Ben Weingarten joins Alex Blumberg to discuss the latest in the Ilana Omar case, and why she's a monster. Alex and Ben also talk about the recent DNA evidence released by a man claiming to have DNA evidence linking Omar to her ex-husband.
00:01:08.000I think there's a whole bunch of other circumstantial evidence that, you know, gives you pause.
00:01:12.000To the extent that even the Star Tribune, which is a Pulitzer Prize winning paper in Minnesota, they said that this man was possibly her brother.
00:01:19.000Like, they actually entertained the possibility.
00:01:22.000I'm not... We'll talk about the story, but this work, it's crazy.
00:01:26.00012 hours, I guess, after the dude releases this supposed DNA evidence, he gets arrested on a federal indictment for child trafficking.
00:01:34.000Now, I'm not sure I trust this guy, but innocent until proven guilty, although it's a pretty crazy allegation, and I'll tell you this, grand juries don't happen overnight.
00:01:43.000So if this was 12 hours after he released this, they must have been going after him for some time now.
00:02:13.000And it's crazy to all these people saying it was a great movie, but we're not here to talk necessarily about the pop culture elements of the movie, although I'd love to do that too.
00:02:43.000Yeah, don't associate me with Ilana Omar, please.
00:02:46.000But that said, yeah, Ben Weingarten, I'm a deputy editor at Real Clear Investigations, a senior contributor at The Federalist, I write for Newsweek, Epoch Times, and a whole bunch of other places, frequently about US-China policy, but also the kind of woke, I call it an anti-cultural revolution, that we're going through.
00:03:05.000Part of that that I've been focused on a lot lately is January 6th, all things around January 6th, and how that is sort of Yeah.
00:03:11.000the essential event that all of the scaffolding has been built around to engage in the kind of
00:03:16.000war on wrong think that we're seeing play out in every single sphere of American society today.
00:03:21.000So all sorts of fun, very optimistic and positive stuff.
00:03:27.000When I, when I learned, started to learn about the Reichstag in Hitler's Nazi Germany, early days of Nazi Germany, where the Reichstag, their parliament building burned down and, and they, he blamed the communists and then used that as authority to ban civil rights, take away people's rights, and then start going after people.
00:03:42.000So I'm very, very like on edge about these kinds of things like this January 6th thing.
00:03:50.000You got to watch out for, for Swift pointing at something and then doing a bunch of laws as a result.
00:03:56.000Man, it's sad because it seems like people don't learn.
00:03:58.000The national security apparatus has, for years, been talking about domestic violent extremists, and specifically, you know, they'll use a million different adjectives, but white nationalists, right-wing white supremacists, etc.
00:04:11.000And they didn't have an event that they could glom onto to accelerate what they already would have wanted to achieve in terms of targeting their political adversaries and then using that to increase their power over them.
00:04:23.000This was a precipitating event, but the thing is, every element of the narrative around January 6th has really collapsed.
00:04:29.000It's a joke to think that it was an insurrection.
00:04:32.000These people were not going to... No one's been charged with it.
00:04:34.000The crimes are, for the most part, and there were people who did egregious things, no question about it, and, you know, there's reports of, you know, an officer had his eye gouged and all sorts of other horrible assaults and the like.
00:04:47.000But the majority of the charges put out against the almost 600 people now were basically glorified trumped up trespassing charges.
00:04:55.000And the only person who died, of course, relating to the event specifically was Ashley Babbitt being shot.
00:05:00.000It wasn't Officer Sicknick getting bludgeoned with a fire extinguisher.
00:05:55.000And the J6 stuff is really interesting to me as well, because I was watching a segment, I think it was from MSNBC earlier today, where they were saying that not only was January 6th an insurgency, we're all insurgents.
00:06:17.000I'm honored, because apparently there was a hit piece that claimed I was the most dangerous political commentator, as they said, on the right, because I feign impartiality, but I'm anything but.
00:06:27.000And it's really funny, because, like, is that you saying you actually don't have anything to criticize me over my political opinions?
00:06:34.000Because it seems like I'm mostly just about letting people live their own lives.
00:06:39.000I mean, there's a real value to neutral authority.
00:06:42.000I think that's, you know, if anything, if you're pioneering neutrality and authority, that's valid and useful.
00:07:00.000Like, if you're saying, you know, I wanna have, like, my own space to live and do my thing and defend myself, and then someone says, you shouldn't be allowed to have a weapon to defend yourself in your own home, it's like, well, now you're intruding on someone's home.
00:07:15.000It's the same argument when they say, when they were talking about, you know, gay marriage and stuff back in the day, when they were like, what people do in their own home is their business.
00:07:20.000I'm like, that's right, if you got a gun and a bazooka, I don't care.
00:07:23.000Just don't bring it over to my property.
00:07:24.000Like, I don't want that on my property, but if you wanna have that in your place, I don't care, whatever.
00:07:28.000What's changed is that there were people who you would say liberal and truly left liberal, not classical liberal.
00:07:34.000But it used to be in this country, I think a strong majority would have said live and let live.
00:07:39.000We disagree on a whole host of different issues.
00:07:41.000However, we have a few things that we agree on that transcend all of them.
00:07:44.000Now, it's, you either agree with us, or we're going to send an invading army, digital or otherwise, against you.
00:07:49.000Well, it's like, it's like Mayogate, you know?
00:07:50.000Where the, where the regular guy just made a comment about, my prices are going up, and then all these, these leftist publications are sending a harassment campaign his way.
00:07:58.000Well, let's get, let's jump to the news.
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00:08:48.000Conservative group's DNA test from Congresswoman Cigarette Butt purports to show 99.99% match to her second husband, Ahmed Elmi.
00:08:58.000And so they show this photo of Ilhan Omar smoking a cigarette.
00:09:01.000And I guess that's supposed to be proof that big tent Republican PAC, I guess, secured the cigarette after the fact and then did a DNA test on it.
00:09:10.000And then you end up with this DNA sibling ship report, which is claiming, what do they say?
00:09:42.000Is that we talked about this, like, a year or so ago, where it was like, we were joking, because there's an episode of Law & Order, where, like, they're trying to bust this guy, and they can't get the evidence, and then he drinks from a coffee and then throws the cup in the dumpster, or, like, into a trash, and they walk up and pick it up with, like, tongs, and they're like, discarded materials, and they're like, hey, you can't do that!
00:10:03.000And then they get the DNA evidence, and I was like, what if somebody just, like, found an old snot rag and then ran DNA and proved it?
00:10:09.000I'm not sure I believe, you know, people went out and actually did this.
00:11:01.000I guess outside of any of these DNA claims, there's circumstantial evidence that leads many people to believe she married her brother because it was to get him in the country, right?
00:11:10.000Yeah, it was an immigration thing, and then he got to go to school, and so you have multiple layers of potential fraud in terms of the immigration fraud, the student loan fraud, and probably other misrepresentation as well, and the circumstantial evidence is very compelling here.
00:11:25.000Let's jump to that, but first I want to show people, listen.
00:11:28.000I am not saying I know anything definitively.
00:11:30.000I'm saying people have made these assertions.
00:11:33.000There have been bits of circumstantial evidence to the point that Star Tribune, a Pulitzer Prize-winning paper reported on June 23rd, 2019.
00:11:42.000New documents revisit questions about Rep.
00:12:33.000So yeah, you go in you can look at the marriage certificate You can look at the addresses that she was living in with the alleged brother-husband at the same time her actual Husband was living in like the same place, you know, you can run through all of these different threads two things jump out at me though and one of the reasons I wrote this book is because The brother-husband thing was like the least of the potential issues that I saw in her.
00:12:56.000I said if you actually look at her on the merits, the regressive ideology that she harbors, the fact that she was sitting on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, which she still sits on, and if you applied the Russian collusion standard or any collusion standard to her, links, ties, coordination with foreign adversaries, what I found and sort of the starting point for the book was She has ties to Erdogan in Turkey.
00:13:17.000When she was a state legislator, she had a meeting with Erdogan on the sideline of the UN General Assembly.
00:13:21.000What state legislator from Minnesota has a... Remember when she said we should sanction Israel because of human rights abuses, but then said sanctioning Turkey would be a human rights abuse?
00:13:32.000A lot of people were like, hey... Does she speak the language, Turkish?
00:13:35.000She doesn't, I don't believe she speaks the language, but she is featured in Turkish state media all the time.
00:13:41.000She's had meetings with several dignitaries from Turkey, always taking a pro-Turkish line.
00:13:45.000Turkey has relations with, close relations with Somalia, so I do think that that is a part of this as well, that she is pro-Turkish in large part because of that.
00:13:53.000And that's not even to get into all of the domestic Islamist groups and individuals.
00:14:46.000The Republicans would set their own on fire in two seconds like they've done with Marjorie
00:14:49.000Taylor Greene. It was, was it Steve King I think? He made that tweet about white nationalism.
00:14:53.000They kicked him out immediately and then he lost his primary. Because Republicans are
00:14:56.000like, we don't want none of that. The Democrats though, they're like, who cares? You know,
00:15:00.000when, I'll tell you this, it's because of the media.
00:15:03.000Because, and there's another thing here, it's why Republicans care more about the opinion of the New York Times than the opinion of their constituents.
00:15:09.000Because the Republicans know, if they fart, it'll be the headline paper on the New York Times, and the Democrats know they can do and say basically anything, and the papers will not cover it.
00:15:18.000You got AOC being able to tweet it out, and it's more popular than the New York Times.
00:15:22.000Like, she has 6 million followers, I think?
00:15:26.00012 million followers on Twitter alone!
00:15:28.000Part of the thesis of the book was that the closing ranks around Omar to go from explicitly condemning Omar and her remarks to we're going to explicitly condemn bigotry of any kind that anyone has ever said and not name her in the House resolution or resolutions around it.
00:15:43.000That was the turning point which showed you that the Democrat Party is all in and embracing the regressive progressives because either they think that that's where the party is going and that's where the power is or the party's already there.
00:15:53.000And I was writing this a couple years ago and they're there, I would say.
00:15:56.000Now, the other thing worth noting, just on the media point briefly, tangentially, is why is it always that it's just the Daily Mail that reports on Hunter Biden and Ilhan Omar?
00:16:17.000Yeah, you know, what's fascinating, too, is Daily Mail's not bad.
00:16:22.000The left hates them, and they're always acting like it's fake news or whatever, but they typically have some of the most comprehensive breakdowns of news stories.
00:16:30.000You'll find they have 4,000 or 5,000 words on a single story that The Hill will have 300 on.
00:16:34.000And then they'll attach, you know, related stories with, like, background information.
00:16:45.000For Ilhan Omar, there were, like, three journalists in the country, maybe, who were looking at her, and they were dogged in covering the Omar beat.
00:16:52.000I was a big fan of Al Jazeera, getting my Middle East news, because I would read a lot of American propaganda, and then I'd go and read Al Jazeera and see like, oh, there's a lot more going on than what I'm getting fed by the American media.
00:17:03.000Mainstream media is, what's the word I'm thinking of?
00:17:17.000The hysteria, and I'm sure we'll talk about the coronavirus stuff, but the... Oh, yeah.
00:17:22.000Hysteria engendered around it where we were talking before the show that it's sort of like in 9-11 after 9-11 people watching the TV every day and I remember that I was a kid and I remember being glued to it every day and you can see how people get whipped up to the point where we're talking about potentially mandating an experimental use drug whatever you think about it and you might think it's the greatest thing in the world or you might be skeptical of it Mandating, at the point of a government gun, figuratively, injecting yourself with an emergency use anything that hasn't been tested over a long period of time.
00:17:55.000And that's just normal in 2021 America.
00:17:57.000Well, the worrying thing about that is just mandating something that a doctor could say you can't get.
00:18:04.000Like, you go to your doctor and the doctor says, I recommend no, because you have underlying medical conditions.
00:18:09.000And now what, now you can't go to the movies anymore?
00:18:12.000San Francisco and New Orleans and New York, I think one of the city.
00:18:16.000So yeah, I mean, it's been, it's been, you know what it is though, it's not necessarily the media, it is, but there's another component, it is the Tribal cult-like mentality these people have.
00:18:54.000The idea is that if you say a bunch of things enough, people will just take action.
00:18:57.000So you don't overtly tell people to do it.
00:19:00.000In this instance, this is exactly what's happening with the left.
00:19:02.000They'll come out and say, look at these restaurants, they're liars, they're evil, they're far right, because they know someone will then go attack them.
00:19:10.000And I've heard so many stories like this from conservatives, where they're like, they'll get a smear piece, next thing they know their phone's ringing off the hook, they're getting kicked off social media, they've got people showing up at their houses.
00:19:20.000This has been going on for some time, and I'll tell you, it's like the rules for radicals, man.
00:19:24.000They accuse the Republicans and the right and the anti-establishment of doing exactly what they do.
00:19:29.000They project that because it's an effective offense.
00:19:32.000Then when you come back, and there's like a regular person not paying attention, you say, look, look what they're doing.
00:19:36.000They'll be like, they said you were doing that first.
00:19:39.000And so then they just, they get away with it.
00:19:41.000That tendency to believe the first thing you hear.
00:19:43.000If you hear a bunch of information, it's a lot of times it's the first one you hear that's like codes the mind, you know, the mental pathways, and then there it is.
00:19:52.000They always see the story that gets spun out and then repeated a trillion times, and the lie told a trillion times before you get to the truth.
00:20:00.000I'll give you a really good example of how this manifests in real life.
00:20:04.000Whoever calls the police first tends to win.
00:20:08.000So if Ian and I get into a fight, and then I call the police, I say tends to because it doesn't always work that way, and then I say, hey, I need help, this guy did this.
00:20:17.000When the cops show up, and then I give a statement, I'm the one who called, I have the benefit of the doubt.
00:20:22.000There's actually, uh, con artists exploit this.
00:20:24.000Well, what you do is... I don't want to get into the full tricks.
00:20:28.000I think we've talked about it before, but con artists will do a trick where they will call the police on you and then get the cops to rob you for them.
00:20:36.000Because you called the cops, the cops will typically... So there's some information gathering you need first.
00:20:40.000There's some tricks, which I'm not going to explain because I don't want anyone to go and do this.
00:20:43.000But yes, one of... a very common hustle is to call the police on somebody The cops will then search the person, and then give over their possessions to you.
00:20:55.000I've been in- I've been in- I've had this- I've personally experienced situations like this.
00:20:59.000Where I've been the victim of a crime, but they turned my phone off, and then called the police on me, and then the cops came and arrested me.
00:22:31.000But if I told you that Antifa, some left-wing organizers, were going to be showing up with molotovs and crowbars to Twitter HQ, would you believe it?
00:23:01.000There's also, I feel like, a little bit of a self-loathing element to it, too.
00:23:04.000Like, how do they reconcile their leftism with their material success and, like, all the trappings that they have?
00:23:10.000There's probably a deep-seated psychological—not that I have any expertise in this, and maybe that'll get me banned.
00:23:16.000But that said, I do think that the deep-seated, narcissistic, psychological part of it is probably discounted to an extent it shouldn't be.
00:23:25.000Also, an exclusive from the Daily Mail.
00:23:29.000At least 63 people on Martha's Vineyard have tested positive for COVID-19 since Barack Obama's maskless 60th birthday bash, the most cases on the island since April.
00:23:38.000So I don't know if all of these people were at his party, to be fair.
00:23:41.000It's just on the island, but the island is not particularly big.
00:25:18.000It's all about... And also, are your ideas so great if you have to be coercive and impose them on other people and you can't win with persuasion or argumentation?
00:25:28.000Yet, of course, words are violence, but actual violence is not violent.
00:25:31.000I found that if you disagree and just say, I don't believe it, no, they get really mad.
00:25:37.000But if you offer a counterpoint that's very intuitive, often, especially in a one-on-one situation, they're receptive to it.
00:25:44.000But in the hordes, in the masses, things can start to change.
00:25:46.000When you're dealing with crowds, that's a little more difficult.
00:25:50.000This is a very creepy authoritarian time, right?
00:25:54.000Barack Obama announces his birthday party basically in defiance of all CDC regulation, and they don't bat an eye.
00:26:00.000Shout out to Barack Obama for exercising his First Amendment right to congregate.
00:26:10.000And I do think at a deep level, it's sort of just like thumbing their nose at the little people.
00:26:16.000And also, by the way, I mean, there's so many different knock on effects to how this has increased the power of what I'll, you know, cliche, use the term ruling class, like all of the major corporations, many major corporations massively increase their market share during this time where mom and pop Companies got destroyed.
00:26:34.000You got forced into living remotely and then using Zoom, you know, a Chinese product, of course.
00:26:40.000But even leaving that aside, we're in this atomized existence where everything is digital.
00:26:44.000So now you're using technologies of people who hate your guts and are going to collect infinitely more information on you as a consequence.
00:26:51.000You don't have to be a conspiracy theorist or not.
00:27:10.000There's still some time to get to the lifeboat.
00:27:12.000They saw that hit and they said, grab as much as you can on the way out.
00:27:16.000And they're gonna grab as much as they can because that is them running to the lifeboat before anyone else can.
00:27:20.000And then leave and see you later everybody.
00:27:22.000I think it's even more insidious because it seems like they're moving our industry into these Chinese corporations that are using slave labor and they're just like, whatever.
00:27:33.000They steer us into the iceberg and then laugh and then jump on the boat and leave.
00:27:36.000The question at the end of the day is, so I think that China is the greatest foreign threat that we face, although I think that we are our own worst enemy right now.
00:27:44.000If you're a self-loathing country, if you're a country that says, forget about merit, forget
00:27:49.000about what an individual brings to the table, we're going to divide each other on a million
00:27:53.000different bases and be at each other's throats all the time and basically celebrate mediocrity
00:27:57.000as opposed to excellence and repudiate everything that we're built on, that'll kill us well
00:28:06.000But that said, with the elites, they're now emulating China.
00:28:11.000They've kowtowed to China for decades because they think, well, if we get entered in this
00:28:16.000marketplace, you know, massive profits for us.
00:28:18.000And China, of course, has played us like a fiddle on that count.
00:28:21.000But now it's more of the emulation of like the American social credit system or the social credit system with American characteristics and the blending of big tech and the state and using that power together.
00:28:32.000I think, you know how I would describe what's going on with the U.S.
00:29:23.000You know, I remember when I was first starting in this industry, I had a guy tell me when I was 25, he was like, it's really great right now, everybody loves you, and they're praising you for all the work you're doing, and by the time you're in your 30s, there's gonna be some young kid who develops some new technique and some new tech, and you're gonna be chasing after him, and he's gonna be rising, and you're gonna be worried about your business going down, and I'm like, well, you know, we'll see, but I get the idea, right?
00:29:45.000The idea that there's always someone at your heels.
00:29:47.000So what these political elites, both Republicans and Democrats, are like,
00:29:51.000how do we just finally secure power in a way we don't have to worry about it anymore?
00:30:51.000I think an element of this is, and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, there is the theory that China is just going to overtake us and so better to get on board with China and kowtow to them because you think that you'll maybe be one of the benighted party members someday.
00:31:05.000However, of course, it's those useful idiots who are the first ones that get lined up and shot in any revolution.
00:31:11.000And so there's that, and then also domestically, let's say the woke ideology overtook every single institution, which it already has to a large extent, and they really ended up with their ideal endgame according to their tenets, who would want to live in a country like that?
00:31:25.000The elites, they might be behind 50-foot walls with private security guards around them and stuff, but they can't send their kids to school?
00:31:34.000So I think it's short-sighted that authoritarian instinct ultimately is going to end up in a very I mean, a disastrous situation for them and their families.
00:32:12.000Trump tries turning that around to a great deal, and he succeeded in many ways,
00:32:17.000and they weaponize the media institutions to crush it.
00:32:22.000You notice the greatest attacks on Trump usually came from the national security
00:32:28.000and foreign policy and intelligence apparatus, and those were the areas
00:32:32.000where he was upsetting the apple cart probably to a greater degree than anywhere else.
00:32:36.000They really, they didn't, yes, they hated a million different things about him.
00:32:40.000They hated him aesthetically, I think he graded on them.
00:32:43.000But they also really hated the fact that he threatened their power and privilege because he tried to undo the establishment, progressive, Wilsonian, however you want to describe it, national security and foreign policy.
00:33:03.000It's like McConnell saying we need more troops in Afghanistan.
00:33:06.000There are a lot of populist right individuals now who are running that we're going to see in the midterm, which is really a cause for optimism.
00:33:14.000But the Unoparty itself, like look, the neocons fled to the Democratic Party when Trump got elected, and then all of a sudden the Democrats became that tower or whatever.
00:33:23.000I just think it's hilarious, the idea that you have people voting in their own destruction while thinking they're not, thinking they're the ones who aren't, they're not paying attention.
00:33:32.000And it's funny, when you look at the polls, independent voters and Republican voters think the economy is doing bad.
00:33:38.000Well, I think by most metrics, they would be correct.
00:33:42.000The Democrats think the economy is doing fairly good, which by most metrics makes literally no sense, unless you're in a cult.
00:33:51.000But what the media is able to do is they're able to point to the fringest of Trump supporters to claim that represents all of, you know, everyone, anyone who's anti-Democrat or anti-establishment is that one small fringe of the diehard Trump supporter, you know.
00:34:07.000And then you get these people that are effectively voting in their own serfdom.
00:34:23.000I think if the country falls apart, if we end up with some, you know, internal conflict, civil conflict, or something like that, it would suck really bad.
00:34:31.000I think China would then easily just sweep across, crush our allies, take over everything, and become the dominant empire.
00:34:36.000And that seems to be, like, what will happen, considering what's happening in this country.
00:34:54.000If they only could see the future as to what they are going to bring to their countrymen, to the men and women of this nation, Man, I'm not gonna pretend like a voting Republican gets you out of the problem either.
00:35:07.000It's like the Republicans are the speed bump, the Democrats are the ones setting fire to the building in the first place.
00:35:12.000So I don't know what you do, but I think when all the bricks come tumbling down, I don't know, life will suck for the most part.
00:35:19.000Mostly conservatives will probably be fine.
00:35:23.000Urban liberals will probably be in very serious... I don't know if that's even safe to say, because if we're really headed towards what you're talking about... Okay, if you play Fallout, the theme is 2060, there's a war between America and China.
00:35:38.000Then I'm worried about an artificial intelligence war, a robot war, where they have drones flying around, patrolling the skies, shooting at anything that moves.
00:35:44.000People are running from building to building all over Earth.
00:35:47.000That's very, and then no one, no human at that point will be safe.
00:36:59.000Yeah, and I'm saying if the economy crumbled right now, and you'd go to the store and a gallon of milk was a hundred bucks, and there was like three available and people are fighting over a can of beans in the parking lot, I think I'd be fine.
00:37:11.000I wouldn't be happy, I wouldn't be comfortable, and I wouldn't pretend like I'm gonna be sitting atop a throne or anything.
00:37:16.000No, it would be a constant battle for survival when there's like limited goods and no fuel.
00:37:21.000But the people in the cities and the suburbs, They ain't gonna be having a good go of it.
00:37:25.000They're gonna be in the parking lot fighting for beans with Agnes.
00:37:28.000I keep hearing that China's a paper tiger.
00:37:34.000And what I mean by that is that they're putting on a big show of force but that they're actually very weak and vulnerable right now as a government.
00:37:41.000So, I mean, you know, it'd be cliche to say act weak when you're strong and act strong when you're weak and their strategy was hide your strength, bide your time.
00:37:50.000That was really sort of the overarching vision of Deng Xiaoping and then sort of build up and then you can start acting very assertively and aggressively.
00:37:59.000I think that... I don't think that they're 50 feet tall, and they might think that we're 50 feet tall, which should mean that we really have to up our game because they're a lot more serious than we are.
00:38:09.000I mean, when we have our generals talking about, you know, General Milley talking about, I really want to understand white rage.
00:38:17.000What kind of message does that send to a people that has no qualms about killing its own citizens, crushing Hong Kongers, threatening Taiwan, threatening Chinese nationals abroad in every single country?
00:38:36.000I don't think they perceive us to be serious, so that's dangerous, potentially, that they have that perception that we're not serious, but I think also it's reality in a lot of respects.
00:38:45.000Like, if you're looking at how many nuclear warheads do they have, and you go through all those conventional weapons, I don't think that ultimately the conflict... I think we're in the conflict with China.
00:39:03.000Well, you could go back and that would be a grievance.
00:39:06.000You know, they have kind of their historical narrative of the West putting them down and consequently now they're going to rise up and we're going to be, you know, return to our being the center of the world, the Middle Kingdom.
00:39:17.000You know, are their economic numbers real?
00:39:42.000And also, they understand how foolish we've been.
00:39:45.000I mean, the business community just put out a letter recently, I wrote about this at Newsweek, saying to the Biden administration, you really need to go back to the table on more negotiating with China because we need to increase trade and economic engagement with China.
00:39:58.000And you got to remove those tariffs as soon as possible.
00:40:01.000Also, we understand, you know, there are all sorts of issues with China's predatory economic practices, but we really need to get back to the table on it.
00:40:07.000And by the way, it's America first, too.
00:40:14.000On what basis whatsoever would any serious people say, you know what, I've seen the way China's acted just over the last 18 months.
00:40:21.000Let's definitely go and engage more with them.
00:40:23.000When that has been the entire strategy, it's been a bear hug strategy.
00:40:26.000It's let's invite the West in, they'll give us capital, we'll steal their technology, they'll get nothing out of us ultimately.
00:40:32.000We'll have all of the major industries dominated, monopolized, so that during something like a pandemic, for example, we can threaten to withhold essential medicines from you.
00:40:41.000So the funny thing about this is we have the Xinjiang province, the Uyghur Muslims, and that I can't even make a joke about them considering it when it comes to these trade deals.
00:40:55.000Like, I'd like to make a joke where there's like some corporate executives being like, gentlemen, We've just got this report that they're torturing, there's forced abortions, these people are being, you know, ethnic cleansing is horrible, we have to consider our business practices with this country.
00:41:12.000I can't even make that joke because when they're sitting in the office some guy goes, oh did you hear they got a concentration camp?
00:41:16.000Huh, does it affect their bottom line?
00:41:44.000You brought up the word kowtow a few times.
00:41:46.000It basically means, I'm looking at the definition here, act excessively in an observant manner.
00:41:51.000But it comes from a Chinese idea that you would go to the emperor, bow on your knees, put your forehead on the ground and beg submission from the emperor.
00:41:59.000And foreign leaders would go to China and they would bow and put to the emperor and then you'd have the blessing of China and they would send you money and they would send you troops and they would send you architects and things to come work with you.
00:42:48.000I mean, he's number two after Mao essentially there.
00:42:50.000Now, of course, like Michael Bloomberg talking about, like, well, he has domestic constituencies, too, even though it's not a democracy.
00:42:58.000He has other members of the Communist Party who would probably like to have his seat, but like I said, he also engaged in a purge soon after he entered, which he called an anti-corruption purge, which is basically taking out two to three million members of the party, probably who he felt were a threat to him.
00:43:13.000I mean, jailing, not always murdering them.
00:43:26.000But I imagine it's like an oligarchical dark state, like a quiet people behind the scenes that no one knows who they are that are running things.
00:43:34.000Everyone is answerable to him, obviously.
00:43:38.000First of all, it's also worth noting their military, the PLA, is the Chinese Communist Party's military.
00:44:34.000The people running these companies who are all party members, obviously, if those are your oligarchs, they're being cut down to size in real time.
00:44:48.000But that said, yeah, look, in a system like that with a one man dictator, he obviously has to answer to other people because they're all at his throat all the time.
00:45:05.000That's what they make us think, but I don't think so.
00:45:07.000I think Mao is too dangerous, so they make sure that it's like a puppet now.
00:45:11.000I am not convinced even our intelligence agencies are genuinely concerned with preserving and protecting this nation.
00:45:17.000I think when you look at Afghanistan and the Afghan papers, what you really have is a disaster where everyone's just like, I don't want to get in trouble.
00:45:27.000How much can I extract from the system before it all falls on my head?
00:45:31.000I think that of like every institution I'm looking at and unfortunately it's almost like with Trump there was this kind of sporadic bombastic attempt at some kind of cobbling together a return to I guess some kind of nationalism, like, we're gonna have borders, we're gonna have, we're gonna put more controls on immigration, we're gonna have the industries come back, we're gonna try and help the American people get jobs and better their lives.
00:45:58.000And that was a threat to those who are trying to extract the last little bit from the system, so they all collectively screen.
00:46:08.000Basically, the confidence in this country has been lost for a long time, to the point where even our elites have no confidence in it, and they're selling out to China, among other sellouts.
00:46:17.000You saw it perfectly personified in the conversation between the Secretary of State Blinken and the National Security Advisor and their meeting with their Chinese counterparts in Anchorage.
00:46:28.000And by the way, what did China do to deserve to have that high level meeting?
00:46:31.000I mean, in the first place, if you're really serious about them and you ascribe primary culpability in the coronavirus pandemic, at the very least spreading worldwide, well, of course, they protected themselves.
00:46:42.000Why would you ever meet with them over anything?
00:46:45.000I mean, they should be viewed as they're the most culpable country in this.
00:46:48.000And Trump said, you know, $10 trillion.
00:46:49.000That's probably an underestimation of what they should pay in terms of recompense.
00:46:53.000But that meeting, the Chinese Communist Party dignitaries basically said, oh, you're going to attack us over human rights?
00:46:59.000You're a systemically racist country and your history is awful, etc.
00:47:21.000So who's going to defend the country if you say that at core it is a rotten, deplorable, irredeemable country?
00:47:27.000When you have a substantial amount of people in this country saying that, it is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
00:47:34.000And when you have this critical race, applied principles, now manifesting in our schools, manifesting in our media, the rot has got to the foundation.
00:47:45.000Racial Marxism, which is, you know, it's really just a rhetorical game, critical race theory in a lot of ways.
00:47:51.000It's like putting a just and virtuous veneer on your regressive ideology of saying, well, we're fighting for the good people and you're the bad people, etc.
00:48:53.000I'm optimistic in the sense that I think I'm starting to feel more and more like what power cancel culture and all these things had has been weakened to a certain degree.
00:49:10.000But you see the parents are getting so fed up with what's happening in these schools, they're snapping.
00:49:14.000And we had Ben on the show and he said, come August 15th, when these parents figure out what they're doing to their kids, they're going to go nuts.
00:49:19.000Seeing these parents, you know, come up, I'm kind of like, aside from the, I don't like the violence, but the parents going out and protesting and saying no to these schools, the push for homeschooling or for pods, school pods, where like local, like the kids in the neighborhood all go with one tutor or whatever, get taught.
00:49:36.000That's optimistic, because maybe we get hobbled and maybe China does make a big move and becomes the economy of the world, the super economy in 2028 or whatever.
00:49:45.000There's real risks that we're going to lose out if China falls to mainland China, if Taiwan falls to China, and what that means for the United States in terms of our resources, our access.
00:49:56.000But I do think there's always an open window and a door is shut.
00:50:01.000That we're going to start seeing people start waking up to this.
00:50:04.000The hard times will create strong men.
00:50:06.000And then there will be some kind of resurgence.
00:50:09.000That would be if Taiwan were to fall to China.
00:50:11.000That would actually be if China were to fall to the CCP.
00:50:41.000Biden administration has discussed mandating vaccines for interstate travel.
00:50:46.000The administration is reportedly looking for ways to make life more uncomfortable for those who do not comply.
00:50:50.000The AP reports, quote, while more severe measures, such as mandating vaccines for interstate travel or changing how the federal government reimburses treatment for those who are unvaccinated and become ill with COVID, have been discussed, the administration worried that they would be too polarizing at this time.
00:51:05.000An administration official said the interstate travel vaccination requirement was not under consideration at the moment.
00:51:11.000That's not to say they won't be implemented in the future, as public opinion continues to shift toward requiring vaccinations as a means to restore normalcy, the report adds.
00:51:42.000They're trying to show you something completely unreasonable.
00:51:45.000But that says to me that if that's the direction they have to go, if that's what they have to say to get to that point, we're dangerously close to it as it is.
00:51:52.000If for some reason Public opinion just shifts in its direction like they claim, which I don't think so, because parents are freaking out.
00:51:58.000You know what would happen if they implemented vaccine mandates for interstate travel?
00:52:03.000All the people that can't get them for medical purposes couldn't travel.
00:55:00.000I always say this, when you watch movies like, or when you read books like 1984, or when you watch these Nightmare Dystopia movies, when you watch Fever Vendetta, did you think that when authoritarianism came to your front door, there would be no excuse?
00:55:13.000Like, when you see these movies where it's like, there's the resistance, and they just live in this Nightmare Dystopia, do you think that one day, the chancellor stood up and said, oh, by the way, I'm now the dictator, and we're a fascist?
00:55:24.000Did you think it would be obvious when they came?
00:56:58.000What's not, you know, obviously they don't, they don't care.
00:57:00.000Like the CDC eviction thing, you know, where he's basically like, yeah, I know it's not constitutional and whatever, but it's, you know, it's tough times.
00:57:07.000I mean, then, then you don't, then your law is worth nothing.
00:57:09.000You're not a free Western country anymore.
00:57:10.000I think the law is mostly worth nothing.
00:57:48.000So what happens is, we got a constitution.
00:57:51.000But if they can just keep pushing to the point where we're clearly beyond the constitution, what happens now is they say, We're not violating your rights by shutting down your speech on a private platform, even if that private platform is the dominant place political discourse happens.
00:58:06.000We're not violating your right to bear arms by telling you you can't own specific firearms.
00:58:10.000You can always have a single loaded, you know, bolt action or whatever.
00:58:15.000They're saying we're not violating your Third Amendment rights by mandating you house people because only some of those people are soldiers.
00:58:21.000We're not violating your Fourth Amendment rights with search and seizure because I smelled pot.
00:58:25.000they keep saying things like this. And then once these amendments are just washed over,
00:58:31.000they'll say, the Constitution, we haven't used that in years. No one takes that seriously.
00:58:36.000Wow. That's right. And even now, the left and maybe Republicans too, but primarily the left.
00:58:43.000They will appeal to the Constitution when they think it serves them.
00:58:46.000And when it doesn't, they'll say, well, it's an old document, and it's outdated, and it wasn't made for the times, and it's a living document.
00:58:51.000And also, China analog here, China, they have rule by law, as opposed to rule of law.
00:58:57.000And that is increasingly where we are.
00:59:00.000It is rule by law, and also that law is selectively applied.
00:59:04.000And if you apply the law to one person one way, and another person another way, then you have no rule of law.
00:59:09.000Double standard justice means no justice.
00:59:10.000So what's the difference of rule by law and of law?
00:59:14.000Well, rule by law is essentially whatever the state says goes.
00:59:20.000Rule of law is the state has to adhere to the documents of law.
00:59:23.000And at core, the sovereign people at the end of the day.
00:59:26.000Rule by law is, oh, we're going to put a national security law on the books which says, and they really have this, intelligence and national security laws, you know, if your company is dealing in sensitive information or if the state needs it, basically you have to turn over everything to us and serve us as an apparatus.
00:59:41.000And also, like, the law doesn't mean, whatever's on paper doesn't actually mean anything at the end of the day.
00:59:50.000So here in the U.S., you can see, like, January 6th is a great example.
00:59:53.000They will... I mean, these people are in solitary.
00:59:56.000They're getting months in prison for... Many of them have literally just charged with trespassing.
01:00:01.000Some of these people... There's one video of, like, an old lady walking through a door where a cop holds it open for her, and she's getting charged.
01:02:11.000They import water and food and then people fly there and then they drain bathrooms which puts more water into the system and the water evaporates.
01:02:18.000Yeah, we're mechanically, like, terraforming Las Vegas.
01:03:48.000The vaccine card that I had when I traveled to Venezuela was just a yellow card, and it said vaccine schedule, and then the doctor signed the vaccines on it, and then he wrote vaccines on it and signed it, and there was no official anything on it.
01:04:18.000I mean, I guess maybe you could say that bureaucratic incompetence might be the saving grace as we head down this path of a social credit system with American characteristics and you have to show your papers to function in life.
01:04:29.000And also, the officials act like, you know, they're being so beneficent.
01:04:32.000Like, if you just get this card, you can live like an American once again.
01:04:38.000That was basically Bo de Blasio, New York's godforsaken mayor, on the way out.
01:04:44.000That was essentially what he said, almost verbatim.
01:04:46.000You can go about your daily lives and do what you did before so long as you have this card.
01:05:17.000Well, and this also gets to the delicious challenge for the so-called anti-racist, the racist anti-racist, who define equity in terms of outcomes And of course disparate treatment as a reflection of racism in a case like this.
01:05:33.000If you have ethnic minorities in this country who disproportionately do not get vaccinated and their lives are made miserable as a consequence of these mandates, what does Ibram X. Kendi say about this?
01:06:18.000I've had a lot of conservatives who like, you know, I've always argued, I think if you have a bakery and someone comes in, I actually said, I think the baker should write the message, but I understand the first amendment argument.
01:06:36.000The bakery thing everyone knows about in Colorado, he was willing to serve the gay couple who wanted the cake, he just didn't want to write specifically what they wanted him to write because he didn't want to be compelled to speech.
01:06:49.000My thing is like, in general, so I think I actually agree with conservatives in that regard.
01:06:54.000What I'm saying is, if somebody of different racial background or identity or national origin comes to your business, I think you should have to serve them because we're all taxpayers here, man.
01:07:25.000They're talking about these vaccine mandates for interstate travel, meanwhile the border is just... Did you see Ivory Heckers?
01:07:30.000She went down to the border and got video footage of buses coming back and forth, and she talked to an incoming migrant, I think he was an incoming migrant, that had a piece of paper on the back that said, I do not speak English.
01:07:41.000Uh, where should I go to catch my flight?
01:07:43.000And on the back was his flight itinerary, taking him, like, into the middle of the United States.
01:07:59.000Yeah, she went down to the border and she was like, what's going on?
01:08:02.000And she got, you know, footage of all this stuff.
01:08:04.000So I haven't personally confirmed that he was from across the border, but it's... I think that's what the... I'm pretty sure that is correct.
01:08:27.000It is a rolling perpetual super spreader event, the open border, number one.
01:08:31.000Forget about the national security implications of this, which aren't even talked about in context of an open border.
01:08:36.000And then, you know, we just had the census results that everyone wanted to talk about.
01:08:40.000And one of the things that's not talked about, and I hammered this home, I don't know why this arcane point stuck with me, but in relation to the open borders, and I wrote about this a bunch over the last couple years, when the Trump administration essentially wanted to make respondents to the census say, are you a citizen or not?
01:09:20.000I can't remember who we had on recently, and I brought this point up because I think California
01:09:25.000in the past, this is according to the Heritage Foundation, California gained one extra electoral
01:09:30.000vote in the presidential election because of their illegal immigration population.
01:09:36.000So, you know, Tucker Carlson comes out and he says, they're bringing in people because they want to give them citizenship so they'll vote for Democrats.
01:09:42.000I'm like, no, they want to bring them in because they get counted on the census in the next 10 years.
01:09:46.000Then they get more congressional seats to their states and more power to elect the president.
01:09:52.000It is subverting our electoral process and giving our taxpayer dollars to people who did not come to this country through the legal process.
01:10:00.000It's just, it's an extraction on the system.
01:10:02.000It's basically diluting, it's disenfranchising American citizens at the highest level.
01:10:09.000It's foreign interference in our elections and you don't even need a mass amnesty then to change the system.
01:10:15.000Yeah, people don't realize that, like when Tucker said this, I'm like, we don't choose the president by a popular vote.
01:10:22.000They just need to give congressional seats to California so that California can continue to influence the federal government, which means California's laws will affect Wyoming.
01:10:31.000If California allows people, what are they doing, like free healthcare for people under 26, illegal immigrants?
01:10:36.000If they're going to keep, sanctuary state, you can't deport our people.
01:11:17.000The Rand Pauls, Thomas Massey, I think Hawley's pretty good, Ted Cruz is okay, but I really do think Rand Paul tends to be the one guy who's actually filibustering and trying to stop a lot of the stuff.
01:11:29.000And you get Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell, and what are they doing?
01:11:31.000Tucker Carlson called Lindsey Graham a leftist.
01:11:36.000And McConnell's like, we need more troops in Afghanistan.
01:11:38.000I'm like, these people don't care about you.
01:11:40.000They pretend to be the resistance, what the Democrats are doing, but they're really just the gatekeepers to stop you from getting anywhere near them.
01:11:56.000And part of it, it probably is like the superficial, you know, got to go to the right cocktail parties and you don't want to be attacked in the Washington Post and the New York Times.
01:12:05.000But the disparity, the chasm between our purported representatives and us just grows greater and greater and it's more transparent than it's ever been.
01:12:14.000So the question is, are the bums going to get voted out of office ever?
01:12:17.000And usually they don't get primaried because incumbency is a really powerful thing.
01:12:22.000Did you hear about the trans anarchist satanist who won the primary for sheriff up in New Hampshire?
01:12:31.000Because the Republican voters went in and said, Republican, Republican, Republican, Republican, Republican, and walked out.
01:12:36.000And then this person ran as a Republican and ended up winning and then said, it's your fault.
01:12:41.000If you have a problem with it, maybe you should read the names of the people and do some research or just not vote for them.
01:12:46.000If you could get a job and if you did your best and made the most epic thing and then lost it, your job, or you could do a mediocre thing and keep your job, which would you choose?
01:13:27.000We've had a back and forth on the argument about term limits because one of the arguments first and foremost is if people want to vote for someone they should be allowed to vote for them.
01:13:33.000The other thing is what happens when you get like a Ron Paul who's in Congress for what, what do you have like 11 terms or something?
01:13:39.000He's in there for a really long time and that dude was awesome.
01:13:42.000I think that the problems that come from it outweigh the benefits.
01:13:45.000You're right, and Ron Paul I think did repeatedly vote for term limits, so... Or would you just have new blood that comes in every time and gets corrupted and it's just, it's really no different at the end of the day.
01:13:57.000Or a cabal that just recruits the new young person to come in.
01:14:00.000And then you have someone without the experience and the connections to actually have any meaningful resistance.
01:14:04.000What you really need at the end of the day is a system where those who get elected do not enrich themselves as a consequence of their office or really gain power, which requires a small government system in the first place.
01:14:17.000Who would be attracted to Washington if there was no power in Washington?
01:14:21.000Well, people actually want to do a good job, like you're saying.
01:14:23.000So how do you disincentivize, essentially, the power grabbing?
01:14:28.000Jokingly before, I called some- I said, Marsism.
01:14:31.000And the idea is that, uh, once you're elected to office, you know, we- we- we take all of Congress, and we put them on a rocket ship that goes to Mars.
01:14:53.000Our federal Congress will be blasted off to Mars to a space colony where they'll live out their days, and they can vote on policy positions for which they will never experience.
01:15:00.000They have no incentive to cause harm to people.
01:15:02.000They have no incentive to enrich themselves.
01:15:04.000It's literally just, what can we do to make America better?
01:15:06.000Because if America does good, we send you supplies.
01:15:11.000So, uh, you know, more seriously though, how do we make it so that getting locked into an office is not something, not something you want for yourself, but something you want for others.
01:15:50.000But what if we didn't have those offices anymore?
01:15:53.000This is something that's been on my mind a lot, that if instead of voting for representatives that would then write laws for you, that anyone could write the laws and pass them into the Senate, like any, any American citizen.
01:16:03.000And also if they were going to make votes, there's 430 of them.
01:16:07.000Each, each of them, their, their jurisdictions would vote like 700,000 people that that one guy represents would vote and you'd get either yes or no.
01:16:15.000And then that would be that one 430th of the total because every section would Because when we send a representative to Congress, they get access to classified intelligence that can't go to the public for which they can make basement.
01:16:25.000That's a lot of trust to put in a person.
01:16:42.000Think about also, leaving aside, you know, a certain kind of person is attracted to power.
01:16:47.000There's a lot of power there, so you're going to get a certain elected class of people.
01:16:52.000The first thing you do when you get into office is you've got to start running for re-election.
01:16:56.000And what is required to run for re-election?
01:16:58.000Well, you have to make nice with your party leadership because they're going to support you if you fundraise for them.
01:17:04.000If you do not fundraise for them, they will get you axed.
01:17:07.000So all of the incentives will corrupt almost any man unless you are so wealthy or so powerful or so famous and thus you don't really care and you know that you've got a constituency.
01:19:28.000Well, even inside the practicality issue of classified information and all the other stuff that they have access to, that it would be a danger if everyone had access to it.
01:19:38.000And the founders would say direct democracy is far more dangerous than the representative system because direct democracy is just tyranny of the majority and change every day.
01:19:48.000And then it's, you know, sort of like what Joe Biden is saying, like, well, if public opinion comes around vaccine passports, which also an important thing to point out is, Yes, Congress is largely useless, and yes, the things that they do do are horrible, but then the issues where they actually should put things to a vote and legislate, because as representatives of us, they always punt the actually difficult decisions to the Supreme Court, or to a president, or to the administrative state where they pass a law, they don't really fill in the details, and then some bureaucrat who is unelected, who you have no control over whatsoever, is unfireable,
01:20:25.000Is actually going to be the one who's really making the law, because at the end of the day, it's the regulators and all the bureaucrats and the agencies who actually make and execute the laws.
01:20:33.000So they'll pass vague laws and then have corporations define those in practice?
01:20:38.000Not corporations, regulators, you know, all the different, the myriad alphabet soup of agencies.
01:20:44.000You know, they'll say, and we delegate this authority to X, Y, Z agency to craft the details of it.
01:20:49.000So it's even further removed from the people.
01:20:51.000That's the deep state or is that either or the shadow government?
01:20:54.000I don't know the difference between those.
01:21:06.000Think about this, I mean, you could run for office, win, and then say, I would like to audit the Fed, and then all of a sudden some intelligence agency just happens to leak some bad information on you and now you can't get re-elected.
01:21:18.000Or you get removed from all your committee assignments and things like that.
01:21:21.000So, deep state, call it whatever you want.
01:21:23.000Chuck Schumer said it would get you six waves from Sunday.
01:21:36.000So we're electing people to become puppets.
01:21:39.000You know, it's funny how we talk about the Chinese Communist Party, and I don't see a big difference between the shadow government, the permanent... I think they call it the permanent government.
01:21:49.000Somebody was testifying before Congress.
01:21:50.000They said the deep state is a conspiracy term.
01:21:52.000Conspiracy term, we call it the permanent government.
01:21:54.000These are people who are appointed to positions where they're there for multiple administrations, and they're the ones who give the advice.
01:22:02.000And effectively control what the president or the administration is going to do.
01:22:06.000Because you look at it this way, you get a high-ranking intelligence officer and then, you know, Obama gets in office and he says, you know, I campaigned on pulling out of Iraq.
01:22:13.000He says, well, actually, you can't because of that.
01:22:49.000Oh, but it's got to go through several layers of review and then it's gonna be reviewed by the lawyers and then and
01:22:53.000then someone's gonna at the same time be a whistleblower against you and
01:22:56.000concoct something to try to get an impeachment going or Or we're going to have Russiagate the entire time of your presidency to tank your policy for a couple years.
01:23:03.000But even this is the problem with people like, when you get a Trump, Trump doesn't want to jump on the grenade, figuratively.
01:23:09.000So I mean, he could have been like, I'm going to do a State of the Union and then just pull the documents and be like, I will now start reading.
01:23:15.000And because he's the president, he can.
01:23:26.000Well, they're ordered to, and by law, also.
01:23:28.000They always talk about the rule, you know, the democratic institutions and how we care so much about the institutions and the integrity.
01:23:35.000And this is an authoritarian strongman.
01:23:37.000You had his subordinates who are supposed to serve him, and he serves the Constitution as our representative.
01:23:43.000Basically saying, no, we disagree with you and we're going to act accordingly and we're going to snipe you and backstab you and do all these things.
01:23:49.000I mean, people talk, these generals out there essentially, admittedly played shell games with number of troops in Syria.
01:24:24.000The, I wonder how, how can I, cause I think about the British opium wars with China, cause it's just been like the five eyes, you know, it's like Britain, Australia, United States.
01:24:33.000They said they would poke, they said they would poke at least one of the five eyes out if you dare go get some.
01:24:38.000That was their, the communist party rhetoric.
01:24:40.000And then the formation of Israel seems very much like that was part of that organization to put, like, kind of an outpost by the Suez Canal and, like, have a front post in the Middle East for all the resources and stuff.
01:24:50.000Like, with the way they betrayed the Ottomans in World War I and the Arabs to... Well, they betrayed the Arabs.
01:24:55.000They told the Arabs, we're gonna give you all this land.
01:24:57.000Then, at the end of the... in the middle of the war, they're like, actually, thanks for betraying the Ottomans for us Arabs.
01:25:02.000Thanks for helping us win World War I. We're not giving you the land.
01:25:08.000Yeah, it was World War I, right at the end of the Balfour Declaration.
01:25:11.000And there's been a lot of resentment, but it's like this obsessive colonial... It's been going on since like the 1400s, since like the 1600s, this colonialization.
01:25:23.000And they're using the American military now.
01:25:25.000Like, I don't know if it's the king, if it was the British king all along, or if there's like banks above him that are... Do you have feelings on that?
01:26:00.000When you hear Chuck Schumer say something like, we got you six ways from Sunday, it makes me wonder about whether or not what we do has an impact.
01:26:28.000Hey, welcome to modern America, I suppose.
01:26:30.000It's not bad, you know, we're born into a country.
01:26:33.000It feels almost like what they're saying to us is you live in a wealthy country, enjoy it while you can or else.
01:26:38.000You know, don't rock the boat, don't challenge us, we do what we want.
01:26:43.000And the wealth isn't the only, I mean, the wealth is a byproduct of us being able to pursue our happiness in freedom, do what we want, achieve greatness, however we define it.
01:26:56.000The wealth is just, is the end game output.
01:27:00.000But if you're, you know, if you have ingenuity and you have a pioneering instinct and you have risk takers and such, then wealth is ultimately going to result from it.
01:27:07.000But wealth isn't the, is not the purpose of this whole thing.
01:27:12.000It's about letting people achieve what they want to achieve and make their own little kingdom on earth for themselves.
01:27:18.000And we're getting further and further away from that.
01:27:21.000I should also add it's called the Sykes-Picot Agreement was what the official document that formed Israel against the Arab will that was.
01:27:29.000It's so it feels like comes from a feeling of lack like since since the dawn of time they've been afraid there weren't enough resources so we need to make sure we have enough for our people and and and now that we're realizing like with with quantum computing and atom molecular printing that maybe there is enough materials like maybe we can just print water out of air with enough electricity You still need the mass in the matter.
01:27:54.000And you can disrupt the balance of the ecosystem very easily.
01:27:57.000So they'd have to do asteroid mining or a moon base or something.
01:28:01.000In Star Trek, they collect hydrogen with the ship as they fly through it, and then they use that as the mass for the replicators.
01:28:09.000Ben, how do you feel about releasing classified documents?
01:28:15.000Well, from my perspective, sunlight is the best disinfectant, and the more transparency, to a large extent, the better.
01:28:22.000This is obviously tough, because we're talking in generalities here, and it's what is the substance of the classified documents, obviously.
01:28:31.000But that said, based upon what All of the—how many times during the Trump administration was it, well, you know, this might reveal sensitive sources and get someone killed, essentially, if we release it, and then you find out when they finally do un-redact that actually, no, it was just protecting the people who were engaging in corrupt behavior or potentially illegal behavior?
01:28:52.000So, it's tough because I staunchly believe in defending our national security to the death and acting in accordance with our national interests.
01:29:00.000On the other hand, you see them abuse national security to justify so many different things.
01:29:05.000So, as a general matter, I want everything around Russiagate and Spygate declassified, and a whole host of other things from history, too.
01:29:11.000I mean, it should all be out there, and if it's not, it's probably because there are some pretty powerful interests who don't want it to be exposed for one reason or another.
01:30:27.000They admit it, and it's not out there yet.
01:30:28.000And you know, there's 14,000 hours of footage, and you know, they just don't have the logistical
01:30:32.000capabilities to build the database that people can look at so that a lawyer can defend a
01:30:37.000And of course you know the left in any other instance would be, oh, this is the civil liberties abuse of the century.
01:30:43.000But really the process is the punishment.
01:30:45.000Let's say that people who really were just engaging in trespassing, no violence whatsoever, and they were let in by a security guard end up walking at the end of the day.
01:30:54.000Still, think about how much punishment there will have been in the months that you're waiting to have your case dealt with.
01:30:59.000And if you're held in pretrial detention, and a lot of these people, some of them have psychological issues, some of them are not hardened criminals and don't have any rap sheet whatsoever, and you're stuck in this jail.
01:31:09.000And then you have the judges and the prosecutors also saying, essentially, well, your views about what happened in that election make you a potential danger if we let you out, so we're not going to let you out.
01:31:21.000It's just, it's beyond disturbing, and like, the Assange example is an extreme example, obviously, but these are people who, again, they're not hardened criminals in many respects, and the process is the punishment, and this sends a warning.
01:31:34.000This sends a warning to anyone, you know, don't dissent, essentially, from the party line, and again, you're gonna be cast as, well, you're an insurrectionist enabler and supporter, and no, that's not it.
01:31:44.000It's, I believe in justice, and I believe people should be treated equally under the law.
01:31:47.000Watch the, I've been shouting this out, it's like the eighth time, watch Electric Dreams on Amazon, and the last episode, it's the last episode, it's called Kill All Others, and the simple synopsis for those, I know most of you listening probably heard me say it a million times, but basically this guy hears a politician say that, you know, the people need to kill all others, and he gets shocked by it and starts telling people, like, no, no, no, no, I don't know what that's about, we shouldn't advocate for violence, and they go, Who cares?
01:33:08.000Instructions for Interplanetary Visitors says, Tim, did you see that video of the doctor talking about the Delta variant making kids sick and she starts breaking into laughter?
01:33:56.000It's worth saying one of the scandals around coronavirus generally, besides how lab leak went from conspiracy theory to suddenly all the acceptable people think it's acceptable, early treatment also was dismissed immediately and then over time suddenly it became somewhat acceptable.
01:34:14.000Is anyone going to answer for the fact that like that was poo-pooed completely and now all of a sudden it's okay?
01:34:19.000Uh, does the media ever answer for putting up garbage?
01:34:24.000I love the, you ever see that collection of bombshell, bombshell, the beginning of the end, the walls are closing in, bombshell, bombshell.
01:34:49.000I don't think they'll actually do it, but I certainly think you'd be a fool not to remain vigilant and paying attention, because who knows what they're capable of doing, to be completely honest.
01:35:35.000Go in, don't have clear objectives of what victory looks like, or reasonable objectives of what victory looks like, turning Afghanistan into Switzerland, not knowing any of the history of any other power going into Afghanistan.
01:35:47.000Like, if the Soviet Union couldn't do it, you probably can't either.
01:35:50.000And oh, by the way, why should you try to?
01:35:53.000And then the way that it was executed for years, and the untruths told about it, and the trillions of dollars wasted, and lives wasted, and then we leave the strongest power in the world, and then within two weeks, it falls.
01:36:24.000Canadians and Cubans will not be allowed by the Biden administration, I'm sure.
01:36:29.000Cool Papa Zulu says, Tim, with your huge presence, please start the Mayo Bucket Challenge for people to donate to their favorite local restaurant to help offset their rising costs.
01:36:37.000I'm going to the Sherwood tomorrow, save the local diners.
01:36:40.000Well, I don't know if you need to donate.
01:37:23.000We mentioned it before, but it's like, if their approach to COVID had been, hey, get it when you can, the vaccination rate would probably be way higher.
01:37:31.000But they've created this mistrust in people by doing these really weird things like bonuses and lotteries and then threats and mandates.
01:37:39.000Now you've got people just defying you for the sake of defying you because they're bored.
01:37:53.000Going back to the lockdowns themselves, remember the Imperial College models?
01:37:58.000Millions of people are gonna die if we don't do this.
01:38:00.000And they were garbage-in, garbage-out models.
01:38:03.000And it's like, you would think there'd be some humility among people in the scientific community to say, well, we really don't know, and here's our best judgment, and we're going to try to take a prudent approach.
01:38:11.000Instead, every single time, it's the jackhammer, it's not the scalpel.
01:38:15.000David Kuchenowicz says, Tim, I noticed you wear the same outfit.
01:39:15.000Sim Yang says Twin Cities Cub Foods gets rid of SP police department and hires peace activists who beats a homeless Asian man because he stole something.
01:40:41.000What do you think was the, what kind of the unifying themes for why Biden was the guy?
01:40:47.000They took away all entertainment, all sports, so people didn't have anything to communicate.
01:40:52.000You couldn't go outside, you couldn't go to the bar, you couldn't talk to your friends, and Twitter and Facebook and YouTube are dominated by political conversations.
01:41:00.000So all of these normies were all of a sudden thrust into a world where the only way they could socialize was in this political context, in a political election cycle, and they were, you know, posting their selfies for Biden.
01:41:12.000I think that drove a large portion of it.
01:41:14.000I also think that can explain why there was less down-ballot voting.
01:41:17.000A lot of people want to think it's nefarious.
01:41:20.000I think there's two big things to consider.
01:41:21.000One, the mass exodus from cities due to COVID.
01:41:24.000What, half a million people from New York?
01:41:26.000We don't know how that would have affected bellwethers.
01:41:28.000Certainly, I think the anomalies warrant investigation.
01:41:30.000Certainly, I think we should do the audits so we can build confidence back between the American people.
01:41:38.000I'm just saying, you know, here's an explanation.
01:41:42.000But I genuinely think that a lot of dumb people who don't care about politics just wanted that sticker so they could be part of something because they were locked in their homes.
01:41:52.000And I think that was part of the Democrats' exploitation.
01:41:56.000You gotta look back to, like, October 2019 when the Republicans made universal mail-in voting in Pennsylvania, which very, very much helped Democrats.
01:42:05.000Right, so the Republicans, it's a unit party, right?
01:42:08.000Goodland Cruising says, capitalism sold out the country to communists.
01:42:12.000We need a collective front against our enemies.
01:42:37.000Yeah, we have intellectual diversity and we can have a debate about any of a million issues, but the other side, you know where they're going to end up every single time.
01:43:12.000That was really disappointing that he didn't really have much of an argument.
01:43:15.000He didn't really even seem to understand what the critical race theory was, and I think that's a big part of the problem right now.
01:43:20.000And what we're seeing is the infection of it in our society, in our blood vessels of our infrastructure, and then now we're starting to see an immune response, which starts slow and then it extrapolates outward, happens exponentially.
01:44:13.000Because, you know, a 50-year-old pipe fitter certainly knows how to just jump on a computer and start learning computer code, which You know, the other thing about that, leave aside the strategic imperative to you have to be able to produce certain things domestically or you're going to be beholden to potentially your worst adversaries.
01:44:32.000I used to take the kind of textbook economics of, you know, if you're more efficient at this, then you trade away your less efficient things and ultimately, you know, kind of like, What's more efficient ultimately is better for the greater good, even if that means certain industries die over time, we have creative destruction, etc.
01:44:48.000But the thing that isn't discussed in the creative destruction is, what if that destruction leads to generational consequences that far dwarf that immediate economic loss to a particular place?
01:45:00.000And what does that do in terms of having a cohesive country that's actually together?
01:45:04.000And that wasn't something that I thought about when I was, you know, the economics student or whatever, but I do think about today and why I give some more credence to some protectionist instincts that I would not have had in the past, leaving aside the strategic imperative that you gotta be able to produce certain things 100% in America and you have to be able to produce all your medicines in a particular... At least our medicines, right?
01:45:23.000At very minimum, you gotta have medicine, food, and the like.
01:45:31.000Stephen Heinold says, has Ian ever been hit by lightning?
01:45:35.000Because if so, it would be like a less cool Marvel origin story of a hippie and really explain a lot about him.
01:45:41.000No, but I've got an even better origin story.
01:45:43.000I was meditating on my couch and my brother was across the room and I was looking in his eyes.
01:45:47.000We were looking at each other and this lightning or whatever it was, electricity shot down through my head and into him, like into my head and then out my eyes.
01:46:56.000It actually explained that there's like an electrical imbalance in Ian's head.
01:47:00.000You know, honestly, I started making YouTube videos in 2006 and really like letting myself out, letting my secrets out, being very personable and honest.
01:47:08.000And I started to feel energy coming, like when people watch, I think what's happening is when someone's watching your videos It feeds you energy because they're picturing you so it's like sending you energy maybe through the Schumann resonance or something but I started to get this like invigoration of energy in this like 24-7 because your videos are being watched at all times of the day.
01:47:29.000And you're sure that wasn't the vaccine?
01:47:51.000James Rogers says, I'm in the Navy and today our command announced that SecDef will make COVID-19 vaccine mandatory by September 15th for all service members.
01:48:00.000You know, and I hear that, but I, I said this before, like, don't people in the service just get a bunch of vaccines as it is?
01:48:19.000Rules are different, public employee, private employee, but increasingly those lines are blurred when you have the administration saying, like, we're meeting with businesses and we're encouraging you to incentivize your employees to get vaccinated.
01:49:08.000Scarier3 says, the interior flight thing with aliens has been a thing since the beginning, and it's happened before Biden back in early 2019.
01:49:16.000Whenever a family unit, one adult with one child minimum, arrives, they are given a court date to see a judge.
01:51:24.000What if your initial salary was zero, and for every amount you could lower the deficit, you would get a proportional, incentively-based salary?
01:51:33.000Because then it would just be rich people who have the means to run, who don't need money to live.
01:51:36.000Or people that want to rip down the Federal Reserve immediately because it's a Ponzi scheme, and they're like, I can't reduce the deficit if I have to pay interest on my debt.
01:51:43.000And the only way to get to pay it off is to take more debt on with more interest.
01:51:46.000Who's going to pass the law to get people in office who want to reduce the debt and deficits?
01:51:52.000And also, does the public broadly want to reduce debt and deficits?
01:51:56.000They might poll yes, but then you go to them, okay, let's talk about a specific project in your district.
01:52:54.000We have a really good system But it's just I guess Thomas Jefferson put it well that you know Like every 200 years or so you'll get that bloat or whatever and there's got to be some kind of like renewal I guess I don't know if he used those words.
01:53:07.000He certainly used some words But I think we come to a point where like there have been periods where we've just voted out all the incumbents You know, I think it's like in the 50s that happened.
01:53:16.000It was like Congress got like just Purge.
01:53:18.000Everyone was like, we don't want any of these people.
01:53:22.000I don't think that ultimately solves all the problems though.
01:53:24.000I think one of the great things about America is that decentralized power makes it very difficult for establishment elites to gain all that power.
01:53:33.000But I think right now we are witnessing the point where power has coalesced to a degree where they can maintain it forever.
01:53:38.000When they got all those incumbents out of office, do you know what year that was?
01:53:42.000No, I remember looking at some graph about Democrat and Republican party size and stuff.
01:53:47.000And there was something in, I think, the 50s.
01:53:49.000That's like right after the military industrial complex got formed.
01:54:37.000But you know, at the end of the day, it is the greatest system ever created, bar none, in my view, but it requires a people to sustain it.
01:54:46.000And you look at countries that have had their freedom taken away from them, and then they come back, they hold to it in a tighter way than people who, we've had it good, at least on paper, for a very long time, and we haven't faced that threat.
01:56:35.000I can't remember exactly what he got, but he gets a card, and then he doesn't bust, and we're like, oh, okay.
01:56:41.000The dealer ends up flipping over, not a face card, but like a four, and then he ends up getting a queen, so he gets 19, and then he beats all of us, we all lose our money, and if Seamus didn't hit, the dealer would have grabbed that card and then busted on the queen.
01:58:11.000It's just so disturbing that we're at a place where it's like the government is saying we want to make people feel pain and also we are going to create this bifurcated society of the vaxxed and the unvaxxed.
01:58:21.000And there was a New York Times headline, I have to find it, several months back where it was like, Far-right Stop the Steal moves on to Vax Hesitancy, you know, something like that.
01:59:52.000Alex11000 says, Tim, did you hear about Apple scanning your phones in the claim of child exploitation and the new crypto and infrastructure bill taxes?
02:00:06.000The Apple spyware stuff, that is, like, it's a red flag the size of the state of Texas being raised above everybody.
02:00:14.000They always try to use something that is, that no one would ever want to be against to like, oh, but I mean, it's only for child exploitation, right?
02:01:02.000I'm curious what you guys think about that.
02:01:05.000Do you think that the targeting of crypto is ultimately a mafia-like extortion strategy of let's threaten crypto and then we'll get something out of them and they'll pay us to go away?
02:01:16.000Or do you think that ultimately they want into the game, like the government wants a piece of it, they want to be able to extract maximum revenues from it?
02:02:59.000I'm fascinated by George Washington, the story where he was, they would inoculate people by taking like the needle and I think it's fantastic.
02:03:06.000And I think just like with the Apple thing, they try to use things you don't want to be against.
02:05:11.000And so when when you see a pushback, we see people get banned when they're speaking up honestly against authoritarianism or establishment politics or whatever.
02:05:20.000And you see crap being pushed out that's obviously not honest.
02:05:24.000Like, like when they tell you something's good when it's not, like that's, they tell you a movie, like it's a 98% rating, but then when you look at the crowd rates at 37%, people are like, what the?
02:06:48.000It's funny that Ian mentions that because I've actually been going through and buying books that my parents used to read to me when I was little.
02:06:54.000I had a Mays book that I really, really loved and I found that online.
02:06:57.000So I'm just going to kind of like build up a little library of books from way before they were woke for if, you know, if I ever have kids, it'll be awesome.