A special counsel has been appointed to investigate Joe Biden's handling of classified documents, Democrats are being warned about fake Russian bots, and censorship, and we have some special guests to talk about all that and much more!
00:00:52.000And he was asked about this and he just said, oh, it's locked in my garage next to my Corvette.
00:00:57.000And then everyone pulled up this old video where his garage is very flimsily secured, if at all, from a thin little garage door and you can see just a big stack of boxes where people are assuming that's probably where it was.
00:01:07.000Well, according to all of the hit pieces we saw against Trump going back for the past several months, well this means that Joe Biden has to forfeit his office because he had classified documents from when he wasn't president.
00:01:21.000A special counsel is being appointed, and I'm not convinced anything will actually happen.
00:01:25.000Unless you believe the conspiracy theories, they think this is how the Democrats actually get rid of Biden, bring in Kamala Harris, and then prepare for a better 2024 or something like that.
00:01:34.000We'll talk about that, plus we got some Twitter files revelations.
00:01:41.000Democrats are being warned about fake Russian bots, plus censorship, and we've got some special guests who are going to be talking about censorship, which I think will be particularly interesting.
00:01:49.000And then I really want to talk about Illinois' gun ban, because this one's fascinating.
00:01:52.000Illinois is banning assault weapons, as they describe it, but local sheriffs are saying they won't do it, and they're being threatened with removal from their jobs.
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00:03:00.000But I think it's important to kind of communicate and talk to people you disagree with politically.
00:03:06.000We created a podcast, Crash and Chaos Dismantling Division, and we interview people that we disagree with and just talk about daily stuff and just try and get along and usually it works out.
00:03:58.000It's hard to tell if they actually thought we were doing what they said we were doing, which was buying our accounts and buying engagement.
00:04:05.000And we proved to them that we weren't.
00:04:07.000We showed them the emails of when we purchased the accounts.
00:04:10.000When we purchased the accounts, not purchased the accounts.
00:04:13.000When we registered the accounts, yeah.
00:04:17.000No, we didn't actually buy our accounts.
00:04:21.000And it came at a time when Twitter was banning a lot of conservatives, of course, and I kind of felt like maybe they used us as an example.
00:04:47.000And I don't know about you guys, but with the way that things are going, I think I'm going to be voting in Brandon for the next upcoming presidential election.
00:04:55.000And that's why I'm wearing my Let's Go Brandon 2024 shirt.
00:05:51.000Let's jump into this first story from APnews.com.
00:05:54.000Garland appoints special counsel to investigate Biden docs.
00:05:59.000Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday appointed a special counsel to investigate the presence of classified documents found at President Joe Biden's home in Wilmington, Delaware, and at an unsecured office in Washington dating from his time as Vice President.
00:06:13.000attorney appointed by former President Donald Trump, will lead the investigation and plans to begin his work soon.
00:06:18.000His appointment marks the second time in a few months that Garland has appointed a special counsel, an extraordinary fact that reflects the Justice Department's efforts to independently conduct high-profile probes in an exceedingly heated political environment.
00:06:31.000Both of those investigations, the early one involving Trump and documents recovered from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, relate to the handling of classified information, though there are notable differences between those cases.
00:06:41.000I love how the media really, really wants to make sure everybody knows there's notable differences, but they don't ever quite bring up the fact that PolitiFact ran this story.
00:06:49.000Quote, the minute the president speaks about it to someone, he has the ability to declassify anything at any time without any process.
00:07:09.000You know, like, I don't think the issues, at least from what we see with the search warrant, wasn't classification.
00:07:17.000I think the issue was the fact that he, A, obstructed the investigation, allegedly, and B, the espionage act which says you can't have defense documents in your possession when the government needs them.
00:07:33.000So I don't think that's what they're trying to get him on.
00:07:38.000Yeah, I don't think they're trying to get him on the classification issue.
00:07:41.000Maybe that changes, but from what I've Red, I think they're going after him because he basically had government documents.
00:07:48.000I think one of the big challenges with the Trump thing is that we've heard from the Trump side of things and from early reports that they were cooperating, that they did let them come in and it was actually the FBI's own lock.
00:08:01.000So the FBI comes in and says, hey, you have these documents, just make sure you lock them up.
00:08:47.000And they go back and forth, back and forth.
00:08:50.000And apparently National Archives wasn't satisfied with how Trump's team was cooperating.
00:08:57.000So they got a grand jury subpoena In the spring, they visited Mar-a-Lago and Trump's team allowed them to search the basement, I believe, the basement storage room, and they came out there with more documents.
00:09:13.000The lawyer signs a declaration saying, we've searched the entire place, no more documents are here.
00:09:22.000But I suppose the issue is the president has plenary declassification powers.
00:09:28.000As the president, he is the end-all be-all of what is classified or what isn't.
00:09:31.000Yeah, but you also got to look at like, what's the damage to the country?
00:09:35.000So like, is he taking compartmentalized documents that there's one copy of that somebody else in government now, maybe in the Biden administration, might need for whatever they're working on?
00:10:05.000But that'd be really, really bad outside of Trump just having them because what are we doing not having important copies?
00:10:11.000But that still doesn't answer the question of So the reason the president can declassify anything instantly is because, imagine he's negotiating with Vladimir Putin to like, get out of Ukraine.
00:10:20.000And then he has to go there and be like, well, you know, I would negotiate on troop positioning in Poland or whatever, but it's classified so I can't tell you about it.
00:10:41.000So outside of that, I can certainly understand an argument of like, the greater good, like whether or not Trump has the power to do it.
00:10:47.000You know, maybe we should get those documents back, but then why pursue a criminal investigation?
00:10:51.000And then you get the media coming out and saying Trump is under criminal investigation, but Joe Biden, his documents are facing a special counsel.
00:11:01.000I think with Trump though, I don't think he was under criminal investigation until he didn't turn over the documents that the National Archives wanted.
00:11:10.000Well, he does if the government says they're their documents.
00:11:13.000Even if they're not classified, he still has to turn them over if the National Archives says these are government documents, we need them back, they're not your personal documents.
00:11:23.000I suppose I can understand the argument you're making that they're property of, but that's an argument where we'd have to actually look and determine whether or not he made copies of these documents.
00:11:33.000But my understanding was that he has copies of them as the president, and some of the documents were like his presidential briefings and stuff like that, which if he can declassify, then he can have.
00:11:42.000But at any rate, if that was the case, pursuing criminal charges because he's like, I disagree on whether you own this piece of paper is kind of...
00:11:52.000Yeah, so you can't have copies of compartmentalized documents.
00:11:56.000So like classified documents there could be multiple copies and several people could have them, but if they're compartmentalized there's only usually one copy as far as I understand.
00:12:05.000So if he had that he would have had to have taken it out of the compartment or wherever it's at and brought it back to Mar-a-Lago and then somebody else can't gain access to that.
00:12:15.000So there actually is only one copy as far as I know.
00:12:19.000Well, I guess we have to get into what all of the documents are.
00:12:24.000Yeah, and when were the documents taken?
00:12:26.000If they were taken after he was no—January 20th, when he was leaving the White House, maybe he was no longer president when he took office.
00:12:33.000So, you know, you need that information.
00:12:35.000And I'm pretty sure they have copy machines in Washington, D.C.
00:13:05.000I think this would have had an effect on the election, and I think this is why the DOJ has been politicized, because this is one clear example of it.
00:13:11.000And not just that, it's the Vice President and Hillary Clinton, and Secretary of State, Separate instances do not have the power of declassification.
00:13:20.000Well, so Biden having... The vice president does.
00:13:22.000So there was a 2003 executive order by George Bush, I believe.
00:13:28.000I believe Obama had another executive order in 2009, which says the vice president and the president can both classify documents.
00:13:37.000And the vice president can declassify documents that he classified.
00:13:42.000And Also, if he is deemed in a supervisory role over the agent who classified it, he can declassify it.
00:13:52.000So, I mean, if there are random documents, maybe he didn't have that.
00:13:56.000It depends what a supervisory role is, and I don't think there's really a clear definition of that.
00:14:01.000Is a vice president in the executive branch a supervisor of, you know, an agent in the CIA?
00:14:16.000A March 2003 executive order signed by George W. Bush empowered the vice president to classify sensitive materials.
00:14:22.000That same executive order grants declassification powers to quote the official who authorized the original classification or a supervisor official.
00:14:30.000Under the executive order, vice presidents are granted the power to declassify documents they classified themselves, but it's unclear if the vice president would be viewed as a supervisory official with the ability to declassify sensitive documents from the CIA and other intelligence agencies.
00:14:44.000I just think it's really convenient that we got probably 300 articles arguing that Donald Trump would have to forfeit any office or that he was disqualified for having classified documents, literally, not even the argument of I think it kind of depends on intent, right?
00:14:56.000It was like, if he had classified documents, he violated the records act or whatever.
00:15:00.000And then as soon as it happens with Joe Biden, then happens twice, all of a sudden there's
00:15:03.000a debate over, well, you know, actually the vice president, the president can declassify
00:15:24.000I mean, the documents were in boxes of random things like briefings and Time magazine clippings.
00:15:30.000It really does sound like in both instances of Biden and Trump, they had boxes of paperwork they just carried out not realizing what was in it.
00:15:36.000Yeah, I think until we see more information, you have to assume that he didn't intentionally do it, right?
00:15:44.000Neither of them intentionally did it, unless you have, you know, witnesses that saw him or heard him say, you know, no, we have to keep these.
00:15:51.000We don't want to turn them over to the National Archives because they're mine.
00:15:56.000The government shouldn't have a right to So, I think we have to hear the information that comes out, we have to see the evidence, and I guess we'll eventually see that.
00:16:06.000I don't know how long it's going to take.
00:16:08.000I'd like to repeal this executive order in the meantime.
00:16:10.000George Bush gave Dick Cheney way too much power.
00:16:13.000He let him put his Halliburton company in Iraq to make all this money, and this stupid, stupid rule that he gave the vice president with no command authority, the ability to classify and declassify info is insane.
00:16:23.000Well, Dick Cheney was pretty much the president.
00:16:25.000He's pretty much calling the shots here.
00:16:28.000But the little that we know about these classified documents, and I don't think we're going to learn more about them because the DOJ clearly is very political.
00:16:42.000But the few things that we do know is that they were related to Ukraine, to Iran and the United Kingdom.
00:16:48.000So these were specific documents dealing with Intelligence, foreign services, what's happening internationally.
00:16:55.000So I think with that context, especially with where they were located at a think tank that's connected to Chinese money, there is some possible questions here about what information was shared, who got it, especially with the big business ties between Ukraine and the Chinese government and the Bidens.
00:17:14.000I think there's a lot more room for a lot more corruption here.
00:17:18.000Especially with Biden being a career politician rather than Donald Trump, who's kind of been obfuscated away from politics and kind of pushed away from everybody.
00:17:31.000I think there should be a special counsel and there should be an investigation.
00:17:33.000So I think they're handling both Trump and Biden the correct way.
00:17:38.000Special counsels I mean, you can say that the DOJ is politicized, but it's an independent special counsel being appointed.
00:17:46.000I think he was actually appointed by Trump, this Herr guy.
00:17:51.000I think the Attorney General that's overseeing it in one of the jurisdictions was appointed by Trump, but I don't know about this special counsel guy, to be honest.
00:18:00.000I think Herr was a Trump nominee or Trump appointment.
00:18:07.000Yeah, so I think we just gotta wait and see, and I hope they investigate Biden just as rigorously as they're investigating Trump, and we figure this out.
00:18:18.000I don't think many Democrats disagree that we should figure out all the facts behind this, and it could be good, it could be bad.
00:18:25.000Whatever it is, I think it's important we know, right?
00:18:27.000I think at this point Democrats are probably excited for the prospect of getting rid of Biden and getting someone better for sure.
00:18:33.000Yeah, I mean, you've heard people saying that basically, it's like, here's how you get rid of the guy.
00:18:36.000Because apparently, he's playing on running again, he's already campaigning.
00:18:42.000And it's like, he's in a weak position.
00:18:43.000If it ends up being DeSantis against Biden, I don't think Biden wins.
00:18:47.000I agree that he's probably too old to run for a second term.
00:18:51.000I would love for the Democrats to nominate somebody that's younger.
00:18:55.000I think that if it was Trump-Biden, I think Biden would win.
00:18:59.000I think if it was DeSantis-Biden, I think Biden's going to have a difficult time.
00:19:07.000Just because I agree more with his views than my view.
00:19:12.000Well, I can certainly understand from like especially the culture war and all that stuff but What has Biden done or what are his views that you think are good or that are worth giving a second term to?
00:19:24.000I think he's done a lot, a lot of good.
00:19:27.000I think that, I mean, I could name several things.
00:19:30.000I think the CHIPS Act, which brought manufacturing of computer chips back to the United States.
00:19:35.000I think that's great for manufacturing here, but also great for, I think, our national security.
00:19:41.000The PACT Act with the burn pit thing, which he signed into law.
00:19:46.000The cap on senior prescription drug costs at $2,000.
00:20:12.000I thought there was an I. I don't know.
00:20:13.000Maybe there's an I. But, you know, I was saying, like, obviously, on a lot of core issues like health care, you know, rights of the workers, bringing jobs back, bringing chip manufacturing, like, we're going to... That's a good one, by the way.
00:20:29.000I was like, wait, there's an I in there.
00:20:32.000One of the issues I take, the most important thing, foreign policy.
00:20:36.000For me, I often go off on foreign policy, like we had a lot of Eliyahu, he's a reporter for us, and then we got into a yelling match because he's like, he called himself jokingly the resident neocon, because he was saying like, we should be at war in these countries, we should be stopping communism, we should be, it should be a unipolar world where the U.S.
00:20:55.000is in control, and my attitude is kind of like, okay, I get that, I understand why you'd argue that, But I'm pretty much against US intervention in all these countries, effectively invading countries to remove their government and their cultures and impose our own will and stuff like that.
00:21:10.000So when it comes to Joe Biden, you know, I've seen what Joe Biden did when he was vice president.
00:21:15.000And it was... I think corruption is an understatement, right?
00:21:20.000As soon as he gets put in charge of the war in Iraq, his brother gets lucrative contracts.
00:21:24.000We see the expansion of the wars in the Middle East under the Obama administration.
00:21:28.000We see the drone killings of children, which, okay, fine.
00:21:31.000That's, you know, that's on Barack Obama, like the killing of Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, but also other American citizens like Anwar al-Awlaki.
00:21:37.000Under Donald Trump, we certainly had some bad things.
00:21:39.000There's a commando raid in Yemen, which the people there claim killed an eight-year-old American girl.
00:22:49.000I want to expand on that because there's the proxy war in Ukraine, there's also expanded operations right now in Africa, there's limited operations in Syria, very limited covert ops in Libya, always a troop presence in Iraq still with fighting between the Sunni Shiites and the Iranians also getting involved there.
00:23:14.000A couple years ago, we were bombing places in the Philippines.
00:23:16.000I don't know if we're still doing that now.
00:23:40.000I don't think we should be dabbling in all these countries.
00:23:43.000I don't have a negative opinion on us helping Ukraine, though.
00:23:50.000I think that Given what's happening over there, I think we do need to help them, just so that Russia's aggression doesn't spread throughout the rest of Europe.
00:24:01.000I mean, I hate to see us supplying weapons that are killing people, but at the same time, I fear more what Russia would do if they went unchecked.
00:24:13.000Well, how do you feel about U.S.' 's direct involvement in Ukraine with our special forces on the ground?
00:24:21.000Well, that's happening right now, and also Ukrainian soldiers are being sent to Oklahoma in order to get specific American training.
00:24:27.000I also forgot one very important war, and that's the war in Yemen, which is still continuing right now.
00:24:33.000It's a larger proxy war between the United States and Saudi Arabian coalition, which is creating one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world right now.
00:24:40.000I think these issues do matter, and I think not a lot of people take them seriously because they happen outside of the United States, but I definitely think we definitely need more of a conversation about this because the war in Ukraine, it's a very dangerous situation.
00:24:52.000And I understand that, you know, a lot of people are vying for influence or vying for territory or vying for power, but I think it's clearer than ever, if you guys agree or disagree, that the United States and other Western powers like the United Kingdom have prevented peace deals, have prevented a stop to this larger proxy conflict and have prolonged it and are prolonging it by giving more weapons to it, making sure that it won't stop anytime soon, which I think is tragic for the people of Ukraine, tragic for the people in Europe, and also tragic for everyone else in the world as, of course, this larger proxy war is also creating a humanitarian crisis when it comes to energy resources, fertilizer, and affecting some of the poorest people in the world.
00:25:30.000Yeah, but a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine would require Ukraine to give Russia something that they didn't have before the war started, right?
00:25:39.000And I mean, when it comes to peace deals and negotiations, every side has to give something up.
00:25:44.000So Russia would give something up, Ukraine would give something up.
00:25:46.000I mean, we reached the point where even Henry Kissinger, an absolute war criminal, the butcher of Cambodia, is coming up publicly saying, guys, this is getting out of hand, we need a peace deal here.
00:25:56.000So when it comes to negotiations, both of the parties are going to have to concede on something.
00:26:01.000But it's hard to say, okay, you know, Russia should gain for invading Ukraine.
00:26:07.000Like, so if they agree to a peace deal now, what's to stop them from two months later saying, we're invading again and we're going to inch farther and we want another peace deal and we're going to do the same thing another two, you know, like, If you give Russia something, they're going to be like, we can get something.
00:26:24.000Well, that's what they would be saying on the other side, too.
00:26:27.000This is the perpetual prolonging of this conflict.
00:26:33.000But the first original peace deal that was actually sabotaged by the West was that Russia go back to its original territories before the war started.
00:26:43.000And then we had Boris Johnson come to Ukraine and said, no way you're agreeing to this specific peace deal.
00:26:49.000I mean, you're bringing up one parameter.
00:26:51.000If that's on the negotiation table, it at least should be negotiated.
00:26:54.000But we're even prevented from coming to the table and negotiating, which I think is absolutely crazy.
00:26:59.000And rooting for more war when there's so many things at stake here, when there's so many innocent lives being lost here, is just absolutely crazy, in my opinion.
00:27:05.000And this is my answer, you know, you were mentioning, like, you're concerned more about domestic policy, and I completely understand that.
00:27:11.000But how many years was it where flint pipes were not fixed, and these kids are getting, you know, there's like legionnaires in the older population, lead and other contaminants, and now we're learning in a bunch of different cities across this country.
00:27:22.000So that's why when AOC first announced the Green New Deal, when it was very rudimentary, when it was just like this idea of we're going to rebuild infrastructure and massively invest in renewable energies, I was 100% on board.
00:27:35.000Then she puts out this document where it's like, once we do away with air transport and farting cows, which I understand was a joke, but I was just like, I don't understand what free college for people of color has to do with fixing pipes in places like Flint.
00:27:49.000And the response I got from people, a lot of people on the left was, well, it's all tied to the same problem.
00:27:54.000And I'm like, no, no, it literally isn't.
00:27:55.000kids are drinking lead. And instead of spending the, you know, what is it, $30 million or
00:28:00.000however much it was going to cost to fix these pipes, we're blowing up people in foreign
00:28:04.000countries. And I think the reason we're doing it is because the U.S. will do anything to
00:28:09.000maintain the petrodollar, that the world reserve currency will stay the U.S. dollar. So we
00:28:15.000give money away to Pakistan for gender studies programs because it means they'll spend it.
00:28:20.000Because it means everyone will maintain confidence.
00:28:23.000So we neglect the things that are actually going on here at home.
00:28:38.000Offering up whatever they can to keep people placated while they actually siphon away the resources from the people in this country for the issues of blowing people up overseas.
00:28:47.000And more importantly, when it comes to Ukraine, my view of Ukraine is, to go back to what you were saying about Ukraine would have to give something up, I don't actually view it that way, and this is kind of a
00:28:55.000hard thing to say, because I have Ukrainian friends, and it's really difficult to talk
00:28:59.000to them about this, but Ukraine wouldn't be giving up anything because there is no Ukraine.
00:29:02.000There's a proxy land between Russia and the United States that's been there since the
00:29:05.000fall of the Soviet Union, and the US and Russia, or I should say NATO and Russia, have been
00:29:09.000playing dirty games in that territory.
00:29:12.000Russia regrets giving it up with the fall of the Soviet Union.
00:29:39.000Yes, many of the Ukrainians outright are like, we would rather be with the EU than Russia because we remember the Soviet Union and it was bad.
00:29:47.000But then the president gets removed, flees to Russia.
00:30:10.000starts putting its resources and assets into Ukraine, in the energy sector, notably Hunter Biden, as well as a former CIA director or something, working at Burisma.
00:30:18.000A prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, is then investigating Mykola Zachevsky, the founder of this company, For corruption, I think 12 to 14 different investigations.
00:30:27.000Joe Biden then flies there, says if you don't fire the prosecutor, you're not getting the billion dollars, which is an illegal quid pro quo.
00:30:35.000I'm not saying he did it to protect his son, but his son did work for the company, did make money from that.
00:30:39.000The investigations were happening, and it was illegal for him to do.
00:30:43.000Everything together and I'm just like, you know what I see?
00:30:45.000I see a guy, Joe Biden, who when he was the vice president was placed in charge of the war in Iraq and then immediately his brother got lucrative multi-million dollar contracts to build housing and other buildings and other construction in that country.
00:31:25.000Can we make sure these kids are getting clean drinking water?
00:31:27.000Can we stop blowing up people overseas?
00:31:29.000My view of this whole thing is that you've got a corrupt parasite class, like Joe Biden, And not just him, but many of the Republicans as well, and they just seek to extract as much as possible for themselves.
00:31:42.000And I think what they're probably doing at this point is transferring their resources to, like, Panama, because we learned that from the Panama Papers, so they can put it in holding, so that when the U.S.
00:31:50.000finally implodes because they've extracted everything they can, they're going to send it over to China, where state capitalism will favor them.
00:32:02.000I don't disagree that we should be concentrating more on America and what's happening in this country.
00:32:11.000A lot of your Joe Biden stuff I disagree with.
00:32:14.000I think that Victor Shokin was pretty much wanted to be—the whole Western world, our allies all wanted him ousted because he was a corrupt prosecutor and he wasn't actually prosecuting people he should have been prosecuting.
00:33:01.000Zlochevsky immediately returns to Ukraine to resume his work.
00:33:05.000And then when Trump gets in and starts poking around, Zlochevsky flees the country again.
00:33:10.000So I'm just I'm not going to believe this argument that, well, we really wanted him out when removing him actually helped the guy that was supposedly the corrupt guy in the first place.
00:33:20.000It just doesn't it doesn't make sense at all.
00:33:22.000I mean, you can come up, you can say, you know, Hunter Biden was working in Ukraine.
00:34:18.000wants to get cheaper energy into Europe.
00:34:21.000They want to strengthen the European Union with more energy, with more economic development, because they want a stronger bloc to compete with China.
00:34:35.000And when Syria was not willing to abide by this offer, I suppose, let's just call it convenient that there's a massive destabilization in the West is of course against Bashar al-Assad.
00:34:48.000Then when it comes to the fact that Gazprom runs I think 20% of natural gas through Ukraine, the US all of a sudden has this interest in getting rid of a corrupt prosecutor who happens to have like 12 to 14 investigations into the founder of an energy company where Joe Biden's son and a CIA director are currently on the board.
00:35:17.000I don't want China to rise and take over, and then we have Chinese state communism.
00:35:22.000But I also take a look at Joe Biden flying Hunter to China on Air Force Two for private equity deals, and I'm just like, I don't trust them at all on any of this.
00:35:29.000Yeah, like, I mean, I understand that.
00:35:30.000And I definitely think what you said is correct that the U.S.
00:35:34.000has A lot of interest in keeping the U.S.
00:35:36.000dollar value up because without it being up, we can lose ground to China and our other adversaries.
00:35:43.000But the whole, like, you know, I think they're right as quick to push this Joe Biden, Hunter Biden corruption thing.
00:35:53.000Like the 10% for the big guy, that deal, right?
00:36:13.000Things were kind of I mean over so he said that he'd never talked to his son about any of his business deals And then there's paying him with his son and his body That doesn't mean he had a business conversation with him.
00:36:25.000Maybe he went to bank accounts No, I'm saying with this with this guy.
00:36:30.000No, I know I know but like yeah, they share bank the and emails and text and phone numbers So it's just like come on, man Yeah, I mean, but... So you can jump to these conclusions that, yeah, since he said 10% for Big Guy, he was doing other deals, you know, since he got the... since he said Shogun should get fired, it was because Hunter was working for Burisma, and maybe that's the reason why, you know, there should be more... less...
00:36:53.000Children of presidents working in other countries.
00:36:57.000I mean you could say there are plenty of instances with Kushner and Ivanka and I mean what about the 666 Fifth Avenue deal in New York when Kushner couldn't get anybody to give him a lease and Qatar comes along right when Saudi Arabia is blockading Qatar and then Trump lifts the blockade as soon as Kushner gets the Sure.
00:37:19.000So, I mean, but there's no evidence that it's, they're two are linked,
00:37:22.000but you could definitely come up with ideas that there's corruption going on, right?
00:37:26.000I mean, I think the issue is, as it pertains to Biden or Trump,
00:37:31.000a fair point is, yeah, it's always a pick your poison, right?
00:37:35.000Donald Trump, I don't know exactly how this goes down.
00:37:38.000And again, a lot of this requires speculation, but I think there was a State Department website advertising Trump Doral or something like that.
00:37:44.000I don't know if you guys remember that.
00:37:54.000Trump wanted to have, I think, the G7 at Trump Doral in Florida.
00:37:57.000And then he got backlash and was like, no.
00:37:59.000I certainly think you see a lot of this kind of stuff.
00:38:02.000But I think when it came to Donald Trump, There was actually, despite much of his shortcomings, which I certainly think there are many of, crossing into North Korea, that was really big for me.
00:38:14.000The Abraham Accords, I think were really, really big.
00:38:16.000I certainly think there are questions.
00:38:17.000I think anybody who comes out and says that there's no, like, that, like, Trump, or anybody who says like, oh, the Bidens weren't really doing this, or the Trumps weren't really doing this, I'm gonna be like, dude, everybody's always gonna be thinking about themselves to a certain degree.
00:38:32.000So my issue is, after assessing all of the details, I take a look at the Biden family, and Biden Inc., as Politico magazine called it, I take a look at the history of this guy, his plagiarism, and the fortunes his families have tracked along with his positions in government, and it's just like, okay, this guy is just literally extracting from us.
00:38:51.000Donald Trump lost money becoming president.
00:39:23.000And you sold them all within like 20 minutes or so an hour?
00:39:25.000And that was like, you know, I don't know, man.
00:39:28.000I think he dropped in the predicted market by like 10 cents when he did that because it was like... I follow that too, yeah.
00:39:34.000I posted a picture of one of his supporters rotting in jail and him looking through the cell be like, hey, you guys want to buy some NFTs?
00:39:41.000So, I mean, talking about foreign policy here a little bit, there's corruption on both sides.
00:39:45.000I mean, Jared Kushner was negotiating better weapons deals for Saudi Arabia.
00:39:50.000All right, that's a lot of corruption there.
00:39:51.000With North Korea, John Bolton sabotaged any possibilities of peace talks by comparing North Korea, saying that they're going into the Libyan model of foreign policy.
00:40:00.000But again, you can always compare the two, but I think it's fair to say that The Biden presidency has a lot more room for corruption because he's a career politician.
00:40:16.000He has a lot more finagling room to do a lot of really bad stuff.
00:40:21.000From the beginning of his political career, he has been known as a man of the lobbyist.
00:40:25.000He has been giving a lot of special interest groups a lot of what they wanted, specifically the military-industrial complex, specifically Big Pharma, specifically a lot of the bigger agencies that are now coming in through the bigger problems that he caused, and especially in Afghanistan.
00:40:39.000China, huge winner out of all of that.
00:40:41.000They're gaining all the national resources from Afghanistan.
00:40:45.000Ukraine, BlackRock, is getting all the lucrative contracts to rebuild that entire country after we spent so much money bombing the crap out of it and causing so much chaos.
00:40:55.000This is why I think it's important to look at not just Trump, but Biden, but any person in power in a very critical light and criticize them to the highest degree.
00:41:03.000But do you guys agree or disagree with me when it comes to saying— Get rid of the Yeah, but do you guys agree that Biden has more room to be corrupted than Trump, who hasn't been in politics that long?
00:41:14.000I think that one of the appeals of Trump in 2016 was that he wasn't connected to lobbyists, and I can see that as an appeal, but I don't know if that necessarily means that he's not going to be Looking out for himself and his businesses.
00:41:31.000I think owning a bunch of businesses around the world and having those businesses profit, whether it's financially or from a standpoint of getting name recognition for those businesses, I think that that can lead to just as much corruption.
00:43:38.000I think we could hit a mild recession sometime in the next six or eight months.
00:43:43.000But ultimately, I don't think we're bad compared to the rest of the developed world.
00:43:48.000I think the United States is doing quite remarkable compared to some of these other countries.
00:43:53.000I was just going to say, Actually, I forget what I was going to say.
00:43:57.000I was going to say the market's rigged, the numbers are rigged, and if you go to the supermarket, inflation is not stagnating.
00:44:02.000It is hitting hard a lot of Americans, and a lot of people are dealing with record high energy prices, record high food prices, and the real inflation that the average American deals with, especially in the poor and middle class, is absolutely astronomical compared to everyone else.
00:44:15.000Well, I just want to say inflation from November to December has stagnated, according to the CPI data.
00:44:21.000So I believe it went up, what was it, 0.3%?
00:44:25.000But when you take out oil and volatile foods, it's actually down, I think, 0.1%.
00:44:31.000So we're actually in deflationary when you take those out.
00:45:02.000So, according to Civics right now, with 808,000 responses over the past 8 years, if you take a look at the latest developments from May of last year, 50% reported very bad.
00:45:17.000Currently, 40% say very bad, 28% say fairly bad, 26% say fairly good, 2% say very good.
00:46:29.000That's just adding all of this excess demand to the economy and now they have to pull back
00:46:34.000and when they pull back it's going to cost us jobs.
00:46:37.000So I think that yes, inflation is bad.
00:46:40.000I think if you take the United States economy, compare it to Europe, to Japan, to China even,
00:46:47.000I think we're doing remarkably better and I think that you've got to compare it because
00:46:53.000the situation we're in after COVID, I think the lockdowns affected things, the supply
00:46:58.000chain disruptions affected things, oil shocks from Russia, that affected things.
00:47:04.000I think that overall we're doing decent compared to the rest of the world I do very good it compared to the best I do think people need to recognize Donald Trump was the president when we were doing a lot of this inflationary policy stuff during COVID, like a lot of the stimulus stuff that was going on.
00:47:57.000It was like a UBI, personally, myself, based on my principles and values.
00:48:01.000I was like, that's a little bit too much for me.
00:48:03.000And I think just spending money and printing money out of thin air has brought us to this very irresponsible place where we are, what, $34 trillion in debt?
00:48:12.000That's not something we could get out of.
00:48:13.000That's something that Our children, children, children, childrens will be paying for if we're lucky, if the whole system doesn't crash, because we have essentially allowed some of the richest people in the world to enrich themselves while, of course, everyone else was screwed over.
00:48:27.000And when we look at the COVID years through the Trump years, he has allowed the largest transfer of wealth in recorded human history.
00:48:55.000We, you know, economics is, that's what's kind of fun about economics is that Everybody has different theories of what would happen, and you don't know until it actually does happen.
00:49:06.000You make a very good point here, but there's a lot of economists who are making the theory that if you prolong a depression or a recession, it's going to hit a lot harder.
00:49:15.000And I think our financial policy has been prolonging any kind of correction.
00:49:20.000And now, because of these fiscally irresponsible policies, when there is a correction, it's going to be hard, and it's going to be bad, and it's going to wipe out people instead of having the natural flow of the economy like there used to be, up and down, rates going up and down.
00:49:34.000This is going to conflate into a huge problem that's going to absolutely hurt so many people, and that's why I'm against it.
00:49:40.000I think it's good that rates are going up now, because you need that in your toolbox for when we do hit a You know, an epic disaster.
00:49:48.000It would have been good to have that tool when COVID hit so that we didn't need to have as much money being pumped in through fiscal policy.
00:49:58.000But we didn't have that tool unless we went to negative rates, which would, you know, I don't think anybody's supporting negative rates right now.
00:50:04.000Actually, Trump supported negative rates at the time.
00:50:08.000But no, I do think that we're headed towards a cliff at some point, whether it's in Three years or 30 years, I don't know when that's gonna be, but it's obviously not sustainable to have this debt and something needs to be done.
00:50:24.000Yes, it's not monetary, it's not MM, not modern monetary policy as prescribed by the definition of the term, which is you print massive amounts of money and then you invest it in infrastructure to rebuild capital so that it overcomes your debt.
00:50:35.000This is, they just printed massive amounts of money and put it in people's bank accounts.
00:50:38.000There's no industry being created with it, so it's not modern monetary policy.
00:50:42.000Yeah, the Federal Reserve went to BlackRock.
00:51:07.000I think if you could go either direction, top or bottom, but as long as there's industry being created, like if the money's being spent on groceries, it's not moderate.
00:51:14.000It's not monetarily, fiscally possible.
00:51:16.000It's just pure debt that people eat, get fat.
00:51:19.000But here's one of the issues I have with the Fed giving all this money to BlackRock and these big companies is ESG.
00:53:30.000The government gets involved, or some kind of ideological entity gets involved, and then punishes people, takes away their ability to operate their business unless they do things like fire their white board member and put a black woman as a board member.
00:53:45.000I don't see how that's actually solving any problems or making anyone's life better other than actually creating racial animosity, destroying industries, and my view actually is if they start destroying these companies, they're actually going to make the issue of pollution worse.
00:54:00.000It's going to result in people with like disheveled, broken down, disgusting houses, an inability to properly maintain a building, meaning You're going to get metals leaching into the water.
00:54:10.000It's going to create pollution problems.
00:54:12.000The economy isn't just, can we build a house?
00:54:14.000It's, can we properly remove wastes, recycle wastes, innovate ways to solve these problems?
00:54:20.000And destroying these industries, in my opinion, will probably result in us just piling up waste and living in filth.
00:54:24.000And then you're going to get people who are going to be angry about the race stuff.
00:54:29.000That's where it comes to, you know, the financial policy of giving money to these big corporations like BlackRock in order to buy a property.
00:55:09.000I think that politicians on the right, and not everybody, I think that they should focus on other issues rather than some of the issues they've been focusing on, whether it is the LGBT community, all of that stuff.
00:55:32.000So, if you go back in time, I'll simplify this way before I get into it.
00:55:38.000I know what the general definition of woke is, and it has to do with inequality and stuff like that, but is that how the rite generally refers to it?
00:55:48.000So, when you think you're enlightened, but you're not?
00:55:51.000The simple definition, colloquially for the right, is an ideological cult with no clear aims or goals masquerading as a social justice movement, is one simple way to define it.
00:56:03.000The harder way to break it down is, going back in time, the culture war starts with intersectional feminism.
00:56:11.000It then evolves into the greater critical race theory, which then starts adopting elements of critical gender theory, and now has become this big amalgam of all of these.
00:56:22.000They're not necessarily all Marxist derivatives, but into a certain degree they are.
00:56:28.000And the way I see it, If I was talking to somebody who already understood and agreed with me, I'd define it as fire.
00:56:38.000Something that's just consuming and destroying and eventually will wipe us all out.
00:56:43.000It's not so simple as to be like, it's just something that makes someone happy.
00:56:47.000No, it's quite literally like, they say that, a simple example, and they're all grains of sand making a heap.
00:57:05.000So I mean, my point is like, you end up with issues where people are getting banned from Twitter because they said, okay, dude, and this person is no longer allowed.
00:57:17.000Zuby got suspended from Twitter because the person identified as something else.
00:57:21.000And he wasn't misgendering, he was having an argument, and they said something like, okay dude, like he was... Yeah, I mean, I think that's too far.
00:57:29.000But this has been too far for 10 years.
00:57:31.000And it's getting to the point now where, you know, it starts with saying things like, hey, you know, we shouldn't be censoring people because they have these opinions, and then it leads us to, Hunter Biden's laptop is leaked.
00:57:42.000It's got damning videos and information that implicates Joe and Hunter Biden, whether they're guilty or not, implicates.
00:57:49.000And multiple polls have come out showing that if the American public had been made aware of the information on that laptop, I think it's between 6 and 7 percent said they would not have voted for Joe Biden.
00:58:00.000Theoretically, that would mean that Donald Trump was president.
00:58:04.000And so that means that all of these issues we've been concerned about with the hate speech rhetoric,
00:58:09.000which is like the idea that we should ban hate speech, is all a component of wokeness.
00:58:12.000Twitter then implements policies based on this. Twitter then uses that for political advantages.
00:58:19.000And now we know for a fact that for the most part, it was Democrats leaning on Twitter for favors.
00:58:25.000Republicans did sometimes as well. But because the Twitter staff was overwhelmingly San Francisco
00:58:30.000liberals, Democrats were—and in government too, like the Biden administration actively
00:58:35.000are using the private sector as a weapon against their political opponents.
00:58:40.000And what we view as wokeness is now just like, you can say woke or you say red-pilled,
00:58:44.000you can say left or right. We're seeing a total bifurcation of our culture.
00:58:48.000So, the interesting thing is, I've always been fairly liberal, in the literal traditional liberal sense, growing up in a democrat city.
00:58:56.000And then the issue of free speech arises.
00:58:58.000I look at these stories, notably from Gizmodo, and it says, you know, Facebook employees were routinely banning conservative news outlets from their trending tab.
00:59:09.000A whole bunch of leftist organizations come out saying Tim Pool is a conspiracy theorist who thinks the right is being persecuted, because I literally cited a left-wing news source They actually include it in my Wikipedia as if it was some kind of smear that I agree with conservatives that they're more likely to be suppressed or censored when it's a fact.
00:59:28.000And this is the component of the culture war that leaves people on the left calling me right-wing or something.
00:59:34.000So it's like, if I was going to vote for someone who is, you know, Democrat or progressive, because I was a big fan of Bernie before I think he lost his mind, It's not going to happen when the liberals and the Democrats are actively supporting a chaotic ideology of destruction and seeking to censor ideas they don't like.
00:59:50.000Yeah, like, I think you have a point in some respect, but I think most Democrats, most liberals are not woke, as you say.
01:00:00.000I think what the right does is they jump over, jump onto instances that took place and paint the picture that Liberals are all woke, or liberals are all, you know, you say woman with a Y, or whatever you said it was.
01:00:14.000Just like how a lot on the left say, Republicans are all racist, or Republicans are all anti-Semitic.
01:01:01.000But when it comes to liberals on the left and wokeness, I'll give you one example, the Parental Rights and Education Bill in Florida.
01:01:09.000So you get kids who are severely depressed and being abused by their teachers.
01:01:14.000The parents then find out, probably because, I think a lot of it was because of the remote learning, Parents had no idea their kids were suffering and depressed, and the schools weren't telling them, and the schools were actually trying to get these kids to undergo medical treatments without the parents' knowledge.
01:01:30.000Parents get mad, so the Republicans in Florida say, we're gonna do a bill.
01:01:34.000If you're third grade or below, no sex education.
01:01:37.000Afterwards, the parents have a right to know about sex education.
01:01:55.000Now whether all Democrats know they're part of a cult or are just blindly following it is the question.
01:02:00.000So that bill, I actually follow that bill closely because I live in Florida and my wife's brother's gay so I'm close with him.
01:02:08.000So I follow the bill and it changed, it evolved, that bill evolved a lot and so at the end I don't think it's as close to don't say gay anymore.
01:02:19.000I don't think it really said that toward the end of the bill.
01:02:22.000So what I'm saying is that I understand those who are angry.
01:02:52.000And the teacher comes in and says, you know, some families, there's two men in the family, they love each other, and they can have a perfectly fine family.
01:03:21.000So quite literally, and this was actually outlined by the politicians, a teacher could walk up to a group of—say it's recess—the teacher could walk up to a group of students and say, I'm a man married to a man.
01:03:34.000It just couldn't be part of the curriculum.
01:03:35.000I don't think that's how it was worded, at least not early on.
01:03:38.000Early on in the bill, the way I read it, it was like, you couldn't talk about it.
01:03:41.000When it goes to passing, and we're at the point where it's like, this is what's actually happening, the narrative across the country was all these celebrities going, gay.
01:03:50.000But even the bill itself, like, initially, you couldn't say straight either.
01:03:55.000It was just no sex ed, period, for third grade or below.
01:03:59.000So, like, if a kid drew a picture of a man and a woman and someone made fun of them, theoretically, the argument was still, you'd be like, that's a question for your parents.
01:04:06.000Whether it's a man or a woman, a man and a man, or a woman and a woman.
01:04:09.000Do you guys think third graders and below should learn about sex ed?
01:04:14.000But I think a lot of this was a big misunderstanding, and a lot of people kind of jumped to conclusions and speculated when they really didn't know.
01:04:21.000So I think, you know, the more clarifications.
01:04:23.000But to have a whole national outcry kind of push this larger narrative, which wasn't really true, only empowered people like DeSantis.
01:04:32.000I'm definitely gonna go back and read the final bill because I know I was following it really closely.
01:05:02.000No, the fact that the state gave a major corporation that in the first place was more authoritarian.
01:05:07.000Yeah, I agree they shouldn't have had it in the first place, but... So taking it away from them, kind of like they should have done that a long time ago for any reason.
01:05:12.000It was as if it... I believe it was because... So you guys believe corporations shouldn't pay any taxes?
01:05:21.000No, but should major corporations be allowed to lobby their employees and the state to prevent legislation?
01:05:28.000I don't necessarily think so, but I think that the fact that he used that as the reason why he took it away... He was punishing them for being against him.
01:05:46.000I mean, I could argue it's because they're advancing abusive children, and it was deeply unpopular in the state, and they shouldn't have been given special privileges in the first place, so now's the best time to remove it from them.
01:05:57.000Yeah, but I feel like laws should take care of that, not a governor, you know, stepping in and saying, because you go against my policy.
01:06:47.000I think the issue is that it helped the Florida economy so much that Florida saw it as, hey, we're going to do this, but we're going to get so much back in tax revenue.
01:06:57.000I mean, how much money are they making from tourists coming to Orlando every year?
01:07:03.000I think the other issue is it's not just in Florida, right, when it comes to the wokeness, right?
01:07:09.000So going back to the root issue, we're talking about wokeness.
01:07:11.000You're saying, you know, not all liberals are woke, but I think all liberals march behind the woke blindly.
01:07:18.000So, you know, one thing we've referenced quite a bit is this book, Gender Queer, that we have here.
01:07:21.000Without getting into this for the 800th time for everyone who's listening, you've got places like Loudoun County, which is literally 30 seconds away from where we are right now.
01:07:28.000You drive 30 seconds, boom, you're in Loudoun County.
01:07:31.000And there was a student at a school who I think he raped two girls.
01:07:46.000The Biden administration investigates them as terrorists.
01:07:49.000And the parent speaking out about this was arrested and manhandled by police officers when it was his daughter that got, you know, raped.
01:07:57.000So, you know, those visuals were absolutely insane and crazy, seeing a father saying, hey, this is happening, and him being shut down and arrested and taken away, which was crazy.
01:08:06.000But so this is what leads ultimately to, you know, Yunkin winning.
01:08:10.000They say that the parents were getting fed up with the wokeness.
01:08:14.000It's not just genderqueer, we had Asra Noumani came on with a stack of books that are appearing in public schools for children.
01:08:22.000And it is, I'll put it this way, let me ask you a question.
01:08:34.000Do you think, let me give you an example, if there was a grade school, first graders, and they had a math book, And it had a math problem, and it said, there are 50 sinners in Sodom and 50 sinners in Gomorrah, and Abraham speaks to God and says, will you spare this if there is, you know, 10 righteous people?
01:08:56.000How many righteous people would have to be, you know, how many people would be remaining in Sodom and Gomorrah if 10 righteous people were removed?
01:12:11.000Kimberly Crenshaw wrote in her book, it was an essay, I believe multiple people contributed, that Karl Marx got one thing right, he got something right with critical theory, that there is an oppressed and oppressor class.
01:12:21.000Marx wrote that it was the wealthy who are the oppressors and the poor who are the oppressed.
01:12:35.000The idea then is white people are inherently oppressors, no matter what.
01:12:40.000And non-white people are inherently oppressed no matter what.
01:12:42.000That means Oprah Winfrey is oppressed, and a homeless veteran sleeping in the gutter is an oppressor.
01:12:47.000And that's psychotic in my opinion, but that is the basis for the ideology they teach in these schools.
01:12:51.000So when they did the Whiteness Contract, what was that book?
01:12:56.000It was called... You want to look that one up?
01:12:58.000Again, Asra Nomani brings this book to us and it shows a whiteness contract with a devil tail and a hand reaching out and it says, sign the contract and you'll receive all of these benefits at the expense of your non-white friends.
01:13:12.000That is indoctrinating kids with an ideology.
01:13:16.000You mentioned separation of church and state and I find this fascinating because what does church and state really mean?
01:13:24.000They believe in tenets, they believe in a certain set of faith-based ideas, and then they hold true ideology.
01:13:32.000What's the difference between that and any other ideology?
01:13:35.000Obviously, religions have some spiritual component to them.
01:13:38.000But if we're talking about separation of church and state, what we're really talking about is separation of an individual's ideology and the state.
01:13:44.000The law should govern fairly and equally based upon certain facts, the Constitution and human rights, not whether someone believes someone is inherently evil or an oppressor or someone is going to heaven or hell.
01:13:56.000Yeah, but ideologies are just opinions.
01:13:59.000Ideologies are just opinions to another level.
01:14:04.000If you ban creationism from schools because it was Christianity masquerading as science, then I argue the same thing for critical race theory.
01:14:13.000So this is the way liberals tend to view critical race theory.
01:14:17.000They view it from the standpoint that black people were oppressed by white people and you can't teach that that took place.
01:14:26.000But the problem is Certain people view it that way.
01:14:32.000And if a bill is written saying you can't talk about critical race theory, what if somebody says that's critical race theory?
01:14:39.000Then that teacher is going to get thrown out of school.
01:14:41.000Teacher is going to be prosecuted, perhaps.
01:14:43.000Well, you're talking about an issue for a judge to interpret the law properly.
01:14:46.000But our teachers are paid, in Florida, they're paid like $30,000 a year.
01:14:50.000Yeah, but look, you're making an argument that like, what if someone's arguing that- No, my argument, if that bill is written exactly how you explain it, then I think That would be a bill to support.
01:15:01.000But if the bill just says critical race theory, it is just too... The law usually defines terms.
01:15:06.000Yeah, but I haven't seen a law that defined it the way you've defined it.
01:15:10.000That's the literal definition of what it is.
01:15:14.000And what if you have a class that's talking about income inequalities and you link that certain races might be Inequal to others because of social... It's a Title IX violation.
01:15:29.000No, so you have a class that might say... Title IX refers to, like, sex.
01:15:35.000What I'm saying is, what if you're teaching that a certain area of this state is socioeconomically unequal to this area?
01:15:48.000A percentage of this area is also 80% African-American.
01:16:00.000But are you saying that that's going to be considered critical race theory because it's going back to race and socio-economical differences?
01:17:21.000This is 1991, blah blah blah, amended, etc, etc.
01:17:25.000You cannot, in this country, go before a group of children, employees, government workers, period, and say, one race is better than the other.
01:17:54.000If they're going around saying one race is better than the other, yeah, I don't think that's right.
01:18:00.000National Nuclear Labs employees sent a seminar that claimed rugged individualism and hard work are white male culture.
01:18:07.000There's also the Smithsonian Museum that said working hard and being on time are elements of white people.
01:18:13.000Like, as if to imply, look, outside of any argument you want to make against, like, Asians, Hispanics, or, I'm sorry, Black people, or Hispanics, or whatever, the craziest thing is when the woke people and the critical race theorists argue this right here, nuts, Sandia Labs telling people that hard work is white male culture, as if Black people don't work hard.
01:18:33.000But then when I have conversations with these people, they say, oh, you know, it's white people who adhere to schedules, and it's white people who save for the future.
01:18:44.000They plan longer for the future, on average, than white people do.
01:18:47.000This is an insanely racist ideology that does not belong in government.
01:18:52.000One of the reasons why I was more inclined to support Donald Trump, because Joe Biden's actively supporting what is overtly illegal.
01:18:57.000Like, let me ask you, do you think- Well, I mean, Trump did too, and how many executive orders were overturned by judges during Trump's presidency?
01:19:25.000I mean, but shouldn't that teacher be fired anyway?
01:19:28.000Like, I mean, do you need a bill that says you can't teach critical race theory so all the lines get blurred and teachers have less motive to be teachers?
01:19:38.000I don't know who this guy is who's holding up this book, but I chose this for a reason.
01:19:41.000Whiteness is a bad deal, it always was.
01:21:14.000Well, Rockefeller was a key instrumental figure with his larger institutions when it came to building up this model of essentially building up good slave factory workers.
01:21:23.000A lot of the education system, depending on what time they start, the breaks that they have, is all based on creating them to be good factory workers.
01:21:33.000But there's also a lot of Crazy things, especially with the New York City Public School Board system even having one of their representatives previously a couple years publicly declare that, hey, if there's a poor white kid, we have to spend resources on a rich black kid over a poor white kid because this is to fight all the racism that's happening in this country.
01:21:52.000When we see educators and people that have been entrusted in our education system giving out resources based on color and not on need, that to me is something that we have a big problem with and should be kind of corrected, in my opinion.
01:22:05.000I mean, that goes to the whole reparations argument.
01:22:08.000I had a class in college about inequality.
01:22:14.000I feel there's good arguments on both sides of that.
01:22:18.000And if I'm a black person, I've seen, you know, my family struggle.
01:24:00.000So, would you be willing to go to, say, an impoverished seven-year-old Asian boy, look him in the eyes and say, you are not welcome at Harvard because you look too much like those people?
01:24:11.000I totally get that argument, and I do think it's difficult.
01:24:16.000Like, maybe it makes more sense to be like, where you live and not your race?
01:24:20.000It would make more sense to say, hey, yeah, where you live or what your background was.
01:24:32.000Harvard, you know, they have that lawsuit where you have to score 1,300 if you're Asian, 1,000 if you're white, 800 if you're Latino, and like 700 if you're black, which I just think is extremely racist.
01:24:44.000But they're doing it because they think they want racial parity, which to me also makes no sense, as if to imply that race is the component by which we measure humanity, and it's a weird thing to me.
01:24:55.000But that means that poor Asians will be kicked out for rich black kids.
01:25:08.000I think the argument is that we As a nation have pushed down this group of people, African Americans, for so long, generation after generation, going back to the 1800s.
01:25:20.000I think we owe it to them in a way to equalize their opportunity now.
01:25:25.000But actually, I see something real quick.
01:25:55.000I don't want to speak as a black person because I don't know, you know, I don't know their life and I don't know everything they've gone through.
01:26:01.000But from my point of view, the way that I would view it if I can imagine myself in their situation, which I know I can't fully, is my great great great grandfather was a slave.
01:26:39.000And then his, Owner died, he died, and my father was his son, and he tried making a life for himself, but he had to go to an all-black school with teachers who were subpar, and he'd ride on the back of the bus.
01:27:07.000He worked his butt off and hardly earned a dime.
01:27:12.000And I couldn't go to college because of it because I had to go work from an early age.
01:27:19.000And then my son, I want him to get an education but I can't afford to pay his college.
01:27:23.000I, you know, he's smart but he's not as smart as this guy because I couldn't spend as much time raising him as some of these other fathers.
01:27:30.000So I want him to have the same opportunity as his white counterparts.
01:27:34.000So that's a point of view from the black person.
01:27:36.000So I can see why they get so, why they feel so impacted by what happened in the past.
01:27:44.000I want to clarify too, what I mean to say is, there are people in this country who are older,
01:27:48.000who's actually like, very old, and their grandparents, I was watching some video about
01:27:53.000it. But then for the people that we've talked to, it's great grandparents and stuff like that.
01:27:56.000But the issue I take with it is, we had one conversation.
01:28:00.000So what about the dude whose family has been historically poor because his great-great-grandfather
01:28:08.000died fighting for the the union to end slavery and they lost everything.
01:28:13.000Their house was burned down and destroyed by the Confederates, and now they're slack-jawed, you know, mountain trailer people.
01:28:38.000She's one of the wealthiest people on the planet.
01:28:40.000And these people who are in rural West Virginia, which broke off from Virginia to stay with the union and actually ended up opposing slavery, these people are impoverished Because of that history, shouldn't they get some kind of reparation for the sacrifices their families made?
01:28:56.000Maybe they should, yeah, maybe they should.
01:28:59.000Yeah, but... Or what about the British sailors that were fighting in Africa against slavery?
01:29:04.000No, so what I'm saying is that these, this group of individuals who, it dates back to slavery, so these people, most black Americans have ancestors who were enslaved, so they feel like they deserve some sort of, you know, Something to help them rise to the level of their counterparts.
01:29:36.000Because there's been a lot of immigration, there's been a lot of people coming in, but it's going to be very hard to tell because how do you prove a lot of this stuff when there wasn't really a lot of records as well?
01:30:04.000Because what ends up happening is then when you say that white people are oppressors and non-whites are oppressed, there's like a homeless veteran who grew up in the sticks, low-income family, joins the military, fights for this country, comes home, is injured in a wheelchair, he's an oppressor.
01:30:41.000If you're getting your cobalt out of the Congo and there's 15,000 black people digging with their hands and hammers to try and get this toxic chemical out, are we oppressing?
01:30:55.000You go back to the 1700s when there was, what was it, like 4 million people or 2 million people who lived in the United States, this area that we call the United States?
01:32:31.000Yeah, like, so I get what you're saying, but I feel like if you're going to write a bill banning critical race theory, you don't just say critical race theory.
01:32:39.000You outline exactly what is deemed... Fair point.
01:32:44.000And that's what Donald Trump did when he banned critical race theory.
01:32:57.000The legal office for the White House wrote this thing up.
01:33:01.000He signed the executive order, and all it basically said was, it is illegal under the Civil Rights Act, Title VII, to discriminate on the basis of race, therefore, and then Joe Biden rescinded that and allowed these companies to continue discriminating on the basis of race.
01:33:14.000But these bills are very broad, and I think that we can agree that if the language was defined enough to be able to say, this is considered critical race theory, this is not, I think we'd agree that, yeah, this can be a law.
01:33:31.000But I think when you leave it open to the courts, and then you have teachers getting sued, you have parents attacking teachers, I think it opens up a whole can of worms That isn't really necessary when you can actually go after the teachers themselves based on other things, like something like that.
01:33:50.000The teacher can be criticized, could be fired on an individual basis.
01:33:54.000I completely agree and I think one of the problems is that parents see this stuff and they don't sue.
01:34:02.000If they went to your kid and said white people are bad, okay that's racist.
01:34:05.000That's a violation of the Civil Rights Act, Title VII.
01:34:08.000File your lawsuit, get the book pulled.
01:34:10.000Instead, we get a lot of, like, community complaints and stuff like that, which has borne fruit, but I think lawsuits are the way to go.
01:34:18.000We did see, however, with books like Genderqueer, when parents go to school board meetings and read the book, they get ejected for reading pornographic material in public.
01:34:27.000Like, the board freaks out and says, stop, stop, stop, you can't say these things here, and they're like, then why are you giving it to our kids in school?
01:34:33.000I feel like it's super important to teach about critical race theory, that it's important that people know what it is, any kind of political or philosophy theory.
01:34:42.000You should have classes like for college kids or high school kids, like political philosophy on critical race, but indoctrinating, especially children, young children, like with any kind of ideology.
01:34:53.000So I could see banning the indoctrination tactics, but not necessarily banning the ideas, because we need to understand what it is, like communism.
01:35:00.000You got to understand what communism is in order to bypass it.
01:36:13.000They shouldn't have this stuff in the schools.
01:36:15.000It should be done through the school board meetings and removed.
01:36:17.000The books are in the other room, actually.
01:36:19.000Asra Nomani bought a stack of all these books.
01:36:21.000One of them was from Ibram Kendi, and it was a workshop book, and it opened it up and it said, explain the differences between you and a racially different peer or whatever and things like that.
01:36:37.000I can't even show this on camera, and it's like... Yeah, but is that an actual curriculum book or something that somebody checked out in a library?
01:36:45.000I think it was turned up in libraries.
01:36:48.000No, but it was on reading lists for kids.
01:40:10.000I agree the school board should just say this book should be in our school.
01:40:13.000I don't think there needs to be laws that are in place that are broad that could be misinterpreted by a super right-leaning school board.
01:40:22.000And so here's the gain that we get from this show is Next time you come across someone talking about something like this, you simply say, I agree, that shouldn't be in the school.
01:40:33.000Let's advance, you know, getting that out.
01:40:36.000Whether it's 1,000 schools, 5,000 or 10,000, we'll just agree, okay, sure, for you guys, not the most important issue in the world, but that shouldn't be in schools.
01:41:19.000After we wrap this portion and go to the members only, I'll see if I can, if we have a big bookshelf of books of other people brought in, we'll see if we can grab them.
01:41:25.000Cause we have stacks of these books that are in these schools, but we got to go to super chats cause we're running late.
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01:41:43.000Plank says, being someone who currently holds a TS-CSI clearance, I can tell you that the media and Biden are gaslighting the TF out of everyone who doesn't hold a clearance or no protocols.
01:42:34.000And when you do the wide shot Or we'll come back, we'll come back to this show and it can be like, but I guess somebody has to get kicked out, right?
01:42:41.000Clint, Clint Sora says, first Hodge twins, now these guys.
01:43:32.000So Deeso, I was talking to you about Deeso, which is Deeso.com, decentralized social media.
01:43:37.000What they do is they have a database, a blockchain, and You know, all that data can get into the blockchain, but people can flag it, and the apps that are running on that blockchain can choose what they want to show or not.
01:43:48.000So they could say, post flagged by Tim or flagged by X amount of people just won't show on my node.
01:44:40.000Yeah, tell me about DeSo really quick.
01:44:41.000Yeah, so it's decentralized social media, and basically where you have the data is actually decentralized on a blockchain.
01:44:49.000And you can have different nodes, so you can have like Twitter.com, you can have Brian.com.
01:44:53.000We can pull up that data and censor it however we want, but that data can never be fully censored because it's on the blockchain and anybody can pull it up.
01:45:00.000So it kind of solves this censorship debate.
01:45:03.000All right, Midas says, the intent argument is invalid.
01:45:06.000Comey did the same garbage, where he read intent into a law that didn't have it.
01:46:46.000It's like the people who are chatting that they're upset you're here, but who also complain that we can't get more Democrats to come on the show and talk with us.
01:47:08.000Marty Smith Fan Su says the CHIP Act was nothing but a transfer of taxpayer dollars to companies not in the U.S., nor any who are coming to the U.S.
01:47:43.000Think of these deep debates with people you don't agree with as, like, pulling open the wound to see how festering it is so that you can clean it out.
01:48:49.000You know, like, I do think that we need to catch tax cheats, corporations that are not spending... But you don't need 87,000 agents for... I don't know.
01:48:59.000The IRS goes after poor people more than they do rich people.
01:49:02.000I think that if we have that many more agents, I think it has to be in a way that they're going to be going after the wealthy, not the middle class.
01:49:10.000I mean, that's what Biden's intent is.
01:50:25.000I forgot how you said conservatives care too much about them or they focus too heavily on them.
01:50:30.000I think that they blow them out of proportion sometimes.
01:50:32.000I think they take a low number of issues and make it out to paint a picture of the entire Democratic Party.
01:50:41.000And I think that the left does the same to the right as well for other things, so I don't think it's a... I mean, it's how you get an advantage.
01:50:47.000That's how you convince people not to vote for their party is by fear-mongering.
01:51:04.000Yeah, so it's like, if there is an issue that we're concerned with as it pertains to free speech, for instance, it's a social issue, yeah, but it's the fabric of, like, big tech censorship going on for over a decade, and you brought it up and you were smeared and lied about.
01:51:18.000I had so many big institutions, universities, make up fake stories about me, and then it's like, oh, you're blowing a small thing out of proportion.
01:51:25.000It's like, well, look where we are 10 years later.
01:51:27.000The government intervened to subvert an election, But what do you think the solution is?
01:51:33.000Is the solution for the government to intervene and say, hey, these corporations can't be censoring people?
01:51:54.000So the government can say, you can't do a thing.
01:51:58.000Right now what they're doing is they're saying you can do a thing.
01:52:01.000The government right now says that big tech platforms have the right to censor anything they find objectionable and be completely free of any liability.
01:53:45.000If you're going to lie to people to come on your platform and then set ideological parameters for speech, you're lying.
01:53:50.000If I want to create, you know, skateboardforum.com where the only thing that's allowed is skateboard talk and if you deviate we're banning you, I told you the rules before you got here.
01:53:59.000Twitter is now saying the rules are you can't say these certain things, but that's where the issue of size comes into play.
01:54:06.000You've got a massive stadium open to the public that can seat 100,000 people, but the people who are running the front gate have banned one political faction from coming in.
01:54:27.000If Twitter has become, I'll put it this way.
01:54:30.000If the president was speaking in a stadium with the doors open to the public, I do not believe a private entity should be able to bar someone for private reasons.
01:54:39.000There should only be legal reasons to bar them.
01:54:41.000Yeah, I mean, that's a decent opinion, but I mean, it still comes down to government speech.
01:54:46.000And like Trump, he blocked us on Twitter.
01:54:49.000And we were actually part of a lawsuit with the Knight Institute, and he was basically forced by a judge to unblock us.
01:54:56.000That's right, and if you agree with that precedent, then you would also agree that Twitter can't- But he was a government official, so the government official is blocking my right to speech on his- And what if he had Jack Dorsey block you instead?
01:55:12.000And you're going to be like, well, it was a private company that... I would say that that would probably be an abridgment of the First Amendment.
01:55:51.000You think they're going to be like, you didn't just order a hit, now they're going to arrest you.
01:55:53.000No, no, no, I understand the argument.
01:55:55.000No judge is going to look at what they're doing, the government going to Twitter and saying, here's a list of people who've broken the rules, get rid of them, and then be like, well, that was just actually them moderating for free.
01:56:04.000So what happens when Congress calls Jack Dorsey to testify?
01:56:09.000Well, how is, I mean... Like, calls him to testify, and, you know, let's say McCarthy stands up and says, what you're doing to Democrats isn't right, or to Republicans isn't right, you never ban Democrats, and then he goes and bans, he bans the Democrat.
01:56:22.000Like, is that, like... There's a difference between, you are acting in a biased manner, and here's a list of names that broke your rules.
01:56:29.000Yeah, but we're not saying you must delete them.
01:56:33.000Yeah, or won't someone rid me of this priest?
01:58:12.000I think that the FBI, I think that Congress, I think they overstepped.
01:58:18.000I don't think ultimately there's going to be a judge or a court case that rules that this actually abridged anybody's First Amendment rights.
01:59:49.000I think it's a larger kind of geopolitical move to kind of isolate Taiwan so it doesn't become such an important linchpin when it comes to the bigger kind of tedious trap that's unfolding between China and the United States.
02:00:03.000But anytime the government gets involved in the economy, I think it's absolutely for the benefit of the super-rich who really control government, and anytime the government's in finance, I say, get the hell out.
02:00:20.000would be better if we were still drilling in the U.S.
02:00:22.000and Russia wouldn't be in Ukraine because the U.S.
02:00:24.000would be dominant in the oil market, so it wouldn't be worth the money for Russia.
02:00:28.000Well, I think Russia's foray into the Ukraine was inevitable after the Soviet Union gave Sevastopol to Ukraine on the breakup, because they neutered Russia's ability to get into the Mediterranean and to prevent them from becoming a global trade power.
02:00:44.000And now we're just seeing, like, that's what happens when you partition countries.
02:00:47.000Same thing happened with Treaty of Versailles.
02:01:20.000StuckinVA says, these two are typical Florida Democrats.
02:01:23.000I have family in Florida that are MSNBC Democrats and they have no actual real-life exposure to what is happening in other parts of the country.
02:01:30.000To them, what we see with CRT, ESG, WOTAN, etc. every day in the Northeast and Western
02:01:37.000They are unknowingly influenced by the fact that Florida conservative policy is protecting
02:01:41.000them from the nonsense going on in other states.
02:01:49.000I moved to Florida 15 years ago, but I go back.
02:01:53.000It doesn't surprise me to think that people would be insulated from things like genderqueer, because I probably would never even know about it if I wasn't on this show.
02:02:00.000People come in and they tell me about this stuff, and I'm like, oh my god, are you serious?
02:02:55.000And we had to have Carpe Donctum, our first show, and it's called Dismantling Division, and we just seek to have conversations with people we disagree with, like Tim.
02:05:20.000I agree, it's really nice to have a conversation where it's civil, we're able to discuss things, we're not here trying to accuse each other of things, call each other names, get muckracking and everything.