In this week's episode, we discuss the latest in the Ukraine crisis and the possible start of World War III. Plus, the Irishman Who Lives Under His House and Steals His Spoons. Plus, we talk about the new BRICS Gold-backed currency, and why we should be worried about it.
00:00:27.000It may be that in 50 years they look back and say that the Ukrainian invasion was the start, or I should say the Russian invasion of Ukraine was the start of World War 3.
00:00:34.000But we got some crazy news that's been circulating for a couple days.
00:01:16.000Plus, we got a bunch of other cultural news.
00:01:19.000We'll talk about a bunch of different stories.
00:01:22.000I'll save them for later, actually, so we can get through the intro without getting in trouble on this channel, but I just... We'll leave it there, and then we'll talk about what's going on with Ukraine, potentially joining NATO.
00:01:32.000They had a meeting, they said, okay, maybe we'll let you join if that happens.
00:01:35.000That is a direct declaration of war with Russia.
00:01:40.000It seems like World War 3 may be a real possibility.
00:01:43.000As for the other stories, they're a bit cultural and they're related to gender issues, so we'll just save them for later on in the episode so we don't get in trouble.
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00:02:46.000Joining us tonight to talk about this and a whole lot more is Haley Cunnington.
00:02:54.000Yeah, I'm Haley Kennington, and I'm a journalist.
00:02:57.000I was research director and story editor for The Plot Against the President and Daily Wire's What Is a Woman, and I'm the news editor for Wrong Speak Publishing.
00:03:06.000Right on, well thanks for hanging out.
00:03:07.000We also have the Irishman Who Lives Under My House and Steals My Spoons.
00:03:59.000And if you get some kind of care package when you become a member, let me know if it contains any spoons.
00:04:04.000Tim, if you think that I'm planning to steal your spoons and send them to people as incentive to support my animation business, I don't even know how to respond to you.
00:05:04.000Bricks, gold-backed common currency, a shock to global fiat money system, says economist.
00:05:10.000As Russia confirms launch in August, oh boy, is this one esoteric.
00:05:15.000I'm sure many of you at home are like, yo, I don't even know why I clicked the link to this video because I have no idea what you're talking about.
00:05:21.000I'm sure many of you who are in the know saw the headline and went, holy crap.
00:05:25.000And I'm sure most of you who are really in the know said, Tim, we already knew this.
00:07:01.000So, here's my fear, and a lot of other people's fears.
00:07:06.000The reason why the deep state, the bureaucratic state, the neolibs, the neocons want war is to make sure we don't lose this status.
00:07:15.000So, the likelihood that we enter into a dramatically escalated conflict is ever so increasing to the point where, let me tell you how desperate the machine has become.
00:07:24.000Earlier, last year or so, I think it was last year, when Russia started using, was accused of using cluster bombs, the US, the Western forces claimed that was potentially a war crime.
00:07:35.000Now the West has become so desperate that Joe Biden has approved the sending of cluster bombs to Ukrainian forces, something that they had previously said could be a war crime.
00:07:46.000The people saying, oh you can't do that because that's evil and wrong and then a year later being like, if we lose this we're done for so just do it anyway.
00:07:54.000How far off are we from someone saying, yeah well nukes are no longer off the table.
00:08:02.000All I really have to say about it is this, to quote the venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen, if a nation would behave more justly if it were conquered, it should expect to be conquered.
00:08:11.000And the United States has not been a nation which operated in a moral way domestically.
00:08:16.000We're on the international stage in a very long time.
00:08:19.000I've seen some of that turning around.
00:08:20.000I think the overturn of Roe v. Wade and the fact that we've saved tens of thousands of children has been incredible.
00:08:26.000I think there's been massive backlash against the LGBTQ agenda.
00:08:29.000More young people are waking up and seeing the farce of the sexual revolution.
00:08:32.000But ultimately, this country has a lot of problems, and I hope that we can pull through them.
00:08:38.000I hope that the United States can be a strong, dominant nation that behaves morally, but that's not the track we've placed ourselves on over the past 50 or 60 years.
00:08:44.000So I hope for good things, but I don't know that I necessarily expect them.
00:08:52.000I mean, considering the fact that the BRICS currency is already in motion, it's not something that's being talked about anymore, it feels like the writing's on the wall that the petrodollar, the time is limited.
00:09:09.000And I mean, people need to plan accordingly.
00:09:12.000If we're in as much debt as we are to China and to other countries and stuff and our national
00:09:18.000debt's like it is and we lose the status as the reserve currency of the world, interest
00:09:26.000rates are going to keep going up and the buying power of your dollar is going to keep going
00:09:30.000down and it's going to have a massive effect on the average person.
00:09:41.000So a lot of people have kind of, you know, shut the idea of a currency crisis out because it has been something that you've heard people talking about it since like 2008, you know, like since the financial crisis, people have been talking about, oh, if you keep printing money, then there'll be inflation, etc.
00:10:00.000And I feel like the average person is kind of Kind of just gone numb to that.
00:10:04.000And if people are numb to it and they haven't been preparing for it or they don't, it's going to come back and bite them in the ass.
00:10:10.000And as usual, the poor people in the U.S.
00:10:15.000and people on the margins, you know, people that are just making it are going to fall into poverty and people that are already poor, you know, they're going to be screwed.
00:10:22.000And to be clear, the point I want to make here is that I hope that doesn't happen, right?
00:10:28.000Again, I hope the United States is able to maintain our status as world reserve currency And we turn a corner and start behaving more morally with respect to our conduct both on the foreign stage and domestically.
00:10:41.000And there's actually some precedent to think that that might happen just based on the last year or two and the way some things have improved in some areas.
00:10:49.000But yeah, I mean, if we lose world reserve currency status, if this country continues to spend and print money in unsustainable ways and also get involved in conflicts we have no business being involved in, I think it's probably fair to say that we're not going to be able to sustain that, and just like any nation that starts fooling around because they become powerful and hubristic, we're going to end up seeing our own collapse.
00:11:27.000We're going to build a corridor through Syria, Turkey, into Europe to offset the Russian gas monopoly.
00:11:33.000And we are going to do these things specifically to destroy the economies of the BRICS nations to prevent them from subverting the world reserve currency.
00:11:41.000What if they just flat out came out and said, this is what we're doing and why we're doing it.
00:11:46.000Because our economy is propped up by the fact that we print money and we don't export, and the only thing we can do is point guns at the rest of the world and tell them that they must serve us.
00:11:55.000And all of your computers and all of your components, the materials in there are mined by children who are working as slaves.
00:12:01.000You can have that, or you can live in squalor.
00:12:07.000Oh, the average person would decide to... They'd vote for... I think they'd vote for the machine in two seconds and make an excuse.
00:12:13.000I think, well, the machine makes excuses for itself, right?
00:12:16.000So I think the way it's going to be advertised to the American people is, there's some human rights atrocity or violation that's occurring in these countries, so now we have to go step in and intervene.
00:12:55.000I mean, there's not a good option either way, as far as what you just said.
00:12:58.000I don't, I mean, I don't know, it's all doom and gloom, you know.
00:13:03.000I mean, in reference to what you said about, Tim, about cluster bombs and stuff, I mean, the Vietnam War started in 1954, I think is when, and the French were kind of doing most of the combat role there and doing most of the fighting, and the U.S.
00:13:19.000didn't actually really get involved until 64, and then it was a whole nother 10 years.
00:13:25.000It's completely reasonable to say that, you know, we're a year and change in on the war in Ukraine or whatever, and all this stuff that we said we weren't going to send, all of these things that the government said they weren't going to be doing, they keep coming and coming back and saying, okay, well, you know, now we're going to, so there's no actual line That the US won't cross, or at least that we as a population can reliably say, okay, we believe the government won't do this.
00:13:57.000The government has demonstrated over and over that they'll say one thing, and as soon as it comes time to be what they deem a necessity, they say we need to go ahead and do this for this reason.
00:14:10.000It's completely Expected, or should be expected, that if the US has said, no, we're not going to do this, if the conditions on the ground demand it, or an argument can be made that the conditions on the ground demand it, they're going to do it.
00:14:27.000And I think that is up to and including a nuclear exchange with Russia, if it gets to that point.
00:14:35.000Now, I'm not saying that it will, but if you put Americans on the ground in Ukraine, I could see that happening, and I don't see the off-ramp to get us out of eventually sending people to fight in Ukraine.
00:15:15.000To many in government, I mean, these are fighting words.
00:15:17.000Saying that we are going to use a currency that is not controlled by the United States of America is something that's very frightening for those in the ruling elite to hear.
00:15:26.000And to be frank, those are frightening words for your average person, too, if they really consider them.
00:15:30.000Because if we do lose our status as world reserve currency, the quality of life is going to diminish for basically everybody in this country.
00:15:36.000Now, you gotta imagine the position that foreign leaders are in and foreign nations are in.
00:15:42.000They see how we have absolutely abused our status as world reserve currency and the fact that people need to trade in our dollar and are compelled to by the way the market functions currently.
00:15:52.000In 2020, when COVID-19 Crippled our economy, or at the very least, I should say, when the lockdowns and the overreaction to COVID-19 crippled our economy, what our government did is they responded by engaging in the most gigantic transfer of wealth that has ever occurred in all of human history, and they gave virtually all of the money to the wealthiest people in this nation
00:16:17.000And devalued the currency of everyone who had savings in order to engage in that transfer of wealth.
00:16:25.000Now, anyone who was paying attention at that time said, this is going to massively harm those in the lower classes, this is massively going to harm people who have saved, and this is also going to harm people who own small businesses, because the SBA was expected to handle something like 10 times its yearly budget over the course of A month or two weeks in order to get this bailout money to small businesses.
00:16:50.000Now the giant businesses that got, what, $4.2 trillion in low-interest loans were able to leverage that to purchase up a lot of those smaller businesses after they closed down, and it was done with your currency being devalued.
00:17:03.000Now, poor and working-class people don't have a whole lot of recourse for that, but you know who does have a lot of recourse for that?
00:17:10.000Rich people in other nations who are holding U.S.
00:17:13.000currency who didn't get that payout, as well as oligarchs and rulers of other countries that have stashed U.S.
00:17:20.000dollars because they had some faith that the United States dollar was going to carry its value over into the future, and many of them are saying, you know what?
00:17:28.000We're probably going to use our clout to punish the American dollar and punish people who are in control of it by pulling out and signing on to some new currency.
00:17:38.000What gets me kind of worried is, let me jump to this story.
00:17:42.000Again, we'll keep it all particularly esoteric.
00:17:46.000BlackRock CEO Larry Fink says Bitcoin could revolutionize finance.
00:17:50.000A lot of people are starting to ask themselves why it is the CEO of BlackRock, this massive financial institution, is all of a sudden doing a turnaround and supporting Bitcoin.
00:18:04.000losing its status as a reserve currency, especially over the past several years, and now more so with BRICS Nations launching a gold-backed currency, the idea that this guy's gonna come out and be like, I care about people and I think, you know, they should listen, I don't know, maybe I shouldn't say anything.
00:18:27.000You're not gonna be eating bread, you're gonna be eating bugs and living in a pod.
00:18:30.000And that's what I wonder about all this.
00:18:32.000When they say you will owe nothing and you will be happy, Maybe what they're not saying- People think they're saying they're gonna take the world from you?
00:18:39.000Maybe what they're really saying is when the war happens, you ain't getting none of this stuff no matter what you do.
00:18:44.000The food's gonna be going to the soldiers, to the front line.
00:18:47.000Resources and everything will be straight into war.
00:18:58.000During the Second World War, that was a reality.
00:19:00.000People could only consume so many resources regardless of their level of wealth because the government was saying, we need to use this rubber or fuel or food for the war effort.
00:19:08.000So let me ask you guys, what makes more sense?
00:19:10.000That powerful elites in Europe and the USA want you to eat bugs because of their ideology?
00:19:16.000Or they were preparing you for eating bugs because ain't gonna be no food when war breaks out?
00:19:23.000I think that if your ideology is so corrupt and you hold human life so cheap, then it's inevitably going to be the case you'll make the sorts of reckless decisions that will result in your economy being destroyed and people ending up being plunged into warfare, which will destroy their resources and lower their quality of life.
00:19:39.000I don't think that it needs to be either or.
00:19:41.000I mean, I think that there are ample reasons for ideologically possessed people that are in positions of power to say, look, you shouldn't be eating steak, you shouldn't be eating all this beef and red meat and stuff.
00:19:57.000You should be eating something that's simpler and something that's better for the planet because there are people that truly believe that the world is overpopulated and that we need to significantly decrease the number of people on earth because we keep devouring the resources and we can't produce enough resources and food to sustain the population that we have.
00:20:21.000I do believe that there are probably a considerable number of people in positions of power that
00:20:28.000are capable of doing something about it and actually affecting populations and policy
00:20:35.000that will, could or at least could significantly lower the population of the earth.
00:20:41.000And I think that the global warming alarmism that you see is the most likely method.
00:20:49.000So things like, you know, you can't have cows because they are bad for the environment and
00:20:54.000these bugs are better for the environment are compelling arguments to people that are
00:20:59.000already ideologically kind of aligned or are used to getting beat down with the world is
00:21:06.000ending because of climate change kind of thing.
00:21:08.000So I don't think that it needs to be one or the other.
00:21:10.000I think that there are multiple reasons why people in positions of power would want to say, look, you can't live the life that you've been living and you need to roll back your standard of living.
00:21:22.000Do you guys remember that there was a document that went viral from some security contractor that claimed the U.S.
00:21:29.000population would be reduced by like 60%?
00:21:38.000So there, we don't know, some kind of defense contractor put together a report talking about future plans and it listed the populations of many countries as having been reduced by like 30 to 40 percent or something like that, or more.
00:21:54.000I don't think we ever got a real explanation for it.
00:21:56.000I'm not saying it means it's true or anything, I hate conspiracy theories.
00:21:59.000So, you know, for all we know, they were creating a hypothetical scenario in the event of war or something like that.
00:22:05.000But then the archives all got deleted, and now it's really hard to find any information.
00:22:09.000It is as if it has been erased from the internet.
00:22:12.000It makes you wonder about what's really being talked about behind the scenes.
00:22:15.000Because, look, for all we know, Occam's Razor suggests this is just a nonsense document.
00:22:20.000Some random guy said the population would go down or something like this.
00:22:23.000But as we see more and more signs of major conflict escalating, like the cluster munitions thing is a big deal, there's fears of the Zaporizhia plant being blown up.
00:22:34.000I believe it's the Zaporizhia one, right?
00:22:35.000That's where they're saying that the Russians have lined explosives all around it or something like that?
00:22:40.000You know, you get propaganda on both sides, and you gotta figure out who you want to trust.
00:22:46.000But isn't it convenient for all of us, as Norman Donald pointed out, that the good guys won every war?
00:22:51.000Keep that in mind as you consider the news that's coming out today with all of these major conflict stories.
00:22:56.000But also, I think it's important to think about... I talked about this during COVID, and I don't know if we were talking about the context of war, but what is the one thing that is guaranteed that COVID did?
00:23:29.000People are able to communicate, facilitate, and keep working.
00:23:32.000So it made me wonder when we saw COVID and the main result was large exodus of major economic power from large cities.
00:23:41.000Decentralizing the US economy sure was helping us prepare, whether intentionally or not, for a major conflict.
00:23:48.000If New York were to get nuked now, our economy would still function to a great degree because many of these people who run these systems have left.
00:23:58.000Pre-COVID, with all of the big heads of industry in San Francisco, in California, in New York, many in Chicago, a single nuclear weapon, your economy's gone.
00:25:15.000How much you want to bet they have antimatter bombs?
00:25:17.000Well, I mean, look, we know that different countries have been creating bioweapons, and we just know this because one was released.
00:25:25.000Now, Sir Francis Boyle, who was the author of the American Implementing Legislation for the Bioweapons Convention, has stated as a lawyer that these are, if anything, made with gain-of-function research, is classified as a bioweapon.
00:25:36.000So that's not even like a conspiracy theory or a hot take.
00:25:39.000That is the author of the legislation that governs these affairs, specifically stating these are bioweapons, like anything made through gain-of-function research.
00:25:46.000And we know gain-of-function research is happening.
00:26:05.000We know that this particular group of people has more of one type of receptor in their lungs, therefore they may be more susceptible to a virus.
00:26:12.000Now think about how they're going to make bioweapons.
00:26:15.000They're going to be like, hey, this particular group of people is susceptible to this particular thing, and then one day everyone in that country is very sick.
00:26:25.000Yeah, well, no, we also know, like, based on the part of the world you're in and a lot of genetic factors, you can be more or less susceptible to diseases.
00:26:31.000This is the entire point that gets brought up anytime anyone wants to discuss, like, colonization and the conquistadors, the fact that the Spanish were totally immune to the diseases they were bringing over, so they didn't even know they had them.
00:26:40.000Someone could theoretically engineer viruses and disease that would be more likely to wreak havoc on populations of different people genetically.
00:26:49.000I always get real, like, and I don't know how realistic this is because I have no idea about how bugs are engineered or anything, but the idea of Ebola with like a three-week incubation period or two-week incubation period.
00:27:41.000I think a lot of the argument against, like...
00:27:45.000Vaccinations, or forced vaccinations, or lockdowns, or whatever it is, they aren't necessarily axiomatic arguments, they're questions of whether factors are such that it justifies it.
00:27:53.000So if you did have an Ebola, if there was an Ebola that had like a 99% transmission rate and 99% mortality rate, 100% you lock things down.
00:28:01.000Except you have no trust of the government, that's true.
00:28:05.000But I'm saying if that really is the case, and you really have those numbers, of course people are going to say, yeah, do it.
00:28:09.000But that's the thing, it's not even going to be a question, because if you've got people Like, in mass, just like puking and dying in the streets and stuff like that.
00:28:19.000People are going to voluntarily be like, get the F out of here.
00:28:26.000It would be a lockdown that was completely voluntary.
00:28:31.000The police and, I mean, the only people that would be going to work would be like doctors that actually could do something.
00:28:38.000And if even, because a lot of times when you get to something, if you get to something that dramatic, there'd be a lot of people that are just like, I'm staying home with my family.
00:28:46.000Yeah, no, I definitely agree with you.
00:28:49.000My point is simply that when you get to a certain point of transmission and mortality with a disease, lockdowns are going to be more or less justifiable.
00:29:11.000Let's talk about the absolute worst case scenario, because if we're talking about actual engineered bioweapons, these things are going to be horrifying.
00:29:19.000We're talking about a virus that is airborne, transmissible when a person is asymptomatic, couple weeks incubation period, high mortality rate.
00:29:29.000It would be impossible to stop, unless everyone locked their doors and no one did anything ever again.
00:29:34.000What are the chances of a government actually trying to build that virus?
00:30:21.000When you go to the highest levels and you see this is the case.
00:30:26.000Let's talk about the realm of domestic politics in this regard.
00:30:30.000If Donald Trump's worldview is really, let's not have the war that destroys the planet.
00:30:36.000Let's shore up our borders, protect the United States, bring back manufacturing, and become self-sufficient because the long fall is coming.
00:30:45.000And the alternative is, no, let's go all out, take over the world, and destroy BRICS by any means necessary so that we can stay on top of the world.
00:30:59.000Not just practically speaking, but morally speaking.
00:31:02.000Not only would there be so much bloodshed and lost life if we tried doing something like that, but it is It assumes that other nations don't have the right to
00:31:13.000develop currencies while we're debasing ours.
00:31:15.000It assumes that other nations should be forced into dollar slavery and have to hold this asset, this currency, while
00:31:22.000we're abusing it and showing them we don't respect it ourselves.
00:31:24.000Here's the challenge. The Chinese Communist Party is pretty dang evil.
00:31:31.000So there's the other argument of, if we just decide, you know what, we're going to close our doors, to a great degree, not completely, but we're going to bolster the American economy and we're going to focus on ourselves, China's going to keep expanding, they're not going to stop.
00:31:44.000I mean, firstly, China does get a lot of money from the United States just with respect to the business that we do with them.
00:31:50.000So if we just started doing everything domestically, it would be painful for us, but I also think it would be very painful for them.
00:31:55.000I'll also add that if we were to go to war with China over human rights abuses, if there was like a real legitimate reason for us to go to war, if you went through all the tenets of just war theory and they all lined up, then yeah.
00:32:06.000But that's a different question than just going to war with them over them wanting to use a currency that isn't ours.
00:33:07.000Just try to live as moral a life as possible.
00:33:09.000People aren't going to be surprised to hear this from me, because this is the advice I'm going to give in every situation, but get close to Jesus Christ, really get right with God, live a moral life, and then if something horrible ends up happening, if America ends up being destroyed, well, you lived a good life, you did the right thing, you formed the proper relationship with the truth.
00:33:24.000Let's jump to some domestic politics here, because we have this story out of Georgia.
00:33:28.000Actually, it was trending earlier in the day.
00:33:30.000Georgia's state representative makes moral decision to leave party.
00:33:34.000Mesha Mainer quit the Democratic Party and has joined the GOP, saying for far too long the Democrat Party has gotten away with using and abusing the black community.
00:34:28.000I think that what you mentioned about it not going the other way, that it's not really conservative or whatever, I think that they all kind of beat feet in 2016.
00:34:39.000If you were anti-Trump or whatever and you were an establishment-type Republican, they kind of have already left the party and they did it years ago.
00:34:52.000So to speak to this phenomenon of Democrats, I mean, you see it.
00:34:58.000You see it in the, you know, in the political space, but you also see it, you know, with, uh, what's her name?
00:35:05.000Um, there was another leftist that had recently come out and, and left, you know, essentially left the left.
00:35:10.000And a lot of it is because they find out that the narrative that is spun by the left generally does not map onto the truth or doesn't map on re onto reality.
00:35:24.000There are going to be people that are going to disagree about the places where it doesn't map onto reality, but I think that the LGBT issues when it comes to transitioning kids is where the breaking point for most people are.
00:35:38.000It's like, look, you cannot You cannot have trans kids.
00:35:43.000You cannot have kids that are prepubescent, that you're encouraging, not just allowing, but encouraging at times, to live their lives as if they're a different, you know, as if they're biologically different.
00:35:57.000That is unacceptable to the mass majority of the population.
00:36:02.000And I think that that's starting to show when it comes to, you know, I don't know the specific reasons that Rep... What's her name?
00:36:19.000She wanted parents to be able to... She was concerned that many of these schools were so awful that these kids were struggling on how to read and that parents should have a right to take their kid and put him in a better school and the Democrats were like, no, shut your mouth.
00:36:30.000See, and that should be something that is That should be something that is really important to especially poor communities and communities that have kids that aren't, you know, making, they're graduating with a third grade or fourth grade reading level.
00:36:44.000Like, that is a huge concern and that's something that you hear about all the time.
00:37:02.000We have one party that's heinously evil.
00:37:05.000Not to say every individual person in the party realizes that, but yeah, what the party wants is disgusting and horrible and will destroy the country.
00:37:10.000But when it comes to school choice, I just want to finish this thought.
00:37:13.000When it comes to school choice, it's so obvious from any framework that this is the right thing.
00:37:20.000Let parents choose where they send their kids to school.
00:37:23.000Don't force kids to stay stuck in failing school systems.
00:37:28.000Now, I don't know why I would have the expectation that people who think it's okay to groom and mutilate kids and kill unborn babies would see that.
00:37:34.000Also, maybe parents shouldn't be forced to put their kids in failing schools.
00:37:37.000But even without those other two questions, that people end up being tied up with their party's language on and not examining critically, with the school choice stuff, you just gotta think, it's... Whenever they say things like, You're going to destroy or defund the public school system.
00:37:52.000What they're acknowledging is parents would choose anything besides the public school system if they had a choice.
00:37:58.000So even their own arguments against school choice are arguments for school choice.
00:38:03.000I wanted to say, real quick, Up until recently, both parties were discernibly evil.
00:38:08.000And then you had this insurgency with Bernie and with Donald Trump, and then Bernie showed himself to be quite a bit duplicitous, and Trump showed himself to be particularly anti-establishment in some areas.
00:38:21.000And so what you end up with now is a lot of people of influence in the Republican Party who oppose war, who oppose these things that are objectively evil, And objectively evil, and abjectly evil, and now you have still the neocons trying to claw back power in the Republican Party to once again restore the two massively evil machines in this country.
00:38:41.000Yeah, no, well, I think you're right that all the elements of the Republican Party that it ended up shedding during the Trump administration, at least the bad elements, are ones that people want to restore.
00:38:50.000I think there's things the Republican Party shed as a result of the Trump paradigm and him taking over the party that I don't think the Republican Party should have shed.
00:38:58.000I think the Republican Party's become too socially liberal.
00:39:01.000But when it comes to the warfare issue, oh yeah, I mean, it's one of his greatest accomplishments was pushing the neocons into the Democratic Party.
00:39:14.000I don't remember who that was, but I saw that.
00:39:16.000It's like, that's, you're so wrong, but oh, firstly, firstly, the two are unbelievably closely linked.
00:39:23.000This is, I understand sometimes we want to separate issues into economic issues and social issues, and sometimes that can make sense, but broadly speaking, it's not possible.
00:39:33.000Your social views are going to inform your economic views.
00:39:36.000I don't understand how that could possibly not be the case.
00:39:38.000But even so, to say, well, you know, like, I'm really interested in slicing the top marginal tax rate by 3%, and I'm not concerned by the fact that children are being abused and systemically groomed through this horrible school system.
00:39:53.000Jimmy Dore is left with a lot of economic stuff, but not on a bunch of other weird, creepy stuff.
00:39:57.000Sure, no, I totally agree, but I think that he would tell you that his moral vision for America is holistic and combines his economic and moral perspectives.
00:40:04.000Even though I would disagree with him, right, on how he applies those principles.
00:40:07.000You take a look at this Mesha Maynard Democrat who's now a Republican, and this is a good example of someone who's like, Yo, I disagree with this one issue, and they say basically, get out of the party.
00:40:17.000The Democratic Party is basically the party of, are you in the cult or not?
00:40:22.000And anybody not in that cult is right-wing.
00:41:39.000They're not necessarily on the right, just because the left doesn't like them.
00:41:43.000It's not to say we can't work with them on the area where there's agreement, it's just to say we have to have some way to define these terms.
00:41:49.000Like, just because the left is way too strict and purist doesn't mean that we abandon principles.
00:43:19.000Yeah, that's more or less what I'm saying.
00:43:21.000This is like when you go to a church and, you know, the preacher's up at the front of the priest, depending on which group of Christians you're talking about, and he's stating something and the congregation repeats it.
00:43:31.000I mean, when we're talking about, like, ancient prayers that have a precedent and point to something true, good, and beautiful, that can be a wonderful thing.
00:43:36.000When we're talking about ideological language that was invented ten years ago in order to shame you for the color of your skin, well, I think it's pretty creepy.
00:43:46.000And there's nothing wrong with prayer and religion in and of itself, but there is something wrong with these prayers in this religion because they're wrong.
00:43:57.000Like, the way I think about any kind of true religious prayer is sort of a Name the religion that believes in a higher power, and prayer is effectively an admission or, you know, in some way, it's rooted in knowing you are not the end-all be-all.
00:44:47.000Yeah, so what I would say is that obviously Christianity is correct.
00:44:50.000I think sometimes people in like certain pagan religions are like praying to demons or praying to themselves or if it's someone who hasn't been introduced to Christianity before and they're like trying to find God, you know, and they're just innocently asking questions, I think it's possible for God to, you know, hear that.
00:45:03.000But that said, Um, I think that what you're seeing here is a kind of self-worship, because these people are able to fit in with the group by chanting these words, and it's more or less about that.
00:45:15.000It's more or less about fitting in virtue signaling, saying, I'm one of you guys, I have the trendy opinion.
00:45:25.000You know, to be honest with you, I don't mind it because I'm hoping that there can be some kind of something brought to the Supreme Court to get that whole ideology declared a religion so that way you can have it completely and totally quarantined from legislation.
00:45:41.000Let it have it have it be declared a religion so that way people can exercise their religion They can you know live their life that way believe what they want just keep it completely and totally isolated from from state power So the government can't you know give any kind of past laws based on any of that any of the the ideology Well, I think what people have to contend with is a problem that has existed ever since we started talking about a separation of church and state, which is that we have determined that one set of moral truth claims should be placed in this category, called religion, and other sets of truth claims, even if made about the exact same thing, because they don't openly claim that they reference a creator or a god, are not to be considered religious, and therefore can meddle with legal processes.
00:46:29.000The reality is, these views are fundamentally religious because an ideology is basically just a false religion that doesn't expressly purport to worshipping any kind of god.
00:46:41.000And so, you have a religion, you have competing religions, but these ones, because they don't call themselves that, because they call themselves something else, are able to, you know, have themselves declared legally as national or state religions, basically.
00:46:55.000We need a good legal understanding of what a religion is.
00:46:59.000The Supreme Court has a... I'll Google it, because they actually have a specific definition.
00:47:06.000And I believe it includes, like, belief in a deity or something like that.
00:47:11.000Because then Buddhism, I think, is out.
00:47:13.000Well, yeah, people have argued about that before, like, Buddhism, because it doesn't technically say that there are... I think some interpretations don't.
00:48:59.000Yeah, well, and I think some element of it is also a humiliation ritual, because, all right, so let's say we just take their words.
00:49:07.000I don't remember every single thing they said, but one thing is, I will, like, love my black neighbors just as much as my white neighbors.
00:49:16.000Now, there's, like, Someone stands you up at the front of the room and they're like, I need you to say in front of me that, like, you're not going to go, you know, hurt innocent people.
00:49:25.000Okay, well, the fact that you're being asked that is an indictment of you.
00:49:28.000And the fact that you would take that question seriously suggests that you do need to answer that question because we can't really be sure about you.
00:49:37.000So, there's a strong element of a humiliation ritual to this, which, if you're trying to abuse people, which is effectively what happens with bad religions and ideologies, is you're just kind of abusing your congregation, well, you want to see them prove that they're willing to humiliate themselves for you.
00:49:52.000They're willing to put up with any kind of treatment.
00:49:55.000James Lindsay makes a compelling argument that it's Gnosticism, and it boils down to the existing religions that people are familiar with, like your Abrahamic religions, those are actually the devil, and that there is a god behind them that's hidden from everybody, and that god is actually imprisoned in reality.
00:50:18.000So the gods that we know of as Abrahamic religion gods, They have imprisoned the real God in reality and the God is in everyone.
00:50:29.000So you hear people say there's a lot of times where people will make remarks that they don't realize are actually like a cult or Gnostic.
00:50:36.000But when people say God's in everybody.
00:50:38.000I don't think there's anything that's Catholic that says that God is actually in everyone, but the Gnostic religion kind of, and this is not all Gnostic.
00:50:52.000heresy. So it's like it's as if God is in everybody and the ideal is to have
00:51:01.000everybody realize that they are God and then once everyone realizes that they
00:51:07.000are God that's the beginning of history or the end of history
00:51:11.000depending on the way that you you are describing it.
00:51:15.000But yeah, it's people believing that they are God, and they want to transcend their bodies to become one with God or whatever, and that's part of why the trans community, transhumanism, Kind of mixes into it too because they believe that their bodies are prisons and if you talk to people on the left a lot of times when they're describing the way that they have their their their Outlook on life is they look at the world being unfair and their bodies a prison and they're not really free and you hear that through the left when it comes to like oh if you have to go to work then you're not really free that's
00:51:50.000articulating that they believe that their own body and maintaining their own body is actually imprisoning them and they can't be their true selves because they have to go to work and these are these are themes that you hear the left talk and I'm talking about the far left but these are things that you hear the left talking about frequently and it lines up with the idea that it's it's a Gnostic ideology or Gnostic heresy.
00:52:13.000Yeah, I mean, there's a couple things there, and of course we believe as Christians that every human has God's image and likeness on them.
00:52:21.000Yeah, but that's not saying you're God.
00:52:28.000Now, I also think that you touched on a very important point, which is that in Gnosticism there's this kind of idea that, like, the flesh itself is evil and that you can transcend it in the sense that your mind can be something other than what your body is and it's superior, and the internal state of someone who says they're a woman when they're clearly a man must be honored above the actual physical reality, because not only do the two not conform, But the quote-unquote spiritual reality is higher.
00:52:53.000Gnosticism is a little bit difficult to pin down just because it's similar to the New Age movement in the sense that there's different kinds of varieties, but generally, yeah, I think you're right, that there's this heavy element of Gnostic spiritualism to all of it.
00:53:07.000Yeah, this like Gnosis, this case of Gnosis of like, You're only your knowledge and only your truth is the truth that matters not objective truth.
00:53:15.000There is no objective reality Yeah, and I think that's where I see it as well That's why I think is it's Gnostic in that sense and one of the things that I that I have heard people heard again Lindsay was talking about this is that A lot of the Gnostic cults that have existed in history actually kind of like mask themselves onto existing religions.
00:53:36.000So they'll say to Christians or whatever, they'll say, well, you know, you're getting this information from your priest or whatever, but I know this other part that is actually your religion, but it's a secret part.
00:53:51.000And that's where the gnosis comes from.
00:53:55.000Exactly, the esoteric knowledge, the secret, hidden religion, and it's actually your religion, but your whole religion, not the piece that's only been hit, because you've only been given a little piece, because the people that are in power want to stay in power, so they only give you a little bit.
00:54:11.000I have the gnosis, I have the knowledge to give to you, and it's done a whole, throughout history, Gnostic Gnostics have used that type of argument to infiltrate religions that exist and kind of, you know, turn them into a symbiotic religion.
00:54:27.000No, not a symbiote, like a parasite, I guess.
00:54:35.000Let's jump to the story from ABC News.
00:54:37.000Kansas must stop changing trans people's sex listing on driver's licenses, judge says.
00:54:43.000A state court judge has ordered Kansas to stop allowing trans people to change the listing for sex on their driver's license.
00:54:49.000This one caused a lot of contentious issues there on the internet, as many people on the left are saying it's far-right fascism, etc, etc.
00:54:56.000But my question with this story is actually quite simple, the reason why I wanted to bring it up in this conversation.
00:55:02.000If the left continually says sex and gender are different, Why would a trans person ever change their sex on a birth certificate or driver's license when they are not in fact changing their sex?
00:55:12.000They are just trying to affirm or confirm their gender, which is a social construct.
00:55:18.000Yeah, well right, this is how it started.
00:55:20.000They created this nonsensical distinction between sex and gender.
00:55:25.000Gender is a term that was only used to describe language.
00:55:29.000So they took something that only referred to inanimate objects, or I shouldn't even call it an object, but an artifact of language, and they applied it to humans, which already has dehumanizing connotations to it.
00:56:05.000So in some instances, it was used interchangeably.
00:56:08.000And then sometimes it was used to say, well, your sex and gender identity are two different things, because your sex is the biological reality and your gender is the expression.
00:56:14.000And they said that for a very long time to get people to accept transgenderism, but now, hmm, they've pushed the two back together.
00:56:21.000Oh, actually, your gender is also your biological sex, because if you say this is what you are, we have to also say that that's what your biological sex is.
00:56:28.000So the issue here is there is a reason why we ask for the sex of the individual, typically for medical reasons.
00:57:13.000So if the real issue is they want to affirm their gender, and they believe gender and sex are different things, to the point where there are non-binary people simply because they don't want to wear a suit or a dress, then why would you ever change sex on a government document?
00:57:28.000Yeah, well, because you constantly need the constructions of your own mind to be validated, and you constantly need a grievance, so you're just going to keep pushing it down the line, saying, like, well, you've accepted my gender identity, but you don't accept my sex.
00:57:39.000I mean, it's all nonsense, but you're absolutely right.
00:57:42.000You need to know a person's sex medically, especially if they're unconscious and they can't communicate it to you like you described.
00:57:48.000Different medicines might be able to be used in a specific situation, but not another one, like, depending on your sex.
00:57:53.000It's also true of dosages of medicines.
00:57:56.000Well, so this is one of the principal edifiers of it being a cult.
00:58:01.000The left adheres to things that make no sense for no reason other than you must.
00:58:07.000The larger group agrees on a concept, and you must fall in line with whatever the majority of that cult believes and does, even if it serves no purpose or makes no sense.
00:58:16.000If you disagree, in fact, this is actually probably the principal component of the cult.
00:58:59.000I think to a great degree the point of holding contradictory claims is so that people who aren't falling in line with the cult expose themselves.
00:59:13.000I mean, it's all about their affirmation, you know, and they need to, you know, everyone needs to confirm what they are, but it's definitely two different things.
00:59:22.000And medically, I mean, it's important to know when somebody arrives in the emergency room and there's, you know, a problem, there's different you know, ways to go about approaching the patient. So yeah,
00:59:32.000I mean, I think there are medications. Yeah, or even like CPR, I think is a
00:59:58.000I wonder how far off we are from them just removing the sex category from a driver's license and having you put your pronouns there, and that's it.
01:00:14.000I think it also adds to that element of there being a humiliation requirement or humiliation ritual.
01:00:21.000I mean, before this ideology infested everything, the idea that you would ask someone whether you should call them he or she would be, and should be, considered incredibly insulting.
01:01:35.000Because I've had, like, liberal family members be like, you're saying that I'm in a cult because I disagree with you?
01:01:40.000And I'm like, no, I'm saying you're in a cult because you believe things that are contradictory and you're too afraid to say anything against the contradictions because people will attack you and you fear that.
01:01:49.000Yeah, see, other people will be like, that quite doesn't make sense, whether or not they get attacked.
01:01:54.000One is free, knowing freedom is dangerous, and the others are scared into saying things that don't make sense and contradict themselves, like 2 plus 2 equals 5, out of fear of what might happen to them socially.
01:02:28.000Well, values is a term that can just refer to what somebody literally values, and the things they value are very bizarre.
01:02:35.000When we had a particular leftist on this show, we were talking about these books, these shockingly gratuitous books in schools, and she goes, so you're in favor of abstinence-only sex ed?
01:03:11.000There are intelligent political commentators.
01:03:14.000Hey, surprise, surprise, they tend to fall in a similar set of beliefs.
01:03:19.000We can talk about Destiny, a liberal guy, but he has no issue coming here and having a discussion because he actually believes things and is having a real conversation about them.
01:03:28.000Then you have cult members who will say literally anything so long as it fits the cult narrative.
01:05:04.000And here's the thing, you're correct that that's not political, but to them it is.
01:05:08.000Not only for some of the more nefarious reasons we could point to, but just portraying law enforcement in a positive light is already a massive issue for them.
01:05:17.000It does speak to the fact that the left does politicize everything.
01:05:22.000And there are going to be people that, or there would be people that would push back on that and say, well, Phil, you know, the right does it too, or, or whatever.
01:05:29.000But if you look at the philosophy of the, of the left and the thinkers on the left, the idea of the personal is political came from the left.
01:05:38.000Like that, that's what the, the early feminists were saying.
01:05:41.000I think it was the feminists that first started saying the personal is political.
01:05:45.000And it's something that expands to, to other, uh, Types of leftism or other genres of leftist leftism or whether the the LGBT issues that we see right now are because they demand Sexuality to be a political topic.
01:06:01.000It doesn't have to be it could be simply look you don't teach children You know sex ed possibly at all because you know human beings have figured it out for A couple hundred thousand years that human beings have been human before we had, you know, government schools.
01:06:19.000So it's not like it's necessary to ensure the survival of the population for the government to explain how sex works.
01:06:49.000The intent is to make activists out of kids.
01:06:52.000So whether it be LGBT issues or whatever the dynamic is, whether it be race issues or whatever, Any time you can get young people activated politically, you're going to get a portion of them that are going to become committed political actors, and they're going to become the activists of the next generation and stuff.
01:07:16.000The point is to politicize as much as possible from the left with leftist talking points or with leftist perspectives.
01:07:23.000That's why you have your average mom and dad that are like, hold on, we don't want our kids to learn this stuff.
01:07:30.000And the government's, you know, sending the FBI after.
01:07:38.000All of that stuff is factual things that have happened.
01:07:41.000So again, I'll get pushback from some of the people that are friends of mine that are left-leaning.
01:07:46.000And it's like, look, I'm not making any of this up.
01:07:48.000This is just talking about things that are happening and have happened.
01:07:52.000So the idea that the person was political is something that lives on the left.
01:07:58.000Yeah, no, I mean, I would agree with a lot of that.
01:08:00.000I would say that, and I don't think you would actually disagree, that there are some, and probably many, massive goals with showing this stuff to kids that go beyond just a mere political statement.
01:08:50.000Even like the more comprehensive programs, by the way, which I don't agree with that terminology, I don't agree with teaching kids about birth control, but even they'll say, don't do this without birth control.
01:08:58.000Like the whole point is supposed to be about saying, don't do this.
01:09:26.000A new report released by the House Committee on the Judiciary and the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government has revealed that the FBI, under Joe Biden, facilitated censorship requests to American social media companies on behalf of a Ukrainian intelligence agency infiltrated by Russian-aligned actors.
01:09:44.000Okay, let me wrap my head around this.
01:09:46.000Does that mean the people who are doing the censorship are actually Russian useful idiots?
01:10:20.000People accuse Donald Trump of having been a Russian puppet.
01:10:23.000I don't believe that's true, but if he wanted to choose to be a Russian puppet, he could have been.
01:10:27.000The thing about Joe Biden is he's in a very precarious position because it's very easy to become a puppet when you don't have a brain.
01:10:35.000And anyone who sends him any information That is vetted by the people around him who supposedly care about him, who I also don't think are necessarily the brightest minds this country has to offer, can get him to say and do things that are very much not in line with the interests of this country.
01:10:49.000So yeah, Joe Biden censoring people on the behest of a foreign power because there was misinformation spread by that foreign power that eventually reached him is not exactly a shocking thing.
01:10:57.000But I just want to point out, once again, the Democrats were the ones doing what they were accusing the Republicans of doing.
01:11:53.000Maybe everything they're doing is a distraction so that China can move on Taiwan, which is substantially more important strategically than Ukraine is to Russia.
01:12:01.000Before all those new chip fabs can be built in the desert.
01:12:12.000Why would Russia want these particular individuals censored?
01:12:16.000Unless they were targeting the left or liberals or something like that.
01:12:20.000It'd be interesting to see what those censorship requests were, what was censored at the behest of, I guess, now Russian moles in Ukrainian intelligence, which is such a crazy statement to make.
01:12:31.000The SBU, this is Russian intelligence, sent the FBI lists of thousands of social media accounts accused of spreading Russian disinformation, which the U.S.
01:12:40.000agency then distributed to social media platforms Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and Twitter.
01:13:33.000I've been saying that unironically for a while, but the more and more that you talk about it potentially being China and Russia essentially playing blocker for it, that's what I kind of think is happening.
01:13:41.000It's unfortunate, but that's what I think is happening.
01:13:44.000I guess the question is, is all of this a distraction, or what will lead up to, say, the invasion of Taiwan, which is really going to kick things off?
01:13:52.000I, there's part of me that's that thinks that regardless of what happens, uh, what the Chinese do in, in relation to Taiwan, the U S can't really do anything about it.
01:14:02.000I, as far, I mean, this is, you know, this is an un, uh, an expert opinion.
01:14:07.000Cause I'm not, I'm not a, uh, geopolitical, uh, expert or anything, but I just don't see the United States, you know, having the, the wherewithal to actually go to, you know, have any kind of combat in the South China Sea over Taiwan.
01:14:26.000If I understand correctly, we don't have the munitions, the US military power is down 25% I think is the recruitment goal that they were down last year that they missed it by.
01:14:40.000Overall, I don't know exactly which branch had what the deficit was for each branch, but They're not making recruitment goals.
01:14:48.000They're sending all of the bombs and stuff that we have over to Ukraine and our stores of munitions have run low, if I understand correctly.
01:14:57.000But that's also just good for a lot of like the military industrial complex.
01:15:00.000Yeah, but what I'm saying is I don't see how, that's true and I agree with you, but I don't see how the U.S.
01:15:05.000is in a position to actually engage in any kind of defense of Taiwan, especially if we're What amounts to a two front war, at least logistically, like we don't have, you know, people on the front lines in Ukraine, but we're, you know, sending munitions to Ukraine, as if we're engaged in it.
01:15:24.000So a two front logistical war, I don't see the US being able to handle that.
01:15:28.000Well, I mean, I can't speak too much to, like, the tactics or what we have with respect to, you know, munitions or anything like that, but what I'm curious about is how the United States would be able to get enough people to sign up to fight in any of these wars.
01:15:46.000I think a lot of the people who are supporting the Russia-Ukraine war are not people who are going to enlist for combat roles in the U.S.
01:15:54.000I think that if China were to invade Taiwan, there's probably more people who would be willing to enlist to fight that war, but I can't imagine enough people for that to be a possible reality who would be willing to sign up.
01:16:07.000So the question is, what does the government do?
01:16:09.000I mean, how does the government get people to enlist if this happens?
01:16:12.000The moment There becomes a true existential threat to the United States.
01:16:16.000All of these leftists are going to start screaming, good, America is bad and it shouldn't exist anyway.
01:16:22.000Yeah, they're not going to fight anything.
01:16:26.000Or what they'll do is they'll demand that other people fight it for them.
01:16:30.000This is something kind of remarkable too, when you look at how much we've stratified as a nation, how much we've broken apart, how little people see themselves as part of a common project anymore.
01:16:40.000When you look at what happened on 9-11, New York City was attacked and a bunch of guys from the South signed up to fight a war because of it.
01:16:52.000Do you think that Southerners would enlist to fight a war if New York got attacked today?
01:17:01.000I think we don't see ourselves- because at that time it was understood that was an attack on our nation.
01:17:06.000I think today, we don't really see ourselves as a unified whole.
01:17:11.000And I think if one part of the country got attacked, way fewer people would feel as if it was an attack on our entire country, and they would just see it as an isolated attack on that group of people.
01:17:22.000I don't think we view ourselves the same way we did in 2001 with respect to national loyalty.
01:17:27.000I don't think we see ourselves as loyal and also I think whether we would sympathize with them enough to like enlist in some kind of conflict or whether people in other parts of the country would is also going to be highly dependent on who attacks them.
01:18:50.000I still think, I mean, when it comes to Taiwan, I think the main reason that China wants Taiwan is partly for political gain inside China, to be able to say, like, oh, we've united China, like we meant to for a long time.
01:19:25.000I just- I just- I think Taiwan is- as- as much as I hate to say it, you know, like it- I don't know if people would be willing to go and jump for that war just as much as they would be willing to jump for Ukraine.
01:19:32.000It'd be the same kind of debt stalemate.
01:19:35.000Yeah, well, I think also when you look at the country in 2001, people were all willing to come together and agree that Al-Qaeda was an enemy, that they were a real existential threat.
01:19:44.000Obviously, we all believe that that was misapplied in retrospect when you look at the wars we went to.
01:19:49.000But today, whether you're talking about Russia or you're talking about China, for the most part, the American people have no agreement on who their enemy is, other than to agree that our enemy is one another.
01:20:00.000That's what the American people Believe today.
01:20:21.000So you did have a bunch of announcements, we've seen rallies, but oh boy, this is where things start to heat up.
01:20:25.000Especially as we get into the next several months when the primary races are going to get hot because early next year, I believe, is when we're going to see all the primary votes actually happen.
01:20:33.000So the ads are going to start popping up right now and here's the latest.
01:20:37.000Trump currently holds a 39% lead among GOP voters nationwide.
01:20:42.000What I find truly fascinating is the rate at which Vivek Ramaswamy is skyrocketing.
01:20:48.000They say with Trump at 59%, DeSantis at 17, Vivek Ramaswamy is now at number 3 with 8% and rising.
01:21:26.000But DeSantis, as probably the leading Republican politician in the country, like Trump's not in office right now, and there's nobody else who got anything close to him, can't get that close to Trump, RFK is at 20% doing better in the polls as a non-politician, presumably because of how bad Joe Biden is doing, which I find fascinating.
01:21:52.000No, but it is interesting, because I feel like there's not that many people that have been, I mean, I don't know when I hear what's I don't even know how to pronounce his name.
01:22:29.000There's a viral clip where a woman starts yelling about Republicans being evil, and a bunch of people get up and start yelling at her, and he's like, no, no, no, let her come up, let her come up, let her speak, let her speak.
01:22:37.000And he's like, ma'am, I believe in the First Amendment, please say what you had to say, are you a mom?
01:22:39.000He's like, thank you for coming, thank you for sharing your thoughts.
01:22:42.000And the woman's like crying, and then she leaves.
01:22:44.000Viveka knows how to handle this stuff.
01:22:46.000Trump knows how to handle the press in his way.
01:22:49.000Vivek knows how to handle them in a very clean and tactful way.
01:22:53.000So I'll be really interested in seeing what happens as time goes on, because Vivek is starting to pick up.
01:22:59.000Yeah, well, one thing I appreciate that's being acknowledged here is that in order for any presidential candidate to really be successful or worthwhile, they have to understand that the media is their enemy and they have to know how to combat them.
01:23:11.000Well, Donald Trump doesn't seem to get that.
01:23:15.000Yeah, he can go on the fake press all day and night, but he keeps giving them interviews and one-on-ones and they secretly record him and then leak it to the government.
01:23:24.000But I think he also engages with this in such a way that if they air footage of him saying something he wishes they hadn't recorded him saying, he can just use it.
01:23:50.000He was talking, I saw one video today where he was talking about how he would end the war in Ukraine.
01:23:55.000And I'm like, these are bold and direct statements to make.
01:23:57.000He said he would have like an armistice with Russia where it would divide the country like Korea.
01:24:03.000He would then demand, in exchange for these territories, they cease their military alliance with China because of how big a threat them and China have become, especially with the BRICS nations, etc.
01:24:12.000And I'm like, typically politicians give wishy-washy answers because they don't want to be overtly direct, and Vivek is just coming out and saying it.
01:24:20.000Like, I've said this before, I think that Vivek is nothing but a positive addition.
01:24:26.000I don't think that he has a significant chance of actually being the nominee, but I do think that his position on the debate stage is going to make a lot of people Make commitments and discuss topics that establishment candidates would never touch.
01:25:11.000But I think that he's running for, you know, a position in cabinet or maybe VP or something like that.
01:25:14.000But he's running to, you know, raise his star in D.C.
01:25:19.000And I do think that he's got A good argument, and there's good reasons for him to be running, and so I think it's a positive.
01:25:30.000I think a Trump RFK, a Trump-Kennedy ticket, hits it out of the park.
01:25:35.000I think you would see tremendous margins.
01:25:37.000Yeah, with RFK polling 20% on the Democrat side, if Trump was like, I'm gonna give you guys the guy you wanted, He could theoretically poll, let's just say half of that.
01:25:47.000Let's say half of the Democrats polled in favor of RFK.
01:25:52.000That's 10% of Democrat voters voted for Trump.
01:26:14.000He's not just a total outsider in the sense that the American people have no reason to be familiar with him, but he also is an outsider in the ways that are meaningful to the American people.
01:26:42.000I don't know, I might vote in the Democrat primaries and for RFK.
01:26:47.000I like the idea of, I think, an RFK leadership in the Democratic Party.
01:26:52.000forcefully realigns it in a positive way for this country.
01:26:57.000I think, again, I would agree with that in a sort of cautious way.
01:27:02.000Like I said, there's a lot RFK believes in that I think is really bad, but when you look at how awful the Democratic Party is right now, he would absolutely be an improvement.
01:27:11.000Even if RFK, on a scale of negative to 100, to positive 100, is a negative 10, negative 10's a huge improvement from the current Democrat Party.
01:27:22.000Yeah, and so, you know, I was talking about Trump in 2020, and I've had these Libertarians be like, but are you really going to vote for the lesser of two evils?
01:27:30.000And I'm like, I don't think Trump's evil.
01:28:46.000Because right before everybody announces, they start ramping things up.
01:28:49.000You can see the gears in motion, and we're like, oh, it looks like they're going to announce.
01:28:52.000Like, even Ron DeSantis, they were like, next week it's going to happen.
01:28:54.000Then rumors circulated, then sources say, and then finally he announced.
01:28:59.000We've got nothing from the Libertarians so far.
01:29:01.000But what I was saying about Trump in 2020 is like, you know, look, I'm looking at him, the school choice I'm in favor of.
01:29:09.000I'm looking at his banning the wokeness in government contracting because it violates the Civil Rights Act, agree with that, and foreign policy.
01:29:25.000Withdrawal from Afghanistan, Abraham Accords, massively net positive.
01:29:30.000So I'm like, if you were to do the Trump presidential quotient and took all of the different elements of the presidency, there's a lot of different categories where Trump is negative.
01:29:41.000And there's a lot where he's positive that leads us to, on a scale of minus 100 to 100, Trump might be at a 6.
01:29:48.000And I'm like, so I'm not here to praise the man and scream he's the greatest guy who ever lived or God Emperor or anything like that.
01:29:52.000I'm just like, You know, I get enough from it.
01:29:55.000I don't feel like I'm voting for a net negative.
01:29:57.000I feel like the foreign policy stuff was good for us.
01:30:00.000And there are, of course, some negative areas.
01:31:16.000I mean, wow, talk about body positivity!
01:31:18.000Well then, I guess the question for you, right, since you're more... You know that makes you a far-right extremist, right?
01:31:23.000Hey, great, put a far-right extremist in the Democratic Party.
01:31:25.000Let me ask the far-right Democratic question.
01:31:28.000Since you are more moderate, then I guess the question is, what matters to you more, a good Democratic candidate or a good Republican candidate?
01:31:37.000When we're looking at a Democrat and a Republican on the debate stage, imagine the cultural shift that will happen if on strong cultural issues it's RFK versus Trump and they're like, we agree.
01:31:50.000And we're talking about... I think there's truth in that.
01:31:52.000Because a lot of these people on the left will be like, we hate Trump so much, we're going to agree with RFK, and it's going to force more positive cultural elements onto the debate stage.
01:32:02.000Biden's going to say crackpot crazy stuff to defend leftists and whatever he can get from the media.
01:32:09.000If they're forced into having RFK on the stage, Let me just say this.
01:32:14.000You guys ever see that Rogan episode with RFK where he said he was concerned about potentially being assassinated?
01:33:12.000Anyone that'll do that, I'll vote for.
01:33:15.000Yeah, you know, I would love to talk with RFK and be like, will you commit to firing all of these bureaucrats and setting term limits for government employees?
01:33:33.000And everyone else that's run or that is running, they're all going to increase the size of government.
01:33:39.000You know, I'm not a member of the Libertarian Party, but small government is something that is in my opinion extremely important because it allows for different areas to make their own rules.
01:33:55.000The intent of the United States is to have a bunch of different experiments in democracy and to have federal level arguments for most of the things that we fight about is completely pointless and unnecessary.
01:34:12.000So, uh, we're gonna go to Super Chats, and I'm gonna start by reading this one from WeAreChange.
01:34:16.000It says, Joe Exotic for Libertarian President with McAfee VP, let's go.
01:34:32.000How you feeling about DeSantis these days, huh?
01:34:34.000Mr. Luca Cassi comes on the show and goes, I don't like politicians, but man, DeSantis is doing a really great job, he's the best, and I'm really excited about him, and Trump's not good, and Fauci and all that stuff.
01:34:42.000A genuine question, I wonder what Luke's position is on DeSantis now.
01:34:46.000Only because what we've seen is, despite the fact that DeSantis has probably the best track record of any Republican politician in the country, he has not done well in the press.
01:34:55.000His press team has handled things miserably, and unfortunately for DeSantis, what's exacerbating it is his base is incredibly Yeah.
01:35:04.000angry it's like you i'll tweet something in defense of the senate
01:35:10.000in fact they're even do it is something in the comments like
01:35:12.000i said i mean what about the gal day and they're still insulting me bro i will
01:35:16.000not vote for the guy y'all are not so i think that maybe those people should be
01:35:20.000attacking insulting lucas that attacking you that's a good point to the point
01:35:24.000uh... i'm interested to see where i was in the schools I'm not going to blame DeSantis for what his bad press team is doing, but I do think it's fair to criticize DeSantis on who he's hired and their inability to properly manage this.
01:35:38.000If you look at Florida and see how well they've done in terms of what their COVID response was, how they've handled culture war issues, that is something good to vote for.
01:35:46.000The problem is his press team has been apocalyptic and that reflects poorly on him.
01:36:11.000Also, smash that like button and become a member at TimCast.com because the members-only show will be coming up in about 25 minutes on the front page of TimCast.com.
01:37:17.000Joe Spinella says, per Dr. Peter Zeihan, the dollar isn't going anywhere, and how BRICS is being backed by gold isn't the same way our currency once was.
01:37:24.000BRICS will still go through using the dollar.
01:38:09.000And it'll get me worked up because if other people understood the implications of using graphene and getting carbon out of the air, then, you know, we could really move society along.
01:39:21.000It took us months to launch in the first place.
01:39:23.000The building we have Historic building.
01:39:26.000Requires a lot of work, and it's taking forever, unfortunately.
01:39:29.000But, uh, we're getting there, and it is what it is.
01:39:32.000Once we have the first location set up, I think we're instantly gonna go for franchises, because that's the fastest way to rapidly expand.
01:39:38.000And I got a feeling we can have, like, ten or twelve stores opened up within, like, six months.
01:39:43.000We can even do, like, investor stuff, where people want to open franchises and have experience.
01:39:47.000Let's say you were, like, a manager for a couple different coffee chains in your area, And you would rather run your own, we could, you know, we could, I should say this very potentially, we would be interested in, if legal and possible, financing someone opening their own set of chains and things like that.
01:40:05.000Because my goal with this is, and I'll tell you this right now guys, first thing I tell you in business, never say what I'm about to say to anyone who you might work with.
01:40:18.000You say that and all your investors walk out the door and say it was really great meeting you because no one expects to make any money if you don't want to.
01:40:25.000What I want is a successful business that can survive, that will be able to stay open, that will be able to make enough to pay the bills, pay the employees a good rate, make a little bit on top for a rainy day fund, but function.
01:40:39.000I want a bunch of businesses that can survive and exist and have a positive impact on culture.
01:40:51.000So when we launch these franchises, I think we're going to have ridiculously favorable terms in terms of revenue.
01:40:57.000And the only thing I'm concerned about is enough off the top so that we can have a fund to help any one of the franchises should they fall in hard times and we can keep them staying open.
01:41:06.000It's all a beautiful pipe dream as of right now until we actually get the ball rolling.
01:41:10.000Perhaps the first thing we should do, we don't even need a location, is start discussing with someone the basic format, style guide, and structure of what a franchise should be, what makes it a franchise, and uh...
01:42:06.000In all seriousness, people need not fear being poor.
01:42:09.000Richness of character cannot be bought.
01:42:11.000You know what they say, I don't know what currency will be used in World War III, but for World War IV it's going to be chickens and spoons.
01:42:57.000Yeah, we made a crispy and a fluffy one.
01:42:58.000But, um, the reason I bring this up, I'm riding, I, I, I come up to the studio Before the show, I ride up on my little electric motorcycle and, yo, there are berries everywhere.
01:43:30.000I don't know what's up with this property, because the other, Freedomistan, where we're building a bunch of stuff out, ain't no food there at all.
01:44:32.000We're talking about conflict, crisis, lack of food, going poor, the currency and all that stuff.
01:44:39.000Bro, if you learn to actually live the way people were supposed to live, and it's funny because we can take the W.E.F., hippie, dippy, corporate stance of like being in tune with nature or whatever.
01:44:50.000However, whatever you want to call it, I think it's a net positive.
01:44:53.000If people were living outside of cities and responsible for their own consumption and refuse, at least to a small degree, the world would be a better place for one simple reason.
01:45:20.000I'm gonna have some kind of like a Thai chicken with peanuts, shrimp, chicken, pineapple, avocado, cilantro, and I'm like, bro, you basically pull a plant from every different part of the world, ship it all to your city, A tremendous amount of resources and then eat like a king.
01:46:36.000Yeah, for sale for like a million dollars.
01:46:38.000And I was just like, if I could own an apple farm, but I can't.
01:46:41.000But you can go fruit picking out here, because they have the farms where they let you come and just take it, and you get like a little thing and you grab the apples off.
01:46:48.000We have apple trees on the property, we have three of them.
01:48:42.000And then Seamus walked upstairs and as he's handing us three or four spoons, he was like, an Irish man lives under my house and he keeps stealing my spoons, but no one believes me!
01:49:18.000Alright, we'll read some more Super Chats.
01:49:20.000Sparky says, Tim, from year to year the bug population fluctuates severely, so in many years there won't be enough bugs to feed humanity alone.
01:49:27.000I won't be surprised, but I will tell you this.
01:51:20.000HiDick says, Tim, YouTuber LowEye86 has a video where Chinese domestic press interviewed their army's CBRN warfare chief, literally saying they're producing and will deploy ethnically targeted biological weapons.
01:52:45.000Maybe there has to be some kind of conflict within humans, otherwise we become hedonistic, lazy, and we have to fall apart.
01:52:52.000Yeah, I mean, there is such a thing as, like, a just war, in the sense that there might be reasons for a country to become involved, but that doesn't mean that we should jump on every single war that the media tells us we need to join or become a part of.
01:53:08.000Demoralize says, Let's see if Tim can go one episode without triggering his DeSantis derangement syndrome.
01:53:14.000If I hear it one more time, I'll unsub.
01:53:16.000What I love about this is that, like, Every episode we do, we've got some kind of criticism of Trump, and not a single Trump supporter's been like, Screw you, Tim!
01:53:25.000Like, we literally say something like, He hired a bunch of bad people, he wouldn't fire Fauci, he wouldn't... And Trump supporters come on, and they still say, Yeah, well, you know, we get it.
01:56:24.000These urban liberal types, man, they would break down.
01:56:27.000Their worldview is predicated upon putting on blinders, ignoring the fact that they are colonists, enslavered imperialists masquerading as humble, nice anti-racists.
01:56:41.000But if you go to them, I guarantee you say, hey, We want you to stop using your computer, your iPhones, your cars.
01:56:48.000They're gonna say, well, it's so stupid, you're dumb.
01:56:50.000It's like, I'm not saying it because of capitalism.
01:56:53.000I'm saying because you have slaves making it.
01:56:55.000Stop buying the things that are made by slaves.
01:56:59.000Zero accountability for anything, ever.
01:57:01.000It's never, ever about any kind of personal change they can affect in their own lives.
01:57:04.000And anytime they do affect, like, a personal change, it always happens to be something which is very economically convenient.
01:57:10.000So they'll say something like, well, I care about climate change, so, like, I'm not gonna have kids when they were already planning to not have kids.
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