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00:01:58.000And then the Daily Wire is taking off to see all of this success, to see Jordan Peterson getting more funding, to see money coming in, to see everyone supporting the Daily Wire.
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00:04:33.000I am the founder and chair of an organization I started about a month ago called You Are The Power, which is a grassroots libertarian political activism group.
00:05:05.000Mostly local and state, but yeah, a few DAs we've chased off the internet and stuff like that.
00:05:08.000But you don't mean, like, literally cyberbully, you mean challenge their authority.
00:05:12.000Yeah, so I should say, cyberbully is, and we don't threaten or anything like that, but really just, I'm actually almost, like, saccharine sweet in a way.
00:05:22.000I'm like, hi there, how are you doing?
00:05:23.000By the way, can we talk about this thing?
00:05:25.000And so I'm almost, I'm very congenial about it, but in a way that makes them want to leave the internet forever.
00:05:29.000So it'll be interesting talking about the EPA stuff with you, especially.
00:07:06.000All right, let's jump to this first story from the National Post.
00:07:09.000Jordan Peterson, suspended from Twitter, says it might as well be a ban because I won't apologize.
00:07:15.000Quote, if I can't be let back on because I won't apologize, I could care less, Jordan Peterson told the National Post after Twitter suspended his account over a tweet about Elliot Page.
00:07:25.000I don't think Jordan Peterson said anything about Elliot Page.
00:07:31.000On June 28, the controversial author, I like how they say he's controversial, clinical psychologist and professor emeritus at the University of Toronto lost access to most of his Twitter account features because of a tweet he posted earlier in the week that used transgender actor Elliot Page's former name and suggested he had his breasts removed by a criminal physician.
00:07:49.000So he said, quote, I penned an irritated tweet in response to one of the latest happenings on the increasingly heated culture war front, Peter told the National Post.
00:07:58.000As far as Peterson is concerned, the temporary suspension might as well have been a ban because he would rather die than delete the tweet in question, he said.
00:08:05.000Does the tweet stay up when that happens?
00:08:48.000Right, but then there's also, I mean, like, Facebook's removed all sorts of stuff I put up over the years, and I'm sure Twitter has actually been fairly good to me on most stuff, but in terms of, I mean, I think they can remove stuff, but maybe only if it's, like you said, violating the terms, and if this is something that doesn't technically violate their terms, they're like, okay, well, We're just gonna make you remove it.
00:09:20.000But I think the principal issue as to why he got suspended was because he said criminal... He said criminal physician, I think is what he said, right?
00:10:17.000They don't mind you criticizing people, but what Twitter, YouTube, and these other platforms have said, you know, behind the scenes, or I mean, actually they say it overtly, is their goal is a healthier conversation.
00:10:28.000So if you're being critical of someone, but you're doing it calmly, they're fine with it.
00:10:32.000But if you start calling names and stuff, then that's when they... So you think it was more about the criminal accusation than about calling Elliot Ellen?
00:10:42.000It's kind of vague, but the idea is these big social media platforms, they don't want to cultivate a culture around everyone throwing rocks and mud at each other.
00:10:52.000So I talked to Google, and they told me, because we have Google partners.
00:10:57.000I actually know a ton of people who work at Google.
00:10:59.000And they said, we're trying to just clamp down on people who are angry, nasty people who make their shows based on just being nasty and mean.
00:11:20.000Just as a side note, I looked up the terms of service for Twitter and it says they do prohibit targeting others with repeated slurs, tropes, other content that intends to dehumanize, degrade, or reinforce negative harmful stereotypes.
00:11:30.000This includes targeted misgendering or deadnaming.
00:11:33.000So I think that might have been what did it.
00:11:42.000They just nuke you in two seconds, they don't care.
00:11:44.000For Jordan Peterson, putting criminal in there, I think is what put him over the edge of, they're saying like, you're attacking, you're being mean and nasty or something like that.
00:11:57.000I don't think it was the deadnaming, it probably played a role.
00:12:01.000But I don't think Jordan Peterson knows who Elliot Page is or anything about that.
00:12:20.000Here's an interesting question, right?
00:12:22.000It is true that for a while YouTube, Twitter and Facebook and big social media platforms were seeing a lot of people become very prominent off of just being really nasty.
00:12:33.000Now the problem is the left is still extremely nasty and they get away with it all the time.
00:12:40.000My problem is like maybe you guys should actually actually do something to to calm people down and foster healthier conversations instead of just banning conservatives.
00:12:52.000This is why last night we talked about Christianity.
00:12:55.000I brought up like the cult of Christianity.
00:12:56.000I think when you're criticizing a cult, it's different than criticizing the individuals.
00:13:02.000If you're criticizing the tenets of a cult, like the transgender ideologies of like, I was born in a male body, but I want to call myself a woman now.
00:13:10.000If you question that, That's really not a big problem.
00:13:13.000If you go after the individuals that are experiencing it, then you're on hot water.
00:13:17.000Like he brought up Elliot's name, Elliot Page, and now that's like, yo, now you're bringing someone into it, an innocent bystander, someone that's part of it.
00:13:27.000Yeah, I think there's something to be said a difference between someone giving their in their mind principle take either way on the transgender debate or discussion and like for example on the on the anti side you know going after you know making fun of suicide rates or something and You know, going after individual people with memes about suicide or something like that.
00:13:48.000That goes over the line of having a discussion about their disagreement with the idea of gender not being tied to biological sex and actually saying, well, I'm going to attack this person.
00:14:00.000And obviously there are other examples on the other side as well.
00:14:02.000But, you know, it's the difference between having even a heated debate and going at someone personally, like you said, to your point, attacking them.
00:14:28.000I think Jordan should probably set up a truth social account or something where he can tweet all day about these ideas, but not give up the battlefield over this one thing.
00:14:49.000And it's not just what's in that tweet, but the idea of... Something that Jordan Peterson has said a lot is, I'm not going to say something that I don't agree with just because it'll make things easier.
00:15:01.000So if that's the hill he's willing to die on, even if it's not necessarily in and of itself that important, he may back away from the whole thing.
00:15:10.000I'm not even saying that I agree with that decision being made, but he's the one that built that audience and it was on that kind of principle.
00:15:54.000But if Jordan Peterson has a million important things to say, and one of them got him knocked down, It's not only did he say it, what he said has been blasted off a million fold.
00:16:49.000I think you made a good point, Spike, that he's made kind of his career around, or a big part of his career is like, I'm not going to use compelled, you cannot compel me to say something I don't believe.
00:16:58.000And in this situation, I think if he did recant and say, okay, fine, I, fine, I'll do whatever you want.
00:17:04.000I'll, I'll bend the knee that he'll lose 40%, 30% of his followers, or like they'll just lose faith in him.
00:17:10.000And right now he's got the faith of humanity on his side.
00:17:13.000So wherever he goes, whatever he does, people will listen.
00:17:17.000He also could be playing the long game of expecting Elon Musk to purchase Twitter so he can come back triumphant however many weeks, months from now and say, see, look, I didn't bend.
00:17:28.000I said what I said, and I'm not going to back off.
00:17:42.000He can take his tweet down, and then as soon as his account is reopened, issue a new tweet saying, follow me on Truth Social because screw this platform, they're censorious.
00:17:52.000Try and pull as many of their users off the platform as possible to make them suffer.
00:18:20.000I have to give a shout out to my friend Reed Coverdale because what he does is whenever a new, you know, so-called free speech platform comes out, he immediately goes on, creates an account and says a bunch of stuff that, that, you know, ticks conservatives off.
00:18:32.000And so, you know, immediately go on there and be like, you know, I'm not even sure if I should say this stuff because we're streaming on YouTube, but saying a bunch of various things that might tick people off on the center right and see how quickly it takes him to get kicked off.
00:18:46.000And it's usually measured in minutes or hours.
00:18:49.000And so he says, you know, these typically, and I'm not sure about Truth Social particularly, but in general, any of these things, it's typically, it's more, not necessarily free speech, Entirely, but more conservative-friendly speech, as opposed to the Twitter version where it's more progressive or centrist-friendly speech.
00:19:11.000He's batting a thousand for getting knocked off these platforms.
00:20:09.000I'm not doing this because I want to buy a Ferrari, a Lambo, and build a mansion.
00:20:13.000No, I would love nothing more than to walk out of my hut into a field of fresh fruit and farm them and smile upon a grateful universe knowing that we have snapped out of existence the corporate press and the establishment garbage manipulative trash.
00:20:47.000That's a well, like an extremely established turn in the momentum of, if you want to call it culture war, like the sense of the... I mean...
00:20:57.000They've not only have they increased their subscriber base by like 20, 30% in like three months, which was massive.
00:23:41.000Also, the censorship tax, which is unquantifiable.
00:23:45.000It's kind of like Einstein fleeing Nazi Germany before it got bad.
00:23:49.000He saw the writing on the wall and was like, yo, buddy, I'm out.
00:23:53.000They've also had the not allowed to leave your province unless you're vaccinated tax that they finally lifted earlier this month.
00:23:59.000So, I mean, if you're talking about overall burden, then it goes beyond property taxes.
00:24:04.000I saw a picture from a Canadian airport and they were like, there's like four hour waits or six hour waits at the airport and it's just I just don't believe these people are happy.
00:24:47.000I agree that American arrogance is grotesque because we really need to live the ideals of the constitution.
00:24:52.000You know, it's not just, it's not fair to like rest on our laurels because they worked so hard and intelligently to build that awesome document.
00:25:00.000I think this country is going to implode.
00:25:03.000Like, I didn't want to lead with this story, but I was talking about the DOD earlier saying they're going to keep performing abortions regardless of whether the states ban them.
00:25:10.000And I'm like, what happens if a woman... Let's say you've got an active service personnel who lives in Texas, where they just banned abortion.
00:25:21.000And she goes to a military base to get an abortion.
00:25:23.000And they have a civilian doctor contracting on the military base to perform abortions.
00:25:30.000I don't know about Texas, but I know there are laws that say that if you leave to pursue an abortion or aid in a bet someone getting an abortion, you can be criminally charged.
00:25:56.000is kind of about to explode, you know?
00:25:59.000But, but, you know, I say that just to provide a little like juxtaposition to this good news about the culture war, because I don't think it means that the end is nigh.
00:26:09.000It just means we're in for a conflict.
00:26:14.000What, I mean, from the libertarian take, what we're hoping for is to move towards peaceful decentralization.
00:26:20.000And the first step in that is, and this is something I'm working on with You Are The Power, is local, county, and state-level nullification of bad laws higher up the food chain that they don't like.
00:26:38.000Yes, and what the ATF has already said, and Border Patrol had to say this with the Immigration Sanctuary States, and I mean, we know that they've had to do this with all the Cannabis Sanctuary States, that without the local authorities doing the, like, over 90% of the heavy lifting and the actual enforcement of these laws, it's functionally impossible for them to be able to do it.
00:27:11.000And the beauty of that is not just the real-world implications of being able to nullify bad state and federal policy at the local level.
00:27:18.000It also empowers the citizen to know that their vote isn't just cast into the ether.
00:27:23.000They can take over their city, their county, and eventually their state, and get rid of all the garbage that they don't have the wherewithal to stop at Capitol Hill.
00:27:30.000They can just stop it from being effectively enforced where they live.
00:27:32.000Where we are right now in Maryland, there are, I think, I think it's three counties signed letters saying they wanted to secede from Maryland to join West Virginia.
00:27:41.000It's never gonna happen, but the county we're in actually declared a two-way sanctuary.
00:27:47.000It doesn't mean a whole lot, because the state didn't, and so you still gotta get clearance from the state police to make sure, because the laws make no sense here for guns.
00:27:56.000But up in New Hampshire, the governor just signed a bill that said they're no longer going to cooperate with the feds, and people need to understand, the feds don't have the ability to police this country.
00:28:07.000So the interesting thing is, when I'm reading about what was happening with the DOD basically saying, like, we're gonna keep doing abortions regardless of what the state law is, I'm like, Can federal agents be arrested for breaking state laws?
00:28:22.000Do you know the answer to that question?
00:28:25.000I mean, the states can certainly arrest them for it.
00:28:27.000It's then going to have to work its way through adjudication to see if that's upheld.
00:28:31.000The simple answer is, well obviously of course.
00:28:34.000If an FBI agent is caught robbing a bank, of course he's going to get charged.
00:28:41.000But what I mean is, if in their duties as federal officers they break state law, can the state arrest them?
00:28:49.000I think you have a duty to do it because, I mean, the union as it stands is just a contract amongst the states.
00:28:55.000The only thing, the only reason the federal government even exists is because we're letting it exist per our contract with the Constitution.
00:29:02.000Well, they say that federal, so this is an interesting thing, they say it's a supremacy clause, things like that.
00:29:07.000The federal government's laws supersede the state.
00:29:10.000So if California says weed's legal and the feds say no it's not, the feds can go into California and enforce their law.
00:29:18.000What if the feds say a cop carrying a high capacity magazine, as it's defined by these blue states, they say, no, no, no, police aren't allowed to carry those either now.
00:29:38.000I think you've predicted one of the next big contentious things to be handled at the federal court level because that is likely to happen.
00:29:46.000As the gap between what the federal government's priorities and rules are and what the state's priorities and rules are, that's going to lead to conflict.
00:29:56.000And it's not happening in Washington, D.C.
00:30:20.000The military will continue providing abortions in cases of rape or incest, or when the mother's life is at risk, a top Pentagon official said.
00:31:09.000So we know they have to obey the laws.
00:31:12.000Obviously, you can't have a person to be like, I'm in the military so I can do what I want.
00:31:15.000So they go into the military base, she gets an abortion, the doctor performs it.
00:31:20.000There is now a record of that having occurred and the US government has said you cannot be criminally charged or penalized civilly for having this procedure regardless of the state law.
00:31:32.000But some of these states have actually, I don't know if they've passed them yet, they say if you aid and abet an abortion you're guilty of a crime.
00:31:39.000So that means the doctor and the woman, regardless of where it's performed, coming back into that state could be arrested because they have committed the crime, according to that state.
00:31:49.000What happens if the state then says, we don't care what the Fed said, and they arrest this contractor or two active duty military and the military is like, you can't arrest them.
00:31:59.000What happens when states start arresting military personnel?
00:32:02.000Well, I think there are three things there.
00:32:04.000One is the what happens when the states start arresting them.
00:32:07.000The second part is, is a law that says you can't do something effectively somewhere else, somewhere outside of our jurisdiction.
00:32:15.000Is that going to be able to hold up in court?
00:32:17.000And then also the question of specific to this, uh, what if the feds just stop recording it?
00:32:21.000What if the feds just, it's, you know, no questions asked, uh, abortions being performed and they just don't, you know, I got one more for you.
00:33:19.000And they say, the law states if you aid and abet an abortion and go somewhere, it doesn't matter where it took place.
00:33:25.000I don't know if Texas has that ruling, but the general idea, I suppose, is it's not necessarily the same thing as, I think it might have been like Iowa or Idaho, where they said if you aid and abet.
00:33:36.000But if this military base is in Texas, The feds might be like, it happened on federal jurisdiction.
00:33:42.000Texas might still say, you're still in Texas.
00:33:47.000And regardless of that, let's just say, letter of the law.
00:33:50.000No, no, no, they can't do that, right?
00:33:52.000Okay, well, according to James Buchanan, states weren't legally allowed to secede either, didn't stop them.
00:33:57.000So what happens if you get a Christian conservative prosecutor in Texas who says, we have made it illegal to kill babies.
00:34:06.000And then you went into a military base and killed a baby, I'm gonna charge you and I'm gonna take it all the way to the top because I believe it's the right thing to do.
00:34:13.000It doesn't matter what the federal government thinks they're protected on, and then what?
00:34:16.000The feds are gonna be like trying to pull their people out of the jail, filing lawsuits.
00:34:21.000Does it end in a legal battle or does it end with the state police surrounding federal law enforcement vehicles at gunpoint and saying you're under arrest?
00:34:29.000What happens then if a federal agent tries getting the woman out even though she's a known fugitive of state law?
00:34:36.000Is it possible Texas then says you've aided and abetted a fugitive?
00:34:46.000Let's say a federal agent, let's say a female member of the army murders a kid, hits him with a car, And it was on duty driving a military vehicle and the kid dies.
00:34:56.000And the state says, you were driving recklessly.
00:35:06.000Oh, there, I mean, that's obvious, right?
00:35:08.000Like if it's, if it's, if it's on, you know, in the jurisdiction of the state where this gets mucky would be if she did it on a military base and the military said, we're handling it.
00:35:17.000And the state said, no, it's in our jurisdiction.
00:35:19.000My understanding of that is that that wouldn't be their jurisdiction.
00:36:06.000I think it's highly likely in most circumstances, in that case, they'd be like, it happened on a military base, the feds are gonna have to handle it.
00:36:11.000Yeah, I was gonna say, I believe that there's already some long-standing precedent, both, I'm not even sure if it had to be judicial, I think that's understanding that on military base, that is federal land, that's not state jurisdiction.
00:36:23.000So where the question arises then, where this starts to become more akin to the civil war is women going to federal military going to military bases when they're not active duty to get abortions the state knows they're doing it does the state say to the federal government stop breaking our laws or else and the feds say it's our military base you can't do anything about it and they say we will send in state police to arrest these women the moment they step foot out they're getting arrested because you are like
00:36:54.000If people start going on a military basis, they say, and again, I know this is a bit of a stretch, they're gonna be providing abortions.
00:37:01.000I think it's typically only done for military personnel on military bases.
00:37:05.000But there are people on the left arguing for effectively using... Making them sanctuaries for abortions.
00:37:16.000I mean, you want to talk about a culture war?
00:37:18.000There is a gap between those who see this as, you know, a woman exerting autonomy over her body against a clump of cells, a parasite, and other people are saying, no, this is a murder of a baby every bit as much as if the woman were to turn around and murder someone standing next to him.
00:37:34.000And it's hard to have a compromise between that, right?
00:37:38.000And so if this plays out and both sides are willing to go to the trenches over it, this could lead to what we're talking about, or even worse, on just even this specific subject.
00:37:50.000It matters on who's willing to do something about it.
00:37:52.000And so I suppose the issue is, let's take the moral issue of today with abortion and go back in time to slavery.
00:37:59.000So let's say, in the North, they said, we've abolished slavery.
00:38:03.000And then, let's say it's in Pennsylvania.
00:38:07.000And so it's right on the border of Maryland, which was a slave state.
00:38:10.000And then you have a military base there that has slaves, and they're like, we don't care that you abolished this, we're keeping the slaves.
00:38:35.000We're getting to that point where You just need to imagine it this way.
00:38:39.000If abortion is murder, at least in the eyes of the Christian conservatives, what they're basically saying is, we will keep killing children and you can't stop us.
00:39:27.000All I know is that abortions are illegal in Texas.
00:39:30.000I don't think they've codified it as murder.
00:39:34.000They've just codified it as a criminal action.
00:39:37.000Otherwise, it wouldn't just be going after providers.
00:39:42.000It would be if you have an abortion, if you're a pregnant woman that has an abortion, You can face the death penalty, for example.
00:39:48.000I mean, that would be the level that would be at if they were... Could you imagine if the pro-life movement took it to the place where they were killing mothers for having abortions?
00:39:55.000But, you know, you talk to Seamus, even.
00:40:18.000That bothers me the most out of all of this.
00:40:19.000And I mean, we could talk about my concerns about how a war on abortion is just as successful as the war on drugs, war on terror, war on poverty, everything else.
00:40:28.000What happens when you get government involved as a regulatory body on something like pregnancy and the harm that comes from that?
00:40:35.000But just inside of this, the biggest thing I'm concerned of on a broader scale is the idea of, oh, you did that over there?
00:40:43.000Yeah, no, don't ever come back or we'll arrest you.
00:40:46.000Are there any other instances in the United States?
00:40:50.000I don't believe that would be held up.
00:40:52.000There may be some rule, but as far as I can think, I can't think of an instance where going... because, I mean, you take that to its logical conclusion.
00:41:02.000That could mean someone that goes to, you know, the Netherlands and tries, you know, ketamine or tries cannabis or something, and then comes back to a state where it's illegal, gets arrested because they put it on social media that they did it.
00:41:15.000Um, and then you could even get more obscure with things that like violate a bylaw in your county, but they don't violate a bylaw where you were.
00:41:23.000The enforcement mechanism there would be horrific, and yeah, it needs to be... if there's going to be a semblance of rule of law, it's...
00:41:30.000The jurisdiction you are under, those are the rules that you are under.
00:41:35.000Not the crimes you committed and then come back, or the things you did there that were perfectly fine and legal, but then you come back home, or wherever you reside, and now it's illegal there, so now you're gonna be charged for a crime.
00:41:47.000I mean, imagine, hard enough to figure out what's illegal in a given place where you are, to try to figure out what's illegal any place you would then go after that?
00:41:58.000And like Tim said, we don't even know if Texas has that, but there are other states that have tried implementing that for abortion and some of these other things.
00:42:05.000And it's politicians, honestly, virtue signaling to their base.
00:42:08.000Not only can't they do it here, they can't do it anywhere.
00:42:10.000Well, that's probably not going to be held up.
00:42:11.000And would you want that to be held up?
00:42:13.000Like, would you want the government to tell you what you can and can't do when you aren't even in under their jurisdiction?
00:42:20.000Ian, I know you said, um, abortion is not murder, uh, from the legal standpoint of the word, but then what do you make of, uh, murdering a pregnant woman being considered double homicide?
00:43:21.000Well, just to clarify, you can get charged with murdering the baby if you punch her in the gut, right?
00:43:25.000Murder, manslaughter, it depends on... I believe it's state by state, because I know in California, and a lot of people thought how ironic California, which is, you know, when it comes to abortion, the most, you know, liberal on that subject.
00:43:38.000But when Scott Peterson killed Lacey Peterson and her child, He was charged with double homicide, with double murder.
00:44:00.000Age of the will, where your will equates to the truth of the matter.
00:44:05.000Yeah, no, if it comes down to, if a state, because really it comes down to personhood, right?
00:44:09.000Like if a state has decided that personhood doesn't begin until birth, or some point after conception, and this fetus, unborn child, whatever you want to call it, hasn't reached that point of personhood yet, well then that would mean whether it was through an abortion, or through someone killing the mother, or attacking the mother, and the fetus, unborn person dies, you would have to, it would either always be Homicide, or a crime, or it would always not be that, because that thing doesn't have personhood.
00:44:39.000Yeah, I would think there's a value to the intricacy of killing an unborn fetus that maybe isn't considered a person, that's different than just destroying a cell block, but also maybe not as horrific as like a murder charge.
00:45:01.000The Unborn Victims of Violence Act is a United States law that recognizes an embryo or fetus in utero as a legal victim if they are injured or killed during the commission of any of over 60 listed federal crimes of violence.
00:45:14.000The law defines child in utero as a member of the species of Homo sapiens at any stage of development.
00:45:19.000The law is codified in two sections of U.S.
00:45:23.000The law applies only to certain offenses over which the U.S.
00:45:25.000government has jurisdiction, including certain crimes committed on federal properties, against certain federal officials and employees, and by members of the military.
00:45:33.000In addition, it covers certain crimes that are defined by statute as federal offenses wherever they occur.
00:45:38.000So, look, to put it simply, if you kill an unborn baby, since 2004 it has been considered a crime and the embryo is a legal victim.
00:45:46.000A person, too, according to what you were saying there.
00:45:51.000Yeah, that was the Bush administration and the GOP Congress's kind of foot in the door of normalizing the idea of like, you know, this is an unborn child.
00:45:59.000It's also a victim for future reference as, you know, and this is also why abortion should be banned or restricted or whatever.
00:46:07.000So this was Bush's way of signaling that the unborn fetus is a person.
00:46:13.000Not just signaling, but actually creating the legal mechanism to build upon in the future.
00:46:18.000The camel's nose under the tent, and a few years later you've got a full camel in your tent.
00:46:23.000The purpose behind that, as Tim noted, that's for federal offenses or for federal personnel, like military personnel or whatever.
00:46:33.000So like, if it's outside of federal jurisdiction, that doesn't apply.
00:46:36.000So the whole purpose of that, even though it's very limited when it could ever be used, the whole purpose of that, yes, was to signal to the base, but also to create that infrastructure or that legal mechanism to make future build-upons in the future.
00:46:49.000This would mean that in Washington, D.C., for instance, If you committed one of these listed crimes against a pregnant woman resulting in the death of the fetus, then you're... You're charged with this.
00:47:44.000But I could imagine this argument happening where they're like, well, abortion should be considered part of the Unborn Victims of Violence Act.
00:47:51.000So we got to be real careful that they don't start interweaving these without people understanding what's happening.
00:47:57.000Because if a mother goes in for an abortion and then gets charged with murder because of some stupid law, that's going to just unravel the fabric of society.
00:48:05.000We've got to not start punishing women for...
00:48:07.000This is, I believe, a gray area right now, because the Roe v. Wade decision, they decided, they sidestepped the question of, is this a Ninth Amendment issue where abortion is an unenumerated right, or is it a Tenth Amendment issue where this was never covered under the Constitution and therefore it should be left to the states or the people?
00:48:25.000Instead, they sidestepped and said, well, it's really a question of privacy.
00:48:29.000And so, in overturning this, the current Supreme Court said not only it's not a privacy issue, they said it's also not a Ninth Amendment issue, but they said it's a Tenth Amendment issue, meaning it should be left to the states.
00:48:42.000So, at least as it was decided, it did not sound like they had an appetite for a federal ban on abortion.
00:48:49.000The fascinating thing to me in all of this, there was a tweet from a personality I saw on Twitter who was wondering why, he said something like, name any medical procedure where you have no right to privacy.
00:49:03.000Why isn't this a thing, blah blah blah, and I was like, did you read Roe?
00:49:08.000Because I don't think any of these people actually know what the point of Roe was or the decision, one of which was stated by the Supreme Court.
00:49:15.000The fetus itself is a living being with a right to privacy.
00:49:18.000Therefore, the question of an abortion is not about a single person, but about two persons, which is why we ended up with the trimester ruling.
00:49:27.000Basically, they said, okay, in the first trimester, you can get an abortion, but afterwards, now you have to consider the person's life, which is the baby.
00:49:33.000And then with Casey, they said it's viability, it's not trimester.
00:49:37.000I don't think any of these people realize that.
00:49:39.000They keep saying things like, my body, my choice, and you're like, read Rowe.
00:49:43.000They're specifically saying at a certain point, you have to recognize there are two bodies here.
00:50:02.000I don't understand why there is a legal distinction Between two babies of the exact same amount of time since conception, but one has been removed from the womb and one hasn't.
00:50:14.000Why is there a legal protection for one but not the other?
00:50:17.000I don't understand any logical or moral statement.
00:50:22.000Mostly because the woman still has the protection.
00:50:24.000The protection's like deferred to the mother if the baby's in the womb.
00:50:31.000Like, if a mother was shielding her baby from your assault, and you ended up hurting her hands and killing the baby, you still committed homicide against the baby.
00:50:40.000Well, like, if a pregnant woman goes and kills someone, you don't charge the baby with accomplice to murder.
00:51:17.000When does this cease to be a clump of cells and when does it become a full-fledged person that has the same legal and moral and ethical protections that anyone else would have?
00:51:27.000A secondary debate is, even if it has personhood at some point before birth, which I think, it's hard to argue that, like there's some magic moment passing through the womb, like, oh now it's magically a person!
00:51:38.000But the secondary debate there becomes, you know, at what point, if ever, does one human life have the right to the, you know, connection to another human life for its subsistence?
00:51:52.000And so that has been an argument that, you know, the mother, and that's why it comes down to what the mother wanted or intended or decided, is the idea, well, that the mother shouldn't have to be, you know, should the mother have to be, you know, tied to and be providing, you know, subsistence to and risking, you know, her life and health for a second person, even if it is an actual, you know, recognized person.
00:52:19.000Oh no, I was gonna say, this is where it gets interesting, because if you look at polling across the board over the past several decades, most people, you'll see the left will be like, 80% of people are pro-choice.
00:52:28.000And I'm like, yeah, but they also really resent and reject elective abortion.
00:52:33.000Because the average person, when you're asking about abortion, they think, they imagine this woman who's crying and being like, I have no choice, you know, I need to make the right decision for my life and my family, and I wish it wasn't this way.
00:52:46.000But instead you have like 93% of abortions are elective, no reason given.
00:52:50.000Many women use it as a form of contraception.
00:52:54.000So when you look at... I actually went through tons of data!
00:52:59.000All these different polls, all these different institutions.
00:53:01.000Because I'm like, okay, they're saying, I can't believe that most people in this country are just like totally fine with abortion as contraception.
00:53:51.000In the issue of rape and incest, I actually think you have a very, very difficult position.
00:53:57.000But in this instance especially, I think women have a right to abortion, particularly because If you're going to make the argument that women made irresponsible choices and then got pregnant.
00:54:11.000And so here's the challenge, because I've argued this with Seamus.
00:54:14.000If a woman says, I'm gonna go party tonight, I don't need protection, and then gets pregnant, then someone makes the point, the government can't mandate she provide her body to another being, it's like, well hold on, she made the choice to provide her body to that being, and now wants to rescind it.
00:54:30.000It's not that she made the choice specifically thinking it would happen, but she engaged in the behavior which results in that it happened, and now theirs are being dependent upon her.
00:54:37.000So it's like, If you agree to a medical procedure that would provide a direct link to another person's blood, and then after two weeks said, I want to shut this down, they'd be like, well now you'd be killing the person.
00:54:51.000It's a different story as opposed to someone forcefully jammed, you know, fused your body with someone else, human centipede style.
00:54:58.000Then I'd be like, you had no right to do that and you can't hold it against me.
00:55:01.000But the incest thing isn't victimhood either.
00:55:08.000Well, there could be rape involved in an incest situation, but if a brother and sister decide to have a baby together, I don't understand how that would be different than having a child with some sort of deformity in the womb.
00:55:19.000I do understand your point, and I think there is an important moral distinction to be made that individuals can choose to engage in that behavior.
00:55:27.000But I also think incest has a special space in that it results in serious problems.
00:55:40.000If you find out at three weeks or seven weeks that the child has a brain deformity or something, then it's basically like an incest gone wrong.
00:55:49.000Right, but also, I mean, the reason they say rape and incest is very often incest is rape.
00:56:09.000Yeah, well, not just statutory, but also from the standpoint of, like, this is a child.
00:56:13.000Like, it's pedophilia or hebephilia or whatever you want to call it.
00:56:16.000So it is also an act of sexual assault or rape in addition to the fact that they're related.
00:56:23.000So that's because the child can't consent.
00:56:28.000The idea is, legally, a child until they're 18 cannot consent, so it's a form of rape.
00:56:31.000But if they call it statutory, it's not actual.
00:56:33.000You're making the distinction of, like, two consenting adults.
00:56:36.000Two consenting adult siblings that get pregnant, should they just be able to go get the baby aborted at five months?
00:56:41.000I mean, it's a good point, because we certainly are not okay with the idea of eugenics-based abortion, where it's like, I don't like the baby.
00:56:51.000I'm told the baby will not be well, therefore get rid of it.
00:56:53.000Because if the incest is the same argument, then...
00:56:56.000But I want to point something out because I saw a meme and it's the two arms coming together with like two distinct ideas and then coming together over one.
00:57:32.000I think that abortions are more often than not gruesome and regrettable things.
00:57:36.000The reason that I really do not like the idea of government getting involved in this is because if you look at how government handles things, they never just handle this.
00:57:45.000They, by their very nature, there's mission creep and they just keep getting more and more and more involved.
00:57:51.000If they take the turn of saying, this is a constitutionally protected person inside of your body and we have to make sure this person is not killed, that doesn't end there.
00:57:59.000It is also, we need to make sure you're taking care of this person.
00:58:02.000And if we're making sure you're taking care of this person, we need to make sure that you're getting regular inspections.
00:58:06.000And if there's a miscarriage, we're going to have to investigate that.
00:58:10.000You're going to need to be taking, you know, keep your vitamin levels at a certain level and keep your BMI below a certain level.
00:58:15.000This inevitably, if you look at the history of how government ends up regulating things, This will inevitably, at some point, especially once the progressives decide that they've lost this battle and they're just gonna fight it on the other side, it will lead to pregnancy licensing.
00:58:29.000And if that sounds insane, by the way, for anyone who thinks that sounds insane, go back a hundred years and tell someone all the things they have to have a license to do right now.
00:58:37.000And now go forward 10, 20 years and tell someone that you could have an unlicensed pregnancy and look at the look of horror on their face.
00:58:44.000And whenever something has to be licensed or regulated, here come the rent-seeking crony lobbyists who want to make sure that their prenatal vitamin is mandated.
00:58:51.000So now what used to be $8 a month is now $500 a month and who knows if your insurance is going to cover it and you're going to end up inevitably in a situation.
00:58:59.000Because abortion, illegal abortions will always be available, there will always be a black market for it, where poor women who are unable to afford a legal, regulated pregnancy end up getting an illegal abortion who would have otherwise kept the child because they can't afford the burden of getting a legal pregnancy and it's way easier to hide an illegal abortion than an illegal pregnancy.
00:59:19.000I think that's a ridiculous notion that anyone's miscarriage would be investigated in the circumstance that, you know, abortion would be federally banned or... But then anyone could just say they miscarried instead of having an abortion.
00:59:35.000Roe v. Wade was the start of the government encroaching upon women's bodies.
00:59:40.000Like that's the... What do you mean by that?
01:00:39.000And so that can trigger... I mean, it's not like every single time they're gonna, you know, have someone and they're gonna be drilling them and putting the lights on them and all of that.
01:00:46.000But at the very least, there has to be some follow-up by law enforcement to make sure this was a legitimate miscarriage.
01:00:52.000Now imagine being a woman who's just had a miscarriage.
01:00:55.000I don't think that that is inevitable.
01:00:57.000Do you think that before 1973, every woman who had a miscarriage was getting investigated?
01:01:03.000No, actually before 1973 and really before the restrictions that started a few decades prior, abortion was actually something that was largely unregulated in the U.S.
01:01:14.000And so it wasn't really coming into the late 19th and early 20th century was actually when you saw the ban starting.
01:01:22.000I will tell you, I mean, if you take it to its logical conclusion, because otherwise, if that's not the case, then really there is no effective ban on abortion.
01:01:31.000The reason you might have seen bans on abortion starting in the early 20th century is that's when contraception was taking off, but that's a whole other discussion.
01:01:41.000No, I mean there were reasons for that, and the only point I'm making is that we haven't seen this exist long enough to see the logical conclusion of what happens when government gets their hooks into something.
01:01:54.000That's what concerns me about the Roe v. Wade overturn, is that now instead of one government involved in the regulation, there's 50 governments regulating it.
01:02:01.000I don't know, but that's kind of a good thing.
01:02:13.000So if you're arguing that this is a woman's rights thing, then the obvious argument is that it goes back to the individual.
01:02:19.000If you're arguing that there should be some regulation of this, then the argument would be that it should be handled at the state level.
01:02:25.000I'm kind of transcending all of that and saying, I really just, the idea of government getting involved in something like this, you know, the war on drugs, more drugs.
01:04:54.000Well, above reasons that are given economics is the main one.
01:04:57.000And so the point of that is that, you know, I think that I wish that there was more focus put on addressing the concerns and reasons why women get abortions, getting rid of some of these ridiculous restrictions on adoption, which, by the way, pro-lifers agree with.
01:05:13.000I hate watching pro-choicers or pro-abortion, whatever you want to call them, on Twitter and on Facebook going, well, you know, if these pro-lifers really cared, they'd want to loosen the restrictions on adoption.
01:05:22.000Well, yeah, pro-lifers actually do want that.
01:06:07.000So at a time when the Democrats are desperate to find someone to run in 2024 because they don't think Joe Biden's going to make it, Joe Biden's giving them all the reason to try and find someone else to run in 2024.
01:06:17.000You know, here, I like the theory that, you know, there have been people that have said that he keeps like giving calls for help.
01:06:22.000That he doesn't really want to be doing this and that he's like, you know, they won't just let me go eat ice cream and like he'll like come to like at different like candid moments where he'll be like, they told me to come out here and say this.
01:06:32.000So I guess I have to say that this might be him.
01:06:34.000Just like, you know, please like don't know.
01:06:43.000I mean, the whole as long as it takes things is political propaganda, but he's basically acknowledging that it's not going to come back down.
01:06:50.000Yeah, if you remove as long as it takes, this is an axiom.
01:06:52.000This is as long as the policies that are in place are in place, the gas prices will remain high.
01:06:59.000And it's crazy because it was, I believe, earlier this month that Biden did correctly acknowledge that right now the biggest bottleneck, at least in the U.S.
01:07:07.000when it comes to domestic gas production, is at the refinery level.
01:07:12.000But then he blamed the refiners and said, oh, you're not producing enough and you're profiting, you know, you're price gouging us.
01:07:19.000And then the refiners came out and said, we're at like 96, 98% capacity.
01:07:23.000If you, right now, lessen some of the environmental restrictions and regulations on us, we could increase capacity by double digits.
01:07:30.000And if, at the same time, you allowed us to build some new refineries for the first time in decades, while simultaneously reducing some of these tariffs on the materials that we need to build the refineries, we could short-term fix it with reduction of regulations, and long-term fix it by building more refineries.
01:07:44.000But, you know, he'd rather say hashtag Putin price hike.
01:07:47.000Joe Biden said, when he was campaigning, he's going to transition us off of fossil fuels.
01:07:52.000Imagine hearing him tell you that, voting for him, and then coming out and being like, Joe Biden doesn't control the price of gas.
01:08:00.000Like, dude, he told you he was gonna do this.
01:08:02.000It's like that Pikachu face meme where it's like, I'm gonna make gas prices go up.
01:08:25.000And I'm like, if inflation is through the roof, and the cost to produce oil has gone up, and the cost to drill for oil has gone up, that means their profits will increase to the same percentage point.
01:08:40.000If you make $100 in profit and it costs you $75 to produce the oil, that's a 25% profit.
01:08:47.000If the costs increase by 25% and then you increase the cost of fuel as you sell it by 25%, it will also look like your profits went up 25% but you retained the same level of buying power.
01:09:04.000They are still making billions of dollars, but it's also absurd to be like, well, they should, they should sacrifice their profits for the sake of Joe Biden's energy policy.
01:09:14.000No, no, look, I'll be, I'll be fair and say, yeah, they probably should work alongside with the government to lower prices, but we still can point out Joe Biden enacted a bunch of policies specifically to transition us off of fossil fuels.
01:09:30.000But now what they didn't realize is transitioned isn't like rainbows and unicorns.
01:09:35.000Transition means make this prohibitively expensive so you have to do this.
01:09:39.000That's what a transition that's forced by government looks like as opposed to a market-driven transition where it is unicorns, where it is look at this new thing that's way better as opposed to we're going to make this thing way worse in comparison.
01:10:06.000Yeah, they emailed me and they're like, oh yeah, he changed that.
01:10:09.000He just didn't No, but there are stories in the press where people are saying that they just changed your flight to a later date or something.
01:10:17.000I have gotten on an airplane, gotten a notification that the flight had been cancelled, and then just start getting up because I realize they're about to announce it to everyone else too, and they've done that before, yeah.
01:10:27.000And we ended up having to stay, that was at Charlotte Airport, we ended up having to stay the night there.
01:10:31.000And, like, I'm looking at it, I'm like, No, we're on the, we're on the plane.
01:12:03.000So the fun conspiracy theory, it's not really a conspiracy, but the fun joke theory is that the rapture happened, and all of the people that got raptured, our memories of them was erased.
01:12:13.000So now we're just sitting here wondering why all of the stores have labor shortages, why there's no pilots anymore.
01:12:18.000They're all gone, and we just can't remember who they were.
01:12:53.000So there is actually an explanation for this.
01:12:56.000When you pump trillions of dollars into the economy and artificially create demand while simultaneously paying people to do nothing, you create a bunch of consumers and reduce the number of producers.
01:13:08.000And we're watching that play out in real time.
01:13:10.000The way that corrects is through a massive recession, which is coming.
01:13:13.000If it hasn't already started, it's coming.
01:13:15.000And it is the reality of when, and this, by the way, Anyone who's still out there promoting modern monetary theory or UBI or any of that nonsense, this was a couple times of them handing off checks and expanding unemployment insurance by a little bit.
01:13:52.000Well, so the idea is if the recession is coming and the value of the dollar is going to tank, then the buying, so like a car that's worth 20 grand today is going to be worth 40 grand in a year.
01:14:03.000You take out a loan for a $20,000 car and in a year you sell it for 40 grand, you pay off the loan, you got a free 20 grand.
01:14:09.000I mean, that's some brave pool you're playing there, but yeah.
01:14:12.000Well, what I mean to say is... That's some rich guy's game.
01:14:26.000Right before the recession, they know that if they borrow $100,000, and then the buying power of that $100,000 collapses, They basically got a freebie.
01:14:35.000Now they can sell whatever they bought because the price will spike.
01:14:39.000The value of the dollar goes down, so you'll need twice as many dollars to buy it, so they'll get the free money.
01:14:44.000Half the buying power with none of the work.
01:14:46.000I can imagine that that breaks down at some point.
01:14:48.000What's the inevitable conclusion of that Ponzi scheme?
01:14:54.000So you look at the difference between the 2007-2008, the housing price bubble that then crashed and then caused the whole ripple effect to the recession, which then led to the whole concept of too big to fail and the TARP bailouts.
01:15:10.000Add a zero to that, and that's what we're facing.
01:15:13.000This is a whole, you know, this is an exponential, this is a whole order of magnitude higher of what we're facing now.
01:15:19.000Like we're literally, instead of hundreds of billions and trillions, we're now talking trillions and tens of trillions.
01:15:25.000And it's hard to quantify what the ripple effects are going to be, and they just keep feeding into it.
01:15:32.000And that's why you see this, this, you know, they talk about the, uh, um, the, uh, yes.
01:15:38.000Yes, 40% of all the money that has ever been made has been made in the last two years.
01:15:49.000This spike is when they said your savings account is now a checking account.
01:16:01.000I think they did that to mask that they were about to start printing and get that upper diagonal, that big one, What is it, like an 80 degree angle instead of a 27 degree angle?
01:16:50.000Imagine playing a game of Monopoly, and all of us are playing by the rules, okay?
01:16:54.000And every single... I'm going to make you the bad guy here, sorry.
01:16:58.000All of us are playing by the rules, right?
01:17:00.000You roll your dice, you go to the number of spaces, you decide whether you want to buy, hold, whatever, and then when it's Mary's turn, she goes to the banker and says, give me a trillion Monopoly notes and stick them all with the bill for it.
01:17:18.000And the problem is, the price of living is going up the same for everyone, but the closer you are to that money supply at its initial printout, at its initial disbursement, the less affected you are by the double-digit price inflation, and the more you're exposed to the triple-quadruple-digit increase overnight of your wealth, and that's what we're seeing here.
01:18:12.000Rich people who are more resilient to the change in monetary value and recessions and depressions can ignore it until the recovery happens and then retain all that value.
01:18:20.000So the rich get richer, the poor get poorer.
01:18:22.000I would also like to note that Bitcoin has crashed down to its 2017 high.
01:18:28.000Its previous all-time high before this last increase.
01:18:31.000There's an old video, I wish they had kept updating it, it's about seven years old now, but it's called Don't Buy Bitcoin, It Crashes.
01:18:37.000And it's this guy going, there was this one time Bitcoin was worth, and I'm making up the numbers, but it's pretty much like this, One time it was worth .1 cents, and then it went up to 5 cents, and then it crashed all the way down to 2 cents.
01:18:51.000And then this other time, it was worth $3.25, and then it went all the way up to $25, and then it crashed all the way down to...
01:18:58.000780 and like he keeps doing this and he goes and so the moral of the story is don't buy get Bitcoin it crashes this is the the Cycle of parabolic growth usually some sideways trading and then a crash down To higher than the previous all-time high and now the gaps are obviously not as wide as they used to be It's a lot easier for something to go from $1 to $10 than to go from 20,000 to 200,000 right like there's only so much market cap it can have but The pattern's still playing out.
01:19:27.000This is not financial advice, by the way.
01:20:41.000But Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, all these Middle Eastern countries, Turkey, these countries that get much of their grain and food from Russia and Ukraine, they ain't gonna be getting it.
01:21:08.000During the pandemic, remember those lines of cars for miles waiting for food because people didn't have any?
01:21:14.000If you think it's bad now, if you think it was bad back then, right now there's nobody producing.
01:21:20.000So not only do we have a fertilizer shortage, which led to predictions of a crop yield dropping by 40%, diesel potential shortage, meaning farmers won't even be able to harvest And if they do, it'll be substantially more expensive to harvest, and there will be substantially less food, meaning, for more than one reason, the cost of food is going to skyrocket.
01:21:46.000It's almost as if massively expanding the monetary supply and then just handing it out leads to a massive increase in prices because you have much more money chasing the same amount of goods and services.
01:21:58.000And then that same amount of goods and services actually goes down because people say, I got all this money, I don't need to work.
01:22:03.000And so now you've got the disruptions from that.
01:22:05.000It's a perfect storm for what we're experiencing.
01:22:45.000It makes you wonder when they advocate for the Great Reset, literally, like calling it that, and then they implement these policies that have just destroyed everything.
01:22:54.000It's almost like they want it to happen.
01:23:36.000money. So by raising the raise and then buy property with it, right? Bankrupt people and
01:23:40.000then seize their assets. Destroy their lives and walk away holding the bag. Because people
01:23:44.000won't be able to pay back the interest on their loans, etc.
01:23:46.000Things like that. But once everything crashes, absolutely. That's all the foreclosures that
01:23:49.000happened in 2007, 2008. So we need a law to protect people from foreclosures because I imagine BlackRock
01:23:54.000and other banks are going to try and steal people's houses. You need to just stop.
01:23:57.000You need to get, first of all, you need to get currency out of the control of the government.
01:24:01.000Government is a political entity that tries to implement political goals for political purposes.
01:24:07.000It should not be in charge of the money supply because this is what happens.
01:24:11.000When you have a political entity in charge of the money supply, they implement the money supply not for the best use of its consumers because they're a monopoly.
01:24:24.000They do it for their political purposes, which in this case is to try to, you know, push along an economy that they don't want to correct and making things worse in the process and paying off the cronies who sponsored them in the office.
01:24:36.000Sure, but you have to recognize some people are just really dumb, right?
01:24:52.000It took us coming together to finally figure out what the problem is?
01:24:55.000Don't you remember that speech from Michael Bloomberg when he said, tax the poor?
01:25:00.000He said, poor people spend money on dumb things, so we should tax their money so we can choose for them what to buy.
01:25:07.000A populist message if there ever was one.
01:25:09.000Right, he wanted to tax large drinks because he said, poor people are stupid and buy big sugary drinks and get fat, so let's put a big tax on it so they can't afford it anymore so they stop doing it.
01:25:27.000So the government needs to stop being involved in what money is.
01:25:31.000Because if you allow the market to determine what money is, now instead of having a political entity manipulating, openly manipulating the monetary supply for political purposes, and destroying the wealth and the well-being of the vast majority of people that are involved in this, instead now you have competing entities who because they want to be You know, have their dominant market share have a vested interest in doing the opposite.
01:25:53.000They want their money to be deflationary, or at the very least, not have the value go down over time.
01:25:59.000Have the value of the money increase over time.
01:26:02.000Have the case use and the ability to use it go up over time.
01:26:06.000Have it be an effective and better thing.
01:26:08.000This is what we apply to everything else, right?
01:26:10.000Like, you don't want to have to buy your car from the government car company, right?
01:26:14.000Why would you want to have to get your money from the government money company?
01:26:19.000You not only would you have to buy your car from the government, but they have a computer chip in it where every year it goes 10 miles an hour slower.
01:26:27.000And then you're like, I got to get a new car.
01:27:09.000If you replace the Federal Reserve instead, If you replace the Federal Reserve instead with just a federal bank, it's effectively the same thing, but just, you know, with different steps.
01:27:30.000I think if it was Congress, we'd be able to audit it, or it would be like part of it being the Congress's bank is that the American, the people's bank, is that we would audit it.
01:27:41.000Yeah, but you still have a centrally planned authority, right?
01:27:44.000So why not instead allow a market-derived series of notes, or in this case it's probably gonna be more electronic, but you could also have physical notes.
01:27:52.000There are plenty of people out there that don't want the electronic notes, they want the physical notes.
01:27:56.000Why not let the market determine what is best for people?
01:27:59.000Because the people who are in power are friends with those who control the policy that enrich them, and why would they ever walk away from that?
01:28:38.000And the thing is, a lot of what the crony, and at this point it's sort of like a corporatist, fascist extension of government, some of these companies like BlackRock and so forth, the reason they're able to do it is because they get free money that's underwritten by you and by future generations that haven't even been born yet.
01:28:56.000You reintroduce, and I'm not saying necessarily this, but you reintroduce having the money being determined by the market level.
01:29:03.000They have to play by the same rules as the rest of us.
01:29:05.000And yes, they're wealthier, but they're now going to have to deal with the same supply and demand issues.
01:29:10.000They're not going to be able to just... Bitcoin.
01:29:12.000They're not going to be able to just print out endless streams of money and have you pay the bill for it, have you pay the debt for it with the interest.
01:29:19.000And then when everything falls apart, they get bailed out and that's paid for by more money that got printed out.
01:29:24.000That whole thing goes away when you take away the ability for them to just expand the monetary supply whenever they want to, to pay off their own bills.
01:29:31.000This is why I like cryptocurrency, and this is why it's frustrating when you get progressives who are acting like crypto is a really, really bad thing.
01:29:38.000It's like, you're just shilling out for the establishment.
01:30:20.000Hey, and people are going to be like, I don't know if I value what I value.
01:30:22.000If you value right now, all the people with the Bitcoin and the Ethereum, like there are huge people that own massive amounts of that stuff would own the market essentially without any government oversight.
01:30:31.000And then they would buy up all the corn and then they would raise the price of corn 13 times and then sell it back to the people.
01:30:37.000Well, first of all, are there Bitcoin billionaires?
01:30:41.000But if you look at the distribution of that wealth, for lack of a better term, it's far less centralized than you would see, for example, where you have less than 1% of the population that owns 20-30% of everything.
01:30:55.000And if you took all the crypto bros out there, they're certainly not going to have anywhere near that same market level that exists in this current system, because they can't.
01:31:05.000Because it has to be a system that reflects the actual market demands and supply and demand, as opposed to a political entity, a centrally planned political entity.
01:31:13.000Saying, all right, well, you guys help get me into office.
01:31:16.000And so, you know, I'm paying you off and here's however many trillion dollars.
01:31:34.000The federal reserve on auditable system is the worst by far, but I think that crypto unregulated by the people would be as could get as bad.
01:31:45.000There is no utopian system, but the regulation comes in place if suddenly there's a reason for there to be suspicion of how Bitcoin is being used.
01:31:53.000It's out in the open and people can see it.
01:31:55.000Or if it's not out in the open, if there's some coin that you can't see the back end of it, you can't see the ledger of it, it is centrally controlled, people are going to say, why would I use this when I can use this that's so much better?
01:32:15.000Chicken sandwiches, skateboards, whatever, it doesn't matter.
01:32:19.000Having more providers makes you more likely to be able to get a better value, and for them to have an incentivization of serving you as the consumer.
01:32:28.000But when you bypass that through central planning, now they don't have to serve you as the consumer, they only have to serve the political class that they put in office.
01:32:35.000And that's a much easier thing for them.
01:32:36.000I'm interested in getting, Mary, I know you're an expert on fiscal policy and fintech, so what are your thoughts on all this?
01:32:44.000I mean, I'm trying to think of the right questions to ask, but... It's very esoteric.
01:32:54.000With the wallets, like with crypto wallets, it looks like there's a lot of people that, because everyone has a wallet, but it could be one guy that has 900,000 wallets.
01:34:15.000What could happen is that people build faith in a cryptocurrency that is centralized and controlled by rich, powerful people.
01:34:23.000That doesn't change the fact that the Fed is bad, and we should find an alternate system, and crypto is pretty good.
01:34:28.000Yeah, so market-derived systems don't necessarily not allow for the centralization of wealth.
01:34:34.000But in order to be able to do that, you have to serve the consumer.
01:34:37.000If it's market-derived and not centrally planned, in order to be able to grow, maintain, and expand wealth, you have to be serving the consumer.
01:34:45.000Better than your competitors, especially if you want to expand it.
01:34:48.000If you want to maintain it, you have to at least be doing it as well as your competitors.
01:34:51.000In a system that isn't market-derived, in a system that is centrally planned through a centralized monopoly of violence such as government, instead what you have is a system where I don't have to serve you.
01:36:14.000I don't know if I'm going to be running for anything in the future.
01:36:17.000And right now, and part of the reason I started You Are The Power is until we grow this movement massively, we're really talking about who's the next guy to score the margin of error.
01:36:26.000It doesn't matter until we have a much larger movement.
01:36:28.000So I haven't ruled anything out for the future.
01:36:31.000I just don't really care until we've done the movement growing.
01:37:25.000The reality is the government has no business telling you what you can own, a firearm or otherwise.
01:37:31.000And you can make the Second Amendment argument of, it says very clearly, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
01:37:36.000You can also make just the rights argument of if I have a natural right to defend myself, and you can also make the reality of power argument which is that if a small handful of people have the only effective ability to project violence effectively, no one else has any say in anything.
01:40:30.000Build community, meet your neighbors, have a barbecue, invite friends over, learn from each other, and build those strong community bonds, and that makes America stronger.
01:41:09.000And if we can show that by building communal bonds, that we can do those things together voluntarily and not needing some centrally planned authority, making some caricature approximation of it that makes everything worse, we can actually reduce their power that is in people's heads of the legitimacy of their bad ideas by showing them a much better alternative, which is us working together.
01:43:34.000Yeah, I mean there's taking your pants off and there's you can eat me after I die.
01:43:38.000And I feel like... Well, there's also... Didn't some guy say... Didn't someone say they shouldn't sell drugs to children and they got booed?
01:44:30.000If I had people sit around me and repeat after me and say it, then yeah, that would be very cult-y.
01:44:34.000You could argue, if you go that far, that anything that has presuppositional beliefs that cannot be challenged is a cult.
01:44:40.000And, and like the, there are five lights, for instance, Picard knows there's four, but they're like, just say that there are five, even though we know that, you know, it's not real.
01:44:47.000We want you to say it out loud to acknowledge that you're one of us.
01:44:51.000And I feel like going to a church and having them having you repeat stuff like this bread is actually a physical is his human body.
01:44:57.000Or a woman was impregnated by a ghost thing is like, it's not right in front of you, but when you have a piece of bread in front of you and you're made to say that it's a guy's body, you're not made to.
01:45:36.000I don't know for sure though, that could just be scuttlebutt.
01:45:38.000I mean, look at all the scuttlebutt that's gotten us where we are so far with this deal, right?
01:45:42.000But I mean, if you wanted to play the game of I'd never, you know, bend to anyone's will, even on something that, you know, in and of itself isn't necessarily the hill many would die on, it's the hill I'll die on because I'll die on every hill.
01:46:16.000Brie Sullivan says, are you serious about Trump banning people?
01:46:19.000It was reported, I'm not saying it's completely, it's true because you know I don't trust these media outlets, that people were getting banned off Truth Social for pushing January 6th reporting.
01:46:29.000Like they were saying like here's what January 6th the committee is saying and doing and they were getting banned.
01:46:33.000I kind of feel like I don't trust them when they report that because it's probably you know leftists and liberals going on Truth Social and breaking the rules but including January 6th so they can be like look look what I was banned for and it's like Yeah, like I said, my friend Reid, and I'm not going to repeat it because we're on a YouTube live stream, but we'll put up stuff that should not be violating what they purport to be their terms, but it's like, you know, sacred cows on the right and very quickly gets banned, like minutes.
01:47:03.000I don't know Truth Social, but knowing him, he's already done it because he did it with all of them.
01:47:08.000So I'm sure he's done it with them too.
01:47:23.000The more power the Daily Wire generates through subscriptions, the more they're able to sign people like Jordan Peterson, which will in turn make the snowball get bigger and bigger and bigger.
01:47:33.000And I gotta say, Daily Wire's the new CNN.
01:47:36.000I don't mean that in a way that's derogatory.
01:48:23.000Their movies are gonna improve, their shows are gonna improve, and we're gonna be like, yo, I didn't wanna watch... Have you guys watched Ms.
01:49:57.000Oh, she travels back in time to partition.
01:50:01.000I try to picture the condescension and the low effort that's being put into trying to create so-called diversity by saying, you know, you know, remember Thor?
01:51:08.000I don't think the storyline for The Mighty Thor is actually as bad as a lot of people complained about.
01:51:13.000And I picked, I don't follow any of this, but I've just seen so many examples of like, okay, this character is now, you know, gay or black or Muslim or whatever else.
01:51:21.000And it's like, why not instead have a new character that is that, and that is uniquely that person?
01:51:27.000Like, that seems like that would be far more powerful and empowering and inclusive and embracing diversity than just saying, this one's black now.
01:52:28.000Dude, I thought of that while we were talking about how badass How awesome if we were all, I mean, I think if they tell you, if, if the American Canada became one United States and we were all like living in this decentralized freedom state, like able to do it, Mexico is the United States of Mexico.
01:52:44.000So like, if we, I understand that centralization isn't the, isn't the goal.
01:52:48.000I don't want like a federal government controlling the Canadians, but dude, we're basically the same people with like these similar ideals.
01:53:22.000with a eye towards nullifying the bad centrally planned order that's being imposed on them.
01:53:27.000That's something that can become essentially worldwide, but it's focused at the local level and it's focused on the empowerment of the individual and on voluntary solutions over bad coerced ones.
01:53:38.000We got, uh, Albedam says, Tim, per the UCMJ, Uniform Code for Military Justice, if a crime were to happen on a military base or off, the federal authorities, base commander, defense council, have jurisdiction over the military member first, as far as active duty goes.
01:54:19.000If there's a baby kidnapped and brought into a military base and then killed, and then the person comes back off, you might actually get people in the state rioting and demanding justice.
01:54:28.000It may then fall upon the federal government to say, okay, they literally killed a baby.
01:54:31.000But if the federal government doesn't recognize that as a crime, you could end up with people rioting.
01:54:35.000You could end up with federal government saying, we will do nothing.
01:54:54.000Will we get to that point where, it reminds me of V for Vendetta, when the inspector says, someone will eventually do something stupid, and then it shows the little girl skipping, wearing the mask, and then the cop shoots her, and then all of the locals just walk up and just beat the cop to death.
01:55:08.000They don't care what was legal at that point.
01:55:10.000Will we come to the point with abortion?
01:55:15.000If we get a national ban on abortion because Republicans end up codifying it, Mike Pence says he wants it nationwide, just not enforced by the federal government.
01:56:06.000And it's quite possible the federal government even does.
01:56:08.000Because if the federal government says it's illegal at the federal level, then the federal government will go and enforce the law, which they say supersedes, if the will is there.
01:56:17.000Because, you know, marijuana is illegal, but they're not going into these states.
01:56:19.000So it really just depends on if they're willing to do it.
01:57:16.000Yeah, tell me about the Hyde Amendment.
01:57:18.000So the Hyde Amendment is basically an amendment that was added at some point to, I believe, Medicare funding that said that the federal government dollars cannot be used directly for abortions.
01:57:29.000So even like Title IX funding for Medicare or Medicaid supposedly isn't supposed to, it can go to Planned
01:57:35.000Parenthood, but it can't go towards the abortions.
01:57:38.000It can go towards everything else and then that frees up money for the abortions, but
01:57:40.000it can't go towards the actual abortions.
01:57:42.000This would be a case where they are actually funding abortions, but now I'm trying to remember
01:57:46.000if the Hyde Amendment is still in effect or not.
01:58:13.000Because if you if you send a pitch, and then I don't even read it, but then we end up making the thing coincidentally, you can come at me for stealing your idea and it's not worth it.
01:58:26.000It's also but so it's just basically like, we don't want there to be any misconceptions or It will, because you couldn't respond to all of them.
01:58:36.000And then people are like, I had this idea, and then we had a similar idea, and it's just like, it's better that we just take solicited pitches directly, which is the reality of the industry.
01:58:45.000You know, I will say, we try to be scrappy and punk rock, but every day we learn exactly why businesses function the way they do.
01:58:56.000You know, I've got friends at bigger companies, I won't name them, big CEOs, and they're like, it really is just the more people you hire, the more you become corporate, not by choice, by regulation.
01:59:09.000So we're learning a lot about what the government mandates, and it's crazy.
01:59:14.000You know, people are like, man, my job sucks.
01:59:16.000The way they do these policies, I'm like, oh, those are legal.
01:59:28.000So it's like, stop your company from growing too big.
01:59:31.000So you can stay being small and just having fun or try and have a big cultural impact.
01:59:36.000And then the government steps in and says, now you have to do all of these things.
01:59:39.000And then they're like, or then we can move our banks to Panama and become a multinational megacorp that lives outside of government bounds.
01:59:55.000And the lane is either you grow up to a certain point, you don't get any bigger because it's not worth the hassle.
01:59:59.000You dive into it and become a company that is making way more money but is just subject to so much regulation and becomes almost stagnant as a result.
02:00:08.000Or you go to the next level where you just own everything.
02:00:13.000Amazon literally has gone through each of those stages.
02:00:15.000And to the point now where Jeff Bezos is buying entire media companies and putting out hit pieces against the Pentagon because they didn't approve his $10 billion no-bid deals.
02:00:27.000He originally started his company out of a small office and went from small business all the way up to, you know, the biggest mega company ever, almost.
02:00:35.000So that's the progression of what happens.
02:00:37.000And that's all because of the fascist, corporatist system that government imposes on the market.
02:00:42.000Alright, B. Anderson says, if they're not going to enforce abortion bans on federal property, what's going to stop them from not enforcing acts against little ones' crimes?
02:01:30.000If you have people in West Virginia going onto federal bases to do illegal drugs, as West Virginia would see it, are they going to be like, we're okay with this?
02:01:42.000What if the Democrats actually say, like, heroin?
02:01:44.000And now you have heroin addicts wandering off federal property for whatever, maybe a military base, and they're all strung out, and they're causing problems in the state.
02:01:52.000And the state's like, we gotta arrest these people.
02:01:55.000Like, I don't think the state would tolerate people going into a military base, committing serious crimes, and then coming out.
02:02:01.000The thing that might be worth looking into is post-prohibition.
02:02:05.000You had, you know, it was legal but regulated at the federal level, but there were still many dry states and towns for quite some time after that.
02:02:13.000The dry states now it's more like you know you can't drink it in a restaurant or whatever but like there used to be like it's still illegal in this town do not be caught drinking or possessing it here.
02:02:22.000It would be interesting to see if there are any cases where like there was a military base there and there were people getting drunk on base and then you know wandering out into town and whether or not they tried to arrest them because of that.
02:02:35.000That it would be because federal usurp state and it is federal property that they would likely say no you can't do that.
02:02:41.000But again, reality of power comes into place.
02:02:43.000If it reaches a cultural level, if it reaches a political level where it is most politically expedient for the people in charge at that state to say, you know what?
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