having this debate a while back, and it was the whole idea of postmodernism and deconstructionism.
00:59:07.000It was the idea of what is the philosophy which informs the left and the way they think about these things.
00:59:11.000So when you've accepted that there is no such thing as absolute truth, whether it be moral or just factual, and this is all a question of power structure, and it's all a question of which group is going to dominate the power structure in order to help their group or their tribe or whatever it is, You're absolutely right.
00:59:29.000Misinformation is no longer this idea of what is actually true, because there is no objective truth.
00:59:35.000And right now, they want their group to be on top, and the way that you do that is by controlling the flow of information, and they honestly believe it's gonna produce positive results for the people that they care about, right?
00:59:44.000So it's not as if they have purely nefarious, I mean, we would consider it nefarious because we think it's rooted in a lie, but they can actually convince themselves, I'm doing a good and noble thing on behalf of marginalized populations.
00:59:57.000And anything that stands in the way of achieving that for your so-called truth is irrelevant.
01:02:41.000It's government's like, I'm not going to comply with this.
01:02:43.000Let's see how much you really want to enforce it.
01:02:45.000Yeah, they'll go to like Twitter's board, or they'll go to the developers and give them a gag order and say, give me your code, give me your login info.
01:02:53.000And the people be like, well, if I don't, then the feds are going to come raid my house and put me in a prison for a year without seeing anyone.
01:03:00.000But if a way to passively resist that is to get rid of the centralized services, so you as a tech company don't control the login data, or the password data, it's encrypted and unavailable.
01:03:09.000You ever see, Seamus, you ever see that South Park episode where they're imagining George Lucas and Steven Spielberg ruining Indiana Jones?
01:03:22.000There's a scene where it's like, I think it's like Deliverance and there's two, you know, like redneck guys and they're like, you look mighty good.
01:03:27.000And they like take Indiana Jones and they go at him.
01:03:29.000And I was just thinking, like, based off what you were saying about income tax and stuff, it'd be funny to do that scene, but it's the government taking your income tax.
01:03:35.000Like, hey there, boy, that income's looking mighty good.
01:05:03.000Misinformation is any information that is bad for the regime or used against the regime.
01:05:07.000So right now, if you mow someone's lawn for 10 bucks, you gotta then, when you receive that 10 bucks, you gotta give the government, depending on your tax bracket, between like 27 or 37%, maybe even more, and that's just for the income tax.
01:05:21.000Now if you're running a business, you've gotta split the employment tax.
01:05:23.000There's gonna be 7.5 on the business end, 7.5 on the person's end, and so that typically goes in with the income tax, but now you're running a business, right?
01:07:18.000I then take some of what's left over and I reinvest it into something that helps somebody else start a business or hire more people or expand their operation in the hopes that maybe one day I will actually receive a profit from selling this.
01:07:57.000So you're wagering $10 for a chance to win less than $10.
01:08:01.000There's a tax on all of those winnings.
01:08:04.000And then you can't claim losses on more than you've gambled.
01:08:08.000So if you walk in with $100 and lose it, that's too bad.
01:08:10.000You can't claim a loss on that unless you're a professional gambler.
01:08:13.000Yeah, so also like when you look at Biden's policies and his proposed policies with respect to capital gain tax, one way he plans on taxing the rich, quote unquote, is to have everyone who makes more than a million dollars have their capital gains tax increase from 20% to 40%.
01:08:27.000And the idea is, well, that's only going to hurt rich people.
01:08:30.000But obviously, if you are a wealthy person, you are not going to bet 100% of your own money to only potentially keep 60% of the winnings because that's an idiotic move to make.
01:08:39.000And so small businesses That need investment from wealthier people just aren't going to end up being formed, if that policy ever takes effect.
01:08:49.000And you know what they're going to do?
01:08:52.000They're always going to exempt if you buy government bonds.
01:08:55.000So if you want to give your money to the government and get a guaranteed 3% interest or whatnot, oh yeah, sure, you can do that all day long.
01:09:02.000They'll make all kinds of exceptions for that.
01:09:04.000But if you actually want to invest in a private enterprise, Well now all of a sudden we want to tax the hell out of you.
01:09:09.000And this unrealized gains is the biggest BS I have ever heard of.
01:09:17.000It's literally they're taxing something you don't have.
01:09:19.000I'd like to pull up this story we have here from the Daily Mail.
01:09:22.000GOP leader Kevin McCarthy claims Biden's plan to forgive $10,000 in student loans is to distract from his failing agenda and stunt to subsidize degrees of the elite and leave working Americans paying the tab.
01:09:33.000For all of my progressive friends who are sitting here saying, I don't understand why anyone would be opposed to forgiving student loan debt.
01:09:39.000Don't you want to make people's lives better?
01:09:41.000You're just saying you want them to suffer because you suffered?
01:09:45.000What I'm saying is that I do not believe the government should take from the poor to give to the higher income earners.
01:09:52.000Low income earners will be paying the taxes that subsidize high income earners getting their debt cleared.
01:09:59.000And the high income earners who have the debt got to spend that money and do things with it.
01:10:04.000Now I am for student debt forgiveness.
01:10:08.000I say we tax the universities and seize the endowments and forgive all the student loans that way.
01:10:13.000But if you're going to tell me that you are a reverse Robin Hood who wants to steal from the poor to give to the rich, I'm going to say screw off.
01:10:20.000Yeah, also, whenever someone says something like, I can't imagine why anyone would oppose forgiving student loan debts, like, why would you admit that?
01:10:29.000It's actually not that hard to figure out because it's a regressive tax.
01:10:32.000People who get degrees actually do tend to make more money in the idea that someone who, A, already paid their college off because they worked through college or already paid their debt off, or Decided to start working in a trade should be on the hook for the money that someone else who's making more money than them Voluntarily took on his dad isn't saying well.
01:10:51.000I got I got asked like do you believe that the government should forgive student loan debt?
01:11:39.000The bottom line is that legally, the universities were in a position to be able to, again, the money went to the person, the student, and the student chose which university that they went to.
01:11:49.000So as much as I think the university has totally been in bed with the government in order to make all this happen, I still don't think you could... I still don't think you have legal grounds to go and seize their property as a result of this.
01:12:00.000As much as I would look at it from kind of a cosmic moral sense and be like, well, you know, karma's a... you know what?
01:12:05.000Well, I think the universities are corrupt.
01:12:08.000I think the loan situation is predatory.
01:12:12.000Look, we want millennials buying houses and having families.
01:12:14.000Many of them are settled with debt because they were told to get these loans out and they weren't smart enough to figure out why they shouldn't have got that.
01:12:20.000And so I'm like, OK, if you want student loan forgiveness, then you got to take it from those universities that got that money.
01:12:25.000These are the universities that went to these students and said, you have to do this.
01:12:29.000What are you going to do unless they have these they have these recruiters at universities who go and tell you why you need to go there, how much it'll cost.
01:12:36.000Then these people go and get these government-backed loans.
01:13:28.000And that's an incredibly unpopular thing to say, and it is absolutely 100% true.
01:13:32.000Because we've created, especially since most of the universities are either public-private partnerships or they're state-run universities.
01:13:39.000So again, this is the government subsidizing another government agency in order to push a particular agenda.
01:13:46.000And then it works out perfect for politicians because they can then, they can first approve the loans with no intention of you ever having to fully pay them back and then come back and say, I'm the nice guy that's going to forgive this when they know damn well they can't forgive it, they can only transfer it on to other taxpayers.
01:13:59.000Yeah, well and the real scandal is that so many people feel they need a college education in order to make a living and also that in a number of circumstances that can actually be the case.
01:14:08.000We need to ask ourselves, if a person cannot have a well-paying job with a four-year degree, which actually isn't true but let's just say it were the case, Then, why is that?
01:14:18.000And why aren't we trying to solve the problem of the first 12 years of education that everyone is provided for free, not preparing them for the marketplace?
01:14:25.000Now, of course, it's because public school is a racket, it's a horrible system, they don't really have your child's best interest in mind, but a parent who is homeschooling their child obviously has the best interest of their child in mind, and they're going to ensure that their child is educated in a way that will prepare them for the workforce so they can be a productive adult.
01:14:43.000I think it's sad that people think they need college.
01:14:49.000Well, I mean, it's, you listen to Elon Musk talk about this, you listen to like Gary Vee talking about it, it's always the same thing.
01:14:54.000It's like our schools are not designed to actually do anything to help out with entrepreneurship.
01:14:58.000It's designed to make, the best version is designed to make very good factory workers.
01:15:03.000The worst version, it's designed to make really good conscripts.
01:15:06.000And the problem that I have with all of it is, what did you expect, right?
01:15:10.000You have the government running an institution where they don't actually have to be responsive to the end users or the customers of the product or the service that they're providing.
01:15:19.000Because every time we try to pass any sort of legislation, we're even doing something like, hey, dollars follow students.
01:15:24.000Oh my gosh, you hate public school and you hate public teachers, or public school teachers.
01:15:28.000Or, I just recognize that everywhere else in the marketplace, when people have genuine choices, and they can go and find the services that work best for them, you actually get better quality at lower prices and more accessibility.
01:15:41.000What do you think about a voucher system for schools?
01:15:43.000So, I think there's a couple different ways you can do it.
01:15:45.000I think the idea of dollars following students, whether you want to call that a voucher, whether you want to make it an education savings account, I think it would be a vast improvement on what we currently have.
01:15:53.000What's funny is that the left immediately comes back and goes, you can't spend public tax dollars for a private service provider.
01:15:59.000Oh, you mean like with WIC, or EBT, or road construction, or jet fighter construction, or, I don't know, lodging in per diem, the politicians use it, private, yeah, section 8 housing?
01:16:21.000Actually give poor parents an opportunity to be able to do what rich liberals do with their kids and send them to private school.
01:16:27.000I can't tell you how funny it is when I will talk to some liberal and say, They say Republicans are banning math and history, and I say, well, they're banning praxis.
01:16:36.000They're banning critical race praxis, the practice of these theories.
01:16:40.000And they say, yeah, but that's important context in history.
01:16:43.000And I was like, dude, if you want ideologies in schools, we can start with the Bible.
01:16:48.000Because if you think your ideology should be there, why couldn't a teacher teach any ideology they wanted?
01:16:52.000How about if you don't want religion in public schools, we then say you can't have other ideological practices in those schools all the same?
01:17:02.000I don't want to tell the person that has an EBT card, you're only allowed to shop at the government grocery store I've assigned you based off of your address.
01:17:27.000And if public dollars are falling, you can come up with some, okay, hey, they gotta take one test a year, or there's gotta be some criteria, like you can't take them to a school that's teaching them violence against other people, whatever.
01:17:52.000So which one of us, which ideology, is the peaceful, tolerant one that actually appreciates diversity?
01:17:58.000The problem is the right has been tolerant and peaceful.
01:18:01.000And the left then took over the institutions while they were being tolerant and peaceful.
01:18:04.000Well yeah, I mean, the right is obsessed with human respect and being perceived as one of the good ones by their enemies, which is completely suicidal and stupid.
01:18:13.000I'll also add that whenever you have these left-wingers who fire back at you for supporting vouchers by saying, you hate public schools, they're admitting that parents would send their children anywhere else but public school if they had the option.
01:18:27.000Cory DeAngelis makes that point beautifully daily on Twitter.
01:18:38.000But at bottom, what they're saying is, okay, yes, parents would choose to send their kids elsewhere, but we can't allow them to have that choice because I decide how other people's children get educated.
01:18:51.000There's some value to that, to having uniformity in education, in that, like math for instance.
01:18:58.000If one school teaches the kids 2 plus 2 equals 5, because 2.4 plus 2.4 is, and the other half of the schools teach 2 plus 2 equals 4, and then all these people come out of the schooling systems and they can't agree on basic ideas like math, then we're in a really, like a challenging social place.
01:19:39.000Do we think it's going to be a majority?
01:19:40.000Do we think it's going to be enough to actually cause a problem?
01:19:43.000If that is such a concern with education, why is it not the same concern with respect to food?
01:19:49.000Or with respect to where you buy your vehicle?
01:19:51.000Or with respect to where you buy your health care?
01:19:53.000Because quite frankly, all of those are really important decisions as well.
01:19:57.000And here's what we find is that within the marketplace, when people have options, the best way to ensure quality Is by giving people choice, not by putting a government board in charge of it, right?
01:20:08.000Like, I don't want the government misinformation board deciding what math looks like.
01:20:12.000Because they're probably not going to come up with a good one.
01:20:14.000So yeah, in a perfect world it would be great if everyone, you know, could learn math the same way.
01:20:21.000Right, so being able to have different options for students, hopefully to come to a logical and rational conclusion at the end of it, but the idea that the government taking over that process is more likely to get us a good product?
01:20:34.000I mean, we've seen the exact opposite, right?
01:20:36.000Every year since the Department of Education was founded, test results have absolutely not improved, but funding adjusted for inflation has improved.
01:20:44.000I think to your point, yeah, we really didn't see this kind of bizarre 2 plus 2 equals 5 thinking creep its way into public schools until long after the government had complete control over them.
01:20:53.000And frankly, if you were to go back to a time where schooling was more a product of the community and someone walked into the Little Red Schoolhouse and said, hey, let's teach our kids 2 plus 2 is 5, they'd get laughed out of the room.
01:21:12.000The best troll move he ever made, and I love Thomas Massie, the best troll move he ever did though is when Betsy DeVos was put in charge of Department of Education in the Trump administration, Massie put out this massive thing going, do you really want this woman in charge of your child's education?
01:21:28.000Support HB, you know, and it was the same thing.
01:21:31.000And he had all these lefties retweeting him.
01:21:41.000You don't want this person in charge of your child's education.
01:21:44.000So let's get rid of the mechanism that they use to try to control it and put you back in charge.
01:21:48.000Well, so one point that the right and that libertarians will make when we're arguing with the left is.
01:21:55.000You guys should want to abolish this particular state institution because it might be the case that eventually someone who's more sympathetic to our views will be in charge of it as opposed to someone who's sympathetic to your worldview.
01:22:05.000The reason I think that criticism never works and won't work and won't persuade them is because as a conservative or as a more right-leaning person, a more traditionally minded person, you know that on the local level your solutions are generally things that most people support and would be willing to buy into.
01:22:21.000And I think the left knows that in order to get their agenda across, they need a gigantic bureaucratic state that's forcing these things onto everyone.
01:22:27.000So the risk of a conservative being periodically in charge of it is worth it to them, because the only way they can have any success is if it's forced onto everyone from some institution of that sort.
01:22:39.000I think they've realized that, you know, the old adage that came out was that, you know, conservatives come in and end up conserving things that the liberals did 20 years earlier.
01:22:47.000And you saw that within the UK with the National Health Service.
01:22:51.000Right now, there's not a single conservative candidate that's going to run on the idea of like, look, this has been a colossal failure on a number of levels.
01:22:58.000No, it's always put us in charge of it and we'll run it more efficiently and more effectively.
01:23:02.000And so yeah, I think they've made the deal here and they realize that the more bureaucracy they get, eventually they push the Overton window in the direction they want and they end up controlling it.
01:23:12.000I want to jump to a totally unrelated story because it's Friday and we haven't talked about this all week.
01:23:18.000Criminal charges still possible in rust shooting, Sheriff says.
01:23:21.000And I just want to highlight that Alec Baldwin, my understanding is that he told the police, he knows the difference between dummy rounds and live rounds, but that he did not check the gun himself.
01:23:32.000We then saw the footage that got released.
01:23:34.000Because everyone was wondering, like, hey, they filmed Alec Baldwin doing this.
01:23:55.000When people point out that Alec Baldwin, Jack Bassovic said this, he's like, Alec Baldwin should not be talking to these cops without lawyers, because he basically admitted to doing it.
01:24:04.000People are like, yeah, but he's an actor.
01:24:06.000This is what I hear from every single person on the left for some reason wanting to defend Alec Baldwin.
01:24:10.000He was on set doing what he was supposed to do.
01:24:25.000If you are handed a gun, and you point it at a person, and you pull the hammer back of a single-action revolver, and it fires, that's involuntary manslaughter.
01:24:35.000Yeah, also, what an unbelievably stupid excuse.
01:24:38.000You know, if someone's filming you and you point a gun at someone and pull the trigger, I guess you can't be prosecuted because you're an actor.
01:24:51.000He's filming a prank show where they go around and stab people to death and go, it was a prank, bro!
01:24:55.000So just for fun, I'm gonna go against every instinct I have.
01:24:59.000And I'm gonna argue the other side of this.
01:25:02.000So, you're in a position where you're handed a gun, and that gun is supposed to be loaded with blanks for the scene, because obviously it wouldn't be loaded- Dummies.
01:25:10.000Because it wouldn't be loaded with live rounds.
01:25:13.000There's no reasonable expectation that it would be loaded with live rounds, and this is a scene that you've done, this is something you've done before, and so you do it this time, and this time, oh my gosh, there's a live round in it.
01:25:23.000And that's where it goes into the involuntary manslaughter point.
01:25:25.000It's like, okay, you've got, obviously we're not talking about necessarily premeditated murder or anything like that.
01:25:33.000There's a part of me that can understand, like, okay, this is a part of my job, this is what I do, this is how it works, and I did it this way, and something tragic happened.
01:25:41.000I'm more concerned about, again, how did a live round get into that?
01:25:44.000And then, why did she get, even with a dummy round, because here's the other part that I think a lot of people don't understand about this, is they think, oh, I'm firing a blank.
01:25:54.000Okay, well, there's differences between firing a blank.
01:25:56.000I mean, there have been Hollywood stars that have died because of a blank because of the wadding.
01:27:09.000Someone, basically, in my estimation, There were a bunch of people that quit, walked off the set, they said it's unsafe.
01:27:15.000Someone loaded that gun knowing that Alec was going to pull it out, not check because he's a lazy whatever, and that's exactly what happened.
01:27:21.000I think someone put that in there so that he would do the killing.
01:27:25.000I'm not saying that he's not criminally liable.
01:27:28.000What I'm saying is that when I first heard about this, I'm like, okay, an actor did something stupid with a gun, not a shock.
01:27:36.000Is there any sort of reasonable, from a legal perspective, is there any sort of reasonable argument to be made that, hey, I was supposed to get a gun to do this, I was supposed to point it and pull the trigger and do this, I did that, and then something happened that I did not intend.
01:27:48.000Now, the other side of this is, going back to your point, someone hands you a gun, the way I grew up, the way I was taught is, you are now responsible for everything that gun does, and you don't get to say, well, this person handed it to me.
01:28:00.000That's the part where the culpability creeps back in.
01:28:03.000Every every time I've done an extra like a handoff for any weapon the same thing occurs The magazine is taken out you clear it make sure there's nothing in it Then you lock the bolt back the hammer or whatever and then you hand it pointed down you follow all the rules And I don't even consider myself a gun expert.
01:28:19.000I just have guns so I'm like it's not even an issue of Proper protocol, it's like, I'm gonna check my firearms, and I'm gonna make sure it's clearly visible, that there's nothing in it, I'm handing it to you, and it will still be treated as if it's loaded, even with the magazine removed.
01:28:34.000Alec Baldwin, when they're on movie sets, and people are acting like it's normal to be handed a weapon, that's sealed, potentially loaded, and you're gonna be like, I trust them.
01:28:45.000The weapon from the people on set, I'm told, they're supposed to open it, Show you the rounds, take them out, explain what they are, put them back, close it, and then hand it to you with all safety protocols happening before your eyes.
01:28:59.000Alec Baldwin was supposed to go through that check, then have the weapon, and that's why he would not open the weapon up and check.
01:29:06.000Alec Baldwin claimed, he's like, if I were to open it up and mess with it, they would stop the shoot because that would be tampering with the weapon and I'm not allowed to do it.
01:29:15.000Yes, but the armorer is supposed to go up to you, show you the mechanism, show you the safety, take it, open it up, let you know, they'll take out the magazine, clear it and say everything's here, it's unloaded, I've showed it to you, now you're responsible for it.
01:29:28.000So Alec Baldwin received a weapon, did not check, he's responsible.
01:29:32.000Oh no, he's checked, and I would also argue that the person that was responsible for doing that, so for instance, if someone handed him a weapon, and said here's your weapon for the Senate, and he did it, he's still responsible because they didn't follow the protocol, they're also responsible because they didn't follow the protocol.
01:30:06.000So Alec Baldwin, involuntary manslaughter, prison he's also the producer of the movie so there's another layer of culpability he should have been overseeing the safety mechanisms the armorers should have been there they're handling live weapons when i was the military we we would we would go to the range we do our thing then we'd also go to like what we call shoot houses
01:30:26.000And within our shoot houses, we're practicing close quarters battle.
01:30:29.000So you're doing high intensity explosives, hostage rescue, the whole deal.
01:30:35.000You'd go from, you'd do live rounds at some point, you'd also do what we call sim rounds.
01:30:38.000So sim rounds at a different barrel for your M4 and your M9.
01:32:12.000Well, I know that, but I mean, like, in their mind.
01:32:15.000They're thinking, like, well, you know... I love the conspiracy theories, though, that the woman was, like, an investigative reporter, and they... Whenever something weird happens, you get the conspiracy theories to tie it all into, like, this grand Hollywood conspiracy.
01:32:26.000Be careful that it's not, like, an Alex Jones, uh... What do they call it?
01:32:29.000Sandy Hook thing, where someone's like, she's a this and that, and then the family comes after you with... Try it with a civil suit.
01:32:34.000Yeah, don't talk crap about people when they're dead.
01:32:37.000You know, you shouldn't talk crap about private citizens with things that aren't true.
01:32:42.000You shouldn't say things that aren't true.
01:32:43.000Especially when there's emotions involved, like death.
01:33:43.000Alec was holding a gun, and the gun went off and killed someone.
01:33:46.000That's the only thing we need to know.
01:33:49.000Where the bullet came from, as far as I'm concerned, Alec Baldwin is responsible for it.
01:33:52.000When you see his finger on the trigger, when he's pulling the gun in practice, in rehearsal, he's got his finger on the trigger, and then he's like, my finger wasn't on the trigger.
01:33:59.000Like, dude, his finger's on the trigger.
01:34:00.000And the crazy thing, too, is, One of the reasons I actually think what we're seeing now lends to the idea that Alec is guilty of just outright homicide is that the way he was holding it, he could have shot himself.
01:34:13.000No, I think he knew it was in that gun.
01:35:01.000There's another guy on the set they interviewed and he's like, I don't want to, I don't want to throw anyone under the bus, but let's just say the practices on that set were not safe.
01:35:10.000And it's like, he's basically what he's saying is they're, they're shooting live rounds for fun on set, but he didn't come out and say that and he didn't name names, but it's like, he was a guy working on the movie basically saying they weren't following safety protocol.
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01:35:44.000Alright, we got... Paidson says, Isaac Botkin from T-Rex Arms would be awesome to have on the show discussing 2A and the wins they're getting in Tennessee.
01:35:53.000Oh yeah, what's going on in Tennessee?
01:40:41.000All right, Nathaniel Sacranty says, Did Elon buying Twitter cause the Overton window to shift dramatically, causing everyone to start seeing what's been hidden for so long?
01:40:50.000It could be what's causing so many people to be labeled right-wing now.
01:40:54.000I mean, it just happened last- this week!
01:40:56.000But I do think Elon buying Twitter shifted the Overton window dramatically.
01:40:59.000And I love how it's like a different country now.
01:41:01.000Like, the Overton window's completely shifted.
01:41:02.000Dude, he doesn't even, like, own it yet.
01:41:05.000Seth Rogen comes out, he's like, I'm pro-life!
01:41:17.000In the specific direction they go there.
01:41:18.000It's like, yeah, no, people are on the right.
01:41:20.000It's like, it's almost as if when you stifle speech and tell everyone that they have to parrot the left-wing narrative, as soon as they get an opportunity to just like let that spring out and go to the right, they do.
01:41:29.000Oh, there was a lot of lefties on Twitter that realized that not everyone thinks they're wonderful and witty and beautiful as soon as that algorithm isn't doing the heavy lifting for them.
01:43:27.000NSX says, if you woke up in a hospital from a 10-year-long coma, read Washington Post while watching SNL, you'd think you'd have brain damage and ask to be unplugged.
01:43:47.000Can you imagine someone who woke up from a coma 10 years ago looking at the paper and going, I can't believe how far right this country's gotten.
01:43:53.000That's exactly the conclusion they'd come to.
01:45:06.000I honestly don't remember on that one.
01:45:07.000What we need is for the Supreme Court right now to weigh in on constitutional carry.
01:45:12.000So here's the interesting dynamic on that one.
01:45:15.000And here's the crazy part, because that is something that legally could happen now.
01:45:20.000Now, before a liberal interpretation of the 14th Amendment, I don't think it could have.
01:45:25.000Because the 2nd Amendment was originally a prohibition on federal power, not on state power.
01:45:30.000What was interesting is that when the liberal interpretation of the Establishment Doctrine essentially said that, well, no, the Bill of Rights applies to all of the states, then, all right, then I guess the Second Amendment applies.
01:45:40.000Well, no, no, no, we didn't mean the Second Amendment.
01:45:45.000And so it's interesting, because once upon a time, you could have made a good constitutional argument that the Second Amendment is only a prohibition on federal power, but you can't do that if you're going to accept, you know, substantive due process and everything else.
01:46:51.000Just I don't know if I ever ate one of those though Yeah gross Yep unacceptable All right, let's read some more Trevor Cameron says the sky is opaque.
01:47:03.000Daylight retracts through our nitrogen-rich atmosphere, making it blue, and at night we see the stars through an opaque sky.
01:47:10.000We'll see what Jaina has to say about that.
01:47:13.000They refract through nitrogen-rich atmosphere, but I don't believe opaque is the word you are looking for.
01:47:19.000Well, I'm certainly not going to listen to it until the Department of Information from the Department of Homeland Security tells me whether or not it's okay.
01:47:25.000With that logic, nothing is any color because you're only seeing the bouncing light off of the thing.
01:47:30.000You're not actually looking at the thing.
01:47:32.000I learned from the Young Turks that the sky at night is actually pinholes punched through so that the light of heaven can come through.
01:48:38.000Man, getting right to the center of it.
01:48:40.000I love when people know what I'm thinking better than I do, so that they can tell me, because it's always a surprise.
01:48:47.000In public school, that's what it's all about.
01:48:49.000I think it's more funny that someone's like, I would like it if teachers weren't having secret conversations with my kids about sex, and they went, why do you hate gay people?
01:48:56.000It's like, how can you take this from them?
01:48:59.000What are you implying about gay people?
01:49:02.000This is what I can't stand about, you know, people have said the trans agenda or the gay agenda and I'm like, dude, Dave Rubin opposes this.
01:49:26.000But I think, when we've talked about this, it's more or less how those groups operate as a political force rather than what every individual identifies with it.
01:49:34.000I also find it a little bit contradictory that, like, the same hyper-crunchy, college-educated mom that will not feed her child an Oreo because it has chemicals And it is saying like, but here's some puberty blockers and maybe we cut some things off.
01:49:47.000You know, if you feel like, you know, wearing high heels today.
01:49:50.000Like, I think that's, that's a little bit contradictory.
01:49:52.000Nylan Hynek says, to quote Sidney Watson, govern me harder, daddy.
01:50:40.000You have to obey whatever the left tells you.
01:50:41.000I mean, we're not saying that you should live in concrete blocks and listen to Big Brother, but if the science says that's what you should do, if we decide at some point down the line, we just want to make sure you are going to listen.
01:51:12.000I was going to do one called Fauci Says, but then he fell out of the... I want to do something nice for all the leftists who might find themselves watching this show.
01:51:21.000You know, you may be sad, you may be scared, because you haven't heard from the science in some time.
01:51:26.000Well, we can't get you the science, but we can get you the next best thing.
01:51:30.000Don't worry, just put on a couple of masks and Rand Paul will go away.
01:51:36.000Now that wasn't perfect, but I'm sure many people, it calmed you down.
01:52:20.000When you take into account government transfers, which is not just what I pay in taxes, but what I get back through different government programs and what, you have to make almost $75,000 a year before you are a net taxpayer at the federal level.
01:52:33.000What people don't understand is that if somebody who makes $50,000 per year ends up paying $20,000 or $18,000 in taxes, they're actually getting a tax benefit of like $25,000 to $30,000 in all of the services that are provided to them.
01:52:46.000Not even in services, like earned income credit, child credits?
01:52:50.000People don't understand that the overwhelming majority of tax revenue comes from the wealthy, and that subsidizes the poor.
01:52:59.000So poor people actually don't pay their fair share relative to what they're getting in return.
01:53:03.000Well, we had an interesting case this last time in the General Assembly where somebody got up and said, you know, these people pay a higher percentage of their income than these people over here.
01:53:13.000She wasn't taking into account all the transfer payments.
01:53:15.000So she's saying someone making $20,000 a year is paying this much in taxes and that's a higher percentage.
01:53:19.000When you include the transfer payments that person is getting, It drastically changes it.
01:53:25.000But if you don't take the transfer payments into consideration, you can give her everything she wants and year after year she should come back and say, these people are paying a higher percentage.
01:53:34.000Because you're not actually counting the transfer payments.
01:53:56.000I pay a tax, then from that tax they give someone their unemployment insurance but then they have to pay a tax on that unemployment insurance.
01:54:18.000Firefighters, I think, should be... The issue back in the day was that you can't have a firefighter show up to a block full of houses and be like, that one doesn't get our service.
01:54:28.000And the other house is then set on fire, so we needed to find a way to deal with that.
01:54:31.000But that means that people who are paying almost no income tax are getting the equivalent of $100 for free.
01:54:37.000Well, that $100 has to come from somewhere, so that means a wealthier person has to pay the equivalent of $1,000 for you to get your fire services.
01:54:46.000And so the roads are probably a better example.
01:54:49.000When the government fixes the roads, The amount of money that a rich person has to pay towards the roads is going to end up being millions of dollars, whereas a poor person, it's going to be pennies.
01:55:00.000Yeah, military is the stuff that I'm not a big fan of, but I think people do overestimate how much we spend, what percentage of our tax revenue goes to outright military weapons and stuff like that.
01:55:11.000Most of us, I mean, we spend around 5% of our GDP with respect to military spending.
01:55:16.000When you actually look at what the government is spending and what they have discretion over versus what is settled, like Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, that comes off the top before you ever get to the discretionary spending.
01:55:29.000And so that's why you'll see sometimes the left go like, oh my gosh, the military is 27% of the budget.
01:56:10.000If you want someone to come to your university and you're guaranteeing that this degree is going to be right for you, then assume the responsibility on that loan.
01:56:17.000All of a sudden, these degrees like, you know, Feminist Interpretive Dance, gone.
01:56:30.000Because then they'll just default on the cosign.
01:56:33.000Oh yeah, well the universities aren't going to co-sign.
01:56:35.000They'll learn their lesson quick, huh?
01:56:38.000Well, it used to be if you wanted to get a loan for college, you went to a private lending institution.
01:56:42.000And a private lending institution would ask questions like, how'd you do in high school?
01:56:45.000And oh, by the way, what are you going to study?
01:56:48.000Because they wanted to make sure that you were going to study something that could get you a job that would allow you to pay back the loan.
01:57:21.000But if you also want these people to snap out of the communist socialist ideas and you want them to get a family, recognize why the taxes are too high, start working, being responsible for their own home, we need to clear the path for that.
01:57:33.000That's why my compromise is the interest rates on top is where people are really getting hammered down.
01:57:41.000Over the course of 10 years, you've paid back 50, but you still owe 50.
01:57:44.000Okay, you've already paid back the principal we gave you.
01:57:47.000Maybe there should be a small interest, but it's static, it's not compounding, and we can get rid of the higher, you know, predatory stuff.
01:57:53.000Of course, now it's not even keeping up with the rate of inflation, which our government is also responsible for.
01:57:58.000I just think we need to end the whole system outright.
01:58:25.000So Tom actually had an interesting idea when he was in Congress where he said that if you took out student loans, and Tom was a big believer in we've got to stop what we're doing with the predatory lending and all that, he goes, but if you take out student loans, we will pay off part of the student loan, but then what it is is you have to increase the number of years before you start collecting on Social Security.
01:58:42.000And so the idea was that it balanced out.
01:58:44.000And so it wasn't that we were shifting your responsibility for paying your loan onto somebody else.
01:58:49.000What we were saying is that we are acknowledging that, look, people live longer, they work longer, the whole deal, than when Social Security was first put into effect.
01:58:56.000So if you want to voluntarily say, I will hold off taking Social Security for these many years, well then we can take that out of the current loan that you require, and so you can get your life started earlier.
01:59:05.000I was like, that is an interesting approach.
01:59:09.000That doesn't shift the burden on the taxpayers and potentially help some of the problems that we have too with some of our room.
01:59:15.000It is, however I would predict that would end up happening there is that the people have their student loans forgiven with the agreement that they would defer their collection of Social Security would end up forming a political bloc later in life saying we should be given Social Security and then the Democrats would say what a travesty it is that they're not being given Social Security and then they would end up getting it anyway and the cost would be deferred to everybody.
02:00:47.000Well, we're talking about doing a cafe.
02:00:50.000I think we're going to do it because I want to put it next to Starbucks and then subsidize it so that our coffee will be substantially cheaper than Starbucks and higher quality so that Starbucks will know what it feels like when they put their corporate chain subsidized by the corporation next to a mom-and-pop shop and runs them out of business.
02:01:09.000That's what they've been accused of doing.
02:01:11.000I knew stories when I was in Seattle, there was like a really great corner coffee shop.
02:01:14.000And then one day a Starbucks opens up, you know, right next to it.
02:01:18.000They sell their coffee for three bucks.
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02:02:31.000We've got a bunch of really fun campaigns planned.
02:02:34.000If you liked what I did, With that Times Square billboard.
02:02:37.000You're going to love the next bit of culture jamming I have planned.
02:02:40.000That will absolutely... Oh, this one's going to rustle up some feathers quite fierce.
02:02:47.000I have more plans, and we're going to make statements.
02:02:49.000We're going to push back on the cultural establishment, and let them know that we are here, and every single journalist in New York is going to be screaming and banging on their tables, and there will be nothing they can do to stop it.
02:03:00.000So, with that being said, Nick, you want to shout anything out?
02:03:03.000Ah, just once again, it's been a pleasure hanging out with all of you.
02:03:06.000Can't think of a better way to spend my Friday.