Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - September 13, 2021


Timcast IRL - Republicans Told They ALREADY Voted In Recall, Trump Claims Its RIGGED w-Dan Hollaway


Episode Stats

Length

2 hours and 12 minutes

Words per Minute

209.87877

Word Count

27,704

Sentence Count

2,223

Misogynist Sentences

25

Hate Speech Sentences

40


Summary

On this week's show, the crew is joined by Dan Holloway of Drinkin' Bros. to talk about all the latest in the California recall election, and why it's important to vote even if you don't think you should. Plus, Boyd and Tim talk about the recent shooting of a Chicago Cubs fan in a Cubby Park.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Tomorrow is the last day that you can vote in the California recall election to remove
00:00:19.000 Gavin Newsom and maybe get someone else.
00:00:21.000 Maybe it's Larry Elder.
00:00:23.000 Maybe it's one of these other Democrats that are running, and there are many.
00:00:26.000 There's a couple stories that are popping up and some statements from former President Trump that are causing alarm.
00:00:31.000 In one story from KTLA, people are saying that they went to go vote but were told they already voted and would have to cast provisional ballots.
00:00:39.000 Well, they're pretty upset about this.
00:00:41.000 Another video is going viral where someone's filming as they're being told, I'm sorry, it says you already voted and people are getting very upset about this.
00:00:48.000 Well, it doesn't help then when Donald Trump comes out and says the whole thing's rigged.
00:00:52.000 And I'll tell you why.
00:00:53.000 It's demoralizing.
00:00:54.000 And it's not demoralizing the left.
00:00:56.000 They're calling Republicans and people on the right stupid.
00:00:56.000 They're laughing.
00:00:59.000 They're saying that they're dumb and they're suppressing their own votes.
00:01:02.000 And you know what?
00:01:03.000 This kind of rhetoric demoralizes people.
00:01:05.000 So I'll say right off the bat, you gotta take this stuff, you gotta push it off to the side.
00:01:10.000 Don't ignore it completely.
00:01:12.000 We should figure out why these mistakes or whatever happened, happened.
00:01:15.000 Maybe there's some malintent we don't know.
00:01:17.000 But at the very least, do not let it demoralize you and make sure whatever you believe and whatever you want to do, you go out and you vote, you tell your friends to do it, you go talk to friends, family, knock on doors, and don't let the news stop you from engaging in your civic duties.
00:01:32.000 So we're going to talk about all this stuff.
00:01:33.000 Boyd, we got a lot of news.
00:01:34.000 Apparently the U.S.
00:01:35.000 government's not going to give something like $64 million to Afghanistan, the Taliban, and that'll be really, I don't know, awful.
00:01:43.000 So we'll get into that.
00:01:44.000 We are being joined today by Dan Holloway of Drinkin' Bros.
00:01:47.000 Nice to be here, yeah.
00:01:48.000 You want to just introduce yourself real quick?
00:01:50.000 Yeah, I'm Dan Holloway of Drinkin' Bros.
00:01:53.000 Nice.
00:01:53.000 That was easy.
00:01:54.000 I'm like, I'm gonna drink some water while you... I knew you were trying to stall, so I was trying to... Stall?
00:02:00.000 Just give you the business.
00:02:02.000 No, it's good to be here.
00:02:03.000 I agree with you, though.
00:02:04.000 If voting is that important to get that upset about, and I think the presumption is that that's correct, right?
00:02:10.000 We all think that voting is important.
00:02:11.000 Absolutely.
00:02:12.000 Then it's important to continue to push through, regardless of what you think may be happening.
00:02:16.000 You know what I mean?
00:02:16.000 There's nothing you can do about it now.
00:02:18.000 The courts may be able to decide something like that later.
00:02:20.000 I mean, who knows, right?
00:02:21.000 Like you said, it could be... Errors happen all the time.
00:02:24.000 Let's imagine it's just one error in one small precinct for five people, and that could demoralize how many thousands of people.
00:02:30.000 So don't let that stuff demoralize you, man.
00:02:31.000 We were talking about it before the show.
00:02:34.000 Some of the rhetoric from the last campaign probably had, not probably, it certainly had a huge effect on voter turnout, right?
00:02:41.000 You would think.
00:02:42.000 In Georgia, they think.
00:02:43.000 Oh, yeah.
00:02:43.000 But we'll get into all this stuff.
00:02:45.000 I think, you know, I think we're we agree on that stuff.
00:02:47.000 We got Ian Chillin.
00:02:48.000 Thank you very much, Tim.
00:02:49.000 Happy to be here.
00:02:49.000 Dan, great to see you, man.
00:02:51.000 Good to be here.
00:02:52.000 I'm also in the corner pushing the buttons.
00:02:54.000 I'm back from my vacation, getting my sister married in Chicago, and I did not get shot, so I was very pleased with that.
00:02:59.000 I'm happy.
00:02:59.000 What part of Chicago, though?
00:03:01.000 It was in a nice part of Chicago.
00:03:03.000 Not Chicago proper.
00:03:04.000 Yeah, depending on where you are, there's pockets.
00:03:07.000 Are you a Cubs fan or a White Sox fan, I guess you could say, right?
00:03:10.000 Cubbies, am I gonna get hurt for saying that out loud?
00:03:10.000 I don't know.
00:03:12.000 I mean, I lived on the North Side for a few years, so it's hard not to love the Cubs.
00:03:17.000 I was in Sox town, but me and my friends, we didn't really care all that much.
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00:05:18.000 Let's get to this first story here.
00:05:20.000 KTLA.
00:05:21.000 We gotta break this one down.
00:05:22.000 This is a worrying story.
00:05:23.000 They say...
00:05:25.000 San Fernando Valley residents cast provisional ballots due to equipment issue.
00:05:30.000 They say some San Fernando Valley voters think they are being wrongly prevented from casting a ballot in the upcoming gubernatorial recall election, but the county elections office said it was an equipment issue that was resolved.
00:05:42.000 Okay, so there's good news, right?
00:05:44.000 At El Camino Real Charter High School in Woodland Hills, some voters say they were told the computers showed them as already having voted, even though they had not.
00:05:52.000 West Hills resident Estelle Bender, 88, said she was far from the only person who was being told incorrectly that they had already voted.
00:05:59.000 Now, for those that aren't familiar with what's going on, this is the recall election.
00:06:03.000 Governor Gavin Newsom could be removed.
00:06:06.000 And that means whoever is on the list who gets the most votes, no matter how many, Could become the new governor of California for the next year or so.
00:06:14.000 Right now, it's looking like that would be Larry Elder.
00:06:16.000 The polls that have come out lately show that, you know, Gavin Newsom is doing really, really well, and he's 16 points up in the 538 aggregate.
00:06:23.000 But let me just tell you, the polling was extremely wrong in basically, like, the past several elections going back five or so years.
00:06:32.000 So I wouldn't rely on that.
00:06:33.000 And more importantly, when you see stories like this, and there are many.
00:06:35.000 Check out this one.
00:06:36.000 We got this one... Actually, this is not... That's not the story I was looking for.
00:06:40.000 Here's the one from Dave Rubin.
00:06:42.000 He says, holy ish, listen to this at an LA voting center.
00:06:48.000 Voter, quote, about 70% of votes at this location have been already shown as cast, but they are not election official.
00:06:54.000 Right, right.
00:06:56.000 This is someone questioning Supervisor Vincent McCormick.
00:06:59.000 This is verified Twitter.
00:07:00.000 He's posting this video.
00:07:02.000 So people are looking at this stuff.
00:07:04.000 They're thinking something, you know, bad is happening.
00:07:08.000 I'll say this, and then we'll jump into that conversation.
00:07:11.000 Don't let it demoralize you.
00:07:12.000 For real, right now, I see a lot of people saying things, or sharing these stories, saying, like, what's the point?
00:07:18.000 Like, there is a point.
00:07:18.000 It's go out and vote.
00:07:20.000 Because this is a story about a handful of people.
00:07:22.000 And for all you know, it was a glitch.
00:07:24.000 That's all it was.
00:07:25.000 And they fixed it.
00:07:26.000 And how many people now are like, I give up, what's the point?
00:07:28.000 That's the problem.
00:07:30.000 You've got to hold the line.
00:07:31.000 It's like that movie, I mentioned this earlier, the movie with Mel Gibson, The Patriot.
00:07:34.000 When when the British are charging in and then the militia starts breaking there's like no and he grabs the flag and he runs back Towards him and he says hold the line and they do and they win That's what you gotta do.
00:07:44.000 Yeah, otherwise Gavin Newsom wins, right?
00:07:46.000 Right, and you don't want that.
00:07:47.000 I mean, who needs several more years of that hair?
00:07:50.000 You know what I mean?
00:07:51.000 Well, he'll get one more year, I suppose, but then what?
00:07:54.000 Even if there is a recall.
00:07:55.000 We'll see.
00:07:55.000 I mean, I guess if anything, you would expect that this has ruined him for the national stage, because it seems like he was being primed for it.
00:08:03.000 But I would have said the same thing about Kamala Harris and her record on Well, everything, right?
00:08:09.000 It's very bizarre how most of the female candidates at the federal level that the Democrats seem to push have records that are completely antithetical to their causes at the time.
00:08:20.000 Like, think about Hillary Clinton at the time.
00:08:24.000 The priorities for the Democrats were getting out of Iraq, you know, women first, all this stuff, marriage equality.
00:08:33.000 She was against marriage equality until 2013 when she got forced into being for it.
00:08:38.000 She voted for everything.
00:08:39.000 Iraq, the Patriot Act, the new Iraq, everything.
00:08:42.000 Voted for all that.
00:08:43.000 And she spent the late 90s going after the personal lives of all the women her husband allegedly sexually assaulted, right?
00:08:50.000 So she checked all the boxes on the other side.
00:08:53.000 She couldn't have been a worse candidate.
00:08:54.000 And then remember the narrative from that election.
00:08:56.000 She's the single most qualified candidate in U.S.
00:08:59.000 history for president, I believe is what was said.
00:09:01.000 Are you kidding me?
00:09:02.000 Like, she doesn't believe any of the things that you believe and you're putting her forward.
00:09:06.000 I mean, it shows you how completely morally bankrupt all this stuff really is.
00:09:11.000 YouTube's giving us the business.
00:09:12.000 Yeah, it is.
00:09:13.000 Trying to fix it.
00:09:14.000 YouTube-y.
00:09:16.000 I thought Eisenhower was one of the best presidents, anyway, recently.
00:09:21.000 What about him?
00:09:21.000 Yeah, for sure.
00:09:22.000 He was a military commander, so he knew what he was doing with war.
00:09:25.000 Interstate highway system.
00:09:27.000 He built the interstate.
00:09:28.000 He oversaw that.
00:09:28.000 The GI Bill, the VA home loan that built the middle class in the United States.
00:09:32.000 He's responsible for a lot of stuff.
00:09:35.000 I like that guy.
00:09:35.000 Good president.
00:09:37.000 Uh, this Gavin Newsom guy's a little, a little awkward.
00:09:39.000 The gel in his hair.
00:09:40.000 He's like, he's a caricature of all the things people hate about politicians.
00:09:45.000 You know what I mean?
00:09:46.000 Like if you're trying to sneak in and be the new guy on the block and like, you know, be a professional politician, you at least have to If you're a wolf, you better put the sheep's clothes on.
00:09:56.000 If you show up dressed like a wolf, he's like, oh, this guy's, he's a wolf.
00:09:59.000 Yeah, but it's working for him.
00:10:00.000 That's the shocking part.
00:10:02.000 You know, Gavin Newsom looks like there's a movie where there's a villain, a politician who's the villain.
00:10:08.000 Yeah.
00:10:09.000 But he's not like the main bad guy.
00:10:12.000 He's like, you know, the secret supervillain has bought a politician.
00:10:16.000 And Gavin Newsom would play the generic politician, sellout, corporate, you know, corrupt criminal.
00:10:21.000 That's what he looks like.
00:10:22.000 Yeah.
00:10:23.000 But that's, that's kind of, you know, look, you see the problems California's facing and you have to wonder what it is the guy does.
00:10:28.000 I know that he puts in absurd COVID restrictions and then violates them.
00:10:33.000 And, uh, I know that the state has been in, you know, shambles for some time now, and he's not doing anything about it.
00:10:40.000 He's been really supportive of the movement towards lawlessness there as well.
00:10:44.000 I mean, we were talking about it earlier about how Soros has been financially invested in all these attorney general and judge races across the country over the past six years or so, and all of a sudden he just dumps a million dollars into Newsom's recall campaign.
00:10:58.000 That's kind of bizarre, right?
00:11:00.000 I mean, then you have Gascon and the DA in LA that are I think they're gonna start paying people to not shoot other people, right?
00:11:08.000 You guys have probably talked about that.
00:11:08.000 Yes.
00:11:09.000 Was that in LA?
00:11:10.000 No, what is it?
00:11:11.000 That was in San Fran, wasn't it?
00:11:12.000 No, no.
00:11:12.000 Is that Portland or San Francisco or somewhere?
00:11:15.000 It's in California.
00:11:16.000 It is in California.
00:11:17.000 Yeah, they decided, you know what, how about we... But the funny thing is, like, how do you pay someone not to shoot someone?
00:11:23.000 How do you pay me?
00:11:25.000 I didn't do it.
00:11:25.000 I'm never gonna shoot someone.
00:11:27.000 Their plan is, they're going to identify people who are likely to, like, commit crimes or whatever.
00:11:33.000 So what does that mean?
00:11:33.000 They're going to go for somebody to be like, we've determined that you are probably a low life degenerate who would shoot someone.
00:11:38.000 So we're going to give you money right now and hope you don't like, how do you feel about that as a criminal?
00:11:42.000 Are you like, all right, cool.
00:11:43.000 I'm going to play the grift and get the money, but it's, they were talking about 300 bucks.
00:11:46.000 That's a couple of transactions.
00:11:47.000 If you're a drug dealer, right?
00:11:49.000 That's nothing.
00:11:49.000 I mean, that's, and they said, if you get a job too, it's 500 bucks.
00:11:53.000 I gotta like.
00:11:54.000 Don't shoot someone and you'll get $500!
00:11:56.000 This is real?
00:11:57.000 Yes, yes!
00:11:59.000 I got a job and didn't shoot someone and all I got was this $500.
00:12:02.000 I don't know, it seems a little... Ridiculous.
00:12:02.000 I know, right?
00:12:05.000 The heck?
00:12:06.000 That's very bizarre.
00:12:07.000 San Francisco.
00:12:08.000 Yeah, San Francisco.
00:12:09.000 They're also paying people $85,000 a year to pick up human excrement off the ground.
00:12:12.000 You know what's really funny?
00:12:13.000 Here's the way I describe it to people.
00:12:14.000 I'm like, so you live in a city, right?
00:12:17.000 You live in a city, sir.
00:12:18.000 You have a fire department?
00:12:18.000 Sir, yes?
00:12:20.000 Yep.
00:12:21.000 You have a police department?
00:12:22.000 Yep.
00:12:23.000 You have EMS?
00:12:24.000 Yep.
00:12:24.000 Do you have a poop department?
00:12:26.000 I mean, there's a Department of Sanitation, I think, that processes water.
00:12:30.000 No, no.
00:12:30.000 Nope.
00:12:30.000 Do you have a poop department?
00:12:31.000 San Francisco literally has a poop department.
00:12:33.000 Oh, yeah.
00:12:34.000 Yeah.
00:12:34.000 It's not a joke.
00:12:35.000 What do the uniforms look like?
00:12:36.000 Recall this guy!
00:12:37.000 I mean, come on!
00:12:40.000 You know, in a way, I gotta say, I don't know if I can blame the governor.
00:12:43.000 I don't know if I can blame the leaders of overseeing the ship as it's sinking, because we've been on this course since 1913, if not before that.
00:12:52.000 But it's it would basically built a Ponzi scheme and now we're seeing it shatter.
00:12:56.000 And I don't care who was in charge of that.
00:12:57.000 If they're going to try and pilot that, it's going to shatter.
00:13:00.000 And so it's like no reason to pariah these dudes.
00:13:04.000 Federal Reserve was formed.
00:13:04.000 Why 1913?
00:13:06.000 But you I mean, you think that you really think that was the end?
00:13:06.000 Right.
00:13:08.000 And tell me what coercion of the American I agree with him by the fascists, whatever you want to call them.
00:13:15.000 We were talking about it earlier.
00:13:17.000 Have you ever seen that Canadian sci-fi series Continuum?
00:13:22.000 You should watch it.
00:13:23.000 Basically, they have a corporate congress.
00:13:24.000 Congress. So yeah, yeah. And it's set in like the late or I'm sorry, it's set in like the
00:13:30.000 early 21st century in Seattle, I believe, but they're all Canadians and corporations
00:13:37.000 fund the government more or less.
00:13:39.000 And so they have a say in what happens and what doesn't happen.
00:13:42.000 Right.
00:13:43.000 And obviously in the future, it's a dystopian nightmare.
00:13:45.000 But I feel like right now.
00:13:49.000 The ability of anyone, regardless of if it's a corporate interest or the government, to control what information is and isn't available, right?
00:13:56.000 Especially these days when it's so easy to spin a piece of information.
00:14:01.000 That is more powerful than any weapon you could ever dream of.
00:14:04.000 Fourth and fifth generational warfare.
00:14:06.000 You know what's been going through my head recently is, should I respond to that guy?
00:14:10.000 If someone I like or someone says something, I'm like, if I make a response to them, am I going to get flagged and put on a list?
00:14:15.000 That's effed.
00:14:17.000 I mean, so far, I just said effed.
00:14:19.000 I didn't say the word that I normally say out loud.
00:14:21.000 I am censoring myself at a level I've never done before.
00:14:25.000 Maybe not never, because I was in the entertainment industry.
00:14:27.000 Right, and I want to say, you can't go on, like, Tucker Carlson's show and say a lot.
00:14:32.000 You can say more on this show than you can say on Tucker Carlson's show.
00:14:33.000 What's disturbing me is just, I'm just not responding to certain people because I'm afraid it's going to put me on a list.
00:14:39.000 You're on the list already, bro.
00:14:40.000 Are you crazy?
00:14:41.000 Sitting here on Tim Kast's IRL.
00:14:41.000 Come on.
00:14:43.000 I mean, that's one way to think.
00:14:45.000 Just assume I'm already on the list and just talk to anyone I want to talk to.
00:14:49.000 But, like, the way they're tracking social media and, like, persecuting people that were near the Capitol on January 6th.
00:14:56.000 Firing them from their jobs?
00:14:57.000 Yeah, that's weird.
00:14:58.000 That whole, I mean, I'm sure you guys have talked exhaustively about the Capitol thing, but I always wondered, and I'm curious what your audience thinks about this idea.
00:15:05.000 So the United States has what, like on record about 400 million guns, some more guns than people.
00:15:11.000 So it's the most armed population on earth.
00:15:13.000 And then the most armed subsection of that population, what they consider to be the far right, shows up to overthrow the government and they left all their guns at home.
00:15:21.000 Yeah.
00:15:21.000 That seems plausible, right?
00:15:23.000 Respecting the law.
00:15:23.000 Are you kidding me?
00:15:24.000 Respecting the local laws of the government.
00:15:27.000 I believe that there are people that exist that are crazy, that happen to be conservative, and they're going to do dumb stuff sometimes, and they'll say they're doing it on behalf of conservatives, the same way people do from the left, from religion, from everywhere, right?
00:15:40.000 Always.
00:15:41.000 That will always exist.
00:15:43.000 And I'll believe it exists if you provide me evidence to that effect in a certain circumstance.
00:15:47.000 But when you tell me that three or four hundred people show up out of a mass of like 1.3 million people and they just all, they showed up to overthrow the government and forgot all their weapons.
00:15:57.000 I don't believe you.
00:15:59.000 This is America.
00:16:00.000 The FBI said it.
00:16:01.000 There was no coordinator.
00:16:01.000 That's not, that's not true.
00:16:02.000 Of course there wasn't.
00:16:03.000 They were mad because of the way the election, they thought the election was going with the voting.
00:16:06.000 So they wanted to show power.
00:16:07.000 They wanted to feel like they had some sort of power.
00:16:10.000 Ian, why don't you put in a FOIA, file a FOIA request for your name and see what comes up.
00:16:18.000 I thought about it, but it's like, just, dude, I want to dig up that wormhole, man.
00:16:21.000 Huge stack of papers.
00:16:22.000 I would like, I guess I could see it.
00:16:22.000 I'm down.
00:16:23.000 I don't want to make myself more paranoid than I need to be.
00:16:25.000 They'll quote you a bunch of times on this show, probably.
00:16:28.000 I bet mine's massive, you know.
00:16:30.000 Everyone here, I'm sure a lot of people who watch actually, might have something.
00:16:33.000 Well, the SPLC's weighed in on you a number of times, right?
00:16:37.000 There was like two two things and one it got retracted with an apology because they they claimed that uh a holocaust denying archive of a website that I had gone to Iran for a holocaust denying conference which is like one of the most insane crackpot things you can ever publish and so they were forced to take that down issue or attraction an apology because I've never been to Iran that's just plum nuts.
00:16:59.000 Well, Bill Maher and Religulous, have you seen that?
00:17:03.000 Looks like a documentary.
00:17:04.000 Religulous?
00:17:05.000 Religulous, yeah.
00:17:06.000 So he went to this area and visited with a Jewish rabbi who is a Holocaust denier.
00:17:13.000 So is he on the list?
00:17:14.000 Is Bill Maher on the list for interviewing people?
00:17:16.000 Even if you went to something like that to cover it, that doesn't...
00:17:19.000 That is what journalism is supposed to be, right?
00:17:21.000 Well, no, this website claimed I was like a speaker.
00:17:23.000 Oh, boy.
00:17:24.000 And it's just like, it's just crackpot nonsense.
00:17:26.000 It's like, dude, if some weirdo puts my name on a website, you believe it's true.
00:17:30.000 So they had to take it down and apologize.
00:17:31.000 The SPLC is immaterial.
00:17:34.000 Oh, yeah, they're nonsense.
00:17:35.000 The people who spend their time worried, look, I get a lot of smear pieces written about me all the time.
00:17:39.000 And you know, the most annoying thing in the world is, is when someone sends me it.
00:17:42.000 And I'm like, first of all, you think I don't know?
00:17:44.000 Second of all, why should I read it or care?
00:17:47.000 Like, literally, it's not affecting me in any way.
00:17:50.000 There's zero impact on my business.
00:17:53.000 It's just a waste of time from whiny, stupid babies who I don't care about.
00:17:59.000 Your time is certainly better spent doing other things.
00:18:02.000 And the people, it's a distraction.
00:18:03.000 They try and wrap you up and catch you up in the stuff.
00:18:06.000 And you know what?
00:18:07.000 To segue right back into what we're talking about, it's demoralizing.
00:18:10.000 It is, yeah.
00:18:10.000 If you spend all your day looking at the people saying mean things about you, it's distracting you from doing good work.
00:18:15.000 They're snaring you in that trap.
00:18:16.000 Ignore it.
00:18:17.000 I would say getting involved in these in-the-weeds conversations about what is and isn't.
00:18:22.000 We were talking about this earlier.
00:18:24.000 People are People are spending a lot of time debating what communism and socialism and fascism is.
00:18:32.000 Why don't we just call it what it is?
00:18:34.000 It's authoritarianism.
00:18:35.000 It doesn't matter where it comes from.
00:18:37.000 If your house is on fire, you're not sitting there like, I wonder how my house caught on fire.
00:18:40.000 No, you're grabbing buckets of water and trying to put the fire right in.
00:18:43.000 You know, and it's going to take a collective effort to do that.
00:18:46.000 And I understand that tempers run hot and all this stuff and people are afraid.
00:18:50.000 Let's talk about this story in California.
00:18:52.000 We'll talk about why people are upset.
00:18:55.000 So this was something I saw retweeted, and it's this guy telling a story.
00:18:58.000 I don't know if this story is true or not, it's just Twitter, but let's check it out.
00:19:02.000 I think it's interesting.
00:19:04.000 He says, Last week, literally on the day my new wife and I came home to SF after our wedding, an intoxicated man confronted us on our doorstep, blocked the way out of our home, and threatened to stab me.
00:19:14.000 Unfortunately, this isn't an unusual occurrence in our city, and my experience is no more special than anyone else's.
00:19:20.000 So this isn't a thread about the incident itself.
00:19:22.000 For what it's worth, we live in what is typically considered a safe neighborhood.
00:19:25.000 Instead, I wanted to share what I learned today about what crimes are and aren't reported in San Francisco.
00:19:31.000 It was eye-opening for me, and I hope it will be for you.
00:19:34.000 Before anything, let me say that thankfully no one was hurt.
00:19:36.000 SFPD arrived quickly on the scene, engaged the attacker in a calm and safe manner.
00:19:41.000 Afterward, one of the officers asked me if I'd like to press charges.
00:19:43.000 Being relatively unfamiliar with this process, I asked him to intern what he advised, to which he replied that he was prohibited from influencing members of the public on such decisions.
00:19:53.000 This is a sensible prohibition, as one can imagine.
00:19:58.000 He says, if I didn't press charges, the police would issue a warning to the attacker.
00:20:01.000 And in almost all cases, that's enough to scare offenders of this sort away.
00:20:05.000 If I did press charges, I'd have to provide a statement, fill out a good amount of paperwork, and then show up on the day the attacker is summoned to court.
00:20:12.000 If he appeared, not guaranteed, the sentence would probably be a slap on the wrist.
00:20:16.000 As someone involved with the campaign to recall District Attorney Bowden, I was thus faced with the dilemma.
00:20:21.000 On one hand, I think it's our civic duty to report crimes.
00:20:24.000 Doing so was a bulwark against sophistry employed by Bowden and his supporters, claiming that crime in SF is down.
00:20:31.000 On the other hand, if I did press charges, Bowden's stats would show him as having filed charges in this incident.
00:20:38.000 Or, his more favored stat, having taken action, despite the end result being the same as if no arrests were made.
00:20:44.000 A dangerous man free on the streets.
00:20:46.000 The other complication I faced was that my sister was with us, visiting from abroad, and in town for just one day.
00:20:52.000 We were on our way out to visit a museum and see the city.
00:20:54.000 Did I want to spend the limited time she had with us filling out forms?
00:20:58.000 So I decided not to press charges.
00:21:00.000 If I had to do it all over again, maybe I would have done otherwise, but in the moment, I had to prioritize rapidly.
00:21:04.000 What's the upshot of all this?
00:21:06.000 I've previously posted about how crime is trending up in San Francisco and how Bowdoin's attempts to claim that crime is down rely on a misleading representation of aggregate numbers.
00:21:15.000 And so he goes on and you get the gist of what the story is and why I want to get into it.
00:21:19.000 We were mentioning George Soros funded DAs, the breakdown.
00:21:23.000 I could be wrong.
00:21:24.000 Isn't Chester Bowden one of these DAs?
00:21:26.000 He was funded by- he received some contributions from- Yeah, but there were like 275 judges and DAs across the country.
00:21:32.000 It wasn't just in- Right, of course.
00:21:33.000 It wasn't even just in blue states.
00:21:35.000 It was everywhere.
00:21:36.000 So, you know, to bring it back to the context of Gavin Newsom's recall, we mentioned the Pooh Patrol in San Francisco.
00:21:43.000 You know, so there is literally a department in San Francisco that their whole job is just literally going around cleaning up human waste off the streets.
00:21:50.000 You know, I can't blame Gavin Newsom directly for that.
00:21:53.000 He's the governor.
00:21:54.000 He's not a mayor.
00:21:55.000 He's not dealing with the nitty-gritty local stuff.
00:21:56.000 Well, he was the mayor of San Francisco.
00:21:57.000 Well, there you go.
00:21:58.000 I was going to say right now, but yes.
00:22:01.000 And your current vice president was the district attorney of San Francisco as well.
00:22:06.000 I just want to make it clear because when I'm like, recall him, people are going to be like, he's not even the mayor of San Francisco.
00:22:11.000 And it's like, well, hold on, hold on.
00:22:13.000 I'm getting to the point is that All of these people are part of the same party that coordinates locally, statewide, nationally.
00:22:21.000 You have national-level Democrats coming in supporting policies like they were trying to repeal the Civil Rights Act in their Constitution.
00:22:27.000 And you had national-level Democrats from other areas coming in and supporting this.
00:22:27.000 Right.
00:22:31.000 Absolutely insane.
00:22:32.000 And now you have Gavin Newsom, which represents the fractured and broken power structure that is California, that results in things like this.
00:22:39.000 So you think he's an effigy then?
00:22:41.000 And not necessarily individualistically to blame.
00:22:44.000 He's an effigy of what's wrong and removing him is somehow symbolic?
00:22:47.000 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:22:49.000 I think he's to blame for a lot of this stuff.
00:22:51.000 I was just trying to clarify, like, if you come out right now and say, you know, that Gavin Newsom should be recalled, look at the crime in San Francisco, the immediate reaction from the left is gonna be like, he's the governor, he doesn't deal with local issues.
00:23:02.000 Right now, I think that's fair to point out, and he's been in for what, like three years?
00:23:05.000 Has it been?
00:23:06.000 Yeah, that's right, yeah.
00:23:07.000 So I think the issue is, well, for one, you gotta get rid of all of them.
00:23:12.000 All these Democrats gotta get voted out.
00:23:14.000 Well, it's not just the politicians, though.
00:23:16.000 I mean, do you think Joe Biden's running the White House right now?
00:23:19.000 It's probably his chief of staff, right?
00:23:21.000 No, I think it's him.
00:23:22.000 I do think it's him.
00:23:23.000 I struggle to believe that because you can't string a sentence together half the time.
00:23:27.000 And that's the point.
00:23:28.000 Yeah, when he's like, they're not going to let me answer any questions.
00:23:31.000 Like, he's actually said that a couple times.
00:23:32.000 Yeah, but I think it's him.
00:23:33.000 And so, here's what people assume.
00:23:36.000 They assume there's someone... I assumed this for a while, too.
00:23:38.000 That someone's sitting there going like, okay, Joe, when you go up, you have to do this, you have to do that.
00:23:41.000 And he's like, oh, okay, okay.
00:23:42.000 I don't think that's what's happening.
00:23:43.000 What I think is happening is that Joe, sitting in the room, you know, he's at the table, little table or whatever, you know, with people sitting all around.
00:23:51.000 And then, they're looking at him and he goes, you know, we got a... Afghanistan!
00:23:51.000 Right.
00:23:57.000 Get them out!
00:23:58.000 You know, Bagram!
00:23:59.000 Get them out!
00:24:00.000 And then they go, you got it, boss, and they walk out.
00:24:02.000 And they evacuate Bagram, and the whole place falls apart.
00:24:05.000 And then... So what I think is... By the way, finish your thought, and I'll get into that.
00:24:09.000 I think what ends up happening is, you've got sycophants sitting around, just waiting for their turn.
00:24:15.000 Hoping, you know.
00:24:16.000 Like, there's no cohesive structure here.
00:24:19.000 That's a big problem in the military as well.
00:24:20.000 The reason you're seeing all these incompetent, ineffectual general officers is because of careerism.
00:24:26.000 They're more interested in promoting their own career than they are giving feedback that might get them a negative response.
00:24:32.000 That's what I'm being told from the Pentagon right now.
00:24:34.000 Yeah, for sure.
00:24:34.000 So these chiefs of staff are like, they don't want to get fired.
00:24:39.000 Correct, yeah.
00:24:39.000 What happened with James Mattis, who was a darling of the American military for a while?
00:24:42.000 It's beyond.
00:24:43.000 Yeah, he can.
00:24:44.000 They serve at the pleasure of the president.
00:24:45.000 He can remove and replace them whenever he wants.
00:24:48.000 But it's beyond that.
00:24:50.000 What happened with James Mattis, who was a darling of the American military for a while?
00:24:55.000 I mean, service members loved this guy for a while.
00:24:58.000 And then he was part of this.
00:25:00.000 Was it the 700 generals, general officers and former intelligence people that wrote
00:25:06.000 a letter against Donald Trump supporting Joe Biden for the election?
00:25:09.000 He was one of those guys that did that.
00:25:12.000 And, um, about a month afterwards, he got hired to the board of general dynamics, right?
00:25:16.000 You know what I mean?
00:25:17.000 It's, it's weird.
00:25:18.000 So it's, it's well beyond just the, it's well beyond just the careerism.
00:25:23.000 It's what that career turns into afterwards.
00:25:26.000 Lloyd Austin, Worked for a company, right?
00:25:31.000 And that company was bidding on a multi-billion dollar contract and the US government had said that they're probably not going to get it.
00:25:38.000 It doesn't look good for them.
00:25:39.000 We're going to go with the other guy.
00:25:41.000 And he becomes the Secretary of Defense.
00:25:44.000 And I think about a month later, or three months later that his former company gets that
00:25:48.000 contract. This is weird. So it's not just, I get what you're saying about removing all these
00:25:53.000 politicians, but that is the very top layer of scum, if you want to call it that. Well, yeah, so I
00:25:59.000 would go into this and say, we have a structural decay across the board. Correct, yeah.
00:26:04.000 When people are willing to vote for no reason other than tribe to earn points,
00:26:09.000 or because they believe some garbage nonsense.
00:26:11.000 Or in this instance, you've got, you know, people aren't reporting crimes because what's the point?
00:26:11.000 Right.
00:26:16.000 I've been, I've been in the situation.
00:26:17.000 I'm sure you guys have as well, where it's like, I had, I had one incident where, uh, I was driving with my brother and we got hit by a cab and the cops were like, you know, okay, we'll, we'll file all this, but you guys are going to show up, right?
00:26:30.000 Like you'll show up to court if we do this.
00:26:32.000 Cause they have to show up regardless of you do or not.
00:26:32.000 Right.
00:26:32.000 Yeah.
00:26:35.000 And we were like, like, OK, let's do this.
00:26:38.000 And it's easy to say at the time.
00:26:40.000 And then what happens?
00:26:41.000 A month goes by and they're like, OK, here's the date and time you got to show up.
00:26:44.000 And I'm like, dude, I got I got work.
00:26:46.000 Yeah.
00:26:46.000 Like I can't just sometimes years go by.
00:26:48.000 Right.
00:26:49.000 If it's a serious enough crime, sometimes years go by.
00:26:51.000 If they have a good enough attorney, sometimes years go by.
00:26:53.000 So we've got structural decay across the board in every facet.
00:26:58.000 And so, yeah, maybe it's fair to say just simply recalling Newsom isn't enough.
00:27:01.000 It's good.
00:27:02.000 I definitely think, you know, getting a year of someone else in there is a good thing.
00:27:05.000 But, you know, you're talking about the military.
00:27:08.000 I've heard... I've gotten emails.
00:27:10.000 We've heard a ton of stories.
00:27:11.000 People resigning.
00:27:12.000 Someone sent me a resignation letter recently.
00:27:15.000 Someone, apparently, you know, was an officer and announced, like, over just the wokeness CRT and the VAX mandate, they're like, I am quitting.
00:27:23.000 And it's actually sad, really, because I've heard these stories of people who are like, it was my dream to be, you know, to have a career in the military, worked there until retirement, and now it's like, I'm in my mid-30s and I'm out.
00:27:32.000 Can't do it.
00:27:32.000 I'm done.
00:27:33.000 Right.
00:27:34.000 Some people even giving up, like, their pensions.
00:27:36.000 It's super sad, too, because who's going to fight this next war?
00:27:39.000 It's not going to be these guys.
00:27:40.000 We saw in Afghanistan this past couple of weeks, right?
00:27:45.000 Work needed to get done.
00:27:47.000 And I have no lack of faith in the 82nd Airborne guys who were there, or the Marines that were there.
00:27:52.000 I'm sure, I have no doubt that they're plenty capable of doing that job.
00:27:56.000 But because of the leadership there, they weren't allowed to do that.
00:28:00.000 Right?
00:28:00.000 So...
00:28:02.000 I wonder who's going to fight the next one?
00:28:05.000 And we saw the answer.
00:28:07.000 It was guys like Tim Kennedy and these other guys that went over there on their own dime, right?
00:28:14.000 Guys that are, well, Tim's still in, but everybody but him was already out of the military.
00:28:18.000 They had served their country.
00:28:19.000 They were done.
00:28:20.000 And they spent their own money to go back to conduct these operations, not to go kill people or blow things up.
00:28:27.000 They went over there to save people.
00:28:29.000 Right?
00:28:29.000 That's what the American warfighter does.
00:28:31.000 It troubles me that the ranks of the U.S.
00:28:36.000 service member have now been infected with this nonsense.
00:28:39.000 Because I don't know, like you were talking about police earlier, I'm not sure how much you can trust the individual at this point.
00:28:46.000 You know what I mean?
00:28:47.000 It's getting bad.
00:28:48.000 This female staff sergeant that posted a video, like, you know when people are coming door to door, it's going to be me and I'll shoot you or whatever.
00:28:54.000 First of all, you never held a gun in your life.
00:28:56.000 It's pretty obvious.
00:28:58.000 That's who they want though.
00:28:59.000 Nothing.
00:29:00.000 That's who they want.
00:29:01.000 This lieutenant colonel gets booted out of his position and then he resigns.
00:29:04.000 This woman, I don't know what's happened to her.
00:29:06.000 Have you heard any news about her?
00:29:07.000 That seems like somebody that should be immediately kicked out of the military.
00:29:12.000 They want storm troopers.
00:29:13.000 They don't, they don't want rational thinking individuals who are going to say
00:29:16.000 like, here's the constitution.
00:29:17.000 Here's what might be an officer that publicly said she was going to storm people's doors.
00:29:21.000 She was a non-commissioned officer, Staff Sergeant E6.
00:29:23.000 Yeah.
00:29:24.000 Oh, she didn't say she was going to, she said when it starts or whatever she said.
00:29:28.000 I don't want to paraphrase too much, but she basically said that people going door-to-door, that's gonna be me and I will... That's terror.
00:29:34.000 I mean, that's a form of terror.
00:29:36.000 She was like, what do you think's going to happen when we're ordered to, you know, to point you down?
00:29:40.000 It's not going to, it's going to be us and we're going to do it.
00:29:42.000 And so she, well, what she says, you refuse the command.
00:29:46.000 You know, uh, I, I firmly believe, and I've believed for a very long time that if ordered most probably enlisted would do it would absolutely shoot an American.
00:29:55.000 We've seen it before, right?
00:29:56.000 Kent State.
00:29:57.000 It's happened in our parents' lifetime.
00:30:00.000 1970, May 4th, I went to Kent State for college.
00:30:02.000 They fired on the crowd, the National Guard fired on the crowd, killed four college kids.
00:30:06.000 Yep, one guy took a bullet through his hand.
00:30:09.000 So I've been around military people for a large portion of my life.
00:30:15.000 And, uh, there's a lot of people who argue with me in chat or like an email and being like, you don't understand, you know, like, you know, soldiers, they'll do the right thing.
00:30:21.000 They're not robots.
00:30:22.000 And I'm like, they're not robots.
00:30:23.000 It's the bystander effect though, right?
00:30:25.000 People, people, psychology is infectious.
00:30:27.000 Nothing is, is more infectious than, than psychology.
00:30:30.000 And.
00:30:31.000 People in groups, it's the mob.
00:30:33.000 We've been discussing the psychology of the mob for as long as human beings have been discussing psychology.
00:30:38.000 The Stanford Prison Experiment, for example.
00:30:40.000 You put people in hierarchical structures of power, and then mob rule takes over, and then you go to base instinct.
00:30:46.000 That's what happens, unless you're very well-trained.
00:30:48.000 But when it comes to the military, it's actually really simple to understand why this... She said, she's right.
00:30:55.000 They would do this.
00:30:55.000 You know why?
00:30:56.000 It's really, really simple.
00:30:58.000 If Ian is running through the streets with a red bandana on or whatever, maybe he's jogging.
00:31:04.000 And then she's standing there and she gets an order like, that's the guy.
00:31:07.000 He's the terrorist.
00:31:09.000 Take him down.
00:31:09.000 Take him down.
00:31:10.000 Do you think she's going to be like, nah, I don't trust you.
00:31:11.000 No, no.
00:31:12.000 She shouldn't question that order.
00:31:13.000 I mean, that's the weird thing about the military.
00:31:15.000 You're like, if I question the order, are people going to die?
00:31:17.000 I mean, we're talking about the Bourne identity right now, right?
00:31:20.000 Or I guess the third movie where he finally meets up with the old guy and he's like, Is that the Bourne Supremacy?
00:31:24.000 Yeah, I think.
00:31:25.000 Or the Bourne Redundancy, I think is what it's called.
00:31:27.000 Yeah, right, right, right.
00:31:28.000 Yeah, but it came down to, like, you've got to shoot this guy.
00:31:31.000 Why?
00:31:32.000 And the reason was they wanted to break the person, right?
00:31:34.000 Your individualism is gone.
00:31:36.000 Your thinking is gone.
00:31:37.000 You kill who we tell you to kill.
00:31:38.000 And that's not how it works.
00:31:40.000 That's not how we trained our people in the 82nd Airborne.
00:31:43.000 We put ourselves at great risk on a relatively regular basis to not inflict harm on people unnecessarily, right?
00:31:53.000 Can't say the same about Obama, right?
00:31:54.000 The drone strike stuff killed a lot of innocent people.
00:31:56.000 I think something like 30% of the people killed in those strikes were just standing there.
00:32:00.000 One of the first things he did was bombing a village of women and children.
00:32:04.000 I've heard numbers that collateral damage of drone strikes are enormously large, like 90%.
00:32:10.000 They started just claiming that, oh, it's a military-age male, they're an enemy combatant.
00:32:14.000 That's right, yeah.
00:32:15.000 A military-age male, by the way, is a male 14 years old or older.
00:32:19.000 No, so I think people need to understand this just to reiterate to a certain extent.
00:32:25.000 Think about you, yourself, standing around with your friends, you hear a report like Antifa's coming in, they're armed, they got handguns.
00:32:33.000 You see what just happened in Portland where they were shooting at the Proud Boys?
00:32:37.000 Randomly!
00:32:38.000 Like, there was no reason, okay?
00:32:41.000 So they were retreating.
00:32:43.000 The Proud Boys were walking forward and they had, like, you know, clubs and shields or whatever.
00:32:47.000 Probably not a good idea, regardless.
00:32:49.000 This guy turns around with a gun and starts randomly just firing and hits one of the guys in the legs.
00:32:54.000 Now imagine you hear that.
00:32:56.000 And then all of a sudden, you see a dude with, you know, what looks like a weapon, and he's wearing all black, and then he's running towards you, and they're like, That's him!
00:33:04.000 That's him!
00:33:04.000 Stop him!
00:33:05.000 Stop him!
00:33:06.000 Are you going to be like, hold on there a minute?
00:33:08.000 It's not even just from your leadership.
00:33:10.000 Panic can happen in those situations under any normal or any number of circumstances.
00:33:16.000 So we're talking about one of the founding moments of our republic here.
00:33:22.000 The reason that John Adams ended up getting involved with the Continental Congress and the movement towards becoming America, right, and breaking off of the British Empire is because there were British soldiers in Boston and they were guarding some areas.
00:33:39.000 There was a protest by the Sons of Liberty, which was run by his cousin, Sam Adams, right?
00:33:43.000 Not the beer guy.
00:33:44.000 Oh, not the beer guy.
00:33:45.000 I don't know.
00:33:45.000 No, it's not the beer guy.
00:33:46.000 He was a politician.
00:33:50.000 Sam Adams is doing this thing.
00:33:51.000 Somebody behind the British soldiers.
00:33:53.000 Well, first of all, people are throwing heavy objects and hit one of the kids in the head.
00:33:57.000 And then somebody behind them yelled fire.
00:33:59.000 Yep.
00:33:59.000 Right.
00:33:59.000 Finally, through the trial, they figured it out.
00:34:01.000 And John Adams represented the British people.
00:34:03.000 And he felt they got a good trial.
00:34:03.000 Yeah.
00:34:05.000 They got off.
00:34:05.000 They did.
00:34:06.000 And then still the crown sent over an edict saying all military court marshals will now be tried back in England.
00:34:12.000 So he's like, well, you don't even believe in our ability to self-govern.
00:34:15.000 Now I'm going to get involved.
00:34:16.000 And he became the second president of the United States.
00:34:18.000 So this stuff can happen in any kind of power vacuum.
00:34:21.000 It doesn't matter if it's a leader doing it or if it's just the fog of war.
00:34:25.000 You know what I mean?
00:34:25.000 And imagine what the fog of war looks like in modern day when it's brother on brother.
00:34:31.000 You know what I mean?
00:34:32.000 Yeah, I think it's important to realize that it's not evil when, you know, this, like, a lot of people are criticizing this young woman over saying it.
00:34:41.000 And, you know, I was, I didn't really want to do a big segment on that because I'm like, I don't know what the full context is.
00:34:46.000 I don't know.
00:34:47.000 It's like a five, 10 second clip or whatever.
00:34:49.000 Who knows what she's talking about?
00:34:50.000 It was jump cutty.
00:34:51.000 And I'm like, it's not much I can add to that.
00:34:53.000 You know, if she's, if there was like a 10 minute thing she was talking about, or there are other videos where she was explaining why this subject came up, maybe there'd be more to criticize.
00:35:00.000 Right.
00:35:01.000 But I think you need to realize you're surrounded by your buddies.
00:35:03.000 People you know, people you trust, people who are there to protect you.
00:35:06.000 And that's you.
00:35:07.000 That's your group.
00:35:08.000 You're not going to sit around and wait to find out when you're dealing with a conflict situation.
00:35:12.000 I've been in conflict situations.
00:35:14.000 I don't sit back and be like, well, hold on.
00:35:16.000 Maybe this guy in the Antifa thing who was threatening us might not be Antifa.
00:35:19.000 We get out.
00:35:19.000 No, we leave.
00:35:20.000 Now, if you're there actively trying to suppress or prevent violence, and then you see someone, you're not just gonna assume, well, let's just calmly talk to this guy.
00:35:29.000 No, this is why, whenever I've been arrested, like legit arrested by cops while covering things, I've always been released without being processed.
00:35:36.000 Like, charges never occur or anything like that.
00:35:39.000 Because when I was in D.C.
00:35:40.000 on J-20 in 2017, when Trump was being inaugurated, they surrounded everybody, I got trapped in this group, it was a bunch of antifa types.
00:35:48.000 I stood off to the side, and I talked to the cop.
00:35:51.000 Like, the cops that were standing there with their batons out guarding everybody, I was like, hey, I just want to let you know I'm a journalist.
00:35:55.000 And they were like, don't care.
00:35:56.000 And I'm like, is there a supervisor?
00:35:58.000 And then they were like, some guy behind them was like, I'll get a supervisor.
00:36:01.000 And I told the supervisor, I was like, hey, I just want to let you know I'm a journalist.
00:36:03.000 And he was like, doesn't matter, you're all under arrest.
00:36:05.000 And I was like, just letting you know, when I was talking to the cop, Who is standing next to me because he's guarding this group.
00:36:11.000 I'd be like, officer, I'm going to place my bag down and I'm going to be putting my shirt away and taking my phone out just so you know.
00:36:16.000 And then he would like nod a little bit and then I'd unzip it slowly.
00:36:19.000 I'd open it wide, pull out my phone, put my shirt in because he doesn't know who I am.
00:36:23.000 He's not going to sit here pretending he knows that I'm not Antifa or whatever or violent.
00:36:26.000 Right.
00:36:27.000 That's a good point.
00:36:28.000 It's a very good point.
00:36:29.000 Why not in that scenario just be it for the for the person who might be on the threatened end of that exchange?
00:36:39.000 Am I really going to let my politeness get me killed?
00:36:41.000 Does that seem like a trade-off to you?
00:36:43.000 Or could we as a society agree that this is a messed up situation?
00:36:47.000 Neither one of us wanted it to come to this, but here it is, so let's... Everybody put your hands up and back away slowly and then we'll go in our separate directions or whatever, right?
00:36:54.000 I mean, it seems like a reasonable way to handle that, but people get...
00:36:57.000 Super emotionally charged.
00:36:58.000 And look, I'm not innocent of that.
00:37:00.000 I get pissed off as much as anybody else, right?
00:37:03.000 Probably more so.
00:37:03.000 Yeah.
00:37:04.000 I lash out all the time.
00:37:05.000 I've been in fights with some of my closest friends over nonsense.
00:37:10.000 Like Alex Jones is one of my closest friends.
00:37:12.000 We talk all the time.
00:37:13.000 He actually just sent me some cool videos of him shooting the other day.
00:37:17.000 He went pretty hard after some of my buddies at Black Rifle.
00:37:21.000 I thought he was out of line, and I said some things that I thought also were out of line.
00:37:24.000 And the funny thing is a lot of people on the internet talk about it still.
00:37:29.000 Two days after that we were sharing photos from respective lakes that we were at.
00:37:34.000 You know what I mean?
00:37:35.000 It wasn't ever really a rift between us, but it gets perceived like that, and it's unfortunate that it can come to that sometimes.
00:37:42.000 I think it's because Things get so heated, we start to prioritize the wrong stuff.
00:37:49.000 I think we need to understand that there's different bubbles within bubbles within bubbles, right?
00:37:53.000 So we have the largest bubble of, like, America.
00:37:55.000 Well, technically, I guess you have the largest bubble of the world.
00:37:56.000 Then you have, like, America within the world.
00:37:58.000 Then you have the different regions, different states, different cities.
00:37:58.000 Right.
00:38:01.000 Within that, there's different power structures, different authorities.
00:38:04.000 You always have that trope of the cop investigating a murder and the FBI guy walks in and he goes, we're taking over.
00:38:09.000 This is my jurisdiction.
00:38:10.000 Yeah.
00:38:11.000 Yeah, the feds are involved.
00:38:12.000 Like Willem Dafoe in boondock suits.
00:38:14.000 Yeah.
00:38:15.000 That's who the blank guy am, or whatever.
00:38:17.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:38:18.000 Excellent, excellent performance.
00:38:19.000 But so when it comes to, you know, communication breakdown, when you have things moving so quickly, it's ultimately going to be like the people around you is the paramount to be protected.
00:38:33.000 And sometimes there's even friendly fire between different law enforcement divisions or there's one funny story where like the DEA and the FBI like busted each other.
00:38:40.000 Oh yeah, I saw that.
00:38:41.000 Setting up like a drugs thing or something.
00:38:43.000 I'm glad that happened.
00:38:46.000 As a taxpayer, I don't love the fact that taxpayer money was wasted, but I guess if it was wasted on them with each other and not busting some poor guy that's just trying to get high, to be honest.
00:38:57.000 Yeah.
00:38:57.000 Leave him alone.
00:38:58.000 Let's talk about, so I think we got to the point on that one, but what happens then when you take a confusing situation where you've got people who don't know what to do, and you add in derelict leadership?
00:39:09.000 Right.
00:39:10.000 Check out this story.
00:39:11.000 Check out this story.
00:39:11.000 Alright, you're gonna love this.
00:39:13.000 From Fox News, White House abruptly cuts feed of Biden mid-sentence as he asks question at wildfires briefing.
00:39:21.000 Biden's White House has history of preventing public from hearing him on the cuff.
00:39:25.000 It's not the first time that after a presentation or whatever, people start asking questions and the feed just abruptly shuts off.
00:39:32.000 No, it's happened numerous times.
00:39:33.000 I mean, one time he just, he actually made the decision to turn around and walk off stage.
00:39:37.000 Yes, well, he does it all the time!
00:39:39.000 It was after, he was talking about the storm, and they were like, what about Afghanistan?
00:39:42.000 He goes, nah, we're not doing that.
00:39:43.000 He just walked out.
00:39:45.000 I mean, say what you want to about Trump.
00:39:47.000 I mean, I'm one of these people that enjoyed Trump's policies for the most part.
00:39:50.000 There are some things I didn't like about it.
00:39:54.000 Sometimes he just went a little... It's not even that he went too far.
00:39:58.000 I understand why he talked away dead.
00:40:00.000 But at some point you have to be like, all right, cool, man.
00:40:04.000 I'm just gonna get the message out there and then keep doing this good work.
00:40:08.000 You know what nobody's talking about right now?
00:40:09.000 It is the historically low unemployment and for black people in the country.
00:40:14.000 During Trump, you mean?
00:40:15.000 During Trump, yeah.
00:40:16.000 Not right now!
00:40:17.000 No, of course not, no.
00:40:18.000 Nobody's talking about how the five major peace deals between Middle Eastern countries and Israel for the first time in history, right?
00:40:25.000 Nobody's talking about any of that stuff.
00:40:27.000 All they're talking about is how he said X, Y, Z about the election and how he's behaved since then.
00:40:32.000 I feel like if you're that right about stuff, and the results of his foreign domestic economic policies were pretty good.
00:40:40.000 If you're that right about stuff in principle, I think you have some responsibility to behave a certain way to continue getting it done.
00:40:47.000 But I do understand that he was under... People like to do these whataboutisms and talk about who gets more heat than whom.
00:40:55.000 I've never seen anybody get trashed more or more regularly than Donald Trump.
00:40:58.000 Never.
00:40:59.000 In the history of American media.
00:41:01.000 Yeah.
00:41:01.000 Data proves it.
00:41:02.000 I mean, it's wild.
00:41:02.000 I've never seen it.
00:41:04.000 The data tracking negative, negative press for Trump.
00:41:07.000 It was like 90% of stories were negative.
00:41:09.000 And it was like two to three times as many stories than any of them.
00:41:12.000 Why is that?
00:41:12.000 Was he a real threat to the power structure?
00:41:14.000 Oh yeah, dude.
00:41:15.000 Of course he was.
00:41:17.000 Look, you had, you had Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump, the insurgent candidates and Trump broke through.
00:41:22.000 I don't know if any president can threaten the establishment anymore.
00:41:25.000 Kennedy went down, man.
00:41:26.000 He said, I'm going to bust up the CIA.
00:41:28.000 And then he died shortly after.
00:41:30.000 He's always done it since.
00:41:32.000 Kennedy, my understanding is that the CIA clipped him because of the Bay of Pigs.
00:41:38.000 Because he left.
00:41:39.000 He refused.
00:41:41.000 What's the story there?
00:41:42.000 The story?
00:41:42.000 Well, you should have, I know your fans probably don't like him, but you should have Evan from Black Rifle come on.
00:41:47.000 He worked for the agency for a while.
00:41:48.000 His theory is that George H.W.
00:41:50.000 Bush clipped Kennedy.
00:41:51.000 Because he was one of the leaders of that Operation Bay of Pigs.
00:41:54.000 Yeah.
00:41:55.000 The belief is that he was a NOC, a non-official cover guy, like a, you know, an operator.
00:42:00.000 And the reason people believe that is because he went from a congressman to the deputy director operations, which is the most important job at the agency.
00:42:08.000 Like anything that happens there goes through that office.
00:42:10.000 You know, the challenge is with all that stuff, though, is How many assumptions do you have to make at that point?
00:42:16.000 Those aside, I used to think that I could get to the position of president and then fix it.
00:42:21.000 I'd be like, I'll get in there, I'll get all the information, I'll finally fix it all so that we don't have to worry about this anymore.
00:42:26.000 But now, it's just, it's such a web that you get in there as this piece, the king piece.
00:42:31.000 The king's a terrible piece in chess.
00:42:33.000 I mean, it doesn't, it's not, you can't do it.
00:42:34.000 It's a, it's, you got to guard it because it gets killed.
00:42:37.000 It's the worst piece.
00:42:38.000 Well, no, the pawn is the worst piece.
00:42:39.000 Technically, well, it's arguable.
00:42:41.000 Pawns can transform.
00:42:42.000 But the king's pretty terrible.
00:42:44.000 It just sits there in hiding.
00:42:46.000 Look, to be honest, the king can move one space in every direction.
00:42:50.000 It's not bad.
00:42:51.000 But a little off topic, the president doesn't have as much power as we may think.
00:42:55.000 There is the queen.
00:42:56.000 Who's the queen in our society right now?
00:42:58.000 Trump proved it.
00:42:58.000 I don't know.
00:42:59.000 Trump tried to do so much and he was blocked.
00:43:02.000 He should have fired way more people.
00:43:03.000 But I don't need to get into Trump, right?
00:43:05.000 The problem we have right now is that people hated the guy so much because the media hated him so much, because the establishment hated him so much, that now we are at lack thereof when it comes to president, when it comes to leadership.
00:43:16.000 Joe Biden is... Here's the way I describe it.
00:43:18.000 Donald Trump was anti-elected.
00:43:20.000 The enthusiasm for Joe Biden was in the gutter.
00:43:23.000 And all the Trump supporters were saying that was evidence that Trump's going to win.
00:43:26.000 It's going to be a landslide.
00:43:27.000 And Trump's enthusiasm was through the roof.
00:43:30.000 But enthusiasm against Trump was through the roof, rivaling enthusiasm for him.
00:43:35.000 And so people just voted for a jabbering, unwell man.
00:43:41.000 Senile.
00:43:41.000 With vascular dementia.
00:43:43.000 Let's be real.
00:43:43.000 He's got vascular dementia.
00:43:44.000 And he and he would call a lid call it call it and now they won't even let him speak to the he tries to
00:43:49.000 Answer questions and he goes I know I'm gonna get in trouble if I do this
00:43:52.000 Remember when he was doing he was calling on the press and then one of the journalists
00:43:56.000 I think was from PBS asked a question and he goes I thought the question was supposed to anyway
00:44:01.000 Like he knew in advance what he was gonna be asked and it's all
00:44:04.000 Sometimes he's like, I'm not supposed to call on you, but what do you have to say?
00:44:07.000 Like, you can tell the old Joe Biden that's still rattling around there somewhere that likes a good scrap, you know what I mean?
00:44:14.000 He's just like, all right, come on.
00:44:15.000 Because, again, say what you want about Trump, but he would stand up there and talk trash back and forth with the media all day if they would let him.
00:44:22.000 Yeah, with Jim Acosta.
00:44:23.000 He would just sit there, and that would be the presidency.
00:44:26.000 It would be four years of him versus Jim Acosta.
00:44:28.000 What kind of uppers do you think they got Joe Biden on?
00:44:31.000 So that he can do these, these, these events.
00:44:34.000 It's gotta be like B12 and Adderall, right?
00:44:36.000 Just like mainlining that stuff into his body.
00:44:40.000 There's no, there's no way he's, he, he goes from this, uh, like hunched over guy that looks like he should be in an old rickety, uh, FDR era wheelchair with a, with a shawl in his lap to a guy who's like alert and bright, but he's a little too alert and he's giddy about being alert.
00:44:58.000 You know what I mean?
00:44:59.000 They've been mainlining modafinil.
00:45:01.000 And then his doctor's like, he's talking to Kamala, we can't keep pushing him like this.
00:45:05.000 His blood is 20% modafinil!
00:45:07.000 I saw a good meme.
00:45:08.000 It's only keeping him away for three hours at this point.
00:45:11.000 I saw a good meme today.
00:45:12.000 It was like, Kamala, you have to stop answering the phone.
00:45:15.000 Did he die yet?
00:45:16.000 Oh, jeez.
00:45:18.000 It's a little dark.
00:45:20.000 It's very disturbing that we have this guy in charge of the military right now.
00:45:24.000 Bro, it's like the Crypt Keeper surrendering.
00:45:26.000 I'm far less concerned about him being in charge of the military as I am Millie and Lloyd Austin.
00:45:32.000 These guys are human garbage.
00:45:34.000 Why is that?
00:45:35.000 Here's why.
00:45:36.000 Let's go back to this.
00:45:37.000 You mentioned Bagram earlier.
00:45:40.000 A private, the lowest rank in the U.S.
00:45:43.000 military in the 82nd Airborne, which is who deployed over there, along with the Marine Corps, would know that what they did strategically makes no sense.
00:45:52.000 Right.
00:45:53.000 Removing your, so the thing that is unique about the United States military, aside, we have a great Navy, we have nuclear capabilities, we have very well trained operators and soldiers and Marines and such, but our air superiority is where we really dominate.
00:46:07.000 It doesn't matter who attacks us, even China at their advanced level right now could not compete with us in air superiority.
00:46:13.000 We removed our number one piece.
00:46:15.000 We removed our Queen off the board in Bagram.
00:46:18.000 And then what?
00:46:20.000 We had to redeploy.
00:46:21.000 I mean, the people from the 82nd that went there, they're part of what's called the DRF1, the Division Ready Force.
00:46:26.000 They're on standby to deploy at any time within 18 hours.
00:46:30.000 And that's not a game plan.
00:46:32.000 That's the backup.
00:46:34.000 That's the break in case of emergency situation.
00:46:36.000 You don't do that.
00:46:38.000 So when they went there and then they just sat inside of the base waiting for something to happen.
00:46:42.000 Also not what you do.
00:46:43.000 The 82nd Airborne goes in and secures the airfield.
00:46:46.000 And then typically Rangers and sometimes Marines maybe, Rangers go push out, create standoff.
00:46:55.000 And then something like JSOC will conduct operations in the area, right?
00:46:59.000 That's how that works.
00:47:00.000 And I know Millie knows this because he was in Panama when we did exactly that.
00:47:04.000 Right?
00:47:05.000 It was 1989.
00:47:06.000 Like he knows all this stuff.
00:47:07.000 So the fact that These plans that Biden had, and this is why, by the way, excuse me, this is why the Armed Services Committee has now requested, or demanded rather, that Lloyd Austin give them his plan, right, for the Afghan extraction.
00:47:23.000 Like, what the hell is this?
00:47:24.000 Yeah, this doesn't make any sense.
00:47:25.000 Have you ever seen Congress demand the plan from a military commander before because it didn't make sense?
00:47:25.000 Yeah.
00:47:30.000 No, not in my lifetime.
00:47:32.000 So the question is why?
00:47:32.000 Right.
00:47:35.000 Now we're seeing it.
00:47:36.000 Dakota Meyer and I were talking about this on our show and people, we said it in the mainstream media a couple of places and people were like, no, that's not happening.
00:47:44.000 And one lady in particular tried to go after us about it.
00:47:50.000 Our idea was this, and it's not an idea, it's stuff we've heard from people, but the idea is that The reason that Biden was so sure when he said we're gonna get all our people out the reason that he Had this stupid plan in the first place the reason that he gave up a list of American citizens to the Taliban is Exactly what you saw yesterday, so we predicted that this past weekend going into this week You would see airlifts of US citizens coming out of Afghanistan, and you would see pallets of cash going in so
00:48:20.000 Saturday and Sunday, two planes full of American citizens leave.
00:48:23.000 Today it's announced 64 billion dollars is going back to Afghanistan.
00:48:29.000 Are we going to pretend like that's not the Taliban?
00:48:31.000 Like we just give them 64 billion more dollars on top of the 88?
00:48:35.000 This was always assumed to be the outcome with the current leadership.
00:48:39.000 Of course.
00:48:40.000 Lack thereof when it comes to leadership.
00:48:41.000 But the problem for me is...
00:48:43.000 I get all the politics and stuff like that, but how did that military plan go all the way up the chain of command and then all the way back down to the people who executed the plan without anybody ever saying anything?
00:48:55.000 It's 64 million.
00:48:55.000 It's a million.
00:48:58.000 How did it go up and down the chain without?
00:49:00.000 That's a good question.
00:49:02.000 It's internal rot.
00:49:03.000 You know, look, man, we had that professor earlier.
00:49:06.000 The story came out where she said 9-11 was an attack on heteropatriarchal, you know, capitalism, whatever.
00:49:12.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:49:12.000 Syracuse professor.
00:49:13.000 You've got absolute systemic institutional decay.
00:49:19.000 And we talk about how the left dominates institutions, but I'm sorry, what I really see happening is just there's interested groups knocking down the United States, period.
00:49:28.000 Think about it this way.
00:49:29.000 There are people right now cheering for Joe Biden's illegal mandate that bypasses the legislative branch.
00:49:37.000 He's already attempted to bypass the legislative and the judicial with his eviction moratorium, and you have people cheering for it.
00:49:44.000 That's basically like the U.S.
00:49:46.000 system of governance has been corrupted and is breaking apart, and they're celebrating.
00:49:52.000 Glad it's happening.
00:49:53.000 I mean, the only way this could be more perfect is if instead of Biden, it was Joe Lieberman, right?
00:49:57.000 Because he looked like Emperor Palpatine.
00:49:59.000 You remember that guy?
00:50:00.000 Does everyone remember Lieberman from Connecticut?
00:50:02.000 Yeah, he was from Connecticut, I think.
00:50:04.000 2008, did he run?
00:50:05.000 I believe it was 2000 or 2004.
00:50:08.000 He was in the primaries.
00:50:09.000 I remember that guy.
00:50:10.000 Yeah, he looked like Palpatine.
00:50:11.000 But this is this is that's what's happening here.
00:50:14.000 It's very bizarre.
00:50:15.000 And I guess it always kind of happens that way where I mean, it's the only time that authoritarian movements are ever actually effective, is when you convince the population that it's for their own good first.
00:50:27.000 Right.
00:50:27.000 And then they accept it.
00:50:29.000 But I think what we're seeing now is that people don't care about what is right, what is wrong.
00:50:33.000 They just want to feel good, and so they want to do whatever the tribe tells them to do.
00:50:38.000 Right.
00:50:38.000 And so that's why you have... The social currency, yeah.
00:50:41.000 Like, I think one of the best examples of this is Cameron Kasky.
00:50:46.000 Because I've interacted with him.
00:50:47.000 And maybe it's unfair only because I haven't interacted with other more bad faith actors.
00:50:51.000 But he tweets a whole lot of stuff.
00:50:52.000 He's one of the Parkland kids.
00:50:53.000 He tweets a whole bunch of stuff out about getting vaccinated and vaccine mandates.
00:50:57.000 And then when I reply in good faith, it's all just garbage nonsense games to him.
00:51:02.000 You know, he tweets garbage nonsense.
00:51:05.000 He doesn't respond.
00:51:06.000 So he's really interested in inflaming tensions and causing strife.
00:51:10.000 And then when you try and like, I politely DM'd the guy and been like, hey, you know, just wanted to flag this for you.
00:51:18.000 And he's like, I don't care.
00:51:19.000 He's like, I'm not going to engage with you on this stuff.
00:51:21.000 And then starts insulting and screen grabbing, insulting my followers.
00:51:21.000 Literally don't care.
00:51:24.000 And I'm like, I thought this dude was more interested in actually accomplishing something, but you can see.
00:51:30.000 I think one of the big problems we have with this country right now is there are young people on the left who are 100% demoralized.
00:51:38.000 Right.
00:51:39.000 So they grew up, these younger people, grew up at a time with an economic collapse, parents who are probably struggling, they themselves unable to find work, decided to go to college, now have massive debt, once again we get into another crisis and they're like, Why should I care about the world?
00:51:53.000 Let it burn for all I care.
00:51:54.000 And that's what they do.
00:51:56.000 They start Twitter fights.
00:51:56.000 They go on Twitter.
00:51:57.000 And they don't care about solutions.
00:51:58.000 They just want pain.
00:52:00.000 They want it to burn.
00:52:01.000 The three of us have acknowledged that we like to troll.
00:52:04.000 I was a big internet troll from 2009 to 2016.
00:52:07.000 I realized how much damage I was doing.
00:52:10.000 It seemed subtle.
00:52:11.000 I was getting a good laugh out of it.
00:52:12.000 But I think it was really messing people up.
00:52:16.000 Yeah, I mean, that's certainly... There's something fun about trolling because you need irony, right?
00:52:24.000 Fundamentalism lacks irony, that's their problem.
00:52:26.000 Like, the idea that you can... the verboten thing.
00:52:30.000 Like, comedy and the arts are important.
00:52:33.000 But I'm not...
00:52:35.000 I'm not talking about trolling.
00:52:36.000 You know, look, being sarcastic, silly, and posting on Twitter in ways that are trying to make a point.
00:52:42.000 Oh, no, this kid you're talking about is just a knucklehead.
00:52:45.000 He's only trying to make a point.
00:52:48.000 He doesn't care about the cause at all.
00:52:50.000 He's not trying to make a point.
00:52:51.000 The point is, he's not trying to make a point.
00:52:51.000 No, no, no.
00:52:53.000 He's trying to start fights.
00:52:54.000 Make a scene.
00:52:55.000 Yeah, right.
00:52:55.000 Right.
00:52:56.000 So the way I see it is, I mean, I guess I can understand it to a certain extent.
00:53:02.000 You know, they grew up in a world that was on fire, and the system is corrupt and broken, and so they're just like, why should I bother with it?
00:53:10.000 Like, there's nothing to look forward to when you're born into the corrupt, the Chang system.
00:53:15.000 And so all they do is add to the fire.
00:53:17.000 There's no hope, yeah.
00:53:18.000 I mean, what's the quote from The Matrix?
00:53:20.000 Hope is the quintessential human emotion, both the source of our greatest strength and weakness, or something like that.
00:53:26.000 I mean, certainly, if you imagine Mel Gibson in The Patriot with his weird haircut and his tri-corner hat coming over the hill, waving the flag and telling people to charge, who is that in American society right now?
00:53:37.000 Who isn't just sitting around?
00:53:40.000 Bitching and crying about the state of things.
00:53:42.000 Who's saying, you know what guys, we can actually do this.
00:53:45.000 Like the only reason any of these politicians have any power is because we allow that to happen.
00:53:48.000 You're telling me that 535 people plus the president, his staff, and Washington are overpowering 350 million people?
00:53:55.000 That is physically impossible.
00:53:57.000 But people are, unfortunately, we're a nation of cowards.
00:54:01.000 Absolutely.
00:54:01.000 Well, I don't know if we're a nation of cowards.
00:54:03.000 I think... No, no, no.
00:54:05.000 What I mean, I'm not calling everyone in this country cowards.
00:54:08.000 No, I understand what you mean.
00:54:10.000 We have a large quantity of cowards in this country.
00:54:12.000 There's a George Bernard Shaw quote, and it's, liberty means responsibility.
00:54:16.000 That's why most men dread it.
00:54:18.000 Yeah, right.
00:54:19.000 And I think it's like when you we do it for social reasons, too.
00:54:22.000 You walk by someone and they trip a little bit and you divert your eyes because you don't want to get involved in that.
00:54:27.000 I don't want to feel collective shame because something just happened or whatever.
00:54:32.000 And if you look at a piece of garbage on the ground and you look back up and keep walking.
00:54:36.000 Shopping cart test, you know, shopping cart test.
00:54:39.000 Uh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:54:40.000 Where you leave it at, or who puts it away in the... You can tell, like, I guess I'll be a little bit more grandiose.
00:54:50.000 You can tell the strength of the community by how many shopping carts are strewn about the supermarket parking lot.
00:54:56.000 That's kind of like broken window theory, right?
00:54:58.000 I mean, I guess in the inverse of that.
00:54:59.000 For those that aren't familiar, it's basically returning a shopping cart to the corral takes very little time, if any.
00:55:06.000 It doesn't reward you with anything.
00:55:08.000 It's just the right thing to do.
00:55:10.000 You can also run and jump on it and ride it.
00:55:10.000 Correct.
00:55:12.000 It's fun, but you'll notice you go to some places and their shopping carts just piled up all over the place because people go to their cars, push it to the side, and say, I don't care.
00:55:20.000 It'd take you only 10 seconds to do the right thing.
00:55:22.000 Same thing with littering.
00:55:24.000 One of my pet peeves is when people litter.
00:55:29.000 I agree with that principle, the shopping cart principle, and I agree with what you're saying right now just for that reason because I can feel it.
00:55:36.000 Just do the right thing.
00:55:38.000 When people cross in the middle of the street and don't go to the crosswalk that's 20 feet away, that makes me mad.
00:55:43.000 You know what I mean?
00:55:45.000 We set it all up for you to do it right, so you're safe, so the driver's safe, so everybody's safe, and you, because what?
00:55:50.000 You felt like it, you just... No scruples!
00:55:55.000 It's not about following the rules, it's about personal responsibility.
00:55:58.000 If we're going to put so much weight on personal responsibility, my body, my choice, liberty, I want to do what I want to do, then do the right damn thing.
00:56:05.000 But there's there's I think there's a there is an we are a country of people who refuse to accept their responsibility.
00:56:11.000 I'll put it that way.
00:56:13.000 And that's true for the left and the right.
00:56:15.000 You know, people have quoted Thomas Paine, let there be trouble in my day so that my children will know peace.
00:56:19.000 And the number one thing I hear over and over again and did for years as to why people would not stand up against the tyranny was, I don't want to put my kids at risk.
00:56:28.000 Right.
00:56:28.000 So it's like, two years ago when I said, they are coming to your workplace, they are going to come after you, they are going to subject you to this, and your kids, the things they're gonna do to your kids in the schools, you've gotta speak up now before it's too late, and people will be like, look, I don't wanna lose my job, I gotta feed my kids.
00:56:45.000 Okay, we're now at the point where we're seeing all these Twitter messages pop up where people are like, I lost my job because of the mandates, I'm losing my job, you know, my kids, I'm trying to pull them out of school now because of the CRT stuff, oh no, the board members, They're pushing CRT and they're voting against us.
00:56:58.000 What do we do?
00:56:58.000 And I'm like, well, I would say right now, start speaking up and just keep in mind that if you would have spoken up two years ago and all, and got all your friends together and was active about this, it may have never happened in the first place.
00:57:11.000 Yeah, I completely agree with that.
00:57:12.000 I mean, look, there's, we're, we're at the precipice now.
00:57:16.000 I mean, it's, I don't know if, uh, I hate hyperbole.
00:57:22.000 I hate how, The word Nazi gets thrown around a lot.
00:57:26.000 It's very irritating because there are still people alive who went through that stuff.
00:57:30.000 And I guarantee you, they would not associate what they went through with anything that's happening right now.
00:57:35.000 On both sides, there are survivors accusing the other side of being the Nazis.
00:57:39.000 I mean, it's, it's what are we talking about here, man?
00:57:39.000 Yeah.
00:57:44.000 I mean, we can't have a reasonable conversation.
00:57:46.000 People have grown to the point where they think that their opinion about facts are themselves the facts.
00:57:51.000 So we're not even speaking the same language anymore.
00:57:51.000 Right.
00:57:54.000 You say racist and you mean somebody that genuinely hates other people.
00:58:00.000 And then somebody else says racist and they mean a power structure that's been created over the last 40 years.
00:58:06.000 That's a good point.
00:58:07.000 We're not even talking about the same thing.
00:58:10.000 That's a great point.
00:58:11.000 We talked about that.
00:58:13.000 I don't know if we'll ever be truly past that.
00:58:16.000 That's important to always define racism.
00:58:17.000 right and that we have to agree on common definitions were well past that
00:58:21.000 oh yeah we're well I don't know if we'll ever be truly past that no no we're past
00:58:24.000 important always define racism you know no no no no no no no in in 2014
00:58:30.000 progressive what racism and they'll see it's a confluence between power and
00:58:33.000 racial press okay so in 2014 with all the Gamergate stuff happening and then
00:58:38.000 into 2015 it's an escalated 2016 we started seeing physical conflict with
00:58:41.000 Trump I was saying, based off of what tons of other YouTubers had already said, I'm like, clearly people aren't speaking the same language.
00:58:49.000 When you're having this debate, the left is arguing racism means prejudice plus power, intersectionality, and the right is arguing it means discrimination on the basis of race.
00:58:56.000 The point we're at now in 2021, Is that I can sit here and say, like, I'm pro-choice.
00:59:02.000 And then have someone who's conservative say, I'm pro-life.
00:59:04.000 And I'll say, OK, we understand what that means.
00:59:06.000 Let's have a discussion on the ethics and morality of how this plays out in U.S.
00:59:10.000 governance and what's the right thing to do.
00:59:12.000 The left says we will literally claim words mean something else just so that we can claim we won the debate.
00:59:18.000 Changing what?
00:59:18.000 It's not about not having the same definitions about them actively changing words on the fly on purpose. I'm sorry
00:59:24.000 It's about Miriam Webster changing the definition of the word racism
00:59:28.000 Changing the definition of the word anti-vax Specifically what changing what the word immunity means
00:59:34.000 just so that like people can win a political argument They are actively trying to confuse you so that you don't understand what they're arguing.
00:59:43.000 They're not arguing for anything.
00:59:44.000 That's Brave New World, right?
00:59:46.000 I mean, it's that and removing words.
00:59:48.000 Well, Brave New World was keeping people locked down by pleasures.
00:59:51.000 Oh, not Brave New World, 1984.
00:59:53.000 They start removing word, so instead of good and bad, it's good and not good.
00:59:58.000 It's one word, ungood, or whatever they said.
01:00:01.000 You know, it's a Brave New Fahrenheit 1984 for Vendetta.
01:00:01.000 Nonsense, right?
01:00:06.000 I know, that's what we're living in, yeah.
01:00:09.000 What role do you think the fact that there's absolutely no tolerance at this point for anybody to be wrong at any point about anything?
01:00:17.000 You know what I mean?
01:00:18.000 You said you didn't like the word Nazi being thrown around.
01:00:21.000 Right.
01:00:22.000 Because it's like, you know, I think the challenge with the word Nazi is you say Nazi and then say, oh, well, why is it like the Nazis?
01:00:27.000 Say fascist or communist or whatever.
01:00:29.000 And they tried.
01:00:30.000 Those were words that were specific to ideologies in the early 1900s in Europe and things like that.
01:00:35.000 And yes, they had prominence in other places.
01:00:37.000 But we need we need new words to describe what the left is.
01:00:41.000 Authoritarian, yes, but it's something specific.
01:00:43.000 Authoritarian.
01:00:45.000 Identitarian.
01:00:46.000 Communist.
01:00:46.000 They're like, they're commie Nazis.
01:00:48.000 You know, the commie Nazi fascists.
01:00:50.000 It's a little, I mean, because there's social programs sprinkled in there.
01:00:53.000 But it's also very identity driven.
01:00:54.000 And it's also very corporatist.
01:00:56.000 So how do you define that?
01:00:58.000 They took all of the all of the tenets of authoritarianism and kind of combined them into one and we've It is very... I argue with... I was arguing with someone about this.
01:01:07.000 What the left is today is very, very, very close to Nazism.
01:01:11.000 Not the same thing, but what was Hitler doing?
01:01:14.000 He was trying to steal back land he claimed was rightfully German.
01:01:19.000 Now you've got the left arguing... We just had a terrorist convicted for trying to derail trains to seize the land back for the indigenous.
01:01:26.000 They're identity-based, okay?
01:01:28.000 They're not the same when it comes to Nazis, unlike Aryan.
01:01:31.000 They're very anti-white, but they're still identity-based, authoritarian.
01:01:35.000 They use fascistic ethos like there is no truth but power.
01:01:38.000 There's a lot of similarities.
01:01:40.000 So, I suppose the issue is, they'll always try and deflect by claiming you're the Nazi when, you know, I love it, you have the Gadsden flag.
01:01:49.000 Literally saying, Leave me alone.
01:01:49.000 Don't tread on me.
01:01:52.000 And, you know, I'll leave you alone.
01:01:53.000 Don't, don't come near me.
01:01:54.000 That's what it meant, by the way.
01:01:55.000 And they have the flag of the fists, the communist fists, squeezing the snake, saying, we will try to, I'm like, you're the, you're the fascists!
01:02:01.000 It's amazing to think that this, because the Nazi party is a real political party.
01:02:04.000 I think there's American Nazi party, isn't there?
01:02:06.000 There's like National Socialist American Party.
01:02:08.000 The National Socialists of America, the NSA, they were big in the 1930s obviously, or actually 1920s.
01:02:14.000 It was big on the East Coast.
01:02:16.000 So their hatred for that has turned them into that which they hate?
01:02:20.000 How often does that happen?
01:02:22.000 It's pretty common.
01:02:23.000 It's written about.
01:02:24.000 I think my opinion on this is that the current iteration of the establishment left and many of their more progressive and DSA type sycophants Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.
01:02:40.000 It's just part of a system.
01:02:41.000 This is a function of this kind of system.
01:02:44.000 It's just a fire.
01:02:45.000 There's only one way to turn, right?
01:02:47.000 I mean, you turn to tribalism and it's like the Stanton paper, the stages of genocide.
01:02:52.000 Like how all that stuff progresses from, let's see, I actually have it somewhere on here.
01:02:57.000 Let me see.
01:02:59.000 Tens of thousands.
01:03:00.000 So just just to go through some of these quickly.
01:03:03.000 Classification is the first one.
01:03:04.000 People divided into them and us.
01:03:06.000 I mean, come on, man.
01:03:07.000 Symbolization when combined with hatred.
01:03:10.000 Symbols may be forced upon unwilling members of pariah groups like the Star, the Nazis, or like maggots and all this stuff, or even name calling.
01:03:20.000 Yeah, we're not going to get into that because I don't want to get you flagged here.
01:03:22.000 But discrimination happens, which is, you know, the the what is it?
01:03:26.000 What are we?
01:03:26.000 People are being fired.
01:03:27.000 We're referring to it now as the as the the pandemic of the unvaccinated, even though there's no scientific basis for any of that nonsense.
01:03:35.000 Right.
01:03:36.000 It's it's Kamala Harris said in a tweet recently, I think today, we must protect the vaccinated.
01:03:42.000 And I'm like, but they are vaccinated.
01:03:44.000 Right, I don't understand what that means.
01:03:45.000 So if protect the vaccinated from whom?
01:03:47.000 They're vaccinated, so they're not talking about protect them from COVID, clearly.
01:03:51.000 I don't know what it means.
01:03:53.000 But I think she did mean COVID, which is silly.
01:03:55.000 If she did, then she doesn't know.
01:03:56.000 No, you can't assume that.
01:03:57.000 That's the issue that you got to watch out for with con artists.
01:04:01.000 Con artists use something called assumptive language, so they can say a thing to make you believe something.
01:04:07.000 Without actually ever having lied.
01:04:09.000 But if you challenge them on it, they'll be like, well, I don't know.
01:04:11.000 Right?
01:04:11.000 I mean, they always backpedal when they do.
01:04:13.000 The next one after that is dehumidization.
01:04:13.000 People don't.
01:04:16.000 Like, I don't know, deplorable.
01:04:17.000 Right.
01:04:18.000 That was just, what an incredibly stupid thing to say.
01:04:18.000 Right?
01:04:20.000 Actually, somebody, it wasn't Rolling Stone, maybe it was the Daily Beast, somebody ran a story a week or two ago, and it said, Hillary's biggest mistake was calling people deplorables, but was she right or something like that?
01:04:32.000 Are you kidding me?
01:04:33.000 Really?
01:04:34.000 You're writing that right now?
01:04:35.000 Are you trying to stoke conflict?
01:04:36.000 I mean, obviously they are, but I ask it rhetorically.
01:04:40.000 These things... These dystopian novels were not a guidebook.
01:04:47.000 That was a warning.
01:04:48.000 We went through the stages multiple times, and I think we've, like, in some instances, we stop at two.
01:04:54.000 There's, like, ten, right?
01:04:55.000 Ten is, like, erasure of the genocide.
01:04:57.000 Nine is genocide.
01:04:58.000 When it comes to the vaccine stuff, it's starting to feel like it's getting crazy.
01:05:03.000 Because you have them saying, plague rats.
01:05:06.000 You have them saying like, we must protect the vaccinated.
01:05:09.000 It's very, it's like, they're literally classifying.
01:05:11.000 They're literally talking about quarantine and things like that.
01:05:14.000 And so it seems like that is the dangerous territory.
01:05:18.000 But ultimately, what I was saying about what the modern iteration of the left is right now, I'm calling it fire.
01:05:22.000 What I mean by that is, ignition started at some point.
01:05:26.000 And there was no one willing to take responsibility to do anything to stop the fire or put it out, so it's been growing and growing.
01:05:32.000 The bigger it grows, the harder it is to put it out.
01:05:34.000 Eventually it becomes impossible to put out, and then it sweeps over everything.
01:05:37.000 It is a chaotic and destructive force with no goals.
01:05:41.000 The best example, one example I love using is the word Womxn.
01:05:45.000 W-O-M-X-N.
01:05:46.000 You ever hear this word?
01:05:47.000 No.
01:05:47.000 So there was an organization that said, we must respect all Womxn.
01:05:51.000 And Womxn means the inclusive word for women.
01:05:55.000 A bunch of feminists and leftists started getting attacked saying, why do you need a different word for women?
01:06:04.000 Are you acting like trans women aren't women and need a different word to include them?
01:06:09.000 Simultaneously, the word woman and Wimixin were both the offensive and inoffensive versions.
01:06:16.000 It was not possible for you to use the right word.
01:06:18.000 No matter what you use, someone would come after you for violent intent.
01:06:21.000 It's because there is no goal.
01:06:24.000 There is no good.
01:06:25.000 There is only, we will destroy.
01:06:27.000 Now let's do this.
01:06:29.000 Let's jump over to our good friends in Australia.
01:06:31.000 And let me clap back at the Australian.
01:06:37.000 So Australia is in the process of building more camps, which they already have several of.
01:06:43.000 These are camps with relocatable cabins, they say, for quarantining people who are, as they say, when they're coming from abroad, they need to be placed into this camp, into a bungalow, to be kept safe.
01:06:57.000 So that they can't infect people with COVID.
01:06:59.000 I see.
01:06:59.000 Oh, be protected.
01:07:00.000 And they have to wait there.
01:07:01.000 Now I refer to this as a concentration camp.
01:07:04.000 Why?
01:07:05.000 Because the word concentration camp doesn't literally mean Nazi death camp.
01:07:09.000 Right.
01:07:10.000 And there is some...
01:07:14.000 You know, you are trying to evoke an emotion by saying concentration camp.
01:07:18.000 I did not choose those words lightly.
01:07:20.000 I'm literally trying to point out what's happening.
01:07:22.000 The government of Australia has built camps.
01:07:24.000 They are putting people in those camps.
01:07:27.000 They are claiming it's for safety.
01:07:29.000 This is step one in the 100-step process towards locking up people, sealing them in, and then letting them die.
01:07:36.000 Will it get to that point?
01:07:38.000 Maybe not.
01:07:39.000 No idea.
01:07:40.000 But when has the government built camps with relocatable cabins for people deemed suspected of having a sickness to be locked away for a short period of time?
01:07:51.000 When has that turned out well?
01:07:53.000 I want to just clarify, you're exactly right on the definition of concentration camp.
01:07:57.000 It's a camp where large numbers of persons, such as whatever, political prisoners, whatever, are detained for the purposes of concentrating them in one place.
01:08:04.000 Exactly.
01:08:04.000 That's what that means.
01:08:05.000 The death camps were a very specific type of concentration camp.
01:08:08.000 Right.
01:08:08.000 Not common.
01:08:09.000 And so, you're trying to evoke an emotion by calling it a concentration camp, obviously.
01:08:13.000 Sure, of course, yeah.
01:08:14.000 But, quite literally, it's just when people are concentrated in one place, which is what they're doing.
01:08:20.000 I will, as much as I typically don't like doing this, I'm gonna actually just call out Quillette, and Claire Lehman specifically, because I used to be a big fan, and now I think they are one of the most, they're one of the perfect examples, Quillette and Claire, of how you get the Nazis.
01:08:38.000 So, you look at Nazi Germany, and people would say like, how did it get so bad?
01:08:42.000 No, it's really simple.
01:08:44.000 When the people who are claiming to be the intelligent dissidents started apologizing for the actions of the Nazis, any reasonable dissent was gone.
01:08:52.000 And it's probably because they were scared of the state.
01:08:54.000 They were scared of being included as an undesirable or as unclean or being labeled.
01:08:59.000 They were scared.
01:09:00.000 Recently we've seen, with the opposition to critical race applied principles in schools, Claire Lehman of Quillette Cathy Newman-ing James Lindsay, meaning she takes things he says greatly out of context to try and smear him.
01:09:13.000 Which is really weird, because why would you do that?
01:09:16.000 He's talking about American political issues, and there's no reason to take what he's saying out of context.
01:09:21.000 Recently, when I tweeted concentration camp in response to the camps they're building in Australia, Claire did a tweet saying that I called them death camps, which is again, out of context, or just hyperbolic, and then criticized me, which ended up now in the Australian, as I'm told, one of Murdoch's Australian papers.
01:09:40.000 Now in this article, She says, mocked we may be, but compare the death rates.
01:09:46.000 This is Claire Lehman, Quillette, supposedly supposed to be classically liberal, challenging the wokeness in the establishment, defending the authoritarian practices of Australia.
01:09:57.000 A video of a man being taken out of a hotel because there was a manhunt, because he didn't quarantine and he was seen sneezing in an elevator.
01:10:05.000 There's a video, and we have it, of a guy who they show up to his house with the police in full gear and he's confused as to what's happening.
01:10:11.000 They said he's being taken to a hotel quarantine indefinitely.
01:10:16.000 News 9 Australia is saying this.
01:10:18.000 When you have police showing up to people's homes and saying, we're going to quarantine you, then they say we are building, we've built camps and we will build more camps.
01:10:26.000 At what point do you say, I kind of don't trust the government doing this?
01:10:31.000 Do you think that when the Nazis started building these camps, they went out and told the public what their intention was?
01:10:37.000 No, of course not.
01:10:38.000 Well, I mean, the presumption is if you believe the stories that we read when the 101st Airborne first came upon one of these camps, that was the first that anybody, except for the people that lived nearby, that saw the ashes of bodies burning, going by their homes.
01:10:54.000 Like those people in the villages knew, but then like people in Munich, they had no idea.
01:10:59.000 Allegedly anyways, right?
01:11:01.000 Well, so the propaganda is, you can look back at it, one of the famous bits of propaganda from the Nazis was that the Warsaw Ghetto, for instance, the Jews carried typhus.
01:11:10.000 And for the sake of the health, you know, we needed to get in there and we need to do something about it.
01:11:13.000 That's what they were doing.
01:11:15.000 So they pull up in the trucks.
01:11:17.000 They say, get on the train cart.
01:11:19.000 And then when I see a video of a guy with the cops showing up and they're like, it's time for your indefinite quarantine.
01:11:22.000 He's like, all right, mate.
01:11:24.000 I'm like, that guy did not learn a single thing from history.
01:11:26.000 Now I'll admit it's a big challenge.
01:11:28.000 What do you do when multiple cops show up quarantine ready to take you in?
01:11:33.000 It's like, man.
01:11:35.000 I'm not going to presume to be the arbiter of morality on this one and tell you what you should or shouldn't do, but I will say it's shocking for us, nonetheless, to watch a video out of Australia where a guy says... He apparently... Let me jump to this tweet.
01:11:48.000 Now, I will admit, first and foremost, there's video.
01:11:51.000 It says, News 9 exclusive.
01:11:54.000 Nothing comes up.
01:11:55.000 People have been searching for this guy's name.
01:11:57.000 Cause like the search algorithms show you people are searching for this guy's name.
01:12:00.000 But nothing comes up from News 9.
01:12:02.000 And I don't know the original source on this video.
01:12:04.000 But this man says, you can see him, the cops show up to his house.
01:12:07.000 They're wearing gear.
01:12:08.000 He says he got a COVID test just for peace of mind.
01:12:11.000 Never got alerted to what happened.
01:12:13.000 Until one day the cops showed up saying he was positive.
01:12:15.000 And would be taken in for an indefinite quarantine.
01:12:18.000 Hi!
01:12:18.000 I don't know what happened to this guy or where he's ended up, but why would anyone
01:12:22.000 look at that and say, that's fine, that's normal.
01:12:25.000 Now to throw it back to Quillette, what they, what, what happened, so what Claire Lehmann
01:12:30.000 has written for the Australian, she briefly mentions me saying in the opening paragraph,
01:12:34.000 the international media spotlight has been shining on Australia lately and not in a good
01:12:38.000 Last week, the left-leaning Atlantic magazine published an article that asked rhetorically if we were still a liberal democracy.
01:12:44.000 No, Australia is not.
01:12:46.000 That's me adding that in.
01:12:48.000 TV host Tucker Carlson told his audience of three million viewers Australia has descended into totalitarianism, which it has.
01:12:48.000 She goes on to say, U.S.
01:12:55.000 And on social media, popular U.S.
01:12:57.000 YouTube personality Tim Poole likened our quarantine facilities to concentration camps.
01:13:02.000 They then show a statement from this guy, Josh Zepps.
01:13:06.000 He's an Australian broadcaster or whatever.
01:13:09.000 He says, "...repurposing outback mining accommodation into international arrival bungalows is not the same as running a concentration camp."
01:13:18.000 Literally, by definition, it is.
01:13:19.000 "...concentration camps are bad because they brutalize political prisoners, not because they look ugly in aerial photos."
01:13:25.000 This is what I said about Cathy Neumanning.
01:13:28.000 Now, to be fair, I think we all know concentration camp evokes a kind of memory of what Nazi Germany was doing.
01:13:35.000 But I use that phrase specifically not to imply that Australia has been rounding people up and beating them and executing them, though I do think people there are being mistreated, as we've seen in some of the videos.
01:13:45.000 But just listen to what he's saying.
01:13:47.000 Repurposing outback mining accommodation into international arrival bungalows.
01:13:52.000 It's more than that.
01:13:53.000 They're getting people from their houses as well.
01:13:55.000 It's not just international.
01:13:56.000 Now, hold on.
01:13:57.000 That video, they say hotel quarantine.
01:13:59.000 It seems like that was before they had the camp set up and they were putting people in hotels.
01:14:03.000 But here's my point on that.
01:14:05.000 Canada's doing that still, right?
01:14:06.000 The hotels, yeah.
01:14:07.000 So this guy is... Look, they built camps.
01:14:11.000 They literally built camps to concentrate people, right?
01:14:15.000 It was a huge conspiracy theory, the FEMA camp thing, right?
01:14:18.000 That would never happen in the West.
01:14:20.000 That would never happen here.
01:14:21.000 Like, it's literally happening right now.
01:14:23.000 Well, so here's my point.
01:14:25.000 This guy starts, you know, tweeting.
01:14:27.000 You know, I love how absolutely pathetic Quillette has become.
01:14:32.000 I mean that somewhat.
01:14:33.000 I'm being sarcastic.
01:14:34.000 It's sad.
01:14:36.000 There was an event we did.
01:14:37.000 I was at it in Milwaukee, and I met Claire, and I was excited.
01:14:39.000 I'm like, well, that does a great job.
01:14:41.000 It's very rational, reasonable.
01:14:42.000 It's anti-authoritarian.
01:14:43.000 And now they are literally dropping to their knees and gagging on boot.
01:14:48.000 When you have videos of a guy sneezing in an elevator, and then a manhunt, and they find him, and they're dragging him away in his full gear while people cheer for it.
01:14:57.000 When you have a video of a guy being taken from his house for a hotel quarantine, it's not about whether or not they are actively putting those people in camps.
01:15:04.000 It's about they've created camps to concentrate people as they come into the country.
01:15:09.000 They're building more of them.
01:15:11.000 The Brisbane camp isn't expected to be finished until mid-2022.
01:15:15.000 So what does that mean?
01:15:15.000 Brisbane.
01:15:16.000 Brizzy.
01:15:19.000 They do not expect the pandemic to end until sometime after mid-2022, because I really doubt they're building a camp to just shut down immediately or not use at all.
01:15:29.000 It's very likely they will use it like they're using these camps.
01:15:32.000 If they're already willing to show up to someone's house and take them away for a quarantine, why wouldn't they eventually just say, well, we have these quarantine facilities.
01:15:40.000 They're better than the hotels.
01:15:41.000 It's cheaper for everybody.
01:15:42.000 So we'll just put them in the bungalows.
01:15:43.000 It's just a bungalow.
01:15:45.000 Yeah, you're going to get pushback that they're not camps.
01:15:45.000 What's the big deal?
01:15:48.000 You'll probably start hearing that.
01:15:49.000 They're not camps, Tim.
01:15:50.000 Okay, they're quarantine facilities.
01:15:52.000 They're concentration facilities.
01:15:55.000 It's the same thing.
01:15:56.000 And that's the point I'm making with what he said, except they call them relocatable cabins.
01:16:00.000 Sure, call them whatever.
01:16:03.000 A cabin?
01:16:03.000 They're cabins.
01:16:04.000 Concentration cabins.
01:16:05.000 Well, no, no, no.
01:16:06.000 The point is campgrounds have cabins.
01:16:08.000 Yeah, this is all political messaging, though.
01:16:08.000 Oh, you're right.
01:16:10.000 How quickly did the phrase kids in cages switch to whatever the Obama or the Biden administration were calling them?
01:16:17.000 And the circumstances were far worse, by the way.
01:16:19.000 I don't know if you've seen.
01:16:20.000 I'm sure you have.
01:16:21.000 You've seen these pictures, right?
01:16:22.000 Of the kids under the bridge, of kids rolled up in thermal blankets.
01:16:27.000 It was bad when it was under Trump, but at least Trump was actively saying, we gotta end this border crisis.
01:16:32.000 Which, by the way, is the same thing that Hillary Clinton was saying as Secretary of State in 2013.
01:16:35.000 Exactly that.
01:16:36.000 Do not come here.
01:16:37.000 And Bernie.
01:16:38.000 But I'm going to throw it back to Australia and make this point.
01:16:41.000 In the United States, we saw Black Lives Matter marching through the streets, shoulder to shoulder, no masks.
01:16:46.000 And the media said it was fine.
01:16:48.000 They're not super spreader of events because we say so.
01:16:51.000 Sturgis happened.
01:16:52.000 Motorcycle rally.
01:16:53.000 Not even overtly political, for the most part.
01:16:55.000 I mean, I'm sure there was politics there, but for the most part, it's a motorcycle rally.
01:16:58.000 Superspreader event.
01:16:59.000 Protesters on the state capitol stairs.
01:17:01.000 Superspreader event.
01:17:03.000 Obama can have his big birthday party, and everything's fine, even though people did get sick.
01:17:03.000 We get it.
01:17:08.000 Black Lives Matter can protest, and it's fine.
01:17:10.000 What do you think's gonna happen in Australia with these people protesting the quarantines?
01:17:13.000 How long until the police say, well, this quarantine was a super spreader event.
01:17:18.000 So we're going to start putting these people in quarantine for their own safety.
01:17:20.000 You're developing a mechanism for them to get retribution against people politically.
01:17:25.000 And so this guy tweeted at me and said, when that starts happening, I'll admit I was wrong.
01:17:29.000 And I'm like, and therein lies my point that you would let it happen before you would do anything about it.
01:17:36.000 And I would say, Hey, don't let them do it.
01:17:39.000 Quillette, you're cowards.
01:17:42.000 First they came for the Socialists, and I wasn't a Socialist, so I didn't say anything.
01:17:47.000 Then they came for the Trade Unions, and I wasn't a Trade Unionist, so I didn't say anything.
01:17:51.000 Then they came for the Jews, and I wasn't a Jew, so I didn't say anything.
01:17:53.000 Then they came for me, and there was no one left to say anything.
01:17:57.000 It's a very good poem.
01:17:59.000 Man, it's, and by the way, even the data she's talking about is nonsense.
01:18:03.000 She's, look at our numbers.
01:18:04.000 It's, it's, we're, we're, we're lower than if we had lost as many, the percentage United States did.
01:18:09.000 Do you know how many, there's so many countries.
01:18:12.000 Sweden?
01:18:14.000 Forget about Sweden.
01:18:15.000 Panama, Lithuania, Nepal, Libya, Botswana, Ireland, Switzerland, Georgia, Nigeria, the Republic of the Congo have lower case mortality rates than Australia.
01:18:25.000 Are you kidding me?
01:18:26.000 To be fair, I'm sure that the people of Australia have never heard of Benjamin Franklin.
01:18:32.000 We were fortunate enough to have Benjamin Franklin who said those that would sacrifice freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both or something to that
01:18:42.000 effect.
01:18:43.000 Is COVID wrecking like third world, I don't like using that word third world countries,
01:18:46.000 less industrially developed, is COVID wrecking them or is this an obesity crisis like in the
01:18:51.000 first world? There's two points to be made on third world countries or underdeveloped nations.
01:18:55.000 One, there's not much data at all saying that there's large numbers of deaths.
01:19:01.000 And if you look at a lot of the charts and everything, you'll see nothing happening.
01:19:05.000 The second point is they don't have the infrastructure for tracking a lot of this stuff.
01:19:09.000 So countries with underdeveloped medical infrastructure aren't tracking any of it.
01:19:12.000 I would also say some of the more, I mean, once the first wave rolled through there, there's no guarantee that a Delta variant would pop up independently in that place.
01:19:21.000 And how many people are traveling to third world countries?
01:19:23.000 You know what I mean?
01:19:24.000 Right.
01:19:25.000 Less travel, less population density means less spread.
01:19:28.000 Which probably means they reached, the fact that they have less access, that they're more crowded together and have less access to modern medicine probably means they reached a higher percentage of natural immunity faster than any other place, right?
01:19:40.000 You would think.
01:19:41.000 So even when a new variant popped up, they would be more protected.
01:19:45.000 I mean, everybody knows at this point that the COVID vaccine treats the spike protein, right?
01:19:49.000 Primarily.
01:19:51.000 It triggers an immune response to the spike protein.
01:19:54.000 But there's 28 other proteins on the COVID cell, right?
01:19:58.000 I don't know.
01:20:00.000 I'm telling you.
01:20:02.000 That red circle with all the stuff coming off of it that you've seen in the news and stuff, those are all little proteins, right?
01:20:07.000 The spike protein is the one that's being treated because that's the one that was causing us issues.
01:20:11.000 Just as the human brain is greater than any computer we've ever built, I imagine our immune system is stronger than any medicine we could ever administer.
01:20:18.000 I would imagine.
01:20:18.000 and we see this in this Israeli study, it's 800,000 people.
01:20:21.000 You don't get much bigger than that when it comes to a meta-virus.
01:20:24.000 Just as the human brain is greater than any computer we've ever built,
01:20:27.000 I imagine our immune system is stronger than any medicine we could ever administer.
01:20:30.000 I would imagine. I don't know, but I mean, we're incredible biomechanical machines.
01:20:34.000 The most protected you could be is to have had COVID, survived it, and also been vaccinated.
01:20:39.000 Right.
01:20:39.000 Yes.
01:20:40.000 There's no question about that.
01:20:41.000 What are they calling that?
01:20:42.000 The super immunity?
01:20:43.000 And in order to develop immunity, it's about consuming the right products, including vaccines and food and all these things.
01:20:48.000 So it's not like it's not a black and white thing.
01:20:50.000 You know, I would push back on your immunity thing because there are diseases we could not treat or cure, but we could vaccinate against.
01:20:55.000 Like if you get rabies, you die.
01:20:57.000 If you get bit and we administer the vaccine fast enough.
01:20:59.000 That's a good point, man.
01:21:00.000 Medicine's incredible.
01:21:01.000 Not even modern, just medicine in general.
01:21:03.000 Food.
01:21:03.000 But is that a prophylactic vaccine, though?
01:21:05.000 We don't get a shot for that before we get it.
01:21:09.000 So the way the rabies works is that once you get bit, it has to go into your nerve cells.
01:21:09.000 Well, no.
01:21:14.000 Right.
01:21:15.000 When that happens, you're dead.
01:21:16.000 So if you get bit and you get the vaccine, it prevents the infection.
01:21:16.000 Right.
01:21:20.000 But that's not a prophylactic vaccine.
01:21:22.000 No, that's a regular vaccine.
01:21:23.000 Yeah.
01:21:24.000 And it's like six shots like every day.
01:21:27.000 It was like every week for like six weeks or something.
01:21:31.000 Wow!
01:21:31.000 It destroys rabies.
01:21:34.000 I've grown pretty weary of everybody comparing this to polio and measles and smallpox.
01:21:38.000 Which are very serious.
01:21:40.000 Of course they are.
01:21:42.000 Polio in children was about 2 to 5 percent, but the loss of use of your limbs was pretty bad.
01:21:48.000 When you reached adult age, it was somewhere between 15 and 30 percent.
01:21:51.000 Measles, somewhere between 10 and 15 percent.
01:21:53.000 Smallpox, 20 percent.
01:21:55.000 These are nowhere close to 0.3 percent.
01:21:57.000 People that died or people that caught it?
01:21:57.000 Right?
01:21:59.000 Mortality.
01:22:00.000 Wow, 20 percent!
01:22:01.000 So look, that's like... It's apples and some fruit no one's ever heard of, if you're a fan of Arrested Development.
01:22:08.000 I think it's fair to say that...
01:22:10.000 Yeah, well, pawpaws are great.
01:22:11.000 We have a whole bunch of pawpaws.
01:22:13.000 Yeah, we do.
01:22:13.000 So I didn't, I didn't realize, you know, I thought we only had a few, but we went, we have this, like, wooded area as part of the property, and they're everywhere.
01:22:19.000 You step on them, and it's like, oh, you shake a tree, and they just keep falling in the head.
01:22:22.000 You're like, oh, there's too many of them.
01:22:23.000 What the hell is this?
01:22:24.000 I feel like I'm in a sci-fi novel or something.
01:22:26.000 Yeah, have you ever seen a pawpaw?
01:22:27.000 You've seen a pawpaw before.
01:22:28.000 Oh, yeah.
01:22:28.000 Yeah, hillbilly banana.
01:22:30.000 What were you just talking about?
01:22:31.000 Well, about...
01:22:36.000 I think it's fair to point out that early on we were like, hey, it's novel, so it's gonna spread rapidly.
01:22:41.000 It's also gonna mutate more quickly than it used to, right?
01:22:44.000 And the mortality is like, I think it's like what, double the flu or whatever.
01:22:48.000 Right around there, yeah.
01:22:49.000 And so I'm like, I think it's a good reason to be worried about this.
01:22:52.000 You know, it's not the same thing.
01:22:54.000 Well, if you're under 40 and healthy, then there's not a reason for you to worry about
01:22:57.000 yourself.
01:22:58.000 But you do have some responsibility to the people who are over 40.
01:23:01.000 Right.
01:23:02.000 Yeah, we have.
01:23:03.000 We do bear some responsibility for those around us in some way.
01:23:06.000 Now I don't bear a whole lot of responsibility for somebody who's been stuffing sugar and
01:23:10.000 fat down their throat for the last 25 years.
01:23:12.000 Well, that's OK.
01:23:13.000 It's a sugar.
01:23:14.000 But when they're mixed, it's really good.
01:23:15.000 Fat and sugar together are not great.
01:23:17.000 But yeah, it's it's.
01:23:19.000 I'm not I don't bear any responsibility for that.
01:23:21.000 But I do understand, like with some of the.
01:23:24.000 I don't like being told what to do, and I think if this was a serious enough problem, people wouldn't need to be.
01:23:30.000 That's the issue with liberty, right?
01:23:33.000 People typically trend towards taking care of one another.
01:23:37.000 Especially Americans.
01:23:38.000 Nobody gives more money Anywhere in the world than the American not the American government the American citizen like when the when the The storms happened in Indonesia, right and they had the tsunamis and all that stuff Nobody gave more money to the Indonesian people than the American citizen Not the American taxpayer the American citizen and this stuff pops up all the time We see these people in Afghanistan that need to get out They're friends of ours people are spending their own money to go over there without guns by the way These guys were operating
01:24:07.000 without arms, going into hostile territory, grabbing people and getting them out.
01:24:11.000 That is who people are, generally speaking.
01:24:14.000 Let them be that. Let them be good. Let them be American, because that's what it means to be American in the first
01:24:18.000 place.
01:24:19.000 You're robbing them of the honor of being that thing, and of course they're going to turn. That's how it works.
01:24:24.000 I want to point out something, going back to this Australian article, that I think is important for critical
01:24:28.000 thinkers.
01:24:29.000 There's a certain amount of trust you can place in institutions based on the credibility that they have
01:24:33.000 and the things they've done that you can track and then make your assessment.
01:24:37.000 I typically have a hard time trusting a lot of the mainstream news outlets, but if I can fact check them, if I can find source material, I will.
01:24:44.000 Sometimes you just blindly trust they're telling the truth.
01:24:47.000 For instance, you know, one of the articles we used from KTLA earlier was just quoting a woman, and for all I know they didn't actually quote the woman, I don't know.
01:24:53.000 So we do have trust in these institutions.
01:24:54.000 I just think it's kind of funny that if in this Australian article they say the data says that you know X amount of deaths in Australia and you know ABCD if I'm criticizing your government for building camps in which they take human beings and place them and then there's a video of a guy where he's like you know we're waiting to be fed one woman was yelled at by the cops because she wasn't she took her mask on a sip tea If I'm criticizing your government for being authoritarian crackpots and then you go, yes, but that same government told us that it's important and we should all do it.
01:25:23.000 I'm like, isn't that kind of like that's my point.
01:25:25.000 You're using a word in its own definition.
01:25:27.000 Yeah, exactly.
01:25:27.000 Like that doesn't make any sense.
01:25:29.000 If you're coming out and being like the government did this thing and then the government told us it worked.
01:25:33.000 Yes, we investigated ourselves and found we did nothing wrong.
01:25:36.000 That's what they're doing.
01:25:38.000 I'm all set on those expectations.
01:25:39.000 It's sad, right?
01:25:40.000 I was talking to some people about where Quillette has gone recently, particularly with Claire's moderately prominent anti-SJW personality, or anti-woke.
01:25:50.000 Now she's just doing this whole crypto-woke thing.
01:25:53.000 It's where they'll be like, I'm not woke, but your criticism of the woke is going too far.
01:25:53.000 What's that?
01:25:59.000 So what they do is... Weinstein gets into that a little bit.
01:26:02.000 If you listen to his interview with Eric, if you listen to his interview on Portal with Douglas Murray, who's one of my favorite authors, by the way, he's a great, great author.
01:26:13.000 He wrote, what is it?
01:26:16.000 The Madness of Crowds.
01:26:17.000 It's one of the best books I've ever read.
01:26:19.000 If you haven't read The Madness of Crowds, I highly recommend it.
01:26:21.000 But yeah, that conversation, he was like, I don't really, like, I understand where woke is coming from.
01:26:26.000 And it's like, dude, you don't, I understand nuance in conversation, but you do not... what you were talking about earlier with the Germans and how people in positions of authority started becoming apologists, at least passively so, for this nonsense.
01:26:42.000 Well, I disagree with them, but your criticism goes too far.
01:26:46.000 What that does is it arms people with... it gives them permission to say, oh well, and go on about their day.
01:26:54.000 It's not that bad.
01:26:56.000 It's just a camp.
01:26:57.000 Anytime you have to utter the phrase, it's not that bad, that's like a couple starting a new Facebook account with both their names in it.
01:27:06.000 Somebody cheated.
01:27:08.000 You know something is up here.
01:27:09.000 Something has happened wrong and now people are correcting for it.
01:27:11.000 You don't make statements like that if it's good.
01:27:14.000 Since when do we settle for it's not that bad?
01:27:17.000 Well, the crazy thing was this guy who was criticizing me tweeted, no one is being brought to these camps.
01:27:23.000 And I'm like, then why did they build the camps?
01:27:26.000 Like, what are you talking about?
01:27:27.000 There's people being brought there.
01:27:28.000 It's like a guy building a doomsday device.
01:27:30.000 Never going to use this thing.
01:27:30.000 Don't worry.
01:27:32.000 Nobody's being brought there.
01:27:32.000 Yeah, we built camps.
01:27:34.000 I mean, I guess maybe he's saying no one's going to Australian people's homes and picking them up to bring them there.
01:27:39.000 Yeah, well, there's video of that too, though.
01:27:41.000 To the hotels, at least.
01:27:42.000 So, like, the intent is there to bring people to camps.
01:27:45.000 When do people stop suspending their disbelief, I wonder?
01:27:49.000 I mean, it's like that George Bernard Shaw thing.
01:27:53.000 Once you open your eyes, you're responsible for what you're seeing.
01:27:56.000 And that is a problem for a lot of people.
01:27:57.000 We had someone here, and then after the show ended, and we were, like, wrapping up and getting up to leave, They were like, you know, you really think there's going to be like some kind of civil war or something?
01:28:06.000 And I was like, we're in it.
01:28:08.000 Yeah.
01:28:08.000 It's happening.
01:28:08.000 Like, no, I think everything will be back to normal.
01:28:10.000 It'll calm down.
01:28:11.000 And I'm like, what part of a thousand people broke into the Capitol and fought with cops and stopped the electoral college process?
01:28:19.000 And there was a shootout in Portland numerous times and the guy was shot in the chest twice.
01:28:23.000 And there's been ongoing skirmishes and the Capitol police are being expanded nationwide to start tracking down maggots.
01:28:29.000 And George W. Bush is comparing right-wing individuals in this country to the Taliban.
01:28:34.000 What part of all of that don't you understand?
01:28:36.000 I would even say there's a global civil corporate war.
01:28:40.000 The corporations have been at war with the plebs.
01:28:46.000 for since I don't know when, since the 1600s, since the bankers wanted to just control the system or something.
01:28:51.000 So I mean, yeah, it was before that it was a war between the the wardens and the king, right?
01:28:56.000 It was like, you know, between King John and all the the Robin Hood story.
01:29:01.000 We all know this, right?
01:29:04.000 It's it was all it was the levels of aristocracy fighting against one another.
01:29:10.000 Everybody else was illiterate and unarmed.
01:29:12.000 So that was King Richard's brother, John.
01:29:15.000 Richard left to go fight in the Crusades and left his brother in charge of this country.
01:29:18.000 And John is notably a terrible, terrible leader.
01:29:21.000 Correct.
01:29:21.000 Makes me think about Joe Biden.
01:29:22.000 A lot of times I think about Joe Biden, I think King John.
01:29:24.000 He's one of the worst.
01:29:26.000 And John just messed up the country horribly.
01:29:29.000 Badly, yeah.
01:29:30.000 He did end up signing a document that gave rights to the wardens for the first time, but still not to common people.
01:29:37.000 Sometime around the 16th, 17th century, actual normal people started getting rights.
01:29:44.000 People like John Locke started talking.
01:29:46.000 Martin Luther started talking from the religious side.
01:29:49.000 A lot of stuff started happening.
01:29:50.000 Yeah, it's been going on for a while.
01:29:51.000 So what happens?
01:29:51.000 People defeat the top, and then they get to the top, and then they stop fighting for the people below them?
01:29:56.000 Has that been the...
01:29:57.000 They were never fighting for people below them.
01:29:58.000 No, and that's a big problem too.
01:30:00.000 One of my favorite quotes ever in the history of the world is from Martin Luther King Jr.
01:30:04.000 He said, you have two hands for a reason.
01:30:05.000 One to pull yourself up and the other one to pull the next guy up with you.
01:30:08.000 And if that is not the way we're intent on living our lives, we may as well just go back to fighting in caves and shit.
01:30:14.000 You know what I mean?
01:30:15.000 It's really simple, Ian.
01:30:17.000 You have someone who's looking around saying, why am I in this circumstance?
01:30:20.000 And they decide to blame someone else.
01:30:22.000 Or they decide, I can take from someone else.
01:30:25.000 They can justify to themselves, look at all these other people in a similar circumstance.
01:30:29.000 That's evidence that I am correct.
01:30:31.000 Once they get stuff, they say, well, why didn't you do what I did when I fought to get my stuff?
01:30:37.000 It's always for themselves.
01:30:39.000 They just justify their plight or their, or justify their amoral actions by claiming they're fighting for something greater.
01:30:45.000 It's a fifth dimensional global corporate civil war.
01:30:50.000 Fifth dimensional?
01:30:51.000 Yeah.
01:30:51.000 Fifth dimensional warfare.
01:30:53.000 You mean fifth generational?
01:30:54.000 Yeah, I like calling it dimensional.
01:30:55.000 Yeah, you're right.
01:30:57.000 Generational.
01:30:58.000 Let's go.
01:30:59.000 It is both dimensional and generational, but it's a fifth generational corporate civil war globally.
01:30:59.000 Yeah, it is.
01:31:05.000 Yeah, it's mass propaganda across the board.
01:31:07.000 I mean, it's I wonder I wanted to ask you about this while I was here.
01:31:10.000 What do you think about?
01:31:13.000 Who do you think, before I poison the well here, who do you think benefited most from our Afghan excursion over the past month?
01:31:20.000 Right.
01:31:20.000 China.
01:31:21.000 Right.
01:31:21.000 Yeah.
01:31:24.000 I wonder, so they're going to get something like $150 billion in oil, 1.5 trillion in lithium, give or take, right?
01:31:32.000 1.5 to 3, who knows?
01:31:33.000 It's somewhere in that range and not adjusted for inflation.
01:31:39.000 I hate to draw these weird connections and stuff because there's a lot of assumptions being made between A and B, but this whole Hunter Biden-Burisma thing that was completely buried by the press.
01:31:49.000 He's getting paid money by the Moscow mayor's wife, former wife.
01:31:54.000 And Joe Biden flew his son in Air Force Two to China for a billion-dollar private equity deal.
01:31:57.000 Yeah, and there's the big guy who's referenced in intelligence documents that's receiving some payout.
01:32:01.000 The presumption is that it was Joe Biden.
01:32:03.000 Everybody just kind of went on about their business.
01:32:07.000 Well, Bobby Alinsky said it was Biden.
01:32:13.000 China's collusion.
01:32:17.000 I talked to Alex about this, Alex Jones, last week, and he goes, yeah, I think 100% that the presidency is compromised right now.
01:32:25.000 If that's possible, then what the hell?
01:32:28.000 I agree.
01:32:28.000 If you look at, this is well before Biden was president.
01:32:31.000 We were investigating a lot of the stuff.
01:32:33.000 I covered the Burisma stuff to great deal.
01:32:34.000 And boy, did the media try to cover that up.
01:32:37.000 Politico had reporting.
01:32:39.000 It's a funny article where it says, you know, Ukraine scrambles after, you know, trying to stop Trump or whatever.
01:32:46.000 And then it was based on some Ukrainian officials at an embassy were like leaking details on Manafort, which got them in trouble.
01:32:52.000 And then it was a few years later that Politico reported that there was no Ukrainian collusion.
01:32:57.000 It never happened.
01:32:58.000 And I'm like, but Politico never retracted the first article.
01:33:01.000 They just allow these two different authors to contradict each other.
01:33:04.000 That's the state of the media.
01:33:06.000 When you see the investigation by Matt Taibbi into the Burisma stuff, the stuff I've covered from it, I'm like, before Biden was even elected, I'm like, this guy is dirty.
01:33:14.000 You've got Politico reporting in their magazine, Biden Inc., about how Biden's family's wealth has tracked perfectly along his career.
01:33:22.000 When he was put in charge of Iraq, his brothers awarded all these contracts for building in Iraq, and now he's a millionaire, and things like that.
01:33:29.000 Hunter Biden being flown in Air Force Two to China.
01:33:31.000 And now you have everything that's going on.
01:33:33.000 How was Afghanistan botched to the degree that it was botched?
01:33:36.000 Sure is convenient for the people who did a private equity, or I'm sorry, were negotiating a private equity deal.
01:33:41.000 I don't know if that was actually confirmed as happening, but who knows?
01:33:43.000 You can't trust them.
01:33:44.000 So I just think it's awfully convenient.
01:33:47.000 And you know, the problem is when it came to Trump and Russiagate, I was saying like, you know, I think we will look into it, right?
01:33:53.000 If it's true, it's true.
01:33:54.000 And I, you know, we don't just throw away evidence.
01:33:54.000 If it's not, it's not.
01:33:56.000 If we're seeing it, we try and dig deeper.
01:33:58.000 I said the same thing now about Joe Biden.
01:34:00.000 The only problem is the institutions were falling over themselves to go after Trump and will do everything in their power to defend Joe Biden.
01:34:05.000 Yeah, I mean, at what point in American history has a group of 700 former commissioned officers and intelligence operators signed a letter saying, get this guy out of office who, by the way, had us in the best trade position with China we've been in since we started trade with China?
01:34:22.000 And get in this bumbling buffoon that we have it now, who has these weird ties through his family to China.
01:34:27.000 One of the leaders of that movement was again James Mattis.
01:34:31.000 And almost after he resigned, he got brought on as a partner at the Cohen Group.
01:34:37.000 The Cohen Group, William Cohen, another former Secretary of Defense, They have four offices.
01:34:42.000 Two of them are in China.
01:34:43.000 And one of the things that they do, the Cohen Group, is negotiate deals between American and Chinese companies.
01:34:47.000 That's what they specialize in, right?
01:34:50.000 So you have maybe the most popular Secretary of Defense ever until his little, you know, that whole resignation thing.
01:34:56.000 A guy with immense power, a guy who is now hooked up with other former secretaries of defense, so you have the defense industry both on the private and public side, right?
01:35:05.000 And you have a compromised presidency that completely botches the situation in Afghanistan, that turns over the largest amount of wealth ever given from one entity to another, ever.
01:35:15.000 I mean, Trump was the one who was trying to pull us out of Afghanistan.
01:35:18.000 Sure, and we should have pulled out of Afghanistan.
01:35:20.000 But the issue is... There's a better spot for us.
01:35:22.000 It's easier.
01:35:23.000 There's more lithium in Peru and Chile by a wide margin.
01:35:27.000 Alaska as well.
01:35:29.000 But if we wanted a partner country where we could pay lower wages to get it mined, but those wages still mean something to those people, that's a good deal.
01:35:35.000 The point is, if Afghanistan's national government stood, it would have been much more difficult for China.
01:35:42.000 And a couple of weeks before the fall of Kabul, the president called Joe Biden and said, we need air support.
01:35:47.000 And Biden said, just a lie, say everything's going well.
01:35:49.000 So they knew how bad it was.
01:35:51.000 They had evacuated Bagram in the middle of the night without telling the Afghan army, without telling the government.
01:35:56.000 Now that sounds like sabotage to me.
01:35:58.000 It certainly does, yeah.
01:35:59.000 But we do gotta go to Super Chats!
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01:36:33.000 And it should be relatively soon.
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01:36:38.000 The point of that show is basically you'll have someone, say, Alex Jones shows up.
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01:36:49.000 Just like, random, welcome to the green room, here's the house.
01:36:51.000 So it's kind of vloggy, but you know, it's interesting conversations.
01:36:55.000 We had Andreas, who's a part of the vlog, talking to Steve Bannon about like, quantum communism and technocracy, and just, Bannon was like, this guy's a genius.
01:37:06.000 He's crazy though, but he's a smart guy.
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01:37:13.000 We are, um, tired of waiting to put on the live events.
01:37:17.000 We've had an issue... There's just red tape.
01:37:19.000 It's the government stuff running a business, and we've been like, we gotta do this.
01:37:23.000 But we're going to... There's a local venue.
01:37:25.000 And I say local, it's a big area, so it's still a little far away, but...
01:37:29.000 We're going to be putting out an event, the capacity is probably, it's like between 200 and 400, I'm not entirely sure.
01:37:36.000 And again, we're going to make the announcement on the official date with RSVP for members who give 25 bucks or more, then the next day it'll go to all members, and the next day it'll go to everyone.
01:37:50.000 And for now, we're planning on it being a totally free event, just it's going to be RSVP first because of limited capacity, and then we're going to notify people based on, you know... One of the things we've been planning to do is that if you're a member at 25 or more, you get advance notice for our events, so we'll try and stay true to that.
01:38:05.000 We're going to stay true to that.
01:38:07.000 And then there'll be live music.
01:38:09.000 We have, I believe we're confirmed on our stand-up comedy headliner and opening act, which you guys are going to be super excited for when we're ready to announce it.
01:38:18.000 We need to confirm the date with the venue, then we'll announce the idea for the show, then we'll set up RSVP and do it in a staggered manner, and we gotta figure out whether or not we're gonna announce the venue at the very last minute, and that may be the case for obvious reasons, but, you know, just stay tuned because it'll be coming soon.
01:38:36.000 I'm hoping the next few days to actually confirm with the venue on the dates, have everything locked in, and then we can put it up on the site for RSVP, so stay tuned.
01:38:45.000 Let's read some superchats!
01:38:48.000 Let's see.
01:38:48.000 Crust... What does it say?
01:38:49.000 Crustum Fab.
01:38:50.000 Crusturn.
01:38:51.000 Crusturn?
01:38:51.000 Crustum?
01:38:52.000 Small screen.
01:38:53.000 I am a huge Dan Holloway fan.
01:38:55.000 I also just got back from voting.
01:38:56.000 This isn't over till it's over.
01:38:58.000 Tomorrow is the last day.
01:38:59.000 Go vote in that recall election.
01:39:04.000 All right.
01:39:04.000 Let's see.
01:39:06.000 Bradley Tunessie says...
01:39:08.000 Hey Dan and Tim, love the show guys.
01:39:10.000 My question is, I hear that there will be a time to stand to tyranny all the time, but when and how do we go about that?
01:39:17.000 Love the American party?
01:39:18.000 Give a kiss to the doctor?
01:39:21.000 So, here's what I've been saying.
01:39:23.000 That's Dakota Meyer, by the way.
01:39:25.000 Medal of Honor recipient.
01:39:26.000 He's been pretending to be a doctor.
01:39:28.000 He got an honorary doctorate from some school I've never heard of, and he won't shut his mouth about it.
01:39:33.000 And to be honest, I may have to enter him at some point.
01:39:36.000 But anyways, that's a good question.
01:39:37.000 People ask me that a lot.
01:39:39.000 Well, we're in fourth and fifth generational warfare, as we've been describing it.
01:39:43.000 It's a Cold War, right?
01:39:44.000 I mean, it's different.
01:39:45.000 It's not cold.
01:39:46.000 I disagree.
01:39:47.000 In the way that we would think about the Cold War that we refer to, we are in a Cold War.
01:39:52.000 But that wasn't a Cold War either, right?
01:39:54.000 It never was.
01:39:55.000 How many conflicts did we have?
01:39:56.000 Korea was a major one.
01:39:57.000 We had micro-conflicts all over the world for 45, 50 years.
01:40:01.000 Exactly.
01:40:02.000 And so that's exactly what's happening now.
01:40:03.000 It's the next generation.
01:40:05.000 So you've got fights happening in the streets, people being shot.
01:40:08.000 That stuff's been happening for years and it seems to be spiking up and disappearing and there's some events worse than others.
01:40:15.000 I just say, you've got to win hearts and minds.
01:40:18.000 And you've got to be very strategic about how you do it.
01:40:20.000 Violence does not win hearts and minds.
01:40:22.000 Now, the mainstream media has defended Antifa and covered up for them.
01:40:26.000 Recently, there was a story in the Postmillennial about a far-left terrorist trying to, I forget what it's called, shunting a train track to derail the trains and cause crashes, and convicted.
01:40:35.000 So, look, these people are still, like, it's possible that they get convicted, they get arrested, there's a lot of people.
01:40:41.000 You've got to be persuasive, and you've got to build public support, and then, when the culture shifts, the courts follow.
01:40:47.000 You think appointing judges is going to save you?
01:40:49.000 Nope.
01:40:50.000 The judges will just do what they think is popular with the mainstream for the most part.
01:40:53.000 So, be persuasive, be resourceful, be peaceful.
01:40:56.000 I think we're in a cultural insurgency right now.
01:40:58.000 So, if you look at the stages of insurgency, the first thing you do is gain awareness, right?
01:41:02.000 Well, you form your insurgency, then you gain awareness.
01:41:05.000 Like, hey, here we are.
01:41:06.000 And it's like that, if you've ever read the marketing book, Traction, it almost follows the same pathway of a startup company.
01:41:12.000 So you gain awareness first, then second thing you do is gain patronage.
01:41:16.000 This is where I feel like the Occupy movement got it right for a little while and then fell off because you can't gain patronage through violence and you can't gain patronage by standing in the middle of the road.
01:41:32.000 People that want to support you now will not because you've You've done stupid thing.
01:41:37.000 If you were doing something that they thought was important and it inconvenienced them, they would probably join you to be honest.
01:41:41.000 But they would at least understand if you do something that's completely irrelevant to the problem.
01:41:46.000 Blocking traffic and sleeping outdoors is not protesting.
01:41:50.000 That's not what it is. People like to talk about Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X,
01:41:54.000 and Martin Luther King Jr. peaceful, persuasive, resourceful, even at a time of escalated violence,
01:41:59.000 and then years later you get the weather underground, and this guy is an American
01:42:04.000 hero, an American icon. So you got to be smart about how you do it. Times are changing, you know.
01:42:08.000 Here we go. We got to Paddash.
01:42:11.000 Hey Tim, I loved watching your latest Cats Castle vlog and your reaction to the custom desk mat I made for you was priceless.
01:42:18.000 If you want to make a rainbow Don't Tread on Me desk mat for your new studio, you know where to make it.
01:42:25.000 Keep up the good work.
01:42:26.000 Thank you very much, Paddash.
01:42:27.000 We got this, it was the Chicken Party with Tim Pool anime opening for our vlog, which is a bunch of art on it.
01:42:35.000 It was really, really cool.
01:42:36.000 And yeah, man, absolutely.
01:42:38.000 Thank you very much.
01:42:39.000 I love the rainbow Don't Try It On Me flag because it's the ultimate, like, I'm gonna do what I want.
01:42:43.000 So I think that's really funny.
01:42:45.000 Plus, it's funny because there's a news article where it showed a guy in Santa Monica protesting mandates and he was holding a rainbow Gadsden flag.
01:42:53.000 And I'm like, I think people who are into Don't Try It On Me are gonna be like, right on.
01:42:56.000 Because it doesn't matter what color the flag is, as long as you're saying, leave me alone and I'll leave you alone.
01:43:00.000 But boy, the left did not like it.
01:43:02.000 Like, why is that white supremacy on our flag?
01:43:02.000 Right.
01:43:05.000 Oh, yeah.
01:43:05.000 That's... Oh, man.
01:43:07.000 Good lord.
01:43:07.000 Whatever.
01:43:08.000 All right.
01:43:08.000 Turk Longwell says, Tim, now we know the secret to your success.
01:43:11.000 Not hard work, experience, or Occupy.
01:43:13.000 It was small town casino slots and gambling.
01:43:16.000 Shout out to the cast team.
01:43:17.000 Uh, so, for those that aren't familiar...
01:43:19.000 Hey, if it's dumb and it works, is it really dumb?
01:43:21.000 So, uh, I'm really good at gambling for some reason.
01:43:25.000 And, uh, we went to these hotspots in West Virginia, all over the place, where you can just like bars have slot machines.
01:43:31.000 Oh, yeah.
01:43:32.000 And I won two jackpots.
01:43:33.000 I went in with 60 bucks, walked out with 400.
01:43:36.000 You can't say you're good at that.
01:43:37.000 That's kind of coincidence, right?
01:43:38.000 I was going to say that, but now I'm thinking of like the magnetic fields and they're running through you.
01:43:38.000 Nope.
01:43:43.000 So you might be connected to some.
01:43:45.000 No, no, you're, you're, you're, you're, uh, You're missing it, and you're overthinking it, Ian.
01:43:51.000 These games are all programmed.
01:43:54.000 Programming can't be random.
01:43:57.000 It's that simple.
01:43:59.000 So, if someone is trying to determine a specific outcome in that this machine must pay out 98% of all money it takes in, meaning for every dollar that comes in, 98 cents goes out, these hotspots and casinos know for a fact that slots can't pay out more than they take in.
01:44:14.000 That means someone programmed them.
01:44:16.000 That means that program, you can understand how these slots work.
01:44:19.000 You mean you can program a random number generator?
01:44:21.000 You can do it using static.
01:44:23.000 But these have to have a predetermined outcome, which means they can't be random.
01:44:26.000 Right, right.
01:44:27.000 They have to pay out less than they make.
01:44:28.000 Yes, which means it can't be random.
01:44:30.000 It has to be algorithmic.
01:44:32.000 And if that's the case, It's actually quite simple.
01:44:34.000 Most slot machines operate on very, very similar algorithms because they have controlled payout.
01:44:40.000 And if you know how to do that, you end up with vlogs back-to-back where I win four jackpots in 20 minutes in two days.
01:44:47.000 Do you have x-ray vision?
01:44:48.000 You see that they're filled and you know that they're going to start paying out?
01:44:51.000 You know, people think counting cards is a really complicated process and it's ridiculously simple.
01:44:55.000 Literally simple you're like a face card one, you know, not a face card.
01:44:59.000 I'll do nothing.
01:45:00.000 It's like just googling Oh, that's easy.
01:45:01.000 It's super easy.
01:45:02.000 And then when the count is high it changes your strategy They know when you're doing it though.
01:45:06.000 So in like Vegas they get mad about it I think in Atlantic City, you're allowed to do it and all it does is increases your odds to slightly above 50% so you're You're working, but you might be making, I think they say, like 20 to 50 bucks an hour.
01:45:18.000 I mean, look, professional sports gamblers, and these are people not in decks of cards or on roulette tables or in places where there are a lot more, I mean, look, there's a lot of variables in sports gambling, but if you look at the way Vegas handicaps, they are within one point or so of their spread almost always.
01:45:37.000 But professional gamblers still only win about 55 to 58% of their bets.
01:45:41.000 And that's enough.
01:45:42.000 Yeah, it's enough.
01:45:43.000 Yeah, so anyway, there was a story I saw a long time ago about a guy who solved lottery tickets, scratchers.
01:45:50.000 Because a lot of the scratchers would have numbers on the front that you'd scratch off and reveal a symbol.
01:45:57.000 And he said, if the outcome needs to be controlled, it cannot be random.
01:46:03.000 In which case, you can figure out the algorithm and know which number correlates with which symbol.
01:46:03.000 Right.
01:46:08.000 He solved it. He then started looking at lottery tickets and he could pick the winners and losers.
01:46:13.000 And then he filled an envelope with two envelopes. One said winners, one said losers.
01:46:13.000 Oh my god.
01:46:18.000 He was trying to tell the lottery commissioners in Canada and they were ignoring him because he's a
01:46:21.000 crackpot with a conspiracy. Finally they opened it up and found out he was right.
01:46:26.000 The same is true for slot machines. They are programs.
01:46:29.000 They are games.
01:46:30.000 I'll tell you this, it is ridiculously easy to guarantee a jackpot on the slot machine.
01:46:36.000 I mean, do you have a secret you don't want to give away?
01:46:38.000 I don't advise giving away your secret.
01:46:40.000 Yeah, yeah, that's cool.
01:46:40.000 I don't want to give it away.
01:46:41.000 But I'll tell you this, we didn't... Oh man, I think it's... I didn't even mention this because it's not in the vlog, but when we were in West Virginia Central, West Virginia, I won three jackpots in one night.
01:46:54.000 And jackpots there are a couple hundred bucks.
01:46:56.000 Then we went to the casino on Sunday.
01:46:56.000 Right.
01:47:00.000 Was it Sunday or was it Saturday?
01:47:01.000 I think it was Saturday.
01:47:02.000 And I won a jackpot.
01:47:03.000 They actually gave me a tax form.
01:47:04.000 I have to pay taxes on the winnings.
01:47:05.000 So like when I won the jackpot, they're like, okay, you gotta fill this out.
01:47:08.000 And then just the other day, we went to a pool hall where I won two more jackpots.
01:47:13.000 I have the videos on my phone.
01:47:14.000 I'll put it up on Instagram.
01:47:14.000 And I'm not kidding.
01:47:15.000 I won two more jackpots.
01:47:16.000 I know exactly how these things work.
01:47:19.000 You gotta look deep.
01:47:20.000 You gotta understand how the system works.
01:47:22.000 Like I said, one of the only ways to get true random is through background static.
01:47:27.000 It's not super easy to do.
01:47:29.000 We should read Super Jets.
01:47:30.000 But now everyone's like, how does he do it?
01:47:32.000 Yeah, I'm thinking if you look at the way they've spawned and the way they've landed, you can see that they've spawned X amount of times.
01:47:37.000 You're overthinking it.
01:47:38.000 You're overthinking it.
01:47:39.000 That's how I work.
01:47:40.000 Yeah, so in the span of... Man, it was last Sunday!
01:47:44.000 Wow, it was last Sunday I went to the hotspot and won three jackpots.
01:47:48.000 Then it was one week, less than a week later, I won another jackpot on a bigger machine.
01:47:54.000 And then it was... Sunday, I won two more.
01:47:57.000 So like, within seven days I won, what is that, seven jackpots?
01:48:00.000 Well I am pumped to find out how.
01:48:01.000 I filmed all of it too.
01:48:03.000 We didn't put all of the jackpots in the vlog either.
01:48:05.000 Too many jackpots.
01:48:06.000 But I've got two more I can put up on Instagram and show you.
01:48:09.000 All right, let's see.
01:48:10.000 Actually, I think I got three.
01:48:12.000 I lost track.
01:48:12.000 I don't know.
01:48:13.000 All right, all right.
01:48:14.000 Bourne Stellar says, buddy, you are completely wrong.
01:48:17.000 I'm a Marine.
01:48:18.000 80% of us would never shoot an American.
01:48:21.000 Sir, you're incorrect.
01:48:23.000 I only got one word to say to prove that wrong.
01:48:25.000 Antifa.
01:48:27.000 If you saw a group of Antifa armed with handguns and ARs, and they were running through the streets and firing, Yeah, a lot of people.
01:48:34.000 A cop would shoot them.
01:48:35.000 So what are you saying?
01:48:36.000 You're saying if you oppose them ideologically, then you would shoot them?
01:48:41.000 I'm saying not necessarily that.
01:48:43.000 I'm saying if you were deployed, you know, for whatever reason or something like you're on a military base and then some chaos happens and then so it's not that it's a violation of posse comitas or anything like that.
01:48:55.000 Right.
01:48:55.000 But if you saw a group that it doesn't matter who they were and they were armed and they were engaging in combat, you'd probably neutralize them.
01:49:03.000 I mean, yeah, I would do that right now as a civilian, though.
01:49:06.000 That's not... Well, so here's the issue.
01:49:06.000 Exactly.
01:49:09.000 It's different when you're, like you said, with posse comitatus, obviously, but just generally speaking, there's a different weight to that decision when you're wearing a uniform.
01:49:16.000 What is posse comitatus?
01:49:18.000 It means that you can't use military as police, basically.
01:49:22.000 They can't enforce domestic laws.
01:49:25.000 Unless, I think only in extreme circumstances.
01:49:27.000 Can they be put under the authority of a local police station?
01:49:31.000 I don't think local police stations, but federal law enforcement, yes.
01:49:36.000 That's what the Sicario movie is about.
01:49:38.000 I think with the Insurrection Act, they can.
01:49:40.000 You need to invoke the Insurrection Act.
01:49:43.000 What I'm saying is, the question is, people assume when a commanding officer says, They'd be like looking at this like granny waving a Trump flag.
01:49:54.000 It's not going to be like that.
01:49:55.000 It's going to be a dude in a vest and he's going to have a weapon.
01:49:58.000 Well, here you are though.
01:49:59.000 We're having that conversation we were talking about earlier where we're talking about two different definitions of things, right?
01:50:04.000 So this Marine is probably talking about, I'm not going to march into a U.S.
01:50:08.000 city and start rounding people up.
01:50:09.000 And he's right.
01:50:10.000 They wouldn't do that.
01:50:11.000 I sincerely believe they wouldn't.
01:50:13.000 I know these people and I've been in that position.
01:50:15.000 There's no way.
01:50:17.000 I disagree.
01:50:22.000 In order for the military to ever get involved in any kind of conflict like that, it would have to have gotten so bad.
01:50:29.000 Where it's like, there's bombings, and cities are, you know, stripped to the point where they're like, insurrection act has been declared.
01:50:36.000 And then the military's gonna be told, look, we've got insurgent extremists.
01:50:40.000 They're armed with pipe bombs, explosives.
01:50:42.000 We don't want to shoot them, but you need to protect yourself first and foremost.
01:50:47.000 When you're given that intelligence, do you question your commanding officer?
01:50:51.000 Do you say, you're wrong, you're lying?
01:50:52.000 No, you trust them, right?
01:50:54.000 No, no, no, no.
01:50:54.000 You don't trust your... Absolutely not, no.
01:50:57.000 I mean, I was taught and I taught my people to never just trust anything like that at face value.
01:51:03.000 I can't remember how the phrase goes, but it's something, if you're asserting something, the stronger your assertion is, the stronger your evidence must be, right?
01:51:18.000 Something to that effect, and that is absolutely the case.
01:51:21.000 Now, that's not the case for everyone, obviously.
01:51:23.000 Right, so my question to that is, why did a family get hit by a drone strike in Afghanistan?
01:51:29.000 Because that drone strike happened from an Air Force base called Creech just north of Las Vegas, right?
01:51:36.000 In north Las Vegas, actually.
01:51:38.000 It happened 8,000 miles away from that location.
01:51:40.000 And to the operator, the drone operator, that's just a little... it's tops of heads.
01:51:46.000 That's why.
01:51:47.000 So the issue, I suppose, is... What's that movie?
01:51:52.000 It's a TV series.
01:51:54.000 I think it's the second season of Jack Ryan, if I'm not mistaken.
01:52:00.000 Or maybe it's the first season of Jack Ryan, the new series that was on Amazon Prime.
01:52:04.000 The Dude from the Office?
01:52:05.000 Yeah, where the drone operator...
01:52:08.000 Uh, kills the wrong person or something like that, or they get, they had bad intel and it's part of the, the, the story.
01:52:14.000 Um, I would imagine that that's, that's probably a difficult thing to do.
01:52:19.000 I don't know if I could be a drone operator.
01:52:20.000 Oh, that'd be so hard.
01:52:21.000 It's a lot easier to walk up to somebody, see that they're a threat and then put a bullet in their brain than it is to drop a bomb on somebody and not know by the time the bomb hits the ground, are they going to be standing there?
01:52:31.000 Is it somebody's kid?
01:52:32.000 Like that Anwar al-Awlaki, the first time we tried to kill him, we killed his kid.
01:52:35.000 No, no, no.
01:52:35.000 Right?
01:52:37.000 He was already dead.
01:52:39.000 Abdulrahman was killed after, I'm pretty sure, after Anwar, and he was in Yemen.
01:52:43.000 No, Anwar's child.
01:52:45.000 The first time we tried to kill him.
01:52:47.000 Well, I don't know.
01:52:47.000 Maybe it wasn't his child, but children died the first time we did it.
01:52:50.000 Abdulrahman was killed, I think, after the fact.
01:52:53.000 And Obama claimed that they were trying to target a different, you know, al-Qaeda terrorist.
01:52:57.000 It was an accident.
01:52:58.000 They blew up a civilian restaurant.
01:53:00.000 Yeah.
01:53:01.000 Well, it was somebody's wedding, I believe.
01:53:03.000 The first strike, right?
01:53:04.000 Oh, the first strike.
01:53:06.000 Yeah.
01:53:06.000 I wonder if it's like if we didn't have this Patriot Act thing where we can say anyone's a terrorist at any time and then we can drone strike at any time, that the government or the people in power feel like they wouldn't have enough power if they didn't have that ability, that they would be destroyed?
01:53:19.000 Well, let's let's let's let's agree to disagree for the most part.
01:53:22.000 But I would say I think if there was a group of Antifa flying Antifa flags and they were armed and they were shooting, I would I mean, a lot of people would shoot them.
01:53:29.000 To be honest, right now I would do that.
01:53:32.000 So like if they were shooting at people, you'd stop them.
01:53:35.000 If I saw anybody conducting a shooting like that and they weren't clearly uniformed, which is to say, I know that they're doing that on for some reason that would, that would make me hesitate and ask why they're doing it.
01:53:35.000 Yeah.
01:53:46.000 But if, if I just saw that happening, I would smoke that person.
01:53:50.000 So I think it's, I think it's fair to say like when someone just abruptly is like, I would never shoot an American.
01:53:54.000 It's like, no, yeah, you wouldn't.
01:53:56.000 Right.
01:53:57.000 Americans get shot by other Americans all the time.
01:53:59.000 Right, right, right.
01:54:00.000 Wow.
01:54:00.000 The one free man says read ordinary men a book of how a book of how normal men become cold-blooded murderers in
01:54:06.000 Poland during World War two Don't think you would never do horrible things
01:54:10.000 Instead think what it would take for you to do horrible things
01:54:13.000 One third were Nazi informants in World War two Wow interesting. Yeah
01:54:19.000 You know, a lot of people are like, you know, like at what point is, do I stand up to tyranny?
01:54:23.000 And it's like, honestly, I think you're, you're peaceful.
01:54:26.000 Obviously there's a threshold, right?
01:54:28.000 If we got to the point of actual death camps and like, you know, Gestapo type police beating children in the street.
01:54:34.000 You're in a hot war at that point.
01:54:36.000 Right.
01:54:36.000 Exactly.
01:54:36.000 Exactly.
01:54:37.000 Everybody knows what the rules are.
01:54:38.000 But like with the, it's, I've actually found it pretty interesting to hear the whole written house debate play out
01:54:44.000 over the last two years or so, because people, even on the right, have different opinions about stuff.
01:54:49.000 Um, the left obviously outright condemned it because they disagree with him politically, I guess.
01:54:54.000 I don't know what their basis is.
01:54:54.000 I don't know.
01:54:56.000 I mean, apparently getting, uh, despite what the law says about
01:55:00.000 having a blunt object swung at your head and your ability to
01:55:03.000 defend yourself when that happens, or somebody trying to shoot you with a Glock, uh, but maybe the circumstance that
01:55:10.000 I think he's a really interesting case because this is a kid who is by and large there to do the right thing.
01:55:15.000 He was trying to clean up, put out fires.
01:55:17.000 He was there to do the right thing.
01:55:18.000 And then stuff went a little wild.
01:55:20.000 Maybe he was a little out of his depth, but I don't think anything.
01:55:22.000 It's, it's a, it is very upsetting to me that he got charged with murder in the first place.
01:55:27.000 And if he gets convicted of this, That would be one of the biggest miscarriages of justice, I think, in modern history.
01:55:34.000 I think it'll happen.
01:55:35.000 Really?
01:55:36.000 Oh, definitely.
01:55:36.000 It may.
01:55:37.000 It may.
01:55:37.000 There's a lot of activists in the DAs these days.
01:55:39.000 That's the problem.
01:55:40.000 Well, it's not that.
01:55:41.000 I mean, when Chauvin's trial can be surrounded by fences and men with machine guns because there's active rioting in the city, and then they're like, we will not change locations.
01:55:51.000 And he didn't get a mistrial for that.
01:55:53.000 If that's not a mistrial, then one doesn't exist.
01:55:55.000 And so it was a really great point.
01:55:57.000 I think it was Will Chamberlain said this, and if it wasn't, I forgive whoever did, that when the judge said, everyone in the state knows what happened, who this guy is, so there's no other venue in which we could have a more fair trial, at that point you say, charges dropped, have a nice day.
01:56:12.000 If you cannot have a fair trial, you're free to go.
01:56:15.000 Right.
01:56:15.000 Not the other way around.
01:56:16.000 What are the chances that Rittenhouse is going to get anything approaching a fair trial?
01:56:20.000 Despite the fact that a pedophile armed with a weapon he wasn't supposed to have tried to shoot him.
01:56:25.000 Well no, that guy tried taking his gun from him.
01:56:27.000 Well, one guy had a Glock, right?
01:56:28.000 Oh, that was the guy.
01:56:29.000 Yeah, the guy who the guy.
01:56:31.000 So the first guy was the pedophile then.
01:56:33.000 Rittenhouse was being chased by the pedo guy.
01:56:35.000 Yeah.
01:56:35.000 And then some other guy fired at Rittenhouse, who then heard the shot, turned around.
01:56:40.000 And when he did, I think his name was Rosenbaum, reached for the gun and missed.
01:56:45.000 And then Kyle fired and fired and fired.
01:56:47.000 Okay, well look, if I'm carrying a weapon and you are a much larger person, there's case law on this with women, by the way.
01:56:53.000 No, the guy was smaller than him.
01:56:55.000 Well, it doesn't matter.
01:56:56.000 He's an adult.
01:56:57.000 He's a 17-year-old kid.
01:56:58.000 So, there's a case law on this where women have pulled out weapons to defend themselves and the man tried to take it away and he was unarmed and she shot him.
01:57:06.000 Perfectly fine to do that, by the way.
01:57:07.000 It's political.
01:57:09.000 The presumption is, if I have a weapon and you're trying to take it from me, you're going to take it from me and use it on me.
01:57:13.000 Right.
01:57:14.000 You're not taking it out on me to disarm me and then go home after you've been violently chasing me down the street.
01:57:18.000 So he was right to shoot that guy.
01:57:20.000 He was right to shoot both.
01:57:21.000 And then he was chased and he was trying to get to the cops.
01:57:23.000 And the guy was trying to hit him with a skateboard in the back of the head.
01:57:26.000 He shot that guy.
01:57:27.000 And then the other guy got his bicycle.
01:57:30.000 So what happened was he got shoved to the ground.
01:57:32.000 Right.
01:57:32.000 And then the guy with the skateboard tried grabbing the gun.
01:57:35.000 And when he reached for the gun and missed, Rittenhouse fired up and went into his heart.
01:57:40.000 The other guy then approached with his Glock and went to grab the gun and then Rittenhouse pointed at him, the guy backed up and put his hands up and then he lunged again and Rittenhouse shot him and it blew off his bicep.
01:57:52.000 So it sounds like the kid's a lot better at fighting than these other turrets.
01:57:57.000 The bicep guy, you mean?
01:57:58.000 Yeah, I remember him saying that.
01:57:59.000 reported this so fact check minutes when I may be wrong but I'm a bicep guy I
01:58:02.000 mean the bicep guy I'm pretty sure he said I should have just you know yeah
01:58:07.000 I should just what white like I'm paraphrasing but he was like I should
01:58:10.000 have just unloaded in yeah Wow.
01:58:13.000 I mean, look, if you're on, if you're on your heels, well, I mean, he's literally on his back firing the weapon.
01:58:18.000 At that point, you have no right to walk up and start shooting the kid.
01:58:22.000 Am I, am I off on that?
01:58:24.000 Like, I feel like the, the, how he was there in the first place, there might be some questions about for his mother.
01:58:33.000 Like, why is your 17 year old in the middle?
01:58:35.000 Yeah, exactly.
01:58:36.000 That has nothing to do with me.
01:58:38.000 And you can't, just because somebody ended up in a situation because of whatever, all that's in the past.
01:58:43.000 Who cares?
01:58:44.000 What happened once people started taking responsibility for their own actions, right?
01:58:47.000 You saw what happened.
01:58:48.000 Like these, these are criminals.
01:58:50.000 The guy, one guy was a pedophile.
01:58:52.000 The other guy that had the Glock was a felon.
01:58:54.000 He shouldn't have had the gun in the first place, right?
01:58:55.000 So what are we talking about here?
01:58:57.000 I never understood why there was such a debate over this.
01:58:59.000 He's become an effigy for this political fight.
01:59:03.000 I've made some crazy bets.
01:59:04.000 I've dropped a bunch of money down on roulette wheel to see what would happen.
01:59:08.000 And sometimes I lose, sometimes you win, you know?
01:59:10.000 I've put a bunch of crazy money in slot machines and tend to win.
01:59:13.000 If I had to make a bet right now, I'm not saying it's a guaranteed victory.
01:59:17.000 Like I'd put a hundred bucks down and win a hundred bucks back.
01:59:19.000 I did it!
01:59:20.000 I'd be willing to bet that he gets life, I think I would, if I was like on a roulette
01:59:27.000 wheel and I was trying to figure out like what's a good odds for winning, I'd be like oh yeah
01:59:31.000 yeah life in prison. What if you didn't have to make a bet on this? What do you mean? You said if I
01:59:36.000 have to make a bet I would bet that life in prison, but if you didn't have to make a bet,
01:59:40.000 would you make a bet? My point is I think it's like a 60% chance he gets a life in prison.
01:59:43.000 So if you had to make a bet, would you?
01:59:45.000 Or if you didn't have to make a bet, would you, is my point.
01:59:47.000 You think it's actually that good of odds that you would risk?
01:59:51.000 Wow, I don't know, man.
01:59:51.000 Yes.
01:59:53.000 I don't know, because I agree, this is like... Bro, they had machine guns and barricades outside of the Chauvin trial.
01:59:59.000 And they had riots in the city, and the jurors said, I was scared of retaliation.
02:00:04.000 It was like a, it was like a hockey game.
02:00:06.000 They're like banging on the glass.
02:00:08.000 Like, oh, are you kidding me?
02:00:09.000 How is that?
02:00:10.000 But what?
02:00:11.000 Cowards of Kenosha are going to cry and beg Antifa to spare them.
02:00:16.000 Oh, yeah.
02:00:16.000 Two or three months before that, though, a federal courthouse is getting attacked.
02:00:21.000 A police station gets burned to the ground.
02:00:23.000 Nothing.
02:00:23.000 And what happens?
02:00:24.000 Literally, Antifa set up an autonomous zone.
02:00:28.000 They took over by force an area of a major U.S.
02:00:31.000 city for a month.
02:00:33.000 And how many people have been arrested because of that?
02:00:35.000 I don't know.
02:00:36.000 I mean, Nadler refused to admit that Antifa even existed.
02:00:39.000 Are you kidding me?
02:00:40.000 Yeah.
02:00:41.000 How do you fight an enemy that no one will agree even exists?
02:00:44.000 That's something that we're going to have to figure out.
02:00:46.000 I don't think anyone in politics mentioned Antifa until that political debate with Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
02:00:52.000 Yeah.
02:00:53.000 I mean, that's one thing Trump definitely always got right.
02:00:53.000 Yeah.
02:00:57.000 He never let anybody slip by.
02:00:59.000 Like, if there was something to be said, if there was an elephant in the room, he's like, hey, elephant.
02:01:03.000 Elephant.
02:01:04.000 Trump did talk about it.
02:01:05.000 Yeah.
02:01:08.000 All right.
02:01:08.000 Let's see.
02:01:09.000 People are talking about rabies vaccines.
02:01:12.000 Oh, yeah.
02:01:12.000 Rose M. says, nah, bro, I've had the rabies vaccine series.
02:01:15.000 It's only three shots over about a month.
02:01:17.000 Not bad.
02:01:17.000 They hurt less than flu shots.
02:01:19.000 That's like an updated version.
02:01:21.000 I'm pretty sure it is.
02:01:22.000 Yeah, I'm pretty sure it used to be way worse and they've been improving on it.
02:01:25.000 Yeah.
02:01:26.000 Yes.
02:01:27.000 Smart audience.
02:01:27.000 The licensed guru says, love how happy Ian is today.
02:01:30.000 Good vibes from everyone.
02:01:32.000 I've actually, I watched some of the live chat going through.
02:01:35.000 It's funny how much people roast you.
02:01:37.000 It's awesome.
02:01:38.000 It's really, I love, I really enjoy when people do that.
02:01:42.000 If I, it upsets me sometimes when my friends get attacked.
02:01:46.000 I don't know what that is about me, but when people come after me, as long as it's funny, Yeah.
02:01:52.000 That makes my... sometimes I'll just sit there.
02:01:54.000 You remember the mean tweets thing?
02:01:55.000 That used to be a thing on late night television.
02:01:57.000 Yeah.
02:01:57.000 Where people had fun reading mean tweets about themselves.
02:02:00.000 Now you get banned.
02:02:01.000 I have so much love for you.
02:02:03.000 Typing these things.
02:02:04.000 Keep it coming.
02:02:04.000 Thank you.
02:02:05.000 The tactician musician says, nothing irritates me more than the president of the U.S.
02:02:09.000 saying, it's not about freedom, it's about safety.
02:02:12.000 America is freedom.
02:02:13.000 How many people risk life for freedom in the wars?
02:02:15.000 How many people are risking life right now traveling through Mexico?
02:02:19.000 And how many people are taking risks by just like walking through the forest when there could be a big cat or a bear or something?
02:02:28.000 You choose to take those risks.
02:02:28.000 That's on you.
02:02:31.000 All right.
02:02:32.000 Burrad is challenging me, and I think I might fail.
02:02:36.000 Dude, she sells seashells by the seashore.
02:02:39.000 Toy boat, toy boat, toy boat, toy boat.
02:02:41.000 Nailed it.
02:02:42.000 Nice work, dude.
02:02:45.000 You practiced that when you were a kid.
02:02:46.000 Really?
02:02:46.000 Some wingnut says, what are your feelings on Joe Rogan being able to perform in New York City without being vaxxed?
02:02:52.000 Uh, is Joe... he's doing the Madison Square Garden?
02:02:55.000 Really? So he's... he's... he's gonna...
02:02:59.000 I guess he's certainly not vaccinated. Um...
02:03:02.000 I don't know if he's ever said whether he was or wasn't.
02:03:04.000 It was reported that he wasn't.
02:03:05.000 He said that he wasn't.
02:03:06.000 Oh, really?
02:03:06.000 Yeah, I think so.
02:03:08.000 So not only Madison Square Garden has its own rule about vaccination, but now New York City has gone into effect as well, right?
02:03:14.000 But performers are exempted.
02:03:16.000 I mean, it was like Chappelle used to talk about that a lot with the cigarette thing.
02:03:19.000 He could smoke on stage, but you couldn't because it was a part of his performance.
02:03:23.000 I gotta say, if... Maybe we should just all become stand-up comedians.
02:03:28.000 Well, this is a big one.
02:03:29.000 I know Joe.
02:03:31.000 I talk to Joe every so often.
02:03:33.000 I have mad respect for the guy.
02:03:34.000 But I do have to point this out.
02:03:36.000 If Joe is going to go on his show and be critical of vaccines, to whatever extent, and he's going to be talking with Brett Weinstein and talking about these things, if he's going to oppose mandatory vaccinations, but then Create a circumstance as a performer in New York which would result in thousands of people who want to see him getting vaccinated or at least upholding the mandate system.
02:04:04.000 Right.
02:04:05.000 I gotta say that's a...
02:04:07.000 I don't know.
02:04:08.000 Is that hypocritical?
02:04:09.000 Yeah, a little bit.
02:04:10.000 I think you've got to criticize it.
02:04:12.000 I bet if you put it to him that way, he would probably agree with it, though, to be honest.
02:04:15.000 He probably just hasn't considered that yet, because there is some responsibility when you have an audience and weight like that.
02:04:22.000 He will make Madison Square Garden probably three to five million dollars just in ticket sales that night, and then you can multiply that times 1.6 or so for all the concessions.
02:04:33.000 It's basically standing in line to defend the vaccine mandate.
02:04:37.000 Essentially, yeah.
02:04:38.000 So I've had a number of friends who are performers of varying degrees of celebrity say, I'm not going to perform there because they have a vaccine mandate.
02:04:48.000 I'm not going to subject my fans to that.
02:04:49.000 But I've seen people, none that I know, but people on the other side do the same thing, say, I'm not going to a place that doesn't require vaccination, right?
02:04:57.000 You know, this challenge is a lot of money, you know, but I guess I would look at it this way.
02:05:02.000 What does Joe do with his money in a way that benefits freedom and challenges the things that he opposes?
02:05:08.000 Honestly, I don't know.
02:05:09.000 I mean, he probably donates.
02:05:11.000 He's starting a comedy club, I know that.
02:05:13.000 Maybe he donates.
02:05:14.000 I'm not trying to accuse him of not doing or doing anything.
02:05:16.000 I'm just saying, here's the factors.
02:05:19.000 If he ends up getting paid millions of dollars, and then he says, I'm gonna take this money and I'm gonna put it into legal work to sue the hell out of New York City to end this, I'd be like, dude.
02:05:29.000 It would be pretty interesting.
02:05:29.000 Now you're taking the money from the system to throw it back in their faces.
02:05:32.000 If he just says, well, you know what, people can do whatever they want.
02:05:35.000 I think vaccine mandates are bad, but if they want to get vaccinated, it's on them.
02:05:38.000 I'll do the show.
02:05:38.000 Then you're propping up the system you claim to oppose.
02:05:41.000 So I guess the ultimate issue is here.
02:05:44.000 I don't know if he's doing the show.
02:05:45.000 I don't know what's going on with it.
02:05:46.000 I don't know.
02:05:47.000 Yeah, they're selling tickets October 2nd, 2021, Madison Square Garden.
02:05:50.000 If you go to the Ticketmaster page, it pops up a COVID health check required.
02:05:54.000 In order to attend the event, all guests age 12 and older must provide proof of COVID-19.
02:05:57.000 Speaking of that, has there... If it were me, I would say event cancelled.
02:06:01.000 Or I'd move it.
02:06:02.000 That's what Jim Brewer's doing.
02:06:03.000 Yeah, I'd move it.
02:06:05.000 I'd just move it.
02:06:05.000 Brewer cancelled.
02:06:06.000 I wonder if there's going to be anybody... When's the first federal lawsuit going to come in the form of the same one from the George Mason University professor that said that his natural immunity should take the place of a vaccine?
02:06:18.000 He won that case in federal court, by the way.
02:06:21.000 What if your doctor says you can't get the vaccine?
02:06:23.000 Right.
02:06:23.000 And then New York says there's no exemption.
02:06:25.000 Too bad.
02:06:26.000 If your doctor says you can't get the vaccine, then they can't not exempt you because the ADA prevents them from doing that.
02:06:30.000 But they're doing it anyway.
02:06:31.000 Right.
02:06:32.000 I called 25 restaurants.
02:06:33.000 Yeah, for sure.
02:06:34.000 So I mean, that kind of begs the question, why do we have gun laws if words on paper don't actually stop anything?
02:06:42.000 If it doesn't stop the government from telling me what I can and can't do, where I can and can't go, then what is the point of any of that stuff?
02:06:48.000 Exactly.
02:06:49.000 So many people are feeling that right now.
02:06:50.000 What is the point?
02:06:51.000 But that's a good thing, though.
02:06:52.000 I think it's a good thing for people to realize that the system they're in isn't what they thought it was.
02:06:58.000 That these words on paper mean nothing.
02:07:01.000 Phil Jackson used to say that you're only a success in the moment that you perform a successful act.
02:07:06.000 That's a very, very good quote.
02:07:08.000 And I would add to that, you're only kind in the moment you perform a kind act.
02:07:12.000 You're only a patriot in the moment you perform a patriotic act, because it puts the onus back on you to not just say things, not just read words on paper, but to live that life.
02:07:21.000 You know, I think it was Breitbart who said, politics is downstream from culture.
02:07:24.000 Yep.
02:07:24.000 I think there's a better way to say it.
02:07:26.000 Politics is a relevant fight for culture.
02:07:28.000 Because in New York City, you have, I called one of the restaurants, you know, I called a bunch of the restaurants and one of them, I asked him, you know, would you, you know, hey, we, you know, if I came in, would you deny my friend access because they can't get the vaccine?
02:07:39.000 The doctor won't let them.
02:07:40.000 And they said, yes, they can't come in.
02:07:42.000 And then I said, you can eat outside.
02:07:45.000 I'm like, well, we don't want to eat outside.
02:07:47.000 That's like segregation.
02:07:48.000 It's like discriminatory.
02:07:49.000 Like the doctor's not allowing my friend to get the vaccine.
02:07:51.000 And they said, I'm sorry.
02:07:52.000 Those are the rules we're just following with the mayor's orders.
02:07:56.000 And then I said, well, this violates the Americans with Disabilities Act and New York City human rights law about discriminating based on the basis of medical conditions.
02:08:04.000 And then someone else picked up the phone and went, bye.
02:08:07.000 He was like, it's Project Veritas. Hang it up. Yeah. Well, so so so
02:08:10.000 You know that that's why I say like people seem to think that they're so
02:08:14.000 Oh, I would always stand up and I would dude the people of New York City have buckled in two seconds
02:08:20.000 And all of your precious laws, you've got New York City.
02:08:23.000 You've got New York state and federal anti-discrimination laws gone. Why?
02:08:27.000 Because the fascists of New York are willing to drop to their knee to gag on boot the moment de blasio says so
02:08:34.000 And so long as the people are going to grovel before de blasio your paper means nothing
02:08:39.000 You'll stand there being like but I have a constitution saying and he's going to be like look at all of my subjects
02:08:45.000 around me And then he'll say, Subjects, rise!
02:08:47.000 Beat him!
02:08:48.000 And they'll say, Yes, Master!
02:08:49.000 That constitution is only as strong as the fist and gun behind it.
02:08:53.000 That's why the Second Amendment exists.
02:08:55.000 It wasn't to protect us from a foreign army.
02:08:58.000 Do people still believe that nonsense?
02:09:00.000 It partially.
02:09:01.000 I mean, I think it was, uh, so the reason they, the original second amendment was actually, I think it was the fourth and it was long and it said, regardless of whether or not you're in, it had a provision that said, regardless of military service, you are entitled to keep and bear arms.
02:09:14.000 They removed it because they were worried it would be used as an argument to stop conscription.
02:09:18.000 Right.
02:09:18.000 So actually, yeah, the purpose of the second amendment was foreign and domestic that internally terrorism, tyranny, or externally war.
02:09:26.000 An armed population keeps it safe.
02:09:27.000 This COVID could be the shock to the system that inoculates us against this stupid creep of totalitarianism because our rights are not set in stone.
02:09:37.000 They only exist when we enforce them by enacting them.
02:09:41.000 Look at Australia, bro.
02:09:42.000 Look at it.
02:09:43.000 That could be us and it's not right now and it won't be if we choose it not to be.
02:09:47.000 Well, we're heading that direction.
02:09:48.000 Well, that's a dangerous thing to say because you can't speak for everyone like that.
02:09:51.000 We will see how it goes, but we're gonna have a members-only segment coming up on TimCast.com, so become a member, go to TimCast.com, subscribe, make sure you like the video right now, like this podcast, share it with your friends, subscribe to this channel, and you can follow us at TimCast IRL, basically everywhere, or some places like TimCast underscore IRL.
02:10:13.000 You can follow me personally, and watch me engage in shenanigans at TimCast, and I'll post those videos of me winning the jackpots to back up my claims that yes, I win them all the time.
02:10:22.000 I'm going to find out where you're doing it, and I'm going to just wait outside and rob you every time you win the jackpot.
02:10:30.000 I mean, it's a couple hundred bucks.
02:10:31.000 Like, you're going to the hotspots, and you're my hotspot.
02:10:34.000 I'm just going to follow you around and rob you every time.
02:10:36.000 I need a different series of masks.
02:10:37.000 Maybe you can help me with that.
02:10:38.000 Definitely.
02:10:39.000 It's West Virginia, bro.
02:10:41.000 In West Virginia, I ain't worried about it.
02:10:43.000 Constitutional carry.
02:10:44.000 Well, Texas just passed that too, finally.
02:10:46.000 You can walk around West Virginia with, like, a Barrett M82.
02:10:49.000 I don't know why you'd want to.
02:10:50.000 It's very heavy.
02:10:51.000 Yeah, it's bulky.
02:10:53.000 Did you want to shout anything out?
02:10:54.000 Yeah, you can just follow me on Instagram at Dan Holloway.
02:10:57.000 I do a lot of weird stuff over there.
02:10:59.000 A lot of my posts get deleted for various reasons.
02:11:02.000 Right on.
02:11:03.000 Thanks for coming, everyone.
02:11:04.000 Great to see you, man.
02:11:05.000 Yeah, it was awesome.
02:11:05.000 Thanks, guys.
02:11:06.000 Good to see you again.
02:11:07.000 Ian Crossland.
02:11:08.000 Follow me at iancrossland.net or anywhere.
02:11:10.000 Ian Crossland exists.
02:11:14.000 And I was going to say, I'm surprised Dan didn't shout out his podcast, which is Drinking Bros.
02:11:18.000 Well, it's on my hat.
02:11:19.000 Okay.
02:11:19.000 Yeah.
02:11:20.000 Yeah.
02:11:20.000 Okay.
02:11:20.000 Yes.
02:11:20.000 That's a podcast.
02:11:22.000 I've been listening to it.
02:11:23.000 I've been really enjoying it.
02:11:24.000 I've been talking about Afghanistan.
02:11:24.000 I also want to shout out the quartering.
02:11:26.000 He's in here.
02:11:27.000 Do you know that guy?
02:11:27.000 No, of course.
02:11:29.000 Yeah, Jeremy's cool dude.
02:11:31.000 He gave me some heat one time for some stupid things I said, and they were definitely stupid.
02:11:35.000 We can get to that on the numbers only part.
02:11:37.000 Yeah, Jeremy's cool dude.
02:11:38.000 As we were sitting here, I was like, I feel like you have the cadence of Jeremy.
02:11:41.000 And that went through my head a couple times during the show.
02:11:43.000 We both have beards.
02:11:44.000 It like weighs your face down a certain amount.
02:11:47.000 I don't know.
02:11:48.000 Right on.
02:11:50.000 And you guys should follow me on Twitter at Sour Patch Lids because I want more followers than Sour Patch Kids.
02:11:55.000 That's all I want.
02:11:56.000 That's all I want.
02:11:57.000 We will see you all at TimCast.com for the member segment.
02:12:00.000 Thanks for hanging out.