00:00:12.000We are back finally from my temporary vacation, I don't want to call it a vacation because I don't want to give you the illusion that I was like on a beach and chilling, you know, anything like that, chilling in Cedar Rapids.
00:00:25.000But I am back from Washington, D.C. Finally, it's good to be back on the show.
00:01:32.000I want to talk about my trip in Washington, D.C., because there's a lot.
00:01:37.000To be learned from firsthand experience.
00:01:40.000I can't go into great detail for obvious reasons.
00:01:45.000If the people who I was talking to, if the press found out, they would not be too happy about it, you know, on either side.
00:01:53.000So I'm going to have to keep it on the down low, a lot of the details, but I did talk with a lot of people who are in the know.
00:02:00.000And like I said, I can't get too into detail, but there are some very important insights I think that we can learn from the people that are on the ground making it happen.
00:02:09.000In media, in the Trump administration, and many other areas.
00:02:13.000And so it should be good to kind of talk about that because one of the biggest problems I think with this administration, or rather covering this administration as a pundit or as a journalist, you know, whatever you want to call it, is that largely everything we know about the Oval Office and what happens inside of it is speculation.
00:02:33.000To me, that's the hardest part because people often ask me, or often a major news story, Will be about the interplay between different actors, different people in the White House, in government.
00:02:47.000And outside of pure speculation, it's really hard to say for certain what's actually going on.
00:02:52.000This is where we get, this is where the conflict arises between the four dimensional chess people and more pragmatic people who say we have to be critical, that kind of thing.
00:03:02.000So I think it is important to kind of gain an insight into what's really happening with the real flesh and blood people in the Capitol who are dealing with the Paz in the country.
00:03:57.000There's a lot to dissect there in terms of the media's coverage, in terms of Antifa, and also analyze it from a right wing perspective, kind of see what went on there.
00:04:28.000This global trade war that's happening with Trump.
00:04:31.000But I think we're going to have to save that for perhaps tomorrow or the next day because I really want to commit like 45 or 60 minutes to a whole show because I'm looking at the news and perhaps you're seeing this too.
00:04:44.000But I mean, you really try to understand the scope of what this administration is trying to do in terms of its foreign policy with trade.
00:04:54.000We've never, or at least in the recent contemporary history, seen trade used in this way.
00:05:01.000The way we're going to war with Turkey, Iran, Russia, China, North Korea, Mexico, Canada, every country in the world, the way we're exerting our influence there.
00:06:21.000I haven't talked to him yet privately, so I have no idea what went on there.
00:06:25.000So I don't think you could call that show a success if it led to the guest getting fired from his job or, you know, there's rumors about it.
00:06:33.000And then Friday, you know, look, I love Ashton Whitty to death.
00:09:31.000And I'm torn, though, because on the one hand, there's that.
00:09:33.000On the other hand, there's a lot of really fine people in D.C., the finest I know, really.
00:09:39.000And that's what I want to talk about I had been meeting over the weekend with a lot of important people, influential people.
00:09:45.000And I don't mean to say that to be like, I'm such a cool person, even though I am, and it is cool.
00:09:51.000But I say that because I want to get into basically the state of where we are right now as a movement on the right wing.
00:10:00.000And I want to start by saying our strategy is working.
00:10:03.000To say that this long, slow march through the institutions, getting people in positions of power, that is the way to go.
00:10:12.000If you disagree with that, I don't really know what to tell you.
00:10:15.000We've been kind of on this strategy for a long time, but I've been meeting with people, and there are people like us who believe the things we do, who read the books we do, who watch the content that we do, who know the things that we do, and they're in every department in the White House.
00:11:05.000Because I've been speaking to a lot of them.
00:11:07.000I spoke, To a lot of them this weekend, and I want to get into their insights as to what are the important issues for this administration, for the movement at large.
00:11:16.000But to start out, I just want to start out with a white pill and say there are fine people, people that are like us, that are making decisions, that are moving the levers of power, and we just need a lot more of them at the state level, at the local level, at the federal level.
00:11:32.000So if you're thinking it's just us, it's just this cool, handsome guy who you watch every night on America First, it's just me.
00:11:41.000And I'm all alone in the basement, and I'm a neat, and my good television friend, Nick Fuentes, who he's handsome and smart and funny, and it's just us two against the world, and I just have to fly a plane into the ocean.
00:12:22.000They're in the inner circles, which is a good thing.
00:12:26.000And what they've been telling me, what I've heard from all of them, About what's going on right now is that censorship is basically the biggest issue.
00:12:34.000So, last week, and I said this about Infowars, I said this is Pearl Harbor, this is Red Alert, this is DEF CON 1.
00:15:06.000It's been confirmed by people who I talked to.
00:15:09.000They are setting up so that in 2018, in 2020.
00:15:12.000There is not a loud or an influential dissident voice on social media.
00:15:18.000There is not a big megaphone, a big microphone for people to talk about what's happening to our country, to talk about immigration, to talk about political corruption.
00:15:31.000And so, what we have to do right now, and this is the crucial thing, it's sort of like, you know, people have their grand designs and their philosophical thoughts about, well, what's more important, immigration, or should we be talking about?
00:15:45.000Taxes, or should we be talking about what policy should we look at with regard to the wall or to illegals?
00:15:51.000If we don't correct the social media censorship, we don't really have a leg to stand on in politics.
00:15:58.000There's no way to get these ideas out there.
00:16:00.000So that's why right now it's very urgent that we turn this around or at the very least freeze it so that we could keep getting these things out there.
00:16:07.000Because the people I talk to who are not in DC and who are in DC say that the reason they believe the things they do is because they saw a YouTube video, they saw a tweet, they saw something on 4chan.
00:16:47.000There has been an executive order prepared to combat tech censorship and this kind of thing.
00:16:53.000We just need to draw a lot of attention to it.
00:16:55.000So, this is something I'm going to be trying to work on this week and next week is trying to bring attention to that issue to the president, to the big dogs, the big influencers, people like Sean Hannity, Don Jr., Ann Coulter, and hopefully it'll work its way up the food chain.
00:17:11.000So, that's one avenue an executive order.
00:17:14.000Another avenue, which I've heard about, is that apparently the only reason that Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Google, and YouTube is owned by Google, but I guess people see them as separate.
00:17:26.000The only reason that they are protected from legal action, when you see a shooting on Facebook Live, for example, or when you see ISIS plan a terror attack using Twitter,
00:17:38.000the only reason these social media companies are legally protected from being prosecuted because they facilitate those crimes is because various courts decided when these companies began to spring up that it was beneficial to political expression that they be protected legally.
00:17:59.000When they talk about the free market, like, oh, Twitter is free market, the Google is free market, YouTube is free market, and for government to interfere, this is what Lucian said, you know, for the government to interfere is, oh, it's a big violation of Milton Friedman's free market and Adam Smith's free market.
00:18:17.000They're private companies, they can do what they want.
00:18:19.000Well, we know that that's bullshit because they have very strong public protections by the government.
00:18:27.000From certain laws, because the courts decided that, well, we'll make an exception for these guys.
00:18:33.000We'll make a special case for these guys.
00:18:36.000We'll have this legal decision that they will not be vulnerable to the same laws because, and the reason being, this is what's crucial because they are conducive to free and open political speech.
00:18:50.000They are a cool, modern, new way for people to express themselves freely and make their political opinions known.
00:18:58.000Now, if they're not doing that, if that's not happening, if Twitter is censoring people and YouTube is censoring people and Facebook is censoring people, well, then there's no reason for those legal protections to exist.
00:19:11.000And so that would be the alternate avenue, would be lawfare, which is to say, we have to overturn all these legal protections because the reason that you have them, you're not fulfilling your end of that commitment.
00:19:24.000And if we got rid of those protections, Google would be insolvent tomorrow.
00:20:13.000I've talked about this a lot on the show because everybody I talk to online says this.
00:20:18.000And then I go and meet more people in D.C.
00:20:21.000And every single person, whether they work in any number of departments who I've spoken to, they all say the same thing.
00:20:28.000The reason the administration is not maximizing or optimizing its potential is because we do not have the right people in the government.
00:20:38.000When Trump got into office in 2017, when he was inaugurated and he officially became the president, he allowed, and a little bit before that as well during the transition, he allowed the RNC, the Republican Party, to take over filling up all the different positions in the White House.
00:20:55.000Whereas a more experienced or a more organized political apparatus would fill up the White House with people from the campaign, people who believe in Trump, people who believe in Trumpism, and said we had the GOP fill up all the positions.
00:21:11.000We had people like Reince Priebus making those kinds of decisions, people like Mike Pence.
00:21:17.000We get people that believe in the free market and free trade.
00:21:20.000We get people who are pro open borders.
00:21:22.000We get people who don't even like Trump.
00:21:24.000There are people who work in these departments.
00:21:27.000I've heard so many horror stories of people who hate Trump, and that's all they talk about how much they hate the administration, they hate his policies, and they're working in the administration.
00:21:39.000And so that's when I'm told then, hey, if there's any Groypers out there who have got the talents, got the degree, got the experience, that's what we need to build up.
00:21:48.000That's why I tell people to volunteer for campaigns, get involved in the party, because this is happening at every level.
00:22:10.000So if we get in there, we work our way up, we get the advanced degrees if you want to go, I guess, in D.C. at a higher level, or even if you want to do it on the side, like James is providing a good model for you.
00:22:20.000You want to be a precinct captain or something like that.
00:22:23.000The more that we can be the personnel that carries out government, I mean, you'd be surprised how much of.
00:22:30.000Society and politics, we tend to think of it in terms of very abstract principles, boils down to just who are the people pulling the levers.
00:22:39.000It's just these bozos, it's just these establishment bozos.
00:22:43.000If we just replace them with good people, we're in a far better position.
00:22:46.000So that was the other thing I've been hearing.
00:22:48.000And hopefully that'll be corrected in 2020.
00:22:50.000If President Trump wins another term, that's the one thing that's got to turn around.
00:22:55.000That would make a big impact because what we see in the cabinet, what we see even in the lower levels, and to clarify, I'm not just talking about.
00:23:03.000The people that run the various departments.
00:23:05.000I'm not talking about the people that run the various regulatory agencies.
00:23:09.000I'm talking about who are the gatekeepers, who are the assistants, who are the people writing up memos, who are the salt of the earth people, the bureaucrats that are making things happen.
00:25:02.000But nevertheless, the elites that are in control of the party, of the donor networks, of the think tanks, they really don't care what the party believes.
00:25:09.000They really don't care what laws Trump passes.
00:25:12.000They will just as easily overturn them once he leaves.
00:25:15.000And that That is what should keep people awake at night the idea that Trump has opened up this window, whereas before there was no hope.
00:25:33.000We've got this window open, but it is closing every day in perhaps three years or six years or seven years, whether it's one term or two terms.
00:25:42.000When that window closes, there's really nothing that has changed in any sense beyond Trump.
00:25:48.000In other words, he leaves office and then we get fucking Nikki Haley.
00:25:52.000And pardon the language, but I think about Nikki Haley becoming the president and I want to do a barrel roll into an island.
00:25:58.000I want to put a shotgun to my head and blow my brains out because that would be.
00:26:22.000The right people are putting things together, but that's something that should concern a lot of people.
00:26:27.000That's something we should think about.
00:26:29.000And it really makes me mad because we think about these various problems, which are all solvable, by the way.
00:26:34.000I mean, this should not be blackpilling to you.
00:26:36.000This should just be like we've identified the problem and now we can think of solutions.
00:26:41.000So, in no way are we past the point of no return or anything like that.
00:26:45.000We just have to start working on these things.
00:26:47.000But we look at these various problems, and to me, this is what's so frustrating about looking at the current, or rather the former state of.
00:26:56.000And what I mean by that is the dissident right, the alt right, whatever you want to call it.
00:27:01.000Because we see people who are out there and they're on the front lines and they're making it happen and they see the problems and they're thinking of solutions which are creative and difficult and they work every day trying to make it happen.
00:27:14.000I mean, they go to work, they deal with these shitlibs, they live in the Paz Central and they're trying to get laws passed to save the country.
00:27:23.000They're trying realistically, pragmatically doing things that you could point to and say, That's something I did.
00:27:31.000And then you have people over here in the lunatic section, which is the former movement, I guess you could call it, who are saying, well, what you can do to further our cause is put up a sign that says Jews rape kids and just walk around.
00:27:49.000And that's got to be, I think, the most frustrating thing.
00:27:52.000And I am hoping a lot of people are seeing that.
00:27:55.000I hope a lot of people are coming around to my way of seeing things that that is doing us nothing but harm.
00:28:01.000That is doing, not only is it, Not helping us.
00:28:17.000And they're being led astray by very reckless, irresponsible leaders.
00:28:22.000Leaders, we don't know if they're crazy or if they're federal agents or if they're just sniffing their own farts, but who are telling them that all these problems you have, all this disillusionment, all this can just be solved.
00:28:36.000By being the most autistic, unemployable, helpless person you could possibly be, make yourself unemployable.
00:28:59.000That's the takeaway when I go to D.C. Every time I go to D.C., I think, you know, holy smokes, people are just making a real mess of things because.
00:29:08.000You talk to real people who are really in it, and they will tell you that's not the best way to go about it.
00:29:16.000I don't, you know, it's tough for me because I don't want to come on the show and say, like, oh, well, I talk to these people, I talk to those people.
00:29:29.000It makes me a little bit self conscious to talk about talking to people and that kind of thing.
00:29:34.000I don't like the way it comes across, I don't like the way it sounds.
00:29:38.000That experience, I think, is insightful to people who don't know people who are making it happen.
00:29:46.000So, to me, I think that's important to acknowledge that we could spout off and speculate all we want on YouTube and what we see on Reddit and what we see on 4chan.
00:29:58.000But, I mean, we see what we see on the news, but it is important, I think, to get an insight from people who are there, who are making it happen, and get a real state of the union, so to speak.
00:31:45.000And so I'm normally against that kind of thing.
00:31:48.000You know, we saw that ridiculous Heather Heyer thing by the alt light where they were going around telling people donate money to Heather Heyer's charity to prove that you're not a racist.
00:32:02.000However, If you don't sufficiently distance yourself and you are in the periphery of that kind of activity, you can become a target of censorship.
00:32:12.000They shut down your Twitter, they shut down your YouTube, and they put you on a list or something.
00:32:17.000And so it's just, you got to understand where that's coming from.
00:32:20.000It's not because I think Jason Kessler is a real threat in the country or like a real dangerous guy or anything, any more so than, I don't know, the elites that run the country who are bringing in millions of rapists and murderers.
00:33:15.000I'm not friends with any of those guys.
00:33:17.000I wouldn't be caught dead anywhere near there.
00:33:20.000But I do have to say, I have to say, I was warning people not to go there.
00:33:24.000And I think that was the right call, whether it turned out well or not.
00:33:28.000Because it was really, there were a lot of risks involved risks of violence, of doxing.
00:33:35.000It could have been a lot uglier than it was.
00:33:37.000And thank God the police rushed them through and then it got rained out.
00:33:41.000I mean, God really intervened and made all the Conditions favorable that it didn't turn into a complete catastrophe because the rally ended like two hours early.
00:33:50.000It was so quick and just about everything went right.
00:33:54.000Everything that could have gone wrong did not go wrong.
00:34:09.000But in retrospect, keeping in mind that I condemn the rally, keeping in mind that you shouldn't have gone, It wasn't the worst look in the world.
00:34:18.000Now, there were some unfortunate things that happened.
00:34:52.000I hope my 1488 arm tattoo is okay, right?
00:34:56.000Now, that aside, I saw some of the videos from the rally.
00:34:59.000I was watching it all day in my hotel.
00:35:01.000I didn't even want to go into the city out of fear of, you know, Jared Holt beating me up and his Antifa thugs, all these skinny, short homosexuals with, oh, it's, you know, fascist.
00:35:25.000And I mean, look, we saw thousands and thousands of thugs, black masks, black hoodies, red and black flags, anarchists.
00:35:35.000And they were being violent, assaulting police, shooting firecrackers, and making their way through the crowd people with American flags and being shielded by police, police all around them, forming a human wall.
00:35:49.000Now, again, Keeping all that in mind in the preface, disavow, you shouldn't have gone, all the rest, that was probably the best case scenario.
00:36:00.000And it wasn't the worst look in the world.
00:36:02.000I mean, they'll be reporting on Right Wing Watch about the guy with the tattoo and that kind of thing.
00:36:06.000But I think to many people at home, the takeaway was clearly the alt right, whatever, is not the problem.
00:36:15.000The so called real racists are not the problem.
00:36:28.000So, to me, I saw the rally, I was watching it, and although I didn't endorse it, I said ultimately, I think this was probably a rhetorically good thing for the media.
00:36:38.000You had even Washington Post, Vox.com acknowledging that Antifa are the violent ones.
00:36:44.000They purport to be against fascism and this kind of thing, but, you know, they're literally anarchists.
00:37:34.000Because the police report or an audit of what the police did at Charlottesville, all the requisite documents say the police caused what happened in Charlottesville last year.
00:37:46.000There was a whole review that was done of how the Charlottesville police handled what happened last year.
00:37:54.000The police were given an order to stand down.
00:37:57.000The police were told if they saw fights breaking out to let it happen.
00:38:01.000The police deliberately pushed the alt right into the crowds of Antifa.
00:38:07.000Therefore, I mean, is it really hard then to assign blame then when there's fighting between alt right and Antifa?
00:38:14.000And on the day of, the government of Charlottesville, the government of Virginia, and the police decide it's an unlawful assembly and they shove the two conflicting parties directly into physical contact?
00:38:29.000So I look at Unite the Right 2.0 and I think, man, this was kind of a missed opportunity.
00:38:34.000I will say, Jason Kessler, as crazy as he is, and I don't know if he's a fad or if he's a lunatic, for him to even try this is so reckless and so dumb, but he kind of pulled it off.
00:39:02.000Perhaps if they had organized this kind of a rally in Washington, D.C. from the beginning, it would have been a very different year, honestly.
00:39:10.000Because what we saw yesterday, or rather on Sunday, was controlled.
00:39:14.000There were American flags with, you know, I guess it just kind of goes to show that you literally cannot control rallies.
00:39:20.000For everybody who says rallies are a good thing, rallies should be defended.
00:39:24.000We just have to do X, Y, and Z. There's literally nothing you can do about it because anybody can show up and it's impossible to vet people entirely.
00:39:33.000They put in place probably 25 rules and you got a guy with a 1488 face tattoo, you know, so that just goes to show.
00:39:40.00020 people and you couldn't find out of 300 million people in the country, you couldn't find 20 people who believe in white civil rights that don't have.
00:43:20.000And that provided a pretty salient, cohesive national identity.
00:43:23.000Once the Soviet Union went away, it gave rise to this confusion, this anxiety of who are we?
00:43:29.000We don't have anyone, anything to define ourselves against.
00:43:32.000That's why we see racial conflicts, because increasingly, people define themselves against their own countrymen, because those are the significant differences.
00:43:44.000And so, in that way, Jared Holt is kind of his rise has been a beneficial thing because now he is like the Slade to my Robin in Teen Titans.
00:43:56.000I guess I would be the Joker and he would be Batman, or I would be Bane and he would be Batman, or something like that.
00:44:02.000So, it's been an interesting development.
00:44:27.000How it all kind of comes around full circle?
00:44:29.000So, kind of an interesting development.
00:44:32.000You know, who would have thought that this pesky, like, tattletale character, he was just kind of like this annoying, like, mosquito that just flies around and is a pest, is a parasite.
00:44:42.000And now that he's kind of making a name for himself, it's been.
00:45:38.000But I get on the flight, and I'm sitting in the middle seat.
00:45:40.000I agree with the middle seat, just my luck.
00:45:43.000And this woman, this ugly old woman, it would be one thing if she was like a young, cute girl or if it was a cat boy, you know, who knows.
00:45:50.000But immediately, before we even move, like everybody's in their seats, people are still in the aisle, kicks off the sandals, pops her feet right up on the chair in front of her.
00:46:32.000But at this point, we have to resort to a comprehensive system of oppressive laws to deter this kind of behavior.
00:46:40.000I want to see someone like that get arrested.
00:46:42.000I want to see a flight attendant go up and say, Put on your shoes now or else you're going to go to jail for a year or something like that.
00:48:03.000We need like Singapore style laws to prevent this kind of stuff from happening because people don't know how to act, people don't know how to behave.
00:48:32.000Because hundreds of years ago, the vast majority of people who are unthinking would just be mud farmers, they would just be doing their job.
00:48:42.000And, you know, they might have their opinions, but who cares?
00:50:00.000People like this, stupid, low IQ, modernist people, because of their incessant questioning and skepticism, are completely eroding the foundations of society, religion, tradition, biology, or heredity, actually, tribe, kin.
00:50:18.000All these pillars, marriage, all these pillars that hold up society are gradually being worn down like sediment rock, you know, like how you see erosion happen on a topographical feature.
00:50:33.000This is what's happening to those pillars because of these people who are constantly doubting, constantly.
00:50:39.000What is the logical basis for that ritual?
00:50:41.000What is the logical basis for tradition?
00:57:25.000I'm a white guy, you know, that kind of thing.
00:57:27.000And so this resonated with a lot of people.
00:57:30.000And a lot of people said, oh, he freed himself.
00:57:32.000A lot of like really sad, depressed people related to this because they feel like him, they feel trapped or depressed or, you know, maybe they don't have anything wrong in their life.
00:57:44.000But they just don't feel fulfilled, so they want to kill themselves.
00:57:48.000And they saw this guy as triumphantly going out.
00:57:51.000And people get very touchy feely about it.
00:57:54.000My take was basically this it is a very compelling story, but it's a tragedy.
00:58:00.000The story of a guy who gets so sad, he's got nothing really wrong in his life, no external adversity, or really internal adversity.
00:58:11.000He wasn't diseased, there wasn't any grief or anything, but he just lacked.
00:58:16.000That satisfaction, that fulfillment in life, that meaning to live.
00:58:21.000And so then he decided to kill himself, but in the spectacular visual fashion.
00:59:46.000You know, you could look at other martyrs who I don't want to say.
00:59:50.000Certain gentlemen who you could say were martyrs for their cause, where they were oppressed in their life and then they exacted a vengeance or they inflicted their will.
00:59:59.000And that's not a moral thing to do, but you might say that that's a heroic idea that, well, in that way they did reject the world.
01:00:06.000Well, this guy didn't, there wasn't a vengeance, there wasn't this complex motive.
01:00:11.000He was a depressed guy, and people relate to his grief, but he just killed himself.
01:00:51.000That's not to say you shouldn't feel or anything like that.
01:00:54.000People very quickly, right away, got very sensitive and lashed out.
01:00:59.000This is what happens I'll make a take, which is correct, and people, because they're very much in their feelings like babies, and not to trivialize or minimize, people, oh, that's mean, whatever.
01:01:14.000But people get very into their feelings.
01:03:27.000Says if they pass legislation saying that tech companies can't censor based on ideology, do you think it will include protections for hate speech and algorithmic suppression?
01:03:36.000If it doesn't, it will still be legal for them to shadow ban and ban people for hate.
01:03:41.000Well, again, they would have to persuade the courts that they are truly a platform for political expression, for free political expression.
01:03:51.000If you have algorithmic suppression and that kind of thing, I don't think you could convincingly make that case.
01:03:56.000So it's not like they would pass a law saying we're compelling social media to do this.
01:04:02.000It's just that the legal protections would evaporate because the initial pretext for those protections would not be there anymore.
01:04:10.000So then the onus would then be on the social media companies to demonstrate there is no censorship.
01:04:16.000And if that were the case, you know, we wouldn't have to worry about all these creative ways they could go about it.
01:04:21.000They would have to convince the courts these legal protections should remain.
01:04:25.000We are a free platform, and here's why.
01:04:28.000So, in my opinion, I think that's what would go down.
01:04:31.000Deplorable Mike says, Since you mentioned James, I was wondering if he'll ever be back on America First since you've cleared things up.
01:04:39.000Also, I was wondering if/when Lauren Rose is coming on the show.
01:05:19.000But I never really had a problem with the guy personally.
01:05:21.000You know, he never, like, really personally wronged me in a huge way.
01:05:25.000So, I mean, was he a little inconsiderate?
01:05:28.000We don't want to dwell on the bad, but I mean, we all understand what went down during the split, but he's a solid guy.
01:05:35.000I like him, you know, and hopefully we're able to put that behind us because I think what he's doing is the right thing and he should be a natural ally.
01:05:43.000And I think we should set an example to other people who can never get over their petty disagreements.
01:05:50.000And that's what defined the earlier stages of the movement are these ridiculously petty disagreements.
01:11:45.000You know, if there's consent, well, then how do you define consent?
01:11:49.000And then that's the traditional argument, but that's true.
01:11:51.000At a certain point, there has to be an objective definition of what is right and what is wrong.
01:11:56.000If all you have is don't be a jerk, well, everyone has their own subjective interpretation of what it means to be a jerk.
01:12:02.000And if you're trying to establish universal morality, that can quickly degenerate as it has, and then you have no standards for conduct, for behavior.
01:12:20.000The problem is at the root is subjectivism, is relativism.
01:12:24.000You need objectivity, you need reality, and that only comes extrinsically.
01:12:29.000You only arrive at the conclusion of philosophical realism, which says that there is a real world that is independent of our perception of it, and there are objective truths, and there is objective morality.
01:12:41.000You only arrive at all that if it comes from an extrinsic perspective.
01:12:47.000Otherwise, if it's just you or me saying it, well, then you have the problem of epistemology.
01:12:52.000And this is something that Shermichael Singleton does not understand.
01:12:55.000He got in an argument with me, misusing it.
01:12:58.000Epistemology is concerned with the nature of knowledge.
01:13:01.000Well, if we don't really have a good understanding of how we arrive at knowledge, whether it's through reason or through experience or if it's even possible, how do I know that you're right?
01:13:11.000How do I know that a really smart person can empirically, independently, objectively discover morality?
01:14:17.000I pronounced it De Maistre for a long time because I don't speak French.
01:14:20.000But it's M A I S T R E. Very good read, and it gives you a lot of perspective on what you thought you knew about reason and rationality and that kind of thing.
01:14:33.000Josh Schneider says, I voted Nicholson.
01:16:02.000And that's not to say that smart people are better than dumb people.
01:16:06.000But it's just to say that if we're going to order our society, Is it better to listen to people who are not competent, are not capable of cognition, or people who are very much so?
01:17:22.000Anarcho Architect says, at what point does Trump have the answer for Yemen?
01:17:27.000Yemen is not his responsibility, honestly.
01:17:31.000Yemen is, you know, I'm really kind of sick and tired of these isolationists or non-interventionists.
01:17:38.000I mean, don't get me wrong, there's a double standard that they say we have to intervene for humanitarian reasons in Syria, but yet they're causing the worst humanitarian disaster in Yemen.
01:17:49.000Let's look at what's happening in Yemen.
01:17:51.000Whose fault is it that there's a civil war in Yemen?
01:17:53.000Is it Saudi Arabia's fault or is it Iran's fault?
01:20:12.000Once you understand they're not just like guys with long hair, you start to understand the female creature.
01:20:18.000And I heard this from a buddy of mine the other day.
01:20:20.000He said to me, he really got woke on the women question when he started reading up on pickup artists.
01:20:27.000Because he said, you know, if you could use the same bag of tricks on women and it works reliably, you could use kind of these like mean, evil tricks on women, like be mean to them, don't answer their phone calls, that kind of thing.
01:22:06.000But because I want to get married and have kids.
01:22:09.000You look at the numbers on this, by the way.
01:22:12.000And when a woman sleeps with more than two sexual partners, the odds that the marriage ends in divorce.
01:22:17.000Goes from, or rather, the odds that the marriage succeeds go from 90% to 70%.
01:22:24.000And when you sleep with more than seven partners, I think it drops down to like 40%.
01:22:28.000So every sexual partner that a woman sleeps with between one and 10 is probably about a 10, 15, or 20% reduction in the probability that the marriage succeeds.
01:22:40.000For every woman that's out there saying, I want to have a good time, I'm in my 20s, I want to have fun, every one night stand, every boyfriend, every sexual partner, that is another 20% chance that when you eventually do settle down and have kids, that that will completely implode.
01:22:56.000And your children's lives will be ruined, and nothing good will come of that.
01:23:00.000So, for all these people that are saying, well, it's harmless, it's just fun, what are you against fun?
01:23:16.000Deplorable Mike says, You know what's funny?
01:23:18.000I found out that back in the day, my great grandfather, who's Italian like myself, who in his barber's shop back in the 30s openly showcased a bust of Mussolini.
01:23:29.000He had to destroy it when the war started.
01:24:36.000And they were looking at all the definitions of the various races.
01:24:39.000And there are many different classifications.
01:24:42.000Some say there's five races, some say there's three.
01:24:45.000The predominant ones are Caucasoid, Mongoloid, and Negroid.
01:24:49.000And they define the Caucasoid race as having a medium to tall stature, so I'm a medium stature, having blonde to dark brown hair, which I have dark brown hair, having a pinkish to an olive complexion, which I have a pinkish complexion.
01:25:05.000Saying that they have light to brown eyes.
01:25:52.000Sparse body hair, which is not true for me.
01:25:55.000And so it's just funny to me because I get that all the time.
01:25:58.000People are like, and I had a story which I tweeted about earlier yesterday, I believe, or earlier today, where somebody was like, his last name's Fuentes.
01:26:13.000My father was mixed race, technically, or his grandfather or something was mixed race, but I don't think you could describe me as mixed race.
01:26:21.000But people see the last name and they're like, wow, he must be.
01:26:26.000One lone patriot says, is there any major change on immigration that Trump can make without the support of Congress?
01:26:33.000Yeah, he should have pretty far reaching powers on immigration, but the problem is that the courts won't let him do it because they just obstruct.
01:26:41.000So, like, technically, yeah, technically, he should be able to shut down Muslim immigration.
01:26:46.000He should be able to shut down illegal immigration.
01:26:49.000He should be able to do a lot of things according to the scope of the Immigration and Nationality Act.
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