The FBI raids 35 Trump allies, AOC says interracial marriage isn t for her, and a woman is beheaded in front of a bunch of people in a public place. Also, a new song from rapper Tom McDonald.
00:00:38.000And then Harmeet Dhillon, a lawyer, well-respected, you know, came out and said, can confirm it happened to people I know as well, and so it seems very much confirmed.
00:01:23.000And I don't want to just play into, like, anecdotes, because I know sometimes crime happens, but this is part of a larger trend of a massive uptick in crime that we need to talk about, especially when it comes to policing policies and how that stuff plays out, self-defense, and how there's this move by these woke politicians to decriminalize and allow violent offenders out while basically arresting small business owners.
00:01:43.000So we'll talk about all that stuff, plus a AOC.
00:01:46.000She's getting criticized because she said she didn't know if interracial marriage was right for her.
00:01:50.000It's very interesting to hear a progressive person, because the progressives are the ones who are saying that if you had a racial dating preference, you were racist.
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00:03:22.000And I'm gonna give a shout out right now to Tom McDonald.
00:03:25.000Tom McDonald's got a new song out and I'm gonna be promoting this all next week because I genuinely mean it when we gotta push back in the culture war and we've gotta win in terms of producing culture.
00:03:37.000Tom's got a new song out today called Riot.
00:03:40.000This is when Billboard reporting starts.
00:03:58.000I want to see him hit Billboard number one on the Hot 100.
00:04:00.000Maybe we can't pull it off, but we need to organize.
00:04:03.000And so what I'm saying is when you have somebody like Tom who's successful, got a big following, and is getting Basically blocked whenever he has a successful song from charts and from the media.
00:04:13.000If we organize, we can make it undeniable.
00:04:55.000So if everybody who listens to the show buys Tom McDonald's Riot either on iTunes or Amazon, I think you would need like a hundred K sales.
00:05:03.000Not only does that give Tom more money to do his work, but it would force the media to acknowledge counterculture and anti-establishment.
00:05:51.000Gets you into character, for sure, being in a costume.
00:05:54.000So anyway, look, I've been talking about, we released a song, the media told us to F off, said they wouldn't cover the fact that we hit number two on digital sales because they don't like me.
00:06:03.000And so my whole thing is, let's force them to acknowledge the counterculture.
00:06:16.000Seeing him hit the top of the charts And then forcing the media to write about a guy who wrote a song called Fake Woke and the system and rags on the cult.
00:06:25.000I would just, oh man, it would be schadenfreude.
00:06:28.000Knowing they would just be so angry and having a rant like, Tom McDonald's number one.
00:06:41.000And I'm also pointing this out, too, because his latest song isn't overtly political.
00:06:44.000He does rag on mainstream music and the machine, but it's not overtly political, and that's the point.
00:06:49.000We need to produce culture that inspires young people and invades these spaces and forces them to acknowledge it.
00:06:57.000Check out his song, buy it, make it happen, get number one, we put suits on.
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00:07:05.000Check out the Cast Castle vlog, the latest episode with Ian as the main star running for union president.
00:07:11.000And then at this point now, spoilers I think are okay, let's just say Ian's running for union president and when they're counting the votes to see who won, the early ballots came in at 3 a.m.
00:07:23.000and you know how it goes, so you guys definitely want to check that one out.
00:07:26.000Joining us, because you've already heard them speak already, we've got some awesome guests.
00:08:06.000Before the show we talked about what everybody ate for breakfast, but we also talked about universal healthcare, colonialism, did we talk about colonialism?
00:08:12.000Generational wealth, the Queen, World Economic Forum.
00:08:37.000It's like we're getting ready with the cameras, and then, you know, Dave would be saying something, I'd say, what'd you have for breakfast?
00:08:42.000And then within like five minutes, Maja's like, Monsanto, man, you know, with these cookies.
00:09:35.000That they want to prime the American people, say it enough, get enough of their bots and garbage corporate press to agree.
00:09:42.000That way, when they start arresting people, they'll say, oh, but you guys know how bad it is, right?
00:09:46.000Well, it's hard to say for sure, right, exactly what that was.
00:09:50.000And it certainly, you know, could be, okay, this is a campaign video and this is the play, right?
00:09:56.000The play for the midterm elections, well he can't claim to be a unifier or any of this stuff anymore, he can't really run on any of his policies, so basically what's his only play left is to gin up his own base by saying, hey, the other side is so evil to get out the votes for Democrats.
00:10:14.000But I gotta say, and this is what I was talking about the other day when that speech was given on my podcast, Part of the Problem, that I was saying, look, this really reminded me of like a George W. Bush 2002 speech.
00:10:28.000It had everything from like, I mean, the creepy red backdrop, the military members like right behind him.
00:10:35.000This was like, it seemed like a war drum speech.
00:10:39.000Like if you remember, you know, 9-11 happened in September 2001, we invade Iraq in 2003,
00:10:44.000but the whole year of 2002 was this slow, you know, beating the war drums,
00:10:49.000pushing the war propaganda about what Saddam Hussein is doing.
00:11:22.000Oh yes, with help from the corporate press, from social media, from big tech, from both parties as well.
00:11:31.000So now what you're really seeing is that it has definitely been deemed unacceptable to the establishment for Donald Trump to be re-elected.
00:11:40.000I mean, not re-elected, elected again, whatever you want to call it.
00:11:43.000Think about that, what a devastating blow that would be for their narrative.
00:11:47.000And I think that after the FBI raid in Mar-a-Lago, They went big.
00:11:52.000There's no, I don't think they can do that and not follow this up with something big.
00:11:57.000They can't just raid a former president's house and then say, all right, we didn't find anything.
00:12:18.000I mean, she's obviously, you know, partisan in a certain sense, but if she's a lawyer coming out saying can confirm this happened, I take it seriously.
00:12:26.000The thing I think that the general public should actually look when they see this.
00:12:36.000I think the thing that the general public should really be thinking about is these are a weaponization of entire intelligence communities to go after presidents and to slow somebody up for their, okay, I'm going to go in again in 04.
00:12:52.000So if they're doing that to someone and that's their political opposition that has resources, that has access, that has all of these other different things, the general public should be thinking more so about, do you want to vote for a guy come in a few years?
00:13:18.000Like, that whole Mar-a-Lago thing, Adrian Norman really, he posted on his Twitter page, it's like, here, right here, it's saying, this was sent by Biden.
00:13:30.000Just to clarify, this one's interesting.
00:13:32.000Biden and May requested what the documents they thought Trump had were.
00:13:37.000Then they go and raid Trump's Mar-a-Lago with the feds a few months later.
00:13:42.000And so it's, did Biden literally say, I want you to raid his house?
00:13:45.000Or did he go, oh, won't someone please get me these documents?
00:13:49.000And then wink, wink, nudge, nudge, the feds went and did it.
00:13:51.000I think it's, again, like we were saying before camera, I'm past the point of believing that this is incompetence.
00:14:59.000I think what's important, too, to recognize with this is that it's not even, like, really a left-versus-right thing.
00:15:05.000This is a power-versus-non-power thing.
00:15:08.000This is an establishment-anti-establishment thing.
00:15:10.000I mean, think about the way the—someone I disagree with on a ton of things—but think about the way the establishment turned against Bernie Sanders, you know, in 2016.
00:15:54.000They had her stay in, so the one who was splitting votes from him stays in.
00:15:58.000All the ones who were splitting votes from Joe Biden get out and endorse Biden.
00:16:01.000So it's this, like, They flex and bend the system so everything always skews in their favor in those ways.
00:16:09.000And what happened, and they did that with Trump too, but it didn't work.
00:16:13.000For once it didn't work and that guy got in.
00:16:16.000And so it's just the thing that should be eye-opening to regular people is that you go, look, If ever you supported a candidate from the left-wing perspective who deviated from the establishment too much, they would crack down on him in the same way.
00:16:30.000And the thing that the Trump supporters should be questioning about how much loyalty you have to Donald Trump going forward is just like, Donald Trump appointed Ray to the head of the FBI.
00:16:41.000He is the guy, you know, his mission, his stated mission was to drain the swamp.
00:16:47.000Well, man, he got drained by that swamp.
00:17:04.000He kept Fauci on the job through all of 2020.
00:17:07.000Is that... I cannot believe that that's incompetence.
00:17:11.000I do not believe that that's incompetence.
00:17:13.000And again, my job is to look at the general public and saying, hey, This looks fishy, and if you see it from the left or the right or whatever, if this looks fishy, is this where you want to put your energy locally, state, or federally?
00:17:27.000Do you want to get behind those types of things again?
00:17:29.000Because it's walking like a duck, bro.
00:17:31.000It's been walking like a duck, looking like a duck for however long.
00:17:34.000But this is what we're seeing right now.
00:17:41.000We are watching a political faction with control of law enforcement using it to crush political opposition.
00:17:49.000Historically, when you see things like this happen, it's typically how you end up with a uniparty system.
00:17:54.000Now, I think for the most part, there are Democrats and Republicans for a long time have been the uniparty as it was with this fake, you know, this false adversary.
00:18:40.000They're not going after Republicans, because the Republicans are going to be the establishment.
00:18:44.000But I'll tell you what happened when I was in Egypt, when they had the second revolution.
00:18:49.000They realized that the political split between the more secular type Egyptians and the Muslim Brotherhood was too great, and there was only one solution.
00:19:21.000They're using the power of law enforcement to make sure Trump's people can't assist him and that his ideas and his leadership are gone.
00:19:28.000Yeah, well, it's interesting when you say we're in a revolution, and you could really think about in the history of the United States of America, like, we have kind of this idea that we've had one regime since 1776, but really there's been many revolutions along the way.
00:19:43.000I mean, we had a revolution where we overthrew the Articles of Confederation and installed the Constitution.
00:19:48.000We certainly had a revolution with Abraham Lincoln where we fought a civil war.
00:19:52.000I think you could argue that FDR kind of was a revolution.
00:19:55.000My point would be here, the revolution was 2020.
00:20:00.000The revolution was having the lockdown regime, having what bordered on a color-coded revolution with these kind of like very, let's say, sponsored mass rioting and protesting in the streets.
00:20:13.000I mean, this is right out of the playbook of what we do in other countries.
00:20:21.000When they went to the White House, ripped down the barricades, injured dozens of federal agents, set fire to a guard post, set fire to a church, and forced the president into a bunker.
00:21:02.000A civil war happens when factions fight each other and neither side can just take it.
00:21:07.000What we're watching now is, I don't know, I don't care if it's Democrats, it is the elite, and they're using, and it mostly is Democrats, and there are some, you know, former Republican neocon types, but they, what we're seeing is still the revolutionary period.
00:21:21.000So if in November Republicans win, then the revolution is not complete.
00:21:26.000If in 2024 Trump wins, then the revolution- Then the revolution failed.
00:21:32.000But sitting here watching, I can't believe that we have a story that 35 Trump, senior Trump people were raided by Feds.
00:21:40.000Like that is such a dramatic escalation.
00:21:41.000I think they're doing, what's going to come out of this is, this is the Streisand effect.
00:21:45.000They're doing something, they're thinking about, we got to keep Trump out.
00:21:48.000They're not thinking about the general public watching going, you guys are shitty.
00:21:53.000They're doing a lot of the heavy lifting for us.
00:21:56.000And I don't mean that in a good way, like, oh, great, yeah, raid more, you know, MAGA extremists, so-called, and then the people will wake up.
00:22:03.000But that's kind of like, in a weird way, what's happening.
00:22:05.000The general public, how many times are y'all hearing, guys, that may have voted for Biden?
00:22:10.000And they've fought you tooth and nail in 20 whatever, right?
00:22:28.000Economically, they're doing something, this massive overcorrection that the general public is, I think for me, I don't think that anybody's just going, yeah, we're going Biden.
00:22:38.000And I don't think that they're going, we're raiding these people and people aren't seeing.
00:22:42.000I think it would work if it was more clandestine.
00:22:47.000Man arrested after beheading young mother in the middle of San Carlos Street, law enforcement sources.
00:22:53.000Now, they may have had a domestic issue.
00:22:56.000The guy attacks her and then uses a sword to remove her head in view of the public.
00:23:00.000And there's two things I noticed from this.
00:23:02.000You know, there was a story, uh, I think it was a few months ago, maybe a year ago, about a woman who was on a subway train when a man raped her.
00:23:35.000We're segwaying off of this, you know, what's happening with this revolution.
00:23:38.000And you made a really good point before the show, Dave.
00:23:40.000You said that they're decriminalizing, like they're letting people go with all this violent crime, and then they're criminalizing self-defense.
00:23:46.000That is an untenable situation for any civilization, and the only result can be collapse.
00:23:51.000Well, you know, something really interesting about, like, the kind of rise of the progressive prosecutors who, you know, from my perspective, a lot of times as they were running in some places where they need to get elected or as they were, like, campaigning for the job, they made points that I thought were somewhat reasonable.
00:24:07.000When they were talking about, you know, things like bail reform, where, look, you certainly can make the argument that it's a pretty messed up system.
00:24:16.000That if you have money, you get out of jail.
00:24:20.000And if you don't have the money, you have to stay in jail until trial.
00:24:23.000There's a really reasonable argument to have there.
00:24:26.000There's certainly a reasonable argument that over the last 40 years in America, we have been way too harsh on crimes like drug possession, even drug distribution, on crimes like gun possession.
00:24:40.000It's outrageous the amount of people's lives who we've ruined for these non-violent victimless crimes.
00:25:11.000Then they become Reaganite drug warrior prosecutors who want to throw the book at you, who want
00:25:17.000to like throw it you know 30 years in jail for so it creates a demolition
00:25:21.000Yes, it creates this thing that is obviously just going to destroy civilization.
00:25:27.000You can't have a society where you legalize property crimes and violent crimes, de facto legalize them, and then punish people for defending themselves.
00:25:36.000They are punishing the good, the let me live my life happily and leave me alone, and exonerating, allowing, commuting, protecting the bad.
00:25:46.000Quite literally, it's like letting the demons loose, and it's an inversion of what the And my only point there is that basically that like the conservative prosecutors gave them this lane from 40 years of insane aggressive prosecutions of people for like drug possession charges so then they could run against that and then be like isn't that so horrible and then they give us this insanity.
00:26:11.000What we need is libertarian prosecutors basically.
00:26:14.000Is that yes, let's not throw people in jail for drug possession or gun possession, but also if you defend your life or your property, then we should always come down on the side of that person and against the criminal.
00:26:48.000He goes, okay, so restitution will be, we're going to give you a gun.
00:26:52.000It's cheaper to give you a gun than put this guy in jail.
00:26:54.000We're going to tell this guy, don't commit crimes because the next time dude's going to be armed and so will everyone else.
00:27:00.000I'm kidding by the way, but the idea is like, if people were armed, Good law-abiding citizens who are armed out in West Virginia, I've never had a problem with them.
00:27:10.000I saw a guy walking down the street with a crossbow once, and I'm like, how's it going?
00:27:13.000Do you support prosecuting violent crime?
00:28:04.000It was a civilian restaurant in a country we weren't at war with.
00:28:07.000He blew up civilians, an American citizen, and we weren't at war with Yemen.
00:28:11.000It was the definition of like, it wasn't even a war crime because we're not at war.
00:28:15.000It was just literally Obama murdering somebody.
00:28:17.000Yeah, but and by the way, that's when Obama was drone bombing Yemen up to 2009-2010 when we were on the side, we were drone bombing to supposedly kill Al Qaeda.
00:28:28.000But then he switched and okay, we continued the bombing campaign to this day.
00:28:32.000on the side of Al Qaeda, because now we're against the Houthis, because we had to kind
00:28:36.000of win over favor with the Saudis again.
00:28:38.000So we kept that war going this entire time and switched sides.
00:28:42.000And we are still to this day currently fighting on the side of Al Qaeda.
00:28:46.000So mix war crimes with treason with genocide.
00:28:50.000And that's what you've got in Yemen right now.
00:28:52.000Donald Trump was like, why do we have troops over there?
00:28:55.000And Donald Trump was trying to get our troops out.
00:28:57.000Donald Trump was lied to by... I can't remember who lied to him about Syria.
00:31:46.000He kept them all going for all four I think the difference in our perspectives is, because I agree with you, but my thing is like, I have to be positive on people who are making progress so that we can continue to encourage the election of people who will follow further and further in that direction of... But then I'll say, if we want to make progress... But he didn't really make progress, is what I'm saying.
00:32:09.000If more people are being killed... If more... What is that?
00:32:16.000So, when you have planes that are traveling over Israel, when you have countries like, what is it, Saudi Arabia, among other Arabic nations that are now allowing inter-country commerce, it's just a step in the right direction.
00:32:27.000No, there was no war between Saudi Arabia and Israel.
00:32:31.000There was no war between the UAE and Israel.
00:32:33.000You couldn't go to the country if you had the passport stamped.
00:32:35.000So basically what he did was, in these peace deals, is he basically bought off these other Muslim countries to be friends with Israel when they had vowed to not be friends with Israel over their treatment of the Palestinian people.
00:32:51.000And so we bribed them with US taxpayer dollars to look the other way and let Israel do what they want to do to the Palestinian people in order to not be enemies with them.
00:33:37.000Okay, in the last 20 years, in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Pakistan, Yemen, like all these campaigns, what have we gotten for it?
00:34:45.000Yes, hey, I don't know why I'm Mexican pace. It's a hey I hey I so in order to buy oil
00:34:51.000They got to trade that for petrodollars. They trade it for the dollar so you can buy on the market with us
00:34:55.000What we do is US currency is created upon the the transaction of a loan
00:34:59.000so when you buy a house the bank just Manifests half a million dollars for the house or whatever
00:35:04.000it is You're buying and that money appears the bank of the bank
00:35:07.000account of the person who sold the house It was not, nothing was done to make that happen.
00:35:12.000In Brazil, you've gotta actually sell stuff, you've gotta actually make stuff, you've gotta trade stuff, and you've gotta do it internationally.
00:35:18.000Your GDP has to be higher, your exports have to be higher than your imports.
00:35:22.000So that means people have to be making things and selling them overseas, where in the United States, the American people can literally do nothing And the U.S.
00:35:29.000government can acquire oil that we use for machinery, for production, for food subsidies.
00:35:48.000And so, yes, it's benefiting the people.
00:35:50.000What it allows is, like, it benefits the speculators trading in the Wall Street casino, and it benefits the people who work for weapons companies or the think tanks that are funded by those weapons companies who go and lobby for the next war.
00:36:01.000But I'm telling you that I think overall it's a net negative for the average American.
00:36:06.000What it is is the lifeblood of the empire.
00:36:09.000But the empire is the enemy of the republic.
00:36:14.000I prefer a system where people work, trade, and you have what you make.
00:36:20.000You use your hands, you use your mind, you make, you create, you live a good life.
00:36:24.000You share with your neighbors, your neighbors come together, you build something great.
00:36:27.000And that should be from within our borders, and we can do international trade when other countries agree to trade with us.
00:36:32.000I don't like the system of the reserve.
00:36:34.000There's an argument that's made often about if we don't do it, you know, China will fill the power vacuum and There's questions about a unipolar Chinese world and things like that, or I should say Chinese communist world.
00:36:44.000My thing is, I don't think any of the wars have ever been justified.
00:36:48.000They've made ridiculous justifications for them.
00:36:50.000But if you actually look at what the goal of these wars were, if you look at the goal of why they're giving money away, it's simple.
00:37:32.000Russia now is strangling out with energy prices in Europe.
00:37:36.000The whole purpose of what we've done internationally is effectively a hostage situation so that everyone has to use the dollar to buy oil with.
00:37:44.000And the reason we give money out when you're like, why are we giving $12 million to gender studies in Pakistan during a pandemic when we're shut down and our economy's collapsing?
00:37:53.000Because if you give them the money, they will use it.
00:37:55.000And so long as they use it, confidence remains in the currency which we use so we can buy oil and not have to do work.
00:38:03.000It is a hostage situation across the board.
00:38:32.000I'm just saying that the entire, what this has led to, the entire consumer economy, rather than kind of like the economy of, because basically it went from gold standard to petro standard.
00:38:43.000I mean, there's a few years in between, but it was all, it was early seventies to mid seventies when we went from the petro dollar, when we went from the gold standard to the petro dollar.
00:38:51.000And what happens then is you enter into this, this age of like wild inflation, And by the way, inflation's been happening all the way throughout, just depending on how you measure it.
00:39:01.000You know, it's like they use the CPI to measure inflation, but if you really sit back and think about it, what were the price of things in the 70s versus the price of things now?
00:39:10.000Everything is drastically more expensive.
00:39:12.000Go talk to like your parents about who, anyone who like bought a home, what they bought a home for $1,000 yeah right inflation has been with us this
00:39:20.000whole time and it's it's shown in lots of different ways but this economy I
00:39:24.000think has done much more damage that then it has benefited regular American people
00:39:31.000what it's done is kind of put out of they've it's put the basic things
00:39:40.000The idea that, like, hey, we could have, let's say, one job in this family and that could support the entire family.
00:39:46.000Oh, with that one job, we could own a house and send our kids to college and have health insurance and have all of the basic things that most regular people want.
00:39:56.000Now, with the husband and wife working, it's still completely out of reach.
00:40:01.000So I don't buy into this narrative that, like, we're benefiting.
00:40:05.000Empire is more of a cost than it is a benefit.
00:40:08.000But there's a lot of complicated nuances around the idea.
00:41:15.000They had empty studio apartments with a mattress on the floor.
00:41:17.000And it was like not living well, but it was like you didn't have to worry about extensive bills.
00:41:21.000So regardless of inflation, there's more material expenses that are compounding.
00:41:28.000But I think there's also like the prices, I mean if you think about it like this, right, where if you go, if a lot of those kids who bought into that and all went to college because they were told this is what we have to do, and these are a lot of the same kids who are begging for debt forgiveness now, which I'm against, but just to say, they go, let's say you go and you're a hundred grand in debt now from college, and then you enter a job market post 2008 financial recession, it was not a good job market, so you're like working at Starbucks.
00:41:55.000So you're working at Starbucks, and you have $100,000 in debt, and you're living at home, and the average cost of a house around you is like $500,000, and the cost of college is what college is, the cost of healthcare is what healthcare is.
00:42:12.000That kid's looking there going, what is the plausible path for, say, that young man working at Starbucks to get married and support a family?
00:42:23.000The cost of just schooling and housing and healthcare and all of the things that the government has bid up to these insane high prices, like that to me is almost like the essential problem with the soul of America, as Joe Biden likes to mention it, is that we have made the path to just having a life where you start a family and raise your kids and live a nice life damn near impossible for regular people.
00:43:07.000If we had been on the petrodollar from 1975, the standard of living in the United States
00:43:13.000would have been way less, I would imagine.
00:43:14.000We wouldn't have had access to a tenth of the wealth that we have now.
00:43:18.000So I guess in essence, the question is tying into, are you guys saying that we should, because this is kind of going in the direction of, we should want less.
00:43:31.000Like, is our definition changing because credit, credit, credit, inflation, inflation, inflation, inflation, greed, greed, greed?
00:43:38.000So now you want more, but you're chasing more, but now you got more debt, and now it's impossible?
00:43:43.000Well, see, I think it's fine to always want more, and in many ways we get more, like with technological advances, but to your question, Ian, like, if there is, um, if you say, if we had gone off the gold standard, but hadn't gone on to the petrodollar, well, there's still a lot of other questions.
00:43:58.000Like, so then what would we have done?
00:44:00.000I mean, if we had not wasted, let's say, a trillion dollars a year on maintaining the empire, and that trillion dollars had been not extracted from the American economy and just handed over to basically weapons companies and all of that, and that had been left within the American economy, then yes, I think we'd be way richer than we are for maintaining the American economy.
00:44:22.000But an even stronger argument is, how about this?
00:44:24.000What if we had not gotten off of the gold standard?
00:44:27.000And what if we had not created the Department of Education and the Department of Homeland Security?
00:44:31.000And what if we had not had this drastic expansion of government and we had continued to be a somewhat free society?
00:44:37.000We would be wealthier right now than we can possibly fathom.
00:44:41.000I'll put it into video game terms for you.
00:44:49.000So you build a civil, you start as like a nomadic tribe.
00:44:51.000You build a city, you develop, you can choose to do technology.
00:44:54.000There's a bunch of different ways you can win.
00:44:56.000The way I always play the game, is I build a bunch of cities, have my borders, have minimal military just to defend our borders, but no excursions, develop science, flying cars, and you know, coastal flood walls, and advanced technology.
00:45:14.000And with advanced technology, anybody who tries to invade me, we stop, And we don't go chase them down.
00:45:22.000See, this is how I imagine America used to be, and could be, you know, and maybe Trump isn't the perfect avatar of bringing this about, but at the very least being like, we'll protect our borders and we'll stop wasting time over there.
00:45:36.000It was an obvious, like, if you don't get involved across the world, if you're not part of the community, somebody's going to be like, well, I also have access to the technology and I would like to conquer.
00:45:45.000Yes, but what I'm saying is, the way I go about playing my civilization is, yes, I will have military capabilities, but I don't need to go and conquer all these other lands because I'm scared they might attack me.
00:45:56.000I just, if they come at me, then I smack them back, and I focus on making my country great.
00:46:01.000If you're playing on difficult, and the enemy really wants to destroy you, they'll have like 16 bombers ready, they'll have nukes, they'll have all sorts of weapons that you can't defend against.
00:46:16.000Listen, if you want to play a game where the enemy has an unfair advantage in their resource production, that's just a stupid analogy.
00:46:22.000When I'm talking about playing on normal, and they have the same rules that I have, yes, I build nukes, I build weapons, and I mind my own effing business.
00:46:30.000We'll stream it live and see what happens.
00:46:33.000But in the real world, it's like this, right?
00:46:36.000It's like what Adam said, and he was right on the money, and I forget, I don't have the exact quote, I'll butcher it, but he goes, if we go around searching for monsters to slay, we will become the dictress of the world, and we will lose our own soul.
00:46:50.000And that's exactly what's happened to the United States of America, that we've become,
00:46:53.000we've decided, and look, you can watch this. It was such a prophetic warning that even as like,
00:46:58.000when the Republicans and the evangelical Christians really had so much control of the
00:47:03.000country and the culture, right, in post-911, they used this to say, we're going to go to Iraq,
00:47:08.000we're going to go to Afghanistan, we're going to fight this war on terrorism. And what's happened
00:47:11.000to our own soul since then? It's completely collapsed. And I'll say this to right-wingers
00:47:17.000who like really care about the culture war stuff, they should care about being anti-war more than
00:47:22.000anything else. Because when does the like kind of left-wing degenerate culture really take hold?
00:47:28.000When did you see the social revolution? It was during Vietnam.
00:47:32.000When did you see the rise of the woke insanity?
00:47:35.000It was following the war on terrorism with all of these failed wars.
00:47:40.000Look, even the idea of Hitler rising, that was all a consequence of Woodrow Wilson getting us into World War I. We entered into a war we had no business being in.
00:47:50.000We entered a world war that would have ended in a stalemate almost certainly.
00:47:54.000and tipped the balance on one side, enforced the Treaty of Versailles on the Germans, we
00:47:59.000drew the Russian forces out and the Bolsheviks took over Russia, so now you have the rise
00:48:34.000I mean, I know what you guys are saying.
00:48:36.000They've got concentration camps right now where they're raping women, they're forcing abortions on them, and they're in concentration camps.
00:48:44.000They're expanding rapidly around the world.
00:48:47.000They wanted to build the Nicaraguan Canal, which would have wiped out a natural water aquifer,
00:48:53.000just because, and it's ridiculous how long it would have been,
00:48:55.000had to have been, because we have the Panama Canal.
00:48:58.000They're doing exploration and land purchases.
00:49:00.000In the United States, in South America and Africa, they have the Belt and Road Initiative.
00:49:05.000They are doing so much that is expanding their power.
00:49:09.000If Hitler had exterminated the Jews without an invasion, no one would have stopped him.
00:49:13.000the concentration camps and the skirmishes on the border.
00:49:26.000I mean, what right do you have to go into a sovereign nation and tell them how to run their show? It's just...
00:49:32.000So that's the point of saying, we're a city on a hill.
00:49:35.000Because to your point, that's what we've been doing, clandestine or overt, for decades at this point.
00:49:41.000And by the way, no one did stop Hitler from genociding the Jews.
00:49:44.000I mean, I guess the Soviets liberated like the last few A few hundred of them or something like that, but he got away with his genocide and it only happened after the war.
00:49:54.000So if anything, the idea that the war prevented the genocide of the Jews, I know a little something about this as a Jew whose family is from Germany.
00:50:04.000Nope, genocide was prevented, you know what I mean?
00:50:06.000So really, the truth is that all we can do, and this is unfortunate, but the reality is that Large swaths of the world are authoritarian nightmares.
00:50:19.000And all that happens when we raise up this military-industrial complex in the name of battling that is we become an authoritarian nightmare as well.
00:50:26.000Unfortunately, it's like the analogy I like to use is it's like if you were sitting there in your house and you're worrying about your neighbor's marriage while your marriage is falling apart.
00:50:56.000It's true, but if your neighbor down the street's breaking down the doors of other neighbors, then you're like, uh, are we just gonna sit here?
00:51:02.000Like, at what point do we get involved in...
00:51:05.000Okay, but then at the same time, man, if you're going to use this analogy, then when do people start checking America?
00:51:11.000I love that we always just imagine ourselves as the ones who are stopping other people from breaking down the doors.
00:51:20.000Listen, man, between the war in Iraq, and the war in Afghanistan, and the war in Yemen, and the war in Syria, and the war in Somalia, and the drone campaign in Pakistan, and the war in Yemen, what do you think the total death count is?
00:52:15.000We promised, when the Soviet Union collapsed, we promised both verbally and in writing that NATO would not move one inch to the east.
00:52:24.000That was the deal we made the Soviet Union.
00:52:26.000We said, look, let all your satellites break up, okay, let them have their sovereignty, and we promise you we won't move NATO one inch to the east.
00:52:57.000I feel like the liberal economic order was spun up to prevent World War III, which it kind of has, except we're in a fifth generational world war right now.
00:53:06.000See, I think the excuse was to prevent World War III, but I think the truth is that this is just kind of the natural, this is like, it's the Adams quote, we lost our soul.
00:53:14.000So once we won the first world war, it was like, all right, well.
00:53:20.000Do we just go back to being a city on a hill now?
00:53:25.000And then once we did it again and won the second world war, it was like, oh okay, well now we have half of Europe, Stalin has half of Europe, and now it's a competition to who can rule the whole, it's like you got, they get drawn into the game of world domination.
00:53:57.000The actual people being fucking killed.
00:53:59.000Cause otherwise, media can spin up this argument that the things that Dave is like breaking down, media can make it look like, oh those are the actual bad guys and we're just here to protect us from those guys.
00:54:12.000Nevermind, okay yeah we're gonna have this conversation about Election meddling and all of these other different things, but let's ignore the fact that our government, so-called deep state, whatever, has been doing it forever.
00:54:23.000I think that part is the general public is going to have to ask, do you want to be the Republican to free vote and fall back and hold those parties or those public servants in that position to do that?
00:54:35.000Or are you okay with just being the empire?
00:54:40.000Can I just say, real quickly, there's that.
00:54:42.000Even if you don't care about, like, the innocent women and children being slaughtered in all of these countries, like, hypothetically, if you're just like, that's not your thing.
00:54:52.000Like, this whole, like, domestic war on terrorism now that Joe Biden is pointing in at Donald Trump supporters, what's he using?
00:55:01.000He's going to use the Patriot Act and the Department of Homeland Security and everything that those guys supported, that they voted for, in the name of fighting the Muslims, right?
00:55:10.000That's what's going to be turned on their own people.
00:55:12.000And what did every single one of us say as activists in the late 2000s and early 2010s?
00:55:19.000What Obama was doing was, this is exactly what is going to happen.
00:55:22.000You know, I appreciated Greg Gutfeld, who I love, who's got a show on Fox News, as a lot of you know, I'm sure.
00:55:28.000But he said, he was like, you know, I was one of those guys, and he named me as one of the people.
00:55:32.000Like, he was like, you know, all these people would tell me, like Glenn Greenwald and Dave Smith, and like, and I think he said Matt Taibbi.
00:55:38.000And he'd go, they all go, you know, if the government can do this to Muslims, they can do it to you.
00:55:41.000And I was like, no, they'd never do that.
00:55:42.000And I really appreciate it, and he admitted it.
00:55:44.000He goes, hey, I might have been right about that.
00:56:05.000I think he went there, and he was like, oh, yeah, this is, I was way wrong about this.
00:56:10.000And now he's become It's so weird in this world that the 8 p.m.
00:56:13.000Fox News hour is the biggest anti-war voice in the corporate press.
00:56:18.000Here's what we said, because we had a boomer on the show, and we told her that feminists are the pro-war faction now, and she didn't believe it because she was a feminist.
00:56:27.000And then it was Richie McGinnis and his mom, and Richie goes, no, yeah, that's right.
00:56:57.000I think they're still not quite good enough.
00:57:00.000But yeah, it is crazy how much the left was co-opted.
00:57:04.000Although, I will say that what's kind of interesting is that a lot of the people who were really good on the left are now just labeled as right-wingers.
00:57:22.000I think you fall into that category, too.
00:57:24.000You were kind of one of the people who would have considered yourself on the left, who, as that switch happened, were like, well, no, I'm not going to go into being the pro-CIA, pro-war camp.
00:57:44.000Like, what I'm saying to y'all is, see, you guys are explaining things from a very highly level, a big understanding of this political thing that's going on, right?
00:57:56.000Again, simplifying it for the general public.
00:57:58.000The massive overcorrections, sorry, air quotes, that's happening on both sides, there's general public.
00:58:04.000To your point about you that are going like, hey, this is the standard that I stand for.
00:58:09.000It doesn't matter who, I'm not going to switch because it's, oh, he said he was giving Trump, he was helping Trump.
00:58:14.000No, he was, he was saying the thing that was right, right?
00:58:17.000What we have to do is make sure that we're translating this to the general public that understands like, hey, they're feeling that same way.
00:58:24.000Nah, I was with this, but that, I thought I was with that, but that's bullshit.
00:58:27.000It's so hard when you look like... Jennifer Lawrence gave an interview where she said, we could have had Hillary Clinton, but people just wouldn't vote for her because she had a vagina.
00:58:35.000And I'm like, well, for me, it was because she wanted to start a war with Russia.
00:58:39.000And because she said, we came, we saw he died, and was overseeing, she was Secretary of State, while we were blowing up kids and giving lucrative contracts to our buddies, like the government.
00:58:47.000It's so, by the way, not only is it...
00:58:50.000like that not only is it untrue and that there's plenty of reasons to hate Hillary Clinton
00:58:54.000it is the complete inverse of what is true right what is true is that Hillary Clinton
00:58:59.000was only there because she was a woman she was married to the president and then gifted
00:59:06.000a senate seat in a state she didn't even live in off of that and then ran for president
00:59:12.000off that and lost to Barack Obama but because she was the second best given the secretary
00:59:16.000of state role the fact is that she walked into the role because she was a woman but
00:59:20.000yeah there's lots of reasons to hate her.
00:59:25.000So I have a friend who's a Hollywood actress, and this is a couple years ago, and she said something like passively, like the only reason they voted for him was to hate brown people.
00:59:33.000And then I was like, what does that mean?
01:00:15.000The idea that race was the driving factor in that is silly.
01:00:19.000My point here is, you're right, we gotta find their level, but when people genuinely are misled and live in bubble world echo chamber cult land because of the media, it is not that easy.
01:00:30.000No, no, it's not going to be fucking easy.
01:00:32.000What I'm saying is we just have a severe opportunity here.
01:00:35.000And I say severe because, and I choose that word carefully, severe meaning this opportunity you might not even like get it again.
01:00:42.000Like, there is absolutely no way that you have these type of conversations, right?
01:00:48.000And people are seeing that pendulum keep going both, boom, left, right, boom, red, blue, red, blue.
01:00:54.000We have a severe opportunity to go, well, here's some other options.
01:01:06.000You may not be able to do it on Facebook because in about two weeks they're going to start shutting anything that's leaning anywhere right of center.
01:01:14.000Well, it's true and you know, I like to say I might have said this on the show before once too, but I got sometimes you're like You could be looking through like, you know going on a YouTube journey and you'd go to like, you know You scroll them like these social justice warrior, you know Like videos and then you'll scroll on like some alt-right videos and like all this and you go.
01:01:30.000Oh my god we're like on the verge of a race war in this country, but then you go to the supermarket and And some black guy walks in front of you and he goes, oh, pardon me.
01:01:40.000And you go, oh, no, you're good, go ahead.
01:01:41.000And then you open the door and you're like, no, you know, I think we're fine.
01:01:43.000And I'm like, I don't think any of this is real.
01:01:47.000And I'm saying that, well, I don't think I am.
01:01:49.000I think that the vast majority of people in this country really are sick of the culture war stuff.
01:01:56.000They care about the fact that prices are getting out of control.
01:01:59.000They care about the fact that the economy is not working for them.
01:02:02.000And the truth is that we need, this is what the whole- Yes, yes, yes.
01:02:08.000But, see, people say things like, you know, Bill Burr said this recently on Trigonometry.
01:02:12.000He's like, you go on the internet, people, the Civil War or whatever, but then you go on the real world, people are just minding their own business, doing their thing.
01:02:18.000It's like, yes, it's no surprise to me that when you are in a liberal area, liberals are fine with each other.
01:02:23.000It's no surprise to me that when you go to a conservative area, conservatives are fine with each other.
01:02:27.000But go to an area where the streams, the rivers are mixing, and you're seeing people get shot in the chest, like Aaron Danielson.
01:02:33.000When those clashes start happening, it's like, oh, Yes, New York is overwhelmingly liberal so they're not fighting each other.
01:02:42.000I went down to a conservative area where the cafes, the fast food restaurants all had like Bible study on the walls and I'm like, man, Chick-fil-A gets protests in the city.
01:02:51.000That's where the streams mix and they don't get along and there's violent riots.
01:02:56.000I'm not denying any of that, but I'm saying that there's way more people, way more than
01:03:01.000those incidents are people who are just really worried about like their daughter, who's like
01:03:07.000failing out of eighth grade math and their son who's like, got to go to college next
01:03:33.000These are my people and Maja's people who are in there now.
01:03:34.000Here's what we stand for a whole different, a whole different option than the Republicans
01:03:39.000How about end all of the wars, end all of the remnants of the COVID regime and the COVID restrictions, end all of the corporate bailouts, all of this federal militarization of the police, as well as local militarization of the police, end the crazy...
01:03:55.000Well, I'm saying like the entire domestic war on terrorism and the foreign war on terrorism and all of it.
01:04:01.000End the war on drugs, repeal the Patriot Act, abolish the FBI and the ATF and all of these awful organizations that are a disgrace to a professed free society.
01:04:40.000There's no way, shape or form, in explaining that to that group of people, they're like, No, I thought you guys were like crazy, but now that we've had this actual genuine outreach, now that changes the dynamic.
01:04:53.000My point in saying that is, I think that's the part where, because both so-called sides are tired, that that gives us that severe opportunity, and that's where that conversation needs to continue.
01:05:04.000This is why, on the surface, I'm in favor of ranked choice voting.
01:05:08.000Because my first choice would be the Libertarian Party, particularly because the Mises Caucus took over.
01:05:13.000But I have the fear right now that if I vote for the Libertarian Party, Democrats could win.
01:05:19.000So this is the inherent problem of the first-past-the-post system, is that my best bet is just vote Republican, even if it's Donald Trump, because I don't want to see the Democrats maintain control.
01:05:35.000Okay, so there is definitely, given the current circumstances, there's a certain way that a third party needs to be used, right?
01:05:41.000So I think that what the Libertarian Party should be doing, essentially, my vision for it, now that we have it, is that if there are really good Republicans who are really good on, say, opposing war and Opposing the militarization of the police and all of these things that we care about, then okay.
01:06:00.000Then yes, we should basically, if we're running and making the difference in that race where we could give it to a Democrat, essentially what we should do is make demands to that Republican.
01:06:08.000Say, we want you to get even a little bit better on these issues.
01:08:08.000Okay, you know, I choose not to do shit because I think it's bad, but if I have to have one of them, and then, you know, you see what the point is?
01:08:18.000Look, I don't agree with you on the, you know, Trump and Biden, what's the difference essentially, right?
01:08:23.000Well, there certainly are differences.
01:08:24.000So just to be clear, I'm not even saying, even if you're going to argue that you're like, look, it's better, like I'm not saying everything's perfect, but one's way worse than the other, okay?
01:08:32.000even if I grant that, I'm saying that, look, putting Trump in there led to what?
01:09:07.000There has to be some line in the sand where I go, no, I'm sorry, the guy who kept Fauci as the head of the COVID response and put him on TV every day through 2020, when the biggest moment, the biggest crisis of Donald Trump's life came, he failed.
01:09:29.000No, and obviously Joe Biden's awful, and all of the people he's put around him are just horrible, and they've done, like, basically everything wrong.
01:09:39.000We don't have another, we don't really have an option right now to say, let's put this off for another four years with a slightly less version.
01:09:47.000Look, I think what it really comes down to is, like, I agree with you on all of the ideal positions, and then you're a revolutionary and I'm a reformer.
01:09:56.000So I look at Donald Trump like, I like the school choice move, I think it's very important.
01:10:01.000Banning critical race theory trainings at the government level, that's critical.
01:10:36.000But we had a debate and some of his, we debated over Trump and his people were saying to me, they're like, Dave, you're just making the perfect the enemy of the good.
01:11:08.000It's not like he did something in the right direction, and I'm saying it wasn't enough.
01:11:14.000I'm saying when he was elected president, he didn't really have control of the executive branch, but he was the president and the Republicans had the House and the Senate, and spending from Barack Obama went up.
01:11:29.000Like I'm sorry, he's not even moving us in the right direction.
01:11:32.000If the car is headed off the cliff, he's going faster than we were under Barack Obama.
01:11:37.000Now hold on, you said that voting for Trump got us Biden, and that's not a good thing.
01:11:42.000But I'm kind of like, my argument to a lot of the Antifa people is that Donald Trump was their vote, not Joe Biden.
01:11:48.000It was really weird to see Antifa people be like, well, I don't like Joe Biden, but Trump is a fascist.
01:11:53.000And I'm like, if you think Trump is going to destroy this country, you think he's burning it down and breaking it into a million pieces, then you'd want to vote for him.
01:12:01.000Because if the end result is just Joe Biden and the system is collapsing, well, then perhaps that's what restores the Republic.
01:12:08.000Or leads to something far worse than that.
01:12:10.000I think both positions have to be taken at the same time.
01:12:16.000We're too late in the game to just pick one or the other at this point.
01:12:20.000There has to be people that are willing to say, hey, I'm a reformer.
01:12:23.000These are the areas where I'm going to reform.
01:12:28.000Tell me more about this revolutionary shit.
01:12:29.000The people in the middle that don't even know that both of these other options exist are the people that we both have to collectively and individually gauge.
01:12:37.000and get that's the part that's the because there's people on the sidelines
01:12:40.000going that are gonna listen to this and they're gonna first thing I'm gonna be
01:12:43.000like well Maj wouldn't even saying shit I don't fucking have to you guys are
01:12:46.000gonna say stuff and I'm gonna go this is what they mean by this breakdown there
01:12:50.000are people in the middle that are like I reform on some of these areas I'm
01:12:55.000revolutionary in these Maybe locally, maybe in a small town, maybe in New Hampshire.
01:13:01.000Maybe we go, okay, we're going to just revamp this.
01:13:04.000Maybe what DeSantis is doing in Florida, he's definitely going to win, but he's like, okay, now I'm going local.
01:13:10.000Now I'm going to talk to all of these other people too.
01:13:14.000Okay, to your point, okay, no, Trump is absolutely not as horrible as Biden, but to your point, you're saying, yeah, but dude's still fucking spending us into fucking oblivion, right?
01:13:27.000At the same time, okay, you're the realist.
01:13:30.000These are how some of these things go currently.
01:13:32.000You're like, well, they shouldn't fucking go this way currently and they never should have and here's how they're wrong.
01:13:38.000You have to be able to explain that to the general public that are in the middle.
01:13:43.000We're not arguing against, and you guys aren't obviously, we're not arguing against each other, we're listening, we're talking really to the people that are watching that we don't even know are watching to inform them about here's how this person was horrible, here's how this person was great, here's how locally you can avoid that, and here's how you can completely abolish that.
01:14:02.000But just to your point that we're not arguing here, I mean look, we're basically on the same page with all this stuff, right?
01:14:07.000And so it almost becomes a question of like strategy, like what do we do at this point?
01:14:12.000Because we're really in a crumbling we're in a crumbling society and this is a very dangerous situation
01:14:16.000No, I agree with you, but I do think that the way forward I agree seizing the federal government is not the way phone
01:14:23.000I mean that by winning an election becoming president not the way to wait forward is to try to
01:14:28.000Have as much of an awakening of as big a group of people as you can
01:14:33.000To recognize what the core of the problem is here Yeah
01:14:36.000like everyone kind of senses that there's a major problem in this society and what we need to do is kind of wake
01:14:40.000people up To realize that and and I will I would argue very passionately
01:14:44.000that really the problem is that we've completely Drifted away from everything this country was supposed to
01:14:49.000write. Yeah, which is the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights and the idea of individual liberty.
01:15:01.000I think it would be an improvement over the current situation, sure. I mean, I don't know
01:15:05.000that that necessarily solves everything, but I think that the – I mean, look, like you said
01:15:11.000before, we kind of have this uniparty, what a lot of libertarians like to call the duopoly, you know,
01:15:16.000of like two parties who are basically a monopoly. The system's completely rigged against third
01:15:23.000parties. Look what they're doing to Larry Sharp in New York, where they just raised the requirement
01:15:27.000to get – I believe he was in court today. I don't know what ended up happening with that.
01:15:31.000But – We've had him on several times. Cool.
01:15:33.000Yeah. Yeah. We love Larry Sharp. But so, yeah, I think that would be an improvement. But I think
01:15:39.000from my perspective, almost like on a more of a meta level, it's like people have to like kind
01:15:45.000of wake up to accepting that this is only going to work when –
01:15:50.000When enough people go, we're not falling into this game anymore.
01:15:54.000Where you go, okay, if from your perspective you believe that this evil party is 5% less evil than this evil party, then we'll fall in line with them.
01:16:04.000This is how the game's been played, right?
01:16:05.000It's like, Bush is such a disaster that you know what, those swing voters will swing over to Obama.
01:16:10.000And then Obama's such a disaster that those swing voters will swing over to Trump.
01:16:14.000And then Trump is just such a headache and everyone's just so over him and the response to him and all of this that like, Oh, I guess dead people will just vote for Joe Biden.
01:16:29.000Like this game, and there's got to be a way to kind of break out of this.
01:16:33.000But I think, but yes, yeah, we have the technology for the 50 governors to get on a Skype chat, to get on Slack, to get on some video chat.
01:16:44.000The problem is that we have the technology, but people have been looking at it as if we don't.
01:16:48.000Like they're stuck in this past state of mind where we got to send letters and wait two weeks to hear back and like, dude, the solutions are in front of us literally right now.
01:16:58.000So here's what I was thinking, like, you know, the problem is, you're right, you go back and forth, we're swinging, it's getting crazy, one guy gets in, there's a bunch of bad stuff, so then everyone's like, I'll go vote for this guy, then here's a bunch of bad stuff, and I'm like, what if there was a simpler way to do it?
01:17:10.000You know, what if we just had, like, one person who just, you know, we put in charge to run the system, and then we didn't have to worry about voting or anything like that, like, you know, when they got too old, their kid would just take over for them, and then, you know, their kids, and then, you know.
01:17:29.000You were talking about cutting back on the military, basically, in general, which I'm pretty much anti-war, but I'm also, these days, I've been thinking to myself, maybe I'm a realist, that we've been running the war machine, the United States was tasked with the liberal economic order, the British Empire, the Americans, the Australians, whatever.
01:17:44.000If we just stopped, would not Boeing just start selling planes and weapons to the Chinese CCP, and then they would take over and become a military dominating force, putting troops China taking over the world is just not happening.
01:17:55.000Look, we are so much richer than China is.
01:17:56.000But that's not the idea this idea is like so ridiculous dude. It's like so okay
01:18:01.000So then I guess we just got a prop up Boeing because someone else could prop up Boeing if we don't prop up
01:18:06.000But I'm looking at China listen man. I know that this is like China taking over the world is just not happening look
01:18:13.000We are so much richer than China is if you the amount of poverty that they have in their country compared to us
01:18:19.000What about like we can't afford to do this we're 30 trillion dollars in debt
01:19:35.000It's just you see it before it gets here.
01:19:37.000I don't know if that's true There's a listen man if China want so so in that case that could they could do it right now Nothing to do with the history of earth is basically there is a military Dominator it almost at all times.
01:19:49.000There's somebody that's the most powerful military force and they are controlling things There were empires way before America became an empire, but from the beginning of America, we were still a free country.
01:19:59.000That's not our job to worry about, man.
01:20:01.000And I'm sorry, I know that rubs people the wrong way, because they have this idea that we have to be the good guys of the world, even though we're objectively the bad guys in the world.
01:20:10.000But the truth is that, like I said before, we can't even protect freedom in our country.
01:20:14.000We're not spreading it around the world.
01:20:16.000Let's say the best thing America ever did for the world was exporting the best parts
01:21:49.000The idea that social media comments have had this huge influence, you know, the truth is that all that's happened is that's been used as an excuse for the government to crack down on social media companies and insist that... What do you mean?
01:22:19.000They go out there, they post pro-CCP stuff.
01:22:21.000We've also heard from other people who are familiar with China's actions that they're encouraging wokeness in the United States.
01:22:28.000TikTok, for instance, allows it here, but doesn't allow it there.
01:22:31.000So I've personally experienced this where you get one person pretending to be 50 to try and force a business and it works.
01:22:39.000Okay, so I'm not arguing that that has never had an effect on say like a business.
01:22:43.000I'm talking about more like I'm like subverting the entire country.
01:22:46.000But if you look at the main ways what people try to infiltrate is they try to infiltrate the institutions of the government or I suppose you could say universities, which is again basically a giant government program it's all
01:22:57.000completely propped up by government-backed loans or the whole industry wouldn't exist. I think that
01:23:03.000yeah look you'd need to have a culture to guard against that type of stuff. Like liberty. Right
01:23:08.000and that's what you need is a culture if you want to guard against communism you really like to have
01:23:13.000a culture that believes in liberty and also strong families and and strong values and all the
01:23:18.000government does is undermine all of this.
01:23:21.000Chinese bots and all of those different things to infiltrate that?
01:23:25.000the kind of like undermining churches and communities and all of this.
01:23:29.000This is what big government has gotten us.
01:23:30.000So in essence, I guess your question would be in essence, how do we prop up against things like that? China, Chinese,
01:23:36.000uh, bots and all of those different things to infiltrate that
01:23:40.000to the point it's our government doing it more than anybody else.
01:23:44.000And if we're going along with it and we're weakening it because the government is telling us to, right?
01:23:51.000Again, 2020, instead of us genuinely saying, fuck no, I'm not wearing a mask.
01:24:04.000Now, if something is really there, we're going to be safe and responsible.
01:24:07.000We're going to mitigate our freedoms or our safety based on that freedom.
01:24:12.000That culture compared to, hey, CCP where we build stuff and people jump out of the fucking building and there's nets to catch them from killing themselves, when you compare that to a young person, you show them that difference, as opposed to them being told, yeah, socialism is great and there's nothing to really counter that, no real information, then of course it's going to be more difficult.
01:24:56.000That word propaganda is kind of loaded, right?
01:24:59.000Because me saying I believe that everyone should have a firearm to be able to defend themselves and telling them about their human right to self-defense, me articulating that well is a form of propaganda, right?
01:25:10.000And it's in alignment with my agenda, which is freedom and liberty.
01:25:21.000Because I think right now they're using Google to subvert what they think is American, whatever ideals, to combat the CCP that's putting in like, hey kids, be a communist.
01:25:29.000Hold on, let me just ask, because you're saying when they're using Google, who do you mean is using Google to combat the CCP?
01:25:34.000Well, we know the FBI is in tight with social media networks telling them what to post, what not to post, if and when.
01:25:41.000Yeah, right. Yeah, it's very murky as to who exactly.
01:25:44.000And they certainly, at least according to Mark Zuckerberg, when he was asked why they suppressed the Hunter Biden
01:25:49.000story, the first thing he said was, well, the FBI came to us and
01:25:52.000told us there was going to be this big Russian dump.
01:25:53.000And then when there was this dump, they said this was all the dump.
01:25:56.000They all said this was the Russian propaganda.
01:26:04.000So, you know, if your concern is that, like, China is gonna propagandize us, I just, like, I go, okay, but, like, this is to justify the regime in Washington, D.C., but then, like, look at who's actually propagandizing our kids.
01:26:16.000I mean, like, look at who's actually propagandizing them right now.
01:26:19.000It's the public school corporations as well.
01:26:57.000But I'm just saying we didn't have to respond to 9-11 by starting seven stupid wars and
01:27:03.000killing all of these people and passing the Patriot Act and all of this.
01:27:07.000We could have just, let's say, we just say, even went into Afghanistan and killed Osama
01:27:14.000bin Laden and Toribora when we had him cornered and came home.
01:27:18.000The war on terrorism was over by Christmas of 2001.
01:27:23.000We could have just not had artificially low interest rates in the early 2000s and blew up this housing bubble and had the financial crisis in 2008.
01:27:31.000We could have just not responded to COVID in an insane way.
01:27:35.000We could have just had a government who came out and went, you know, there's this upper respiratory virus.
01:27:39.000We think if you're at risk, you should probably stay home.
01:28:09.000And all that comes down to is just scaling back.
01:28:12.000I don't need more legislation to do that.
01:28:14.000Again, if we're starting from that Bill of Rights, Declaration of Independence, and letting that be, okay, this is a litmus test.
01:28:20.000Is this, hey, if we're giving more and more government, more and more dollars, more and more power, more and more control, 80,000 more IRS agents, how does this get us back to more liberty?
01:28:36.000Tell me where it says in this that we should be giving this over there.
01:28:39.000If that's not the answer, then no, we're not doing it.
01:28:43.000And I completely agree, and I would just add to that, that like the mission here to me really is that, look, I mean think about like how the massive propaganda campaign to push the COVID lockdowns.
01:28:55.000The massive propaganda campaign to push the vaccines, where it's like, you have to hear about this constantly, completely oversold of like, you know, if you get this, you can't possibly get COVID and you can't spread it.
01:29:06.000If you question this, you're an anti-vaxxer and all of this.
01:29:08.000They use these massive propaganda campaigns because they know how important it is to have the population believing that they have legitimate authority over them and believing that they're doing the right thing.
01:29:20.000So I think the mission here is to counter the propaganda.
01:29:25.000Like you said, the mission isn't to take over the federal government and then, you know, wield power over all of the people and do it in the right way.
01:29:34.000The mission here is to wake people up, to realize that what we ought to be striving for is to be very skeptical of all of these authoritarians who promise us that they're doing it for our own good.
01:29:46.000If we had a society like that, we'd be in much better shape.
01:29:53.000I mean, I've been convinced since the day I met you, bro.
01:29:55.000But I've got a lot of concern about the future of the Constitution, because I think going back to what we had 200 years ago might be a mistake that we should make a new global Constitution with American values.
01:30:10.000The Manila principles is interesting for the internet.
01:30:12.000It's like freedom of code as opposed to freedom of speech or in addition to because if you don't know what your software is doing behind the scenes when you're using it, you're being betrayed by your master.
01:30:21.000You should be the master of your code.
01:30:23.000The code stuff is a really good point.
01:30:24.000Like with Facebook, we don't know how we're being manipulated and we know Facebook experimented on people by showing them depressing Yeah, yeah.
01:32:02.000So as me going like, yo, there's contradictions here, but what was written was dope.
01:32:06.000I think that America, the founders wrote something that was really, really dope.
01:32:10.000And I think that if we're going to be exporting shit, you know, all over the place, like, hey, this is what we believe in outside of us just being cool.
01:32:18.000Let's export this concept of liberty and holding your so-called public servants.
01:32:23.000And even in your country, if you want to emulate this, a few years ago in China, there was certain parts, dudes was waving fucking American flags like, yo, we want the second amendment here type shit.
01:32:33.000I think that should be some of our chief export type shit.
01:32:36.000And that doesn't mean it has to be globalized.
01:32:39.000It just means like, yo, this is what we're doing over here.
01:32:42.000We got guns over on this side because we want to keep our government a little bit more honest, you know what I'm saying, and exporting that.
01:32:48.000And I don't know if every country is going to emulate that, but I think that will be one of our dope exports to the rest of the world.
01:32:54.000And even if you look at Martin Luther King and even Malcolm X, I mean, how did they make such strides?
01:33:01.000Is that they beat America over the head with their own constitution?
01:33:05.000They said, well, look, you said it right here in your own document that you're not allowed to do this to me.
01:33:11.000So like it was a powerful example, even if like the founders were hypocrites, particularly on that issue on the issue of slavery and race relations in general.
01:33:56.000If you haven't already, would you kindly smash that like button, subscribe to this channel, share the show with your friends, become a member at TimCast.com, and today we're shouting out Tom McDonald.
01:34:55.000I've got to talk to my tax guy because it depends on how the revenue comes in, I think.
01:35:01.000I think for a small business, you guys go LLC and maybe you build model ships.
01:35:06.000Well, I'll tell you this, how about this, for people who want to see, if let's say you wanted to see, hypothetically, if you wanted to see me and Maj maybe run like let's say a campaign of some sort in 2024, this is what I need.
01:35:20.000I need to see everybody join the Libertarian Party.
01:35:26.000If you guys get in there, if we raise, this is what I say, 20,000 members, if I get 20,000 members into the LP, new members, Then I will start a business with Maj in 2024.
01:35:59.000By the way, I'd also say for people who even like, I understand the argument that you're making and even people who are like, listen, if it comes down to Trump, Biden, I got to support Trump.
01:36:08.000If you just think that what we're saying here should be like in the conversation.
01:36:14.000That you think like, okay, even if that's the case, you need someone kind of pushing the Republicans to be a little bit better on some of these issues.
01:36:22.000Come join the Libertarian Party and support what we're doing.
01:36:25.000And at what point are you just not going to just be saying, well, it'll never be another third, like the Republican Party was a third party, like at a certain point.
01:36:33.000Like at what point are you just going to be like, oh, it'll never happen.
01:38:00.000It's basically just if you want to win a culture war, you gotta make culture.
01:38:04.000To the point, the liberty movement isn't just, because I know we spoke a lot about parties, but when you start changing the mind of people, no one that's listening to this conversation tonight is going to be like, nah, I totally disagree with the vast majority of what they're talking about.
01:38:19.000They're gonna be like, nah, you all have conversations, you're like, there's so many fucking rhinos.
01:38:24.000Rhinos are everywhere, rhinos, rhinos, rhinos.
01:38:26.000Okay, cool, either you're gonna push them to go in this direction, or you're gonna go, let me try this libertarian thing.
01:38:31.000Even if it's not the party, I do think that you should join, but at the same time, the overall philosophy and the ideology is gonna lean us in the direction of the Bill of Rights and this overall liberty thing.
01:38:43.000Yeah, even if you're a Republican, or God forbid, a Democrat, I still push them to be a little bit better.
01:40:21.000I responded, I was like, bro, I want every single Black Panther armed to the teeth with multiple weapons marching down the street right now.
01:40:33.000Like they think if you have one take, then you have to have like the other.
01:40:37.000Well, so I remember because I was really harsh on all through 2020 on Black Lives Matter and the riots and all of that and being like, this is insane.
01:40:46.000First off, just because it's awful that you're like destroying businesses and, you know, killing people and assaulting people and all of this.
01:40:51.000And also because you're destroying the credibility for the movement of like holding cops accountable.
01:44:07.000So not only that, but the problem is it's kind of rigged because they're probably going to pull some BS where they're like, well, you know, that one doesn't count.
01:44:14.000They want to see you in a suit though.
01:44:20.000Yeah, so one of the things that happened to Tom is he sold more albums than anybody else, and they told him his numbers didn't count and didn't put him on the list or something.
01:44:31.000So, you have to watch, he did two videos talking about how it went down, and so I don't know the exact nuance of it, but they were saying things like, what's your UPC code?
01:44:39.000We don't believe these numbers, so we're not going to accept them, but it's complicated.
01:44:42.000Basically, people traditionally would report like, hey, here are the total sales we had.
01:44:48.000yeah yeah and then apparently they didn't buy it and so there's weird issues because like based on how many views he gets he's number two trending on youtube right now this song should be billboard hot 100 right but for some reason like let's see so it's the song came out today Uh, not next week, but the following Tuesday is when they'll release the chart for this reporting period.
01:45:10.000And we'll, you know, everybody's got to buy his song, but I'm going to be shouting out Tom all week because I just want to, I want to force these people that want to, you're going to love this.
01:46:02.000Now, that's the overcorrection that the general public in the middle sees and goes, nah, that's bullshit.
01:46:07.000Even if they disagree with you, the vast majority of people will go, nah, but that's kind of fucked up.
01:46:12.000Well, do you look, you look at the numbers of, um, I forget the exact numbers, but it's, um, of who, of the, the adult percentage of Americans who were, uh, double vaccinated with the first round, I think it was 70 something percent.
01:46:25.000And then who got their boosters was half that.
01:46:28.000So you see, there's a whole lot of people, even of the people who like went along with it at the beginning, who are starting to kind of see, they're like, Nah, I'm not gonna keep doing this.
01:47:06.000So I was talking to Tom earlier, not that long ago actually, a few hours ago, and I was like, not only is the song not about any of this, but my position the entire time on vaccines was, it's good that Trump got it out, it's good that Biden sped up the timeline for it, and it's up to you to talk to your doctor to figure out what makes sense for you and your health conditions.
01:47:25.000That's been my position the entire time.
01:47:48.000And your second strike was, you said, and I disagree with it, when you said, Trump got it out fast.
01:47:53.000You were giving Trump some credit for some shit that I don't even, I'm like, yo, he could've just been like, yo, whatever.
01:47:59.000Point being is, two out of three, fuck you, and you're emailing us about your song, COVID vaccines are fucking safe and effective, and don't you dare question the fucking narrative.
01:48:10.000Do you think you're fucking Tim Pool or some shit?
01:48:11.000You have to be 100% standing behind them or on your knees for them.
01:48:18.000Any kind of like, I see what you're saying, you know, no, no, no, you don't see what I'm saying.
01:49:18.000So it's gearing up for the wintertime.
01:49:19.000So we're like, all right, since we're getting back on planes, because people aren't afraid anymore, we're going to use the RV when we're not doing classes regionally.
01:49:28.000If you're homeless, if you need a place, if you're arguing, you and your girl going through it, you need a hot meal.
01:49:45.000And I'm thinking, okay, the city told it.
01:49:47.000And so I start chasing this process of, you know, the city's like, yo, we don't have it, but they could have it and not have put your tags in or whatever.
01:49:55.000So I'm like, yo, I think somebody stole it.
01:49:58.000So I go to the precinct and they're like, yo, if someone said it was abandoned, which I don't know why they would, it's a $200,000 RV.
01:50:07.000We didn't pay $200,000 for it, but we bought it used.
01:50:10.000But if someone says it's abandoned, the police will tow it, not the parking authority for tickets.
01:50:19.000So he says, well, if it's not in their system, come back tomorrow.
01:50:31.000I do a live saying, man, these fucking leeches, I hate y'all, y'all steal my, you know, I'll go on live at seven o'clock and I'll talk about it.
01:50:39.000I'm on the live talking about this RV and a dude's trying to tap into the live and he's like, dude, I think I'm looking at your RV right now.
01:51:11.000There was a spare key in there, they drove it to a whole nother part of town, they fucked up the entire side of it, smashed the window, rifled through the hole inside, but they never closed the side, the slides.
01:52:16.000Yeah, sorry dude, but it's like now we got a whole new group of people who are a lot more savvy than that and that's what I was telling you about before, where we're going to be like, what we're going to be doing is pulling the right to be better on the issues they're supposed to be good on and destroying the neocon rhino, whatever you want to call them.
01:52:34.000Did you see the tweet from the guy who said, Liz Cheney should run as a libertarian to take votes from Trump?
01:52:41.000Liz Cheney, if you're listening, please, please, I'm not even kidding, I'm on my knees begging you, enter my party and try, try to take this from me, Liz Cheney.
01:52:53.000Please, get up on stage in front of my people and see what happens to you.
01:52:58.000See what happens when you have to debate me, Liz Cheney.
01:53:01.000Somebody tweeted that in response to some tweet about Liz Cheney losing, and then they were like, she should run as a libertarian, take those votes from Trump.
01:53:07.000And I was like, she's the antithesis of the libertarian party.
01:53:52.000Troy Dunham says, Dave, ever since you asked what would my presidential campaign slogan be on POTP, your comment section posts, quote, we need to roll back the state.
01:54:03.000What do you think would look great on hats and t-shirts?
01:54:48.000First choice, second choice, third choice.
01:54:50.000A lot of Republicans probably just went one and done.
01:54:53.000And then when their person didn't win, they got nuked and the Democrat ended up winning.
01:54:58.000Okay, so that is an interesting argument.
01:55:00.000I think there's no question that Democrats, by the nature of being Democrats, are always going to be more, you know, kind of aware of the democratic process.
01:55:10.000So, there is an interesting argument to that.
01:55:12.000I've never really considered that before.
01:55:15.000Chaser90EK says, this week my family bar closed.
01:55:18.000It opened in 1926 and we thought we'd celebrate 100 years, but sadly McGeehans in Northeast Philly couldn't survive the COVID policies and spike in crime.
01:55:32.000And I'll tell you, I know, like, I'm from New York City, born and raised, and there are spots that I know, you know, like a lot of, a huge percentage of businesses closed and didn't make it through the lockdowns, and I know that these ones, there's like a few that just, like, there was this Chinese restaurant that was like a family-owned Chinese restaurant for, I think, they must have been at least 20 or 30 years old, and they were on the corner of 78th and Broadway, Which is across from Stand-Up New York Comedy Club, which is where I started doing stand-up comedy.
01:56:03.000And they were like the spot that I used to go to, like all the comics used to go to after the comedy shows.
01:56:08.000And then I lived around the corner from them for years.
01:56:28.000It may be climate change, whatever it is, right?
01:56:32.000I think it's important for people to remember that and go, no, fuck you.
01:56:35.000Because we gave you the two weeks to fucking slow the spread and it turned into fucking our business, a hundred year damn near business, not being here anymore.
01:57:03.000Yeah, well, the income tax was through a constitutional amendment, but I'd have to think about the actual, the Internal Revenues Service.
01:57:13.000The question is, what authority does the president have and what can they do?
01:57:16.000Well, but look, I mean, I don't even think that's really the important question because it's not as if, like, look, if you're going down the hypothetical in your mind where the Libertarian candidate, whoever that may be, wins the presidency, then the only thing that's happened in that scenario is not that the Libertarian candidate won the presidency.
01:57:34.000There's been a major shift in the way tens of millions of Americans are thinking about this.
01:57:39.000And so your guess is that It's not just that one thing that happened, but so you'd need this mass movement being opposed to it.
01:57:46.000But absolutely, I mean, the IRS is just a disgusting—like, you know, all the stuff you talk about with China, like your worst fear of China—let's say we lived in a free society, and your worst fear of China invading and taking over the country would be that they would install the Internal Revenue Service, right?
01:58:03.000Like, that'd be your worst nightmare, that they'd come in and institute this organization which dictates that it's a crime to work.
01:58:25.000The first thing is that you should do is that all of all of these IRS field agents they got to talk like this and they got to show up with leather jackets and crowbars and they have to they have to insist that they're asking for protection money.
01:59:33.000I mean, as of so far, I mean, Joe Biden's very bad, but Woodrow Wilson gave us the Federal Reserve, the IRS, and World War I, which, as I said before, led to the rise of the Nazis and the Commies.
01:59:44.000Really, the Treaty of Versailles really did make the Nazi party... Oh, no question, yeah.
01:59:49.000And also, the mix of the Treaty of Versailles and the Federal Reserve, which created the boom and then the bust, leading to the Great Depression, which is what called in all the German loans and destroyed the German economy.
01:59:58.000I mean, it was all... Woodrow Wilson ruined the 20th century.
02:00:02.000All right, we'll grab just one more here, or maybe one or two more.
02:00:05.000Generally Irritable says, just hosted an event on public safety and saw a Black Guns Matter shirt.
02:00:10.000Dave, help a fellow libertarian on the campaign trail.
02:00:25.000I've messaged with him a few times on Twitter when he was on there.
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02:01:25.000Help us, like, repair this damn RV, man.
02:01:27.000And, like, put these classes together.
02:01:29.000The center that we have in Philadelphia is really, in essence, basically it's a big classroom space.
02:01:35.000We're doing classes on like trades, skill, I mean obviously we're not doing welding in the building, but you know, like trades and stuff like that.
02:01:42.000Conflict resolution, firearms training, and stuff like that.
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