In this episode, Larry Sharp joins me to discuss the latest news regarding the Ukraine crisis, China's intentions in Taiwan, and the Antifa situation in Portland, Oregon. We also discuss the possibility of a Third World War.
00:00:24.000Now this one really gets a lot of people because of course you have people, we have people in chat already saying that these eastern regions, you know, they've already declared their independence though initially even Russia didn't recognize their independence so I don't understand what that argument's all about.
00:00:38.000Only now is Russia saying they recognize the independence of these regions.
00:00:43.000Long story short, I'll just tell you my personal perspective before we get, you know, I want to make sure I get into all the news and break down the facts for you.
00:00:48.000This is going to be a tough one because there's propaganda.
00:00:51.000We're in fourth and fifth generational warfare.
00:01:02.000And I have friends who live in Ukraine, and I've regularly kept up with them and asked them about what's going on, and to put it very simply, for many of these people, they view it as an outright invasion.
00:01:11.000Of course, there are people in the eastern regions who are sympathetic to Russia, but they don't, you know, based on the people I know who have lived there, who know people from there, they're like, nah, Russia is just, it's a pressure campaign, it's a tactic they use.
00:01:24.000They justify the invasion by saying, oh look, they voted for it, then asked for our help, now we can come in, and then they do.
00:01:45.000But it's also hard to know for sure what's true.
00:01:47.000Because obviously the corporate press in the United States is pro-war as pro-war can be, and things will likely escalate.
00:01:53.000And we got a lot of articles that have popped up in the past couple of weeks, as well as today, talking about the fears that this could escalate into a third world war, which probably just hyperbole, Or it could be legitimate because China wants to move in on Taiwan.
00:02:08.000And this could be the major distraction, a battle, a war in Eastern Europe that gives China the opportunity to move in and take this territory that they claim is theirs to begin with.
00:02:18.000I love it when I talk about this stuff.
00:02:20.000Immediately I get people saying, you're wrong.
00:03:12.000Antifa's probably lying about everything.
00:03:14.000They've already lied about a ton of it.
00:03:15.000So it seems like things are getting, you know, pretty serious.
00:03:18.000Not to mention what's going on in Canada with the freezing of people's bank accounts and a vote to basically make the emergency powers permanent.
00:03:43.000I'm lucky I'm giving New York a second chance at electing me as I'm running for governor of New York on both the Libertarian line and the Forward Party line.
00:03:51.000And I hope also the Unite line to create an actual coalition against the establishment to make something happen.
00:03:56.000So I'm hoping that we can make that happen.
00:04:00.000Not to mention, there's a whole bunch of really interesting stuff to talk about as it pertains to domestic policy, taxes, a lot of stuff we were talking about before the show, so we'll get into all that.
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00:06:50.000Putin orders Russian peacekeeping operations in eastern Ukraine.
00:06:55.000The latest in a decree recognizing the independence of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic, Putin ordered the Russian military to conduct peacekeeping operations in the occupied Ukrainian territories.
00:07:08.000The separatists don't hold all the territory they claim, so recognition could swiftly evolve into war unless Russia limits its operations to the separatist-held areas.
00:07:17.000Analysts have also warned that Moscow could also use any attacks on its troops in eastern Ukraine, real or fabricated as a pretext for a broader war.
00:07:26.000The separatists declared independence in 2014 and have waged a low-scale war against Ukrainian forces since then, with military backing from Moscow.
00:07:34.000The fighting has escalated since Thursday, with Kiev accusing separatists of persistent shelling across the line of contact.
00:07:41.000I just want to point out though, I don't believe the corporate press.
00:07:47.000The US is typically run by establishment political warmongers who will lie to justify invading or triggering a war or whatever.
00:07:56.000There was a lot of reporting that Russia would seize Kiev and occupy and then hunt down supporters of the president, which is all just propaganda BS.
00:08:07.000You know, I mentioned in the intro, I have friends down there and they view this as Russia just building up an excuse to seize more territory in eastern Ukraine because they don't want Ukraine becoming a NATO force.
00:08:18.000They don't want NATO on their doorstep.
00:08:20.000But I don't know what to believe, to be completely honest.
00:08:22.000I certainly don't believe Vladimir Putin, but am I supposed to believe Joe Biden?
00:08:32.000As this was heating up, we got reports that at the Ukrainian embassy, they started destroying computers and data.
00:08:38.000Well, as most of us know, Joe Biden was criminally involved, at least I should say in my opinion, it was criminal, with Burisma and his son, getting $83,000 per month, being on the board of directors for a Ukrainian energy company.
00:08:50.000And then Joe Biden, quid pro quo, told the president, fire the prosecutor.
00:08:55.000The prosecutor was investigating this company.
00:08:58.000And then as soon as he's out, the guy who founds it comes back, It wasn't until Donald Trump came in, the guy fled the country again.
00:09:08.000Joe Biden was playing dirty with Ukraine, along with the rest of the Democrats, probably because they want to set up an oil pipeline going through Ukraine, the Qatar-Turkey pipeline.
00:09:18.000When Donald Trump was president, all this disappeared.
00:09:21.000For four years, there was nothing really going on here.
00:11:11.000And, you know, obviously people are already saying the title we used is, you know, because I mentioned the fears of it.
00:11:17.000Well, the challenge is, do I act like these articles based on my bias are all fake and just say that no one's really scared about, you know, if Russia moves into eastern Ukraine, will that be the distraction China needs to move in on Taiwan?
00:11:30.000Will China start using similar tactics on Taiwan?
00:12:04.000is gonna wag its finger, and I think it's like you're saying, Larry, I'd be willing to bet that Joe Biden and his people are sitting there and they're like, hey, this Russia stuff is fantastic news for us.
00:12:30.000But in reality, if there are any US troops there, and I doubt there will be, but if there are, it'll only be after they're sure it is a safe settlement.
00:12:37.000Like a North Korea, South Korea type thing, right?
00:12:39.000Where we know the odds of actual war are so slim, then we might put troops there, maybe.
00:18:24.000I'm thinking about World War II and how I would live my whole life like, oh, of course I would support the invasion of Nazi Germany and the, you know, the destruction of Nazi Germany or whatever.
00:18:34.000But like, now, today, it's kind of like we're looking at it again.
00:20:14.000NATO was a pact to stop the Soviet Union.
00:20:17.000When the Soviet Union fell, we should have removed ourselves from NATO.
00:20:21.000All NATO has done is started problems for us.
00:20:22.000I mean, you know, one thing I was saying earlier is why should any American care about what's happening on the eastern borders of Ukraine when our southern border is not a priority for this president or this administration?
00:20:33.000The idea that they would be sending U.S.
00:20:35.000troops to Eastern Europe for some threat of Russia, but not be willing to secure our own border is laughable.
00:20:40.000Well, there's two parts I want to bring up here.
00:22:36.000I got a feeling in Ukraine that the Russian is going to send peacekeepers in and then Americans are going to be funding the rebels for the next 20 years again and arming them.
00:22:45.000And then the rebels are going to become the villains when we're done with it.
00:22:48.000You know, I just want to say, man, Ukraine is amazing.
00:22:55.000I got to hang out in Kiev for several months.
00:22:58.000Amazing food, poverty wages, good people, beautiful cities, and absolutely horrible, you know, what we're seeing here, man.
00:23:07.000It was kind of crazy to see that this country, what was it, Luke was saying it was like the Afghanistan of Europe.
00:23:13.000I went for a walk when I was in Kiev with some co-workers and a friend.
00:23:18.000We were going to get food, and you can see buildings that still have bullet holes from World War II, I think it was, or whatever.
00:23:25.000When there was artillery firing, they just never repaired some of these.
00:23:30.000Inside it's fine, but outside you can see the scars of war.
00:23:33.000And it's kind of sad because these people are, you know, the people I met and hung out with are just good, hardworking people who want to just do their thing.
00:23:41.000But I think sometimes they want to keep their own purpose, right?
00:24:21.000And, you know, look, I understand if you've got a statue venerating the Confederacy or some of these people like the Klan or something.
00:24:28.000Okay, I get we don't want those statues up in the middle of a park or something, but you put them in a museum if you're going to remove them.
00:24:46.000As much as I'm not a fan of the statues either, I think it's important if we don't put up a plaque or have some remembrance of what that was and why it was there, you're doomed to repeat your history.
00:24:55.000I like the idea of just auctioning them all off.
00:25:03.000And then if you're some rich guy who cares about the heritage, which is often and common in most states in this world, right?
00:25:09.000The rich guys will spend 10% of the time, they will buy it, they'll move and they'll put it into their... and they'll donate it to the museum.
00:25:15.000But if you're some guy who really hates some cabinet general, and you want to tear a statue down, great!
00:25:20.000Get the people together, buy the statue and...
00:25:22.000Have a ceremony on your front lawn and destroy the damn thing.
00:25:24.000Look at this libertarian guy with a free market solution.
00:25:39.000One dead and five wounded in Portland shooting during protest in park.
00:25:43.000Authorities describe confrontation in Normandale Park between a homeowner and participants in police violence protest.
00:25:50.000I don't know how to feel about it, because the conflict itself, the fighting, the shooting, of course, is just outright bad.
00:25:58.000Regular people defying Antifa far leftists and saying, get out of my neighborhood, is people waking up to the crisis and refusing to, you know, refusing and rejecting it.
00:26:24.000We have a joke shirt that says, step on snack and find out.
00:26:26.000The reality is, I assure you, you don't want to find out.
00:26:30.000You know, the people who think that, you know, they would get into a conflict, have a good time of it.
00:26:34.000You don't want to be worried about your kids because you might think you're tough.
00:26:37.000You might think you're brave, but what about when it's your kid who's at home and these people are fighting in the streets?
00:26:42.000So stories like this, man, I like the idea that regular people are saying no to the far left.
00:26:46.000I don't like the idea that it's resulting in this, but I feel like this may be inevitable.
00:26:49.000So here's the story, just to give you a quick summary.
00:26:52.000These Antifa far leftists are doing their marches as they normally do.
00:26:55.000They were armed, reportedly, according to them and some, you know, other witnesses, I suppose, but I don't trust them.
00:27:02.000So what they said was, this guy comes up to him screaming at him, saying they're terrorists and they're the cause of all the violence, and that if they go near his house, he will shoot them.
00:27:11.000And then abruptly open-fired, shooting six people.
00:27:16.000One of them died, five are injured, and then they critically injured him.
00:27:20.000They then go on to claim to the press they were unarmed, yet this guy's critically wounded.
00:27:25.000They claim that he just attacked them.
00:27:28.000If I were to make, you know, my assessment based off what I know about the far-left extremists, these Antifa types, I'd say that, you know, look, there's a video of these guys pulling a guy out of his truck and beating him.
00:28:01.000So this kind of stuff gets scary, man, but I don't know what your thoughts on this are, Larry, because you mentioned you read Stephen Marsh's book on Civil War.
00:30:58.000And they are of the political faction that, for instance, in California tried to repeal their civil rights legislation from their own constitution.
00:31:06.000And they nearly succeeded in doing so.
00:31:08.000When that comes up, I just gotta say I'm sorry.
00:31:12.000There's no circumstance in which I negotiate with that person and say, we'll take away some of the civil rights protection.
00:32:01.000And then we now have an expansive force of people who have identified the problem.
00:32:06.000They've identified a certain thing as the problem that's not really their problem.
00:32:11.000They unfortunately will often side with the very establishment that has caused them these problems and led them down this path.
00:32:21.000Like you mentioned, you know, Hillary Clinton and all that stuff.
00:32:23.000Yeah, they'll come out and be like, we hate the Democrats!
00:32:26.000And then you'll get someone like ContraPoints, for instance, saying, but you have to vote for Joe Biden.
00:32:30.000I'm like, look, my thought on Donald Trump for 2020 was I can choose the ivory tower elites who gutted this country or the bull rampaging through the ivory tower.
00:36:10.000He hands me and my girlfriend a mask and I say, okay, we're literally three seconds from sitting down when a person at the counter goes, put the mask on.
00:36:18.000And I was like, I'm just going to sit down literally right here.
00:36:21.000And they were like, no, put the mask on.
00:36:49.000The people there just do as they're told.
00:36:52.000They have no interest in thinking about the problem, thinking about the policy, or thinking about how psychotic it was they were doing this.
00:36:58.000The only thing in their mind was, whether they like it or not, was adhere to the authority or get out.
00:37:04.000So when you have, I feel like the culture war and the crisis we're facing is, you know, types like Antifa, for instance, that are willing to go around with rifles and tell people you can't drive down this road anymore, chanting whose streets are our streets, forcing people off of public property.
00:37:19.000They want to use power against other people.
00:37:24.000I'd kind of like to mind my own business, which is why we're in the middle of nowhere with a bunch of chickens.
00:37:27.000Get away from everybody else, leave me alone, right?
00:37:29.000So I love the Liberty Movement stuff, but I do feel like, you know, the question that came up with Stephen was, these people won't... they want to rule over you.
00:37:41.000And so if you take the approach of, if only you just left me alone, they'll say, I will, and then they'll still try to impose their will on you.
00:37:48.000I suppose the quote is, when I am weak, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles.
00:37:54.000When I am strong, I deny you freedom because that's according to mine.
00:37:56.000And that's what we fear with these types of groups.
00:37:59.000Yeah, what I would argue is... I'm sorry.
00:38:00.000I'm just gonna ask, like, what is the libertarian approach to a mob that is equally authoritarian and unreasonable?
00:38:18.000So when I don't have purpose, when I feel without power, when I feel like I don't have anything to do, and all of a sudden the government says, your purpose is to make sure people wear marshmallows on their heads.
00:38:28.000You will go out of your way to make sure people are wearing marshmallows on their head.
00:39:18.000But the perfect storm was shutting everything down and creating a bunch of young men, particularly, but also young women who had no purpose.
00:39:25.000So they will go do whatever is required.
00:39:27.000My goal is to create more purpose for more people.
00:40:36.000Well, no, I mean, this is a business, right?
00:40:39.000Everyone's here working at their job, and all of a sudden they're told by someone else, oh, they did a mask mandate, so you don't want to get in trouble, better do as you're told, and they all say, okay.
00:40:47.000But you just put the point, you don't want to get in trouble.
00:41:41.000So you've got to be over there and you've got to be able to talk to that leader and get them to either acquiesce or look weak or stop or agree with you or in some way, shape or form to the group goes, Oh, you know what?
00:41:54.000Maybe I should be watching Netflix instead of being here.
00:41:57.000I want to tell you a story real quick that proves your point about whoever controls the mob, the person who yells the loudest is the person who controls the mob, and it's literal.
00:43:14.000It's supposed to be The Book of Five Scrolls, but they messed up the ring you use to put the scroll in, so they messed up in translating it.
00:43:20.000So it's actually The Book of Five Scrolls, and in the book he mentions the idea of fighting multiple enemies, right?
00:43:25.000And he talks about the idea of if you have a lot of enemies in front of you, don't be afraid.
00:44:35.000One of the battles in the Mexican War, I think that was the right one, where the officers were killed and the non-commissioned officers took over and still captured the city anyway.
00:44:43.000And from that, only E-4s and above get that red blood stripe.
00:44:47.000The Marine Corps teaches you that when the captain's shot, the hill still must be taken.
00:44:53.000Which is so when leaders get killed, Marines still step up and do the job.
00:45:21.000It is the Battle of Chapultepec in 1847.
00:45:28.000I still remember my Marine Corps history.
00:45:30.000I've been a Marine in 30 years, so I still remember my history.
00:45:35.000It was an E-4 that picked up the... No, it was a bunch of non-commissioned officers, E-4 and above, who basically picked up the issue and kept going.
00:45:42.000If you ever watch... I had my daughter and I watch the movie Full Metal Jacket.
00:45:47.000If you ever watch the part where they're ready to attack the city of Huey.
00:45:51.000And as they're moving into Way City, there's a bunch of explosions.
00:46:49.000It was, you know, don't kill the officers.
00:46:51.000Just kill the lowly people and then let the officers live because we don't want disorganized warfare.
00:46:56.000It's an insane thing to think that there was a time where people were like, we're going to war and I want you dead, but we'll be gentlemanly about it.
00:47:03.000Because you would capture the enemy Duke and then you'd sell them back for 10 times the money you would make with a peace deal or with a beheading and then their son becomes the Duke and hates you.
00:48:15.000Libertarian style with, with like the authority of governments, having control of the authority of government and being libertarian about it.
00:48:21.000That is one of the broadest questions I've ever had.
00:50:38.000In other words, government says we're doing something, so government should pay some crony, some friend that I have, to do the work with taxpayer money.
00:51:14.000So that's why they always create an office of this, an office of that, and they put $14 million towards it, $10 million towards it, because now my buddy and his son and daughter all get jobs now.
00:51:23.000And once you get your population dependent on government controlled healthcare, you never got to worry about losing power ever again.
00:51:29.000Do you think in like the age of, uh, fifth generational warfare, meme warfare and stuff that naming roads and bridges, corporate names is dangerous?
00:51:43.000And, and, and then the other thing is they already think at number one.
00:51:46.000And in many cases they are, I mean, Amazon is in heavy control already, but no matter what the person who's actually in control is the person who can arrest you.
00:51:54.000That's the person who's actually in control, right?
00:51:56.000Whoever can arrest you is actually in control.
00:53:03.000Then one day you're driving, and you hit a pothole on the Coke bridge, and you post on Twitter, these potholes on the Coke bridge are trash, I'm taking Pepsi.
00:53:10.000Coke's gonna be like, we gotta fix this bridge!
01:00:13.000This is candidate for Congress in New Jersey's second congressional district.
01:00:17.000I tried calling today to introduce myself.
01:00:19.000I'm a lifelong New Jersey and civil rights attorney with a 27 year long career in law enforcement, and I'm running for Congress to replace turncoat Jeff Van Drew.
01:02:10.000That's the point I was talking about earlier, which is, for every policy, you want to have a policy that is, you know, radical enough for someone to notice it, but familiar enough for someone to accept.
01:02:21.000So, regulate, oh, that's familiar, like onions.
01:02:43.000I really, I really felt bad for her, but I really, it was quite endearing when she was on the stage and she was like, I don't want to talk bad about people.
01:03:21.000But then I feel like, you know, like Bernie Sanders, like many of these other, you know, politicians, they decide to play ball at the establishment and walk into that.
01:03:41.000That is Larry Sharp with an E. And the E stands for electable.
01:03:45.000So you can check out larrysharpe.com and I've got all my policy there and it's most of it's been there for four years.
01:03:52.000I've just added some more recent policy because the state has gotten even worse.
01:03:56.000I've added the idea of a New York State currency, an idea of a stipend, a yearly stipend that comes out of New York State.
01:04:02.000I've added all the different type of ideas but what Yang agrees with completely and me agree completely is third party is the only way to save the country.
01:04:12.000I don't even like saying third, because I want more.
01:04:15.000Yes, more parties, but at least one, right?
01:04:18.000It is so hard in some, if you're a Democrat or Republican, you may not know this, but
01:04:22.000your party actively uses your money to sue, to throw people off the ballot.
01:04:29.000They go out of their way to get judges to remove your choice so it can remove your voice.
01:04:47.000So the parties pick the voters with gerrymandering to make their decisions on who gets what, controlled opposition and then non, and then those who are in charge.
01:04:54.000Then the parties pick the leaders, so no voting in the primary, and then gerrymandering ensures they win.
01:05:01.000So they're appointing all of these leaders and begging you for money if there's a chance that someone's going to lose.
01:05:07.000Most of the people who are begging you for money know already who's going to win.
01:05:11.000They just want you to give them money so they can keep raising money.
01:07:29.000So that people can vote in different, if I'm not part of a party, I can still decide what matters to me.
01:07:34.000So say I'm usually a Democrat, I'm usually a Republican, but in this specific race, nobody in my party that it's running is worth anything.
01:07:41.000So I want to vote for the Democrat this time, or I want to vote for Libertarian this time.
01:07:44.000So I have a chance of doing so in the primaries.
01:07:46.000So ballot access, ranked choice voting, open primaries, that will change the country.
01:09:03.000I mean, I understand why they did it in the past because a lot of people weren't born in America.
01:09:07.000We had so much immigration, they worried about people coming over and royalty coming over and taking over and making American royalty in the 1700s, 1800s.
01:09:14.000I'm not sure now, to be honest with you.
01:09:16.000Would it be terrible for, you know, someone like, you know, an immigrant who's come over and learned the American dream to become president?
01:09:29.000No, I still agree with it, but I think the issue is it's a safety measure against people who don't understand our culture, our values, our principles.
01:09:38.000Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be working too well because we had Joe Biden in office.
01:09:41.000Sure, but that's because there is a malignancy growing within this country that opposes what the United States is and always has been, and is seeking to supplant it, and it's been growing exponentially over the past 10 years.
01:09:57.000I'm hoping you can call this bro program, the brogram.
01:09:59.000I don't know, is that a... The brogram, I'm so stealing that, I'm calling it from now on.
01:10:03.000It's kind of cliche, it might play, worth running through focus groups.
01:10:26.000And so we have a very interesting problem.
01:10:30.000I've often said I have infinitely more respect for illegal immigrants who are risking life and limb traveling through Mexico to try and come to the United States because there is a dream of opportunity.
01:10:41.000I have more respect for them than I do the woke leftists who are like America is inherently evil and all of that stuff.
01:10:46.000The problem is They're both not representing or understanding.
01:10:51.000I mean, certainly, I think one ideal is better than the other.
01:10:54.000That America is great is better than saying America is bad.
01:10:57.000But we need people who understand what it took to make sure the country was great.
01:11:01.000The freedoms, liberties, that allow people to prosper.
01:11:05.000Otherwise, you end up with people coming here and being like, look, I don't care, I got mine.
01:11:09.000You end up with people being born here saying, I'm not getting mine, so I'll take it.
01:11:13.000And that's, it's a malignancy I think that's growing in this country and it's displacing the people who are like, you know, I won't forget the men who died who, you know, made this land free or whatever the line is, right?
01:11:24.000I'm not sure that native-born Americans are any more or less patriotic to be fair.
01:14:25.000I think the symbols thing is very apt, very accurate, because I've often brought up why, you know, I think this country is so important.
01:14:33.000We have a variety of different ethnic backgrounds, religions, and the one thing that we all have in common is that we're Americans.
01:14:41.000And that's why I very much despise the critical race theorists and their ideologies that segregate based on race, want us all to focus on races and identities, because You can't really tell.
01:14:53.000I mean, the issue for me is obvious, and I've brought it up, you know, with the audience very often, but having someone decide for you what you should be allowed to do based on your race, and then separating people, I'm like, no, no, we're all Americans here.
01:15:37.000Unfortunately now, whether it's because of social media or universities, there is a growing conflict with a lot of people who don't believe in the flag.
01:18:46.000We created a Safe Act where basically what it said was, you are about a million New Yorkers who legally purchased your firearm, now you are violent felons.
01:18:55.000Because if you have a firearm violation in New York State, by default it's violent whether you do anything with that firearm or not.
01:19:01.000It made literally plastic pieces that go on your firearm illegal.
01:19:05.000It created a black market in ammunition, a black market in firearms, making law enforcement's job even harder.
01:19:11.000It made sure that people who have a smaller stature can't get accessories to be able to use firearms well.
01:19:17.000And it made sure that veterans knew that if they got reported, that they would lose their firearms.
01:19:22.000So it made veterans with PTSD and TBI issues not report anymore.
01:19:26.000It created a secret state police in that now our medical personnel have to report if there's any problem.
01:19:31.000This actually happened, I think it was Rochester, where a guy comes in after a car accident.
01:19:35.000The nurse says, oh my god, how are you feeling?
01:19:36.000He goes, I feel so bad, I want to die.
01:19:59.000To the point where if you take your legally purchased firearm, and you follow every TSA guideline, it is unlocked, I'm sorry, it's locked up and unloaded, and you follow every TSA guideline, you bring that firearm into New York City, you are going to Rikers Island.
01:20:15.000Yes, the most violent jail in the country, you are going there, whether you are male or female, with or without kids, that's happened more than once.
01:20:22.000Luke was, I think it was Luke who was telling this, Luke Rutkowski of We Are Change, saying that there are stories where people will be traveling through New York, and it's for like maybe an international flight or somewhere, they'll have a legal gun, it'll be in a legal case, locked, no ammunition, magazine removed or whatever.
01:20:42.000They'll check it in their legal state, and that New York City has cops waiting, knowing when you have a gun, and they wait for you to put your hand on the bag, and the moment you do, they walk up and arrest you for illegal possession.
01:22:25.000So I'm going to change it to a shall issue.
01:22:27.000If they don't issue your permit in 90 days, they have 90 day waiting period that they can check you out, do whatever they want to do within 90 days.
01:23:12.000So I wanna, again, familiar enough, but radical enough.
01:23:16.000We already, right now, officially we're on 90 days, but what they do is they always say we don't have enough people, we don't have enough bodies, and we're a May issue anyway.
01:24:22.000Like one guy, I think it was like an accountant and he has like a Twitter account where he talks about, I was a Marine and they made me lock my gun in a locker.
01:24:27.000And it's like, dude, you were an accountant.
01:24:28.000But anyway, here's what I want people to understand about Maryland and New Jersey, as I was told.
01:24:35.000So when I was in New Jersey, I was like, I want to buy a gun because we had an issue.
01:24:40.000Someone tried breaking in the house and stuff like that.
01:24:43.000And I was told New Jersey is a may-issue state, but it's actually a no-issue, meaning any person who applies for a concealed carry permit, because you can't open carry at all.
01:26:32.000They just go, well, no guns because I don't want people to be shot.
01:26:35.000Many of them are good people who just don't know what guns do, don't know the value of them, and just go, I don't like guns because scary.
01:26:43.000So we have to turn them and show them that there are times when a firearm is a very good idea.
01:26:48.000An example I will often give is something like, let's say you're a small statured woman and you have a large statured boyfriend who has beaten you and now he goes away to jail and now he's out.
01:27:01.000And you'd like to have a firearm to protect yourself.
01:27:03.000Now, I'm not saying you should, but maybe you want to.
01:28:35.000So when you're walking and you'll need to show us, you know, clear the chamber, and then show us the magazine, put it in, and then you can come in.
01:29:03.000My concern with guns in New York City, maybe you guys can talk me through this, is that what if like groups of kids or young people all are armed and then they get into a fight and it's like, well, he provoked it.
01:30:39.000One of the reasons why these shootouts happen is because oftentimes these fights break out, people, they know no one else is armed.
01:30:46.000There's no risk to them when they are breaking the law with a weapon they know no one else can have.
01:30:51.000So it's kind of like, you've created a system in a city like New York or Chicago, where people who don't care to go to prison, because they have gangs in the prisons, they can operate there, same as any other place.
01:31:03.000I know, I've met a lot of people who, the attitude on the South side of Chicago was always like, I haven't gone to jail yet.
01:34:26.000Hitting someone with a handgun is not easy, even at close ranges.
01:34:31.000If this person was not able to have the weapon, if he decided to go with a knife instead, we'd be dealing with an assassination, not an attempted assassination.
01:34:41.000He walked in, they said, how can we help you?
01:34:44.000And there's a lot of mistakes people make when they're first getting started with handguns and they don't know how to use one.
01:34:50.000Mistakes that I'm not good with handgun at all.
01:34:52.000So one of the mistakes people make is that when they're pulling the trigger, they pull their hand, causing the barrel to point in the wrong direction.
01:34:58.000They think they're pointing it, but they squeeze and they point to the side.
01:35:00.000So all that happened was the bullet grazed.
01:35:03.000If that guy had a knife or a machete and he walked in and walked up to the guy and then just pulled it out, knives can be way more dangerous in different circumstances.
01:35:12.000It's the funny thing when people make that joke, bringing a knife to a gunfight, and it's like, depending on the range, a knife is more deadly.
01:35:52.000The thing to remember with any type of school shooting or mass killing like this, it is not, while it's a murder, it's actually a public suicide.
01:39:19.000I don't know if we're quite at the point where Timcast.com can be funding war correspondence, to be completely honest, but we'd certainly love to.
01:39:27.000We are working on a plan for following the U.S.
01:39:29.000Freedom Convoy, so we can have someone there documenting it.
01:42:09.000I think when this guy said in the 80s or the 90s the United States would be in there is like I had this thought last night like at what point are we gonna step in and stop a fascist I don't see the trucker here in the U.S.
01:42:18.000a dictatorship. That's our job. That's the whole point of the United States is we prevent
01:42:22.000that and for them not to even say anything about what Trudeau just did. Maybe I'm maybe
01:42:26.000I've got the wrong perspective and it's I don't have enough info, but it feels like
01:42:30.000they're going to do that here now for these truckers. They're going to come down with
01:42:33.000a hard boot. They're prepared and throw all these guys in solitary. That's terrifying.
01:42:38.000I don't I don't see the trucker here in in in US. I don't see that truck convoy working.
01:43:21.000We can't just assume they're going to be like, we've not thought about any of that stuff.
01:43:23.000Yeah, I don't want to be the no-don't guy.
01:43:25.000No, I think they're probably going to be like, I'm willing to bet the Freedom Convoy's got plans for all this stuff.
01:43:31.000And for the most part, it's symbolic protest, non-violent, peaceful, non-violent civil disobedience.
01:43:37.000I'm sure many of the truckers are like, We're going to pull our trucks up, the cops are going to come and arrest in tow, and we're going to make our point.
01:44:02.000For all we know, they're sitting back with their feet up like, y'all ain't seen nothing.
01:44:06.000Yeah, if they really wanted to destroy the economy, they could do it subtly, where you don't know, they're not hitting their mark on accident every day.
01:44:13.000I don't think the truckers want to destroy the economy.
01:44:14.000I don't think they want to destroy the economy.
01:44:15.000They're making a point with a protest that happens to be detrimental to the economy, but that's not the focus is to disrupt the economy.
01:44:25.000If they actually were to somehow insinuate, okay, if you stop this convoy, there's a whole bunch of truckers going to stop working tomorrow.
01:44:34.000If the truckers stop working, this country's in trouble.
01:44:37.000We do not have an infrastructure that isn't road-based.
01:44:40.000Our infrastructure is road-based in every way, shape and form.
01:44:44.000So if the truckers don't move stuff, stuff doesn't get moved.
01:46:57.000Zero Beat says, correction, it was the House of Commons, not Parliament, the House of Commons, they're the ones who passed the emergency powers.
01:47:05.000I loved it because we had, when we had Stephen Marsh here from, you know, he wrote that book, The Next Civil War.
01:47:10.000He said, well, we have martial law in Canada now.
01:47:14.000They can just freeze your bank account without a court order.
01:47:16.000And I'm like, well, you know, we agree that's a problem, right?
01:47:18.000He's not a fan of the trucker convoy, but he certainly, when you get people who are opposed to the trucker convoy, To a certain degree, I think.
01:47:25.000I don't think he's like a, you know, I don't think he's, I don't want to say he's like ardently opposed to it.
01:47:29.000He's probably just like, I don't like these guys, you know, but when he comes out and he's like, wow, martial law over this, you know, you got a government problem.
01:48:54.000Because you got a bouncy castle and little kids playing and there's like little dogs and people are just walking around smiling and shaking hands.
01:49:00.000What they're doing with these convoys is they're basically saying, this is our statement of no confidence.
01:49:08.000And boy, does the media try and lie, but it just doesn't stick.
01:49:11.000Because If you don't have substance behind what you're saying, at least a little bit, then the people are just not willing to listen to your BS.
01:49:20.000I've seen these videos where there's a guy banging a pot in a pan, and it's being shared by all these establishment activists and journalists, and they were trying to insinuate violence, and I'm like, yo, it's people arguing.
01:51:21.000But the real challenge is when you have two parent factions that don't speak the same language.
01:51:28.000And the worst thing is, In the culture war in the US, and in Europe, you know, Canada and the UK, we speak a similar enough language to where we think we know what they're saying, but words mean different things.
01:54:42.000And he's trying his best to deal with right-to-repair.
01:54:45.000And right-to-repair is a very tough issue, right?
01:54:47.000Because what happens is you now have a piece of property that you purchased, but the software that runs the property is now owned by somebody else.
01:54:56.000So then if you want to fix the thing, they go, no, no, no, no.
01:56:06.000I live in a state that believes, by every poll you can find, that most New Yorkers want more gun control, not less. Even upstate? Not upstate.
01:56:14.000But again, most of the population is in the cities, right? People always say it's New York
01:56:18.000City. It is. It's also Rochester, Syracuse, Utica, Buffalo. All the cities are blue. They all
01:56:23.000hate guns. And they're all violent, which is insane, but that's just what it is. So I have to
01:58:25.000And I think that's why you have an argument.
01:58:26.000I'm not saying it's absolute, but I'm thinking any given thing that has a realistic possibility of having mass killing, I think you can have an argument to decide, is this the thing?
01:59:02.000But keeping and bearing arms is different from... So, like, speech is somewhat nebulous in that respect.
01:59:08.000But there are people who are free speech absolutists that say speech is not action.
01:59:11.000And I'm not that. I think if you're actively threatening people and you're making people
01:59:17.000feel like you're actually going to hurt them or kill them, that to me isn't free speech. Particularly
01:59:21.000if you're someone who is physically in some way smaller or what the case may be, I think there
01:59:26.000is a point where you go, yeah, that's not, no, threatening is not an answer.
01:59:31.000I disagree because right now we have a large political faction in this country that says words are violence, even if you don't actually threaten them.
01:59:39.000You could say something like, I think X group is bad, and they'll say, that was a threat, that's violence, and you're making me unsafe.
01:59:45.000So what, and I'm not allowed to say that?
02:01:02.000What was the right to keep and bear arms?
02:01:04.000It was the Founding Fathers' intent for you to have the same capabilities as government in terms of warfare so that you could both aid and resist.
02:01:12.000You could aid the government in times of war should we be invaded, and you could resist the invasions or tyranny.
02:01:26.000What if I were to take that warship and park it outside your home that happens to be on the coast, point the cannon at your home, And then start yelling, I'm going to blow your home to pieces.
02:01:40.000I'm going to blow your home to pieces.
02:01:41.000And I just start yelling that for, I don't know, me and my boys yell for weeks on end.
02:02:25.000The intent was that you could meet at a local bar and talk about how you think the government is tyrannical.
02:02:30.000And that you couldn't be arrested for doing so.
02:02:33.000Now, Second Amendment was literally about keeping and bearing arms, period.
02:02:38.000I understand the quest to interpret the First Amendment to better understand what we're doing with it, and there's a challenge there because, you know, if you play that game of threatening isn't allowed, well then people can change the definition of threatening.
02:02:51.000Well, the Second Amendment is mostly about defense.
02:03:07.000Preemptive war is wrong, and if you walk up to someone and punch them in the face out of fear they were going to punch you, you commit a crime.
02:03:12.000So, like, a nuclear bomb is not a defensive weapon.
02:03:16.000So why they wouldn't be covered under the Second Amendment?
02:03:57.000And in America, if you buy a gun and then use it as an offensive tool against another person, you go to prison.
02:04:04.000If you are minding your own business and being a law-abiding citizen and someone uses that gun against you and you defend yourself with it, you don't.
02:04:09.000Well, actually, sometimes you do, depending on the state.
02:04:11.000In New York State, you can go to prison.