In this episode of POPCODE CRISIS, we discuss the Texas Supreme Court ruling that invalidated Joe Biden's election victory and the implications for the future of the country. We also talk about the Mises-led effort to take control of the Libertarian National Committee, the impending food shortage, and much more!
00:00:49.000you the texas gop has formally declared joe biden to have been
00:01:07.000illegitimately elected And while the media is running on and on about voter fraud, the actual issue here has to do with unconstitutional changes to voter laws from the perspective of Texas.
00:01:18.000Now, I don't want to get into, just in the intro, the whole election debate, but I want to point out What the Texas GOP is saying is, yes, they have issues with fraud.
00:01:27.000Personally, I don't agree with those narratives.
00:01:29.000However, they also go on to say that they are challenging the constitutionality of voter rule changes.
00:01:35.000This lawsuit from Texas, it's Texas v Pennsylvania, went to the Supreme Court who rejected to hear it.
00:01:40.000And if you don't listen, you're not changing the mind of anybody.
00:01:47.000Constitutional crisis is the direction we're going in because if the Texas GOP is voting on these things and their confidence is shattered, I don't know what that's going to mean for the rest of the country.
00:01:56.000But it also means that Texas could vote to secede in 2023.
00:02:00.000That's another big story that's happening.
00:02:02.000So we'll talk about all of that and we'll break down why people are feeling this way.
00:02:07.000And I want to show you the Texas v. Pennsylvania lawsuit.
00:02:09.000I covered it quite a bit back in 2020, when the lawsuit happened.
00:02:13.000And interestingly, following that lawsuit, a court in Pennsylvania did rule their universal mail-in voting to be unconstitutional.
00:02:20.000So, maybe YouTube doesn't want to hear that, but that's a fact.
00:02:24.000We also have Lithuania blocking Russia from transporting important materials into the Oblast of Kaliningrad, which Russia says is illegal, and Lithuania being a NATO state could drag NATO into war with Russia.
00:02:35.000So, um, I don't know, Civil War and World War III all at the same time.
00:02:46.000Yeah, because it's not just about the fact that inflation is really high.
00:02:48.000It's also that while the costs are going up, the amount you're getting for the same cost is going down.
00:02:53.000So the inflation is actually way higher than they're really saying, probably to protect Joe Biden, or because they're not tracking accurately.
00:02:59.000And then you have all of these different countries that get a tremendous amount of their food imports from Ukraine and Russia, which they aren't anymore.
00:03:05.000And when they run out of food, they're going to, you know, it's World War III.
00:04:31.000I'm glad you brought up constitutional crisis earlier, Tim, because I think this is a sort of constitutional crisis what we're facing with the way things have been going the last three or four years, really since Donald Trump, that election, and Hillary's email, all that stuff.
00:04:42.000But I think we need one because the Federal Reserve and this international banking system has been sapping the United States for a hundred years, and it's make or break time.
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00:09:20.000Texas Republicans declare Biden illegitimately elected reject 2020 election certification.
00:09:26.000They say a component of the 2022 platform adopted by Texas Republicans on June 18th rejects the outcome of the 2020 US presidential election, calling it a constitutional violation.
00:09:37.000We all know how much YouTube loves this story.
00:09:40.000Quote, The Texas GOP said, We believe the 2020 election violated Article 1 and 2 of the U.S.
00:09:46.000Constitution that various Secretaries of State illegally circumvented their state legislatures in conducting their elections in multiple ways, including by allowing ballots to be received after November 3, 2020.
00:09:56.000The resolution reads, They go on to say, They believe that substantial election fraud in key metropolitan areas significantly affected results in five key states in favor of Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.
00:10:07.000Now, I don't care for that last statement, to be completely honest.
00:11:13.000I think a lot of people were very much excited to vote against Donald Trump, and more importantly, it's demoralizing, and it's voter suppression in a sense.
00:11:24.000You're basically telling people to give up.
00:11:26.000But I'll tell you this, if there is a question about the constitutionality or the rules in an election, that's something that should be investigated, it should be litigated, so that way there is confidence in the election.
00:11:35.000I think what's most important here is not necessarily the argument about 2020, because we're going on two years later, you know, for the most part.
00:11:42.000I think the issue is they never resolved the issue that Republicans have.
00:11:46.000And because of that, we're now moving into a midterm where already we had one county, Otero County, refusing to certify the results.
00:11:53.000And now we're going to be moving into 2024.
00:11:56.000You think Texas is going to be willing to play with these other states when they were like, you wouldn't even listen to our arguments in the first place?
00:14:17.000It's not viewed as legislation, but we treat it as legislation.
00:14:20.000Well, I mean, I think there are issues, conversations to be had about, you know, the Supreme Court for sure, and authority, but it is the interpretation of the law as the legislation has passed it.
00:15:26.000So when they walk in with a bunch of dudes with guns, they're like, okay, you're in charge now.
00:15:29.000The only reason they ended up getting caught was because there was a train they had stopped, and then John Brown let the train leave.
00:15:36.000They made it to, I think, Baltimore, and then immediately got on the telegraph and was like, yo, a bunch of abolitionists took over the city, and they're doing like a slave revolt.
00:15:57.000But anyway, I was reading about this and I'm thinking like, if anything like that happened today, the moment someone banged on the door, the tweet would be out and everyone in the world would know it was happening.
00:16:13.000They're watching on your phone and your GPS as you're going to Harper's Ferry.
00:16:16.000So like if John Brown existed today, they'd be like, hey, we noticed those five guys we've been spying on are all in the same place and they're heading towards this armory.
00:16:42.000A bunch of triggers would happen, like their power will get shut down here, then the power will get shut down here, then you see an explosion while three places stall.
00:16:50.000So are people really, people are talking about secession or balkanization, which is the nicer way to put it.
00:16:57.000How many people do you think are seriously talking about open civil war?
00:17:33.000People don't understand, civil war is going to be, you're going to get groceries, and then all of a sudden, an IED blows up next to you.
00:17:39.000And you're just a random person who has nothing to do with this.
00:17:42.000That's the kind of reality of this conflict.
00:17:45.000You had those Antifa people in Portland walking around with rifles, and they pointed the gun at the guy in the truck and said, you know, stop, and the guy gets out with his gun.
00:17:55.000And all of a sudden, one day, people are going to walk up and be shooting at each other and bullets are going to go flying through your windows.
00:18:00.000Dude, it would be like they're blowing up the freeways.
00:18:27.000So, and I anticipate that if anything like that happens, it's going to start off with civil strife.
00:18:32.000It's not going to pop off with someone in a militia declaring civil war.
00:18:37.000So I'll, I think when you bring up the National Guard, there's like a, I suppose a more worrying reality of whichever faction is in control is holding the conch shell, essentially is wielding the power of law enforcement and military.
00:19:00.000And right now you can see the feds going to a garage to investigate a pole rope.
00:19:04.000You can see the feds, AG, unwilling to go after the protesters, illegally protesting in front of the homes of Supreme Court justices.
00:19:13.000So it very much looks like the reality is The Democrats are willing to use the power, the conservative, the Republicans are not.
00:19:21.000And that means if there ever wasn't an active conflict, then those who are in law enforcement who are just gonna follow orders are gonna be following orders of Democrats, so.
00:20:06.000We've had the bomb squad show, we've had credible threats, and my private properties unaffiliated with this show, with tenants in them, have also been swatted.
00:20:18.000I guess it's kind of weird talking about myself in this way as if I'm deserving of attention or whatever.
00:20:22.000But some people, a lot of people pointed out, hey, like, when one of the biggest political shows is getting this much threats and swatting and bomb threats and stuff, isn't that a big news story?
00:20:33.000But for some reason, we don't crack the news at all.
00:20:36.000And I'm like, this is exactly what you should understand.
00:20:40.000When people threaten us with death, when we have to evacuate our studio for three hours over a credible threat, it is not newsworthy to the establishment.
00:20:49.000When one reporter for the mainstream media gets mean tweets and cries, they bring her on TV and they parade her around.
00:20:55.000Because we are not a part of the establishment.
00:21:57.000And I don't, I don't think that they care.
00:21:59.000And I think that it's, it's a little bit related to this news story with the Texas Republicans declaring the election illegitimate.
00:22:07.000And we may not agree with why they're doing it.
00:22:10.000But I'm a little bit sympathetic to their angst because they feel like everything that they care about, everything that matters to them, does not matter to the people in charge.
00:22:44.000Look, it's crazy because he was an abolitionist, and he would often talk about the Declaration of Independence, all men are created equal, the Golden Rule, and all these things I completely agree with.
00:22:59.000He walked up to a dude and shot him in the face.
00:23:03.000And a lot of people called him a madman.
00:23:51.000So what happens if you say, I believe this was unconstitutional, and instead of actually getting that sit down and that adjudication, you're told, go away, we won't hear what you have to say.
00:24:12.000And you know what really frustrates me is the cowardice of the Supreme Court And the media, because they were too stupid and cowardly to realize there are more elections coming.
00:24:26.000And if Texas says, we believe it's unconstitutional, and you say, we don't care, then they're going to say, okay, then what happens come 2022?
00:24:33.000In the midterms, they're going to be like, we don't believe any of this is legitimate, which is literally what they're doing.
00:24:38.000What happens if in 2024, Biden actually wins again?
00:24:40.000I don't see this being possible, to be honest.
00:24:49.000And Texas just goes, don't know, don't care.
00:24:51.000And this time, they don't certify the election.
00:24:54.000So it could go two different ways, and I think there's a little bit of a scale as to how that could play out, right?
00:24:58.000They literally just go and do their own thing, they just start ignoring the federal government.
00:25:02.000Probably still sending in taxes, taking tax revenue in, that, but everything else, they're just not acknowledging it.
00:25:08.000And the other thing that could happen is that things could get violent, or they could get incredibly violent.
00:25:13.000And I think a lot of that is going to depend in large part on the response of the federal government and how violent they want to get with people who are trying to basically peacefully secede.
00:25:59.000So what happens is you've got federal authorities, federal law enforcement officers, and if a state secedes and then tells the FBI, the CIA, DHS, get out, and they say no, it can't be peaceful.
00:26:24.000It just means that you will go to war, and if you lose, you will live under the rules of your batters, or whatever he said, your captors, or whatever.
00:26:34.000So his idea was, you know, you look at the American Revolution, you have a right to say, I have a right to autonomy and to secede, and you can try.
00:26:42.000If you lose, you now live under the rules of those who have defeated you.
00:26:47.000And then he, his argument was the union spent, uh, sacrificed blood and treasure to admit these states into the union.
00:26:55.000And there was a debt owed to the union that if they were to leave, it would be like them giving, being given free stuff and then ripping them off.
00:27:08.000Plenty of people were born after the fact.
00:27:10.000Plenty of people didn't have, especially in that age, they don't have social media, they're not reading up, they don't know they're just come into this world.
00:27:16.000They're just trying to survive and prosper with their families.
00:27:20.000Maybe maybe one good hope for us with any coming civil war would be that it would be a very slow withdrawal and slow pullout.
00:27:46.000But I was thinking about what I was doing when this movie came out, and I was like, do we not realize how much the water has started to boil in the past four years?
00:27:57.000So I was thinking about how people kept telling me, since 2018, there was never going to be a civil war, and I was crazy.
00:28:03.000Even today, people tell me there's not going to be a civil war.
00:28:06.000And then when I saw the story about Texas and pulled up Texas v. Pennsylvania, I was reading this lawsuit.
00:28:11.000I was like, this is how frogs boil in a pot.
00:28:15.000You can look at Texas v. Pennsylvania and see that you had, I think, 22 states versus 22 states suing each other over whether or not I don't think that there's going to be a civil war.
00:29:14.000Do you think there are any parallels that can be drawn between what we're seeing right now with the encroaching totalitarianism and the collapse of the Soviet Union?
00:29:22.000Because that thing fell apart, and people didn't have to go out and fight and have streets filled with blood.
00:29:28.000Yeah, it was that the oligarchs wanted to seize control.
00:29:30.000I think that's a big part of why the Soviet Union fell.
00:29:32.000It was orchestrated by the oligarchy in Russia to seize power.
00:30:37.000The Bank for International Settlements, the bankers, the Swiss bankers, the World Economic Forum's involved, Blackrock trying to buy American land.
00:30:45.000Well, it's actually Blackstone is buying a lot of land, and Blackrock will tell you that that's conspiracy if you say it's Blackrock because it's Blackstone, even though they were kind of spinoffs of each other, or one spun off from the other.
00:31:04.000The Texas Republicans are pushing for a referendum to decide whether the state should secede from the U.S.
00:31:08.000The demand for Texans to be allowed to vote on the issue in 2023 was one of many measures adopted in the Texas GOP's party platform following last week's state convention in Houston.
00:31:16.000Now, I want to point out, this is not the first time someone's called for this, but It seems to be moving forward.
00:31:22.000Under a section titled State Sovereignty, the platform states, pursuant to Article 1, Section 1 of the Texas Constitution, the federal government has impaired our right to local self-government.
00:31:31.000Therefore, federally mandated legislation that infringes upon the Tenth Amendment rights of Texas should be ignored, opposed, refused, and nullified.
00:31:38.000Texas retains the right to secede from the U.S., and the Texas legislature should be called upon to pass a referendum consistent thereto.
00:31:47.000Now, let me ask you, with all of these libertarian types moving to Texas, do you think there's going to be increasing support for Texas secession?
00:31:57.000The National Libertarian Party just passed a platform change in support of secession, and the Florida State Libertarian Party did earlier this year.
00:32:06.000We're all about it because we think that people should be able to live their own lives and just peacefully separate.
00:32:34.000I'm trying to look at it realistically, which is I don't know how we can come together as Americans when we fundamentally have so many major disagreements.
00:32:45.000Well it's not shared values that is keeping us together anymore it's decadence and how comfortable we've gotten.
00:33:35.000But when you see these Antifa people going around with guns and shooting people, like the dude in Portland got shot, it doesn't matter if you're tough, it matters if you're dumb.
00:33:45.000It matters if You know, Forrest Cooper was on the show last week and he said, the people who are good at violence aren't doing it.
00:33:52.000And you have to ask yourself why that is.
00:33:57.000Well, you know, the people who have trained in war, who know how to do war, are staying away from the stuff because they don't, right, they know how bad it is.
00:34:06.000But the people who are engaging in it don't know, don't care.
00:34:09.000I'll tell you once it comes, they'll regret it.
00:34:52.000There was this meme post where they're like a bunch of Trump QAnon rednecks are going to team up with inner city gangs because they have more in common than the laptop class.
00:35:00.000With each other than the laptop class.
00:35:02.000And so there's going to be these uppity hipsters who want to eat vegan food.
00:35:06.000Wondering, you know, what's going on and the people who literally have nothing are gonna be like, you are the people whose wealth we will redistribute.
00:35:14.000And the rich people who have all their money in Panama and Switzerland are gonna laugh and be like, can't do anything to me.
00:35:19.000Well, that's a common part of critical theory in Marxism is that the middle class is what has kept the proletariat from rising up and defeating and trying to overthrow the upper classes because they see the middle classes.
00:35:34.000I bring that up, though, because I think you made a good point, Mary.
00:35:36.000That what's holding this country together is basically everybody's fat and happy and doesn't want to risk their Krispy Kremes and their Marvel movies.
00:36:01.000So if they can't even keep up the appearance that we're comfortable and distracted, I understand why some people's minds are going towards civil strife at the very least or civil war.
00:36:31.000I think for most conservatives who live in suburbs and in rural areas, they don't understand that in New York City, you're in a 15 by 15 box.
00:38:01.000But if Texas, the AG filed a lawsuit, and he did, the state of Texas did, and the Supreme Court refused to hear it, We're getting to the point where you have a state saying, you are not abiding by the law.
00:38:15.000How close are we until Texas just says, we don't care what the federal government thinks.
00:38:51.000See, I don't think that it'll happen that quickly.
00:38:54.000I think that what's going to happen if we have a secession movement that really takes hold is that you're going to start to see the federal government become more hands-off, but you're still going to see military bases and alphabet agencies still there, still active, but you're just going to start to see the rest of the influence decline.
00:39:11.000I think if Texas secedes, then you're going to have states in the union who say, we need access to X resource.
00:39:19.000Now, normally we deal with Texas, but now there's a border and there are new regulations popping up and new negotiations to be had.
00:39:25.000China then comes in and says, we're going to give you that resource 10% off.
00:39:32.000Much more likely to go about things that way.
00:39:33.000And then within 10 years, they're completely dependent upon China.
00:39:37.000The Texas industry of oil or whatever they're producing gets gutted and destroyed because
00:39:56.000But then we'll see probably what we're already seeing right now in Europe, which is that people tend to freak out when you see another country, a major military power, start to encroach on your border.
00:40:05.000And I think that the United States, even if Texas completely seceded,
00:40:09.000would still keep a strong military alliance with Texas.
00:40:12.000And if China started doing anything particularly sketchy, I think the United States military
00:40:17.000would lose their minds and go to town.
00:40:20.000I look at all this stuff happening, and I'm just frustrated by how stupid our government is.
00:40:37.000Thomas and Alito, probably the only people who have any backbone to them, the only ones who were willing to hear that Texas lawsuit, and they didn't issue a ruling on the merits.
00:40:44.000They just said, original jurisdictions lawsuits are within our purview.
00:41:10.000So the implication there is that they didn't hear it because they were afraid that the country would freak out and people would lose their minds if they gave their honest opinions.
00:41:21.000Which just means that two years later, the confidence in the election is shattered.
00:41:26.000The American people feel like there's no regis of grievances.
00:41:37.000You look at the Constitution right now and you gotta wonder what rights are being protected at all, if any.
00:41:44.000You've got major corporations who have taken political speech.
00:41:47.000Now you've got a fracturing of American culture based on the fact that people could not gather and communicate anymore because no one was willing to address that issue.
00:41:55.000Or I should say, at the very least, one faction was suppressing the other and you had a bunch of people in Silicon Valley.
00:42:00.000Second Amendment has been infringed upon for the past hundred plus years in every possible way.
00:42:05.000It is clear-cut the right of the people to keep and bear arms.
00:42:09.000The Third Amendment Mostly not being infringed.
00:42:13.000But there was one issue of the eviction moratorium.
00:42:17.000When the federal government said that you couldn't evict people, there were landlords who said, my tenant is active duty.
00:42:26.000That means the government is mandating I keep an active duty service member in my home.
00:43:27.000Luke Rudkowski last week, I think it was, made an interesting allusion between the enabling act that Hitler signed that stripped the Germans of their rights to the Patriot Act and I think that might actually be a lot more realistic.
00:45:31.000You look at the prominent right-wing voices or moderate or libertarian voices, and they're not Q. You look at the left, they're all Blue Anon.
00:45:55.000Okay, but there's no person claiming to be that.
00:46:01.000Like, there's no queue either, you know what I mean?
00:46:02.000It's just stupid online forums where people believe whatever.
00:46:05.000But the Blue Anon people are like, any day now, Trump's gonna get arrested, and they post memes of Trump in handcuffs, like, being walked out, and they're like, it's coming, it's coming!
00:46:14.000They have been screaming that Donald Trump is gonna be arrested for, like, four years now.
00:46:46.000But I kind of feel like, Accepting you lose an election is because you have a stable system of governance and a culture in which you agree with people.
00:46:55.000I suppose if we've come to the point in the U.S.
00:46:57.000where we have no unifying culture other than gluttony, then... Dependence.
00:47:02.000We've got roads and currency and education styles and communication.
00:47:09.000I can drive to my parents' house in Ohio.
00:47:13.000We have a lot of things binding us as a culture.
00:47:15.000But we have our culture is fracturing is the issue.
00:47:18.000Yeah, so that has really done that education.
00:48:15.000What changes it is the internet because you'll have like sleeper cells on Facebook groups where they're like, you go and infiltrate your neighbor's meeting and then we'll have an agent there on Thursday.
00:48:26.000All these different groups will come together.
00:48:27.000A small town where people are more likely to know each other.
00:48:31.000They're more likely to be conservative.
00:48:33.000They're more likely to go to church together.
00:48:35.000They're not going to break the window of their neighbor's house to steal his bread.
00:48:38.000New York City, on the other hand, their neighbors don't know each other at all.
00:48:43.000I lived below, above, and across from people I never met.
00:49:14.000Yeah, I think they would end that pretty quickly.
00:49:15.000And I wanted to say, too, I think this is making me think that maybe part of the reason that one in five people in the Soviet Union were informants by the end was because they were living in such close quarters.
00:49:25.000Because I was gonna say, I was gonna argue with Tim and be like, oh, no, you know, remember one in five people, you know, people and families were selling each other out.
00:49:31.000But I was like, maybe that's because they were cramped in, like, what was functionally a gulag apartment.
00:49:36.000I mean, desperate to try to, well, not get thrown in the gulag, right, but also to garner goodwill with your superiors who have their thumb on you.
00:49:43.000I think smaller towns, you're going to see a lot less rioting.
00:49:47.000And you do see a lot less rioting in general, you know, for any reason.
00:49:52.000In New York, where the guy who lives 10 feet from the other guy doesn't know who the other guy is, oh, they're going to rob you blind.
00:49:57.000It's like, I'm hungry, you got beans, those beans are mine.
00:50:00.000Yeah, it's like, I think it's called the concept of Anomi, you know, being anonymous in a giant crowd, because you just can, you can just blend right in like a fish.
00:50:08.000So I'm thinking about, so we've got this food shortage coming.
00:50:12.000And let me see if I if I have this story.
00:50:15.000New York Post says record diesel prices could lead to food shortages in US, farmers warn.
00:50:20.000So I'm thinking about this, and there was a post from, what is it, Pwn All The Things, a Twitter account, saying that Lebanon and Kazakhstan, all these other states, get a majority of their wheat and crops from Ukraine and Russia.
00:50:47.000I mean, I think you're also going to see begging for foreign aid and that foreign aid is going to come in and probably say that things will have to get really bad before people start going to war.
00:51:15.000So food's gonna be more expensive, less readily available.
00:51:18.000Then what people don't understand is that this story right here, farmers need diesel to get the crops.
00:51:24.000So now if the gas is in short supply, six bucks a gallon, three times more than it was last year, and there's less food as it was, your loaf of bread is going to be 20 bucks.
00:51:33.000I will say that with, I'll give you one little white pill though, which is that these industries, some of the people who move in these industries can make technological advances really rapidly.
00:51:43.000That will hinge on whether or not the federal government administration, the agencies really, the federal agencies allow them to do that.
00:51:50.000And we saw them do it really rapidly, you know, set aside testing requirements for certain types of drugs that came out over the last couple of years.
00:52:00.000I would hope that they would do the same when it comes to food.
00:52:22.000So that meant that there was a large amount of starch available but not enough vitamins.
00:52:27.000So one of the arguments made as to why poor people are so fat Is because in order to get the same amount of folate or thiamine or, you know, whatever B vitamins, you've got to eat four times as much heavy grains than you used to.
00:52:40.000So poor people trying to get the nutritional value are eating massive amounts of starch, gaining fat.
00:53:12.000But again, there are a lot of regulatory hurdles, and it would take a lot of work to get everybody implementing these practices really rapidly, but it is technically possible.
00:53:21.000And if it's technically possible, then I'm going to be optimistic.
00:53:24.000I'm going to be like Mary and be like, yay!
00:54:39.000To go back to the point I was saying about the food and fuel stuff is that I think if it really got to the point where in the U.S.
00:54:46.000we're in short supply for food and we're not in a position to do foreign aid and send food anywhere else, these other countries that are smaller I don't think are as likely to internally implode.
00:55:46.000We have a ton of food in the Central Valley.
00:55:48.000We don't have great water infrastructure, so that's a real problem.
00:55:52.000Colorado says, probably not even just Colorado, but Arizona, Nevada, they say, we want food, you want the water that comes from our states.
00:56:00.000Without a federal government enforcing these treaties, what do you do?
00:56:03.000Southern California exists only because of the Colorado River water.
00:57:06.000Yeah there are desalination plants and it's doable it's not very cost effective yet but that technology is also like they're trying to improve it and I'm sure that if we were in a real serious crunch and the dot you know was turned off you would see that you know propel rapidly.
00:57:21.000I'm not convinced California can make it, to be honest.
00:57:25.000The level of corruption and mismanagement is so intense that I'm not convinced that in a real crisis, people would come together to solve it.
00:57:33.000Okay, so what if California collapses before Texas secedes?
00:57:38.000You think that might change people's attitudes about secession if they see, or just politics in general and the turmoil, if they see these... I think it might exacerbate the issues.
00:57:49.000We're the 11th largest economy in the world in California.
00:57:52.000And if that collapsed, that would be... Well, actually, you would feel that globally.
00:58:11.000What if they used the salt from the ocean to boil to get the heat to produce the electricity to desalinate the ocean water to get more salt to boil?
00:58:30.000Molten salt, what they'll do is take all this They have these mirror arrays and they focus the light at the center tower, which is containing salt.
00:58:37.000The salt melts and then overnight it stays molten.
00:58:40.000So it produces, boils water and just massive amounts of steam power.
00:59:35.000But just think about desalination, which they have one plant in Carlsbad, I think I've been there, it was really cool to watch.
00:59:41.000They have these massive tubes and they just force at really high pressure the water through these filters, which then purifies it and then pump out all the brackish water back into the ocean.
00:59:52.000Local environmentalists are saying the brackish water, it's brine, it goes down to the bottom and kills all of the base level organisms, which wipes out the food chain straight up.
01:00:06.000So then we have to pick, which is a very major dilemma for people who are very far left and progressive, what matters more, human life or ocean life?
01:00:15.000And then we have to also pick on our energy, which everyone hates.
01:01:09.000It's just that it's the level of communication and the level of hyper-tribalization that's causing the Here's what I'm saying with, you get rid of luxury and security, you have no leftists, because when people have to think about survival, that's when they're like, me and no one else, and I'll do what it takes.
01:01:33.000You're not going to have, I mean, you may have people at this point who are like starving and on the street crawling, being like, I will not eat the food.
01:01:48.000Yeonmi Park said starvation is like all you can think of is food when you're starving.
01:01:53.000She came from North Korea and fled the country and said that she fled because she was starving so she chose to become a sex slave in China to get out so she had food.
01:02:14.000Yeah, I think that a lot of what we see in modern politics, particularly with feminism, is due to the fact that we are a bubble of security.
01:02:21.000So if you think about evolutionary psychology and you go way back in time, like, men were like, we have to die to protect the women, because the women are the ones who, like, create people.
01:03:19.000And then a bunch of the guys would die on the hunt or in war, but the women would survive and have kids.
01:03:24.000So that ends up with, you know, in Europe with the escalation of warfare between nations, the women are staying in the home to be protected and the men are going out and doing work and then you build a society based on those ideas and you get traditional gender roles.
01:03:37.000So I'm not saying those are good things.
01:03:38.000I'm just saying that's the common idea.
01:03:41.000The stark human reality of our biological conditions.
01:03:45.000Yeah, so we end up with this safety bubble and luxury bubble.
01:03:49.000We produce all this oil and energy, and now we have people who can gorge themselves and not have to do any work.
01:04:14.000I mean, maybe some of those ideas started to exist because we had technological advancements.
01:04:20.000But if you're like, we are being bombarded in a raiding party just stole the last of our chickens, you wouldn't be going like he said a naughty word, you'd be like, I'm dying and I need food.
01:04:27.000Yeah, it's, it's, it is first world problems.
01:04:34.000I'm just saying I don't think the modern left could exist in... I kind of feel like if you took your modern leftist, forced them to work on a farm for a couple weeks, they would really change their minds.
01:04:47.000Unless they're, like, deeply rooted in their neuroses, and then they would be like, I should be in charge of the farm and you should serve me.
01:04:53.000I mean, that's kind of what parents do with bad kids when they send them off to wilderness survival camp.
01:04:59.000Some of them come back totally changed.
01:05:01.000But even that is so contrived and fake.
01:05:04.000Like, I've been thinking about it recently, how, like, when people grew up on farms and they saw animals reproducing and giving birth and dying, Uh, it would be impossible to have the level of confusion about gender and life and death that we have right now.
01:06:31.000That's exactly it, as the cartoons dictate.
01:06:32.000Like how much free will do we have as a species?
01:06:35.000Cause like you're saying, or you guys, this keeps coming up that like, unless we're absolutely forced to change, like you're saying, California, if the power goes out, then you'll start to see people like pushing this technology.
01:06:45.000If they run out of water, they're going to start desalinating.
01:06:48.000Like, how much are we actually in control or, like, deciding to go against our instinct?
01:06:52.000How much of it is just, only when we need to do it are we gonna do it?
01:06:55.000Well, it's free will, but there's a lot of people who don't exercise free will.
01:07:00.000There's long-term thinking and short-term thinking.
01:07:02.000And I think you'll find among the I guess culture war right, whatever you want to call it.
01:07:08.000I always just say post-liberals, moderates, libertarians, and conservatives, a tendency towards long-term thinking and delayed gratification.
01:07:16.000And among the left, you get instant gratification and short-term thinking.
01:07:25.000I don't know why this meme is emergent on the left.
01:07:26.000And they're like, why don't we plant fruit trees in cities so that everyone can just eat fruit and not have to worry about where their food comes from.
01:07:33.000Why don't we just do the good thing so that the bad thing don't happen?
01:07:37.000Yeah, do you guys know why we don't do public fruit trees in big cities?
01:07:41.000So, well, there's a couple of reasons.
01:07:55.000And then the other thing is when we transplant fruit-bearing trees into cities, the fruit rots, and then you get pests, insects, rats, and pigeons, and then disease.
01:08:05.000Someone has to come and collect the fruit and maintain the tree.
01:08:09.000It's this remarkably childish, short-term, single-layer thought that I keep seeing where they're like, Imagine walking down the street and the trees had fruit on them.
01:08:17.000It's like, oh, and there's no negative repercussions.
01:12:12.000Like, atheism isn't on the rise as far as I know.
01:12:15.000It's just a religiosity that's on the rise.
01:12:18.000Nobody is dogmatic these days about being an electrified meat sack.
01:12:26.000I don't think people feel strongly and are animated by that belief.
01:12:30.000I think they're the exception, not the rule.
01:12:32.000Like, there's a handful, you know, the amazing atheist and those types.
01:12:36.000Yeah, I think I agree with you, but I think you don't need to be a zealous atheist going door-to-door and preaching the word of why there's no God to live in a world with no moral framework and believing your will be done.
01:13:42.000This is a game where you play, you collect items, you try to make it to the end, and if you die, you just start over, and it's a procedurally generated world that's always different.
01:13:51.000And I thought to myself, in this game that I am playing, I've come to points where I felt like I just didn't have enough items, or ropes, or I didn't have the jetpack, and I'm like, meh, and I just jumped my guy into spikes.
01:14:02.000Then the game starts over and I try again.
01:14:04.000There was no consequence to ending my character's life.
01:14:07.000But here in this world, there's a massive consequence to doing it.
01:14:11.000And then I thought about that and I was like, that makes me feel like there is a greater purpose and there is something that matters to this universe beyond me.
01:14:16.000It is not just about me and being like, well, you know, my life wasn't good enough.
01:14:22.000You'd have a massive wave of negative consequences for everyone around you.
01:14:25.000Those who depend on you and rely on you.
01:14:28.000And then I'm like, so there just is easily to me something outside of me that matters, that my will is not the most important will in existence.
01:15:10.000And they were like, bro, we can't hang with you.
01:15:12.000We'd prefer it if you didn't compete I'd be like, okay, no problem.
01:15:16.000I probably wouldn't win, I'm just saying, if that was the instance where I was like, you're too good at this, it wouldn't be fair to everybody else, I'd be like, alright, I'm out, I get it.
01:15:24.000But imagine being like, no, I'm better and I deserve it.
01:15:26.000I'm gonna come in here and everyone has to watch me.
01:15:28.000Aren't you weirded out by that at all?
01:16:04.000But I'm not such a freak that I don't want to have other friends and think about how my actions affect other people and the people that I'm close to.
01:16:13.000And they, as responsible individuals, should feel the same way.
01:16:17.000And so I do believe that there is a strong sense of connection to other human beings through that.
01:16:21.000It's through personal responsibility and caring and also understanding that every human value has some sort of, you know, unique, intrinsic value to it.
01:16:29.000And sure, some people are more valuable than others, depending on how they contribute to the world and what they do to you.
01:16:34.000But I would say that we're all born, you know, screaming and naked into this world with still some little bit of intrinsic, unique value.
01:16:41.000I wonder where that comes from, you know, because I was raised Christian, Catholic, and I certainly feel like I don't know if there is going to be judgment or if it's just karma, but it certainly feels like what you do matters.
01:17:38.000Feeling even maybe like when you look at these clouds of plasma on the way they move.
01:17:42.000I mean, maybe they're not intelligent, but they definitely seem to be reacting to stimuli so that I get you're Alluding to some kind of spiritual after image energy, but you're magnetic field karma.
01:17:56.000I think it exists within the magnetic fields behavior.
01:17:58.000I But there's like, how is that... I don't understand.
01:18:02.000If you do something mean to someone, how does something bad happen to you after the fact?
01:18:07.000You're programming your field or the field around you with that behavior and then that behavior is going to encourage you to continue with this programming.
01:18:15.000So you're saying like, your intentions and actions emit an energy that has a reciprocal effect back on you.
01:18:19.000Yeah, I don't know if emit energy is exactly the right word.
01:18:22.000They seem to be spinning the reality in a way that becomes...
01:18:53.000He took us into the war, he's gonna have bad karma.
01:18:55.000But he felt fine about it, as far as I can tell.
01:18:57.000So I think it's if you feel good about doing evil, you're gonna have good karma.
01:19:00.000If you feel bad about doing good, you're gonna have bad karma.
01:19:03.000That's interesting because so I'm trying to compare that to how I feel about kind of something you touched on earlier which is when you do something bad and then you do it again.
01:19:15.000I don't know if I agree with you on that Ian, because I kind of feel like the way I've often described it is serving organization and order is typically good and serving chaos and destruction is typically bad, but not always, but tendency towards, kind of like a yin-yang kind of thing.
01:19:33.000And so I kind of view the world like that.
01:19:35.000I don't know, like I was saying, maybe it's because I was raised Christian, but I feel that if I wrong other people, I will regret it.
01:19:44.000There's a badness to it that will affect you in some way.
01:20:02.000A good person to ask is a soldier that killed in combat, because if you're killing for the greater good for your country, you have good karma.
01:20:10.000I hope that good karma comes to you for doing that.
01:20:33.000That's their intent, and then there's the object of what they did, which some people would argue is murder, but others would argue is defending your country.
01:20:43.000Yeah, because you could think you did it and have the karma still affect you.
01:20:46.000And then there's the consequence, like maybe you thought you killed someone, but you didn't.
01:20:49.000You have a simulation in your mind or something?
01:20:52.000Like a metaverse, some weird mind... A car crash happens and you think it was your fault.
01:20:56.000Yeah, if you just mistook your action for some other action.
01:20:59.000Well, how does that relate to karma, if you feel guilty about something that wasn't technically your fault?
01:21:03.000I just mean there are many factors that go into evaluating whether an action was virtuous or vicious.
01:21:10.000To sort of wrap it all back, I guess what I was trying to say is that I find a tendency among many of these leftists is that They don't have that fear.
01:21:36.000And I'm like, I can't, that is too, it's too, at some point you just got to get down with being destructive because it's a huge part of what we are.
01:22:05.000I grew up in a very conservative home, whatever.
01:22:06.000You know, I was the only girl in the neighborhood.
01:22:09.000And I had sort of a reaction to my own violent behavior and I was very committed to nonviolence.
01:22:13.000But it did get to a point for me with Crohn's disease where I had to make a literal life and death decision and I had to get over my neuroses and change my diet because I could eat nothing else.
01:22:25.000I think a lot of environmentalists and Janus and people like that have that incredible guilt associated with it and paranoia and neuroses, which is interesting.
01:22:35.000With the implications that Tim raised of basically kind of, it's almost like they don't have a conscience in these certain respects, because a lot of them also behave in this very compartmentalized, nonviolent way towards animals and environmentalism.
01:22:48.000But it almost makes me think maybe some of it is self-hatred and self-loathing.
01:22:53.000I want to be careful, too, because I don't think it's absolute when I say, like, leftist.
01:22:58.000I'm not trying to say, like, literally every person on the left thinks this.
01:23:01.000I just say there's a tendency towards.
01:23:03.000I certainly think you've got people who claim to be conservative and religious who are just really bad people, of course.
01:23:08.000But I think, you know, typically what I'm referring to in this is not the fringes, it's the mainstream.
01:23:16.000Among the mainstream and establishment left, I question the morality of these personalities who don't seem to have one when they'll say, stop-and-frisk is bad, red-flag laws are good.
01:24:29.000High profile, prominent individuals who are angry, arrogant, and use their ignorance for influence, or in their ignorance they influence, not even an effort to Google search it.
01:26:45.000But imagine if your entire day was dominated by just, if I'm gonna live, I gotta do this.
01:26:51.000And you had no free time because you're just mashing grains and then eating what you get.
01:26:53.000I can see how it would be rewarding because there's purpose in it.
01:26:56.000Like if there was a big city of us and I had to be the guy that made the bread, I'm fucking down, man.
01:27:02.000It feels rewarding to give and to know that people are gonna survive because of my work, whatever it is, more so than like, You know, hitting level 90 in Skyrim because no one, although it takes many, many more hours and it's more fun, you could even say it's not rewarding.
01:27:17.000Like I turn the game off and it's not, no one is eating healthy now.
01:27:23.000Tim, you say that would allow for no free time, but I think with that repetitive action, if that were the defining action of your life, it would end up being more of a meditative practice.
01:27:37.000And people don't do that anymore because thinking makes them sad.
01:27:42.000But also you'd be like Ian and I were hanging out.
01:28:47.000You sit around all day, you play video games, you go to the grocery store, there's your Flamin' Hot Cheetos and your Mountain Dew, and it's just there!
01:29:00.000You have people who come from South America, Central America to come to America and come to the United States and work for like 10 bucks an hour at like a fast food restaurant.
01:29:10.000And you ask them why and they're like, I'm going to get 400 bucks this month, this week, man.
01:29:15.000I was making like 40 bucks a week back home.
01:29:34.000When I, when I worked in restaurants, when I was in college, the dishwashers who were Latin, Latin American always worked two full-time jobs and they would get off of the shift wherever I was at and go to their other job.
01:29:45.000And we were all like, well, it had our minds blown by that.
01:29:47.000And they were like, well, of course I work 16 hour days.
01:29:49.000Why, why wouldn't I work to stay alive and send money to my family?
01:29:54.000It would just, It's a completely different paradigm.
01:30:04.000I should sit around reading Harry Potter and the Handmaid's Tale and get money for it.
01:30:06.000And a lot of them live in quote-unquote poverty, according to them.
01:30:10.000But what really is, they have a smartphone, they have Netflix, they're in a studio apartment, and they're on unemployment, and they're on food stamps or whatever, but they're still getting groceries from the regular grocery store.
01:30:50.000Let's preserve as much luxury as possible.
01:30:52.000That's what I'm thinking because it's spreading around the world.
01:30:54.000People, countries want, people want, they want to sit in air conditioning, they want running water, they want prosperity, they want fresh showers, they want good food.
01:31:22.000So there are some things where it's like, okay, I think the double quarter pounder with extra, you know, sauce and a super fry and a liter of cola...
01:32:03.000I don't, I wouldn't, I don't think it's necessarily a person or another person that's like, this guy's greedy.
01:32:08.000That guy's not, but people can, they can phase in and out of greed due to external circumstances being, you know, that's up for debate.
01:32:16.000That would take an hour to even talk about.
01:32:19.000Anyway, the whole point of that whole conversation, I guess, was that I think part of what the conflict is in this country is there are people who think they should get things from you or from the government.
01:32:28.000Or like when we had this progressive on, and he kept saying the government should pay for it, the government should pay for it.
01:32:33.000And I'm like, that comes from the taxpayer.
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01:35:22.000I don't trust the law enforcement at all to do anything.
01:35:25.000And I know a few ex-police officers who are libertarian and pretty nice guys.
01:35:31.000But they're the exception, not the rule.
01:35:32.000It's just it's bureaucracy, but with guns.
01:35:35.000There's a, I posted this video I saw on Reddit.
01:35:37.000It was a couple, I think Norwegian young men were shot multiple times by some random dudes and they called their version of 911 and the lady didn't believe them.
01:35:47.000He was like, help, we're dying, my friend's dying.
01:35:59.000I was at a shooting at a Thai restaurant in Hollywood.
01:36:01.000They stepped over my waitress slash friend as she was dying and walked into the restaurant looking around just stepped right over her body.
01:36:40.000What are your plans with the party in the short term?
01:36:43.000Well, we've been doing some aggressive overhaul of our messaging, strategic planning, putting together, I don't know, actual plans for our long-term and short-term future, trying to rework how we tackle ballot access things.
01:36:56.000You know, I'd like to see us do more lobbying instead of petitioning.
01:37:00.000We're just basically, it's a 50-year startup that I'm coming in, basically, like it's a startup.
01:37:29.000So, um, Josie, the redhead, redheaded libertarian often points out that the 1964 Civil Rights Act excludes communists from civil rights protections.
01:37:45.000The 1964 Civil Rights Act says, like, this bill will not be construed to protect those who are communists or members of communist organizations or something like that.
01:38:41.000It's less libertarian politics and more about policy and industry and how government, you know, ruins those things for us all.
01:38:50.000All right, Travis Bost says, the LP of the Eastern Panhandle would love a shout out or even a visit, meeting this Wednesday at the Ladder House in Martinsburg, and also our LPEP convention on 7-16.
01:39:53.000And then as soon as we pulled up the, um, then we have a bunch of super chats because as soon as we pulled up the one display on the screen, it shut the mics off.
01:40:01.000So there's a bunch of people saying no audio.
01:42:32.000They mean their democracy, not our constitutional republic.
01:42:35.000They've been building their democracy.
01:42:37.000We live in a constitutional republic, and the democracy is threatening our constitutional republic, and so we're like, that's bad, and their democracy is losing, and so they're like, our democracy.
01:42:46.000Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on who's for dinner.
01:45:09.000Yeah, he fell because he had clips on the pedals.
01:45:12.000And so when he took his left foot out, he started to lean to his right, take his right foot out, but he got caught in the clip and fell forward.
01:47:17.000I would love to see some Libertarians win congressional seats.
01:47:21.000We're working on that, but the way that it's got to really play out is we've got to make that a long-term goal.
01:47:27.000We've got to focus on winning local elections right now.
01:47:31.000You still got to run people at the national level because that's how you get the name recognition, but the bulk of our attention needs to be on localization and grassroots so that we can stack political capital, gain experience, and then start moving up.
01:47:43.000Is there any value to politicians that are already in office switching their party?
01:47:47.000And one of the things that I'd like to do is try to convince people to switch on their last term, whether they're terming themselves out or they're moving on to something else.
01:47:54.000Like if you could switch their last six months to libertarian, I think that would be really good for us.
01:50:39.000It's definitely lighter material than what you get on IRL.
01:50:43.000So, you know, if, if talking about pop culture also like makes you feel like you're losing your mind a little bit, then I think it's someplace that you can feel like you're normal.
01:50:55.000I'm someone that completely avoids it, but being able to talk about it with people that know what they're talking about is really invigorating.
01:51:27.000Well, I mean, I've disclosed a little bit that their wokeism had infiltrated the LP, and so as that has been on its way out, now the Libertarian Party and Free State Project are best friends again, as they should be.
01:52:00.000Yeah, so when people were like, go to Texas, I was like, I don't know about that.
01:52:03.000Oh, well, it could end up flipping blue.
01:52:05.000I really hope not because that is... Imagine being in Texas and it flips blue and you're like, I built a business here and moved from California.
01:52:12.000I would have another worldview imploding.
01:52:15.000But the Rio Grande Valley, man, looking at what's happening with the Hispanic community, voting Republican, I think it's actually probably pulling the other direction.
01:52:24.000Plus, with people like Joe Rogan or Michael Malice moving down there, I think it's going to be red.
01:52:31.000I'm moving down there in a couple months.
01:52:46.000My problem with libertarianism is that the freedom idea of freedom, I feel like we've created kind of a prison that we live within that protects us to be free within the prison.
01:52:54.000And without the external prison force of the U.S.
01:52:56.000military, we're not, we might think we're free, but if the bombs start dropping, no one will, will protect us.
01:53:07.000I totally understand people's concerns about military might and foreign empires.
01:53:11.000I don't think that military defense would collapse if we were more libertarian.
01:53:15.000I think we would just bring our troops home so that we wouldn't have entangling alliances all over the world.
01:53:20.000And we would probably have a much more robust defense system.
01:53:24.000What about the problem when, if you're fortified and entrenched in one area that everyone knows where you are, they can organize around you and coordinate an attack?
01:54:27.000I know times have been hard for a lot of people financially, which is like we, uh, Bill had booked the event before COVID, like a year before COVID.
01:54:33.000And then COVID was like, hello, economy.
01:54:36.000And so now people are like, yeah, I don't know.
01:54:38.00075 bucks is a lot to go to New York city to get a hotel, but they're free ticket request form too.
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01:54:46.000Alright, Mina Misnoen says, This is civil war, collapse, the death of God, loss of faith in man, culture, God, etc., and many things recurring at once, setting the stage for what's to come.
01:55:03.000You know, looking at the food crisis, the fuel crisis, the Ukraine-Russia war and civil war, I'm like, everything's sort of happening all at once.
01:55:12.000It's everything, everywhere, all at once.
01:55:21.000But anyway, it's like all of this is happening all at the same time, and it feels like the end result is going to be from the ashes of the old, we will build a new.
01:55:29.000Yeah, I worry about a rise in fervent nationalism because that is not going to be a long-term solution.
01:55:34.000Because that is not good for our private industry either and it's not good for individual rights.
01:55:38.000Yeah, that's what happened in Hitler's Germany as the nationalist psychopathy took over.
01:55:44.000There was all the quote-unquote degeneracy and, you know, people not having jobs and civil unrest, discontent, started blaming certain people.
01:58:00.000Because we have Sony TV and LG TV, and I pull up the apps and I can't get the Daily Wire, so we tried doing, you know, casting from the phone and stuff, and I'm like, man.
02:00:28.000What is it about the Mises caucus that stands out?
02:00:32.000We want to make the Libertarian Party more welcoming to libertarians.
02:00:35.000There is a much larger liberty movement and the Libertarian Party has historically in the last 20 years especially rejected it and gone more centrist moderate and over the last five years like very woke and begging for mainstream appeal.
02:00:51.000Remember who was the candidate last time?
02:01:35.000We had a Christmas tree, this is almost two and a half years ago, and Luke Rutkowski put a picture of Ron Paul on top and he said, I couldn't decide between a star or an angel, so I chose both.
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02:04:21.000I just found out, saw evidence that the sun may not actually be Super hot gas, but actually metallic hydrogen that's hexagonally latticed, just like graphene.