The FBI knew the Hunter Biden laptop story was real, and they lied to the media, in what is definitively, now confirmed, a psyop. And Stanford says it's hurtful to use the word American . And a new version of the pride flag has a puckered anus.
00:00:51.000And then we're here for the rest of the week, so they were giving us studio space and equipment to continue our show.
00:00:57.000Otherwise, what would happen is we fly out for the weekend, we do the live show, and then we have to fly back the next day, and we won't be able to do the show if that was the case.
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00:01:16.000That's why everyone's like, are you live?
00:01:28.000The FBI knew the Hunter Biden laptop story was real, and they lied to Big Tech, they lied to the media, in what is definitively, now confirmed, a psy-op.
00:01:39.000They knew that crackhead Hunter Biden lost a laptop.
00:01:43.000And they tried making this narrative that was more like, oh, you know, maybe someone hacked the data and then cloned the machine and then planted it at the computer shop, which is this ridiculous conspiracy, as opposed to the more simple narrative of, You know, the poor guy is a drug addict and he lost a laptop.
00:02:18.000And then we have this viral post on Twitter where, I'm just gonna say, I'm sorry guys, it's not family friendly, but there's a new version of the pride flag which has a puckered anus on it.
00:02:26.000I mean, that's what everyone's saying.
00:02:28.000I'm not gonna try and sugarcoat it because, you know, whatever.
00:02:31.000But they said it's a red umbrella to symbolize sex work.
00:03:09.000I was an investor, and then I hung the jersey on that a couple of years ago to start critiquing what I wouldn't call a biological cancer, but a Cultural cancer that threatened to infect both politics and business and ever since then I've been on a mission to hopefully save American capitalism from politics and to save American politics from American capitalism.
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00:04:43.000And, you know, we are all about that parallel economy.
00:04:50.000It was pretty incredible being able to feed off the crowd.
00:04:54.000And it was interesting seeing the TPUSA crowd also cheer for the larger ideas that I was kind of spreading out there, which was pretty interesting.
00:05:38.000I was gonna say, there are so many people who are so worried about Ian right now.
00:05:42.000So he didn't realize the stage was split with like a central platform and then it branches to the left.
00:05:47.000So when he was on the front of the stage, he waved to everybody and then spun around and walked right into the pit and just flopped like five feet to the ground.
00:05:55.000And then he jumped up and was like, I'm okay!
00:06:23.000Ultimately, what we ended up seeing from the latest Twitter files is that not only was the FBI paying Twitter money so that they could run censorship operations, but that Yoel Roth, I believe it was Yoel Roth, wrote an email saying basically what happened, it seems, is that someone hacked into Hunter's laptop, downloaded the contents, cloned the machine, and then dropped it off at this computer repair shop in a Russian disinformation campaign or something.
00:06:48.000I love that narrative because it is the most insane conspiracy theory I've ever heard.
00:06:54.000And they call us the conspiracy theorists for saying that the FBI was running a PSYOP and manipulating the election, you know, interfering in the election and all that stuff.
00:07:02.000But now here we are with definitive proof because Elon Musk bought Twitter and released all this stuff.
00:07:06.000We now know the FBI knew the story was real, lied to Big Tech, lied to us, and I guess definitively interfered in the election.
00:07:15.000Well, I think it's kind of hard when they call the story disinformation, even from what Yul Roth was saying, is that if it was cloned and then put on a new device and then left somewhere, that would still have meant that the information was real.
00:07:27.000I heard leftists at the time saying, no, this is completely fake.
00:07:54.000It's a good point. A depressing point, but.
00:07:57.000Yeah, I think we got to cut stop calling it by the way big tech censorship
00:08:01.000I've been saying this for a long time.
00:08:03.000It is government tech censorship, which is to say it is just government censorship disguised in the veneer of private sector activity.
00:08:11.000I wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal when in January, about two years ago, January 2021, And at that time, with far less evidence, to me it was already obvious, right?
00:08:21.000This was the government doing through the back door what they couldn't get done through the front door under the Constitution.
00:08:27.000To me, if you see the pieces already put on the chessboard, you've got threats already being issued, you've got inducements already being issued, and this isn't just inducements by the FBI or the administrative class.
00:08:42.000You have a section 230 section 2 literally says, okay, if it is constitutionally protected content, you can still take it down and not be liable under state law.
00:08:52.000And by the way, if you want to actually be an extra cherry on top, we're going to threaten you that we're going to break you up.
00:08:58.000We're going to, you know, regulate you call, you know, Call for your breakup or whatever it is.
00:09:04.000And so why is it surprising that the executive branch of the government is just executing on the threats that they made starting two years ago?
00:09:12.000So we need to stop being surprised by this and just recognize it for what it is.
00:09:16.000It's just the reality of directed government censorship.
00:09:19.000The only difference is Vladimir Putin will tell you through the front door that he's actually saying what can and can't be said on the internet.
00:09:24.000Here we abide by a fiction that says that no, no, no, these are actually just private companies that we're going to have do it instead.
00:09:29.000But it's the same side of the story on two different sides of the Atlantic.
00:09:32.000It's partly a bigger psyop that I think finally is being exposed here because, you know, you've been saying it, I've been saying it since 2008, 2009, saying, hey, you know, the intelligence agencies have a lot of control over the corporate media.
00:09:59.000It didn't happen because they all decided to come together and do what's not good for them, destroy their business, destroy the ability of what made them great, and that's people being able to debate and to talk to each other.
00:10:11.000They went against their own principles, their own things that were good for them, and then obeyed the government, because as you said, the government was threatening them from the very beginning, and it's only because they were there, calling the shots, why we can't have free speech online.
00:10:26.000And to be clear, this is not a new phenomenon.
00:10:28.000I mean, even back when we had print journalism or just televised journalism, you had people like Anderson Cooper have essentially been to Fed camp, right?
00:10:34.000So essentially, all they did was pivot to traditional media, to digital media.
00:10:38.000So, I mean, as shocked as, well, we shouldn't be shocked, like you said, we saw the signs, but as surprised as some people are, this goes back even further than a lot of people.
00:10:47.000Especially when it comes to the church commissions and when we found out that the CIA had officials at the top of branches of all the corporate media outlets and Mr. Vanderbilt Anderson Cooper as some people call him.
00:10:58.000Yeah, you know also trained to be a CIA agent coincidentally I had a couple conversations with him about that three times.
00:11:06.000He didn't like me bringing I was there Yeah, like runs up to Anderson Cooper and he's like, what did you ask him?
00:11:11.000Why did you leave the CIA or something like that?
00:11:13.000I was like, can you tell us about your training at the CIA?
00:11:16.000And what about that saying, you know, once you're CIA, you're always CIA.
00:11:19.000Can we discuss the influence of the Intel agencies leaking fake stories to the corporate media that always regurgitates them?
00:11:25.000And whether it's the WMDs, the banker bailouts, they are in lockstep and barrel when it comes to pushing out the bigger lies of, of course, the government, of the Intel communities.
00:11:48.000And we were talking about this yesterday on the show that I think it was Bannon mentioning that these organizations, these big tech, they were built with government subsidy and assistance and they intended to use them this way.
00:11:59.000So I'm wondering for you, Vivek, or whatever your guys' thoughts are, do you think the inception of these things, you mentioned that Section 230 has that provision, Section 2 I think you said it was, that allows them to remove constitutionally protected speech.
00:12:11.000Do you think that these things were built in mind to do an end run around the Constitution?
00:12:15.000Yeah, so I don't think you need to have the facts of them actually having been in the same room with the same venture capital investment on the cap table of the company for the entire conspiracy to still hold intact, okay?
00:12:28.000It was at least softly designed that way.
00:12:31.000Okay, so I actually want to go into the specifics of this law a little bit, because people actually mix up the two parts of Section 230 all the time.
00:12:40.000There's the part that everybody knows, which is that, okay, these platforms aren't liable for what does and doesn't show up.
00:12:47.000Section 230c2 is probably one of the most remarkable statutes that most Americans are not aware of, which specifically was a statutory workaround for the Constitution.
00:12:57.000So never have I seen a statute where you say that there's no liability for taking down such material whether or not such material is constitutionally protected.
00:13:08.000It was explicitly designed to allow the government, the federal government, to protect private companies to take down content that the federal government otherwise couldn't take down.
00:13:18.000So I think that in a certain sense, the traps were already laid to say that the federal government wants to make sure it has the latitude to take down content that the First Amendment otherwise would protect.
00:13:29.000It needed to induce private companies to do it.
00:13:31.000And there's a great example, you'll actually like this one, you know, relating to an issue that doesn't relate to free speech, where the federal government wanted to do the same thing with the war on drugs.
00:13:39.000Okay, so they wanted to say, okay, we want to get drugs off the street, we're in a war on drugs, but we can't directly search passengers on railroads or whatever directly.
00:14:04.000Now, thankfully, we have a Supreme Court in this country, which is the one branch of government that I think we can still at least if we're gonna have to pick one that has its integrity still intact.
00:14:10.000It's the judicial system said that not so fast.
00:14:13.000If you're going to use a federal law To do through the back door what the government couldn't do through the front door because of the Fourth Amendment in this case.
00:14:21.000That's still state action and we're going to treat it as such.
00:14:24.000And so the railroad companies are bound by the Fourth Amendment.
00:14:26.000That's effectively what's going on with these technology companies.
00:14:28.000So whether or not it was, you know, certain of these companies, Palantir and others, were definitely funded by the government at inception.
00:14:34.000Others may not have been directly funded.
00:14:36.000But that detail matters less than the truth of what comes out of it is functionally these may as well, may as well have been arms of the government.
00:14:45.000The latest story today is that we're finding out that the FBI was giving Twitter $3.4 million as a thank you for allowing them to, of course, spy and kind of manipulate the whole platform.
00:14:56.000That's not a lot of money when we're talking about these big companies.
00:14:58.000But when you look at the start of a lot of them, especially Facebook with In-Q-Tel, when you look at the grants that were given to Alphabet and Google, when you look at the government research and data, especially when it came to satellite imagery that was given to Google Maps, They were able to have an advantage that no one else in the market was able to have because of their connections to government.
00:15:16.000And I think they took an oath saying, hey, we're going to be serving the government, we're going to be doing everything the government wants if the government gives us all these tax incentives, all these grants, all this information.
00:15:25.000And I think that's the deal that they made with the devil to destroy any kind of legitimate competition, making them the current monopolies that they are now, who are kind of undefeatable.
00:15:34.000You look at Alphabet, you look at Google, who's going to be competing them in the market?
00:15:37.000We can't compete with them because of the unfair advantage that the government gave them from the beginning.
00:15:43.000Right, so the question is, what do we do now, right?
00:15:44.000I mean, I've seen people say, oh, well, in order to break them up, that in and of itself is just more government intervention.
00:15:52.000Take away all their taxes, take away all their grants, get all their money back.
00:15:56.000That would be a start for me, from my point of view.
00:15:58.000But more essentially, spread awareness.
00:16:00.000Make people aware, like, hey, your tax dollars paid for this, let's get all that tax money back.
00:16:05.000Let's also allow the free market to speak.
00:16:06.000Let's also try to allow competitors to be out there.
00:16:09.000Let's also not intervene and regulate the market so much as it is to make it almost impossible for anyone.
00:16:14.000Because the person that loves regulations the most is usually the head of industries who get to use it in order to destroy their competitors.
00:16:22.000Right, so I agree with a lot of that, but the thing is we've seen what big tech does to its competitors.
00:16:27.000So even if we say, all right, you have no more tax breaks, none of these leg-up policies the government has been giving you, what do we do when all these servers decide to kick off a free speech platform, right?
00:16:36.000Because we see that they're already big enough, they're able to act as a cartel.
00:16:55.000Take the Alex Berenson case or whatever.
00:16:57.000By the way, I love this example because it is literally what the founding fathers Would roll over in their graves if they actually knew what was going on.
00:17:05.000The First Amendment is designed to do one thing.
00:17:07.000It is to allow citizens to criticize the government.
00:17:11.000So you take a government critic, what the government does is they want to silence government critics.
00:17:15.000They can't do it directly, so they call any officials from Twitter and say that here, here's this individual by name, Alex Berenson in this case, whatever, doesn't matter who it is.
00:17:33.000If you are working hand-in-glove with the government, if you are protected by Section 230C2, which you can make an opt-in statute, if you're responding to threats, then you're bound by the same standards as the federal government.
00:17:56.000So I actually think that... So I don't think all of these cases have been argued nearly as well as they should.
00:18:02.000Some have been argued in the Ninth Circuit, which is out in California.
00:18:06.000When you see these cases brought in the Fifth Circuit, okay, which I think the judges in the Appellate Circuit and the Fifth Circuit... I'd like to see Judge Ho in the Fifth Circuit take one of these cases.
00:18:13.000Clarence Thomas has already sent smoke signals saying that actually this is a viable theory all the way up to and including the Supreme Court actually potentially hearing these cases.
00:18:21.000So I don't think it's actually been tested in the right way yet.
00:18:24.000And the facts just keep getting better and better.
00:18:26.000I mean, the whole reason why these cases fail is what is the nexus of control that the government exercises?
00:18:33.000Some of the ones that have been brought have been super, you know, on the weaker side, where it's some state that made a request and then the company complied.
00:18:41.000That wouldn't be the case I would bring, all right?
00:18:42.000Pick the case where there's White House officials that specifically call in the company, specifically name a specific critic, individual critic, by first and last name, tell them to censor it.
00:18:52.000Then you have the evidence of the company officials going back and forth saying that they felt that pressure.
00:19:08.000And so I think that, you know, we got, a lot of people got overeager before the evidence actually presented itself.
00:19:13.000I think that picture's already changed.
00:19:14.000And I want to add to your point, it's not just picking out individuals and censoring them.
00:19:19.000They got so drunk on power, they have orchestrated a vast censorship operation, false flag with the Hunter Biden laptop story, that literally, the laptop, they knew, they had it in their possessions, December 9th, 2019.
00:19:32.000When they had it, they knew it implicated Joe Biden.
00:19:48.000So they orchestrated a PSYOP in order to, of course, make sure that the story was dead on arrival.
00:19:54.000And then when it came out, it was censored everywhere.
00:19:56.000And as we know, it also impacted the election very severely, with many people believing that it helped Joe Biden win the presidency, according to many polls out there.
00:20:04.000That right there is more than just talk about that.
00:20:08.000And major news organizations, the New York Post, one of the biggest newspapers, one of the longest running newspapers in the history of America, was censored, wasn't allowed a voice, was taken off social media platforms, was taken off public landscapes for even being able to discuss what happened here.
00:20:23.000That right there is far more of an atrocious criminal act, in my opinion, than just picking out individuals and censoring them.
00:20:30.000Did you see the news on Carrie Lake today, Vivek?
00:20:59.000And one of the counts that Carrie Lake brought forward that was dismissed was First Amendment, because we saw that Democrats in Arizona, I believe it was Democrats, you got what it was.
00:21:11.000So I think what they argued was that individuals in government, I'll put it that way, had made contact with social media to suppress certain individuals and that was a First Amendment violation and thus intentional interference or misconduct in the election.
00:21:24.000The judge said, no, that count is dismissed.
00:21:26.000You know, because my view of this is that Yes, we can see that the Hunter Biden laptop story, the FBI's manipulation, did interfere with the election.
00:21:36.000We're seeing poll after poll now show regular people saying, if we had known about this story, if we knew it was real, we would not have supported this man for president.
00:21:44.000And it's substantial enough that some people are saying, if this story wasn't suppressed, many people would have voted for Trump instead.
00:21:49.000We could have seen a different outcome in this election.
00:21:54.000Well, that's kind of ridiculous, because actually if you look at election law, federal election law, you can't do certain things as a campaign regarding social media advertising, right?
00:22:10.000So it doesn't make sense to me that if you're a candidate, you can't spend however much you want on maybe social media ads, but then social media doing whatever it wants to censor different things, well that's totally okay.
00:22:20.000Either we acknowledge the fact that, yes, social media and these advertising campaigns, they can sway people's votes, and therefore we need to control how much candidates spend into it and do all of these workarounds with super PACs, or we let social media companies do whatever they want because, oh, I mean, we can't really decide how much posts might interfere with voting, right?
00:22:41.000I think the issue is we look at polls and we say X percent of people may have voted another direction, but how do you actually quantify the impact of these PSYOPs, of this government tech manipulation?
00:22:51.000Yeah, so look, I think that there's, you know, three layers of legal issues.
00:22:55.000You actually raised a pretty interesting one.
00:23:04.000Second, I think there's a strong campaign finance case here.
00:23:07.000There is no greater financial contribution that Twitter could have made to the Biden campaign than to have censored the most damning piece of information on the eve of the election.
00:23:17.000That is a constructive campaign contribution.
00:23:19.000OK, so that's that's another legal layer of federal laws.
00:23:22.000Then there's the state laws of just old school, and people forget this one, consumer fraud, all right?
00:23:27.000You know what the definition of consumer fraud is?
00:23:29.000Telling consumers you are doing one thing, such as not censoring speech or shadowbanning or whatever, when in fact you are doing the exact opposite thing.
00:23:37.000SBA, FFTX, all that in the news, that's outside the political context, right?
00:23:47.000That's not that different than what was happening on Twitter.
00:23:49.000Telling consumers actively, through public statements and otherwise, we're not engaged in viewpoint-based censorship, we're not engaged in shadow banning.
00:23:56.000When, in fact, you were engaged in viewpoint-based censorship and shadow banning, all of which is against the backdrop of, forget the legal issues, is this the kind of society we want to be living in?
00:24:05.000Irrespective of whether or not it was legal, that there are centralized forces, both in government and in the deep corporate apparatus of the private sector, that are working hand-in-hand to suppress the will of the everyday citizen.
00:24:14.000The question you asked was, where's accountability, though?
00:24:21.000These systems of accountability include the very same little three-letter acronym as soup that's responsible and infested in the first place.
00:24:29.000It actually starts with Who sits in the oval office the next cycle around and by the way equivalent for state governors across this country.
00:24:36.000We need a government where the people who report to the chief executive can be fired by that chief executive.
00:24:44.000This is not at the top of a GOP agenda reforming these civil service protection statutes that say if you work for somebody you are eligible to be fired by that person.
00:24:54.000I've actually, so one of my big, whatever, successful chapters of my biotech journey was actually by doing business in Japan.
00:24:59.000We did a $3 billion deal at the end of 2019.
00:25:02.000I spent countless days that year in Japan.
00:25:05.000And the funny thing in Japan, it's true in Japanese pharma, it's true in almost Japanese corporate, Japanese corporate, is that even if you're the CEO of the company, you can't actually fire the guy who's the head of your research division or the head of your commercial division.
00:25:19.000Turns out that that means if the CEO says this is the direction that the company's going, if the guy who's running research doesn't agree with you, he's going to keep doing whatever project he was working on before anyway.
00:25:30.000Because if you can't be fired, it means you don't really work for the person who you elected, who was put in that position.
00:25:38.000It's not any different in the governmental context.
00:25:41.000We need to make sure that the people who we elect to run the government are the people who run the government.
00:25:50.000And I personally think this is one of my big disappointments in Donald Trump is that you have a guy who will complain, and identify the problem in a lot of ways, but will complain about Anthony Fauci, will complain about James Comey.
00:26:02.000When the thing you got to do is very simple.
00:26:04.000You fire them, you fire the legions of people who work for them, you fire the managerial industrial complex underneath and around them.
00:26:11.000That is accountability, because otherwise any legal battle isn't going to sort this out.
00:26:14.000That is what draining the swamp looks like, and that's what it's going to take.
00:26:17.000He should have done that, but I don't mean this to be a defense for him, because he should have done it regardless, but anytime he would make these staff changes.
00:26:25.000The media would of course paint it as him trying to ensure that individuals pledged loyalty to Trump, that he was some kind of fascist dictator, when really I don't think it's too much to ask that if you work for a president you should be on board with the president's agenda.
00:26:38.000But that was absolutely how the left was spinning things anytime Trump did make staff changes.
00:26:42.000But then he just turned the media into a fourth branch of government that he's reporting to.
00:26:47.000But Laura, they were saying that anyway.
00:26:48.000Regardless what he did, they were saying he was a fascist anyway, so there was no reason for him to capitulate.
00:26:54.000I think he loved the media too much and tried to appease the media way too much because a lot of these policy shifts, especially with the DHS, happened under his watch.
00:27:02.000It was also him that approved gain-of-function work in Wuhan, China before this whole entire debacle a few years ago.
00:27:08.000It was his administration that pushed a lot of this stuff that now we're dealing with that was turned against him.
00:27:14.000As he had the users, he had people on his staff saying, hey, they're going to censor you.
00:27:18.000Hey, they're censoring all of your top supporters, all the people who got you elected, all the people who worked so hard on the internet spreading memes, talking about you.
00:27:26.000They're all slowly being eviscerated and that circle is coming closer and closer to you.
00:27:36.000He did do the executive order in regard to how Section 230 could be enforced, essentially saying that a platform would have to pick between being a platform and a publisher.
00:27:46.000I thought it was a very good executive order.
00:27:48.000It wasn't really changing the need of it.
00:27:50.000But that's policy, and we can go into the need of policy.
00:27:52.000But no one ended up challenging it in court, so it was useless.
00:27:54.000But I'm just talking about running an organization.
00:27:58.000You run a company, I run a company, people have run countries, whatever it is.
00:28:04.000If you run the organization, you decide who works there and who doesn't work there, period.
00:28:09.000And a good litmus test of whether our leader is doing it.
00:28:11.000I don't care if it's the CEO of a big company.
00:28:13.000I don't care if it's the chief executive of a country.
00:28:16.000If you are complaining to the media, About the people who work for you, that means that you have already failed.
00:28:23.000Because if you had to, as the leader of the free world, complain to third parties who write about you, that means you already didn't do your job because the people shouldn't have been there in the first place.
00:28:32.000I do think the civil service protections need to be repealed.
00:28:35.000I do think that actually, you know what, if you're president of the United States, you can't work for the federal government for more than eight years.
00:28:40.000I'm not sure that the people who report to the president of the United States should be able to work for the federal government for eight years.
00:29:21.000I'd still rather the guy I didn't vote for be the guy who runs the government rather than actually have somebody else who runs the government who temporarily does what I want them to do when it was actually somebody who nobody elected.
00:29:32.000That is what accountability looks like and I'm surprised not enough Republicans right now are even talking about that as a solution.
00:29:37.000It's probably going to be Biden and Fetterman with the way things are going.
00:29:45.000I don't see Republicans winning, especially when it comes to ballot harvesting, especially when it comes to all the things that they have kind of enshrined themselves with.
00:29:52.000And I think the main reason Democrats aren't doing anything is because they're winning.
00:29:56.000The intelligence agencies are using them right now and they're, of course, benefiting greatly.
00:30:01.000They're getting all the seats in Congress, in the Senate.
00:30:04.000They're getting the presidency and most likely will still get the next presidency and probably control politics for the next few decades unless something drastically changes, which I don't see it drastically changing.
00:30:13.000Well, it's interesting if you look at all the, quote, anti-establishment leftists who traditionally would have been against operations covered by the FBI against the American people, you would think that a sign up like this would upset them.
00:30:24.000But what we see is because the outcome happens to be one that they favor and that it's censoring their opposition.
00:30:29.000Because the old song and dance used to be, oh, it's a private company, they can do what they want.
00:30:33.000Now that it's been revealed, it's actually not just a private company, there's state involvement.
00:30:38.000Now they're saying, oh, well, you shouldn't have the right to do that spread quote-unquote misinformation or hate, whatever they want to call it, in the first place.
00:30:44.000So, I mean, what we see is that people say that, you know, leftists have double standards.
00:30:48.000It's actually one very consistent standard.
00:30:51.000And so that's why we see so many people who, again, like actual progressives who should be anti-FBI, running cover for the swamp.
00:31:01.000I don't mean to get too, like, you know, abstract here, but here's a pattern I see in the moment we live in, in general, okay?
00:31:08.000People are addicted to the drug you will give them.
00:31:11.000Here the drug is that you give the leftist here, as you call it, is the outcome you want.
00:31:16.000So we will violate whatever procedural norm we clearly held near and dear to our heart if we at least get to the place we want to in the short run.
00:31:23.000By the way, that's the same human intuition that led these social media companies to get as powerful as they did.
00:31:31.000People forget if you get something for free that you're the product.
00:31:34.000Yes, you are not the consumer, you are the product.
00:31:37.000But we have this cultural moment we live in that as long as you get that, it's like a little hamster on the wheel, as long as you get that little jolt, that serotonin surge, that experience of satisfaction, you are willing to trade off the thing that in your deeper soul mattered to you over the long run.
00:31:52.000Be it your data, be it your privacy, in the case of index funds, I mean this is where I spend my day job, your right to express yourself as a shareholder in corporate America, Give an index fund away for free, they'll say, fine, I'll hand over my vote.
00:32:03.000The idea that actually I care about autonomy and individual procedural justice, I'll give that away if you actually put my guy in office.
00:32:10.000We live in this deeper cultural moment where the everyday citizen is so effete, so weak-willed, that we will trade off the thing that we know we care deeply about for some short-term outcome.
00:32:22.000And that's what the managerial class is exploiting.
00:32:25.000I don't even see this as a left and right issue.
00:32:28.000It is a battle between the managerial class, the bureaucrats who staff the middle layers of, for our universities, to our government, to most large companies in the private sector.
00:32:40.000The managerial class is able to give the masses what they want, like feeding cocaine to a drug addict.
00:32:46.000But because that drug addict is willing to accept it, the managerial class is able to wield its power.
00:32:53.000To me, it's less about left and right.
00:32:55.000It's more about this managerial technocracy and bureaucracy versus the everyday citizen, because the everyday citizen's inner level of fortitude was so lacking that they were able to be bribed into it in one sphere of our lives from another.
00:33:16.000But I think what I see with Democrats and Republicans is all they want to do is the bare minimum to maintain power, to stay in office, to have a job.
00:33:24.000They don't actually want to do anything that could harm them.
00:33:26.000So what we see with Republicans is throw the bare minimum out there for the red meat to the base.
00:33:32.000Stay in office, say what you gotta say.
00:33:34.000The Democrats, of course, have a more fervent base with many of these younger leftists, so they're forced to actually try and give them a little bit more, even though they don't want to.
00:33:41.000I think if Democrats or Republicans had their way, they'd sit back and never say another word and just keep getting their paychecks.
00:33:47.000So, so long as you have on the left this, uh, I don't know, zeal and energy, then you're going to keep
00:33:54.000seeing Democrats more in line with this, or as Luke put it, the FBI is using the Democrats, they're
00:33:58.000winning, they're getting power, they're in line with it. And then you have some Republicans
00:34:01.000who are speaking up, but it's only some. I guess my point on all that is, sure, it should be a
00:34:05.000problem for Democrats and Republicans, but I don't think they're actually there in the fight or
00:34:17.000There was, in the Twitter files leak, I think there actually was maybe one Democrat representative Yeah, that expressed concern about it.
00:34:24.000And I was actually kind of impressed about how many world leaders, including the likes of Angela Merkel, I think, expressed concerns for the freedom of speech.
00:34:31.000Of course, none of them said anything publicly, because we can't seem to be siding publicly with Donald Trump in any way, even if it's just defending freedom of speech.
00:34:38.000But I was, I don't want to say pleasantly surprised, but it was like, oh, okay.
00:34:44.000Yeah, I mean, that's part of the reason why I don't, I mean, even Bernie Sanders has been actually, give this guy credit, about whatever, a year, year and a half ago, was the first person on the left to say that he did not, and nobody dislikes Donald Trump more than Bernie Sanders based on what he said, but that he doesn't want a fourth branch of government in Silicon Valley deciding who does and doesn't get to speak to the American public.
00:35:06.000I think what you said is descriptively true, but I would, there's a lot of ways you could, a lot of lenses you could bring to describe the same phenomenon.
00:35:13.000I bring a different lens, which is that it's not even the left wing and the right wing lens.
00:35:18.000I think what the left does better today is that they feed That generational hunger for a cause.
00:35:46.000Patriotism, faith, hard work, family, pick your favorite, fill in the blank.
00:35:50.000Whatever they are, they've disappeared in modern life.
00:35:53.000And I think what the left has done effectively is at least to feed that vacuum with picturism, you know, wokeism, climatism, covidism, whatever the ism is, they've come up with modern secular religions that fill that void.
00:36:07.000And I think that the right, where the right is actually failing, is what you called the fervents.
00:36:13.000Well, the right could tap into that fervence if we actually had an affirmative alternative that can fill that void of purpose and meaning.
00:36:20.000And I think instead we're, myself included, are just taking, you know, playing a game of whack-a-mole, taking a jackhammer to one form of poison at a time, instead of figuring out what is the alternativism?
00:37:00.000They're already coming out and saying it's harmful language to do so.
00:37:03.000Which is a good sign that this is actually the direction we need to be going.
00:37:05.000See, the left is smart in this way because the things that they've replaced religion with, they are actually tools in which they gain more power.
00:37:12.000Whether that's feminism, radical leftism, wokeism, you name it.
00:37:15.000These are actually tools that not only replace religion.
00:37:19.000They simultaneously further state control.
00:37:21.000It's actually the opposite with the right.
00:37:22.000What are we trying to get people passionate about?
00:37:25.000Small government, religion, families being less It's funny, we're actually shooting ourselves in the foot by trying to breed this, I guess, fervence in dependency and otherwise living happily lives that don't require us to become servants of the state.
00:37:43.000They understand that if you want people to essentially need you, you need to not only make it their politics but also their personal identity.
00:38:36.000McConnell said that the number one priority for Republicans is actually to ensure that Ukraine gets those missiles and is able to defeat Russia.
00:38:44.000This says Zelensky is coming to the United States Capitol to address the United States, yes, as there's going to be a big bill negotiating $46 billion that's going to be additionally possibly sent to Ukraine to prolong this larger proxy war, which is bringing us closer to the brink of nuclear holocaust.
00:39:00.000You mentioned earlier in the show, Luke, about how they're taking your tax money.
00:39:03.000And I was going to say something then, but I'll say it now, too, about all the money they're sending to Ukraine.
00:39:08.000They're not really taking your tax money.
00:39:10.000They're just mass printing your money and extracting through inflation from your savings.
00:39:14.000So whether it's paid or not, they're finding a way to gut the American middle class so they can fund their wars, they can do whatever they want.
00:40:11.000It's actually, there's a long reason why.
00:40:12.000We've gone to war in our own fossil fuels industry that actually worries about the consequences for global, you know, let's just say oil and gas markets.
00:40:19.000If that EU ban actually goes in, especially when Chinese coronavirus related restrictions are being lifted, there's a supply demand shock.
00:40:25.000But I want to point out the irony of this.
00:40:28.000We are with one hand sending 40 to 45 billion dollars or more to Ukraine to fight against Vladimir Putin, while with the other hand are the leading nation that calls for Overriding the EU ban on Russian oil imports, which in turn finances Putin's war machine to actually invade Ukraine.
00:40:49.000So that's why the whole thing is actually even a farce.
00:40:51.000The idea of getting into, should we or should we not support Ukraine?
00:40:54.000Okay, I think we're over allocated to Ukraine.
00:40:56.000We need to focus our military's energy on the one geopolitical threat that matters to the United States, which is China.
00:41:02.000Here's, even if you were committed to the pro-Ukraine cause at all cost, Even the effectuation of that is itself frustrated by the fact that if you wanted to do it, you would be starving Putin's army, yet Biden is the one who's actually arguing for allowing Putin to finance his war machine by selling oil and gas to Europe, which is actually the laughable farce of the whole thing.
00:41:25.000And I believe it was also fertilizer as well, I think.
00:41:28.000Someone could in fact check me as well, that they were also buying a bunch of fertilizer from them and financing them that way.
00:41:45.000We live in a moment of Western and particularly American self-loathing.
00:41:50.000And since I've been up the oil and gas example, I could give you six fears of life where this is true, but let's talk about the oil and gas example since I just brought it up, all right?
00:41:57.000Why is it that, now we're talking about other religions, now let's talk about climatism.
00:42:01.000Why is it that the members of the Church of Climate, the climate activists, are So averse to the United States producing oil and gas, but are perfectly fine with global markets that allow the likes of PetroChina and also many Russian oil and gas producers to pick up the slack.
00:42:20.000Ironically, oil and gas producers over there who have actually methane leakage that is far worse than in the Permian Basin of Texas, and by the way, even if you subscribe to the climate religion, methane is 80 times worse for global atmosphere and global warming than is every unit of carbon dioxide.
00:42:33.000The answer to that question is the same as the answer to the question of why those are the exact same people who are also opposed to the development of nuclear energy in the United States, which would actually be the single most efficient form of carbon-free energy production known to mankind.
00:42:48.000The problem isn't that, let's say, nuclear energy wouldn't be good enough at solving the alleged climate crisis.
00:42:56.000It is that it would be too good at solving the alleged climate crisis, which in turn is really just a vehicle for effectuating the agenda of global equity.
00:43:06.000So you want to know the answer to the question why, Tim?
00:43:08.000It is because this is a moment of global redistribution back from the West to the other side of the world, including Russia and China.
00:43:16.000and everything in our self-loathing is flogging ourselves for the sins,
00:43:21.000the perceived sins of the last century, to say that we're going to give the 45 billion to Ukraine.
00:43:25.000But we also want to make sure that actually we shift oil production to places like Russia
00:43:29.000and we don't ban the Russian, EU ban on Russian oil imports, because it's really just a form of self-loathing at its
00:43:43.000But with the United States supporting Ukraine right now and giving them billions and billions and billions of dollars, there's this misnomer that it's, oh, Ukraine's just doing whatever Ukraine wants.
00:43:53.000But we not only incentivize the continuation of this proxy war, which is extremely dangerous, But also, at the same time, we have to remember, when Zelensky actually reached a peace deal with Putin, they had a date where they were supposed to come together, sit down, meet, and negotiate, and sign a peace deal.
00:44:07.000We had Western powers come to Ukraine.
00:44:10.000Specifically, the UK Prime Minister came there and said, no, you're not signing this peace deal.
00:44:15.000And Ukraine has been the one backing away from peace, continuing this war, endangering everyone, which is absolutely insane, as this war is also hurting the poorest people in the world.
00:44:25.000Not just the people of Ukraine, but this has global economic impacts that's going to wreck our whole entire financial system in ways that we have never seen before.
00:44:33.000And I think it's right to say that there, for a lot of the activist class, there is absolutely self-loathing involved, especially when it comes to the climate change agenda.
00:44:40.000But when it comes to Ukraine specifically, and yes, even climate change, I also don't want to underestimate how many people are actually getting rich off of this, how many people are getting rich off of the subsidies to green energy, that no, you're right, it's not as efficient as nuclear.
00:44:52.000Places like France, like we already know that.
00:44:54.000If we were to build new nuclear plants in the US, which I don't think has been done since the 70s, they would be even safer than the ones that exist now, but we haven't been able to do it.
00:45:04.000It is very good, very lucrative for the military-industrial complex.
00:45:08.000Zelensky actually spoke at one of these conferences for, I guess, big war.
00:45:13.000They're not even trying to hide it at this point.
00:45:15.000It's so blatant the exchange is happening.
00:45:17.000You mentioned with climate change and it reminded me of this viral video that people keep sharing where it's this guy saying, if all of this stuff was true in every prospectus for a new construction, it would say, you know, the condos in Miami Beach In 30 to 40 years, your investment will be zero as the water rises and makes this area uninhabitable.
00:45:37.000But not a single bank, not a single person has ever brought that up.
00:45:41.000So why are they still investing in, why are they still buying 30 to 40 year, you know, properties or loans if the water is going to rise and wipe out this whole area?
00:45:48.000No, they're living in the beachfront property so that other people can't do it and, you know, so they're safe and they are willing to take the bullet for all of us by living in the beach.
00:46:46.000It was all about how to give back what one has gained.
00:46:49.000And ever since that moment, I was like, look, the expression of even giving back doesn't make sense to me because it assumes that one took in the first place.
00:47:01.000Actually, I think he's done a lot of taking ever since he started the Giving Back Project, but making the PC was not actually the one thing that he took in the first place.
00:47:09.000That was actually the one thing that he created.
00:47:12.000I mean, this was as I graduated from college in 2007.
00:47:15.000Then came the 2008 financial crisis right after I graduated.
00:47:19.000And that was when this period of apologism began.
00:47:23.000And that's why I think Americanism, for a different reason too, is part of the solution.
00:47:28.000Once we stop having to apologize for the successes of the modern West, for the successes of modern America, we can have a model that the rest of the world can follow to lift themselves up.
00:47:40.000I could almost pick 99% of the things that the four of us at this table would find disappointing about the direction of modern American culture and pin it to this culture of apologism for our own success.
00:47:53.000And I think that that's why the answer can't be us going one at a time, playing whack-a-mole, trying to send that mole back into its rabbit hole, but to instead fill that void with a sense of revived pride.
00:48:09.000An unapologetic pursuit of excellence, and that is what it means to be American.
00:48:13.000I am not going to apologize for it through some climate religion that causes me to adopt an emissions cap, through some racial equity system that causes me to use a racial quota system to hand out goods according to some metric other than merit.
00:48:26.000No, I'm going to do this in the same way that got us 250 years into this experiment.
00:48:33.000If we're going to make another 250 years from now, that's how we're going to do it.
00:48:36.000And I think we need to get, I wouldn't use the word religious, but I think we need to get fanatical behind the idea that set the whole experiment into motion rather than hanging on, and you might disagree with me here, but rather than hanging on the thin siren song of proceduralism.
00:48:54.000Liberals abandoned liberalism because they were smart.
00:48:57.000There's something about the idea of just, hey, it's just about free speech, free markets, hey, individual autonomy.
00:49:03.000Those are just procedural norms that don't satisfy the more base human hunger in a way that wokeism or climatism or covidism does.
00:49:13.000And I think that I think that what the right needs to wake up to in this country is that just falling back on the slogans of liberalism, proceduralism is not going to be enough.
00:49:26.000I think excellence, the unapologetic pursuit of excellence, what I was just talking about probably belongs on that list.
00:49:30.000Maybe somebody else says it's something else, but we need we need an affirmative content that people can actually get fanatical about, but it's actually content that's actually far more rich than woke is on the other side.
00:49:43.000We'll get to this next subject here, because talking about Americanism, I think, is a good... Americanism is a good subject to segue into this story, for us to segue into this story.
00:49:55.000EU approves carbon tax for individuals.
00:49:58.000Some officials warn the new CO2 taxes could be politically suicidal and spark widespread protests.
00:50:05.000Under the EU Emissions Trading System 2, ETS2, the new polluter-pays taxes will be imposed on buildings and for transportation fuels as part of a plan to reduce Europe's greenhouse gases by 55% compared to 1990 levels by the year 2030.
00:50:20.000The carbon tax will impact gas, diesel, heating fuels like natural gas, making it more expensive for Europeans to travel and heat their homes.
00:50:27.000Now we saw when France tried raising that petrol tax and then they got the Yellow Jackets protest for like two years.
00:50:33.000I don't think this will go over well, but I will just stress to everyone who is American, if you do not stand up for yourself and for what you believe in, this is coming here next.
00:50:42.000There's actual conversations in the European Union right now warning about a yellow vest populist uprising because of how they're just bleeding the average person there.
00:50:50.000And I literally wrote carbon tax because I was going to say that next without even knowing that you were pulling up the story because it was already in my mind.
00:50:56.000Another thing I wanted to bring up really quickly, Bill Gates also is an individual who promised to give the majority of his wealth away to charity.
00:51:04.000It's not a coincidence, because he's launching a lot of scams.
00:51:07.000And when you look at the larger kind of philanthropy scene, when you look at a lot of these people who say that they give the most, usually those are some of the most ruthless, psychopathic business people that you could ever imagine, that are milking the system, abusing the system, and this larger climate change Ponzi scheme is just a way to try to bleed out the people, take away more money from them, and to control them as a proxy social credit score system.
00:51:33.000There's a reason airlines started calculating your carbon credit score.
00:51:54.000They're going to be bringing it here to the United States eventually.
00:51:57.000Canada is right lock and step with Europe.
00:51:59.000In Canada, they've actually floated, it's not being implemented or anything like that, but actually capping the number of miles that an individual may be able to travel.
00:52:07.000So essentially, if you drive for work and you want to go on vacation for summer holidays, well, guess what?
00:52:50.000Yeah, and it's like you're in an arcade.
00:52:53.000If not, we're going to have a central bank digital currency that is deducted from your account that is linked to your otherwise carbon emission footprint unless you actually comply.
00:53:17.000Because they're going into this green energy revolution, which is again, a larger carbon tax, a larger social credit.
00:53:22.000I'm glad you mentioned California because here's how the global cascade works on any of these climatists or even beyond climate policies.
00:53:31.000Europe does something boneheaded because they have their own insecurity complexes apologizing for their own colonialist past or whatever is going on in Europe.
00:53:39.000California then copies that European policy.
00:53:41.000California then becomes competitively disadvantaged relative to other states.
00:53:45.000But California, which has the largest pension fund system in the country, CalPERS, uses its money to get BlackRock and State Street and Vanguard to then implement that through the private sector for the rest of the country.
00:53:57.000We see that pattern time and again, which is why every American citizen should absolutely pay attention to what is happening in Western Europe, because it's going to find its way into the United States by the government of California, which then runs through the money of CalPERS, which then runs through the money that streams into the private sector of the United States.
00:54:13.000It's sort of the unpaid, the unidentified invisible road.
00:54:17.000I'm glad you mentioned stuff like that because those ESG scores, I mean people start to wonder why is Disney going so woke when their movies keep bombing?
00:54:26.000Well it's exactly because of those investors that are looking specifically for companies that are pushing these and it's not for financial gain because clearly these companies aren't making money.
00:54:34.000It is actually an ideological push and I think you're wrong if you believe that money is the ultimate mover and maker right now because there are people who are willing to lose a lot of money in order to push this agenda.
00:54:45.000Which is why I'm also more optimistic on market solutions than I am on government solutions, by the way.
00:54:50.000I don't know if we haven't talked about the software, but if you know what Strive, want to know what Strive is?
00:54:55.000My whole view is, Look, just for people who aren't aware of what's going on with the BlackRock problem, all right?
00:55:06.000Okay, that's BlackRock, State Street, Vanguard.
00:55:09.000That is, by the way, the largest private sector aggregation of capital in human history.
00:55:15.000I've actually started studying this going all the way back to the Dutch East India Company and beyond.
00:55:18.000This is the most powerful aggregation of corporate capital in human history.
00:55:22.000But they're using the money of those everyday citizens To tell oil companies to drill for less oil, tech companies to adopt racial hiring systems, etc, etc, etc.
00:55:31.000Well, if you ask most people in this country, actually I'll give a homework assignment to anyone watching this show, literally go ask your financial advisor, go ask the person who runs your 401k plan at work, was my money used to vote in favor of a racial equity audit at Apple or a emissions cap at Chevron?
00:55:50.000First thing they'll tell you is they don't know because they probably don't.
00:55:52.000Tell them to find out and you're almost certain to find out the answer was directly or indirectly, yes.
00:55:57.000Once you know that, You've got to recognize it is your own money that is actually being used to vote for the very policies that we're sitting here complaining about.
00:56:07.000I bet probably, directly or indirectly, I would be willing to bet that most of the three of you, if not all three of you, had your own investment accounts in some way, directly or indirectly, voting for those policies.
00:56:19.000Once people wake up to that reality, you can move your own money in a way that at least gets much further than the government's going to get to in the next 24 months.
00:56:40.000So let's say, you know, I'll give you a couple different cascades.
00:56:43.000Let's say you are working at a company, you put your money in a 401k account because you put that away, there's a tax advantage associated with doing so, whatever.
00:57:13.000Now, with that comes not only a financial entitlement, which is the right to receive the profits and dividends.
00:57:18.000That's what you get if you own a share of a company.
00:57:20.000But also the right to vote, because if you're a shareholder in this company, you have a right to actually say who runs the company, how much they're paid, and so on.
00:57:27.000However, that voting power rests with the index fund manager, the BlackRock, the vanguard of the world.
00:57:35.000And what they're doing now is they're using that share to not vote for what actually advances the financial interests of the person in that 401k account.
00:57:44.000But to implement someone else's political agenda.
00:57:47.000Actually, it turns out that's CalPERS.
00:57:49.000It's California's pension fund system.
00:57:51.000That's the state of New York's pension fund system, who've explicitly, starting when Trump pulled out of the Paris Climate Accords, this is about four years ago, they said that, well, look, if the government isn't going to address climate change or racial injustice, then we in the private sector have to do it instead.
00:58:04.000So we, California, and by the way, Norway or whoever else did the same thing, we're going to pull our money from you, BlackRock or Vanguard, unless you use everyone else's money that you manage To vote this agenda in place and so they drag everyone else along for the ride because they know that mom and pop working with their 401k account ain't gonna pay attention.
00:58:21.000So it was by design that that's actually what's implementing this agenda where if you put it in the ballot box that same mom and pop would say hell no.
00:58:30.000If you ask them, do you want your money to be used to implement that same climate agenda or racial equity agenda, they will still say hell no.
00:58:36.000But little do they know that their hard-earned dollars that they banked away in that 401k account was indeed the very weapon that was used to implement that agenda in the first place.
00:58:45.000And it's not just individuals, it's also states, it's also countries, entirely just giving all of their money to these institutions, not even knowing that they're doing so.
00:58:52.000And I believe it was West Virginia and Florida are the only states that kind of moved out of it, away from the ESG score, which I think is worth noting here, because there is a way, if people spread this information enough, there is a way to move away from the system that we are incentivizing and giving money to, which is absolutely crazy and I think we should stop immediately doing so.
00:59:10.000I don't mean to plug my own stuff or whatever, but just factually speaking, I didn't think I was going to start another business.
00:59:15.000I hung the jersey in business after biotech.
00:59:17.000The reason I came back to it is literally this is a problem that is begging to be solved through the markets.
00:59:22.000That's literally why I started Strive, which is...
00:59:25.000To be a voice in the market that uses shareholder power that tells these companies to knock it off with the politics and to focus exclusively on making excellent products and services to make money and to do it without having to apologize for it.
00:59:39.000And the irony is like back in 1990 you would have said this has been all.
00:59:43.000This is the most boring thing you possibly could do.
00:59:47.000Yet today, there's no other major firm I'm aware of that's actually started doing it.
00:59:54.000There's a million things I would have done differently.
00:59:57.000Three months in, we crossed half a billion dollars.
00:59:59.000It took JP Morgan, when they entered the ETF business, the exchange-traded-funded business, I'm told, over two years to cross a billion.
01:00:06.000It's like, upstart, we're three months in, we crossed half a billion because of the demand of the everyday citizen for this basic alternative invoice they bring to the table.
01:00:14.000Can you break down in layman's terms what it is you do?
01:00:16.000Yeah, so Strive is basically the new company I founded.
01:00:19.000It is competing directly with the likes of BlackRock and StateStreet and Vanguard, offering index funds, ways to invest in the market, to own the companies in these underlying indices.
01:00:30.000but with a different mandate to the underlying companies.
01:00:34.000Using not a gentle ask, but using shareholder power to mandate these companies to focus exclusively
01:00:40.000on products and profits over politics and social agendas.
01:00:43.000Have you talked with anyone in government in West Virginia or Florida about-
01:00:48.000I've been talking to people across the states in the country, and it's been a wake up,
01:00:52.000it's been an exercise in waking these people up to what's happening in their own backyard.
01:00:58.000Now the funny thing is a lot of these folks are really happy in red states and otherwise to point the finger to Black Rock and State Street and Vanguard and that's fine.
01:01:06.000When it's a lot harder for them to admit what's happening in their own backyard.
01:01:09.000We're talking about the deep state at the federal level.
01:01:12.000The deep state within the states is actually even more eye-opening.
01:01:15.000When you look at how Florida, or how even the state of Texas, forget blue states, how those states' pension funds, even for the proxies, the shareholder votes that they cast internally, they're every bit as bad as the ESG industrial complex at BlackRock.
01:01:43.000And so I think that a lot of conservatives, a lot of red states, they're really good at pointing out the problem in somebody else's yard, but not good enough at looking actually at the cesspool in even their own state governments in their own backyards.
01:01:57.000And so one of the things I've been trying to do is Yes, to all of these states and more, educating them about what's even happening in their own little fiefdom.
01:02:05.000And the more people get educated, the more it becomes difficult for them not to take action of some kind.
01:02:10.000I think that's what we're beginning to see.
01:02:12.000If social media allows you to have a voice.
01:02:17.000I do believe the market is a way better solution and should fix everything, but we have a lot of socialism when it comes to a lot of these government officials manipulating the market for their own personal benefit.
01:02:26.000But at the end of the day, for me personally, if you believe the government is going to solve any problem, you're either insane or delusional.
01:02:34.000I think what you're doing is exciting.
01:02:35.000It sounds really awesome, to be honest with you.
01:02:37.000And I think if more people were aware, like, hey, I'm in a red state, but my retirement is going to the ESG, I think a lot of people would act on it immediately.
01:03:59.000Designed to be not responsive to the will of the everyday citizens that are through layers and layers of appointments, the people who sit on those bureaucratic bodies, that's really where the decisions get made.
01:04:10.000So, you know, even even that Florida decision, they pulled two billion from BlackRock or whatever, that was mostly cash and short term, like fixed income, like like lending instruments.
01:04:19.000Nothing to do with the equity problem, which is owning stocks and actually telling companies how to behave.
01:04:24.000That's in a different part of a state bureaucracy's apparatus.
01:04:28.000And it's, again, the same problem that we're talking about with the federal government, the whole FBI issue.
01:04:32.000It's the same issue here, too, where the people who we elect to run the government are really good at projecting to the public that they're able to exercise actual political power.
01:04:42.000When in fact, that only deepens the problem because they're not even the ones who are exercising the real political power, which is a bureaucratic technocracy that sits beneath the level of detection.
01:05:10.000So the thing with leftist activists is that they are not just at their job.
01:05:14.000They are a leftist activist at their job.
01:05:16.000That is exactly why something like an ESG score even exists in the first place.
01:05:20.000And so what is frustrating to me with the right is that, okay, we are trying to further our agenda by saying, let's not be political a lot of the times.
01:05:29.000And a lot of time, that's all that the right is asking for is just political neutrality.
01:05:33.000I would like to see the right fight back a little bit more and say, no, that's actually not enough, right?
01:05:37.000It's actually not just enough to say, oh, we're going to care about finances.
01:05:40.000And not that your firm should be in this, but individual companies, I would love to see more of them actually say, hang on, we're actually afraid to say something that's pro-abortion.
01:05:49.000We want to be pro-life because we know otherwise we're going to be upsetting the conservative consumer base just as much as we would be upsetting the left-wing, rabid, regressive consumer base.
01:05:59.000But unfortunately, The right is still not on the same cultural level that the left is in that regard.
01:06:05.000Do you see that viral video from, is it live action or live action?
01:06:30.000And she's like, uh, and then after giving birth, they're like, oh, we meant, you know,
01:06:38.000So these companies, I think this one's obvious, they want to save money.
01:06:42.000It's cheaper just to have a woman go get an abortion than it is to actually provide benefits for them.
01:06:46.000Pay for maternity leave as well as dependence on the health care?
01:06:49.000No, it's being spun as this feminist thing to pay for an employee's abortion.
01:06:53.000It's really just, I mean, capitalism trying to get you back to your 9 to 5, which in other circumstances feminists would oppose, but because it enables abortion, they're actually for it.
01:07:03.000Kroger is one of the places that said that they would come and pay for abortions.
01:07:10.000I encourage anyone who watches this to actually look up those lists of companies and stop shopping there because otherwise you are literally funding abortion.
01:07:23.000I think a lot of people realize that you have a lot more power when it comes to deciding what you incentivize than just going to that ballot box once every four years.
01:07:31.000So, just to ask you directly, if you could have your way, what would happen?
01:07:42.000So look, the way I look at it, we live in a free country.
01:07:45.000If you want with your own money, To advance an environmental agenda or a social agenda, whatever that is, pro-life agenda, pro-choice agenda, whatever it is, if you want to do it with your own money, we live in a free country, you're free to do that, but if you're not free to do it with OPM, okay, other people's money, okay, that's an expression we use, we talk about that all the time, okay, you can't do it with OPM.
01:08:04.000So if you're going to do it with other people's money, There's a really simple standard.
01:08:09.000You just need to tell them you're doing it, and you need to get their consent.
01:08:13.000So what happens when every wealth manager, every 401k account in corporate America, every 401k plan manager, every pension fund manager goes and asks the teacher, the doctor, the nurse, the engineer, Hey, are you cool with me using your money to vote in favor of a racial equity-based hiring system that's an effective quota system in corporate America?
01:08:33.000Most of them are going to have a pretty clear answer.
01:08:34.000They're going to say, hell no, I'm not.
01:08:37.000Now for the 20% or the 10% who's fine with it, that's great.
01:08:41.000That restores integrity back into the system.
01:08:44.000And some of those people are going to say, you know what?
01:08:46.000I would trade off a few dollars of investment return if you actually make sure that these companies embrace pro-life causes.
01:08:52.000And if you're doing that with your own money, I'm fine with that too.
01:08:54.000But I would not be fine with an asset manager, even though I'm right of center, it doesn't matter.
01:08:59.000I don't think an asset manager should be using somebody else's money to fund a pro-life cause without the capital owner actually knowing it.
01:09:19.000Well, part of the role of a market actor is also to raise hell and make sure that they are damn well playing by the same rules by the time we're done with this.
01:09:27.000And so this is a bottom-up revolution, not in our politics, but it's in our market because people are voting every day with their dollars.
01:09:35.000They just don't think of themselves as voting as they do once a year when they go to the ballot box every November.
01:09:40.000Once they realize that, though, that knowledge is the first step to actually giving them choice, making sure the other guy's feet are held to the fire, that they are playing by the same rules.
01:09:48.000We don't need to pass new laws for this, by the way.
01:09:50.000Most of these are violations, I believe, of laws that are already on the books.
01:10:29.000But also, more importantly, I think people need to realize you're losing money because you're incentivizing a lot of this nonsense that doesn't make money.
01:10:36.000And at the end of the day, your retirement account is losing on its investment.
01:10:39.000You're making a blood boil one step further, just as we're on the kick of pissing you off here.
01:10:46.000So with one hand, okay, the black rocks of the world are pressuring Exxon and Chevron and others to effectively drill for less oil with emissions caps.
01:10:55.000Turns out those companies have to drop oil production projects to meet those net zero standards by 2050.
01:11:02.000Guess who's... Let me ask you just a question, what your net reaction is.
01:11:05.000You may know where I'm going with this, so you may probably get it right.
01:11:07.000Do you think those projects are still proceeding?
01:11:10.000Or do you think that they actually just got dropped in the interest of staving off global emissions?
01:11:13.000Which do you think it is between the two?
01:11:19.000They're just proceeding under new ownership.
01:11:21.000So the firms that are buying up these projects from Chevron include the likes of PetroChina on the other side of the world.
01:11:29.000Now you ask the final question, guess who's one of the large shareholders of PetroChina?
01:11:36.000It is none other than BlackRock, the very firm that was actually pressuring the Exxons and Chevrons of the world over a year to drop those kinds of projects.
01:11:45.000Because if you go to China and say, I'm going to establish an ESG agenda and scope three emissions targets, they're going to tell you to get the heck out and to shut the door on your way out because we built a great Chinese wall, the great wall that stops you from entering the Chinese market if you're going to mess with our companies.
01:11:59.000But actually, if you're also one of those firms that's doing it to the U.S., we'll roll out the red carpet.
01:12:04.000And that's exactly why BlackRock became the first foreign owner to win a license to sell mutual funds in China a few years ago, because they were doing the bidding of the CCP.
01:13:14.000Because for me personally, I'm seeing this as an attempt by many elites to make China as an example for the rest of the world.
01:13:20.000Klaus Schwab even openly talks about this.
01:13:22.000Bill Gates openly compliments China with their zero COVID policies when they're actually creating humanitarian crises and violating human rights on so many different levels.
01:13:31.000So to me, China is the playground of the elites.
01:13:33.000They're using it for the future for everyone.
01:13:41.000Whereas I think that what people who you call the elites are really just the circus monkeys.
01:13:44.000Okay, Tim Cook and Larry Fink are Xi Jinping's circus monkeys.
01:13:49.000He will say jump, they will ask how high, because it actually comes down to money.
01:13:53.000So the game we played in this country, and by the way, this is not just Democrat-Republican, this is Democrats and Republicans, by the way, starting in the 1990s, had this philosophy of democratic capitalism in the United States.
01:14:04.000The way it went was, we're going to export Big Macs and Happy Meals, and somehow we're going to imagine that spreads democracy to places like China.
01:14:10.000We're going to use our money to get them to be more like us.
01:14:15.000What China realized, and they're always playing a longer game than we are, is that actually, we could turn that on its head.
01:14:22.000We can use our money, access to our market.
01:14:26.000get America to be more like us, or one step better, they realized they could use our own money to get us to be more like us, because we're the ones who invested there in the first place.
01:14:34.000Well, there's that old neoliberal idea that as a nation progresses economically, that naturally liberty and democracy will follow.
01:14:42.000So that was the idea with all the foreign direct investment.
01:15:16.000It's the strange hybrid of state-run authoritarianism.
01:15:20.000They're actually seeing the decadences of the West and they are using the capital that the West has essentially transferred over to them in order to combat it directly, right?
01:15:43.000China is very aware of the societal ills that the West has, basically the same thing.
01:15:48.000And they're actually trying to encourage them abroad while limiting it at home.
01:15:53.000So you hit the nail on the head there.
01:15:54.000So there's no distinction in China between economic policy and military policy.
01:15:59.000They're two sides of the same coin, okay?
01:16:01.000So what's really going on here is I think it's their version or their vision of the Trojan War, okay?
01:16:06.000Greece was not going to defeat Troy militarily any more than China is going to defeat the United States militarily.
01:16:13.000Ain't gonna happen in the foreseeable future, okay?
01:16:15.000But what they realized is that we can give the other side the gift they cannot resist.
01:16:21.000In Greece's case, if you give them the Trojan horse that we know they cannot resist, we'll use that to burn them from within.
01:16:26.000For us, it's global capitalism itself.
01:16:29.000The illusion of global capitalism itself, that is the sweet siren song that we know the West and America in particular cannot resist.
01:16:36.000We will turn their own companies, Apple, Airbnb, TikTok has an app, whatever it is, as Trojan horses to undermine their system from within.
01:16:46.000And people pick on TikTok right now for good reason.
01:16:48.000I think it's a data collection Trojan horse.
01:16:56.000Not a lot of people know this, but this is like front page Wall Street Journal reporting three years ago, I wrote about a little bit more in my book.
01:17:03.000Airbnb, American company headquartered in Silicon Valley.
01:17:05.000ESG Darling, by the way, puts a neat little black square on its Instagram account to stand in solidarity with Black Lives Matter.
01:17:12.000They are literally handing over The American user data on their platform, including private messages between people who rent and the hosts on their platform, geolocational data, etc., as a condition for doing business in China.
01:17:27.000They don't get to do business in China unless they hand that over.
01:17:31.000Do they tell US users that they're doing it?
01:18:19.000This is especially a problem in Canada, but you have all of these Chinese property buyers who are not only Buying residential areas, entire projects, but also buying up things like ports, right?
01:18:28.000So it's not just the financial system.
01:18:30.000We're actually talking about physicality.
01:18:34.000This is not even mentioning the amount of dollars that they have in reserve, right?
01:18:37.000So I get that people are saying, oh, this is a problem we need to address militarily.
01:18:42.000China doesn't really need to lift a finger in terms of arms to, I would say, fatally hurt the American system at this point.
01:18:48.000They have police departments inside of the United States and Canada from the Chinese government.
01:18:53.000They have a lot of sphere of influence, but they wouldn't be here if it wasn't for Henry Kissinger and David Rockefeller going over there and opening up China to the world.
01:19:00.000That's the nice phrase that they used, but in all actuality, they just used China as a vehicle to spread globalization.
01:19:07.000They took all the factory jobs from the United States, they shipped it over there, and they made a deal.
01:19:11.000With China, saying, hey, we're going to be working with you guys one-on-one.
01:19:14.000This is the pathway by Henry Kissinger that led us here, and now we're in this situation that you're describing.
01:20:22.000If the drug addict can't say no to the thing they're addicted to, they're just heading down the road to the black hole of their own misery.
01:20:30.000That's where we are in our relationship with China right now.
01:20:35.000We don't have the fortitude to cut ourselves off from the comforts that we're going to have to give up in the short run in order to fix this for the long run.
01:20:41.000Well, if you look at China's model of economic nationalism, there are things that the U.S.
01:20:46.000could copy, essentially, and ensure that they take greater control of their own companies, their own capital.
01:20:50.000But like you said, they're not going to do it.
01:20:52.000And I bring this back to movies because, again, Mediaholic Channel, China, you actually, they limit the number of foreign movies that you can bring into China every single year.
01:21:00.000And obviously, China's this huge market for movies, a lot of revenue.
01:21:04.000So what Hollywood does is that they actually do joint partnerships with Chinese production.
01:21:08.000So if you ever wondered why there are so many different movies that are filmed in places
01:21:11.000like Shanghai and Hong Kong counts for these purposes, though it's an SAR, it is because
01:21:16.000if you partner with Chinese production, then you get to skirt around the quota.
01:21:21.000Now you're no longer one of the maybe 10 films or whatever it may be that they release from
01:21:49.000The only thing I would say, Lauren, is one thing we've got to be careful of, and I see
01:21:52.000this a little bit of this sloppiness on the right sometimes, is there could be two very
01:21:55.000different justifications for taking similar courses of policy.
01:21:58.000One is just straight-up economically protectionist, which is to say that, oh, they took our jobs and, you know, they're making stuff cheaper than we are here.
01:22:07.000I'm not super sympathetic to the economically protectionist account of giving and coddling the American worker.
01:22:14.000What I'm talking about is the national security side of the line.
01:22:17.000And actually, it turns out that a lot of these policies can point in the same direction.
01:22:21.000But when China is viewing economic policy and military policy as two sides of the same coin, I think that when it comes to a national security question, we've got to treat it as a national security issue that defends us against the one threat that actually matters to the United States.
01:22:34.000That's not Iraq, Afghanistan, Russia, Ukraine, it's China.
01:22:37.000But I think that we've got to be careful not to make that a sloppy way into anti-meritocratic American worker coddling, which I think we could use less of rather than more, even though sometimes on the right people end up conflating a lot.
01:22:50.000That's where I part ways with Josh Hawley and whatnot.
01:22:53.000The justification for taking courses of action that might make sense for national security grounds don't work for me if it's just anti-meritocratic laziness.
01:22:59.000Well, I think we're at a point now where people would be more willing to accept some economic protectionism if it's in the name of national security after COVID, right?
01:23:07.000Because so many people saw that, hey, we don't actually make a lot of drugs in the United States anymore.
01:23:10.000We don't make a lot of PPE in the United States anymore.
01:23:13.000So there are definitely certain industries where I think people would be willing to say, let's make the sacrifice in order to support American business.
01:23:18.000We already see that historically with American Steel, right?
01:23:20.000Because we understand the importance of wartime.
01:23:22.000I don't think people would be as willing to do that when it comes to those cheap goods that we can get at the dollar store, right?
01:23:28.000Because the average consumer is going to think, why am I paying more for, I don't know, whatever it may be, my toothbrush now, for my iPhone now, like how is this part of national security?
01:23:38.000That would be a really hard sell in terms of policy to the public.
01:23:45.000Yeah, I mean, I think any time that the litmus test for me is if China is using a company as a vehicle to advance a geopolitical goal, we need to treat that as what it is.
01:24:23.000That's why LeBron James, despite all his BLM activism, won't say a thing about the Uighur Muslims.
01:24:29.000Yeah, these are circus monkeys of the CCP.
01:24:32.000Do you think there could be a market solution to this?
01:24:34.000Because I'm thinking about this and I just don't want the government deciding what we can and cannot see.
01:24:40.000I think a bigger solution, and this is just me being optimistic, is giving people An Internet Bill of Rights, where you have your data, you protect your data, and I think the reason why all this sabotage and spying and fifth-generational warfare is going on, because it's not just benefiting the Chinese, it's also benefiting the American deep state.
01:24:58.000They're getting data sets, Facebook knows when you take a dump, they know everything you do, and they have garnered so much intelligence.
01:25:04.000They knew when I was about to give birth, because I was Googling pregnancy stuff, they knew when the newborn was coming.
01:25:09.000But there's advertisements being sent to mothers that are sent before they even know that they're pregnant themselves based on their behaviors and activities that they commit on social media.
01:25:17.000So I think the one step moving forward is saying, hey, your data, you control it.
01:25:22.000And if you want to sell it to another company, you have that right to do that.
01:25:26.000Is there a possibility for that to happen rather than the government coming in and just banning these accounts?
01:25:30.000Because I think also there needs to be a lot more public awareness at the severity of just this kind of deep state spying that's happening.
01:25:37.000I mean, I've seen libertarians argue that even something like a Bill of Rights for the Internet would be government action in and of itself, because you can't forget if there's an Internet Bill of Rights that also necessitates that there's some sort of penalty or enforcement.
01:25:49.000So I think you're talking about fancy solutions in terms of market solutions.
01:25:52.000I think there's actually lower hanging fruit just to keep it even simpler.
01:25:55.000I think in the same way that globalization represented an opportunity in the 1990s, just from a raw investment perspective, I think de-globalization represents a massive investment opportunity.
01:26:07.000From a capital allocation perspective over the next 10 years ahead as well.
01:27:20.000And so I just think that deglobalization broadly and a willingness to invest,
01:27:26.000to serve the citizens of nations rather than global citizens,
01:27:30.000can itself be an economic opportunity that defines, probably, great businesses that can be built
01:27:35.000on the back of that over the next decade.
01:27:37.000Now, operationalizing that into an internet through a tech-based infrastructure or the blockchain or whatever else, I mean, that gets complicated, free speech bill of rights or internet bill of rights.
01:27:47.000You know, those are all thorny issues we could spend a five hour discussion on in their own right.
01:27:51.000But I just think about even basic business builders and entrepreneurs stepping up and saying that I can, in order to put my American customer first, that itself is a business opportunity that I can liberate myself from, even if that means sacrificing the extra 30% of the opportunity that I could have gotten by going to China.
01:28:06.000And I think we're going to see more of that.
01:28:07.000Lauren, if I could just ask you, because I grew up in Poland during communism.
01:28:11.000My family tells me all these crazy stories about what they had to go through because of the KGB and the government there.
01:28:17.000Do you have similar stories growing up in China?
01:28:19.000Does your family tell you stories of maybe how the social credit score was being put into place or anything like that?
01:28:29.000My views about, I guess, The benefits versus cons of British colonialism have gotten me in trouble on Twitter many a time.
01:28:38.000So, you know, my parents, they've been in Hong Kong during things like the Umbrella protests.
01:28:43.000And personally, I witnessed that every time I go back to Hong Kong, you see more and more actual propaganda.
01:28:48.000And for anyone who's not familiar with Hong Kong, it is one of the most developed and I guess financially free places on the planet, right?
01:28:59.000You're walking down the main street and there are all these major brands, Dior, Chanel, you name it, now with CCP propaganda covered over it.
01:29:07.000So this is absolutely something that's gotten increasingly worse over the past few years.
01:29:11.000And there's footage of people doing things like trying to rip down those data hubs, essentially,
01:29:44.000It's the same thing in Canada as well.
01:29:46.000I mean, you're freezing bank accounts now.
01:29:48.000So, like, where are these people supposed to go at a certain point when literally, I would say, most nations are backsliding?
01:29:54.000Yeah, I mean, I was in Hong Kong during a lot of the protests there, and the way that the Chinese government squashes protests and the measures that they put in is absolutely terrifying.
01:30:05.000I talked to a lot of the protesters there, I've done on the ground reporting, I was in the tear gas, I was in the craziness, and just the level of sophistication when it comes to their intelligence surveillance state.
01:30:18.000And I think, you know, I've spoken with my husband about this before.
01:30:20.000If we are in a situation where liberty is essentially dissolving everywhere we go, I would rather live in a state that is at least less physically and technologically capable of oppressing you than one that is, right?
01:30:33.000Which is why there are so many people that I know just personally— Incompetent dictatorship rather than a competent one.
01:30:38.000Exactly, you're right, and that's something that I think Rousseau has kind of written about.
01:30:41.000I would rather at least a dictator who's only got a limited reach due to limited resources rather than, I mean, somewhere like Hong Kong, like China, like Canada, and I would say in a lot of ways, yeah, like Europe.
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01:31:18.000It is because I'm very tired, because we flew out here, we did the show, it's work, work, work, and then today, not only did I do my morning show, I also recorded for PragerU, which was really awesome, they were awesome, and then we're here, and then so then once everybody got into it, I was like, man, they're holding it down.
01:31:32.000I'm gonna chill, and then we'll get to the Super Chats, and here we are, so let's read.
01:31:36.000All right, Autistic Musings says, why don't you ask your politician guests why they aren't running on getting the Epstein client list exposed?
01:31:44.000You would think there is no better platform to run on than that.
01:31:47.000And it unifies people, too, from the left and the right.
01:31:49.000A lot of people know that the whole Jeffrey Epstein saga doesn't add up, doesn't make any sense.
01:32:03.000Church commissions would probably expose what happened with Epstein.
01:32:06.000And again, if people don't know what happened with Epstein, it's an international trafficking and extortion operation run by the intelligence agencies for over 30 plus years.
01:32:13.000So high levels of the government, big banks, all involved in trafficking small children.
01:32:18.000The most unspeakable, sickest, nastiest things that happen in this world.
01:32:21.000The fact that the client list is still not released shows you just how corrupt our whole institution is.
01:32:27.000And how the intelligence agencies probably have a lot of dirt on all of our politicians, especially individuals like Bill Gates.
01:32:37.000I really do love that we're going into the holidays, and what we did with Thanksgiving, but also with this Christmas, everyone's going to have the opportunity to be like, so that Epstein thing was true, huh?
01:33:04.000All right, we got Beavis McLean who says, Tim, quit stealing my spoons and hiding them on the moon.
01:33:08.000I demand that you put pictures of my favorite people, you, Luke, Ian, and possibly Michael Malice in Times Square, and I can forgive you for the thefts.
01:33:16.000Me, I, Luke, Ian, we are in Times Square right now.
01:35:38.000An audience live show would be incredible.
01:35:41.000We can't do the new building we got because it's just not structured that way, but we're hoping to, we've been trying to do this for a while now, hopefully we can have a bunch of these small little venues and then people can come and hang out and meet like-minded people.
01:35:54.000But mainly what I want to do is... Are you going to have comedians?
01:36:37.000Yes, so central bank digital currencies, I think, are going to be gaining a lot of popularity as a response to what happened with FTX.
01:36:49.000I think they're going to use the fall of FTX to say that cryptocurrency is not where it's at.
01:36:53.000If you want to go digital, do it through the central bank.
01:36:56.000Now, the irony is that the number one justification for central bank digital currency, so this is thinking about the equivalent of a digital dollar, is that China's already doing it with the digital yuan.
01:37:08.000And so the way the economic argument goes in the United States is that the dollar is going to be less strong relative to the yuan.
01:37:16.000If we don't keep up with the Joneses, if we don't keep up with China, and China's doing it because this is a great way of effectuating centralized control over your population.
01:37:25.000If you can literally go in and tie somebody's actual net worth to their social credit score, then the way in which their behaviors align or don't align with the government can literally correspond to the number of digital points in their bank account, which is today the green piece of paper in your wallet.
01:37:43.000My view is I think that the keeping up with the Joneses argument is completely backwards because let's say every other major nation does go the direction of China.
01:37:53.000I actually think that will make the dollar relatively more valuable and distinctive to be the currency that does not actually subject itself to the same debasement and co-option By actually becoming a vehicle for exercising governmental control.
01:38:06.000So this whole strong dollar in order for the dollar to remain strong, it must actually keep up with what the Yuan is doing, is actually backwards.
01:38:14.000The fact that China's doing it creates an opportunity for distinctiveness for the dollar to remain the actual last reserve currency of the world, if we don't subject ourselves to that same downward spiral.
01:38:23.000So his question was, how do we actually do it?
01:38:25.000I think this is an electoral, democratic accountability issue.
01:38:29.000It's going to take an uprising of everyday citizens to stand up and say, no, we're not doing that.
01:38:42.000doesn't have this, I guess, at a systemic level, I mean, if you look at what PayPal recently tried to do through, I mean, fining people up to $2,500 for posting misinformation.
01:39:11.000It's been a while since I covered this, but I think they implemented some policy Then there was some language came out that was worse and they said, no, no, that was a mistake.
01:39:20.000But the other policy, it had been there for a couple of years.
01:39:22.000The core policy about fining you for spreading misinformation or whatever was still there.
01:39:28.000So now imagine that's not PayPal doing it, it's just the government doing it.
01:39:32.000I guess the point is, is it any better if it just happens to be PayPal, but also all of your different banks?
01:39:37.000We see people like Laura Loomer, like Nick Fuentes.
01:39:39.000They essentially can't bank now. I think Nick Fuentes posted on his telegram he's gotten kicked out of his fifth
01:39:44.000I mean, obviously it's not as bad as the federal government doing it, but we have some level of this already in the
01:40:11.000He's making reference to something I said earlier.
01:40:13.000I said, the idea that ignorance is bliss is not true.
01:40:18.000Because today you can see that in people's ignorance, they're left confused, wondering why it is they're losing purchasing power, why their homes are being foreclosed, why there's war and escalation.
01:40:28.000Ignorance is actually making people quite the opposite of blissful at this point.
01:42:04.000Well, you know what they say, get woke, go broke.
01:42:06.000But as much as people like to think that means the industries will eventually learn their lesson, what's happening is the country is just getting woke and going broke.
01:42:41.000And I think that that framing is useful because it can awaken a level of political consensus amongst the citizenry of this country to take this issue off the axis of partisanship.
01:42:52.000So, thanks to whoever said that, because I think that'll actually bring about 10, 15, 20% more people along on this than if we just made this about the Hunter Biden story.
01:42:59.000And they need to realize the iron fist that they're propping up is going to backhand them very soon.
01:43:04.000Look up Cohen Tell Probe, look at the activities of what the FBI was doing to JFK, to MLK, and be prepared to be surprised and shocked.
01:43:12.000Doc Holliday says, Luke is suffering from severe TDS.
01:43:38.000But I think it's also important to know that he did some good things, he did some bad things, but we need to call it out and we need to keep people in check no matter who they are.
01:43:46.000Even if you like them or don't like them, I don't care.
01:44:25.000You know, you change the game in the long run, but you'll make the choice you have to make in the meantime.
01:44:30.000But this is why we have TimCast.com, and why we have the members-only uncensored portion, so that we can be on YouTube, tell people, go to the website, learn more.
01:44:41.000And, uh, sort of the best way we can do it for now.
01:45:35.000At the very least, to protect the Biden family.
01:45:38.000And while he was running for office, and there was evidence of corruption and malfeasance.
01:45:44.000I mean, it's more than just Trump's competitor.
01:45:46.000It is a guy who, by all accounts, if you look at this laptop, was committing some crimes or illicit business dealings, to say the least.
01:45:54.000So even if he wasn't running, it was still like, as a private citizen.
01:45:59.000Josh OhMyGosh says my friend has family in Ukraine and he tells me peace talks won't happen because Putin was attacking Ukraine while the talks were happening.
01:46:35.000And even Henry Kissinger, the war criminal, the butcher of Cambodia, is coming out and saying, hey, yeah, we need a peace deal here, and his peace deal is Ukraine possibly conceding some land here.
01:46:47.000So this is Henry Kissinger saying this, and if the war criminal Henry Kissinger is saying, hey, we need a peace deal, that's when you know we've gone too far.
01:46:55.000Alright, Josh M says, Elon says he is stepping down as soon as he finds someone foolish enough to take the job.
01:47:00.000I think Jack Dorsey is the best possible option.
01:47:03.000Now that it's under private ownership, I believe in second chances.
01:47:14.000Okay, he's trying to make it seem like now he's pro-free speech.
01:47:17.000Either he's lying and he was on board with all the censorship and the backhanded deals with the federal government the whole time, or he was too incompetent to know about it.
01:48:01.000I'm a little bit, I have a little bit of a softer corner for Jack Dorsey amongst the Twitter critics, which I'm, of the old Twitter critics, which I'm definitely squarely in the camp of, is criticizing the assault on free speech culture.
01:48:13.000I actually think this was a founder whose initial vision was actually to, as Twitter's stated mission was, to break down barriers on the internet.
01:48:23.000I think that's actually part of what he was motivated by.
01:48:26.000Eventually the managerial class around him just started to ossify around this other consensus.
01:48:31.000The guy checks out and says, I'm going to crypto world and I'm going to Myanmar.
01:48:37.000But I think that that's a different basis for disqualification rather than the fact that he was actually a pro-censorship dude, which I think misses the essence of what's actually going on.
01:48:47.000Marie Gray says, please read this super chat.
01:48:50.000Canada is getting ready to vote on a bill that will allow the state to euthanize children who want to be euthanized without their parents' knowledge or consent.
01:49:00.000And there are stats going around that say potentially medically assisted suicide is now one of the top five leading causes of death in Canada.
01:49:07.000They're talking about killing the mentally.
01:49:09.000There was this one really I wish I could take credit for it but it says essentially kill yourself is both a term that can get you kicked off Twitter or is healthcare advice from the Canadian government.
01:49:21.000Eric says, Vivek, how do I get my 401k money to strive from my 401k, which is hosted at Fidelity?
01:49:29.000I think one of the, my main question is, my main suggestion is educate yourself and make sure your 401k plan administrators themselves educate themselves.
01:49:40.000Because right now, most wealth managers, most 401k account plan administrators, most pension fund boards, most pension fund investment staff have no idea about the things I was even talking about here.
01:49:51.000So this has to be a bottom-up revolution where it takes a lot in order to get on a 401k platform.
01:49:58.000I don't think most of our money, a very tiny portion of it, comes from 401ks because once
01:50:03.000you're a new player, it takes a huge process to get added onto those platforms. So what I would say is
01:50:07.000show up, ask that plan administrator, the HR representative at work, get in touch with them,
01:50:15.000Was your money used to advance a, just give two examples, racial equity audit at Apple, or was it used to vote in favor of the 2021 scope three emissions proposal at Chevron?
01:50:28.000Those are very two answerable questions.
01:50:42.000In the meantime, most of the, I believe most of the people who have actually helped get Strive off the ground, you know, actually have just come from their own brokerage accounts, not necessarily from 401k plans or pension plans.
01:50:54.000Am I the only one, in light of all of the trends agenda, the climate agenda, that when I hear about something like a simple racial affirmative action process, I'm like, oh, how quaint.
01:51:33.000Off the top of my head, I don't remember it, but I do know there's a big connection between DARPA and a lot of these big tech companies.
01:51:39.000But I'm going to have to look that up.
01:51:41.000I don't like talking about stuff that I don't have the notes on.
01:51:43.000Yeah, I think, and I could be wrong, is that it was an attempt to track people's lives, create a record of their lives, something to that effect.
01:52:10.000I remember when they had a cashier and a bagger and now it's just the cashier and then you got to put the stuff there and then you go around.
01:52:28.000AmericanWhiteGuy says, Tim, what if they realized that the dollar will mean nothing and pushing this woke agenda is being done to cause decisiveness?
01:52:37.000To push us to civil war over insanely different realities?
01:53:05.000And then you have the wonderful Michael Mausses of the world that are pushing the national divorce, who say, I have nothing to do with you.
01:53:10.000I've been talking about it for a very long time, because, you know, if you want to reduce harm, that could be one potential way of doing it.
01:53:17.000It could also lead to a lot of harm as well.
01:53:19.000Yeah, and I also don't think we're nearly there yet.
01:53:23.000I think even the people who are hungering for that division, and this is maybe a charitable interpretation of it, but I think there's a lot of it that's true.
01:53:30.000It may even come for many of them from a good place where they are, as I said earlier, so hungry for the sense of purpose that's unfulfilled, especially why you see it amongst people more under the age of 40 when it comes to wokeism, is that we want to address that division, fill that hunger with something else rather than telling them they go to Ben & Jerry's and order a cup of ice cream with some social justice sprinkles on top.
01:53:53.000They don't fill that moral hunger with fast food, okay?
01:53:57.000If we can fill that hunger with something else, I think that's gonna be much better than taking even seriously the idea that this was what they even wanted.
01:54:11.000It's like when they're hungry for real food, you give them a pacifier.
01:54:15.000They stop crying because they think they're not hungry anymore.
01:54:18.000Well, they're really just hungering for real food, and I think we gotta see them As crying for what they're really crying out for, which is something of real purpose and meaning and substance to satisfy that vacuum.
01:54:30.000And I think that's going to get us there sooner than talking about some sort of bifurcation or national divorce.
01:54:49.000And I think what really pushed a lot of people over the edge, I was always for it, was the COVID policies and the breakdown.
01:54:54.000I think a lot of people, you know, I don't think you're wrong about what got so many people there where they're willing to do something like support those extreme policies.
01:55:03.000But I think for people like myself, it's just like, all right, you know, hopefully somehow we can de-radicalize a lot of the authoritarianism that's creeping into our society.
01:55:13.000But until then, I am putting myself in a position where my neighbors want to remove me from public life.
01:55:58.000I mean, the stuff you see with hoax hate crimes, fake news in the media.
01:56:02.000It's an attempt to gain control of a population without using force, by just getting them to acquiesce to your way of life.
01:56:10.000So, we live in a constitutional republic, But now we have a constitutional republic in the same space as a multicultural democracy and those two forces are fighting each other.
01:56:22.000That may eventually, you know, foment a peaceful divorce or a violent one or something like that.
01:56:27.000I'm going to propose something that I'm going to caveat this by saying I'm not yet there yet, okay, in terms of being in favor of this.
01:56:34.000But you just drew a distinction that actually, you know, a really important point.
01:56:41.000That was actually part of the vision of what set this nation into motion in the first places.
01:56:46.000Direct democracy, especially diverse direct democracy, does not work.
01:56:49.000Now, before, the basic principle behind this idea was you have to have skin in the game in order to play in that game, including as a citizen, it used to be as a landowner.
01:57:23.000In this proposal, the immunities everyone gets, that is the government can't knock on your door, search your house without a warrant, can't muzzle you from speaking, those are the immunities.
01:57:31.000But the privileges, tax deductions all the way up to and including voting, you only get if you serve that nation in common cause.
01:58:18.000You know, service could include, you know, having squads of people going around to make sure that everyone, you know, bends the knee to Black Lives Matter.
01:58:25.000Making sure that we have... Putting up political slogans all over, you know, the country.
01:59:00.000I didn't do much research into it, but my gut instinct is they probably lied.
01:59:03.000Let's talk about service-guaranteeing citizenship in the members-only section.
01:59:07.000I actually have some philosophical questions for you as well about when the government should intervene in medical care for kids.
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