On today's show, we have a special guest, Dave Smith of the MisesCulture Podcast, who joins us to talk about the latest in the Trump impeachment saga, including the new indictments against Donald Trump and others.
00:01:02.000But the craziest thing is that Democrats are basically just deciding to, what, knock the pegs out from this country to just tear it down a little bit with these dubious charges?
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00:03:42.000This will be interesting because it's seeing you talk about the indictment and everything, but coming from a libertarian perspective, it's funny how they often try and just accuse you of being like a Trump-supporting conservative.
00:03:55.000Yeah, I mean, like, it's, you know, I get it from all angles like that.
00:03:58.000I mean, I'm a sharp critic of Donald Trump.
00:04:01.000Last time I was on the show, I mean, you talked a lot about that, and we kind of disagreed about it.
00:04:05.000But I convinced you of everything, and now you agree with me, so... Yeah, no, I was right.
00:04:09.000Well, here, I'll tell you something I was wrong about, because as you guys know, I'm right about almost everything.
00:04:14.000But you know what I was really wrong about?
00:04:15.000I remember when they first put the special prosecutor on Donald Trump, when Robert Mueller was first assigned to him, I was just convinced, I knew obviously there was going to be nothing with a Russian conspiracy because I knew that was all made up, and libertarians know not to trust the CIA, but I really did think they would get him for something.
00:04:35.000I was just like, the guy was a real estate developer in New York City.
00:05:21.000Hopefully I will come up with some 20s.
00:05:24.000If you could do us a favor and randomly interrupt the conversation with non sequiturs and talks of graphene, that would be greatly appreciated.
00:06:54.000Here's the satisfying icing on the cake.
00:06:57.000Vox.com wrote, Yesterday, the dubious legal theory at the heart of the Trump indictment explained, no one knows if Donald Trump can be prosecuted for the hush money payment.
00:07:06.000The actual original title of this article was, will Trump actually be convicted?
00:07:24.000So I gotta say, like, okay, you know, maybe we'll end up sitting back, and what's really happening is this moron of a DA steps out from a local office and embarrasses the Democratic Party nationally, and Trump is playing the game because he knows every step of the way it's humiliating to them.
00:07:42.000Yeah it is it's it's really something to see man and you know like as I said before even as a sharp critic of Donald Trump for other reasons not like the stupid ones but this is just look the guy was just objectively this is a guy who was as sitting president for Framed for treason like framed for treason by his own deep
00:08:02.000state. Yeah a real-deal attempted coup They all knew he was not involved in a conspiracy with
00:08:07.000Russia Nobody at the CIA or the FBI actually believed that none of
00:08:12.000them believed Carter Page was a Russian agent They knew he was a new for them the CIA told the FBI that
00:08:18.000he was an informant for the CIA and then the FBI Said on their FISA court application that the CIA
00:08:25.000corroborated that he had talked to the Russians But they left out the part that then he came right back to the CIA and informed them of this.
00:08:33.000So this is, it is, I don't know for sure if this Soros-backed DA is like in on some grand conspiracy.
00:08:40.000he might be, but there is no question that what Donald Trump laid out in his speech last
00:09:05.000The problem is that that would implicate Joe Biden and Barack Obama and Bill Clinton and George Bush and Dick Cheney, and so they're not gonna do that, and so they gotta go after him for this stuff.
00:09:19.000I mean, you know, they indicted Trump and it's fair game now.
00:09:22.000So what I said the other day is that any conservative DA in Colorado or the San Diego area, wherever Abdulrahman Al-Awlaki lived, there's no statute of limitations on murder.
00:09:31.000So they could indict Barack Obama for the murder of Abdulrahman Al-Awlaki.
00:09:36.000Or even Anwar Al-Awlaki, for that matter, who was his father.
00:09:39.000Look, he was radicalized and he swore allegiance to Al-Qaeda, but when you're an American citizen, You have to be charged with the crime, and then you have to be convicted of that crime.
00:09:51.000You don't get to just say, this guy said he's with them, so I murdered him.
00:09:56.000And the one that's more damning about Anwar al-Awlaki in a way, even than his, what is his kid, 14 at the time?
00:11:58.000I think two of the four people who broke into Watergate were like CIA connected.
00:12:03.000Just saying there's a lot of shady stuff in the past.
00:12:05.000But what's really interesting about Donald Trump is that Donald Trump, although I will criticize him for not following through with a lot of his rhetoric that was pretty good on some of this stuff, Donald Trump was the first presidential candidate or I should say the first successful presidential candidate who won in any of our lifetimes who ran Yeah.
00:12:25.000unapologetically in opposition to the deep state yeah i mean like he ran saying that like we were lied into
00:12:31.000war in iraq saying that obama created isis saying all of these things that
00:14:53.000And it's even weaker than your analogy because there's no actual crime committed to it.
00:14:59.000Like it's not a crime to pay someone to not talk about something.
00:15:02.000Like to come to an agreement with someone, if I give you this money you won't talk about this.
00:15:06.000And it's not a campaign finance violation.
00:15:08.000The reason why he hasn't been tried federally is because there's already precedent for this with John Edwards, where they tried to say that, oh, you paying off your side piece is a campaign finance violation.
00:15:18.000The problem is that the logic of that is like, oh, it would have hurt your campaign.
00:15:23.000So therefore, it's a campaign finance, you know, or a campaign expense piece.
00:15:27.000But the problem with that is that There's also lots of other non-campaign-related reasons why you might want to, like, he might just not want his wife to find out.
00:15:37.000And you can't say anything that would make you look bad is a campaign expense, or otherwise anything that makes you look good should be a campaign expense, too.
00:15:47.000You should be able to charge your campaign for a new convertible, because you're like, I look good when I drive this.
00:15:52.000The whole thing makes no sense at all.
00:15:55.000Did you watch Alvin Bagg's press conference?
00:16:41.000So, I mean, it's just so freaking absurd.
00:16:44.000And then the Sixth Amendment basically says we have a right to confront our accusers and understand the charges and a speedy trial and all that jazz.
00:16:53.000That's why I've just been saying, like, I mean, I should have been saying this years ago when they, as you pointed out, framed our democratically elected president as a foreign agent and traitor to this country.
00:17:05.000Perhaps I should have been saying, the country ended in 2016.
00:17:08.000Yeah, I mean, I'd go 1913, but sure, wherever you want to start it, creation of the Federal Reserve.
00:17:15.000But I'll say that it's even to me, who's like, you know, I'm pretty against this entire establishment and against every inch of the US federal government.
00:17:26.000I thought I was surprised that they crossed the line once he was president.
00:17:31.000I thought it was a crazy line to cross to frame the presidential candidate, Donald Trump, for treason, but when they actually, you had them doing it to the sitting president, even to me, I was like, wow.
00:17:43.000They're actually going to do this to this guy.
00:17:45.000And look, they didn't remove him from office.
00:17:49.000And in fact, Andrew McCabe, who I believe was the number three at the Justice Department, he talked about this in his 60 Minutes interview, where he says, before they suck Robert Mueller on Donald Trump, they all in the Department of Justice, in the FBI, debated invoking the 25th Amendment.
00:18:06.000They were like, maybe we could just remove... He says this.
00:18:37.000Why not move in this direction of being friends?
00:18:39.000Man, so because they were accusing him of being a Russian agent every day on TV He could never make a deal with Russia because then that would have been seen as like oh look proof He clearly is a Russian agent.
00:18:50.000So then he Donald Trump because he's Not Ron Paul, and not the great president he was supposed to be.
00:18:58.000He went out of his way to prove how anti-Russia he was.
00:20:22.000I will say that Donald Trump's rhetoric over the last, say, couple months has been the best he's been since at least 2016.
00:20:33.000The stuff he's been saying on the Ukraine war has been spot on.
00:20:36.000Now that's a big difference between me actually trusting him, he said some good things in 2016, and then he's putting John Bolton as his national security advisor, so it's one thing to say it, but I will say, man, the other day, when he had that speech or whatever where he said, he was like, the number one enemy for America is not Russia, the number one enemy is, and I was just so sure he was going to say China, and I was already rolling my eyes.
00:21:00.000I was like preemptively rolling my eyes at him saying China.
00:21:03.000And then he went, the number one enemy is the deep state and Washington DC and all of this.
00:21:08.000And I just, I felt myself standing to clap.
00:21:12.000I fought it, but I felt myself standing to clap for him.
00:21:15.000So there's a lot better to see him talking like this than talking about how he saved a million people's lives because he invented the vaccine or whatever.
00:21:22.000Look, you know that he's definitely gonna be there after me, so he's gonna sit there and attack the Deep State.
00:21:30.000And if he wants to go after the bureaucracy more, like for this entire time that he's running, more power to him.
00:21:36.000Attack them, show as much of the bad stuff they do, shine as much light as you can.
00:21:46.000He had the chance to do something about it, and he didn't.
00:21:48.000I just think he has some fire back right now.
00:21:50.000Like when he announced in November, I didn't feel it the way that, you know, obviously the iconic escalator moment.
00:21:55.000And, you know, with East Palestine, with some of his rhetoric, it seems like he has got his momentum back in a way that is truly terrifying to other candidates.
00:22:04.000You can't really compete with Donald Trump when he is ready to spar with you.
00:22:08.000And it's really put him in a fighting position of late.
00:22:11.000Yeah, well, look, and this fuels some conspiracy theories, too, which I don't know if there's any truth to any of them.
00:22:16.000But there is no question to me that it really helps Donald Trump with his base when they raid his home in Mar-a-Lago and when they bring these nonsense charges to him.
00:22:26.000Because it does, again, make him kind of like it gives you this narrative that, of course, as we were saying, is based off a lot of truth that he has been completely targeted.
00:22:35.000But like he won the election in 2016 and he never got a chance to actually be president.
00:22:41.000Let me pull up this story from the Hill.
00:22:43.000GOP rep Thomas Massey endorses DeSantis for 2024.
00:25:24.000And Florida is a much bigger state with an old population.
00:25:27.000And he really put all of his chips in at a very dangerous time on we're not gonna go totalitarian here in florida and it paid off and so i understand where there's there's a reason why he flipped a purple state into a twenty-point red state you know i mean it's it's that you you have to acknowledge that and the mass exodus from these blue states into florida because of his leadership so the question then becomes
00:25:53.000Now, obviously, I know, you know, you're probably a more libertarian guy, but based, like, let's isolate this to the GOP primary.
00:25:59.000Who do you think would be better for the Republicans?
00:26:03.000Well, for the Republicans, and just real clear to preface this, it's not again, cause I was trying to say this last time I was on the show.
00:26:08.000It's not like I'm saying like the, it's like, well, the, I'm not making the perfect the enemy of the good.
00:26:14.000I'm not saying like, I understand Republicans, both Trump or DeSantis would be much better than Joe Biden in a lot of ways.
00:26:21.000My thing is that I think America is going to die.
00:26:25.000Like, I think this is a patient who's bleeding out and you're like, well, a band-aid is better than not a band-aid.
00:26:33.000We need like a revolutionary moment here to drastically cut the size and scope of government.
00:26:41.000I will say from what you asked me, from the Republican perspective, as of right now, I
00:26:46.000got to say, I just don't really see any metric by which DeSantis is better for the Republicans.
00:26:54.000Donald Trump has, as I've known when I've argued with you about my criticisms of Donald Trump, I had a debate with Stix about this, and I've heard back from a lot of the Trump supporters, and I don't even mean this as a knock on them, but there is a bit of a cult of personality going on there.
00:27:11.000If DeSantis goes to war with Donald Trump, which it'll have to be in order for him to challenge him for the nomination, I don't think Trump's people will fall in line with DeSantis.
00:27:22.000And I think the only guy the Republicans have who can actually put that coalition together, whether that's enough to win, I don't know, but I think it's Trump.
00:27:29.000There's probably a lot of moderates who would vote for DeSantis but wouldn't vote for Trump.
00:27:34.000There's a lot of people that will not vote for Trump.
00:27:41.000You know, the other thing, DeSantis is such a big question mark on his foreign policy, and he was really bad as a congressman on this issue.
00:27:48.000Well, elaborate on that, because I've heard people say he was good.
00:27:51.000Oh, no, I mean, well, good if you're like, you know.
00:27:54.000If you think George W. Bush had great foreign policy, then sure.
00:27:58.000But no, he was a complete hawk in every sense of the word.
00:28:03.000He was on board with every one of the military actions that he could have been while he was in Congress.
00:28:10.000Now, that doesn't matter so much when you're governor of Florida.
00:28:13.000And when you're governor of Florida, your COVID policy is a hell of a lot more important than where you stand on the wars.
00:28:19.000But when you're the president of the United States, the most important thing is where you stand on the wars.
00:28:24.000That's the one area where you're like the dictator.
00:28:29.000So about a year ago, in reference to your cult of personality thing with people who have argued, about a year ago I was totally on board for DeSantis.
00:28:35.000And I said, you know, Trump's whining and he won't shut up about 2020 and I'm not interested.
00:28:42.000And then here's DeSantis who's coming and cleaning up all these messes in Florida and doing a great job.
00:28:47.000Now over the past several months I've seen something else.
00:28:49.000Donald Trump has cleaned up his messaging.
00:28:51.000He's come out, he's talked about the war machine, he's talked about the deep state, the economy.
00:28:56.000He's made these videos where he's like, my policy will be to do this thing, and I'm like, these are good.
00:29:01.000He shows up in East Palestine, he buys everybody McDonald's, which was human and endearing, and I really liked it.
00:29:06.000But more importantly, he's gotten back to the, I will crush the deep state and execute order schedule F. And Ron DeSantis, to me, when, this is important because this was a critical moment for me.
00:29:18.000When they said they wanted to indict Trump, and Ron DeSantis two times said, I'm not getting involved in this, I was like, I can't vote for that guy.
00:30:36.000Mitch McConnell said the number one issue, the number one priority as this country is
00:30:42.000crumbling is that we keep supporting Ukraine.
00:30:46.000And so it was kind of interesting to see, now Donald Trump's coming out and saying, telling the truth, which is that this is, we should just be negotiating toward peace right now, this is insane that we're fighting this proxy war.
00:30:57.000DeSantis kind of came out and kind of said like, well I don't know if it's exactly vital that we do this, and then seemed to kind of walk those comments back.
00:31:06.000To me, if there's going to be one compelling case to vote for anybody, It would be, who is going to end this insanity, this game of brinksmanship that has brought us closer to nuclear war than at any point at least since the Cuban Missile Crisis?
00:31:23.000Should any one of their potential candidates, we'll just put it that way, very vaguely, should any one of their candidates become the president, do you think they will execute Schedule F?
00:31:43.000So unless you have, look, a lot of things have to happen in order for that to happen, but let's say if the libertarian candidate for president wins the presidency, then there has already been a major shift in this country, right?
00:31:55.000Like something huge has happened where a whole bunch of people have gone, hey, we're going to completely rethink the way we think about politics right now, and we like this guy who's talking about giving us more of a free country.
00:32:05.000So there would be a tremendous mandate behind that person, unlike any Republican or Democrat could have if they had one, because so many people are just voting for their party.
00:32:14.000And so, yeah, now I would say, of course that's what we would do.
00:32:20.000You'd probably want to do it in a strategically smart way, you know?
00:32:24.000I'd be a little bit concerned about... I wouldn't take any convertible rides through Dallas the day after I gave that order.
00:32:30.000Can I just... I want to make a request to the people who are listening, because I don't have the means to do this, but could somebody take the scene from Star Wars when the Emperor says, you know, Execute Order 66, and just make it Trump in a cloak, and use the 11 Labs AI voice deepfake technology to make Trump say, Execute Schedule F, and then just show a whole bunch of bureaucrats being, like, let out of offices with empty boxes and stuff like that?
00:32:54.000Well, it'll be— Well, it plays the very serious, dramatic, da-da-da-da-da-da-da music.
00:32:57.000Look, I just— The problem with Trump is at least, say, the first time he was president, I never saw anything out of him that convinced me that he would actually follow through with something that bold.
00:33:09.000And every time he flirted around with doing something really bold, he walked it back.
00:33:14.000Whoever got in the room with him, Whatever they convinced him or lied to him or threatened him or whatever it was, he always... He hired the absolute best guy that you should hire, who should have been his defense secretary from day one, but he hired Colonel Douglas McGregor to come in and draw up the plans to end these wars.
00:33:32.000And he hired him after he lost the election to Joe Biden, so they had just this little lame duck period to work with.
00:33:37.000Colonel Douglas McGregor draws up the order to end the war in Afghanistan and Syria and
00:34:47.000I go, I don't know, it just looks a lot different from the inside than it looks from the outside.
00:34:50.000Phil's on the show and he's like, I can't believe we are betrayed by this guy, but I'm going to be sitting down and talking some sense into him.
00:34:56.000And then the next day it's like, he's wearing a suit and he was like, you are all wrong about the war and you hate America.
00:35:04.000Phil, did you always have diamond contact lenses?
00:35:07.000You know, I wouldn't talk about a new job, but there would be signs.
00:37:36.000I'll never understand why Democrats decided that they were going to campaign on abortion is birth control and therefore an attack on abortion is an attack on birth control.
00:37:45.000They should have been like, cool, we lost abortion, so now let's really push to have the pill or condoms or whatever they're trying to get to young people.
00:37:54.000They could have used this as a moment to win something back.
00:37:57.000You took abortions away, and so if you want to prevent us from needing abortions, you should give us birth control.
00:38:12.000However you feel about abortion, like whether you're pro-life or pro-choice or whatever, somewhere in between, there's something interesting about it.
00:38:18.000Abortion in a lot of ways kind of underwrites the entire cultural order that modern day liberalism is built off of.
00:38:28.000Um, anything like the idea of, like, there's no difference between the sexes, or, like, hookup culture, kind of like, any of this, like, rejection of traditional, you know, religious and cultural values, all doesn't work.
00:38:44.000If you don't have access to abortion, because as soon as you don't have access to abortion, it becomes very clear where men and women are different.
00:38:51.000It becomes very clear what the risks of promiscuity is.
00:38:55.000Like, there's just no, like, separating yourself from it.
00:38:58.000And it kind of is this force that pushes you back toward more of a traditional lifestyle.
00:39:03.000If you getting drunk and having sex with some random person can result in you having to
00:39:10.000carry this baby to term, that is going to be a game changer in the post-60s sexual revolution
00:39:53.000If you can't have the basically the type of promiscuous sex with no ramifications,
00:40:00.000then the entire progressive order falls apart.
00:40:04.000Everything from feminism, queer theory, everything just all falls apart.
00:40:09.000Yeah, and like, statism, especially the most ugly forms of it, like big powerful governments, always make the family, the community, the church, the enemy.
00:40:19.000Because these are the things that guard against, they're like hedges on state power.
00:40:24.000They don't want you to have a strong family unit, because then you're much less likely to be dependent on the state.
00:40:29.000They don't want you to be, like, very connected to your community and your church, because then you don't view Barack Obama as a god, because he's just a At the risk of sounding like a red-pilled, like, one of those Manosphere dudes, they don't want dudes that are capable of taking care of their house and taking care of their family and stuff because the more... Yeah, what's up with those dudes, by the way?
00:40:49.000By the way, I agree with the point you just made, but it's like, what is up with all of these podcasts blowing up where it's like some guy winning a debate with, like, five chicks dressed for the club?
00:41:26.000Listen, the problem is that if you actually want relationship advice about what's going to lead to a healthy, stable marriage, take it from people who are in healthy, stable marriages.
00:41:37.000This is what I've always wondered about.
00:41:38.000Have you ever heard of, I don't remember what it's called, but like maybe you should talk about this, this therapist, Esther Perel, who's really big.
00:41:44.000And she has some interesting insights.
00:41:45.000She's a couples counselor, but she's been divorced multiple times.
00:41:49.000And so every once in a while, like someone will be like, you should listen to this episode.
00:42:03.000I feel like it's both ends of the book.
00:42:04.000Like, I've never been married, so therefore I'm probably not the best to hand out marriage advice.
00:42:09.000I like marriage, I'm for it, but I also think I may be as good as the person who's been divorced.
00:42:14.000They have this viral clip from a long time ago of me where I mention something about, like, modern feminists make it impossible to date or something.
00:42:22.000And, like, of course I'm in a relationship.
00:42:24.000And, like, so they misconstrue the point I'm making.
00:42:27.000My advice to guys is you are likely not going to find a healthy relationship in a big city just going to like normal hangouts where people your age go because millennial women are like 78% democrat.
00:42:42.000So you're going to find, whatever this person's views are, tremendous social pressure in their circles to reject whatever it is you might want to bring to the table.
00:42:52.000So the simple way to put it is, you might meet a woman and she's very much like, want to have a family and have kids.
00:42:57.000And then you're like, this is someone I can date.
00:42:59.000And then every person they know and every social media account and everyone who follows them and they follow is screaming, be a CEO and don't have kids.
00:43:06.000And so they're being pushed in both directions.
00:43:09.000And look, I will say, because I didn't mean to, like, rip on those guys that much, I just think it's, like, silly to, like, be debating with these, like, young chicks or whatever, but look, like, I do think there is some, there's a reason they exist.
00:43:19.000They're, like, a necessary pushback to the insanity of modern feminism.
00:43:26.000And it's really funny when you think about it, how much this mentality has destroyed relationships and families in this country, along with a lot of other policies that have made it unaffordable to buy a home or to, you know, like, send kids to college and things like this.
00:43:38.000But there is something to, like, where you go, look, this whole idea that they're like, well, you know, back in the 50s, women were subservient to their husbands.
00:43:47.000And you're like, so now they're subservient to their bosses?
00:43:52.000That's better to be Be, like, subservient to someone who's not even, like, raising your kids with you?
00:43:57.000Did you see the clip from the Whatever podcast where the woman says, if a guy she wants to date doesn't have a girlfriend or isn't sleeping with other women, she assumes something is wrong with him?
00:44:07.000Yeah, but again, it's like, the thing that I think might be misleading about some of these shows is that they go, and they go, see, that's women.
00:44:21.000But there's, like, there are a ton of, like, really great, like, women out there who are, don't have crazy attitudes like that, who will make, like, really good wives and mothers.
00:44:34.000This is the flaw in a lot of that, like, manosphere logic, too, where, like, they take some things that are somewhat true and then extrapolate that they're, like, laws, where they're like, look, what women want is a guy who's, like, tall and is making money and is doing this, who's dominant, who's all of this.
00:44:50.000Like, okay, yes, there's some truth that a lot of those characteristics are attractive to women.
00:44:55.000The truth is that like, okay, like you could be, uh, like a tall, rich, charming guy.
00:45:02.000And all throughout this country, there are plumbers whose wives you couldn't pull from them.
00:45:10.000They would never in a million years fool around behind their husband's back, no matter what you were, because they're in love with their husband, and he makes them happy.
00:45:28.000There are unemployed street musicians who are living at home with the women, with their wives, who are doing heavy lifting, who will not cheat or leave their husbands because they love him and the relationship.
00:46:34.000Like, so much better than you could have imagined it would be, that I just don't like the idea of anyone talking to young men and, like, discouraging them to, like, that being a possibility for them.
00:46:47.000Potentially finding... Yes, and it's like, you can't... No, you can't... Now, it is true, like, take some of that Jordan Peterson advice, get yourself together, improve yourself, make yourself more of the person who will, like, will attract women to you, but then when you do that, find a great one.
00:47:01.000But Peterson's different than, like, the red.
00:47:03.000Oh yeah, no, he's the best of that kind of world.
00:47:08.000Because he's a guy in a happy marriage, you know what I mean?
00:47:11.000Well, I think part of it is, like, duality.
00:47:13.000I think right now, like we were talking about with abortion, like, if you take away some things that we have right now in modern culture, there is no reason to pursue high-quality people because the family unit doesn't matter, and so therefore, like, What is the point of finding someone high quality that are going to be with long-term, monogamously, through thick and thin kind of thing, right?
00:47:31.000Like, I find myself thinking all the time, like, I wish we returned voting rights just to, like, married men who own property.
00:47:37.000Because if you had to be married and own property, and, like, to vote, I feel like our system would be totally different.
00:47:54.000You see the Family Guy joke about this, where it's like it was a flashback, and then it's Peter Griffin talking to someone and he's like, you know, okay, you're free, but you can't vote.
00:49:56.000I mean, it was unbelievable to me that during, I mean, I was screaming at the top of my lungs for as many people who could hear this, but even during the whole, like, uh, uh, during the, all the COVID insanity, they were like, Hey, we want to figure out how to get, it's so funny.
00:50:08.000Watch the federal government say, we're trying to figure out how to get aid to the American people who we rob half their income from.
00:50:53.000If Donald Trump came out and said, please, you don't like me, I know, but I'm gonna abolish taxes on you so you'll have a lot of free money, then Democrats might be like, oh, I hate Trump, I'm gonna vote for that guy.
00:51:07.000I think that, you know, the issue that people have with it is that If in order to do something like that, people would recognize that there have to be drastic cuts in spending along with it, because our government just spends so much damn money.
00:51:24.000And so nobody wants to touch that, including every Republican president of my lifetime, including Donald Trump.
00:51:36.000Trump needs to do a campaign video where he's like wearing the cloak and then there's like fires behind him and he's like, I am shutting down the Federal Reserve, the income tax, vengeance will be mine.
00:51:56.000But he always says this, which is just, when you really think about just how insane the income tax and the IRS are, especially in a professed capitalist country, but he would go, imagine the Soviet Union invaded and conquered the United States of America.
00:52:10.000So we're a free country, and the Soviet Union invades and conquers us.
00:52:14.000We never had anything like the IRS before.
00:52:16.000And then they come in and they say, we are creating the USS IRS.
00:52:22.000It is now a crime to produce something.
00:52:25.000It's a crime to make money in this country.
00:52:28.000And the punishment for the crime is a fee.
00:52:30.000And the more you produce, the higher your fee goes.
00:52:33.000And we've repealed the Fifth Amendment.
00:52:35.000You no longer have a right to not incriminate yourself.
00:52:37.000You must incriminate yourself every single year to the government, who will then assess how much you've produced.
00:52:44.000And therefore, what your punishment should be, how high your fee is, and if you lie when you're incriminating yourself, we will throw you in jail, and if we feel that you, if we decide that you've miscalculated, we'll go back 20 years and just absolutely destroy you.
00:52:57.000Like, if that was the case, it would be so obvious to all of us what happened.
00:53:01.000You went, oh, we were conquered, and now we live under totalitarianism.
00:53:36.000Now, think about that analogy you gave about the Soviet Union, and go back a hundred years, and people are gonna be like, the government's gonna do what?
00:54:31.000The symbiote attaches to Eddie Brock and then tells him it's going to give him everything he wants, make him powerful, get his revenge, makes him more aggressive and angry.
00:54:42.000The United States had this group come in, the Jekyll Island, say, we're going to do this thing, it's going to stabilize your economy, it's going to be so good for you, it's going to make everything better, and then turned the country into a weapon, made it angry and aggressive and imperialist.
00:54:54.000Yeah, I like that analogy a lot, actually.
00:54:58.000I will say, though, I think the biggest story in the world right now is what just happened over the last couple weeks with Xi going to Russia and working out this deal with Vladimir Putin.
00:55:13.000The Chinese have now brokered somewhat of a normalization of relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
00:55:20.000It's like you're seeing, like, In 1991, after the Soviet Union collapsed, the late, evil Charles Krauthammer dubbed it the unipolar moment.
00:55:34.000It seems like we're witnessing the end of the unipolar moment.
00:55:37.000Like we're no longer in just an America-dominated world.
00:55:43.000It's just like the hubris of all of these war hawks in D.C.
00:55:46.000that one year into this war in Ukraine, and you're like, ooh, that's not how the plan was supposed to go, now is it?
00:55:52.000Democracy ain't sweeping the region after we overthrew Saddam, is it?
00:55:56.000But I think Donald Trump saw this, One of the reasons he wanted to run, securing our borders, bringing manufacturing back, was because the U.S.
00:56:04.000unipolar world was destabilizing, and the only way that people like Hillary Clinton and the deep state were able to maintain it was by further spreading thin, expending resources, and it was crumbling.
00:56:15.000And so Trump is like, we're going to make this country great, we're going to bring back jobs, we're going to secure our borders, we've got to get a control on this because otherwise, If we allow the deep state, Biden, Democrat, whoever is running the show, to keep doing this, we're going to spread so thin, it's just going to snap.
00:56:33.000And then the United States will be left holding an empty bag.
00:56:35.000If Donald Trump was the president, we'd have more manufacturing, we'd have a secure border, and then when the unipolar shift happens to a multipolar shift, we're still much more self-sufficient and better off.
00:56:45.000Oh yeah, I mean look, I gotta say, I think The world and America would be better off without America being the dominant, like, hegemon.
00:56:54.000Like, I don't think that's done any favors for the American people.
00:56:57.000I think that, like, it's just allowed us to expand our resources and spread them thinner and thinner.
00:57:02.000Don't get me wrong, it's been really great for Raytheon, and it's been really great for JPMorgan Chase, and like— Some people have benefited from it.
00:57:43.000By forcing countries who would try to oppose us, Gaddafi, Saddam Hussein, they wanted to get off the dollar, they get wiped out.
00:57:51.000The reason why we were doing these awful trade deals, the simplest example, way to understand this, is the Pakistani gender studies grant.
00:57:57.000It was like $12 million for gender studies programs in Pakistan.
00:58:00.000Now, everyone laughs and says it's the stupidest thing I've ever heard, but the idea is, if the U.S.
00:58:05.000can print the money and give it out, it maintains confidence in that currency.
00:58:09.000It may weaken it through inflation, but it makes sure those people use it.
00:58:13.000So you'll get this country, you'll get Pakistan, getting this money, of course that money's not going to gender studies, they're gonna steal and they're gonna use it for whatever they want.
00:58:19.000But if you get a guy who's just given a million dollars, he wants that million dollars to be worth something.
00:58:25.000So he goes to another guy, and the guy says, I don't want U.S.
00:58:28.000dollars, and he goes, I only trade in U.S.
00:58:29.000dollars because I'm rich and I got U.S.
01:00:24.000Have you seen that Balaji guy predict a couple weeks ago that Bitcoin would be, I think it was like a month ago now, Bitcoin would hit a million dollars in 90 days?
01:00:31.000Yeah, I heard people talking about that.
01:00:32.000He was talking about how, I think it's like treasury bonds are a negative asset.
01:00:38.000So the interest rates on them is lower than the interest rates by the Fed and the inflation, so they're guaranteed once they mature to be a loss for the banking institutions.
01:00:48.000These unrealized losses will cause a cascade which basically destroys these banks.
01:00:54.000We started seeing glimpses of it with SVB, with what was it, Silvergate, First Republic, and then Sovereign I think it was.
01:01:02.000And so If they are planning, and they've mentioned launching the CBDC by July, the only way they can effectively do it is if there is a major crisis.
01:01:11.000Now imagine this, because our audiences have already heard me mention this, but I'm curious your thoughts.
01:01:30.000So let's say there's a big collapse at Wells Fargo.
01:01:32.000We're talking about millions of people saying, I can't get my money out.
01:01:36.000Joe Biden comes out and says, my fellow Americans, those who have been impacted by the collapse of these banks, fear not, your money is insured and covered.
01:01:45.000Simply download FedCoin.app and log in using your social security number and all of your currency will have been preserved and converted to the new central bank digital currency, saving your assets.
01:01:59.000And then people will say, thank you, Joe Biden, as they log in to adopt CBDC.
01:02:03.000Yeah, well, I mean, hopefully we can kind of wake as many people up as possible to what that'll really mean.
01:02:09.000Yeah, but... Yeah, you're... What does a dad do when one day he's told, if you want to buy groceries, you must use CBDC?
01:02:19.000I mean, like, yeah, so you'll probably be able to get... Yes, the central bank digital currency, right?
01:02:25.000Look, what's going on here that is... What I find to be more likely, if there's a lot of pushback to this idea of a central bank digital currency, is that they're just going to lower interest rates again and kick the can down the road for another few years.
01:02:38.000I think that's where we're going, is back down to 0% interest rates when all of these banks really start failing, which I think is inevitable.
01:02:45.000And this is kind of like – if you're familiar with the Austrian economics, which is the only good economics out there – I really encourage everybody, if you're interested in the topic, to look them up – basically the way the boom-bust cycle works is that when you have artificially low interest rates, you build up bubbles.
01:03:03.000When the rates start inevitably coming up, those bubbles burst.
01:03:06.000It's basically like this false – it's like price fixing, like anything else.
01:03:09.000When you fix the price of the cost of money, Which is all interest rates are, is the price of money.
01:03:14.000When you fix those, you get investments you wouldn't otherwise have.
01:03:18.000People borrow money when there's very low interest, when they wouldn't have borrowed that money at a high interest rate loan, because that makes it profitable.
01:03:25.000However, once the interest rates start to come up, as is inevitable, then they realize, oh, this project never should have been started to begin with, and then you have this whole collapse.
01:03:35.000All of these banks are completely built now because this insane policy, which is, if we survive, historians will write books about how crazy it was that anyone let this happen, that we had from, literally, from 2008 through, with slight interruptions, almost through 2021, we had 0% interest rates.
01:03:56.000There was zero, the Fed fund rate was either zero or a quarter of a point or something insanely low.
01:04:03.000And all of these banks have been built off of that at this point. And so like what you're talking
01:04:07.000about with the interest rates rising and then the Treasury's becoming completely worthless or
01:04:11.000even a loss in some cases, that's one aspect of it.
01:04:15.000But a lot of these things, there's still people in adjustable rate mortgages out there.
01:04:20.000They can't afford these interest rates going up anymore.
01:04:22.000And just for a little bit of perspective, you know, for what Volcker had to do under Ronald Reagan to rein in the inflation of the 70s, he brought the Fed fund rate up to 20%.
01:04:34.000Now, the thing is, they weren't $30 trillion in debt back then.
01:04:38.000We can't do anything like that or it would pop this entire bubble.
01:05:17.000Everybody's... Don't worry, we're just gonna be over here!
01:05:20.000And you're like, why are they in the lifeboat and leaving?
01:05:22.000They're everybody should everybody that listens to like stuff that's whether it be libertarians or stuff like you know center-right you know this kind of stuff everyone know has known that this has been coming like that the US has been giving money away for a decade that the government is completely irresponsible with the monetary policy and I don't want to sound like a like a You know, insensitive or whatever, but it's like, people have been saying buy guns for a decade.
01:05:47.000People have been saying, like, buy ammo, buy food, learn to do things.
01:05:51.000I mean, Tim's been talking about chickens for five years now.
01:05:54.000Like, not for nothing, and I understand that there are always people that are learning about this stuff and finding out, but like, the people that have been putting this off, like, you have literally It's possible that you only have months before there's a serious credit crisis.
01:06:10.000I want to say this again, because I said this the other day.
01:06:40.000Yeah, and, like, fair- I can understand people being afraid of risk and all that.
01:06:44.000I'm just saying, like, take stock of, like, where you are at and your ability to stand up to the problems this country is facing and what precautions and actions you've taken to protect yourself and your family before you start casting stones at soyboys.
01:09:06.000It's that Simpsons bit where, you know, Krusty's got a gambling problem, and I think it's Barty's like, you bet against the Globetrotters, and he's like, I thought the generals were due!
01:09:16.000Like, dude, we keep betting on these Republicans, but they're just there to pretend to oppose Democrats, for the most part.
01:09:27.000And it's not that they're afraid to use state power, you know, by the way, oh my god, it bothered me to no end when a few months ago when, what's his name, I'm sorry I'm blanking on his name, Michael Knowles was on the show and he got into a little bit of an argument with Luke.
01:09:42.000But when he was saying, which I think is, there's this new kind of like right-wing narrative, which is really kind of entertaining to me, where they go, you know, the problem is, That libertarians convinced the Republicans that you can't use the state.
01:09:58.000And so we decided that, okay, we agreed.
01:10:01.000Yeah, using the government is, I think he said, it's a priori wrong.
01:10:06.000And so then what happened was the left just took over all of these institutions.
01:10:18.000What actually happened was that the Republicans, who had the support of all the conservatives in the country, decided to completely abandon any libertarian principle that they had.
01:10:30.000And while libertarians were screaming at them from the top of our lungs that, like, you're creating the Department of Homeland Security, this will be a nightmare.
01:10:39.000This will be used against American citizens.
01:10:41.000They were like, no, no, no, we're fighting terrorism.
01:10:43.000And when we told them, don't fight this war in Iraq, they were like, no, no, no, we're spreading freedom.
01:10:47.000And don't pass the Patriot Act and all of these things.
01:10:53.000And now that state power is being used against those people.
01:10:57.000It's a like horrifically tragic, ironic thing that the voters who supported George W. Bush creating the Department of Homeland Security are now the targets of the Department of Homeland Security.
01:11:07.000security and then you get luke talking about how he goes out to rallies and he's got these
01:11:12.000people used to be staunch conservatives are neocon being like you're right
01:11:14.000about everything yeah well that's a weird thing is that with a little admit
01:11:17.000we're right about everything in the past within the also won't like but then
01:11:21.000as soon as we tell them like what we think they should do now they go alright
01:11:24.000walbert like whatever you know i think i'm a little over even when you
01:11:28.000see the other day when it's like these people like advocating for uh... gun
01:11:32.000control against transgender people or whatever after the shooting
01:11:35.000and then like some libertarian will be like that you know they'll make the point that you're like uh...
01:11:40.000you know if you advocate that the government can take away your guns cuz
01:11:42.000you have a mental illness they're gonna decide that racism is a mental
01:11:46.000illness pretty soon and anything you say is racism take away your guns and they'll
01:11:50.000be like they're already against us so it doesn't you like
01:11:53.000it can get worse Don't think it can't get worse.
01:11:57.000Can you imagine if the guy who told you don't create the Department of Homeland Security, or you could be the target of it, and then you did it, and then you're the target of it, and they go, hey, don't create this next thing, or you could be the target of it, and they go, whatever, idiot.
01:12:27.000So the story I like to tell is my Ukrainian friend saying that when I was in Ukraine covering a lot of the Euromaidan stuff, the start of what became the war, I guess, although I can go back far, she was telling me that the apartment she was in, like 30 some odd years ago, there were neighbors that lived next to each other.
01:12:47.000They were fighting because they're neighbors.
01:12:50.000So the person in her unit called the police and said, I overheard my neighbor saying anti-government things.
01:12:57.000And the next day the apartment was cleaned out and the person was gone.
01:13:06.000She was just saying like the, the, these houses were all the communist block houses.
01:13:10.000okay yeah she was like that the story they passed out she was like i live
01:13:13.000here there was a person who lived in the soviet union
01:13:16.000who got mad at a neighbor and that's what they could just a little bit and
01:13:19.000all had all it all it is the public opposite i they were saying things
01:13:21.000against the party and the next day they were gone everything they don't got
01:13:25.000like Yeah, and like, right, so it's like, and this is kind of like I think part of the message of Michael Malice's last book, The White Pill, or maybe just kind of like what I took from it, but the message is kind of like, look, it can get so bad, you know what I mean?
01:13:40.000Like it can be so much worse than you can even conceive of, but then it also kind of makes you think like, look, there are also like little signs of things kind of like this.
01:13:49.000that we're doing now. So hey, let's really make sure we don't go down that path. Because, you
01:13:53.000know, even when they were encouraging people during COVID, remember there were points where
01:13:56.000it's like, oh, there was this this hotlines where you could text and mention if someone
01:14:00.000was having a gathering or something. There are still government agencies that tweet out if you
01:14:04.000see something, say something, and they've been doing it for the past 20 years since the G-Watch started.
01:14:10.000And it's, well, it started after like nine.
01:14:12.000It was like, hey, if you see a Muslim planting a bomb on a building or something, and then it turned into like, or maybe there's three people hanging out.
01:14:49.000Today, when I was recording earlier, I got up to close the window, and I saw a groundhog.
01:14:53.000And when I closed the window, the simple, very, very quiet noise made the thing spaz out and run in random directions.
01:15:00.000Imagine what that thing must be feeling, right?
01:15:02.000That's how you will feel if this country goes down that path.
01:15:06.000You will be sitting in your home, stressed out, with bags under your eyes, rocking back and forth, eating a bowl of soup, and then you'll hear a knock on the door and you'll go, and then you'll go and you'll answer it, and you will pray that it's not the Gestapo, the Stasi, the police, or the brown shirts, or whoever, and then one day it will be.
01:15:30.000It didn't have to go this way in the past.
01:15:32.000There's nothing predestined about that.
01:15:34.000I think this is one of the things that the neo-reactionary types get completely wrong, where they're like, oh, it was all written in the stars since the Enlightenment that this would follow this and this would follow this.
01:15:45.000It wasn't written in the stars that the Soviet Union would collapse in 1991.
01:15:48.000It wasn't written in the stars that a lot of things that have happened have happened.
01:15:52.000And we could have, look, even something as simple as like, look, if George W. Bush just hadn't won the presidency,
01:16:01.000which was a very, very close election, there wouldn't have been a war in Iraq.
01:16:05.000Now I'm not saying everything would have been better under Al Gore.
01:16:07.000I think Al Gore would not have gone to war in Iraq.
01:16:10.000That was something that that specific group of neoconservatives had a boner for since they wrote it
01:16:16.000in the project for a new American century.
01:16:18.000That was not something that like was widely, now once it started, a lot of them fell in line with that.
01:16:23.000But I'm just saying that like, there's no reason why we had to go down this path
01:16:27.000that we've gone down the last 20 years.
01:16:29.000I'm not saying everything would have been perfect, but we could have done things a lot better.
01:16:33.000And we could stop now and make the future much better.
01:16:36.000This country still has an unbelievable opportunity.
01:16:40.000If you just think about the fact that like, think about the amount of just knowledge we have,
01:16:44.000how much human capital there is just in our knowledge today.
01:16:47.000What the average say like a cardiologist knows that a cardiologist didn't know in 1950.
01:16:54.000Now, short of a hydrogen bomb going off, that knowledge is not going to be—is disappeared, but our engineers know, the amount of technology that we have, we have all of these things where we could actually correct course right now and just live in a more peaceful, harmonious world, but it's only going to happen if there's like a mass demand for it.
01:17:13.000Just as an aside, if you went back in time 2,000 years, With your general knowledge of things that exist today, without knowing how an H-bomb is made, without knowing how to make an electric motor, if you simply wrote down these things and said electricity, electric motor, it would dramatically increase scientific development for those people by hundreds of years just simply knowing a thing exists.
01:17:41.000Because one of the challenges is that, for all of us in society, we are mapping things out and discovering things, and then, after we discover it, we start experimenting with it.
01:17:51.000If we skip the discovery phase and say, it exists, figure it out, people would rapidly discover these things.
01:18:39.000But think about that, because I've talked about it too, in terms of if we do face a serious collapse, what is more worrying to me than a nuclear bomb going off, an EMP drone weapon, or even the sun bursting and wetting electronics, is economic crisis.
01:18:57.000If the economy stops, Then you're not going to have computers, you're not going to have cars, you're not going to have electronics, and it's not because a magical explosion from the sun wiped it out, it's going to be because people aren't working together, because the economic machine itself is a powerful system that if you break one peg in it, it can collapse.
01:19:15.000Yeah, and this is when really bad things happen, when there's a really bad economy.
01:19:20.000If you look back at any horrible totalitarian movement, it almost always started with a real economic crash.
01:19:26.000We've got an economic issue going on in the U.S.
01:19:29.000and we're in a proxy war with the country that has the most nuclear weapons on the planet, and people just go about their normal days like that is just the way things are, or that it's okay.
01:19:41.000It should be the most important thing is stopping.
01:19:48.000Like people got eased into the economic turmoil and then they got used to it and then they got used to everyone talking about Ukraine.
01:19:54.000We had the moment where everyone put up their flags and then it sort of has been happening in the background for like a year.
01:19:58.000How we got here is, I get it, you may be right, how we got here is not important just because of the ramifications of something going wrong.
01:20:20.000So in 1921, a lot of people don't know this, there was a crash that was worse than the stock market crash of 1929, which led to the Great Depression.
01:20:28.000But at the time, the Federal Reserve was created in 2013. 1913?
01:20:53.000It was a bad year and then the economy totally recovered and all of it.
01:20:56.000So there is this natural cleansing mechanism.
01:20:59.000Like, basically what I'm trying to say is with all of our modern technology today, if we were to just get the government out of the way, if we were to just let the market work, if we were to just, we could cleanse out all of these problems and we could be fine.
01:21:11.000We could very easily negotiate a peace in Ukraine.
01:21:30.000It's basically been there since the 1780s.
01:21:32.000They allowed Ukraine to have independence if they leased out this naval base.
01:21:36.000The second that the Ukrainian government, after it was overthrown by a coup that was backed by the West in 2014, they said, you got to get that.
01:21:44.000Yeah, and we can talk more about that.
01:22:27.000They're probably going to have to be given independence of some sort.
01:22:30.000West of there should be returned to Ukraine, and it should be demanded that if we guarantee Ukraine will never be a part of NATO, then Vladimir Putin pulls all of his presence back from west of the Donbass region.
01:22:43.000That offer would end the war tomorrow.
01:22:46.000This is literally what the deal was that they had worked out when Boris Johnson went over last year to tell the Ukrainians not to agree to this, as was reported by Fiona Hill, not a libertarian dove.
01:23:00.000So we could work that out and the bloodshed could end tomorrow, except you got idiots like Joe Biden and then people in the press like Piers Morgan going, not one inch!
01:23:35.000You'd struggle to find something lower on my list of priorities.
01:23:38.000To be fair, having been to the country and meeting people there, I have friends, but they don't live in that region, and many of them left the country, sadly, and so it's like, I don't know, like 0.1%?
01:23:50.000I don't want them to suffer. I feel bad for them, but I don't think about Ukraine in that way.
01:23:54.000I'm really worried about the southern border and our economy.
01:23:57.000Yeah. And look, by the way, just to the point I was making before, it's like,
01:24:00.000all the correct answers to all of these problems are actually fairly obvious.
01:24:04.000The challenge is actually getting the psychopaths who rule us to implement any of them. And I'm not
01:24:10.000pretending to have an easy answer to any of that. But also just with this Ukraine thing, man,
01:24:14.000it's like, and it's been funny because I like, you know, I've gotten, when I was on Rogan last
01:24:19.000time they clipped the segment where I was talking about this and it went like super
01:24:24.000So it's been so funny to get, like, all the pushback from, like, all the blue checks.
01:24:27.000I mean, now everyone has a blue check, but before when that used to be... And they're getting rid of theirs!
01:24:32.000But at the time, it was before Elon took it over, and getting all the pushback from all of them, and it's just so hilarious to see, where they're all, like, try to argue, like, Nuh-uh.
01:25:18.000So, okay, this is a secret, this was not like a public, like, released document.
01:25:24.000He, the current, Burns, who's the head of the CIA, he was the ambassador to Russia in 2008, and he wrote a memo back to Condoleezza Rice.
01:25:33.000We only have this memo because Julian Assange dumped it, okay?
01:25:36.000It's the only reason we know about this.
01:25:38.000He wrote a memo, this is not what he's telling the public, this is what he's telling his boss, the Secretary of State, just so she knows, and he goes, look, I'm here in Russia, and over the last few years, I got to
01:25:50.000tell you, the idea of Ukraine entering NATO is the brightest of red lines. And this is
01:25:56.000not just the brightest of red lines to Putin. He goes the entire Russian elite, like from the
01:26:02.000craziest right wingers to Putin's sharpest liberal critics. He goes, I've yet to meet one
01:26:08.000person who sees Ukrainian entry into NATO as anything other than a direct challenge to
01:26:15.000Russia. And he goes on to say that this will be lead to fertile ground. He's putting it
01:26:19.000in diplomatic language, but he goes like this will be this will lead to fertile
01:26:23.000ground for intervention in Crimea and Ukraine. He tells him now three months after that.
01:26:30.000At the Bucharest summit, NATO announced Ukraine and Crimea will be joining NATO.
01:26:35.000Three months after that, he goes to war with Georgia.
01:26:40.000I'd just like to read something for you real quick.
01:26:51.000It says, in 2017, Joseph Coffer Black, former director of the Counterterrorism Center of the CIA in the George W. Bush administration and former ambassador-at-large for counterterror, was appointed to the board.
01:27:03.000And this is around the same time that he appointed Hunter Biden to the board.
01:27:20.000You mention all these people who are like, we didn't provoke, we didn't do this.
01:27:23.000I have not had a single conversation with a liberal in support of the Ukraine war who could tell me what Burisma is, what Gazprom is, and what the Qatar-Turkey pipeline are.
01:27:32.000But listen, and the thing, the deal with Burisma, the reason why they're putting all these people on their boards is essentially, they were essentially like cronies of the Yanukovych government.
01:27:42.000And by the way, Yanukovych was a real corrupt government.
01:27:44.000Ukraine's always been a crazy corrupt country.
01:27:46.000There's like, I don't have the exact numbers of this offhand, but Yanukovych's son was I think like the fifth richest person in Ukraine and he was a dentist.
01:27:55.000Like, there wasn't even, like, a plausible reason for it.
01:27:57.000Now, again, we can be judgmental, but Nancy Pelosi's also worth, like, a few hundred million dollars, and we got a fair amount of this stuff going on here, too, but Yanukovych was democratically elected, and the elections were verified by the EU, and, like, so no one's really, like, claiming that, and the Maidan Revolution, this bloody street putsch, was completely backed by the West.
01:28:19.000You can look at a million different angles where it was funded by—George Soros's website Brags about how they were instrumental in organizing the protest movement.
01:28:28.000Of course, Victoria Nuland was going over there on multiple trips, just passing out food and water.
01:28:33.000You had McCain and Murphy and Lindsey Graham, all these senators meeting them.
01:29:05.000So they basically, in essence, they protected themselves with the new regime by just bribing who they knew the real boss of the new regime was, which was the USA.
01:29:17.000I just find all of this to be, like, if you track the history of the region, the energy crisis, the energy competition, it's fairly obvious what's going on.
01:29:25.000And like you pointed out with Crimea, this is Russia's, I believe, their only warm water port.
01:30:24.000And like, now you're telling me that like, our Monroe Doctrine extends all the way to Russia's borders?
01:30:31.000But they're not allowed to have a Monroe Doctrine for the country next to them, for their largest neighbor, to just say that, like, yo, you have... And then, like, people will come back to me and they'll be like, well, Vladimir Putin was interfering in Ukraine at the same time America was.
01:31:10.000The first thing I would do would be to announce that we are no longer supporting, that we're no longer backing Ukraine in this proxy war, and that we're demanding negotiations.
01:31:19.000Whoever my Secretary of State, I'll send Scott Horton over there to sit down with Sergey Lavrov, work out a deal, that's it.
01:31:27.000You guys are locked in a room until you've come up with an immediate ceasefire.
01:31:30.000I kind of feel like it would happen very quickly.
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01:35:26.000Who do you think is more willing to fight for their ideology?
01:35:30.000Someone with nothing to lose or someone who needs to save the lives of their children?
01:35:33.000Yeah, certainly if your family is threatened, I think there's no one willing to fight more than that.
01:35:39.000However, I would say that it's probably true that someone with a family is a little bit more risk-averse than someone without one.
01:35:49.000And so the point I'm making is, the threat to your children is very real, to an extreme degree, but it's fifth generational warfare, so people are convinced if I stay low and keep my head down, my kids will be safe, when in fact, you're condemning them.
01:36:06.000If the far left is willing to go out and firebomb things, they get let go, they're protected, and they'll indict a former president.
01:36:13.000What future is gonna be left behind for your kids to be safe in?
01:36:15.000I mean, so if your plan is to get them to El Salvador, then I'm like, oh, okay, that makes sense.
01:36:19.000If you were like, look, I can't fight, I have a family, we're moving to El Salvador, cost of living is cheaper, everything's dramatically improving, Bitcoin's revolutionizing everything, I'd be like, totally get it.
01:36:28.000But if you were like, I want to save America because my children are going to live here, I'd be like, well, then why are you just saying I can't do anything?
01:36:34.000I have kids and I can't put them at risk.
01:37:03.000Could you imagine if it's like, you know, if you're a guy watching this show and you're like, honey, we've got to do our part to save the future, so let's go to the room and, you know, let's get to it.
01:37:41.000You have these people being like, I own a liquor store and we're getting rid of Bud Light.
01:37:44.000And I'm like, you got to get rid of all Anheuser-Busch.
01:37:46.000Here's the thing, if every single person who listened to this show told their friends, and every single influential person who has shows, who may hear me say this, on their show says the same thing, do not buy anything Anheuser-Busch, it's not just about hurting them in the sales, it's about making them apologize.
01:38:05.000You want them to get to the point where they say, I'm sorry to you, because that sets a cultural standard.
01:40:41.000And there might be some truth to that, that there's some financial incentive there, but there's still something to their customers buying their products.
01:40:49.000That's still, foundationally, what their business is about.
01:40:52.000And if they're losing a huge portion of their customer base, that's going to negatively impact them.
01:40:58.000And I agree with you, Tim, where there probably was a time where I was like, yeah, forget these boycotts, it's silly, I don't care about the politics of my... You know, I used to say things like, which I kind of disagree...
01:41:10.000Well, I used to say things like, look, I don't care if I go into my grocery store, whether the guy who owns it voted the way I voted or supported the war, like, whatever.
01:41:45.000If you're happier that way, be happier that way.
01:41:47.000But when there's this entire effort to like indoctrinate children and have this massive push of what is objectively abnormal behavior and trying to make it normal, it's like at a certain point there has to be a cost for that.
01:41:59.000So like, maybe it has got to just be some type of boycott.
01:42:04.000Matthew Rickham says, Tim, why in the ever-living frack did you make a video about alternatives to Bud Light and not even mention Samuel Adams?
01:42:41.000All these giant corporations are on board with this stuff.
01:42:44.000But still, you're checking them by saying, don't do this openly.
01:42:48.000I personally think you should buy local, I think you should buy small, but if you can't, then don't pick the one that's shoving it in your face that they are mocking basically all of your values.
01:43:25.000And I would be open to an inquiry into both, absolutely.
01:43:29.000But in the story of the commando raid, it is alleged by people who were there that this girl died due to the commando raid, whereas with the airstrike, it is not in dispute at all.
01:43:37.000Well, look, I mean, that is true, although I do think it's pretty reasonable to assume that what those people were saying was correct.
01:43:44.000And the girl, from what I remember of the details, was pretty gruesome, like bled out and died.
01:43:51.000Um, but this is why at the beginning I said let's just even focus for, like, the sake of argument on just the Anwar al-Awlaki strike because that is admitted that he was the target of this strike and I'm sorry if we're to have anything, if we're even going to pretend to be a free society, that if you're an American citizen you have to be charged with a crime, you get a lawyer, you get a judge, and you get a By the way, you can try someone who doesn't show up to their trial.
01:44:18.000They could have tried Anwar al-Awlaki in America and been like, look, he's in Yemen, he's refusing to come back to face trial, the prosecutor can present this evidence, a judge can say, yep, overwhelming evidence, but there's got to be something.
01:44:31.000All the stuff you listed off, these are not only, it's not just law, it's stuff that's supposed to be protected in the most sacred of pieces of paper in all human history.
01:44:41.000Yeah, like and and and to think that that it's not just ignored by the government, which makes perfect sense
01:44:49.000Why wouldn't the government want to ignore the things that limit them but ignored by the population, you know
01:44:54.000The people don't care And when you bring up, hey, Barack Obama killed an American by a drone strike without a trial, people look at you like you've got a penis growing out of your head.
01:46:34.000It's just compared to all these other blood soaked monsters that you can even make an argument that they'll go, at least he didn't start a new one.
01:46:42.000Now he did continue the worst of them.
01:47:10.000But Biden is the one who really bungled the Afghanistan withdrawal.
01:47:14.000But I even give Biden credit for at least going through with it, because there were generals who wanted to keep the war going.
01:47:20.000But then, of course, he got us right into this proxy war in Ukraine, so all that credit goes out the window.
01:47:23.000I genuinely believe that Trump does not want these wars.
01:47:27.000I think he doesn't care for them, he doesn't understand them, he doesn't want to be involved.
01:47:31.000I just think there's no circumstance where you snap your fingers and they're over.
01:47:34.000And you look at Afghanistan and what Joe, I think Joe Biden did this intentionally, as a, if you make us pull out, this is what you get, kind of thing.
01:47:43.000It's possible, or it's possible that people not quite at Biden's level, but like top brass military did that almost as a like, you know, like for the same reason.
01:47:51.000I agree with you that I think in Trump's gut, he's like, all these wars are stupid and we shouldn't have fought them.
01:48:29.000They say they don't, but then it's... Well, a lot of people want the benefits.
01:48:31.000I mean, a lot of people want other people's money, you know?
01:48:36.000All right, Bobcat says, Dave Smith, you talk a lot, but will you actually come out and meet the people if you run, or will you only do pressers like every other Libertarian?
01:49:02.000He campaigned from his house in Delaware?
01:49:04.000I don't even think that's true of past libertarian candidates.
01:49:06.000Look, it's the internet, anyone can get on it, anyone can say stuff, don't worry.
01:49:09.000Well, but also, I will say that it's like, look, there is something to be said for the fact that, like, it's, you know, it's great to meet people, and I'm out all the time and meet, I love meeting, like, people who listen to my show and stuff like that, but there is something where we have this, like, kind of technology age now where you can do a show like this and speak to a much, much larger group of people than you can by just, like, holding an event with a couple hundred people.
01:50:11.000It does—look, it seems so crazy, the idea that Donald Trump would actually be, like, convicted of this, but then you are like, it's gonna be a New York jury?
01:51:16.000I wouldn't just put Donald Trump in prison.
01:51:18.000Donald Trump should be charged with war crimes and violations of the Constitution and international law.
01:51:24.000But I say this about every president, like every president of my lifetime.
01:51:28.000But that being said, I mean this is all kind of like in fantasy here, but that being said, I think if you want to be white-pilled on moving forward, I do think that there's like, there's a certain cut-off line And then other people, like, when you're trying to, like, almost, like, overthrow a corrupt authoritarian regime and instill a new regime, there does have to be forgiveness and reconciliation on a mass level.
01:51:51.000And I'm not talking about Hillary Clinton.
01:51:53.000I'm talking about, like, your neighbor who supported the lockdowns.
01:51:56.000I'm saying, like, regular people who were just really bad on a lot of these things, like, You're not going to lock all of them up.
01:52:03.000Can you imagine what the second reconstruction era is going to look like?
01:52:06.000You know, like Trump sending federal troops to California, Washington, and Oregon to occupy and replace their governments.
01:53:27.000Like, I'm a family man, and I don't, like, just as somebody who's, like, lived kind of a degenerate lifestyle for years and then settled down and got married and had kids, and I'm like, it's so much better and more meaningful and healthier to, like, be in this, like, in a great marriage.
01:53:42.000I hate anyone promoting to, like, young guys who are 22, 23, that, like, you should aspire to be a pimp.
01:54:05.000It's more of a contrast for me, and so it makes it that much clearer.
01:54:09.000But that being said, it's like, if you were paralyzed from the neck down for a few months and then you really appreciated the ability to walk, I still wouldn't recommend getting paralyzed from the neck down.
01:54:31.000Young men should aspire to find a good woman and start a family with them.
01:54:36.000That's what you should be aspiring to do.
01:54:37.000It's much more important than any of this political stuff that we talk about, which I do love talking about.
01:54:42.000Cliff the Misfit says, with the results of the Wisconsin Supreme Court election, the question of Trump vs. DeSantis is no longer one of preference.
01:54:49.000The GOP nominee has to win Georgia, Arizona, and Nevada.
01:54:52.000And guess which three swing states Trump is the most unpopular in?
01:54:59.000John Casey says, didn't Trump ask for $2,000 for Americans and nothing else, and Congress forced the $600 for Americans and millions for Pakistani gender studies?
01:55:08.000I don't think Trump should have signed it, but I think he wanted to do something.
01:56:42.000Yeah, you just have to be a little bit creative with this stuff and you can find solutions to all of this.
01:56:47.000But it's like you said, Trump could have done a national address where he said, We are not giving corporations free money.
01:56:53.000The money goes to the American people.
01:56:56.000If Congress puts forward a bill just for the American people, I'll sign it.
01:56:59.000But if they try and give their corporate buddies and the lobbyists free money, I'm not doing it.
01:57:04.000And then everyone will be rambling at Congress like, what's wrong with you?
01:57:06.000It would have been so easy to flip it right back around on them.
01:57:09.000And again, there's just so many things like this.
01:57:11.000Like, look, he was friends with Rand Paul, at least to some degree.
01:57:15.000Like, they went golfing and stuff like that.
01:57:17.000And like, why couldn't he have just gone to Rand Paul and been like, hey, Rand Paul, you're a doctor, even though he's an eye doctor, but whatever.
01:58:35.000Only in the most desperate circumstances would it happen.
01:58:37.000But that's what people who are rooting so hard for Vladimir Putin to lose and be completely humiliated and on the verge of being overthrown need to think about.
01:58:45.000You're rooting for the one situation where he might use them.
01:58:48.000Monster says you should get Dave on with Destiny.
01:58:51.000So actually we've been planning the show for a while and it's just an issue of we are waiting for the new studio to be built but the idea for the show is to actually have like Dave Smith with Destiny and then have someone moderate and have that kind of crossfire style show that used to be on.
01:59:25.000The issue is, we just need the new studio to be built, so we have the space for it, because right now we've got, like, Pop Culture Crisis and Timcast IRL.
01:59:32.000The new studio space is going to have, uh, potentially even, like, three filming locations inside of it, but one large general space that is multi-purpose for a bunch of different shows, so.
01:59:41.000I just want to do Clint Russell's poker show.
01:59:48.000I mean, I think Poker with the Boys could be really unifying in that having people who normally would argue, not talking about overt politics, but having more... Like, there's a story I told earlier today.
02:00:01.000This guy I met at the poker tables said he thought the J6er should be executed.
02:00:07.000But at the same time, as I'm like, that is the craziest thing I've ever heard, we were laughing and playing this fun game together where there was one hand where, you know, he's in hand, I'm not.
02:00:19.000He loses and he goes to showdown with Ace-5 offsuit.
02:00:24.000And then he loses, and then he's like, I can't win with this hand.
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