On today's show, we talk about Nicki Minaj's new album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, a new book about George Soros, and much, much more. We're joined by Dan Bongino and Matt Palumbo to talk about it all.
00:01:31.000But it's also kind of a, there is this cathartic release seeing these journalists, you know, they're trying to go up against somebody who's one of the most famous individuals on the planet.
00:01:40.000Lie about her, insult her, deride her, and she's like, she's got weight to throw around.
00:01:55.000We got a bunch of other stories, though.
00:01:56.000There's one really interesting story that I talked about on my main channel, which is there's an article in The Atlantic where this historian says he predicts a civil war and the Trump supporters will win.
00:02:31.000Because ultimately I think the difference between ancient Rome and now is that The Trump supporters are the people who are just like, peaceful divorce, take your state and go.
00:02:54.000Some guy from the street that Tim found who was kind enough to invite me in.
00:02:58.000No, no, I'm here to talk about a new book I have out about George Soros, or is coming out, I should say.
00:03:02.000And I run Dan Bongino's news aggregator, Bonginoreport.com, which is our competitor to The George Report, which, as everyone here knows, kind of blows.
00:03:13.000I mean, the problem, too, is the site never really advanced.
00:03:16.000In fact, there was an article on The Onion, like 10 years ago, a Drudge report, and it was like, exclusive report, Drudge has actually been hacked for the past 20 years.
00:03:25.000They're trying to make the site look like shit.
00:03:27.000And, you know, so there is, you know, A, that the site never really adapted, and then B, there's been this weird sort of left-wing turn starting to trump.
00:03:36.000He might be sort of bouncing back a little, but overall it's gone left and, you know, he's hammered his audience and no one really knows what, you know, the story is behind that.
00:05:39.000There's big corporations that are constantly spying on you.
00:05:42.000A VPN provides you that basic layer of security.
00:05:44.000It's like locking your doors and windows and putting your blinds down because you don't want people to be able to see in and you don't want them breaking into your house.
00:06:24.000The way I always describe it is, you don't expect someone to break into your house, but you still lock your doors and windows, so take your security seriously.
00:06:40.000And I don't want to get into too much detail because it could risk our security, but there's stuff that goes on behind the scenes where we're like, yo, we need to consider this stuff because weird stuff happens and I'll leave it at that.
00:06:50.000And you don't notice until you get an IT guy who's like, yo, and he shows you and you're like, whoa, I didn't even realize that was happening.
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00:07:05.000We got so much stuff going on with TimCast.
00:07:07.000Ian's getting ready to do a cooking show.
00:07:08.000Oh, it's making me hungry just thinking about it.
00:08:20.000So anyway, they prattle on for quite a bit and then somewhere near the bottom they go on to mention, she hopped on Instagram and posted screenshots to her story that allegedly show a conversation between a reporter in Trinidad attempting to contact some of her family members.
00:08:34.000One assumes that this reporter must be doing so in order to verify the claims of swollen balls.
00:08:38.000But we will likely never know the truth, because Minaj also used her story to attempt to dox the reporters by posting a picture of a business card, a name, and a phone number, and that it was a mail-online business card.
00:08:50.000I'm Jezebel's feminist, and they're all of a sudden... These people have... They claim, like, these are bad outlets, and now, all of a sudden, they're journalists?
00:12:50.000I would say that's never going to happen.
00:12:51.000There are some instances where I'll see the right do something that I consider to be disingenuous, or just, like, exaggerated or hyperbolic, you know?
00:12:59.000There was one where, recently happened, Joe Biden was, like, wearing sunglasses and eating ice cream or whatever, I don't know what he was doing.
00:13:04.000And he said something like, he was asked about Trump, and he goes, ah, Trump, I don't know, said, uh, Robert E. Lee, we're in Afghanistan, I don't want to talk about it or whatever.
00:13:15.000and they were like look he's stuttering and mumbling and he can't speak and I'm like no
00:13:19.000that time it just sounded like he was uninterested. It was being dismissive.
00:13:23.000It was being dismissive. You don't need to pretend that Joe Biden can't speak. We can
00:13:26.000all hear him say, tune in on a shot of the pressure. That's what it was.
00:13:30.000But it's With the quote-unquote right or the not-cult, it's a mix.
00:13:42.000I think he actually identifies as a socialist and I think Jimmy's fantastic.
00:13:46.000And he points out a lot of the same manipulations and lies in the media.
00:13:49.000So Jimmy Dore sitting down with a conservative, they're probably going to be arguing like crazy, but then they're going to completely agree on the establishment, the feds, the war, the manipulation.
00:13:58.000So when Nicki Minaj comes out and she's like, the media lies.
00:14:03.000It's like, yes, this is basically what we're talking about.
00:14:06.000The people who are discerning, they look at the media and they question the narratives and the people who aren't, who believe whatever they're told.
00:14:15.000So Nicki Minaj tweets this thing like they're lying about me.
00:14:17.000Michael Malice tweeted at her, the corporate press is the enemy of the people.
00:14:21.000And then someone responded, Nicki Minaj is on the side of the far right.
00:14:28.000I mean, that's the weird thing about the left, too, and making every common sense position far right is like you're going to actually normalize the far right, which is not necessarily something you want to do either.
00:15:40.000Because, like, I can sit down and have a conversation about border policy with libertarians, and you have libertarians who are pro and against borders, and the libertarians who are like, open borders are the only true libertarian position.
00:15:52.000And the other person is like, no, no, there should be borders, otherwise you don't have a country.
00:15:55.000And it's like, those conversations can happen.
00:15:58.000We've been trying to get people to come on with Alex Jones.
00:16:05.000Not because, you know what the funny thing is?
00:16:08.000They're scared because he's gonna be right.
00:16:09.000Because when Joe Rogan had him on, and Joe Rogan kept fact-checking him, and then Joe would be like, Alex, that's not true, and Alex would be like, look it up, I'm telling you!
00:16:17.000And then Jamie pulled it up, and then, oh yeah, I found it, it's true.
00:16:21.000It's CNN reporting, 2016, some weird thing.
00:16:24.000When he was here, Alex told me that we eat cloned beef.
00:16:28.000He's like, all the beef you're eating, it's all clones.
00:16:30.000And I'm like, no it isn't, that's ridiculous.
00:17:41.000It's so weird, too, because you can see it play out on Twitter, the whole process, and all the other journalists are like, wow, great job transcribing this nine-year-old podcast no one knew about.
00:18:17.000They always have an issue, no matter how obscure.
00:18:19.000Like, I'll be friends with someone on Facebook from college and they're like, oh, this native tribe in the middle of this place you've never heard of needs our help.
00:18:26.000And I'm like, how do you guys keep track of all this?
00:18:29.000I'm not saying it's bad to care, I'm just saying I don't get how you guys- it must be exhausting.
00:18:33.000I'm looking forward to, like, Nikki doing new songs.
00:18:39.000Yeah, and she's- it's like, you think back to that line from Rage Against the Machine, I'm sorry, Rage on Behalf of the Machine, where they said, F you, I won't do what you tell me.
00:18:52.000F you, you better do what they tell you.
00:18:53.000And they're not, they were never really anti-establishment.
00:18:55.000Like if you, well they actually did a tour, I think it was sponsored by Pepsi once, but you might want to check that.
00:19:00.000But on Tamarowe's guitar, the black one, I don't know what it's called, I'm not into music, but it references Shining Path, which is a Peruvian communist group that killed 60,000 people.
00:19:45.000Like, we were anti-establishment because we want to subvert, you know, the authority and take over and install our communist, you know, utopia.
00:19:53.000And you were willing to help us do it.
00:20:40.000It makes it nearly impossible to get specific guns that I think don't even make sense to be banned.
00:20:47.000But there's a ridiculous amount of guns that are banned.
00:20:49.000People don't understand that not only is there a ridiculous amount of guns that are banned, but there's also a ridiculous amount of guns that can't even be made because of the NFA and other ATF regulations and rules.
00:21:01.000So, it looks like Senator Kramer, the U.S.
00:21:04.000Senator for North Dakota, introduced a bill to abolish the NFA.
00:21:07.000Senator Kramer and colleagues introduced a bill to improve firearm owners' access.
00:21:33.000It's the thing, Republicans will get power, then they'll go, well, if, you know, we use the government to enforce our principles, the left will do it when they take power.
00:21:40.000And it's like, well, they already are.
00:21:41.000I mean, it's almost like a meme that schools are left-wing.
00:21:44.000It's like, you guys let them get that way.
00:23:30.000If there's some obscure district, and you run and it's D plus 28, and you run as a Democrat, and you win the primary...
00:23:40.000See, the issue, I suppose, is running the primary is very activist-y because that's where all the hardcore activists are.
00:23:46.000But what's to stop a Republican from doing, you know, pulling an AOC and being like, I'm far left, and then getting in and then go right to the establishment.
00:23:53.000I know this is just a sheriff election, but I think that's what, I suppose like David Clark, the black sheriff, he used to be on Fox News a lot.
00:23:59.000Very conservative, but he is a registered Democrat.
00:24:02.000And I think it's sort of the same thing.
00:24:03.000He's in an area where you kind of have to be, even though what he's saying is not that way.
00:24:07.000I think that's the answer to the problem.
00:24:10.000So a Republican runs as a Democrat in a Democrat district and then votes Republican.
00:24:14.000No one pays attention to those local politics.
00:24:16.000I mean, I know who my representative is.
00:24:18.000I don't know who any of the other ones are.
00:24:20.000I doubt half the people in my town even know who theirs is.
00:24:23.000So yeah, I think it would be possible.
00:27:13.000The establishment Republicans are speed bumps for Democrats.
00:27:16.000And it's intentional, as far as I'm concerned.
00:27:19.000What do you guys think about having more parties?
00:27:20.000Because I've floated it in both ways, where I'm like, on one hand, it allows people to be more honest, because optionally, within the Republican Party, there's probably three or four different factions.
00:27:30.000But on the other hand, it could risk making the country more divided in that, you know, instead of one, the blue team versus the red team, you've got eight teams that are... It would be a good thing.
00:27:38.000But it's not possible in first-past-the-post voting systems.
00:27:41.000Well, it would need to be like Europe, where you vote for the party and then whatever percent they get, you know...
00:27:59.000I assume that's it, but I'm not sure, yeah.
00:28:01.000If we had 10 Libertarian seats in the House, it would force the Democrats and Republicans to compromise.
00:28:08.000Yeah, I want, like, a Libertarian Party, a Nationalist Party, like a... I don't know, maybe, like, a Tea Party, a Tea Party, and the left can have their, you know, crazy different factions, like a Green Party or something.
00:28:17.000Or a DSA, or something like that, yeah.
00:28:18.000Because, look at it this way, there's... Bernie Sanders is notorious for compromising and working with Republicans, and that's why they called Kamala Harris the most liberal member of Congress, which is not true.
00:28:31.000It was just based on one year's voting, I think, that particular... It was based on cooperation.
00:28:36.000Bernie Sanders was willing to cooperate and sponsor Republicans in exchange for their support on his bills.
00:28:42.000And his bills were substantially more progressive, but he knew where his paths were, and Kamala Harris was just not talking to Republicans at all.
00:28:48.000That doesn't make her further left than Bernie, but that's how they weighed it.
00:28:52.000Yeah, and I think another thing, too, is, like, Bernie, there are certain policies of his that there's literally no point in proposing because they're not gonna go anywhere.
00:28:59.000So, obviously, he has radical beliefs, but they don't show up in the record because You know, it's just never going to pass.
00:29:04.000You remember when Bernie, he said this, I think it was, man, when was this?
00:29:23.000And so the world socialist website called him a nationalist capitalist.
00:29:29.000Speaking of people flooding into the country, did you see Drew Hernandez's tweet from today of that giant mob of people coming across the border?
00:30:30.000We talked about this a couple days ago with Jack Murphy.
00:30:32.000Laws are created in this country now over the past two years as the sovereign decrees it, and then the people are given the right to challenge so long as they're impacted by it.
00:30:43.000The courts can then strike down their challenge and the law stands.
00:30:46.000That's what's happening with all of the coronavirus lockdowns across the country.
00:31:27.000So, when it was... When we had a border, You have a country.
00:31:31.000It's defined by here's the border of our country where our jurisdiction extends.
00:31:36.000Then we started having problems with illegal immigration, so we started putting up barriers, and then Trump says, you know, we get to the point now where it's like we're gonna build a wall because we're asserting our right to have jurisdiction.
00:31:45.000That this is our country, this is where our community lives.
00:31:48.000Joe Biden gets in, and the crisis gets worse.
00:31:59.000It's been, you know, three quarters of a year.
00:32:02.000And Joe Biden, the problem's only gotten worse.
00:32:05.000And it's gotten so bad that the migrants are actually crossing back and forth.
00:32:09.000So people will walk into the United States, go to the camp and hang out, then walk back to Mexico for food and water and go to stores and then walk back and then sleep under the bridge as if there is no jurisdiction at all anymore.
00:32:21.000We're having I think there's like a 20-year high in apprehensions and I assume because of Biden we're not not as much effort as even going into apprehensions and despite that fact we're at 20-year highs so it's probably so much worse than we can even imagine.
00:32:33.000I imagine Joe Biden sitting there like, is the country collapsed yet?
00:32:37.000Well, I mean, the end goal is amnesty.
00:32:39.000And the left is always shifting the goalposts.
00:32:41.000They'll go, oh, I mean, we have 11 to 30 million people here.
00:33:05.000Just for people, because we bring this up a lot.
00:33:07.000A lot of people don't know this, and it's one of the most important points.
00:33:10.000Congressional districts are drawn up by population, not by citizenry.
00:33:14.000So the more non-citizens are in an area, which they can just keep bringing in, then the census comes out and they say, oh, look, we've got, we need more districts.
00:33:22.000California and New York, I think, are actually losing districts this time.
00:33:24.000So I don't know if you ever had any run-ins with the fact checkers yet.
00:34:16.000So it should be this amount and no effect.
00:34:18.000I think it was the Heritage Foundation said that California ends up with one extra electoral vote and college seat based on electoral college votes and congressional seat based on the population of illegal immigrants.
00:34:30.000Yeah, it was Center for Immigration Studies and to be fair they might have also been factoring in, and I think mine excluded this, but they also did one where they put in legal permanent residents who are non-citizens because they also count And it also, you know, generally benefits left-leaning states.
00:34:45.000I don't, I don't, I think, man, Biden's our Buchanan.
00:34:51.000You know, so either the United States is done already.
00:34:55.000We've got Sarah Silverman coming out being like, I think we should have, our country should break up.
00:35:21.000The only concern I have is, I mean, from our perspective, and definitely because we're all politically involved, it feels like it's half the country hates the other half of the country.
00:35:29.000But I think it also could be the case that 20% of the country hates the other 20%, and then the remaining 60% just want to watch The Bachelor.
00:35:35.000I'm definitely one of those other 60%.
00:35:39.000I don't think it's that big, actually.
00:35:54.000So it's unique to the, whatever we would call the establishment, the left, whatever you want to call it, in that I know people, and this is what I told Bannon, who had no business being in politics, like these are people who've never watched a minute of news, all of a sudden posting videos of them filming themselves dropping their mail-in ballots for Biden saying, we all got to vote for Biden.
00:36:15.000That kind of zealotry is unique to the left.
00:36:18.000The right doesn't have that ground game.
00:36:19.000And that's why I think, you know, like the recall effort could have... They were 1.7 million down, if you analyze the data.
00:36:26.000I don't know the exact numbers are now.
00:36:28.000But Trump supporters didn't show up to recall Gavin.
00:36:30.000I'm not saying they would have won, but they could have come out.
00:36:34.000Republicans on the right don't have ground game.
00:36:36.000And I think there are a lot more, as Michael Malice would say, a lot more NPCs on the left.
00:36:40.000Default liberal, I think, would be right.
00:36:43.000Your blinders growing up are every musician, artist, mainstream TV show, comedian, every sort of facet of the entertainment industry is all left wing.
00:36:54.000So when you only hear one opinion, you really can't blame someone for just going, oh, OK, this is, you know, I guess what I'm told.
00:38:34.000Because like, they're not supposed to share their science with less developed.
00:38:37.000But that was a really great point to be made in a show from, I think the episode was in the 90s, that we can laugh at the fact that we think we know things, and then later on we continually better our understanding and debunk and disprove and refine our understanding.
00:38:53.000So when you have people saying, I believe the science!
00:38:56.000And I'm like, oh, which papers did you read?
00:38:58.000Well, I, Anthony Fauci said on TV, it's like, yo, don't come at me and say that we, our research from reading articles is wrong when I literally read the scientific papers on these different things and you did nothing.
00:39:11.000And with, and this is more medical science, but there's, I know Vox sucks, but they did an article on like studies proving and disproving that something is good for you.
00:39:27.000Now, obviously, medical science is much harder to control for all that stuff, so it's different than, you know, physics or something, but it is interesting.
00:39:33.000I don't see how, because we had this argument the other day.
00:39:37.000There was a point where I felt like we could mend the divide, maybe 2015, 2016.
00:39:43.000where you know I'm saying like we need to make sure we're understanding each other and explaining
00:39:48.000things in the right way and if someone is saying racism is prejudice plus power then all we got
00:39:52.000to do is break down what these words mean and try to come to an understanding. Now we're at the point
00:39:56.000where it's like you know people are wishing for death on each other. Well we can see we're at a
00:39:59.000point where we can all see the same viral video and somehow predictably you can predict someone's
00:40:05.000Or, like, you can know someone's opinions on guns and know their opinion on abortion.
00:40:09.000Like, there's all these things that really shouldn't be... But I'll tell you where the line is.
00:40:13.000And this is why I say the left is a cult and whatever you want to call this amalgam of different factions is not.
00:40:22.000Yeah, and he was trying to... And the young White House intern tried to take it from him.
00:40:27.000The establishment people were arguing that she tried yanking it from him.
00:40:30.000And the right tried arguing that Acosta tried yanking it back from her.
00:40:37.000And I think you can clearly see that Acosta was the one musing the force.
00:40:43.000But my position was, I don't know exactly if Jim Acosta was trying to yank it from her or if he was just reacting.
00:40:51.000Regardless, Jim Acosta should not be fighting with an intern no matter who was in the right or wrong.
00:40:56.000Jim Acosta should have handed the microphone over.
00:40:58.000And I had high profile personalities DM me.
00:41:02.000I'm not going to say who it was and be like, are you being serious with this right now?
00:41:06.000And I was like, serious with what you really saying it's his fault.
00:41:10.000And I was like, why, why was he standing up there talking for two minutes?
00:41:15.000When you're in the White House as a guest, when the intern comes up to take the microphone from you, you say, well, here's your microphone back.
00:41:22.000They literally are like, that's why I say it's a cult.
00:41:24.000It's not about whether it's true or false.
00:41:26.000It's not about whether it was Acosta's fault or the intern's fault.
00:41:29.000It's about do you agree with me or not?
00:41:31.000And even if I say, I don't necessarily agree with the conservatives on this one, but I still think it was wrong that Acosta was even in that situation in the first place.
00:41:37.000He should have just, he should have handed it right to her.
00:42:01.000And the age of text is very new for humanity.
00:42:04.000Oh, I had a roommate who would always drop, like, trolling comments on my post, and fans of mine didn't know who he was, so they would always get angry at him, and he thought it was hilarious.
00:42:12.000And the problem is, if I'm not trolling, if I really mean, yeah, right, what you're saying, people will see that and think I'm being sarcastic and misinterpret, and that's caused massive confusion.
00:42:20.000You know, I tweeted, we should ban fat people from hospitals so that we can protect the healthy.
00:42:51.000The purpose of the tweet is you got to understand about when you do trolling well, it was not a serious tweet.
00:42:58.000I'm not literally calling for fat people to be banned from hospitals.
00:43:02.000I'm constructing an argument that puts them in a principled predicament.
00:43:06.000If they say, well, the reason we think the unvaccinated shouldn't be given hospital beds is because of triage.
00:43:11.000Then I start with, fat people should be banned because of triage, like the unvaccinated, right?
00:43:16.000And it forces, often when I do these tweets, the left can't even respond because it would shatter their narrative.
00:43:21.000It applies to almost any reason you'd be in a hospital.
00:43:25.000Like, you could break your leg in a skateboarding accident.
00:43:27.000Are we going to say, oh, well, you shouldn't have taken that risk, so it's your fault?
00:43:30.000I mean, and it also sort of undermines their case for universal health care and that if these people were in charge of it, It seems like they're going to be sort of nitpicking who's allowed to have it.
00:44:16.000Will the Trumpist party similarly ultimately prevail once they cross the Rubicon?
00:44:22.000I have been predicting for years that something resembling a civil war will arise, and something like Trumpists likely will carry the day in the short term.
00:44:31.000But a reactionary philosophy that rejects fact in favor of fantasy, is economically retrograde, and socially repugnant to the majority of Americans, can impose its rule only for so long.
00:44:40.000You know what's really funny about that?
00:44:44.000When you take out the fact that the Trump supporters are not the ones who believe in fantasy, but typically are the ones who are critically thinking, not all of them.
00:45:35.000Like Daily Wire is a conservative biased site, but they don't post lies.
00:45:40.000Then the reality is it's the left that's retrograde and reactionary and in favor of fantasy.
00:45:45.000They think the economy is good right now.
00:45:48.000So what they're really saying is this guy, based on his assessment of ancient Rome and what's happening now, thinks there will be a civil war and the Trump side will win.
00:45:57.000I wonder, too, like, when people say civil war, do they literally mean for the entire country?
00:46:01.000Or do they just mean, like, in some region of it, you know, will be taken over?
00:46:04.000Because, like... It would be the entire country.
00:46:05.000Like, so we just got to claim Alaska and Hawaii somehow?
00:46:10.000So, people... The problem with Americans is that their view of civil war is based on one of the most unique internal conflicts in history.
00:46:17.000The American Civil War was a union of states of different jurisdictions aligning against each other.
00:46:23.000Whereas most civil wars are factions fighting everywhere in the country at the same time.
00:46:29.000So if you look at the Spanish Civil War and see like the different pockets that emerged of the Republicans versus the Communists or whatever, and then they're fighting each other and then gaining more and more ground and eventually they take over.
00:46:38.000I think Spain win military dictatorship or whatever.
00:46:41.000That's like, oh, okay, that's how a civil war operates.
00:46:44.000But Americans are like, there was the Mason-Dixon line, and then West Virginia became a state and Virginia separated, and it's like, that's because each state was basically a country.
00:46:56.000And so when the Union got shaky, states seceded of their own accord without what other states thought.
00:47:02.000And then because of the conflict, the Confederacy joined forces to defend themselves against the Union, and that's why they called it the War of Northern Aggression.
00:47:09.000Was there a big call from the citizenry to go to civil war, the American Civil War?
00:47:25.000Here's the other difference between a modern civil war and the past civil war.
00:47:29.000You can argue, and I agree with this, that slavery was so morally repugnant, going in to stop slavery was a cause in and to itself.
00:47:40.000Meaning, if we had a state right now that was like, Enslaving people?
00:47:46.000I would be demanding the federal government, like, we cannot tolerate it in our own country.
00:47:49.000It's a violation of all of our rights, and it must be ended immediately.
00:47:52.000And so I can certainly understand why the North was like, we're not gonna let these states do this.
00:47:56.000First of all, they had continually passed laws that were like, we're gonna get rid of slavery, and the South was mad about it and wanted to leave the Union.
00:48:13.000That's the thing, like, name a person right now.
00:48:14.000I'm sure there are some crackpot, you know, individuals and racists who are, like, angry about it, but 99.99% of everyone agrees it turned out properly.
00:48:38.000No one's gonna invade West Virginia to end the moral repugnance of gun ownership.
00:48:44.000And no one from West Virginia is gonna go invade New York to stop them.
00:48:48.000They're gonna be like, what's gonna happen is, West Virginia's gonna be like, we out.
00:48:54.000I also had this thought, too, in my various streams of secession.
00:48:57.000I had this thought that, like, I think the biggest divide, too, is urban-rural, in that even if a state were to succeed, its population centers are probably still going to be left-wing and still have outsized influence, even if, you know, people, you know, in the majority of the square mileage of it are right-wing.
00:49:11.000So, and I know this would never happen, but I don't know if it would make more sense to have, you know, sort of city-states for liberals than, you know, everything else for the conservatives.
00:49:44.000I mean, there's actually a really interesting book by Jonathan Haidt, and he points out that conservatives and liberals actually have different brain structures, and that we are just fundamentally different, and it could just be naturally people with more left-leaning and progressive views tend to congregate among other people.
00:51:20.000I don't know, I've got, yeah, because there's purity, there's loyalty, there's authority, liberty, care, and fairness, I think, are the, you know.
00:51:28.000So purity is like, there's a reason for that moral foundation.
00:51:33.000Because, and I was reading about it, I think purity has a lot to do with disease.
00:51:37.000That people who didn't care about, like, debauchery would be more likely to spread diseases, so you end up with certain traditions emerging of being clean and being, you know, pure.
00:51:48.000You can see that, like, in religion, like, not eating shellfish.
00:51:50.000It's like, well, at that time that actually was a pretty, you know, brilliant suggestion.
00:52:05.000You know, I don't know exactly what'll happen in terms of civil war, but I can say, if we have two distinct cultures forming in this country, laws cannot be enforced.
00:52:31.000So, I'm not saying Rhode Island literally bans showers, but there are places in the East Coast that were like, you can't shower on Tuesdays.
00:52:36.000Well, maybe because Tuesday was the day they allotted to the farmers to get access to the fresh water so they could, you know, farm their crops and you couldn't be... And then there's some things where it's like, you can't put pies on the windowsill on Sunday mornings.
00:52:49.000Maybe it's because Sunday mornings is when the church would come, and it would attract animals, and then there'd be people around, and it would cause problems, and no more putting your food on the windowsills to cool, because the animals come, but now the animals are gone, and people are going to church less, and we have, you know, we just don't have that problem anymore.
00:53:05.000So culturally, we just ignore that law.
00:53:09.000Now what happens when you have two distinct cultures?
00:53:11.000And then you have a law in the books, which is like guns.
00:54:32.000He claimed that there was a server in a Trump tower that was communicating with a Russian bank called Alpha Bank, and it turned out to just be complete bullshit, basically.
00:54:42.000And Hillary Clinton was tweeting it and John Podesta was tweeting it.
00:54:45.000And all these journalists were like Trump's secret server.
00:57:30.000Donald Trump is on the phone with the President of Ukraine and he says something off the cuff about like, you see this, what's this thing going on about Biden and this quid pro quo or something?
00:58:12.000So Trump hears about this, asks the new Ukrainian president, like, well, look at this.
00:58:17.000Joe Biden had not announced any political ambitions.
00:58:19.000And then everyone said Trump was going after his political rival.
00:58:22.000And we were like, but Biden's not running for president.
00:58:24.000This call, I think, or I think that it was in September that Trump had this call and people were saying he threatened to withhold military aid.
00:58:32.000But the military aid was actually, had been withheld since I think January or February for other reasons.
00:58:37.000So here's what you need to understand, Ian.
00:58:39.000Yeah, that was the Council on Foreign Relations.
00:58:40.000Council on Foreign Relations, where he said it.
00:58:42.000Biden admits, brags, that he said he would withhold foreign aid in exchange for getting a guy fired.
00:58:49.000The media said, but we do this all the time.
00:58:51.000We pressure countries for this reason.
00:58:53.000So when Donald Trump says, I want you to investigate what happened with this, they called that a quid pro quo, even though Trump didn't ask for anything.
00:59:03.000They claim that Donald Trump was abusing his power by trying to use Ukraine to go after his political opponents.
00:59:11.000What really happened was that Joe Biden shut down, whether on purpose or not, an investigation, multiple, many investigations, but some into Burisma, where his son happened to be on the board.
00:59:23.000Mike Zlochevsky, the founder of Burisma, had fled Ukraine.
00:59:27.000Biden comes in, gets the prosecutor fired.
01:00:13.000You've got the Thousand Talents program where they're actually hiring our own professors to give away our research back to them.
01:00:19.000You've got Chinese individuals being caught carrying infectious diseases and bringing them illegally through the U.S.
01:00:27.000And then strangely, when Michael Flynn says, I think China's a bigger threat, all of a sudden there's alarm bells going off in the Democratic Party, and they seek to then get indictments, and Russiagate was fake.
01:00:40.000It was years where even I was like, well, this is interesting, we should absolutely look into this.
01:00:44.000And then afterwards, it's over, Rachel Maddison, the Virgin Tears.
01:00:47.000Listen, you didn't understand, when I say these people are evil, dude, and the NPC default liberals who line up behind them and in the millions to vote for them, because they're in this matrix, This is a whole new, this is a level of depravity that can't
01:01:29.000Imagine you lived in a country and a high-ranking cabinet member in the executive branch had a nonprofit that was taking in millions of dollars from foreign governments.
01:01:43.000And the nonprofit was named after this individual in the cab, in the executive branch.
01:01:48.000I mean, surely that would shock people to their cores when, say, like, imagine Saudi Arabia was giving tens of millions of dollars to this.
01:01:56.000And we'll call it the Blinton Foundation, just as, you know, while they're... Just pick a name.
01:02:20.000If you looked at the emails and you looked up Sidney Blumenthal and you wanted to look at like, she was directly instructed by Obama not to work with Sidney.
01:02:26.000And she was just doing it because he was an old Clinton advisor.
01:02:28.000For like 30 years he's worked with the Clintons.
01:02:44.000Yeah, we're fighting an uphill battle, that's for sure.
01:02:46.000But I will say, the challenge the establishment faces is that they're losing control.
01:02:53.000So ultimately I think everything might lead to some kind of balkanization, regional breakups, and they can't do anything about it.
01:02:59.000So earlier I saw you guys were doing the Fediverse meeting.
01:03:03.000And I was talking to Andreas about it, so for those that aren't familiar, we pitched this idea.
01:03:07.000Ian and the crew have been working on this with a big team.
01:03:10.000The idea is to create an open source software that allows you to have your own website, social media present, subscription service that's networked, so no one can ban you anymore, because it's your website.
01:03:21.000But your website does connect with the network, so if you go to my site, you can see a Twitter feed.
01:03:26.000And each individual tweet comes from an individual's own private server, unbannable.
01:03:30.000And so we talked about this, and I was like, sooner or later, someone's gotta try to shut this down, because this would, like, if we actually get to the point where we have mass adoption of, imagine you owned your own private Patreon, where you had subscription service, you could post a video feed, you could post tweets, and it would actually link, and people could follow you across different networks.
01:03:50.000The technology already exists, it's called the Fediverse, Gab is on it.
01:03:53.000And now we're ramping up and trying to create website applications that can be really easy for people to use.
01:03:58.000Imagine we get to that point where the powers that be can no longer censor the news about Hunter Biden because the network is totally decentralized.
01:04:05.000And I'm like, someone's going to have to try and stop that, right?
01:04:36.000The only thing I think they do with crypto is sort of on the, I guess, when you're cashing out, is you would need to go through a legitimate brokerage to convert to cash.
01:04:43.000But if you're never, if you're never going to convert to cash, you don't.
01:06:09.000You know, just in line with what we were saying about the country breaking apart with crypto, No one needs the Federal Reserve.
01:06:17.000And not only that, El Salvador was one of the smartest things a country could have done, especially a country not as wealthy as, say, the United States.
01:06:26.000Because now that they're getting all of their citizenry to use Bitcoin, Bitcoin is going to keep going up in value.
01:06:31.000It's also helping them, too, because their economy is dollarized, and they're constantly losing dollars due to imports versus exports, and they can't print any more money.
01:06:41.000So this kind of also works around that problem for them.
01:06:44.000Yeah, yeah, but the thing is when a citizen holds 0.1 Bitcoin because they're planning on using it and the next day bitcoins up 10% Yeah, they got richer.
01:06:52.000Yeah, and so it's like imagine how well off the citizens are gonna be now Yeah, because they're gonna get paychecks in Bitcoin They kind of get on the ground floor of all the countries are gonna follow a lead I assume What concerns me is when you see the entire crypto space, the two trillion cap, dip by 40%, all of it, over the course of three weeks, like it's driven down 30%, 40% because some big, probably governments, Chinese governments, American governments, are selling it and selling it and selling it and make it want to drop.
01:07:17.000And then as soon as it drops, they buy it all.
01:07:19.000All these poor people thought they were losing their money.
01:07:21.000It's not as bad though as when you sell it and then it goes up 40 or 50%.
01:07:29.000But these people got to learn, and we keep saying it, when there was that last big crash from $60 to $30, most of the sales were a couple hundred bucks.
01:07:37.000It was the poor people cashing out, panicking.
01:08:28.000And then I bought a bunch, and now it's at like $3, $3.5 or whatever.
01:08:32.000Yeah, because Ethereum is... NFTs, like Ethereum is... Ethereum is the evolution of Bitcoin.
01:08:38.000Some friends and I actually started one as a joke, and it has a $1.4 million market cap.
01:08:43.000But it's so misleading because there's like 30 grand in liquidity so like obviously it's not, you know, you could sell through it but on paper it's worth like 1.5 million.
01:08:51.000So I own, I have some Doge because it's fun.
01:08:56.000I have Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Cardano.
01:08:58.000I own like Uniswap, SushiSwap, and then basically all the tokens that are exchanges.
01:09:06.000My logic was like, well, even if the coins go down, as long as there's volume, the exchanges are making money.
01:10:13.000So like the stories of people who start with start small and just keep putting more crypto back into the system and they're building up that portfolio.
01:10:20.000It's kind of crazy because so long as the it's like basically the power of the central banks in the hands of regular people and decentralized.
01:10:28.000So now the money transactions and printing and.
01:11:12.000is if you're paying attention you can really take the light because it's always up down up down and i mean you just follow those leaps you have the bitcoin you put it into usd coin when it drops it is hard you gotta it's a giant i think for the average person i think just buy and hold just because you'll go you know insane right but there's a million what they can do i mean i tried that and uh I was day trading for a while, but it became very exhausting because it's a lot of work.
01:11:35.000The Uniswap stuff is where the real opportunity is.
01:11:39.000There's risk because you're staking your coins to someone else's pool and it could go belly up.
01:12:12.000Imagine if you had 50 grand, you bought an ATM, you need another, I don't know, an ATM probably costs like 20, 30 grand, then you need 40 grand to fill it.
01:12:19.000You're spending $70,000, you put the ATM in a bar, and then you're just getting free money.
01:13:28.000It's like some gambling game where the way it works is like you put in money, and then for every second that goes on, you get a multiplier.
01:13:34.000So it could be like, after two seconds, you get double your money.
01:13:38.000But then it will go to zero at any random point.
01:13:40.000I think that analogy works for this sort of high-risk trading, where it's like, because it could be so easily lost, you really can't kick yourself when it does take off after you sell, because, you know, if you're playing that literal gambling game and you sold off, you turn a grand into twenty grand, you could kind of be an idiot to keep holding it, knowing you could easily get it out to zero.
01:13:58.000So, maybe that's just what I tell myself to, you know, not go criminally insane, but that's sort of how I see it.
01:14:03.000I remember Max used to, on his show, he would talk about all the different altcoins and stuff that existed at the time, and he was very big on a lot of them.
01:14:10.000Now he hates them all, and he's like, Bitcoin is the only true coin.
01:14:14.000But I've known Max for a minute, and he was pushing Bitcoin in the very early stages.
01:14:19.000Granted, at the time, he was also pushing other coins, saying that these looked promising for certain reasons.
01:14:25.000So what happens is, in the early days of Bitcoin, it was like nothing.
01:14:31.000Once it got its first boost of popularity, people started cloning it.
01:14:34.000There was a bunch of different versions that tried tweaking different things about it, like it'll produce slightly more, or slightly less, or work slightly faster, or take less energy.
01:14:42.000And there were a few that required substantially less energy, and that seemed to make more sense.
01:14:49.000But he had been, you know, so look, I had my savings back during those early days, and if I just put it all in Bitcoin at the time, Bitcoin was at a couple bucks.
01:15:00.000The thing is, I tell myself, like, oh, I invested in Bitcoin when I heard about it in, what was it, 2012?
01:15:39.000But you know, if people actually invested and understood investment, they'd be better off regardless.
01:15:44.000People don't understand the value of like to invest.
01:15:47.000And they, you know, when I see my friends and they're like, I got paid, let's go spend it on drinks and partying.
01:15:52.000And I'm like, if you buy something, you have the something.
01:15:56.000It would be cool if you could not, you don't really have to build a school, but just build some sort of curriculum where you you're able to teach kids economics.
01:16:02.000And the thing is, there's a lot of apps now that kind of automate it, where you can just take a hundred bucks out of every check and put it in, so you don't even have to think about it anymore, you can just kind of have it be on the back end.
01:16:10.000I think this Uniswap stuff, I think Uniswap's huge.
01:16:13.000I'll say this though, so I always say this as a disclosure, Doge, I don't think, is going to make me rich.
01:16:20.000I just think it's funny, and so I have some.
01:16:23.000Bitcoin is going to skyrocket in value.
01:16:25.000I think a Bitcoin is worth a million bucks.
01:16:26.000Ethereum, I don't know where its cap is, but there is a finite amount of Ethereum, I believe, correct?
01:18:26.000That utility adds value to the other thing is with.
01:18:28.000So we had a conversation about this like a week ago, and it was like, we ultimately came to like, if we are going to randomly just throw darts at the board and try and think of what it might end up being based on the volume of it, utility of it, Bitcoin's going to keep going to value, Ethereum and Cardano have utility, Cardano ends up around $30.
01:18:46.000So I was like, I like what they've talked about doing.
01:20:41.000Yeah, you can easily make your own token and just... Oh, my friend did it in like 20 minutes, and then we raised money for the pool, and I don't know how we raised money.
01:20:51.000We literally put out on a Medium page, like, hey, send us money at this link and we'll give you our new coin.
01:20:59.000And it looks like a scam, obviously it was not.
01:21:01.000People did, we raised like 30 grand in a week, and then we just put it all into the pool.
01:21:04.000Well, so this is one of the big challenges the SEC is not happy with, is people are using these tokens effectively as fundraising venues, like shares.
01:22:11.000If I did listen to Max and, like, legitimately listen to him, buy it and keep it, yeah, I'd be a billionaire.
01:22:17.000I'd be a millionaire if I bought NFT of a blank space.
01:22:22.000There was this thing back in the day, I don't know if you heard of it, where a guy had a million pixels, and he sold a pixel for a dollar each.
01:22:29.000And it was a website with a million pixels, and then people would buy, like, I want 100 pixels, and they would put their art there.
01:22:35.000I made a million there's actually people who do there's a whole website here where it's called where they buy famous
01:22:40.000art pieces Like worth tens of millions of dollars and they issue
01:22:43.000cryptocurrency on the art and you can buy up like shares of it
01:22:47.000Yeah, you can buy a share. It's like a famous painting and then then you get voting rights
01:22:51.000So if they get a bid in for the painting you get a guy's gonna vote if you're gonna sell Wow
01:22:54.000Stock on object. Yeah, but I think I remember I signed up for it
01:22:57.000But I think you needed like tens of thousands of dollars and it takes years for them to so I wonder if we can issue
01:23:04.000Stock on Ian. Oh, I was just saying that stock on people When's that coming?
01:23:08.000AOC was who I was thinking of, actually.
01:23:10.000Yeah, there's some guy that's an Archibald who's sold shares in his life and has to do whatever they tell him.
01:23:43.000Like some young 18-year-old kid, he's poor and desperate and he's like, I'll sell you 50% for a thousand, please man, I'm gonna be homeless.
01:23:50.000And then he's like a tech CEO and there's like this evil guy like behind him like, I control everything.
01:23:55.000Maybe you could legally cap it so you can't sell more than 1% of your own stock.
01:23:58.000I don't think you should be able to sell any of it because what happens then, rich people would buy up from young people and then creating indentured servants.
01:24:09.000And then when they're older, I mean, that's basically what college is doing.
01:24:13.000There actually are services where you can get a student loan and they get a percentage of your income instead of you taking debt, which Stossel did a segment on it.
01:24:21.000It makes a lot more sense, but they do cap it at a certain amount.
01:24:24.000And if you're unemployed, you don't have to pay anything.
01:24:50.000I mean, it covers all the Russiagate stuff.
01:24:51.000It starts pre-election, and then it goes into sort of the Mueller special counsel.
01:24:55.000He made it into a trilogy, so he did two books after that on his own.
01:24:59.000One that's more old special counsel stuff, and then the last, which is just sort of everything after that.
01:25:04.000So there's a chapter in the third book in the series called, or I can't remember the name of the chapter, but it has a lot to do with Ukraine and the whole impeachment hoax.
01:25:12.000And there was some sort of like Soros ties into that chapter.
01:25:15.000So there's a number of Ukrainian anti-corruption organizations that are Soros backed that were actually cited in the whistleblower complaint.
01:25:22.000And then a lot of like the sort of swampish characters in the impeachment saga are connected to U.S.
01:25:29.000institutions obviously that are also sort of tied in with Soros.
01:25:32.000So he pitched the idea of doing a book where that was sort of going to be our starting point was let's try to do a book based out of that section of his last book.
01:25:41.000So I put together a pretty lengthy chapter, I think it was like 15,000 words, which is, you know, I'd say half the length of a very short book.
01:25:48.000But obviously that itself is not going to be a book.
01:25:51.000And, you know, it was really as much as I could do was that much, given the content, or given what was available.
01:25:56.000So it just became a question of, like, well, what do I want people to know about this George Soros guy?
01:26:02.000So I started just by making it into more or less a critical biography.
01:26:05.000So I started out by just giving, you know, an overview of this guy's life.
01:26:08.000Um, who he is in his own words, where he came from, how he made all his money, um, what it was that made him want to go into politics and influence that.
01:26:15.000Um, and then each chapter is just sort of a, um, I mean, I try to make it like a biography slash novel slash reference book.
01:26:22.000So each chapter is just a different facet of life.
01:26:25.000So we'll have one called Soros in the Media, and it's just, here's every, literally every person in the media I could find that Soros is connected to either, um, that he's associated with publicly, that, That have worked for his foundations to varying degrees, and here's where they work today, and it's places like the LA Times, and NPR, and the Washington Post, and MSNBC, and CNN, and pretty much every quote-unquote mainstream place you could list.
01:26:48.000And then it's just doing that for everything else, so I do one on his quest to sort of infiltrate higher education.
01:26:53.000I guess in his view, college isn't liberal enough, so he's trying to sort of... Actually, this is a more recent end-of-life sort of thing he's doing, is he's been creating his own network of colleges internationally.
01:27:03.000And his dates actually back to the 80s. He started a college
01:27:06.000Called Central European University in Hungary was later expelled from Hungary and is now in Vienna
01:27:11.000But he's sort of starting to build a network around that in recent years
01:27:15.000And then I just do this for everything. So I found for instance
01:27:19.000I have a whole chapter on leaked Soros documents from wiki leaks and DC leaks and just everything to be gleaned from
01:27:25.000them Then it's connections and like just randomly, you know,
01:27:30.000Well, it's to a large extent. It's it seems to be influence for the sake of influence. He
01:27:35.000He is one of those people that the, you know, not to sound like Ted Kaczynski or anything, but the power process is very important to him.
01:27:42.000In his own words, too, he describes himself as an egomaniac.
01:27:45.000He says he wants his views to be the conscience of the world.
01:27:48.000And it just seems like, from his perspective, he just kind of gets off on influencing things.
01:27:53.000You know, the most interesting thing about the book, too, is like, I know it's going to be called the hit piece, but most of the negative stuff that I say about Soros and his personality is quoted from him.
01:28:03.000I read all the guys' books in preparation for the book.
01:28:08.000The only thing he's walked back on was there was a very, I guess, infamous or famous interview he did with 60 Minutes back in the 90s, where he admits to working with one of the Nazis' Jewish councils back in Hungary, you know, serving deportation papers to Jews, telling them their goods are going to be confiscated.
01:28:27.000Sociopathically says that it's something he never felt any guilt over.
01:28:30.000That's the one thing he sort of tried to reverse course on.
01:28:34.000And if you ever do a Google search for that interview, they're always playing cover saying, oh, it's actually not really what he said.
01:28:40.000The interview is actually kind of hard to come by online, too.
01:28:42.000So, I mean, I'm not saying he's the kind of guy who's got legal resources.
01:28:46.000I'm not saying he's censoring the internet.
01:28:47.000However, he has a lot of influence, and he easily could reduce its reach tremendously.
01:28:51.000So I actually found the transcript, and it's more or less exactly what he says.
01:28:55.000And not only did I find the transcript, George Soros' father wrote an autobiography.
01:29:00.000He talks about the same influence, and it said that his son seemed to enjoy it, and he tried to dissuade him from it.
01:29:04.000Do you remember when, I think it was Newt Gingrich was on Fox?
01:29:08.000And he mentioned, like, George Soros funded these DAs.
01:29:10.000And Fox was like, we don't accept that.
01:29:40.000Potentially might get delayed because so we're nervous that we're gonna get sued not like a legit case but just to sort of f with us and cause us money because the libel laws are such like I can literally accuse this guy of murder in the book and I can't I would win a lawsuit just because of how high profile he is.
01:29:57.000But anyway we're still doing a legal review just to like get even that possibility out of the way.
01:30:01.000And the lawyer like I'm sort of paraphrasing but he was like really good book interesting really well researched Um, you're enough of a dick where it could get you sued.
01:30:11.000So I have to, they highlight it all and I have to, you know, undickify the book.
01:30:15.000But, you know, hopefully it won't get delayed more than a week or two.
01:30:18.000Yeah, so it's on Amazon and Marts & Noble, and then I think all those other random sites like Books a Million or Target, it's probably on there too, but Amazon's the big one.
01:31:52.000Kyle, I just want to say for the record, Kyle Rittenhouse is my hero, so.
01:31:55.000You know, I don't know if I'd go that far because he's a young kid who was trying to do right by his community, and the whole thing was crazy.
01:32:03.000But when you break it down, the left is trying so desperately to cover this up.
01:32:07.000That's... I'm sort of being reactionary.
01:32:10.000Like, yes, I understand he shouldn't have been there.
01:32:11.000However, given the context of everything... Oh, no, I wouldn't say that.
01:32:20.000But when you watch a video of a 70-year-old man being bashed over the head with a brick and left bloody on the ground, and then you say, I'm coming out to protect my community, should Kyle have been there?
01:33:05.000I thought a lot about semantics, and what I don't want to do is be like, you said that, so you mean this.
01:33:11.000I don't want to twist you, but I like to talk about the meaning of words and how the meaning of words are perceived by different types of people.
01:33:19.000It's very important to the dynamic, I think, today.
01:33:54.000There was a funny meme where some guy was tweeting, like, a couple asked me if I would leave my window seat so that they could sit together, and I said, your love is not as important as me watching the airplane take off.
01:34:06.000And I'm like, yeah, but like, it's a funny way to put it, but like, bro, you're going to sit in a plane for a couple hours.
01:34:14.000It's a good 4chan post, but yes, in real life, you might not want to.
01:34:33.000And I get emails all the time, they're like, Tim, I had to quit, I couldn't do it anymore, I won't do this.
01:34:37.000We have the story, 11 of 15 restaurants that were surveyed by New York Post wouldn't enforce this.
01:34:43.000Apparently, Libby is telling us, she was here on the show, cops won't even enforce this.
01:34:47.000So there's still a lot of good cops, but a lot of the freedom-loving ones are resigning.
01:34:50.000Then you've got people in the military, officers, who are resigning.
01:34:53.000So what's going to be left in five years?
01:34:54.000Well, that's the unintended consequence, too, of Black Lives Matter is, generally speaking, when cops are demonized, it's the good ones who know, hey, if I'm ever in a tough situation, I might have to, you know, behave in a certain way that might not be popular.
01:35:06.000Then you're left with all the crappy cops who are sort of going to end up perpetuating their narrative.
01:35:11.000The people willing to join, and the people willing to stay, will be establishment shills.
01:35:17.000They'll be the fascists, it'll be the banality of evil, and so when people are like, if a civil war happened, the right has all the guns, and it's like, and the left will have the institutional guns, and you will have the civilian guns, and so bad things happen.
01:35:31.000Brett says, Nikki was blacklisted years ago.
01:35:33.000Been working against the industry machine and their plants.
01:35:57.000There was a time that whenever a song would come on, I would turn off the radio because I'm like, if I die in a car crash, this can't be the last thing I hear.
01:36:37.000And now, we got to that period in the 90s and 2000s where it was just like... Opioid music.
01:36:43.000Yeah, just, I'm rich, I'm rich, I'm rich, I'm rich, and I'm like... Like, I get it, you can dance to the beat, but man, there's no substance.
01:36:53.000Yeah, that's why there's like some pop musicians where I'm like really disappointed sometimes when they'll write, they'll come out with a song that's actually really great in terms of composition, but the worst possible lyrics you can imagine.
01:37:04.000And I'm just like, wow, imagine if they actually, you know, Adele's good.
01:37:37.000It doesn't matter if you think you're right.
01:37:38.000It doesn't matter if I'm right or they're right.
01:37:40.000What matters is both sides are adamant they are right, and they're continually escalating the conflict.
01:37:47.000Now I will say, as I often do, I think the cult are the ones who are actually pushing it.
01:37:53.000Donald Trump did not invoke the Insurrection Act.
01:37:56.000Donald Trump did not start these riots.
01:37:59.000And Donald Trump didn't even stop the riots.
01:38:02.000But when it comes to Joe Biden, the executive decrees, and Cuomo murdering 15,000 people, the left is right there empowering them the entire time.
01:38:59.000It's like, it's like 5% of it is right wing and they don't talk about it.
01:39:02.000Like, I mean, like I think actually Norm Macdonald who recently passed away is actually sort of an example of that where he's, you know, he, when he rarely talked about politics, it was right wing, but it was just, you know... Didn't he have a thing where he talked about going to a Trump rally and how he like, he loved it or whatever?
01:39:14.000Well, he had this one joke where he was talking about how a transgender woman came up to him and was like questioning, like, how can you possibly believe in God?
01:39:43.000He pushes those talking points where, you know, about he was on a radio show with this woke woman and he said that black people are poorer than white people and poor people are dangerous.
01:39:56.000But the problem is that was actually their talking point.
01:39:58.000He just said it in a way that came off as crass and they were offended by it.
01:40:01.000And it's like it really makes you makes you think that Many of these people are offended not by the substance of the idea or the fact, but by the way it's put to them.
01:41:23.000You'll sit down, you'll have a conversation with one of these people on the left, and you'll say something, and they'll just say the opposite.
01:41:27.000Well, there's a whole Twitter account called DefiantLs, and literally the entire feed, no matter who you are as a liberal, he will find you saying one thing, and then four days later magically having the opposite opinion in the opposite circumstance.
01:41:42.000Ezra Klein had, like, the really famous moment where he was like, You know, um, we, we, we should have, uh, appointments for the Supreme Court for life.
01:41:53.000And then when, you know, uh, Kavanaugh comes around, I can't remember who it was.
01:41:58.000Then Kavanaugh comes around and goes, well, we really should consider limits and people should be out at a certain point.
01:42:02.000And it's like, Well, the big one is the vaccine, which is, I mean, now getting pushed on us as, if you don't take this, you want everyone to die and you should have no rights.
01:42:08.000A year ago, it was, God, why is Trump trying to rush this?
01:42:53.000And then also there's the acknowledgement that on Twitter, your odds of convincing someone of your opinion in a hundred characters is zero percent.
01:45:01.000Lobbying literally means argue to person.
01:45:04.000It comes from people standing in the lobby and waiting for Congress, the day's session to end, when they would come out and they'd be like, hey, hey, hey, come, you want to come look at this?
01:45:31.000They show a map, and it's like, here's Dan Crenshaw's district, and it's got, like, weird lines, and it's, like, oddly shaped, and I'm like, yes.
01:45:37.000Would you prefer it if half his district covered the water, or if it covered large swaths of empty farmland?
01:45:44.000No, they're drawn over where people live, so of course they're not solid blocks or surfaces.
01:45:52.000how everyone thinks that's what gerrymandering looks like but he created his own hypothetical map where every box just looks like oh it's an evenly made district and it was more gerrymandered than the most gerrymandered districts but it's just the placement of it doesn't have to be the shape basically was his point people seem to think that like Chicago is a giant square And you can just draw a square over it and be like, that's a district.
01:46:14.000They don't realize that in Chicago, there's big commercial industrial areas.
01:46:19.000Like on the south side, where it's literally like five square miles of factories.
01:46:24.000So yeah, so it's like, we're gonna, people don't live there.
01:46:27.000And then there's also mountainous terrain, swamps, places that are not incorporated.
01:46:32.000So yes, districts are drawn where people live.
01:46:35.000And the problem is, Whether intentionally or not, you will end up with a favorable redistricting, and so people accuse each other of both sides of corruption for doing it.
01:46:47.000The problem is, I think, we have first-past-the-post voting.
01:46:49.000One-person-one-vote is a really dumb idea.
01:46:52.000I can talk all day about how the Founding Fathers were brilliant, but this was one of the dumbest things they did.
01:47:01.000Because we end up with a system where people are voting against each other.
01:47:04.000As opposed to like a ranked choice system, where you set your top ten, and then if the first person's off the table, it goes to your second vote.
01:47:36.000With, uh, with, if, if, if we had, if we had a parliamentary style voting system in the U.S., you would end up with, what is, what is the Libertarian Party like, uh, uh, 5%?
01:48:19.000So Republicans would probably... You'd have like a Republican Party, a Libertarian Party, a Nationalist Party, and they might be a coalition.
01:48:24.000Then, you know, the Democrats and the DSA might be a coalition and the Greens or whatever.
01:48:28.000And what would happen is the Republicans would come out and be like, we want to cut taxes on the billionaires and the millionaires, and the Libertarians are going to be like, you bet, and the national populists are going to be like, we're not going to get on board with that, we don't see how that serves the working class in this country.
01:48:42.000But the Libertarians would often be like, anything having to do with shrinking government, we're going to say yes to.
01:48:46.000And then when the national populists agree on certain regulations, the Republicans do, the Libertarians are going to be like, nope!
01:48:51.000So it forces, but then they could go to the Green Party and say, hey, this regulation, you know, so then they would actually have to meet with more different perspectives on the left and the right to solve things.
01:49:03.000I don't know if it would solve all the problems though.
01:49:05.000But I will say, first past the post results in locked districts and voting against people.
01:49:11.000So now it's like, we have the epitome of anti-elections.
01:49:34.000I think the mail-in voting probably also helped tip the scales in that, like, if you're in a swing state and you're some college, like, I'm working off the premise that the people that were the most anti-Trump were the youngest people who were also the least likely to vote in the first place.
01:49:47.000So, like, when you have mass mail-in voting in any swing state, you have all these college kids who would never in a million years would go to a polling place, can now just check a box.
01:49:56.000Now people are going to say, like, Matt, are you saying college kids shouldn't vote?
01:50:02.000If you want to vote, there should be at least some responsibility, some requirement.
01:50:08.000It shouldn't be that you can sit there with your eyes half closed, someone knocks on your door and says, can you check that box for me real quick?
01:50:14.000People think it's a virtue getting more people to vote.
01:50:16.000I'm like, well, what if they're idiots?
01:50:19.000They wouldn't think that if it was more Republicans.
01:50:22.000So what happens is, this is what the Democrats have been doing.
01:50:25.000I do not believe we're going to find any widespread fraud.
01:50:36.000I think it'd be ridiculous to reduce security.
01:50:37.000We need open source code in these voting machines.
01:50:39.000But what's happening is, with universal mail-in voting, Democrats have all of these nonprofits to go door-to-door knocking on every door and saying, do you vote yet?
01:50:50.000Before they had that, they would knock on the door and say, make sure on September 14th you go vote.
01:50:55.000And they go, yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever.
01:50:57.000And then September 14th would come around and they'd be like, I'm not going anywhere.
01:51:00.000But now, with a month of print-out-your-own-ballots, they have that in California, if you're approved, universal mail-in voting, now the Democrats have a month to go door-to-door to all of these people and say, can you fill that out right now?
01:51:25.000And the Republicans don't have this ground game.
01:51:28.000So there's a lot of Trump supporters who think they were making fake ballots, and I'm like, dude, they're real, they're mail-in ballots, the Republicans helped them do it in Pennsylvania, and then the Republicans did not go on the ground, and that's why Republicans disproportionately vote in person.
01:51:43.000Because no one in the Republican districts, and you know what the other thing is?
01:51:48.000When you're a Democrat and you walk into an apartment building with a thousand people and a massive building, and you go, knock on one door, vote, vote, vote, you walk ten feet, knock on the door, vote, Republicans gotta go house to house to house.
01:52:08.000Because they make very, very bad voting decisions.
01:52:12.000Regardless of whether you think their votes right or wrong, if you're giving an advantage to those who live in dense populations, then you're going to continually pressure left victories, right?
01:52:48.000So he's also hyperbolic, which I think has given him kind of tainted his persona to a lot of people, because it was making them hermaphroditic, this enzyme or whatever it was.
01:53:01.000We've had Steve Bannon a couple times, and we get so many comments from people being like, wow, I didn't realize he was actually kind of a normal dude.
01:53:54.000And so when the media says far-right and you think it's true, I'm like, people don't understand what that means, you know?
01:54:00.000But for Steve Bannon to be like, tax the rich, we're getting ripped off, I'm like, that sounds more like Bernie than anything.
01:54:05.000And it is more common with the European far-right, where they're like, you know, big on anti-immigration, but, you know, when it comes to taxes, they're, you know, more liberal on that.
01:54:13.000But yeah, I mean, he's not, you know, completely one-dimensional or anything.
01:55:11.000And it's going to be really, really fun, and we're going to make it an immortal, living game where we have regular updates, different levels, procedurally generated stuff, and we've got a bunch of crazy ideas that are going to make...
01:55:22.000Probably one of the most fun games you'll ever play.
01:55:24.000The industries are combining, I've found, all these industries.
01:55:28.000The movie industry, the video game industry, the economics, it's just becoming one.
01:55:33.000VR, you know, you're going to be in this world of reality, sub-reality.
01:56:48.000I bet a lot of people feel the same way.
01:56:50.000So there's a lot of the super stonk stuff where they're like, buy MC, the short people, you know, the mother of all shorts.
01:56:55.000And they have all this extra cash on their balance sheet now that they can just kind of diversify if they need to or, you know, use it to do anything.
01:58:07.000Probably, yeah, I think you can, yeah.
01:58:08.000Yeah, that actually makes sense, because then you have, it'll be called like, and the data within them will be 1 of 300, 2 of 300, 3 of 300, and then someone will be like, I went to the event and I got the NFT 3 of 300, or 1 of, and then the person's gonna want that number 1.
01:59:19.000Lord of Avignon says, Tim, how do you feel about the quartering saying you want a civil war?
01:59:24.000He doesn't listen to my videos because, like, I've consistently said one of the worst possible things for us in the world would be if we if we fracture, then China wins.
01:59:34.000But it's funny that he uses the leftist talking point that by talking about something happening, you want it to happen.
01:59:44.000It's a weird thing to say, because it's completely irrelevant to the conversation, completely irrelevant to the argument.
01:59:50.000If the Atlantic writes a story saying, a historian says, we're tracking like ancient Rome and we will have a civil war, and we've had a Princeton professor say it, we've had numerous articles about security experts saying it, we have leftist pundits and right-wing pundits saying it, we have Sarah Silverman saying, secede, New Hampshire's trying to secede, and then I go, man, sounds like civil war.
02:01:14.000Most of what I do is kind of just observational.
02:01:17.000A lot of my videos on conflict in China, it's funny when they're like, Tim Pool's so biased, and I'm like, have you ever watched one of my videos that gets substantially more views?
02:01:27.000I will get way more views talking about, if I did a segment on Biden and the drone strike, and it's just like, a drone strike was ordered here.
02:01:36.000I did one segment talking about 30 minutes.
02:01:39.000The military was reducing contracts in desert theater warfare ordnance and military gear and stuff like that, and was shifting to Pacific theater, which was indicative of a greater threat from China.
02:01:51.000It also was a sign of the withdrawal with Afghanistan, and it was ridiculously dry.
02:01:57.000There wasn't me going like, I can't believe these Democrats are going!
02:02:00.000It was me literally saying, Joe Biden announced that the Pentagon would be reducing its purchasing of, and it's just like 30 minutes of really dry stuff.
02:02:08.000And they accused me of wanting war by literally reading military reports and purchasing reports and saying like, guys, it really does sound like the U.S.
02:02:15.000is going to be shifting in this direction and this will put pressure on China.
02:02:22.000Also, I think Jeremy is very much a person-oriented show.
02:02:27.000So, for me, when I'm like, take a look at this report about conflict, and the segment is literally about the allusions to ancient Rome and, like, potential conflicts and history repeating itself, and then you have other channels like Jeremy where he talks about people and, you know, what people do, It's just very different.
02:02:47.000Jeremy's not gonna make a video talking about the merits of civil war because he's a people channel, you know what I mean?
02:02:53.000Like, they're channels that focus on, like, individuals and individual culture, and then we talk about... That's why I usually don't name people.
02:03:01.000When I'll be like, we did it several times today, I don't say their names because I'm more interested in the ideas that's being conveyed by the person and not getting into petty drama about them.
02:03:09.000Also, I didn't know he said that anyway, so I'm assuming he did, but whatever.
02:03:13.000It's what the left says over and over again.
02:03:15.000Like, the principal professor can come out and say it, and he gets a free pass.
02:03:19.000Do you mean, like, Kevin Cruz douchebag?
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