Jussie Smolletto is going to jail, DuckDuckGo is censoring their search feed, and The Hill is censored. We talk about it all on today's episode of The Weekly Standard with John Rocha.
00:00:50.000Okay, but until we get the go-ahead from YouTube that the rules no longer apply so long as you're calling for the death of a Russian, well...
00:01:24.000Well, I'm Kim and I'm on The Hills Rising.
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00:01:47.000The other two hosts were in the studio, Ryan Grimm and Robbie Soave, and we've had a rotating cast of hosts this whole time, but they wanted me to come into the studio.
00:01:54.000Then we had to postpone the trip because suddenly we got the notification that the channel had been suspended for reporting the news.
00:02:24.000It's not a podcast or anything like that.
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00:02:28.000And a year ago they aired raw footage from CPAC and some of the some of the speeches that were at CPAC and they got a strike for doing that and then being a news organization the Hill said you know we're airing more CPAC so they aired CPAC this year raw footage again did it again thinking we're a news organization we should be able to air footage from what would be newsworthy speeches and then rising Did a segment about Trump talking on Lori Ingram's show, talking about Vladimir Putin, how he's a genius.
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00:03:27.000No one on the panel, no one in the discussion immediately said that fake, you know, that is a fact check and popped in and immediately fact-checked the claim.
00:03:37.000Which is what you have to do according to YouTube's guidelines, their election misinformation guidelines, is you have to immediately in real time say, that is not true, you know, what he's saying is fake news.
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00:07:20.000Here it is, ladies and gentlemen, the moment you have all been waiting for.
00:07:23.000Jussie Smollett, sentenced to 150 days in jail, 30 months of probation, and here's the best part.
00:07:30.000Following the sentencing, he screamed, I am not suicidal, and I did not do it.
00:07:35.000He's also going to have to pay the city of Chicago $120,000 in restitution and was fined $25,000.
00:08:03.000What kind of paranoia would lead him to think that anyone out there is trying to suicide him in prison?
00:08:08.000Now we're getting into crazy conspiracy territory because there was already crazy conspiracy theories around what he did because at the time those two Nigerian Trump supporters attacked him, so he claimed, and he still asserts his innocence.
00:08:21.000Kamala Harris was advocating for this lynching bill, which I believe just passed, didn't it?
00:08:27.000Yeah, a lot of people were like, isn't that weird that this thing happened to Smollett at the same time and he's friends with these people?
00:08:34.000Look, I think the guy was staging a hoax to bolster his career, you know?
00:08:38.000You don't need to draw a bigger conspiracy than that, you know what I mean?
00:08:40.000But for him to come out and scream he's not suicidal, when the conspiracy was already that he was colluding with Democrats to pass laws or whatever, which is...
00:08:49.000A bit absurd, you know, in and of itself.
00:09:09.000Well, I mean, if you're going into, for one, it's scary to go to prison, right?
00:09:12.000So of course he's extremely scared and he doesn't know what's going to happen to him.
00:09:15.000You worry about your safety when you're going to prison.
00:09:17.000But I don't know if it has to be some super big conspiracy of thinking, oh, the government's after me or it's somebody, you know, and they're going to Epstein me in prison or something.
00:09:25.000I mean, I think it could just be as simple as people are angry with him for staging a crime when there's real racism in the world and he's now faking it in order to get attention and it upsets people.
00:10:10.000I think they'll put him in Cook County Jail.
00:10:13.000I think it's at 26th and California on the south side.
00:10:16.000What I'm told from all the people who are down there, You're probably going to be fine.
00:10:20.000It's a pretty bad spot, but everyone's scared because when you're there, in Illinois, you can only go to jail for just under one year, so 364 days.
00:10:29.000If you hit 365, you have to go to prison.
00:10:39.000Don't screw around because they'll charge you with something and then push it longer and then send you to like Joliet or something like that.
00:10:47.000I think he's gonna go to jail and he's gonna complain about it.
00:10:50.000Him screaming he's not suicidal, to me, sounds more like a spoiled rich guy who doesn't know what real hardship is, and he's probably freaking out, like, oh man, oh, they're gonna kill me in prison, oh!
00:12:15.000Physically violent, a physical violent threat, but his mind is dangerous because he got cops to waste their time and take them away from people that could have needed their help.
00:12:25.000And, I mean, as a rich celebrity, paying a fine isn't necessarily going to be the worst thing in the world for him.
00:12:29.000This is someone who literally just smeared half of the country by insinuating that because they were Trump supporters, they wanted to hurt him, and that it's a fact that there are just these roving Trump supporters going around the country in Democrat-run cities like Chicago trying to lynch people at 2 in the morning.
00:12:44.000So how about he gets sentenced to attending every Trump rally?
00:12:51.000Or like public shaming like they do in China.
00:12:54.000Here's the thing, that would provide him with so many opportunities to come up with fake hate crime stories and the Democrats would believe every single one.
00:13:00.000They'd be like, just because he lied once doesn't mean these other ones aren't true.
00:13:03.000There's got to be something else though.
00:13:07.000For some reason, I was watching 60 Days In last night, this reality show I'd never heard of until last night about people going undercover into prison.
00:13:30.000No, and there's other ways to punish people other than, right now it is just prison or fines.
00:13:34.000I mean, I'm saying there are other ways and there's other countries that have figured out other ways.
00:13:38.000And then we would just have to have a discussion on how moral they are.
00:13:41.000Is there anything in particular you'd recommend?
00:13:42.000Well, like China literally just did a public shaming event where they made the people, they marched them down the street and they had to wear signs.
00:13:51.000And there was a parade of people looking at them, and the sign, you know, said what they had done, and there was... Yeah, but that's a struggle question.
00:13:58.000But I'm not saying that's exactly what we would do, but we would have some discussion on what would be the ethical or moral thing to do that doesn't involve necessarily prison or a fine.
00:14:06.000You know, get out of jail free card, or get out of a jail for a fee.
00:14:09.00017 years of hard labor and a brick and rocks?
00:14:11.000Well, I mean, in the United States, we have a much more humane method of public humiliation, where we take people who were never given a trial, and then our media just smears them for arguing against the narrative.
00:14:27.000And of course, I'm not trying to make light of China or their tactics for punishment, but Jesse Smollett has clearly been publicly humiliated.
00:14:35.000At the end of this thing, he yells out, I didn't do it.
00:14:37.000Like, come on, he did it though, didn't he?
00:14:54.000Oh, you're going to prison now, you confessed!
00:14:56.000You know, the thing about jail, I think they're completely broken.
00:15:01.000Sending, you know, you get these young men, they'll go to prison for some petty crime or some, like, some relatively minor offense, but enough to warrant prison.
00:16:23.000But we also can't engage in a kind of false mercy, which refuses to punish crime, because then what happens is more people commit crimes against innocent victims, and there's more human suffering generated overall.
00:16:35.000If there are no criminal punishments for crimes, of course people are going to be more likely to commit crimes, and you're going to have more innocent victims who are harmed.
00:16:41.000I mean, I agree that you have to have punishment for a crime, but I don't know if saying, well, we're going to punish, you know, we're going to criminalize, the more we criminalize, then something will be, you'll be deterred from doing it because we've criminalized it.
00:16:54.000I mean, we've seen evidence of that not being the case.
00:16:56.000I mean, look, I know a lot of people who are afraid to go to any kind of protest event because of the way the United States government has come down on people for the January 6th events, even though they hadn't even done anything violent.
00:17:07.000So people are afraid of prison time, including people who aren't doing anything wrong or planning on doing anything wrong.
00:18:04.000And I will say this about the prison system.
00:18:05.000One unbelievably massive glaring problem is how rampant sexual assault is behind bars in many places and how that isn't really something that's sorted out.
00:18:14.000And I think there's a good argument to be made that knowing that someone is likely to be sexually assaulted in prison and then sending them there could be argued to be a cruel and unusual punishment.
00:18:22.000It's not exactly Exactly the same, because you're not guaranteed it's going to happen.
00:18:25.000But most people are afraid of going to prison for that specific reason.
00:18:28.000But I don't know if we've ever cared about cruel and unusual punishment when it comes to prisons.
00:18:32.000I mean, for goodness sakes, we electrocuted people for a long time.
00:18:37.000I mean, just looking back, who was the guy that thought... Well, it was a killer though, right?
00:18:40.000Well, yeah, so that's in that we thought for whatever reason that that was a good idea, a humane idea, a moral or ethical idea to electrocute a person to death.
00:18:51.000Well, look, there are other ways to kill a person.
00:20:29.000You know, the thing that I don't understand about all of these sanctions and even just these ideas that you've got to take it out on Russians, and I even saw this video that was circulating of this group in Canada that was painting, they were vandalizing a Russian community center, you know, and they were painting all over it blue and yellow.
00:20:47.000And it's just, okay, if we in the West continue to assert and believe that Vladimir Putin is a dictator and that they don't live in a democracy, then why would we take anything out on the people?
00:21:02.000Because you'd only do that if you think the people are then going to turn around and pressure their government or you're punishing them for voting that government in like they were a democracy and look at the bad choice you people made.
00:21:12.000But if you don't believe it's a democracy, then what are you doing?
00:21:15.000Well, so the reason I think this was an excellent segue from the previous segment, Ian was talking about how there could be an executive decree like, okay, now this thing is not allowed anymore.
00:21:24.000In this instance, we're seeing what happens when we end up in corporatocracy, where our social discussions, our society is being ruled by technocrats in Silicon Valley who change the rules on a whim.
00:21:36.000They'll say, you can't do these things that are against the rule, and then when they want to enact massive societal change, they'll come out and be like, you are now allowed, peasants.
00:22:00.000So we'll have to see the exact policy.
00:22:02.000They say, as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we have temporarily made allowances for some four forms of political expression that would normally violate our rules, like violent speech, such as, quote, death to Russian invaders.
00:22:12.000We still won't allow credible cause for violence against Russian civilians.
00:22:15.000Okay, that's an important distinction.
00:22:20.000What about a guy who's like in Vladivostok who's like chilling in a boat?
00:22:26.000The guy making the steel like in the middle of the country that is getting shipped to make the tanks, you know, he's part of the war machine now, even though he's a civilian, but they're pretty clear that they don't want to target civilians.
00:22:37.000But again, the definition of a civilian is where it gets really muddy.
00:22:40.000And that's what's going on even with the war, you know, when they're talking about, oh, these civilians are being killed in Ukraine, and it's like, well, okay, but what do you classify?
00:22:46.000Who do you classify as a civilian when they're conscripting everybody, giving them a gun, telling them to fight?
00:22:53.000So if every male 18 to 60 years old is given a weapon and told to go fight, now a civilian is no longer...
00:23:00.000But I think they might be counting them as civilians.
00:24:04.000But do you think they're the ones deciding, or do you think the politicians are pressuring them?
00:24:09.000Because then it really does become a First Amendment issue when, if they're making policy decisions based on the pressure they're getting from politicians because they're afraid of regulation.
00:24:43.000The temporary policy changes on calls for violence to Russian soldiers applies to Armenia, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, and Ukraine, according to one email.
00:24:55.000That means if you're a Russian citizen in Russia, you can be calling for the death of your own military.
00:25:01.000If you are Polish, NATO country or Lithuania or Latvia or Estonia, you can call for death.
00:25:21.000Didn't we have the Biden administration actively pressuring social media companies to remove vaccine misinformation?
00:25:25.000We know that the United States government is above doing this kind of thing.
00:25:28.000However, I will say to your point asking about whether Zuckerberg could have any motivation to avoid regulation, it's interesting because Facebook has actually been pushing for certain regulations surrounding speech codes online.
00:25:40.000I think it might actually be advantageous for them in some ways depending upon what
00:25:44.000the legislation is because then people aren't angry with them as a company when they ban
00:25:49.000people and they won't be likely to go to competitors.
00:25:51.000They'll just see it as a large overarching thing.
00:25:54.000And then those regulations that Facebook loves to place in its terms of service become policy
00:27:22.000All of these people putting the Ukrainian flags in their profiles, who just last month were like, we gotta fight the fascists, are now like, well, these fascists are... That's crazy.
00:27:32.000When Nawaz was here, he pointed out that what's happening is people from around the world are going to join Azov to fight, and then they're becoming radicalized and learning how to fight with a terrorist group, and then they're going to go home.
00:27:43.000radicalized and create their own little pockets of Azov or Nazism or whatever.
00:27:53.000Well, we already saw this sort of, you know, this is just another proxy war that we're having with Russia right now in Ukraine.
00:27:57.000And it actually mimics a lot what we did in, you know, this is the new Afghanistan.
00:28:03.000Get out of one war to start another, you know.
00:28:05.000Just got to replace the Afghanistan war.
00:28:07.000And this is very similar to what happened in Afghanistan in the 80s.
00:28:10.000Because what the US government was doing, the Carter administration started and then it continued on with Reagan was, was funding the Mujahideen.
00:28:17.000And that they were fighting the Russians because the Russians were with the with the at the time the Afghan government brought in the Russian military to fight.
00:28:26.000And the Mujahideen was fighting against the Russians.
00:28:28.000We armed the Mujahideen We trained them.
00:29:08.000And we saw what happens to the Mujahideen.
00:29:10.000Al-Qaeda evolves from them and we go over there and fight them.
00:29:13.000What are you guys saying that the Azov had been like killing Russians for tens of thousands of Russians over the last five or eight years or something?
00:29:23.000Well, 14,000 people have been killed in the civil war between the separatists in the Donbass region and the government.
00:29:30.000Because, you know, there's an area of Ukraine that has been controlled by the separatists since 2014.
00:29:35.000And during the civil war conflict, which, you know, we call in the West, we say that they are Russian backed.
00:29:42.000Freedom, you know, Russian backed separatists, really, they're Ukrainians fighting Ukrainians in a civil war.
00:29:48.000And there's been 14,000 fatalities there.
00:29:50.000But a lot of them have been this battalion and these sort of very, you know, not, I mean, really, there's no way to say it other than I mean, these are not like far right.
00:30:01.000And they have been doing a lot of that, doing a lot of this battle.
00:30:04.000But you know, Hillary Clinton even came out like a week and a half ago.
00:30:08.000I think she was giggling about, well, you saw how it worked out in Afghanistan for the Soviets when, you know, you saw how well that happened because they ultimately had to back out of Yeah, that was in the 80s in the mountains.
00:30:24.000Now we're talking about flatland in 2020.
00:30:50.000Ultimately, we ended up in a war in Afghanistan that we could not win.
00:30:54.000And we've been in the Middle East this entire time.
00:30:57.000And so to your point with, we're, you know, then they're recruiting all of these fighters that are coming in from every other European country.
00:31:03.000And they're very far right radical people that are going to fight alongside these battalions.
00:31:08.000And yeah, we're arming them, helping them out.
00:31:10.000And who knows what that will reel into 20 years from now.
00:31:12.000I mean, how long did it take for the Mujahideen to turn into Al Qaeda?
00:31:19.000It could very well happen that Ukraine is split, the East goes to the Russia, the West goes to Azov, and we've got a Nazi country, basically.
00:31:25.000That's, I think, exactly what's going to happen.
00:31:27.000I don't know if it'll go to them specifically.
00:31:38.000You know, I think when you look at ISIS, it's, I'll just say this, my opinion, the West clearly wanted ISIS to function because it was destabilizing Syria.
00:32:35.000You ever see the ISIS, the video of the ISIS guys in the truck and it's got like Jim's plumbing from Detroit, Michigan on the side of it or something?
00:32:41.000People are like, how'd that truck get there?
00:32:42.000There were pictures from Syria that came out that had a kid wearing one of my high school's gym shirts.
00:32:49.000Because someone had donated their gym shirts and other clothing to some other organization and it ended up in their hands.
00:33:31.000In addition to downranking sites associated with disinformation, we also often place news modules and information box at the top of DuckDuckGo search results.
00:33:39.000DuckDuckGo's mission is to make simple privacy protection.
00:33:43.000Yeah, no, that's not your value proposition, dudes.
00:33:46.000So I have a question for you, Gabriel.
00:33:53.000And do you have, like, who at dot-dot-go is the arbiter of truth and morality?
00:34:00.000So I can better understand what sites you've decided to downrate.
00:34:05.000DuckDuckGo is completely worthless at this point.
00:34:06.000I don't see why anybody would use them.
00:34:08.000And they are because these last, you know, now this is making sense to me because as I've been trying to do some research about the conflict that's going on and trying to get truth because we know it's a big propaganda problem.
00:34:17.000I've been going from Google to DuckDuckGo and getting the exact same search results and being very frustrated by it because I rely on DuckDuckGo to give me, you know, search results that are different from different sites than the ones that Google just gives me.
00:34:32.000I mean, for a very long time, DuckDuckGo was far superior to Google.
00:34:36.000When I do work with the Foundation for Economic Education to create these educational cartoons, we'll usually have people at their organization who will do some research for us, if I don't have the time to dive into all of it.
00:34:47.000And there was a topic that we needed to dive into and I can't remember exactly what it was
00:34:51.000But the fellow who was doing research kept saying I can't really find anything about this on Google and he'd been
00:34:56.000searching for hours And I said, oh just try duck duck go and within 15 minutes
00:34:59.000He had like 10 links with a lot of really great information in them
00:35:03.000And it's just sad that that resource isn't really reliable one. Take a look at this tweet right here
00:35:07.000Duck duck go tweeted on April 6 2019 quote when you search you expect unbiased results
00:35:14.000but that's not what you get on Google.
00:35:17.000And that is a quote from that same guy, Gabriel Weinberg.
00:36:06.000Okay, well that's what I'm gonna have to do now.
00:36:08.000Yeah, it took me so long to get used to typing DuckDuckGoat instead of Google because it was such a habit for me that I'd formed over many years of exclusively using Google before I knew that they were terrible.
00:36:20.000And DuckDuckGo is a terrible website name to be correct.
00:36:23.000Yeah, no, DuckDuckGo is not good branding.
00:36:25.000We should have, if this CEO wants to come on and defend himself, maybe the CIA gave him a gag order and was like, you're going to be censoring information now and you're not allowed to talk about why.
00:37:47.000I think I think I found this story Dude, dude, dude, is this it?
00:37:52.0002013 story how the government killed a secure email company.
00:37:54.000Well, I don't know if this is the same company But they say in mid-july Tanya Lakshina, deputy director for Human Rights Watch Moscow office, wrote on her Facebook wall that she had received Yes, it was LavaBit.
00:38:06.000An email from Edward Snowden at LavaBit It requested that she attend a press conference at Moscow's Sheremetyevo to discuss the NSA leaker situation.
00:38:21.000In a cryptid statement posted on its website, the service's owners and operator, Ladar Levison, wrote, I cannot share my experiences over the last six weeks, even though I have twice made the appropriate requests.
00:38:31.000Those experiences led him to shut down the service rather than, as he put it, become complicit in crimes against the American people.
00:39:26.000But I tell you this, if I was the CEO of this company, and then I get a knock on the door and they're like, we want you to censor information from Russian sources, I'd be like, no.
00:40:48.000Yeah, I guess, but like, I don't know, man.
00:40:52.000The government, the institutions, the establishment, Democrats and neocons are trying so hard to drum up a war between NATO and Russia.
00:41:01.000We've got 13,000 NATO soldiers in Estonia right now, I think in Estonia, and they're firing Stinger missiles and Kamala Harris is in Poland and she's saying, Putin, don't you dare, we're coming.
00:41:11.000It's like, that's the opposite of de-escalation.
00:41:14.000They I've done you and I think the NATO would love to get an excuse to just flatten Russia.
00:41:21.000And they're doing everything in their power, it seems.
00:41:23.000And we're just sitting here all talking like every night being like, that's bad.
00:42:42.000Everybody else is just what gives us some bodies.
00:42:44.000The bodies of people that maybe are not well trained, right?
00:42:48.000So you have to have Those four countries getting together and the French are always lately they've been pretty hesitant to get involved at all.
00:43:29.000You can't get through Constantinople, Constantinople.
00:43:32.000You can't get through Istanbul without without Turkey.
00:43:34.000Well, I think that's why Turkey knows that they've been embraced by NATO was just just to get just to sort of Take some power away from Russia, hopefully.
00:43:59.000Just because someone on paper says they're your ally doesn't mean that like when realism hits the fan, people do what they need to do to survive.
00:44:07.000That's why NATO hasn't really truly been tested and I think they're afraid to actually do it because I don't think they know what Turkey will actually do.
00:44:14.000If they'll really truly send bodies in to go and confront Russians, and to potentially, you know, to allow thousands of your own to die for what?
00:45:46.000I think we're already in World War III.
00:45:49.000The problem is people don't like that phrase because it invokes imagery of bombings and blitzkriegs and all that stuff.
00:45:55.000But people need to understand that NATO is absolutely supplying weapons and personnel to the Ukrainians for a war, a ground war with Russia.
00:47:02.000I think it's fair to say, you know, we see all these stories where it's like, Anonymous takes down Russian infrastructure, and I'm like, dude, it's probably the U.S.
00:47:19.000Poland says we want to give these planes.
00:47:21.000If we're providing weaponry to Ukrainians, then Latvia says, we vote to allow our citizens to go to Ukraine and fight for the Ukrainians.
00:47:29.000I'm like, How is this not a declaration of war?
00:47:33.000Providing resources to one country who's fighting another?
00:47:36.000Oh yeah, and like, Visa, MasterCard, and American Express shut down access in Russia, but it wasn't the American government that did it, so we're off the hook.
00:47:46.000But it's like, oh, how much power do these corporations have?
00:47:48.000So think about what is the purpose of war, because I agree with you, Tim.
00:47:52.000I actually think we're in World War III, but I think we've been, and I actually, I don't remember which show I actually said that exact thing on recently, but I think it's not because of the weapons that we're giving and there's battles going on in Ukraine.
00:48:08.000So when you're going to war with another country, why are you doing it?
00:48:10.000You're doing it because you're trying to, you don't want them to, so we've always, we try to go to war with the Soviets to stop the spread of the Soviet Union, right?
00:48:20.000So we don't want them to have dominance or power in certain parts of the world.
00:48:26.000We want influence over different regions and people to our own benefit.
00:48:32.000So did you know, February 4th, did you hear about this document that Russia and China put out together, a statement?
00:48:37.000So they issued a statement February 4th together that is a couple of pages long.
00:48:43.000And if you read that statement that happened before Russia even invaded Ukraine, they pretty much declared, I mean, it's the most ominous statement because they essentially come out declaring, we're no longer going to have a unipolar world.
00:49:01.000Basically pointing the finger at the West almost blatantly that they don't I don't know if they actually named the United States in the document, but they essentially they strongly allude saying we're the reason why there isn't world peace that it's our fault and that the time the things have changed.
00:49:21.000The China Aerospace Studies Institute, in their own words, joint statement of the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China on the international relations entering a new era of the global sustainable development.
00:49:54.000And I think there's been a concerted effort when you look at this, and then you look at the steps that Russia has taken, and then you see the steps that China has taken in response to it.
00:50:02.000And you realize that we might have been at war, China might have been at war with us, China and Russia, for a long time.
00:50:08.000Right, because really it's just about you have an enemy, you don't like the enemy, you want to harm the enemy in some way.
00:50:12.000And they know they couldn't beat us militarily, nor did they even want to.
00:50:17.000So they, I think, went after us economically, potentially.
00:50:20.000Yeah, you want conquest or genocide, I think, are the two main goals of war.
00:50:25.000And it's usually to empower yourself through the destruction of the other.
00:50:29.000And that doesn't have to be done with guns.
00:50:31.000That can be done psychologically, like you see children questioning their gender.
00:50:35.000That's basically It's not genocide, but if people stop having babies, that's the end of the human race.
00:51:47.000So they issued this statement on the 4th.
00:51:49.000Russia does a giant deal for a natural gas pipeline from Ukraine to, I mean, from Russia to China, giant pipeline.
00:51:58.000And then suddenly he goes in and invades Ukraine like as, you know, and I know a lot of it, of course, they've been saying it's about NATO expansion, but why now?
00:52:07.000Gonna do a vote next week to put Ukraine into NATO?
00:52:10.000Like, what's so different this week from last week?
00:52:13.000You see the video of the Russian politician in December saying, February 22nd, 2022, I wish this year would have been peaceful, but it's not gonna be.
00:52:59.000I mean, it's like I said on yesterday's show, the moral of the story in The Boy Who Cried Wolf was not, oh, those shameful, stupid villagers for not believing the one time he turned out to be right.
00:53:07.000The moral of the story is it's his fault because he lied consistently and lost all credibility.
00:53:11.000We should make that kid's book, The Democrat Who Cried Russian, but the moral of the story is you should always believe the Democrats no matter what.
00:53:21.000So it's the basic story of The Boy Who Cried Wolf, and in the end it's just like, if only they had just continued to believe the little boy who lied all the time, they would have been better off.
00:53:28.000Shows you to always obey the authority.
00:53:34.000Yeah, so what else is going on though?
00:53:35.000I mean, we've been seeing China and Russia dumping U.S.
00:53:37.000dollars for a long time now, and I remember conversations back in like the late 2000s where they were like, China and Russia are getting prepared for a non-petro-dollar, non-U.S.
00:53:56.000And isn't it so sad that the elites in our country are so unbelievably irresponsible and corrupt that we don't even want to hold on to our own currency because we all basically believe it's going to collapse and we're actively watching it lose a large portion of its value.
00:54:22.000Okay, I've known the Federal Reserve's busted the economy and the fiat's nuts and that the American military-industrial complex is overreach, but it never really struck me until March 2020 like, wow, they're just going to keep printing money.
00:54:34.000From what I understand, it was they were giving $450 billion to the Federal Reserve to leverage out in $4.5 trillion in loans, just completely flooding the market.
00:54:46.000The Zuby tweeted this, that the money supply was $4 trillion in early 2020, and now it's $20 trillion or something like that, or $23 trillion.
00:54:54.000A lot of it's because the savings accounts got added to the money supply.
00:55:05.000But they did it to mask the amount of printing, because if you look at the number, the money supply is going along, and all of a sudden they add the savings in, and then the money supply is increasing at a new rate.
00:55:16.000It's like right when they added the supply, you see it.
00:55:18.000China and Russia saw what happened in 2008, and they were like, you better start preparing because this is the end.
00:55:23.000When you look at the money supply, the real surge in money printing happened right after 2008, after the market crashed.
00:55:30.000And then, with the pandemic, it skyrockets.
00:55:32.000So I think Russia and China, India, Brazil, probably a bunch of countries, and I'm sure the U.S.
00:55:38.000Well, I mean, what happens is they argue that we have to use quantitative easing in order to stimulate the economy, but then we get completely addicted because as soon as you try quantitative tightening, the stock market goes crazy and we can't have that happen.
00:55:51.000So they just have to continually inflate the currency to prevent a crash.
00:55:55.000Posobiec is a brilliant man, Jack Posobiec, and he constantly is like, you do not want the U.S.
00:55:59.000dollar to not be the world reserve currency.
00:56:01.000I'm like, I know I don't, but I also don't want to be living off fiat for my grandchildren to suffer under the slave boot of authoritarian autocracy, you know, and have their lives valued by some corporate credit.
00:56:15.000I don't want to destroy the system, but the system is an aberration and needs to be rectified.
00:56:20.000I think the best we can hope for is the multipolar world where it's more of a East-West.
00:56:24.000And so we're not dominating the world with one currency, but instead there's one currency that's often traded in parts of the world and another that is traded in the other part of the world.
00:56:35.000And, you know, as the world's population has increased, that's fine.
00:56:37.000I mean, when you look at the population 70 years ago compared to today, I think it's doubled on the globe.
00:56:43.000So even if the dollar is only dominant with half the world, it's still the same number of people as it was 70 years ago.
00:56:50.000But have you considered that the average person, I should say all people actually, are stupid and that we should control them with a small council of elites who have inherited their power and then reset the whole system and then take everything these people own away from them and then once we do, they'll be happy?
00:57:21.000Well, when we were hanging out with Ryan and Danny the other day, we played that video of the guy filling up the back of his pickup truck with gas.
00:57:28.000And I'm like, now you understand Bill Gates, but Klaus Schwab's probably better.
00:57:32.000Klaus is like sitting there and like he's sitting in his lounge chair with his belly hanging out and he's like clicking YouTube videos and then he watches a guy pouring gas in the back of a pickup truck and he's like, I must do something about this!
00:57:42.000Kim, when you think about like just the sheer stupidity of some humans to destroy themselves and everyone around them, like...
00:57:48.000What do you, like the plebeians in the Roman times, they were like, there's the elite central few that run society and everyone else is a plebeian because they're too stupid to understand at which end of the fork to hold.
00:57:58.000Like, how do you, do you see, do you think that that's real?
00:58:01.000That there's like a small group of really hyper-intelligent humans and everyone else is like a dumb, like a follower?
00:59:06.000You know, when you look at it, just even in our government now, you've got Democrats thinking that and then you have Republicans thinking that.
00:59:28.000I hear what you're saying about the fact that there are a lot of different perspectives on this, but we also have to be very careful not to fall into the trap of relativism and still be willing to acknowledge that there is truthhood and falsehood, and the best we can do is try to pursue that which is good and noble and pure and true as best as we possibly can.
00:59:43.000Even if there's some potential for us to get it wrong, at least we will have tried.
00:59:47.000I really don't like that wealth goes from parent to kid on death.
00:59:52.000That makes me so... Who should it go to instead?
00:59:54.000Just disperse into nothingness or something.
01:01:59.000This means he's got $12,000 in savings, he's got a mortgage on his house, and, you know, liabilities plus assets equals about $100,000, and he lives in the suburbs and his kids go to school.
01:02:10.000His kid's 16, 17 years old, and then he dies, and the mom dies, or whatever, they both had a car accident.
01:02:16.000You gotta transfer what the parents had to the kids, otherwise the kids are just homeless.
01:02:20.000So it's also interesting, because Ian, there have been some analyses which have suggested that inheritance taxes make income inequality worse.
01:02:27.000Because when you look at middle class people, generally their best way of generating intergenerational wealth is through home ownership, property ownership.
01:02:34.000It's basically what they can pass on to their children.
01:02:37.000And so, we've also seen it disproportionately harming farmers, because their wealth is stored up in their land and the crops that they grow.
01:02:44.000And I just find it interesting how these left-wing economic policies almost always end up going after the people who make our food.
01:02:50.000It's not necessarily intentional, but it almost always ends up resulting in food becoming more difficult to produce or more expensive.
01:02:57.000The owners of BlackRock, when they die, BlackRock goes to their kids.
01:04:12.000And what currency does is it allows for me to trade... I don't want your electricity.
01:04:18.000I don't think electricity is a good... I think it's cut to the point where if we don't have it, we're screwed.
01:04:22.000Well, Ian, can I ask you, how would you correct for the double coincidence of wants that she was just explaining?
01:04:27.000The problem of sometimes one person who's generating wealth doesn't necessarily have something that they can trade directly with the other person who has something that they want.
01:06:21.000And she's like, no, no, no, not like money.
01:06:23.000And I'm like, but if I had a voucher that just said it was worth some kind of trade meet, like it was worth the work I did, I could trade that with someone else and they could turn it in for the food.
01:06:35.000It's a type of currency called script.
01:06:37.000And they would corporations would give out script to their workers.
01:06:39.000And you can only use it at the company stores.
01:06:42.000Yeah, but if I don't want to buy from that company store, right, that's the problem.
01:06:45.000And that's why we have currency, we have money that we can use as an as you know, so that I could if I don't want Tim's bananas, but but he wants what I've got bread and You've got gems to sell me to make jewelry or something.
01:06:59.000You know, I don't want all these things, and so we trade in money in order to get those things.
01:07:03.000Well, the downside is the rich guy can get a big loan and have all this funny money that he can buy all this stuff because he had access to the dollars, to the money.
01:07:12.000But it's like, what's the value of money, really?
01:07:15.000Even the Galactic Federation uses credits.
01:07:18.000Yeah, but I don't think they really would at that point.
01:07:20.000If they're materializing matter, they wouldn't need that stuff.
01:07:22.000You gotta watch Star Trek, man, because you know what you're talking about.
01:08:50.000I don't think that there's any way, like you said, because if you are going out and videoing something, how can somebody trade that with you?
01:08:57.000First, we have the laws of thermodynamics, right?
01:09:01.000So even when they're conceptualizing a show like Star Trek The Next Generation, there's really interesting contradictions in the show where, in some instances, they're like, we don't use money anymore because we have replicators, but they have riverfront property or bayfront property in San Francisco.
01:09:17.000Like, how do you distribute wealth or allocate resources?
01:09:23.000So, I don't know how that would make sense.
01:09:25.000Living in a Star Trek-style future with no money, but someone gets to live on the bay?
01:09:35.000Well, communists have tried arguing Star Trek is communist.
01:09:38.000And they explain, this is one of the reasons why.
01:09:40.000The problem is, in the actual show, They couldn't overcome logical fallacies or logical plot conundrums without explaining the use of money.
01:09:48.000Why would there be a need for exploration if you could replicate everything?
01:09:51.000Ah, the replicators can't make certain complex substances, so you have to go and find them and get them.
01:09:55.000Otherwise, it would be a show about a bunch of gods flying around doing whatever they wanted.
01:10:13.000And also, even if it were the case that we ended up in some kind of post-scarcity landscape, the reality is it's really an incoherent idea because your time will always be scarce.
01:10:26.000There's always going to be an opportunity cost to everything you do.
01:10:29.000Post-scarcity isn't even, like I said, it's not a coherent concept in this world.
01:10:33.000I believe your time is your most valuable resource, way more than any amount of money you could be given on birth.
01:10:39.000So what you do with your life is the value.
01:10:42.000And also, what am I going to get for what I give?
01:12:06.000Yeah, I mean, it's exactly the same thing.
01:12:07.000If you're going to break up a monopoly, you are saying to that business owner, you cannot have x, y, z thing, no matter how good you are at getting that thing.
01:12:19.000I'm saying that, like, censorship, for instance.
01:12:21.000Censorship is actually a good thing, depending on the context.
01:12:25.000If someone's posting child abuse on websites, we certainly want censors to, like, get rid of that, find those people, and arrest them.
01:12:30.000We don't want our political opinions to be censored.
01:12:32.000But then there's a challenge in what constitutes a political opinion, so you have morality issues.
01:12:37.000If there's one company that controls all communications, and they're censoring their political rivals, or it's a cabal in Silicon Valley, we got a very serious problem.
01:12:45.000If it's like one small website who is having their domain seized by big companies, so we want to protect the smaller guy.
01:12:54.000So, my point is, Yes, in certain circumstances antitrust makes sense, but the idea that someone is allowed to earn more money, they're not ripping somebody off, they're allowed to expand their business, we just don't want them to control all of the market.
01:13:35.000So let's talk about what this means for you guys.
01:13:38.000Ian was just discussing money and currency, and there's some interesting questions to have here.
01:13:41.000I don't care about the US dollar in terms of what that means for you because we got other numbers to deal with.
01:13:46.000What I care about is, how many hours do you have to work to eat a meal, to live, to have healthcare?
01:13:53.000And this is the big problem I have with the left when they're like, $15 minimum wage!
01:13:58.000And I'm like, The number and the piece of paper or the digital currency does not change that you will have to work a set amount of hours to earn certain resources.
01:14:11.000If everyone in the country is getting paid 15 bucks an hour to make a widget, the cost of widgets goes up with the cost of labor.
01:14:19.000So changing the number does not change the amount of time taken from the person to produce the object.
01:14:25.000So my thing is, when it comes to better standards of living, it's a supply and demand issue with labor versus supply.
01:14:33.000Demand for labor versus supply of labor.
01:14:36.000And it's what people are willing to work for.
01:14:38.000Right now, people are not willing to work for that much.
01:14:41.000But the fact remains, if it's by government force or by unionization, if every single person says, you know what, the government won't raise our wages, then we're all going to demand it.
01:14:52.000You will still get inflation and you will still work the exact same amount of hours for the exact same resources.
01:14:59.000But this was the argument against abolishing slavery.
01:15:04.000I mean, well, because if you want really cheap goods, I mean, if you're saying that, well, you can't raise wages because if you raise wages, then that's going to raise the cost of goods.
01:15:11.000I'm saying that money represents time and value, time and labor.
01:15:19.000Time and labor won't change my mandate.
01:15:21.000So what you'll get is there's a few interesting things.
01:15:23.000The minimum wage will allow people to buy computers for less time of their lives.
01:15:30.000So we get our computers made by, you know, like sweatshop and slave labor in a foreign country.
01:15:35.000And if a computer costs $500 and you get $500 per week from your job, if we give you a 20% raise, it'll take you 20% less time to buy that product because the product is imported from a country that uses slave labor.
01:15:46.000But if you're buying American-made goods, And their wages go up the same as yours, you now have to pay the same amount of time for their amount of time.
01:15:54.000Right, so basically you're saying then, so then what is your solution?
01:16:41.000And so I'll tell you, when it comes to inflation, what happens is, if you work for one hour, and you're given money to represent that one hour of labor, you can now exchange it for the equivalent value of one hour of someone else's labor.
01:16:52.000With inflation, your time is being stripped away.
01:16:55.000So now you worked for an hour, and it's the equivalent to a half an hour.
01:16:59.000The actual number of the currency, this is completely missed by many on the left when they argue for minimum wage.
01:17:05.000If we eliminated currency from the question, you'd be saying to someone, okay, you work for one hour at my restaurant and you'll be able to buy a meal.
01:17:18.000Whether the meal costs $5 or $10, one hour gets you one meal.
01:17:21.000If you have two guys and one guy makes the meal and one guy sources the food, they're both still going to have to work one hour of their life to exchange the meal, to give the food to the guy to make the meal so they could both enjoy it.
01:17:33.000You change their minimum wage and now $10 represents their one hour, they're still asking for an hour of each other's time.
01:17:40.000So the solution to minimum wage issues is supply and demand.
01:17:45.000But again, the system is never going to change.
01:17:48.000This will always be the case, even if it's done through capitalism or if it's done through government command economies.
01:17:53.000The only thing that you'll get is ebbs and flows.
01:17:56.000So one of the things I think is good about a minimum wage increase is that imported goods that we get from slaves will be easier to acquire for people working minimum wage.
01:18:04.000Americans don't want to admit the reality of their slave-made goods, but that's the reality.
01:18:08.000So if a slave is going to work for one hour to make, you know, 50 shirts in the United States, if we give you a minimum wage increase, that won't be a wage increase for the slave who's getting paid garbage or not getting paid at all.
01:18:18.000Americans love their foreign products.
01:18:24.000If we were to increase the wage of a sweatshop worker, same as you, you might see a lag in goods that already exist coming through, and so that's one benefit of raising minimum wages.
01:18:35.000So if a shirt is made, and then the person gets paid to make it, and they go in to buy food, and then 30 days later the shirt arrives, the cost of that shirt is still, say, five bucks.
01:18:45.000However, in the past week, you got a dollar raise, and you made six bucks this week, so you can buy the five dollar shirt and have a dollar left over.
01:19:05.000People love those eight months of currency raise because you can get 20% more stuff.
01:19:11.000Well, look what happened at the beginning of the pandemic.
01:19:13.000Our government engaged in the largest transfer of wealth that has occurred in all of human history.
01:19:18.000They printed about $2.2 trillion, about $450 billion of that went to the Fed to leverage out $4.5 trillion in loans.
01:19:23.000And the way the wealth is redistributed in a very insidious way is the people who get the money first in loans before the inflation really hits are the ones who benefit and that comes off the back of everyone else who now has more difficulty affording things and who have lost the value of their savings because that money was printed devaluing the currency or because it was floated into the marketplace devaluing the currency.
01:19:44.000The people that get first access to the money.
01:20:01.000So it would be different if you're raising minimum wage and a corporate boss was told, you have to raise the wage to $15 an hour, but you have to do it out of the resources you currently have.
01:20:13.000I'm not going to print money and give it to you.
01:20:16.000So, for example, you have inflation in certain sectors just depending on how the wealth is redistributed, as opposed to new money being created.
01:20:23.000So, for example, when the federal government started guaranteeing student loans, colleges started raising their prices, which was an inflation within that particular field, even though new money wasn't actually created.
01:20:33.000So you'd have to actually stop greedy inflation, because there's really no more demand.
01:20:37.000It's not a supply or demand issue when you're talking about things like college education, necessarily.
01:20:43.000I mean, I would agree with you completely.
01:20:44.000Especially things that are not tangible.
01:20:45.000When you're looking at college education, there's certainly, yeah, I mean, it's greed.
01:20:49.000But we also know, based on all the research, and according to the National Bureau for Economic Research, I should say, colleges are going to respond to those kinds of subsidies by raising the prices.
01:20:58.000I think what we have to do is just shift the incentives and consider the incentives before implementing any kind of policy.
01:21:04.000Because The idea behind guaranteeing student loans was more people will be able to go to college.
01:21:08.000It was a very nice idea, but they didn't actually think through the incentives that was creating for the colleges, and it ended up making college less accessible for everybody in the long run.
01:21:17.000That's why you have to do it as a two-step process.
01:21:19.000So not only do you offer an affordable education to somebody in a way by giving them some sort of access to a loan or even just tuition, free tuition, but you then would have to have the second step being that you do the control on the university itself.
01:21:35.000Yeah, I think there's an argument to be made.
01:21:36.000I'd have to look into a specific policy prescription there, but... I think we just, you know, get rid of universities.
01:21:42.000You always say that, but we need education.
01:21:48.000This house wasn't built by an architect.
01:21:50.000Either way, somebody had to actually... then it's not structurally sound and is it going to collapse on me?
01:21:54.000I mean... This house was actually built by a bunch of local dudes.
01:21:59.000But either way, some architect... Slowly over time... Somebody had to check it to make sure that it was structurally sound.
01:22:05.000And that was an educated person who understood architecture in order to ensure that the beams are in the right spot, that you have support beams where they need to be.
01:22:26.000I mean, look, like, I'm not gonna go to just any random Yahoo about some, you know, for my doctors, for example.
01:22:32.000So architecture is art, and engineering is the actual structure, right?
01:22:35.000So an architect will, like, draw a pretty picture of a building with, like, cool, like, arches, and the engineer has to figure out how to distribute weight and do things like that.
01:22:42.000For this house, specifically, this is a true story.
01:22:46.000It was built by a bunch of local guys who just knew basic carpentry and construction.
01:22:54.000And so they all understood the basic weight.
01:22:56.000Every beam of wood has like a, you know, what's the right word?
01:23:04.000So they have like two beams here, two beams there, and they're like, okay, these beams can hold this weight so we can build up to this side because the total weight.
01:23:46.000But here's the thing, I mean... So the person gets a job as an apprentice when they're young, working for... But that's no different than a university, that's what... A university is apprenticeship, just on a large scale.
01:23:53.000No, no, no, no, one pays you and you pay the other, right?
01:23:55.000But a lot of times you can't find an apprentice that'll take you on.
01:23:58.000Because it's nepotist, you know, the nepotism, or it's who you know, or they're paid off by somebody, it's essentially a university.
01:24:05.000So university is just education at scale.
01:24:07.000But that's not an argument for the situation at hand.
01:24:09.000That's just an argument for maybe there's crime.
01:24:14.000If the issue is you're going to tell someone to go spend tens of thousands of dollars to go to university so they can learn something and be in a classroom versus someone can get paid to work even if you're just getting coffee to start for the first month and actually watch something happen in real time, university is detrimental.
01:24:29.000So, well, first of all, I don't think you should have to pay tens of thousands of dollars for university.
01:24:33.000So it should be something that is... Well, who pays for it?
01:24:36.000Well, I don't think, knowledge shouldn't be so expensive.
01:24:40.000I mean, you certainly would want your professors to be able to live and feed their families and have a nice life so that they're incentivized to become professors.
01:24:50.000But it doesn't need to be to the level where it's at where these universities are getting
01:24:54.000these huge, you know, they have these massive accounts worth billions and billions of dollars.
01:25:16.000Yeah, I think people shouldn't go to them, but I think in terms of like research at universities and grants are fine for certain jobs, like you want to be a doctor.
01:25:24.000I understand why we make people go to school to be a doctor and get a certification there.
01:25:27.000But for the most part, universities should be like an aside, you know?
01:25:33.000Well, so maybe they've expanded and maybe you don't agree with all of the topics that they teach.
01:25:54.000And it's because in my experience, I have already hired many people who have spent too much time at institutionalized learning facilities and have not enough real-world experience.
01:26:01.000They can't understand how to make things function properly.
01:26:04.000So, for me personally, I'm like, if you've spent this much of your life in school, you probably, you know, I think that's a net negative.
01:26:12.000However, portfolio is the most important thing.
01:26:13.000You come to me and say, I went to college, I'll say, sure, whatever, show me your portfolio.
01:26:42.000It's not really the actual experience of going to college because you can't expect every 18 year old to know what they want to do with their lives at the time that they're 18.
01:26:53.000So again, it's, you know, there's a lot of people that they're still finding themselves.
01:26:56.000And they shouldn't be at 18 because you're an adult at 18.
01:27:00.000And so this is one of the problems we have as a country.
01:27:03.000When I was a little kid I was playing music, I was skateboarding, I was rollerblading, and I was programming websites and video games on a computer and I was reading the news.
01:27:12.000When I was like 10 years old I'm on CompuServe and AOL.
01:27:15.000And I'm reading articles and I'm doing it and somehow managed to, here I am, you know, not 36.
01:27:20.000A bunch of my friends were doing literally nothing.
01:27:23.000You know, I was homeschooled from the time I was born until I started preschool, until I started kindergarten.
01:27:28.000A bunch of my friends sat around doing nothing but watching TV.
01:28:18.000I think if you took a kid who grew up and worked on his dad's farm or in his dad's smithing shop or smelting, you know, work smelting, or watched his dad weld, and then he grew up and went to high school and learned basic math and stuff and had been working at the family business, you take that person at 18 compared to an 18-year-old who did none of those things, The 18-year-old fresh out of high school who worked for his dad's shop is going to tell you about accounting, finance, banking.
01:28:40.000He's going to explain to you what time the workers come in.
01:28:42.000He's going to know about the labor laws.
01:28:44.000And that other kid's going to be like, I have no idea what any of that is.
01:28:47.000And you expect the kid who did nothing but go to an institutionalized learning facility to know what they want to do with their life.
01:28:52.000The kid who was welding when he was 13 is gonna be like, I once made this really cool structure with my dad.
01:28:56.000They're gonna have that memory, they're gonna have the experience, and at the very least, they're gonna have real world work experience and connections in their community.
01:29:02.000I think school is one of the biggest detriments to human civilization.
01:29:07.000I think that I understand parents can't be there explaining math and history to all these kids, but now you take a look at what's going on with, like, Florida, Don't Say Gay, you take a look at what's going on with teachers refusing to let parents know what they're teaching their kids, and then teaching these kids a lot of complete wacky activist nonsense, I'm like, it's just gotten worse from the get-go.
01:29:26.000We used to be a civilization of apprentices.
01:29:29.000The kids would watch the parents work.
01:29:32.000Not only was I homeschooled, but my mom opened a coffeehouse and I got to watch how the business worked.
01:29:37.000So I'm in sixth grade and I'm earning money.
01:29:39.000And so I've got money, I've got responsibility.
01:29:41.000I bought my own Game Boy and my own Pokemon Red.
01:29:43.000That was, for me, I guess in this civilization, I was lucky to have all those things.
01:29:51.000And that's what we need to do to civilization.
01:29:53.000But the thing is, you know, I agree with you that society definitely pushes education way too hard and that they devalue the apprenticeship sort of track for kids.
01:30:03.000And I do agree that they absolutely allow kids to just kind of go through and not know what they're wanting to do and just continue on that aimless path.
01:30:12.000But, you know, just even looking in you sharing your experience, me sharing mine, anecdotally, my dad on his side of the family, my grandfather was a farmer.
01:30:21.000He was the son of a farmer that immigrated here from Denmark, then ran the farm.
01:30:28.000He supported all seven kids being a truck driver.
01:30:30.000My grandmother was a secretary at a newspaper.
01:30:33.000All seven of my dad's siblings, of the seven kids, my dad was the only one who went to college.
01:30:38.000Everybody else in my family, blue-collar workers, they all worked in factories, they were dry cleaners, they were landscapers, they were working to the bone every day, back-breaking work.
01:30:49.000My dad went to college, got a computer programming degree, was able to then get a really good job.
01:30:54.000Out of the seven kids, we absolutely had more money than the others.
01:32:39.000Lawyers make more than sandwich makers, but my point is, no matter what job you choose, you can be rich if you're passionate and driven to do it.
01:32:45.000Also, sandwich makers are much more popular.
01:33:28.000We had like three choices and that's all you could be.
01:33:30.000And it was they were scrubbing feet in order to put us into college in order to get those jobs because on average now my generation which is you know now we're in our 30s and 40s we on average make more money than my mom's generation.
01:33:42.000Now that being said my aunt is a very wealthy nail salon owner who owns a ton of nail salons in the Beverly Hills area.
01:34:29.000I think it's, you know, the saying is chance favors the prepared.
01:34:33.000Some people are prepared to make sacrifices or take chances and others aren't.
01:34:37.000But sometimes your chance and the success like you were born here in America.
01:34:42.000So you had the opportunity to have a lot of success in America.
01:34:45.000But if you were an immigrant coming in from like El Salvador and you've got to literally walk your rear end all the way across a continent.
01:34:53.000To get yourself into America, that was a lot of hard work.
01:34:55.000And then you get here, and maybe you're only living in a two-bedroom apartment, but to you, that's rich compared to where you could have lived.
01:35:01.000You think I had a two-bedroom apartment?
01:35:11.000But to this guy even, I mean, this guy was living in a shack on dirt in El Salvador or something, so everybody's wealth is relative to where they came from.
01:35:21.000You know, and so, I mean, I know guys that started off with millions, and then they made billions.
01:36:10.000Tier seven to eight says the judge looked like a complete clown after the sentencing he doubled down in his lies the judge did and Proceeded to inflame racial tensions further after years of court wasted resources five felonies perjury on the stand and hours for hours, etc You mean a Jussie looked like a complete clown after sentencing the judge it says the judge but hasn't I don't think the judge was the one yelling Smollett all right I don't know, maybe this is a pro-Jussie tweet.
01:38:46.000Well, and now I think AMC, didn't they, which one announced that they're going to, did they announce that they're going to be doing it based on the popularity of the movie?
01:38:56.000It's just it's fascinating how that's gonna affect box office numbers too because we were talking earlier about like economics and incentives and the more expensive the movie becomes as it gets more popular the fewer people are gonna want to pay the money to go see it.
01:39:09.000Maybe they'll start off cheap and then as the weeks you want to go see it early before it starts getting expensive.
01:39:16.000Dude you're a scalper and if you think movies gonna be really popular you buy up a bunch of tickets before it gets popular and then you start selling them outside the theater.
01:39:24.000You know, they're basically saying like, you know, Resident Evil is going to be starting at 10 bucks because we don't think anyone's going to want to see it.
01:39:28.000And then people are like, yeah, I'll do 10 bucks and they go see it.
01:39:32.000You know, I'll buy a thousand of those tickets.
01:39:33.000It's interesting though, because it'll even it out though.
01:39:36.000I'm fascinated to see how that turns out, because if each film doesn't cost the same amount, people are going to make their decision to see a film based on the price, which is not something we've really seen before with major motion pictures.
01:43:06.000Yeah, I saw I remember I wasn't when I moved to LA the first time there's a billboard and it was like the end of the world is coming and it was like some guy had bought a bunch of billboards claiming the world was gonna end in like 2011 or whatever and then I remember like The world didn't end, you know, I wonder what happened all those people in their money.
01:46:10.000Yeah, honestly, because he just says things and he talks a lot and he posts a lot.
01:46:14.000But I think the important things you'd want to hear from Trump right now about the future, he obviously isn't going to be talking about for obvious reasons.
01:46:21.000Mr. Beast on JRE, I'm interested to see that.
01:47:45.000It might have been Obama because he was so opposed, you know, who was McConnell that said, I'm going to do everything I can to stop every single thing that this guy tries to do.
01:47:53.000I remember Bush using the war on terror as an excuse to do all sorts of extra congressional action.
01:50:21.000I got kind of confused with the amount of words in that thing.
01:50:24.000I think he's asking, he says that the value of his friend's skill is such that he's able to sell a product that's worth $25,000, whereas if he were to make you a table, it would be worth $100.
01:50:33.000Well, it depends on if I need a table or not.
01:50:35.000Well, it depends on the value of the work, right?
01:51:37.000But, oh man, I got to tell you one of the best lines that seriously, the writing
01:51:41.000for the Joker and the Dark Knight, when he's talking to Harvey Dent, wow.
01:51:46.000You know that scene where he's in the hospital?
01:51:50.000He's like, if I were to tell the media that, like, a gangbanger will get shot or a truckload of soldiers will be blown up, well, nobody cares.
01:51:58.000But when I say one little old mayor will die, well then everyone loses their minds.
01:52:50.000And then I love it when people are like, Obama was great!
01:52:53.000Didn't Joe Rogan recently call him the greatest president or whatever?
01:52:56.000I wouldn't be shocked, that's very sad.
01:53:00.000Speaking of really horrific things that go on in the world that people don't really pay attention to and aren't bothered by, I mentioned earlier we just did a video for Freedom Tunes on Yemen and the fact that the US has been aiding the Saudis in carrying out a genocide where An estimated 85,000 children under the age of five have starved to death because of the blockades that our government has been supporting.
01:53:21.000It's really disgusting, horrible stuff, but it's part of the plan.
01:54:18.000I think I was listening to Drinking Bros and they were saying that when someone, when a civilian gets hit, it's never an issue of precision, it's an issue of intelligence.
01:54:27.000So when they hit someone, it's because that's who they intended to hit, they just might have been wrong about what they did.
01:54:32.000Which is a very stunning indictment of the Obama administration.
01:54:35.000The statement was that they were trying to target some other guy and they hit the wrong one?
01:56:31.000One of my favorite stories is that back in my old neighborhood, there was a dude who he applied for a job at a warehouse as a forklift operator because it paid like six figures, but he was a high school dropout or something.
01:56:45.000And then when he got there, they were like, all right, so you're going to be using, you know, this rig.
01:56:49.000And he went, oh, well, I've never used that one before.
01:57:29.000And I was like, Like, now we have to get into it because you said it, and I'm going to tell you, but I genuinely do think Trump is wrong.
01:57:35.000I think, like, when I hear the fraud narrative, the rigged election stuff, I'm just like, whatever you believe, you are discouraging people from getting out and getting in these primaries, and I don't know why you're doing it.
01:57:46.000You know, but I genuinely think this is a weakness of Trump supporters, where instead of believing they were beat by, as Time Magazine called it, the shadow campaign, through mass mail-in voting, through just ground game, getting out there and advocating, going to, you know, going to old folks' homes and, here are your mail-in ballots, they all came in the mail, make sure everybody fills them out.
01:58:06.000They're just like, ah, it had to be Reagan.
01:58:07.000It's the only way Trump could have lost.
01:58:08.000And I'm like, or they took away sports, they took away movies, they took away going out with your family, they beat you over the head non-stop in the media, and then they mailed you a ballot and say, you want things to go back to normal?
01:58:24.000Maybe what and didn't is what they meant to put in there?
01:58:27.00025% of Americans attend college. They are the highest paid people on earth. Why does Kim think the 75% of those?
01:58:32.000Why does Kim maybe think the 75% of those who did attend college?
01:58:36.000What is it? Maybe what and didn't is what they meant to put in there?
01:58:40.000Like what did she think of the 75% didn't attend college?
01:58:43.000Yeah, like Well, I can't really speculate, so there we go.
01:58:50.000Let's see, Brop says, I joined the military at 18, got out and worked for two years, then went to a local community college and got a degree in computer-aided drafting.
02:00:21.000But they chose to go there instead because they are not smart and they don't know that they have nicer spots to go.
02:00:28.000Well, what we were supposed to do is actually put them in the chicken house every night and like close it until they learn that they actually have a proper chicken nesting thing we built that goes really high.
02:01:09.000Yeah, you could build one in your garage and stuff, but are you actually going to be employed by a company that is going to ask you to actually engineer that and put that into a piece of machinery that somebody's going to risk their life driving in?
02:01:24.000Well, if you're looking for a job about making an alcohol-powered Bonneville, you're probably going to get hired more like Mythbusters or a sci-fi special effects or industry.
02:01:35.000I don't think he's going to go work for Pontiac.
02:01:38.000Well, but also I think just the skills he developed as a mechanic might help him in other careers he might pursue related to automobiles, not necessarily that he is going to be doing that exact thing for a living.
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02:01:59.000We're not gonna put up billboards or anything, or I don't know, maybe we should.
02:02:02.000You know, just do what CNN does, put billboards everywhere, I guess.
02:02:04.000But also, search for Chicken City on YouTube and subscribe, and you can watch chickens.
02:04:26.000We're not all we're not gonna put them all in we might actually just give them some of the babies away to people Who might want them?
02:04:32.000So we'll make maybe if like a members only thing Yeah, like if you're a member you can like sign up like I would like a baby chick And then we'll like put a little box with you know that one this one chickens sleeping standing up.
02:04:42.000Yeah, that's Roberto jr Wow, he's a beast.